The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-17
KAISER HUFFY AT HERBETTE.
FEUD WITH THE FRENCH AMBAs-
SADOR-sNUBBED At A BALL.

Way have Ear-heachtnS Results.
Berlin Tradesmen Discouraged by
the Most Dismal Social Season on
RecOrd-AH the brightest Berlin
Society People Banished From BeF-
lin by the Arrogant PretensiOns of
the Naughty Kniser-The Cathode
X-Rays to Photograph the Con-
tents Of Secret Documents.
! Berlin, Feb. 16.-The Berlin season
! reached its climax on Wednesday upon
the occasion Of the annual subscription
ball, which took place in the Berlin Opera
! House. The past season has been in all
respects the duHest of any social season
since the accession of Emperor William
| to the imperial throne This may be
readily accounted for by the fact that
the court is in mourning owing to the re-
/ cent death of Prince Alexander of Prus-
sia and the Grand Duchess of Oldenburg,
! and another reason may be found in the
| withdrawal from Berlin of such eminent
| social leaders as Prince Frederick of IIo-
henzollern, Prince Albert of SaXe-Alten-
burg, the Duke and Duchess of Rats
bon, the Prince and Princess of Stolberg-
| Wernigerode and the Prince and Prin-
cess of Pless, all of whom have been
moved TO quit the capital through dill
ferences with the emperor, whose arbi-
| trary manners have become intolerable
to those who were accustomed to the So
cial courtesy which prevailed during the
reign of the old Emperor William.
These causes have combined greatly to
reduce the number of aristocratic en-
tertainments in Berlin and the tradesmen
have consequently suffered severely, and
the desertion of the capital by the most
|
during the period in which hitherto the
Berlin shopkeepers and other tradesmen
formerly gathered in the real profits OF.
their years business, has left nothing for
| these unfortunate merchants to hope for
! in the way of reCOuping themselves for
their outlay in the accumulation of stock,
| tnough the Drnlancy OF the assembly at
the opera house Wednesday evening
! would seem to refute the stories of the
extreme embarrassment of the tradesmen.
The annual subscription bah is one of
the years entertainments, at which those
who are in no way attached to the court
circle and are not recognized as being
eligible to association with the higher cir
cles, are permitted TO mix with the court
persOnages. At this function in the old
days ii was the custom for the King Of
Prussia to select a burgher's daughter for
a partner and dance with her, but nova
days the court merely deigns to join in
a stately Walk-around, the emperor, the
empress and the officials of the imperial
household marching in procession to the
music OF Strauss polonaise.
| At Wednesday evenings ball the crush
exceeded that of any that has been known
in the experience of the oldest habitue
of this function. A crowd numbering
| thousands, among whom were many la
dies respondent with diamonds, bankers,
manufacturers and other representatives
of the wealthiest class of the cOmmun-
ity waited to view the imperial process
sion, but they waited in vain. The court
party made their appearance in the im-
perial box attended by the members of the
court. When the royalsts had taken their
| places the orchestra struck up the music
! of the programme for dancing and kept
going from number to number and IL
! was some time before any one realized
that there was to be no procession. Ev
erybody was asking what had happened
! to cause the emperor, who is suckler
| for traditional customs, to abandon the
precedent which has endured for years
Though the public did not know, the
count knew and the diplomatic circle also
knew.
The emperor has a feud with NJ. Her
bette, the French ambassador, who was
| present in his double capacity as a for
eign ambassador and dean of the diplo-
matte corps. 1t has been the unvarying
rule at this function that at the con-
clusion of the court procession the i'm
perial party have paid visit to the diplo-
matte group and were received by the
dean Of the corps. The emperor decided
to avoid reception by M. Herbette and
therefore ordered that the procession be
abandoned. This slight seems to be a
| personal one, but it may possibly have
important political results.
A report is in circulation, which is gen
orally credited in diplomatic circles, that
the emperor is going to Hubertusstock, to
the duty of receiving M. Herbette at the
court ball. If NJ. Herbette should be re-
called in the meantime the emperor will
return in time to be present at the ball.
NJ. Herbette has made his continuance
at his post impossible through a success
sion of acts which have been offensive to
pertinent. Members of the diplomatic
corps are free TO say that while NJ Her
bette is a diplomat of undoubtedly ability,
he IS by no means a courtier His man
ners are conspicuouSly bad and his action
here in advising the recall of Baron De
Grancy, the naval attache to the French
embassy here, representing that he was
a person non grata al the German court
brought things TO a crisis. The Cologne
| Gazette prints q vicious article on the sub
ject, declaring that the relations between
Germany and France have been rendered
a great deal worse than they have been,
or otherwise could have been through the
presence Of NJ. Herbette in Berlin as the
chief representative of France The ar
ticle has created a great sensation
Baron Won Buol-Berenberg. president of
| the ReichStag, issued invitations last week
to the minister's members of the Reich
stag, members of the Bundersrath and
the German press to be present at spe-
: cial exhibition of the Roentgen rays. which
was given by Prof Speiss in the Session
, hall of the Reichstag last Thursday The
great hall was crowded and most of the
, ministers were present. Prof. Speiss, after
making number of experiments deliV-
suggested that science would soon be so
developed that they would be able to pho
r tOSraph the contents of secret documents
through the letter boxes. The only means
, of safety the ministers had, he said, was
I to use letter boxes made of lead.
) Prof. Bergman, the eminent German
+ surgeon, has performed the first surgical
operation in the hospitals here through the
! use of the Roentgen rays.
The professor extracted a number OF
, pellets which had for a long time been
! embedded in the hand of young man.
The position Of the pellets, which had
, previously been probed for without sue
cess. was made known through the me-
dunn of the rays. Prof. Bergman told
the medical students who witnessed the
operation that while the discovery Of the
rays was a welcome addition to surgical
diagnosis, il could not be compared in re-
spect of usefulness to the recent achieve
ments attained by the use of the anti
septic discoveries of Prof. Esmarch For
| eign objects in the human body, which
We're not a source of trouble he SAID
ought to be left there, especially I'm cases
where an operation for their removal was
| dangerous.
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