12 is Your House a Home —or is it a collection of brick walls, carpets, chairs and tapestries? Mck- it a home by serving for breakfast Shredded Wheat, the food of health and strength. Being ready-cook ed it is so easy to prepare a delicious meal with Shredded Wheat in a few minutes. Contains all the goodness of the whole wheat better than porridges for children or grown-ups. Made at Niagara Deaths and Funerals THOMAS J. MOORE HIES ~ APTER" LINGERING IULNESS Word was received here to-day thai I Thomas J. Moore, charter member of i the Engineers' Society of Pennsyl-1 vania with headquarters at Front and Chestnut streets, and known by many businessmen here, died yesterday roorn'ng at Atlantic City wheer he had ! gone to res«in his health after a ling- i er:ng illness. Mr. Moore was general manager at \ t' e Philadelphia brartih office of the lialcomb Steel Company, and lived in t'oiUnswood. X. J. He was a frequent visi'.ot here. Funeral services will be held r.t his home in Collinswood. SAMUEL F. FIRST Samuel F. First. Aged 29. an em-; ploye of the Pennsylvania railroad, i died to-day at the home of his father. Samuel First. 612 Peft'er street. Fu- 1 neral services will be held at Thursday morning at 10.30 o'clock at the home.! ihe Rev. A. M. Staniets. pastor of i Augsburg' Lutheran Church officiating, i Burial will be made at the East Har rlsburg cemetery. He is survived by his father and three sisters. Mrs. Rmma G. Gunden and Mrs. Lillian M. 1 E. Shore, this city, and Mrs. Shoop. Auburn. X. Y. EX-PATROLMAN DIES Richard Reese, a former patrolman, constable of the Seventh ward, and widely known here, died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jeffer son S. Hargest. Riverside. Mr. Reese < was 85 years old. He was a patrolman i in the city under Mayor John A. Fritchey during his first term. He is survived by one daughter. Mrs. Har-' gest. and one son. Harry Reese. Sixth and Woodbine streets. Funeral ser vices will be held Wednesday after noon at 2 o'clock at the home of his daughter. Burial will be made at the : East Harrisburg cemetery. MRS. VESTA A. ROVER Mrs. Vesta A. Boyer. aged S2. widow : of William H. Boyer.' died yesterday at her home. 408 South Nineteenth streets. She is survived by one daugh ter, Mrs. Caroline Jones, this city, and one son, George W. Weidell. of Phila delphia. The funeral will be held at; the home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. J. t>. W. Deavor. pas-, tor. pastor of Epwortli Methodist | fhurch officiating. HALIFAX VETERAN DIES Sfecial to the TeJegrcfh Halifax. Feb. 7.—Following the death ot his daughter. Mrs. Frank Lebo. at Waynesville. Friday, William H. Lebo. a veteran of the Civil War. died at his home here Saturday. He was a justice of the peace and for many years was borough treasurer. Funeral services will be held Wednes day. 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EMPEROR WILLIAM CON TRASTING PERSO From Day His Father Died and He Penned His Mother in j Jail, Kaiser Has Exhibited Diverse Temperament —V With the Gennui Emperor loom ing larger than any other man In the ayes of the world at the mo ment, Octave Mlrboau'a pen por trait of hi in becomes of unusual interest. It was published in the •'American Magaiine" two years before the war began and is here reproduced in full by permission of the editor of the magazine. By OCTAVE MIRBEAC Translated and Arranged by A<ja and Jalian Street. One does not really feel the fatigue ' iof a ten hours' run in a motorcar : until one's feet sink into the cream , and red roses of a hotel carpet. Then things begin to whirl In a blinding sort of way. and one staggers. This was my condition when, com- ' . ing into the corridor of a German hotel, I encountered my friend Von | B . a German baron whom I have often met in his own country, but more frequently In Paris. "I have Just come from Essen In , my motor," said Von B . "Let's dine together." Twenty minutes after our meeting we were at table. I know no better companion than | Baron Von B . Not only is he par ticularly well Informed on German af i fairs, but he is able to discuss them in excellent French. After lecturing on philosophy in a famous university, he has retired to practice it. He ts ! young, shrewd, diplomatic, brilliant i and—what interests me particularly— he has access to the German Emperor. I do not know whether it Is his birth ' or his work which has given him this | privilege, though I think I have heard • him say he was William's fellow stu- j dent at the University of Bonn. When I nsked him to talk about the ; Kaiser he drew from a pail of ice a bottle of Moselle, in its dusty dress, and filled our gl?sses with the spark- j I ling wine, which makes a pretty little > noise in the mouth like the sea upon ; pebbles. "The Kaiser?" he repeated, after a moment's silence. "I feel rather em- j i barrassed about discussing him with you. Don't you see one may think one J understands :* man but one never knows him completely—especially a man of his caliber and position—and ; • one always runs the ripk iff being un- | just, and—oh. well —the devil!" He sipped his wine and presently I ; began: inflated With Success In order to understand our Emperor : one must remember that he dates from the time of what we Germans call the ; Gruenderzeit; that is. the period of the I founders, the conquererß-«--exeuse me ; —of the Franco-Prussian war. Rut though he dates from the Gruenderzeit we no longer date from it: that is, not i j all of us. Our men left for the frontier poor Prussians: they returned rich Ger mans. The period of multimillion aires dates from '7l: the very term itself first came into our language i then. Germany began to be built up. Inflated with success, we ate. drank ; and built. We built forts and cannon: > ports, ships and cannon: roads, canals and cannon; barracks, factories, pal aces and always cannon. Needing a capital for the empire we had just given ourselves, we rebuilt Berlin from end to end: and we have kept on building ever since. The taste 1 for colossal statues, giant universities, fortlike railway stations, cathedral- ' ! like shops, Valhalla cafes —all this i hyperbolic monumentalism dates from the Gruenderzeit. If the Gruen derzeit disappears, little by little, from the souls of men. It still lives in the souls of stones, and in the soul of William 11. who dates absolutely from these years of megalomania, inflation, uproar and cheap grandeur. He was very young in '7O. but one keeps all the ideas that were put in one's head before the age of 20. unless one has in one's self the material for the remoulding of those ideas, j William I, the "unforgettable grand- ' father." had none of this foolishness about him. He was by taste a simple country squire: by force of circum- I stances a conqueror. In Bismarck. Moltke and Boon he had ambitious servants who pressed him on. Did you i know that he crossed the Rhine gloomily, and that it seemed to him j an outrage to bombard Paris? They had to beg him: they even got out of 1 him by trickery the order to fire the first cannon. Ah. no! Poor old Wil liam never thought of multimillion aires! Success did not change him. There are grandfathers like him in a good many families: grandfathers in spite of themselves, continue to smoke , the same pipe and drink the same beer that they loved before their de- > but. Gives Father Xo Honor Frederick never spoke of his father's campaigns, and the brawlers of '7l were always displeased with his ! reticence. As for the present Wil liam. he gives his father scant honor, pushing him outside of history as an undutiful son sends his old mother to ' ' her bedroom because he doesn't con sider her dressed well enough to be seen. He reproaches his mother with her English blood and his father with 1 his imprudence, besides which he re- , proaches them jointly with the rickets, an afflication which makes his pride , sufTer cruelly. I am going to be indiscreet enough ' to tell you a little anecdote about Wil liam. It was told to me one night at ' Friedrlehsruhe by the late Bismarck. , who had been drinking. That is to say, that it can be believed, for there was never any one more brutally sincere than he was under the infiuence of , wine. Hardly had the old Chancellor told me the story which I am going to re late than 1 seemed to read In his stern face that he would have given any thing to have it unsaid. But he was not the man to openly regret an act— even a mistake—and he was too much an enemy of useless words to ask. after realizing his error, that I keep the story secret. Nevertheless, each time I have wanted to tell it I have seemed to see his flerv eyes in their, WHY DO Y6U SUFFER PAINFUL TWINGES? BackacSr, Headache. Lumbago, tane Back. Rhauniattc Palm. Stiff or Swob* jofate and Urinary Diaorden Qrieldr Yield to GUARANTEED TREATMENT FON KIDNEY COMPLAINTS Sohrai toti ritfit t» Ike teat of Hie Mbte. aidtag the Iddneyi ts pan off the Uric Add aad "arte that cam Rheamafcc tnfc»< aad other foinfcl symptom. Soothe* Md heal* the bladder and vdckly «ed» all Iddwydiwdm MONEY BACK IF IT FAILS Lead.*# DrugfMs Emywhoc. lad*** i I H. C. KENNEDY I wrinkled pockets and have kept si- : lence. The tale deals with William's first! act of authority. To begin with, you probably already j know of the feverish anxiety he | showed when as son of the heir appar ent he watched the progress of his father's Illness at San Remo while tne j old grandfather was slbwly petrifying ; on the throne. You have heard, too, j of his parricidal fever during the hun dred days' reign of his poor cancerous father. Frederick. Ah. William had escaped his parents long before that : time. Bismarck had got him away I from them; an easy game for the old i diplomat in whom ferocious energy . and supreme cunning were blended. Abominated Kiuprrw Bismarck never cared for the Em- j peror Frederick, who he thought | wished to change the order of things. • and as for the Empress he abominated I her because of her English ideas, and referred to her as "the stranger." ye i devoted himself to filling William with the appetite for power, taught him to criticise every written and spoken word of his father and to believe that 1 the influence of liis English mother j was antinational and therefore dan- , geroits. But Bismarck, shrewd as he was, could not foresee how far the young man's love of power would lead ! him. The relations between the Empress Frederick and her son became at last so bitter that William placed spies about her —even in the bedroom of his invalided father. Through ory? of these spies William • learned of the existence of a journal j which his father had kept for some j years. Frederick had a taste for writ- j ing, and the fact that there was cold- . ness between him and his son led Wil j liam to fear that this secret journal might contain some criticism of his conduct. The fear of it haunted him and he bent all his thoughts to obtain- j j ing possession of it. The Empress, however, was clever ) . enough to conceal the diary before s , her husband's death. Eluding the stir- ; j veillance of her son. she sent the pa- I pers to her mother. Queen Victoria, or to her brother, then Prince of Wales —I don't remember which. Hardly had his father drawn his , last breath when William, over the tleud body, performed his tlrst official act. It was to demand of his widowed j mother the journal, which he termed ! a "memorial." j The Empress feigned ignorance. ; j William insisted. He spoke as master, 1 i giving his mother the order to obey, j , She persisted in declaring that she knew nothing of the paper. Her son menaced her brutally with his wrath.N To his dry eyes her tears were only stratagem. The more she resisted the more determined he became. It seemed to him that the importance of the papers might be measured by the stubbornness of her opposition, be sides which he was enraged that in j 'he first hour of the reign he had so 1 feverishly awaited some one dared thwart him. Was not his mother merely a ! princess of the house of which he was ! the head? Was she not merely lady! '""olonel of one of his regiments? Was she not his subject? Anger drove i him stark mad. Arrests Mother "Well." he commanded, purple with ! wrath, "you will remain under close ; arrest until you have obeyed me." Bismarck, arriving at Potsdam two hours after this, found the palace sur j rounded by squadrons of armed cav alry. The Emperor, whom he found still I excited, told the old Chancellor how 1 he had met the disobedience of his i mother. "And she need not expect pity or consideration until she has obeyed ] me! he declared. "Vou understand that, Mr. Chancellor? Until she has obeyed me!" The pupil had gone much too far. i Bismarck saw at once that the buf- I foonery continued might mar the whole of William's reign. Later in j life, he said, he used to wonder how j he kept from laughing in his sover eign s face. What he did was to receive Wil- I liam's news with deferential silence. , and later, when the Emperor was I calmer, show him that his course was sure to meet with general disapproval. There was a way, he thought, of pro- I ceeding much more rigorouslv and at i the same time efflcaclouslv. Why not rather cut down the Income of the Empress? Suspend her appanages? "I know her Majesty." said the good ! Bismarck. She has pride. Forced arrest she can brave out. accepting it l as a sort of martyrdom: but the money. Sire, the money!—who can re- 1 slst money?" Further he laid tactful stress upon the probable representations of Eng- i land. "Is it really the moment. Sire?" ! The Kaiser, becoming appeased, lis tened to Bismarck's counsel. The ar rest of the Empress was removed. The i officers led their cavalry back to quar- ' ters. and William turned his attention to the details of his father's obsequies, which he wished to be most fastidi ous! Struggle Ilisted Months The struggle between the Dowager Empress and her son lasted for sev eral months; six at least. Finally the Emperor obtained the manuscript and 1 the Empress her money. Was it not a worthy debut, I* ask you. for an Emperor, who. despairing ot ever attaining the glory of having made a Bismarck, discerned that the glory of daring to dismiss him was the only thing that could be thrown into the balance? What did he risk, after all? Ger- l many was already made! And so it comes about that the Gruenderzeit has. in William 11.. the first new-fashioned Emperor of Ger many: an Emperor of brilliancv and! noise. He squares himself majestically ' upon the imperial throne and cara coles spectacularly upon the field of manoeuvres. His character is paradoxical. Some times I think of him as a good Ger man boy. He has some true friends too; some of them obscure peoule ah' i solutely disinterested. To hf-ar htm t no'n I n int h7 lat r l; 'i' wi * hout arrogance or P i! , ls slouching in a low i armchair and his legs crossed high smoking his pipe and laughing bols- ' terously. one can hardly realize that he is actually the formidable autocrat who terrorizes not only his own coun try, but the whole . world with tne 1 tumult of his personality. AlTeets English Guest r- intimate William, son of an English woman, has in him a good deal of the young English patrician, i Though graduated from Bonn instead of Oxford, he has done his best to ap- ! proximate the English sporting gentle- I man. But his Britlanism is too mixed it amounts only to Anglomania. His uncle. King Edward. laughs at his pre- 1 tentions, and the nephew rages Of' course, it is quite out of the question I for him to manage any sport (here! Von B spoke In a lower tone) on account of his deformed arm. Though ' he has a thousand Ingenious tricks I for concealing it. it has come to be i pretty generally known that one of' ills arms has never developed. Look at him or his pictures, and you will ' see that he has taken precautions to prevent its being seen. The fact re- i mains that, to all practical purposes he is one-armed. William's cultivation is extensive but vague. The only thing he knows in a precise and detailed fashion ts I geography—for geography Is com • meroe. It nas n joy to argue with him in , the old days on literature, philosophy,. . morals—anything at all. He did not: by any means Impose his ideas upon ' i us. but accepted differences of opinion ; sensibly. I may add that his Ideas are | usually commonplace. Me would joke ' even In the midst of the most lively [ | controversies, and to his credit be it ; ! said that when beaten In an argument j he never hurled his imperial crown at 1 his adversary's head In order to come out ahead. Perhaps he revenged him self on his generals and his ministers. Has Trembling I'its In the last few years he has changed a good deal. His trembling tits ex asperate hint, and he grimaces until one might almost call it facial ague. He has formed a habit of snapping his | fingers and making convulsive move ments with his hand when speaking:. | His laugh, formerly so buoyant, has acquired a false tone. likewise he : shows less" tolerance, less 'kindness toward his friends. In short, the Em peror is outrunning the man. It spells the end of our friendship. They said of him at first that—the i opposite of Peneion—he had "a hand J . ve ' ve t in a glove of steel." Lately 1 it has too often happened that the hand has hardened, while the glove is changed even oftener than the uni form. I attribute these alterations in him ■ three principal,causes: His mischief-making statecraft. His sickly condition, which preoc- - I cupies him more than is believed. I The slow, tenacious influence of the 1 I Empress. The Empress influences him in spite : of hlmselt. She lights doggedly against any ease or comfort at court, and ; | stands out grimly for the stiff old feudal spirit. Site Is the personifica tion of virtue, and. as is sometimes the case with aggressively virtuous per sons, is sad. rather dull, determined and sectarian, and uncharitable in her ! 1 estimates of those around her. To me j she is the most boresome person in I the world. Mind you, I don't Insist | upon a woman's being beautiful; I only ask that she be gracious. More than to his religious education, more than to what he considers political necessities. William 11. owes to his wife that sort of absurd piety which often gives his discourses a note so comical and false. l'Hipn'ss as Censor The Empress's regard for the "pro prieties has led her to assume the bureaucratic mission df censoring the pieces which are presented at the Schauspielhaus of Merlin, and I can assure you that she tills the place con scientiously. She crosses out without mercy the wortft 'Move" in all manu -1 scripts. It is a word which slie re gards as highly Improper. She only I tolerates it in the dramas of Schiller and in French works plaved at the Na- ' tional Theater by Coquelin. Of course the awful word when said in French doesn't so much endanger German j virtue. If the Empress visits a mu seum she causes nude pictures and statues to be draped in advance of her i arrival. With such conceptions of life, litera- i tu J' e and art, you may imagine whether the court is amusing. The fetes and receptions at the palace are so loaded with heavy pomp and icy etiquette as to be entirely funereal, j let all this does not prevent intrigue and scandal: on the contrarv, there is no court in Europe which is'more un bridled in this respect, and—as any | one can see—they never succeed in ! hushing up the scandals. I To animate a court like out's there should be at the head of it a woman possessing that mixture of grace and . bravery which you French call allure. ; Allure. How many princes lack it ■ an<l n° w many workmen show it un t 11 is something incom j patlhle with arrogance, something which accommodates itself to perfect slmplicltv. The least affectation de- ! stroys it. There must be grandeur with ease character, a certain energy; a IYf. !]* 8 ,? r alwavs finding happv : attitudes without inventing them. ; i Koui'ation may l>c madp to sorvo in- I stead of allure, but it cannot entirely i replace it. Our sweet old Augusta had it when on that July afternoon in ,0. conducting William I. to the i station, whence he departed for the ; l rontiei\ she wept broken-hearted on | the cushions of her gilded coach, while | the crowds acclaimed her. ! The Danish princesses who were ; brought up so simply at Copenhagen , and Amelienburg also have allure— both Dagniar, whom a hard fate made i i the wife of a blockhead and the ' mother of an imbecile, and her sister, t . Alexandra, impeccably elegant, sweeter I and more refined than Daginar. whose situation as the consort of a high liver has often been difficult. Both have ; a truly imperial grace which never i struggles for effect. Mixes With Classes Last year the Empress spent some \ ; weeks at the castle of K To I please her professional conqueror of a husband she determined to make i j conquest of the country squires, mid dle class people, peasants, workmen : and paupers. She made visits, re- : I ceived them and spoke as pleasantly I as she could with the women, chil : dren and girls she met in the streets ; and fields. She also deluged the sick with presents and delicacies. And all with what result? They were only half pleased with ! her efforts. At the end of her stay T i happened to question an old woman ! who was knitting on her doorstep. I "Well, you have seen your Empress < and she has spoken to you: 1 supnose you are very happy?" "Oh. yes: oh. yes." "She's a good Empress, isn't she?" The old woman looked up quizzi cally. "What's the matter?" I asked. "Can you deny that she's a good Empress?" [ 'Good? Oh, yes. of course, she's good; but Empress"—she began to i knit again—"Empress she is not." I.augli at Kaiser's Art I'll not speak much of William's taste in art. You know about it. All Europe has been convulsed with laughter over it. The average German is lacking in taste; Berlin is a city without tradition in art. However It had until recent years the merit" of 1 helng a nice large provincial town What little adornment It had was good, for Frederick the Great brought some notable architects from Paris and built several fine palaces, around i which clever landscape gardeners I worked with excellent effect. ; But alas! Berlin did not stop there 1 What between William and the Gruen derzeit we have developed a national | . art which makes us a universal laugh- I | ing stock. Tt is the style of William : 11., heaven help and pity it: There are streets bordered by houses that , look like colossal pipeorgans. and among other absurdities, the gigantic i statue of Bismarck, in porphyry, which is uglier than one could believe men ; could make anything. Then there is the carnival-like horde of the Em- j peror's ancestors in the Street of Vic- : | tory. William loves to review these ' figures. In defense of Berlin It is only fair to say that the municipality resisted I the Imperial object of putting a regl- j ment of bad statues in our most lovely park. The appropriations that the Em- I peror asked were bravely refused. But when he offered to pay for all from his private purse the horror cotild no ! longer be avoided. William is not so very rich personally, either, but the ! execution of this farcical plan was dear to him because he had conceived it and made the designs with his own 1 hand. Dislikes Flowers Another peculiarity of William's Is 1 his dislike for flowers. Though they are the object of a veritable worship in Germany, the Emperor abominates I them. It is not that he thinks them I dangerous—like Socialists—but that. 1 he thinks them ugly; just as he thinks ) i Kodin's sculpture and Renoir's paint- | ■ ; ings ugly. He likes to see lawns and j parks decorated with groups of j ( . swords, baskets of shells, plat bands I of bayonets and cannon. Do you know the large fountain which etands in the Schlossplatz? It j was bequeathed to the city of Berlin j by a very rich gentleman. The Mayor, ' in accordance with the usual cere- I monial custom, invited the Emperor to j take part in the dedication exercises. < The Emperor was absolutely out raged. lie could hardly believe that! they would dare to erect In Berlin a i monument which had not originated | with him. Ho exhausted all the administrative j and legal tricks that he could think of to prevent the acceptance of the ! legacy, and failing to arrest the pro | Jeet sent a curt refusal to attend the i dedication. Mo felt that this fountain i ■ was a direct blow at his authority: al- j most, indeed, a crime of lese majeste. 1 saw a good deal of him at this time and tried to reason with him, but lie flew into a rage and imposed si- [ lence upon me. "This fountain drives me mad!" he > I cried In French. (tie always drops I into French when he wishes to use j violent language). "It is a Socialist | plot. Mark my words, a Socialist ! plot!" 1 tried to ealm him. "By heavens, you are a Socialist, too! Everybody is a Socialist nowa- : davs!" he shotited. "But they had j belter take care." Imagine the surprise of the crowd | and of the officials when on the day j ' of the unveiling, they saw the Em- j peror appear. His face was somber j and threatening and his mustaches I were more warlike than over. Hurling ; ; himself upon the platform, he inter- j rupted the good man who happened to be expatiating upon the virtues of the donor. Threatens Vengeance "An evil spirit is hovering over this ' city!" cried William. "Socialism is 1 lifting its head. 1 will not tolerate It. j i 1 wish every one to know that I have j i given orders for an immense barracks | to be built right in the heart of Berlin, j It will be tilled with my loyal troops and my faithful cannon. 1 f the So cialists stir I will not hesitate to mow them down. Let them look out! 1 will j mow them down. I have had enough I of it!" With this he turned his back on the ' crowd and looked scornfully at the , fountain. "As for this fountain." he said, ad- j dressing the dignitaries on the plat- | form with a shrug of his shoulders, "it; is simply ridiculous—absurd!" So say ing, he went as he had come, like a j tempest, leaving the crowd stupefied, j Strange to say, the story of this at- ! fair was not broadly circulated, even in Germany I sometimes think we I i have a national modesty which causes | us to cover with our mantel the rldlcu- j lous doings of the Emperor, as Noah's sons covered the nakedness of their father. Some people believe that William's startling performances are theatric ef fects. coldly planned by him in order i to strike the imagination of his sub- j Jects. This ts not the case. Of course. I don't pretend that he does not inten- j tionally abuse his power; in this he is like all other men; but I assure you ! he is much less of an actor than is thought. He simply obeys the Impulse ; of the moment because he is incapable j of resisting it. Some of his impulses arc generous; some are not. He often ! ends by bitterly repenting his acts. Like all neurasthenics, the Emperor shows—even In his most unbalanced deeds—a sort of topsyturvy logic. He gets people's minds off one thing by doing another. Thus if they blame! him for an artislic decision he mus ters a review: if they cry out over something else lie paints a picture: if they hiss that he writes an opera or disguises himself as Mussulman and i makes a pilgrimage to the Holy Land i or demands that they discover a cure : for tuberculosis within twenty-four j 1 hours. Ts Not Popular The fact is that the Emperor is not nearly so popular as he was. We don't trust him and believe in him as we once did. He fatigues and discourages us. besides plaguing all the rest of the world like a nightmare. We Germans are a quiet, prosperous j people, and in order to continue so we wish to be let alone. Nevertheless we j live in constant fear of imbecile com- i , plications which may be stirred up at any moment by this blunderer, who ! is far from being the master of his j : slaves. The newer generation of Germans j reproach the Emperor with being u showy, false label badly struck on the good old German bottle. He does not I truly represent the spirit of the peo- i j pie. But in spite of our real feelings j we have to pretend, more or less, to ; ibe as our sovereign represents us. | ] Take the case of France, for Instance, j We Germans don't liate France at all: ; quite the reverse, we like and trust! her. Yet in the papers that are ani mated by the spirit of William we are 1 ; forever represented as being ready to I i fly at her throat. i I do not for one moment charge ; i William with being serious in this ! seeming hostility toward France. His ]: friendship for her is stronger than he , is. If in cruising he meets a French | | yacht he approaches her and ex- ] i changes visits. He would love notli- j j ing better than to dine at the Elysee j • Palace, and for the matter of that the French would love it, too, for they are still poisoned with their old monarchic J blood. I must do William the justice to j say that he understands, like every one | else, that industry and commerce are ' the vital organs and the vascular sys tem of a country. But the Emperor, tn his feverish, incoherent activity, has made the country giddy by driving it madly on toward all sorts of economic j conquests. ! In order to make her first in every- i j thing he has forced her to produce, produce, produce. The products are piled up in the shops, on the docks and in the granaries. Sales are slow j ! and an enormous stock is left on hand. I | Here is an example: Jealous of the world-wide success of , the Bordeaux, Burgundy and Cham- | pagne wines of France. William has j pushed our landed proprietors and ! I peasants furiously to cultivate the | vine. He has protected the German i, i wine industry in all ways and in all | 1 | countries, and has even gone so far • I as to make himself wine agent, adver ! tising agent and restaurateur. In the famous German restaurant of j j the Paris Exposition it was the Em peror himself, figuratively, who came in uniform, with apron and napkin , added, to offer the wine card to his j patrons. There is wine enough along the Mo9*lle River to intoxicate not ' only the whole of Germany, but all j the world besides, but it is sold un der cost. It fills the enuumbered j j storehouses, driving the owners to dis traction and the peasants to lamenta ' tion. To improve the situation the Em ! peror has adopted tyrannic measures. He has restricted the sale of beer In | certain restaurants, and has prohibited j French wines in the officers' mess. ! But it doesn't make any difference. ! Our economic situation translates it self very simply in the one word— ( overproduction. In vain William crosses the seas 1 In his cuirass; In vain he tells extra- ; j ordinary stories and makes theatrical : < demonstrations in order to drum up '' : trade. The overproduction augments. > and we shall before long be reduced | ? i to the dolorous alternative of either ! 1 greatly restricting production, which CASTORIA for Infants mICMiil IhiKir.il You Havi Ajwajs Bought spells ruin, or of greatly continuing it'. ] which spells ruin also. You must further remember that our banks are up to the neck In those alTairs and that we arc not like the French, a saving: people. We like to enjoy life and spend what we earn: consequently we could not pay off with sacks of savings the heaviness of a financial crisis. Tho one hope would be that France, generous France, might come to our rescue as she lias been doing in these past years, and re-establish for a time the disturbed equilibrium of our finances. Is Not Brave Some people fancy that the Kmperor plans wars, but In spite of his unl- i forms and his fanfares this Is not so. j He Is not a warrior, but a military man, which is very different. He is I not even brave. William U's wild 1 discourses arid menaces are only com- j merclal tricks intended to frighten | Kurope and by so doing strengthen j our great manufacturers who live by armament. The industry Is colossal: unclouded peace would destroy it. Another thing which keeps him from making war is the fenr lie has of j the result. Rveryone admits that our i army is the strongest In the world, i It is drilled and kept up to the mark; i our arsenals are full, our armament i complete, our fortresses perfect. Hut, I sad to say, we have no real officers. ' i The German army is to-day com- | manded by mere parade officers, who ! j are very similar to the pretty cox combs of France's Second Empire. ( They do not work and only occupy i themselves with their pleasures, which j i are none of the best, as there is great j corruption among them. In case of war William would have | • no one to command his armies. Doubt- I ; less he would try to do It himself, for ; j he has war plans of his own, just as j he has plans of statues, pictures, operas and everything else, all his I own—his own. With William in | j command, we should be beaten by 1 Switzerland, or less than Switzerland, j iAt the maneuvers, where every- j thing is carefully arranged in advance | ! to make a perfect mlsc en scene with j the Emperor a majestic figure in the ' | center, well, the generals have the I j greatest difficulty to keep from run ning William down. They sweat blood ' | to keep from surrounding him, even j on absolutely flat ground. 1 have as i sisted at some of the maneuvers, and I can assure you it is nothing but buf ; foonery. Thus it comes about that there are ! combined in William 11. two separate j men seemingly incompatible. One is j the charming personal man. whom I ' have loved: the other is the Emperor, whom I consider detestable. William the man is fascinating: he is agree- j I able, gay, simple, generous and loyal I ,to his friends. I am only afraid that j William the Emperor, who is such a ( very different person, will end bv alienating my affections from Wil -1 liam the man. He annoys me more I and more, and in the last few years I have seen him as seldom as pos . sible. ALL DEMANDS OF U. S. MET BY GERMANY [Continued From First Page.] | Britain. Claims that the reprisals are j legal are not mentioned, i As has been previously stated Ger- 1 ! many says in the statement that the: killing of citizens of the United States was without intent and that the ' meli.od of conducting warfare In tho ; war zone around the British Isles has been changed out of regard for the j Ion? standing friendship between the! • United States and Germany, and be-! i cause American lives were lost. Denies That U. S. Made New Demands When Case Was Nearly Settled J » By Associated Press Washington. D. C., Feb. 7. —Sec- ! ! rotary Lansing to-day flatly denied that new demands had been made in j the Lusitania case at a time when I the German Government considered the negotiations practically at j an end. He was speaking of tho Ber- j lin dispatches quoting the references jby Dr. Zimmerman. German under i I secretary of Foreign Affairs to "new > demands." Secretary Lansing would not go intoi details or discuss Dr. Zimmerman's ! statement further. When Dr. Zim j merman's statement was published in ! ; this country, however, this reference ' to new demands was taken to apply j to a possible construction on the word j 1 "illegal" in the proposed form of set j tlement. The only ground American I officials could find for construing that as embodying a new demand was the possibility that it might be considered | applicable not alone to the destruc-1 | tion of neutrals on the Lusitania, but ! j also as to the method by which she J was sunk. Situation Unchanged I Secretary Lansing repeated that he expected to confer with President Wil ] son some time during the day. Secretary Lansing made it known, however, that the State department considered the situation unchanged. | Chairman Stone, of the Senate Foreign 1 Relations Committee, said after talk ing with administration officials that his impression was the Lusitania case was "practically settled." He did not go into details. Secretary Lansing in dicated that some announcement might be given out for publication; within the next few days. Administration 1 afllclals let it be! known that a mere choice of words not be permitted to stand in ] the way of success of the negotiations, and that the United States will not in-1 sist in the use of the world "illegal,"! or "disavowal" In Germany's acknowl edgment that sinking of the liner with out warning and the loss of 115 Amer ican lives was wrong. Inasmuch as the proposal now be fore President Wilson and Secretary l I Lansing Is described in German quar ters as substituting for the word "ille gal," a phrase which Germany hopes will be acceptable to the United States as covering the same point without | humllitating Germany, and having re gards for public opinion in that coun ! try, this announcement was taken as! strengthening the optimisic atmos | phere which surrounds the negotia tions. The principal consideration of the United States now is that there shall be an acknowledgment by Germany that the sinking of an unresisting mer chantman without warning is In con travention of internal law and that i such paval warfare shall be perma -1 nently discontinued. The German ' contention is that such assurances al ready have been given In the Arabic case and that all remains In the Lugl tanla case is reparation for tho lives of neutrals and an acknowledgment that it was wrong to destroy them. This latter is contained in the Ger man proposal as at present framed without the specific use of the word "Illegal." Text of Note The full text of Count Von Berns torff's note, delivered to Secretary Lansing on September 1, 1915, was as follows: My Dear Secretary: With refer ence to our conversation of thi# morn ing, I beg to Inform you that my in structions concerning our answer to your last Lusitania note contain the following passage: 'Liners will not be sunk by our Bears the _ By^'>ran W d j Catarrh Ha rti—iA krutht Ike pkauat. knfttft gratUm* * at lli—mL and mtf UTMii, tonus, eeus, CHIP, WE TMMT. IIOBCHITIS. tit. ampMt lb Will Ortrt. Mrital hart mUar Main, b uU under • poaftn* Inmhr tt ■ nlhfciln i mdi or *aur imt hack Uadng Mui« H. C. KENNEDY submarines without warning and with out safety of the lives of noncombai ants, provided that the liners do not I try to escape or offer resistance.' | "Although I know you do not wish to discuss the Lusitania uestion till the Arabic incident has been definite ly and satisfactorily settled, I desire jto inform you of the above because !thls policy of my government was de- | elded on before the Arabic incident occurred. | "I have no objections to your mak ! ing any use you may please of the j above information. "I remain, my dear Mr. Lansing, "Very truly your, "J. BERNSTORFF." ! At that time Secretary Lansing j would only say "that in view of its clearness it seemed needless to make. 1 any comment In regard to it," other I than to say it appeared to a "recog nition of the fundamental principles | for which we have contended." j In an Interview with the Associated I i Press Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, under secretary for foreign affairs, was quot- I ed as follows: "We had thought the submarine is sue settled and the Lusitania question on the way to arrangement—had agreed to pay indemnity, and all that —when the United States suddenly made its new demands, which It is im possible for us to accept." Another Speech-Making Defense Tour May Be Made By Associated Press I Washington. Feb. 7. —The adminis tration's legislative program, particu larly national preparedness, and tho i Lusitania case, gave promise to-day 'of occupying much of President Wil son's attention during the week. The President has engagements 1o confer with many senators and repre- I sentatives in furtherance of his efforts to expedite the work of Congress on the army and navy bills, j He is anxious that these measures i be disposed of as soon as possible so 'that other legislation may be taken in cluding the shipping bill, the tariff (commission bill and revenue legisla ; tion. Whether the President will make another speech making-tour in the in terest of preparedness hinges upon the (outcome of his conferences with con ! gresslonal leaders as well as the Lusi- I tail la affair. While the President has I been advised that he made a deep impression on his recent preparedness I jtrip he has not yet learned whether is ' : has had a definite effect on Congress. Three Penna. Governors Are Praised by "Billy" Sunday Special to the Telegraph * j Trenton, N. J., Feb. 7.—"Billy" Sun ! day, preaching in the tabernacle here yesterday to an audience of 11,000 j persons, digressed from his sermon i long enough to pay tribute to Penn ; sylvania for the splendid type oC | Christian men it has elected to the 1 Governorship. Pollock, Tener and ! Brumbaugh were the ones of whom ! the evangelist especially spoke. Of jthe present Governor, Sunday said | there was no higher type of a Godly I man. Pollock, he said, was respon sible for having "In God We Trust" S put on the Nation's coins. Tener j pitched on the baseball team for which Sunday played center field, but Sunday explained that was neither here nor there, declaring "Tener was a splendid Christian anyway." Lack of Dyestutfs May Close Textile Plants Special to the Telegraph Washington, D. C„ Feb. 7. Unless the State Department takes prompt ac tion on the appeal of textile manufac turers in Philadelphia and elsewhere in this country and through diplomatic channels opens the way for shipments of dyestuffs from abroad, textile plants representing investments of many mil lions will be closed and more than 200.- 000 wage earners will he thrown out of employment, according to Representa tive 11. W. Watson, of Laughorne. Not W. J. Dice, of 1829 North Sixth St. The W. D. Dice who has advertised lils wife In the Telegraph legal notice columns is not W. J. Dice of 182!t North Sixth street, who is an old and respected citizen of Harrisburg. ASSESSOR THOMPSON MOVES City Assessor James C. Thompson moved Into his new quarters In the old boar<" of revision rooms adjoining City Clerk Miller's office. The clerk's stenographer has been moved Into the coimcl' chamber. BO LS AND PiMPLES DANGEROUS S. S. S. 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