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Show Kaiser Dreams of German World Power and Says 'Mailed FistW ill Succeed' William Had Ambition of Entering in Triumph at Head of Victorious Army With Keys of Fallen Cities Borne Before Him. CHAPTER I. TO the Amerkan mind the kaiser in tiie personifiat'.on of Ger-nauy. Ger-nauy. He Sh the arch-enemy npoii v. honi the world placet the responsibility fur this most terrible of all warn. I have a.t fj.ee to fa-e with l.irn in the paiaoe at l!fMIin, where, a th-: personal retire-Mntaiive retire-Mntaiive and r-nvoy of the r-re?:d';nt of The fnited Mat. I had i he honor of t:. press ins the viewpoint of a ;,'n:at nation.' I have' sf-n him in tiie field, as the rorntnaji'Iiiiir general of mighty foivey, r'Ut I also have seen him in the nutrat countries through whuh I pa !prt on n-.y ret m rn home and in my own heiovod land in tlie evidence of int rijjue and plot: ins, whirli this militaristic monarch has bcqot ten and whlh la today '"tlie Thins." an President Presi-dent Wilson cally it, wh:?h has l'ion-'lu tl'.e .Mneri'an people face to fare with kai.-erism in the greatest rnnfli. t of all histcr;'. W hat manner of man fs he? What ii hi? ch.tra'ter? How much was he rc-r-oriKible for what happened? How nun h his K'-neral fiaff? What, of the crow-ri prince ard wha t of the ne'i t peoples and th-ir rulers whom Ger-many Ger-many has intiniidated and would faiu H'jbjii-ate if it 5uit-d her purpose? Tiie.-e are the ipjettons I ahali attempt at-tempt to answer out of my experi-tn'.es experi-tn'.es in Clermany and my contacts with the rulers of other countries in my journeys to and from Berlin and Washington. To illustrate the craft of tlie kai?pr. I believe I can perform no bf-tter service ser-vice to Americans than to reveal an incident whih has not hitherto been published. It oc ;rred at the New Year's re:ept:on of when the a:n- t'a?ratlnrs of all the foreign countries represented at the (jerman court were ranecd in a larpe room at the palace. They stood about six feet apart in t;-.e ordpr of their resident in Rer- Mr. Gerard's f ond book, written since his departure from Berlin upon the severing of diplomatic relaiiuns with Imp' ny L German v, has been secured se-cured by the Public I d -e r for f x -ciusive newspaper iub:i'-ai:on in tiie tnited .States and Canada. It will appear ap-pear simultaneously in dally instalments instal-ments in this and other newspapers licensed by tiie Iubib- Ledger. Anv InfririL-euiunt of the I'H'nlu- Ledger's eopyriKin will be prosecuted. lin. The kaiser and his aidrg entered the room, and tl:e eniperor spo!;e a few minutes to each envoy. He tarried longest with the Turkish amba?;dor and myself, tlrereby arousing tlie '.uri-oslty '.uri-oslty of the ot':er diplomats, who sui-pe'-ted that the kaier did more than merely exchange the greetings of the .season. I (e did. What the German emperor shid to me interests every American, because it snows his subtlety of purpose. The kaifcer talked at ler.sth to me about wnat he called Japan's designs on the United .States. He warned me that Mexico was full of Japanese spies and an army of Japanese colonels. He also s p o 1 e about France, su y i r. g that he had made every effort to make up v. ith France; that he had extended his hand to that country, but that the French had refused to meet his overtures; over-tures; that he was through and would nut try again to heal the breach between be-tween France and Germany. All this was in 114, six :onths he-fore he-fore the outbreak of the European war. Little did I known then what the purpose was ba k of that conversation, conver-sation, but it is clear now that the emperor wished to have the government govern-ment of the United States persuaded through me that he was really trying to keen Europe at peace and that the responsibility for -what was goin to happen would be on France. The Ger- (Continned on Page Eight) "Face to Face With Kaiserism" By JAMES W. GERARD, American Ambassador at the German Imperial Court, July 23, 1913, to February 4, 1917. Author of "My Four Years iu Germany.' Copyright. 191S. by Public Iiler Company. Copyright Canada, 191 S, by Public Ledger Company. (Continued from Page One.) man is so skilled at intrigue that he I seeks even in advance of an expected offensive to lay the foundation of self- ! justification, j But the reference to Japan an.l allecod hostility against us on the part of lanci- ! lul hordes of Japanese in Mexico made , me wonder at the time. There were j many evidences subsequent to that New j Tear's day reception of an attempt to , alienate us from Japan; as a climax to, It all as a clarification of what the em- j reror had in mind came the famous Zim- i merman n note the instructions to the I German minister in Mexico to align both Japan and Mexico a gainst us when we entered the war against Germany! Plotting1 and intrigriir-s for rower and mastery! Such is the business of absolute abso-lute rulers. I beiteve that had the old Austrian kaiser lived a little while longer, the prolongation of his life would have teen most disastrous both for Austria and Hungary. I believe that after the death of Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo and after a year of war the German emperor and autocracy were brooding over a plan according ac-cording to which, on the death of Franz Joseph, the successor should be allowed tc rule only as king or grand duke of Austria, the title of emperor of Austria to disappear and German princes to be placed upon the thrones of Hungary and of a new kingdom - of Bohemia. These and the kincr or grand duke of Austria were to be subject monarchs under the German kaiser, who was thus to revive an empire, if not greater, at least more pover:u, than the empires of Charlemagne Charle-magne and of Charles the Fifth. Many public utterances of the German kaiser show that trend of mind. "My Mailed Fist Shall Succeed" Emperor William deliberately wrote and published, for instance, such a statement state-ment as this: "From childhood I have been influenced by five men Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Theodoric II, Frederick the Great and Xapoleon. Each of these men dreamed a dream of world mplre. They failed. I have dreamed a dream of Germaji world empire and my mailed fist shall succeed." Could any declaration of a life's ambition am-bition be 'more explicit? It seems 'impossible 'im-possible for human ambition to stand sulL Either a man loses all stimulus of fielf and becomes as spiritless as a fagged animal or ambition drives him always on he is never content with anr success achieved. The millionaire to whom the first million, when he was a boy. seemed the extreme limit of human wealth and desire, presses on insatiably with the first million in rus pocket, more restless, more dissatisfied, than the hungry farmer's boy who first carries his ambitions to the great city. When these zealous, scheming men gain the power of kingship they usually bring disaster to their country. Their subjects nnd no compensation in the person;1.! per-son;1.! ambitions which hurry a nation into the misci-.es of war. Fetter Charles II dallying with his ringleted mistresses than an Alexander the Great: better Henrv the Fourth of France, the "ever-ereen "ever-ereen ej!!ant." than Frederick the Great bathir.c Hi people in blood. "Happy nations na-tions have no history." William the Second, the present Gorman Gor-man emperor, might well be called the restless 'emperor. He is never satisfied to remain more than a few days in any place or in any occupation. He commands com-mands his armies in person. He has won distinction as a writer and a public speaker. He is an excellent shot. He has composed music, written verses, superintended superin-tended the production of a ballet, painted a picture; the beautiful Fyzanttne chapel in the castle of Posen shows his Renins for architecture; and. clothed in a clergyman's clergy-man's surplice, he has preached a sermon ser-mon in Jerusalem. What ruler in all his-torv his-torv has exhibited such extraordinary versatility? . Tn mv conversations with the emperor I have been struck by his knowledge of other countries, lands which he had ' never visited. He was familiar not only with their manners, customs, industries and public men, but with their commercial commer-cial problems. Through his conversation conversa-tion one can see the keen eye of the Hanseatic trader looking with eager envy on the trade of a rival merchant. The emperor, incidentally, while instinctively commercial, has an inborn contempt, if not for the law. at least for lawyers. In October. for instance, he remarked to me. "This is a lawyers' war Asquith and Lloyd George in England, Poincare and Briand in France." Emperor William's Habits. In appearance and conversation Emperor Em-peror William is very manly. His voice is strong, with a ring in it. He is a eood rider. Following the German custom, cus-tom, he- puts on his nightshirt every afternoon after lunch and sleeps for two hours for the German is more devoted to the siesta than the Spaniard or Mexican. Mex-ican. The hours of the Berlin foreign office, for example, were from 11 to 1 and from 4 to S. After a heavy lunch at 1 o'clock all the officials took a nap for an hour or two. Also, the hours of the bank where I did business were from in to 1 and from 4 to 6. This means that after 6 o'clock the clerks had to sit until perhaps S making up the books for the. dav. In 1916 the Olympic games were to have taken place at Berlin, and in September, Sep-tember, 1P13, before sailing for Germany. I attended a luncheon at the New York Athletic club given by President Page, i -with the members of the Gorman com- j mission who hart corne to America, to i study athletics and to see what could 1 bo done in Germany so that the Germans I could make a good showing: at the games 1 j in their own city. Alter my arrival in Germany one of i ! the members nf this commission told me ; j that it was impossible, he believed, to ; organize the Germans as athletes until ', German meal and business hours had been uhangd. He said that with us in America young men Waving: business at 4:i0, or 5:30 had time in which to exercise ex-ercise before their evening meal, but that in Germany the young men ate so much at the midday meal that they required re-quired their siesta after it and that they did not leave their offices until so late in the evening that exercise and practice prac-tice were impossible. On the emperor's table his wine glasses, or rat Iter cups, are of silver. Possibly this is because he has been forbidden by his physician to drink wine. The Germans maintain the old-fashioned custom of drinking healths at meals. Someone far down the table will lift his glass, look a t yon and smile. You are then expected to lift your glass and drink with him and then both bow and smile over the glasses. A s the emperor must reciprocate with every one present, his champagne and win1 are put in silver cups in order that those drinking wine with him do not see that he consumes no appreciable quantity of a Icon otic liquor on the occasion of each health-drinking, health-drinking, tome people in America may hav often wished for a simikir device. The emreror is out of uniform only on rare occasions. Occasionally when in a foreign country he has appeared in civilian civi-lian dress, as shown in the accompanying photograph, taken in 1010, at the small town of Odde, in Norway, where he had landed from his yacht. He appears to much better advantage in uniform than in civilian attire. Although uniformed while at sea as an admiral, his favorite uniform is really that of the Hussars. In this picture he is accompanied by Baron von Treutler, Prussian minister" to Bavaria Ba-varia and the foreign office representative with the kaiser. Von Treutler is a German Ger-man of the world. I met him at the great general headquarters, at the end of April 1916. when the submarine question was being discussed. He came to dinner seveiai times at the chancellor's house, undoubtedly reporting back what was said to the emperor, and I believe that his voice was against the resumption of ruthless submarine warfare and in favor of peace with America. Shortly after this period he fell into disfavor and went back to occupy his post of minister in Munich. Mu-nich. William a Polite Roosevelt. In conversation, the emperor reminds or.e very much of Roosevelt, cf a polite Roosevelt, talking1 with the same energy, the same violence of gesture and of voice so characteristic of our great ex'-presi-dent. When the emperor talks all his attention at-tention is given to you and all his mental men-tal energy is concentrated on the conversation. con-versation. In this violence of manner and voice he seems not at all German. The average German is neither exuberant nor soft-apokei:. but mild-mannered. His favorite among Ins ancestors is William of orange. Once he attended a ' fancy dress bail in costume and makeup make-up coined from tre well-known picture of t";U prince. The emperor is sin ng'.y buiit and is about five feet nine inches tail. He sits well on his horse and walks, j too. with head erect and shoulders thrown back a picture of military precision. A friend of mine who "was present at ; Kiel with his yacht in 1910 tells me that when all the yachts and warships had been assembled along -the long narrow waterway which constittues thai harbor, with the crews lined up on deck or man- ! ring the yards, with bands crashing and j banners floating, the Hohera-Ht-rn slowly slow-ly steamed into the harbor and parsed lazily and majestically through the wait- I ir.g ships. Alone on the upper bridge tcre j stood the monarch, attired in fj.l mili-, mili-, tary uniform, with white coat and tttht breeches. hU'h-iop boots, sinning eiiver I ' breastph-te and s.lver helmet, surmounted by an eagle, the dress of the Prussian ; guard regiment, so dear to th-'?e who , portray romantic and kinscly roles upon ; the stagt. a fi-r ire on whom ;ill eyes were I d r-e:.d;.-. as that of Ioher.grln, ctawn by h:s fairy swan, coming to n.-s- . cue the unjustly ac-iiFed pr!nct-s. And. aias! the Germans like all this pomp and splendor. It appeals to somctmng in the German heart and s-ems to rreat a feel-' feel-' mg of affection and humilitv in the Gtr-, Gtr-, man breast. AVhen I talked at length one dav with Pre-:d, nt Vilor. on mv visit to Arm-rb-a i in O-noher. IS-i. r.e remarked, half to I hlmse.f, in surprise at my tale of war: "Uhy des ad tins horror come on the ;world? What cause- it?" "Mr. President." i I ar.swe.rM, "it is the king business." I I d.d not me. -in nn;n;:ial kind's as harm-! harm-! Iass a those of Spain end Kn eland. I 1 was tr.inking of the powerful monarchs. A German republic would never have e:n-! e:n-! barked on tins war; a G-rman congress j wou.d have thought twle b-;"nre Fending I its own sons to d-ath In a deliberate ef-! ef-! fort to enslave othir people. In a free ! Germany teachers. ni!nis"'Ts arid profes-' profes-' sor? wou'd not have taucht thp. nfce.-'i'y : of war. What German merehr.nt in a tree Germany would have thocht th u nib the trade of the east, all the n--r.es rf Bagdad and Cairo and Mosul couid compensate I him for the death of his TirM-horn or restore the blind eyes to the youngest pon j who now crouches, cowering, over the ; fir . awaiting d-ath? For there waa no , trade nec-.-s:ty for this war. I know of no pi a cc In the world where German merchants mer-chants were not fr-e to trade. Trie disclosures dis-closures of war h.vvf shown how German commre had p-ne:iated every Irnd. '.o an extent unknown to the pt Informix!. I' tho German merchants war.t'd this war !n ordor to giin a German monopoly of the world's trade. thn they are rich My sufforinp- from the. results of overweening , covetounep. i Kxperts in Insanity say that the Roman ; err.p'-rors as soon as they attained the rule of the world wore n.ride mnd by the po-1 po-1 session of that stupendous power. The c "Op 'or of Kmperor Wi liam Is mlirbt v. No more an'ocra tn: Influence procc-ds from any nthr monarch or rub-r. Rut ' yon will sny. How about our president in ; time of war? Great power run sufely be given to a nrerld'-nt. Our prev'drnTs -hnve all risn from the r.'tnks. Usually tiev .have Kone through the school of hn rd , kno-'ks. And th'ro are ways of keeping them abreast of the people. Licensed Roman Slave, I It Js told that hidden from publie view, j crouched down In the rh;iriot In which the ! surceKsful Roman proconsul or general : drove triumphantly through the crowd-'d ! "tree' of Rome, wns a slave celebrated for his linpr'Jnen',A. whose dut v it was to make the on" honored fee; that, nfter all, he w s nothing more than ordinary mortiil, MessM with a certain amount of 'good lurk. Rrohaoly as tiie chariot j penned by the forum the slave would say. ' after a thunderous burst of npplaue frr.jn 'the pop tils re, : "1 to no tn ke that ap- p!a'iM too gorlouniy. That Is the T. Quint us CnMu n'K In tlon, whose chief ; rf reived ft hundred sst erces from your j brother-ln-la w yetordav. on arrount. I with n. pronrse of u hundred more in case tho ssporjntin s cheers funr-l loud and sincere." So In A rr.erlra t h pr:w. serloun nnd roniln, titks the pin re of t h humble 1 I'.nmnn and throws ononch rold wnter on ' ; bR hrjid of nnv ten.i'or.i rliy smessful i American to reduce it to normal pro-portions. pro-portions. r."Md-. the president knows tv,it s'i-t d.'iv 1." must return to the rnnk li- nraln witli his neighbors, seek ' out th- thrcids of a lof law pra-Mb or ' ok.i out a ;idlhood on tM rbnunuifiun ' rirc-o-if in tb" rlinnifort of tlnv hotels. ! trve'llrirf In i;p;-r t.erthB Instead of pri-'-ite fii-T and mtlns on lunrh stools in : u-Mll s'ntions In'-.td of In the sumptuous y-irro-.nilT s:s o' pre s.!ep t tnl luxury. 1 he--o ,-.-r po'-.frlPg Ptor! ens K!ru" on he ntt.T bnnd. fonm to look on thr'r s-ih!"rts nr fovs A r''rd r-opub-r In Atintrin snd Germnnv showed tne oil e-ntror. Krnj5 JoHprj. s;tted at n table wl'li a little g i m t - k r;i nd n et he w on b:s knee. f-i,ing th rhild to niove niiiHi,rv toy "oplif-s on tb boards; nnd ' nnfort'ir.etfdv tni" t hn t hr snme; vounK' It -niuml'1 th svstmn of t lie r.n- j t r .i 1 e mpirf-s be p r t i-1 iia i 1 will be n U ; to rno-.e hi-. sub--ts n.-nn the :ni. of puropw jissr ns b.- did toe toy soldiers nu b's Kie.tt-rr.UMluil' Ifibb. Hn ulll or- ;ib to tr.-ir triin from thMr work mul II ,-r h-'turs. to sel,f frif.it --lmt 11. f.e-r.t ' li"nii' ' s. v i en t In v'f ntur- - - it'.ui V ho Ui;iv ht- on t!ie vo of di'.. ovrrJfS rr rf ,f if d"A ' i ued i o rid t h a liurnnn rum ( of the e1'' ui of ciiif t or I b" whit , t :r . ;nd end them to dwuh In the ! marfhes of Macedonia or the fastnesses of t lie Carpathians bevai:se son.t l!mv kin; or emperor has deceived or cutwit- 1 ted him. In a R-.onnrrhy nil su V-JeciB ?e'n t lie , rerscn.il r ro;erty of the monarch and all I expressions of r "lVor r0'orr.e r-rv.-.i I. 1 Th:s exit-nds throihouL all countries ruk--d by royalty. j Imperial Edict to Mourn. WhiTt. for exHinrle. a rr.f:rber of the royal family du-s. even tn another r.-nin-try. U m;;s,T b lament - 1 ty tht co irt cirv'i- of oihr lands. licrc is the official offi-cial notice sf-nl to all dh.'Iorr.at.s and mem- hers of the ln.;-"i :n! i.;.-ni:;n coi:rt on ' the o-r.-aslon of the death of the quten ot w.i-n: he court (ros Into mnunilnc ti-day for her majesty. Uie Q.uen Mother nf wr if ii, for t )T-e works up t and in ci i : r.c t he I'M h of Janu.i i yf U'M. "I-'Iiesj wear M n k fdU .;r.,.s for the first fourteen day. ii:d ; di:.k- January 2, with h;H'-k hair 4ri;a;in-n!s. lii.n'k tit.Vfs. t lii. k fans and blak elry : th,- .it eifli day with white h.alr ornanu-nts, grftv cloves, white faun and pear!?. "Gentlemen war the whole time Mbc' rand on th left Fleeve. Civilians w. ar the embroK.ei ..-d coat, dnr.nif the first fourteen da s, in'h:din; Janiciry 12. 'n Ov"'-aslons of 'grand a la.' h!.u k burks and swords with bin- k sheaths, tnjrinn the last eiwht riavsbncht bin kb s; on iM-rnaUms of 'half ala.' K"ld or silver emb; 'oUiere 1 trouf-rs of t lie color -of t he uniform and in tiie one as in the other cftso sold or HiiviT embiosdered hat wfth white plume ; with t he 'small' unifoi m. how.-ver. biack trousers tor knee breerhes, blA'-k silk ntufkiiiKs. s:nes with blrk how.i nnd th 'three-cornered' hat with hla'-k plmne t. I Nrmc the first fourteen dnys pontlerren wear bl.trk woolen ve-ts nnd bla.-k cloves. In the last eiht da 5 lla.-k siik vi-t and iray u loves. "llerlin. le.-ernb.T S' 1013. "The Cber-Coremonli'iirneister." (;kk a. i:ri,i:itt'Ri. "By command of his maic-.iv the emperor, em-peror, nu m r nine will be suspend d for New Year's day and the 17th and 1Mb of January." Royalties a Close Corporation. So It 9 apparent what a rlose corporation corpora-tion all the rcval families n nke and the people a i o slmplv vir wed as the perforin per-forin propfrtv of the "rullnt princes. In his telegram " whleh the German kaiser wrote to President Wilson on A'lqiMt l' observe bow U is perieonnl. The kaiser savn; "1 telrraphed b:s ma!"sty. the klmr. personally, but that if, d.. 1 won I J ernplnv mv ir'X'Ps elsewhere. 1 1 f p mai- n't v answered t bat be t hour lit my offer " He fpeaks of the kincr of th Reichms "bavin r-u'-o.! my petition for n free pansace. " H" rcfer.s tn "my ami awador In lyrdnn." Thn telrcrn m shows, on the other hand another thltiR the treat abihtv of the kaiser. Tndnubt'Hilv he knew why I war. rcmlnsr to nee him tn present the offer of mediation of 1'resMent Wilson but from our conversation I do not think that he bad even in bis mi: id prepared the answer, whirh set-4 forth his position posi-tion In enteiluK the war. He Bald, "Walt n moment: T shall write omethinc for the president " Then laW-inc laW-inc the telegraph blanks Ivlns on the twh'e be wrote rupldly and- fluently, t xvn a menace In a forei(;n laneunk'e. and whateer we mnv think of Its eon-tent, eon-tent, nt nny rate It Is clear, concise, con- , seentlve and forceful. I The personnl touch runs through that ext.aor.Pnarv .rle of ele(;ranis In the f a mm ii "Wlllv-Nieky" forrespondrnco t between Katcr Wilhelm and the last of, the Iinmnnoffs. discovered in I'etrocrad bv Herman Ileriu-teln. Tli.v reveal, moreover. 1 the unrpapfdnic craft of the German kf-i-er. He was the tnas'ei Hrbmner. TnuMnir for r;(rmnn trade, al-wavn al-wavn f'r bis rtdvnntnue. he f wist a the pn.ir hslf wit nf the winter palaee. like n piece of iitrr-'. Kmperor William ws not f-ntlsfled with a quiet hfo as patron ot trd-v As hn stuihed th porirnits of bin iiticr-itors hn f.)t that they r'7.ed nt Mm with reproachful re-proachful even; demanded that be add, n n t h" v d'd, tn the dnnui i ns of the Hn-ben7!"llertiH. Hn-ben7!"llertiH. that he return from war In triumph nt the b'-nd nf a vlcfor'ou" nrmv with the keys of fnllen cities borne beforo him in conquerlnfr ninreh rme-tenf h of Frrderl.-U tho Great' pen pin fell, but In the poverl y-st rlcken peasant woman of Prussia, Lamenting ! her husband and dead eons, did it mat- 1 te r that the rich province of Silesia had , been added to tiie Prussian crown? What I was it to that broken mother whether I the Pile si an peasants acknowledge J the 1 Prussian kir.ir or the Austrian empress? j TV-spots both. And what countless surfs j fell in the wars between the khifj and the empress ! I once asked Von Jagow hen this war would end. He an- I s we red. "An old history of the Seven Yens' war concludes. 'The kir.c and em- I press were tired of war, so they made I peice. That iu how th.s war will end." j Will it? W:;i it end In a draw, to be re- I stirred when some kir.rr feels the war i fever on him ? No. this war must end despots, and with them all wars! Why Bulgaria Went In. Tt Is all s:;rh a . matter of personal whim. Kor instance, before Bulgaria entered en-tered the war on the side of G erm any even the best -informed Germans predicted pre-dicted that Kmc Ferdinand would never join Germ. a ny because of an Incident which occurred in the royal palace of Berlin. This Is how it happened: It is t ne custom for one monarch to nmkfl his pals in the king business officers offi-cers of his army or navy. Thus the German Ger-man emperor is general field marshal and proprietor of the Thirty-fourth "William the First, German Kmperor and Klmr of Prussia" iP.tantry and Seventh "W 1 1 If am the Second. Germa n Emperor and Kmc of Prussia" hussars, in the A us tro-Hungarian army; cef of the "King Frederick William 1 1 P St. Petersburg Peters-burg Lift Guards." the Kich'y-fifth "VI-burg" "VI-burg" Infantry and the Thirteenth "Narva" "Nar-va" hussars, and the "Grodno" hussars of the iruard, in the Russian army; field mars; '.a I in the Hritish a run-, honorary admiral of the Tlritish fleet, and co'.o-nel-in-chief First dragoons; general in the Swedish army and flag admiral of the fleet ; honora rv adm !ral of the Norwegian Nor-wegian and Panish fleet ; admiral of the HusMan tleet ; bonora ry cajtaln- gen oral In the Spanish army and honorary colonel of t he FJevcnth "Numancia" Spanish dra coons, and honorarv admiral of the G-ek fleet. T:-.e kirtr of Pulcaria was chief of the Fourth Thurinain infantry retime nt No. 7.'. In the Prussian army. As per custom cus-tom on a visit t' Berlin he donned hie uniform of the Thuri mrian infant ry. He had put on little weight, and military unmentlcnables, be it known, are notoriously notori-ously ticht. So as he leaned far out of the pa iai'e window to admire the passing pass-ing ti' ops. he presented a mark so tempting tempt-ing that the empomr in Jovial mood. as I :n pel led to ad minister a rebounding spank on the sacrei seat of the czar of all the Balkans. Ins;ead of takir.g the s'.ap in the same jovial spirit in 'which it was piven, the Czar Kcn'.ir.and. a litt'.e jealous of the sell-assur.iei tite of czar, became furlO'isly ar.i::y so ant::v t .at even the old diplomats of t:-.e Meitemcli school bel.cved for a time that he n'-ei wcuid forgive the whack ar.d even m.:s--ht refuse to join Gerrrair.y. K:t Czar Ferii:-nand. Ferii:-nand. believir;g in the military poer of Germany, cast his nlrtaiy v.ar-worn people peo-ple in t lie war aair.M the ahies. much to the recret of many Bulba:ian stitesmen. who. hainic been educated at Rot'ert co'.-!eee, co'.-!eee, near Constant:!. ople. a co'.ite founded ani maintained by Arr.erirars. and haiusr imhihea sorr.ewh-: of t're American spirit there, were net over-pleased over-pleased to think of themselves as eventually even-tually arrayed acainst the L'nitea States 01 America. But there is no monarch in all KuroT'e who Is mere wily titan Czar Kerd-.r i:-.d. At a irreat fcr.st in Kulta : 1.1. at w hich. Ihnperor W illiam was rrcscru. Czar Ferdinand Fer-dinand toasted the emperor in Latin and ailuaed to him as "Miles Glor om:s. " w hi. h alt present tck to mean "bUm ton so.d'.er." but the exact Latin meamic of "K!or:ou- is "hoastfut." a meaning well known in Berlin, where, at t'-.e "L:t-tle "L:t-tle tiieater," iu a series of plavs cf all ages, the "Miles Giortosus" oi Plautus hed just been presentc 1 a boastful conceited con-ceited soldier, the "M ies G 'onosus " t'-e chief character of the rome.iv.' Nothing illustrates more vividlv the belief be-lief of the royal tamily of the centra! empires em-pires in their God-given riiht to ru e t' e plain pecple than those (cw words of M.aximihau written hclore ivls ill-ia'ei expedition to Mexico" S-ccakinc ot't'e raiace at Caserta. near N.ips. h,. wrote-"The wrote-"The n-.onu:'-ei tal s:ai.-wav is wort "v o-ma.iosty. o-ma.iosty. What can be 'finer f ar to imagine the sovereign p aced at its h'ea ryspiencent in th.e midst of tl-.ee i-a-b'c pi.iats to tar.ey tins monarc'i. like 'a gpi, graciously permittm, t:-e arproach of human beings. The crowd surges up. want. The king veuchsaUs a cracioii glance, but from a very lofty elevation Ad pow er, ul. imperial, he makes 0,,e te-toward te-toward them with a snttlo o- ir'm"'-ccn.iescens.c,,. ir'm"'-ccn.iescens.c,,. Con'.d Charles V. co.ild ,a l.ievesa apicar t.ms at the head of this ascenc.mg stair, wl-.o would net bow- their heads before that mai0,;' tiod-gnen power?" What was the condition of C 0 0.-0-0-under Mana Theres,. whom V- xln , spoKe 01 as- possessing a power C- -. cording to him. was so G0 I-.A 0- ,'' , o one cuuld fail to bow the V i i - ',' uia.;est,e presence? The re-s-.-f' her rule, we.e practically slaVe's could not leave the lord's iancV o,- ,h' , n.iarry witlou, his pern-jssio nor roVv ess. on other than that of taN.,r 1 ,.. oiner words, the clulcrcn of m' -must remain slaves. pf L 0 5 :v" Poor Maximilian: He wis 1 the late Kmperor L, .""j,,",' r member of that kaiserb.ii.d .;!'"' n H-m which, wl-ile Amow, b Vv, o oomestic dlfilcult-es beiwee,, 1" " ' and south, so,,,,,, lo xvr'e. ' Um V;,vr. 1 .er l,beny. 1 wondor ,f the Mev I av 'oi gotten the Incident a-I , . , plications. a--d us tin- Hut one-nmn power ;,!,,.. . end. No man. kin.- o - r, ' 1 , ' !!' ever he mav himself ' ' ' w":,;- rd Powerfn, and nil know i'",.',' wisdom in counsel. Too nnd, o, favor, te dish in:,,- 1..,,, ,! and that to bad ' !,,.", 'r ' , 1 1 S 1 at a citlo.U ,. N-a 1 J """" fore 1ST0. was ufr.-ri,. I Swt ''0-bsease ''0-bsease and ,0 "pow 1 si' .,:'-!, nd-d by the b ,,,," ;'it, '''''' ' N" cave to the "o, ,,, 1 " r" I'o,., he slon boon,,. ;", "4i T,TV of way ,0 her room lav '0,- u , Tl;" door." Colonel storTel ,!,'-'" - "i tary attache to thl' p ench, :,:,. wrote. eonfllent,llv rflw "f. to th. ,.,,. ,,';'; or tei-o,. mens. mll:,,,v sur,nth r 1" r of her re,,.,;,,,,,, fcr 'n",,,' , moM of ()., ?, ) nmiMlate wa, 1!; . found unotHMW In 1 o ,w .2 " Z" . T ' ' ",' " :1 '; sick and fallen en,e,v, !"c ' or. after all. l,.,We,rr dlvi,, , ,.,,. emperor or kaiser i,,v consider 1'., -, no accident f l-ivtl, ,hnill,, " ' r, -"d the bands of .,:;.V "'o tContlnned l,-.,v,vw, |