The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, October 31, 1918, Image 3
I The Kaiser as I Knew Him
-• for Fourteen Years
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of hill drurmt ambllWma. He r**ali*nl
tm* of the otarki at fevoc * 111 Ida
ponfdr Ofthold him TWy will atoad
hehitwl him aa lutig aa h** coam foroard;
Ihrjr will repmlinlr him aa wmO aa ho
tuma bark. They will aerialm him la
By ARTHUR N. DAVIS, D. D. S.
(Copyright. 1*1*. by tha McClura Nawapapar Syndicate.)
CHAPTER XIII—Continued.
After the kaiser had had Jiis sleep, I
was summoned to his dressing room.
He entered the room attired in a red
flannel undershirt. It was the first
time I had ever seen him in such a
state of plehiun negligee, and I recelvy
ed more or less of u shock. I had beep
so accustomed to seeing him In uni
form, both in pictures and In person,
that It had never occurred to me that
underneath that symbol of pomp the
kaiser probably dressed the same as
*ve lesser mortals. I noticed incident-
dly that when he put on his military
**oat he put it on right over his under
shirt. r , —.
Ilomburg was much nearer the fir
ing line than I Mess, although, of course,
it a wry safa distance. I noticed.
howevJr, that here anti-aircraft gum
had b«4»n planted, hut apart from that
there Kvns hardly any more activity
than t4ero bad he^u at Plea*.
W hffle walking down the corridor 1
that In tbc event of
war hi* (Humph, hot will not tolerate him In
year term for the president was nat
urally repugnant to one who held such
exalted notions as to the rights of
rulers. It would be too much to ex
pect the Hohenzollern mind to approve
of a constitution which provided for
the ruler’s return to private life after
a period of four years at the head of
the government.
He declared that with a constant
change of administration it was quite
people would probably suffer more
from lack of food than they would
from hostile bullets, and he was hoping
that he would be able to obviate that
condition before his country was put
to the teat He was constantly preach
ing simplified diet and the conserva
tion of food reserves, and he had great
h<H>es that much could be done in a
scientific way to help solve general
food problems. When attending din
ners given him by his officers, his
wishes respecting simple menus were
always carefully followed.
The kaiser enjoyed American hu
mor. He was very fond of Mark
Twain, and he followed one or two of
the American monthlies and weeklies
more or less regularly. He told me
mit «f thJ-auoKtlon for his country L, one vveD , wWle , 0 y, BlttlDK
to follow Buy definite policy. It was | r<)<|m |n ^
bad enough even so far as , ‘ l | er ° a ) I something In'an American magazine,
affairs fere concerned, he said, but i . * w*
, w , . , ’ , ’ , ' he ran across a story which caused
such a system made it impossible he ... , * . . , . ...
* 1 him to laugh so much and so loud that
the ladies of the court, who heard him
In an adjacent room, came running in
with their knitting to see what {he
matter was.
The kaiser had little respect for our
architecture. He thought our sky
scrapers, of which he had seen Illus
trations, were hideous.
“How terrible to desecrate the land-
thought for America ever to take a
• prominent place in international poli
tics.
“You can’t expect the nations of the
world to deal with America us they
deal,among themselves when the next
change of administration may mean
tin* adoption of an entirely new foreign
IKdlcy,” he declared. “There can be
imihing stable about the foreign policy
wu* stopped by an officer and asked of a nnilim whose leaders change every wlth t oorh tall buildings, ^ be
who I was. but, as a rule, I came and 'four years.**
went without molestation and seldom
had to show my («*«. w hich one of tl>*
»alscr** adjutants had given ire and
»' hlch permitted me to enter and leave
army bertuquarter* for the whole >**ar
ItlT.
When I w.n driven through tin*
•lreef• of ||«imt»wrc both r»»ming from
md going tn the fwllnsit! alatbm. in tb«*
. American party politics were a con
stant source of einlairrnssment to the
kaiser. He always se«nicd undecided
as to Just how be *.boi|id re«*elve an
American of pr«Nnint*tiie. If be hap*
ftened to be of the same ptdltlrol faith
as the adiulnl»trutb«. (hr kaiser was
too uiu« h honor fur
t
dmlob
afraid to do h
.ear of olTrndi
who might win
»* »■
it.
b
hfl
r»
>4 o
etiminenterL “Tliey hurt the eye. How-
sun |HM»pic live In them?**
I explained that most of the build
ings to which be referred were office
building*, but that we did have four
teen and fifteen-story apartment teniae*
ami hotr’s, ami even higher ones, la
which the u|*per floor* were used for
living purists*-* just the sume aa the
rty. , low.*r anew. lie rowlda*! he , ve It
tmi pamuble that prople would rwevsent to
ns lire ao far the ground, and fr
pr*«f*lc entrm m
Liu tag otil of
tha aduunit
•iratlcUL the
kai*
eT fra red
b » • r
wfeete ta Vftait a Hare tl
POP
and fraui efsr V*
i g t a vlrw mi
to buftte hi
m le*t terofe |
edlaU re-
ffi SB ffi % rffi ffiffii
p story tefeteva
tbr gv«H
pnteauf per■ ism r
p tebo tecteiptavl
MHittesatet 1
te eilrred up
Hi
Ausavlra
feaMr. | rat bn
r got (be Idea
tbat be l
km
oartl effi f 9
Matey of tbrtt)
Thus ba fr
fused !• fere
1 ' UN) .
•ffuid mi bn
igbt. radar (
tbe build
1 M# m rml«r4 th
'ter bat*, and 1
tw«s dtffrra*
it a**aoiete* u
i te stapuB
I lewa prevalli
teg Ite Oenteo*
ay tea fe**
‘4
« bte« aagry tb
mr m HR ateffiluft Vffi
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(baste fe* m aioeim may
ft fc
ted they tea ten i
•bey wme pm i
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laed vary ate*
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MtetertvteS Ite Ote H
iv h tr vLl. i••
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tVvbtepe tft
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(fete abate steamy *
"tteatated
uf ffiartenii
ffi
prttertpAeu,
ufessffi in feu
iff so teptet
ffidfetefehstesteam
mi tha teffidr
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al nMwifedMiaa
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tete#» par
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lffi& Mffiffi R tr
ry osterh Fte 1
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be mfed *Mf
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yar ateoM
T rstepaffiadar
Fs#dL ffi Be
tfeffi ffi !
ausatel 1 tewa |*«
ri uf tbe pffiy
be sbterbM
at (ba mmt mi
*f»
(rrbea tetete
ear 4 f da t *
of avtteffi*ro
(fete fete!
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nwd a 1
wtMe
esew
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t to no ~w
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teetenn
testae ftphl 1
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one nod Ttso
iw tioeuamno
l «*wd 4egv«« i
■
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the
Ion
> Ok*
thee
iVJHffiHRP Hegtete'* fete
te AsaroataUte
tWy team afeyfeag ow
■roeauHf ffiteeo
*bnaaHte «*atetetetepfas(
1 HPfeaeuteee fe
*te*asu fete efeffib ffief
1—rii a TW
romteotere
■m tbe •ager** «
"TW teegm tefei a
•see nMtwrWsd la Woo* % «e%
wi (tee teteteida ama pan#
tea ltetfono«Mnte apeee tempo
tfee teat ten* tee fenaaot we
oefeut. The kaiser himself real Ikes
that - hla tenure of office rests upon
victory. The war was *turt»*d for the
sake of world dominion; It has been
continued solely to save the kaiser's
throne.
Coming into such hitlmnte and fre
quent contact with the kaiser, I had a
wbtfderful opportunity to observe the
relations which existed between him
add his people.
The conduct of the people slnc^ the
war affords no safe criterion of their
normal views and sentiments. The
activity of government agents and the
power of the Inspired press exerted
such a great Influence on the feelings
of the people that any outward signs 1
of enthusiasm which they displayed
must be liberally discounted. The
demonstrations in favor of the kaiser
and his leaders since the war have
been more or less artificial, the crowd
being worked up by government agents
and the press accounts have Invariably
magnified them. Before the war, how
ever, whatever acclaim the kaiser re
ceived from the public came simnta-
neously, and was for that reason of
greater slgnl(lcance.
I know that whenever the kaiser
cal let i at my office great crowds gath
ered outside to catch a glimpse of him
w’hen he came out They waited pa
tiently, sometimes for as long as an
hour, for the sake of greeting their
eni|M*ror. Their conduct on these oc
casions showed very plainly that he
had a strong bold on their affect Iona.
The kaiser was their Idol, and they
were ready to suffer any lacuaveaftenca
for the safe# of doing biro honor.
It was ew*t««aary for rfameo of
arhunl rblldfen to hr taken In the TWr
gort*-w fnon time to tlane to study the
gvww|io of stator* of the hateer's ate
reel or* In the Biegvm AMeo. They ooanl
ly po »«• d my house op thete way In
thetf ebp-ef leoaop In potftafltwsn Oosue
ftanew * o hen the hatser wo* at WKf
honor. | hove neap tfewso etethteep hail
ed In ftwpl of tee pte*w ha no all Che
l asaporwg'a departure thetf tomheem no
dated, feet teg teal iter yo*mp«aerw
o»uid mHP gmpaer cpsparpte^h fawm
a heesteg fteopoo nf tee RNtipg mate
nrvh tenp they route yunomry dmtan
•toon # yr-"* ■*4 # d • ••Sf of tee sanflkoo
Ite hi* dayoeted a*. -•Soe*
M ■*# of my ypomna* ham tea* tea
fe* -ovr • •* ■ *d a»« esd flher aeoor te*od
< of ateaag po*osom* oOon* app h pus
> tea# teey * pa h* In Pht ye* • * m of
I «•*** sg Hi (H*4 v•*v awr ohwte team
I h* oie ho*# te-spooh
’t * w • *M*r w • •%*+
aery «Pn#r Hhry tented ate m tesnad
ahoaa uoaaw Mno* m ea«e sate ateoai
«Of <%ao4 * yv«^.«w ant mm «> vp W *-• •#
tew feate mmo feo o ao hoe*
a sow •areaaan adhor not * hooa I fend
hot do
oaf ter
•md ynteed aside tteur
Ida way. la etvtt life, Jpat aa la a state
»*f war. the tiermaa trwcttced the prin
ciple that might makes right,
rbivairy, rvartewjr. magnanimity are
they are cha met eristics of the French. '
A kei*n desire to make something out
of nothing la another national trait of
the Germans, If my observation has
been’accurate. What la commonly
ferred to as German thrift ta only a
polite name fo» «erman stinginess, and
I have seen so many Illustrations of
the petty meanness of the German peo
ple that it seems idle to specify single
instances.
One of the first Impressions ,1 re
ceived about the German people, when
I went to live among them fourteen
years ago, was the lack of comrade
ship among them. Class distinctions
are drawn so flue, -fend there are so
many gradations, that it was almost
impossible to find two Germans on the
same social plane. One was always the
other’s superior. After my fourteen
years’ experience among these people,
I cannot say that that early Impression
has been removed; if anything, it has
been deepened.
Anyone who has lived in Berlin, and
is familiar with conditions in otheft
European capitals, will bear me out
that the German policeman is the most
arrogant police official In the w*orld.
His word is taken In court In prefer
ence to that of six civilians, and his
power la such that It 'might very easily
be used oppressively; hut strangely
enough, despite the cupidity of th«
German cha racier, graft and rormp
tt*»n among the German police and
other official* were practically an
known before the war.
Httch were the people behind tbs
kaiser wbm the great war started. I
•ball never forget the sewttnewts w%
pressed to tee by private lad! vidunlf
In every walk of life no (be vartani
pbnsew of tbe wnf developed.
Ko teew*nre tbe! wwe taken by flee
away, bo uwtter bow atewteous sr In
reteskteeul * Mb tbe Wwetd** Idea ffi
wbal fes peeududMe in ftvtltesd wwe
fsre evvv bfwugbt a weed of rwteftste
sntWiu fvesw tbe Us^vbwu pobrw a* s
• tea*. oMbouffik of esueno. tbsrw won
souse tek*ofe#e ebesgaftson TW puna
nofesetfi mi UerwteUS ufen dfearUbteW
tee*e tenttsrw wate tee fenuouai^ ate
mmSt deTotefee# 4wweptefebg gfesewntep dM
bn# ewangbsiood feoeuuae swkew eaun*^r
uewwueew W«0W bte iobeu
teerwVf bp wuf te teotefebs. wad tasi
feoeuuae fee# *atepp*aiite uuo WUP tesfte
dbnb bossteHbe of sofewow ib#*ad fep set
t'wuboabi febeteWtepdt a aafepfeteo of Ite#
! iteuebe# taouwteUHnoeb b uuo bffibi
« t feed |»0b f tv* * -»* wad wfeea
rt;
«e I*
uey
<*>s
*.*
or gt •!• a.
1
d utee of tbe (Bteof fero
pa* <HM*a
th 4»
W beuei tWm teua •
r fesagf tel
4ffiflMft
w ■» ||. Hfeoy
oOteg so
ffiffiffi ffiua
■dorffel aanfeaffinv aud
tbofr m
Affeoy
tffiffiffi ffiffi
re ge rfema ae a* ai«
of *t4ar*(oA tbe btefsee
ffe#rrrwO
1 ftffi lift*
1 feeffipme affifebb Tuoffi
!». r*.«
W %
% *
I •
■ r
rigWeT UVtWg. wwe WO* Wev«W VMSte«1
Aiwertea wbo knows nasre about our
wtentry tbsn tbe Gerwon eteper«w. In
feed, be was mute familiar wltb many
jf oar probiewia than many of ear
youatrymm. and be freqaeatly reveal
ed to me la the coarse of «*ur drover-
fe* fwut vbaarw fes *v#tke y«uf wrgfu
ptwbfeoa* be dwtentedL bwlf fseeteotydy.
mi r*m*o. if Astertra IweSst* titesU
•'•wwtug lw*o tbe uwf. • fey deemT ofero
o**bd beg aegvwrw arfwws nod Iff bn
•teste them doHffeft^
Wheu a deet of our botttesbftte* vfee
lied Kart some sis year* age tbe ksi**C
paid tbk’te a visit and woe very mwrb
lot • re»tr-d Wbew be called to see tee
shortly afterward be told an of bis
eapcflcwce.
T went over tbe ship* from top to
hot tom.** be declared. “They are el-
I M ter
% mm ^
be 4
Ism wonT boy. Dov
Is my beautiful ra*
and sue of tbeui
at Corfu ’**
tesMoi 01 feMtapa* tfeef tetefl fete
fast ffitef fbe feobssO •wtedtneood
aefeuarotutegr fbe feHBBffifefe be feba
► fep a aafetee op a uwwe ad tbe
wao rtbed ao pesod ad fete pan
ea» aad feiulbONW; tbafp pad *Mna
g op tbstek aud tbefer avstibrw
ws oawewfewdatefeP
Boiwt* a tfeo* afeafee ad vateseaHop
we of fbe feadseea prtaeiprol rote
Tboi w w* wby be aevep op
I In pobtor eoeepf lb fob ttelftete,
fee afw ay a rude a w bit e boews.
tbe fete od bia otad rude dorfe
wby tbe p#rt urea of bln tbot
allowed to be rlrruloted always
(fee Oteudk
'feOteSMS 01
• • •’
I was very much Impressed with the
way they arc manned and officered. I
have only one criticism—the Isttice-
tatlons bow thoroughly posted be was | r«Hlent vessels, every one of them, and
xi AmeHcnn condition*.
I»ng before the subject of forest
'onNcrvstion was taken up sehously In
this country, the kaiser pointed out to
me what a great mistake we were
making In not devoting more atten
tion to it.
“Can you tell me, Davis, why you
have so many forest fires in your coun
try?” he asked, after a particularly
'lesmictlve conflagration in the Wes»
had destroyed many acres of timber.
“How does it happen?’’
1 explained to hIm»Hiat most of the
forest fires came from sparks from
locomotives. Careless, lumbermen al
lowed the branches which they lopped
off the trees to remain on the ground
and when they were ignited by sparks
the fire sometimes spread to the uncut
timber. As the facilities for extin-
CHAPTER XV.
•bowrd him to tbr very brwt advan
tage; why every ra*o of lewe majewt*
was punched with tbe uttiwut severity;
wby. In abort, every poaalble precan-
The German People | tlon was taken that the exalted Ideas
The oath of allegiance which every 1 which the public held regarding their
work conning* towers or fighting Herman soldier and public official kaiser should never be undermined.
roasts. The only possible use I can
see In them would he to train vines on
them and Install an elevator Ihside.
and serve tea In the afternoon to the
Indies on top—the most beautiful place
for serving afternoon tea I can Imag
ine.
“But, seriously speaking,” he went
on, “I can’t see that these masts have
any practical value. On the contrary,
I can see very serious disadvantages
in them. No matter what nation you
might be fighting, your enemy would
always be able to recognize you aTlT
distance, before. you could identify
him, because the warships of all other
nations look very much alike at a dis-
tukes binds him first to support the
kaiser, with his life and his money,
and then the fatherland.
That Is what the kaiser referred to
when he said, in the course of a a ad
dress to a body of recruits at Pots
dam:
“Body and soul you belong to me.
If I command you to shoot your fu-
Wlth this spirit of devotion dominat
ing the people generally. It was only
to l»e ex|M*eted that they should have
stood solidly behind their emperor
when he sought to achieve the one
ambition of his life—his dream of
world dominion.
There is no doubt that the war was
planned and made possible by the mill*
thers and your mothers
you tarists and the Junkers, am. that every
juishing fire in these unpopulated re- tance.
must follow ipy command without a
murmur.”
The same thought is involved, of
Touise, lu fhe kaiser’s Invariable use
of the possessive pronoun, first person,
in talking of the German people. He
always says “my people,” never “the
people.” The worst feature about It
mate made the timber particularly in-
lammable, these fires usually attained
serious dimensions.
“That points out again the ineffi
ciency of your form of government,” he
commented. “You have laws requiring
the railways to use appliances to ar
rest the sparks from their engines,
haven't you? Why don’t you enforce
them? Your people don’t seem to
. eallze that It takes years to grow a
• tree.. Because you have more than you
>ieed today, you make 00 preparation
for toteorrow. For every tree oft
town another abnwjd be pUnted. If
(uwe will awfwiy ite
will bate te term la
#d •
They buy theMTeonning towers are n that not only does the kaiser pro-
armed,” he went on, “but you would reed upon the assumption that he owns
never get close enough to your enemy 1 the German people “body and soul,”
to use such small guns. Again, if one but the people themselves are willing
of those masts were hit It would send
a shower of steel about the heads of
the men on hoard, and would not only
put many of them out of action, but
would be In the way. Suppose, too.
the mast were struck down and hung
over the aide? It would drag through
to admit it. The Germans are the most
*
willing vassals in the world.
Veneration and qwe of the kaiser are
bred iu the bone of the Germans. Even
among the socialists, who are not near
ly as oppoaed to the monarchist Idea
as Is commonly suppoMed. there la
Backache
. The txcruclating pain
which comes from a lam#
back la quickly aUeviatad bf
• prompt application of
Yager's Mnimant
Sufferers from rbenmotimn,
adatica, neuralgia, sprains,
etc. should always keep a bot
tle of “Yager's** handy as its
penetrative qualitke quickly
bring relief from pain.
Atafldaalata. Fitoaffiamfen
YAGER S
LINIMENT
RELIEVES PAIN
GILBERT BROS. A CO.
Wants
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te» • mmam
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U
Fall Cabbie Pluto
ZJZ 1
m 1 nok tite
* te I » fe a*
te* *
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* c.
• Wop* —v mm# *b*tee*e* tw aproaetete
itf tefavv-i Kieff *b*p «trot <roftfcte
«b*roM be rorofe and eieoy Aawfferan
wbo wantnred wttbia rang «f 4 Gee
■roa gun an sea or land, vbeffid be
•bte. Tbat * a* tbe unlvefanl aentl*
teenl.
The *ugge*ft#ro tbat a coattaaation
of the submarine warfare would In
evitably bring America Into tbe war
did not pa-rturb the people In tbe
sllghteat.
“How can America do u* more harm
than she Is now doing?** they asked.
“American bullet* are shooting down
our men, American food la sustaining
our enemies. American dollars are
working against us In every possible
way. I^»t America come Into the war
and give 11* a chance to pay her hack
for what she has done to us. She
couldn’t hafin us any more If she were
a belligerent. Why allow her to re
main neutral and go unscathed?”
(Tf) BE CONTINUED.)
Your Best Assei
— A Skin Cleared By
Cuticura Soai
i
ron AOcarTAM 1
fu« t»Tmrm 4 1
■ iffffSf T febtCCfe kwvu *rtm% —»Ut
▲lUmtel*. lalllWw fM* UtekM- ante dor
—feitoMH*#*. T*r>—ti— willl—— forirm Owote
1
serw.
the water, and would not o^ly sertoua- ; strong sentiment of loyaltp Joward tbe
ly Impede the vessel, hut It would \ emperor. True, tbe oocialUts are
cause the ship to lUt
larger area oh one aide
aofo. Xte ItevU. four
os I bate mid. ought oj
fm
of 1
riamortag nrostantty for (be refuraa
vote aud other pteitbrml cbaapRU. bat I
doubt very omrb ubetber—btewes tbe
war
> iHutetj ffi
effort was made to conceal from the
people its real purpose aud u’tlmate
goal; but If anyone imagines that the
people at large would have held back
had they realized the truth, he falls to
understand the underlying spirit of the
Teutonic race.
The Germans are the most quarrel-
some people in the world. It Is mis
leading to speak of the German mili
tarists. All Germans are militarists.
The records of their civil courts tell
the story. In 1913 there were no less
than 5,000,000 petty canes tried in the
courts, and an every case naturally in
volved at least two part leu, the aston
ishing fact is dt»chNi*d that sroue 10.-
oon.ino Germans, or one-seventh of the system afford* a fair and Just basis of
entire population. appealed to tbe ! charge.”
courts In a single year: - -
The heiilctme character of tbe people Naval MauateSaat
was evidenced lb roHUtlv «*hfrf way*. A desirable fete deter*. whMfe cam-
It ua* tbs natural ffeeutt of what | muted* au earrltenl asa-vleur Is a hob-
fetelsas In be Ibe mute pr n u*ti ■ 1 ate ffig bssT whMfe bus hsste ■ro*steed
ffitetetete ffi lbs mute steffib 1
Selling Eggs by the Pound.
Canada has been making the experb,
ment of selling eggs by the pound in
stead of by the dozen, according to
Consul FmF €. Slater, Sarnia, On
tario.
“The only obstacle In the way of a
unanimous Indorsement of the plan Is
seemingly that the public has not been
educated to buy that way.” says Mr.
Slater. “A* refuting this objection It
is pointed out that. In view’ of the wide
variation In the size of egg*, the con
sumer would quickly realize that the
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