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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
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Your Majesty, said the king, made the war to meet public opinion ; butyour ministers created that public opinion. Your artillery, sire, won the battle. The Prussian artillery is the finest inthe world. Has your Majesty any conditions to propose ? None : I have no power ; I am a prisoner. Where is the government in France with which I can treat ? In Paris: the empress and the ministers. » I am powerless. King William, as you know, marched to Paris, and at last made conditionsof peace almost as hard as Napoleon I. had made with his father. The German 4 GERMAN STORIES. 63 princes in his hour of victory offered him the crown of Southern Germany, andhe was crowned at Versailles, in the great hall of mirrors, Emperor of Germany.Let me now speak of the kaisers MILITARY CAREER. It is rare that men and women live to celebrate their seventy-fifth birth-day. The age allotted to mortals by the Psalmist is threescore and ten. But the hale old Emperor of Germany has not only recently commemorated
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THE EMPEROR WILLIAM AND NAPOLEON III. the completion of his eighty-sixth year, but — what is still more striking—at thesame time marked the seventy-sixth year of his service as an officer in the Prus-sian army. ■* It is related that, on the 22d of March, 1807, on which day William was justten years old, his father, then King of Prussia, called him into his study andsaid, — j& 64 ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS. My son, I appoint you an officer in my army. You will serve in CompanyNo. i of the First Guard Regiment. The little prince drew himself up, gave his father a prompt military salute,and retired. An hour later he reappeared before the king, attired in the uniformof his new rank ; and, repeating the salute, announced to his royal father that hewas ready for duty.Even at so earlyan age, William wasno fancy soldier,holding rank andtitle, and leaving to

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