Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-06

ser to me with q laugh, as
/ sat one summers afternoon with him
in the business cabin aboard the Ho-
henzollern.
We were going on our annual cruise
up the Norwegian fjords as far as
Hammerfest, and even farther north,
to the island of Spitzbergen, If weather
permitted.
1t Is strange how often small things
occupy great minds. The reason of
the emperor's good humor that after
Z noon was because he had learned that
the cafe-restaurant in Potsdam Of
which he was proprietor had paid a
handsome profit. The place is called
"The Historic Mill" and was and still
is managed by Herr Moritz, one of the
old stewards of the Neues PalaIs. The
emperor, on purchasing the place,
called old Moritz and ordered him to
serve the best coffee procurable in
Potsdarn. And. even today, anybody
can go there and pay 80 pfennigs for a
cup that is unequaled In all Germany.
In consequence, the place is well pat
ronized and on many occasions his
majesty will halt upon his walks and
sample Il.
A Mania for Travelling.
At that moment the emperor was
busy making up his diary for the forth
coming month, diary of constant
travel. Such a mania has the kaiser
for travelling that upon occasions he
has been known to sleep In the impe-
rial railway saloon kept at the Wild.
park station ut Potsdam, ready for an
early journey next morning. On such
occasions the whole railway traffic is
dlsorganized, for express trains must
not run on that line. There must be
no shunting or whistllng lest 1t dis
turb the imperial sleep, and so on. In
deed. the socialists once made a pub
lie protest against the emperor's habit
Of holding up traffic by preferring tC
sleep In a railway car to reposing In
his own bed half a mile distant.
That summers afternoon as W,
sat together, and while he smoked hi
very rank cigar. he dictated certain
entries into his private diary.
Suddenly he grumbled about the ex
penses of a journey which he had t,
make to Vienna to see the sovereign
whom he so openly ridlculed, Frnnci
Joseph.
II must be there on September tn
eighteenth" he said. "Even thougl
hold the old idiot and his empire Il
the hollow of my hand, l suppose
must grace his capital with my pres
ence. But I begrudge the money, He'll
zendorff. have no further infiuenc
to gain In Austria-Hungary. 1t is, 4
England that my future work lies. EV
cry mark spent there is to our advar
tage. We shall have much yet to d
in Germanlzing Great Britain"
The kaiser and his imperial spous
were a parsimonious pair In most
rections. Only when 1t was in the Ii
terests of the empire were they LAWS
in their expenditure. The Germa
public have never yet realized tn,
since William II assembled the thror
they have paid 1S0.OOO,OOO marks I'M
the civil list, and of these 130,000,0(
have been expended upon pageant I
valnglorious splendor, with a staff (
1900 persons, that goes to make Il
all-highest the great war lord.
The general public have no conce
ton of the extent of the German IL
perial court, the immense suite of |
dies and gentlemen In waiting, ma
shals. equerries, masters of the hur
chamberlains, treasurers, overseers
the riAte, gentlemen of the cellar
gun chargers, chief chefs, with Il
crowd of footmen, coachmen, chau
feurs, grooms and imperial couriers.
And most of them were usually
grumbling crowd, being upon starv
ton diet, their remarks approachi
dangerously near lese majesty.
At the emperor's orders, as we s
on board the imperial yacht that a
ornoon, 1 rang for Herr Won Wedell.
A short, thlckset man In uniform {
tight for him entered the cabin, bo
ing. To him the emperor complain
Of IN undue expenditure In regard
the last court ball. whereupon V
Wedell pointed out that while hu
sums we're spent upon his majest
journeys little was spent at home.
In a moment the emperor, with
xeen brows narrowed, silepced him
sKclaiming: