The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-01-09
IN The FATHERLAND
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHATS DOING IN OLD HOME
Summary of the Most Important Hap
penlnss in the Land OF the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.

PeH"Ss IN me Land or the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
| Readers.
Herr Delbruck, editor of the PrHs-
sian annals, declares that the Pan
| Germanists are the chief enemies of
| German prosperity and security and
| the main peril to European peace.
While Germany might emerge from n
great war safely if not VIGOROUSLY, it
would certainly in any event be in
| Jured terribly. perhaps by wounds too
deep to heal for many decades. Mean
time, to support the propaganda of the
Pan-Germanists the German people,
who might be prosperous aud happy
through the profits of their own vast
intelligent labor, stagger under the
burden Of taxation to create arma-
ments which, huge as they are do not
suffice to realize the dream of world
power. Herr Delbruck says the plain
fact is that the German people can
not, ought not, and will not continue
to support the greatest army on earth
and the second greatest navy, and
that, even if they could. such an army
and navy operate to invite the enmity
and attack Of Europe instead of real
izing the inordinate Pan-German am
bition.
The kaiser has added to his com
merciai activities by becoming the
proprietor of a restaurant and cafe in
Potsdam. Some time age the munich
pality decided to close an old cafe sit
uated beside the historical mill in
front OF Sans Souci castle. The people
of Potsdam complained to the kaiser
that they had been deprived of their
favOrite cafe. and the kaiser decided to
build and equip, at his own expense. a
restaurant on a site nearer the wind
mill This restaurant has recently
been opened The kaiser wrote to the
lessee as follows: Dear Herr MoritZ.
You are to pay me the very low rent Of
$500 a year. Should my restaurant
appeal to the POtsdamers and thrive
commercially, l may increase the rent
a little later on, so that | may make
something out of. too. There is one
condition to the lease. You must have
the best coffee in Potsdam." The res
taurant is doing well, and one of the
most regular customers is the kaiser
himself. who always inquiries how my
restaurant is going.
Germany leads the world in the num-
Der and variety of it's sanatoria. This
is largely due TO the fact that half
or more Of the population is enrolled
in sickness and disability insurance
companies; hence, it is advantageous
TO the organizations to cure their tu-
berculOsis patients as soon as posi-
bic The wards for infants are won
ders. They are of glass and tile and
are really large incubators, with elab
crate contriVances for regulating tenn
perature and ventilation. All milk
is served pasteuriZed or steriliZed. All
babies are carefully tested from birth
with tuberculin for evidence of faint
of tuberculosis,
Current reports declare that King
Frederick Augustus Of Saxony, whose
wife eloped in 1902, is about to marry
again. Court circles have it that the
king wants to make one of the six
daughters of King Ludwig Of Bavaria
queen CT SaXony He is said to favor
Princess Hildegarde. who is thirty
two years Of age King Frederick
Augustus is very pious. One of his
peculiarities is that he insists when
l. l. l..
there must go to mass at a. m. in
full dress. This was one of the causes
Of the first differences with his wife,
when she. as crown princess, object
ed to getting up so early,
The large majority by which the
naval holiday resolution passed the
American house Of representatives
has attracted interest and favorable
comment from peace lovers in Ger
many, and the attitude of the United
States on the proposal that interna-
tional naval construction be discon-
tinued for one year is regarded as
one of possible far reaching influence.
The question just now is at a stand
still so far as Great Britain and Ger
many are concerned and America mi |
tiative at this juncture would have |
many advantages in the opinion OF |
certain naval officers.
Sixty costumes and 10 hats belong |
ing to the late Baroness Osten-Platen |
were sold at auction at Buda-Pesth. |
The costumes, which had hardly been |
worn, cost from 1000 upward, while |
the bills for the 10 hats showed that |
the price ranged anywhere between |
$500 and $4,000 Certificates for |
shares to the amount of 100000 were |
found Uttered about among the mil
4lnery.
Electricity will soon be so cheap il |
Berlin that the poorest families will |
use it for lighting purposes in place
of petroleum. 1t will be used even for
cooking and heating because no kind
of fuel will be able to compete with
lit. This material reduction in price
is promised by the company which
supplies the city with it's electric cur
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