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fr3**I*4***l | MILESTONES IN CAREER OF LATE FRANCIS JOSEPH. 1 Born August 18, 1830. 1 Ascended the Austrian throne December 2, 1848. Reigned as Austrian ruler continuously sixty-eight years. Was Apostolic King of Hungary forty-eight years. Lost Lombardy in the war of 1859 with Prance and Sardinia. Lost the Duchy of Holstein to Prussia and Venice to Italy by treaty. Forced the war upon Serbia which started the general war now in progress. Cursed by Countess Karolyi, whose son was put to death by his order.M aximilian, his brother, sent to Mexico as emperor, executed by his soldiers after brief reign. Carlotta, wife of Maximilian, driven insane by husband's death. + Stabbed in the neck by a Hungarian at Vienna in 1853. Shot by an assassin at Prague in 1882. Imperiled by bombs thrown by anarchists at Trieste in 1882. His son, Crown Prince Rudolph, and Barbara Vetsera found dead in 1889. Crown Prince believed to have killed woman and himself. p is nephew, Archduke John Salvator, renounced his claims and fled to America under the name of John Orth. His sister-in-law, Duchess d’Alencon, burned to death In a char­ity bazaar fire in Paris. His grand-daughter deserted her royal husband and eloped with an army officer. His son, Francis Ferdinand, heir apparent, married beneath his station and forced his father to accept the situation. His beloved wife, Empress Elizabeth, was assassinated in Switz­erland September 10, 1898. His son, Francis Ferdinand, heir apparent, and his wife were assassinated. .... Saw more than 2,000,000 of his best soldiers melt away in the war now in progress and his dual empire shaken and falling apart. ? B ib Died November 21, 1916. ,»T—T«»f« . i Francis Joserh. (Continued Page.) [exico, the ?by where he spied a little girl whose traordinary beauty attracted h in //^ "He learned that she was Pe' / $ 1 Elizabeth, younger sister ofx / $r tended. He resolved that should be his bride and came in 1854. /o. In addition to hery^ /^ . beth was highly en l ents, but she found v / $ court. The EmpeV^Wf o-ould hardly eountenan\'o, ^ 1 I " I | y ie n n e s V V > !