Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17

an act after what had happened
I'm Constantinoplcj but Hohenlohe,
afraid of the scandal sure to ensue,
persuaded Baron Saurma to with
draw his threat, and so the presenta-
tion took place with due ceremony
isfaction.
Subsequently there was talk that
the Kaiser was we'll paid for his
good offices to tho Sultan. Five
million francs were said to have
come from the Tschersgan Serai, to
the Schloss, and our oourtmarshals,
hoping to profit by this sudden
windfall. were in q happy mood in
consequences; but their prevailing
penury was not relieved. and the
customary offering OF the Padishah
arrived as In former years. only
moro promptly. Abdul sent William
and our lord repaid his autocratic
colleague with some of the choice
product of Trakehnen stud.
Women Don't Understand about
Numbering Subjects
Women do not understand about
these thingss," was the Bmperor's
rejoinder when Her Majesty object
ed to having her likeness and that of
the children sent to the wholesale
murderer of Christians" What do
women know about being consequent
tial? These Armenians were rebels,
and my friend, the Sultan, treated
them as l would treat a mob oppos-
ing my authority, any day"
But" pleaded Her Majesty, MAR
schall tells me it was primarily a
religious riot, the Mussulmans fall
ing on the Giaurs and killing them
off like so many sheep"
The Kaiser shrugged his shoulders.
II am shepherd of the Lutheran
Christians in Prussia" he said. "those
in foreign lands must take care of
themselves"
And later he sent Prince Heinrich
on the new crusade, to uphold the
Cross and punish the slayers of
Christians in China"
But, then, William had never dined
with the Son of Heaven, and that
worthy'S Viceroy, Ii Hung Chang,
when he visited Germany, utterly
failed to live up to Williams expecta-
tions.
KaiSer's Loose Tongue
The craze to "show off, is egoiSm
on its hind legS,--a very different
brand from the harmless amusement
William found in pronouncing toasts
L
drink to the health of the Queen of
Great Britain and Ireland, Empress
of India, Chief of my First Guard
Dragons" or even from the speech
the Kaiser made in deposing Count
Waldersee as Chief of the General
Staff, when he insinuated that, by
burylnS him in the province where
Her Majesty, the Empress, first saw
the light" royal honors (instead of a
slighD were conferred.
Some of our courtiers excused all
the Kaiser did on the plea of impul-
siveness, a condition which they take
to be an attribute of genius. Wheth-
er his egotistical brutality broke
up a banquet, as it did when he drove
to the Casino of the Guard Dra-
goons merely to say that as Counts
Herbert and Wilhelm Bismarck
were in attendance, he, the Kai-
ser, preferred to eat at home, or
whether he spoiled family reunion
by revising the guests list,-whether
he imperiled future politics by ac-
cusing Crown Prince to his father
or by making ill-natured remarks
about another heirs bride-elect,-
these complaisant clawbacks said the
sovereign must neither be blamed
nor criticized.
But woe to others assuming like
privileges! There was Nicholas
Czar-to-be of all the Russias, but
merely gay young gentleman when
a visitor at our Court.
Insulted by the Gar
No wonder a week OF state ban
quets and parades, and parades and
state banquets, made him long for
less formal amusements.
On the evening when the Kaiser
and kaiserin and the rest of the
nations great were expecting His
Imperial IIighness at the palace of
the Russian Ambassador, he sent his
regrets, adding that he was enjoying
himself so hugely, it would be a
shame to break up his party.
Kaiser Sighted. He Couldn't Believe
1t PosSible!
AS we sat down without the guest
of honor, Williams face was a study:
wrath, tempered by surprise, was
pictured in every line of il. He
showed his annoyance, yet seemed to
be incredulous of the slight offered.
AS Her Majesty expressed it, he
thought for a time it was all a joke;
that any one in his sober senses
should dare to affront him, he re-
fused to believe.
However, even before Roman
PuSch was served, everybody in the