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Show THE GREAT FRITZ. The tender to this country by Emperor William Wil-liam of Germany of a statue of the great Fritz is a most high compliment One would naturally -suppose he would have offered, if anything, a statue of his own father, or of Von Moltke, but j he did not stop at that, ho wanted to send the ; counterfeit of the very greatest man ever pro-educed pro-educed by Germany as great or greater soldier than Von Molke, as great or greater statesman than Bismarck; the man who out of chaos created 'a kingdom, and who left such an impression upon : Germany and the world, that now as men go back to study his history he grows greater and greater ;in the world's estimation. He was not much to ilook at; small, spare, a little stooped, careless of attire, indifferent to all the trappings of royalty, ;possessing but twc striking features which gave imen who saw him an idea that he was born to command, eyes that were human X-rays, that 'looked through men and at a glance saw what :was flesh and what was divine in them; eyes which Mirabeau said: "At the bidding of his great soul fascinated you with seduction or terror," ter-ror," and which Carlyle described as "potent, brilliant bril-liant eyes, swift-darting as the stars, steadfast as ,the sun, which gives us the notion of a lambent, buter radiance springing from some great inner sea of light and fire in the man." The other mark of his sovereignty was his voice, which the same Carlyle said was "clear, melodious and son-prous, son-prous, all tones are in it, from that of ingenuous inquiry, graceful, sociality, light-flowing banter, Up to definite word of command, up to desolating word of rebuke and reprobation," the "clearest and most agreeable" when in cheerful mood, "ever heard." j He fought down all foes; he performed military mili-tary feats which were the admiration of Napoleon, which are still the admiration of all scientific soldiers; sol-diers; ho grappled with state affairs and established estab-lished order and economy in the handling of public pub-lic business; he enlarged and made secure the boundaries of his kingdom; he fought back a thousands perverse methods and superstitions of the people, and when dying asked that his horse might be brought where he could have one more look at him. He was the greatest man of his time; he gave to foreign representatives who were stat ioned at his court the impression that within him was the sovereign soul of all the world, one equal to all trials, all emergencies, and yet human and practical through and through. Had he been born twenty-five years later and been matched against the great Corsican, it might not have required re-quired a Russian winter to break the power of the latter. On sending his statue to the United States, Emperor William gives notice that he holds this country in such estimation that only the very best that Germany can produce is good enough to send as a souvenir. Of the more than sixteen hundred years that Germany has been a nation, old Fritz is the highest representative German, and the sending of his statue to this side is the very highest compliment that the young Emperor I could pay to America. |