The record-union., 1895-11-25
Emperor William Has a Remarkably Sue
CeSSful Period Of Hunting.
THE KAISER AS THE CONDUCTOR
OF A MILITARY BAND.
Ex.Empress Frederick to Pay Visit
to Berlin This Week-Germany
Places Strong Reliance Upon the
Ability of the Sultan to Preserve
Order in His Dominions.

BERLIN, Nov. 24.-The final spell of
Shooting which is allowed to the Kaiser
before his attention will be engaged in
the direction of political and court at
fairs by the resumption of the session
of the Reichstag, and the opening OF
the winter session will be passed upon
the royal estates in Prussian Saxony,
where the Emperor will go on Monday.
His majesty has recently had period
of remarkably successful hunting, first
at Piesdorf, where he beat the record.
His next shooting was at Letzllngen,
where there were plenty of wild boar
and deer. The shooting lodge at Lett
linger was the scene of nightly fest1v-
tiles, and the Emperor put aside his
dignity and joined in the fun. In the
banquet-room there is a quaint drink
ing cup fitted into a stays horn.
Prince Hohenlohe, while drinking to
the health of the Empress, in his eff
fort to do so, poured the wine over his
face and over his collar, amid the
laughter of the Emperor and the as
sembled guests.
Another incident of the hunt is told
as follows: The guests invited to Lett
Ingen were so numerous and the neId
of the chase was so wide that the En-
peror caused tickets of Identify to
be issued to the guests taking part IN
the hunt. A gendarme, meeting the
Kaiser, scanned him so attentively
that the Kaiser said to him: why do
you fix your eyes upon me? Perhaps
you think I have no ticket; here it is, y
at the same time handing it to the gen
darme. The latter replied: L never
thought of the ticket" Whereupon the
Kaiser ordered him to demand ticket
from each of the guests, which he pro-
ceeded to do. Princes, Dukes and other
notable personageS were fined for the
non-production of their tickets, which
many of them had left behind, and the
Joke seemed TO amuSe the Imperial
mind greatly.
Besides conducting the "Funcuili,
Funicula," as it was played by the
military band at the hunting banquet
at LetZlingen, as described in these
dispatches last week, the Kaiser took
the baton while the band played five
military marches and a composition of
Count Philip Won Eulenberg's, entitled
Die Rosenlieder." The guests agree
that the Emperor conducts with both
Vigor and precision.
The Empress is occupied in selecting
Christmas gifts, and for several days,
accompanied by the Emperor, has Wis
tied the Berlin stores and made large
purchases of toys and other goods, in
Guiding a large model of the Imperial
yacht Hohenzollern, with crew and Of
1cers complete, which is for Prince
Adelbert, her third son, who holds the
rank of Lieutenant in the German
navy. Her majesty also purchased at
the artists exhibition d number of
colors which she intends as gifts to the
various personages attached to the
court.
empress Frederick will come to
Rerlin on November 2Sth, and remain
until the end of January. Literary
and art circles will hail her advent
with pleasure, and the charitable in
stitutions will be still more delighted at
her coming. Her majesty is regular
patron of several of these institutions,
and a general contributor to many
ether works of charity. On the occa-
SION of her birthday, last Thursday,
which the ex-Empress spent with her
daughter, Princess Margaret, at Rum
penheim Castle, flags We're flying from
many private residences in her honor.
The decision of the German Govern
ment not to send a dispatch boat to
Turkey is regarded as a sign that Ger
many places strong reliance upon the
ability and intention of the Sultan to
preserve order in his dOminiOns. AL
though German official opinion is not