Show I 1 to t 7 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 Z 10 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 the kaiser Kai as I 1 knew hin him I 1 I 1 1 10 1 I 1 for fourteen boua le en years I 1 I 1 11 I 1 1 I 1 C C az 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 L 11 B I 1 by I 1 Y ART ARTHUR AUR 4 N DAVIS 1 D DS D I 1 4 S 8 ai J 00 OC O C lococo oC OCo I 1 I 1 copyright 1918 by tho mcclure ne syndicate I 1 I 1 XIII continued i after the kniser had linchis had lind his sleep I 1 atts summoned to ills his dressing dressin groom room lie ile entered the broom room attl red in a red rd flonnel flit finel undershirt jt it was the clr first lime I 1 had ever seen him in such tt a of negligee tandl and I 1 received ree ef more or less of a shock I 1 had been bee n so accustomed to seeing him in uniform both in pictures and in person that it hid had lie never ver occurred to me that u that hat symbol oak of pomp tile the kaiser probably dressed the J same as wo we lesser mortals incident vily that when lie he put on his wat roof lief deput it or orf right over ats undershirt homburg was much nearer the firing firl 1 line than although of c course ouise nt at a very saie safe distance I 1 noti noticed cedI however hone vcr that here anti alre aft raft guns hid had been pla planted nied but apart from that there was vas hardly any more activity th than an there nad had been appless at pless while walking kIng down the corridor I 1 was stopped toy by an officer and asked iwas buens but as a rule I 1 came ant and went without mole molestation statton and seldom had find to show my pass which one of the 1 keisers kaisers kai sers adjutants had given me and which permitted me to enter and leave army headquarters for the whole year 1917 1017 when I 1 was driven through the streets of homburg both coming from and going to the railroad station in tho the kaisers keisers kai sers motorcar and the second man inan or bugler on the front scat blew the horn peo people alb came running out of stores and from afar to get aview a view of the Important person personage age who occupied the kalser kai sers sown own car cart I 1 Bla many of them saluted me or malsed thear hats and I 1 thought how bow would V have bees had I 1 they them known they were jut I 1 ing rig themselves toso to so much trouble to salute an alien ien enemy I 1 1 1 the of the whole tiling impre impressed id me deiy very much for hie moment I 1 I 1 was part of the play which was ever being made to tin im press and no awe those whom the T a alser was pleased to refer to as almy my peo pec alp but whose apar approbation means everything even eden to a monarch who r rules u les by y divine right ll 11 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 CHAPTER XIV I 1 the kaiser and things Arn american erlan among the germans generally there I 1 b in a surprising degree of ignorance regarding I 1 conditions in america the german has bits but the vaguest ideas concerning pur our people and our institutions I 1 have had patients of i intelligence arid and education asic me how we a are abe to cope with the Ind indians lans in view of the extent of Gern german laii deml gration to america and tile the vast volume of commercial transactions be tween the two countries it la Is almost unbelievable that such erroneous notions 1 should prevail brevall in these erred days but they do this fact partially servos serves to how easy tt it was for the ilie kaiser kalser and lits ills Iti inspired press press to pull the wool over i the peopled people 4 eyes regarding g the anim abo of bf americas entry bistry inta into alio ali e wn war it t explain at all however I 1 how completely the him spit self underestimated us a and nd our power liewer ifor fori I 1 doubt whether there Is 14 any foreigner living who has never visited america who knows more about our country than the german emperor indeed he was more fa familiar with many J of our problems than many of our country countrymen and lie he frequently revealed to me in the course of our con conver v dr I 1 I 1 I 1 ns how thoroughly posted he was 1 at on american conditions 1 long before the subject of afforest forest conservation was taken up seriously in this cob country the kaiser kalser pointed out to I 1 me what a h great mistake we were in not devoting more attention to it cannou Can you sellme toll tell me davis why you yon have so many forest fires fire s in your country arat he asked after a p particularly or it c destructive conflagration in ohp west I 1 had fidd dest destroyed myed many acres of ota timber 1 how does docs it happen 1 I 1 I 1 explained to him that most of the dorest forest fires pame came from sparks from locomotives careless lumbermen allowed I 1 the branches which they lopped I 1 oft off the trees to remain on the ground and when they were ignited by sparks the fire sometimes spread to the uncut timber timbe As the facilities for extinguishing gui shing fire lu in these unpopulated r regions were practically nil and the ell I 1 cinto made the timber particularly in these fires usually attained s dimensions I 1 I 1 that points out again the inefficiency of your form borm of government he commented you have laws requiring the he rall railways ways io to use appliances to fo orrest arrest the froni from their engines ba vent you why dont you enforce encore 6 them your people dont seem t to Q that it lakes fakes years to grown grow n tree because you have more than yola you need today you dihke no prepa ralo n fo for j tomorrow vor for aver every tree cu cut f down blown of another iother should be bl planted blanked anted it if you donl adopt somo some such lucli measure I 1 the will surely como comel when america 1 avill lUh aveto turn to Oer germany many for tim 1 I 1 alra I 1 har I 1 1 A L L 1 jhc kaiser ansu harsh critic of GUI ip cUon hyriam syr iAm the idea of it four I 1 I 1 I 1 year term for the president nt was nat aurally repugnant to held such exalted notions notion us its to the rig rights his of rulers li it would bo be too much to expect the to approve of bf a constitution which provided tor fk the rulers return to private life after of ter a period of four years at the head of t the he government he declared that with a constant change of administration lt it was adi quite out of the question for this country to foll follow dwany any definite policy it was bad enough even so far as internal affairs were conce concerned rudd lid he said but such a system made it impossible he thought hought for america ever to bake ake a prominent place in lliter international national poll bics tics you cant expect the nations nailon sl of the ilie world to deal with america ns as they deal among themselves when the next cli linge ange of administration inlay nican mean the adoption of an sl entirely e new nev foreign policy lie he declared there can be not hingst a ble about the foreign policy polley of a nation whose leaders chingee change every vary four years american party politics were a con stant slant source of embarrassment to the kaiser ile he always seemed undecided undecided As as to just how he should receive an Ainer american ledri of prominence if he happened to be of the ia s same ame falth as the administration the kaiser was afraid to do him too much ho honor for fear of offending fending bf the I 1 opposing party who might win the next election and it if he were n not ot of the same party as the administration the kaiser feared to I 1 honor him lest more resentment sent ment be stirred up in america thus chii he refused to receive bryanton Bry bryan anon on two d if ferent oeda occasions when a republican administration wa was po power he hd criticized very verb strongly too joo our methods instead of discussing your political candidates exchange per he edid my aly people would uld be shock edat the sort of speeches and accusations which figure in all your poll political tacal campaigns oksil here noth ing ang of the kind ls is ever hea heard rd the kalser was very much indeli interested ln in our negro problem it seemed to have ti a great fascination for him arid and he I 1 frequently referred to it I 1 H told me that he understood there were negroes in this country but they bere iere were dying off an fn great nud numbers ibers through consumption and other diseases to which they offered but poor resistance 1714 the will always be a great reat t problem in id your country however he added they dont mix socially with the whites and there will be constant I 1 friction my aly brother prince henry when he i returned fr from orif his visit t to 0 I 1 america told mo me a lot about these I 1 negroes indeed 1 oab dihe of the most I 1 impressive m things bugs he be heard there ther ewas was a i choir of negro voices H ho e said they sang some wonderful melo melodies aleci and their vol voices acs were as clear as bells I 1 1 after tile the war il started arted the kaiser halser mcferr referred i d to the neg again now Is your chance to settle e ye 30 r negro problem he bir facetiously of course couer e if america insists upon I 1 conling coining into the war why she send her negroes negroes across and let us 1 shoot them down when a fleet of our battleships visited i re A X kiel lel some six years ago the kals kaiser er paid them a visit and was wa svery very much interested when he called to see me ile shortly after ward lie he told 66 me of ills 16 e experience I 1 1 I went event over the ships from top to bottom he declined declared they are excellent vessels overy every one af pf them and I 1 was very much impressed W with the way they are manned and officered I 1 have only one crit lasin the latticework conning towers or fighting masts thet the only possible uso use I 1 can call see in therla them would be to train vines on them and install an elevator ii inside isIde and serve tea in the afternoon to the ladles ladies on to tot the most beautiful place for serving afternoon tea I 1 can imagine but seriously speaking he arent on 1 I cant see that these masts have any practical value on the contrary I 1 aari can see very serious gerlous disadvantages vantages in thenia tham NO jo matter what nation you sou might be fighting your enemy would always be ablean able to recognize you at ri a distance before you could identify him because the warships of all other nations look very much alike at ai adas I 1 tonce tance I 1 they say these conning towers are armed be bb went on but you you I 1 would nevor never get close enough enouf h to jo your enemy to use such small guns again if one of those masts were hit it would send a shower of steel I 1 about the heads of the men 11 en on board aboard and would not only put many of them butof out of action aut but would ke be in id the ibe way suppose too the mast were struck down and hung bung over the side jt it would drag through the water and would not only seriously ly impede the ve vessel asel but it would chapa a tle the ship to list li stand and expose a fa ge r area tin one side eside than would be safe no davis your fight tn g masts I 1 as I 1 have said might answer first rate I 1 for foi serving tea buti dont much of them for attivo service 1 but X 1 ake the halfer saw much in avirl american c an ways toys edh n customs III sta 16 con deaun lie ile likewise saw much to 1 I 1 M mend nd I 1 and ad 1 before ici alio tai 9 1 tm war ri 71 he was t liberal lif in his praise of bf mray many of our qualities aud and achievements 1 I 1 he w ws was s very ry much interested for instance stance la in tile tho experiments and aws dis co verles of luther burbank to make germany self as far os as food resources were concerned was one ond of his bis dearest ambli lons lie realized that in tho the event of a world wa war his people would probably suffer more mora from lack of food than they would from hostile bullets ull leeg achie vas hoping would be ablerto obviate that condition I 1 before ills his country yas was put loathe test ile iio was constant constantly ay iy c 11 ing simplified diet und lind the conservation of food reserves and lie ho had greaf hopco that indah much co boum be doii dolp in a scientific way to tb help solve general food problems when attending din aln ners neis given him by bv I 1 lils his officers his s respecting simple menus were always carefully followed Ilo ived 4 the kaiser enjoyed Amer american fead humor he was very vary fond of mark maik I 1 twain and he be folloni followed fol loed rd J on one e or two of the american monthlies e s and weeklies I 1 mojo more or less regularly he 1 told me d thit that one evening while jn his sitting room in tile the berlin palace reading something in an american magazine ho he ran accosts a story which caused him to laugh so much mu ch and so loud that alio the ladles ladle s of if the 6 court courto who heard him in an adjacent room came runn running ingIn in with their kni knitting to fo see what the I 1 matter wa r I 1 ilie the kaiser had little respect for our architecture ile he thought pur skyscrapers scrapers of which he had trat lons were hideous hov How I 1 terrible to desecrate ahw ian landscape d s c a PO with such tall bull buildings dings il he commented they hurt huit the eye eye how can people live in th them eink I 1 I 1 explained that most of the buildings to which he referred werd were office buildings building but that gedid we did have toms I 1 teen and fifteen story apartment houses and hotels andev and javen ev higher ories ones in which the upper floors were used for living purposes just the same as the lower ories ones he Fould nt believe it possible that people would ons to I 1 live so far abo above the ground and from his own aversion avei ilon to visit a a place e that t was even one story above the ground floor floo il I 1 rather got the idea Ideath that af he was afraid of height under the building laws prevailing in germany no build ing ot of more mor ethan than five stories may aay be I 1 erected I 1 per perhaps aps the quality that hw he envied mo most st in us masour was our genius when orville wright was flying at tem Tempel felhofer hofer feld in berlin in the I 1 early days of aviation the kaiser I 1 could not restrain lils his admiration 1 I wish I 1 could encourage my people to become great investors inventors such as america has produced he i declared rather hopelessly 1 I adm admire lre your your wonderful i 1 iny genius vi the e kalser objected object dd very very much t to 0 d the he fact that tha many of the forel foreign opera singers w ere attracted to NewY new bik by reason of the fabulous kumst paid thern them at the opera oper house ahouse despite the fact that mai the kaiser accused us of spending our money too lavishly laIsh ly lie he repeatedly charged chaigen the E english us as W well of as ourselves with being I 1 ir r moncy worshipers the ang anglo flo 1 saxons w worship faem mammon and they try p 0 o gloss afos it alt over with a show of religion he said isahl your rich I 1 amerl americans ans have hake so fco ti mil ch 1 money D dais avis that they really know what to do with it chy recently one of your millionaires saw my acas castle ile nt at co corfu alf and sent one of hs his representatives c to the court with tile the pic sumptuous message missag e please tell tel rAhe the li diser that I 1 will buy i his pastle at cornuand corfu and ash aik bilm v w hats ills his price pile r 1 I 1 had word vi ord sent back that alie costlo iva was snot not for sale the american then told my representative that take no for tin an the cheel cheek of I 1 he file aarif ile he said lie car care bow much it cost I 1 genf yord word back to io that man that there were werd not chough doftus in the world io to buy that castle th there re jare are somi some things that thai your dollars wont wo nt buyl buy davis als and one of them la 13 att ctt tle th at corfu 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 aj r 1 C iq AF 1 E R V z s I 1 I 1 t the german people I 1 the oath of allegiance alch I 1 I 1 every grinan Grin nn soldier and public official t ices binds him harst to sup |