Show IVENTS ItJ GEgAMY f Emperor Wil IGEMANY Tes Things About Americans I r 1 AN ILLIBERAL POLICY i I C FOREIGNERS EXCLUDED a FO TECHNICAL SCHOOL f Fears of Americans That They MayBe May-Be Excluded From the Universities Universi-ties Too Apt Pupils AreTurning the Knowledge Acquired Against Germany AntirSemitic Hatred Berlin Feb 26 Copyrighted 189S by the Asspuiated Press With the I ca carnival bal on Tuesday the seasons big court fetes ended At this ball which was attended by the whole embassy em-bassy and 2000 guests court etiquette Is always relaxed The emperdr chatted chat-ted with the ambassadors and others quite informally His 2 majesty conversed con-versed at length with United States Ambassador White and spokV admiringly admir-ingly of the children of Mrs Wiborg a niece of Secretary Sherman He said i i was a revelation to himself and the empress to meet such wellbr AmerIcan Amer-Ican children as the latter arC generally gener-ally believed in Germany to be lack ing in manners But the emperor added If the Wiborgs ale the typical American children then the latter l have i been grossly muligned His majesty I i also spoke of the American cpmlc pa I I pers then and the excellent drawings in I The conversation turning upon the oss of he battleship Maine Mr White thanked ie emperor for his telegram of sympathy sent to President McKin i ral teta lay particularly I because it was sent in i Knglish and was thus understood by everyone i Amerlca I 1 CAS NOT SIMILAR I t Emperor William poohpoohed Count I yon Arans remarks ln the relchstag criticising President McKInley for his alleged lack of courtesy in not framing I his reply In German saying the cases were not similar His majestyfurther I remarked that the disaster was doubt less due to an unlucky accident and not to the work of a Spanish fanatic I fanatc adding that all the evidence nntnt i I that way u I Incidentally t the emperor said he had i been misrepresented by some Ameri j newspapers as to his dislike for i Americans On the contrary the em peror said he liked many traits in the American character The emperor was also most gracious I grcous and the emperor and empress honored Mrs Wiborg and her three children with an invitation to visit the castle It I wa a regular family party While I emperor and empress chatted with the mother the children romped in the same room with the imperial children The empress pet dogs were brought in the emperor mingling with the chil dren nero and dog the most playful man TOO OBSEQUIOUS J An informal decree has been issued begging the public to cease molesting the emperor and empress while they are out driving Their majesties It is majestes i set forth are grateful for the loyal greetings but they object to a man I suddenly darting forward with petitions pettons and frightening the horses and occu pants of the carriage Their majesties ocu also object to the persons majeste upon throwing bouquets into theirpass ing carriage The latter it appears are mainly ladies J and unskillful throwers for one of the bouquets hit the emperor In the face the wires on the flower4 causing a painful scratch The police have ordered all such personal polc ap preaches to cease and offenders will be arrested and punished I A decree was issued by the government J govern-ment on Thursday last forbidding tha future attendance of foreigners In the machinery and engineering department of the Berlin technical high school and it ha caused much consternation among the foreign born students in Germany and i Is believed to b the forerunner of others excluding them from all similar institutions I The liberal newspapers condemn the decree and express the belief that other I countries will retaliate by a similar Il i liberal polo The conservative semiofficial semi-official press however applauds the decree de-cree and hopes It will be followed by others ot a more sweeping and general l character LESS LIBERALITY Inquiries made by the government I educational authorities show that Prussia has for some time been ex changing views on the subject with the other German governments and the negotiations continue I is impossible to foretell how they will end but a i high government othVlal said hlf ef f I There Is no ouestion but that the German technical l schools and Indus I trial scientific institutions will soon be forced to adopt a less liberal policy lberl with foreigners The trirks of trade I we have been teaching them so long are now hpInT ucoi fif nlnd n tn i great injury O our t industries i This Is especially the case with students of such countries as Japan Russia and east Europe healf but In a lesser l degree de-gree with the students of England I I I America France and Belgium I is I the part of wisdom to discontinue this I ideopen policy I other countries I wish to retaliate well we shall have I to stand i j I The American university students here express the opinion that the government I gov-ernment will shortly issue a decree restricting re-stricting the attendance at universi ties As over 1000 Americans are now studying at the German universities i will hit them hard ANTIJEWISH HOSTILITIES During the course of the debate in the reichstag on the military estimates the antiSemites deprecated the promo tion of Jews to the rank of officers and anc surgeons on the ground of their un I soldierlike spirit I Herr Richter vigorously repudiated I what lie said in 1870 that an extereme ly large proportion of Jews were engaged en-gaged and that 83 out of 1600 were decorated with the Iron cross while 36 out of 70 Jewish surgeons received the same distinction The notorious Ahlwart attempted to rehash the story of defective rules said I to have been supplied ny the Jewish I firm Loewes He said a large quantity I i pf etI c1e vctive rifles I recently sold to J the authorities were supp led by Loewes I to which General von Gossler the mln ifiter for qrrss Its Mrt ttincn n a old French rifles of 1S70 I The receipts of the Import duties and Internal revenues continue to decrease i In the first ten months of the curont i I I year there was a decrease of over 1 j 000000 marks INTEREST TO AMERICANS I i Director Scloller of the Berlin University Uni-versity gave a dinner this week In I J honor of United States Ambassador White vlrchow and Mommsen and other scientific men to the rumber of about 10 were present Toasts were drunk to Young and Progressive American Science Emperor William ordered a number of American books on architecture after hearing the lecture of a German architect who attended the Worlds fair at Chicago The government has instructed the provincial presidents to secure expert opinions as to whether the American petroleum sold in Germany Is of Insufficient Insuf-ficient illuminating power and unduly explosive with the view of prohibiting its saie r r J > k |