The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-10

ready given orders 10 the Berlin depart
ment Of the navy TO hold in readiness his
yacht. the Hohenzollern. and the dispatch
boat Gefiion for the trip. He proposes to
take advantage of his presence in the
Holy City to preside over the ceremony
Of conservation OF a new Lutheran church,
built on a site given by the sultan to the
late Emperor Frederick while he was still
crown prince, on the occasion Of his visit
TO the Holy Land. The church in ques-
ton IS erected on the foundations of an
ancient edifice of the same character, dat
/ ing from the CruSades. The imperial
couple, after spending Holy and Easter
| weeks at Jerusalem viii visit the tOmbs
/ Of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob at Hebron.
/ over which a mosque has been erected. No
/ Christian or Hebrew has ever been per-
/ mitted to cross the threshold of this mos
/ que or to view these tombs with the soil
/ tary exception of the Prince of Wales
/ when he visited the Holy Land while still
/ young man, in the company of Dean
| Stanley of Westminster. It may be taken
| for granted that the present sultan, who
| owes so much to the friendly support and
| championship of his cause by the German
| emperor, will extend TO the latter the same
| courtesies and facilities in the matter of
visiting Hebron as were conceded thirty
| five years ago TO the future king of En-
/ gland.
After leaving Jerusalem the kaiser and
his consort propose to journey overland
! via Mount Sinai to Egypt, in response to
! an invitation from the khedive, and the
| resources of the Turkish government will
| be taxed to the utmost to prevent any I'M
| toward incident happening to the impe-
| rial pilgrims, such as, for instance, at
| tack and capture by marauding Bedouin
! tribes 1t is difficult to conceive the con-
| sCernation which would ensue were the
! German emperor and empress to be car
| ried off by some such tribes as these into
| the interior of Arabia, and held for ran
| SON. The allegiance of these tribes to
| the sultan is purely nominal, and in their
| rocky Businesses, which can be reached
! only by weeks of camel-back travel
| through waterless deserts, they are prac-
! tically secure from attack or punishment.
1t is no secret in English court circles
| that 1t has been the one dream of Queen
| Nictoria's lRe to undertake a pilgrimage
to the Holy Land, and at one moment du-
| ring the early years of her widowhood
| she was on the point of proceeding thither
| with her friend and spiritual adviser, the
| late Dean Stanley, as cicerone. But the
| time for any such tour has long since
| passed by, and her majesty is too far ad-
| vanced in years and too infirm to be able
| to put into execution a project which she
| has nurtured in her heart since the days
| of her early girlhood True, there are all
sorts of facilities to-day for getting to Je
| rusalem which We're not in existence TWEEN
| ty or thirty years ago. There is a rail-
| road equipped with comfortable railroad
| cars that's runs from Jaffa to Jerusalem,
| and it is possible to reach Bethlehem and
other places of interest in the vicinity by
| means of tramway, the pilgrimage of these
| present times presenting a striking con-
| trast to those of former ages, when the
! faithful of every rank and class, from
/ kings to peasants, were compelled to
! trudge YEARLY over the sun-parched de-
sert of sand and stones that lies between
the sea-coast and the Zion of Christians
and Hebrews.
While no one need feel surprised that
! Emperor William should desire to under
take the trip to Palestine, yet there are
| many who regret that his "Zionism"
should have led him to permit his wife to
| accompany him on the journey, and
| among supersttious people much appre-
! hension is felt and expressed in connection
with the project For it is a strange pc
culiarity that hardly any royal couple
| have ever visited Jerusalem together with
cut being shortly afterward overtaken by
misfortune. Only eighteen months ago
| the visit of the Archduke and Arch
| duchess Charles Louis of Austria was fol-
| lowed by the sudden death of the former,
who, as second brother of the Emperor
| Francis Joseph, stood next in the line of
| succession to the throne, and who until
that time, had enjoyed perfect health.
| Another imperial couple whose pilgrimage
suits were the Crown Prince and Grown
| Princess of Austria. The quarrel which
| eliminated in Rudolph's shocking death
| at Meyerling followed Immediately on
| their return to Vienna from Palestine;
| while the stay in Jerusalem of Emperor
! Williams eldest sister, Charlotte, who
! was accompanied by her husband, Prince
! Bernhard of SAKE Meiningen, and attend
| ed by Baron and Baroness Won
Kotze, had as it's natural sequence
what is now known at Berlin
| as the Anonymous Letter Scan
dali" in which Princess Charlotte and her
| consort were so seriously compromised as
to render their departure from Berlin ne
cessary, while Baron Won Kotze himself,
after lighting innumerable duels, being
| crippled for life and subjected to imprison
ment, is now living in retirement with his
wife, both of them disgraced and socially
| ruined.
1t was likewise just after the tour in the
| Holy Land of the Grand Duke Sergius of
| Russia and his wife that every capital of
| Europe was ringing with stories of the
| most incredible brutality and saVeragery
on the part of the prince to his lovely and
| popular consort, who was compelled to APP
| peal for protection to her brother-in-law,
| the late czar; and Prince Frederick of
Scheswig- Holstein, uncle of the present
Empress of Germany, died suddenly at
| Jaffa on his way back from Jerusalem,
! He left behind him an American widow,
| daughter of David Lee, of New York, who
had been created by the Austrian empe-
ror a princess of Noer on the occasion of
her marriage, and whoiis now the wife of
the Prussian field marshal, Count Wal
dersee, the successor of Moltke as chief OF
| the headquarter staff of the German army.
These are only a few of the large num-
Der of analogous cases that could be cited
in this connection. But they are suffi-
cient to show that superstitious people
have some grounds for apprehending mis-
fortune in the event of the kaiser taking
his wife with him to Jerusalem next
spring. For, curiously enough, those who
make the pilgrimage alone, and who leave
their wives or their husbands at home,
| appear to escape the fate that overtakes
those royal personages who neglect this
caution, and with the exception Of EN-
press Eugene, who lost her throne few
months only after her return from the
Holy Land the Emperor of Austria, the
late Emperor Frederick of Germany, the
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