Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-01
BISMARCK'S WIFE.
The Cause Of Many of the Iron
Chanceuor's Troubles.
Although But Little Known to the Ont
side World the Princess Is a Power
Among German Nobles-Her An
tipathy for the Emperor.

Bismarck's sorrows are crowding hard
upon him. These last years of his life
are not happy ones.
What few people know is that Prin-
cess Bismarck is in reality respon-
sible 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 as wom-
an of extraordinary strength of mind
and daring.
The occasion will be well remem-
| bered-indccd 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
emit several members of tho 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
sidcs,) the whole staff of the foreign
| Office and large number of dignitaries
of state.
Bismarck was unusually silent and
| apparently in mood of grief rather
| than resentment. The princess, on the
other hand, was almost beside herself
| with rage. She exclaimed in u loud
| voice: ut was who advised my hus-
| band to bear no longer with the en-
pcror's petty interferences in matters
| which he docs not understand. But to
accept my husbands resignation was an
act of infamy which the knave shall re-
pent to me. lie shall recall my hus-
band on his knees. To dare to treat
| Gcrmanys greatest man like that! Woe
upon him.
The word translated for want of bet
| ter Interpretation with knavc was
"Buhc." the most offensive term in the
German language if applied in the
sense of anger to Il man, and the threat
against the emperor was conveyed by
the following words; ''Das sol mir der
| Bubr hus,rn."
| There WAS momcut of awful silence
md then followed q stampede led by
he minister's. who rushed out of the
palace as if pcstilcncc were upon
thcm, and in an incredibly short time
the bismarck family found themselves
:lonp 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-
Iportrl t. hi, majesty. When people
talk Of the rncrc possibility of recon
Iciliatiun between the emperor and Bis
maryll thry are ignorant of the condi-
tiona under which they parted.
Many men have, after all, been moro
unfortunate than bismarck. lie has
been well paid: no statesman ever bet
ter. He has been raised from the OBJ
security of Pomcranian 'llrautjunker"
with an incumbercd estate and only
enough worldly possessions to exc out
n bare living to the dignity of prince
of the empire and the duke of Lauen-
burg, endowed with magnificent estate
in the Sachscnwald, the ancestral estate
of Schonhausen, purchased for him by
the nation, and tho estate of Varzin,
clear of mortgages. To put it in plain
figures, Prince Bismarck enjoys now a
competency closely estimated at fifty
thousand pounds q year, and, better
than all, he is still the idol Of large
. part of Gcrmanv's population.