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Show FAITHFUL TO HIS MASTER Von Buelow's Chef Not One Who Would Desert Him In His "Time of Misery." , Prince Buelow, whom the kaiser sent to Rome on what has proved to be a disastrous special mission, has a fund of anecdotes, and has been heard to tell this amusing story, In which the "all-highest" plays a leading part. Some years ago, when he waa retiring from the ambassadorship at Rome to take up the post of chancellor chancel-lor oE the empire, he summoned hU cook, a veritable cordon bleu, to tell him of the change. "We shall not live in our present grand style," he said, "but on a much smaller scale. Perhaps, Per-haps, therefore, you would prefer to find another place." The cook, doubtless doubt-less imagining that financial disaster was impending, remained silent for a few moments, then with the air of one about to perform a sympathetic act replied: "Well, excellency, I am grieved at hearing such melancholy news, but I shall remain in your service. serv-ice. Whatever may happen to you, I would not for worlds have It said I had deserted you in your time of misery!" At dinner one evening the prince told the story to the kaiser, who had had personal experience of the culinary chef's skill, and was highly amused at the prince's anecdote. So interested, indeed, did the emperor feel in the cook that shortly afterward he sent the worthy fellow a handsome gold watch, on the ltd of which was engraved the one word "Misery," by which name his majesty ever afterward after-ward laughingly spoke of and addressed ad-dressed him. |