The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-06-13

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for royal smiles, while she would be
charged with allowing her philosophy
| to lower royal dignity.
"Unhappy-unhappy," she is said to
have cried: the chancellor and Ger
many will have nothing to do with me
because they think me democrat and
the democrats ignore me because one
day may be queen
That she finally became queen, too.
was due to her own indomitable will
and energy.
While the old Emperor Wilhelm lay
dying, the crown prince was known tc
have the disease that finslly killed him
Bismarck was alive to the opportunity
Under the German law no heir to the
throne can become emperor IL afflicted
with an tncurable disease. All the court
physicians were under the thumb Of the
chancellor, and II he could get them to
see the prince and say cancer" he
knew that he would blight the hopes
OF 1.-THE Englishwoman.''
But no one knew this better than the
Englishwoman herself. She shut TIL,
doors against the German tools of the
chancellor and sent for Sir Morell Mac
kenzie. the great English surgeon. Ev-
cry chance of consultation was refused
to the German physicians. A crown was
at stake--and the woman Won
DIR. Mackenzie's opinion was that nc
incurable disease menaced the crown
prince and no one assatled his finding
At the death of the elder William the
son assumed the throne of his father,
and for the three months of his life
remaining Victoria Louise was empress
OF Germany.
On the throne the empress took up the
study Of her husbands malady In this
she showed her remarkable versatility
and intellect. Sir Morell Mackenzie
writing Of her at this time, said that
physician might have talked with the
empress for an hour and not discovered
a break in her knowledge Of the disease,
No wonder" said commentator,
that when Edward VII. was asked
who was the cleverest woman he had
ever met, he should answer with so
much decision: My sister, the Dow
ager Empress Of Germany
But the recovery for which the en-
press prayed and worked did not come,
Frederick Ill, after ninety-one days
on the throne. died of cancer Of the
throat Then from her position of
power, where she had only the hatred
OF the German people, she passed to
the obscurity which steadily has been
deepening around her.
Writing OF the last days Of the en-
press dowager, the New York Suns
unusually well informed correspondent
N Paris draws striking picture OF
the Kaiser's attitude towards his
mother in both past and present.
Few mothers have suffered more
from their children than this unhappy
empress from the kaiser. have heard
a German officer relate a favorite de-
vice of Williams to humiliate his
mother during his grandfather's reign.
The first Emperor Wilhelm, though not
ali fa11 IN r. 10
an autocratic ruler of his household
and even his strong willed daughter
ln-laW never dreamed Of resisting him.
He would sometimes send an order to
the crown princess by her son, young:
Wilhelm. The boy would rudely enter
own name, bid her to do the thing
perhaps to preside at some function,
perhaps to leave Berlin for brief visit
TO Potsdam.
Naturally resenting the young
mans insolent manners, the unhappy
mother would refuse to do as he de-
self definitely to the refusal, often be-
fore other people, then would ask her
with q triumphant sneer whether he
was to bring the emperor word that
the crown princess despised the COM
mand OF her sovereign. The brutality
cut the mother TO, the quick; violent
scenes constantly took place, and the
naughty woman. who never feared to
confront the stormy rage Of the chan
cellOr, would cry and wiring her hands;
In despair over the conduct OF her son:
Long after the masterful young
man had become emperor In his turn
aud had broken Bismarck, her lifelong
enemy, he still took strange pleas
sures IS report be true. in wounding and
sighting his mother In her lonely Wild