Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-06-22

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one, and this belief is grounded In
the expectation that the Qualities
Which he now exhibits are those
chiefly to be called into play during
the years to come. He Is Prince
i'll the highest sense. He Hot only
looks it, but in every assemblage,
even where his uniform In no way
marked him as superior, his title to
that rank seemed stamped in every
line OF his bearing, and accorded by
those about him instinctively rather
than conventionally.
He is above all things a soldier.
and makes the army the subject of
serious and enthusiastic study. IT.
the present condition of the public
mind in Germany only soldier Gun
be popular leader. Prince VIII.
helm is to the military swells of Ber-
lin what the Prince of Wales is to the
club men of Pail Mall.
The Prince speaks English as well
as nm Englishman--.nore than that,as
well as an American-for lie speaks
1t with disLinctness. 1t is possible
that the reason may lie in the fact
that his fathers English tutor was
an American, the present Professor
Thatcher. of Yale College.
lie believes in Bismark, and con-
siders that he has the true theory of
human government. While lie is
usually suave and gentle, his man.
ner has occasionally been changed
recently under adverse criticism, and
one day when The Iron Chancellor
heard him rating one of his servants
i'll the harsh and rough style which
his grandfather lnew so we'll how to
assume, he applauded him and said
he liked man who had spirit of
his own.
There have been many absurd
statements printed concerning the
attitude of the young Prince towards
his imperial parents-=thnt he mis-
trusted his father and despised his
mother because of her English birth
ali of which may be fairly classed
as pure gossip: 1t is highly improba
bic also that he will ever ioin Prince
Bismarck in an anti English crusade.
That tho Prince may endeavor to use
his Influence with tho Crown Prince
to secure some special advantage, is
quite possible, but that the Chancel
lor will ever ask him to oppose tie
wishes Of his parents is too ridicu.
Ions to consider for moment.
Two years ego Prince William
ranked only as n major, and people
IN general spoke with surprise at the
Slowness with which he advanced,
yet all praised the thorocghness of
his military education. He was com
PEELED to work like the rest OF his
comrades, equally subject to mill
tary discipline. EARLY and late he
was with his regiment, ordered
about as an ordinary major, salutiLg
his superiors, with little or no atten
tion-in military way-paid to his
royal rank. Prince William was a
young looking Major General. He
lacks the prominent rugged features
OF lis father and the handsome lines
of his grandsiro. The Hohenzollerns
have no hereditary physical churac
teristics. Even Professor Virchow
failed to find any cranial ones i'll his
scientific examination of the ances.
trail skulls. They have never inter
married, having the purest blood of
all royal fnluilies-a custom which
sends to preserve and intensity pc
culiarities. Prince William has the
appearance of young man of twenty
five. His upper lip shows a sparse
blonde moustacke, his nose is slightly
Roman, with medium forehead,and
his hair stands back like Beethoven's
But, despite the comparatively weak
chin, his cold blue eye has brave
daring expression, which rensinds
one little of the'great Frederick,
whom he is said to resemble in char
acter. He is slender in build and
shorter in stature than his brother,
The s'naval Hohenzollern.7 His right
hand is badly crippled, and his right
arm Mt least two inches shorter than
his lelt-a defect which has caused
rs much annOyance and n,enf,l ,,o;, !