The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-08-20

was mat was submitted 70 bis notice.
he wis always ready to prove that
the discoverer OF originator thereof
was a FOOL and that he himself knew
a great deal better
HIS learning and setentfhe attain
mehts. While covering 2 vast Fazige.
were of the most spperd fetal nat5ire
WHITE hairsd and white bearded hisi
pefs onal INIT diness pre- vented bts aps
pearing venerable , e mis- tussiness
his lack OF composufe and his e.eitas
biiityi rendered y impossible that he
should impress anyone with atf saif
Of majesty.
One little trifthg ncident may ssrse
to illustrate his impat thence and the
awkward contretemps TO which y
sometimes led. Al one of the enter;
tainmsnts to which attended him
Ii became my duty to present to him
four Japanese dfgnltartes Of very high
rank. had succeeded In presenting
two when he started ON into an ami
mated discussion with the late Adj
tmiral Rogers. D. s. NJ, with rs az,
parent object Of proving to hin That
he tthe admiraD knew absolutely
nothing about foghorns. Aware by
sad experience that 1 should only ex-
pose my other two Japs to some i'm
patient remarks II I attempted TO in
tsrrupt his conversation at that mo-
.ment, determined to defer their pre-
sentation to a more favorable oppor-
unity later in the evening Accord
'lngly, as soon as mott 'ed that he ap'
peared dfsengagsd, 1 hurried up the
two other Japanese and presented
them in due form. but, mon cher, =
he exclaimed in sonorous and aggriey-
ed tones, "you have presented these
gentlemen to me Already" And with
that he deliberately turned his back
on them and walked on. without so
much as saying a word to the untor-
tunate Oriental dign1taries whom he
had failed to distinguish from those
whom 1 had introduced to him earlier
in the evening.
A Hungarian Baron.
One of the most extraordinary cpl
sodes of the only visit of an Emperor
to the United States was the presence
In the train of Dom Pedro of the Hun
garian Baron de veszy. BY means Of
the most sublime etfrontery he man
aged to worm himself at the Phila-
delphia Centennial Exhibition into
the good graces Of tie stone-deaf old
Empress. He accompanied her every
where, dined repeatedly with the i'm
perfal party, seated at her right hand,
and was finally decorated at her re-
quest with the Brazilian Order of the
Rose.
1t was only after the departure Of
their Majesties from America that
letters reached the Quaker City and
the national capital from Vienna de-
nouncing the Imperial Austrian Gre
dentiais which the Baron had display
ed as shllful forger1es and the Baron
himself as an. ex.conyict and swindler.
What he managed to extort from the
Order of the Rose am unable to say.
But have always understood that he
was very successful in his depreda-
lions among the hospitable Philadel-
phians. At the present moment he
is, believe, serving out term Of
penal servitude in some French penf'
Tertiary.
Easy to Entertain.
Emperor William is much more
easy monarch to entertain. Here, too,
I can speak from experience. For
during the only visit which the Kais-
er has ever paid to Paris, was with
him throughout his entire stay.
1t was in 1873. He came to Paris
with his master of the Household, Col
onel Won Liebenau, and his "A. D. c.,
Lieutenant, now General. Won jacob,
and in order to avoid international
complications was placed under the
care Of Lord Lyons, the British Am
n
bassador, as the grandson Of Queen
Victoria, rather than under the aegis
of Prince Hohenlohe, then the Ger
man Ambassador. Prince William
(for at that time his grandfather, the
old Emperor. was still alivel visited
the InYaltdes and Versailles, the
Louvre and the Luxembourg. went up
with us in the captive balloon from
the Place du Carousel, witnessed the
performance Of Victor Hugots Her
mani" at the Francois, with Sarah
Bernhardt In the role of Dona Sol.
and attended a very charming enter
tainment given in his honor and in
that Of his brother.in.law and sister.
the hereditary Duke and Duchess Of
saxe.Meiningen, then on their honey
moon, at Bagatelle, in the Bots du
eJf. nj ~.