Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1918 — Frederick the Great. [ARTICLE]

Frederick the Great.

On the seventeenth of August, 1786, died the most remarkable sovereign Prussia has yet produced. Carlyle describes him as a king without the happenings ; no crown but an old military hat and not godlike In physiognomy; dose-shut mouth,-with thin lips, prominent jaws, with a head of long form. His face bore the evidence of many sorrows and much hard labor, and seemed to anticipate nothing but much more to come; a snuffy nose rather flung into the air under its old cocked hat—like an old snuffy lion on the watch! and a pair of eyes as no man, lion or lynx of that century bore. He presented himself in Spartan simplicity. This was Frederick H at home; among the common people who loved him, he was Father Fred —a name of familiarity which had not bred contempt in that instance. This portrait strongly reminds one of Kaiser Wilhelm —because It is so diametrically opposite.