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4 The Kaiser as I Knew Him For Fourteen Years . 1 r. By* ARTHUR N. DAVIS. D. D. S. <Copyrlcht, 1918, by the McClure Newepa per Syndicate.) CHAPTER V. V “• r ar Al • IlHM The Kaiser Defends German Methods. The kaiser wjis always very careful *hout everything whMi miuht affect his health, and even after the war started, when his attention was natu rally occupied by many pressing prob- leina, he did not neglect his teeth, but entue to me as regularly ns be bad al- way* done. . Of.this I was very glad, because It gave me an opportunity to draw the kalfer out on many of tlie Interentlng questions which the war suggested and which I found him always ready to discuss. Perhaps the fact that I led the kaiser to Ml Ms JoaflAcattos of Cenaan war methods and than he n*l«ht othrcwlae have The hr* thae I saw the kaiser aftht the tear •tartrd was ahovt Aagmd Ml MW4. Rrtwsvw eteeea and twelve ■> rlseh the Wight hefwew. I had heew hy Msfihaie that the hahee Me am la atvead Mai at vhelt^gM aa ,K - MwniMti <4 <Vim •bn, Mn troofM thfifwah •lilhrse t «H*e KlaotliMU, "ll Is alt right fur the alllea to do these 'hlngs,** hr ci»mim*nted aarcaa* tlcally, "hat when ticrniany dinm them Kngland rises up in righteous Indig nation. The hypocrites! Why, we found papers In Brussels which showed conclusively that Kngland and Belgium bad a secret nttreemcht by .which in the event of war witir Ger many England was to be permitted to occupy Belgium! We've got those pa pers In Berlin. We could have no more positive proof against them. The Belgians were simply England's tools!” Some of the arguments the kaiser raised In bis discussions with me re garding the war were so weak and untenable that one might well doubt -bis sincerity In urging them,_but I shall give them for what they are worth. “They Tefer to us as the Huns!’’ the kaiser observed bitterly*- “If your people could see what the Russian* have done in the Bukowlna and east ern Prussia they would know then who are the real Huns! They de stroyed .everything they could in their hands on. In one of my shoot- ull4 j Ing lodges which the t'osMicks entered they even kn«»cked out the teeth of the iMuirs* heads which hung on the wrmlls! With knlve* they cut out the covers of my chairs. They had special lire hotnlM which they threw on pearefat villages. These hnenh* had been com «trwci»4| la peace times a ad were de signed solely for pillage and dcMrwr How. "lasiewd of treating i as prisoni r» of «a£ we strwwg thr«M np iy IM •wm of tkemr dev era! Wto» mm u swy tragi M ho to If fwa | the criwm of lhifw|r%M '* •etas them.' they mwtewded. T"* MM Inm that the asl«ef pay far themT* an* tdinr aidwA *Hm ! awmaMM t» the raar wf Ri we didn't pay for them, hat we gave [ which he pmnted out that ~ ‘ ought ta he allowed to chastise wf •mm p Its rvoo eg know w hs "fade tada la ta* add ••nr notes,' the> replied. Thew/ anhl my officer*, 'when you take up thoae notes we'll pay for these stores; In the meanwhile well Just take them. We secured bandage*, serums—every thing. in fact, that we needed so very badly, and we got them all for noth ing!" I did not know at that time that the German army lacked medical supplies, hut later I saw paper bandages in use. I have previously referred to the kaiser’s defense of the us^ of Zeppe lins against Paris, London and other nonmilitary cities. He claimed that It was proper to make war on civnians. because England was endeavoring to starve Germany. On one occasion 1 pointed out to him that in 1870 the Germans had besieged Paris and had starved its population. “The cases are entirely different,“ he answered hastily. “Then we were besieging a city and the civilian pop ulation had plenty of opportunity to evacuate ft before the siege began. England Is besieging a whole nation trying to starve my women wnd without Intcrfcrenct frmw the other Kumpeaii—powera. ~ remarking. "We princes roust hold together." but there can be no doubt that that was tery far from the outcome dearest to bla heart. If, Indeed, the punishment of Serbia. had been *ecompllHhed with* war the kaiser would have been a disappointi*<I man, and tf Russia had failed to mobilize her troops, which, gave Germany a r pretext for crossing the Russian tamler, l haven’t the slightest doubt that Germany would have prodded Russia Into war anyway, knowing that France would follow. “Der Tag" (the day) had come for which Germany had been planning and plotting, and nothing on earth could now- Interfere with the ex ecution of the program. How firmly the kaiser was wedded t. a ««• the fwcwl •II IhHf Bui while »hc knl"rr** snui«*i were triumphant, In I hr fl**h|. the prinrtfile which he was mmtmtlng was every where gaining ground On Mareh Iff. 1011. the rxar nhdlf-nted and Ruesta. whose autocratic form of government find long lHN»n the f^nvy of the German aristocracy, became a republic It 'The downfall of the Russian cm pire was brought about tty England OOLDKN TEXT~B« thou a blessing.«» ftMin-d thnt tlu» <»nir wn« Gvnsaia. 12:8. LESSON FOR OCTOBER 6 ABRAM LEAVING HOME. LESSON TEXT —Geavals 12:1-9. because she feared that the, czar wa* about to make n separate peace," the kaiser commented to me.* “As a mat*, ter of fact, however, neither the czar nor his government ever approached us on that subject, and when England overthrew the Russian monarchy she defeated her. very purpose. With the czar on the throne Russia would prob ably have gone on fighting us." When, a few months later, the abdi cation of the ezar-w*/ followed by-the abdication of King /V*nsUmtlne of U> the dynastic Idea and how deeply ] Greece, the kaiser sustained another he abhorred the spirit of democracy was revealed throughout the .whole eourse of his life, and In his conversa tion* with me he frequently gave ex pression to view* which disclosed how thoroughly he believed In the ^ilvloe right of kings." I saw him shortly after Wilson's elect Mm In BM'J. "What will America ever accomplish with a professor at Its hmd7' hr asked, •oecringly. “iMris, tour mnm If children, who have nothing to do with war." I couldn't help thinking of the “whole nations" which had been ab solutely crushed under the kaiser'* heel—of Belgium. Henris and I'tdand. \ The kaiser never admitted that the dwMfrflmi af dm Lnritaala was a rw> try wM never he truly great until suit wf «peel si Insfructhms from Mm y, rrmi a amuarrhy!" •• ik» t tMt «—i—•4,r. ta, to «» Ob to ai -wsing the general subject af auburn randtlbma tu t rine • arfsre be uehed: I •y^uh m mWhmt 9 **l*^ W9 ** arnrlhd. 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"They are trying to force their tM ten form of democratic government on Greece." he di-clsrod fl»n*ely. "The way they have treated my poor sister, the queen of Greece Is a shame and a disgrace. They talk about our tavu- *ion of llrlgtutn. ton iheir ai-tMms In Greece are taAnltriy worse. I have studied the Kng*Uh people far twenty- Bve years, and they alwravs try ta caver their arts with rellgtoa a ad tha talk af benedts •» ri rtl Mai Isa aad hn- auMUty. but. h||writfs that tbaf art •he.* mnilnue ta grub aff they rua gri td the# hands an jnst the mmeT M The tael that •ievvae hnd a treaty t* with Brvhla uMrifc tvsywifvd her la tab* Ut t up arum If JMtfdn usu* athnlad and *• that dhe hnd faded os aunt her dUb • naimna in thui n npvvf nna Mi ' of un skfatfbnne* ns the k« n* kihsaa •tvwMew wets MM mtUffi The bsunat* af the DEVOTIONAL READING-Hebrswi U: 1-M ADDITIONAL MATERIAL, FOR TEACHERS-Genesls U:27-«; Uebrsws U:8-10. ~ 1. Abraham’s Call (r. 1). ;• The new era Inaugurated with Noah at Its head enried'tn a colossal failure. In vMw of such failure God turned aside from the nation as such, and call ed Ahram out from his kindred and land, and pinned him at the head of a new nation which he would train for hlmsclL This call Involved: 1. A caH to separation. He was to leave the place of his fond associa tions fbr a land unknowm to him. Obe- dleuce to this command meant the sev erance ol three flea. (Ij "HU country tu the widest range of Ms affectiona, (2) HU place of birth and kindred, which comae deary to Ms heart. (S) HU fatherli AB Mb hum •ha afh^i iH M Med tf «fhri IBs yaM • %•» wWSi •4 a o IsmadhsM yad sand m bs MBs it am nw mHw ass* Bla « v., as asvai af t m tmm m mm MBugh dkvwsd «haas dNssu fsaat Me * ska yaammuauaa w*B if •• OB* ps (B 0 'Vhuf ■ am itgM fuse •w m •ilB tt m *4+ 0m • mammy whsw m M». a 1MB B ♦ wa Ml OBB mM0 ♦ %e»h Iff o ai mm mm dsav «f *0 tk» s TrnmTmZmm k* • 4sy ta dm am sun- «kss» m. t*w tksvkh Mm •hr ataask.s m mm hr • mm isafspy «hr ms* af (hr Thr WMl—ksa uflh what hu tlcfmsd ihsfr car f* thr i against thrl "I hove already framed a which I Intend sending to your regarding the use of dumdum mwr. huf It Is UgitMmf* i mcidrwt Olbeewl*e baaty md. In uuy ewuf. uhsu in *np« ariar privalr praperiy It ary «• |my Bar M. That the were g,ssl takers but poor payers Is revealed by two Incident* which the kal»rr narrated to me. and the keen enjoyment he derived from them can la* fully understood on'y hy %m •sab iMug no »a«««uoii •BP mare' CHAPTER VI. The great military Busty wharh mm* UPthh the Ity . —ma b M ri aa ih* •hr ilMfBl After uadMUniftsm hawrvrr. the kaiser di’chb d to rresde from Ms pad! Mm ■nim wfat and from the holenni of thr pa'aer In Bertie, ta front »*f w hftrh aa | tf Mm far Ih* hMb hi Byvwr of b R •f pitBRRBBbfb to at r eterifd hy thr peapl designated bp Gad mi the ha seat sort of and the unfortunate part of H all ti* kalerr hid hunt Up during the Erst ^ fl | l | ww | he dccUred »lgnlff<-wnt-4 that the majority of Ms yi years of his reign "for the id maintaining peace" was constantly Itching for war. There was a feeling among the militarists that while It , iy: “I recognise no parties. , now all Germans." bullets by the Belgians and French." Hmmc who know how much the kaiser was all right for the kaiser to assume the kaiser went on. "We have ample appreciate* proof to eatabllsh this charge not only nothing. In the character of the wounds suffered by my soldiers hut In the shape of un used cartridges which we found In the captured forts." Strangely enough, the kaiser sent off hla protest to President Wilson about the same flay that President Poincare forwarded a similar protest based upon the use of dumddm bullets by the Germans. Regarding the violation of Belgium’s neutrality, the kaiser was able, to of fer no reasonable argument. The*tact that he was willing to pay Belgium for permission to allow his armies to go Iprough that country was apparently sufficient justification in Ids eyes for taking by force what Belgium refused to sell. "How foolisli of Belgium to have re sisted us!" he dociniyd. in this con nection. “Had they consented to let us walk through we would have paid for wvrvthlng-everything! .Not a getting something for KouninnlM w anted our gold for food products," lie told me. “They demand ed pure gold and they set enormou* prices on their wares; hut we needed what they had to sell and we were ready to pay even the outrageous prices they demanded. And then they foolishly declared war against us and we got it all for nothing! .When I spoke to Illndenburg about the con templated campaign against Roumn- nia he said. ‘This will be a very inter estiiig campaign.’ It was. We got al) we wanted ami didn’t have to pay a penny for it.” The kaiser beamed nil over ns he contemplated the results of Rouma- nlu’s entry in the war. When the German' troops entered Tttrnn|»of‘ Russia, at a Inter time they captured vast quantities of American made hospital supplies. "Wc were lust figuring what this selxurc amounted to. and my army the role-of the "Prince of Peace” dur ing the period of prc|mrat!on. It wras liossihle to overplay the part.' He so W# art IncMIed with Mm. They preferred ta tie rul.-d by a hand of inm rather than to rule themselves, dome day they may be awakened to the blessing! of If anyone hnagioes. however, that his kowtowing to the socialists In this instance was evidence of n permanent change of heart, he little appreciates how deeply rooted Is I lie kaiser's ah horrence of socialism and democracy, frequently referred to the fact -Indeed, one of the principal thing* the his sole purpose in maintaining a large k|l|#er | lopiH | t o accomplish hy prose army and navy was to maintain peace { euting the war to a triumphant con that the war lords of Germany began c |„ s ion was the blow it would deal to i should follow suit, to fear that perhnpsdic might mean It. ( socialistic progress. He felt that The murder of the Archduke Franz ' victory would make Ids army the Idof Ferdinand, the successor to the Aus- j 0 f t |,e people and that their'monarch i would shine In the reflected glory of ! their martial achievements. A sue ceJ¥*ful war, lie believed, would set so ciaiism hack a hundred years. - Certain it is the war brought no l change In the kaiser’s personal habits. But even had Emperor Franz Joseph t Liven to curry favor w ith the soelnlhr- i shown reluctance to plunge his nation Id MdMd—M* tbaf have the Jew A -Am <*. i). agatnot the Jew* pared. While God it different time* need the aumAndlag nations at self-government, hut up to the present Vecettcgea of Israel he In turn punished time they have not jd»ow*n the slightest indication that they would prefer ,to rule than be ruled, and bc<wnse they submit so willingly to the kaiser's dom ination he lias become obsessed with the idea Hint the rest of tht world trinn throne, and his wife hy a Ser bian on June 20, 1914, gave Germany the excuse for which she had been waiting, so long to start a European conflagration and found . Austria as anxious for war as her ally. into war ond hnd Austria refused to chastise Serbia for the murder of the Archduke I doubt very much whether the kaiser would have allowed that event to have gone unavenged. It touched hini In one of tils most vulnerable spo{*. The sanctity of roy alty la one of hla most cben»hed idea* tic element he never unbent to the slightest degree in his outward dis play of kingly attributes. In al* his career the German |*»ople had never >een their kaiser other than in his royal uniform, and at all military pa rade* or review* he at way* rode a 1 white horse, that lie much! l»e mo*i twmrnrmm. aad l«*re the royal —— The kaiser and other German leaders believed that their army was invincible and that when Der Tag—“the day"—arrived, Germany would crush her en emies and gain all her ends within a few months. Even after America entered the war the kaiser seemed supremely confident of an overwhelming victory. Doctor Davis relates some of the kaiser's boasts in the next installment of hit nar rative them for their mistreatment of laraei 7. < Tn thee ehall all families of tbe earth be bleeaed*' (v. S) This has been fulfilled (i; In the Jewish nation be ing made the repository of the Grades of God. Through them the Bible has been given to the world. (2) The bringing into Hie world of the Redeem er. (3) In the future time when the Jews shall be God's missionaries In carrying the good tidings of the Gospel to the ends of the earth. * ; Ml. Abram's Obedience (w. 4-9). Ahram at once departed out of hla own land. He proved hla faith hy hla LAWNS NOW POTATO FIELDS irj * »• ♦»• pimm *