The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18
GERMANY AFRAID
 OF SOCIALISTS Government Fears They Could Garry Empire in Election ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY Follow Each Other in Case of Mime. ManoIescu Who Is Granted
 Permission to Change
 Her Name
AND TRAGEDY

Berlin, December 17.-(Special)- )-The government fears that the socialists will come pretty near carrying -.e em- pire" whenever a general election takes place. It Is. without knowing. play ing into the hands of the socialists by its unusual vigor in the cases Of those who were arrested during the recent Moabit labor troubles. Thirty four men and women are now await ing trial. The followers of Karl Marx are making the most of these cases.
 Romance, which was followed by tragedy, is recalled by the announce ment that the King of Saxony has granted Mme. Manolescu permission 10 abandon her name and assume that of Frau von Otterschuetz This most unfortunate lady is Countess Wild ing von Koenigsbrueck by birth. Her brother is master of ceremonies at the Saxon court, and the members of her family have been prominent among the nobility for centuries. Manolescu was the notorious Roumanian swindler who posed as a prince and a millionaire, and was really a burglar.
 At the summit of his fraudulent ca reer he met Countess Angelica and made love to her. Fascinated, she fell an easy victim. They married and lived happily till Manolescu was arrested while committing one of his many bur glaries. He is now undergoing penal servitude. The countess then found out to whom she had been married. Broken hearted, she returned to her home at Dresden and lived in strict retirement
 Her name was, however, constant burden and an unpleasant reminder to her, for after obtaining divorce, she continued to bear 1t. Now the King. has released her from this painful link with the past.
 Replying in the reischtag inquiry rel atfve to the increase in the price of meat, Herr Belbruck. secretary of state for the interior, said that the neces- sary restrictions on the importation of cattle and meat could not be removed just to meet the requirements of the home market. The most effectual safe guard against real meat famine, he said. Is the protection of Germany's ever increasing stock raising indus try.
 The Kaiser has been handing out more advice, most excellent advice, by the way.
 At the opening of the new Naval school for the education of marine of ficers the Kaiser delivered strong tenn perance sentiments. In addressing the cadets he warned them in solemn man ner against the use of alcohol The conduct of war; he said, demands strong nerves and for this reason alcohol should be avoided. In the operations of warfare that nation wll be in the front which has been the least addicted to strong drink.
 A cabinet order from the Kaiser to the cadets was read in which he, ad- dressing his young comrades" re- minded them that their calling demand ed much sacrifice and incessant appli- cation. The naval officer must be an educated man in the general sense, as well as possess technical knowledge. The times demand men of Iron, and therefore character and personality are first essentials.
 The Kaiser counseled the young men to cultivate moral and religious views and to remember that victory Is won by intellectual powers not by a peo- pie who guzzle rum and indulge in Idle things.
 pr. Ernst Haeckel, the famous nat uralist has publicly seeded from the Lutheran church. Dr. Haeckel stated that his reasons for doing so were tho conviction that the separation of church and state and church and school were imperatively demanded by the needs of our civilization and, finally, owing to personal indignation over the at tacks of the clerical press in regard to the alleged falsif1cation of illustra- tions of embryonic life in one of his scientific publications
 Recently terrible tragedy occurred outside the central divorce court here. respondent waited for his wife out side the building and sought to have word with her. She turned her head and swept by him, leading her two children by the hand. The husband then turned to her father, who con temptuously refused the desired inter- view. Then you shall speak no more." shouted the husband, who drew a re- volver, and fired two shots at the wom- an, killing her. The husband bent down and kissed his murdered wife and then ran down the streets, pursued by a mob. When caught he was relocating the pistol intending to commit suicide.
 The police president has given an- other example of his care for the popu-