Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-21
WILLIAMS WITHERED ARM.
Why the Young German Emperor
Hates the english Race.

l was sitting in the corridor OF the
Kaiserhof Hotel one night in Berlin,
when an officer of the Garde de Corps,
with whom l was acquainted, came in.
He sat down beside me and we had a
talk about court matters in Germany 1t
was impossible to hold a conversation of
interest on any other subject at the capi-
tai at that time. The whole civilized
world had its eyes centered on the capi-
tai OF the German empire, and the Eng
lish-speaking world was particularly in
terested in the attitude of the Crown
Prince-the present Emperor-towards
the people of Great Britain.
"He hates the people across the chan
mel, does he not ?" L asked.
'Hate scarcely expresses his senti-
ments," said the captain, with a shrug.
"It is curious, in all the delving and in
vestigating of the newspaper correspon-
dents, that the real reason has never
been published of the Crown Princes
antipathy towards the English. He is of
a peculiarly revengeful and resentful
disposition, and his dislike for his moth
er's people dates back from the very mo-
ment of his birth. When it was learned
that Empress Victoria was about I'd give
birth to a child and to the probable heir
to the throne of the German En-.
pire, there was great deal Of ex-
element 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 imbibed all sorts of notions
concerning the superiority of WON an to
man, and the mission in life Of the
Queens daughter, and so on. The re-
suit was that at an early period Of her
married 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 birth OF her child
that she must have an English physician
to attend her, there was great scurry-
ing and rushing around the palace,
There was no end of skilful German
surgeons, but it was rather difficult then
nearly thirty years ago-to find an
English physician who was worthy OF
the honor of attending the daughter-in-
law of the Emperor. At the last mo-
ment an English physician was found
and taken to the palace. He was clumsy
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, skilful
with his sword and full of fire and dash.
But even at the outset Of his career as an
athlete and horseman he found himself
handicapped by the awful draw back of
the withered arm. He was obliged to
eat with queer sort of combination of
knife and fork, which could be held in
one hand, and for a long time it was i'm
possible for him even to hold the reins
OF his horse in his left hand. By dint of
continuous practice in developing the
muscles that were not withered, in the
hand and arm, he succeeded in acouir-
ing the grip ON the reins and
he has it to this day. A
species OF blind and angry rage pos
sessed him that he-the prospective heir
OF one OF the greatest empires OF the world
descendant OF a line of kings extending
over 900 years and the possible future
master of Europe-should find himself
crippled in the face of every worldly ad-
vantage. 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 dis
like not only the physician, but all the
people OF his race, and this feeling ex-
tended so far that William was actually
and pointedly antagonistic to his own
mother, because she was English born
Nothing on earth will ever convince him
that the English are not in some way re-
sponsible for his withered arm. '-[Ph
adelphia Press.