Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-06

impetus from the TACT THAT the--iate
Grand Duke of Baden's sufferings
We're diagnosed as cancer His Royal
HIghness was the husband of a
Prussian Princess, granddaughter OF
Queen Louise and sister of the late
frederick III, the Kaiser's sire. Both
queen Louise and Frederick died of
cancer, and the physicians hold that
the Grand Duchess Louise transmit
TED the curse to her husband, as an
other Prussian Princes, more direct
~. carried insanity into the House of
Wittelsbach.
Kaiser's EpiIeptic Fits
The Kaiser is an epileptic, but as
warnings, in the shape Of certain
peculiar sensations, usually preced-
ed his spells, 1t has been possible to
restrict the knowledge of this un-
royal affiiction to his family circle,
the highest officials, and to members
OF the household.
AS long ago as the midsummer of
1891, the Kaiser was found in his
dressing room at the Neues Palais.
lying unconscious across a fallen arm
chair, which he had knocked down
IN toppling over. The chambermaid
Amelia discovered her master when,
receiving no answer to repeated
knocks she entered the room in
pursuit of hen duties. You can
imagine the hubbub that ensued.
The girl, not satisfied with alarm
ing the men servants. brought all
the women, from Empress to scul-
lion. to the scene by her lamen-
tations.
At first the cry went forth that His
Majesty had been murdered; stimuli
taneously the theory of suicide was
orN@
tors arrived, they found two of the
wardrobemen engaged in pouring
cognac down the Kaiser's thoat.
Cognac of the twenty-five marks a
bottle brand is always kept in the
Emperor's private rooms to liven
him up when he feels faint. The
servants thought they were doing
| the correct thing and were incon-
| solable on hearing of the danger
| involved by such heroic treatment
However, as at the same time they
! had opened the Kaiser's locked
teeth and pulled his tongue into
place, they had done something to
relieve the poor man. ..s..
The other attack happened at the
Berlin Schloss, also in the Kaiser's
| own chamber and in the presence of
| one of his wardrobemen. The attend
ing physical circumstances were the
| same, and so was, curiously enough
the explanation to the household by
| Court Marshal Eulenburg.
'His Majesty has a peculiar way
| of throwing himself backward into
an armchair" he said. HE throws
himself into a chair with full force
and 1t Is not to be wondered at that
a chair breaks down under him
| occasionally"
The Emperor himself, after each
stroke, talked at table of the ID
| worm -eaten chairs that were con-
sidered good enough to be placed in
his chamber. The idea that any
Court Marshal would assign infirm
pieces of furniture to William-t the
Spendthrift is almost too preposter-
Gus for mention.
| Nalady Assumes Aggravated Form,
am told the Kaiser's malady has
or late, taken a more aggravated
| form, the premonitory sensations
having ceased. The faIIing-sickness
comes upon him suddenly and, as in
the two instances noted, he lapses
into insensibility without a moments
notice when grand NAL takes hold OF
MIN. He is, therefore, in more i'm :
mlnent danger, on account of tba
rails peculiar to the disease. thar
before, and as a precautionary meas
ure all porcelain vases with cut flow
efs were long ago removed from his
rooms. Ills
ITO Be Confipuo5 r,1