The daily gazette., 1880-06-23
Berlin Letter.
Correspondence Of the GAZETTE.
RIcIrI lima MI.

Correspondence Of the GAZETTE.
BERLIN, June 9th, 1880
1t may with truth be- said of all the
great Hohenzollerns who have played
such conspicuous parts In modern his
tory, that no childish appeal to their
sympathies or generosity ever failed to
obtain prompt and benevolent recoRni.
:ion. The most recent exempli ticati on
OF this amtable characteristic of war
rior race, is afforded by kindly action
of the German Crown Prince. One
Paul Brandt, fatherless lad, only nine
years old, having exhibited a remark
able capacity for music, was taken some
months ago into Romarowski's "Victo.
ria Institute" there to be gratnitously
instructed in tone art generally,
and in violiD-playing particularly =
On the 22d of March this courageous
little fellow addressed a birthday con-
graduation to the venerable Emperor,
in which he embodied a petition for a
new fiddle, upon the pertinent ground
that his own violin "scraped so aw-
fully" that he could bear with IL no lon
ger. Through the accident that Young
Brandt had addressed his letter TO His
Royal Highness' instead of "His I'm
perial Majesty" the petition came to
the Crown Princes hands, and the fu-
III.
ordered his Court Marshal TO make in
quirles at the Victoria Institute resr ect-
ing the youthful applicant and his law
fully scraping" instrument. The truth
of little Paal's allegations having been
fully established by Count Eulenburr,s
Investigations, the Grown Prince pro-
ceeded 20 purchase good. sound violin,
which he despatched TO the Institute on
Whit Sunday last az "Phngstges-
chenk' for Paul Brandt. 1t is by such
tender deeds as this that princes most
surely win their way to the hearts of
their peoples.
In Magdeburg, last week, the chief
sexton of the municipal cemetery was
guilty of an act SO atrocious, th at, but
for the Intervention of the police, he
would have been lynched on the SPOT by
the indignant populaoe. On the pre-
vious day a little girl, only seven wears
old, had wandered into the buryin0
ground under his charge, and plucked q
flower from one OF the graves, all un-
conscious of offence. The sexton oapght
her In the act, and determined to ind ct
punishment upon her which sbonld
effectually deter her from "despoilino
his graves" for the future. So he draogs
ed the terror-stricken child away To the
dead house, In which four corpsas wars
lying on their biers awaiting burial
thrust her In, locked The door upon her
| aud went about his business. IL was AL
ready late in the day, ard the sexton .ao-
cordlng to his own account, having an
lshed his work and forgotten all about
MS tiny prisoner 1nearcerated in the
charnal-house, made fss. the c.metary
gates for the night Next morning. re.
turning to his work at the usual ho1r. i,
suddenly occurred to him that he had
omitted TO let the child ous of the deaC
house before going home, and he has
tened to unclose the door-when /;
shocking spectacle met his gaze
Crouched up In corner, with glass,
eyes fixed in death-stare of horror
and blood-stained lips bitten through
and through In convulsive agony, wa
a fifth corpse-that of his unfortunat,
vi otim. The hapless child had been lii
orally frightened to death. shall b.
curious to see what punishment will b
allotted by German judges to the rsIep,
less sexton of Magdeburg, whose har,
hearG not even the pitiful appeals of tel
Tified childhood could melt to mercy,