Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-27

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words of the four exceedingly simple
and poetical lines. In one corner Of this
collection of palaces is 4 building known
as the English building or palace, which
was built by the Elector Hederick V for
the reception of Elizabeth Stuart, daugh.
ter of James |.
Just beyond, and outside the walls Of
the castle proper is the garden which he
planted and laid out for her, and at the
end of it is the rriumphal arch, also
erected by him, with its pillars entwined
with ivy leaves, which still goes by the
name of the Elizabethan Pforte. This
portion of the castle is always p%articu-
larly interesting to the POLITICALLY inclined
and tender-hearted. 1t tells a sad story
Of a young bride, grand daughter of the
Inflated Mary, Queen ofSeots, who came
here brim full with all the hopes and ex-
pectations of a young life, looking
forward to the enjoyment Of wealth, po-
sition, control, homage and all the delights
which power promises but rarely gives.
1t tells a story Of a lovely and noble
minded woman who allied herself to a
man who had not the heart for high
deeds and who preferred the sound Of
the lutte and the bright eyes Of his mis-
tress to honor which could only be pur-
chased by risks. 1t tells of a high
! spirited woman. who, while her husband
debated, declared that she would rather
eat dry bread as a queen than feast IS
the wife of an Elector, and it tells of a
crown of Bohemia accepted. If battle
and of bloodshed and Of defeat, Of fight,
of the death Of the husband and Of long
years of dreary exile for a luckless and
almost friendless woman, who lived not
only to eat dry bread but almost to beg
for it, "who lived forgotten and who
died forlOrn." So sad a fate is all very
pretty for story books. But history as
we get it and as we wish it to suit our
fancy or our imagination is very curious
in its way. There is another side to this
picture which tells a very different tale
and one which probably is much nearer
the truth. This one tells C. 8 young
and manly prince, to whom the accidents
Of life and the deeds Of his forefathers
had given everything which man could
desire. He was an Elector-one of the
seven-who made the kings Of Germany
and upon him devolved all the high
Offices of the Imperial household. These
were the Archbishops of Msyence, Trevcs
and Cologne, the Elector of the Palatin-
ate and the Electors Of Brandenburr.
Saxony and Bohemia. They were en-
titled to all the royal honors but the
title Of majesty. They were bound to-
gether against the Pope TO protect the
right to elect, and thus welded a power
which was formidable. Frederick had
not only this position, but he had around
him every luxury of the age and ne lived
in a State blessed by nature and enriched
by commerce. He had unluckily the
to love rather too foolishly
than too wisely, the bright face of a
restless and aspiring woman, as self
and probably as intriguing if she
not as fascinating as her ancestor,
Mary Queen Of Scots. Urged on by the
unhappy ambition Of a woman whose
pleadings he was not able to resist, he
accepted a crown which brought trouble
to his followers and ruin to himself.
Elected King Of Bohemia in 1919, he
marched to Prague and was crowned.
He went forth from Heidelberg. never
to return again, with all the parade of
ceremony, calling upon the
elements to aid him and praying Heaven
d, LmGra..I H., L. l.-l1--~- q Al. 49,
md the warnings of his old mother,
johanna, who implored him not
o undertake so Inflated an expedition.
In 1920 he fought a battle near Prague
which cost him his dearly bought crown.
BE fed to Holland with his wife and
lied IL Mayence a few years afterwards,
broken hearted andin despair. Elizabeth
ived to beg her bread. and, with that
which some women possess Of
imagining themselves to be the most ILL.,
ated and unlucky Of all living creatures,
nd Of convincing the sympathizing l
Of the world how 4Uch they have
,een put upon and how much they have {
'een forced to endure, sojaced herself ,
y ~recounting her sufferings and her !
rials whenever she could find an audi
nee, forgetting always to state the one
title fact that it was her disconnected r
nd aspiring spirit which had brought :
uin on her country, her household and ;
Christian resignation is a bles- :
ed resource when you have ruined !
verything and everybody around you.
t was while she was in this beautiful p,
rame Of mind that she wrote many let :
ers, some Of which have been published .
nd have no doubt touched the hearts :
f more than one of those who will read ,
his letter. "Hes @larnlcs" Of the Princess :
or rather Queen-Elizabeth are very =,
1nny studies. Thackerly attributes !
mes iarnes' to the first stage Of woman !
God, while the woman in fact is still the :
irl. But he certainly must have known :
hat women indulge in A" mes larmes" in :
ome shape or other at all stages Of their !,
xistence. Mes larmcs" indeed ART. as '
atural and necessary to some women as !.
wearing is to a sailor. :
Two years after the battle of Prague. :
Heidelberg was stormed BY lilly and :
The castle was taken and held :
IT seven years when the Swedes took it =
ON the Imperialists. 1t suffered as
Iuch from friends as fees. In 1874 !
ureDne sacked it and a few years later =
ouis XIV again sent an army which \
slaughter and devastation with IT, !
inally in 1893 a French army. which =
as even more merciless than the other :,
70, laid the castle in ruins. They stand q
a monument to the glories, the -
and the passions of by-gone DAYS. Z
he Episcopal and the Princely Electors n
only in history. Bohemia, part Of -
has its Emperor. Saxony was =
Used in Napoleon's time to a Kingdom. "a
ayence, Treves and Cologne are Prus- u
IN towns and the Elector of Branden- u
re having raised his line to the dignity O'
Kings has left a successor who. Bis
arck dace etsuJ aaspicc Bismarck, is in
way to become Emperor without
e trouble Of an election. Who knows tn
It that the Ca lie of Heidelberg may be
ain become an Imperial summer resi- We
1t can never again be a strong pa
Id, commanded as it is by so many its
.S;eions in fba b;Ile boks,l - -