Show Wilhelm the Wilhelm Vcr Menace r horn No One Recognized v r A of the and d last sundae Su aa and ana excited c d s such ch h intense interest close up Taken vie us of f the German r T 7 ic It began it in this f from flom an forgotten almost book The Private Lives LAve of wiser r Wilhelm II 11 and his Ilis Consort Fred De Fond Fal f Coos Cos New York Jork 3 ork which teas compiled from the letters an and aries alien of 01 t Countess Counter von n who i Empress n Augusta Victoria then lonn Iona lire lire-d in 11 household coW eM as uniting Lady la lain in iti- iti ny to e creator of o Hohen and and the are world as relentlessly Icar li like 1 lik e-lik tl-a tl e as a W before retouching They JI snow show war as 7 lie he I was a d during the r first two decades of his reign when Europe was 1008 whether to take him f V 5 as a genius r a nuisance or a iv and e iv n overlooked i i the he fact that Kit such Ith a wan titan in if I such Ritch a a. ace Bce as his llis sacs 1008 pot a men ee e to the whole r orV modern nl world these memoirs and dc decide de for yourself whether illian iAru n is to be any less Jess dangerous UR in the future I r t I Ia a I Is s y tr I i V I t r rt M ar 1 F atS R 6 I N 1 Y Y STIr Y G dt t 1 r r rI I Q V x wf e A k tS E u t e t J 1 j I i I x r ry I I I I y 1 j jI jI 9 v dr w t k e Ak t e t t tf a f I I I I As a Roman Emperor Painted Emperor Painted by Prof Eberlein at the Kaisers Kaiser's Orders 1 1 rt HAT in the feverish hunt after i amusements and and excitement to i milt mily mil lift life at the German Court of the contemporary press makes m much ch is a delusion goes without aying dying though to a accuse use William Wllliam of his this Frau in the ordinary ease ense ot of the word would perhaps be he 61 just for he keeps uP up appearances a 1 aa a general way and I have reasons o believe o that he loves his Wife Yet a a. knack of forgetting her very e whenever he thinks ho is isK t tetter letter lter K off oft alone which I 1 know is exl exi ex- ex l i melY remely painful to Augusta Victoria And d the worst of it is this fixed ea of at complete sufficiency self-sufficiency grows I t ong r and stronger with him as ds s egotism egotism develops into egomania ith all that however ho is not an kind husband albeit alheit his actions n imply gr great t lack of at conjugal gentleness and generosity It Jt is relY his boundless love of self that aims Kims asce ascendancy y in h his s every ae ac- ac- ac i ton Ion on As s in ti Chose hose awful days of San Remo hen fien he claimed as representative rt d the e old Emperor precedence over is afflicted mother on the way to the church he uses his present position as a club to ate at all aU directly depending depe upon him himo J i p o a state of quiet tout but utter subi sub- sub And this has been gog gog goon go- go g g on so long that the Empress ODer on OD er part pan t ha has nas nas s beco become me us used ed t to 10 to o it H and ana er part pan t ha has nas nas s beco become me us used ed t to 10 to o it H and ana I o QuId iId think it queer indeed if it the thee theto I Ij j t to e of affairs were changed i William stays at home when there there ther I Io 4 no o one to visit and I may add that t ng victims of ct imperial travel- travel ia grow rov ow scarcer year by year ow well I remember the Kaisers Kaiser's turn rn from his first Northland trip lIthe the summer of ot 1888 when he spoke Jost t exultingly of at his visit to Copen- Copen n x gen and how he be had succeeded in inKing ini i l King Christian and Queen I rul e. e They can be of great service J i to me with Alexander the Czar he said and I promised to stay with them a couple of days every year year on my wy way to or from Northland i All AIl ot or us around the royal board I looked at one another in astonishment for the poverty of the reigning family of Denmark is notorious Besides it was an open secret that the Czar when wen visiting his law in paid for his accommodation like the millionaire millionaire millionaire million million- aire he was for his own entertainment entertainment entertainment entertain entertain- ment and for that of all his relatives relative making Denmark their summer home h m mand and rejoicing in the annual f family ily reunions re re- re- re unions The Kaiser knew that Was he then determined to become one atthe of at the Czars Czar's pensioners or did ho not care whether he embarrassed his venerable venerable ven ven- erable brother of Denmark half of whose inheritance Prussia swallowed up Reference to the minutes of the journey journey journey jour jour- ney reveal the fact th that t at the state dinner at Castle Castlo the Kaiser answering King Christians Christian's toast literally said I submit t my iny sincerest thanks for Your Majesty's welcome and hops hope that I may be permitted permitted per per- mUted to visit Your Majesty frequently in the same way It was the last last toast spoken that evening and md the members of ot the Kaisers Kaiser's suite do not know whether er or not the implied question was honored honored hon bon ored by an invitation in private Certain Certain Certain tain it is though that His Majesty l had no further occasion to eat cat the Danes out of house and home for tor although the Court of Copenhagen was annually advised of or His Majesty's contemplated contemplated con con- northern trips it always I i I acknowledged the notification in such cold terms that any wish to follow it up by a promise to call and take pot-luck pot was forestalled I have it on the authority of or a high official in the Russian Embassy during during during dur dur- ing Count administration that Czar Alexander refused to be disturbed disturbed dis dis- in his retreat t Iby by y that young man When Whon the news reached Berlin Derlin in inthe inthe the middle of or November 1889 that Dom flout Pedro of ot Brazil Drazil has been de do- posed Duce Gunt Gunther cr of Schleswig ig circulated circulated circulated cir cir- cir cir- I I a story to the effect that the Kaiser received the information with willi the remark Too bad I had just thought of paying him a visit In a preceding paragraph I referred re re- referred to the easy complaisance with v I which the aristocracy submits to the Kaisers Kaiser's wishes William seems t to have cowed the flower of German nobility into into a condition that thal once prevailed prevailed prevailed pre pre- in France when the dignitaries of the crown fought among themselves as to who should have tho honor to hand His Majesty a clean shirt or remove his dirty boots Let me give one Olle instance instants for many On Oct 24 1894 the Kais Kaisers Kaiser's rs r's SOD Sons Song to was performed at a matinee In the Royal Opera House which the Prince and Princess of Wied attended together with their Majesties The I Prince is a man in the fifties s belongs to one of the proudest families In Europe is the brother of the Queen of Roumania and an uncle of af tho tM Queen of Holland Yet every time the big audience waxed enthusiasm over His Majesty's l alleged masterpiece this old man with silvery hair bail rose respectfully from his seat and bowed low before his nephew keeping up the farce all through the performance without William in any way vay restraining restrain restrain- ing him affords an interesting illustration Illustration illustration illus illus- of Williams William's mode of work He has talents undoubtedly but they are creative only in giving work to others the product passing for lor his own in the end As I Herren Ton ron Moltke and Philip Eulenburg arc are the thereal thereal thereal real authors of his Song to so Prof in Cassel composes composes composes com com- poses his bis cartoons though being credited only with their technical exI ex ex- I The late Court Chaplain in Frommel used sed to tho the imperial imperial sermons delivered with so much unction unction unction unc unc- tion on the desk of or the yacht Hohen- Hohen zollern Officers of or the military household prepare Williams William's lectures and the artist Karl paints his landscapes and marine marina views In weighing hin the plentiful boasts of ot V t nt t w wN N p JS d' d w o r 1 JI It i Y f r 4 L t 2 k 5 4 M r iA I. I Lt t 1 yAt f 1 r y f i 1 Me rr rrt M t I i P 4 L R s S t Ft l t 3 4 y Y t f t I t tsi S 'S aY ry l si Ft t AY yet e rA o f Vi to R. R etry r r f M i v 1 f t Fr t art t w tV d t t 4 a L aV t r 4 r r 7 imperial achievements ts upon the scale scab of olf sober judgment there is a point Joint to be noticed Williams William's d daily il pro pro- II gr gramme I I need but quo quote quote- to certain certain notes from my diary covering the period from August 1893 to td August 1891 1894 Of the three hundred and sixty-five sixty days the Kaiser spent spent away from his official residence one one hundred and ninety-nine ninety devoting himself to the I army on twenty-seven twenty days and emI employing employing em em- sixteen days in duties of af rep rep- I One hundred and fiftysix fiftysix fifty fifty- six days were consumed by toy hunting trips sea journeys and nd visiting Now as to the theone one hundred and six sixty days when His Majesty l was officially at home Seventy-seven Seventy of them were pleasantly passed in shootIng shootIng shooting shoot- shoot Ing boating yachting or other outdoor outdoor outdoor out out- door exercise in In Inthe the neighborhood of Potsdam and Berlin while of the re remaining remaining remaining re- re nine eighty-nine days each ach ty-four ty hours were diversified by banquets corsos torsos concerts theatrical performances by receptions reviews or speech speeds The of miles covered by the Kaiser either in I his saloon-carriage saloon or on board bo rd ship I amo amounted to three quarters s of at the earths earth's circumference ference A person who relying merely upon his musical ear and without having had bad instruction in singing or being able to play an instrument gets up in a 1 stately gathering to sing a ballad in difficult passa passages es is the of self And th that thai t is exactly what William dId aT ar Castle Schlitz in May 1894 1894 with Count Goertz as accompanist the boldness of tho exploit exploit before ah an n audience dis distinguished for artistic tic tic- ac accomplishments c being baing none the less pronounced on ac account of the fact that the air was was alleged tIles ed t to be 18 his own composition Both Majesties as mentioned before being indifferent talkers dinner after-dinner entertainments at the Prussian Court are not of the very lofty so sort t i indeed deed I am not stretching tho the point when I r say that ennui begins to hang heavily upon all present In the tho gilded gilder salons as soon as the coffee is brought In ln unless the Kaiser Kaisel begins to lecture or chooses to bring bling out his stock stock-of of humorous remarks In that event it becomes every everyone's ones one's duty to appear at least interested and edified Moderation the virtue of of which princes stand in such urgent need is never found in passionate hunters who experience an irresistible impulse to pursue the game and take tak-e cruel and bloody bloody delight in killing This passage in Her Majesty's 1 copy of Frederick the Greats Great's vem velli which the young Princes arc are allowed to handle freely is hidden the margin of tho the page containing it being pasted to the next as if by acci acci- dent The boys shall not learn of the judgment passed by Iby an ancestor on this fathers father's terrible frenzy for blood But this ostrich policy justified in inthe inthe inthe the childrens children's caSe case cannot o obscure the fact fact that the K Kaiser iser grows fOI fonder d r rr of r t the e gory gory gory- sp spectacles to to which imperial im- im im imperial hunts havo deg degenerated from year rear to tb year And not satisfied with with indulging v indulging his passion in the field the K Kaiser iser must needs surround himself at all times with trophies of his skill as a death- death giver give The most prominent object in his study is a long table covered cO wits with green cloth containing cont the antlers of the fhe roebucks killed by by him m in the course ourse of ot the year while while under the table and all around one od tho the floor are the bigger antlers of slain deer Aside from his hunting companions His Majesty l lias few friends and no Intimates And among among men of his own caste caste and and age he has had but owe one intimate te tl the Rudolph of Austria But the pl pleasant relations relations' between these young m men n based upon mutual likes and dislikes Dame came toan abrupt termination four years years before before the Archdukes Archduke's awful de death th discord arising in the summer summer of 1885 when Prince and Princess William Verc Were r spending spending s several weeks at at th their lr Imperial Im Tam- penal l Highnesses' Highnesses country place near Vienna From this outing outing l the Princess Princess Princess Prin Prin- cess returned all of a a. s sudden and post-haste post to Potsdam am while her husband husband husband hus hus- band went wont on an impromptu tour of military inspections in the provinces Princess Philip of Coburg Cohun sister of the Archduchess St e told me the reason It cannot be repeated here Speaking peaking of Williams William's associates It Itis is a pity said the Empress Fred Fred- Fred J Fred crick brick after Count Waldersee's retirement retire retire- meat ment from Berlin Jan 1 1891 that my son son wi will will have none but light lightweights light light-i weights about him all men of acumen acumen are re pushed aside Still I suppose I must not grumble as long as Count Herbert is kept out I Her Majesty you must know r re regarded Herbert Bismarck as the man man who instilled in the Emp Emperor the liking for tor persons of his his' Herbert Herberts stamp stamp flatterers flatterers shallow and insolent inso lent laze lent defamers of woman-kind woman tap tap house jesters and buffoons Scratch either of the Eulenburg Huelsen crew and tho the pickle-herring pickle will appear she sho ho wa was wont to say And years ago nothing nothing- gave her greater s satisfaction than th thes abrupt termination of Prince William g s friendship with the Austrian Crown Prince whom she abhorred as any pure woman Roman might abhor a a heartless roue After a quarrel with William WilHam th the tho Princess of Meiningen once on-ce caller herbig her herbig herbig big brother the great charlatan and his cronies s the little ones anes whom he continuously tricks out referring in-g in t to tho the fact that the Kaiser refused loans loans' to his intimates time and again But while it is true that he is personally very fisted close-fisted he makes the Government Government Gov- Gov pay his of gratitude whenever an opportunity an-opportunity offers |