The Washington herald., 1915-03-21

same way the Brandenburg HSlenzol-
lerns acquired a claim to, If not imme
diate possession of the little Duchies
of Cleve and Berg and the County of
Ravensburg. To place the DuChy of
Berg II should suffice to say that its
metropolis is Dusseldorf. With Cleye
the Hohenzollerns annexed ESsen-and
its krupp guns
Turn we now another leaf and we
come upon Sohn siE bss and then
strange Hohenzollcrn. The Zoologist
and the botanist would call George
William a sport. meaning a singular
in another sense he had no sporting
blood, for he is almost The only paCi-
fist. peace lat -any-price man IN the en-
tire Hohenzollern line. Although the
Thirty Years war burst upon Bran
denburg in his reign and trampled his
villages and fields. George William
kept to his cyclone cellar through
more than twenty years of that furi-
our storm. Then, in the midst of it.
he died and left all his troubles to
his son. this stalwart, eagle-eyed, Ro-
man nosed Frederick William.
They Set Up ms Kings.
Here We have the Great Elector, as he
is called in Prussian history. He was
the last Hohenzollern to content him
self with the electoral title, the last who
mad to hold the basin while the Haps-
burg Emperor washed his hands. Find
ing the family estates Overrun and eaten
out by foreign armies, with Sweden
standing at one of his elbows and Aus
tria at the other. at his death he left
the country free of foreigners and so far
restored that it was ready to become a
kingdom.
This brings us to the first of the royal
line of Hohenzollerns. The sculptor has
taken care not to let his subject fall and
crook his back as nurse did, to the
permanent injury of the spine of this
\, i,,0y -iftr
Europe laughed at the seemingly idle
vanity of Frederick when he threw off
the electoral character of his ancestors
and put on the purple; but the H0hen,
laughed last-and best. Kings were less
plentiful in those old days. when a GER
tain divinity still hedged in the wearer
of kingly crown. There wds only one
real Emperor then and the only kings
We're those of Sweden. Denmark, Eng
land. France, Portugal. Spain. Poland
seven in all
No one was there in all of the German
lands until this Hohenzollern journeyed
up to KonigsburS in the dead of the
winter of 1700-l. and. in the old Schloss
of the PreSel, put on a royal crown to
the roll of drums and trumpets.
A Roman Father.
The little man Oh the next page. Fred
erick William. could have been every
inch a king and then not much, FOR ne
was only nNe 1cet i've. 1dllef men III
the double row of the Sicces Allwee. how
ever, have done less for the Hohen-,
zollerns than this Fred"r. William
and begot lesser heirs; for as the
father OF Frederick the Great.
This second King emerged from The
death chamber of Frederick l to turn
away court attendants by the whole
sale: sell off all except thirty of the
horses in the royal stable and To pinch
and scrimp through reign of twenty
seven years while he replenished treas
ury bankrupted by the vanity of the
first King. Foaming ut the mouth in his
prevailing rage and laying on right and
left with his cane, living off bacon and
Cabbage he made a Spartan kingdom
ready to the hand of his warrior son.
Frederick the Great.
Anyone who doubts the efficacy Of
Frederick Williams method Of rearing
a son needs only take a few steps more
along the Sieges Alice and behold the
finished product where the statue OF
Frederick the Great is EMPOWERED. Lest
the small boy who asked pa how tall
Alexander was that people should call
him great. still may be living and ques-
tioning, / will say that the Frederick
five-foot-five Hohenzollern- The sculp-
tor has not chosen to give us the man in
his chilli loveless and lonely age, frost
blighted and broken. tottering on his
crutch. but vet with his unshattered
spirit still blazing in his eyes like two
live Goals in a bed of burned out cinders
Nor has the artist chiseled him in the
beauty Of that hot. unbashful. blue
eyed youth which the profiigate crown