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Show THE PAYSONIAN. PAYSON, UTAH of the Ilearst newspapers and I subsequently learned that he had published a book called American Rights and British Pretensions at Sea, which explained at once to rue why the kaiser was so enthusiastic about him. In the course of one of our many conversations on the subject of American munitions, the kaiser paid his respects to Mr. Schwab. Told by Mrs. Lynch From Wliat can one expect from Schwab, who is using the Bethlehem steel plant Own Experience. to work against us? he asked. He is of Austrian Jew extraction and would I was all run Providence, R. I. work against anyone for the sake of down in health, was nervous, had head-ache- s, the money thats in It! my back ached all the time. I'm following affairs in America I waa tired and had very closely, he told me on another no ambition forany-thin- g. occasion, before we entered the war. I had taken Not all of your senators are against a number of medius. Senator Stone, for instance, is cines which did me no good. One day taking a very si rung neutral stand, I I read about Lydia understand, and it is a pity there are E. Pinkhams Vegenot more like him. table Compound and Just before I left for my trip to what it had done for America in 1916, the kaiser ealled on women, so I tried me and I told him I was leaving. My nervousness it Well, Davis, be said, be careful and backache and not to run against any mines or be headaches disappeared. I gained in torpedoed. Youll probably be pulled weight and feel fine, so I can honestly into England on your way over. We recommend Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegeto any woman who ia understand all boats are taken there table Compound as I was. Mrs. Adeline B. suffering for examination. Then, with fire in Lynch, 100 Plain St., Providence, R. I. his eye, he added : If you should see Backache and nervousness are sympmy cousin the king, in England, kick toms or natures warnings, which inhim on the shins for ine! dicate a functional disturbance or an unhealthy condition which often develops into a more serious ailment. CHAPTER XI. Women in this condition should not continue to drag along without help, but The Kaiserin. profit by Mrs. Lynchs experience, and Although I had frequently seen the try this famous root and nerb remedy, kaiserin in the company of the kniser, Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Com- I did not actually meet her until she Eaund and for special advice write to G. Finkham Med.Co., Lynn, Maas. became my patient, in 1912, from which time on she visited me more or less regularly. The egg that can't be beat isnt as Without going deeply into her his- good as it might be. tory, it may be sufficient to recall that when the kaiser married her, in 1881, A grain of sand in a mans makeup she was the Princess Victoria of is wortli two in the sugar. A v V The Kaiser as I Knew Him For Fourteen Years 6C cc c $ S 8 K Dy Arthur N.Davis.D.D.S. American Dentist to the Kaiser from 1904 to 1918 V ?COIOIOXOXOIXOIOIOIOIOIOIIOIIOIOIOXIXKXIXII,XXXKXIiXXX; (Copyright, lilS, by the McClure Newtpaper Syndicate.) CHAPTER IX Continued. 6 The Turkish defeats were iiatunilly a great disappointment to him. These Montenegrins, Serbians nn'l Bulgarians are wonderful lighters, he confessed to me, shortly after the war people They're begun. and they have the strength and stamina which figiiters require. If they keep on the way theyre going theyll he in Constantinople in a week! ConWe furnished found those Turks them guns and ammunition and trained their officers, but if they wont fight we cant make them. We've done our best The defeat of the Turks lessened their vulue to the kaiser as an ally and he immediately put into effect a measure for increasing the German standing army from t 50,000 to 900,000 to restore the balance of power, they said. For this purpose a Wehrbei-trag- , or increased nrmnment tax, was levied on capital and, incidentally, I was informed that I would have to pay my share. The idea of paying a tax to upbuild the German army, which was already so powerful that it menneed the peace of the world, did not appeal to me at all and I spoke to Ambassador Gerard about it. He advised me to pay it under protest, agreeing with me that there was no reason why an American should be required to contribute to the German war budget. However, I had to pay it. The Gennnn efforts at colonization, which were more or less of a failure because the Germans refused to inhabit the German possessions, and the measures adopted to conquer the commercial markets of the world were an important part of the program of world domination which Germany planned for herself, and It is not unlikely that If she had confined her efforts along those lines she might have progressed further along her chosen path than she has advanced by buthing the world in ! might thus be precipitated and he was confident that England would keep out of it. England would be afraid to war witli us," lie iold me at the time, for fear of losing Egjpt, Judin and Ireland. Any nation would think twice before lighting my armies, but England particularly because she would not dare to risk the loss of her overseas colonies." When the kaisers ambitious project to dominate the world is considered, his consistent opposition to the universal disarmament proposals Is easily understood. Without u superior army and navy, his whole plan would have to be abandoned and his dream of world-wid- e dominion would be shattered. On one occasion when we were discussing the Carnegie pence efforts, the kniser disclosed very positively JuG. where he stood on the proposition. Look at the history of the nations of the world," he declared. The only nations which have progressed and become great have been warring nations. Those which have not been ambitious and gone to war have amounted to nothing 1" Shortly after Wilson had pointed the way to peace In Europe in one of his notes to all the belligerent powers the kaiser called to see me professionally and we discussed that latest phase of the situation. The way to pence now seems perOnly your fectly clear, I ventured. army and majestys navy stands In the way. If Germany will give up her armament, it seems, we would soon have peace. "That is out of the question for Germany, replied the kaiser, decisively. "We have no mountains like the Pyrenees to protect us. We have the open plains of Russia with their vast hordes endangering us. No; we shall remain armed to the teeth forever! BACKACHE AND & NERVOUSNESS v; C v 5 XOIOIOIOXOIOXOIOIXt asked. Why doesnt be allow them to It is fight it out among themselves. their affair, not his! Germany had many financial Interests in Mexico and looked with disfavor upon any move we made in that direction. When, however, tile war in Europe started tlie kaiser made every effort to have America mix in international affairs provided we fought on her side. When I saw him just after tlie war started lie said we ought to seize the opportunity to annex Canada and Mexico. Can't your president see tlie wonderful opportunity now for combining witli us nnd crushing England?" lie asked. Witli our fleet on one side and Americas on the other we could destroy England's sea power. This is America's great opportunity to dominate the western hemisphere, and your president must see ids chance to take Canada and Sfexico!" As the war progressed and reports readied the kaiser of our increased shipments of munitions to the allies, the kaisers impatience with Wilson more difficult to repress, and there was hardly an interview I had with him in which he did not give vent to his feelings in that connection. "My officers are becoming so incensed at Americas attitude," he told me, "it will be impossible for me to restrain them much longer." And when, on another occasion, he accused Mr. Wilson of discriminating against Germany, he made the remark: Wilsons in the hands of the Wall street group! But, perhaps, the most bitter denunciation I ever heard him make of Wilson was shortly after we entered the war. I had been summoned to the 'great army headquarters to see him, and when he entered the room he uppeared to be in a towering rage. Indeed, his condition was so apparent that the kaiserirg who Vas also presblood. ent, sought to excuse him with the CHAPTER X, I have nearly 70, WO, 000 people, explanation that he had been very the kaiser said to me on one occasion, The Kaisers Appraisal of Public Men. much upset and had been sleeping and we ahnll have to find room for No one ever speaks to the kaiser un- very poorly, and she asked me to treat him gently nnd tried to soothe him them somewhere. When we became til addressed. As that monarchs opinan empire England had her hands on ions on most subjects are fixed at the same 'line, but he told her to firmly Now we must and he will stand no room end resented her shownearly everything. opposition, any leave tlie fight to get ours. That is why I am erroneous Idea he may entertain Is ing me that she petted him. We said little while I was at work, developing our world markets, just as very apt to remain with him. Ills adyour country secured Hawaii and the visers were apt to leave him In error but when I was through and was prePhilippines as stepping stones to the rather than arouse his Ire by attempt- paring to leave, the kaiser stepped markets of the fur east, as I under- ing to set him right. Rut for the fact toward me and said : stand it. Thats why I developed the that he was very fond of asking InnuDavis, Wilson is a real scoundrel ! wonderful city of Klao-ChuMy face flushed, I suppose, at this merable questions, his store of InforIlls plans In this connection were mation might have been extremely insult to our president, and my rechanged somewhat apparently by the scanty. sult ment was so apparent that th? kaiser immediately patted me on my developments of the present war, for In (he course of my conversations he told me that when it was over the with him he frequently expressed his right shoulder and apologized. Germans would not emigrate to the views of men who were in the public I beg your pardon, Davis, be deUnited States any more. I know in a quieter voice. were clared, basis what eye. Upon they No more American emigration for founded he did not always enlighten youre an American and I beg your ns after the war, he said. My me, but ev(i when I knew them to be pardon for hurting your feelings, but erroneous I realized It was useless to if you only knew, you would realize people will settle in the Balkans develop and control that woi' iul try to change them and I did not often what a scoundrel your president is. Wilcountry. I have been down there and take issue with him. When I did his When it conies to throat-cuttinI know it is a marvelous tend for our eyes would flash fire, but I had ex- son should have bis cut first Whenever the sun shone for the purposes." pected that and I continued just the The kaisers v',fun of the pnrt he same. lcn'ser he grew so optima vc that he would take in the reconstruction of The kaiser always seemed to take failed to pay the slightest attention to stricken Europe was Indicated by a a particular Interest in American af- tlie clouds gathering on the horizon. remark he made to me in 1910 when fairs, and while he professed to de- After the Italian collapse, for instance, I was visiting 1dm at the army headspise our form of government he lie was so enthusiastic about his miliwatched very carefully the careers of tary success in that arena that he quarters at Bless. Here I am nearly sixty years of our public men. It is not unlikely that failed to realize that America was age," he soliloquized, "and must re- lie Imagined, ns I huve pointed out slowly but surely forging the thunderbuild the whole of Europe!" elsewhere in these pages, that he could bolt that was to strike him down. Now how foolish It was for your Although the kaiser so freely admit- - Influence our elections by swinging ted his designs on the world at lnrge, the Germnn-Amerlea- n vote in favor of president to bring your country into i!S was Americans will impatient of any expansion the cnndidnte he preferred, nnd he this war! lie said. (in the part of other nations, lie often made a study of our public men in now see, when it is too late, vlint fools proorder that he might know which of ihey made of themselves when hey spoke of Englands grabbing pensity and viewed with suspicion our (hem Would lie more desirable In office i looted a professor for president. Now America must pay the bills! In this annexation of llawull nnd the Philip- from the German viewpoint. When Mr. Wilson was nominated for i'i mark and others of the same import pines and our development of Cuba war. lie the presidency, the kaiser was quite he kaiser's expectation of being able ufter the Spanish-Americaprofessed to see in our new policy n positive that he wouldnt be elected. to exact an enormous Indemnity as rl of lii.s peace terms was clearly in- striving after world power which was I'orhnps the fact that Mr. Roosevelt, Inconsistent with the principles upon for whom at that time the kaiser had .ieated, and he felt that America, havwhich our government was founded. the greatest admiration, was, one of ing profited the most and suffered tlie least of any of the belligerent jut, vers, He objected to our interference in Mr. Wilson's rivals, blinded him to tli Mexican affairs, although, as was dis- strength which elected Wilson, hut the v ouhl he in the best position to fill his closed by the Zimmerman note to Von fact that the latter lmd had little ex- depleied coffers. The last time I saw the kaiser when EcKhardt, he 'as making every effort perience in international polities unto have Mexico interfere with ours. fitted him, lu the kaisers estimation, he mentioned tlie president was in the What right has President Wilson for the important office for which he tall of 1917, shortly after Wilson had to attempt to dictate the internal poli- was running. replied to the pope's peace proposal. cies of Mexico?" he asked. Why not Wilson Is an idealist, nnd an IdealI saw the kniser shortly after Mr. let them light their battles out alone? ist can accomplish nothing was his Wilsons election. He went into tlie war that I am very much surprised at the comment. Alluding to Americas threat to on- - j ter the present war, he asked: "What result of your election," he declared. lie might have a seat at the peace table right has America to Insist upon the I didnt think your people would be out he will never get it. I shall preMonroe doctrine of America and then so foolish ns to elect a college profes- vent it! mix in European uffairs? Let her rec- sor as president. What does a profesOf Wilson's peace notes, which were ognize also a Monroe doctrine of Eu- sor know about International politics issued before America went into the rope nnd keep her hands out of this nnd diplomatic affairs?" war, tlie kaiser remarked: I think I coidlict !" I havent tlie slightest doubt that am right, the others think theyre rigid. There Is no doubt that the kalnr the kaiser pictured our president us America has all tlie money. If Wilson Imagined that the great a; ey and may t n counterpart of the typical (L rnmn really .wants peace, lot Him pay th lie had built up would enable him t hills and take care of the indemnities jirfossnr a plodding, impractical, out bis auditions piogram w tn- - ambitious bookworm with no hope or and tlie war will he over! It Is very out lft clive resistance. desire of ever earning more than simple. The one power lie most feared btu a yinr and na yenrnir for public uc-fTluie was no man of modern time; which he professed tin utmost con- - claim, n recluse, absent-mindennd v. horn the kaiser seemed to admire so who spent the midnight ii uch, before tlie war, as cxlresid i feutpt was England, lie hud an :'ca fiat England would never dare to nil poring over musty volumes nnd Roosevelt. The kaiser was convinced measure swords with Germany and pnid little or no attention to what was that Roosevelt had prevented war with tout he could provoke a war when the going m around him! Such a man. Japan by sending the American fleet opportune moment came without much the kniser undoubtedly beliexed. the around the world nnd showing that it United States bail elected ns Its chief 'as fit. This brilliant stroke of ns tlie kaiser termed it, was executive and his surprise was more or less natural in those circumstances. a topic tiut lie referred to on several When Wilson s uit e.lHk) men to Vera occasions. It was a forceful demonstration that was very much after his own Urn z the kaiser felt that lie had exheart. ceeded his rights. What I admire about Mr. Roosevelt Wli.;t rigid has Wilson to mix in tlie interna! nITairs o' Mii.ico? he most. lie said, is the fact that be lias ! HOW TO AVOID vV be-cni- g u-- n un-enr- j d j st.ite-InaU'-h'- the greatest moral courage of any man I ever knew! Tlie fact that Mr. Roosevelt lmd given Germanys fleet twenty-fou- r hours notice to steam from Venezuelan wafers didnt serve to lessen the kaisers admiration for Km. I heard him shower praise on Roosevelt many times and I haven't tlie slightest doubt that he was quite sincere. After the war started, when Roose- velt showed very plainly that no mat-- j ter what nice things the kaiser might have thought and said of him, he certainly didnt reciprocate the feeling, tlie kaiser was very much disappointed. I'm terribly disappointed in Mr. After the Roosevelt, he declared. way my wife and I entertained him when he was here as our guest, fur him to take the stand he has is very ungentlemauly. I gave a grea review for him the greatest honor I could bestow upon him and a thing which had never been done for a private citizen. He was not president then, you kno.v. I used to admire him very much, bat now I think the man has gone crazy and lost his mind. I never thought he would turn against us like that! He did not seem to realize that a patriotic American owed allegiance to his own country. In 1916 I asked him whether he had heard that Mr. Ford was on his way over from America in a chartered ship with a delegation. he inquired. Who, Ieace-Ford- ? I told the kaiser what I had read of the Ford expedition. IIow can your country allow a man like that to do this thing a man who lias played no part in the politics of his own country and is entirely ignorant of international affairs a man who, I understand, was formerly In the bicycle business and knows very little outside of business matters? I havent the slightest doubt Mr. Ford Is a great business man, the kaiser went on, and I am sure he means nil right, but what a mistake it Is to allow a man so ignorant of world affairs to do a ridiculous thing like tKs I told the kaiser that it had been suggested in some of the American papers that If Ford really wanted to end the war, all he had to do was to pay Germany $100,000,000 and buy Belgium back. One hundred million dollars ! the kaiser repeated, and then after a moments reflection, as though h6 had been turning over some figures In his mind, No, Davis, It will cost much more than that to get Belgium back ! It occurred to me that if the kaiser really meant what he said on that occasion. all his talk about peace without annexation was obviously a myth and that the only hope of Belgiums redemption lay in the military defeat of Prussia. Subsequent developments amply confirmed that view. In the winter of 1916, we were talking of the sentiment In America and the conversation turned to Von Berns-torf- f. ' Schleswlg-IIolstein-Sonderbur- -- Augus-tenberg. She was a year older than Cuticura Beauty Doctor her husband. She commanded no par- For cleansing and beautifying the ticular wealth and was not as prepos- skin, hands and hair, Cuticura Soap sessing then, perhaps, as she became and Ointment afford the most effective when, some years later, her hair preparations. For free samples adturned white and softened her rather dress, Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston. At large features and too highly colored druggists nnd by mail. Soap 25, Ointcomplexion. ment 25 and 50. Adv. My first introduction to the kaiserin occurred one Sunday afternoon at the Golden Spoon Handicap. Berlin palace, where I had been inI presume this great artist once structed to be at three o'clock. I was starved in a ball bedroom, as most' conducted up the stairway and, on the ram of genius are supposed to do early first landing I met the kaiser, who was in their careers? No. waiting for me. Strange to- say, ids people Well, Davis, he said, I hope I were wealthy. I think be deserves all havent spoiled your Sunday afternoon, the more credit for his achievements. but I assure you It was not for myself Why so? He won fame without ever missing I sent for you, but for my wife. She has been suffering for several days and a meal or having his trunk confiscated Birwe are going to have a state ball on by a landlady. Tuesday and I want you to get her in mingham order, so that she can attend It, as It is one of the most important social funcRevived His Interest. Thomas Atkins was fractious. His tions of the season. Follow me, and I will take you to my wife and introduce medicine was nasty, and he refused to take it. Two or three V. A. D.s stood you. round him, urging him to be good. Come," said one, drink this and Doctor Davia gives a most inyou will get well ! timate view of the German And rosy, too! chimed in a seccrown prince in the next installond. ment of his remarkable revelaAtkins brightened. He wasn't partions. He tells how the future ticularly keen on getting well, but to ruler of Germany displayed the get rosy was quite another matter. cowardice Which of you Is Rosy? he asked, greatest physical when he was receiving treatment surveying the pretty group. and how he seemed utterly unable to grasp the serious aspects Kindred Spirits. of the war. Doctor Davis charA society performer volacter sketches of the crown unteered to entrain a roomful of the prim: and the kaisers other (olne.v Hatch lunatic asylum and sons form one of the most intermade up a very successful little monoesting parts of his narrative. logue show, entirely humorous. The audience in the main gave symptoms of being slightly bored, but one high(TO BE CONTINUED.) ly intelligent maniac saw the whole PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC thing in proper light nnd, clapping the talented actor on the shoulder, Islands That Have All said: Glad you come, old fellow. You of the Riches Man Has Any I will get along fine. The other ard Need to Covet clippies here are so dashed dignified. Is What I a man is mad he n Tlie Trobriand group of neednt say on if Lon-(io- n about it! airs put islands is a cluster of f Opinion. that stud the emerald Pacific a gems hundred-odmiles northeast of Samara! (Papua). They are the real thing in coral romance. The natives are of tlie Melanesian type, happy people with a fondness (especially on the part of ,the star-eyemaidens) Europeans, who have exploited rich pearl fishery. They are advanced in arts and crufts, and produce a tremendous quantity of carved weapons and ornaments, which are. eagerly bought by tourists from curio-dealein Sydney and Melbourne. Before competition set in the islanders did. not get much for their pearls. Gems worth $50 and $73 were freely bought for ns ninny pence. The group is tint, but is richly clothed in jungle, nnd produces vast quantities of excelsuppose you moke lent yams, which are traded. Good old-ti- me climate, gorgeous scenery, blue seas like billowing , silk, diamond-dustebenches and splendid fishing and shooting! - hard-hearte- d Age-ITeral- well-know- n Von Bernstorfl! has been doing very good work In your country, the kaiser commented. Well, your majesty, I replied, it Is said in America that if he had not been such a clover diplomat he would long ago have been compelled to leave. From all I hear, the kniser said, he hasn't hud a very easy time of it. The American press us a whole has albeen conspicuously though I understand that one of your newspaper publishers has been friendly to us. Mr. Ilearst, for instance, has helped our cause very much in your country, lie has been telling the truth about affairs, which is more than most of the other papers have been doing! Just before the king of Greece abdicated, the kaiser referred to the attitude of tlie American press again. The way the American newspapers and the press of tlie allied countries generally are presenting the Grecian situation to the world is absolutely false and a disgrace ! he declared, bitThey are entirely misrepreterly. senting tlie facts. Mr. Ilearst is tlie only one, as far as I can find, who huf revealed the real conditions and told tlie truth about them. My, I wonder wliat tlie people have to say now that Mr. Ilearst has finally exposed the whole thing! It was only a short time afterwards that the king abdicated nnd revealed unmistakably which Worsted. papers had correctly interpreted the I noticed that you engaged in earntrend of Grecian polities. The kaiser spoke to me many times est conversation with that conductor-e- l te. about tlie writings of William Bayard We were just having a little arguIlale. Have you been following Ilales ar- ment about the proper pronunciation he inquired. ticles? What he is of the street I live on said Professor writing about tlie war is excellent and Diggs. She insisted that it should be is really. the best material published. called Wellungton, but having some II voices my sentiments exactly, and knowledge of tlie man who defeated it would lie well for every AmerKun (o Npo!eon at Waterloo, I contended it should be Wellington. follow tliis writors work. Will which is it to be henceforth I had to confess that there was one American at least who was not only Wellungton or Wellington? Ahem not following Dale's writings, but bad Wellungton' Birmingham lower beard of the writer, and the humor seemed to be somewhat maGets the Money. ples) sod. He referred lo Hale several times Id like to write a story Id get subsequently nnd in the meanwhile I paid for. bad ascertained that the man in ques-- . . oli. 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