The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-09-09
Emperor william.
HOW THE RULER OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE
SPENDS HIS SUMMERS AT GAsTElN-plNEk'
sIONs OF THE VENERABLE MONARCH.

SPENDS HIS SUMMERS AT GAsTEIN-DIyER-
sIONs OF THE VENERABLE MONARCH.
A correspondent OF the Philadelphia
Times gives the following account OF the
manner in which Emperor William spends
his summer vacations at Gastein, Austria ::
After his daily warm bath. the Emperor
takes his constitutional walk along the
Kaiser promenade. the fashionable prom
enade OF the place, that leads good dis
lance into the kotschathal. with little
river, with a very pretty garden. ana
fine view of the snow-capped mountains
which divide Bavaria from Austria, at the
end of il. After his constitutional the
Empcror returns to his hotel, partakes OF
a slight lunch. and then dispatches such
business as he cannot escape from even
when away from Berlin on furlOugh. by
the time this work is finished he has fine
appetite for his O'Clock dinner. Then be
drives 10 see his friend, the Countess Lehn-
dorfT, and il is because he is so old and she
so amiable that the gossips OF this good
world have refrained from making any sort
of a scandalOus story out OF this friendship.
There Is also another lady at Gastein
whom the Emperor finds much pleasure IN
visiting. This is the Countess Merau,
widow of the Grand Duke Johann, of Aus
tria. charming old lady of seventy-odd,
whose early history is very romantic one.
Ii began when she was very young, very
beautiful, and, / should Judge the very
graceful daughter of n poor postmaster in
small, out-Of-the-way village in Austria.
One day the Grand Duke, great chamois
hunter. missed his way in the mountain,
IL 10, g,toeaaAa1 in finnintr II lao
had lost a great deal Of valuable time.
say valuable. because there'was to be re-
view OF troops at Vienna the next morning
in the presence OF the Emperor and the
foreign ambassadors, and the Grand Duke
Johann was TO command them. The
young prince finally succeeded in reach
ing little village on the mountain
side, where there was posting
station, but the only postilion and pose
horses OF the place had gone away an hour
or two before with some other travellers,
and the postmaster was sick in bed. Ii
was seemingly impossible for the Grand
Duke TO get TO Vienna in time TO take COM
mand. Not knowing a foot OF the way.
the Prince would have given up in despair
but for the fifteen-year-Old daughter OF the
postmaster, who boldly offered to lead him
to the next post-station, and this she did,
although il was night and the roads very
dangerous. The Grand Duke reached
Vienna i'm time for the review, and "A few
months later he proved his gratitude by
sending the village girl TO a fashionable
bOarding-school in the capital. Here she
remained for almost three years, and as
meanwhile the little god Cupid had not
been Idle. when she graduated she became
the wife OF the Grand Duke.
On those afternoons when the Emperor
does not visit the Countess LehndOrif he
generally makes second promenade, this
time 10 see " Schwartz Lise." the keeper
OF little inn IN the midst OF the forest,
and where he frequently INDUCES in game
OF ninepins. After the last attempt on the
Bmperor's life the Schwartz Lise tele-
graphed to his Imperial Majesty. but her
congratulations on his escape from death
not being acknowledged she supposed that
he had never received the message. When
the Emperor next came TO Gastein, the
year after that memorable event, he walked
out TO the little inn, and in making his eX-
cuse to Scharwze Lise personally he took
the opportunity to present her with large
photograph OF himself in q carved frame.
under which he had written some words of
dedication in his own hand. The simple
woman keeps this royal Gift i'm her best
room, and underit she has hung the bronze
crucifix before which she says her PRAYERS
every morning and every evening. The
Schwartz Lise only shows her treasure, AS
she calls this photograph, to particularly
favored guests, and she always relates 10
them that IL was the Emperor himself who
brought ID tO her
Every Sunday the Emperor, attended by
his entire suite, goes 10 The Protestant
church. One Of the members OF the Berlin
Hol and Dom Geistlickeit Is usually al Gas
tein during the Emperors stay in the
place. i hear that DIR. Kogel and Pastor
Frommel will be this wears preachers.
The church, which Is very small Is built
on piece OF ground which the Countess
Lehndorif donated 10 the congregation.
Tie service begins Immediately after the
arrival OF the Emperor. There are not
many Professionals In that part Of the world
fashion does not here follow the monarch
as u does the ruling power in Washington.
ana consequently the house il never
crowded. There are some twelve or four.
.een gentiemen--mostly army ofiicers-in |
the silile OF the Emperor. When the i'm
per'ai party enter the whole congregation
rise, the minister stands up In his pul. |
Pit, ana The service then begins with
bymn sang by the choir. II Il a !
wonderfully impressive sight, this grand 4
DID monarch Of mighty empire walking
slowly up the aisle and standing reyereptlv
With bowed head, while the good clergy.
nan calls down Gods blessing and loving