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

"New Guinea Is the latest instance" replied. From an apparently un- based report in a British trade paper our accomplishments in native rule are not anything to boast of"
 "Humph!" snorted the Crown Prince. "The whole trouble with our colonies is due to the pater's rotten selection of governors more than any thing else. Every new one he appoints is more and more of 'bounder.' He could learn a lot from the English in that respect.
 Speaking of New Guinea, it pleas ed me to hear that one of our colo nists, at least, knows how to deal with the natves. This fellow was both cred by the thievery of the natives. He ambushed four of them one night re- gently and killed the whole lot. Since their heads have been sticking up on posts at the four corners of his plan tation, he hasn't been bothered at all. That's the only way to, handle your | dark skinned people - bleed them white"
 I hastily changed the subject to spare my wife from any further reel tai of the proper way to handle the natives.
 Humiliating Wilhelm. It is my honest conviction that not even the crushing defeat of Germany in this war will penetrate the vanity of Wilhelm. His sense of the theat- rica1 will somehow or other manage | to turn humiliation into something creditable in the eyes of his people. In this connection, will tell very significant anecdote that came to my own personal observation as a guest of the Kaiser upon the royal yacht Hohenzollern. Just before entering a Norwegian port on the cruise. the yacht had picked up an old Norwe- gian pilot by name, Nordhaus. We had been off land for two days and the Kaiser was in a hurry to go ashore.
 When old Nordhaus signalled 'half speed" to the engine-room,I noticed the Kaiser frown heavily. But when he slowed the yacht down to ''quar- ter" the familiar glitter of intense ir- ritation leaped to the eyes of Will helm. Then, he stepped deliberate 1y in front of the old pilot and turned the indicator handle around to full speed"
 Many times thereafter did silently toast Nordhaus for the true blood of the Vikings must have flowed in the veins of the old Norwegian. | For Nordhaus without a glance at Wilhelm, or a ''by your leave" jump ed to the engine room telephone.
 Pilot Defies Kaiser.
 "Give me quarter speed, quarter speed!" he ordered in German. And do not pay any more heed to that in- dicator Take all orders over this tel ephone."
 | If Norway had declared war on Ger many by dropping a shell on the bridge where the Kaiser and the pilot stood in full view and hearing of my self and the officers present, we could not have been more amazed. Your novelist would have visualized Wilhelm as speeches.. But as mat ter of reality never knew of any sit- uation that left him speechless. | 'Nordhaus leave the bridge and re- port yourself to my captain under ar resi-" Wilhelm ordered, unhesitating- 1y.
 We waited for the spectacle of the pilot sinking away in disgrace while our great Emperor guided the yacht in over a channel of which he had no more knowledge than I had.
 Imagine our surprise to hear the old pilot ejaculate angrily:
 ''No! I will not leave the bridge. not even for an Emperor. This ship is under my charge, and not even the Emperor may presume to counter mand my orders or direct me to leave it."
 Personally I did not know at the time just what were the proper ethics of the occasion. One glance at the compiacent faces of the officers on the bridge enlightened me On those of several were faint indications of the merriment that was struggling for ex- p1osion within.
 Kaiser's Vanity Triumphs.
 Nevertheless, they were surprised to see the Kaiser permit the old pilot to gain his justifiable point. Wilhelm strutted off the bridge with wonder ful calm-for him.
 But was the Imperial vanity squelched by the affair? Decidedly