Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
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Epistles of this sort kept Auguste
Victoria in a turmoil, the Emperor
, having refused to be disturbed after
perusing one or two of the kind.
Thereafter letters postmarked
from any city or place where the
damned Hohenlohe curmudgeons
reside" had to be delivered to the
Kaiserin, whether addressed to Will
liam personally or not.
The adiutants left rags of that
kind by the handful morning after
morning at the Empress's rooms,
and Her Majesty's morbid curiosity,
made her not only notice these
grievances and accusations. but study
them, ponder over them. Only once
have l seen her unconcerned when
thus employed,-at the suggestion
that Uncle Chlodwig needed a biS
salary. in order to live in the style
befitting his rank.
Uncle Chlodwig a pauper! she
cried. That is news. indeed; a
poor man owning residential palaces
in several capitals. and castles and
country-houses all over Germany
and in AUSTRIA"
Princes Arc Above the Law
"Of course, the statement is ridi-
culous," said Baron Won Mirbach;
but it is a fact, nevertheless, that
His Grace has been sorely disap-
pointed with respect to his Russian
properties, or rather his wife's Rus
sion inheritance, the Wittgenstein
domains. The law prohibiting for
eigners from holding property in
Russia has forced him to dispose OF
many miles of territory at ruinous
prices"
Il know" said the Empress. "and
am glad that the Kaiser promised
TO intervene with the Car on that
account. 'Nicky,' l am sure, will
arrange matters satisfactorily.
The Princes relatives seem to
know nothing of such an under
standing" l remarked
"Of course not replied Her Ma
jesty, for il is a state secret which,
when l come TO think of ii, l should
have more respected. But now that
it is out, let me add that my hus-
bands promise TO secure a favorable
settlement OF those Russian affairs
did more than all other arguments
toward persuading the Prince to ac-
cept the ChanCellorship."
Poor Nicky. He was tireless in
arranging unlawful matter for his
relatives and friends. Indeed he
worked at that game until he him.
self was made an end of-lawfully
or unlawfully, no one seems to know
at this writing.
on the eve of the day when the
Kaiser said at the Swearing-ln OF
recruits: by donning the King :
coat you have become something
aristocratic." an unsigned letter ad-
monished him in this style:
Your Majesty ought really not he
so hard on Hohenlohe on the salary
question, considering that you have
but to ask your wife'S mother about
the good uses Hohenlohe makes of
his wealth. Indeed if it had not
been for Cousin Chlodwig.' the
Duchess Adelaide and her children,
among them the present German
Empress, might have gone hungry
many day while the Augusten-
burger was fighting for his throne"
That evening the princely couple
of Meiningen. Duke Gunther and
the hereditary Princess of Hohen-
ZOllern, look supper Ut 'Oull' ana
10 these relatives the Kaiser showed
the letter.
II am thinking about ways and
means to stifle this new scandal"
he explained. The report-whethe er
true or not is immaterial-tha the
German Empress's mother accepted
charity from a Hohenlohe must not
he allowed to spread. and I see but
one way to prevent it: those salary
grabbers must be appeased: the in
come of Emperor's lieutenant must
be restored to the Chancellor.
'I am going to grant Hohenlohe an
annual augmentation Of his salary.
amounting to one hundred thousand
marks out of the imperial emer-
Eency fund"
This was fund appropriated by
the Reichstag for the benefit of Grip
pied soldiers. widows. and orphans.
and of the victims of fire. storm. and
elementary misfortuncS." and the
Kaiser gave one-twentiCth part of II
To his rich and able bodied uncle.
Some three months later the
Berlin Post, known as the or
gan of the foreign ministries, pub
lished story purportins to correct a
paragraph printed in an obscure
Socialistic sheet, limiting at A conspir.
acy between Kaiser and Chancellor
to defraud n public fund And. with
the clumsness that distinguishes the
official press. the Post. denied the