The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15
A ROYAL VETERAN.
Emperor Williams Love Story and
 His After-Marriage
Sacrificing His Own Feelings and Wedding in Accordance With the Wishes of
 His Father-A Monarch Wor- shiped By His People.

On the ZZu or MdrcH ELHp6rOT Nu-
 liam entered his ninetieth year. Think of itl Few monarchs in all history's march have sat upon the throne at such an age. The heroes who stood at his side when fighting the Little Corsican" and listened to the peans of Waterloo are few and scattering-the majority long since in their graves. Those times seem so indistinct and remote. The French revolution and the continental wars have been followed by events of such grandeur that one who beheld them assumes, in our fancy, the dignity of a patriarch of the days primeval. Far was the thought in that youth, when Prussia's future seemed so clouded and dim, that he would once dictate terms of peace to successor of the mighty Bon aparte. Twenty-Five years have come end gone since his accession to the throne. The rumors-so rife few months ago-that the anniversary would bring his resignation have proved 'idle creatures of fancy" The Grown Prince, now a grandfather, awaited it with bated breath; but in vain. Dire changes had succeeded. Bis marck would have followed his master, as has long been his wish; Moltke, probably, too The interests at stake for Germany were great, and the Elm peror remained. The scars and deeds of a half-dozen wars, the long, eventful life, kindness and gentility which few Kings have had, explain the devotion which is his. His every excursion is a pilgrimage of homage. have stood on the ''Linden" as his simple carriage whirled by, drawn by the black stal- lions, outriders and footmen absent, when the entire. pavements seemed an army obeying the command of front" Every head was uncovered. Daily as the guard marches to the modest palace behind the monument of Frederick the Great the Emperor appears at the his toric east window to view the assem- bled throng. The coldest day of winter or the hottest of summer does not pre- vent him. Hundreds are there-yes, the broad avenue is lined and black with the surging mass. Officers proud of their chief, foreigners eager for a glance at royalty, and the laborer glad to tell he has seen his King. When the hero-one can not forbear calling him thus-rises from his working-desk be- hind the half-drawn curtain and ap- breaches the window the air reverber- ates again and again with hurrahs and applause. His blue eyes kindle with pleasure at these marks of devotion. It has long been the manner of the Hohenzollerns to mix with their sub jects, and nothing contributes so to their popularity. How many soldiers and scavengers relate their inter views with 'sOur Fritzr' The poor man does not feel the difference between himself and Monarch when given so many opportunities to look at him and see him at work; and he loves him more. These outbursts of enthusi- asm have strange effects upon one born ''across the sea, where homage is ex- otic to our institutions and traditions. Yet one falls into it naturally, and fronts and cheers as lustily as the devoutest Prussian.
 An incident of the Emperor's youth, known but recently by the public for the first time, has been freely com mented upon of late. Treitschke pre- sented it his German history-the pas sage which l translate below:
 "The marriage of the Crown Prince remaining childless, one was compelled to reckon with the possibility of the crowns eventually falling upon Prince William. In his second son the king had that pleasure dearest to every father of finding a second self-ta chip from the old block. As faithful and in- tellectual as himself, but infinitely more cheerful and decisive, the knightly young Prince soon became the army's pride-a born marshal, strict and kind. qualities which touch the soldier heart. Officers and men would go through fire to serve him. Because of the unwar- like nature of the Crown Prince, Will liam had been thoroughly trained as a soldier. His devotion to his duties was untiring; he commanded at once the Brandenburg corps and a 'garde' di- vision. Little was known of his pollti- cal tendencies up to this time save his firm belief in the divine right of the HohenzOllerns. He considered himself his fathers second subject. He lived and moved in the traditions of the war for freedom, evincing for the heroes of those days unbounded admiration. None stood higher in his estimation then the aged York; the poisoned tongue of envy prattled uselessly against him. Like his father, he considered the aGuc of the Eastern Powers the surety of peace among nations, and, like him, preferred the Russians to the Austrians. With the former he had received his baptism of fire, and since accompany ing his favorite sister Charlotte on her wedding tourney thither had remained