The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-15
and 10 countenigned by Baron Won Lutz,
the President Of the Council, and by the
rest Of the Cabinet ministers,
~ RRRATIC MONARCH.
A Love Anair In HlS Youth said to Have
Brought ON Hia Troubles.

brought ON His TropblsS.
Otto Frederick William Ludwig II.
King Of Bavaria, was born at Nymphen
burg, August 25, 1916. He succeeded tc
the throne on the death OF his father
MsximiliSn Joseph H., in 1854, but even
at the commencement Of his reign took
little interest in the management Of the
affairs Of his country, which at the time
was dangerously complicated in the diff.
Guilty between Prussia and Austria, In
stead, he devoted himself almost entirely
TO art and music, the taste for which he
had inherited from his grandfather, Louis
l., in an exaggerated form, Louis l, dis
tinguished himself in these fields, was
himself Q poet, and was responsible for
the removal Of the University OF Landshut
to Munich, and It's subsequent growth.
The 0deon, BasiliCa, PlnakothRk, Wal
halla, and numerous other public works
and monuments, testify Of his incllnAtions
and continuation Of such works, (which
noble trait deteriorated into monomania,
characterized the lie OF young Ludwig,
and became the cause OF his bankruptcy
and downfall.
The young King, on ascending the
throne, started out with noble aspirations,
and might have accomplished great things
had II not been for his physical and
mental decentralization. The story goes
that love affair in his youth, which ter
minated by the talsity oil the object Of his
objection, brought on q brain sickness,
from which he never recovered. Inclined
toward idealism, his shattered hopes caus-
cd hihi to follow his iavorlte pastimes with
a frenzy which at first made him the
laughing stock Of the world, and afterward
a universal object OF pity, Tho faithless-
ness Of one made him devoid Of faith In
woman kind, and he became a confirmed
womal-hater, He disliked all women,
even his mother, with the exception OF
the exEmpress Eugenie and the Princess
GiSlla, vile Of his cousin, Prince Leopold.
In his attentions 10 these TWO he was &C.
centric, as in all his actions, and nearly
cried his eyes out when he left Paris after
u visit 10 the Tuilleries, when Napoleon
aud his beautiful Consort were In their
glory. To Princess Gisila he would send
bouquets In the dead Of the night, and
made calls at untimely hours.
Richard Wagnet, the great composer,
himself an eccentric, was trusted by the
King with such disgusting intimacy that
soon after the Kings accession to the
throne, the opposition Of the people was
reused to such an extent that the King
was Obliged to send the great musician
away from the court. His idolatry OF
Wagner did not cease with the latter's
departure, however, and until the com.
poser's death, In 1882, that insane love
formed a prominent feature oi the kings
dementia, After Wagner's death, Ludwig
showed himself to lis people with still
less lrequencyf and gave himself up en-.
tirely TO q lnelanChOliC solitude In his
magnificent palaces, His dreary life there
was interrupted only by new forms Of his
eCCentricities, which soon proved the
curse Of his attendantss Thus, sudden
invitations TO one Of his ministry, 10 get
up and play billiards, were not rare. The
Minister detested billiards, and since
etiquette absolutely forbade his ever
winning, even the slight excitement Of
bona ade game wss denied him. Other
eccentric actions, such as having plays
produced for his own sole deleCtation,
have been frequently commented upon.