The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-24
kA|SER'S HEALTH
EXTREMELY BAD
Strictest Secrecy Has Been En-
Joined in Germany as to
Condition.
ALARMING SYMPTOM is
HIS MENTAL DEPRESSION
Grave News Concerning the En-
peror Likely to Come at
Any Moment.
Special Cable to The Tribune.

Special Gable TO The Tribune.
+ BERLIN, July 23.-Necdless TO say, the
learn anything OF the real nature of
the recent III health OF the German EN-
peror. and probably 1t never VIII. For
many years past the strictest secrecy
ing the health OF the various members
OF the royal family, and especially
OF the kaiser The court physicians are
changed with bewildcring frequency, and
capricious than ever III this direction.
An even moro alarming symptom has
lately manifested itself in the general
health of the kaiser, and this is the men
tai depression that at times overtalScs
him. His temper has been petulant and
irritable for several years past. and he
those for whom he has Expressed un-
alterable affection only a Few hours pre-
Viously. Today, this uncertainty OF tenn
per is more pronounced than formerly,
and added to it are fits of depression.
some of which last for a considerable
period
Does Not Recognize Family.
When these fits are upon him, he will
move about his palace moodily, and
without the least attention to what Is
members OF his own family without the
slightest recognition; while IL he speaks
at all 1t is only TO reDrove some fault
or shortcoming-real or imaeined-or TO
10 his liking. He will glance through
q document OF the Sravest Importance
when suffering from this depression. and
then, with an angry gesture, tear ii into
shreds, and bid another document OF
entirely different tenor to he prepared
and laid before him. His ministers nave,
however, come TO know him by this time.
and they wait for moro favorable op-
portunity. when they approach him once
more, and urge upon him the views that
led TO the submission OF the destroyed
ont st,nF1 Iy,rc r,,kJI
grudgngly enough-and sign precisely
the same paper when Il has been re-
drawn out This sort OF thing has hap
peDed on more than one occasion lately
II is not too much to say that, unless
some cure for the physical and mental
Ills which arc affecting the emperor Just
now can be speedily devised there will
be even .graver news to chronicle cory
corning him before very many more
months have passed.
Kaiserin May Turn Authoress.
IT is reported in literary circles that
the kaiserin may turn authoress. Ac-
cordlng to the vague report in circula-
ton, the kaiserin may prepare a bio
graphical sketch of the late Princess
Feodora Schieswig Holstein. the author
ess who passed away recently. Prin-
cess Fedora, who was unmarried and
was always delicate suffered from ri,eu-
matism Her life was spent largely in
sanatoria and health resorts. She was
the youngest sister of the kaisern, who
for several years had been much con-
cerned over her serious illness. Early
this year she was obliged to leave her
palace at Bornstedt for southern Europe
Here her condition repeatedly gave cause
TO- anxiety, but the end was quite sud
den, as is shown by the kaiserins alb
sence. The princess was only 50. Six
teen years ago she was betrothed to Duke
Frederick of Mecklenburg- Schwerin who
few weeks before the date fixed for the
wedding, perished with his crew while
In command Of torpedo boat in the
Baltic. After this tragedy the princess
declared her intention Of never marrying
Instead. she devoted her life to romantic
literature, and she was responsible for
the production OF several novels OF moro
than ordinary ability and interest. These
mainly dealt with peasant life in north
en Germany and Denmark Princess
Fedora never rnado ANY, concealment
that her Sympathies wero with the Danes
which. at times. caused some scandal to
the Pan German league and other Ma
tlo0aliSL associations.
Preventing Race Suicide.
Whether Colonel Roosevelt's latest
European exhortatons on the race suicide
question had anything TO do with il I do |
not know. but the fashionable suburb of
Schoneber2. made up of American and |
English residents. has offered bounty
for every child born in the families OF
municipal workmen. regular scale of
pensions has been made out for the fam |
lies. In addition TO their regular wages, |
w, h'aus pl idllilcS OF tnrec children |
Will receive an extra monthly payment OF |
So, For four children they will receive |
S3.1b; for five children they will receive |
$3.50 and for six children they will re-
ceive So. set Of regulations has been
drawn up and they are being distributed
among the working men OF Berlin These |
hounties Will be paid 10 the fathers
whose children are under 16 years OF age
and only those families who can produce
evidence that the children are dependent
upon them viii receive the pensions
Later, pensions arc promised TO the moth
crs OF large families. but the measures
providing for this relief have not Net
occn drawn up.