12 ! The Private Life of the Kaiser FROM TUB PAPERS AND DIARIES OF THE BARONESS VON LARISCH-REDDERN f Tk Kaiser and Kalaertn'a Late Major Dorao, Cklef at the Royal Household at Berlin and Potsdam. Bareness ran Lnrlnch-Reddern Is the TRI'E name of the Berlin Court Lndy who gnte the story of the Kaiser to Hoary William Fisher, Vrsula. t'oontess too Eprln*ho>rn being a bom de Pierre, heretofore used to shield her. - 1 Thompson Feature Service. 1919, Copyright [Continued from Yesterday.] , Epistles of this sort kept Auguste Victoria in a turmoil, the Emperor having refused to be disturbed aftct 1 perusing one or two of the kind. Thereafter letters postmarked from any city or place where the "damned Hohonlohe curmudgeons reside," had to be delivered to the Kaiserin, whether addressed to Wil liam personally or not. The adjutants left rags of that kind by the handful morning after morning at the Empress's rooms, and Her Majesty's morbid curiosity, made her not only notice these grievances and accusations, but study | them, ponder over them. Only once | have I seen her unconcerned when j thus employed.—at the suggestion that Uncle Chlodwig needed a big salary, in order to live in the style befitting his rank. "Uncle Chlodwig a pauper! she ■ cried. "That is news, indeed; a poor man owning residential palaces in several capitals, and castles and country-houses all over Germany | and In Austria!" Prlncea Arc Above the Law "Of course, the statement is ridi culous," said Baron von Mirbach; "but it is a fact, nevertheless, that His Grace has been sorely disap pointed with respect to his Russian properties, or rather his wife's Rus sion inheritance, the Wittgenstein domains. The law prohibiting for- | eigners from holding property in Russia has forced him to dispose of many miles of territory at ruinous prices." "1 know," said the Empress, "and am glad that the Kaiser promised to intervene with the Czar on that ; account. 'Nicky,' 1 am sure, will j arrange matters satisfactorily." ' I "The Prince's relatives seem to know nothing of such an under standing," I remarked. "Of course not," replied Her Ma- j jesty, "for it is a state secret which, i when I come to think of it, I should j have more respected. But now that 1 it is out, let me add that my hus- ; band's promise to secure a favorable j settlement of those Russian affairs ■lid more than all other arguments I toward persuading the Prince to ac cept the Chancellorship." Poor Nicky'. He was tireless in arranging unlawful matter for his relatives and friends. Indeed lie worked at that game until he him self was made an end of—lawfully i or unlawfully, no one seems to know , at this writing. On the eve of the day when the Kaiser said at the swearing-in of , lecruits: "by donning the King's coat you have become something aristocratic'." an unsigned letter ad monished him in this stylo: "Your Majesty ought realv not he so hard on Hohenlolie on the salary question, considering that you have but to ask your wife's mother about the good uses Hohenlolie makes of j his wealth. Indeed, if it had not j been for 'Cousin Chlodwig.' the Duchess Adelaide and her children, j among them the present German Empress, might have gone hungry 1 many a day while the Augtisten burger was fighting for his throne." J That evening the princely couple of Meiningen. Duke Gunther and the hereditary Princess of Hohen zollern. took supper at Court, and i to these relatives the Kaiser showed the letter. "I am thinking about ways and means to stifle this new scandal." he explained. "The report—whether true or not is immaterial—that the German mother accepted charity from a Hohenlolie must not be allowed to spread, and T see but one-way to prevent it' those salary grabbers must be appeased: the in come of Emperor's lieutenant must he restored to the Chancellor. "I am going to grant Hohonlohe an annual augmentation of his salary, amounting to one hundred thousand marks out of the imperial emer gency fund." This was a fund appropriated by the Reichstag for the benefit of crlp p'e<! soldiers, widows, and orphans, nnd of the victims of fire, storm, and elementary misfortunes." and the Kaiser gave ono-twonti.th part of it to bis rich and nbie bodied uncle! Pome three months later the Berlin Post, known as the or gan of the foreign ministries, pub lished a story purporting to correct a naragraph printed in an obscure I Socialistic sheet, hinting at a conspir acy between Kaiser and Chancellor to defraud a public fund. And. with the clumsiness that distinguishes the official press, the Post, denied the! Bell Y / Dial 709 V / 4454 Keystone Motor Car Co. 57-109 S. Cameron Street Distributors of .j PEERLESS CHALMERS DODGE RROS. MOTOR CARS 24 m Hour Service Station jj C. H. BARNER, Mgr. SATURDAY EVENING, harrisburg APRIL' 19, 1919. , conspiracy, and then calmly told the I damning truth, namely, that His Majesty, in recognition of Prince i Hohenlohe's distinguished services, his patriotism and disinterestedness, had been "graciously pleased to grant him an extra subvention from the charity fund which was at his dis posal." Consequently the Kaiser appeared at supper with a darkened brow. Vie was most ungracious toward Her Majesty, and all the ladies, myself included, were treated to sarcastic remarks that often approached down right rudeness. "A thunder storm is gathering—l wonder who will catch it?" remarked my neighbor. At that moment the Chasseur handed the Kaiser a letter bearing a great official seal. "There." said he to the Empress, 'after perusing the missive. "Hohon lohe thanks me for my good inten tions. and relinquishes, at the first blast from the enemy's camp, ihe fortune 1 threw into his lap.'' Prussian Junkers a Hungry I.ot It's hardly necessary to add that Hohenlolie was no Prussian Junker; a Prussian junker would have hung on to the pound of ficsli, the product of imperial malfeasance, no matter how many women and children of the people would starve that he and his might have more than they could digest. I have, practically, been an at tache of the Prussian court all my life and never once heard of a anal ogous case. Our big politicians took all they could get and when the Kaiser was graciously pleased to rob a public fund to (ill their ravenous pouches, there was no smell of thiev ery. only one more whimsical mani festation of the Right Divine, or species of organized royal appetite. This the Kaiser's mother-in-law. Duchess Adelaide of Schleswig, loved to ridicule along with William's other pretentions, while on his part William loathed the Duchess and knowingly would not have her in his house. But on account of the Kaiser's travel mania, her highness was sometimes able to spend one, two or even three weeks at Court. Queer Royal Fail Among other peculiarities she in dulged to excess, was the wash craze, not a eraze for cleanliness, —for she would as soon Jump into the fire as immerse herself in a tub of water, —but a passion for wetting different parts of her body and rubbing them down. "I have brought my daily abolu tton into a system." she told me once, "and to that end divided ray body into twenty sections. "The cleansing of each one of them re quires a complete toilet-set, —bowl, ■ pitcher, soap-dish, nnd towel." That is one of the reasons why her visits were so niuc-h dreaded in the palace. 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And woe to the cham bermaid who upset this order of things by placing a left side howl with a right-sided pitcher, which might happen easily enough, seeing that most of them were of the same color and pattern. On one occasion Her Majesty had given orders that only fourteen toil et-sets be placed in ller Highness's apartments, somebody having told her that her mother might be alto gether weaned of her craze if once she could be persuaded to get along with less than the accustomed num ber. Mother and daughter inspected the rooms together and afterward took dinner in private. Her Highness with drawing at an early hour on the plea of indisposition. In truth, she burn ed to see whether her first casual observation as to the lack of wash basins had been correct. Miss von Roeder her maid of Honor said next day that the Duchess, as soon as she was out of Her Majesty's sight, began to run, arriving at her apartment breathless and excited. "Help mo count.—all of you!" she shrieked. 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