Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-04
WILLIAM,s WITHKRRD ARM.
Why the Young German Emperor
 Hates she English Race.

Why the Young German Emperor Hates she English Race.
 From the Philadelphia PressJ
 I was sitting in the corridor of the Kaiser-
 hof Hotel one night in Berlin, when an officer ! of the Garde de Corps. with whom I was ac quainted, came in. He sat down beside me and we had talk about court matters in Germany. It was impossible to hold cons Versation of interest on any other subject at the capital at that time. The whole civili- zed world had it's eyes centred on the capital of the German empire, and English-speaking world was particularly interested in the atti- tuds of the crown PFince-the present Em- peror-towards the people of Great Britain
 "He hates the people across the Channel, does he not!" I asked.
 "Hate scarcely expresses his sentiments" |" said the Captain, with shrug. "It is cur ious, in all the delving and Investigating of the newspaper correspondents that the real reason has never been published of the Crown Princes antipathy towards the English. He is of peculiarly rcvengeful and resentful disposition, and his dislike for his mothers
 people dates back from the very moment of his birth. When 1t wss 1eraned that Empress Victoria was about to give birth to child and to the proble heir to the throne of the German Empire there was great deal of ex- citement in Berlin. The Empress, as you
 probably know, is woman of very strong
 mind. She is the oldest daughter of Queen
 Victoria of England, and over there she inn
 bibed all sorts of notions concerning the sup
 e1iority of woman to man and the mission in life of the Queens daughter, and 30 on. The result was that at an early period of her mar riage life she convinced Frederick that she must have her own way at all hazards, and
 when she made up her mind on the eve of the
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 fish physician to attend her there wal. "a great scurrying and rushing around the palace.
 "There was no end of skillful German sur geons, but it was rather difficult then-near- ly thirty years ago-to find an English phy- sioian who was worthy of the honor of at tending the daughter in-law of the emperor. At the last moment an English physician was found and taken to the palace. He was clum- sy and excited. The result was that the child was born with a crushed left arm and hand. From the very instant of his birth young Prince Williams arm was withered.
 ''He grew up soldier in every fibre of his
 body a wonderful horseman skillful with his sword and full of fire and dash. But even at the outset this career as an athlete ard
 horseman, he found himself handicapped by
 the awful drawback of the withered arm.
 He was obliged to eat with queer sort of sort of combination of knife and fork, which
 could he held in one hand, and for 6 long
 
 the reirs of his horse in his left hand. By dint
 of continuous prctice In developing the mus- cles that were not Nithered, in the hand and
 arm, he succeeded in acquiring the grip on the reips and be has it to this day. Aspecies
 of blind and angry rage possessed him that he-the prospective heir of one the greatest empires of the world, descendant of line of
 kings extending over 900 years and the poss ible future master of Europe-should find himself crippled in the face of every worldly
 advantage. By degrees this peculiar sullen
 resentment, for which he is notable, settled
 upon the bungling physician who had caused
 him all this trouble, and thence, by easy
 stages, he grew to dislike not only the phy- sician but also the people of his race. and this feeling extended so far that William was actually and pointedly antagonistic to his own mother, because sine she was English born. Nothing on earth will ever convince him that the English are not in some way respopsibIe for his withered arm.