The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-11

and the English of being ruled by Mammon, but that ne himself was not totally unmindful of the value and power of money was clearly revealed by the manner in which he catered to people of wealth in recent years.
 The richest man in Berlin and one or the richest in Germany was a Hebrew coal magnate named Friedlander. The Kaiser ennobled him and made him Won Friedlander-Fuld Another wealthy He brew to whom the Kaiser catered was Schwabach, head of the Bleichroeder bank. one of the strongest private banks in Germany, and he, too was ennoeled, becoming Von Schwabach.
 A number of other wealthy Hebrews in Germany were also honored by the Kaiser in another way. Although he was averse to visiting the homes of private individuals who lacked social standing, he departed from this rule in their favor and visited their mansions ostensioly to view their art collections, but actually to tickle their vanity.
 COMPLIMENTS MISS LEISHMAN
 Shortly after Leishman became am bassador to Germany, the Kaiser called on me
 Your new ambassador's daughter is the best looking young lady who has attended our court in many day" he declared. Half a dozen of my young staff officers are very anxious to marry her. Can you tell me, Davis, whether these Leishmans have money"
 If the Kaiser despised the American propensity for money making, he was certainly not averse to acquiring American dollars.
 He told me once that every trip the Hamburg American liner -Amerika" made from New York to Hamburg re- sulting in transferring Sl50,ooo from American to German pockets. and added: We're mighty glad to get some Of your American money, l can tell you.
 EVIDENCE OF VERSATILITY
 Of the Kaiser's versatility l had con- vincing evidence In his conversations with me we usually wandered from sub
 feet to subject in the most haphazard manner, and he invariably displayed a surprising store of information on every
 topic we touched, and l am not vain enough to believe that he was so anxious to make a favorable impression upon me that he prepared for these discussions IT advance. Indeed, the Kaiser discussed so freely almost every subject that suggested IL self that I often wondered what his ad' visors would have said had they over heard our conversations. His readiness
 to talk to me was undoubtedly due to 8 tendency he had to trust everyone witf whom he came in intimate contact. Foi q man who was apt to have so many en- emies, he was less suspicious than ony. one had ever met. He seemed to trus everyone, and his sense of security un' Soosened his tongue and made him more tsAkative perhaps, than was always dls crSet.
 Iy,n n listening to and telling stories with fl uoint and would frequently in vite me to tell him any new one that I might have heard. Some of the stories we exchanged were more or less risque and would he ] out of place in these pages, but | do not mean to intimate that there was anything very much amiss l with them. They always amused him very much and he was quick to catch the point.
 l He told me story once that he thought was particularly good:
 1 A father and son were sitting in beel garden drinking. They had had perhaps more than they could we'll handle, wher the son asked:
 1 "Father, how will I know when Tn drunk?"
 l ..When those two men sitting on yon' 1 der seat look like four men to you" tho father replied, then, my son, you VII
 know that you are drunk" "But, father" the son replied, ther' 1 is but one man on that seat!' :! Speaking of intemperance suggests | word or two about the Kaiser's habit ] in that respect. He told me that To wears the strongest drink he had In dulged in was an apple champagne whicl contained no alcohol, and which was spe l cially prepared for him. The reason 10 his abstinence was given to me by on of my patients who was in position t know whereof he spoke.
 He said that when the Kaiser was | younger man he had been accustomed t Iindulge in strong liquors and sometime
 drank to excess. On one occasion, while