Tombstone epitaph., 1917-07-08

ma-ck," declared the kali
 ser to me with a laugh. as I sat one summers afternoon with him in the business cabin aboard the Ho- aehzoilern.
 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 handsome profit. The place is called ''The Historic MiIl.- 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 prccurable in Potsdam. And, even today. anybody can go there and pay 90 pfennigs for cup that is unequaled in ail Germany. In consequence, the place is well pat ronized, and on many occasions his majesty will halt upon his walks and sample 1t.
 A Mania for Traveiing.
 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 inpe- rial railway saloon kept at the Wild park station at Potsdam, ready for an .ariy journey next morning. On such occasions the whole railway traffic is iisorganized. for express trains must aot run on that line. There must be 70 shunting or whistling lest 1t dis- urb the Imperial sleep, and so on- .n- iced. the socialists once made Uu5- ac protest against the emPeror's habit ,f holding up traffic by preferring to sleep in a railway car to reposing in ais own bed . tiff a mile distant
 That sulimer's afternoon as we sat together. and while he smoked his rery rank cigar. he dictated certain entries into his private diary.
 Suddenly he grumbled about the ex- oenses of a journey which he had to make to Vienna to see the sovereign whom he so openly ridiculed. Francis Joseph.
 'I must be there on September the eighteenth" he said. Even though hold the old idiot and his empire in he hollow of my hand. suppose l must grace his capital with my pres .nce. But I begrudge the money. Helt- sendorff. I have no further influence @ gain in Austria-Hungary. It is in England that my future work lies Ev- cry mark spent there is to our. advan- age. We shall have much yet to do in Germanizing Great Britain"
 The ksl,er and his imperial spouse were c parsimonious pair In most d. rections. Only when it was in the in- terests of the empire were they lavish Tn their expenditure: The German public have meter yet realized that since William II ascended the throne they have paid 1S0.000.O00 marks into he civil list, and of these 130,000,O0O rave been expended upon a pageant of yaingicrious splendor. with stan Of i,5O0 persons, that goes to make the ,,.-hixhest the gress war lord
 The general pubi,- have no concep dov of the extent oi the German i'm zen al court. the imrense suite of ia' die. and gentlemen in waiting. mar shal,, equerries. masters of the hunt chan seriains, treasurers, overseers oi the ate. gentlemen of the cellars gun chargers. chief chefs. with the crowd of footmen. coachmen, chauf feurs. grooms and imperial couriers-
 And mssf of them were usually grumbIing crowd being upon starva