The New Orleans Daily Democrat

The Emperor William is so fond of militarism that he is said to be "pipe-clay all over." His palace resembles a military museum rather than a royal residence. Every room in it has pictures of battles, portraits, busts and statues of princes in uniform. In the entrance vestibule figure two large paintings which represent his majesty charging the revolutionary rabble in 1848, when he was prince, and just before that rabble compelled him to fly to London disguised as a coachman under the name of Muller. This recollection is evidently a bitter one, else so much prominence would hardly be given to pictures recalling episodes which one might think an Emperor would rather forget. In the reception saloon, where stands a bronze statue of Frederick the Great, there are a number of shelves, some of which are covered with miniature models of cannon, rifles and shells, and others with wooden statuettes clad in the uniforms of almost every country in the world.