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Robert Wilson Goderich Elaiitltou The Kaiser as I Knew Him For Fourteen Years AMERat K bAve, D.D $ (Cesyrtgat, 1111, lv Woe MrC1ura Pet ayndirate ) .fi,ses..e.....e..v (Continued from Ici-t %sent Prim* Auguat Wilhelm. the fourth 101, was perhaps the most democratic of them all. He sometimes came to see me to an ordinary taxicab and be was the only one of the kaiser% sows whom 1 ever saw In civilian dna. He was the first member of the royd fam- ily to come to me after the sardcr of the Archduke Frani Ferdinand. and tie was In mourning when he Mod. He Iouk,41 very sad and dejected and gave me the fiat intimation* tbat the tragedy of Sarajevo would niftiest In- evitably o-evitably lend to • general war. In January, 191R, In speaking of the part that America would take In the war, the mentioned that his odicers had told him that 00,0110 Americans were on the western front. "Wet don't be- lieve e(leve It. however," he added. "How could they get there without our know - log It? Our U-boat• wi old certainly have found It out. No, Davin. It's not true.' Prince Joachlm, the kaiser's young- est stn. and one of the lent of the royal family to visit me, reminded nee very much of his eldest brother, the crown pro ('e. He we+ tall aced Blender and would have been geed -hiking but for ■ retreating thin which was very pronounced. He had its little res(s'ct for public opinion as the crown prince, and while the U-boat Heater -bland was on Its way to America principally to bring back a cargo of rubber, the Buy ply of which was exhausted in Ger- many. (hie sixth sod of the kai:aer watt driving around the country In • bis car and using t:p enormous rubber Urea. while rubber was worth 111• weight In gold and many cars for the army ,were supplied with plain Into wheels, This prince was the only member of the royal family to get near eepiough to the firing flue to get shot. 7Le In Jury, which he received while kit the western front, was only a slight flesh I wound of the thigh, but it was euougb 1 to start him limping through history I It wee touch. • superficial wound that ' It couldn't have caused him nue-halt are much pain es It gave !tie whole royal family pleasure. The fact that one of the kaiser'• awn sons had actu•tly bti•n wounded and shed him royal blood In active tier vice wen something that the inspired presto will never Mop crowing over. but hy just what accident the prince happened to come within range of the bullet has never been disclosed. Nev- ertheletos he received the (run Cense of he first class, or, as some one who realized the significance of the lucl- dent. remarked, "A first-class tiros cross for a second -clans wound." s he limped Iota my office, the ug prioce--be Is now only twenty- t—remarked : "See what nus •f damned American bullets did to Let Your Light Shine! Don't stumble around in the dark. it 1.. cheaper ite the long emu. and vastly mole ideasatlt, to have your home lighted in the modern, sensible way -witelectricity. W_ ,haald be glad to gitc you an estimate on the wiring Of your bottle and can assure you a go o d job, hecatc•e W ti KNOW HOW We II IV2 a full line tot Electrical Goods for lighting, cooking, heating etc. 'I'h M RVY. f ■ A.■ I'hon. (g' TAN: Rl.k(-rliu"taNM= We atrlost—nett b1 Po4 OAtcr you elgh your MO!' "H lean b "The I told people shortage "They!. *were !.1 to crimple i America/ much to ea what they w w do you know It wee an Amer - eller?" 1 naked. /tummies% have n:olhin, else!" hint on one orcasl,m that the were cor•plaining of the food have foal enough," he le - "The best thing they do 1n Int Dunt they complain In The fact In they have too t, anyway. They don't know sot" 1 I The Kaiser at Army Headquarters. To what extent the kaiser la reapou- IMble for the failures and testified to Credit for the Neeeesees of bis armies 111 the present war, 1 ant not in • po- sition to may, but If he dof not actnslly direct the military policy, he t.& le'ol kept closely In to with everything that was going on, From the vcry 1.e - ginning of ho'-tllltlet 1: lived the ma- jor part of tine time a1 the great army headquarters and woe In remnant Cell - sultatlon with his military leaders. 1 had several opportunities to sire i the kaiser while he wan at the various great army headquarters. in the spring of 1910 i received • Tong -distance telephone mesoage from the great army headquartera, watch was then In the police of the Pere., von Piens at Plena, to the effect that the kaiser wanted me to go there. During the course of my work one of hla private aeer.(aries came L re- peatedly with lelegrama am.l message. for the keloer, and he w o td usually ezense himself and read them. Some- times be would be summons satslds b* tonsnit with Important perutma Mee were there to see him, hot be win sever glut. more than ten nista' et a ((inc. 1 did not think he looked ally well. 11. seemed to he vary • ed be had very little to say --4s as Iadleeticm that he was net sonnei. When my work for the mar•Ing over •rad his vele', who ha/ nodal C HAPTER XIII. sesabber Wed r was me, Md - beets *Reused, the kaiser gazed at me for a moment or two and thea, apropos of •othiug, bunt nut with the rather remarkable announce - enrol : 'The mon who brought this catastrophe en the world, Dares, should be strung up by the neck, sad that man le nut 1, as the world seems to think! 'nee ever of PiWe la ■u(.1 .he king of Hoglund, when they were at the wedding of my daughter--glwat" at my own house, mind you, wed my blood relatives—batched this plot against uta. They were esvlous of my power, but they will new learn what that power ht-" la the atone breath almost be made the lueoualatent' remark : "Ragland will never be able to raise as of ldant army; It lark Germany one hundred years to accomplish what she has done!" Some time after this, *se of the big - Relit dner•hanls in Berke told me that be bad heard on the stock exchaage that the kaiser had made the remark that !le king and carr had hatched the plot against him, and as 1 had repeated the kaieer's statement to no one. 1 realised that he must have told the same thing to others. It this ver - id Oil of the ■tartlug of the war was put Into cireUlatton with the Idea of ab- solving dsolving the kaiser. It tertalnly didn't carry conviction even among the Ger- mans tbemeelves. The merchant who spoke to me about It, at any rate. made fun of the Idea, and I never heard the point seriously raised by anyone else of lafluence. Before I left the kalser that morn - lag he &peke of the Angio -French loan which bad been floated In America and condemned us severely for coun- tenancing It, When I told him that Ceremony toad also floated a loan la America, he replied: "But ours was only $10,000,000. while theirs Is $500,- 000,000!" to -which l naturally rejoined that the else of the loan could cer- tainly not affect the question of our neutrality In floating It. Ile criticized our t(aolrera who han- dled the loan, and when 1 asked him If he had ever cern thelnumber of Ger- man names that appeared on the list of bankers who were Interested In It, be said he hadn't read the list, but he was bone sure there was one bank In New York which wouldn't touch IL "That bank wouldn't touch aaything that would he detrimental to Ger- many!" lie added. Several months later I was called to flew again and was shown to the same room 1 had visited on the former orrnsion. Wheu the kaiser entered he stool erect, with his hands to his aide, clicked Ms heels together end saluted me at a soldier salutes • superior ofi1- cer, 'uniting as he did ao, and I knew be was in good humor. Nevertheless he had hut little to say. ills criticism of Ur. Wileot on this er caalon i have recorded elsewhere 10 these pages. In June of 101T, after the great army headquirtera had been removed to Ilomhnrg v. d. Hobe, and Kreosnach (two neighboring villages) I was called there to see the kalseria, and three weeks later I went there settle to gee the kaiser, i .shied at the station the kalser': private trails composed of five dart green ears opus each M which was plettarly marked the imperial coat et set's The oars had special folding ▪ Two rooms were assigned to me on one of the upper floors of the palace sad my meals consisted of the same kind of food as 1 had •Iwaya had be- fore the war, although the hunger epi- demic woo raging throngbout the coun- try. it was almost worth the trip for the sake of the meals alone. After i bad treated the kaiser I the morning i wont to my rooms, as i knew it would be three o'clock before he would be ready for nte•again. He never allowed anything to Interfere with his after -d 'r nap, After the kaiser had had his sleep, I was summoned t0 his dressing room. He entered the room attired In a red flandliPtintierehirt. it was the fiat time 1 had ever seen him lo such • . tate of plehlan negligee, and I receiv- ed more or leas of • shock, 1 had been an teceuslomed to /teeing him 1. uni- form, both In pictures and in person, that i1 had never occurred to me that underueath that symbol of pomp the kaiser probably dreamed the name se we lessor urortala, i noticed incident- ally that when he put os Ida military coat he put it on right over his under- skirt. Homburg wan much nearer the fir- ing line than Pima. although. of conrse, • t • very safe distance. 1 noticed, however, that here anti-aircraft guile hid been planted, but apart from that there woo hardly any more activity thnn there had peen at Pleas. While walking down the eorrl t r 1 was Mopped hy an officer and asked who i wee, hut, at a rule, i carne acid went without molestation and seldom hod to show my psis, which one of the kalaeri •djnlanta had given me and which permitted rite In enter and leave army heedquartere for the whole year 1911. When 1 was driven throtgh the streets of Ilornourg, n,th corning from and Koine to the railroad station, In the knitter's motorcar, and the second moo, or putter. on the front sett, blew the horn. people enure punning out of More.. and from afar to ;et • view of the omen lent persona,:P who occupied the k;ol•.ers own car! Many of them saluted me or raised their hate, and 1 thought how angry they would haus been hod they kanw• they were mat- ing themselves to so much trouble t0 salute air alien enemy) The rldlculouanaa of the whole thing Iraprsea* me very mnrti. �'or the moment 1 wee part of the play w hirl) was ever being mad* to im- press sad awe those whom the kaiser wee please to rifer to as 'm/ peer plc." het whose approbation means everytblee. eves to • asoaarch whir MISS '(IL *inure Atli.' a CHATTIER XIV. The Kober and Th- ing. American. Ames the l3ermaas generally there Is • .urprldag !vivre of Iguere Dee re garding conditions In America. Th. •otraveled German has but the vaguest Ideas concerning our people and oar lastltutlons. 1 have had patients of Intellgeoce and education ask me how we are ■be to cope with the Indiana. to view of the extent of German eml- gratloo to America and the vast vol- ume of commercial traosacttons be- tween the two countries, It is utmost unbedevabll`that suchooenus ma- tions dtiuns ghoul(' prevail tu'othese enlight- ened days, but they do. This fact partially serves to explain bow e•oy 1t was for the raiser and hie (aspired press to pull the wool ever the people's eyes regarding the unim- portance of America's entry Into the war. It doean't explain at all, how- ever, how completely the kaiser him- self underestimated us and our power, for I doubt whether there 1s any for- eigner oneigner living, who has never visited America who knows more about our country than the German emperor. in- deed. be was more familiar with many of our problems than many of oar countrymen, t lel he frequently reveal- ed to me In the course of our couver- Battens how thoroughly posted he was on American coulditlort.. Long before the subject of forest conservation was taken up seriously 1a this country, the kaiser pointed out to me what a great mistake we were making In not devoting more atten- tion to It. "Can you tell me. Davis, why you have so many forret fires In your coun- try?` he asked, after a particularly destructive conflagration In the West had destroyed many acres of ttmb•r. "How does It bappenT' I explained to tarn that most of the forest cies came from sparks from locomotives- Careen,' lumhertneo al- lowed the branches which they lopped off the trees to remain on the ground end eben they were ignited hy sparks the Ere sometimes apr-t-ad to the uncut timber. As the faeltltiea for extin- gulalling fire in these unpopulated re - gloom were practically nil and the eti- olate made the timber particularly in- flammable, these fires usually attained serious dimensions. "That points out again the ineffi- ciency of your form of government," he corlunented. "You have laws requiring the railway,' to use appliances to ar- rest the :parks from their .miner, haven't you i Why don't you enforce throe? Your people don't seem to realise that it takes years to grow a tree- Because you haus more than you need tadty, you make no preparation fur tomorrow. For every tree cut down smother should be planted. If you don't adopt some such measure the time will ,Barely come when America will have to turn to Germany for We- ber." The kaiser was a harsh iritic of our election system. The Idea of a four- year term for the president was nat- urally repugnant to one who held suck exalted notions es to the rights of rulert it would ire too much to ex- pect the Hohenzollern mind to approve of a conetltutien which provided for the ruler's return to private life after a period of four years at the bead of the government. He declared that with 1 constant Mange of administration It was (mits out of the question for this country to follow any definite policy. It was bad enough even so far as internal affairs were concerned, he said but. such a system made It impossible het thought row America ever to take a prominent place in international poli- tica. "You can't expect the nations of the world to deal with America as they deal amoog themselves when the next change of administration may mean the adoption of an entirely new foreign policy," he declared. "There can b• nothing stable about the foreign policy of a nation whose leaden change every fthlr years." Americas' party polities were a Caa- "tant source of embarrassment to the knitter. 11e always seemea undecided AM (0 Just how ee should receive an American of prominence. 1f he hap- pened to he of the same political faith an the administration, the kaiser was afraid to de him too much honor for fear of offending the opposing party, COYB SAGE TEA HAM moARKEIn It's Grandmother's Recipe to keep her Locks Dark, ye BeautifuL The old-time mixture of Rage Tea and eulphnr for darkening gray, streaked and faded hair Ls grand- mother's recipe, and folks are again using it to keep their hair a good even color. whloh V quite sensible. al we are living In an ago when a youth- ful appearaac• 1a of the greatest ad- vantage. Nowadays, though, we don't here the troublesome task et gathering the safe and the mussy mixing at home. All drug stores sell the ready -to -use product, Improved by the addition of other Ingredients, called "Wyeth'a Rage and Sulphur Compound." It 1s very popular bocau.e' nobody can dtaeover It has been applied. Rlmply moisten your comb or a soft brush with It and draw this through your hair, taking ono small 'arena at time: by morning the gray hair dltetppeara, but what de- lights the ladles with Wyethts Rags and Sulphur Compound, 1. that, be- sides beautifully darkening the hair after a few appllrrtlone. It also pro- duced) that soft •iitt-e and appearance M abundanew which Is so attractiv.. This ready -to -use preparatloa is a d• - Harmful toilet rMnl•!te for thus' wh d.alre a more youthful appearance 1'. is not Intended for the cure, mltiga- tio■ or prevention of llamas. L• "Whatever is the Matter, Jack; You Don't Look Well!" ii0H, I'm all right." "But you're not. You look so worried and tired." "Well, I haven't been sleeping very well lately." "No, and you don't seem to have any appetite. I think you ought to take some- thing to tone up your system." "Oh, no, I don't need any medicine. I guess I will soon be all right." "But you should not neglect yourself, for that is just the way I was before I had nervous prostration, and you know what a long time I was laid up." "Well, I haven't any time to be laid up, that's a sure thing." "I know what I am going to do. I am going to buy half a dozen boxes of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food and see that you take it regularly." "You know, Jack, that nothing seemed to help me like Dr. Chase's Nerve Ford, and I am sure it will be just ,as good for you," "You v. ill take it, •. -on'' y';_; "FU do most anything to get feeling" better, for I know I have been losing my grip on business lately." "I get up feeling tired in the mornings, and have to dlti'1•e myself to do the work that used to k)e a pleasure for me. I have got id the way of putting off matters that need attention, and hate to meet people when I know that some energy will be required to discuss business deals with them." "You'll take the Nerve Food, won't you'" "Oh, I'll let you be the doctor, and if I the Nerve Food builds me up like it did 11 you I'll soon get back my old-time vigor and be able to make things hum. I have been rather discouraged lately, but I can see now that the trouble is in the condition of my nervous system. So you get the Nerve Food and we'll see what it will do?' Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, 50 cents a box, 6 for 52.75. all c. aiers, or Edmanson, Bates ii Co., Lii.iitt:d, 'foromo. Every box of the gil)uine bears the portrait and sig- nature of A. W. C%:n se, M.D., the famous Feceir.t.roni: autho . who might win the next election-; aad If he were not of the game party as the administration, the kaiser feared to honor hlm lest more Immedimt• re- sentment be stirred up In America. Thus he refused to receive Bryan ea two different occasions when a Repub- lican administration was In power. He eriticlzed very strongly, too, our e,eetion methods. 'goateed of discussing prix cipi.a, your political candidates exchange per- vowallties," he said. "My people would be shocked at the sort of speeches and accusations which figure In all your political campaigns. Over here, noth- ing of the kind Is ever beard." The kaiser was very much interested to our negro problem. It seemed to have a great fa.cinatlon for him, and Ge frequently referred to It. He told me that he understood there were 15,000,000 negroes In this country, but they were dying off in great numbers through consumption and outer dis- avow to which they offered hut poor realafdince. 'The negro will alwaye be a great problem In your eountry, however.' he added. "They don't mix socially with the whites, and there will be constant friction, key brother (Prince henry), when he returned from bit vl.it to America, told me a lot about these negroes. indeed, one of the meet im- pressive things he heard there was a choir of negro voices. He said they sang some wonderful melodies, and their voices were as clear as bells." After the war started, the Milner referred to the negro.' again. "Now le your chance to settle your negro problem," he declared, half f.e.ttoualy, of conrue. "1f America Indata upon coming Into the war. why doesn't she mead her negro.' across and let us shoot them down?' When a fleet of our battleships vis- ited Kiel some six years ago the kaiser paid them a visit and was very much interested. When he called to see me shortly afterward he told me of hie experience. "1 wont over the ships from top to bottom." he declared. " bcy sr. . - cellent vessels, every one of them. aad i was very much Impressed with the way they are manned and officered. I have only one criticism—the lattice- work conning towers, or fighting masts. The only possible um I at see in them would be to trills vines ea them ltd install an .levator Inside, and serve tea In the anemone to the ladles ea top -the most beaotlfnl pities for serving afternoon tea 1 can imag- ine. marIne. "Bet, seriously *pestle'," he went on, "1 rani so* that these mantel have any prectleal value. On the contrary. i clan see very melons dlsadva•tagee In them. No matter what Dation you might be fighting, your mealy would 0. always be able to recognize you at a distance, before you coald Identify Dian, becau'e the warships of all other nations look very much allke at a dla- tanee, "They say these conning towers are armed," he went on, "but you would never get close enough to your eerily to use au.h small guns. Again, If ase of tone masts were hit It would send a shower of steel about the leads ve the men on board. and would aet only put many of them out of action, but I ..old he In the waysuppose, toe, the mast were .truck down and hung over the sided It would drag through the water, and would not only serious- ly Impede the vessel, but it wield cause the ship to list and expose a *ger area on one side than would bo site. No, Davin, your fighting masts, as I have said, might answer srst-rats fur serving tea. hut i don't th ak work of them for active oervlce," But it the keiter saw rand. r American waypt and customs t0 age demn, he likewise .aw touch is esu - mend, and, before the war, be was liberal In his prelim of may of our qualities and achievements. He wan very much Interested,• for Instance. In this experiments and dle- esverie. of Luther Burbank. To make Germany self-supporting as far as food resource, were eoacerned was one of his dearest ambition.. He realized that In the event of a world war hie smile would probably suffer more from lack of fond than they would from hostile bullets, and he was hoping that he would be able to obviate that condltion before his COMM."! was pat to the test. He was constantly preach- ing simplified diet and the conserve - tine of food reserves, and he had great hopes that much could be done In a scientific way to help solve g 1 food problems. When atteading din- ners given him by his ofilcers, hla wish.% respecting simple menus were always carefully followed. The kaiser enjoyed American hu- mor. He was very feud •f Mark Twain, and he followed oto or two of the American msuthlles and weeklies more or len regularly. He told me that, one evening while le his sitting room la the Berlin polar.. reading anraething In an American magaslna, his nn across a story which .nosed him to laugh so much and so loud that the ladles of the court. who heard him la an iodise -eat room, eArie running In with their knitting to see what the matter wan. The kaiser hod little reapert for our •rrhlt.etur.. He thnnght our sky- vier/per", of whirl he had seen Blum tratlnas, were hideout, "Hew terrible t• desecrate the land- scape with such tall Mildltga," he enmmeat.d. 'They hurt the eye. How can people live le themr (('cmlinuesl next week) ALL BUN U•BOATS TAKEN. Germany Had Only 122 Grey Sharks Left t'usunk, BASLE. Dec. 3.—It le reported from Berlin that the surrender of German warships under the terms of the armistice has now been carried out wtth the exception of the battle- ship Koenig, the cruiser Dresden and a torpedo boat, which will be taken to Isgland early this month. The Lot of the series of sub- marines left Hehgoland Nov. 29, .o that -122 U-boats have now been de- livered to the Allies. The clearing of mines from the Baltic Sea. hag begun. The Little Belt and the Great Belt may now be crossed without a pilot. The foregoing despatch explains. why Poch changed the armistice terms providing that instead of 160 the Germans should surrender ail the submarines they possessed. Wien the delegation from Berlin arrived they evidently informed him that tt would be h iposaible to sur- render 150 am they only had 122, the other 200 having been sunk by Lt Allied sects. [AT IJSS AND TAKE SAU'S FOR KIDNEYS Take a glom of Salta before breakfast 11 year Bask kat• or Bladder bathers yon. The American men and women must guard eonatantly against Kidney trouble, beeaose we eat too mush and all our food is rieb. Our blond is filled with nrie acid whish the kidneys strive to filter out, they weaken from overwork, become sluggish : the eliminative tissues clog and the result is kidney trouble, bladder weakness and a generd decline in health. 1 •When your kidneys foal like lumps of 1 lewd; your back hurts or the urine is elondy, full of sediment or you are obliged to ,eek relief two or three times during the night; if you suffer with nick beatlar.he or dizzy, nervous spell*, acid stomach, or you have rheumatism when Om weather is bad, get from your phar- macist abont four mimes of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in • glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will ten aet fine. This famous salts is marls fmm the arid of grap.a and lemon jniee, men/deed with lithis., and has heel used for geaeratiens to flush and stimulate clogasd kidneys; to neutralise tie seeds in dm mine an it no longer is • sees of irritation, tens 1 reending bladder dlarwders. 1 Jad Salta is Maxpenaivat minuet 1a- , jure, makes • delightful effervatewlt Mills -wafer beverage, and belongs in every home, beesti.. imbed,.an make a mistake by having • good y flush- ing w Lass.