Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28
WILLIAM HAD
A REALLY JOLLY TINE.
JOINED IN THE FUN OF THE STU
DENTS. AND LED IN THE GEN.
ERAL HILARITY.
MADE FULL SHARE OF NOISE.
AND CRACKED JOKES AT THE Eek.
PENSE OF THE CROWN PRINCE
AMI STUDENTS.

LONDON, April 27.-All accounts
agree that Emperor William thorough
ly enjoyed himself at Bonn, and, among
the students of his old corps. he be-
came a student again. The Emperor
wore the white cap. and across his
Borussia corps. His majesty himself
o command at the symposium, is
sued orders in a firm tone and led off
the so-called ~salamanders, the thunder
Gus rattling of beer mugs on the table
when the leading toast was proposed.
He also Joined heartily with a loud
voice in singing students songs, bring
ing down the fat of his rapier in the
orthodox fashion, with a crash on the
table at the end of each verse. The
proceedings reached a climax when his
majesty called for that grandest of Ger
man student songs, "Landesvater,
("Father of the Country"). At one Of
the verses, in which the students swear
to live or die for king and country,
each man crosses his rapier with that
of the nan opposite him and caps are
CohNh Oh dAu opltlCo Ou ChC iopAOi
points, the youthful crown prince cross
ed rapiers with the aged General Won
Loe, himself an old Borussir.
At another part of the proceedings,
in which the Emperor with great pleas
ure, was calling III the former corps
students some of them aged men, so
that their health might be drunk in the
order of the years when they studied,
the Emperor called for a salamander
a blind old lawyer, Herr Lauff,
Father of the dramatist Josef Lauff, who,
annually, under his majesty's direction,
produces a now historical drama, at
WiesAaden, illustrating the achieve
ments rof the house of Hohenzollern.
Later, Joined ny the students, he called
out, "Our-youngest fox" the slang nick
name of the youngest student. The
Emperor laughed heartily, and %clapping
the row prince on the shoulder, said:
'fHoerst du das er meint dir" edo
you understand tbat he means you?")
There was anotheg humorous incident
when one Of the veterans in reply to
the toast to the men of.his year drank
to the canal bill and expressed the hope
that the old fellows of Berlin might at
least realize that tae canal nus be
built. The Emperor lay back in his
chair and laughed loud and long.
An interesting story is told of a sur
prise night visit paid by Emperor Will
liam to the trainship Charlotte, while at
Kiel. The ship was anchored in mid
stream when the guard espied the En-
peror's pinnacle approaching and, a mo-
ment later, the Emperor was on deck,
much to the surprise of the hastily
awakened captain. His Majesty then
began a rigorous inspection of the ship.
In the dormitory he was astonished to
find the cadets asleep under the glare
of electric lights.
Il scarcely believe they are asleep
under such a light" said the Emper-
or.
They are tired after their days
work" replied the captain. They
could sleep anywhere"
The Emperor was still skeptical,
shook a sleeping cadet soundly and
awoke him.
SO" said his Majesty, you sleep as
we'll here as at home?"
The cadet, recognizing his question
er, promptly replied:
Better, your majesty
The Emperor was much gratifed at
the answer received and returned to his
own ship, delighted with. his expert
meut.