Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-21


| Prince had excellent teachers-notabIy Ernst
| CurtiuS; and in 1850 he became "A stud ut n
| Bonn. and, late. on, rector. With father st
manly and serious yet ..iov;al'' as one courtiel
| cabs him. and . mother so acconpl she'd, the
Prince could not fail 20 be we'll taught and
trained. lie was tall, healthy. blue-eyed, frank
! ana simple, aud be won regard wherever he
went when youth. In the English court his
father WIS held IN special esteem: and when
| having become Pcince ot Prussia and heir-ap-
parent he was driven from Berlin in
Jas. bis son accompanied him to
| England. Although polit forbade his
/ reception. he saw Queen Victoria
who deeply sympathized with him-and
! Prince Albert: ard it was then that Prince
Frederick William, lad of seventeen, first
| saw Princess Victoria lively and engaging
! child. 1t was the hope Of several persons that
| these two in after years might be united, and
! the hope was fulfilled. Five years afterward
| N the month Of September. when Sebastopol
| had been captured, Prince Frederick W liam
paid his famous visit 10 Balmoral. 20 ask for
| the hand OF Princess Victoria, Sill a young
| maiden al al the '-unconstraint of girlhoo3'
The engagement was announced September
q. ls55, and the marriage occurred il 1855.
the bride and bridegroom were heartily wei
coined in Berlin. and in August OF the same
year the Queen and Prince consort visited them
| in their new home. great change was i'm
pending over Prussia The then King was
stricken with painful ma!ady. and after the
royal travellers from England had returned to
her shores Prince William was obliged 20 be-
come Prince Regent He had acted in that
capacity since the autumn OF 1851, but in Octo-
Der. 1858 he was appointed Regent with full
powers.
The Regent 1t once set about the reform of
the army, which Slowly but surely brought on
constitutional crisis.
Prince Frederick William who had become
Crown Prince, was imbued with English opin-
ions, and he did not conceal his views. In 1853,
the strife had reached a critical stage, the
policy OF the government became harsh, and
the Crown Prince was moved that he ad-
dressed words of strong rcmOnstrance to his
father u beseech you, my dearest father"
he wrote, not % invade the law in the way
you hnted"-forcng on the country his own
views OF military reform. and issuing decree
shifting the opposition press. The King vndi-
Gated his course, and advised his son TO be
cautious; but Immediately after the Crown
Prince formally declared 1.-The proceedings Of
the cabinet to be both Illegal and injurious to
the state and the dynasty" So far did the dis
pute go that the King limited at the dismissal
OF his son from his command on account OF a
speech at Dantz:c The Crown Prince did no.
then comprehend the scope of Bis,narck's vas:
policy, or discern in him the qualities which
he acted with honesty and courage and deserved
the respect he won from all
In the Schleswig- Holstein war the Prince
saw service on the staff of Field Marshal Won
"rangel. 1t was this war which brought the
long contest between Austria and Prussia
to head. and discord in Denmark proved to
be the prelude to unity in Germany. The re-
suit OF series of moves and counter moves
was that in 1865. the Austrian Emperor
and the pruSSiaH KIM ham ,f
war; and Prussia with only one ally, sent out
her armies to fight against the whole resources
OF the confederation. The Crown Prince was
Entrusted with the command Of what was called
the Army Of Silesia," which, besides cavalry,
consisted OF the guard and three corps. The
chief OF the stat with the Prince was &c neral
Blunenthal, n skilful and hardy soldier. The
plan OF campaign was that while two armies,
which soon became one, broke into Bohemia
from the northwest, heading for Iser. the
Princes force should emerge into the scenes OF
DECISIVE action through the passes of the east
W ard-passes famous in the history OF hts
great ancestor, Friedrich H. But O line
of mountain wall, forty miles long-the Giant
mountains-separated the armies at the out
set, and their operations had to be nicely COM
bined If they were to form junction. They
were combined by the aid of the electric tele-
graph; and. being we'll directed. and fighting
stoutly, they did meet on the decisive field of
Then followed four years OF peace The
Crown Prince had the satisfaction OF hearing
his father ask the Parliament to pass u bill of
to cover and legalize the irregular
military expenditure of several years: and he
probably had come to appreciate the European
situation and its relation to Germany better
than he did in 1863
The four years were anxious ones for Europe;
yet, although war had been expected every
spring. nevertheless the events of july, 1870
took every one by surprise. The Emperor Ma
poleon had won q diplomatic victory at Ems
when the Hohenzollern candidature for the
Spanish throne YVES Withdrawn. Not content,
ne allowed himself to be forced into war by
The Empress and his intimate councillors; and
The challenge. promptly taken up in Berlin, |
brought on the strife which broke to pieces for |
4 time, the military power of France.
1t was in the campaign OF 1901 that the Crown |
Prince once more came prominently before the |