The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-09-30

on being set down at the gate, hand
ed him piece of money rolled up in
paper. On opening the wrapper, the
driver found that he had received a
double louis. and running after the
stranger, showed it to him, saying
that he must have mad a mistake.
Pleased with this proof of honesty in
a man whose calling is not usually
named in connection with that virtue,
the emperor desired him to keep the
golden coin; and the man, struck with
surprise-for many of the passers by
now recognized and saluted the stran
ger-went back to his carnage, ex
claiming: 1T is the emperor him
self. ! have seen the EMPEROR
Wandering in the neighborhood of
Rome once, the emperor stopped to
refresh himself at an inn, and asked
the landlord whether there was any
traveller staying there at the time who
would give him the pleasure of his
company. There was reverend bi
shop there, the landlord said, but he
was fatigued with his journey, and
had retired to rest. The secretary of
the bishop was awake. however
would his company be acceptable to
the strangers Certainly, it would;
and so the secretary was introduced
a clever, witty man, who partook of
bottle of wine with the lonely stran
ger, and entertained him greatly with
his talk. The emperor, still preserv
ing his incognito, sounded the good
priest with regard to the object of the
bishops visit to the Holy See. "He
went there" replied the secretary,
''to apply for vacant benefice, al
though a very aged man and already
in possession of numerous church
preferments. This gift he hoped to
obtain through the good offices of the
Austrian ambassador, 70 whom he had
letters of recommendation" The
emperor was so much pleased with
the manners and conversation of the
secretary that he gave him a letter of
introduction to the same ambassador.
who, he said, might be able to serve
him in one way or another. Shortly
after his arrival at Rome the secreta
ry bethought HIM of this letter, and
presented it, without imagining, how
ever, that it would be of immediate
service to him. Great was his sur
prise, then, when informed by the
ambassador that the letter was an
autograph one of Joseph IL, desiring
him to obtain for the secretary the
benetice sought for by the avaricious
bishop.
A rebuff at which the emperor was
much amused. was once experienced
by him in Holland. Having heard
much of the extreme cleanliness Of
the villagers in that country, he wish
ed to see the interior Of one of their
houses, at the doors of which he
knocked. without seeming to arouse
any of the inmates At last a door
was opened to him, and he requested
permission of the master of the
house to enter. Il near the En-
peror Joseph is expected in town
to day." said the Dntchman; ''but,
were you the emperor him self, could
not let you inside this house without
first obtoining leave from my wife,"
Il am the emperor, then," said the
stranger, displaying the diamond star
on the breast of his inner coat.
Thereupon the Dutchman went in
great haste to his wife, and begged
her to admit the royal stranger to
view of the premises, but she only
said: being an emperor, as he is.
we could not expect him to take off
h. oh ~ 4ln1
house he doesn't come one step with
them on, emperor or not" and the
door was shut in his face.