THE KAISER AS I KNEW HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS By ARTHUR X. DAMS, D. D. S, (Copyright, 1918, by the McClurc Newspaper Syndicate) (Continued.) Later on, when 1 read of the in tercepted note from von Zimmer man to von Eekhardt in which the Foreign Secretary declared that "the employment of ruthless submarine warfare now promises to compel England to make peace in a few I months," I realized how high in the councils of the nation this optim-; istic Prince was, but whether he got his optimism from the Kaiser or imparted some of his own to that j arrogant monarch, I don't know. It j was quite evident, though, that! they were of the same mind on most i ot' the questions of the day. and the interesting part about it was (hat they were both almost invariably wrong! i From the beginning of 1916 until j about the middle of 191" the great army headquarters was located in the Prince's palace at Pless, and j during most of that period he was, there, too. Naturally he came in j contact with the Kaiser and was of the high command, and I felt that i at this time anything he said was merely an echo of what he had heard in the army councils. After the Kaiser issued his first peace note, which, because of its obvious purpose was summarily; turned down by the Allies, von Pless! called to see me, and our conversa-j tion naturally drifted to that devel- | opment. 1 "Of course, they refused it!' he j declared, in the most satisfied man ner. "We KNEW they would re- [ fuse it. We WANTED them to re-1 fuse it. If they hadn't refused it., we would have made our terms so ; harsh that they would have had to i jefuse it. But it accomplished its purpose just the same; it got the French and English into hot water 1 trying to explain to their people why they didn't make peace when Germany was willing to do so. In j this way. we may be able to split the; Allies. Russia is going to quit any way. There's going to be a revolu-1 tion and we'll be able to throw all j our forces on the western front and j crush the enemy there!" "I always liked England," he add ed, "but Lloyd George is ruining, that country and now he'll certainly j have his hands full explaining why he doesn't make peace." Shortly afterwards the Kaiser j came to me and said practically the ; same thing. "We've got the English j and the French governments in a nice predicament." he said, "trying j to explain to their people why they | don't make peace." He laughed hi- j lariously as he added, "They're wild i with rage at us for surprising them j in this way." The Socialist meeting | which followed at Stockholm was what Germany wanted, but the allied governments were clever enough to j s. e the ruse and prevented the dele- j gates from leaving their respective! countries." After America declared war. j Trince von Pless readily admitted j that his prediction in that regard j had been wrong, but he was never- | theless bold enough to venture an-; other one: "We didn't think Amer-1 ,oa would do it, I admit," he de- j dared, with all his old optimism, • but anyway, America won't fight. She had to go into this war to pro tect her honor, and she will avail herself of the opportunity, perhaps, to raise an army for use eventually j against Japan, but she won't fight in Europe—you may depend on that. She hasn't the boats to carry the: men, and boats can't be built over- j night, you know!" Since then, of course, the Prince has been shown again how unrelia ble his prognostications seem to be. but fortunately I am not on hand to crow over him. The day I left Berlin, I received a telegram from him asking me to reserve time for him on January 2 4—two days later —when no doubt I would have heard some additional prophecies. Referring to the Prince's optimism reminds me of an epigram that be came current in Berlin during the | war and which may not, perhaps, j have made its way across: "The Ber liners are optimistic and gloomy; i the Viennese are pessimistic and i gay!" There was one point upon which the Prince von Pless was more hon est in his statements than the Kaiser. I refer to the Kaiser's complaints against America for sup plying munitions and money to the Allies. "V.'e haven't a leg to stand on," he frankly admitted when we dis cussed that question. "Why, in the last twenty years we have supplied more munitions to warring nations \ than any other four countries in the world put together!" Despite his overweening confi dence. which at times approached j braggadocio, the Prince was sports- i man enough to admit his miscalcu- \ lations, and while he was German! through and through. In his convlc- j tions that might makes right and ! that "Deutschland ueber alles" was j a most worthy sentiment, he .had i much in him that distinguished him from the rest of his kind. I complained to him on one occa sion of the manner in which the; royal family played havoc with my practice by upsetting the routine of the day, sometimes without much ; previous notice. "Davis," he said, "you are foolish to tolerate it. It's all right, of course, to accommodate the Kaiser and the Kaiserin. and the Crown; Prince and the Crown Princess are perhaps entitled to similar consid eration, but as far as the other princes and the nobility are con cerned, if I were you I certainly wouldn't allow it. They may object terribly at first, but they will soon fall into line!" That was about as democratic a viewpoint as I had ever heard from a German prince. He was a nice fellow but a poor guesser, and must have proven a poor adviser on dip lomatic questions for the Kaiser. Despite the fact that the Prince was so thoroughly trusted by the Kaiser, the Princess was the subject of the most alarming rumors which, because of her English birth and as sociations, were not difficult to spread. It was remembered that j when King Edward visited Berlin in 1910, shortly before his death, j and was taken sick suddenly while i attending a reception, it was the; Princess von Pless who ran to his aid. She had studied nursing and knew Just what to do In the emer- j gency. She recognized the monarch's ailment, tore open his collar and j administered first aid, and it was said that her presence of mind saved the King's life. Incidentally, it was commonly reported at that time that! had King Edward died on that oc-, casion, war between England and ] Germany would have been inevtta-; ble, because Berlin would have been I blamed for the tragedy, but as the | King's illness occurred in the Eng- I •<h embassy such an accusation j FRIDAY EVENING. could hardly have been made. At any rate, the Princess was re ported to be a spy, and it was said she had been arrested. In corrob oration of these stories it was pointed out that she was no longer seen at the palace. The truth was that she was serving in hospitals as a Red Cross nurse. She came to nie in her Red Cross costume one day and I told her of the rumors I had heard. They seemed to amuse her very much and she asked me to repeat the stories to her husband when he came to see me. "It will amuse him immensely," she declared. ' Later on a rumor gained ground that the Prince himself had caught her with incriminating "papers" and had murdered her with his own hands! These rumors about the Princess von Pless gained ground the more readily because it was well known throughout Germany that the Eng lish wives of even the most promi nent Germans could not repress their pro-Ally leanings. I ani sorry I cannot say the same thing of the American wives ot' German nobility. There may have been exceptions. I sincerely hope there were. But it is a sad commentary that not a single American wife of a German noble man ever aroused the slightest sus picion because of anti-German ten dencies. and most of those with whom I came in contact were with out doubt more pro-German than their husbands! CHAPTER XII The Kaiser's Appraisal of Public j Men. No one ever speaks to the Kaiser until addressed. As that monarch's I opinions on most subjects are firmly j fixed and he will stand no opposi-1 tion. any erroneous idea he may i entertain is very apt to remain with i him. His advisers were apt to leave ; him in error rather than arouse his ire by attempting to set him right. ■ But for the fact that he was very fond of asking innumerable ques- j tions. his store of information might j have been extremely scanty. In the course of my conversations with him, he frequently expressed! his views of men who were in the public eye. Upon what basis they | were founded he did not always en- j lighten me. but even when I knew! them to be erroneous I realized it j was useless to try to change them j and I did not aften take issue with j him. When I did, his eyes would j flash fire, but I had expected that \ and I continued just the same. Before the war, even when his i criticisms of public men were ad- ] verse, he usually clothed them in; temperate language. After the war, i however, he sometimes became vi-1 tuperative and abusive and made' little effort to restrain himself. j There was no question of the Kai-! set 's familiarity with current affairs j and his broad knowledge of indi- j viduals who occupied important j places the world over. I asked him I once what papers he read that he; kept so well posted upon what wasi going on in the world, and he told me that one of his secretaries ! clipped most of the important news- r papers and magazines and laid j everything of interest before him. j (To Be Continued.) 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ELLIS By William T. Ellis , Recently there befell ail incident in a street car running from Phila- . delphia to the neighborhood of the j munition plants on the Delaware river that portrays two attitudes ■ concerning the war. A loud-voiced I woman was talking across the aisle j of the car to an acquaintance, re- j counting the prosperity that has! come to her since her husband went! to work in a munition factory, at high wages. She wound up smugly with. "So I don't care how long this war lasts!" "You don't? don't you!" exclaimed ! a woman in the seat behind, sudden- ] ly rising and bringing her umbrella down upon the other's bonnet. "Well. ■ 1 do. for I have three sons in the ! army! So take that!— and that!— and that!" whacking the astonished profiteer at every phrase. The other women in the car, moved in their elemental impulses, applauded the ! mother. Crass, but real, the incident sug- j gests the line of division that the | war has drawn between two major i classes of people. To some it is a getting war. a time for money-mak- | ing and for enhanced social position, and for improved worldly estate, j This "profiteering" class Includes a wide variety of persons, from the 1 craven, calculating "slacker" who gets ! the job or the business of the real i man who has gone to France to fight, I to the businessman whose war profits have added millions to his assets; from the social climber who has used Red Cross work to improve her social position and to get l?er name into the papers, to the parasite who has made this upheaval an occasion for preying upon men Stigma deep and lasting, is attach ed to all who construe this greatest of mankind's tragedies as an occa sion for personal advantage. There is something instinctive in whole some human nature which revolts against this vulture quality. "Blood money!" we murmur, as we watch the ostentation of the war-enriched ghouls. Legislation and common sentiment are growing stronger against all forms of war profiteering. The person who has merely made j money out of humanity's Calvary is | like unto a Jerusalem Jew who ped- j died stools to spectators for witness- j ing the Crucifixion of Jesus. Unless j I am very much mistaken, these prof- j iteers are not incurring personal j odium themselves, but they are also j selling their sons and daughters to | the shame ot the years. The next ! generation will be pointing the finger 1 of scorn at certain families, crying j "They made their money out of the war for the world's liberty." The Glory of the Trenches We are testing our time by the : T-square of the Cross. The glory of | our land is that our best are meeting ] the divine measure. "For God so loved * • * that He gave." This is the proof of the presence of the j spark. Kinship to the Creator is re- i vea'.ed (it is the family blood show-1 ing itself) by the way in which our ! people are giving—parents giving their sons, wives and sweethearts giv- ! ing their beloved, young men giving J themselves, kept-at-homes giving ! their services and substance and sac rifice. Thank God, the heart of the nation bears the brand of the Cross. Soldiers show this spirit. They are not reluctant slaves to a system, dragged unwillingly into the war. They rejoice in the service, and deem it the proof of their manhood. 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I found the thirsty Massachusetts boys in action without water, because they had given their canteens to the wounded. Of course: that is what being a sol dier and a comrade means. Nobody should pity our men in the trenches; they are to be envied. They have drawn the sting from life and won to the grandeur of vicarious ex istence. They have achieved the heights of audacious, self-spending experience, following in the train of the Saviour who "emptied himself." and "gave His life a ransom." They alone live Who greatly love And greatly give. Millionaire Puupers In contrast with those royal giv ers, the soldiers, and the like-minded folk at home who are their stay and support, we behold the getters, the men who have only money;—or, rath er. whom money has. There are such beings who are starving in spirit while their bodies are surrounded by abundance. They have money, but have not life. Their capacity for lav ishness in love has been lost; and if a celestial surgeon were to operate it would be discovered that their souls have become shrivelled and weazened little organs, like their appendixes. Their generous impulses have been atrophied. The grace of giving has departed from them. True, they make contributions—which they term ex tortions —to public charity lists; but this they regard as a penalty impos ed upon them by society, a refined sort of tax. and an essential business expenditure. Of cheerful giving, hil arious giving, adventurous giving, they know nothing whatever. "That man may last, but never lives. Who much receives, but never gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank. Creation's' blot, creation's blank." These jaded men with tired eyes and worried lines, who have plenty of servants and sychophants, but few friends, are a pitiable spectacle, as they lounge, overful and gouty, in the luxurious chairs of exclusive clubs. Existence has no real sweet ness for them. The glow of vital im pulses has departed forever from their lives. Money and its affairs engross them. Instead of devising ways for giving money, they petulantly com plain that everybody is trying to get it away from them. They resent the stern mandate of civilization that they shall at least make public be quests in their wills. A rich man ir reparably disgraces his family if he leaves nothing to charity. In contrast to these dwarfed spir its consider that splendid Adventur er, who was lavish with his life to the limit of the hill-top and its cross: and who. although he made his cli materic gift when still a young man, is the world's most conspicuous Suc cess. His philosophy of giving, and His great gift of himself, are the eternal condemnation of selfishness. What the "Drives" Uncover War loan and Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. 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Myriads have come for the first time, ; byway of experience, to an under- ] standing of the mind of Christ. They j have learned how to spell "sacrifice." I deeming it a luxury to be permitted . to share the hardships of the fighting men. Audacious spirits have got only welcomed privation in order to give, but some have even gone into debt in order to do so. "Give as you would If an angel Awaited your gift at the door; Give as you would if to-morrow Found you where waiting was o'er; | Give as you would to the Master If you met His searching look; Give as you would of your substance i If His hand your offering took," The Paradox of Plenty- Great Britain has not for centur- DandYLine Shoes j 202 Market Street Growing Girls' Tan Medi um High Cut Lace Shoes. $4.95 j Misses' Good Strong School Shoes, belt and lace; all sizes to 2. $2.95 Children's Extra Wear, all Leather Shoes. $2 , 45_ • ' Boys' and Youths' Extra Heavy Leather School Shoes. $2,95 DandYLine Store Devine & Yungel, Props. ies been so fat In soul as she has grown during war's lean days of ra tioning. She has been stripped to strength. That is the paradox of the war. Sacrifice has meant real at tainment. Self-denial has proved to be acquisition. The givers have been the real getters. In the school of material adversity, the world has come to spiritual prosperity. 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