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Home upon our implacable enemies, sword drawn, scabbard flung away! And the French, what are the French? Our King should be Kaiser of Teutschland; and he can, and he may: the French would then be quieter!"
"I have once before had occasion," said the Kaiser at Marienburg in East Prussia on June 5, 1902, "to say in this place how Marienburg, this unique Eastern bulwark, the point of departure for the culture of the lands east of the Vistula, will always be a symbol for our German mission. There is work for us again to-day.
It was empty of sketches, these having been scattered along the path in the progress of Kaiser Bill's capers. Sahwah fingered the torn lining and wondered if the artist would make them pay for the damage. While she was wondering her fingers found something under the lining, and she drew out several sheets of paper, written over in a close hand.
At the time when he sent off Prince Henry to China, the kaiser was far from well, and was suffering more than usually from the painful malady of the ear already referred to, and which is identical with the disease which first of all wrecked the mind and then killed his grand-uncle, King Frederick William IV. Added to this, he is firmly imbued with the idea that he is destined to meet with a sudden death at the hands of an assassin, a conviction which never leaves him, and which is perhaps responsible for that species of stern and even aggressive air with which he, gazes at the cheering crowds when he rides home at the head of his troops through the streets of Berlin or of Potsdam after a day spent in military manoeuvres on the great plains of Tempelhof.
And when he named him and also others before and after him, I opened the catalogue, and saw, that on the 100th place, which was according to that direction his place, was the name "Kaiser," that means "Emperor," instead of the name "Geyer" that means "hawk" or "vulture." Geyer was the name of the man who had brought on the 7th January, 1838, instead of his own, the name Kaiser.
Is it surprising then that he should urge the people to go on with the war and promise them to reform the government when the fighting was over? The Kaiser's proclamation itself shows that the Kaiser is not through fighting. "Never before have the German people proved to be so firm as in this war.
Even with the polka, the schottische and the mazurka, to which the round dances are now limited, there are so many accidents that some time ago the kaiser summoned the generals commanding the various troops stationed in and around Berlin, and instructed them to direct those officers who were not able to dance properly, to abstain from attempting to do so at the imperial entertainments.
Kaiser Bill had eaten up the American flag! Nyoda recovered herself first, and the Winnebagos saw her in one of her rare moods of anger. "This is the last straw!" she exclaimed indignantly.
The contemptible little army of the Kaiser, hypnotized as much by the glare as by this solid mass of vindictive females singly so negligible shrugged their shoulders, surrendered their arms, and marched off under guard.
There was, so far as passenger traffic was concerned, the rivalry for the blue ribbon of the sea the swiftest ocean carrier, a fight that was waged between Great Britain and Germany from the placid eighties to the nineties, when the Germans brought out the Deutschland, and later the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, the Kaiser Wilhelm II all champions whose laurels were to be snatched away by the Mauretania and the Lusitania the two speed queens when war ended competition of the sort.
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