Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07

first-class Iron Gross for a second
class wound"
Certain it is, as Mr.. Gerard so clev-
erly pointed out at Carnegie Hall,
the safest risk any insurance COM
pany could write would be a policy
on the lives of the Kaiser's six sons,
and, he might have added, the Kali
ser himself might have been thrown
in without adding much to the COM
bined premium.
AS he limped into my office, the
young Prince-he is now only twen-
ty-eight-remarked See what one
of your damned American bullets
did to mel"
How do you know it was an
American bullet?" l aske ed.
The Russians have nothing else"
How the Russians ever got a
chance to reach him if he were even
half as afraid of their bullets as he
was of dental work, / can't conceive.
All the time he was in my office he
kept nervously twisting a front lock
of hair.
l tried to draw him out on politi-
cal questions, but he showed no in
clination to discuss them.
81 know nothing about politics,
a great many other people paid less
attention to them" He didn't inl-
press me as knowing much about
anything.
told him on one occasion that
the people were complaining of the
food shortage.
They have food enough" he an
swered. The best thing they do
is to complain! Don't they complain
in America? The fact is they have
too much to eat, anyway. They
don't know what they want"
The Kaiser's only daughter, Prin-
cess Victoria Louise, was the first Of
her family to come to me outside of
the Kaiser. Very peculiar rumors
were circulated about her when she
was a girl. and they persisted right
up to the time of her marriage. 1t
was said variously that she had a
cleft palate; that she was tongue
tied; that she was a deaf mute; that
she suffered from other physical de-
ficiencies.
was very much interested to find,
therefore, that none of these rumors
had the slightest foundation. She
was a most charming young woman,
always acting most graciously to-
ward me. She reminded me of the
children. Shortly after the war
started I asked her how long she
thought it would last.
'It can't be over too soon for me, "
she replied. II have a husband ana
six brothers in it, you know; but I'm
afraid it will last long time
On one of her last visits to me she
came with her husband, the Duke of
| Cumberland, who said he would like
to speak to me privately.
/ took him into an adjoining room
and he asked me not to tell, any
member of the royal family that he
had been to see me.
l was rather surprised at his re-
quest, but of course agreed to COM
ply with his wishes.
"You understand, don't you? Not
single member of the royal fam
ily!" he repeated, as he kissed the
Duchess good-by and drove away.
The mystery of the incident was
cleared up a few days later when an
opera singer who had been a guest
at Braunschweig, the seat of the
Duke of Cumberland, told me that
while he was singing at the local
opera house there there had been a
great demonstration in front OF the
Dukes palace. The crowd demanded
that the Duke return to the front Mt
once.
"Our sons and fathers have to
fight" they shouted. you've been
here too long. Go back to the mon
at the front or bring them back
home"
Evidently the Kaiser had given his
son-in-law explicit instructions TO
keep out of the public sight, and
the Duke didn't want it known tnat
he had disobeyed to the extent of
calling with his wife to see me in
Berlin!"