Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
EISMAECK'S WIFE.
Ths Gauss o: Many OF tho Iron
Chenceuors Troubles.
ALTHOUGH cut Little Known Co the Ont
side World the Pri cess Il . Power
Among German Mobiles Her An.
tipathy for tho Emperor.

Bismarcks sorrows are 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 10y 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
lil;0ly to show little of that diplomacy
which has made her husband famous,
says the New York Press On Ole occn-
sion when she abandoned her habitual
reserve. although she startled her
hearers. she revealed herself as the
counselor of her husband and as a wom-
an Of extraordinary strength Of mind
and daring.
The occasion will be we'll remem-
bercd-indecd 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
crt several members of the cabinet
(among them poor Von- Botticher, who
had been forced to act all along as
and who not seldom got abused on both
sidcs,) the whole staff Of the foreign
Office and large number of dignitaries
of state.
Bismarck wus 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 O loud
voice: 1T was who advised my hus-
band to bear no longer with the en-
peror's petty interferenccs In matters
which he does not understand. But to
accept my husbands resignation wcs an
act of infamy which the knave shall re-
peat to me. lie shall recall my hus-
banu on his knees. To dare TO treat
Gcrmany's greatest man like thatl Woe
upon him.
The word translated for want of bet
ter interpretation with knavc was
"Bube." the most 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 husscn."
There was moment Of awful silence
and then followed a stampede led by
the ministers, who rushed out Of tho
palace as If pestilencc were upon
them. and in IN 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
Il import to the emperor. though.
10 doubt, the fact of something
very shocking having been said
by the princess was probably re-
ported to his majesty. When people
tclls of the mere possibility of q recon
Citation between the emperor and Bis
rlarc!, they ere ignorant Of the condi-
items under which they parted.
Many E1cn have. after al, been r,ore
unfortunate than Bismarck. lie has
been we'll paid; no Statesman cYcr bc:-.
Ter. He has been raised from the OBJ
ecurity of Pomeraniaa ''lsrautjuill-er"
with IN iacrm5e-cd estate and only
enough worldly possessions to exc ont
q bare living to the dignity Of prince
of the empire and the duke Of Laucn-
burg, endowed with magnificent estate
il 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 o
competency closely estimated ut City,
thousand pounds u year, and, better
than all. he is still the idol Of . large
part of Germany's population.