Bode Republican (Newspaper) - October 10, 1890, Bode, Iowa BODE VOLUME HUMBOLDT OCTOBER 1890 THE THE YOUNG EMPEROR WHO IS HIS OWN A During Homo Life anil Army Statesman anil or His Chief is the man of the A mysterious destiny so cms to him Ho rides into the field of European polities with clash of sword and of spur he sets aside ancient trusty not in but with the pacific assurance that he will follow policy in all that is good for the He is a splendid and impressive flg His his his ovi determination to follow in the footsteps of Frederick the nil make him The fell from the dying hand Frederick the Noble into tho grasp o this young From tho mo ment that he held it he showed that to be an emperor in very All Europe has rung with the re ports of his his his naval and military He is tho now man on horseback come to to perhaps to trans form How many a during his rapid and and in mornings and evenings full of care and exhausting his heart must turn back with longing to the old pal ace opposite the Arsenal in iu which his father lived for so ninny years and through tho stately apart ments in which ho ranged freely when a little Here Frederick Victor Al commonly called Prince was born January His home was more homelike than most but breath of war had blown through as through every public or private edifice in The vast antechambers were gar with busts of tho Generals of the wars of 1813 and interspersed with the medallions of Humboldt and other savants of In tho apartments of his mother the little Prince had a chance to acquire English All tho surroundings were severely In one small used for boudoir and bed Wilhelm doubtless passed many childish hours gazing out upon the Arsenal or the or amusing himself with tho collections of shells from the Isle of coral necklaces and English with which tho etageres were In tho Princess rooms there wore no pictures in her youth she seemed not to care for In the opposite wing wore tho study and the private rooms of Papa in which the young Wilholm was now and then as a special to show his little Prince Wilhelm learned one thing from his father which may stand him in good stead one That was to liim some time to learn how to write English well but one day ho brought liis tutor a birthday letter written to Queen Victoria and asked his tutor to correct know and appreciate the to un t their dialect and enter into their Tho ten made excursions to gether among the When he was seven years old the young Prince was placed under the instruction of for whom he conceived a friendship which has grown with his and which has much jealousy of the tutor in recent Major General Aron Stolberg was the Princes military and tho young mans marked predilection for military studios received a great im petus from this able After his confirmation in the was sent with his Prince who is now the Ad to the Gymnasium at where ho passed his examinations in This was tho first time that any prince had over been sent to a Ho continued his studios in tho Uni versity at and as at Cas he wax treated exactly like the other students and formed the habit of close application which has stood him in such good stead since he came to the An English tutor who was employed by the Crown Princess to superintend the English side of tho future Emper ors education has given some interest ing glimpses of the royal he first saw the Crown Princess told him she was anxious that her son should acquire a good English ac and similar state functions were the only interruptions to the work of the young Prince as ho was univers ally except by his who generally said Lieber Boon mastered and speaks it well he does It took EMPRESS There was nothing to and since that time the young Emperor has been able to write fluently and correct ly in his mothers native Nothing could bo more simple and for several years his ac cession to the was accustomed to make excursions into in and spending a week or two on the estates of his intimate tho in On this great demesne of vast forests filled with wild game stretch away for and afford hunters all the perils and excitements of the Since ho has become Wil helm has continued his pleasant rela tions with tho and now and then gives them a grand hunting party as a return for their hos In 1881 Prince Wilhelm was at the ago of to Princess Victoria of ami their firstborn son is the fourth in the series of four as tho old Kaiser remarked in tho year when a photograph was taken at Pots dam of his and tho infant borne in tho old mans thus presenting in a group the first four generations of tho now imperial Gorman The his is not of royal and by her ho has a family of five the eldest of whom has al ready a military rank in the and is generally attired in uniform and a veritable Puss in to whom tho soldiers have to present TIIK AT natural than the lives the Princes Whether in their at their or the manner in which they were there was but little to distinguish them from the children of any gentleman of good Tho words Boyal Highness were never but the which naturally belongs to tho Gorman was replaced by the more respectful The tutor used to shake hands with his royal pupil every and Prince William would chat about what ho had been doing that Professor Helmholz had told him or that Count had explained to him He was very fond of fairy Tho young Princes English rela tives took care to fill his mind with eminently conservative One day came to his teacher witli this rather startling question that Oliver Crom well was a horrid beast what do you think The tutor hardly know what to On tho his youth was and eminently He rarely and always seemed to bear about with him tho conscious ness that he had n mighty mission to Even as a says one of his it was and not his who was pointed out as the fu ture hope ot The evident seriousness with which ho regarded himself sometimes caused Anecdotes iu point were freely for that he borrowed a penknife from one of his and returned it with the solemn remark Keep It has now become a historic But this absence of any sense of humor is now shown to bo only tho obverse side of splendid and princely Young Wilhelms military career be gan as soon as ho returned from the in the First Guard Bogi ment of Infantry at tho old garrison town haunted by memories of Frederick tho The First Guards is crack and in this the Prince re mained with tho infantry until he rose to be when ho was transferred to tho Potsdam a cavalry regi whose uniform he is very fond of Hunting and athletic sports have a largo part iu the young Emperors This is not merely because the Em peror is fond of the more sport of knocking over small or largo but because hunting expeditious offer an excellent pretext for assembling Crown Prince Williams ried life has not boon entirely a happy His wife is but of charm ing She was very strictly I brought not being allowed in hoi girlhood to read a novel or see a I The match was made by his mother not by and on reaching ma years this helped to angel him against both his mother and his Ho snubs her for her in royal blood aud beauty and is rarely seen in her she being jealous of him and of her rank as tho first lady of tho As tho Empress her influence prom ises to be For some time after her marriage Prince Wilhelm resided in where ho was finally appointed a ma jor The life of tho young couple was simple and even al COUNT AND VON together largo parties of the nobility and and conversing with Young is not KO enthusiastic or accomplished a sportsman as the Emperor of but he has been engaged in several very risky ers with large On one occasion in when he was he distinguished himself by engaging a ferocious bear singlehanded ami came off There is not much chance to shoot largo game in and the Em COUNT VOX their homo life ia singularly free from Prince learned the value of simplicity from his and ho is teaching it to his by down certain cardinal rulas abou which they all find i prudent to ho thinks any garrison towi is becoming too sleepy he makes it a visit and has all tho troops turned on by an alarm at which sometimes causes much tion and Emperor Wilhelm is fond of in the the picturesque ol castle with its massive portali and broad looms up not fai from tho bridge near which stands tin colossal equestrian statue o tho Great All the Prussian Kings and Emper nine in have at times re sided in the except Frederic the Third and tho mighty whr liked Potsdam The Emperor entertains well IK loves his and brings thorn U and in all the traditions o the He allows then to take on no airs because of thoi princely The Crown Frederick was born iu Ma of He is a of prom very fond of directing mimic war operations with his littl Kaiser Wilhelm has developed inti a handsome and imposing Ho is in the full flush of and has kept his youth very Ir his 31st year he still has tho fresh ness and vigor of a aud the elas of his temperament is dis played whenever ho is with Ho is more than six feet wnl put up not of so athletic u u the but wiry and Hince he has become Em peror he has grown a trifle His loft arm ii his most It hangs says 1 an inch and a ban the other T llm thai his malformation IF n vexation s well as inconvenience to him but le deserves praise for the adroit man ler in which he uses the There is a story I hat tho English THE IN physician who officiated at his birth is for the condition of his The Emperor rarely shows divested of his He is wise n for his good looks are much on his military Ho rises takes a very light breakfast and goes for a little after which takes a second break this time of an ham aud a mutton chop or a dines at one on bouillon or boiled meat with followed by roast ami pudding and if there is company present an entree and an His supper is o meat or fish and His favor ite dishes are poulets with potatoes or baked especially sole or When not in uniform drosses in English and a marked tion for English costumes and has boon apparent iu his dress anq demeanor for sometime ho is intensely Prussian in His conversion to English ideas iu minor matters is because foi a long time before his fathers death was intensely hostile oven lo tho of There was a period when ho seemed estranged from both and not long before Fredericks but the reconcilia tion was HO far Frederick was before that noble anil generous spirit passed I The now advisors by whom be surrounded himself aro likely to interfere with the ol being his own You Caprivi bears a striking to the old but ho has nouo of the mental hardness of Prince Bia marck ho may bo expected to yield to the imperial policy when it differs from his General Count Alfred von who about a year ago was tho successor of tho venerable as Chief of General Staff and who was long a favorite of tho was looked on by many as likely to succeed Ho is a man oi and his which is is quite popular with Wil helm Count von wife is an American who has much social and is very justly CANADA UNITED BY AN AVENUE UNDER THE GLAIR Completion of Ilio In tho Ilio 1rORioHs nt Ilio Unto ot 1BO Foot n ot Slur Iu 1113 railroad lit Is prne trains will be running through It by Hid of The United Stalls Is now con with Canada by an avenue under Hut Clalr Is Iu several re spects Hie engineering of Its kind Is thn river tunnel In the Iu of which is under the river Its diameter is 21 Is tho first of Its has constructed lit nil unprecedented Us prosecution has been attended with fewer casualties than any imo broken leg being tho extent of the two of Indirectly due to disregard of the companys orders regu lating the USD of air is perhaps tho of its construction will within the estimate of three mill ion It Is 11 more than one sluco tunnel proper was the steel shields having been lowered down In clines Into the cuttings iu Work on the was begun In and lest shafts front of the shield dig out and carry tho through thn By advance of tho thn which tho Iron or masonry Is Is drawn partly oft from and ahead of the constructed thus leaving tho hood Tho pistons of thn hy Jacks aro then shoved bank Into their and n now section of tunnel Is built up within tho hood as be fore shield In then pushed and The extreme end o tho Is always within and covered and protected by the In this man ner tho earth Is rapidly excavated or bored and the built without disturbing tho surface of the shield feet 7 inches 1U and Is built of plate steel Inch U Is divided Into twelve compartments by moans of two horizontal and three vertical which up In a thickness of two stays have a edge In extend back ten leav ing six of clear Into which the end of Hie tunnel Ten of are permanently closed and bracings of angle Iron placed across The other two are pro vided with heavy iron which can bo closed at once Iu case ttf accident or These doors aw situated nt tho bottom Iu the through them Is nil the excavated Flush with tills bending with cyl inders extending forward Into are hydraulic rams at equal distances around the These rams are eight Indies Iu diameter and have it stroke ot twenty four The will give popular Understanding of the propor tions of the sections of this ROCK SUCTION OK TIIK or Civilization abounds in ab normal many of which must bo more or less unfavorable to To sonio the same thing is triw of tho lower animals and even of the The domesticated ia far more delicate than pro and tho wild potato probably has no such tendency to rot as ia manifested by tho cultivated Modern makes all tho nations not only of each others but of each others vices anil Yellow ic typhus fever and la grippe all reached us from abroad Meantime the progress of States as a nation is not without itu bad Young men abandon tho quiet and invigorating life of the farm for tho exciting and in some respects demoralizing and enfeebling lifo of tho Tho young women leave tho normal and healthful work of the homo for tho exhausting toil of tho workshop and the beggarly life of the If give us cheaper they do so at a largo ture of human health and At tho same time they crowd tho groat centers with n population hard to as and pervaded with its own unhealthy and Even our of which wo aro justly BO greatly aid in gating tho diseases of bo sidos a general tendency to defective and a letting of the general Tho increasingly minute division of HO beneficial in some must have a belittling effect upon tho AH one said many years the manufacture of a pin by tho divid ed labor of different persons gives us excellent but poor me aud worse poor men and Among other ills of civilization are overworked brains various forms of exhaustion the worries of do and the ruinous greed of wealth the disastrous re sults of excessive business competition the diseases and vices naturally attend ant upon luxury the crowding er of tho ignorant and depraved iu largo Let every ouo do his best to guard himself and help his brother tho of humanity at its best you anil your wife make any said a department who had agreed to supervise tho social enter prises of u friend who had some pro in a sporting you will want Are you provided in this I should say was the confident I got three new duy before sunk on both sides of tho river in The Clalr Tunnel Company was formed in the year This work became n necessity by reason of the growth of over the fraud Trunk Hallway of and irand tho De fraud Haven and and the and The steam car ferry now In operation at this point was found In and also unreliable during a portion of thn year by reason of tho power of tho currents eight miles an honr and the in the A bridge was owing to tho low level of shores and tho great amount of shipping traffic ot largo I v Tho walls ot tho as indicated In our smallest aro of thirteen castIron segments and key Those segments are cast with holes Iu twelve In each and four In each The Inside diameter of tho tunnel Is twenty Thn Idea of substituting those sog ments for brick work was suggested by Joseph of tho chief engineer of tho Clalr Tunnel and also chief of tho Great Western Division of the Trunk Thomas of Now was tho Tho mechanical department on both of tho Is under tho charge of the engineer who Invented tho apparatus for lowering the stupendous shields Into their and also a system of cocks on the twentyfour hydraulic jacks rounding tho whereby two men can do tho work of Jy tho simple opening of tho direction of Hie could bo shifted so as to follow the engineers Sir Joseph mooting of the directors some time since expressed the conviction that the tunnel would bo com for eighteen The subsequent progress has so far exceeded the most sanguine tions and has so completely beaten the record of all former similar works the talk now Is that the traveling may he Inspecting Hie Interior of this tunnel by the end of the to which the singular secur ity as well as thn rapidity of this piece of tunneling is due Is the Invention of Alfred of New The of operating this piece of which has revolutionized thn urt of river Is graphically of the overcome In its completion and of the magnitude f Ihe From HID American cutting to he rivers edge is feet from the feet under Hie The subterranean ap will he on Canadian side on the Michigan For the tunnel proper eet of soil have been The nut Iron lining has required There have been In ng this lining Tho tunnel will drain itself of the sur wator entering by thn approaches OK TIIK Into an Intercepting or vertical shaft 121 feet In extending to bed which is reached at that This well will cleared by the highest pumping engine of Its kind In ft will over one hundred feet In The pump of Hie engine will be on tho bottom of thn thn will bn on the level of the Tlie tunnel at present Is dirty with clay nnd admitted during tho work of After being cleaned it Is to lio treated with a preparation to prevent Thn third of the tube Is to be lined with brick anil cement to by tho main Illustration accom tills The shield which Is operated from each end of the consists of 11 strong resembling u huge barrel with both heads The front end of the cylinder is so as to have u cutting edge to enter the The rear end of the cylinder for u length of two feet or so is thin and Is called the Arranged around the main walls of the cylinder aud longitudinal therewith are a series of hydraulic all operated from a each jack having cocks whereby it may hi cut off from thn pump whenever Within the shields are vertical and braces and When at work the iron plates or the of which the tunnel is composed are built up within the thin hood of tiu shield the jacks are then made to against the end of the tunnel plates or which has the to push mc shield ahead into for a distance to length of the pistons n the say two feet or not quite of ami as the j inin employed in prevent of thn casing by thu that leaks from moat ears One railway track will bo planked 01 both Tho tins will bo of forming in their curve to tho bottom ol the engines will bo used for motivi In order to avoid as much as pos gns and An electric light station will bu maintained on thn 1orl Huron and tho tunnel will ut ul times as 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that At God inn Its a It Is her with a howly KK hi oop laid A big wad o hills by tho poor lad to th chuck Hint I how It I led Ihen liu lupt on his th bustu ran An u corpse was pour day Jut blH 8owl to God who hail slut hint to At IN THE LAP OF A liir r IIM ir Van for hia The boat is made with an irou frame and stool Ib is sixtyfive feet long and draws two feet of Tho boat is to be owned and con trolled exclusively by the children of the assisted by a picked crow of Tho little craft is a side Tho engines oat up two tona of coal a day and will propel tho boat about eight miles an It is np plainly but The after which is a sort of for the has seats on either side and a pretty rosewood table in the Tho forward cabin is much tho same as the as regards and but tho table here is longer than the ono and is to bo for a Thu boat is painted and the both on dock and below are of hard princi pally Tho metal are of highly polished Forward of the cabin Is u little room dig with tho of 1 ulding doom shut this off entirely when it is This little is fov of vrow as ara not tju duty tu gut
