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Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-31

The leading dray company. Bagrar.
speciality. Office at the Yellow ercrt
Main street. Phone t43.
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Prince Bismarck's Story of How Emperor
Showed His Authority Over His
Mother the Day of His Accession

plans Of statues, pictures. operas and
everything else. all his own-.his own.
With William command We should he
beaten by Switzerland. or less than
Switzerland.
At the manpuvres, where everything
is Carefully arranged In advance to
make a perfect mir On scene with the
Emperor a ma iestic figure in the centre.
well. the Generals have the greatest
difficulty To keep from running William
down. They sweat blood to keep from
surrounding him. even on absolutely flat
ground. | have assisted at some of the
manpuvres, and can assure you 1t II
nothing but huToonery.
Thus 1t comes about that there ar"
combined in William II. two separate
men seemingly Incompatible. ON" Is
the charming personal man, whom !
have loved; the other is the Emperor.
whom | consider detestahlc. William
the man is fascinating; he is agreeable,
gay. simple. generous and loyal Ia his
friends. | am only afraid that William
the Emperor. who is such very differ
ent person. will end by alternating my
affections from William the man. ~"
anuovs me more and more. and In the
last few years I have seen him ~ sci
dom as possible.
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| attribute these alterations in him
to three principal causes:
His misunderstanding statecraft,
His slckly condition, which preoc-
cupies him more than is believed.
The slow. tenacious influence of the
Empress.
The Empress influences him in spite
of himself. She fights doggedly against
my ease or comfort at court, and
sands out grimly for the stiff old feudal
spirit She is the personlhCation of
virtue, and, as Is sometimes the case
with aggressively virtuous persons, is
sad, rather dull, determined and sec
tartan, and uncharltable in her estl-
mates of those around her To me
she is the most boresome person in the
world. Mind you, | don't insist upon a
woman's being beautiful; I only ask
that she be gracious. More than to his
religious education, more than To what
he considers political necessities, Will
lam II. owes to his wife that sort of alb
surd piety which often gives his dis
courses a note so comcal and false.
The Empress's regard for the pro
pricties" has led her to assume the
bureaucratic mission of censoring the
pieces which are presented at the
| Schauspielhaus of Berlin, and I can
assure you that she fills the place con-
scientiouslv. She crosses out without
mercy the word "love" in all manu-
scripts. 1t is word which she regards
as highly improper. She only tolerates
| II in the dramas of Schiller and in
French works played at the National
Theatre bv 'Oduelin. or course the
awful word when said in French doesn't
So much cndangcr German virtue, II
| the Empress visits "A museum she
causes nude pictures and statues to he
drapcd In advance of her arrival.
| with such conceptions OF l.fc, liter
aturr and art, you may imagine whether
the court is amusing. The fetes and
receptions at the palace are So loaded
with heavy pomp and icy etiquette as
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band she determined to make conquest
OF the country squires, middle class
people, peasants, workmen and p2upers.
She made visits, received them and
spoke as pleasantly as she could with
the women, children and girls she met
in the streets and fields. She also del
uged the sick with presents and deli
cacies. And all with what result?
They were only half pleas Il with her
efforts. At the end of her stay | hap
pencd To question an old woman wh1
was knitting on her doorstep.
well, you have seen your Empress
and she has spoken to you; | suppose
you are very happy"
"Oh, yes; OH yes"
She's "A good Empress, isn't shc?"
The old woman looked up quizzically.
What's the matter" | asked. can
you deny that she's a good Empress?'
Good? oh, yes. of course she's good;
but Empress"-shc began to knit
Empress she is not"
III not speak much Of Williams taste
in art. You know about II. All Europe
has been convulsed with laughter over
ii. The average German is lacking IN
taste: Berlin is "a city without tradition
in art However. it had until recent
years the merit of being nice largo
provincial town. What little adurnmcnt
it had was good. for Frederick the Great
brought some notable architects from
Paris and built several fine palaces,
around which clever landscap" gar
deners worked with excellent effect.
But alas, Berlin did not stop there.
! What between William and the Gruen-
derzrit we have developed a naiioral
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He felt that this fountain was direct
blow at his authority; almost, indeed,
a crime of lesc majestic.
| saw a good deal of him at this
time and tried to reason with him,
but he flew into a rage ana imposed
silence upon me,
This fountain drives me mad" he
cried in French. Tile always drops into
French when he wishes to use violent
languageD at is a Socialist plot! Mark
my words, IA Socialist plot"
| tried to calm him.
"By heaven, you are n Socialist to-,
Everybody is Socialist nowadays" "
he shouted. "But they had better take
care"
Imagine the surprise of the crowd
and of the officials when ON IN" day
of the unveiling they saw the En-
peror appear. His face was sombre and
thrcatcning and his mustachcs Were
more Warlike than ever, Hurting HIM
self upon the platform, he interrupted
the good man who happened To be eN-
patiating upon the virtues of the donor,
AN ,vil spirit Is lowering over this
city" cried William, Socialism is
lifting its head. ! will not tolerate it,
| wish every one tn know that | have
given orders for an immense barracks
to be built right in the heart of Berlin,
1t will be filled with my loyal troops
and my faithful cannon, II the Social.
lists stir | will not h state to NOV
IN IN down. Let them look out ! will
NOV them down. | have had enough
Of it,"
W,h this h" turned his back on the
crowd ana looked scornfully at the
fuuullin.
~, for this fountain" he said ad-
dressing the dlgnitari"s ON the plat
form W''h a shrug of his shoulders. "it
l. simply ridiculous absurd" So say
ing n" went as h had come. like a
tempest leaving the crowd stupehed
Strange to say the story of this af.
! fair was not broadly circulated, even
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Carnivallike horde of the E.mpcrurs
ancestors in the Street of Victory. Will
lam loves to review these figures.
In defence of Berlin it is only fair to
say that the municipality resisted the
imperial object of putting n regiment OF
bad statues in our most lovely park. The
appropriations that the Emperor asked
were braveiy refused But when he Of
fered to pay for all from his private
purse the horror could no longer he
avoided. William is not SO very rich
personally, either, but the execution of
this farcical plan was dear to him be-
cause he had conceived it and made the
designs with his own hand.
Another pecuiarity of Williams is
his dislike for flowers. Though they
are the object of "A veritab.e worship in
Germany. the Emperor abominatcs
them. 1t is not that he thinks them
dangerous--like Socialists--but that he
thinks them ugly; just as he thinks
Robins sculpture and Renoir's paint
ings ugly. He likes to see lawns and
parks decorated with groups of swords.
baskets of shells. plat bands of bayo-
nets and cannon.
DO you knON the large fountain which
stands in the SChlossplatz? 1t was be-
queathcd to the city of Berlin 10y very
rich gentleman. The Mayor. in Accord
anCe with the usual ceremonial custom,
invited the Emperor to take part in the
dedication exercises. The Emperor was
absolutely outraged lie could hardly
believe that they would dare to erect
in Berlin monument which had not
originated with him.
He exhausted all the administrative
and legal tricks that he could think of
To prevent the acceptance of the legacy,
and failing to arrest the project sent
a curt refusal to attend the dedication.
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to he entirely funereal. Yet all this does
not prevent intrigue and scandal; on
the contrary. there is no court in
Europe which is more unbridled in this
respect, and as any one can see-they
never succeed in hushing up the scan
dals.
To animate a court like ours there
should be at the head of 1t "A woman
possessing that mixture Of grace and
bravery which you French call allure.
Allure! How many princes lack II
and how many workmen show it unex-
peCtedly! 1t is something inCompati-
BILE with arrogance, somthing which
accommodates itself to perfect simpic-
ity. The least affcctation destroys it.
There must be grandeur with ease.
character. a certain energy and the gift
for always finding happy attitudes with
out invcnting them. Education may la
made to serve instead of allure. but II
cannot entirely replace it. our sweet
old Augusta had it when on that July
afternoon in 20, conducting william
|. to the station. whence he departed
for the frontier. she wept broken
hearted on the cushions of her gildcd
coach, while the crowds acclaimed her
The Danish princesses who were
brought up SO simply at Copenhagen
and Amelienburg also have allure
both Dagmar. whom hard fate made
the wife of a blockhead and the mother
of an imbecile. and her sister. Alex
andra. impcccahly elegant swootor and
more refined than Dagmar. whose sit
uatlon as the consort of high liver
has often been difficult. Both have a
truly imperial grace which never strug-
giles for effect.
Last year the Empress spent some
weeks at the castle of X. To please
her professional Conqueror of n hus-
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w LILLIAN THE EMPEROR AND WILLIAM THE MAN

NOUS tricks for concealing it, it has
come to he pretty generally known that
one of his arms has never developed.
Look at him or his pictures. and you
Will see that he has taken precautions
to prevent its being seen. The fact
remains that, to all practical purposes
he is one armed.
Williams cultivation Is extensive but
vague. The only thing he knows in a
precise and detailed fashion is geog-
raphy-for geography is commerce.
Ii was "A joy to argue with him in the
old days on literature, philosophy.
morals-anything at all. He did not
10y any means impose his ideas upon
us. but accepted differences of opinion
sensibly. l may add that his ideas are
usually commonplace. He would joke
even In the midst of the most lively
controversies, and to his credit be il
said that when beaten in an argument
he never hurled his imperial crown at
his adversarys head in order to come
out ahead. Perhaps he rcvengcd him
self on his generals and his minister's
In the last few years he has changed
"A good deal. His trembling fits cN-
asperate him, and he grimaces until
one might almost call 1t facial aguc.
lie has formed a habit of swapping his
hngers and making convulsive move
m"nts with his hand when speaking.
Ills laugh. formerly so buuydnt, has ac-
puircd false tone. Likewise he shows
less tolerance, less kindness toward his
friends. In short. the Emperor Is out
running the man. 1t spells the end of
our friendship.
They said OF him at first that-thp
opposite of Fenelon-he had "a hand of
velvet in a glove Of steel" Lately IT
has too often happened that the hand
has hardened while the glove is
changed even oftcner than the uniform.
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Two Diverse Personalities of the Kaiser
described in an Intimate PEN Portrait
Drawn by Octave Mirbeau

UIth the German Emperor
looninc Larger than any other man
in the eyes of the world at the mo-
ue1t. Octave Mirbesu's pen por-
,,ai. Of him becomes of unusual
interest II was published in the
"Amcucan Magazine" two years
seo and is here reproduced in full
by permission Of the editor of the
magazine.
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backward wagon hiich"d t" a
l. hobtail gray horse that gay"
out positive symptoms of n bad
case uf heavcs ON a recent trip over the
jersey line up into the Orange county
dairy country said his name was Ah-
slom Van Ripper and it might have
| bpcu" said John Gilbert. the travelling
| gr"ccrrman. I'll" had tn" mIld's' "i
| mild blue eyes ANA the h"r'"s' red
mustache ] ever saw. From what b"
told me on the way th'r" ought I" Ice
chance for neat littl" speculation
in hidden treasure up that way
"One bit Of information related To- d
| chest of gold that lay buried in th"
uucksand in a certain island there
| about. The amount in tn" chest wiS
| 100000 and it was buried there 10y d
party Of Tories who stole 1t in rhilad,l-
pha during the Revolutionary war and
were >" closely pressed ny pursuing
American soldiers that they HAD {" &c,
ria OF 1t. AS they never came ha'N
after 1t something must have happened
To them.
"a Tory named De Witt knew jus;
the spot where the treasure was buried
| and he was on the point Of going to get
no stortel s,m.tbiny bannc,od +, him
that prevented his errand. He iii Il. :,
| the 800 600 I'm gold is lying i'm the
| ouicksond yet There are holes twenty
feet deem all over the island where folk
have dug for the treasure. but nnh,dy
has strurlx the right sno, ", =, >h.
SALON. informed me.
| ",,o,h,,. hi,5o,, 80. - ,,,oro,. h;,,o.
go, ,han ,,a ',| T., .ha ,,,,iei'so,1 No..
,ho Iarsa,. ill.," ,hs,,a,,o T.,n p,na.
49, 49,, .r,i'
80 NV up n o,i i','s "'','"''''" ~
nm In tho shaw,ngunl, Nourtoins ,h.
Whereabouts ~ which had h,.n l,.,
,hrnuyh IN. failure ~ IN. n.rs,n ,.b,
bod tho ,ro,srra In ,,,s,od, an .J.
snauish nitrate =, c,n,, an ,,,,, ,cca.t,,,
| '
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49,,
why '"' "i' P''''' "luh come |"
gov" "-''' "'S hc'c' P"S"Nr.H Ni''""'
'"' '"' 'P'"''" W 'N"S"'"'h va" hNP''
was 'h'' Wh'h tlat caNv Vas found a.
| ne had every c"hnh"hc" II would ne
some dtN, IN" skeleton ~ IN" "Id pirate
would be found lying In the midst "f
the U"aNur" a'ons-.d" Of an empty h"'-
tie of rum.
"'Rut that ain't all yit that these
| here rocky an rugged hills Won -.
| round here hold i'm IN. wav ~ tr.t.Iir,
| that folks don't seem in cot tho l,r,,Is
| o. fndjn'., said AbsaInm .rI,udi,s
| Smiths hnoty-bo was , Tnr,. r,iI,..
that scoured tbis cnun.rv vim hi.
blnndv o,ry durin, ia. po,,I,,,i..,, ,,,.
| sLirr.J ,ba ,.,,,Il go, - ,,..t, ,...,..
an, yol,,,hIos =, r., IN ,.r.t. r.,
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tatn ',, 10 anu ''o"a' io,'" M"uh-
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", n,r,,E MIRnE,I.
Translated aud arranged by Ada
aud Julian street.


II ...' ,rpDi. Then things begin
a.v.r. .. binding sort Of way. and
uu, ..l...r-.
T-u u.- my condition when, coming
.na. '.. corridor of a German hotel, |
.n....,I,d wv friend Won II. a
G,m.. .t." whom | have often met
a I-.... ....,ry. hut more frequently
. r,-.
o. ..f, |u-' com" from ESsen in
200, u..H -ud Won Il. Lets
.. ...,.u,r.'
Tt,t m.ttv~ after our meeting
,, v,. .. .l..c.
...N nu letter companion than
I'rr 500. l;.. Nut only is he par
..UMl v.' Informed ON German
.1Ur-. ... .. is nld' to discuss them
n ,>,.U.. French. After lccturing
.r philosophy .u "a famous university.
D.. Doc. I.'.rvl in practise it. lie is
.u..-. -.r,Nd. diplomatic. brilliant and
what Interests mo particularly--hc
Hi, access to the German Emperor.
lo.r.' know whether it is his birth or
bis W.r. which has given him this
pryl,-,. though | think | have heard
rm .ty Nr va, Williams fellow stu
I.' 90 r., University ~ Bonn.
Wu.u { asked him to talk about tho
Kaiser tr drew from pail of ice a
.r,I, Of Mu~,lI,. I'm its dusty dress. and
r'l,d uur classes with the sparkling
| Wine. which makes a pretty little noise
~ M. mouth like the sea upon pebbles.
"Tt. ktiScr'" he repeated after "A
pIom,..- silence. 81 feel rather en-
..,rr,.~..I ,brut discussing him v,i,b
| .,u D.,.f van s,, ,,rc n,,v ,birt, an.
understands a man. hut one never
t.u,vs him c,mr,.t.I,.- os,,.ci,llv =,
man ~ lfs c,Iil,rc ANA n,si,inpE,nd
.ro ..Iv.,y. rms tho ri.L ~ h.ir,, nm.
iu.t. and .nh ,,cll-,,c daviI,"
lie ..,r,l his vino ,ud ,rcsor,,,. ho-
.,o.
In order +, understand our I,,,nor,r
.rc must r,ncmLcr thar bo dates from
.h. time If what We Germans call tho
rrl,nl,r2,.r. that +. the r,.rinJ nf IN,
founders. the COMMUNICATIONS me
4 the Franco-Prussian war. But
huleh h, dates from the Gru.nd,rzcit
We no longer date from IL: that is, not
u II u~.
"Ir m,u left for the frontier poor
| Russians they returned rich Germans.
Ih" p'i.ud "f multi-mllionaircs dates
'."m II. tho very term itself first came
NJ" "ur language then. Germany be-
.'n to ho built mp.
'nl'''d W.th success, we ate, drank
ma ''.'. We huiIt forts ana cannon;
'"r'S, >"pS ana cannon; roads, canals
"'u ''' 'N' h'IIh'kS' factories, palaces
'',. ."'NS cannon
r'''..- ''p''I i"r the empire W"
"" ''l' -N'h ""rS''N's' We r'hUlI'
90. '"' "' 10 Gnu anu we nave
'.'.''- 'N'' S'"''' ne ,aS''
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r,,p, ,n ,Lo ids ,bat w., n,t IN
me. head h.fnrn III. npn of % mics
mo rl. in onc,s sc,f ,ho notorioI for
20, ,,mor,,dtuu of those ideos
WnI.o, 7 Tho ",,,r,rco,tol,o o,ro,5
g,il,r- had u,,,o - iii. fnaiishnoss
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Nat Field of Crookston is calling
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Now is the time to lay in a supply
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Adv
Luy Aubol of Crookston was
.mong the business callers in Benz
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One Of these days you ought to
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P. J. Mulloy of Grand Forks is
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Robert ApRoberts, editor of the
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Tom Smart returned this morning
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Ike Blooston left last evening for
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The First National Bank barrrr
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S. B. Ruby and Charles Lehman Of
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Mantle Covers Parts of Country for
First Time in Ten Years.

Paris, Jan. 15.-After a few days Of
mild weather France is in the grip OF
a cold wave, especially in the south
Dispatches from Marseilles and
Mines say those regions are covered
inches deep in snow for the first time
in more than ten years. The tempera-
ture dropped in many places to % de-
greeS above zero Fahrenheit Rail-
road communication to both Italy and
Spain is difficult. 49, .-,..