4 The Private Life of the Kaiser FROM THB PAPERS AND DIARIES OF THE BARONESS VON LARISCH-REDDERN The Kaiser and Kalscrin's Late Majvr Domo, Chief ef the Box l ' Household at Berlin and Potsdam. Baroness Ton Larlneh-Reddern Is the TRUE name of the Berlin Court Lady vrho srnve the story of the Kaiser to Henry William Fisher, Ursula, Countess Ton Epplnghoven being a nom de guerre, heretofore used to shield her. Thompson Feature j? (To He Continued.) Courtiers and others near William used to rejoice in this solitary mani festation of royal good-will, that helped to re-cement the bonds be tween king and people. "Will it please Your Majesty to go on your usual Santa-Claus ex pedition this evening before the trees are lit?" asked Court-marshal Count Eulenburg at second break fast on the day preceding Christmas. "Most certainly," replied the Kaiser, "and, by the way, direct Miessner to furnish me with silver coins, instead of gold, this time— fourteen Thalers and three or four live-mark pieces. You see," he add ed, addressing himself to the Em press, "I have been thinking about this giving away of gold; some poor devil, whom I try to benefit, might arouse suspicion when he offers my Christmas present in payment. That element of distrust and danger I will circumvent by spending only Thalers among my needy friends hereafter." "How thoughtful of you," lisped the Empress, devouring her husband with admiring glances. When "the l'oor Arc hi Luck" "Your Majesty thinks of every thing," said tho Countesses von Brockdorff and von Bassewitz. And "of everything, particularly his pocket," whispered my neighbor. When tho Kaiser came to take leave of Her Majesty that evening he drew from his overcoat pocket the shabby little amount he had de cided to spend, fifty-seven marks in all. "The poor are in luck to-night," he said. "Miessner selected tho brightest Thalers in his treasury, they are really very pretty," and the Kaiser laughed as the hapless Princess Lamballe may have laugh ed as she exclaimed: "If the poor have no bread, let 'em cat cake." Maybe the practice of bringing up German princes in complete igno rance of money-matters was respon sible. Royal parents seemed to think that to deprive their sons up to the day of their majority of a decent amount of pocket-money was the surest and the only way to keep their boys from becoming spend thrifts. In Prussia, the princely youth was allowed a few Thalers ($2 to $2.50) per week, of which the minutest accounting is demanded, and which —and that is the worst feature —he may not even manage in person, that privilege being reserved for his governor. The practice has worked havoc immeasurable with us, as well as with others. True, young Hohenzollerns are not liable to be flogged nowadays for spending a few coppers unnec essarily, as Crown Prince Frederick (known as Frederick the Great) was when he gave a royal servant 15 cents for bringing his dog from Potsdam to Wusterhausen, a dis tance of twenty miles (his father heat him "for having no more sense than to pay a man who merely did his damned duty"); but even Wilhelm's parents insisted upon bringing up the heir to the throne without giving him a chance to ac quaint himself with the power, tho temptation, the misery, and the joy that the possession of ready money gives. As tlic holes in the Greek philo sopher's toga denoted vanity rather than contempt of worldly opinion, so the patches on a youthful llolien/.0l- Icrn's trousers indicate not Spartan frugality, hut a false notion of the principles of economies. The Kaiser's sons were not taught that it was necessary to economize in order to be liberal; they were merely deprived of things they liked —good clothes and cash — in obed ience to a hoary delusion that has peopled the thrones of Europe with spendthrifts or niggards for cen turies. X have heard the former Court marshal von Elebenau say that 'Wil liam, when at college, never had a copper over and above his expenses, all of which were disbursed by him, Liebenau. Stinginess a Hoheiizollern Char acteristic "When he entered active service, that old bane—penury hovered over the lieutenant, captain, and colonel; his entire income was made ever to me every month, and as it was always spoken for in advance, in V young master even aspired in vain for a pocket-piece, a double gold crown" ($5). Williclm, having been unable to acquire intimate acquaintance with money, almost showed a child ish attitude toward financial ques tion, and, having all his own wants attended to as a matter of course, failed to understand or appreciate what was duo to others. And what was sauce for the Prussian gander was gravy for tho Bavarian goose as well. The reader will recollect some of the vagaries of of Bavaria, whose wild ex travagance and contempt for the science of addition and subtraction led to his committing murder and suicide. AVhen Louis was 16, his mother wrote to Queen Augusta: "I am in despair and hardly know where to turn. I cannot conscien tiously oppose tho King's methods, still it is hard to see my children suffer under a system that robs them of all the little joys of life. Tho ICing will not allow our boys to have more than eight Groschens (15 cents) pocket money per week —ridiculous amount. "Yesterday I learned that Ludwig had contracted with a dentist to have two of his sound molar teeth pulled, for which the boy was to get twenty florins. The Prince had given a fictitious name, and the dentist heard only by tho merest accident, and at the last moment, whom he had before him. Of course he quailed on learning the truth, and very properly informed our Court-marshal, who in turn ac quainted me with the facts. I for jp— =ll Won't "to ksrw why I'm always eo cheer ful? lis Post i ihASTIES W (The corn -flakes supreme) J | THURSDAY EVENING, Hahiusburg TELEGRAPH: APRIL" 10,1919. ' ervice, 1919, Copyright bade him to mention the matter to His Majesty," the Queen went on, "but I am afraid it will penetrate to the all-liighcst ears by and by, and then the Prince's allowance may be cut off altogether." A Case in I'olnt "Has anybody heard of the pro jected English tour of tho Mcinin gens?" asked tho Kaiser at lunch eon one afternoon. Von Egloffsteln had heard the Hereditary Prince say that he and the Princess intended to accept an invitation to Windsor Castle. "But the cost!" exclaimed the Kaiser; "it will be at least ten marks ($2.50) a head every day they are absent." | Tho very next day, at second j breakfast, the Kaiser's menu card, | on which he had sketched "the fu- I turo south front of the castle with j the surrounding territory," was handed around, j "I am glad to announce," he said, ; "that 1 have perfected my plans for ! tho improvement of the Schloss. After abolishing the popular amuse ment of looking into the Kaiser's windows,,' ho referred to the dis mantling of the houses opposite the royal residence, the Schloss Fveiheit | —"after routing the sweet plcbs across the way, I have decided to erect another harrier between my self and publicity. As the sketch shows, terraces will be built adjoin ing the south front of our palace, and they will extend far enough to place within the royal precinct that part of the castle square that lies between the Schloss and the great fountain. These terraces," added the Kaiser, "will at tho same time serve to deaden some of the noise from the incessant traffic." Throws Away Twenty Millions "Will the city be willing to sac rifice the space?" asked the Princo of Saxe-Altenburg, who was the guest of honor that day. "With my permission, certainly," replied the Kaiser. "But the scheme, if pushed to such length, will involve an outlay of twenty millions," warned the Minister of the royal house, Wcdcll. "Maybe, more or less." The Kaiser said it with a frown, but im mediately resumed his semi-banter ing tone, and added, lightly: "Per haps I will authorize Your Excel lency to arrange another lottery, or to take up a loan that holds out large premiums, as they do in Aus tria and Serbia." With that he turned to the Coun tess Brockdorff, whom he detests and ordinarily treats with the se verest indifference, and, byway of changing the subject, told her a risque story across the table. A Fool in Science of Finance That is the Kaiser all over; it worries lilm to think that any of his relatives should spend ten marks, and he disposes of ten or twenty millions of public moneys as if they were old bricks or oyster shells; in fact, the Kaiser has no j notion whatever of the value or | things. Among the many strange facts in these revelations, William's remark concerning the Meiningens' trip to England is certainly not the least astonishing, coming from a man who is almost continuously on the road—the heir and heiress to a Duchy, paying a visit of state at Windsor Castle, covering their com j bined expenses with a paltry llvo | dollars a day!" The surmisal is too ridiculous to I require analysis; but it might be | just as well to state here that tho j Prince of Meiningen was a very rich man, while his wife was certainly I the best-dressed woman at Court. I Besides, on their travels, the princc -1 !y pair were always attended by a j suite, of some twenty people, all of | whom, the Kaiser thought, could bo | provided with transportation and in cidentals for ten marks per day! Kaiser's Lack of Business Capacity ( The cold, precise truth is that the man striving for absolute power in Germany and in the rest of the | world, was as deficient of business I capacity as of the love of truth, of ! decency and humanity. Before and ! during the war, lie promised the I revenue of the great Indian Princes I to all and sundry who subscribed a | million and more for war loans. And i when that failed to draw money to his coffers, lie granted subscribers countsliips and principalities to be formed in Australian territories. The World Impostor Also Imposed Upon Himself Wo now return to that imperial 1 wenty-nitllion project ' launched j witli so much self-satisfied compla- I cency "between soup and fish." William brought forward fresh ar | guments In favor of his grand I scheme. I The municipal council could not | offer any objection to his plans. | "no matter what the cost," for he means to give the terraces over to his sons as a play-ground. Besides the terraces would offer a formid able bulwark against the plans of anarchists morning, noon and night. And as a final trump: "We will promise to prolong the annual stay of the Court in Berlin at least one month or six weeks"— arguments worthy of the royal impostor, who raised the inincscir-iind-Gott pifl'lc to the dignity of a cult. Give up one-half of a public [ square—the most imposing in town —as a playground for his half dozen "kids," some half-witted, like Oscar, others with criminal tenden cies like Eitel Fritz; again, others more Clown-princely trash. "Bulwark against anarchists!" W ell, the ex-Kaiser should gaze upon his castle now! And he would prolong his stay for twenty millions and a public square. He would in deed unlit his bones dropped from the gibbet erected by his loving sub jects! "The greatest foods are also the greatest cliarletans and liars" laughingly remarked Prince Bis marck to Duke John Albrecht when he related the facts to him. Kaiser Mean Enough to Gobble Up Servants' Pensions All through the public and private life ol tho Kaiser confusion in mat ters of finance prevailed. For in stance there were no appropriations for the different sections of the household which were not subject to drafts by tho imperial master. "The Kaiser would as lief gobble up our servants' pension or salary appropriations as " "As the Guelph Fund?" inter rupted Duke Gunthcr. "Your Highness is pleased to jest," replied the Count. "Forty- eight millions! No one could spend such an amount." "Oh, yes, my brother-in-law could," laughed tho Duke. Hon William Robbed a Defeated King Tho Guelph Fund represented the sequestrated fortune of King George of Hanover, and his heir, the Duke of Cumberland, and its his tory is interesting. After annexing Hanover in the summer of 1866, Prussia restored their private for tune to tho deposed Guelphs by the convention of September 29, 1867, but there was a string, or rather a steel cable, attached to this apparent act of restitution. Pointing out that the poor blind man whom he had vanquished might utilize his money to raise an army against victorious Prussia, Bismarck, with the con s6nt of the Diet, seized the private property of the royal Hanoverians a second time, pleading that its an nual interest was needed to ward off the Guelph party's secret intrigues. So the Guelph Fund became the Reptile Fund—-a golden trough of which William's friends and tho gov ernment's leading men, fed for 2H years, there being no public nc coiiiitlng, the Chancellor laying a list of disbursements liefore the Kaiser at the end of each year, w whereupon the receipts were destroyed. More Imperial Jockeying Court gossip fixes upon the Kai ser's unwillingness to give up so large a fortune to which he might have recourse occasionally as the principal cause of his frequent breaches of faith, but I have never succeeded in tracing even a solitary Guelph fund million oh its way to the Kaiser's pockets. The Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward), it was whispered, had written a letter to the late King George of Greece, telling him that the Kaiser "gulped" down the whole of the Guelph Fund, but "Uncle Bertie," instead of sending his let ter to Athens direct, forwarded it to Copenhagen for approval by his mother-in-law, and Queen Louise, caused tho conspiracy to leak out. But, in a burst of confidence, her Majesty showed the letter to Princess Valdemar, who had stirred up the imbroglio between Bismarck and Czar Alexander not so many years before. Those Royal Gossips That Mario d'Orleans-Bourbon, on her part, was unable to constrain her triumph at the hope of seeing Germany's Kaiser humiliated, is, perhaps, not to be wwondered at, for Her Royal Highness detested Wil liam as heartily as she adored France. So, with true feminine acu men, she sat down and telegraphed the sweet morsel broadcast to all royal Wiihelm-haters, or Princes that she considered sympathizers, and all wished the undertaking God speed—all except Cousin Ferdinand of Bulgaria. This queer Individual, eager to oblige the Kaiser, betrayed the confidence reposed to him, hop ing thereby to gain William s grati tude. Ferdinand had a rude awakening out of that pipe-dream, for only a few weeks later William called him names that figured largely in the correspondence of the late Mar quis of Queensbury with a certain English poet-dramatist. And to Czar Nicky's face, too! And you should have heard the Kaiser's estimate of Ferdi's true character a week or so before Bul garia's caving in. "Dirty traitor," "Jew-bully," "Murderer" and "crowned Shylock" were some of the milder epithets flying about. And the Kaiscrin and her daughter Louise fully agreed that his Balkan Czarship was a "swine." The Ways of the Gossips At best, the Berlin court was a veritable hotbed of ill-natured gos sip. 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Except for the details, here first revealed, the Guelph Fund story is ancient history, but is important as a precedent: Since German states men thought it incumbent upon them to sequestrate the private fortune of a one-horse king in order that this ex-monarch might not use the money to stir up trouble against conquering Prus sia. It is a hundred times more im portant to confiscate the ex-Kaiser's bilirbns to prevent his breaking tho peace after peace has been signed and sealed. "But William is a broken old man," say his apologists. We are not sure of that, William being a consummate actor, but oven admitting that, personally, he is out of the running, he has six stalwart sons, than whom no greater scamps, intriguers and wasters of human life walk Germany's soil, or any other. All six will have millions and a whole skin —all six enjoy health, liberty and complete freedom from conscience or scruples of any kind; all six will have millions at their beck and call if the Allies permit! Will the Peac Conference—by re fusing to confiscate the Holienzol lcrn fortunes furnish them the funds for future political and mili tary propaganda? Have American, English and French lives liocn pre served by the armistice only to be put in jeopardy sooner or later at the sweet pleasure of "burglar" William, torturer Eitcl Fritz, "woman-stenlcr" Oscar and the rest? As the Kaiser did to the con quered King of Hanover, so tlio Allies should do to the conquered William. He set the precedent. Take the Hohcnzollcrn Finds as the nohen zollcnis took the Guelph Fund! (To Be Continued.) New Loan For Belgium and the Czecho-Slovaks Washington. April 10.—Credits of $6,330,000 to the Czecho-Slovaks re public and of $900,000 to Belgium were established by the Treasury. The Belgian credit raised the total loans to the allies to $9,016,229,000 and the total to Belgium to $341,- 435,000. HUMBERT CASE IN FRENCH COURT French Senator Is Accused of Treating With the Enemy Paris, April 10. The situation created at the trial of Senator Charles Humbert, by the reading of President Poincare's testimony: ac cusations by M. Moro-Giafferi, Hum bert's lawyer, that the French pres ident made "voluntary errors," and subsequent threats by Captain Mor net, the public prosecutor, to have Moro-Giafferi disbarred from prac tice, is one without precedent in France's spectacular law courts. Senator Humbert is on trial on the charge of having had commerce with the enemy. President Poincare, in view of the bitter attacks to which he was sub jected by Humbert's lawyer, asked yesterday to be heard anew, and Colonel Masselin, after reading the President's letter, acquiesced, as the ! President wished to explain further regarding his relations and inter views with Senator Humbert. President Poincare's testimony re lated to the conversations he and Humbert had had regarding Pierre Lenoir, a defendant, and 8010 Pasha. 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