Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-20

used in the next war--they do remark ably well. Their horses, too, are good. There wasn'ta single case of stampede" ]"
 On horseback the emperor seems the ideal of dashing soldier. He rides we'll, and that bodily defect which he bears since his birth (the shortness and uselessness of his left hand) is hardly visible when he is i'll the saddle. Still, in impressive appearance he by no means rivals his grandfather or his father, both of whom stood out promi- nently even in crowd of tall, fne- looking Prussian generals; and when he walks he does so with nervous, quick steps, and loses, in part, at least, his royal bearing. As he op the morn ing of Sedan day, went right into the midst of his guard corps, and decorat- ed with his own hands the glory shrouded flags of each battalion, to an outsider he seemed lost in the maze of tall figures surrounding his. Some of the color bearers, in fact, lowered a full head above him; but then, there was none less than six feet three in height.
 There were several other points of interest during the maneuyers. One of these was the gallant attack made by two guard infantry regiments (south army) on the brigade (north army) holding the pivotal point of the battlefield" at Kalbitzow. Of course, the well-directed fire of the defenders of the old windmill didn't kill, as it would have done in war, but the spec tacular effect of the charge was about the same as if the fighting had been in earnest; and the way these two regi- ments scaled the hill leading up to the mill was a severe test-yet on reaching the top they did not even pant for breath.
 Another incident was when, at the
 - of the -, on the 11th, the em- perors of Germany and Austria came riding together down the field, greeted all along with the thunderous hur- wisely chosen the cuirassiers of the garde du corps as his escort, for a more picturesque and glowing spectacle could not be found in military life than a body of this picked troop, with their magnificent horses, their superb horse manship, their gilt cuirassiers.
 heard the emperor speak to his sol diers twice-each time in the ringing, steel-lilSe, strident voice which is char acteristic of him. "Guten morgen, grenadiere," he said, in the brisk, brief style of his ancestor, Frederick the Great, addressing the veterans thnt made Europe tremble. And while the popularity which this present emperor enjoys cannot be compared in intensity and spontaneity with that which was his beloved sire's and grandsire's DOT tion, it means good deal that with such immediate predecessors on the throne he has achieved any popularity at all-and, what is more, his populari- ty is growing year by year. A twelve month ago the plaudits of the popu- lace were by no means as hearty nor as numerous as now. This, no doubt, is in large measure due to the exquisite tact the emperor has shown this year in responding to the national demand for suitably celebrating the quarter centenary of the war and the unification of the empire. In putting himself at the head of this movement and direct ing it into it's proper channels, avoiding everything that would have appeared boastful or aggressive, William IT., for the first time since his ascension to the throne, made himself the conspicuous epresentative of the nation in a matter where sentiment was strongly engaged.
 His manner of treating the veterans of the war of 1870, too, was calculated to win their hearts, and the hearts of the whole nation as well. On one occa- sion, meeting a group of such men, in- valids and cripples who had arrayed themselves on the Tempelhofer field near Berlin the morning of the great Sedan day parade, he mingled with them, and chatted and syrnpathized with one and another in manner to make it manifest that he is worthy scion of William I. Similarly he showed much tact in meeting the two score of German-American veterans, who were fairly carried away with his sincere suitability and kindly solici- tude. WOLF voN ScHIERBRAND. Why People Like Dogs.