10 The Private Life of the Kaiser FROM THE PAPERS AMD DIARIES OF THE BARONESS VON LARISCH-REDDERN The Kaiser and Kaiaerin'a Late Major Demo, Chief of the Royal Household at Berlin and Potsdam. Baroness ron Larlaeh-Reddera la the TRUE name of the Berlin Ceurt Lady who gave the story' of the Kaiser to Henry William Fisher. Ursula. Countess von K spin ah oven being a nom de guerre, heretofore used to shield her. [Oonttoued from Yesterday.] ness always, did his very utmost to please the Emperor. While In the family circle the Kaiser was generally spoken of as "big brother," "big cousin," and so forth, Henry never failed to desig nate and address him as "Lord of the Sea," or "High Admiral." He consulted him about the merest de tails concerning his command, and professed to be thoroughly happy only when the Kaiser approved his conduct as a naval officer. 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The Kaiser, too, was heard to eay once or twice: "Now I shall have to telephone the speech Prince Henry is expected to deliver to-morrow. To be the intellectual giant of one's family has Its drawbacks." William's Modest Estimate of Him self There lived not a man or woman at Court who did not intuitively feel that Prince Henry's most famous speech was conceived and dictated by the person addressed from the opening words: "Exalted Emperor, Puissant King and Master, Illus trious Brother," to the closing phrase: "Our sublime, mighty, be loved Kaiser, King and Lord for all times, for ever and ever —hur- rah, hurrah, hurrah!" William wrote it word for word, as he did a dozen other tirades in flicted by his brother upon festive and official gatherings. I could name people of high standing who saw the manuscript. In proclaiming his "misstTn" of chief arbiter of tho world as an evangellum, as a revelation of the grace of God to fallen man through him, the anointed mediator, the Kai ser followed a practice established by most of the champions of blg hoadedness, post and present. BUt reflecting on William's be havior after liis fall, I um sure he was posing—pqslng as a "God" sometimes, as a mad-man at others. When a week or ten days ago Countess Brockdorff, the ex-Kalser- In's chief servant, relumed from Holland, she told me that "Majesty" (she Insisted upon according htm the title) was 'working at his de fense.' If In that document Wil liam Is true to himself, there will be ihuch pot about "divine advice" and "heavenly directions" tendered him "while on his devout knees." And nothing: excited William, Prince of poseurs, quite as much as the thought that, of his 70,000,000 of Germans, one or another refused to take htm at the exaggerated val uation he put on himself. The J>se Majesty Humbug Here follows a story told by General von Scholl, William's boon companion on his hunting trips. "It happened In Rominton," said Scholl, "and the chase had come off to His Majesty's entire satisfac tion, which means everybody else's complete disappointment. That is to say: By the chief forester's trick ery all the game was driven before the Emperor's gun, while the rest of us got nothing but a few miser able hares, or rabbits to massacre. Indeed, the Kaiser was so elated with his success as a pig sticker and deer butcher that he indulged in good-natured persiflage a rare thing with him. Consequently all present had visions of plenty of champagne and Imported cigars In the evening, for, as you know, when he has had a bad day's shooting he goes to bed as soon as he comes home, condemning his friends and guests to a diet of Berlin beer and evil smelling cabbage leave cigars, the rankest In all Christendom. "As we were walking toward the carriages, young Fuchs, the under huntsman, came to me and whis pered: " 'Does your Excellency advise me to ask His MlaJesty now?" " 'Go ahead, my boy,' I answered, 'if he doesn't grant it now, he never will.' Fuchs referred to a boon, he desired, namely, a pardon for his old uncle undergoing Imprisonment for insult to Majesty. "His case was one of the rankest that ever came to my notice. Fuchs' relative, it seems, is a well-to-do Pomeranian farmer. During the manoeuvres the King's horses trampled down the old man's corn. He sued the government and lost. When he threatened to appeal, the state's attorney tried to dissuade him, pointing out that he should feel honored rather, seeing that the Kai ser himself had commanded tho troops that destroyed his crops. " The Kaiser,' said the old farm er savagely, 'can' " "At any rate," continued the Gen eral, "old Fuchs simply used a figure of vulgar speech, as all of us are liable to do under provocation, but the public prosecutor hailed the in cident as a means for bringing his ignoble carcas to 'all highest' notice. Forthwith he clapped the farmer In Jail and had him tried for lese Majesty. "Well, seeing that William was in such exceptionally good humor, the horizon ablaze with popping corks and fiddlesticks, the under-huntsman took heart and asked the Kaiser to pardon his old uncle. "May He Rot in Prison!" "A gentleman of our party had his eye on William while Fuchs pleaded his case. He says the Emperor al ternately turned red, white and green in the face when he answered the request. "I am astonished beyond words at your audacity. You ask for a boon—it's yours! T hereby promise you that I will forget the act of damnable hardihood you have been guilty of. You shall not be punish ed for asking the liberation of a traitor. Do you know," he added, "what they did with fellows like you in olden times? They might deem themselves lucky if they were not disemboweled or broken on the wheel.' "After that the Kaiser paused and called to the reot of the company to listen. 'Let me state hero, once and for all, that under eertain conditions I may feel inclined to pardon even a common murderer, but to my mind the man who insults a crowned head is ten times worse than a murderer. Pardon him I never will.' " 'As to Kuch's case, his relative is undergoing most inadequate pun ishment for the grossest of crimes, seeing that his vile tongue insulted God's anointed, the head of tho Ger man nation. May he rot In prison.' " His Majcs-ty Curses Old Woman Some years ago when the Kaiser was riding in state through the streets of Berlin to attend the un veiling of one of the lifesized pup pets lining the Avenue of Victory and giving palpitations of disgust to every lover of art, a poor old lady dropped an envelope into the Royal carriage. The Adjutant, sitting to WilliaTm's left, picked up the missive and, with a respectful bow, hela it out in his hand not daring to presume whether the letter should be accepted or not. The Kaiser grabbed the envelope with a scowl. Then, without reading even the address, flung it into the street and rubbed his gloved hand over his coat, as if anxious to remove a stain. He cursed the old woman who had the "effrontery to assault him with her dirty letter'" ad the. way down to the place of unyeillr.gr and, arrived there, summoned the Chief of Police. "Fine order you keep," he roared at the official. "On the way here an other hussy bombarded, me with her filthy missives. Unfortunately, I kicked the rag out of the carriage, otherwise the old strumpet's name might have been ascertained for the prosecuting attorney." 1 beg the reader's pardon for the language used, it's the ' all-highest " —duly expurgated. Shoot on American .Millionaire' I shall never forget the excitement created at the Palace one day wheh one of the Kaiser's brutal orders to "shoot beggars on sight" almost cost the life of a Vanderbllt. This was In the days before the war when American millionaires thought it quite respectable to visit the Kaiser—the days before his ex posure as tjie arch-conspirator against decency and civilization. Vanderbllt, it appeared, had driven to the castle over the royal highway, and the coach was about to enter one of the outer gates, when the sen tinel stationed there, stopped the horses and demanded a card of ad mission. "This is His Majesty's friend." said Jacques Hartog, Mr. Vanderbilt's courier, with an air of magnificent assurance, but the soldier only stared the harder. "Your pass," repeated the lnfan tryman. "You don't understand things. This is Mr. Vanderbilt, the American millionaire!" Hartog was pleading now. As the word "American" struck the sentinel's long ears, he raised his gun, for his lieutenant had taught him that the United States Is "one of those confounded republics," to tally devoid of a king, or princes, or even a respectable standing army. "Driver," he commanded, in his most pompous voice, and apparently unmindful of Hariog's very exis tence, "Driver right about face, for ward march! March, I say, and march, a third time, or I will shoot!" The guardsman kept his gun level led on the Intruders until the coach vanished behind a cloud of fine white dust, and God knows what would have happened if Hartog, who has a well-established reputation for pug naciousness and obstinacy, had en deavored to run the blockade in or der to please his rich patron: for these sentinels carried sharp cart ridges, and if they fired —and they often did so on windy provocation— they fired to kill. "Fire to Kill" I cannot remember now whether the public honoring by the Emperor of a sentinel, who, while on duty, shot down some poor wretch, hap pened previously to Mr. Vanderbilt's unsuccessful attempt to visit the roy al domain, or not. In that case, His Majesty called the offender to the front, shook him by the hand, and assured him of his royal grace, say ing: "I am proud to commend you as an obedient and courageous sol dier; such devotion as yours will al ways meet' with my highest approv al," or words to that effect. But I do know that the Incident was earnestly discussed in the im perial family and the castle about a month later, after the Emperor had delivered another famous speech at the swearing-in of the Potsdam re cruits. Most Damnable Murder Decree In History There are two versions of that ad dress already mentioned in passing. The one which the majority of news papers printed at the time reads: "Children of my guard, you are now my soldiers,—mine, body and soul! You have sworn to obey all my com - mauds; you must followed my rides anil my advice without grumbling. It.moans that, from this day on, you must know but one enemy, and that enemy Is my enemy. And if I com mand you some day to fire upon your own kith and kin, remember your oath!" Kaiser's Conception of Soldier's Duty That version is terrible enough; but compared with the original draft of the speech, which I happen to have seen on the Kaiser's desk, the words spoken sound almost tame. There It was, in William's tall, forcibly-rounded hand: "Recruits! Remember that the German army must be as ready to fight enemies that arise In our midst, as foreign foes. To-day, disbe lief and malcontentedness are ram pant in the Fatherland to a hereto fore unheard of degree; conse quently, I may call upon you at any time to shoot down and strike to the ground your father and mother, sis ters and brothers. My orders in that respect must be executed cheerfully and without grumbling like any other command I may issue. You must do your duty, no matter what your hearts' dictates are. And now go home and attend to your new duties." "I Found Original Document on Em peror's Desk" I came upon this document quite accidentally, the Empress having or dered me to fetch from the desk in the Kaiser's study the calendar whereon His Majesty's engagements are registered, and the precious composition was written on blank spaces between the dates I had to examine. "Monstrous!" I thought, reading over for the second time what Wil liam had the folly to indict and not wit enough to keep to himself; my heart trembled with anxiety for both country and Emperor. And to think that he memorized this murderous self-apotheosis within earshot of his wife, and with his innocent babies sleeping above! And I—involuntary keeper of a state secret! Kaiser's Hatred of Socialists It troubled me a good deal during the night, but next morning's news quickly took the load off my should ers, for Her Majesty remarked that the Kaiser was much pleased with the impression his speech had pro duced, —that of striking terror Into the hearts of Socialists and others opposed to the imperial will. "But does not Your Majesty fear misinterpretation on the part of overzealous men?" I asked; "the papers are filled with reports about brutalities in the army, and about the overbearing conduct of the mili tary at all times. At the unveiling of the Schloss Fountain In Berlin. I even heard a rumor that Vandorbllt came near being shot while driving toward the Neues Palais." Some Quaint Ideas About U. S. A. That was a lighted match Into a powder-barrel! Her Majesty caused inquiries to be made at once, and meanwhile got all her ladles together to discuss the exigencies of the case. Of course, in their opinion, it would not* matter much If an ordinary mor tal is killed by a sentinel; but "the chest man In the world!"—that was another thing. Would, in such a con tingency, 'the United States declare war against Germany?' The Countesses Bassewltz and Brockdorff wished it would, for they have relatives in the navy; but when I suggested that the Yankees might prefer to take it out of Ger man commerce, Her Majesty became thoughtful. "I have heard the Kaiser remark that Vanderbilt could cripple the finances of the entire universe," she said; "If that sentinel had shot him, his brothers and heirs might drive our good Miquel to suicide." The Kaiser n Cancer Victim? I can add but little to the state ments nlready made concerning the Kaiser's health. His ear trouble is Increasing and Her Majesty, who is fond of fresh air as was Queen Victoria, was much concerned about the foul atmosphere that gathered constantly In the Kaiser's study and dressing-room, or wherever he stay ed Indoors for any length of time. The belief that this local disease is a cancerous growth received a new Impetus from the fact that the- late Grand Duke of Baden's sufferings were diagnosed an cancer. His Royal Highness was the husband of a Prussian Princess, granddaughter of Queen Louise and sister of the late Frederick 111. the Kaiser's sire. Both Queen Louise and Frederick died of cancer, and the physicians hold that the Grand Duchess Louise transmit ted the curse to her husband, as an other Prussian Princes, more direct ly. carried insanity into the House of Wittelsbach. Kaiser's Epileptic Fits The Kaiser is an epileptic, but asi warnings, in the shape of certain peculiar sensations, ifsually preced ed his spells, it has been possible to restrict the knowledge of this un royal affliction to his family circle, the highest officials, and to members of the household. As long ago as the midsummer of 1891, the Kaiser was found in his dressing room at the Neues Palais, lying unconscious across a fallen arm chair, which he had knocked down in toppling over. The chambermaid Amelia discovered her master when, receiving no answer to repeated knocks she entered the room in pursuit of hen duties. You can imagine the hubbub that ensued. The girl, not satisfied with alarm ing the men servants, brought all the women, from Empress to scul j Hon, to the scene by her lamen- I tatlons. At first the cry went forth that His Majesty had been murdered; simul taneously the theory of suicide was advanced, and when, finally, the doc tors arrived, they found two of the wardrobemen engaged In pouring cognac down the Kaiser's thoat. Cognac of the twenty-five marks a J bottle brand is always kept in the Emperor's private rooms to liven him up when he feels faint. The servants thought they were doing the correct thing and were incon solable on hearing of the danger involved by such heroic treatment. However, as at the same time they had opened the Kaiser's locked teeth and pulled his tongue Into place, They had done something to relieve the poor man. The other attack happened at the Berlin Schloss, also in the Kaiser's own chamber and in the presence of one of his wardrobemen. The attend ing physical circumstances were the same, and so was, curiously enough, the explanation to the household by Court Marshal Eulenburg. "His Majesty has a peculiar way of throwing himself backward an armchair," he said. "He throws himself Into a chair with full force, and it is not to be wondered at that a chair breaks down under him occasionally." The Emperor himself, after each stroke, talked at table of the d —d worm-eaten chairs that were con sidered good enough to be placed in his chamber. The idea that any Court Marshal would assign infirm pieces of furniture to William-the- Spendthrift is almost too preposter ous for mention. Malady Assumes Aggravated Form I am told the Kaiser's malady has, of late, taken a more aggravated form, the premonitory sensations having ceased. The railing-sickness comes upon him suddenly and, as in I the two instances noted, he lapses into insensibility without a moment's notice when grand mal takes hold of him. 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