The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-05-12

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he calls .'Die Anna-Lise."
Anna is about seventeen, extremely
pretty, much ~pestered by one lover and
much pleased by another. In addition
10 beauty and TO vivacity she Is a girl OF
a glorious nature.
The young Prince and the young girl
have grown up together rs p~iaymates,
and now the passion time of life is bud
ding in which such play may well turn
To earnest. The father, timid and eau
tious, afraid Of offending the ''Herr-
schaft, y and dreading for his daughter a
continuance Of the old intimacy wit.
Leopold, is anxious that Anna should
listen TO her medical adviser and adj
mirer. Anna, though generally duti-
full, is vet quite unable 10 obey in this
particular and nothing or nobody can
deter the Prince from doing what he
wills to do. Mr.. Hersch makes no use
of the incident, but we may safely as
sumo that the duel which ended SO Sc
riously for our medical friend occurred
about this time.
In the play, Georg, the doctor, bears
about the same relation 10 Leopold and
to Anna that Brackenburg in zig
mont bears 10 Egmont and TO
Clarchen; although the relations of
Leopold and Anna in nowise resemble
those of the splendid Count towards
Goethe's immortal heroine. Old Fohse
warns Anna against permitting the on
tinual, almost daily, visits of the
Prince; points out 10 her that good can
never come of such an intimacy be-
tween an heir to a throne and a burgher
maiden; cautions her against loss OF
reputation, and urges her no longer to
address the Prince as .Dun or 10 call
him Leopold" He advises her 10
address her lover as :" Durchlaucht,"
or Transparency, and begs her To in
sist upon a total discontinuance Of all
intercourse or of any future visits.
Annals understanding, if not her
heart, induces her to obey her father,
and she endeavors to persuade Leopold
10 renounce her and 10 leave her for
ever. All in vain. The impetuous
lover laughs at the title Of "Durch-
Taught, utterly refuses 70 give her up,
declares an honorable and determined
passion, and opposes his fiery, stead
fast win to the opposition of his
mother, her father, and the whole
world.
Leopold was NOT a lover likely to be
much deferred by any attempts TO
thwa.t his love.
The Regent, Mortified at the thought
Of a nleSSdllidnct for the heir OF Anhalt-
Dcssau, after an entirely vain effort to
cOerce her on, takes counsel with her
Hofmarsehall, Won Salberg, and with
the Marquis de Chalisac. the French
governor and tutor of the Prince. Foh>e,
Annals father, is quite with the Prin-
cess, who, by the way, always address
es the apothecary as En- the style in
which a German princess OF those days
spoke to a burgher. The Regent was
too well aware Of the fiery force latent
in her son 10 adopt violent measures.
She feared that he would, il any serious
attempts were made 10 part them, in
stantly marry Anna-Lise; and she. no
I doubt, was right. The "~Eisenkopf,n
the iron-head. as Leopold was called,
was a turbulent and mutinous lad whom
no one could control. The Princess re-
membered that it was only when, a. a
boy, he was allowed to play with Anna
Lise, she could at all manage the young
rebel. With his child-love the terrible
Leopold was docile and gentle as a
lamb. Anna-Lise, best and dearest Of
girls, supplied the softness and tender
ness and poetic element needed to bal
ance the Princes character Of fire and
iron. The Regent also recollected how
she herself, and her sister, the first wife
Of the great Elector, had often. in later
years, laughed together over their first
idle love-fancies and she decided upon
proceeding by gentle measures, trusting
to time and To absence. Ii vas resolv-
ed To let the Prince travel for a year or
two with his tutor. DE Chalisac. In his
absence much might be done. The
girl, with suitable dotation, might be
happily married to one in her own sta
ton. Leopold would forget her. He
once away, the girl would be malleable
in their hands. This Princess had con
fidence in her diplomacy Ii was much
that Leopold should tart unmarried.
Certainly the Regent did not really
understand her son.
He consented readily to 90. lie de-
sired ardently to 20 TO Berlin, in order
to join the Brandenburg army and to
obtain from the Elector his fathers
Anhalt regiment. To his mothers JOY
he was eager to set out AZ once. Before
he went, however, Leopold declared, IN
the most positive manner. his fixed de.
termination to marry Anna-lise =
soon as he should return. He knew, h.
said, that directly he should be gon,
z therg wouiI ha infrivueg- and All the
machinery Of the court set in motion (
break off the match; but, added the
young Dessauer, with the utter calm
ness Of conviction, al am so certain O
Anna-Lise that / abandon the field I,
YOU without fear He then warne,
them emphatically. under threats Of hi