The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-16

l llilt pttIh llleill lO NllG plldCG DullQlilE 1 itself. The beauty of this park cannot
 be portrayed upon canvas nor de
 scribed upon paper As we enter the
 great park gates we pass the great
 fountain, which throws it's volume of water one hundred and twenty feet
 high. Many statues surround this
 fountain, and the equestrian statue of
 Frederick the Great in Italian marble
 Is of specially fine workmanship. To
 the right are one hundred and thirty
 two broad steps and at every twelfth
 step a wide resting place conducting us
 to the terrace above, upon which is
 built the palace of Sans Souci. At the
 eastern end of this terrace are buried
 the favorite charger and greyhounds of
 Frederick the Great, close by the statue
 of Flora. Eleven stones cover as many
 hounds; most of these hounds died pre-
 vious to the emperor's death. He was
 very fond of his dogs and much of his
 leisure time was spent in the company
 of these intelligent animals. It is said
 that his last words were to ask if his favorite hound was warm, having been
 answered in the affirmitive he replied,
 "It is well,' and immediately passed
 away He desired to be buried at the
 foot of the statue of Flora--a very love ly spot-for he said When I shall be
 there then I shall be without care"
 How true! He was man of great ac-
 tivity, great labors, very little happi-
 ness, but great care and anxiety haunt
 ed every day of his life. Even this
 beautiful palace of Sans Souci" could
 not drive away his cares and anxiety
 for his people. Care only ceased with
 his breath. Let us cross the lawn and
 enter the palace of Sans Souci. This
 Is a. structure of only one story possess ing twelve rooms. Those who visit
 Sans Souci" expecting to find a grand
 palace will experience a feeling of dis
 appointment. It was built rather as a summer retreat of great elegance | where the battered old warrior could
 with few friends try to drive away | dull care if possible, but that he could not do.
 The situation is magnificent and the views from every window of the palace are glorious The rooms on the right of
 the entrance were those of the empe- ror;they are preserved just as they
 were left at his death.
 l was forcibly reminded of the vanity of all human affairs as I wandered through this beautiful palace. It actu- ally seemed to me to echo of the past. There stands his clock which he al- ways wound up himself; 1t Is said to have stopped at the exact moment of his death, August IT, 17S6, at 2:20 D. m.
 The only portrait for which he ever sat hangs on the wall. It was painted in his fifty-sixth year by the celebrated artist Pesue. Many fine paintfnEs hang on the walls; all are by French artists of merit. The furniture in the emperor's room is plain and simple and the great ehair in which he breathed his last Is a most primitive af- fair. It stood right in the window. be- yond which is a most incomparabIe view. The library of this iltustrious hero is a delightful spot and is filled with many "reminiscences of it's royal occupant.
 The dining room is circular in shape. the marble pavement and the Corin l thlan capitals of gpded bronze, with | the beautiful frescoes on the ceilings, | are just as they were in his lifetime. | nothing has been touched; the mirrors | ana Silded capitals are slightly dimmed | With time; otherwise there is no | change. recalled the dinners which were given in this delightful salon | when Frederick the Great met with | Voltaire and the field marshals and | ministers around the festal board.
 In the National gallery in Berlin there is a famous painting representing Frederick the Great at dinner in this room, with Voltaire, General StiIe Field Marshal Keith General Rothen- burg and Algarotte, with other celebra- ted personages. Voltaire's apartment is shown here, and it must have been a very comfortable room for that old Frenchman. Frederick was greatly at- tached to Voltaire, but after a few years of intimacy Voltaire broke off the friendship and left for Switzerland. After two or three years a reconcilia- ton was brought about, and Voltaire returned; and as he entered this pretty room at Sans Souci he saw on the wall a monkey drawn by some mischievous person; the monkeys face resembled the lineaments of voltaire's thinlantern Iawed visage. One glimpse was enough for the old Frenchman He -ook French leave and never returned " f'""AiI @VNNi' 4hfblly pIGlly DlcIuTeSt |, portraits and landscapes hang on the :, yalls of the adjoining rooms. The pret- , jest portrait of all to be seen there is {, hat of Voltaire's young German cook. None of the princesses or court beau- ies can compare with the beauty of ] his servant of Voltaire I noticed here ! ! painting of a white cockatoo which ived to the age of one hundred and ] wo years, the cage in which it lived | . md the arrangement on which it used ,. o climb and exercise is preserved and :. ,ept beneath the picture. Sans Sou 1T is filled with objects of great inter- st, but there is not time to enumerate z hem here. Over the entrance of Sans 'ouci" are the words sans Souci;" the I omma was put there by the express ! rder of Frederick the Great The yord "Sans" is placed to the left over q he apartments of the guests, while the yord "Souci' is over the royal apart . lents; in fact the comma divided the uests from the royal host. Care was D ot only over the latter's apartments; a actually ate away his every pleasure q nd even life itself, and although he \ we'd to his seventy-seventh year, it light be said this great monarch never q