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Show THE PAYSONIAN, PAYSON, UTAH t V V c c V V V V V C S' c ! 5 0 vv iC5 C K J ; the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) of the railways for longer dis- of the richest In Germany was a Heierlin for reasons of their own and n CHAPTER II. Continued. hat nothing I could do could mend the tances. When, however, the reichstag brew coal magnate named Fried-landeTlie kaiser ennobled him and "And then," the kaiser went on, situation, when, early in January, I re- passed a law compelling royalty to pay Anwhen their great offensive was within ceived the joyous tidings that I could for their railroad travel, the kaiser made him Von Frledlander-Fuid- . I left on the took to automobiles. cave January u week of being launched we broke They charged other wealthy Hebrew to whom the through their lines on a slope 3,OXt 22d, and as far as I have since been him 11,000 marks, he told me, for the aiser catered was Schwabaeh, head f the Bieichrooder bank, one of the feet high, covered with snow, where able to ascertain I was the lust Amer- use of a train on one of his shooting was more the and that reserves to strongest ican male leave their private banks in Germany, couldn't Germany jvith apparently trips, bring up they nd he, too, was ennobled, becoming limn he could stand. or new guns, and we surrounded consent of the officials. on Schwabaeh. "Autos are expensive, he declared, them ! but they dont cost me that much ! A number of other wealthy Hebrews CHAPTER III. We took practically everything they The kaiser speaks English with but in Germany were also honored by the possessed food enough to feed our The Kaisers Dual Personality. the slightest trace of a foreign accent, kaiser In another way. Although he entire army without cailiug upon our If I had come away from Germany in llis diction is perfect. He speaks was averse to visiting the homes of own supplies at all. Never before had our armies seen such an accumulation January, 1914, instead of In January, reneh, too, very fluently, and, I be- private individuals who lacked social of ammunition. I must certainly go 1918, and hud W'rttten the Impression lieve, Italian. He Is widely rend on standing, he departed from his rule in had gained of the kaiser in the ten almost all subjects and knows thd lit- their favor and visited their mansions down to see it. We cut off their northern retreat years I had known him, what a false erature of England, France and Araer-- u ostensibly to view their art collections, us well as that of Gertuany. Mark ut actually to tickle their vanity. and, ns they swung their army to the picture I would have painted of the Twain was one of his favorite Amer-u- n south, we captured 00,000 of them up man us he really is! Shortly after Leislmian became amauthors and Longfellow his choice bassador to Germany, the kaiser called to their knees in the rice fields. One It would have been a picture of a v f American poets. of the great mistakes they mude was man who in general appearance and on' me. , in carrying their civilian refugees with bearing was every inch an emperor and lie prides himself on his acquainTour new ambassadors daughter is them clogging their narrow roads and et who could exhibit all the courtesy, tance with history and has little re- the best looking young lady who has Impeding the retreat of their soldiers. ffubiilty and gentleness of the most spect for the political opinions of oth- attended our court in many a day, he n We possession of their most democratic gentleman, a nmn soft of ers whose knowledge of history is less declared. Half a dozen of my young productive regions, and their retreat eye and kindly in expression, a mnn of complete. staff officers are very anxious to marry was through territory which yielded ide reading and attainments perhaps Shortly after Carnegie had donated her. Can you tell me, Davis, whether them nothing. Just think of that re- the most versatile man in the world, a five million marks to Germany to fur- these Leishmans have money? I happened to be treating army thrown upon the already man who possessed a most alert niind, ther world-pencIf the kaiser despised the American remarkable memory and the keenest liking to the kaiser of American mil- propensity for money-makinImpoverished inhabitants of that seche was tion. Why, they'll starve to death! ihservatlon; a man who wus not gen-ou- s lionaires and the steelmaster was certainly not averse to acquiring in nature and yet was at times mentioned. Everywhere we went we found American dollars. Of course, Carnegie is a nice old their big guns abandoned. In one considerate of others ; a man of charmHe told me once that every trip the small village we came upon a gun dec- ing personality 'and amiability. It man and means well," remaiked the Iiamburg-Americaliner Amerika orated with flowers and surmounted ould have shown a man of unpar- kaiser, condescendingly, but he is to- made from New York to Hamburg with a portrait of Emperor Franz Jo- alleled egotism, a man who was Im- tally ignorant of world history. Hes in transferring $150,000 from sef. It had been put there by the Ital- patient of correction and who would ,lusl advanced us five million for American to German pockets, and We accepted it naturally, added : Were ian Inhabitants of the village to show brook no opposition. There might have mighty glad to get some at released at to we Intend continue their happiness being been in the picture a suggestion of the but, of course, your American money, I can tell last from the yoke of the intolerable dire lengths to which the man would our policy of maintaining our army and ou. Italian lawyer government ! IIow ter- go to have his way, but it would have navy in full strength. Of the kaisers versatility I had Indeed, there is hardly any subject ribly the Italians must have treated been only a suggestion. evidence. In his conversaonvinclng them! Italy will never get over this which the kaiser has devoted any tions with me we As far as it went, the picture would usually wandered ! God from was real This defeat. help have been accurate, but it would have considerable attention in which he from subject to subject in the most auNow, weve got the allies! and he been haphazard manner, and he invariably sadly Incomplete with all the doesnt regard himself as the final struck his left hnnd with his right with lights worked in but lacking all the thority. a surprising store of infordisplayed As an art collector and antiquarian mation on every great force to etnphuslze his apparent shadows. topic we touched, and conviction that the turning point In am not vain enough to believe that took the war and its attendant he claims first place and he Is rather It with the war had been reached Italys horrors to reveal the kaiser in his Inclined to feel that second place he was so anxious to make a favorable collapse. true colors. The war did not change should be left vacant. He aways re- impression upon me that he prepared sented very much the acquisition by for these discussions in advance. That the kaiser now regarded him- his character ; it uncovered it. self and his armies as Invincible I felt, American millionaires of art treasures I to Indeed, the kaiser discussed so freein my practice happened Early enand I feared thnt the success in Italy I appre- and antiquities which their wealth to ly almost every subject that suggested mention the kaiser that would be followed at the first favoraabled them to buy, but which their itself that I often wondered what his ciated the friendliness he showed me ble opportunity by a gigantic offensive limited acquaintance with history and advisors would have said had me his hand at they invariably waving on the western front. as he passed my window when walking their lack of culture and refinement overheard our conversations. His readon made them to in unuble a occasion, Indeed, subsequent appreciate iness to talk to me was undoubtedly the Tlergarten. the kaiser's estimation. when he called at my office for further along due to a tendency he had to trust a good advertisement for you, Its Of his own taste in art little need be every one with whom he came in intitreatment, and again referred to the me see said. The people Italinn triumph, he remarked: "If our Davis," he said. The monuments which he caused uving to you and they know you must to be erected to ids ancestors and their mate contact. For a man who was apt armies could capture 300, 000 Italians to have so many enemies, he was less or a I dentist wouldnt good and those 300,000 might just as well be advisors and which adorn the Sieges suspicious than busicome anyone I had ever to will It you. help your dead as far as Italy is concerned we Allee, the street he had opened through met. He seemed to trust every one, and ness was In conscious he act, every ran do the same thing against our the Tlergarten especially for them, are his sense of unloosened his security of the public. ! enemies on the west at the same time a monument to the and made him more talkative, During that period of my career in kaisers ideas of art. They are the tongue This was one of the Interviews I was than was always discreet perhaps, of the artistic world. so anxious to report to the representa- Berlin, he showed the utmost interest laughing-stoc- k The kaiser was very fond of listenIn and my progress frequently inquired They have been so frequently defaced tives of the American Intelligence deing to and telling stories with a point how my practice was developing. by vandals whose artistic taste they and would partment at our legation In Copenfrequently invite me to tell The bill first I rendered as I offended that it was necessary to sta- him him, hagen and, later on, when I finally arnew one that I might hav;e any rived in that dty, I related It In great have mentioned, he doubled. On a tion policemen in the Sieges Allee to heard. Some of the stories wre exdetail to them. I remained in Copen- number of subsequent occasions, he guard them. Not long ago a burglary changed were more or less risque and hagen eleven days and during the paid me more than my bill called for. occurred in the vicinity. The burglars would be out of place in these pages, These never amounted overpayments were observed while at work and a but I do not mean to intimate greater part of that time I was being that interviewed by one or another of the to very much, but they Impressed me startled civilian rushed to the Sieges there was much amiss very anything because so were out of desummon one they to of officers keeping Allee the representatives of our intelligence with them. They always amused him partment. Exactly two months later, with the stinginess the kalsep dis- who were known to be on guard there. very much and he was quick to catch on March 21, the western offensive played in other directions. If you hurry, exclaimed the civil- the point From time to time the kaiser sent ian, excitedly, you can catch these broke out as 1 had feared, The kaisers sense of humor fref or me of laautographed pictures I called at Potsdam a day or two brought burglars exhibited Itself. He told me Im sorry, replied the policeman, quently ter to attend the kaiser again, and himself or others. At the time of the of a conference between representaone Fredof hundredth But leave I cannot statues." the found him still in the same triumphant anniversary tives of all the Realism is the kaisers idea of what selection of a powers regarding the mood, and bo anxious was he to get erick the Great, he gave me a picture king for Albania after down to Italy that be called at my of- of that monarch. On another occasion, is most desirable in dramatic art. the Balkan war. Some of those present me he with a fice three times that week to enable group picture When he put on Sardanapal, a Greek presented himself surrounded by his family tragedy in pantomime, at the Berlin thought the incumbent ought to be a me to complete my work on his affectand dogs. 1 remember his bringing to opera house, he sent professors to Catholic, others insisted that a Greek ed tooth. Catholic was essential still others On November 20 the kaiser called at me a large unframed picture in cele- the British museum to secure the most maintained that a Mohammedan would my office for what proved to be his bration of bis silver wedding. It was detailed information available regard- be most logical. r inches twenty-fouabout by eighteen last sitting. I had received word on ing the costumes of the period. Every It seemed quite impossible to come size. It showed the kalserln and utensil, every article of wearing apthe 20th that roy pass for America had to any agreement as to just what rein himself sort cloud above of a floating been granted and that I could leave parel, every button, every weapon, in the king of Albania should proon the 30th, and I accordingly told the blrdseye view of Berlin, with the fuct, every property used in the play ligionand the kaiser had ended the disfess, seen the and cathedral were to be to dimly kaiser that it was my intention leave palace faithfully reproduced, par- cussion, he said, with the suggestion: below. ticular pains being taken to produce a for Copenhagen on that day. Well, gentlemen, if a Protestant I dont know just what this master- most realistic effect in a funeral pyre I explained that I was completely wont do, and a Roman Catholic wont I to but meant was had it scene in which a king ended his life. piece signify, run down and I certainly looked it do, and a Buddhist is out of the quesoffice. in framed and It it to see sent me my The it. kaiser tickets placed to me was for and that it necessary why not select a Jew and call him King Edward attended the perform tion, get to Copenhagen anyway, so that I evoked from a little boy who entered Jacob the First? Hell have his throat could get in touch with America re- the room with his mother the follow ance at the Berlin Royal opera and in three months! cut, anyway, astonished remark: Oh, of how mother, asked the Ing kaiser the Engking garding a porcelain tooth patent which The did not select a Jew, but powers look at the kaiser in heaven! land enjoyed It. had been granted to me in July, 1915, of Wied, the kaisers nomithe prince post-car- d A the of kaiser kaiser, the was My a picture gracious, replied, but which large dental company nee, was put 'on the throne, and within seeking to wrest from me. The patent signed by his own hand, was in his unable to repress his satisfaction at a month or two afterwards had to flee authorities had delayed action because own estimation one of the most price- the effect the pantomime had had on his life. for less I remem could he bestow. was his the of the fact that I resided In au enemy gifts king royal Ancle, why, In referring to Roosevelts patriotic her his donating one of them to an very much alarrqed when the funeral country. On the 28th I received a letter from American charity bazaar in Berlin to pyre scene came on. He thought the offer to lead an army in France, the kaiser declared that he admired him the court chamberlain stating that the be auctioned off. He thought that the whole opera house was on fire! for his courage and zeal. Imthe came ids from card that fact for details love kaisers known the of made had it Perhaps president police I hear, he said, that he is now on a value which it obsera his keen gave perial majesty to the kaiser that I had applied for might be attributed to pass to America and demanding an ex- could not be measured in dollars and vation. Nothing, no matter how triv- his way to Italy. It is too bad we did not postpone our offensive there. Perplanation as to why I had told the kal-se- cents. A piece of jewelry or n sum ial, escaped his attention. A couple of years before the war I haps we might have captured him. that I had planned to go to Copen- of money might have been duplicated mentioned Amer- or even excelled by a gift of sliuilur had the empire furniture in my wait- Wouldnt Teddy look funny in a gas hagen and had n character from any American million- ing room reupholstered. On the very musk? ica. DeutschI at once rep ..d that It was Indeed aire for whose wealth the kaiser fre- first occasion of the kaiser's calling at Shortly after the my intention, t.a 1 had told the kaiser, quently expressed the utmost conterap my office after the change he noticed it land made its successful trip to Amerbut what could surpass the value of to go to Copenhagen, but that I had My, my, how beautiful the chairs ica, the kaiser culled on me, and he ! an of kaiser the to look for America be the lie exclaimed. Good enough for was in a very jocular frame of mind. autograph pass upplled No doubt the royal banquets were Napoleon himself. I happened to mention to him that I cause I wanted to be in a position to On another occasion, between two of planned to go to America the following go there if my patent affairs demand prepared much upon the same prln ed it and I expressed the hope that e'.ple, for it was a common' saying the kaiser's visits, I had had put up summer in connection with the porcenothing would be done to interfere among the German aristocracy that one in the waiting room a new portrait of lain tooth I had patented. with the pass which had been prom had better feel well before going to Mrs. Davis. The kaiser noticed it the Well, it won't be necessary now, ised me for the 30th. moment he came Into the room and Davis, he commented. We can send banquet at the palace. I happened to mention to the kaise made some complimentary Nevertheless, the 30th came around remark the Deutschland over and bring back and the pass didn't, and the bout which the reputation his banquets held ainon about it. a boatload of teeth ! sailed from Copenhagen on December his people, lie wus not at all taken The kaiser frequently accused the Fix my teeth well, Davis," he de7, wr.ich I had planned to take, sailed aback. Americans of being clared on another occasion, so that I That's good ! he commented. The and the English of being ruled by can bite. There are lots of people I without me. Again the wenry weeks followed Germans are too fat, anyway. The ma- Mammon, but that he himself wus not would like to bite! and he snapped "itch other without the slightest inti- jority of the people eat too much. totally unmindful of the value and his jaws together in a vny that would mation from anyone that I would eve Long after automohiling became power of money was clearly revealed have boded ill for the victims he had in be allowed to leave. Indeed, I had more or less general, the kaiser still by the manner in which he catered to mind, although his remark was evifully made up my mind that the nu employed a horse and carriage for people of wealth in recent years. dently more facetious than vicious. thorities had decided to keep me The richest man lu Berlin and one The courtesy and affability which ordinary travel, relying upon his free (Copyright, 1918, by r. 21-2- hud-take- g, n re-ult- orld-peuc- 1 1 dollnr-worshipe- the kaiser almost invariably displayed in his relations with me did not prevent him on one occasion from showing his indignation when I touched him upon what was evidently a very sore point tlie part that America was going to play in the war, although he always claimed to be unperturbed about the American situation. He laid pointed out that America at that time hud only 30,000 men in France and he believed that the would effectively prevent any great addition to our forces abroad, if, Indeed, they ever left our shores. As a matter of fuct, however, he added, your countrymen would be very willing, no doubt, to fight for their country to protect it from invasion, but I dont believe youll ever get many of them to leave home to tight abroad. America will really be a very small factor in the war, Davis ! Tour majesty is underestimating the power of America ! I replied. He turned to me indignantly, and in his most imperious manner exclaimed: We We underestimate no one! know exactly what we are doing ! How seriously he was mistaken in this respect has since been sufficiently proved. No matter how gloonjy the outlook for Germany, the kaiser seldom showed concern. It is true that whenever things were going wrong, as when the Russians in the early part of the war were sweeping everything before them in their advance on the Carpathians, he and the rest of the royal family kept as far. in the background as possible, whereas when the German cause was triumphant, as in the case of the offensive against Italy, he could not make himself too conspicuous at the front. But even when Germanys adversity was greatest, the kaiser always put on a brave front. At such times 1 have seen him stop in the street, after leaving my office, and before the hundreds of people waiting outside to greet him, ostentatiously put a cigarette in his month and light it, that everyone might notice how steady his hand was and how little he was worried by the turn things were taking. At the same time, on one or two occasions after the war started, I noticed that he acted differently when in the dental chair than had been his custom when everything was serene. The kaiser once boasted to me that not a building was erected in Germany, not a bridge built, not a street opened, not a park laid out, but what the project was first submitted to him. He kept posted on everything that was going on, not only in Germany, but in the world pt large, and, as far as he was able, he endeavored to have his finger in every development of, worldwide Importance. I cannot imagine that he was less interested in what his countrymen were doing in connection with the war than he was in their achievements in time of peace. If he did not actually order the sinking of the Lusitania, therefore, I am convinced that- - he was thoroughly aware of the plan to blow it up and sanctioned it. That he could have averted it If he had been prompted to to do so is clearly indicated by another incident which left d very deep impression upon me. I was informed by one of the German aviators that plans had been made to drop gas bombs on London which contained a deadly gas which would penetrate the cellars of houses in which civilians were in the habit of hiding during air raids. Shortly before this hideous idea was to be put into effect the papers announced that bombs of this character had been dropped by the allies on Baden-Bade- but that, fortunately, they had fallen in a clump of woods in the center of the town and had failed to explode, which had given the Germans an opportunity to take them apart and ascertain their nature. The kaiser for many years lost no opportunity to curry favor with Americans In the hope, declares Doctor Davis, that he would reap his reward when the great war which he was then anticipating broke out. When war came and America did not rush to his aid he was grievously disappointed and took no pains to conceal his bitterness toward this country. Doctor Davis tells some interesting facts about this situation in the next installment of his story. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Heroism That Is Real. For heroism when the engine room of his ship was filled with live steam, Niels Anderson, chief machinist's mate, United States navy, ha been given official commendation. The act occurred when the exhaust lines of the steering engine were carried away by the breaking of the tiller, causing the engine room to fill with steam. Without hesitation Anderson went down a ladder to the compartment, but was driven back. Again he made two more attempts. The third was successful, and, groping his way through the cloud of stenm, lie cut it off. Anderson enlisted in the navy at Norfolk. Va., In April, 189S, giving as his home address 2420 South Broad street, Philadelphia. Longs for a Pisistratus. Pisistratus, the first lawgiver of Athens, when asked why he had made death the penalty for every infraction of his statutes, replied that It was none too much for the least crime and he knew nothing mor severe for the greater. Ah, if Pisistratus were only here to judge the Huns at the final count. Seattle r. Good Silver Enhances the appearance of any table. We are showing the newest patterns from the worlds great silver shops. Sterling or guaranteed plated ware. BOYD PARK POUND D 1662 MAKERS OF JEWELRY SALT LAKE 166 MAIN STkEET IN USED BARGAINS It iplendid od CITY CARS Oldsmobilt. 100. Guaranty ft st cliff terms if warned tyr vanning condi'ioo-ei- sy right parlies. Write for detailed liu and deecnp non. Used Car Wept.. RandaH-Dod-d Auto Co Salt take City EXPERT KODAK Finishing Have our professional photographers do your -s flniSh1Dg Box 791. H ple rs & Cameras Films w. Supplies. 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He sat beside wide flowing rivers and tiny brooks whose waters rushed in foamy splendor from hilly heights above. to wooded slopes, with trees, and wild flowers peeping from beneath dead leaves. A peace was his which seldom came in his workaday existence in the laud of pavement cad beehive dwellings. He dreamed on. Brook trout in speckled splendor roso-this captivating hook. Camp fires lit the darkness of his dream night. Theodor of burning pine wood and of sizzling trout and bacon filled his nostrils. He ate food such as his city chefs had never learned to cook, with on appetite his city stomach had long-- ' since lost. In a single hour he dreamed more happiness than had been his for a decade. lie closed his desk. Another hour found him grubbing In the recesses of the attic. By noon, clad in beautifully ancient garments, with a satchel In his. hnnd and a fishing" rod carefully Incased in a waterproof cover under hi arm, he was at the railroad station. A., half hour later he was on his way to tlie wilds. And a smile such as he had not smiled in months graced his feao . r tures. Lucky man ! He was his own boss. Milwaukee Journal. SANDBAGS -- SAVE MANY LIVES Italian Authorities Must Be Given Credit for Resourcefulness in Modern Warfare. No belligerent has shown more resourcefulness than the Italians In devising novel means of offense and defense, says a writer in Wide World Magazine. The Italian army vas one to enter the war with a trench, helmet and a steel chest protector, and it is now provided with a more efficient bedy shield thnn is possessed by any other of the warring nations. Early in the war it was discovered by the Italians tbit mauy lives could be saved in sKirnitshlng at close quarters If the soldiers carried or pushed bugs of sand In front of them, and th present body shield has been an outgrowth of that Idea. n and They are made In the two-ma- n type. The former are worn by infantry advancing in the open, attached to the shoulders by a pair of light steel arms, and are long enough to protect the head and vital organs of a man standing erect. Lying at full length, or even crouched, it covers him completely. Each shield is pierced with a small, round eyehole and an oblong loophole for firing from, both of which may be closed by a sliding door when not in use. The two-mn- n shield Is principally used in wire cutting. It is carried on the back of one man, who may also work his rifle from a loephoH In tho jo?, while a second man works a long wire-cuttthrough a hole at the bottom. It is field up by short legs If th first man desires to move independently. the-onl- one-ma- er Don't Never tell a city girl that she ha a complexion like strawberries (ad viSt's Materfnmilas). She kno.vs that strawberries come In a box, to. Burial in Old English Churches. The places of burial beneath many of the old churches In Hrgland are arranged In different ways. . In many cases the burial is made In a grave dug in the soil, as is done in an open graveyard. In some cases there Is a crypt beneath the main floor, the crypt . and being practically one large here the coffins are deposited on shelves of stone. Sometimes the crypt Is divided Into separate vaults which are really small morns enclosed on all aides by stone walls. va-ilt- ) |