Williams news., 1917-07-26


 I 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.
 It 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 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 Potsdam. And, even today, anybody can go there and pay 30 pfennigs for 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, a 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 at Potsdam, ready for an early journey next morning. On such occasions the whole railway traffic is disorganized, for express trains must not run on that line. There must be no shunting or whistling lest it dis turb the imperial sleep, and so on. h. deed, the socialists once made a pub lie protest against the emperor's habit of holding up traffic by preferring to sleep in a railway car to reposing fh his own bed half 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.
 q 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, suppose l must grace his capital with my pres ence. But begrudge the money, Helt- zendorff I have no further influence to gain in Austria-Hungary. It is in cry mark spent there is to our advan- tage. We shall have much yet to do in Germanizing Great Britain"
 The kaiser and his imperial spouse were a parsimonious pair in most di- . rectionss Only when 1t was in the in. terests of the empire were they lavish in their expenditure: The German public have nsgGr yet realized that since William il iscended the throne they have paid 150,OOOOO0 marks into the civil list, and of these 130,00O,OOC have been expended upon a pageant ot vainglorious splendor, with a staff o1 1,50O persons, that goes to make the all-highest the great war lord.
 The general public have no concep ton of the extent of the German i'm perial court, the immense suite of la dies and gentlemen in waiting, mar sbals, equerries, masters of the hunt chamberlains, treasurers, overseers O. the plate, gentlemen of the cellars gun chargers, chief chefs, with th' crowd of footmen, coachmen, chauf feurs, gtooms and imperial couriers.
 And most of them were usually , grumbling crowd, being upon starya