Arizona republican., 1898-09-03
MISEORTUNES OF
 COUNT pOURTALES.

'iielA A43iOhiol CAloleuCS CI AT thur Pourtales, secretary of the French legation at Tokio. writes afarauise De Fontenoy in the Washington Post. He Inst his first wife, an American girl. in railroad accident between Phila- delphia and Washington, where he was stationed at the time as attsche to the French mission. She lies buried at White Plains, N. Y, where fer father, 'he late Benjamin Halliday, owned the Ophir farm estate, which is now the country seat Of Whitelaw Reid. Three years later the count married another American girl, a Miss Beauva:' Booster of New Orleans, and now the news comes from France that the countess ias met with 8 very serious railroad accident while on her way from Havre 70 Paris. Alter landing from the Bretnase, wEich had brought her from New York, she had taken the boats special tram for the capital Just be- fore reaching Rouen, and while going through the long tunnel, sba mistoob the door of the carriage for that of the toilet room, and pitched out of the train.
 Falling onto the middle OF the track. ald blinded by the blood flowing from ugly gashes over her eyes, she never theless retained sufficient degree of consciousness to realize he, situation Remembering that she was likely to be run over at any moment by a train, she collected all her strength, and dragged herself b. an almost superhu- man effort against the side af tic tun- nel, where she lay on the ground for almost twenty minutes before assist ance arrived,
 The count did not notice her disap- Tearance until the train reached Eouen. where ne at once conln1unicat- cd with the station master. with whom. preceded by men carrying lanterns. he searched the tunnel, eventualiN finding his wife prost: ate On the ground, and having sustained severe injuries, which will necessltate her remaining some considerable time at Rouen tefore be- ing able to proceed on her Journey to Paris
 This Countess Pourtales has been the object of a good deal of unpleasant gossip. owing to a case O. mistaken identity. There are quite large num- per of American girls, nearly dozen al told, who have married counts of Pourtales, and one of them was the heroine of a number of sensational ad- Tentures-some of them extremely un- Savory-wlld stories being current in the American press eight or ten years ago to the fleet ti.at she had wound up her career by dec5pitation in Japan for having Induced, by meana of her charms and her wi1es, several great GIgn1tarleS and statesmen to embark III q conspiracy against the nikado. Of course the very fact of Count Arthur i'ourtales having been stationed for Q long number Of years ill Japan as sec retary Of the French mission at To- liio, has led to the features Of these Fairy tales, fer they are notring else) being ascribad to his wife, much to his annoyance and disgust.
 Among American women who have married members Of the house If Pourtales are Miss Elise Bachrlann of 1'oston, whs married the late Count Francis Pourtales; Miss Laura Mont s;nmery of Florissant, Fl Paso county. Colo, who married Count Otto Pour tales; Mrs. Sebastian Schlcss1nger of Boston (whose maiden name 1 forget) who married in New York Count James Pourtales, and Miss Florence DrouiI- lard of Nashville. Tenn. wbo is the Wife of Count Bernard Pourtaies. The eourtaleS are very old family, who form part of the German and French arlstocracy. as well as of tho Swiss na- trlciate. For even in renublics so oemocratic as that Of Helvetia there are class distinctions. and ratriciap caste, the members oi which are far more proud on the subject of their an- cestry, and more exclusive in their as soclauons than the aristccracy of mon- archical countries.
 lhere have becn Counts Pcurtalea WHO nave heen secretaries of the Ger Hlan embassy at Paris, and others agaln Who have figured as attaches os ti'e trench embassy at Berlin. nP r""rse lne be5t known Of all the mem- iEis or the house of Pourtales is tho eVer-1amous and ever-beaulisul Conn tess Edmond de Pourtales who is ~to 9tcn an extent the leader of Partisan society that she is invariably spoken of ao Id Ccm.essc, just as if there was no other lady of that rank in Paris.
 one has exerc!sed her social royalty ralmy days of the reign os Nano1eon
 
 and the Marqu!se de Gail;fet cha formed that trinity Of fashion known ny the nicknames of "Chifonnette CanaIliette. anu Cochonetta" The countess Was "Chifonnette. the Mar q'llse received the name of ''Cochon- cite from her gallant husband who was never tired of deriding fer dread Iesa soap and water should Inlure her stiil eAaulslte complexion, while Can ailiette" was naturally appropriate for the Friucesse de Sagan, whose birth as well as many "f her ways. appear to aTlstocratlr cyc5 to savor of the ca naille
 Whereas tho prircesse and f;le mar fulse haFe heen the subject of no end oI gossip or an unpleasant character. no unklnd word has ever been said Inv any one about tie countess who is ,. good as she is still beautiful. and Tho absolute purity of whose errnine hoe