Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-05
PEN PICTURE OF
CITYOF BERLIN

and he ruled like that imperial bird
The header will perhaps recall how he
commanded his sister to marry a GER
tain royal person and when she re-
used he put her in a dungeon.
One time some one formed a plan
to poison Frederick the Great. A
spider was put in some food. he did
not like the first taste and in fury gave
It to a dog near by and soon the dog
died. In the dining room over the
table preserved to this day, Is a gold
en- spider worked in the ceiling. He
ordered this done TO commemorate the
saving of his life from. poison and al
So the death of the dog. Why there
was a dog nearby is easy to explain
when mention that this animal was
his fayorite companion. He got along
better with dogs than men or women.
He had many of them and when he
died ais two favorite dogs were by his
side. He was one of the few men who
died sitting up in chair, and there is
in Berlin a very fine marble sculp
ture of him in his last hour with the
two dogs by his side. He did not die
so hard and witn SO much nerve that
he sat up to the last In the death
room, which is preserved in original
form, there is the historic French clock
which is said to have stopped the very
moment Frederick the Great died,
twenty minutes past two. and 1t has
never been started to run since then.
or course in the excitement of his ap-
preaching death the attendants had
forgotten TO wind the clock, and this
Is why it happened to stop when his
life did--no other explanation is sen.
sibIe. Frederick the Great asked to
be buried with his dogs, but of course
buried in a zinc coffin in crypt OF
the church where he had worshipped
and where his father Frederick VII
liam the first then slept in death.
entered this historic burial vault to
lday. There he sleeps and overlooking
the door to the vault is the preachers
stand and the hour-glass by which tbs
sermon once was measured. Whel
the first Napoleon entered Berlin a!
ruler of Prussia the treaty of peace
was signed in this burial vault at th'
dead of midnight. As Napoleon Ell
tered the tomb he commanded his mel
to take off hats, for he said that
Frederick the Great were alive nj
French king would enter by arms in
10 Belin. That was in 1905, and Fred
erick the Great bad been dead a lont
time, but Napoleon knew from his his
tory that in case he was alive Their
would be no treaty OF peace signed Il
Berlin. All these palaces, except tn
Sans Sonce" palace, are now used b
the royal family of Germany. Whel
Germany became a united empire 4
1871 all the property OF the great Gel
man kings fell to the emperor; and /
addition to this the present empero
william gets an annual income Of 1
: million dollars from the government
The pay of the emperor and the peopl
. who work form quite a contrast. Fo
example, a letter carrier gets abou
three marks day, OF ID our none
serenity five cents. and most other Il
Dor is paid for at about the same RAJ
! The unequal division Of the burden
} of life In Germany is the only thin
! that mars my pleasure in travel.
J see 70 many thousands of soldiers /
i the standing army. all on parade an
: dress. and so many women workin
. in the fields. In Dresden and Berlin
, saw women pulling cars from door I
! door selling wood, milk and eggs.
saw women raking leaves in the park
} and woods. spading sod N the-@elei
. plowing In the grain with pfow pull
J ed by two oxen This made me sici
. Too many men in the army FOR whic
, there is no need and not enough a