Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-03
Some paintings by the old mas ters are rather fine. In fact few

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 TWO FELLOW TRAVELLERS ON THE BFR-
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 pieces, hand painted, mind you, by Vatican, Van der Werff and Poussin would not disfgure Drexel boule- yard, Chicago, palace, even to-day But need touching up some.
 It is hard to give a good description of the Potsdam palaces-they hustle you through so. There is nothing honey about royal palace. say that if they frontier me for it.
 Old Frederick the Great tried to make Sans-souei an at-home place, from his peculiar standpoint, but his standpoint was great hindranee to his intentions. sans-souei is said to have been copied from the palace of Versailles, and was built by r. the G. in 1845-and his royal highness lived there most of the time None of his successors cared much for it. however, and it is now in pretty much the same condition as when he ceased to live there August IT, 1786. 2:20 a. n. lam so sure and exact about the time, because a trained clock of his greatness felt so bad about it that it stopped at the exact moment that the monarch expired. There was no coro- ner's inquest held on the clock. They still exhibit the clock, and they didn' t even fold it's hands.
 Sans-souci is only one story high, for Frederick the Great was much averse to climbing stairs, and I sup pose he had lost faith in elevator in spectors, and therefore wouldn't trust his life on lift" They say he was gouty in his old age. When he lived at the old palace (near the railway sta tion), which is a few stories high, he got around the stair business by having chute built for himself Ishould have liked to see his royal nibs do the slide act.
 It is hardly probable that the royalty l of the pastor present-was put to the same inconvenience that visitors ex- perience in the way of pedal covering. Even without taking the hustling into consideration, palacing is form of amusement not unaccompanied by embarrassment, for the uncrowned visitor is required when slumming-I mean palacing-to wear things on his 1 feet. I don't know what to call 'em. They're something like the wall-poch- cts one sees in country houses in New Jersey, or perhaps more resemble the baskets by means of which the squaws l in South Dakota carry their babies on their backs. Only these are felt-and seen. I've heard dark hints to the 1 effect that it was merely scheme to get the hard wood floors polished without expense.
 1 When Frederick the Great was crown prince he was permitted to keep up little court of his own, and he surrounded himself with quite d 1 "smart'' set, of which Yoltaire was q shining member. When he finally be- came king he built Sans-souci and took l the whole smart" set along with him. Then Voltaire got the big head and ire ouently got too gay with the king. So 1 the latter concluded to play joke on Voltaire. There were no comic week lies in those days, or Frederick would have ordered a center page devoted to 1 his favorite. So he managed to get Voltaire to take advantage of the sum nler excursion rates to Paris Voltaire took round trip, and went to revisit his old Par. While he was gone Fred ericlz played horse with Voltaires room. He sent for the decorators and l told them about dream he had. The l decorators transferred the dream to the walls and furniture of Voltaire's room yoltaire returned and nearly had fit when he saw his room. The ceiling and the walls were all covered with carved and painted figures, monkeys, cranes, peacocl1s and parrots; even the furniture was mixed up the same way It was all, said the merry king, an inno- cent portrayal of Voltaire's character. The latter's dislike for cold water, even, was pictured by miniature chamber service. Then Voltaire quit his job.
 The room is still shown just as Vol taire wouldn't have it. A genial, fun loving soul was Frederick the Great. But you read all that, did you, years ago in the fourth reader? So did l; but it seemed like new tale to see the room in all it's hideous reality.
 That there are nearly 10000 soldiers in Potsdam is due to the fact that this is the official summer residence of the emperor and his family. There are here four soldiers, I am told, from each regiment of the German army, these forming a sort of imperial guard. l