The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-13

| ing the character OF the emperor. Here
are few OF them:
When. in the beginning Of October,
1887. Prince Hohenlohe, by threat of res
ignation, prevented the kaiser from offer
ing armed assistance to the Queen of
Spain Ito counterfeit the possible inter-
vention in Cuban affairs by the United
States), HIS majesty talked for three days
necessarily to Frederick, who was his
own chancellor and their summary
strikes. one nolens veicrs, as an estimate
OF Williams character.
Like all victims of morbid iRquisive-
ness. symptom going hand in hand with
megalomania, the kaiser thinks himself
above the restrictions of space and time.
II he wants thing he imagines he has
to say so in order to procure it, whether
it be shirt stud dropped under the
table or historical painting for which
dozen square yards of canvas has just
been nailed up
In the afternoon her majesty sent
Herr Won der Nnesebeck to ascertain
when and of what, the kaiser had been
robbed. Hear his report: On Sunday
night, after the smoker, his majesty put
the stump OF an eohte (reaD Havana ci-
gar into an ash-tray in his small toilet
room; today "wednesday, when he de-
sired to finish it, it was gone. and all in
quiries among the attendants, hammer
diener, wardrobemen, lackeys and chas-
seurs proved unsatisfactory. His ma
jesty therefore concluded that one OF the
footmen stole the stump and an investi-
cation is under way.
1T lasted three days. Then the corpus
deficit was found ruined beyond hope of
retrieval-at the bottom of a refuse bar
rel. After seeing it on the dresser for
two mornings in succession one Of the
chambermaids had thrown it away"
Lord Lonsdale had a sad time Of it
at the Pommeranian manoeuvres:
AT the Sedan parade a few days later,
we women OF the court looked in vain
for Loro Lonsdale. He was to be in the
emperor suite, but in the long line of
glittering uniforms no foreigner was dis
cernibie. Finally. one OF our Angioman-
iacs discovered his lordship in the Sec
ond OF third row, hating at some dis
tance behind the emperor. the king of
WurtemDurg and a host of small-fry
princes"
ing that he had killed his fifty-thousandth
head of game. When l think of the num-
Der of animals In my forests. he added.
7 feel ike Frederick the Great at kolin,
when he shouted to his squadrons: Dogs
would we live forever" 1 hope to double
and treble my shooting record during the
next ten years. If king cannot so to
war he must content with practicing in
the forset. 1t keeps one in fighting trim.
anyhow
II talked about the foregoing with one
of the physicians who attended his ma
pesty's late cousin. I did not know that
the kaiser was infatuated with the chase
said the doctor, but might have guessed
it, as the character of his speeches por-
tends an unmistakable craving for blood.
His constant references to war, his in
cessant admonitions TO the army that it
must die for him, his abominable, Oft
repeated summons to the soldiers to hold
themselves in readiness TO slaughter their
parents brothers and sisters with gun.
sabre Or lance are analogous to the raw
ings 1 heard from the lips of Ludwig
time and again. My late patient. fire.
quently spent whole days in devising
the signing of death warrants, most OF
them fictitious, gave him rare pleasure. /
Another anecdote tells of a bullfinch |
kept in the room with the epileptic Prince |
Joachim As each bird died another fresh |
bird was supplied, until the epilepsy was |
finally reduced TO a slight malady. This |
Is an old German superstition.
This item conveys intimate knowledge |
of the royal household:
when it is remembered that the diff
,ulties of the exchequer' occasionally |
interfere with the kaiser and kaiserins |
prediction for cleanliness-I recall the |
fact that their ma jesties are sometimes |
unable to obtain clean sheets for their |
bed-the statement that the royal SER
wants, men and women, are kept exceed |
ingly short In respect to towels and bed
clothes will surprise no one.
It must, in fairness, be said that part !
Of the book is simply unverified gossip |
and cannot be taken too seriously. though |
it contains much else that is both in |
teresting and true.-N Y. World.