The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-28
KAISER BURLESQUED.
His Trip to Palestine Pictured
in Paris Journal.

Paris, Nov. 2s-(Copyright, 1898, by
James Gordon Bennett. Ills German
majesty's personally conducted-by :
Cook crusade has furnished LIE Petit
Journal with an amusing topic for its
current edition
The devoted Williams tour, or, as it
calls it, Fifteen Days in Turkey, Pal
estine, Jerusalem and the Holy Land, -
treats the matter so saucily that the
number has been suppressed at the re-
quest of the German ambassador.
This confscation has created a hub
bub in the press. The Libre Parole
says it is disgusting to see the govern
ment trem bling before the injunction
of Count Munster, when the German
uewspap ers do not miss an opportunity
of insulting France and the army in
caricatures, which are reproduced in
the Dreyfussard organs. The Figaro
declares there is no truth in the ru-
NOR. Still, one cannot get copy for
love or money.
In reality, the number is not so out
rageous. The kaiser is shown on the
cover as a sort of German st. Peter,
with his head encirclued with a halo,
one hand raised in sign of benedictiOn
and the other holding a dynamite shelf
No matter what the emperor does, he
puts on an appropriate costume, even
when he battles in the Jordan.
He starts for Berlin wearing the uni
form of the sleeping car conductors,
with Cooks interpreters cap, and goes
about Venice dressed as a captain of
GOndOliers, so as to pass unObserved-
When he meets the sultan he has dis
guiSed himself as lieutenant IN the
navy of AndOvia. a little Pyreneean re-
public, and he breaches in the desert in
the frock coat Of clergyman of the Re
formed church. He visits the sultan's
harem wearing the uniform of a Heuten-
ant colonel of the Eunuchs, and goes
hunting as Tyrolean.
The Petit Journal gives extracts from
the emperOr'S notebook, supposedly
stolen. According to these impressions,
he was disappointed at not being able
to walk on the Sea of Galilee but is
determined to try again in Berlin when
the frost sets in. He was annoyed be
cause he could only make an ascension
in a balloon, and bitterly reproaches
Cook for not providing the multitude to
listen to his sermon in the plain.
He finds the sultan's idea of always
keeping his navy in the harbor a good
way of avoiding accidents at sea. He
writes march for Abdul Hamid, which
contains a sly quotation from Men
delssohn's Wedding March" evidently
aIluding to his union with Turkey while
snatches from Faust and "Parsifal'
stroll in casually to make this page of
music a gem of burIesQue art.
He visits the harem. and here pages
of his notebook become feverishly inco-
herent. He reviews the army and COM
plains of lack of organization, but notes
with satisfaction that the generals all
speak German without the slightest &C
cent.
He remarks that the uniform of each
man wears a European costume. anoth-
er Turkish trousers and a third none of
any kind He draws a sgetch of his
guard of honor that is one of the fun
NEST in the number, and departs for
Jerusalem, taking away a number OF
presents. among them being hair from
the prophets head, a dozen Turkish
bath subscription tickets and a bone
from MahOmet's horse.
William is seen giving the signal for
the train to start, rowing gondola and
embracing Umberto, whom he leaves as
/ quickly as possible, knowing him to be
short of money; having his Hessian
boots pulled off by the sultan at the
| door of St. Sophia; reviewing the monks
| in their monastic habit, and Disguised
to find that friars do not live up to
their reputation for good cheer; visit,
ing the harem, where he is shown bow
ing low before the Ewes who dwell
there; going up in a balloon, bathing
in the Jordan, prea ching in the desert
lodging photographers and entering Je>
rusalem on an ass.
All the incidents of his travels, in
fact are travestied with a talent that
makes the burlesque seem very close to
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