Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1918, Page 6

he SOA First and Only Account Written of the Kaiser by an American Unofficially Intimate With Him for Years, in Which the German Emperor Revealed His Real Self as He Did to Few Others Outside His Immediate Royal Circle; Inner Secrets of the Hohenzollern Dynasty Laid Bare by Royal Dentist (Continued from Page One) “We took practically everything they possessed—food enough to feed our entire army without calling upon our own supplies at all. Never before had our armies seen such an accumulation of ammunition. I must certainly go down to see it. “We cut off their northern retreat and, as they swung their army to the south, we captured 60,000 of them up to their knees in the rice fields. One of the great mistakes they made was in carrying their civilian refugees with them—clogging their narrow roads and impeding the retreat of their soldiers. We had taken possession of their most productive regions, and their retreat was through territory which yielded them nothing. Just think of that re- treating army thrown upon the already impoverished inhabitants of that sec- tian. Why, they'll starve to death! “Everywhere we went we found their big guns abandoned. In one small village we came upon a gun dec- erated with fiowers and surmounted with a portrait of Emperor Franz Jo- sef. It had been put there by the Ital- ian inhabitants of the village to show their happiness at being released at last from the yoke of the intolerable Italian lawyer government! How ter- ribly the Italians must have treated them! Italy will never get over this defeat. This was real help from God! Now, we've got the allies!” and he struck his left hand with his right with great force to emphasize his apparent conviction that the turning point in the war had been reached with Italy’s collapse. That the kaiser now regarded him- self and his armies es invincible I felt, and I feared that the success in Italy would be followed at the first favora- ble opportunity by a gigantic offensive on the western front. Indeed, on a subsequent occasion, when he called at my office for further treatment, and again referred to the Italian triumph, he remarked: “If cur armies could capture 300,009 Itallans— and those 300,000 might just as well be dead as far as Italy is concernec—we can do the same thing against our enemies on the west!” This was one of the interviews I was so anxious to report to tho representa- tives of the American intelligence de- partment at our legation in Copen- bagen and, later on, when I finally ar- rived In that city, I related it in great detail to them. I remained in Copen- hagen eleven days and during the ... greater part of that time I was being Interviewed by one or another of the representatives of our intelligence de- partment. Exactly two months later, on March 21, the western offefisive broke out as I had feared. I called at Potsdam a day or two la- ter to attend the kaiser again, and found him still in the same triumphant mood, and so anxious was he to get down to Italy that he called at my of- fice three times that week to enable me to complete my work on his affect- ed tooth. On November 26 the kaiser called at i | my office for what proved to be his last sitting. I had received word on the 20th that my pass for America had been granted and that I could leave ou the 30th, and I accordingly told the kaiser that it was my intention to leave for Copenhagen on that day. I explained that I was completely run down—and I certainly looked it— and that it was necessary for me to get to Copenhagen anyway, so that I could get in touch with America re- garding a porcelain tooth patent which had been granted to me in July, 1915, but which a large dental company was seeking to wrest from me, The patent authorities had delayed action because of the fact that I resided in an enemy country. On the 28th I received a letter from the court chamberlain stating that the president of police had made it known to the kaiser that I had applied for a pass to America and demanding an ex- planation as to why I had told the kal- ser that I had planned to go to Copen- hagen and had not mentioned Amer- | fea, I at once replied that it was indeed my intention, as I had told the kaiser, to go to Copenhagen, but that I had applied for the pass to America be- cause I wanted to be in a position to | go there if my patent affairs demand- / ed it and I expressed the hope that | nothing would be done to interfere with the pass which had been prom- ised me for the 30th, Nevertheless, the 30th came around . and the pass didn’t, and the boat which sailed from Copenhagen on December 7, which I had planned to take, sailed without me. Again the weary weeks followed each other without the slightest inti- mation from anyone that I would ever be allowed to leave. Indeed, I had fully made up my mind that the au- thorities had decided to keep me in Berlin for reasons of thelr own and that nothing I could do could mend the situation, when, early in January, I re- ‘ ceived the joyous tidings that I could jeave January 21-23. I left on the 22d,-and as far as I have since been able to ascertain I was the lust Amer- can male to leave Germany with the zonsent of the officials. b CHAPTER Ill. The Kaiser’s Dual Personality. If I had come away from Germany in ‘anuary, 1914, instead of in January, 918, and had written the impression had gained of the kaiser in the ten rears I had known him, what a false ricture I would have painted of the oan as he really is! —_______— g It would have been a picture of a man who in general appearance and bearing was every inch an emperor and yet who could exhibit all the courtesy, affability and gentleness of the most democratic gentleman, a man soft of eye and kindly in expression, a man of wide reading and attainments—perhaps the most versatile man in the world, a man who possessed 1 most alert mind, a remarkable memory and the keenest observation; aman 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 lave shown a man of unpar- alleled +gotism, a man who was im- patient ef correction and who would brook nv opposition. There might have been in the picture a suggestion of the dire lengths to which the man would go to have his way, but it would have been only a suggestion. As far as it went, the picture would have been accurate, but it would have been sadly 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 his character; it uncovered it. Early in my practice I happened to mention to the kaiser that I appre- ciated the friendliness he showed me in invariably waving his hand at me as he passed my window when walking along the Tiergarten. “It's a good advertisement for you, Davis,” he said. “The people see me waving to you and they know you must be a good dentist or I wouldn't come to you. It will help your busi- ness!” In every act, he was conscious of the pub During that period of my career in Berlin, he showed the utmost interest in my progress and frequently inquired how my prectice was developing. The first bill I rendered him, as I have mentioned, he deublec. On a number of subsequent cccasicns, he paid me more thar my bill called for. These overpayments never amounted to very much, but they impressed ma because they were so cut of keeping with the stinginess the kaiser dis- played in other directions. From time to time the kaiser sent or brought me autographed pictures of himself or others. At the time of the one hundredth anniversary of Fred- erick the Great, he gave me a picture of that monarch. On another occasion, he presented me with a group picture of himself surrounded by his family and dogs. I remember his bringing to me a large unframed picturr: in cele« bration of his silver wedding. It was about twenty-four by eighteen inches in size. It showed the kaiserin and himself fn a sort of cloud floating above a birdseye view of Berlin, with the palace and the cathedral dimly seen below. “TI don’t know just what this master- piece was meant to signify, but T had it framed and placed it in my office. It 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!” 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 similar character from any American million- nire—for whose wealth the kaiser fre- quently expressed the utmost contempt —but what could surpass the value of an autograph of the kaiser! No doubt the royal banquets were prepared much upon the same prin- ciple, for it was a common saying ameng the German aristocracy that one had better feel well before going to a banquet at the palace. I happened to mention to the kalser the reputation his banquets held among his people. He was not at all taken aback, “That's good!” he commented. “The Germans are too fat, anyway. The ma- jority of the people eat too much.” Long after automobiling became more or less general, the kaiser still employed a horse and carriage for ordinary travel, relying upon his free use of the railways for longer dis- tances. When, however, the reichstag passed a law compelling royalty to pay for their railroad travel, the kaiser took to automobiles. They charged him 11,000 marks, he told me, for the use of a train on one of his shooting trips, and that apparently was more than he could stand. “Autos are expensive,” he declared, “but they don’t cost me that much!” The kaiser speaks English with but the slightest trace of a foreign accent. His diction is perfect. He speaks French, too, very fluently, and, I be- lieve, Italian. He is widely read on almost all subjects and knows the lit- erature of England, France and Amer- ica as well as that of Germany. Mark Twain was one of his favorite Amer- | ican authors and Longfellow his choice | of American poets. He prides himself on his acquain- ‘tance with history and has little re- spect for the political opinions of oth- ers whose knowledge of history is less complete. Shortly after Carnegie had donated five million marks to Germany to fur- ther world-peace, I happened to be talking to the kaiser of American mil- lionaires and the steelmaster mentioned. “Of course, Carnegie is a nice old man and means well,” remarked the kaiser, condescendingly, “but he ts to- tally 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 navy in full strength.” Indeed, there is hardly any subject to which the kaiser has devoted any considerable attention in which he doesn’t regard himself as the final au- thority. As an art collector and antiquarian he claims first place end he is rather Inclined to feel that second place should be left vacant. He aways re- sented very much the acquisition by American millionaires of art treasures and antiquities which their wealth en- abled them to buy, but which their limited acquaintance with history and their lack of culture and refinement made them unable to appreciate—in the kaiser’s estimation. Of his own taste in art little need be said. The monuments which he caused to be erected to his ancestors and their advisors and which adorn the Sieges Allee, the street he had opened through the Tiergarten especially for them, are at the same time a monument to the kaiser's ideas of art. They are we laughing-stock of the artistic world. They have been so frequently defaced by vandals whose artistic taste they offendéd that it was necessary to sta- tion policemen in the Sieges Allee to guard them. Not long ago a burglary occurred in the vicinity. The burglars were observed while at work and a startled civilian rushed to the Sieges Allee to summon one of the oflicers who were known to be on guard there. “If you hurry,” exclaimed the civil- lan, excitedly, “you can catch these burglars red-handed.” “I'm sorry,” replied the policeman, “But I cannot leave the statues.” Realism is the kaiser’s idea of what is most desirable in dramatic art. When ke put on “Sardanapal,” a Greek tragedy in pantomime, at thé Berlin opera hou he sent professors to the British museum to secure the most detailed information available regard- Ing the costumes #f the period. Every utensil, every article of wearing ap- parel, every button, every weapon, in fa every property used in the play were to be faithfully reproduced, par- ticnlar pains being taken to produce a most realistic effect in a funeral pyre. scene in whieh @ king ended his life, The kaiser sent me tickets to see it. King Edward attended the perform- ance at the Berlin Royal opera and I asked the kaiser how the king of Eng- land enjoyed it. “My gracious,” the kaiser replied, unable to repress his satisfaction at the effect the pantomime had had on was his royal uncle, “why, the king was very much alarmed when the funeral pyre scene came on. He thought the whole opera house was en fire!” Perhaps the kaiser’s love for details might be attributed to his keen obser- vation. Nothing, no matter how triv- jal, escaped his attention. A couple of years before the war I had the empire furniture in my wuait- ing room reupholstered. On the very first occasion of the kaiser’s calling at my office after the change he noticed it. “My, my, how beautiful the chairs look!” he exclaimed, “Good enough for Napoleon himself.” On another occasion, between two of the kaiser’s visits, I had had put up in the waiting room a new portrait of Mrs. Davis. The kaiser noticed it the moment he came into the room and made some complimentary remark about it. The kaiser frequently accused the Americans of being dollar-worshipers 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 one of the richest in Germany was a He- brew coal magnate named Fried- 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 Bleichroeder bank, one of the strongest private banks in Germany, and he, too, was ennobled, becoming Von Schwabach. A number of other wealthy Hebrews in Germany were also honored by the kaiser in another way. Although he was averse to visiting the homes of private individuals who lacked social standing, he departed from his rule in their favor and visited their mansions ostensibly to view their art collections, but actually to tickle their vanity. Shortly after Leishman became am- bassador to Germany, the kaiser called on me. “Your new ambassador's daughter ts the best looking young lady who has attended our court in many a day,” he declared. “Half a dozen of my young staff officers are very anxious to marry her. Can you tell me, Davis, whether these Leishmans have money If the kaiser despised the American propensity for money-making, he was certainly not averse to acquiring American dollars, Tle told me once that every trip the Hamburg-American liner Amerika made from New York to Hamburg re- sulted in transferring $150,000 from American to German’ pockets, and : “We're mighty glad to get some r American money, I can tell Of the -kalser’s versatility I had convincing evidence, In-his conversa- tions with me we usually wandered from gubject to subject In the most haphazard manner, and he invariably lisplayed a surprising store of infor- mation on every topic we touched, and { am not vain enough to believe that he was so anxious to make a favorable mpression upgn me that he prepared | for these discussions in advance. Indeed, the kajser discussed so free- almost every subject that suggested itself that I often wordered what his advisors would have said had they overheard our conversations. His read- ness to talk to me was undoubtedly due to a tendency he had to trust very one with whom he came in inti- nate contact. For a man who was apt to have so many enemies, he was less suspicious than anyone I had ever net. He seemed to trust every one, and nis sense of security unloosened his tongue and made him more talkative, perhaps, than was always discreet. The kaiser was very fond of listen- ‘ng to and telling stories with a point and would frequently invite me to tell h any new one that I might have heard. Some of the stories we ex- changed were more or less risque and would be out of place in these pages, but I do not mean to intimate that there was anything very much amiss th them. They ‘alw: y much and he was quick to catch the point. The kaiser’s sense of humor fre- quently .exhibited itself. He told me of a conference between represénta- tives of all the powers regarding the ection ef a king for Albania after the Balkan war. Some of those present hought the Incumbent ought to be a Catholic, others insisted that a Greek Catholic was essential, still: others nainteined that a Mohammedan would de most logical. It seemed quite impossible to come y to any agreement as to just what re- | ligion the king of Albania should pro- fess, and the kaiser had ended the dis- cussion, he said, with 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 and call him Jacob the First? . He'll have his throat cut, anyway, in three months!” The powers did not stlect a Jew, but the prince of Wied, the kaiser’s nomi- hee, was put on the throne, and within a month or two afterwards had to flee for his life. b= In referring to Roogevelt’s patriotic offer to lead _an army in France, the kaiser declared that he admired him for his courage‘ and zeal. “T hear,” he said, “that he is now on his way to Italy. It is too bad we did not postpone our offetisive there. Per haps we might have captured him. Wouldn't Teddy logk.funny in a gas mas Shortly after the U-boat Deutsch- land made its successful trip to Amer- jea, the kalser called, on me, and he was Ima very jJocular frame of mind. IT happened to mention to him that I planned to go to America the following summer in connection with the pore> lain tooth T had patented. “Well, it won't be necessary now, Davis,” he commented. “We can send the Deutschland over and bring back a boatload of teeth!" “Fix my teeth well, Day clared on another oceasion, “so that I can bite. There are lots of people I would like to bite!” and he snapped his jaws together in a way that would have boded ill for the victims he had in mind, although his remark was evi- dently more facetious than vicious. The courtesy and affability which the kaiser almost invariably displayed in his relations with me did not pre- vent him on one oceasion from show: ing his indignation when I touched him upon what was evidently a very sore 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 30,000 men in France and he believéd that the U- boats would effectively prevent any great addition to our forces abroad, if, Indeed, they ever left our shores. “As a matter of fact, however,” he added, “your countrymen would be very willing, no doubt, to fight for their country to protect it from invasion, but I don’t believe you'll ever get many of them to leave home to fight abroad. America will really-be avery small factor ‘in the war, Davis!” “Your majesty is ‘underestimating the power of America!” I replied. He turned to me indignantly, and in his most imperious manner exclair-ed: “We underestimate no one! We know exactly what we are doing!” How seriously he was mistaken in this respect has since been sufficiently proved, No ‘3atter how. gloomy the ‘outlook for Germany, the kaiser seldom show- ed concern. It is true that whenever 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 and the rest of the royal family kept as far i. the background as pos- sible, whereas when the German Cause was triumphuut, asin the’ cause 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 on a brave front.- At such times I have seen him stop In the street, after leav- ing my office, and before the hundreds of people waiting outside to greet him, ostentatiously put 4 cigarette in his ” he de- | mouth and light it, that everyone might notice how steady his hand was and how little he was worried by the tyra | things were taking. ¢. At the same time, on-one or two 0% casions after the war started, I noticed! | that he ected differently when in the| | cental chair than had been Sis custom | when ever; The kai not a building was erected ia Germany,’ not a bridge built, not a street opened, || not a park laid out, but what the proj-) ect was first submitted to him. He kept posted on everything that was going on, not only in Germany, but in the world at large, and, as far as he | was able, he endeavored to have his finger in every development of world-| wide importance. I cannot imagine that he was Jess interested in what his | countrymen were doing in connection with the war thaa he was in thelr! 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 todoso 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 hiding during air raids. Shortly before this hideous idea was tobe put into effect the papers an- | nounced that bombs of this character had been dropped by the allies on Baden-Baden, that, fortunately, they had fallen in a clump of woods in the center of the town and had fail- ed to explode, which had .given the | Germans an opportunity to take them | apart und ascertain their nature. The purpose of this announcement, | of course, wus to forestall the storm of condemnation which the Germans knew would follow their use of the bombs on London—a ruse which they had invariably employed whenever they contemplated some fresh violation | of the rules of international law and the dictates of humanity. hing was serene. or once boasted to me that | but | who resided In Baden-Baden called to ‘ see me the day after the bombs had told me all about it. GRACE £. ENSEY FIRES INTEREST OF SCHOOL GHILOREN IN JUNIOR ACTIVITY OF LOGAL RED GROSS Superintendent Wilder Heads Chapter Perfected at Meeting Thursday, With May Hamilton as Secretary; Program Outlined Miss Grace E. Ensey of Denver, speaking in behalf of the Junior membership campaign of the Red Cross, and who has recently ;e- 'turned from a-conference in Washington, D. C., addressed the teachers of the Casper Schools at the Central school building yesterday afte;- noon. them to a full Her plea was to interest the teachers in the work and to awalen realization of the importance of enlisting the servi ices and interest of the millions of school }——— children in Red Cross work, and par-| States Division has 180.000, and this ticularly in the Junior membership | division is the smallest district. Eyen campaign. Miss Ensey was three years France during the war and at the ‘ir- tho it is the smallest, it used in \$1.Q00,000 worth of raw material and has turned out $2,000,000 in sin. ish of her explanation of the work ished articles.” {required in forming and maintaining a school chapter gave ‘a half hour's | to be done by school talk during which she related many linteresting incidents that’ had hap- | departments have many ways of ai1- |pened to her across the sea. George Wilder, superintendent of In sveaking of the various wo) children the sewing, manual training and cookin jing the Red Cross, the leader ; Manual training teachers are preed schools, will act as chairman of the to co-operate with the army authori- Chapter School committee, with Miss ties in manufacturine hospital tables May Hansilton, county superintend-|to be placed beside the beds. Tne /ere easily made and 300,000 tables treasurer will be the chapter treas-|are to be furnished by school Dues will be 75 |cents for each child and a fund may ent of schools, as_ secretary. urer, O. L. Walker. There l- dren. The Mountain Division hus five thousand to make before No- be established by ‘the students to vember 15, as the quota to be furn- cover a deficiency, so that every stu-| ished. dent, if- he chooses, may be a inem- Crutches, stumps and splints |can also be made in the manual tr: ber and bring the school member-|ing departmnts. The home service ‘ship up to 100 per cent. Each child | braneh, canteen workers and other is asked to earn the amount of his|denartments all have many dut‘c \or her dues either by sacrificing some luxury or by working for th money. The spirit of the membership cam- It happened that one of my patients / Paign is self-sacrifice and service to humanity. “The Red Cross,” said Miss Ensey, been dropped on her town, and she | “is applied Christianity, and it is an |organization of mercy, its purpose is “The airplanes which dropped the ‘t0 serve humanity. bombs had been flying over the city all | the morning,” ’she declared, _ “The teachers have an opportun- ‘we |ity to mould the children of today thought they were our own mtithines. into the citizens of tomorrow; and éut for practice and paid no particular |this is their chance to serve their, attention to them. Then they dropped ;COUDtry. There are three-quarters | |which Miss Ensey outlined in a bricf | way. OREGON FARMER GAINS 28 POUNDS “T Simply Feel Like a New Man.” Says Welch. After Tak- F ing Tarlac: 4 “To look ot me now you'd hardly the bombs and they landed in the of a million teachers and there are think that just a little while ago me woods, and we knew we had beer at- tacked. W them to dot What a foolish thing for allied air- planes to do—to spend a whole morn- | ing studying the inyout of the town and then to drop those deadly bombs on a clump of woods where they could not possibly hurt anyone, and how careless of the Germans not to molest them while they were engaged in their devilish work! But the potnt I wanted to bring out was this: these gas bombs were never used on London! “Just as everything was in readiness for the raid,” the officer told me re- gretfully, “we received orders direct from the kaiser to hold off—I saw his Signature to the order. Of course, there was nothing for us to do but comply, but if we had had the kaiser there, I believe we would have strung him up by the neck! We still have those bombs, however, and you may be sure they will yet be used!” For some unknown reason the kaiser stopped the use of those lethal gas bombs for the time being. Why didn’t he moye to save the women and chil- dren on the Lusitania? When I went back to Berlin in the fall of 1915, after a visit to the United States, the kalser was very anxious to ascertain from me just how America felt towards~the war, I told him that before the sinking of the Lusitunia American opinion had been divided. There had been many who were strongly pro-ally, there had been others who were openly pro- German and there had been still oth- ers who maintained an absolutely neu- tral attitude. After the Lusitania tragedy, however, there had been a distinct change in public feeling; I told him, practically the whole country having become decidedly anti-German. “Perhaps {f the U-boat commander had known so many women and chil- dren were on board,” was the kaiser’s only comment, “he might not have sent forth the torpedo which sent the vessel to the bottom, but what he was think- ing of most,.of course, was the 5,000 tons of ammunition on board which were destined to slaughter my peo- ple!” Of course the kaiset knew that if the U-boat commander's orders were to sink the Lusitania, disobedience, upon his part would have left but one course open for him: suicide. If, on the other hand, the kaiser meant to intimate that thé U-boat commander sank the Lusitania on his own initia- tive or without special instructions . from his superiors, the fact ‘still re- mains that the ‘katser could undoubt- edly have prevented the tragedy and didn’t. But if there can be any doubt as to the kaiser’s direct responsibility for the sinking of the’Lusitania, certain it is that he fully approved, openly de- _ fended and even exulted in the murder sof women and children by Zeppelin | raids on London, Manchester, Liver. | at a dreadful thing for | |young, America. millions of pupils to interest in the |}i Junior membership which is a very +. useful, necessary and vital part of) the Red Cross organization. “England says, going at any cost.’ pool and other non-pilitary cities and towns. “England expects to starve my ‘women and children to death,” he de- clared to me early in the war—long before we in Germany had begun to feel the slightest effect of the dimin- ishiitg food supply, “but our Zeppelins will give their women and children a taste of war, too. Confound them! They sit on their island and try to starve us; we will give them a taste of what war is!” This was the man whose yarious acts of consideration towards me, whose talents aud personal charms, had made such a favorable impression upon me! How trivial and inconse- quential they all seemed now! Clear- ly, they were all a part of the role -he had been playing for years. While he was outwardly displaying all the ear- marks of a gentle character, he was inwardly plotting to dominate the world. For twenty-five years he main- tained the peace of Europe, he fre- quently boasted. He maintained peace just long enough to complete his final preparations for the wickedest war that was ever waged! And yet strangely enough, even after the war had revealed the kaiser to me in his true colors and had shown him to be capable of deeds which I should have thought were foreign to his na- ture, his presence always had a most remarkable effect upon me. I have a vivid mental impression of him now as I write. He is standing in the center of my room, drawn up to his full height, his shoulders thrown back, his left hand upon the hilt of his Sword and his right emphasizing his remarks, protesting in the most earn- est manner that it was not he who was responsible’ for the war and all its_ herrors, but that it had come upon the world despite all he had done to prevent it. His ready, well-chosen words entrance me, I feel that this man must be telling me the truth and I am ready to believe that before me stands the most unjustly judged man in the world. And then he shakes my hand in fare- well and Is driven away, and as I gaze at the spot where he stood, there comes before my eyes the desolation of Bel- gium, the tragedy of the Lusitania, the despoliation of France and Poland, the destruction,of women and children in London and Paris und a thousand and one other atrocious deeds which belie the kaiser's fair words, and I realize that I have been talking to the world’s most finished actor and have simply been bewitched by the power of his | | personal maguetism, (To be Continued.) ‘safeguard your that’s Keep your schools | yon” Gf the 22 million | students to be enrolled, the Mountain made the fe ws despaired of and I was told o make my plans accordingly;; byt Tanlac fixed me up so I am out in \the fields every day forking hay, and a strong man’s job I can tell This remarkable statement was other dav by Williom Welch. a well-known farmer who hos lived all his life about a mile north- least of Beaverton, Orevon, on on |Route 4. Box 31, in telling of his wonderful recovery through the use of Tanlac. “I had always enjoyed pretty good health un to the first of last March.” he continued, “when somethin seemed to *o wrong and I got into isuch a rundown condition that I fell |off from a hundred and fifty-five to |2 hundred and thirty-two pounds, a lloss of twenty-three pounds. I ws terribly weak, and my -heart woul beat and thump so fast. that I could |hardlv rest at nicht. I had to be verv ‘careful about what I would eat and for three months I lived on the very jliehtest kind of diet. Mv skin had a |vellowishy sallow look like I didn’t have anv blood in my veins, and I ‘wasn’t able to do a lick of work on “my farm. I got miehty discouraged for none of the medicines I took did me anv eood and I really thought my |time had come. | “I was in this awful fix when | read about the wonderful way Tan- lac was helving others, so I got me \a bottle. Well, I began to feel bet- ter soon after starting on it and kevt on improving right along es | kept taking it. I have just finished my second bottle, and I have not only gotten back all my lost weight but am actually five pounds heavier than I was before I was sick at all, that is I have gained twentv-eight novnds since I began taking Tanlac. I don’t have a bit of trouble now and simply feel like’a new man.” | Tanlac is sold in Casper by the Casper Pharmacy and in Alcova by the Aleova Mercantile Co —Ady. eB a Mail us your Liberty Bonds, high- est prices paid. The Security Loan |Co., Room 4, Kimball Bldg. 9-11-tf ———— Miss Mary F. Lathrop, a_well- ‘known practicing lawyer of Denver, has the distinction of being the first woman elected to membership in the American Bar Association. Mail us your Liberty Bonds, hish- est prices paid. 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