El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-31
KAISER TRIES
GJTTINGU00D
FOR EXERCISE
Puts Whole Energy Into His
Daily Task at Potts
dam Palace.
CROWN PRINCE rs
MORE SUBDUED NOW
N sTEVEN RURNETT.

ERLIN, Germany, Jan. 81.-Ber-
K liners get up very early to go
II to Potsdam to see the kaiser
cbopping wood in the park Of the new
palace and few are stopped by SEN
tries.
His majesty has taken up this
strenuous morning exercise to coun-
teract his increasing tendency to
stoutness. but the strength and de-
termination he puts into his work and
the fierce expression of his perspir-
ing face gives the impression that he
has hypnotized himself into the be-
lief that the logs he is splitting are
his personal enemies, people he had
singled out for particular punishment
and whom he was not chastising in
cffigy. Possible these quick and VIC
ious blows are really meant for the
t. cause him anxiety from the mo-
ment he outgrew the age, when he
might be summarily chaSused with a
cane, a slipper or a birch
Kaiser is Growing Old.
The kaiser has indeed grown very
old of late, though you do not notice
it unless you get very close to him.
His mOuStache is as dark and brlSt-
ling as ever, and his lips nave Kept or
rather increased the expression of
sternness and determination, but his
hair is considerably thinner, his eyes
are less fiery and there are OminOus
dark bags underneath them, and
under the formerly so firm chin you
discover a well developed jowl, which
makes his maJesty's face resemble
that of a rather vicious Ulmerdogges
or perhaps even more a mastiff.
Prince is SubdUed.
The crown prince has been un-
usually quiet since the Zabern YER
great joy to him, but he realizes that
he has grown unpopular with the peO-
pie of Berlin and it is well known he
had hoped to become Germany
first real popular kaiser. He per-
forms his work at the offices Of the
general staff very cOnscienuOusly, but
in a most perfunctOry manner, which
shows his heart is not in it.
Misses Cross Country Rides.
A decided lover of outdoor exercise,
he misses his daring cross country
rides with his Ziethen Huzzars and am
told that he has persuaded his father
to send him on voyage through the
German colonies in Africa, which
would indeed be a very good scheme
as it would keep him out of harms
way during the stormy political per-
iod which everybody feels is approach
ing.
ought to be far from here during the
great inevitable struggle between the
people he is to rule and the army
which he adores with a fervOr which
would surely tempt him to commit
many more rash and foolish acts.
Kaiser Makes Blunder.
A very amusing story is told of the
kaiser in connection with his recent
visit to Munich to greet the new king
After a luncheon the two were
strolling in the gardens of the pal
ace Suddenly it dawned upon the
kaiser that his companion was limp
ing painfully along. 1t puzzled him.
Ludwig, a veteran Of retiring DISPOSE
tion, had rarely crossed his path.
"Gout?" hazarded the august visitor.
mo, sir returned the Bavarian
king-"Still that bullet" Bonner"
interrupted the emperor, with his
usual impulsiveness- now stupid of
me. Of course, you are a hero of
1S7Oi" And Ludwig kept strangely
silent, smiling a sickly smile It was
a Prussian bullet in his Leg Fired in
'66 at SadOWa, when Prussia whipped
Austria, Bavaria ct al.