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THE GERMAN SOVEREIGN.
A Strong French Picture of the Emperor
William.

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A Strong French Picture of the Emperor
| William.
From the Paris Figarol
One of the windows of the Emperor's
cabinet on the ground floor looks out on
the Avenue Inter den Linden, where
Nobling shot at him. Curtains orna-
mented with blue flowers prevent the
passer-by from seeing the whole of the
interior of this cabinet. Here are the
miniatures and photographs of his FAM
lily, and the portraits of the family of
sovereigns. One sees very soon his
] preferences. The Emperor Alexander
has large, full-length portrait; Fran
els Joseph has only medallion. Here,
also, are the souvenirs of the prineesses
some work of art or specimen of
needle-work. At one side are memen-
toes of the war-pieces of shell, etc. !,
which he has picked up on some battle
| field, under circumstances that he only
knows, as bourgeois brings home from
| his trip to the water-plants and Shells
A curious person, following the move
ments of the curtains as they fiutter in
the wind, can see the Emperor, reading
either the Bible or the Rang und Quar-
tier List (the military annuaD. He is,
above all, a religious man and soldier.
A sword, with cross on the hilt, which
he formerly used, might have served
as crucifix.
| One may well be astonished to see
these religious sentiments in sovereign
who, more than any other, has for dog
ma-Forcel But he believes that he ex-
ercises an apostolate. 1t is difficult
anomaly to explain. The Emperor is a
pietist.- At, those hours which come,
even in the, existence of conqueror,
when he does not know whether he is
going to retreat into gulf or advance
into an abyss, the Emperor William
prays to God as does Alexander IL
But Alexander goes publicly to
the tomb of his mother and his
son, and prays by the lips of his flown
away angels. The Emperor William
reads in little Bible which. he always
carries with him when with the army
The book opens of itself at certain
pages. would like to tell the reader,
as did of Queen Victoria, which are
those preferred pages. Perhaps the
soldier whose life has been o combat,
and the august woman whose life has
been but one long love, read the same
sacred verses.
A French chaplain told me that the
Emperor William always interested him
self in knowing if the wounded prison
ers received the consultations of religion.
He seemed to say to France, like Othel-
To- before killing Desdemona, ssHaye
You prayed to-nightR' am the more
| sensible to. this, forS t}ieS reasdh tllkt a
lively emotion wrested fromst the, lsmper-
or at two different times, when seeing
our troops charging in the midst of the
mitraiheuses, the words, ssAh! those
brave meni . and hewrote them to the
Empress.
This leads me to the Empress Augusta.
Large, still handsome, thin, majestic,
she is, in an artistic point Of view, the
very woman necessary in the German
tableaux beside the tall Emperor. The
love of art and of belles-letters have
won her, little by little, to French
ideas. Her sympathy for the feeble and
attacked have rendered her almost
4 fayorable to the German Catholics. She
has a French reader. The grand nsaitre
of her household, the Count de Nessrc-
4 rode, is q Catholic. She ought to be,
therefore, almost necessarily the ad-
versary of Bismarck. But this opposi-
ton gives way before the sovereign,
who is not only her husband but her
king by divine right. We know the at
titude of the Empress during and after
the war. France should make her SIM
cere condolences to that royal woman, 50
cruelty injured by q fanatic, the same
as one grand lady renders her visit Of
mourning to another grand lady.
| The Emperor William sleeps on o
small campbell, under large soldiers
cloak. At O'Clock a. m. he is work
ing with his minister's. While he is at
Berlin he goes almost every morning TO
the Thicrgarten, in an uncovered vic
toria, often alone, enveloped in his mil
itary cloak, and his helmet or cap on
his head. He is not even preceded by
outriders. Beside the coachman is seat
ed his footman, with his plumed hat
and its tresser of gold, and his short
sword at his side. He responds grave
ly but slightly to the salutations. The
passers-by, who have positions more OIL
less official, stop, face the equipage and
make their salute. The Emperor is
fond of hunting. He goes by prefer.
ence to the grounds (trte6jagde,s) of Vol
mirstaet. There he dresses like a coun
try gentleman. In the evening, vii.
liam sometimes takes a hand at a rub
ber of whist. He plays with the air o
man who is certain that his partner
will have no fault to reproach him with
In the army the Emperor used to re
ceive each morning the Field Marsha
Won Moltke, who brought him the worl
of the staff. With the habitual uncon
Germ of one who feels that his is the
greatest, he would say, " Bismarck ha.
donethis; Won Moltke has done that. ;
1t was characteristic remark of ;
prince who regards himself king b,
divine right-that he wished that on
should have greater idea of his great
ness than of his superiority.
I do not know whether he foresay
his destiny. But he would have sup
ported ill-fortune as he supported goot
fortune, for the mystical souls escape tn
blows of fate in rising above them, ik
the great birds which fly higher thai
any. gun can carry.
He has not been willing to tempt for
tune a second time, in spite of the invi
tations given by his counselors. Afte
having invited war once, he has sine
refused it. Only the other day he re
manned calm, Notwithstanding the SCUM
of the cannon's roar which the win
from the east brought to him. l esteer
more highly his Majesty in calm than j
excitement. Lean comprehend Michat
Angelo, who has represented his Nose
seated in the church of San Pietro i
Vincoli William has known how t
support victory, which is more difficul
than to support defeat. He has retire
in time, after having won. II a su tat,
Chdrlemag,,e. -
He grows old slowly, without bend
ing. He even seems to increase
height-the oblique rays of the settin
sun make the grand old tree appes