. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . henever he will. But Emperor FrancisJosef is so kind, so charitable, so sympathetic, so helpful, that while he livesAustria will remain intact. Every one knows some story of his compassion andgenerosity. Hearing that one of his officers who had become blind had saidthat his only comfort now was music, the Emperor gives the poor man. a seatfor life in the opera house. By such deeds he has won all hearts. His agoniz-ing bereavements have intensified the affection of the people for their suicide or murder of his only son (
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . henever he will. But Emperor FrancisJosef is so kind, so charitable, so sympathetic, so helpful, that while he livesAustria will remain intact. Every one knows some story of his compassion andgenerosity. Hearing that one of his officers who had become blind had saidthat his only comfort now was music, the Emperor gives the poor man. a seatfor life in the opera house. By such deeds he has won all hearts. His agoniz-ing bereavements have intensified the affection of the people for their suicide or murder of his only son (and it still remains a mystery how hewas done to death) and the assassination of the Empress two years ago, havecalled forth a loyal love seldom seen in other nations. Having no son to sue- LATER SOJOURNS IN EUROPE 309 ceed him he is educating his nephew for the throne—a splendid lad of thirteenor fourteen years. Otto, the father of the lad, would have been the next Emperor, but hedoes not want the throne, and no one in the empire wants him to take it. He is. EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEPH OP AUSTRIA 3io T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK one-half bad and one-half imbecile. He keeps the air full of scandalization. Hegoes into a restaurant, orders all others persons to depart, and having taken fullpossession of the place, he and the group of wild fellows with him drink them-selves drunk, and then smash crockery, and the decanters, and the tables, andthe window glass, and no one dare protest, for he belongs to the imperial the next day, the bill for his roystering destructiveness is sent to theEmperor, and he pays it. Otto is the terror of the neighborhoods when he is inflamed of strongdrink. Riding on horseback through the country districts, he met a funeralprocession of peasants. ■ As is the custom, they were carrying the coffin on theirshoulders. Otto made them stop, and put the coffin on the ground, and thenhe with his horse leaped over the coffin this way and that u
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