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Show A DESERVED REBUKE. By Paul Villiers. (Copyright.' 1893, by W. R. Hearst.) Paris, June 6. The story has just reached here from Rome that Emperor William gave his two sons , Prince William and Prince Eitel Fritz, a very severe parental lecture in front of a large number of distinguished people. He even, in his uncontrollable anger, an-ger, called. them a pair of uneducated cads. ! The affair took place in the antechamber ante-chamber of the Pope. The kaiser had entered the private apartments of the Pope and was just on the point of kissing the venerable Pontiff's hand, when suddenly he heard a merry peal of laughter. The sound seemed very familiar to him, and he was just ransacking his memory to think whom it could be, when the air fairly vibrated with unmistakable un-mistakable Teutonic roars of laughter. The emperor chewed his moustache and impatiently stamped his foot, but the disrespectful noise continued without abaement during his twenty minutes' audience with the Pope. All the furious kaiser could do was to swear in silence,' of course and this he did to his heart's content. ' His holiness did not seem to notice anything, but the emperor's face gradually grad-ually turned purple with rage. He had thought he recognized Prince Fritz's voice; but. of course, it could not possibly be him. But, alas! when the audience was over and the kaiser again entered the ante-chamber he found his whole suite and even his own two sons, convulsed with laughter. The imperial eyes shot fire, and even the very penitent face of Prince Eitel, who explained that he and William Wil-liam simply could not help laughing when they looked at the quaint old uniforms and dignfted manners of the "papal bodyguards, failed to pacify the kaiser. The two princes had burst out laughing, and. as etiquette demands, de-mands, every one present had joined I in the chorus. But the kaiser refused to see any excuse ex-cuse in this. He sternly commanded his two sons to stand at attention, and in front of every one preached a most edifying curtain lecture to the ill-behaved princes. |