Show THE STURDY old Wilhelm Emperor Em-peror of Germany is rapidly and certainly cer-tainly passing into the grave His loving and patriotic subjects try to 1 make themselvea believe that his present sickness is merely temporary preatration from which he will soon recover It may be their wishes will be gratified but physical disorders in a man 85 years of age are rarely overcome The Emperor has lived nearly fifteen yearn beyond the allotted al-lotted period of mans life hence neither he nor hie subjects can reasonably reason-ably expect that he will much longer Sojourn on this earth Bismarck his chancellor and the man who has ac compliohed more politically J in his time than any other German ia ap preaching 70 and having been in feeble health for years will not in all tprobability long out livethe King who was made Emperor by him It L i believed that the deaths of these F great men will be speedily followed by marked changes in the governmental affairs of Germany It 23 known that the Grown Prince and Biemarok are frequently at wide vari The ance as regards state matters Emperor has more confidence in hit chancellor than in his eon or the former for-mer would have retired long ago When the Crown Prince comes into power Biimaroka all powerful ioflu once will be reduced greatly if not altogether destroyed and it will be strange if the revolution be not followed fol-lowed by an important era in the mighty empire Perhaps affairs widget wid-get into each a condition as to encourage encour-age France to make an effort to < settle a large sized account with Germany which has been standing now going on twelve years The death of a mighty ruler is generally a critical Period in a nations history and the dissolution of grand old Wilhelm will fie na exosption to the cemmqn I L 1 l z i |