The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-15
ESTABLISHED 1910.
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sion, whichat first was regarded ss a
mere idiosyncracy, grew into a
type of incurable ineanity, and
when his debts reached point be.
yond present liquidation by himself
or the ration, end he still continued
his childish extravagauCes, it was
deemed best to have his condition
declared by medical experts with q
view to his being dethroned and plac-
ing the government of the country
in the hands OF q regent.
This was done LAST week,
and when offic al notification
of the TACT was made to him he con.
firmed the report Of the doctors by
ordering his Ministers to be placed
under arrest, and finally to be
whipped until they bled, when their
eyes were to be plucked from their
sockets. The good people who paid
homage to him upon their knees
as he drove on Sunday along the pub
lie highway to Berg castle, which was
to be his place of confinement, even
they were satisfied by this that the
King who, in the early years of his
reign, had done 20 much, following in
the footsteps of his grandfa. her, to
beautify Munich and advance Ba-
varia, was an incurable maniac. Hsb-
itual melancholy had degsnerated to a
mania that forbade any hope Of recov-
cry. The tendency to insanity was in
his blood and the habit of &C.
clusion fixed and fed it until, with ad-
vancing Yeas, it marked d its power by
limiting his strength of selfcontroi.
His grandfa her, Louis, will be re-
called By all who are acquainted with
the history of Bavaria within the past
fifty years, as the monarch who grant
ed to the Bavarisns q constitutional
system of government almost
Democratic in its construction.
He was scholarly man of most pro.
nounced artistic and scientific ten
denotes, who, full of bis after purpose,
while yet Crown Prince, stinted him.
self and lived within an almost par
simonious economy that he might
make great art collect OBS, and also
make of his beloved Munich foremost
art center and one of the famous
and delightful capitals of Europe.
The glyptotheca and panoptotheca, two
now world-iamous buildings, the fres-
Goes OF which raised Ksulbach and
his pupil, Pilot, to the highest rank
as painters, attest his fidelity to the
purpose of his life. But while thus
making reality OF his dreams, he
was not unmindful of his rec
reations. He was a merry
monarch, but open and frank, we
might say insoleDtly impudent,
made no concealment of his smours.
His affection for the famous Lola
Montez, an Irish adventures esle-
brated for her beauty, was SO con-
spicuous as to be offensive to lis peo-
pie, who were stirred to a point Of
revolution by the Clerical party, who,
in the perilous years preceding that
of 1848, found that she was an ardent
revolutionist, and was urging Louis
to concede the reforms in gov
ernment that his people in common
with all others in Europe we're then
clamoring for, and they melted the
students frat and thousands of ths
humber classes afterward to declare
against and insis! upon her expulsion
from Bavaria. AS Countess OF Lans-
feldt she exercised dominating infu-
ence over the monarch, dictated the
dismissal OF ministries and, brave as a
lioness, faced more than one
insulting mob, on an occasion OF
extreme danger, defending herself sue
cessfully with pistols in hand and she
did not finally give up until Louis re-
signed from the throne in 1S4S. I'm
like his grandfather, Louis, or Ludwig
the Second, was not a save to women,
nor did he care much for science. He
was an artist, musician and a man
of genius, remarkable for his discern
ment in public affairs until brooding
insanity asserted itself and weak
eneG his powers in that
direction. Born in 1S45, he sue.
ceeded to the throne in 1855 and
became noted at once for his eager
patronage of artists, and his desire to
make Munich great music center, as
his grandfather had made it an art
center. He was quick to comprehend
the wonderful genius of Wagner, then
struggling to make himself heard, and
in hearty sympathy with the lofty
purpose of that greatest of the tone
poets of this era, made for him the
coveted opportunity that l'fed him
into deserved conspicuity, and thus
made the whole world his debtor. At
B9yIuth, VIII re the great operas that
revive the eNiebelungen Lied were first
produced, he had thea er built after
designs made by Wagner himself, fur
nishinR it with machinery, scenery
and accessories that helped to re lie
the dreams of the greatest master of
music since Beethoven, and of
dramatic construction since Shakes
peare. Civilization never before
nor since has Witnessed any
thing so marvelousiy realistic as
these productions, the very scme Of
the musical genius of Germany. And
he enjoyed them all by himself,
tha sole auditor of petfOrInances that