New-York tribune., 1907-08-31
A BROKEN SOVEREIGN.

RcooIicctions Of Napoleon III at WflhelrShohe.
| Correspondence of The London Tribune
| one of the most interesting among the many
interesting personalities about Wilhelmshone IS
old Johannes Schaefer, the octogenarian servant
of Napoleon Ill 1 found the old man to-day
sitting under the trees outside the castle gates
For all his eighty years. sixty-iVe of them spent
in the castle service / found him alert enough.
and the name Napoleon brought light into his
old eyes and flow of words 10 his Ups.
All yes. l remember he said w no should
If not I? Al night. il was. he came with ms
eighty horses and retinue of a hundred servants
We worked all night 10 get them up to the
castle. And IN the morning. very early, tne En-
peror out in the park. very old looking ana
yerv bent leaning on his stick He was never a
good one on foot. Most people hereanouts CouI4
nor believe he was in the castle, and thought
surely he was locked up somewhere remehl-
Der a few DAYS after ne came the women were
CRYING outside the Ljwenberg-they thought ne
must locked up in that gloomy place up up IT,
There was young FrenChman. too Mad tney
said he was. but 1 don't know He came ur
here one day 10 the Cascades and saw the dun-
geon there that folks hereahoutS can men.
There were two windows to IL then. iron barred
but with glass behind. Well he made sure MS
Emperor was locked up there. and ne makes no
more. ado but heaVes great stones into the VIII
doWS and climbs down to break the IRON pdrS
ont They took him away To kassel and thel
let him so for a madman- And there was more
No the old fellow would drink neither wine
nor beer 1t did not suit him. he SAID at MS
AGE But he began TO talk again presently
"IIa didn't like the cold. the poor Emperor
K,ny NiIliam sent sleighs for him from Berlin.
but he did not like going out In the snow some
times his suite went skating on the lake IN tne
park but the Emperor would sit crouched IN ms
chair by the side muffied up IN mis- grea' iul .
He couldn't bear to be seen, either NOT many
of us saw him often. He spoke 10 me some
times but II was always about horses ana
mules He had a passion for mules, but we nad
better than his here then we Iao 'le
,,,ioc of the Isabella breed. and they fascinated
bj,n They belonged TO the Grand Duke OF
IIassa I remember when his horses were sold
bacause of the expense. The poor emperor we'll
nipb cried over them when they SOLD then up
bare And fine horses they were, too one pair
Of black carriage horses went Tor l'SVV ~ ~thdlers
CnearIv G e2OO); there no mark money
on,n+ir. rhen They're still kept alive on an
estate near Kassel were little since lie
drove about n lot the hills Always lour
borsas the front pair with postooyS on thefll
Poor old man, He seemed 10 nate MS CiNh
clothes but he'd had to give up ms SWORD SO
he couId wear no uniform Mostly ne drove out
i S tba forest where people couldn't see him
" II asLad the old man if he ever saw the En-
press. . -, ouh.. har oo,,;,,
She was only here twenty-four hours. out no
Iootad so Young and pretty and he so old and
bent We all thought she was the daughter
hal,le Of one of his suite. An. but ne looked SO
oIdi He would sit crouching over the open
,,ooa ere and rub his hands because OF the cold
W. hronght s2o metres Of wood from the stores
sn An Kes,eI TO warm him with But he
came IN like the place IN the end. and before
~ -rant he said he would almost rather stay
nd he thanked each of us personally FOR what
,,-n bad done for him and left present fer each
of us Twenty five thalers was my preseM
And before he went band came and played
n,,sic in front of his windows to bid him pleas
nnt iournev Yes he came 10 like il in the
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