The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-22
PRINCE BEGS FOOD AT DOOR IF CASTLE The kaiser's Son Was Trav-
 cling IncognitO NEAR SERIOUS JOKE Kaiser Taken at His Word by Am bassador-How Eleven Wives
 of One Man Mel Death
NEAR SERIOUS JOKE
By MALCOLM CLARKE

By MALCOLM CLARKE
 l Berlin. September g.-(Special; al;.-How
 the Kaiser's son. Prince August Williar
 sued a fair lady for meal and got it.
 is now being told around Beriin; and the
 naughty wife of his imperial highness
 Princess Alexandria Victoria of Schleswig-
 Holstein- -sonderburg- -Glucksbrrg before her marriage in October, 1908, is by TO
 means pleased with some of the details By all accounts the prince made himseil very agreeable under the cover Of his in- cognito, which he can do on occasions. 1 Arriving in his motorcar at orchoved, he desired to be whisked over in the ferry to
 Seeland, in Denmark. He was politely l informed that the steam ferry would not
 run again until late in the evening. He
 went to the little ferry inn and ordered
 something to eat; but the conditions pre-
 vailing in the inn were such that the prince who was travelling in ordinary
 tourist attire, fiatly refused to eat the
 meal provided He and his chauffeur were very hungry, and finally the prince walked
 up to d castle in the neighborhood and | nolitely asked the fair chatelaine 1T he could be provided with food The lady l told him there~was hotel by ihe ferry.
 The prince replied that he had tried il. and
 could not eat what was set Before hir'
 He also explained that he was pretty nearly famished, and would have to wait
 until evening to go forward on his jour ney.
 l The lady of the castle pitied him, and presently the prince sat down to capital
 meal, his chauffeur being looked after, too. The prince cast about for means or
 repaying his hostess, but could think or | nothing. He wrote his bourgeois traVelihg
 name in the visitors book and left. A few
 days later the lady was surprised to re- I ceive an extremely handsome set of or 1 naments in diamonds and emeralds, with | letter from Prince August William. in
 which he explained when and how he had | made the lady's acquaintance. It is an
 nounced, by the way, that an interesting
 event is expected in Prince Augusts fam | fly this autumn.
 1 A remark of the German Emperor the
 other day might have caused an inter
 national incident" if the ambassador who
 heard it had not understood the Emper-
 or's habit of joking even at serious mo-
 ments. At a private audience the ann
 bassador was giving to the eraperor the
 summary of some suggestions transmitted
 to him by his government. The emperor listened with great interest, then mur- mered ".That is the most sensible thing the fools have suggested yet!' Shall l
 make that reply to my government?' sked | the ambassador, without the suspicion O. | a smile. The emperor swung round. stared at tne grave face olf'he grey haired veteran diplomat, and exclaimed | "Man alivel Have you taken leave of l ycur senses? Surely you know fne better than that" And your majesty also
 Elows me better!' replied the euibassabor. 1 An advertisement which appeared in n Dresden daily newspaper has led to as- l founding reyelations of the martial career
 cf wealthy miller Herr Weiner. The
 advertisement ran:
 1 Gentleman of certain age. very well preserved. who has been married several
 times, but ietesi-s solitude. desires mar riag9 with devoted woman.
 1 Pat.snt inquiry disclosed that the said | veil preserved gentleman had already i peer married II times. His first three i ?. ivls ds.} young, The next two drowned !! .h.msll7ss. aif1 4ht sixth also committed suicide Tho seventh eighth and ninfh l LieSi Of cl:a grin as the result of litigation. ] rho tcnti was killed by bull. The slegCrth. shortly after marriage, brohe esr lss and concluding that iil-luelS had
 dcggsd ail the previous wives of her hus- .and end wishing to live, sought di- vorce from him.
 A curious story of a rejected suitors behavior in Berlin street is told by the Berliner Tag shatt. He attempted to shoot himself in the chest, but the bullet struck a waistcoat button and glancel off with- out touching him. The would-le suicide fancied that he was mortallyS wounded, waved his arms frantically, and Nthen lost consciousness He was taken to h neigh boring police station and there restored to consciousness He was convinced with difficulty that he was not dead.
 According to telegrams from Kiel the Imperial backyard finds itself now em- barrassed with a large surplus of work men and is trying to arrange for some of it's unemployed to be transferred 10 Wl- helmshaven and Danzig. The backyard is stated recently to have been opliged large
 y to increase its staff in consequence Of ovcr-pressuTe of work Normal conditions have now returned. The nature of the numerous hurried tasks Is not specified, and the doc.iyard is not reported to have undertaken any recent work Of any great importance except that ID connec- ton with the battleship Kaiser launched in March of last year and commissioned this August.
 The large cruiser Goeben, launched at the end of March last year, has now cont r,leted her trials. In a trial lasting many the maximum speed of 2S.4 knots and to arh4 x.y{f ritin inn pf