Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23

couldn't fetch the pad of telegraph
blanks quickly enough.
When Francis Ferdinand had been
a doomed man for a week or ten days
(of course he didn't know 1t, poor
chap, the Crown Prince one evening
interrupted a poker game in his bach
elor quarters at the Marble Palace.
Get me Huelsen. on the double quick ~
he said to his adjutant, throwing down
his cards.
"Huelsen," he ordered in his most
imperious style after the connection
had been effected, II want you to be
put on Diplomacy on Wednesday at
the very latest"
There was considerable buzzing,
Euelsen replying no doubt, but Willie
hung up, the receiver The director of
the royal playhouse had his orders and
the Crown Prince wasn't interested in
what the director might have to say
on the subject,
HohenzoIlerns Big Eaters
Not to miss one of their five consti-
tutional meals day-five. count 'em !!
the imperial family had tea and
sandwiches served to them between acts
at the theater. During the first act of
Diplomacy" William, Jr., had talked
to the Kaiser off and on, commenting
particularly on the woman spy, and
during the repast he continued his Ill
Illuminating talk" as he termed his va
porings
The Kaiser seemed to pay more at
tention to Willie than usual, affecting
the thoughtful mien which characteriZes
most of his portraits. Suddenly he put
down his cup and beckoned to me.
Baroness" he whispered, as, stand
ing behind his chair. / bent over him,
make haste and call up Daisy. Tell
her to start for Berlin instantly. No,
the midnight train will do" Git was then
9 o'clock). IT have got a mission for
her; special ambassadress. Make her
mouth water, you know"
But" boldly suggested, wouldn't
the Princess be more eager still II
Majesty in person did the talking?"
"Of course she would, any pretty
woman would."-I was being backed by
William, Jr., who probably had a favor
to ask of papa. Call her yourself,
father" he added
"And have the whole castle know
what's what?" demanded the Kaiser.
Mind your own business, Willie, and
you Baroness" He was going to say
something rude, but at that moment the
operator sigpalled that the line to Pless
was clear. l hurriedly left the table to
go to the booth. (All wires and lines,
favored by the Kaiser, had to be aban-
doned by operators and officials the mo-
ment William indicated that he desired
to speak himself or by deputy.
was explaining his Majesty's orders
to the Princess Pless for the second
time, when William, Jr., burst in, Tell
her. never mind Court dress-traveling
outfit, tailormade and half dozen
semi-evening gowns will do
"But what does it all mean?" asked
Daisy, when had transcribed the order
to her.
"a hurried trip to her old country"
whispered William, Jr, into my ear.
"But secrecy, dead secrecy, Kaiser's
most stringent orders. We will have
her ears. tell her, IL she breathes q
word even to her lap dog"
Daisy, Princess Pess. born Mary
Theresa Olivia CORVALLIS West. of
Ruthin Castle. England, was then forty
one years old and no longer the great
beauty over whom the illustrated pa
pers raved when she was girl at home.
And though her husbands royal estate
at Pless is one of the finest on the con-
tinent and though the castle is set in
romantic and even poetic environment,
more than twenty years of German life
had eoarsened her in looks as we'll as
in manner. German royalty, after
which she patterned, is rough-shod,
oVer-feeding and over-weening. Titled
attendants, like myself, are treated with
sarcasm at court; the ordinary run of
servants is used worse than beasts of
burden.
"Why shout at the man." asked the
Prince of Wales, afterwards King Ed
ward, when on visit to Berlin, he
heard his imperial nephew bawl at
a lackey; "he isn't deaf, Is he?"
you don't understand, uncle It's
customary here to rave at servants, so
they know who is the master"
Wilhclm's Special Ambassadress in
London
In May, 1914. we find wilhelm's spe-