Show FROM BAD TO WORSE A few days ago the empress of germany went shopping in a jewelers Jew elere store in berlin and while there was subjected to the greatest indignities by a mob of citizens both outside and in the building it is said that even after the imperial shopper bad regained her carriage a finely dressed d and respect able looking woman opened the door of the vehicle and peered insolently in as aa it if mentally taking her maje atys measurement this made the latter exceeding wroth and she bestowed upon the perpetrator of the rude insolence a shower of verbal mis elves in such manner as only a woman scorned can emperor william on bearing of it as usual flow flew into a violent passion and at once issued an order that thereafter when he or his wife enter any shop or store to make pure purchases bases the police are to shut oft off that portion of the street from the public until the imperial pair have finished their shopping and retired a mattor matter involving some considerable delay in tue matter of locomotion in that neighborhood if her majesty trades 9 leisurely and lingeringly as most of her sex have the reputation of doing this circumstance has baa more than one side to it and la is invested with more of consequence than the indifferent reader would woud suppose on one hand the royal family has a right to be protected from rude treatment and by such means as were adopted if others are unavailing on the other considered alone such an order to is despotic arrogant and inconsiderate and will provoke more harsh comment and be the source of greater irritation than it will do good williams grandfather is reported to have done a good deal of shopping in his later days so did his father these mingled freely with the crowds especially at holiday times and it is not recorded that they or either of them ever had to close up a street in order to get along without annoyance whom when we think of how bow free their official lives were from repressive mease es toward the populace and how frequent such things have become in the life of the present ruler it makes us understand at once how it is that holding aloof exercising tyrannical authority and always acting the part of bully and boss once begun must be kept up and increased in order to maintain authority at all when under normal circumstances the head of a nation or a community cannot mingle unreservedly with his bis people it argues one of two things that he has no do confidence in or liking for them or they have none for him once create suspicion and it is to io reenact re enact frankenstein who raised a demon by his incantations but could not control it thereafter richard III after gaining h aff crown by the slaughter of the kings found that the had bad still heirs in the line of succession and that there fore his 19 goodly kingdom rested on a week weak foundation 1 whereupon he conscience lie still more lives must yet be drained crowns got by blood must be with wibb blood maintained paraphrasing which we would say power wielded by the exercise of power must be continued in that way or not at all nothing destroys confidence so easily as to show a want of it it does not follow that those in authority should mix up with the rabble should give levees to loafers r invite mendi cants to sit at their tables between these two extremes of conduct there is a happy medium which most of williams predecessors seem to have understood and exercised but which he be unfortunately does not or will not comprehend pre liend |