The New York herald., 1879-12-14
DIVERSIONS OF KINGS.
KAISER wILHELM IN THE HUNTING FIELD
HOW ROYALTY AMUsEs ITSELF.
from the London Daily Teleqraphl


We have the fact on highest authority that though
men by Of strength come to fourscore years,
yet il their strength but labor and sorrow.
do they pass away and gone. This is no doubt
true Of men in general. but not Of His Imperial
Majesty the German Emperor in particular. Kaiser
Wilhelm would. perhaps were the thing put to
him. venture altogether to disagree with the
Psalmist upon the question Of physical prowess
ut fourscore. And not with the Psalmist only.
How would the hale and hearty monarch recog-
nize himself in Sackvilles quaint descriptions
"Crook-backed he was; tooth-shaken and blcar-
eyed; Went on three feet and sometimes crept ON
four, With old lame bones that ratified by his side.
His scalp all bald and he with cid for lore. His
withered fist still knocking ut Deaths door,. Defy
ing Sackvls the aged Emperor defes the poets in .
aud challenges the universal notion of what o
ut his time OF life must needs be- Although
suffering only the other day from wounds inflicted
by IN and also from the effects OF accident
ho has lately been ut the head Of his armies
presiding over the mock conflicts or visit.
Ing the fields whence. few years since.
he plucked his most glorious ,ae ianrels . o This.
might have been expected to seek the repose con-
genial to his weight Of years But it is not rest that
while the Of State. "Lo Roi samuse. and play
with him means change of work. SO from time to
time this man of eighty betakes him to the chase,
aud pays his devors the shrine of st. Hubert with
fervor as the youngest in Ills tram Not less
capable than the youngest Is ne oi deeds on
which his Majesty has recently given to loving
subjects aud adm ring world. The Kaiser, We all
know has been keeping in state ut Berlin, roy
ally entertaining some OF the crowned heads of his
empire and other princely visitors. On similar oc-
casiops host Of eighty reclining in the comforta-
BILE depths of an armchair. gives his guests the key
of his guu room and the run of his cvverts wishes
them good days sport and goes to sleep. Tho Ger
man Emperor. however, sailed out with the rest to
Wustcrhausen, bent on showing them what the sup.
posed failing eye and feeble arm OF fourscore had
still the power to do. Nor the fine old man by
any means the recipient OF the wooden spoon, which
consong article fell to tho comparatively juvenile
Crown Prince OF Saxony. There was great slaughter
In the woods of Wusterhausen that day. Two hun
driven under tao muzzes OF the rifes-fell before
the prnccly sportsmen, aud OF these the Emperor
shot twenty three. Thus does German imperial
aud octogenarian Majesty amuse itself.
CROWN.
! curious chapter might be written about the d.
versions OF kings--and especially OF elderly kings
who have worn the crown long enough to feel its
weight. Was not Frederick the Great as proud of
being thought good hue player Us of the glory OF
building up u kingdomr He. probably. had less
ski with that ancient instrument than with the
still more ancient hanging at his side, but the very
cxaggcration OF his own powers showed how COM
pleely hc had merged royalty IN musician ship. Aud
| when man OF humble birth and lowly fortune was
| once suddenly announced at Potslam, His Majesty
then playing King, so far forgot his part as TO cry
deliuhtedy ''Gentlelnen, old Bach has comei'
| Whereupon Frederick and Sebastian, who were not
rival fautists, had good time. AT Versailles, not
! long after, another king took to lockmakng. High
up In the sumptuous palace dedicated to the gories
OF France this poor monarch had workshop,