Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01

public domain the official directors and in spectors In short, the chiefs of the bureau cia'ic world are generally charged by the clerlcIls with conducting house to house collections and blaeklisting the men who refuse to pay. A similar system is under stood to be used by employers throughout large industrial districts. These leves on salaries and wages, say the clericals, are known as "Otto ulmes.n The Bismarck agitation has become so effective, ac- cording to the ultramontane editors, that heavy drafts must be made on the cret funds in Berlin to keep it up. Then come the usual suggestions as to "uiteiior objects, "government intrigues' and ''oppressve imperial measures.'' Talk of this sort is hardly noticed in the present flood tide of national hero worship, but 1t is likely to be utilized later in the paria- mentary feuds. That the whole Bismarck the shadow of a doubt. Since the surren- der at Sedan the country has not been in such deIirium of joy.
 The Empress Frederick, now in Bonn visiting her daughter. the princess of Scbaomburg- Lippe, has sent long auto- graph letter to Bismarck. The letter is calculated to heal the wounds left by the feud between the empress and chaGcellor during Emperor Frederick's short reign.
 Freherr Won Buol, the new president oi the reichstag, has not won much honor during his few days of office. While im- pressing all with hls desire to be fair, he is so deaf that parliamentary interruptions, usually very noisy, escape his notice.
 The meeting of inc Duke and Duchess of Cumberland with the dowsger Empress of Russia in Copenhagen is supposed to bear upon the negotiations to restore to the duke the throne of Brunswick. The dow ager Emptess Of Russia aims to complete the understanding between the emperor and the duke the basis that the latter cede his rights in the duchy to his eldest son, who will be kept under tutelage of Prussia. If the czar should exert himself, as Is now expected, to bring about the reconciliation, the whole matter would be settled soon enough for Prince Albrecht, who is sick and anxious to resign the re- gency in favor of the legitimate heir. The czar Is expected to visit Emperor William in Berlin next July.
 The social democratic leaders have begun an agitation against bimetallisIn. William Jiebknecht told a meeting in the Sixth Electoral district of the city last Weones- day that bimetallism was a swindle and that the ideal money was paper.
 Gold and silver were mere commodities he said, but if one of them must be chosen gold was immeasurabIy the better of the two. At several social democratic meetings in the last week the speakers em ph asized the statement that socialists who wished to down only the big capitalists for the present must let the small fry bourgeoisie go. Deputy Legier startled meeting last evening, however, by declaring that social ism must fight also the smaller tradesmen and artisans. He was pissed.
 The French and German foreign offices are excnanging commu D ications as to the conduct of French officials. The German embassy in Paris learned facts which proved almost conclusivey that its cipher messages to Berlin were copied at the French office and efforts were making to translate them.