The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-02-01
THE EMPEROR's ACTIVITY.
How He Sat Horse for Hours at the
Last Review.

How He Sat Horse for Hours ut the
Last Review.
A letter from Nuremburg, of late
date, telling of the imperial review held
at Riesa, between Chemnits and Berlin,
in tile fall, says:
The en,nercr. with his family and
suite, and the king OF Saxony and suite.
together with representatives of the roy
al families of England, Austria, Russia
and Italy, were present, when the i'm
mense throng beheld the stalwart form
of an old man, with white hair and white
whiskers, riding toward the head of the
line, controlling with one hand proud
and spirited black horse, and graspine
his sword with the other; giving orders
to his aids and making suggestions to his
generals; moving about with the activity
Of man of 20, and displaying not only
wonderful tact in the management 0fthe
soldiers, but admirable horsemanship
and coolness,-when the thousands rec
ognizcd the well-known face and form
Of the well-beloved emperor of Germany
at the age of IS, doing all this, the en-
For four long hours the emperor sat
in his saddle, directing the troops here,
correcting them there, and watching
their movements with keen eye every
where. At his age-and but few attain
his age at all-0rdinary men are either
buried in or are sinking into second
childhood. ''sans sight, sans teeth, sans
everything" but there were few more
active men on the parade field than Will
liam was that day.
The enthusiasm with which his son,
"Unser Fritz" was received was only a
trife less hearty than that which greet
ed the aged emperor. Fritz" is him
self an old man in years now, and
grandfather, but as young q looking
Grandfather as ever beheld. He is,
like his father, a tall, well-built, muscu-
lar, soldier-like man, with 9 pleasant,
even benevolent face, and bright and
cheerful eye. He rode by his father during
the day, and the two made handsome
picture as they galloped over the plain.
The enthusiastic cheering broke out
afresh when the daughter of Queen VIC
toria. the crown princess of Germany,
mounted upon white horse, rode by at
the head and in command of q detach-
ment of troops. She is AZ years of age,
a grandmother, and as full of life as
girl of 16. In every review held during
the autumn che took an active part, be-
ing in the saddle at Breslau with her inn.
perial father-jn-law for over five hours
She has the bearing of princess, and no
matter how it may shock my democratic
American readers, I must say there is
something in the appearance of the i'm.
perial family of Germany-I don't pre-
tend to know or to say what jtis-which
raises them above the level of ordinary
people.
1t is sheer nonsense to say that the
people of Germany are not pleased with
the present order of things. Why, II
was only three months ago that the
workingmen of Dresden gave the EN-.
peror one of the grandest ovations he
ever had. They took the horses from
lis carriage, shouldered the vehicle and
bore il through the streets, while SOC, 600
people yelled and cheered for William
until exhaustion compelled them to keep
quiet. This was in the capital city of the
Kingdom which, in the last, ha been
less friendly than any of the others tc
Prussia, and where evidence of disloyalty
would be most likely to appear, if any dis.
loyalty existed. When the workinRmen,
so called, are satisfied in any country,
with any form ofgovernment, what more
could be asked? 10.