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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH m lyobh TMtsim Quaker Minister Is Grateful to Tania Vv - f , ' - ,, i A W. r i i?v : ''C'vt ,'ti . ' , i 4.1:4. ' ' I '41 v 7 A- v - , X HkN -- ' W .s , "' . . - ' ihv vfV t. J v ! f $Xi it JV3SZ& jsAzxm&d VSZ&&ZA- ?- vazr ' ,,v ; rn a a Rev. Parker Moon related to I'RINCK RUDOLlH of Au came o his death January 80, 1880, in his hunting lodge at Meyerjlng, net. Vienna. With him died the young and bonutlful Baroness Marie Vet sera. From that takday to ttys the wanner of .their well as a myBtery, ing off has been as one of the grimmest of the many grim tragedies that hate befallen the House of Ilapsburg tn the last 70 years, 2(s a mystery these deaths of the heir to a great empire and his lovely Inamorata have ranked high among the great mysteries of history. But murder will out," as the old saying hath It and the truth of the killing of Rudolph is told at last. Who tells it? None other than a black sheep of the Ilapsburgs the Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, son of the last reigning Grand Duke of Tuscany, nephew of Emperor Francis Joseph and a cousin of the murdered crown prince. To be sure this black sheep now bears the name of caLeopold Woldlng. He ended his archducal reer long before the, Great War stripped the Ilapsburgs of place and power by denouncing his great rank to wed a commoners daughter, whom he later divorced.--- And, strangest of all, this civilian Ilapsburg tells the story of the killing of Rudolph In a newspaper, the Berlin Morgen-pos- t KOYVN At the time of the tragedy all the power of the emperor was UBed to suppress the facts. The newspapers were allowed to state only- that Rudolph had died of natural causes. No reference to the dcAth of the baroness was permitted. Nobody was prosecuted, but several men high In court circles disappeared from public life. Everybody of Inferior rank who could possibly have had knowledge of the facts vanished from the face - of the earth. busy--wit- in a roes. The affair became known at court and there much ado. Princess Stephanie raged. The Vetseras demanded that the emperor should coll his son to aeounL Hektor von Baltazzl, Maries jflnnee, was furious. He was a Vienna clubman iw-a- s origin very-ricand horseman of Macedo-Greeand although no member of the noMllty proper. ,a favorite Jn the highest society, ns was his The Baltazzls were distantly rot her Aristide. k h 1 V, 40 countess got Rudolph, using a Marie away from the Vetsera palace that fatal January 80, and the same afternoon the young couple left for Meyerllng. Rudolph had invited a party of gay friends to join him at the hunting lodge. Among others were the Baltazzl brothers. Here, In brief, Is Leopold Wolfllngs story of the tragedy : The baroness, though In the lodge, . was not present at the dinner. After dinner the men drank deeply. Rudolph could never carry his A discussion liquor and early lost between him and the two Baltazzls degenerated Into a violent quarrel. A chnmpagne bottle was flung across the table and the prince dropped dead, his head terribly crushed. A moment later the alarmed baroness entered the room. One of the brothers shot her and she fell dead beside her lover, amid a scene of blood, broken glass' and smoke. The story states that when the princes body was taken to Vienna' fragments of tlje broken bottle still were sticking In his skull. As to the effect of the affair on the Emperor Francis Joseph and the Empress Elizabeth, the author tells of the first faiutly dinner after the tragedy, "At the table sat the emperor and the. empress, a brother of the emperors, the old Archduke Albrecht, the Hungarian Archduke Joseph and the author himself. Neither the emperor nor the empress spoke a worjJ. They did not touch a single dlslu The empress was dressed In the deepest mourning and wept softly. We breathlessly while this depressing ceremony should be over and the emperor dismiss us." The says that he learned the true of the Mejerling affair from his father, the story-Grand Duke of Tuscany, w ho had It from the emperor himself. None of the persons connected with the tragedy was ever punished. The two Baltazzl brothers disappeared for several years from society, but A similar exile was Inflicted later Count Hoyos, adjutant to the crown prince, upon and today probably nobody with a knowledge of what happened at the Meyerllng hunting lodge la among the living.' The story of the burial of Baroness Marie Is -known in all its gruesome details; it Is properly a part of the tragedy. Count Stockau and Alexander RaltazzI, uncles of Marie, were taken to Meverltng in the evening In a large closed car- rlttge. The thief of th?F(crrtpoMce sat beside the coachman. The uncles were taken Into the linen room, where Marie's body had been hidden In a backet. They were Informed that the corpse was to be fully dresed and then her body was to self-contro- and-othe- r . "V 4&J ellmate. I then moved to Texas and back and forth three times, but did not get the relief I had hoped for. Finally, I got se bad off I was not able to get around with any degree of comfort I was also told I had wt heart trouble. I had read about Tanlac and, as it had been very highly recommended to me, I decided to try it. I got a bottle and had taken only a few doses until I could notice a marked im- In referring to his remarkable res- provement In my condition. I noticed to health by Tanlac, he said ; especially that I was not troubled any toration throne,. About five years ago I suffered more with sour stomach after eating, . Not the least exera general breakdown. My principal which was a great relief. &zo. tScmzA cised over the awk2ZRzxmruJMZ) trouble was nervous Indigestion. My I kept on taking Tanlac until I ward "situation was appetite was very poor and my food fully regained my health. My appthe emperor himself, who had set his mind ou seldom agreed with me, and I had to etite Is splendid ; I etajoy my meals and healing the breach between Rudolph and his wife. live on a very restricted diet I suf- I do not find It necessary now to take When Rudolph announced nls intention of difered a great deal from headaches any laxative medicines of any kind. vorcing his wife and marrying the baroness, even JA?aniZPDMAm and I had severe pains can sleep much better and am not dizzy though that involved renunciation of hlsrlghts to &&&& wfyjqzrnz) across the spells; small of my back and was nearly so nervous. succession and even his archducal rank, the embadly constipated most of the time. I take great pleasure In recomperor saw red. 4 ihe uncles wrapped her up lu her sealskin coat. In I was so weak and rundown mending Tanlac to anyone who needa 'Two days before the tragedy at Meyerllng the fact, The chief of the secret police thrust a 'walking Iwas not able to attend to my duties. a good system builder, or who suffer emperor and the crown prince had a long Interstick down the dead girls back and bound her " This condition made me very nerv- with stomach trouble. I have recomview. What was said Is not known, but It Is neck to the stick with a handkerchief. ous and I could not sleep at believed that the old emperor commanded the night mended Tanlac to a great many of my 'The two uncles carried the body to the car- Frequently I would lie awake most friends and am pleased to reach others crow n prince to drop the affair with the baroness. riage. It was placed on the back seat and the all and was In that condition by giving this statement for publicAnyway, Rudolph planned another meeting with uncles sat opposite. At last the carriage stopped morenight or less for five years. My phy- ation." Marie. What he Intended to do at that meeting before the gateway of an ancient monastery Uj sician said he could not do anything Tanlac is sold by leading druggists nobody will ever know; the secret la burled .with an isolated part of the country. This place wras for me and suggested a change of everywhere. him. V- , the I Of course the world talked.' Half a dosen versions of the tragedy became current. One was that the fiance of the baroness broke In and killed both the prince and the young woman. Another was that the prince, forced by his father to give up the baroness, killed her and himself. A third was that the prince and the baroness were killed because they would not give vp each other. Out of the mass of conjecture u legend was finally evolved to the effect that Rudolph, preferring death to separation, killed his companion with her consent, and then followed her Into the unknown. Romance and pathos, you see, as well as tragedy I First a word as to Rudolph, whom legend now presents as a liberal, likable, democratic-- sort of young fellow. Irobably the correct picture is that of the most dissipated of the Ilapsburgs. All the hereditary evils had set their mark on him. Of frail physique, a neurotic, his eyes blinked and hlg hands trembled .constantly. Drinking excesses had Increased his natural defects. Rudolph was married to Stephanie, daughter of Leopold, king of the Belgians. Apparently they never knew a moments happlners. He derived her shamefully and she did all In her power to Infuriate him. Rudolph made no secret of his dislike and her failure to produce a male elr to the throne Intensified the situation. From his youth Rudolph hatFbeeinsoted RnVTenmTTor Ibis shameless pursuit of virtue. He employed .many creatures of all ranks to minister to his countess to a private desires from a cab driver, whose duty it .was to convey women tfo the secret entrance In the lane back of the 'Hofburg, which led to the princes apartments. Rudolph met Marie Just about a year before the date of the tragedy. It was a case of love at firgt sight with both; at any rate the beautiful young girl was completely Infatuated with her princely admirer. And the baroness was young, beautiful and good. The vet sera s were of Greek blood; the father of the baroness was a stnte official. The family was not rich, but Its social standing was good. Rudolph and Marie met fre- scandal soon got- -- jjuently -- an4 their ifeft Vetsera ; friends prince himself. It Is easy enough to Imagine Ilektors frame of mind as evidence of the relations between his betrothed and the vcrown prince reached nlm; but he realized he could not openly attack the heir to the trla-llungar- y Nearly everybody in Southwest Missouri either knows or has heard of the Rev. Parker Moon, who for a full half century has devoted his life and talents to Sunday school and organization work for the Society of Friends or Quakers. "Uncle Parker, as he is more familiarly known, came from fine old rugged Quakerjitock, and there Is not a better known or more highly respected citizen In that part of the state. ' l. first-han- d the body," they were told, You sre to support in such a way as to the ha ronestH Hives: make it appqar-th- at The uncles were forced to tty;e part in dressing the dead. Her lint and veil were placed on htr head and tier the body was s', la a chair while Cistercian Abbey of Iletllgenkreuz. Guards closed the gates of the monastery and surrounded the group of buildings. The uncles were led Into a little graveyard. The monks carried the body Into an outbuilding, where an open coffin of common white wood stood ready. There was no shroud in which to wrap the dead, and the beautiful young body was placed In the unlined burial chest. The monks nailed the lid upon the coffin and carried It out. After the briefest possible ceremonial the body was dropped Into the grave and the earth shovelled over It. Everyone has heard of the curse Invoked upou the House of Ilapsburg by Countess Illona October 6, 1849, Count Louis Batthyany, premier of the first Magyar parliamentary ministry. vvtis executed by an Austrian firing squad. The widow said to the young emperor, Francis Joseph: "You shall live to see everybody you love die. Your only eon shall be slain. Your wife shall be murdered. Your throne and your country shall be drowned in blood and then you, too, will die!" The record of the House of Uapsburg since 1849 Includes these Items: The Archduchess Sophie, daughter of the Em;eror Francis Joseph, died at the age of two. The Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, Francis Josephs brother, was executed by rebel soldiers at Queretaro in 1SG6. The Empress Charlotte, Maximilians wife, lost Tier mind upon hearing of his execution. The Duchess of Alencon, beloved sister of the Empress Elizabeth, lost her Ufa In the great fire at the Charity Bazaar at Tarls. The ArcbdukeWUheinr was throwh by hls horse and killed at Baden near Vienna. The Archduchess Hedvig, daughter of the Archduke Albrecht, was burned to death at Schonbrunn palace while dressing for a dance. Her gown caught fire from a purling Iron. The Archduke Johann Salvator, better known as Johanues Orth lie bad resigned his position to marry a commoners daughter disappeared with his ship in the Southern Atlantic. It Is that he weat down In a storm off La Plata Bat-thyan- y. first-bor- n estuary. The Archduke Ladlslas, son of the elder Archduke Joseph, and brother of the present Archduke Joseph, pretender to the Hungarian throne, lost his life while hunting when his gun went off " bT accident. The Empress Elizabeth was stabbed to death at Geneva by the Italian anarchist Lucchenl. The Crown Prince Rudolph lost his life In the mysterious affair at Mejerling. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand.-afte- r the death of (hwn Prince Rudolph.' t0 the thrones of Austria and Ilujtijrarjvwa assnnatek1 aT Sarajevo. Bosnia, on June 28. 1914. tfie xi,urVT .precipitating the greaest war In history November 21. 1910, Francis Joseph died. I In 1918 tl e Ilapsburg empire ctnsed to exist. heir-appare- States Debts Increase. In 31 of the 48 states the revenues exceeded the expenditures for governmental costa, including interest on indebtedness and outlays for permanent Improvements, by $50,192,314, or 71.6 cents per capita. In the remaining 17 the revenues fell below the expenditures by $15,378,246, or 43.8 cents per capita, and in five of these 17 states sufficient revenues were not collected to meet current expenses and Interest. Taking the 48 states as e whole, the excess of revenue over expenditures was $34,814,008, or 33.1 cents pe- - capita. These are among the interesting facts brought out in a report entitled "Financial Statistics of States, 1919," Issued by Director Sam L. Rogers of the bureau of the census. Department of Commerce. , The Night Before Christmas. Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring except Lily, the cook, preparing to take the 10 a. m. as a holiday surprise. And Uncle Horace, In the guest room, who has just discovered that sprig of holly that the boys put between the sheets. And the who, boys, having surreptitiously opened their presents and found them all "useful, are contemplating sabotage. And sister Maybelle, who ht saved her dud gifts of the year before and Is trying to redistribute them. And red mother, who Is going to get that ball on top of the tree or die in the 1 attempt. And father, sitting up with newly of sick check book and a sheaf arrived bills. And Florence, the rat, somewhat the worse for having sauj pled the Christmas, punch to father consecrated bis last bottle 0 Ice. Strength of Ice two inches thick will bear men Scotch. From Life. on foot. Ice four inches thick will bear men ' The Likeness. sY a on horseback. A beauty doctor taking the Ice six inches thick will bear cattle off the society queens complexion chore and teams with light loads. very much like a sexton at the Ice eight Inches thick will bear teams chimes." with heavy loads. "I cant see the likeness. I mu Ice ten Inches thick will sustain a say." pressure of 1,000 pounds to the square "Isnt he peeling the belles f' foot France produces more than 250 vari- eties of cheese. 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