| Show TOE THE KAISER AND HIS BOAR HUNT A germon paper sarcastically describes flo ribes the royal boar bunt of emperor william as a mere me re court display which reflected no credit on the royal huntsman all the same it is so 00 aamir ably significant of the boy emperor emperors emper ore 19 displays generally that one Is quite 7 ready to accept even this hostile editors description of it as aa being in spirit at least fairly reliable he declares the boar was deprived of its tusks and muzzled taken to the scene of the hunt bunt enclosed in a box and when released the unfortunate animal trotted peacefully away until the emperor overtook and transfixed it with bit spear this IB nottie not the sort of boar buntje buot we are accustomed to read about in the books it is with some effort of the imagination that one can call up with any degree of justice this thia robust sport as it was of old in the same ame day that be reads of williams nineteenth century imitation of it but the fancy would be quite as remarkable that from the reign of this young mau could form any sort ol of estimate of the barbaric institutions of which he be as aa he now before the world is one of the conspicuous relics As be gives to this piece of royal foolery the name of boar hunt bunt so in the rest of his courtly burlesque is perpetuated petua ted the memory simply of the pomp ing of his lordly but there there ends the similitude and there also all that to is real of his bis kingship his forefathers reigned and governed by virtue of the power they swayed over semi civilized men he struts in their royal paraphernalia and plays with their insignia of author ty through the suffer alce of a conservative civilization it retrains refrains irom from brushing him and his playthings aside riot not because it does not know his bis arrogance of power to be utter nonsense noL sense Onse in its real operation of government but because in the whirl of evolution abat is surging past it cannot at once settle upon a substitute equal to its lull full dee deabre iret and aad so BO he and many other unregenerate relies of savagery go on with their ancient capers among people who have entirely outgrown them and the system of government which they attempt to represent |
