The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-26
KAISER'S ATTITUDE
TOWARD
rter his fall. the Count wrote:

His Righteousness seems to me to have
experienced natural ebb anu flow. AS
a student he was skeptcal in the eS-
IRENE. He then pursued the love OF wo-
man, the instinct Of nature, without
great scruple, and he must have had
very grave and painful experiences in
his line before his marriage. Love made
him a believer; he required religious
background in order to manage as
stormy feelings arlght- As he grew
old his erotic pulses slept. and perhaps
also his aspirations toward God with
hum feelings. tbs illustrates the pro-
found connection between love and reIi-
sfos.'a
IN after life, though he was always
polite. and cauld even make himself
charm ng to ladies, Bismarck never al.
lowed himssf to fall under their spell.
and perhaps here never was states
man whose conduct IN political AFFAIRS
was so little influenced by women. All
tire ordinary feelings OF his nature We're
completely merged N his love of power.
Tt7 sole occasian on hich scandal ever
coupled his name with feminine hearty
was when. in HAIRLESS moment OF for
get fu'nes#, he allowed himself to be pho-
t. graph d. at a Bohemian watering
D ace. with a famous singer. photo
graph which nov fetcTes a very hlsh
pr ce in the cu-io market.
After thA fires of his tempestous youth
had burned themselves out, he was for
eyer Gec,airliDcI against tf,ss .u1oHstroGs
regiment of w men In his retrea. a f
ter his downfall, ne may have hethought
himself to r.. fleet what a mistake he had
made In not having always kept lnfiu-
cn-;aI worien on his side
For having done his best to estrange
tYe fl ial love of the Crown Prince OF
Ct rmanv from his mother. that Crown
Prince having became Kaiser Wilhelm
II. at the bidding of his mother. En-
press Freaerick, gave the great Chan
e.ellor@the sack as q man would his valet
who had robbed him.
luccnefil in Prison
A Journalist who obtained PERMISSION
to visit Luccheni in his PRISON at Geneva,
found the assassin OF the late Elizabeth.
Empress of Austria, occupying the cell
No. IS on the first floor. He is Still! prov
ing himself a verv objectionable boarder,
and constantly refuses to submit to the
rules OF the prison.
A few days ago he asked TO see the
Italian papers. and, bein.f> refused by the
director. he became so violent sat tney
were obliged to put the strait Jacket on
doctor and chaplain of the p.iscn. owing
TO his violence have ceased to WISH him.
Considering the crime he committed on
the most simple, beautiful, Kind and char
liable sovereign of Europe: considering
also the fortunes that this wretched man
has to go through fer the rest of his llfe
| I cannot help thinking that 1t would
have been better, for societyss sake and
His own If he had been hanged and for
/ gotten
Strange to say, photosra phs of this un-
| mitigated scoundrel and idiot are sold In
| quantities to English and american girls
who ccme to Geneva. They cut out LIS
i head and keep it in their purses or in
| nledalIions, as some do four-leaf ciovers-
| for good luck.
1t Has Reverse
Glory is medal that has a reverse
| Marcel Provost, the famous French nov
| elist, spent his holiday in Switzerland.
! One day ne was taking his coffee on the
| terrace of the hotel at Lucerne in the
| midst OF a crowd of people who did not
| know who he was. and whom he knew
| still less. when waiter brought teie-
! gram, shouting at the top of his voice:
"a telegram for Monsieur Marcel Pre-
| vost!'
| The novelist signed to the waiter to
I! bring it to him a young American girl
/ who was sitting not far from him was SO
| startled at realizing she was near the
| great F'renchman that she dropped her
/ cup on the floor, a compliment OF which
! Provost must have felt sensible. and
| which must have reminded him of a like
! adventure that happened once to Balzac.
Such is glory.
The young American girl. all confused.
turned toward her friends, and In very
L disappointed tone exclaimed:
"Ah, thought he was SO cookbook
| ing.'
That IS the reverse.