| Show BITS FROM BERLIN EMPEROR i APPEALS FOR ACTIVE HELP Grateful at tho Sentiments of Lay nTty Esiiircsscd American I Woman Creates a S Dcatn of a II WellICaawn Correspondent Berlin Feb 23 DCopyrlght 1S95 by the Associated Press Emperor Will lam replying to a toast proposed by Herr Aschenbach minister of state at the annual banquet in connection with the opening of the diet at Brandenburg tonight said that the sentiments of loyalty expressed by the Brandenburg ers were doubly valuable In such difficult dif-ficult times and were a comfort and a prop to him In his thorny office These sentiments testify moreover the confidence con-fidence in their emperor a confidence which implies their willing cooperation coopera-tion with and support to the crown What however would most lighten his task would be the resolution of a whole nation to range itself on the side of the father of the people Asks For Help He urged his people to give him active ac-tive help in the consideration of the Questions which at present occupy public pub-lic attention These questions related chiefly to the relative position which husbandry is to hold Jn respect to other classes He hoped with all his heart that some permanent improvement Improve-ment might be achieved He would work toward that end and with all his strength but he earnestly warned the country not to entertain any extravagant ex-travagant hopes of any dream of Utopia No particular class could claim any special privileges at the expense I ex-pense of other classes In conclusion the emperor said that the lustre of the age of Frederick still rests upon today He desires that the recollections of that earnest simpleminded man Frederick should remind all that cooperation co-operation between a prince and his people is a safe augury of success Inflncnzn Epidemic I Influenza Is widespread here now Although Al-though the disease is not of a violent I type It pervades all classes of society and numbers of deaths from the malady mal-ady are recorded A number of public protests against the antirevolution bill are now circulating circu-lating One of these protests bears the signatures of large numbers of female social reformers including those of Countess Doulon Von Dennewitz Hed wig Von Allen and Lilly Von Glzlcky A Voiruvu in the Case A case in which an American woman wo-man named Emma S Bross is Involved is now pending before the criminal court here She claims to have been married to Count Perponcher son of the exchief court marshal of Emperor Empe-ror William I while the young count was in America but that the marriage was concealed because of family opposition oppo-sition Her alleged husband is now in England She is charged with having committed perjury in denying in court her intimacy with a Berlin physician whose wife Is now suing him for a divorce di-vorce Miss Bross or Countess Per poncher as the case may be arrived here from America in December 1893 She is now in jail She < is about thirty years old and very handsome Dr Max Lortsing a well known Ger manAmerican correspondent and a descendant de-scendant of the composer Lortsing Is dead |
