Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-18
TALES OF THE KAISER.
Always Doing Unexpected Things-A
Brilliant Conversationaiist.


Brilliant Conversationaiist.
No European monarch is so con-
siderate of correspondents hungering
for copy" as Kaiser Wilhelm, says the
Berlin correspondent of the Brooklyn
Eagle. He is almost constantly the
center of some controversy, doing I'M
| expected things and creating anec-
dotes about himself In this respect
he patterns somewhat after Kaiser
William the great, who dropped in
suddenly on some village school and
with rod in hand piled questions re-
garding German history and genealogy.
Soon after William III. assembled the
throne he voiced the fervent desire to
become monarch in fact by observing
the needs and woes of the common
people instead of devoting all his
time to the petty quarrels of pres
tige arising among the "junkers' and
the habitues of his court. For the
royal Hohenzollern family is net with
out its domestic troubles. Within the
! regal family directly there is no sign
| OF trouble, for there is but one ruler
, and one lord, and that is the Kaiser.
, SO there caa be no room for discord.
But there are any number of running
domestic feuds among the various
princely and dueal families of the diff
ferent leading German governing
houses. Whenever these domestic
, troubles become too publ: or spicy.
the Kaiser steps in, commands one or
10th Of he l. a.
administers sound lecture On family
/ etiquette.
Kaiser William never loses an OPP
portunity to demonstrate that he is
| Watchful of the common people.
Whenever the kaiser. on his morning
| or afternoon rambles in the Thiegarten
| and in Sans Souc; Park at Potsdam,
encounters some one of the many who
salute him the kaiser is always GER
tain to respond with hearty "Guten
/ n'orgen' and salute. Not long ago
while in the mining regions of Salz-
| burg an old bugle which had been cast
: up from an excavation attracted his
majesty's attention. He took the
! crumpled instrument and, motioning
, laboring man in his daily garb near by
, asked him:
Here, landsman. see ii you can ex-
t. act some notes from this bugle."
The workman, who happened to
have been trumpeter in the army
during his military service, shambled
| up awkwardly and applied the bugle to
his lips. BY desperate effort he man.
aged to bring out something that
sounded like the trumpeter's salute to
the kaiser. The latter recognized the
salute, and, taking the bugle from the
workman, so say eyewitnesses applied
1t to his own lips without taking pains
to wipe the mouthpiece. Then he took
fragrant Havana from his pocket
and handed it to the miner for his
pains. The latter scraped and saluted
but carefully placed the cigar in his
inner pocket
why do you do that" inquired the
kaiser. II gave you that cigar TO
smoke"
Pardon, your majesty" faltered the
workman, 81 want to keep such val
liable gift as remembrance"
, Taking another cigar from his case
, the kaiser handed 1t to the grateful
workmn with the remark, Here. save
this one and smoke the other"
Kaiser William is keen humorist
and is quick to grasp the funny side of
embarrassing situations which place
those about him thoroughly at east AS
a conversationalist the best compli-
ment paid him was by a brilliant
! french Journalist whom the kaiser re-
ceived in audience at the palace re-
Gently and who said: His majesty is
one OF the most brilliant conversation
alists | have encountered. He does
not indulge in commonplace, but his
remarks are always original and with
q mixture of humor and wide learning
We leaped from one subject to an.
other, from the art Of the various
countries to music, to national charac.
teristics. books and yachting. But the
! kaiser was strictly 'up-todate' on all
| subjects"
A good story is related of Com.
mander Beehler, late naval attache to
the United States embassy in Berlin.
He was invited to the palace for din.
ner' and in the course of the evening
was taken aside by the kaiser who
pied him with questions of a techni.
cal nature regarding certain new i'm.
proVements introduced in the modern
class OF United States battleships OF
Illinois and Iowa type.
The battleship -- is SUPPLIED
with double turret, is 1t not?" in.
CURED Kaiser William.
"Ah-hem-ah, believe so. your ma.
lesty," suffered Commander Beehier,
VINO afterward confessed that he had
peen caught fairly in the yaff beam"