Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-05-12
TnE OLD pEssAuER.

tai and Residens of the little principally
of AnhaltDessau, which is "about tht
size of Huntingdonshire, but with wood,
instead of bogs,n and lies some fourscorC
miles southwest of Berlin. The streets o.
little Dessau are full of quaint, old-worlt
German houses, and human life lived it
self there iniquiet, NAY, even duh fashion
at the end lof fhe seventeenth century
Two buildings In Dessau will possess Z
quite special interest for US. EQhe is fhC
priRcely palace; the other, situated very
close to the palace, is the apothecary':
shop of one Gottlieb Fohse This apoth
ecary was widower, and had daughter
zone fair daughter, and no more, which
he loved passing we'll" Her name was
Anna Lise. She dwelt with her father
whilc Leopold, then eighteen, lived in fhC
palace close by. A charming young cir
and an impetuous young Prince living In
close proximity in q little Resideas-herc
we lave The grOund-wofk for romance
which may lake either q French or Ger
mahturnS may either issue in light love
and depravity, or in noble steadfast love and
possibly even in marriage. We shall see.
Another element of romance is notwant-
ing-there is a rival in the case; a certain
medical graduate, supposed TO be cousin,
who, attracted by Anna Lises bright teyes,
and rather encouraged by the old Fohse
as very. Suitable suitor, somewhat
prosecuted Anna with his attentions. The
medical graduate, however, grad ually
found OUT that it was dangerous thing
TO cross Che fiery Leopold in his love; and
discovered, rather too late for1his comfort,
that a sIhall-sword, dexterousfy if impetu-
ously urged, will penetrate rival body
and produce the most serious annoyance
Varnhagen Won Ense relates Though other
historians are silent ON the subiect) that
Leopold one day, finding the medical
graduate engaged in making loveto Anna,
called upon him to draw, and, after a
brief passage of fencing, ran his impru-
dent rival through. A dangerous man,
Leopold, with his sword when once thor
oughly aroused to flaming anger; as dan
gerous, perhaps, as Alessandro Farnese in
hfsstormful youth. Leopold's mother, Hen
rietta, of Orange, was sister to Louisa,
first wife OF the great Elector. His
father was dead at the time at which our
story opens and the widowed Princess
was regent, and guardian of the young
hope of Anhalt- Dessau. She was aunt Of
our William Ill She had touch of
Netherlands genislity, but was full of the
importance of woman governing prin-
cipality, and endeavoring TO rule son
who had very original ideas and singu-
larly strong will of his own. She was
surrounded by the court circle usual in
the small German sovereignties of those
days, and had a most exalted idea, of the
old feudal sort, of the importance of the
Anbalt- Dessau reigning family, and of her
power of controlling everything and every
body. She had no very clear idea of the
force of character, or of the distinguished
talents of her unruly, iron-willed son.
The Anhalt- Dessau fan;i!y held close to
Prussia. Leopolds father had done so !;
Leopold himself did so in very memora-
ble way; and his sons followed after him.
The Dessau contingent was fused into the
Prussian army, and the Anhalt regiment
became very famous among the troops of
Frederick the Great, who, born 1712,
was some forty-five years younger than
his great General and Field Marshal,
Prince Leopold. Although always busily
fighting, wherever fighting for what he
considered right was to be done, the
Prince did not neglect his own little prin-
cipality of Anhalt- Dessau, and indeed
governed ii prudently and successfully all
his long life. He made the Prussian in
fantry the model soldiers of the time, and
commanded them first at Blenhem, hold
ing his ground in the right wing after the
Austrian cavalry had fled, until Marbor-
ough and his victorious lett wing relieved
Dessauer and saved the day Leopold
had seen much of war before the Seven
Years War began, and had fought at
Hochstadt, at the Bridge of Cassano, in
the Lines of Turin, at Blenheim, and at
Malplaquet. He commenced his career
under Friedrich ILL.,, the Twelfth Elector,
who, as Frederick L., became the first
King Of Prussia, and finished it under
Frederick LIS grandson, the great Fred
erick-frederick III. of Prussia
Let us now turn our tancles to the time
when the old Dessauer was not yet old /;
let us look at the youthful love time which
preceded the long years of warning of the
soldier man.
Anna is about seventeen, extremely
pretty, much pestered by one lover and
much pleased by another. In addition TO
beauty and to vivacity she is a girl of a
glorious nature. u-
he young Prince and the young girl
have grown up together as playmates,
and nov the passion time of life is bud
ding in which such play may we'll turn
to earnest. The father, timid and eau
uous, Fafrald of offending the 'sHerr-
schaft, and 1feading for his daughter
continuance otAe old intimacy with, Leo
pold, Is anxiousSha hat Anna Should listen
TO her medical adv serand admirer. Anna,
though generally cutiftfl, is yetquite una
BILE To- obey in lth particular; and moth
ing or NOBODY can deter the Prince from
doing what he willsto do.
Old Fohse warns Anna against permit
ting the Continual, almost daily, visits of
the Prince points out 20 her that good can
never come OF such an Intimacy between
an eheir To- throne and burgher maid
h0t, afpot fl Iona ct
ton, and urges her nOlonger to address
the Prince as Du" or to call him " Leo
pold. He advises her to address her
loversas Dufchlaucht," or Transparent
cy, and begs her 70 insist upon a total dis
continuance of all intercourse or of any
future visits. So -, *,
Anna's understanding, if not her heart,
induces her to obey her father, and she
endeavors TO persuade Leopold 10 re-
nOunce her and TO leave her forever. All
in vain. The inpetuous lover laughs at
the title of Dnr3hlaucht, utterly re-
fuses TO give her up, declares an honora-
Bile and determined passion, and opposes
his fiery, steadtast will 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 thwart
his love. F
The Regent, Mortified at the tn ought of
a mesqlfaace for the heir of Anhalt Des.
sau, after an entirely vain effort to coerce
her son. takes counsel with her Holman
schall, Won Salberg, and with the Marquis
de Chalisac, the French Governor and tu.
tor Of the Prince. Fohse, Annals father,
is quite with the Princess, who, by the
way, always addresses the apothecary rs
Err the style in which a German Prin.
cess Of those days spoke TO a burgher.
The Regent was too well awareOf the fiery
force latent in her son to adopt violent
measures She feared that he would, if
any serious attempts were made to part
them, instantly marry Anna Lise; and
She, no doubt, was right The "Eisen.
kOpf," the iron-head, as Leopold was
called was a turbulent and mutinous lad
whom no one could control. The Prin-
cess remembered tnat il was only when,
as boy, he was allowed to play with
Anna Lise, she could at all manage the
young rebel. With his child love the ter