New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-07
WOMAN'S RULE IN GERMANY
COUNTESS WALDERSEE AT THE HELM
THE DANTON MONUMENT

son on0he score that, being a woman, she could
not be Captain-General of the Imperial Army as
well as Regent The Countess Waldersee is so
much commander-in-chicf that she can toss out
general officers filing the highest posts 30
writes TO me a friend at Berlin. The disgrace oil
General Strchle is proof that woman Is the
strongest power in the most martial city IN the
world Strehle was at the head OF the RUSSIAN
Engineers Corps Inspcctor-General OF Forts ana
Fortresses and Director of the German Woolwlch.
In the old Emperors time his position was thonght
solid as q rock But from the time the young
Emperor and Empress and the Waldersecs came
to the throne it was thought shalxy, and this idea
the General so strongly entertained himself that
he resigned to escape beirg turned out
wonder whether Queen Victoria had any pre-
sentiment in $780, when she was influencing the
Foreign Office in behalf of her beloved Germany
that il was not her own tirst-born child, but
smart daughter of Brother Jonathan, who was TO
benefit by her efforts? The reign of the Valdez
sees is another example of the folly of working
too exclusively for the benefit of ones own family
For my part, don't see the hahn of the smart
Countes,'s getting the better of Saxe-Coburgs and
Observation-Disclosures There seems to Inc to be in
her brilliant success an example Of that dstrlb-
utive Justice which is taught in the parable Of
Dives and Lazarus.
The Regency bill was hurried last week through
the Parliament of the Netherlands. and clause
was added to il by virtue of which 1t can take
effect at once. Should the King die tomorrow or
the day after, Queen Emma will be invested with
regal authority which she may exercise for nine
wears The probabilities are that the heress to the
crown will have precociously developed mind,
and be the victim of some sort Of neurosls. She
is hear f1om Dutch lady who is trying to find
a governess for her, sweet child, morbidly SEN
sitive graceful as she can be and too good to live
This poor, pale little winter rose is wanting In
vitality as are almost all children of old sinners
II is appalling to think how hereditary passions
may ravage her frail organization. All the
blood in her body keeps in her nerve centres
Given the venerable age Of the King of the Meth
erlands when he married a second time, ana the
fast life he led from the time he had TO give
up Malibran until he got rid of Emile ANDRE the
hciress TO the crown of the Netherlands was bound
TO inherit bad constitution and to be the Vlctnn
of neurosis of some sort According TO the
news received this evening, King William was
not expected to live into next week. lie has long
been afflicted with equity rheumatism, the disease
of which the Emperor Napoleon died. The Queen
will be assisted by Council of Regency. Baron
Mackaye, kinsn.an Of Lord Reay, will be one of
The Princess Waldemar of Denmark is coming
on a visit to her parents the Prince and Princess
de Joinville, at their seat of s.. F1rmln, III the
forest of Chantily. l dare say she wants TO get
the Orleansts in the Chamber to wlre-pull
in behalf of her husband so that he Will not DE
opposed by France when Prince Ferdinand has
to quit Bulgaria to let Waldelnar take his place
The Czarna went to Gmunden to try to persuade
A. M Of to
Bulgaria. and if she did not succeed in that, to
convey to the Imperial family Of Austria the
intimation that her brother Waldemar would
meet in the place of Ferdinand, with the support
both of Germany and Russia.
So long as the Princess Clementine lives, l
suspect that she will be too many for the hackers
OF Waldemar. She is very brave, qulck-Drained
and unreasonable old lady, and knows that
secretly Germany would not like to see son OF
the King of Denmark Prince Of Bulgaria. Austria
does not conceal her dislike of the plan the
Czarina mooted. This emboldcns the Princess
Clementne to go on conquering and to conquer
the affections of the Bulgarians. The last move
of hers was t., quit Vienna for Varna, and she
is going on a second tour round her sons prnci-
palities.
NJ Floquet recoils from going to take part
next Sunday at Arcis-sur-Aube III the ceremony.
of unwilling Dantons statue. lie is sending In
his stead NJ Loc5roy. As Danton is held re-
sponsible for some of the worst eXcesses OF the
Revolution by most anti-Republicans, and as he
certainly did not countenance rose-water dalntl-
ness as TO means, the Premier IS OF opinion
that he should not himself appear as euiogisN
and that at a time when the kings and emperors
of Europe are taking council against the
French Republic NJ Floquet, when in oppo-
sition. was a Dantonst. But that is good while
ago: and he is now rich, fills brilliant position
and is the head of Government which Is on
terms of official friendliness with all the mon
arches of the world, and is on excellent terms
with those of the Gar, the Regent of Spain, the
King of the Hellenes and the Sultan. L don't
think .that the Prime Minister is deferred from
going to the unwilling of the statue Dy lhe
MARQUIS de Flers's recital Of what Louis Philippe
told him of a conversation that he himself had
with the arch-revolutionist, whom Gambetta IN his
early and greatest phase of public life was won't
TO CODY especially in his Bodness; again Doid-
ness. and boldness always" 1t seems probable
enough that Danton did not see to how Tar the
Revolution was going to take him, and that he
had no idea before the sOvcreigns OF Europe
coalesced against France, that Kings head would
be thrown at them in defiance. According to the
Marquis de Flers Louis Philippe, then Duo de
Charities. saw Danton in 1902. The revoutionst
said TO him: Don't you compromise yourself
in this Revolutionary hurly-burly. 1t can't last.
But the ancient monarchy can't be restored. It's
YOU. young man, you, prince of the blood royal,
with mind filed with modern ideas, who VIII
wear the crown. Mark my words" Louis
Philippe did mark them so well that he never
forgot them and that in the reigns OF Louis
XVIII and of Charles subsequent to Waterloo
he was ever ambitious 70 climb to the regal
estate Darlton was TO him, fancy, as the witches
were to Macbeth.
But 10 return to 1702, the Citizen Egalite
Junior ran of to Switzerland and thence to Eng
land. whence he was sent British agent 20
Palermo, where the Royal family of Naples were
refugees. During his stay in London he made the