Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-06

any ndSQuoIdu0 ClOlASS u Cdll VA IAC emperor of Germany. like you do when you visit royalty in Turkey and Egypt, for good frock coat and silk hat will take you anywhere in the day time, and swallow-tail is legal ten der at night, so dad put on his frock coat and silk hat, just as he would to go and attend an afternoon wedding at home, and we were ushered into regular parlor, where the emperor was having fun with his children, and the empress was doing some needle work
 Dad supposed we would have to talk to the emperor and the prince through an interpreter, and we stood there waiting for some one to break the ice, when some one told the emperor that an American gentleman and his boy wanted to pay their respects, and the emperor, who wore an ordinary dark suit, with no military frills, took one of the young princes he had been play ing with, across his knee and gave him couple of easy spanks, in fun, and the whole family was laughing, and the spanked boy tackled" the em- peror around the legs, below the knee. like football player, and the other princes pulled him off, and the em- peror came up to dad. smiling as though he was having the time of his life, and spoke to dad in the purest English, and said he was glad to see the Bad Boy" man, because he had read all about the pranks of the bad boy and bid dad welcome to Germany, and he didn't look sick at all.
 Dad was taken all of aheap, and didn't know what to make of the Ger man emperor talking English, but when the ruler of Germany turned to me and said, And so this is the cham pion little devil of America and patted me on the head, dad felt that he had struck friend of the family and he sat down with the emperor and talked for half an hour, while the young princes gathered around me, and we sat down on the floor and the boys got out their knives and we played mumblety peg on the carpet, just as though we were at home, and all the boys talked English, and we mad a bully time. The princes had all reSd "Peck's Bad Boy" and I think the emperor and empress have encour- aged them in their wickedness, for the boys told me of several tricks they had played on their faiier, the em- peror, which they had copied from the Bad Boy" and 1t made me blush when they told of initiating their father into the Masons, the way my chum and I initiated dad into the Masons with the aid of a goat.
 I asked the boys how their dad took it, and told them from what we in America heard about the emperor of Germany, we would think he would kill anybody that played trick on him, but they said he would stand anything from the children, and enjoy it, but if grown men attempted to monkey with him, the fur would fly. The crown prince came in and was intro duced to me, and he seemed proud to see me, cause his uncle, Prince Hen ry, had told him about being in Mill waukee, and how all the women in that town were the handsomest he had ever seen in his trip around the world, and he asked me if it was so. re- ferred him to dad .a and dad told him the women were the greatest in the world, and then dad made his usual break. He said: Look ahere, Mister Prince, you have got to be married some day, and raise a family to hand the German empire down to, and my advice to you is not to let them saw off on to you no duchess or princess as homely as a hedge fence, with no ginger in her blood, but you skip out to America, and come to Milwaukee, and I will introduce you to girls that are so handsome they will make you toe the mark, and if you marry one of them she will raise family of healthy young royalty with no humor in the blood, and you won't have to go of and be gay away from home, cause an American wife will take you by the ear If you show any signs of wandering from your own fire side, like lots of your relatives have done"
 Gee, but that made the emperor hot, and he said dad needn't instil any of his American ideas into the German