Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16
GERMANY'S CROWN PRINCE.
New and Interesting Statements
Relative to His Sickness.
Why His Wife, the Grown Princess,
Boxed a Doctors Ears.


German Crown Princes disease and the
commotion it has caused in the royal suf-
ferer's family:
The Crown Prince has been suffering for
years from occasional hoarseness before it
was deemed necessary to have his throat ex-
an1ined by a specialist In February
last year however, there was an ex-
ceptiOnally severe attack, and Professor
Bergmann was requested by the En-
TarOr 10 examine the Princes throat and
Saw in confidence what was really the matter.
Pa-gmann had no difficulty whatever in
TrOnOuncing that the Prince was suffering
from a malignant cancerous disease, and
that to insure, the patient temporary relief
from pain and postpone for few years the
inevitable catastrophe, it would be necessary
to extirpate the larynx.
On hearing of the nature of Prof. Won
Bergmann's report, the Crown Princess sum-
1uOned him to her presence and questioned
him in an excited and insulting manner. The
professor calmly repeated what he had told
the Emperor. The Crown Princess vehe-
lnently denied that her husband could
possibly have an incurable disease,
and the professor courteously and
sorrowfully contradicted her, and the
audience ended abruptly by the Crown
Princess, fOrgetful of dignity, boxing the
learned professors ears Not unnaturally,
Bergman refused to have anything more to
do with the Crown Princes case. 1t was only
at the last moment, and at the earnest and
repeated requests of the Emperor, finally
turning into orders, that he altered his de-
ci5iOn.
1t is pretty generally known that the Crown
Princess deteStS Prince Bismarck more than
anybody or anything in the whole world. She
knows that Bismarck reciprOcateS her feel
ings and she enormously believes him quite
capable of intriguing against her husbands
rights to the throne. The Crown Princess ex-
ertS great influence over her husband, and
Bismarck has not infrequentiy had reason to
H. ~1olI L,
the fact that, although the Crown Prince and
Princess were opposed to him. their son was
one Of his most devoted admirers Prince
William is not popular with the mass Of the
German people, but his Bismarck worship is
the redeeming feature in their eyes and saves
him from being positively disliked. He is in
truth a most unlovable young man. He
Sights his Schleswig- Holstein wife and in
suits his mother at times by parading his adj
miratiOn for Bismarck and in other ways
Such are his unfilial sentiments in regard to
his English mother that he rarely visits the
parental palace, and then only when directly
commanded to do so by his grandfather.
During the past few months the Crown
Princesss great dread has been that she may
live to see Prince William on the throne
which it has been her ambition to share
with her husband: AS far as the public :II
have hitherto understood. Prince Will
lam could become Emperor only
by the death of his grandfather and
father, but it seems the latter event is not
necessary, because there is a law on the statue
book which provides that no Prince suffering
from incurable disease can succeed to the
imperial throne. Upon this law hangs the
explanation of most of the curious happen
ings at San Reno, which have been puzzling
all Europe.
The thought that it gave Bismarck
weapon by which he could strike a mortal
blow at her ambition terrified the Princess.
She saw that her only chance was
to obtain an authoritative expression
r,<)H
bic. In her sore distress she appealed to her
mother, Queen Victoria, with the result
that DR.. Morell Mackenzie was summoned to
the royal presence and taken into the royal
confidence. He went to Berlin, examined the
Crown Princes throat, and, as arranged,
pronounced the disease acknowledgement and
durable One portion Of the growth in the
throat which he extracted was very carefully
selected so as to enable Professor Virchow,
to whom it was submitted for micrOscopical
examination, to declare, with a clear con-
science that it contained nothing to justify
the SuppOSition that the throat was the seat
of a malignant disease.
Thenceforward Mackenzie became solely re-
spOnsibe for the conduct of the case. The
royal patients condition seemed to improve.
Mackenzie was Bnighted, and his English prac-
tIce increased enormously. Acting on Mac
kenZle'S advice the Crown Prince went to
Toblach in the Tyrol, and there he had a re-
lapse, which, in absence of official bulletins and
other authoritative information, caused a storm
OF Indignation throughout Germany The Ger
mans could not understand why the beloved
''Unser Fritz should be allowed to re-
main in a foreign land under charge OF a
foreign physician and nursed by foreign
wife The people clamored that the Prince
Should be handed over to the care of Ger
man experts, for of course DR.. krause, ply
Slcian in ordinary to the Crown Princes
household, could not be considered authority
al such an important case.
1t was at this time that the German news
paper crusade against Mackenzie commenced, 1
and it is still going on Then, too, the aged
Kaiser interviewed, aud in spite of the protests
OF the Crown Princess, commanded that Ger
man and Austrian experts should investigate
cue matter. me result of that memorable
November consultation is still fresh in the
public mind. The experts declared that the
Crown Prince was suffering from cancerous
disease Dr. Mackenzie signed the report,
out with very important reservations. He
again carefully removed particles from the
ffa 1i1, and Professor Virchow again
tailed to find in them distinct signs of
cancer. Then Virchow relieved himself of
further worries and responsibilities by going
10 Egypt, where he now is away out OF reach
of the telegraph
When the operation of tracheotomy be
came necessary. the Crown Princess would
only consent to it after having been warned
gnat her husbands life depended upon it.
Inc Emperor again commanded Professor
Bergmann to proceed to San Reno,
out not until tracheotomy had been
actually performed. When he arrived
ne received no facilities for seeing and
examining the Princes throat, and his visit
cannot have been pleasant one. He Is still
dI San Reno by the EmperorS commands:
Inc experts now in attendance are divided
III opinion on various points, and are jealous
,1%J fhn