Show profligate BEELIN BERLIN leorne noys and the wild prince lr lico berk re from froni the philadelphia rc MI social berlin preserves the outward forma forms of a puritan colony 1 while under tinder the roso rose the passion flower and the daffodil grow grot in rank luxuriance though doing their best the bismarck boys counts herbert and john jelin have of late been rivaled in profligacy by their lordly associates tes at it is the gossip of the Brauer eien that the imposing portals of the palace the official residence of prince bismarck have been closed to the john he lias has been from froni his boyhood up a burden to the paternal bismarck his pranks were the sorrow of the bismarck party and the scorn and butt of the liberals some years ap ago he be horrified the respectable younkers you Yon that is to say t the lie rock rooted bourbons of the empire by an open escapade with one of the soubrettes of the opera his liaison was however thrown in the shade by a simultaneous event which occupied tho the social factors of the ca capital this was tho the marriage of t the 0 prince henry of reuss with an agile arrile p rider in in a so called american c circus ire us which for many seasons astonished and delighted the wondering burghers of the cities of the fatherland but the gallantries gallan tries of the young bismarck were of small consequence compared with the folly of the prince in ending his intrigue by marriage in royal and society a man ia is allowed a great many years to BOW sow liis his wild oats providing he lie windup wind up the folly by marrying the object of an irregular passion in 1877 a certain Amie american rican elbowed a lieutenant in unter d den c n linden so effectually that a duel was tho the result young america was walking with hs lady love and stopping now and then to look at the photographs in the great print shops there is no city in europe save rome where photographs arc are so abundant and cheap As the couple moved from window to window they were conscious odthe of the persistent scrutiny of a neung officer who so soon as the ciurle couple stopped made believe to bo be a admiring mi ring the same objects and obtruded himself BO so close to the young girl that she was forced several times to change 6 sides ides young america indignant at this acx persecution caution I 1 jostled jostled the intruder rut rather er ra roughly hughly but the mute adorer affected not to notice the hints finally I 1 having striven in every way to evade this pers persistent isten admiration the american crossed the street the officer followed and began the same pertinacious estem system of over attack losing patience the american broke into an indignant remonstrance in which he made known to the officer that he considered him a coward thereupon that personage handed his assailant a card and demanded an exchange when it was made he politely informed theS merican that he should hear from him during the day the germans card bore the name louis von ion battenberg lieutenant sure enough an hour later two germans whose cards bore princely names called at the american ic n hotel and fori formally nally laid a challenge before the lover he lie referred I 1 t them hein to his friends and the next mori morning nug at 5 the party were promptly on hand band in a small wood near potsdam the american having the choice of weapons named rove revolvers lvin the men to lire fire until all the barrels were emptied to this the germans demurred declaring that to be murder the american would not fight upon any other terms as he be declared it was his purpose to kill the unmannerly young ruffian or bo be killed him himself the german is not strong na as a duelist in such cases the sword is almost exclusive exclusively 1 used and the pistol disconcerts e these L lese li heroes croes the princes seconds for battenberg was then prince and is now ruler of bulgaria refused to allow their principal to bo be sacrificed and the affair came to an cud end battenberg was then a youth of 21 with tho the light golden hair bair blue ey eyes s and general seraphic beauties of the northern races he ile was im s the terrer terror ef of all staid families of pots dam where his regiment rendezvoused aud and came to close quarters with the military authorities a saoi score re or more times it was wits tills this boyish lothario that broke up the tranquillity of one of the greatest houses in prussia he ile was seen at all times in the company af of a rather mature prince princess ss who had sons sells of al almost inest the princes age it was liis his bovet no deity ty however riot his ta bastea s tes that led lc I 1 him to ke keep ep up this liaison the princess sold glicr jewels w to keep him in pocket money and as gambling is is one of the inc radical vices of german aristocratic society he be found abundant opportunity to indulge I 1 his ais taste it was the joke of berlin that the prince made mado the husband of his patroness keep him in money aa as well as the wife for whenever he be dined dinel with his family cards followed the coffee cofre and antl the wife invariably bi y lost fur for herself and husband the intrigue was brought to an end by the transfer of the young princes regiment to dresden where he lie at once proceeded to keep up hia his re reputation u tation by captivating the young 9 wife of a distinguished Itus sian di P lo the husband in this c case ase was oot not so accommodating as the other ho ile found out the amour and the young woman fled be begging Lot lothario bario to follow but the youth on pleasure bent had a frugal mind he ile a penny to his name if he compromised his lieutenancy he would be without bread to eat cat let alone the luxury which a email small amount of prudence would enable him to command ho ile wrote his beloved that it would be madness to risk everything 1 and that she I 1 must continue to love him and wait but the determined woman was not to be put off thus she returned to dresden in d disguise penetrated her husbands house bells ana and carried off her diamonds and such odds and ends as could be turned into cash the tife husband thought it prudent to say nothing of the affair for he waa was himself compromised to another quarter the woman was determined to remain willi with her lover over and it was soon observed that the prince lived in his modest quarters with a youth whom ho he gave out as hia his cousin from baden the cousin was known to a few in the ca serne but for months the affair continued unsuspected had the pair air not grown incautious it might me have continued forever but they the y were road mad enough to take places in the parquet of the opera one gala night when a relation of bf the lady at once recognized her As she was leaving ea in g the theater with her lover the he po police lice presented themselves and 1 in spite spit cfall of all protests carried her to prison in the morning she lie was found dead having hanged herself by tying the sleeves of a shirt together gether the real name was con cealey thanks to the intervention of the russian grand duke alexis who was then living in charming seclusion with the celebrated x young lady whom the czar had forbau forbidden adden the grand duke to marry battenberg Batt Batten enber bergs peace of mind was restored by I 1 his Is return to berlin berli n where the gaye gaieties ties of his former escapades were renewed ho he was of the very first bismarck boys set almost any night a group of th these e wild wa ild young princes might be seen seen at the yount orp orpheum eum a concert garden ballroom ball room and theater on theodel the model of tho mabille in paris but as much more pronounced in wicked wickedness as serpent is more loathsome than an eel it would be obscenity merely to describe the ordinary proceedings of this sybarite scene limits and restraints of no sort were put upon tipsy young meno fall the aristocratic classes for the prices of admission were too steep to make it a haunt of common vice three or four forms of entertainment alternated upon one stage an opera bonfre of tho the wildest and most lascivious abandon concerts in which the songs were more than ballets in which the human form suffered but the most trifling restraint from costumes finally a superb ballroom ball room in which tho the tipsy princ elings tore about the smooth waxed floor in a it delirium operatic cc ce stacy there was a legend in berlin in 1865 that bismarck had visited the place incognito one night and that tho the first group he saw was his own younger son reeling about tipsily with a bedizened bedizen ed frailty both drinking champagne from the same 9 dass the proprietor was hauled before the chancelor Cliance lor next day and thenceforth the bismarck boys were not admitted indeed berlin is as wicked as paris but not so open ill in the practice of wickedness the homilies homilius ho milies of the prussian press against the godlessness odthe of the french might better be direct directed e d ag against ainest the of the somber br capital ou u the spree for although paris is constantly full of germans seeking the pleasures forbidden at home it ia ia no eacret et that berlin does not Y yield beld to paris in the temptations that besiege the flesh |