Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

TOUGH OLD KAISER WILHELM.-Thc
Emperor William strikes me as a most
astonishing old gentleman. 1t would not
be at all unnatural TO suppose that, having
by some dozen years exceeded the
scriptural three score and ten, be would
now begin to take things easy. Most old
people whom have known have generally
taken to coddling themselves, more or
less, before they reached the advanced age
of his majesty, the king of Prussia and
emperor of Germany Possibly coddIing
is resorted to within the precincts of the
royal palace; but if so, it must be coddling
of a very invigorating kind, the secret of
which would be gladly learned by host
of feeble, weak kneed old men of fifty
and odd summers. Indeed, it would be q
boon to huiuanity, if his imperial majesty
would publish a pamphlet entitled How
to Attain Vigorous Old Age The fact
is that this royal gentleman has been
disporting himself for the past three
months in way that must have been
both irritating and scandalizing TO the
feelings of many an honest youngstcr Of
sixty or seventy, who has heretofore been
accustomed to remark, with patronizing
air, "Ah, well, the emperor is quite old
He can't last much longer" First, there
were the military maneeuvers at Breslau.
which the emperor attended, remaining
several hours in the saddle each day,
with one exception, and giving no sign of
occurred the Saxon manuevers, which he
not only attended as he did those of
Breslau, but also took part in the half.
carnival Publications which the Dresdeners
got up in his honor. After this he began
to travel about and enjoy himself for a
few weeks. But during the past month
he has been outraging all my ideas of
what is fit and proper for one of his years.
Eyer since the opening of the hunting
season this hoary headed veteran has
been on one grand lark" lie has hunted
with the king of Saxony, with the grand
duke of Mecklenberg- -Schwerin, and with
n half dozen other noble personages, whose
names | have forgotten not neglectng in
the meantime his own private preserves
Yesterday he returned from few days
hunt in Silesa, and in short time it will
probably be announced that he is off for
another one. Of course the newspapers
gave careful and full accounts of each
days success, and Judging from these his
majesty's hand has not lost its cunning.
and he can still draw bead with great
effectiveness. Wild boar, deer, hare,
besides several hundred birds of various
kinds, have met their death at the royal
hands, and the reports show that these
hunts have been something more than
mere boys play. In addition TO the usual
fatigues of hunting, thers has been the
necessity of contending against the
unpleasant effects of inclement weather.
The oldest inhabitant-I find this person.
age is also indigenous to German soil
has stated that there has been more rain
during the past month than during any
like period since 1856 in fact, it has
been drizzle and pour, and pour and
drizzle for so long that we have quite
forgotten how sunshine looks. The con-
sequence has been that number OF these
royal hunts have taken place in the rain.
When a man of eighty and odd years can
sit in his saddle for hours in the wet.
riding over ground soaked and marshy, l
begin to have my doubts as to his pros
poets for speedy dissolution Berlin
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