The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-05-14
A ROYAL VETERAN.
Emperor Williams s Love Story and
His After-Marriage.
Sacrificing His Own Feelings and Wedding
In Accordance with the Wishes of
His Father-A Monarch Wor-
SHIPPED BY His People.

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On the 22d of March Emperor Will
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hiarch nave sab upon tne throhe at such
an age. The heroes who stood at his
side when fighting the s'Little Corsfcan'
and listened to the peans Of Waterloo
are few and scattar;no .ho ,na,or;tn
n, y
4ons siiioe ~ 'iieil graves. lhose times
seem SO lndis5lhct 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 d
patriarch of the days primeyai 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 a successor of the mighty Bopl
apartc. Twenty-Five years have come
and gone since his accession To tha
throne. The rumors-so rife a few
months aoo-thatth anniversary would
bring his resignation have proved oidle
creatures OF fancv.n The Crown
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 EN-
peror remained. The scars and deeds
of a half-dozen wars, the long. eyentful
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 ssLinden'' as his simple carriage
whirled by, drawn by the black stall
lions, outriders and footmen absent.
when the entire payements seemed an
army obeying the command of s'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 coolest day of winter
or the hottest of summer does not pre-
vent him. Hundreds are tbere-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
herQ-one can not forbear calling him
thHs-rises from his working-desk be-
hind the half-drawn curtain and APP
proaches the window the air reverber-
ates again and again with hurrahs and
applause. His blue eyes kindle with
pleasure at these marks of devotion.
Tt 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 Fritz!'t The poor
man does not feel the difference
between himself and Monarch when
given so many opportunities to look al
him and see him at work; and he loves
him more. These outbursts of enthusi.
asm have strange effects upon one borr
.'across the sea-" where homage is ex
otic to our institutions and traditions
Yet one falls into it naturally, and fronts
and cheers as Justify as the devoutes
Prussian.
An incident OF the Emperor's youth
known but recently by the public fol
the first time, has been freely com
mented upon of late. Treitschke pre-
sented it his German history-the pas
sage which translate below:
''The marriage of the Crown Prime
remaining childless, one was compelle'
to reckon with the possibility of tn
crowns eventually falling upon Prime
William. In his second son the kins
had that pleasure dearest to ever
father OF finding a second self-'a chi
from the old block AS faithful and in
tellectual as himself, but infinitely NOR
cheerful ana decisive the knight!
young GIlnCe soon became the army