The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-02-05
The KAISER
BORN A CRIPPLE
Owes Withered Arm to Doc
tors Awe Of Royal
Mother.

Readers of current literature must
observe q popularity in the pose OF
the pictures representing the German
Emperor. The popularity is this
the left hand is always seen thrust
into the side pocket of his coat. The
reason for this is that the member
Is useless and has been so all his life,
the affection having had its origin
at his birth through the blunder OF
the attending physician.
As the circumstances attending the
unfortunate happening may not be
known generally, il may be interest
ing TO reproduce the account given
of IL by a correspondent of the New
York Sun. written from Berlin %
years ago. The clipping is in my pos
session, and was cut Nfrom the paper
at the time of publication The for
lowing is his version of the affair:
"In Paris two days ago l talked
about Emperor william with a friend
man is worldwide and obtained for
your readers most interesting and
definite information as to the young
rulers physical condition. The in
formation may be relied upon as ex-
act beyond any question.
"'Young William was unlucky in
the first place. said my friend, in
having Princess for a mother, and
equally so in having been born a
Prince. These two circumstances &C
count for his unhappy deformity. The
usually accepted accounts of its ma
ture was imaginative rubbish.
1.-The Crown Princess Frederick
was travelling, as is generally known,
10 an out-of-the-way place at a very
indiscreet period. The birth of the
present German Emperor was unex-
pected, and he was helped into the
world by some obscure little doctor
with an awe for royalty far in eX-
cess of his knowledge of surgery.
"If he had been allowed to think
that his patient was simply an ordi-
nary woman, of strong physique. all
would probably have been well; but
the fact was carefully impressed up
on him that he had on his hands the
life of a future Queen, and that the
child would probably be heir to the
Prussian throne. This so demoraliz-
ed the little doctor that he added the
strength of his own muscles to the
forces of nature, and so severed the
muscles of the infants arm.
"'When was called to Windsor
by Queen Victoria to attend the little
boy ! saw once that his case was
hopeless. If he had been grocer's
son some good doctor would have
been called in, and some sound meth
cd of cure adopted and followed. AS
a prince, however, he had to be seen
by every great doctor,no system was
followed out, and the worst possible
result of the accident ensued, name
ly, complete atrophy of the arm.
"'It is wasted completely away and
is probably smaller than when l en-
amined him as boy at Windsor. For
tunately, such wonderful skill has |
been shown by the German surgeons !
as 10 save him from the mortifica |
tons of having it plainly seen that /
one of his arms is simply the withered /
arm of child. The withered arm is .
padded out in a most life-like fash
ion, and not only that, but within the
padding is a most wonderful clever
machine series of strings and
cords acting like the muscles of the
arm.
"'These artificial muscles are con-
neeted with the good muscles of the
shoulder most adroitly, so that, while
in a natural condition he would be
incapable of moving his withered
arm, this most ingenious mechanism
enables him TO impart to it move
ments that are almost liie-like. He
can raise or lower his artificial hand
and use il sufficiently well to guide
trained and broken charg-
ers which are selected for him. -
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