The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-08-03

Is seen In the familiar and touchlns
picture which reveals the prisoner
OF St Helena keeping lonely vigil or
the rocks.
There has been a revival OF the
whole series OF fascinating earl,
nineteenth century prints depictins
more or less fanciful epiandes in the
childhood of the king Of Rome
Among these are the quaint. sweet
print entitled. "Chut papa bort. ant
The King OF Rome's First Ride"
Bronze s~tatuettes OF the
are frequently to be seen. Like the
prints they range in price from a few
pennies TO a sum that buys a really
artistic bit OF work.
These N~apoleonic souvenirs are
everywhere. There is something
o than natural in this IL but phil
osophy could find II out. Is II onl,
the survival OF a supremely pictures
que personality or is IL an Indirect
perhaps unconscious-expression OF
Europe's yearning for a great mar
IN a time Of mediocrities2
To move a century away from thai
supreme personality TO the only dom
mating personality in Europe today
-there used to be a cult OF the pres
ent German emperor all over Norway
indeed. II was more than a cult: n
was a genuine affection.
All that has vanished before the
belief OF the Norwegian people that
Norway has lost > per cent of her
merchant shipping through Ger
manyss suhmarfno c,-n
innate may be excessive. Whether
II Is or not, the certainty Is that the
NUMBER or vessels actually lost 4,
growing a little every week.
A few years ago William m bat
hosts OF personal friends in Norwa,
and a nation OF admirers. Ever,
summer the Hohonzollern cruised IN
Norwegian waters. and during thoss
visits OF the yacht social Interchange
was incessant.
The girls OF he families Of posi,,o,
In towns like Bergen were AWAY 20
ing TO balls on board ship while tn,
herman vessels lay OF shore. E'ol
hVe and twenty years the emperor
look breakfast with Consul Mobr-s
Norwegian millionaire who IL honor
airy German consul at Bergen-upor
the arrival Of the H~ohenzoIern II
BERGEN waters. and for four and TWEEN
~ years he ate a farewell meal WITH
the consul just before departure.
The t~wenty-hfth Of these farewell
breakfasts was 10 have heen eaten or
a certain noon OF last summer. IN.
war came AMI the Hohenzolierr
steamed away to Germany.
j wonder mutters the old consul
sometimes. how far In the future lie,
the emperors nftieth fruhstuck At ms
house"
a Norwegian said 20 me. You know
We loved the kaiser"
And then he told the story that Is
known in every Norwegian hamIet
from Christiansand 10 the North Cans
the story Of the great FIRE AZ the
trading town Of Aalesund In January
1904. the town the emperor loves. and
20 the church OF which he has giver
a beautiful window.
II Is a story that even now Nor
weRians cannot tell without emotion
how when the town was swept by
fire the emperor had assistance on the
way even before the Norwegian GOV
eminent could get its plans In oper
'A'A NNW wv NNNM hMNNANNNNH NHfFN
into tho harbor with food and blankets
and medicines and building materials
and MONEY. AMI how. in memory oI
the b-enefaction. the grateful towns
people have erected n b~autasten TWEEN
ty-three feet hlgh and surmounted u
with a bronze portrait ~ the benefac
tor.
But now anything and evcrythinf
that can be- interpreted 20 M dis
credit Of Germany and the Germans O.
20 interpreted by the mass Of the Nor.
wegian people
Tho exceptions among the mass are
the military class. ne larger art Of
which is decidedly sympathetic with
Germany. and that part Of the intel
lectual class which ls composed of
the physicians lawyers and engineers
who have studied in Germany
The wild fantasies concerning Ger
many which one now encounters ir
every neutral European country pre-
wallis hero
The roundirFs which German nava
Officers who were oVpiorinE tho ford
used to take Iu these parts. either q,
pass the time or 20 verify or 10 com
plcto charts. are nov declared 90 hav,
boon taken with an eye 20 future hos
tile operations AGAINST Norway. AMI
The parties Of German tourists who
until this summer. used 10 troop int
Norway. are nov denounced a. die
Eusfing persons uhoFe E'uftouy nearl,
hankruptrd tho i~nkcppfra
An American woman who has beer
spondinr tho year in Norway told mi,
thle
You know thr NorucEIanF cay nal
before me Hummor |invaaiona Of Ger
man tourists brEan 30 wac possible n
Eot supper and lodFIuE in the noun
tain inns Tor u crown iabuIt co cents
but The Germans ate uo much that the
landlords had 10 put up the prices fot
everybody Naturally the NorweeIanf
resent