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Show KAISER;S ORDER IS DISREGARDED Norwegian Pilot Bravrs Emperor's Emper-or's Anger: Uceuraled TYith Honor. Special Cable to The Tribune. Bl-:r;LIN. Oct. 12. A member of the (.'erman yacht club, 1ms related the following fol-lowing anecdote about the German kaiser. kai-ser. When the kaiser's yacht, the Hohcn-zollern. Hohcn-zollern. wus entering a Norwegian port, Ihe kaiser. Impatient at the vessel's slow progress, rang the engine room telegraph bell and ordered increased speed. To his great .stupefaction, the pilot, an old Norwegian named Nordhuns, Jumped to the telephone and called to the engineers to talc.; no notice of the slgnul, but to slow down itguin. The emperor, aftet u sialic? nt the man who dared to speak thus In his presence, ordered the pilot to go ami put himself under arrest, but the old man, without moving an eyebrow eye-brow replied: "I shall not leave thU spot. The .ship Is under my direction, and nobody, not even un emperor, Is goliiK to give me any orders." The officers "present, knowing that the pilot had maritime law on Ids side, looked on In silence, stml were surprised to see the cmpnror rpilt tho bridge and leave the old pilot In charge of the ship's navigation. nav-igation. On the following day the kaiser's mood had passed, and he decorated the old sailor, at the same time appointing lilm his official pilot In Norwegian waters. |