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THE NTOS AtU) OSSERVEIt
JUNDAY KOiVCriG, AUGUST 17,1513.
THE PRIVATE LIFE '
. OF THE KAISER
(CoatiM4 frees Tw Wteaa.)
($30), videi late 14 gold erewst
tad I double erofM, tested.
Courtiers tad ethert sear William
vsea eo rejoiee ia the solitary maal
festatioa of roval good will that aelpcd
l recemeat tie bonis betweea Use
ud people.
"Will it pleate Tar Majesty ta (
ta year usual Santa Oaut expeditioi
this eveaiji; befere, tba treat are lit I
takes' Court JXtrtaal Coast Eultabtjn
it aeeoad breakfait aa the day prated
is Christmas.
est eertalsly," replied the Kaiser,
"anj, by the way, direct Mleisner to
tarnish me wit a silver coins, initead
. tt goli, this tUne 14 thaler aad 8 or
I live-mark pleeea. You see," be added,
tddreaaiat aimteif te 1 tba Empress,
'I bar beea thinking about tbii f Mas
away of 'tenotome poor aeni, whem
( try to benefit, might arooaa suspicion
trees b offers ray Christmas present ia
, payment. Tbat element of ait trust and
iaager J will eircumveat -by speeding
sely thalers among ray needy friend
hereafter."
"Hew tkoogbtfnl" ef yen,' lisped tba
Empress, devaurlog ber tuabaad witb
Idmirlag glances.
Wkea Tba Poor Are la lack."
"Tour Majesty thinks of every,
thing, said the Couatetaes jroa,
Brockdorff and von Bassewits. And
"of everything, particularly bia pocket,"
whispered my neighbor.
When the Kaiser came to take
leave of Her Majeity tbat evening
te drew fro oi bi overcoat pocket the
ibabby little mount he bad doeided to
speed, 67 raarks ia all.
"Tba poor are ia luck tonight," be
said- "JJiessner selected tba brightest
tbalera ia bia treasury; they ire really
vary pretty," aad the Kaiser laughed
as tba hapless riaoesa Lsmballe raay
bava laughed as aba exclaimed:
"If the poor bava aa bread, let 'tm
sat, cake."
true, young Heheaxollerai are aet
liable to bo togged aowadays for
tpeadiag a few coppers uanecessarily,
ss Crowa Prises Frederick (knowa as
Frederick tba Great) was whea ha
gava a rayal servant 13 easts for
briagiag kit dog from Potsdass to
WBtterhausea, a distaace of 20 stiles
(his father beat aim "for having ao
tore aeaes tbaa to pay a man wbo
merely did bis damned duty"); but
' area Willie) a'- parents ksiatcd upos
bringing up the heir to tba throne
without giving him a chant 5 to ac
quaint himself witb the power, the
temptation, the misery aad the jay
that the possession of ready money
gives.
' At the holra in the Greek philoso
pher's toga denoted vanity rather tbaa
Contempt of worldly opinion, so the
patches oa a youthful Qohentollera's
trousers indicate not Spartan frugality
but a falsa aotioa of tba principles of
economies.
The Kaiser's seal wars aet taught
that it was eeeeatajry to economize
1 order to be liberal ; tbey were
' merely deprived of things ther liked
good clothes aad cub" la obedience
to a boary delusion that baa peopled
the thrones of Europe witb spend
thrifts or niggards far centuries.
1 bava ' beard - tba former Court
Uarshal voa Liebeaaa Bay that Wil
liam whea at college never bad a
topper over and above bia expenses,
, all of which were disbursed by him,
liebenau.
Btlagtaess A Characteristic.
"When wo entered active service that
id baoa-peaury hovered over the
lieutenant, eaptaia and colonel; bis en
tire income was made over to me" every
month, aad as it was always spokea
. for ia advaace, ay young master eves
aspired ia vin for a pocket-piece, a
double gold crowa (t5)r
Wilhelm, baviag beea unable to ae
Quire iatimate actuals taace with
'money, almost showed a child. a at
titude toward financial questions, and,
having all bit own wanta attended to
a a matter of course, failed to under
i stand or appreciate what was due to
there. ,
"Has anybody beard of the projected
English tour of the Meiatngeatt" asked
the Kaiser at luncheon one afternoon
- Voa Egloffstein had heard the Heredi
tary Prince say that be aad the Prin
ce u iateaded ta accept aa iavitaUoa
' tj Windsor Castle.
' "But the coitl" en-claimed the Kaiser;
1 1 '!
"i wUl be at least 10 marks (I2-S0) a
bead every day they are absent.''
' The, very next day, at aeeoad break
fast, the Kaiser's menu earl; en' which
he titit ikat-hk "the t ,iur. aAntk ffnnt
1 of the tattle witb the aarrruadiag ter
ritory," waa pasted around.
"I am glad to aaaounce," be said,
"that I have perfected my plaai for
the improvement of the Bcaloss.
After abolishing .the popular amuse
ment of looking ' isto the Kaiser's
wiadowa," be referred to the dis
mantling of the houses opposite the
royal residence, the Schloss Freiheit;
"after routing the sweet plebt
scrota tba way,, I have decided to
erect agetber barrier betweea my
self aad publicity. As the sketch
shows, terraces will b built adjoin
ing the south front of our palace,
aad 'they will extend far enough to
place within the royal precinct that
part of the castle square that lies
between the Schloss aad .the great
fonataia. These terraces," added the
Kaiser, "will at the same time aerve
to deadea sotte of the noise from the
incessant traffic.
Throws Away Twenty Millions-
"Will the city be x willing to sacri
fice the spacer' asked the Prince of
8aseAlteaburg, wbo waa the guest of
honor thgt day.
"Wjtb my permission, certainly,"
replied the' jiaiser. .
"But the scheme, if pushed to such
length will involve aa outlay of twenty
millioas." warnea (be Minister of the
iloyal JJoii3e, Wi!l.
''Maybe, mere tt less-" The Kaiser
said it with a from, but Immediately
r.'?tiaed bis seinl-bantering tone aud
aided ligbtiy: "f euaps I will author
ise Yeur Ixc-iKtncv to arraage another
lottery, or to take up a loan that holds
0't lerro prem'time, sj tbey do ia Aus
tria sd 0ebia."
With that be turaed to the Ceuntent
Brockdorff, whom be detests aad ordi
BtriJy treats witb tbe severest indiffer
eaea, sad, by the way of changing the
subject, told ber a risque story across
tbe table.
Tbat it tbe Kaiser all over; it
worriet him to thiak that any of
bia relatives should spend 10 marks,
and be disposes of tea or twenty
millions of public moneys as if tbey
were old bricks or oyster shells; ia
fact, the Kaiser has no notion what
ever tt tbe value of things.
Tbe municipal council eeu!J not of
fer any objection to hie plant, "no
matter what the cost," for he meant
to give the terracea over to hit tons
aa a playgrouad. Besides, the ter
races would offer a formidable bul
wark tgainst tbe plans of anarchists
morning, aooa aad tight.
Aad as a fiaal trump: ''We will
promise to prolong the annual stay
of the Court in Berlin at least one
month or six weeks" arguments wor
thy of the roytl impostor, who rniied
the meinself-und-Aod piffle to the dig
nity of a eult.
Give up one-half of a public cqunre
-the most impoaiag is town as a play
ground for bit half doten "kids," some
half-witted, like Oscar; others with
criminal tendencies like Eitel Fritz;
again, others mere Clowuprincely trash.
"Bulwark against anarchists!" Woll,
the ex-Kaiser should gate upon bit castle
now! And be would prolong bis stir
for twenty millions aad a public square,
lie would, indeed, until bit bones drop
ped from tbe gibbet erected by his lov
tag subjects I
"The greatest foelt are also the great
est charlatans and liars," laughingly re
marked Prince Bismarck to Duke John
Albrecht whea he related the facts to
him.
Kobbed a Defeated King
The Ouelph Fund represented the se
questrated fortune of King George of
Uanover aad his beir, the Duke of Cum
berland, aad Its history is interesting.
After aaaeaiag Eaaover In the summer
of 1809, Pruua restored their private
fortune to the deposed Guelplis by the
eoaveatiea of September 19, 1S6T, but
there was a string, or rather a steel
cable, attached to this apparent act of
restitution, pointing out that tbe poor
blind man whom he had vanquished
might utilise hit money te raise an
army against victorious Prussia, Bis
mark, with tbe consent of the Diet,
seised tbe private property of the royal
Hanoverians a aeeoad time, pleading
that its aaaual interest was seeded to
ward off the Cuelpb party's secret in
trigues. So tbe Guelpb Fund leesme the Hep
tile Funda geldoa trough from which
William's friends aad tbe Government's
leading mea fed for Si years, the Cbaa-
eellor laying a lilt of disbursements be
fore the Kaiser at tba ead of each year,
whereupon tbe receipts were destroyed-
' - More imperial Joclwvtag . ,
v Coart gossip fixes upos tba Kaiier'a
unwillingness to give Bp so large a
fortune to which be might have re
course occasionally as the principal cause
Of his frequeat breaches of faith, bat
I have never succeeded ia tracing evea
a solitary Guelpb Fund million oa its
Way to the Kaises's pockets.
The Prince of Wales (afterwarda King
Edward), it was whispered, bad written
a letter to the late King George' of ;
Greece, telling him that the' Kaiser
"gulped" down the whole of tbe Guelpb
Fund,, bat "Uncle Bertie," instead of
sendiag hit lettcs to Athens direct, for
warded it to Copenhagen for approval
by his mother-in-law and Qneea Louise,
caused the conspiracy to leak out. But,
in a burst of confidence, her Majesty
tbowed the letter to Prineet Valdemae,
wbo bad stirred up tbe imbroglio "be
tweea Bismarck and Cxar Alexander aot
to many yean before.
Those Royal Coesipe
That Marie d 'Orleans-Bourbon oa her'
part was unable to constrain ber triampj
at the hope of seeing uermanya xuiser
humiliated ia perhaps not to be weader
ed at, for Ber Boyal Highness detested
William ae heartily as tbe adored
France. Bo, with true feminine acu
men, she Mt down and telegraphed the
sweet morsel broadcast to all royal Wil-helm-haters,
or prineet tbat she con
sidered sympathizers, aad all wished
the undertaking Godspeed all except
CeutiB I'erdinaad of Balgaria. This
Aueer iaditidaal, eager to oblige tbe
Kaiser, betrayed tbe confidence reposed
ia biro, hoping thereby to gain William's
gratitude. "
Ferdinand bad a rude awakening out
of that pipe dream, for only a few
weeks later William called him sanies
tbat figured largely, is tbe correspond
egee of the late Marquis of Queensbury
witb i certain English poet-dramatist.
And te Ciar Nicky s face, tool
Aad yea should have beard the Kai
ser's estimate of Ferdi's true character
a week. or to before Bulgaria's caving
in, ,"Dirty traitor," "Jew bully," "Mur
derer," and "Crowned Shyl were
tome of tbe milder epithets flying about.
And tbe Kaiseria aad ber daughter
Louise fully agreed that bia Balkan
Ctarshlp wst a "swine."
At best, the Berlia court waa a ver
itable botbed of ill-natured goseip- Ia
the morning oaa of tbe Kaiser's adju
tants might have good story to relate
that, without Involving a breach of
faith, keyed a perplexing situation
while letters from other courts, the
tfittlo of princely visitors, correspond
ence of high aristocrats or statesmen, a
ministerial crisis, a sudden lapse ia the
routine of royal employment as a visit
postponed or a "headache to order,"
completed the chain of evidence that
linked together of ita own accord, as it
were, and is tbe end revealed hidden
LsprUgs of actios aad private views aad
uvtrvea of iadindwua affording a better
aaalyais of tba salads ef historic per
eaetes thaa a whole library ef ordi
nary aoatemporaaeoas aceoaata, writ
ten by eotaide apeetatora, wbe faith
fully copied each other. . -
Except for tas details, sere first "re
vealed, tbe Guelpb Fbb4 story is an
elt,t history, but is important as a
precadeatt ' Biaea Germaa . atateasaea
tboaarkt it incumbent npoa them te
sequestrate tbe private fortune ef a
cue-horse king ia order that this ex
mosaic might sot ate the money to
stir . up trouble against . conquering
Prasad, it ia 100 times more important
to confiscate tbe ex-Kalsers billlone te
prevent bia breaking tbe peace after
ptaee has beea signed aad sealed. -
"But William it a broken aid maa,"
say sis apologists. .'
We are sot sar af that, William be
ing a consummate aetor, but eves ad
mitting that, personally, saja out, of
tbe running, be bas sit stalwart seas,
tbaa whom ao greater aeampt, in
triguers snd wasters of bamaa life walk
Capudine
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IT'S RtUABLt rt)R
HEADACHE
Germany's toil, or tay ether. , All six
will bava millions aad a whole skin
alt aiz enjoy health, liberty aad com
plete freedom ., from conscience or
scruples of say kind; all six will have
millions at their beck aad call if tbe
Allies permit I , -.- , . ,
Will the Peace Conference by . -fusing
to confiscate tba Hoheasollera
fortunes foraiah them the funds for
future political aad military propa
gaadaf Have American, English and
French Uvea beea preserved by the
armistice only to be put ia Jeopardy
sooner or later at tbe sweet pleasure
of 'burglar' William, torturer ef Eitel
Frits, "womaa-atealer" Oscar aad tbe
... '
tUraet Sf eV Vault fx
' Ult aM then tttMt. Kwamstia. Vs.
eta, tL gwraa, Pne. ea4 star.
rettt .. - "
Aa tbe Kaiser did te the conquered
King of Hanover, so the Allies should
do to the eoaquered William.
He set the precedent Take tbe Ho
heaxotlera fa ids as the Hobenaollerat
took tbe Guelphvund! . .' -(Copyright,
1919, by Begal Pub. Corp.)
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