The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-27

charm the eye, while underneath ran the
lively excitement of strategic play. AS l
passed q z CUP of noblemen l noticed one
young man with the furrow of tho born
statesman between his eyes, who seemed to
control the local situation. He was Count
Won -, a man whose family name ap-
pears ON the bravest pages of German his
tory, and whose handsome face and sold
ierly figure in the uniform of an officer of
tho foot guards compelled immediate at
%tentiou. AS ! fingered, the princess passing,
paused 10 address the Croup.
"Gentlemen." she said, but her glance
was u on the srikiug officer, ami, NJ she
moved away, she turned to smile at him, /
thought with secret meaning. Late the
other night / boarded a iigger car at Cham
bers street and Broadway, New 70 k.
| While the conductor was changing a fifty
cent piece | q glanced at his tall figure in its
baggy blue uniform. His splendid face
was that of Il count, and the furrow in his
forehead was az strongly marked as when |
saw him before under strangely different
circumstances
addressed him and the German burr of
been mistaken.
'Have you been long in American"
MANY years now slr."
"a great country, isn't it?'
II hat liked it much"
"You remember Germany too well to
quay -
He broke in uncontrollably:
II haf no memory of Germany. This is
my country"
Here tho count conductor wheeled to the
platform. and he WAS still leaning there
when l jumped off the car.
Here in New York | have helped to bury
an English lord, the heir to the Scotch earl
dom of Perth ara to the French dukedon
of Melfort, who had spent the last two
years of his life as the porter of a great
publishing establishment; ] have been
waited upon in II down town restaurant by
a prince bearing one of the %crandest names
of Europe. 10 Il German connt | have
paid my dim at one of the most dingy mu-
seums of the Eowery, where he was acting
as doorkeeper. | have met starving III the
streets of New York an ex-equerry OF Prince
Henry OF Prussia. whose father has held
the Office of ptime minister. While in
Florida three or four years ago / came
across an English baronet. Sir Francis
Osborne by name, who WAS working az q
day laborer at the rate of 81 per diem. To
day he is back in England, and having
married Il lady possessed of some property,
is no longer obliged to toll hard for his hy-
ing, RS he did when employed in that saw
mill at Acton, Fla.
Among other men of rauk and title in
this country now endeaVoriug to earn {
livelihood in spheres altogether different
from those in which they were born iii the
old world are Count George kNrolyl, son OF
the great hungarian nlaguate of that name
who headed the cavalcade of Magyar
princes and mobiles which escorted the En-
peror Francis Joseph from the railroad sta
ton at Buda-P esth TO the royal castle OF
the occasion of the. coronation jubilee fes
~tivities last summer. Count George, WHIT
expatriated himself in consequences of the
opposition OF his family to his marriage
with tho actress, Boriska Frank, il now
acting IA hotel manager Mt San Francisco.
His wife occupies tho position of house
keeper of the establishment, Will,
Count ladislas SZschonyi who was for
merly an Aust ian cavalry officer and aid
dc. camp to the governor general of Croatia
besides BENG tho nephew of the Austrian
ambassador at Berlin, fultlls the duties o
bookkeeper. The hall porter III this OK
ceedingly aristocratio hotel is u Coun
l.ogothetti. who WAS also formerly an Aus
triaI cavalry officer, and. like count SZeoh'
enyi, n member OF tho staif of tho governor
general of Croatia.
At Jacksonville, Fla, there ia, or rathe
WAS, a short time ago, a porter i'll n whole
sale grocery store bearing the name o
Wolff. lie ia y younger brother of tn
! Right Honorable sir Henry Drummon'
Wolf. Il. g. H., British Ambassador to tn
court of Spain. MIR. Wolf, whose mothe
was Lady Georgianua Walpole, GRADUATED