The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-04
BISMARCK'S WIFE.
The Cause Of Many Of tho Iron
Chancellor's Troubles
Although But Little Known to tbs Ont
side World this Princess Is q Power
Among German Nobles-Rer An
tipathy for the Emperor.

Bismarclz'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
I 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-indeed il can never be forgotten
by those who were privileged to be
the guests of the prince at his official
farewell reception. There were pres
ent several members of the cabinet
(among them poor Won Botticher, who
had been forced TO act ali 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 a mood of grief rather
than resentment. The princess, on the
other hand, was almost beside herself
with rage. She exclaimed in loud
voice: 1T was l who advised my hus-
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 infamy which the knave shall re-
pent to me. He shall recall my hus-
band on his knees. To daro 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 Elost offensive term in the
German language if applied in the
sense of anger TO man, and the threat
against the emperor was conveyed by
the following words: "Das sol mir der
Bube bussen.''
There was a moment Of awful silence
and then followed 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
marclz they are ignorant of the oondi-
tons under which they parted.
Many men have, 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 Ponerapian 'krautjunker''
with an incumbered estate and only
enough worldly possessions to elSe out
a 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, and the estate of Varzin,
clear Of mortgages. To put it in plain
figures, Prince Bismarck enjoys now
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