The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-11
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 ericlI the Great, he gave me a picture of that monarch. On another occasion he presented me with a group picture of himself surrounded by his family and dogs. I remember his bringing to me a large unframed picture in cele- bration of his silver wedding. It was about 24 by IS inches in size. It showed the Kaiserin and himself in sort of cloud floating above a birdseye view of Berlin. with the palace and the ca thcdral dimly seen below.
 A CHILD'S OPINION
 don't know just what this master piece was meant to signify. but I had it framed and placed in my office. It evoked from a little boy who entered the room with his mother the follow ing astonished remarkf "Oh, mother, look at the Kaiser in heaven!"
 A postcard picture of the Kaiser, signed by his own hand, was Tn his own estimation one of the most price less gifts he could bestow. l remem- Der his donating one of them to an American charity ba2ar in Berlin to be auctioned off He thought that thQ fact that the card came from his inn perial majesty gave it a value which could not be measured in dollars and cents. A piece of jewelry or sum of money might have been duplicated or even excelled by q gift of similac character from any American million aire--for whose wealth the Kaiser ire quently expressed the utmost contempt but what could surpass the value of an autograph of the Kaiser!
 No doubt the royal banquets
 were prepared much upon the same
 principle, for it was common say
 ing among the German arfstocracy
 that one had better feed well be-
 fore going to banquet at the
 palace.
 happened to mention to the
 Kaiser the reputation his banquets
 held among his people. He was not
 ataalI taken aback.
 1That,s goOdw he commented.
 "The Germans are too fat, anyway.
 The majority of the people eat too
 much.
 Long after automobiling became more or less general, the Kaiser still employed a horse and carriage for ordinary traved, relying upon his free use Of the railways for longer dis tances. When, however, the Reichstag passed a law compelling royalty to pay for their railroad travel, the Kaiser toolgs to automobiles. They charged him T 900 marks, he told me, for the ,lse of a train on one of his shooting trips. and that apparently was more lndIlp nc CUulu
 "Autos are expensive" he declared, ''butsthey don't cost me that muchn'
 KEEPING A CHAUFFEUR
 When the Kaiser came to hire head chauffeur, he wanted the best man he could find. A man named Weber, who had Nbeen employed by an American millionaire, was recommended to him. Perhaps the Kaiser figured that the privilege of working for him was in itself liberal remuneration. Certain it was sthat the salary he offered Weber would never have satisfied chauffeur who had been accustomed to the Amer icanE scale of compensation, and the Kaiser would undoubtedly have had to get another man had not the motor car company whose models the Kaiser was using and who thought it would be a wise policy, literally speaking, to have "a friend at court" agreed to pay Weber a large sum each year in addi- tion to what the Kaiser offered him if he would take the position. lie took it. I have this story on the au- thority of one of the directors of the motor car company in question.
 The Kaiser speaks English with bu1 the slightest trace of a foreign accent His Sdiction is perfect. He speaks French, too, very fiuently, and. I be- lieve. Italian. He is widely read or almost all sujects and knows the lit erature of England, France and Amer ica as we'll as that of Germany Mark Twain was one of his favorite Amer iean Tauthors and Longfellow his choice of American poets
 He brides himself on his acquain- tance with history and has little re-