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} (CHAPTER XII. —* The Crown Prince—and Others. I first saw the crown prince profes- ‘sionally in the spring of 1905, a few anonths before his marriage. He was then twenty-three years old. He was in the uniform of a German army offi- cer but Jgoked more like a corps:stu- dent except for the fact that his face wus not marked with a scar from duel- jing, #8 is usually the case with most jnembers of thé German fraternities. He had a habit of placing his hands on his hipsand his coats were always jlured in at the waist which, with the vorty angle at which he wore his cap, gave him a swagger which was quite foreighito the rest of the officers of the army. He was of slender figure, which jas accentuated by his height. He was nearly six feet tall. _ He ¢ame*into my office, I remember, with a copy of Life in his pocket. He took it out and opened it and showed tne a cartoon of himself which appar- pntly caused him considerable amuse- ‘ment and which, he said, he intended showing his family. ‘There were two beautiful rings on his \eftehand and he wore a wrist- watch, although, at that time wrist- wwatches were used almost exclusively by women. He seemed to be bright {ind quick, but by no means brilliant. Perhaps the quality exhibited by him that impressed me, most on that first occasion was his excessive nervousness, He trembled all over. It was plain to see he was dreadfully afraid of pain, and he evidently realized that I had noticed his condition, . . “I’'suppose the crown prince and the future ruler of Germany ought to be brave at all times,” he remarked, “but I just hate to have to go to a dentist !” * He asked me if I had seen any mem- | Der of the court lately, and I told him that the kaiser’s court chamberlain, | ‘Count von Eulenburg, had been to see ‘ne the previous day. “I'm not surprised he has to go to the dentist; he eats too much!” the ‘crown prince declared. “He can’t ex- pect to have good teeth; he’s always rating. As for myself, I eat very little. a want to remain thin. I hate fat peo- ‘ple? | The crown prince and I did not get ‘nlong very well at that time. Apart ! ‘from the fact he was such a physical coward that it was almost impossible to work on him satisfactorily, he seemed to have no idea of the meaning of an appointment. He would agree to be at my office at 9:30 and I would plan my day a¢- cordingly. At. about ten he;was apt to call me up to say he would be on hand at eleven, and he would actually frrive about twelve. This happened several times, and I told him that I eouldn’t have my work broken up in hat way. = Although I did not see the crown | prince again professionally until 1915, 4he crown princess came to me in 3913, and from that time on paid me jnore or less regular visits. She~was # woman of great charm and intelli- Bence, and although she was more Russian than German in her ideas, and. for some time after her marriage was | Tather generally criticized on that ac- count, she soon became extremely popular and today “is very much ad- luired by the German people. R14 | By ARTHUR N. DAVIS, D. D. Ss. enough, and from all I was able to |observe of him during the visits he |pald me after the resumption of our |relations, these criticisms were well founded. The newspapers, however, which were naturally inspired, always brought his name to the front when- ever the army he was accredited to made any successful showing just as they did in the case of the kaiser, During his various visits to me I tried to draw him out a little on dif- ferent aspects of the international sit- uation, but the ideas he expressed were not of much moment. “The allies think we will run short of man-povter,” he said on one o¢ea- sion, “but we've got 2,000,000 youths gBrowing up and we'll soon be able to put them in the war. There’s no dan- ger of our running short of men, but, really, I wish it were all over. This war 1s a lot of damned nonsense, you know!” He talked as if the two mil- Hon growing-up youths of Germany were created for the Hohenzollerns to use as they pleased. ' Another remark he made which in- dicated how sadly he misconstrued the epoch-making significance of the great war in which the whole world was Anvolved was quite characteristic. “With so many men at the front,” he said, “the men at home ought to be having a fine time with the women, eh, what? Do you see many good looking girls in Berlin now?” | In this connection I may mention | that many of the more sober officers told me that they were disgusted with the manner in which the crown prince was acting at his headquarters. “It is really’ a disgrace,” they complained, “for the crown prince to have so many questionable women visiting him. It certainly doesn’t set much of an ex- ample for the rest of the staff,” The whole situation appeared to the crown prince very much in the light of a joke. “I've just come from the western front,” he told me. “My men are up to their knees in water and mud. We've been having lots of fun pump- fog the water out cf our trenches into’ the French trenches.” “Well, I suppose the French pump {t right back again, don’t they?” “You're quite right, quite rignt. That's exactly what they do. Reaily, it’s a great lark.” Remarks of this kind rather sickeued me of this self-satisfied young man. I realized,_of course, that his part in the war was played at such a safe distance from the front lines that he | Was probably not familiar with all the horrors of trench warfare, and yet it could not be possible that he was un- aware of the terrific loss of life and the untold agony and suffering which millions of his people had to endure while the “nonsensical” war contin- ued. After diplomatic relations were | broken off between America and Ger- many, the crown prince and his fam- ily ceased coming to me. They were although the kaiser was not. Of the kaiser’s other, children, Prince William Hitel Fredrick and Prince Oscar were the only ones I never met. Prince Adelbert, the kaiser’s third son, was a very handsome and charm- ing man. He always came to me at- tired in a naval officer’s uniform. I | saw him but a few times, as he was = She was one of the most democratic fnd informal of my royal patients. I remember one day when I was work- ing on Princess Hatzfeld, we heard a loud “Hoo-hoo” from the anteroom. The crown princess had heard that the Princess Hatzfeld, who was a freat chum of hers, was in my office and had followed hér into my place Pnannounced, - The Princess Hatzfeld, I may men- tion, was an extremely intelligent and beautiful “young woman, and because Qf her intimacy with the crown prin- eess, I took & keen interest in the views she expressed from time to time. Her mother was an American, When she called on me on one occa- sion after the war had started, I re- peated to her the gist of a conversa- tion I had had a few days before with her father, Excellenz von Stumm. He informed me that he had been trying to convinee all Germans of influence that it would be a serious mistake to annex Belgium. “From morning to night I have been trying to teach our people some sense,” “had declared. “With the history of id and -Alsace-Lorraine in mind, why should we take more responsibil- ilies on our shoulders by retaining Keigium?. The Iprd only knows we have our‘hands full’as it is. I don’t see and I never have seen how Ger- ¥ can possibly win this war!” “Your father seemed to be very pes- lee regarding the outlook,” I told er, “The sad thing about it,” she re- Dlied, “is that father is always right! I never knew him to make a mistake in judgment.” When the crown prince called to see me again I was surprised to find a onsiderable change in his general ap- pearance, Although, of course, he was ‘en years older; he had aged more ‘ham I would have expected. There were lines on his face which made him look older than his thirty-three years. In the outer-world he was generally Selleved to be-one ef the leading spir- its of the military party in Germany, hut among his own people he was not credited with sufficient ability or in- uence to be much of a factor. In- deed, within the past yeur he had been critleized rather severely in army cir- cles for his indifference to the crisis in which his: country ~was involved and for not taking the war seriously seldom in Berlin, and he never talked | on matters of general importance. 1 | never saw him after America entered the war. Prince August Wilhelm, the fourth son, was perhaps the most democratic | of them all, He sometimes came to see me in an_ordinary taxicab and he was the only one of the kaiser’s sons | whom TI ever saw in civilian dress. He | was the first member of the royal fam- | ily to come to me after the murder | of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and he was in mourning when he cflled. | He looked very sad and dejected and | gave me the first intimation that the | tragedy of Sarajevo would almost in- | evitably lead to a general war. In January, 1918, in speaking of the part that Ainerica would take in the war, he mentioned that his officers had told him that 60,000 Americans were on the western front. “We don't be- lieve it, however,” he added. “How could they get there without our know- ing it? Our U-boats would certainly | have found it out, No, Davis, it’s not true.” Prince Joachim, the kalser’s young- est son, and one of the last of the royal family to visit me, reminded me very much of his eldest brother, the crown prince. He was tall and slender and would have been good-looking but for a retreating chin which was very pronounced. He had as little respect for public opinion as the crown prince, on its way to America principally to bring back a cargo of rubber, the sup- ply of whfeh was exhausted in Ger- many, this sixth son of the kaiser was car and using up enormous rubber tires, while rubber was worth its weight in gold and many cars for the army were supplied with plain from wheels. This prince was the only member of the royal family to get near enough to the firing line to get shot. The in- jury, which he received while at the western front, was only a slight flesh wound of the thigh, but It was enough to start him limping through history. It wag such a superficial wound that it couldn’t have caused him one-half as much pain as it gave the whole royal famlly pleasure. The fact that one of the kaiser'’s own gons had actually been wounded and ae vice was something that the inspired afraid, no doubt, of public criticism,’ and while the U-boat Deutschland was | driving around the country in a big | ed his royal blood in active ser- press will never Stop crowing over, but by just what accident the prince happened to come within range of the bullet has never been disclosed. Nev- ertheless he received the Iron Cross of the first class, or, as some one who realized the significance of the inci- dent, remarked, “A first-class iron cross for a second-class wound.” As he limped.into my office, the young prince—he is now only twenty- eight—remarked: “See what one of your damned American bullets did to me!" “How do you know it was an Amer- ican bullet?” I asked. “The Russians have nothing else !” I told him on one occasion that the people were complaining of the food shortage. “They have food enough,” he an- swered. “The best thing they do is to complain! Don't they complain in America? The fact is they have too much to eat, anyway. They don’t know | what they want.” | (Continued on Page Five) NAPOLEON POINTS WAY FOR THE HUN GHASERS [By United Press] WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY 'IN FRANCE, Aug. 20. (By Mail.)— In a tiny village that is hardly a vil- lage any more, since shells almost re- moved it from the earth, one building has u tower untouched. A platform tops this .tower, and miniature figure of Napoleon stands there fac- ing and pointing toward the positions held by the Germans. Thousands of shells have whizzed and exploded by this tower, but none has touched the tower or the figure | °. northward. thousands lof Napoleon pointing Thousands of American of trucks, quantities s and am- munition and supplies have rolled | over the main street by this figure pointing the way to the Boche during the past few weeks. } Everyone has marveled that the tower with the miniature Napoleon withstood all bombardment, and many an American passing the statue among the ruins has remarked how appropriate is this defiant figure pointing the way. FAMOUS KORAN STOLEN FROM RUSSIAN LIBRARY | | By JOSEPH SHAPLEN | (United Press Staff Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Sept. 19:—One of | the victims of the Russ “THE CASPER DAILY TRIRUNE THEKAISER AS IKNEW STCKHEN Will jon YEAIRS BAK CINPHGI ON 0-50 BAS Assessment -of Two Cents a Head on Cattle and Sheep Provide Fund for the Extermina- tion of Range Pests At the conference of stockmen ad- dressed yesterd. Charles H. inspector, i ding the ranges coyotes wolves, a committee was appointed to perfect arrangements for handling the finances of the organization and holding another meeting late in the month at which final plans will be mapped out. According to a tentative program submitted by the government agent some 16 hunters, who will direct their attention to the poisoning campaign, will be established in Natrona county and it is predicted that active work will commence on or about Decem- ber 1. The prospect of forming an or- ganization to back the campaign has not been entirely abandoned by the organizers but sentiment was divided this question Thursday. It is {hoped that the association can be per- | fected at the next meeting. jcent on your coal bill. jan revolution | is the most famous copy of the Ko-!' | ran in the world. It was stolen from {the public library in Petrograd and its whereabouts is now an absolute |mystery. Speaking of this volume of the Koran, the celebrated Russian scholar Prof. S. F. Oldenburg said: “The stolen Koran is unquestion- ably one of the most famous volumes of its kind. By Musselmen thruout |the world it was regarded as very holy. I personally have seen hun- dreds of worshippers of Allah walk into the public library and bow be- fore the book. surrounds this yvolume—the spots on its covers are said to be those of Mahomet himself.. I don’t know the motive that may have im- pelled those who stole it. I do not believe the story that the Turks have stolen jt, as the soviet government already has promised to return it to any properly designated body repre- senting the Mahommedan church.” The volume came originally from Turkey, where it was presented to a |number of Russian scholars as a gift |to the Petrograd public library. A few days before the theft, a |number of American collectors of- fered $1,000,000 for it. 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