Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-16
AUGUSTA. PACK THE TRUNKS

DR.. TaImage Pictures the Kaiser as
Ruler of Tremendous Earnest-
ness-A Good story of his frOpen-
sity for Travel.
copyright, 1900, The Christian Herald,
New York;.
Not a beggar in Berlin, not beggar
In Dresden, not beggar in Germany
as far as we have been able to see. In
other European countries. the beggar
is a familiar object Hat in hand, eyes
upturned, garments in rags, and an at
titude indicating it has long been taken.
His father and mother were paupers.
Pedigree of rags. Inheritance OF want.
Squalor of centuries fmpersonated. But
in Germany, neither at the door or
churches, nor at the gate of railroad
stations, nor on the street are you ask
ed for aims. What is the reason? The
German nation has no superior among
nations in prosperity. The people have
enough to eat, and enough to wear, and
enough to shelter them. The harvest
fields which we see through the car
window declare that this year wealthy
crop will be added to the national re-
sources Cleanliness, another sign OF
prosperity, is everywhere evident. Dirt
is always poor. Plenty OF water IN Ger
many, wisely distributed, and every
where used. Midsummer, and yet not
malodor afioat Berlin as healthy in
August as in January. Only two cases
of intoxication have we seen in all the
empire. German beer is not as bad as
American whisky. No doubt there are
poverty and suffering, but we do not
know where to find them.
Germany's religion has much to do
with her prosperity. AS the most re-
vered name in ST. Petersburg is Peter
the Great. and we are shown the
houses where he lived, and the axes
with which he cut, and the cups out
of which he drank, and the staff with
which he walked, and the boats wnlcn
he built, and the pens with which ne
wrote, and the beds on which he slept,
and the crown which he wore, and the
throne on which he sat, so in Germany
the great name of Martin Luther, and
we are taken to the chairs in the Win
dow at Wittenberg, where he talked
with his wife, and the door OF the
church on which he hammered the
Theses, and the pulpit where ne
preached, and the mugs out OF which he
drank before apollinaris water was
found, and the tomb where nearby that
of Philip Melanchthon he sleeps the
long sleep, and the statues In all the
great cities where he stands with the
Bible in hand, and with lips OF marble
or bronze is still preaching the Gospel
with which he shook the earth, and
proclaiming religious emancipation
which will yet give all nations the
right to worship God in their own way.
Luther is still the mightiest religious
power in Germany.
Likewise the long reign OF Kaiser
William |. was Salutary reign. he
chose for his winter and summer resi-
dence the plainest and simplest OF his
palaces, leaving for the inspection OF
tourists the royal palace, where Fred
erick the Great entertained Voltaire IN
vast rooms amid painting and statuary.
and chuckling together over what they
considered the joke of all time, the
Christian religion, and also forsakins
the palace at Potsdam, its walls en-
crusted with precious stones, and au-
gust with masterpieces. the stupendous
structure built at the close of the seven
years war to prove that the national
resources were not exhausted. The
two palaces occupied by Kaiser Will
helm, according to the season, look like
prosperous homes, but completely I'M
pretentious. You are led through his
late residence in Berlin, admiring it's
simplicity, and through its study,
where he sat with Bismarck and draft
ed plans for the national welfare, and
put down the foundation of an empire
which I think win last as long as the
sun and moon endure. For the his
tory of almost every nation it requires
pen and sword closely united. That
which was achieved by Thomas Jeffer-
sons pen and George Washingtons
sword, and Alexander HamiltQps
financial genius for institutions in
Moltke and Bismarck achieved for
Germany.
The present Emperor has enlisted the
hearts of all the people. While many
criticise his pronunciamentos and do
not like this, or do not like that. Will
liam II. will hand down to his son
mightier sceptre than that which he re-
ceived from the dying hand of his
father, Emperor Frederick. who reign
ed only ninety-three days, and which
his grandfather welded twenty-seven
years. German blood has iron in it,
and the German government will last
long after frivolous France and cruel
Spain have again and again changed
from republicanism and monarchy,
and from monarchy back to republic
canism. The present Emperor is
ubiquitous; now laying the corner
stone of a church, now unwilling a
monument, now launching a ship. now
| reviewing a regiment. now in one city
and now in another. At a Punch-and-
Judy show. some time ago, the per-
former gave what he considered the