The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-28

His Majesty Evidently Handles
Beer Mug and Rapier with
Equal FaciIitS-SOme Very Pleas
ing Incidents of the Visit to His
Alma Mater, in which the German
People Seem to Take Great In
terest-Thc EmperOr's Midnight
Visit to Training Ship.
London. April 27--Au accounts agree
that Emperor william thoroughly enjoyed
himself at Bonn and among the students
of his old corps he became a student
again. The Emperor wore the white cap
and across his breast the black and white
ribbon of the Borussia corps. His Majesty
himself took command at the symposium.
issued orders in a firm tone and led off the
so-called Salamanders, the thunderous
railing of beer mugs on the table, when
the leading toast was proposed. He also
Joined heartily in the singing Of students
songs, bringing down the fiat of his ra-
pier in the orthodox fashion, with a crash
on the table at the end of each verse
The proceedings reached a climax when
the Kaiser called for that grandest of
German student songs, "Landesveter,"
C'Father of the Country'0. At one of the
verses, in which the students swear to
live OK die for king and country, each
man crosses his rapier with that of the
an opposite him. and caps are taken off
and spitted on the raper points. the
youthful Crown Prince crossed rapiers
with the aged Gen. Won Loe, himself an
old Borussier.
They Drank "SaIamnnders."
At another part of the proceedings. in
which the Emperor. with great pleasure.
was calling up the former corps studnts,
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 for "A blind old
lawyer, Herr Lauff, father of the drama
tst. Josef Lauff, who, annually, under
His Maiesty's directions, produces a new
historical drama at Wiesbaden illustrat-
ing the achievements of the house OF
Hohenzollern. Later. Joined by the stu
dents, he caiied out o0ur youngest fox
the slang nickname of the youngest stu
dent The Emperor laughed heartily. and,
clapping the Crown Prince on the shoul-
der. said:
"Do you understand that he means
you?''
There was another humorous incident
when one of the veterans in reply TO
the toast to the men of his year. drunk
TO the canal bill. and expressed the hope
that the old fellows of Berlin might at
last realize that the canal might be built.
The Emperor lay back in his chair and
laughed loud and long.
The EmperOr's Surprise visit.
An interesting story is told of a sur
prise night visit paid by Emperor Will
liam to the training ship Charlotte. while
at Keil. The ship was anchord in mid
stream, when the guard espied the EN-
peror's pinnace approaching, and a mo-
much to the surprise of the hastily awak-
ened captain. His Majesty then began
rigorous inspection of the ship. In the
dormitory he was astonished the find the
cadets asleep under the glare of electric
lights
Il scarcely believe they are asleep un-
der such light" said the Emperor.
They are tired after their days work"
replied the captain They would sleep
anywhere"
The Emperor was stlll skeptical, shook
a sleeping cadet soundly and awoke him.
80" said the Emperor, you sleep az
we'll here as at home2'
The cadet. recognizing his questoner
promptly replied: Better, Your Majes-
ty."
The Emperor was much gratifed at the
answer he received and returned to his
own ship, delighted with his experiment.