The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-23

lein Won HaltZahn. linen ne Went u
the Imperial Yacht club house, wher,
) he changed his attire, and spent thu
/, evening in the dining ROOM conversinG
with his admirals and generals. Shortly
after 10 O'Clock he returned to the
Hohenzollern.
This, with a few variations, is the
usual mode in which the emperor
spends his days. He has no time tc
read the Cologne Gazette to say
nothing of other papers and reviews
equally deserving Of his attention Yet
in spite of these drawbacks he has a
broad, and in some respects, minute
knowledge of the more interesting and
important articles appearing in the
German and foreign papers, particu-
larly in the English papers, especially
your own journal. Here is seeming
paradox, but the explanation is simple.
There is in Berlin a so-called literary
office attached to the Prusslan minis
try for the interior which for the last
two years has been under the manage
ment of Herr Dr.. Won Falcke Rus
sian, or rather a Baltic German, from
the Russian province of Kurland, who
was formerly chief editor of the "Siles-
ian Gazette" at Breslau. His chief oc-
cupation is to read the newspapers and
make extracts and cuttings from them,
which are pasted into a book, the more
important or interesting articles being
underlined with red or blue pencil to
catch the monarch'S attention. This
book Is placed on the emperor's desk.
The cuttings contain articles or ex-
tracts from articles taken from the
whole of the home and foreign press.
The emperor watches the foreign
press in Paris, London and New York
more closely than he does the German
press. Every one acquainted with the
German court bears witness that he has
perfect knowledge of the standing
and general attitude of foreign news
pap-rs, particularly of those countries
that interest him especially, fotr politi-
cal or other reasons. They are certain
ly more familiar to him than are the
great majority Of the German papers
In this, as in many other respects, VIII
4 liam II resembles Frederick the Great,
who thoroughly mastered the interna-
tional literature of his time to the ne
| elect OF Prussian publications.
| Among the French papers he gives
the preference to the Figaro" and
sometimes glances at extracts from the
journal des Debates" and the
Temps" In some of the royal castles
you find number of German papers;
but as the selection of these papers de-
ponds on the notions of the marshal, or
even the administrators, no conclusions
,-s,tt Ion, fNf
them The organs of the Tories the
"Kreuzzeitung" and "Reichsbote," may
always be seen there, and the Cologne
Gazette generally finds an entrance,
but the best managed German paper,
the Frankfort Gazette is nowhere
evidently owing to its democratic pro-
gram The weekly sporting papers
have made their appearance in the cas-
Ties within the last two years.
All these papers the emperor has no
time to read, but there is one thing for
which he always finds time and never |
neglects. He reads the English Illus |
trated weekies Regularly, rarely mis- |
sing the opportunity. 1t must not be
forgotten that he spent much of his |
youth in England. He reminded an |
EInSllSnlldh OHtS w liS uttS NiNii iIN |
used to play as a boy In the dockyard |
at Portsmouth.
With the exception of these English |
weeklies, he is content to read DR.. Won
Falck's cuttings; these it is which give
him his knowledge of everything i'm
portant that Is said about him in the
foreign press, be 1t pleasant or I'M
pleasant. polite or cynical. The carl
catures published in London and Paris,
the articles written about him and his
policy, he sees and reads-at any rate,
the essence of them. The criticisms his
speeches encounter, the praises be-
slowed upon them--he knows them all.
In this respect, he is something like his
William !, who made a
careful collection of the most ridiculous
of himself printed in
France from g1S66 onward
The system Of obtaining information
the medium of such cuttings"
as are presented for his perusal by the
literary Office Is certainly not perfect
one. A skilfu selector can do much in
the way of conveying a wrong impress
sion Dr. Won Falck the manager of
the office, is a German, from Russian
province Germans from Russia have
for some time past enjoyed the favor of
the court influence When Russia pro-
ceeded with her measures for the Rus
sifcation OF her German provinces, the
German press and even some highly
placed officials, were as anti-Russian as
they were anti-Englsh in the early
stages of the Boer war They looked at
Every one coming from Russia as q
martyr They did their utmost to find
places for them. Some of them got fine
positions in the Academy Of War. Dr.
ion Falck. as we have seen, secured the
very responsible position of manager of
he Literary Office. All these Russians
ire very ambitious
There is one consideration, however,
which must weigh powerfully with the
manager of the Literary Office, and in q
luce him to make his cuttings as COM 4
'lete and as impartial as possible. His
1ajesty is fond of entering into CONVEX
alton with the men who interest him, 1
When any mistake in the direction inn X
'arted to his opinions could at once be
iscoVered. In addition to this he holds
frequent and intimate intercourse by