The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-20
Golden Wedding Of the German En-
perOr and Empress.


On the 18th inst. the Emperor and
Empress of Germany celebrated
their golden wedding at Berlin. On
the 18th of June, 1929, Frederick Will
lam Lewis, of Hohenzollern, Prince of
Prussia, was married to Augusta,
daughter of the Grand Duke Karl
August of Sax-Weimar. She was then
in her 18th year, and some fourteen
years her husbands junior in age.
The octogenarian monarch has,
through long aud eventful life, uni
formly displayed all the finer qualities
of that remarkable race of rulers, which
since its establishment in the Bran
denburg marshes on the Oath of June,
1412, when Frederick, Sixth Burgrave
of Nuremberg, having purchased the
Electorate from the Emperor Sigis-
mund, made solemn entrance into the
capital of his new realm, under the title
of Elector Frederick the First-has
never produced an absolutely incompe-
tent sovereign. Long before that mem
orable date the Hohenzollerns had won
themselves name for thrift, sagacity,
and valor. They were, one and all, men
strongly imbued with the sense of re-
sponsibility, eager for worldly advance
ment, and unremitting in their efforts
to improve their own position in life, as
W, ii as do their duty to those commit
ted by Providence to their care and pro-
lection. These characteristics have
been obviously transmitted from father
to son throughout the whole history of
the House of Hohenzollern; and they
account for the extraordinary propensity
of the family itself, for the steadily pro-
gressive increment of it's European in
fuence, and for the territorial expan-
sion of its realm, which has, within the
last two centuries, grown from barren
Margravate into gigantic empire.
Moreover, no country in the world owes
so much to the individual qualities, capa-
bilities, and achievements of warriors
and statesmen actuallyg born in the
purple. All the Hohenzollens have been
either scientific soldiers or eminent
economists; several of them have been
both. Their annals do not record the
name of q single crowned spendthrift.
The whole life of the Emperor and
mis- much loved wife is extremely sim
pie. The palace in which the imperial
couple live when in Berlin is small,
plain honse, of succeed brick, which
cuts much less imposing figure than
the residences of many merchants in
the United States. 1t stands at the
corner of Inter den Linden, within
sight of the arsenal, the university and
the opera; and was built for Prince
William at the period of his marriage,
in 1929, when his income was not SO
large as now. In this unpretentious
house William and his wife have lived
ever since when at Berlin; and all hints
that his subjects would be willing to
present him with more imperial look
ing residence have fallen upon dead
ear. Until the regicidal attempts of
Hoedel and Modelling, the Emperor
could often be seen ut odd moments
during the day, standing at one of the
windows of his study, on the ground
floor, which overlooks the street. The
passing of a regiment down the Lime
walk was sure to fetch him to the win
dow, and he would acknowledge the sa-
lutte of the officers with friendly wave
Of the hand. Sometimes he would
look into the street merely to amuse
by the ordinary sights of
crowded thoroughfare. And more than
once the odd sight has been witnessed
Of beggar applying to his Majesty for
a silver groschen, and being enjoined by
The imperial forefnger to Move on" In
the afternoon he used often to receive
petitions in person from the hands of
poor people who had been admitted to
.he coach.yard.