The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09

science of making clocks. 1t was the
belief of the late Emperor that every
member of a royal house should pro-
vide for all possible vicissitudes by
Tearing a trade. So while Henry was
learning to be a clockmaker the pres
ent Emperor was acquiring complete
knowledge of glove making.
Prince Henry was 26 years old be-
fore he thought of marrying. Then
he fell in love with his cousin, Prin-
cess Irene of Hesse, third daughter
of Queen Victoria's favorite daughter,
Alice, and sister of the Czarina OF
Russia. The match was strongly op-
posed by Prince Bismarck because of
the near relationship of the royal low
ers. But the sailor prince was so
thoroughly in love that his father, the
Emperor Frederick then suffering
from his mortal illness, strongly wished
to indulge his favorite son, and the
Chancellor yielded. The marriage took
place shortly before the Emperor's S
death.
1t was to this lovable prince rather
than to his brother that the late
Emperor Frederick wrote on a
slip of paper when he was no long
er able to speak, You at least have
never given me a moments sorrow,
and will make as good husband as
you have been a loving SON.
And after his death it was found
that he had left the bulk of his for
tune to this well-beloved son, who is
therefore financially independent of
the imperial whims of his despotic
brother.
Since then the life of the brother of
the Emperor has not been the happiest
in the world. Many of his disappoint-
ments are due to the jealousy of the
Kaiser, who could not very well help
being aware of the fact that his broth :
er was vastly more popular than he,
and that there was strong hope that
Henry might supplant his brother in
the sovereignty. SO two months after
the wedding, when the Emperor made
his brother a commander in the navy,
he also stationed him az Xiii. which
il quiet, dreary port where, when
not in actual service, the prince must
stay without budgiag except by ex-
plicit permission from the Emperor
The Prince and Princess, with three
children, live in the royal castle at
I<iel. The eldest child, Prince Walde-
mar, who has already been enrolled in
the army and navy by a formal cere-
mony conducted by the Kaiser, is a
tragic reminder to his parents of the
wisdom of Prince Bismarcks warning,
inasmuch as he is deaf and dumb.
The EmperOr's jealousy.
On various occasions, when the EN-
peror's jealousy Is supposed to have
broken. out afresh, Prince Henry has
been banished to England or some
other foreign country. These incidents
have received perhaps more notoriety
than they deserved. At all events it
was probably for no such rason that
he was sent in 1897 to China, 10 look
after Germany's interests there. On
leaving on his mission Prince Henry
made the only speech which he him.
self says he ever made. Perhaps If he
had made more of them the Emperor
might have detected a satirical quality
in this one, which addressed him as
Most serene and mighty beloved, EN-
peror, King and Master and Lord, for
ever and ever" AS it wses, however,
the Kaiser thought the remarks very
graceful and appropriate.
The Prince. by this time became an
admiral, performed his diplomatic du-
ties in China with distinguished sue
cess. and is the only foreign pRince
ever honored by an interview with the
Dowager Empress OF China. whom he
describes as "sublimely stolid."
Her Majesty received me face to
face" said the Prince In narrating this
interview, instead OF remaining in
visible behind a screen. She sat un-
veiled behind a carved table shaped
like a church altar. I had been told
that the royal lady's face was actually
incrusted with paint and powder. but
on that occasion she seemed TO me
without any such attempt at adorn-
ment She looked much younger than
her years This youthful effect was
produced, I afterward learned. by the
extraordinary art with which she was
made up'-especially round the eyes.
Il bowed profoundly on leaving. 10
which the D0waRer Empress responded
with hor queer little wink. and d faint
smile for the fret time momentnfily