TOLD OF THE KAISER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 78, 31 March 1916, Page 2

TOLD OF THE KAISER.

Th following passages of current interest are taken from “Recollections cf a Society Clairvoyant,” published in 1911: — The German Emperor is another superstitious Sovereign,' and, like his uncle, the late King Edward VII., he Is very apprehensive of the number “thirteen” in connection with any entertainment and more than once a subaltern on duty at the palace has been commanded at a moment’s notice ‘o join the Imperial party to avoid thirteen being at table. The Kaiser is firmly convinced that he will die by the hand of an asgassin. This has been predicted to him several times, twice „3 a young man by Hungarian gipsies vhan he was visiting his friend, the late Crown Prince of Austria. ,at Galicia; and it is s aid that this conviction forms a constant topic of conversation between the Emperor and his friends. Both the Emperor and the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria attach much importance to dreams, and insist that dreams have furnished them with premonitions of various misfortunes which have overtaken them, and they both regard Friday as a most unlucky day. The Emperor of Austria has peculiar forebodings of imminent disaster, and f°r some months before the assassination of the Empress Elizabeth he was a victim to ominous presentiments, and frequently exclaimed, “Oh, if this year were but at an end.”