The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-14
THE GOSSIP OF BERLIN
Emperor William Playing the Role
Of Haroun AL Rasahid With
His Subjects.
The Pruasian Department Of JUS
tioe Accused OF Sequester- ~
ing an Estate.
Prince bismarck Sending His Manuscripts
and Other Valuable Papers to Eng
land for Safe Keeping.

Especial Correspondence of The INDEPENDENT.
BERLIN, March 2S.-The Emperor Will.
lam. in a small way, is playing the role o
Haroun Al Raschid. He is fond of getting
into conversation with some Of his humbl,
subjects, who, of course, are usually una
ware of his maiesty's identity. The othel
day he was taking a solitary ride in thu
neighborhood of Charlottenburg, and no.
ticing a peasant at work in q lonely field
the emperor trotted towards the man, and
soon entered into conversation with him
III suppose you are taxed pretty hard?" sale
the kaiser. "Well," replied the peasant
''the government takes all it can get ''But
what is the actual amount you pay? 'sHali
of all l can get" replied the peasant. with q
sorry grin on his face. poor fellow
quoth the emperor, slipping a couple OF
gold pieces into the hand of the astonished
field worker. ''How is it possible for you
to stand such a thing?" And. rs tho en-
peror rode way, he heard the man ex-
claim: "Stand it! We have to stand it,
But who can this angel be in lie%utenant's
uniformy" His majesty himself tells the
story.
Fran Dorothy Kenpner has just published
a pamphlet entitled "a Million Steal" in
which she charges the Prussian department
of justice with sequestrating an inheritance
of 5000, 900 thalers left to her by an uncle.
Dorothy appears to be a very good fighter,
and her pamphlet is sure to secure a hear
ing for her case. The woman is packed by
a respectable clergyman, and claims to
have interested the late kaiser on her be-
half. The death OF His Majesty, however,
prevented definite steps being taken by
him.
1t is customary for the police to take
down the names and addresses of persons
accosting his majesty in the public street,
but yesterday afternoon when an old man,
wearing an iron cross, handed a petition to
the kaiser returning from his afternoon ride
near Cafe Bauer, Inter den Linden, the
emperor beckoned the schutzman standing
there on guard not to interfere while he
pointed to the veterans iron cross, as if to
say that this decoration made him a privi-
legged person.
Prince Bismarck forwarded a large num-
Der of manuscripts and other valuable pa
pers to London some little time ago. It is
now learned that the prince acted similarly
before the wars of 1866 and 1870. 1t is pos
sible that the old diplomat thinks
another wal is In the wind, or old
age has mdue AiH o~VerTcauI!ous
by all our royalists and aristocrats as
the safest place in the world for keeping
valuables. 1t is just forty three years that
the late Emperor William, then prince of
Prussia, ran off to England with 3,000,0 600
thalers, to escape the fury of the populace.
His grandson, the present emperor, has
large property interests in England as we'll
as in America, and SO have his bother, sis
tara- COnSIna and aOntS.
The electric light, after all. is not the
only Illuminating power liable to go on
strike at the most ~inopportune moments.
1t is true it played sad tricks at the Russian
embassy dinner the beginning of the season,
the conduct of the gas meter employed
other evening was infinitely worse. just as
imperial carriage drove up to
the door, and their majesties
we're in the act of entering
the vestibule, every jet in the big house
Went clean out, and the kaiser's
groom took one of the carriage lanterns to
help her majesty to find the steps. The ut
and gentlemen ready to receive their mai
estes. There was a wild cry for lights all
over the house, and the beautiful
herself ran down to the
in her immense court train and
everybody to find candles.
; ONE minutes passed De1ore THIS could De
done. and eight minutes were consumed in
draining the disrespsctful meter of water.
The emperor, who dislikes nothing more
than delays of any kind, was at first inclined
to wax furious, but the apparent despair of
the ambassadress soon disarmed him. The
Empress tried to laugh the inconvenience
Berlin is surely the most ~over-policed
city in the world. Three days ago, all ply
sicians owning private carriages we're or
dered to provide thisr coachman with white
haes in case of need theis help may be in
veked by passers-by. While this order is
arbitrary in the extreme, 1T is capable of
working to the good of the public, and
may, therefore, 60 uncriticised; but it is
eclipsed by the following ukase published
81. All persons are prohibited from using
p~erambulators in the streets without a
permission from the police captain
of their district.
$40. Only children under two years of age
are permitted to ride in psrambulators.
90. A licence for older children will only
be granted in cases where a doctors GER
is furnished stating that the child
is unusually weak and sickly."