Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18

| SaVeu InG DANISH Court q pot OF
money besides, for the Kaiser's suite
! was seldom less than sixty head
| strong, even when he travelled in
semi-state. Imagine that gang. with
! appetites whetted by sea-voyage,
descending upon the little island
| Court, which, though not ashamed
| to exhibit it's cocoanut mating In
| the royal corridors and it's crazy
| little oil-lamps before the immensely
wealthy Russians, must needs
brush up and go on to no end or
expense to make as good a showing
| as possible before these shoddy Ber-
liners. Besides. the Kaiser always
expected that some military or naval
display would be especially arranged
| for him.
But not only poor kings, like
Chrlstlan, objected to these imperial
invasions; at Rome and Vienna. not
TO mention the small German courts,
the cry, The Prussians are COM
| ing!" was sure to cause a panic.
| once the Kaiser returned in high
dudgeon from Vienna. whittier he
mad gone unexpectedly to attend the
funeral of Archduke Albrecht. AL
brecht had been a good hater of
Prussia all his life. and if his ideas
had prevailed in 1S70-1S71 Austria
| would have fallen foul of the Prus-
sian rear and flank.
This had been repeatedly discuss
ed in the press, and, in view of the
circumstance, Emporer Francis Jo-
seph Was loath to invite the Kaiser
| to the funeral. But William argued:
here is an event upon which the
| eyes of the world will be riveted
| Tor day at least,-a pompous fun
eral,-where one may cut a figure"
William rushed off to Austria pell-
nell, but not without having pre-
Niousiy instructed the overSeer OF
| the official Scribes, to proclaim from
| the housetops that the German EN-
peror had magnanimously forgotten
all about the late ArchdulSe's evil
| intentions, and had gone to pay his
| imperial respects to the dead foe.
! The first effect of Wilhelms sur
prise party was the withdrawal from
| the obsequies of the dead mans
brother-in-law, the Bavarian Prince
Regent. Luitpold, had no ambition
to walk behind William. The Hof-
burg officials were thrown into the
utmost confusion.
The place of chief mourner had
! peen reserved for Francis Joseph;
now there were two kaisers to be
| treated with equal distinction.
From Funeral to Vaudeville
| However, the funeral passed off
without a hitch; but William soon
| found that Francis Joseph, was not
! in the humor to talk politics. He
would neither argue about Faure,
| nor about the question of the re-
newal of the Triple Alliance.
This the Emperor himself report
ed on coming home, blaming, every
body but himself for the rebuffs ex-
NnW,sn !. i Aa1I
| (the Empress learned of it later
through her brother, who had it
| from the Princess Philip of CO.
burg) was that Francis Joseph
| treated him with so much GOODNESS
| that His Majesty left his apartments
| in the Hofburg and took up his
| quarters with Philip Eulenburg, at
| the German Embassy, where the OBJ
| jcct of the visit was lost sight of at
an informal dinner enlivencd ~
songs and dances where hired
vaudeville stars and the ambassa-
dorial troubadour himself per-
formed.
And that happened a year after
William had called Francis Joseph,
at Pola, my best friend, with whom
I am united in sincerest friendship,
and who is my most loyal compan-
| lOu III Inc hluS 0dAOIly
had to act as peacemaker between
the two Emperors.
How the Kaiser Treated Chancellor
5.g Caprivi
"As a querulous and obstreperous
servant" Chancellor Won Caprivi was
sent back into obscurity-and
Prince Hohenlohe (Uncle Chold-
wig) was appointed in his stead,
| whereupon our palace once more
became a place where one could eat
and sleep in comfort, go to bed at
! stated hours, and set about ones
morning toilet without fear of being
| called away at the most inoppor-
| tune moment to decipher des-
patches, run errands completely out
of ones sphere, or help to dry the
royal mistress's tears.
1t looked so at least, but courtiers
| propose, and our dear relations dis
| pose. Hohenlohe had not been in
office a week when the fifty-six
other Hohenlohes (find them enum-
Grated in the Almanach de Gotha)
fortified and backed by their one
| hundred and siXty-odd grandmoth-
ers. mothers, aunts, wives, ana
daughters, began pestering their
Majesties with illusions to the great
discrepancy between their kins-
mans modest stipend as chancellor
and his big salary as Emperor's lieu
tenant in Alsace,-a difference of a
round hundred thousand marks
($25,000) per annum.
t. a.