, 1917-06-28

ser to me with q laugh, as
/ sat one summers afternoon with him
in the business cabin aboard the Ho-
henzollern.
We were going OF our annual cruise
up the Norwegian fjords as far as
Hammerfest, and eve 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
noon was because he had learned that
the caf-e-restaurant in Potsdam of
which he was proprietor had paid a
handsome profit. The place is called
1.-THE Historic Mill" and was and still
is managed by Herr Moritz, n 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
Potsdam. And, even today, anybody
can go there and pay 30 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 it.
A Mania for Travelling.
At that moment the emperor was
busy making up his diary for the forth
coming month, Il diary of constant
travel. Such Il mania has the kaiser
for travelling that upon occasions he
has been known to sleep in the impe-
ria railway saloon kept at the Wild
park station at Potsdam, ready for an
early journey next morning. On such
occasions the whole railway traffic is
d~isorganized, for express trains must
not run on that line. There must be
no shunting or whistling lest 1t us
turb the imperial sleep, and so on. In
deed, the socialists nee made a pub
lie protest against the emperor's habit
of holding up traffic by preferring to
sleep in n railway car to reposing in
his own bed half n mile distant.
That summers afternoon as we
sat together, and while. he smoked his
very rank cigar, he dictated certain
entries into his private diary.
Suddenly he grumbled about the ex-
penses of a journey which he had to
make to Vienna to see the sovereign
whom he so openly ridiculed, Francis
Joseph.
AZ must be there on September the
eighteenth he said. Even though
I hold the old idiot and his empire in
the hollow of my hand, l suppose /
must grace his capital with my pres
ence. But / begrudge the money, Helt-
zendorff. / have no further influence
to gain in Austria-Hungary. 1t is in
England that my future work lies. Ev-
cry mark spent there is to u advan-
tage. We shall have much yet to do
IN ~Germanizing Great Britain"
The kaiser and his imperial spouse
were a parsimOnlOus pair in most dl-
rections. Only when 1t was in the in
terests of the empire We're they lavish
in their expenditures: The German
public have nsVtr yet realized that
since william IL assembled the throne
they have paid 1S0,000,000 marks into
the civil list, and of these 1~30,000,00O
have been expended upon n pageant of
yainglorious ~splendor, with II stan of
1900 persons, that goes to make the
aIl-highest the great war lord.
The general public nave no concep'
ton of the extent of the German i'm
perial court, the immense suite of la
dies and gentlemen in waiting, mar
shals, equerries, masters of the hunt
chamberlains, ~treasurers, overseers OF
the plate, gentlemen of the cellars
gun chargers, chief chefs, with the
crowd Of footmen, cOachmen, chauf'
feurs, gsooms and imperial courlers.
And most of them were usually
grumbling crowd, being upon starva'