The Signal, 1918-10-3, Page 6emus ie nature and yet was at tlm.s
considerate of ethers; • mao of charm -
lug perwwauty and amla►luty. It
would bare shows • man of unpar-
alleled egotism, a rase who was Im-
patient of currectlon sod who would
brook so opposition. There might have
been la the picture a suggesUun of the
dire lengths to whl.•k the mao would
go to have his way, but It would have
been duly a suggestion.
As far as It went, the picture wuuld
bare been accurate, but it world have
been sadly lscomplete--with •11 the
lights worked la bat lacking all the
shadows.
It took the war and its attendant
horrors is reveal the kaiser In his
true colors The war did not change
his character; It sncov4red it -
/Carly l• my practice I happened to
mention to the kaiser that I appre-
ciated the [Headlines, be showed me
la Invariably waving his hand at me
as he Lasted my window when walking
along the Tlergartea,
"it,'s • good advertisement for yoe,
Darla," he said. "The people see me
waving to you and they 'wow you must
be a good dentist or I wouldn't
come to you. It will help your busi-
ness'" In every act, he was conscious
of the public.
buriug that period of my career la
Berlin, he showed the utmost Interest
In my progress and frequently inquired
how wy practice was developing.
7'he Ent bill I rendered him, as I
have mentioned, he doubled. On a
number of subsequent ()evasions, he
mild me ruore than my btll called for.
These overpayments never amounted
to very much, but they impressed me
because they were sit out of keeping
with the stinginess the kaiser dis-
played in other directions.
From time to time the kaiser sent
or brought me autographed pictures of
himself or others. At the time of the
one hundredth anniversary of Fred-
erick the Oreat, he gave IMP a picture
of that monarch. On another oe' asion,
he presentrdrrm, wtth • group picture
of himself surrounded by his family
and dogs. I remember his bringing to
mei a large unframed picture In ceie-
0 THURSDAY, Ck'r 3 ,1915
THE SIGNAL GODERICH, ONTARIO
Yule whu •Iwsys dread weak
.Mv hemmer of the hours of
wcorr, wash board ruhb.ng, the
d.,ee .te. y sir, with ',mitre.
your .k:.t and .hoe. .pls.hed
red „„rt,eJ first forget all that.
, _ i..,., the es.e sod soes-
t.'•i runhght Wr.h IMy.
Sunl,thr tiory.will do the we.h—
r... con gu ,n,t crllirg or .1141p-
pi.04. Nr..J the J,rectioar.
STOWE'S
THE RED BARN,
SOUTH STREET
VW 'BUS, LIVERY
AND HACK SERVICE
n►ctt all train.. Pat•stn-
Rers called for in any part of the
town for outgoiug trains on
G. T. R. or C. P. R.
Pinup( attention to all orders or
telephone calls.
Sod besides First-class rigs
t1 k. STOWE
Telephone 51 Successor to T. M. Davis
NOTICE
Owing to the scarcity of
Coal, and the fact that h
jle
sales have, of necessity, to „
TheKajseraslKnewHjm
_ for Fourteen Years
("OW"
By ARTHUR N: DAVIS. D. D. S.
tell tor the McClure New.easer araal.stwt
(Continued from last wee "ltverywbere we went we toad
1 got up at once and packed my la- I their blg guns ebasdoned. In use
struaenta, and •t six -thirty the cur, • t Naafi village we came upon • guu dee-
big gray Mercedes limousine, arrIved. opted with Dowers sad surmounted
Besides the chauf. , there wee an with a portrait or Emperor grans Jo -
outrider carrylag the bugle whose 1I• see It had been put then by the Ital-
ttsctive notes only the kaiser may use. tau luhahltant of the village to show
While the Shield room and other state (bels happiness of being released •t
rooms were ac4esible to visitors be- 'last from the yoke of the latolerable
fere the war, no one war ever permit- Italie, lawyer govern:neat! How ter
tri to vie* the private apartments of riWy the Italiano must have treated
the kaiser upstairs. them! Italy will never get over tib
On lids o't'anlos, however, i vise detest. This was real help from Ood!
guided right through the Shell roma, Now, we've got the .111.. !" and he
through • dour opening -pa the left and struck his left hand with his right with
■p • wide staircase tS the kaisers great force to emphasize his apparent
g•rderobe, err dressing room. enoviction that the turning point 1■
There 1 found breakfast ready for the war had been reached with Italy's
me. it reinstated of real coffee, real collapse.
white bread, butter, marmalade. sugar, ' That the kaiser now regarded him -
cream and cold meats. It was the first self sod btu •rmi.•s as Invincible I felt.
fend of the kind i had Patpa fa arwne and 1 feared that the auc•ceaa In Italy
time awl prectieally so one In Ger- would he followed at the first favors -
many uulslde the royal family and the We opportunity by a gigantic offensive
Dunker, was arty better off then Ila on the wrateru f t.
that respect. indeed, on a eubaequeot occasion.
While 1 was breakfasting, the kaiser whew he celled at my orrice for further
was dressing. His valet entered tier- trentment, and again referred to the
era' lime,*, 1 noticed. to take out arti- ttallan trhin,ph, he remarked: "If our
cies of clothing from the masalve armlet could capture 100,000 itallans—
wnrdrobes which lined the room. 1 had sod those 300,000 might just as well be
just completed my meal when I re- dead as far as Italy Is euueernwt—we
celved word that my patient was reedy can de the same thing against our
Mt receive me. enemies on the weal'"
As I entered the kaiser', berlrows This wits one of the Interviews i wan
he was standing in the critter of the nn an Imo to report to the reprcaenta-
Foom, fully attired to an army gray flue° Af the AmeHc•no luielllgrnee de -
uniform, but without hie sword. Ile pertntent at our iegatton in ('open -
looked more haggard than 1 had ever
seen biro, except nice l0 1915. Lack
of sleep mild physical giallo were two
things with which ,he had had very
hugeri and, later on, when i finally ar-
rived
r
rived In that city, i related It 1n great
derail to them. 1 remained in ('open -
emu eleven days and during the
little experieuce, and they certainly greater pert of that time 1 was being
showed (heir effects very plainly. Interviewed by one or another of the
Ile didn't mein to be in the hest of representatives of our Intelligence de-
hurnorbut greeted me cordially enough partment. Kgacty two urooths later,
and shook hands. on &birch 21, the western offensive ,
"In all my life. Davie," he said, el broke nut as 1 had feared. - I f
11/1v1. never suffered ho much pain." 1 called at Potsdam ■ day ((' two la- e
1 expr.•a'sd my sorrow and started ler In attend the kaiser again, and ! t
hloprevISP a• dental chair out of an found hint atlll In tire -same triumphant II
upholstered armchair on which I mood, and so anxious wan he to get 1
placed some pillows and, us the kaiser down to Italy that he called at my of.
tat clown, he laughingly remarked: Ace three times that week to enable lel
"lesrk here, Davis, you've got to do me to complete my work on his affect- o
something for me. i can't nicht the ed tooth. 1
whole world, you know, and have a On November 26 the kaiser called *t
toothache!" my office for what proved to be his A
Wheal i was through end his pain last sitting. 1 hudi recel,Pd word on
was relieved, his api.tts seemed to re- the 20th that my pass for America had f
vire appreelsbty, and he explained why been granted and that 1 could leave
It was he wan cur amnion• 10 have his on the :1111., and i accordingly told the c
t.s.U' trouble removed an qulck!y as kaiser that It was my intention to leave ce
possible. fpr C
"i must go down to Italy, Davis."
b.' meld, "to see what any noble troops
have accomplished. My gracious,
what MP have done to therm down
herr! Our offensive at Riga wan Jost
a feint. We tad advertised our In -
ended offensive In Italy no thoroughly
hat the Batiana thought we couldn't
punalbly Intend to carry it through.
For three' months It was common talk
In Gennsny, you -remember, that the
greet offensive would atnrt In October,
and ori the Italiana hellev,d tt was all
a bluff and when we advanced on Hien
they were sure of It. They thought we
were so occupied there that we could
ay no attention to them, and so we
aught -them napping!"
The kalser'a Lace fairly beamed as
e dwelt on the strategy of hie gen-
rale
and
the successful outcome u mP lot
heir Italian campaign.
"Icor months Italy had been engaged
in planting her big gun. on the moun-
tain -tops and gathering mountales of
nmmusltlon and supplies and food and
hospital supplies in the valleys below,
In preparation for their twelfth Isonzo
ofenelve.
"We let them go ■head and waited
patiently for the right n,intent. They
thought that their contemplated offen-
sive must Inevitably bring our weaker
neighbor to her knee and force her to
e ke a separate peace!" By "our
esker neighbor" the knitter, of course,
ferrel to Ametria, and how accurate
as his Information regarding Italy'a
xpeetetlons and how easily they
might have been realized were subae-
uestly revealed by the publlrattw of
nal famous letter from Raiser Lad
Prince Seztns.
"And then," the kaiser went oo,
"when their great offensive was within
■ week of being launched we broke
through their lines on a elope 1,000
feet high, covered with snow, where
they couldn't bring up their reserves
or new guns, and we surrounded
them 1
"We took practically thing they
I»,aweesed—hoof enough to feed our
entire army without calling epos our
own anpplles et all. Never before had
our armies seen much an accumulating
of •mrnunitton. t moat eertalaly go
down to act It.
"We rat off thelr sorth.rn raleat
and, as they swung their array be the
south, we captured 00,000 of theca op
to thMr knee, 112 the rice fields One
of the greet mlatakes they mai wall
In carrying their Hellin■ refugee@ with
IhPm- clogging their narrow roads and
Impeding the retreat of their , Idlera.
We had takes poseeeslon of their most
productive regions, and their retreat
was through territory whichelded
them sothing. Just think of tint re-
' treating array throws epos the already
ImpnverhrhPd Inbahttsats of the sec- man who powwowed a moat alert mind,
(ion. Why, they'll starve to death! ■ remarkable memory and the keenest
sbservaUo• i • man_ who was not es -
bration of his silver wedding. It was
about twenty -tour -by eig.h(een InchPu
In size. it showed the kaiserto and
himself Ina sort of cloud Minting above
a blydseye view of Berlin, with the
palace and the cathedral dimly seen
below.
"i don't know Just what thio master-
piece
asterpiece was meant to signify, but 1 had 1t
rimed and placed It In my office. it
voted from a little boy who entered
be room with his mother the follow -
ng astonished remark : "(►h, mother,
ooh at the lodger In heaven!"
A post -card pliture of the kaiser.
gned by his win] hand, was In hl.
wn estimation one of the most priee-
eas gifts he could bestow. 1 remem-
ber hie donating one of them to an
merican charity hewer in Berlin to
be auctioned off. HP tbeught that the
act that the card carne from his im-
perial majesty gave it a value which
out(' not be measured In dollars and
nte. A piece of Jewelry or a sum
t money might have been duplicated
r even excelled by a gift of aimihr
erecter from any American million-
re—for whose wealth the kaiser fre-
uently expressed the utmost contempt
—but what could surpass the value of
a autograph of the kaiser!
No doubt the royal banquets were
repared much upon the same prig'
p1e, for it was a common saying
mong the German aristocracy that one
ad better Leel well before going to a
anquet at the palace.
I happened to mention to the kaiser
e reputation his banquets held among
a people. He was not •t all taken
back- 1
""That's good!" he commented. 'The
Germans are too fat, anyway. The ma-
jority of the people eat too much."
Long atter automohlling became
more or leas general, the kaiser still
employed • horse and carriage ter
ordinary travel, relying upon his free
use of the railways for longer dis-
tances.
ivtan -es. When, however, the reicbstag
passed a law compelling royalty to pay
for their railroad travel, the kaiser
took to automobiles. They charged
him 11,000 marks, he told me, for the
use of • train on on, of his shooting
trips, and that apparently was more
than he could stand.
"Autos are expensive" he declared,
"but they don't cost me that much!"
The kaiser speaks English with but
the slightest trace of a foreign ardent.
His diction Is perfect. He speaks
French, too, very fluently, and, I be-
lieve, Rattan. He is widely read en
almost all subjects and knows the lit-
erature of Bngland. Preece and Amer,
Ica ■u well as that of Germany. Mark
Twain woe one of his favorite Amer-
ican authors and Longfellow his choice
of American poet.
Ile prides hlme.lf on his acquain-
tance with history and has little re-
spect for the political opinions of oth-
ers whose knowledge of history 1s less
complete.
Shortly after Carnegie had donated
five million marks to Germany to fur-
ther world -peace, I happened to be
talking to the kaiser of American mil-
lionaires and the steetmaater was
mentioned.
"Of course, Carnegie Is a nice old
mao and means well," remarked the
kaiser, condescendingly, "but he Is to-
tally Ignorant of world history. He's
just advanced us five million for
world -peeve. We accepted It ■atur•lly,
hut, of coarse, we intend to continue
our policy of maintaining oar army and
navy In fall strength."
indeed, there 1s hardly any 'abject
to which the kaiser hag devoted any
considerable attention 1■ which be
doean't regard himself as the final au-
thority.
u-
thority.
As an art ennoetnr and antignarlan
he claims first place and ha 1a rather
!meaner! to feel that seewd place
should be left vassal Me awe a
_ t
be madevery small
a► yuantitie$wwe have found
it absolutely necessary to
wake a rule that
ALL COAL BE PAID
FOR ON DELIVERY
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L. B. TAPE
The Singer Sewing Machine
Agent, ha., taken over the
Hg^u, v of 111,•
Intematjofla! Harvester
Company
on Hanli!ton Street
and will har.die Loth linea
Farm Machinery and
Sistger Sewing Machines
A fair share of the public pat-
ronage will be appreciated.
al say. o
i explained that I was completely o
run down—and 1 certainly looked it— cb
and that it was aecesaary for.me to ; al
get to Copenhagen anyway, °o that I q
could get in touch with America re-
gnrding • porcelain tooth patent which ' a
had been granted to ms In July, 1915,
hitt which a large dental company was p
seeklug to wreetiffom me. The patent el
authorities had delayed action because a
of the fact that I resided In an enemy h
country. b
On the 28th I received a letter from
the court chamherlals stating that the th
president of police had made It known hi
to the kalaer that i had applied for • a
pass to Ameriea and demanding an ex-
planation as to why i had told the kai-
ser that I hal planned to go to Copeo-
hngen and had not mentioned Amer-
ica.
I at once replied that It was Indeed
my intention, as I had told the kaiser,
to go to Copenhagen, bat that I had
applied for the pass to America be-
cause I wasted to be in • position to
go there It my patent affairs demand-
ed It and i expressed the hope that
n othing would be done to Interfere
with the pass which bad been prom-
ised me for the 1(Jth.
Nevertheless, the 10th earns around
and the pose didn't, and the boat whlch
g alled from Copenhagen on December
7, which I had planned to take, sailed
without MP,
Again the weary weeks followed
each other without the slightest Intl-
matlon from anyone that I would ever
be allowed to leave. Indeed. i had
folly made up my mind that the au-
thorities had decided to keep me Is
Berns for reasons of their own and
that nothing i could do could mend the
situation, when, early Is January, i roe
celved the joyous tidings that I could
leave January 21-23. i left on .the
22d, and as far as i have since been
able to ascertain I was the last Amer-
ican
merIca• male to leave Germany with the
consent et the officials.
CHAPTER 111.
The Kaiser's Dual Personality.
if I had route away from Germany In
January, 1914, Instead of In January,
iS16
and bad written the impression
1 had gained of the kaiser in the tea
years i had known him, what a false
picture I would have painted of the
mae •a he really le!
It would have been a picture of •
man who In general appearance and
bearing was every Int an emperor and
yet who could exhibit ell the coar'tesy,
affability and gentleness of tho moat
deesoeratic gentleman, a man soh or
or. and kindly In expression. • man of
wide reading end •ttalnmenta- ps rhapa
the most versatile sun In the world, a
An Advertisement
by Charles Dickens
041
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CHARLES DICKENS is one of the world's great teachers.
Here is what he has to say in one of his books:
"My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr.
Micawber, "fou know. Annual income £20, annual
expenditure £19. 19. 6—result, happiness. Annual
income £20, annual expenditure £20. 0. 6— result,
misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered,
the God of Day goes down upon the dreary se ene,
and—and in short you are forever floored. As I am."
The saving of a part of one's in-
- come was always a good policy.
Prudent men and women have
always maintained a margin of
saving.
',But today we must go farther in
soul. efforts to save than ever before.
To -day it is a. matter of the
gravest importance that each
Canadian seek ways and means
to economize by cutting down ex-
penditures for unnecessary things,
saving the money he spends on
things he could do without, so
that when the Nation needs to
borrow money he will be in a posi-
tion to do his full duty.
There is war -shortening work wait-
ing for every dollar that can be
caved,
I
F Charles Dicken't were writing
to Canadians to -day he would
probably give us advice to this
effect:
".ify other piece of ad:ice, Canadians,
}'oil know. 1%'o matter what percentage
°f
your annual income you ?Age pre-
viously sated, your efforts to -day should
bre Ja aaa.'e mere. ' Th. advantage of so
doing is threefold:' By sue practice of
economy you conserve the material and
!ober which must be dr, oted to Me grim
task before us; you cultivate the priceless
habit 4 thrift; you gather More and
more mono to lend to the Nation for the
prosecution of the war to a Quick and
certaits Victory."
Published under the authority of the
Minister of finance of Canada
20
sensed very much the acquisition by
American millionaires of art treasures
and antiquities which their wealth en
•bled them to buy, but which their
limited acquaintance with history and
their lack of culture and refinement
mode them unable to appreciate—in
the kalser's estimation.
Of his own taste in art little need be
salt. The monuments which he crush
to be erected to his anceetore and tbeir
advisors and which adorn the Siege.
Allen, the street he had opened through
the Tiergarten especially for them, are
at th. same Uma • monument to the
kaiser's Ideas of art. They are the
laughing -stock of the artistic world.
They have been se frequently defaced
by vandals whose artistic taste they
offended that It was necessary to sta-
tion policemen In the Sieges All.e to
guard them. Not long ago a burglary
occurred in the vicinity. The burglars
were obsereed while at work and a
startled civilian rushed to the Sieges
Atlee to summon one of the omcers
who were lumen to be ma guard there.
"If you hurry," exclaimed the civil -
Ian, excitedly, "you can catch thea
burglars red-handed."
"1'm sorry," replied the policeman,
"But I cannot leave the statues."
Realism is the kalser'a Idea of what
Is most desirable In dnmatle art..
Whenbe put on "Sardanapal," a Greek
tragedy in pantomime, at the Berlin
opera house, he sent professore to
the British mnseum to mower* the most
detailed information available regard-
Ibg the costumes of the period. Every
utensil, every •rtide of wearing ap-
parel, every button, every weapon, la
fact, every property teed 1■ the play
were to be faithfully reproduced, par-
ticular pains being taken to produce a
mnat realistic effect In • funeral pyre
areae in which • king ended his late. I.
The kaiser sent me ticket to omit.
King Ildward attended the perform -
•nee •t the Berlin Royal opera and I
asked the kaiser how the king of Eng-
land enjoyed it.
7 gracious." the ka1,er replied,
enable to repro his satlafe tloo at
the effect the pantomime had had on
hfe royal ww$e. "why, site brag was
very much alarmed when the funeral
Syr, krone rams nn. He theeght the
whole opera hone, wan on fire1"
Peritsi,.• the kin -pr's love for detail
might he attributed to hIk keen (Myer
'talon. Nothing, no matter how tris
lad, "weaved his attention.
A couple of years before the war
had the r
m �irP
furniture .
nI nrP
{ in my wait
ing room reupholstered. lin the err
Sind occasion of the kalser'k caning e
sty office after the change he noticed It
"My, my, how beautiful the chat
look!" he exelelmed. "Good enough fo
Napoleon himself."
On another occasion, between two o
the kulser'a visits, I had had put op
in the waiting room a new portrait of
&Ir.. b,nvia, The kaiser noticed it the
tnotn'-nt he came Into the rcwen and
made some complimentary remark
at"nit 11.
The kaiser fregaently aeenmed the
American. of being dollar-worahipere
end the English of being ruled by
Mammon. but that he himself wet not
totally nnteindfol of the value and
power of mosey wit clearly revealed
by the m In which he catered to
people of wealth 1■ recent years.
The rteh..t man In RerlIn and one
of the richest Is Germany was • He-
brew (net magnate 'tented PYled-
hinder. The kaiser ennobled hits and
made him Con Friedlander -Falb. AD'
other wealthy Hebrew to whom the
knitter eater,d was Rwhwahach, bend
of the Rlelehro,der bank. one of the
stron,Pkt private banks In Germany.
and he, too, wee ennobled, hemming
Von Schwabach.
A norrttwr of either wealthy Rebreww
la Germany were also honored by the
kaiser In another way. Although be
wits averse to vlsiting the homes of
private Individuals who Melted aerial
standing, he departed from hie rule la
their favor and visited their randoms
ostensibly to view their art collertlosu,
hat actually to tickle thele vanity.
Shorty after Iedshma■ (means. •m -
Damodar to Germany. the kaiser called
ea me.
'Tour new amhatsader'a danyhter is
the beet looking young lady who has
attended our eonrt In many a day," he
dPHar.d. "Ralf a dozen of my Tonne
ataf elven are very anxious to marry
be. Can yoa tell me, Davis, whether
these Lelahmaas have reon.yr
Tf Mo behove /leepta,d the Amerteen
propensity for moneymaking. he was
' certainly not 'eerie to acquiring
American dollars.
Re told me one, that leery trip that
Hamburg American liner Amerika
made from
New York to Hamburg re-
sulted Is transferring $150.000 from
y Ameripan to German
added; Were mighty pole get and
• R 7 glad te.g,t some
roe of your American money, I ran tell
you."
r
Of the kilter's versatility i had
f convincing evidence. In his conversa-
tions with ms we usually wandered
from subject to enhject In the moat
haphazard manner, and be lsvariably
displayed • surprising store of infor-
mation oa every topic we touched, and
1 am net vain enough to believe that
Int was so anxious to make a favorable
Impression upon me that be prepared
for these dht.uasloea la 'drone,.
Indeed, the kaiser dtscuaaed so frau
ty almost every subject that snggestell
Itself that I often wondered what his
advisors would have said had they
overheard our eosvergatlona. Fila read -
bees to talk to me was asdeabt,dly
dna to a tendleacy he bad to trust
' wary use with whom he came In int/ -
mats contact. y'er a man who was apt
is have se many erseai,s, be was leap
saspldopa than anyone I had ever
met 17e seemed to trust every one, and
hie sense of •ecartty anlooa,tN his
tens. and made him more talkative.
perhaps, than was always discreet.
(COM tnttell n• \ 1
All. .i.,4**17, .J511 -'119,v,
IF YOUR CHILDREN
ARE DELICATE OR FRAIL
andAirizo M adar-epsighf
remember —Seen s Erwtabrion
is native's grandest crowing -
food; it strengthens thew bone,,
aka' healthy blood and pro-
motes sturdy growth.
esus a nnweis. Alt..% ,