The Washington herald., 1914-06-07

dren, with whom she was reunited at
last when she took up her residence in
the ancient castle at Konigsberg.
The royal family now had been hunted
beyond the confines Of Germany, as its
boundaries were then defined. For al
Konigsberg they were in that Old Prussia
or Prussia proper which originally was a
Lithuanian duchy and outside the Ger
man world, although it was destined to
give its name to the dominant state in
the German empire Of later and hap
pier day.
The Queen found the castle. whose
tower has risen these hundreds of years
above the River Pregel as it flows
through the city of Konigsberg. a big,
bare barn of place. Only by borrow
ing beds and chairs and tables from the
made habitable.
But at last Louise had her children
around her, and that was sufficient to
make the cheerless castle a home. Her
grow up to be King Frederick William
~. The second boy. William, was nearly
ten. and Ii was written in the book of
fate that, on the death of the elder BROTH
er. he. too. would be crowned king some
day In that very castle of Konigsberg,
and be more than King-the first Emper-
or of q new German empire which was
to rise from the ruins that then con-
fronted the royal family.
forgot the New Year gift he received at
Konigsberg, the uniform of the Prus-
sian Guard. But 1t must have been an
unforgetab1e disappointment that his
mother could not see him on the parade
walton had made Louise an easy prey
to typhoid. which was raging through the
town and the camps, and the court feared
for her life.
The Polish Campaign.
Napoleon's armies had advanced unop-
posed and without pausing from fortress
to fortress. from river to river. He had
swept down below the line of the royal
flight. entered Poland and at Warsaw,
which was then part of Prussian Po-
land, he had freed the serfs and rallied
the patriot Poles about him as their de-
liverer from the hated rule of Prussia.
As Russian army moved upon him to
Cars ally, he left Warsaw and opened
the hardest campaign he had seen since
he emerged from an Oriental desert and
the hardest he was again to see until the
invasion of Russia in 1872. The frozen
wastes Of Northern Poland were hardly
less barren of food for soldiers than the
Egyptian sands. Even when they could
get bread 1t was in loaves of black rye,
nor digest Sire" Murat wrote wrote. 1t TITS is
with pain that I have to bring to your
ma1esty's notice the same heart-rending
picture that probably every marshal has
already drawn. We find not merely moth
ing for man or beast in the villages but
also the villages themselves deserted, all
the inhabitants having fed
The peasantry. with nothing to spare
from their scant provision aeainst star
tie they Possessed at the approach Of the
army, and took to the woods. .Raiding
soldiers new at the wretched, depopu-
lated villages only to have their hunger
Knocked by disappointment
1t rained or showed every day. Muddy
roads. in which horses sank to their
bellies and wagons to their hubs, de-
ply trains.
A mutinous murmur rose and spread
through the ranks. The soldiers had not
seen a pay day since the war BEGAN. At
first Napoleon only laughed at The cries
for bread which were raised as he rode
past his weary. famishing marching coil
umns. or he went by them singing as if
he had not heard their shouts. You