The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-11

! Huntsmen to mark that little boar with a twisted tusk, a gift from my good friend, the Count, for mounting as trophy" l became potential as- sassin on the. spot I was young at the time and inclined to be hot-head- ed so that it required few days to i elapse before I could see the funny side of the situation.
 Not long afterward I was bidden to another hunting party. There was no alternative but go and join the party. This day, however, nothing special in the way of sport turned up and the Kaiser grew tired. He noted my presence.
 'tAh, my good friend,'' he sang out, twill you wait for me in the lodge? I wish to know what success you are experiencing with your barley" AL ways inclined toward agriculture I had been experimenting with some drought-resisting barleys, the seeds of which had been sent to the African colonies.
 Rude to His Guest. I remained in the lodge where the Kaiser joined me a few minutes later. He listened attentively to my report and expressed a hope that the barley would endure drought in Africa as well as they were doing on my estate. Then he remembered that his forest CTS had been experimenting with a new kind of chemically treated ce- ment on the decaying trees. Instant ly, his interest was removed from my affairs.
 The Kaiser and I strolled through the forest noting the eficacious work of the cement. The forest was so thick that we had little opportunity for conversation. It was growing late as we suddenly stepped out of the forest into a little clearing on a crag of hill that overhung the fork of two of the game preserve roads. Even a less imaginative being than the Kaiser would have been struck by the dramatic effect of suddenly emerging from dense forest onto an over hanging crag that surveyed the ter rain in. the distance for several miles.
 All the ego of the Kaiser rushed to the surface at the moment.
 What a place from which to re- :, view my hunting guests!" he exclaim- ed. His guests were then passing along the road below on their way back to the lodge.
 They Cannot See Us on the Cliff.
 Strange I have never noticed it from the road. It must be that the light is so bad here. Yes, that is what the trouble is. They cannot see us even as clearly as we see them" It was clearly obvious that the Kaiser was disappointed that his guests did not observe him as he stood there, tru- ly as though the whole world lay at the foot of the crag and as though that whole world were passing before him in review.
 May I venture a suggestion, your Majesty" I asked. As I set these words down now it is to smile at the recollection of the graciousness of His MaJesty's assent.
 ''I think 1t is the dense shadow from that big tree on the next point that makes it so dark here" explained. Do you not see that the sun is di- rectly behind it at this hour? The re- movaI of that out-reaching limb on
 
 an hour of sunshine, but, as a practi- cal forester, I should warn you that doing so would destroy the balance of the tree so much that the next heavy storm would probably topple it over to the left. It already inclines that way, and
 The Kaiser raised his hand in inter ruption.
 Remove That Branch. 'There are several hundred thou sand more trees like that in the Black Forest" he said, ''but not one other lookout to compare with this. My sin- cere thanks for the suggestion. I will have it carried out" And so, the ob- scuring limb was removed. The mu- tilated tree went down the following winter as I knew it must.
 My lookout now will have three 1 hours of sunlight instead of one. was glad to see the tree go'' the Kali , ser told me during the following spring.
 [ A simple occurrence but tremen-
 dously significant in its small way. The Kaiser has never permitted any thing to stand up in the way of his sunlight.
 For my suggestion I enjoyed the royal favor to a greater degree than ) ever solely because the crag gave the
 Kaiser another opportunity to flatter
 his vanity. For here it was that he had himself photographed over and
 over again, standing on the crag in every conceivable world -conquering' | eraZ in the distance His stagecraft had
 seized upon the crag as an ideal To-
 cation for Lord of Creation over looking his own handiword. Neverthe-
 less, at the time, I was highly pleased to receive one of these photographs : Autographed.
 ''That Lord of Creation Effect!" The Lord of Creation" effect was g so stagey, however, that all Germany e except Prussia, dubbed the photo s "Ajz defying the Lightning" Incidentally the Crown Prince very g unfilially repeated that same charac- l terization of the photo during one of his few visits to my home. In Amer e ican slang he might impress my t American wife with his wide knowl- = edge of English-he said:
 Serves the batter right to have this = thing kidded as Alag Defying the y Lightning He looks like ten . twent-thirt ham actor in that pose. e But he'd die if the pictorials didn't : play him up in the limelight like this
 Maybe it's good publicity but not for y mine. (Strangely enough, the Grown e Prince is not fond of posing before the y camera.)