Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-05-11

Bismarck's sorrows are crowding hard
upon him. These last years of his life
ere not happy ones.
What few people know Is that Prin-
eess Bismarck Is in reality respon-
sible fnr 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 y
likely TO show little OF that diplomacy
which has made her husbaod tamoua.
says tho New York Press. On one occa-
sion when she abandoned her habituai
reserve. although shs startled her
hearers, she revealed herself ss tho
counselor Of boz husband and q wom-
IN Of extraordinary strength Of mind
and daring.
Tho occasion will b we'll rsmem-
bered-indeed IL can never he forgotten
by those who were privileged to 10
the guests Of tho prince 1t his Official
farewell reception. There were pros
ont several members Of the cabinet
(among them poor Won Botticher. who
had been forced 70 act all slong -
buffer between emperor aud chancellor
and who not seldom got abused On both
sides, the whole staff Of tho foreign
of1ce and largo number Of dignitsrins
Of state.
Bismarck w. unusually Silent and
apparently In . mood Of grief rather
than resentment The princess, on the
other hand, was almost beside herself
with rago. She exclaimed In . loud
voice: ut was I who advised my hue
band to bear NO longer with tho en-
peror's petty interferonccs In matters
which no does not understand But 70
accept my husbands resignation was a
oct Of infamy which the knavo shall 10
pent TO mo. he shall recall my hus-
hand on his knesa- To dare 70 treat
0ormanys greatest man like thasi We
upon himr'
The word translated for want Of bee-
Ter Interpretation with knavs was
"Bube," tho most offensive torn In tho
German language II applied In tho
sense Of anger to . man. and the threat
against the emperor was conveyed By
the following words 'D.s sol mir dsr
Bube busseu-"
There wa . moment Of awful silence
and then followed q stampede led BY
tho ministers, who rushed out Of ths
palace a. II . peseilence wsre upon
them, and in an incredibly short time
tho Bismarck family found themsolvs.
alone In tho brilliantly Lighted saloons.
do not believe anybody has dared
to repeat the princess' dreadful words
Of import to tho emporor. though.
no doubt, the fact Of something
very shocking having beon said
BY the princess was probably ~
ported to his majesty. Whom people
talk of the nero possibility Of . recon-
ciliatioo between the emperor and Biz
marok tAey re ignorant Of ths Good
tiens under which they parted
Many men have, after all, been unrs
unfortunate than Bismarck He hss
bsoa we'll paid; no statesman ever bek
ter. He has been raised from Tho OBJ
scurity Of Pomeraniaa "krsatiunieer"
with n incumbsred estate aAd only
enough worldly possessions to ele out
. bare. living to tho dignity Of . prince
Of the empire and the duke Of Lasss-
burg, endowed With magnificent sstass
in the Sachseuwsld. tho ancestral estate
of Sohonhausen. purchased for him By
the nation, and the estate OF vasx.n,
clear of mortgages To put It In plain
figures, Prince Bismarck enjoys now .
competency closely estimated at atty
thousand pounds . year. and, betass
than all. he II still the idol Of lae9U
part of GermanY'n oopulation.