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If ioa piNEHURST comsn A PRO P H EC Y 0 F W A ft . " ANNIE OAKLEY'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE KAISER TROPHIES and PERSONAL ARTICLES In Gold, Sterling, Bronze and Leather The Gorham Company Lessons Learned by a War Mad King from the -Train of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is known the world over for its fine designs. Special atten tion is given to the production of Trophies, Cups, Medals, Pins, Badges, and Emblems for every purpose. THE GORHAM GO. Silversmiths and Goldsmiths NEW YORK Gorham Silverware is to be had in Pinehurst at "The Jewelry Shop" Gorham Silverware is to be had in Pinehurst at "THE PINEHURST JEWELRY SHOP!'. "Choisa" Ceylon Tea It J Tremont and Beacon SU. Copley Square. 185 Milk St. (Wholesale) i lb. Canisters 65c 1-2 lb. Canisters 35c Packed in Parchment-Lined One Pound and Half-pound. Canisters We invite compari son with other Teas of the same or higher price S. S. PIERCE CO., BOSTON. Coolldge Corner, BROOKLINE PPfrie responsible families of jp jjjH America baye MkPoc water Hi ontbeirtebles figSM 5H A MAN would have to go a long way to find a modern char acter who is not known to Annie Oakley. That her appraisal of men is unusually keen and direct is in no case more clearly demon strated than her judgment of the Kaiser, made more than twenty eight years ago. She had just come in from a bird hunt on the Pinehursa preserve, rming ner iavonte horse Fred the gift of Leonard Tufts, and the namesake of Fred Stone of Chin Chin fame. The morning papers had just ar rived and the Carolina lobby full of the exultant excitement engen dered by the news that Von Bernsdorf had received his walk ing papers and Gerard invited to old home week in New York. We crowded about eager to hear her first comments, and, display ing the headlines, wanted to know what she 'thought about that. A SATALITE OF MARS "What I have thought, lo ! these many years," she said. "It is the inevitable result of a mania in high places. I wouldn't say so now if I hadn't said so publicly vears and years ago. Kaiser Wil helm, Emperor of Germany is not only belligerent, he is war mad, crazy for military conquest, ob sessed with the visions of Caesar and Alexander. It was bound to come Servia, Russia, France, England the United States, and if possible, the Universe. It was twenty-eight years ago that I first saw him, at that time only the grandson of a monarch. But if ever I felt sure of anything, it was his mania for arms and legions and glory. I gave an in terview at the time to the New York papers, in wjiich I flatly stated that of all the men I had ever seen he was the most war like ; and strangely enough I also said that in my opinion it was a moral certainty that sooner or later he would engineer a colossal war. I stated it just as definitely as that. And every time I saw him afterwards, the conviction was strengthened.' A SUMMONS FROM THE EMPEROR "We had an excellent opportun ity of perceiving his interest and delight in the matter.: Although, indeed, if .he had any other side he concealed it thoroughly. The old Emperor, his grandfather, sent for me when I was in Lon don. Of course I went, and it was arranged for me to give an exhi bition at the Charlottenburg race track on a Sunday afternoon. It so happened that both the Em peror and the Kaiser's father were sick. So it fell to him to conduct the affair. "Never in all my life have I seen so many soldiers. I saw nothing else. The program was arranged at the Union Club in Berlin. When we had submitted a program for approval, the Kaiser had added live pigeon shooting to the events. When we reached the capital we discovered that it was strictly against the law to shoot pigeons in the city. So my husband, Frank Butler, went up to the club to see about it. "verboten" "The club was inhabited exclu sively by majors and captains, field marshals and conquerors, all in full panoply of war, and bristl ing with side arms and crosses. He ventured to explain to the sec retary that, we were plain Ameri can folk who in spite of legends to the contrary were prone to obey the law, and that having dis covered the statute made and pro vided rendering the shooting of pigeons distinctly verboten, we would like to omit that detail from the performance. "His answer was merely to push a button (presumably fixed there for exactly that emer gency). This summoned an or derly of the Mark Anthony type, who presently reappeared with no less a renowned and formidable companion than the Kaiser hi"1-
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