SECRET OF THE KAISER'S LONGEVITY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1782, 6 March 1888, Page 4

SECRET OF THE KAISER'S LONGEVITY

t The comparatively robust health of the [ venerable Jbimperor of Germany, m spite of family trouble and official oare, has 1 given nee to a legend winch, it is stated, is obtaining credence among the super* > stitious peasantry of certain Bavarian ? villages. According to this legend the s long life of Kaiser Wilbelm Is doe to a rays--9 teriouß^hilterofwhiobblsltnperlalMajeaty 3 alone poeseases the eeoret. How tbe Emperor obtained the magto beverage is not known. It is described as a kind of ' spirit which, if it does not give him lm- > morality, will enable him to live many } years more, and supply him with Buffij dent bodily and mental power to retain t the governmsnt of his vast empire In his r own hands. The legend furthermore states that. the German Sovereign bar, condacened to make a present of a few 1 drops of the charmed liquid to Marshal i ?tMoltke and Prince Bismarck, hence also > their respectable age j but strange to say s he declines to give any of it to the Crown . i Prince, because he fears his heir would , make use of his health, restored by the philter, to force him to abdicates Several crowned beads have it appears, applied to the Emperor for his wouderfol teoret, bat J m vain. The Czar iq particular, piayeu t for some of the spirit, and it was the re--5 fosal of the Katner to oblige him wb'ch r was the real cause of the present confliot , between Russia and Gernmny.