San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-31
I. H. JULIAN, Editor.
THE GERMAN SOVEREIGN.
A Strong French Picture Of the Emperor
william.
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cabinet on the ground floor looks out Of
the Avenue Inter den Linden, wher
Nobling shot at him. Curtains orna
mented with blue flowers prevent tn
passer.by from seeing the whole of tn
interior Of this cabinet. Here are tn
miniatures and photographs of his fam
lily, and the portraits of the family 0
sovereigns. One sees very soon hi
preferences. p, The Emperor Alexande
has large, full-length portraits Fran
els Joseph has only a medallion. Here
also, are the souvenirs OF the princesse!
some work of art or specimen o.
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 futter in
the wind, can see the Emperor, reading
either the Bible or the Rang nnd 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. .-r gra.I .s.gs
One may well be astonished to see
these religious sentiments in a sovereign
who, more than any other, has for dog
ma-Force! 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,
avav, IN ha avicf Of oonrnarpr
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 II.
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 a 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 combat,
and the august woman whose life has
been but one long love, read the same
sacred verses. ~ " ''. .H
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-
10 before killing Desdemona, "Have
you prayed to-nightP" am the more
sensible to this for the reason that 81
lively emotion wrested from the Emper-
or at two different times, when seeing
our troops charging in the midst of the
mitrailleuses, the words, "Ah! those
brave men!" and he wrote 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
have rendered her almost
favorable to the German Catholics. She
has French reader. The grand nsaitre
of her household, the Count de Nessrc-
rode, is 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 sin
,ere condolences to that royal woman, so
cruelty injured by fanatic, the same
IS one grand lady renders her visit of
to another grand lady.
The Emperor William sleeps on
mail campbell, under large soldiers
,loak. At 8 O'Clock q. m. he is work.
ng with his minister's. While he is at ,
Berlin he goes almost every morning to
he Thicrgarten, in an uncovered vic
oria, often alone, enveloped in his mil {
tary cloak, and his helmet or cap on j
lis head. He is not even preceded by S
utriders. Beside the coachman is seat {
d his footman, with his plumed hat '
nd its tresser of gold, and his short I
word at his side. He responds grave S
y but slightly to the salutations. The !
assers-by, who have positions more or d
ess official, stop, face the equipage and S
make their salute. The Emperor is v
ond of hunting. He goes by prefer a
nee to the grounds (trieGjdgdenJ of VOL O
nirstaet. There he dresses like coun- i
ry gentleman. In the evening, Will b
am sometimes takes hand ut a rub i,
er of whist. He plays with the air of C
man who is certain that his partner 5
'ill have no fault 10 reproach him with. S
In the army the Emperor used TO re-
Give each morning the Field Marshal
on Moltke, who brought him the work {,
/ the staff. With the habitual uncon- Il
ern of one who feels that his is the (;
reatest, he would say, Bismarck has p
one this; Won Moltke has done that" d
was 4 characteristic remark of a h
-ince who regards himself a king by p
vine right-that he wished that one il
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