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Show , KAISERS ILLNEbS The illness of Emperor TV Uiara will riii for him widespread sympathy out Bide the nat ons now at war The Itra n of the m ghty conflict is proving too great for a monarch whoso health itnever his been robust 4.11 h s intel eetual and phys cal energies have been ezerc sed to the utmost s nee he took upon h mself respons bil ty for begin ning the world s most terrible war The very fact that h s imperial power iSvas so vast in decid ng the question 5f .peace or war has placed upon h m a- respons bility such as no monarch fiver before sustained As a Christian llnipnarch he realizes that his part in the war Is a quest on of conscience Even if he thoroughly sat sfied h s conscience at the outset his soul cannot tut be torn by horror and doubt at imes when he looks out upon the bat raefields of prance and Poland and sees the thousands and hundreds of thou sands of killed and Wounded Such ! Scenes meant little to that prince of sceptics Frederick the Great who con ducted wars of aggress on w th cheer Hul disregard for human r ghts or the particular rights of at ons The pres ent Hohenzollern emperor is of a dif ferent mettle He has been noted for tins personal efforts in behalf of peace for a sincere rel gious spirit and for a somewhat gen al and kindly nature To such a man the war must necessar ly Ibe an ereruc at ng experience More jver he feels a sense of overwhelming responsibility to his subjects He has told them that the war is righteous Jihat the sword was forced into h s irand and that Germany is fight ng for her nat onal existence Having given 1 s subjects this assurance of good faith he feels that he must leave noth fnjf undone to help them win the war The consequence has been that he has Jaken upon h mself a general super Vision of the campa gns in the east and the west He has passed from France to Buss a and from Bussia to France Itfjus special train every few days He lias invest gated all branches of the military seivide he has been untir ng in h s efforts to see that the soldiers jiere well fed and well clothed he has taken keen interest Jn the tortur ng questions of strategy and he has ex penonced the pain and depress on of ee ng h s most splendid plans turn awry and often fail utterly -Small wonder then that this remark able ruler should have broken down under the stra n If he were the Gothic superman of whom the modern German philosophers debght to talk he might have borne the respons bil ty th the composure of a god Unfortu cately there is no such thing as a super man and even so great a monarch as he present emperor of Germany must sink under a weight too heavy for any human flesh The cold and cruel la poleon might have endured the stress better but he was a sort of adventurer nd never felt the moral respons bility to h s people -that is felt by Emperor William |