The age-herald., 1897-11-21
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From the Chicago Inter Oesan.
 Stockholm, Nov. 14. 1s97.-special Cor espondence.-Before this reaches you the cables may have announced the dsath of old King Christian K, of Den mark, who, for a long time, has been adling and for week past has been towering between life and death. Polit- ieally small as Denmark is the moral influence of the little nation, through its family relations with almost every court in Europe, cannot be everes tlmat- ed, and, like Alexander H., of Russia, King Christian can be called "the fath- CT of peace in Europe" It is not so much bodily illnessLthe king, notwth- standing his 80 years, has enjoyed good heaith-as mental worry and anxiety, and it is no secret that Queen Louise, his wife, is the principal cause of 1t all, as she is a source of disturbance in half of the royal courts in Europe. Old Queen Louise, since she married Chris itian K, has had reputation second to none for intriguing both socially and an politics, and she is known as the royal atch-maker" of Europe. By birth a German, a princess of Hesse- Cassel, she hates her mother country, because Germany conquersd Denmark in 1864. She hates England for it's pa tronage of Denmark, nd she hates Rus sia fer assassinat ting CZar Alexander, the husband of her daughter. Shs hates Sweden because the Danish Crown Prin- cess Louise is a Swedish princess, and, having the same name, will also in time become known in history as Queen Louise."
 Popular Sovereign
 -t. ular among the Danes, with diplomats, and in the European intermeddler, and one whose political intrigues have been the cause of worry for the past fifty years in Europe. As a matchmaker she has been a success. If old King Christian should die, every European court would have to assume mourning. One daughter is the ex-empress of Rus sa, another daughter will be the future queen of Great Britain. One son is the king of Greece, another son has just married granddaughter of Queen Vic torla; the crown primes is married to Louise, daughter of Charles XIV, of Sweden, and one of the wealthiest royal persons in Europe. One granddaugh- ter has just married Prince Carl of Sweden, whom the Norwegians are now proposing as King of Norway. For little country, Denmark is more closely allied to the royalty of Europe than any other country, and it is all the work of Queen Louise.
 It would be a sorry day for the Danes if old King Christian should die. He is perhaps the last representa- tive of the old ideas of monarchy, where the king is at once a man and holds something of divine superiority over ordinary human ity. He has always been the recipient of a feudal old-fas ashioned loyalty and worship from the Danes. King Chris tian and Queen Louise are a very mod est, democratic couple in their ways and 0f liVinO and haVa always h. averse to parade their royal rank, at least in Denmark Almost any day when King Christian is in Copenhagen, he can be seen in a derby hat, long followed by big dog. .sauntering up and down the streets of the capital
 Old King Christian
 Every man, woman and child in Copen- hagen knows the king by sight and doffs cap to him, always being saluted by the king with a cherry word. Often he stops and talks with the shopkeepers and tradesmen, asking. them how their business is, and if he feels thirsty does not hesitate ito enter the first place he comes to and order glass or bottle of beer. When the Russian emperor, Alex ander visited Copenhagen he ussd to de- clare with great emphasis that "he felt like a man." A characteristic necdote is told of King Christian and his love of sauntering around his capital. In one of his walks he came on two boys nSht- ing in a side street surrounded by some other boys. The smaller was gstting the worst of it, when King Christian tcok the bigger boy by the collar of his coat and held him, and told the little fellow to run. The big boy at orce recognizs d the king and remarked: "That's the help Denmark ought to have had when she fought the Germans in fathers time" The boys brightness so pleased the king that he entered neigh boring restaurant and brought the boy with him, telling the boy to order what he liked. He soon found that the boy