Arizona republican., 1899-04-19
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 will doubtless be marred by the recent bereaveme mt of the countess, who lost her aged mother last week, but the day will not be allowed to pass without their receiving good wishes and con gratulations from all parts of the world. The kaiser is also certain to signaliZe the event by some marked token of imperial regard.
 The history Of the Countess Wal dersee has been written so often that it is unnecessary to say more than that no American woman has ever wielded so powerful an influence in the old word or has had a more romantic ca- resr than this daughter of a New York grocer. To her is clue the religious and evangelistic trend of the character or the present emperor and empress It is owing to her efforts that there has been such a strong religious revival and that so many churches have been built during the last ten years in Ger many and that piety is fashionable and good form instead of being, as former ly. regarded superfuous. To the countess, too, it is largely owing that the emperor has become so excellent husband and that his private life has ceased to furnish material for the chroniQue scandaleuse, as was the case during the early years of his marriage and during the two or three years that preceded it. Finally, there is no doubt that the countess took a very leading part in originating the anti-Semitc movement in Germany, the executive committee of which at one moment held it's sessions in her salon in Ber- lin, ard that she likewise influenced legislation in a reactionary direction.
 She is a woman of very strong char aoto in crit nf hpT 71h nf iT+ h and blue blood, and notwithstanding the prejudice against all foreigners she became a leader of the most exclusive circles of aristocratic society in Ser lin, and her husband is largely indebt- ed to her for his success in life. Nor should I omit to add that the present empress owes her a deep debt of grati- tude, for during the first years of her marriage the kaiseTn had a very dif11- cult role to play at Berlin, being called upon to face not only the nl-Will Of court and society, which had looked for a more brilliant match on the part Of Prince William, but likewise the hos tility of her mother-in-la;w, Empress Frederick, who made nc attempt to conceal her contempt for what she was pleased to describe as the narrowness of view and intellectual dullness O. the young princess. In those days Prime ess William was sadly in need of mentor, and this she found in her aunt by marriage, the Countess WalderSee. The latter is net, however, as has been asserted princess of Noer in her own right When the elderly Prince Fred erick of Sch1eswig-Holstein wished to marry her lie was m willing to subject her tc, the disadvantages of morgan atic union. So he abandoned his royal rank and prercgatives and induced the emperor of Austria to inscribe him on the list of the Austrian nobility as ''f-urst,'' or prince Of Noer, NCer being the name of some ancestral estates of the house of Schleswig- -Holstein. It was, therefore, not as a royal prince, but as a mere Austrian nObleman of the name of Prince Noer that he mar Tied the young American girl at Paris, and she dropped the title of princess O. Ncer when, after several years of wid- owhood, she became the wife of Count Waldersee, who was at that time a lieutenant colonel on the general staff of the Prussian army. Today he is far and away the most eminent of all the military commanders of Germany, was designated by Field Marshal Moltke as the soldier best qualified to act as his successor, and is so overwhelmed with dignities of every kind that it will be difficult for the emperor to find any new honor to confer upon him on the occasion of his silver wedding.
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 Two notable scandals have been set tied out of court, so to speak, and will in consequence receive no further pub licity than has already fallen to their share. One of these is the escapade of Lady Rose Leigh, which was to have resulted in Q full-1edged divorce case. At the last minute, however, the affair has been compromised, largely owing, it is saidl in London, to the interven- ton of the prince of Wales, and MT. Leigh. for the sake of his chilG-en, has consented to abstain from demanding divorce. The person most relieved
 by this arrangement is young Lord Cottenham. who played the role of Don Juan" in the drama and who was terribly alarmed by the announce ment on the part of Lady Rose of her determination to marry him as soon as ever she had been divorced by MT. i Leigh. He did not relish in the least | the notion of marrying a wife mere than ten years his senior, and who, be- | sides the stormy features of her own | career, was further burdened with brother. who is doing a term of penal servitude for forgery. Lady Rose for
 the present remains with her father, the broken spirited, terribly stricken old marquis of Abergayenny, for whom the utmost sympathy prevails. Her children remain with MT. Leigh. Per haps later on there may be a reconcili- atiOn.
 { With regard to the other scandal 1 which has been settled, So to speak 1 out Of court. 1t is difficult to write | thnTAnf in q a6
 ner. By this time I suppose that every | one knows that there was a lady in 1 the case in the mysterious circum- stances attending the death of Presi- dent Faure. The lady was not, as has been stated an actress but the Mifa