Show DEATH OF WILLIAM intelligence INTILLI GENCE reached us ui thi this afternoon by telegraph tle graph that emperor william of germany was dead had he lived till the of this month he be would have hare reached reache d the age of 91 years there is therefore nothing in his departure from mortality to excite wonder if there is any astonishment it should run ran in the other direction very few monarchs monar cbs have had bad so long ions a career on earth and not many ordinary peo people ale compared with the great bulk tor for the matter of that the death of the sturdy emperor of fatherland is a vry very notable event notwithstanding the career of the deceased monarch has been eventful and brilliant orillia nt there la Is neither time nor space now new to sketch its more striking features tea tures his reign has been characterized by great developments and achievements and it was a striking dispensation of providence that brought two such giant spirits as be and bismarck to trudge the thorny path of together the ch character ameter of william was such as to attract admiration and respect his ability as a statesman and soldier must remain q d because comparatively aab unblemished in as the ways of t he world go 90 he was waa as conspicuous for honesty as he was prominent tor for courage he was intensely human as a woman when the tender chords of his heart were touched fierce to the verge of the terrible when aroused by opposition he was an exile at one onetime time and at another an object of the assault of the cowardly assassin but he lived in the hearte heart of his subjects as a whole and his memory will continue to hs have ve a lod gement there while F fatherland shall 1 last that the detthof death of the emperor will seriously serious lv affect the late fate of germany nobody doubts that it will conse quent quenta aljy Jy in course of time have a disturbing not to say dearing bearing upon european affairs generally general lyls is scarcely more open to que question just how bow such results will flow from the incident now considered requires gob deal of analytical observation of UW ibe signs of the tirades and even then inferences drawn from apparent probabilities would have to be mostly conjectural |