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The Kaiser as I Knew Him
for Fourteen Years
11 VfM
i, A wimber of other wealthy Hebrew*
la Oermeor were alao honored by tho
knlaer In another way. Although he
wai averse to visiting the home* of
! private individuals who lacked aortal
•standing. he departed from hla rale la
' their favor and visited their mansions
ostensibly to view their art collections,
but actually to tickle their vanity.
Shortly after Lqjshmnn became am-
bassador to Germany, the kaiser called
By ARTHUR N. DAVIS# D. D# S. || “Tonr new ambassador's daughter la
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CHAPTER III.
attended our court In many a day.” ho
declared. “Half a dosen of my youn*
“Autos are expensive." he declared.! staff officers are very anxious to marry
“but they don’t coat me that much I" her. Can yon tell me, Davls^whetner
_ The kaiser speaks English with but
The Kaiser's Dual Personality. the slightest trace of a foreign accent
If I bad come away from Germany In ' His diction Is perfect. He speaka
January 1914. Instead of In January. French, too. very fluently, and. I bo-
1M8 and bad written the Impression j neve. Italian. He Is widely read on
t bed sained of the kaiser In the ten j almost all subjects and knows the lit-
1*,* t v-d known him. what a false e(stars of England. France and Amer-
nlrtiire I would have painted of the lea as well as that of Germany. Mark
man as he really Ibl Twain was one of his favorite Amer-
It would have been a picture of a lean authors and Longfellow hla choice
man who In general appearance- and t of American poets.
J“,n_ was every Inch an emperor and He prides himself on his acquain-
_ho could exhibit all the courtesy, tance with history and has little re-
affablllty and gentleness of the most sped for the political opinions of oth-
democ ratio gentleman, a man soft of era whose knowledge of history Is less
eve and kindly In expression, a man of complete. ,
2de reading and attainments—perhaps Shortly after Carnegie had donated
So most versatile man In the world, a j live million marks to Germany to fur-
nun who Dossessed a most alert mind, ther world-peace, I happened to be
^remarkable memory and the keenest talking to the kaiser of American mil-
observatlon; u man who was not gen-
erous In nature and yet was at times
considerate of others; a man of charm-
ing personality and amiability. It
would have shown a man
dieted egotism, a man who was Im-
patient of correction and who would
brook no opposition. There might have
been In the picture a suggestion of tho
dire lengths to which the man would
llonaires and the ateelmastcr was
mentioned.
"Of course, Carnegie Is a nice old
luimj. man and means well.” remarked the
of unpar- kaiser, condescendingly, “but he is to-
tdly Ignorant of world history. He's
Just advanced us five million for
world-peace. We accepted It naturally,
but, of course, we Intend to continue
our policy of maintaining our army and
dire lengths to wnicn ine man ... —-------
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^ picture —ukl l« wile# !», ,.l»r ,«..IM „W
. ** . ■reiipnie but It would have considerable attention In which he
have been accurate.but Hwmiw ^ dop,n.t regard hlm8elf „ the flnal an-
thorlty.
As an art collector and antiquarian
he claims first place and he is rather
Inclined to feel that second place
should be left vacant. He aways re-
been aadly Incomplete—with all the
lights worked In but lacking all the
shadows.
It took the war and its attendant
horrors to reveal the kaiser In his
true colors. The war did not change
hla character; It uncovered It
11”I, VEH ---> ’
these Lelahmans have money T”
If the kaiser despised th# American
propensity for money-making, he was
certainly not averse to acquiring
American dollars.
He told me once that every trip the
Hamburg-American liner Amertka
made from New York to Hamburg re-
sulted In transferring $190,000 from
American to German pockets, and
added: “We’re mighty glad to get some
of your American money, I can tell
you.”
Of the kaiser’s versatility I had
convincing evidence. In his conversa-
tions with me we usually wandered
from subject to subject In the most
haphazard manner, and he Invariably
displayed a surprising store of lnfor-
mstion on every topic we touched, and
I am not vain enough to believe that
he was so anxious to make a favorable
Impression upon me that he prepared
for these discussions In advance.
Indeed, the kaiser discussed so free-
ly almost every subject that suggested
Itself that I often wondered what his
advisors would have said had they
overheard onr conversations. His read-
iness to talk to me was undoubtedly
dne to a tendency he hnd to trust
every one with whom he came In Inti-
mate contact For a man who was apt
to have so many enemies, he was less
suspicious than anyone I had ever
met. He seemed to trust every one, and
ills sense of security unloosened hts
tongue and made him more talkative,
perhaps, than was always discreet.
The kaiser was very fond of listen-
ing to and telling stories with u point
— -—. . I. sented very much the acquisition by . mK mm nums »i»nw "•»“ “ i~™*
s character: it uncover . American millionaires of art treasures and would frequency Invite r.ie to tell
Early In my practice I happenea gnd antlqU]tIes whlch their wealth en-1 him any new one that I might have
mention to the kaiser J"®1 1 shied them to buy. but which thej, heard. Some of the stories we ex-
dated tho friendliness he showed me nm|tej acquaintance with history and changed were more or less risque and
In Invariably waving hts hand at m* culture and refinement would be out of place In these pages.
i invariably waving his hand at m« 1>ck Qf cuIture and refinement
as he passed my window when walking ma(|p (hem unabge to appreciate—Id
along the Tlergarten. tbe kaiser's estimation.
“It’s a good advertisement for yon. Qf hJj nwn taste ,n art 1Itt,e need b«
Davis,” he said. “The people see m ^ The monuments which he caused
waving to you and they know you musl {o ^ crected to his ancestors and their
be a good dentist or I wouldn t adTlsors and which adorn the Sieges
come to you. It will help your busl- All>> th# street bo had opened through
ness!” In every act. he was consdou* th< Tlergarten espedally for them, ars
’ of the public. ------------- *- **--
«.« lu a very Jocular fiauie of mlud.
summer In connection with the pore*
Isin tooth I hnd patented. {
"Well, it won't b* necessary now,
Davis.” bo commented. “We can send
the Deutschland over and bring back
a boatload of teeth 1”
“Fix my teeth well, Dawls.” he do ‘
clarol on another occasion, “so that I
can bile. There are lot* of people I
would like to bite I” and he snapped
hla Jaws together In a way that would
Imve boded 111 for the victims he had In
mind, although hla remark was evl-
drtivly more facetious than vicious. {
The courtesy and affability which
the kaiser almost Invariably'displayed
In hla relations with me did not pre-
vent him on ono occasion from show-
ing his Indignation when I touched him
upon what waa evidently a very sort
point—the part that America was go-
ing to play In the war. although he al-
ways claimed to be unperturbed about
tho American situation.
He had pointed out that America at'
that time had only 90,000 men la,
France and he believed that the D-
boats would effectively prevent any
. great addition to our forces abroad, If,
I Indeed, they ever left our shores.
“As a matter of fact, however," h«
1 added, “your countrymen would bs
i very willing, no donbt, to light for their
country to protect It from Invasion,1,
j but I don’t believe you'll ever get tnauj
! of them to leave home to fight abroad.
. America will really be a very small
factor In the war, Davis!”
“Tour majesty Is underestimating
the power of America!” I replied,
i He turned to me Indignantly, and In
his most Imperious manner exclaimed:
i “We underestimate no one I We
know exactly what we are doing 1“
i How seriously be was mistaken In
this respect has since been sufficiently
proved.
No matter bow gloomy the outlook
for Germany, the kaiser seldom show-
ed concern. It Is true that whenever j
things were going wrong, as when the |
Russians In the early part of the war
were sweeping everything before them
in their advance on the Carpathians,
he apd the rest of the royal family
kept as far In the background as pos-
sible, whereas when the German causa
wns triumphant, as In the case of the
offensive against Italy, he could not
make himself too conspicuous at the
front.
But even when Germany's adversity
was greatest, the kaiser always put oq
a brave front. At such times I hsv*
seen him stop In the street, after leav-
ing my office, and before the hundreds
SKfPERUNA
Greatest Ha
YlteUier
thought I mist, surely 4lj from
It. Attar Hites -■■■(,
and all other recommended rem-
edies made known to me, I was
Induced to use Parana. I eras
eared entirely by using twelve
bottles of Peruna and one bottle
of ManaUn.
ugjQEa/jlMXa'gTsatest "Sue
Hr. Wm. A. Hartmann. tlVA A
Seoood SC, Muskogee, Oklahoma,
thus describee his ease. Read hi*
lettsr.
or Tablet !
would be out of place In these pages,
but I do not mean to Intimate that
there was anything very much amiss
with them. They always amused him mg my omce, anu oeiore me nunareua
very much and be was quick to catch of people waiting outside to greet him,
the point ostentatiously put a cigarette Id hla
The kaiser’s sense of humor fro- mouth and light It, that everyone might
quently exhibited Itself. He told mo notice how steady his hand was and
of a conference between represent*- how little he was worried by the tVh
It You Want
LUMBER
SHINGLES, BRICK
CEMENT, LIME
and Other Building Ma-
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W. E. Mendenhall
Idabel Oklahoma
JOHN C. EARL
Attorney-at-Law
Office in Court House
Idabel Oklahoma.
coo. am —----- tne Tiergarren especially iur tueui, bee or a conierence oeiween represent*- now mu« ue ™
J the public. at the same time a monument to the ttves of all the powers regarding the things were taking.
During that period of my career In kalg„.-g Jdeag 0f grt They are the election of a king for Albania after At the same time, on one or two oc-
Berlin, ho showed tho utmost Interest lu^iog-stock of the artistic world. | the Balkan war. 8ome of those present casions after the war started. I noticed
In my progress and frequently Inquired have been so frequently defaced thought the Incumbent ought to be a that he acted differently when In th*
bow my practice was developing. by Tandai8 whose artistic taste they Catholic, others Insisted that a Greek dental chair than had been hts custom
The first bill I rendered him, as 1 offended that It was necessary to sta- Catholic was essential, still others when everything was serene,
have mentioned, he doubled. On a a,*, policemen In the Sieges Allee to maintained that a Mohammedan would ; The kaiser once boasted to me that
number of subsequent occasions. h« pmrd them. Not long ago a burglary be most logical. 1 not a building was erected in Germany,
paid me more than my bill called for. o^rn*! tn the vicinity. The burglarr j, goemfd q„jte impossible to come j not a bridge built, not a street opened,
.vernavments never amounted were observed while at work and • t0 anv a(rr(.PBicnt as to Just what re- not a park laid out, but what the proj-
stsrtled civilian rushed to the Siegel |lgton th). k|ns, nf Albania should pro-! ect was first submitted to hla JI«
Allee to summon one of the officers f(,ggt and the kaiser had ended the dt<-
Tbese overpayments never amounted
to very much, but they Impressed me
because they were so out of keeplni
with the stinginess the kaiser dis-
played In other directions.
From time to time the kaiser sent
or brought me autographed pictures ol
himself or others. At the time of th<
one hundredth anniversary of Fred-
erick the Great, he gave me a plctur*
of that monarch. On another occasion
he presented me with a group plcturf
of himself surraunded by his family
and dogs. I remember his bringing *r
me a large utiframed picture In celo-
bration of ins silver wi-dding. It was
about twenty-four by eighteen Inches
in size. It showed the kaiserlu and
himself in a sort of cloud floating above
a blrdseye view of Berlin, with the
palace and the cathedral dimly seen
below.
“I don't know Just what this master-
piece was meant to signify, but I had It
framed and plaeed It In my office. Ir
evoked from a little boy who entered
the room with his mother the follow-
ing astonished remark : “Oh. mother,
look at the kaiser in heaven 1”
A post-card picture of the kaiser,
signed by his own hand, was in his
own estimation one of the most price-
less gifts he could bestow. I remem-
ber his donating one of them to an
American charity bazaar In Berlin to
be auctioned off. He thought that the
fact that the card came from his Im-
perial majesty gave It a value which
could not be measured In dollars and
cents. A piece of Jewelry or a sum
of money might have been duplicated
or even excelled by a gift of similnr
character from any American mlllion-
who wtre known to be on guard there
“If you hurry," exclaimed the civil-
ian, excitedly, “you can catch thesr
burglars red-handed.”
“I’m aorry," replied the policeman,
“But I cannot leave the statues."
Realism Is the kaiser's Idea of what
is most desirable In dramatic art
When he put on “Sardanapal,” a Greek
tragedy In pantomime, at the Berlin
opera house, he sent professors to
the British museum to secure the most
detailed Information available regard-
ing the costumes cf tie period. Every
utensil, every article of wearing ap-
parel, every button, every weapon, In
fact, every property used In the play
were to be faithfully reproduced, par
cusslon, lie said, wtth the suggestion: )
"Well, gentlemen. If a Protestant -
won't do. and a Roman Catholic won't -
do, and a Buddhist is out of the ques-
tion, why not select a Jew und call him
Jacob the First? He'll have his throat
- cut, anyway, lu three months!”
The powers did not select a Jew, but
the prince of Wied, the kaiser’s nomi-
nee, was put on the throne, and within
a month or two afterwards had to flee
for his life.
In referring to Boosevelt’s patriotic
offer to lend an army In France, the
' kaiser declared that he admired him
i for his courage and zeal.
“I hear,” he *nld, "that he is now on
were to be faithfully reproduced, par- t0 ItaIy. It t00 bad we did
, ticular pains being taken to produce a no9fDone our pensive there. Per-
most reulistlc effect In a funeral pyre
scone in which a king ended his life.
The kaiser sent me tickets to see It.
King Edward attended the perform-
ance at the Berlin Royal opera and 1
asked the kaiser how the king of Eng-1
land eDjoyed It.
“My gracious,’’ the kaiser replied,
unable to repress his satisfaction at
the effect the pantomime had had oq
Ms royal uncle, “why, the king was
very much alarmed when the funeral
pyre scene came on. He thought the
whole opera house was on fire!”
Perhaps the kaiser* love for details
tn|£ht be attributed to his keen obser-
vation. Nothing, no matter how triv-
ial, escaped his attention.
A couple of years before the war 1
had the empire furniture In my wait-
ing room reupholstered. On the very
not postpone our ofirens^ve there. Per-
haps we might have captured him.
Wouldn’t Teddy look funny in a gas
mask?”
Shortly after the U-boat Deutsch-
land made fts successful trip to Amer-
lea, the kaiser culled, on me, and. bs
ect was first submitted to him. He
kept posted ou everything that was
going on, not only In Germany, but lu
the world at large, and, as far as he
was able, be endeavored to have bla
linger In every development of world-
wide Importance. I cannot tmigln*
that he was less interested In what hi*
countrymen were doing In connection
with the war than he was in their
achievements in time of peace.
If he did not actually order the sink-
ing of the Lusitania, therefore, I am
convinced that he was thoroughly
aware of the plan to blow It up and
sanctioned It. That he could have
averted It If he had been prompted to
to do so Is clearly Indicated by another
Incident which left a very deep Im-
pression upon me.
I was Informed by one of the Ger-
man aviators that plans had been
made to drop gas bombs on London
which contained a deadly gas which
would penetrate the cellars of houses
in which civilians were In the habit
of .biding during air raids.
(To by Continued.)
TAN-NO-MORE
Tha »h
The Mil
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efa It iapecte lelke ekie e velvety
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First pub. Sept. 4 , Out Oct. 2.
IN DISTRICT COURT.
STATE OF OKLAHOMA, COUNTY
OF MrCURTAIN.
No. 2489.
W. A. Adams, plaintiff, vs. Rhoda
Adams, defendant.
Said defendant Rhoda Adams will
take notice that she has been sued in
the above named court for divorce
and must answer the petition filed
therein by said plaintiff on or before
the 16th day of October, A. D., 1918,
or said petition will be taken as trte,
and a judgment for said iilaintiff in
said action for divorce will be render-
ed accordingly.
Dated this 2nd day of September,
1918.
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By W. L. Axtos, Deputy.
Plaintiff.
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character iroin any American iuuhw tug rwui ......~
aii-e_for whose wealth the kaiser fre- first occasion of the kaiser’s calling at
quently expressed the utmost contempt after the change he noticed It.
—but what could surpass the value of “My. my, how beautiful the chairs
an autograph of the kaiser! look 1" he exclaimed. “Good enough for
No doubt the royal banquets were Napoleon himself.”
prepared much upon the same prin- On another occasion, between two of
rtple, for It was a common saying the kaiser’s visits, I had had put up
among the German aristocracy that one | in the waiting room a new portrait of
bad better feel well before going to a \ Mrs. Davis. Thi kaiser noticed It the
banquet at the palace. j moment he came Into the room and
1 happened to mention to the kaiser i made some complimentary remark
tbe reputation his banquets held among about It.
— — He was not at all taken '’’*>« 1
bis people.
aback.
“That’s good I" he commented. “The
Germans are too fat, anyway. The ma-
jority of the people eat too much."
Long after automobillng became
more or less general, the kaiser still
employed a horse and carriage for
ordinary travel, relying upon his free
nao of tbe railways for longer dis-
tances. When, however, the relchsUg
passed a law compelling royalty to pay
foe their railroad travel, tha kaiser
took to automobiles. They charged
him lljOOO marks, he told me, for tho
use <ft n train on one of hla shooting
trips, and that apparently waa moro
(tun he could stand. . . • _
The kaiser frequently accused the1
Americans of being dollar-worshlpers
and the English of being ruled by
Mammon, but that he himself was not
totally unmindful of the value and
power of money was clearly revealed
by the manner In which he catered to
people of wealth in recent years.
The richest man In Berlin and ofih
of the richest In Germany was a He-
brew coal magnate named Frled-
lander. The kaiser ennobled him and
made him Von Friedlander-Fuld. An-
other wealthy Hebrew to whom the
kaiser catered was Schwabach, head
of the Bletchroeder bank, one of the
strongest private hanks In Germany,
and be, too. was ennobled, becoming
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have pains and a heavy feeling after my meals, a most
disagreeable taste in my mouth. If I ate anything with
butter, oil or grease, I would spit it up. I began to have
regular sick headache. I had used (jtils and tablets, but
after a course of these, I would be constipated. It just
seemed to tear my stomach all up. I found they were
no good at all for my trouble. I heard
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FINAL REPORT.
IN THE COUNTY COURT OK Mc-
i CURTAIN COUNTY, OKLAHO-
I MA:
Probate No. 2049.
i Notice ia hereby given that the
following named administrator has
, filed in said Court his final report
as such administrator and praying
for distribution of the balance in
his hands, to-wit:
No. 2049, W. W. Hendrix, adminis-
trator of the estate of Mollie Menas-
co, and that the 1st day of October,
at 10 o'clock a. m., at the County
Court room, in the town of Idabel in
said county, has been duly appointed
by said court, for the hearing and
] settlement of said reports, at which
| time and place any person interested
in said estate may appear and show
i cause, if any they have, why 'said re-
| ports should not be approved.
! In Testimony Whereof, I have here-
I unto set my hand and affixed the seal
of said court, this the 11th day of
September, 1918.
I (Seal) J. D. PARKS.
County Judge.
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Store in Fine Buliding.
W. BURNS McCASKILL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office Over First National Bank
PHONES: Office 251; Residence 19.
ETHEREDGE & ARNETT
Attoraeys-at-Law
Office Up Stain in Robinson Boildiac
IDABEI., OKLAHOMA
GEO. W. TWITTY
Physician and Surgeon
Office: Stroud Drug Company
Calls Answered Promptly
Phones: Res., 253; Office: 5.
DR. CHAS. A. HESS
DENTIST
Office Over Fint National Bank
Idabel. .....Oklahoma.
L. E. MIFFLIN
Attorney-at-Law
First Natisnal Bank Building
Idabel. .....
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