Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-03-13
BIsMARCK'S WIFE.
The Cause OF Many Of the Iron
ChanceIors Troubles
Although But Little Known to tho Ont
side World the Princess II Power
Among German Nobles-Her An
tIpathy for tho Emperor.

Bismarck's sorrowsare crowding hard
upon him. These last years of his life
arc not happy ones.
What few people know is that Prin-
cess Bismarck is in reality respon-
siblc for many of his misfortunes. The
outside world is almost unconscious that
she exists, for she keeps in the back
ground, but when she does speak she is
likely to show little of that diplomacy
which has made her husband famous,
says the New York Press. On one occa-
sion when she abandoned her habitual
reserve, although she startled her
hearers, she revealed herself as the
counselor Of her husband and asa wom-
an of extraordinary strength of mind
and daring.
The occasion will be we'll remer1-
bered-indced it can never be forgotten
by those who were privileged to be
the guests of the prince at his official
farewell reception. There were pres
cnt several members of the cabinet
(among them poor Won Botticher, who
had been forced to act all along as
buffer between emperor and chancellor
and who not seldom got abused on both
sides,) the whole staff of the foreign
Office and large number of dignitaries
OF state.
Bismarck was unusually silent and
apparently in q mood of grief rather
than resentment. The princess, on the
other hand, was almost beside herself
with rage. She exclaimed in a loud
voice: ''It was who advised my bus-
band to bear no longer with the en-
peror's petty interferences in matters
which he does not understand But to
accept my husbands resignation was an
act of infany which the knave shall re-
pent to me. He shall recall my hus-
band on his knees. To dare to treat
Germany's greatest man like that! Woe
upon him!''
The word translated for want of bet
ter Interpretation with knave was
"Bube," the most offensive term in the
German language if applied in the
sense of anger to q man, and the threat
against the emperor was conveyed by
the following words: "Das sol mir der
Bube bussen."
There was n moment of awful silence
md then followed a stampede led by
the ministers, who rushed out Of the
palace as If pestilence were upon
them, and in an incredibly short time
the Bismarck family found themselves
alone in the brilliantly lighted saloons.
do not believe anybody has dared
to repeat the princess dreadful words
of import to the emperor, though,
no doubt, the fact Of something
very shocking having been said
by the princess was probably re-
ported to his majesty. When people
talk of the mere possibility of recon
Citation between the emperor and Bis
marcls they are ignorant of the condi.
tions under which they parted.
Many men haze, after all, been more
unfortunate than Bismarck. He has
been well paid; no statesman ever bet-
ter. He has been raised from the OBJ
security of Pomeranian "krautjunl1er'
with an incumbered estate and only
enough worldly possessions to exc out
bare living to the dignity of prince
Of the empire and the duke of Lauen
burg, endowed with a magnificent estate
In the Sachsenwald. the ancestral estate
of Schonhausen, purchased for him by
the nation, md the estate of Varzin
clear of mortgages. To put it in plain
| figures, Prince Bismarcle enjoys now G
competency closely estimated at fifty
thousand pounds a year, and, better
than all, he is still the idol Of large
part OF Germany's population.