St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-24
DEUTSCHE WEINACHTSzEIT
PUBLIC LIFE INFLUENCED By THE
APPROACH OF HOLIDAYS.
THE EMPRESS GOES SHOPPING.
Berlin Streets Look Like Forests
Streets Crowded as at no Other
Time With the JoviaI German
Politics Mixed Up With the
Merry Christmas Times EN-
peror's Speech Expected Soon.

| Copyrighted 1893. by the Associated Press. I
BERLIN, Dec. 23.-The approach of
Christmas has influenced all public life
I'D Germany. During the past week the
| general vacations have set in, the the
aters have been closed, partly in prepa-
ration for new pieces for the holidays,
and wholesale trade has stopped as
usual, entirely. The schools were closed
| yesterday, and railroad travel IS at its
height, for everybody is going home for
Christmas. The streets have the APP
| pearance OF a forest; there is hardly a
| block without hundreds of Christmas
trees offered for sale. Over quarter of
| a million Christmas trees have arrived
| In this city during the month from
Sweden and Norway and from the Black
Forest. The streets are thronged as at
no other time of the year. At some
hours of the afternoon motion in the
center of the business portion of Berlin
becomes almost impossible. As Christ
mas approaches the haste and hurry
| increase, and nothing else is thought of
] but Christmas gifts and Christmas
| Jollity. The empress is seen daily visit
Ing the various shops in order to buy
gifts for herself, and all the members of
the court follow the example set by the
OLD KAISER WILLIAM
The KreutZ Ztitung party makes an
exception to the rule. and continues its
| fight against Chancellor Won Caprivi
and the government; its organ declares
that the tablecloth between the Con-
servatives and Caprivi has been cut by
the latter; that there is no longer any
| common cause between them, and it is
case of war to the knife" The
Liberal and Radical papers are an
noyed at the cOncillatory attitude
adopted by the chancellor and foreign
secretary towards the Agrarlans, and
hope that the day is near at hand when
| Caprivi will take up the glove and fight.
| The National Zeitung suggests that the
| Conservatives could easily be made to
feel their folly If Caprivi would fill the
vacancies existing in the higher offices
| by Liberals. The extreme methods OF
the AgrarlanS appear, however, to be
| defeating their own ends, and the shall
| farmers are deserving the recently
| formed Agrarian league by the hun
OOO farmers, or at least third of the
whole membership, have already Sc
ceded.
THE UNDERGROUND WORK
| continues against the Russian treaty;
for moment the deliberations rest;
| but the Russian delegates will remain
here until they are resumed after the
In Nil Of tb0 eIa a.
made it is expected that all understand
| ing will be reached. New Years day
will, as usual, unite all the commanding
| officers of the German army around the
| emperor, when he is accustomed to ad-
| dress them. The emperor's speech is
| looked forward to as prediction of the
| coming political situation. This year
| Prince Leopold OF Bavaria. inspector of
the Fourth Army corps, will be present.
His arrival lis just announced; the
| prince was absent last year aIbacceunt
or some disagreement between the gov
ments. - sSA 81
IL has been remarked here that in his
last message TO congress, President
Cleveland, speaking of the foreign reIa-
lions, has, it is claimed, Disseminated
In his expressions between France and
| Germany; while the former are an
nounced as being excellent" the latter
are regarded as only satisfactory
This creates considerable surprise in
diplomatic circles, as nothing has oc-
Cured on this side to mar the
EXCELLENT RELATIONS.
The publication of Count Won Eulen-
berg's circular has created a sensation
hardly inferior to that produced by the
original publication of the decree itself.
which led to tile great reichstag debate
on Jan. "A, 1882, in which Prince Bis
marck, In mastery speech, expounded
Its Importance and declared it was moi
aimed at creating new Drerogative
Then it was only extreme Radicals who
dlsappIoved of the decree; now, on the
contrary, it is only the extreme Right.
Agrarians and extreme Ultramontanes
who dislike Count yon Eulenbarg's cir
| cuiar.
The German press followed the Ital-
ian crisis with keen interest: but its
comments were rather reserved.
The North German Gazette, however.
praises Premier Crispi's declaration Tor
its LOFTY. patriotic sentiments and alb
solute sincerity" and expresses the be-
lief that the eminently right man is in
the right place.
The debatef in the English parliament
upon the Duke of Sake Coburg
Gotha's position seems likely
to create dissatisfaction here.
The Hamburger Nachrichten saws
that the position of the duke was dis.
cussed In manner which cannot be
passed over without notice on the Ger
man side. The duke, the paper men
toned adds, became sovereign Ger
man federal prince, over whose rights
and duties no foreign parliament is en-
titled to deliver an opinion. The Ham
burger Nachrichten concludes with the
remark that the incompatbility of such
an occurrence with the
DIGNITY AND RESPECT
due to the German empire aud its fed
eral princes should form the subject of
discussion at an early sitting of tn g
reichstag.
The Conservative Reichsbole regrets
that the reichStag has not yet dealt
with the question. and the Beriiner
Tageblatt says that nobody will take if
amiss that the Duke of Saxe-Coburp-
Gotha should desire to keep up relations
with the royal family of England: but
that he should wish to spend a part of
the year regularly in England is most
likely to cause displeasure in Coburg-
Gotha, especially as it was not clearly
stated in the British parliament wheth-
er he was to be regarded as a British
subject or not.
Severe measures are being taken to
stop the Socialist propaganda in the
schools and colleges. owing to the rev.
citation through the report of the di-
rector of the Griefswald gymnasium
that numbers of students belonging to
the upper classes were connected with
the Socialist party and In corresponds
ence with its leaders.