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A Gtftnc* at tho German Situation. Many ludicrous mistakes are recorded of the ignorance of European citizens in regard to the geography of the l’nited States, as well as oar habits and poculiar ilies. Most likely Americans likewise af ford equal amusement to our neighbors across the water: but if the daily press and the marine telegraph become more active than at present, we may be soon as well acquainted on the continent of Europe as Maine with Georgia, or Chica go with New Orleans. The royal family of Germany, their nf {fictions, and domestic infelicities have been as familiar to us for a period cover ing many months, as were the (Jarfield family in the heroic struggle with Gui teau's fatal bullet. Dr. McKenzie’s bul letins were watched with increasing in terest, and we were as much rejoiced to find the aged Kaiser at the historic win dow as were the loyal Berliners —who crowded his palace gates every day for a sight of the royal veteran’s wrinkled face. But the end came at last, both to the old Emperor and to “Fnser Fritz; they are laid to rest with all the Hohenzol lerna who preceded them. There are two of the family, however, who are still with us in the flesh, in whom the world at large retains an interest, and they hold to each other the close re lation of mother and eldest son. The public has hitherto been strongly im pressed with the wifely devotion and self sacrifice *of the one. and the undutifulness and ambition of the other, in their con duct toward the late Emperor Frederick. This royal son. jieir to the German em pire and the throne of Prussia, has been pictured as sneeringly watching the red blood which trickled from his own cut finger, and publicly wishing it to be only the hateful English blood that was thus getting away from him. This nnfilial ex pression “capped the climax, so to speak, aiid the reading public on both sides of the Atlantic blushed with shame that so unfeeling a monster should be al lowed to inherit the German crown. In the same connection the report comes also that the widow of Frederick, the mother of William, declines to live in Berlin, or Germany, since his accession, will become a voluntary exile to England or to the shores of Italy. Nobody won dered that she should be anxious to go. All this animosity has been hard to un derstand. In this day of progress and Christian civilization it is considered good form to be respectful to parents, at least in public, whether the parent be a thriftless ne’er do well, or the Dowager Empress of Imperial Germany. It was inexplicable that a father of four chil dren of his own should publicly slight his mother, unless he were an Ishrnaelite or a lunatic. These considerations created many forebodings for the future of the German Confederation, once so powerful. It was impossible to harmonize this undutiful character with the old Empe ror’s pride and interest in this perverse though warlike young William. Bis mirk, too, was an admirer, and when, the aged Kaiser was breathing his last William stood by him to catch the fond smiles and blessings of his aged grand sire. His watch, the pocket companion of the veteran for a half century, was pressed into William’s hand as a me mento of undiminished confidence in the last hour of his life. Meantime the public saw that Prussia was never en rapport with William’s En glish mother. An contraire, it is, and has ever been, censorious and antago nistic. This unpopularity was seemingly unjust. As soon as Frederick was crown ed she seized the reins of government in her eager, firm hands. She left the sick chamber of her sick husband to visit submerged districts and dispense royal bounty, but the son and heir to the throne took no part in helping her. When her own royal mother, Queen ol England and Empress of India, conde scended to make a neighborly visit, the German people angrily resented the house-cleaning and general prepa.rat.ions of her Empress daughter. It became a question whether it was safe to invite guests in such very high life, for fear of fisticuffs at the palace door. There was stil'l no solution of the strange enigma afforded in the public newspapers. The German people were tearful in their devo tion to Fuser Fritz. They were tenderly sensitive to his suffering. They were eager and prayerful that he should be re ston'd to health as their ruler and king, but the antipathy to Victoria continued unabated. They uniformly declined to love her or adopt her. Such reasonable dislike reflected heavi ly on the refinement and cultivation of a confessedly intelligent people. It was considered unwise, if not peurile. Pray ers ascended from American homes for a restoration of domestic peace, when it was chronicled that Frederick joined Ins wife’s hands with those of Chancellor Bismark when the damps of death were on his brow, and his eyes were growing dim to earth elsewhere. It was hoped that reconciliation would be complete, that the widow's tears might be shed on the breast of her repentant sou Alas! Frederick's body was hardly straighten ed in the death*chamber before an angry collision was reported between mother and son. She forbade an autopsy, and he ordered it to be made at once. She was furious that Dr. McKenzie’s rival in the treatment of her husband’s case, whom she had imperiously dismissed, had been selected to do the work. The general public cried, Monstrous! that a son should be so hard and vindictive in the presence of the dead. The post mortem being finished and the report rendered, it was shown that Frederick had died of an incurable can cer, which, by the Prussian Constitution, debarred him from the throne. Light entered into a dark place, and it revealed the mother’s ambition for herself—ar rayed against the son’s personal ambi tion. The surgeon’s scalpel, when it laid bare the cancer-destroyed throat, also laid open the moral cancer which ate out domestic peace in Victoria’s royal family. The unnatural son had, perhaps, imbibed his greed for power with his mother’s milk, as well as the physical taint from his father's cancerous body by the nat ural law of inheritance. The empires reached the goal of her ambition, but the sacrifice was a fearful one. For a short-lived promotion she gave up what neither money or a crown can ever purchase. Her devotion to her husband under the fierce, white light that beats on a throne, resembles per sonal ambition. She determined to be empress, to inherit a dowager’s share in an emperor’s wealth if she sacrificed the character of her eldest son, aye and her own self-respect to make sure of her plan. Dr. McKenzie, a loyal subject of the Queen of England, was not welcome in Prussia, for he came as the employee of the Crown Princess, who dismissed Prof. Van Bergman without regard to German partiality. His emphatic declaration of an anti-cancer disease, was nevertheless received as the veracious judgment of a medical savant of unblemished charac ter. The old Kaiser William thanked* him in a substantial way for his advice, but neither Bismark nor Prince William accepted it, or relaxed the scrutiny of motives and measures, Dr. McKenzie may have been mistaken in his first diag nosis, and rendered an honest report, but the fact remains, he was convinced of a mistake long before the public knew of it, and lie has admitted that he acted for the security of the German government. It is obvious that he carried out the ex pressed wishes of Frederick’s wife, who deceived her husband with fallacious hopes of recovery, and excluded her son and heir to the throne from her political plans and policy. Bismark, the cabinet, Prince William and all in authority, lost respect for such a schemer in petticoats, whose ambition would not tolerate the authority of her first born, when it conflicted with her i; - dividual promotion. The affliction was providential from the hand of an Ove. - ruling* Power. To evade this iron-clad law in the Prussian constitution would only deprive her son of a few days in au thority, at best. To the dying Freder lck the unknown in the Great Hereafter was in too close proximity to make the German crown a prize of such value, to be obtained at such a sacrifice, and the widowed empress must forever sit in the ashes of desolation, when she sees the bauble rested on such a dearth of filial duty and affection. Dr. McKenzie’s part in the matter reflects no credit upon himself as an intriguer. His loyalty to English interests should be carefully con sidered by the Queen of England, for his inveracity as a medical practitioner de grades him forever from his lofty posi tion as an authority in disease. To do such a work deserves pecuniary reward from those who were in position to com pel compliance. Young Emperor William’s coarse Teu ton character will further develop, with out a doubt. He is his own mother’s son in greed for power. He will never sink his ambition below any duty to fam ily or state. Estranged from his mother and threatened with inherited disease, he goes upon the throne of the Hohenzol lerns with nothing but ambition to sat isfy its nature. If war will appease the craving, war he will enter into, unless Bismark is able to show him an outlet to greater conquests in peace. Human nature appears to be the same in hovel and palace, in the crucial test in both places it will crop out with intensi ty under the same favorable conditions. Royality has its failures, and the greater the height, the greater the fall. Mrs. W. H. Felton. Red Hair How are we to account for the popular prejudice against red hair? Is it con nected with the tradition that Judas Is cariot was red-haired, or is it of earlier origin? So strong was the sentiment against it in the middle ages that one of the chroniclers denounces it as a “burn ing brand of infidelity.” It may very well be that the hatred with which Wil liam Rufus was regarded owed an extra dash of intensity to the color of his tawny locks. Not a few famous person ages, however, have been endowed by na ture with hair of this fatal hue (which their flatterers, no doubt, persisted in de scribing as auburn,) for instance Anne Bolyn, (Mr. Froude speaks of her hair flowing loose over her shoulders’*; Queen Elizabeth, (Sir Richard Baker describes hers as “inclining to paleyellow ;” Fuller uses the convenient epithet, “fair”); Co lumbus, the poet Camoens, and Marshal Ney. One does not like to think of red haired poets; but the reader will find that auburn, which has at least a warm tinge on it, has not been uncommon among “the brotherhood of the tuneful lyre.” Shakspeare’s hair and beard were auburn, if we may credit the original col oring of his bust in Stratford’s church, and Milton’s “hyacinthine locks” were of a similar color. But Burns' hair was black, and Byron’s of a dark brown. The best Lantern ever sold for 75c. at Wikle’s Drug Store. tf. & So invalids. 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