Arizona republican., 1900-10-17
SACRIFICED TO AMBITION The Part an American Girl Played as
 a German Counts Wife.

Berlin-Divorced for state Tea fans, remarried for love. and now in heI old age the object of d unique sacrifice. Countess Paul Hatzfeldt has eNperi- enced at once more sufft ring and more honor than fall to the l., of most American wives of titled husbands.
 In order to devote his remaining years to her wEcm the iron will of Bis marck forced him to renounce. Count Paul Hatzfeldt has resigned his post of amI lssadOr 20 the court of St. James, it is reported. and closed a diplomatic career which had had few equals in tho latter half of the century.
 Countess Hatzfeldt was born in New York nearly fifty years ago. Her fIth- er was Charles Frederick Moulton. q successful real es'-ate speculator. Her mother before marriage had been an actress. Ceslrina Metz. She was the daughter of Julius M,,Z. d famous mu- siciln.
 When the daughter. Helena. was ten years cd the family went 90 Paris and
 
 became associated with Baron Hauss- mann. who built the boulevardes and transngured Paris and was swept high on the tide of sudden wealth which which marked ,,hat wild era of specu- lation.
 The American ffnancier. his wife, his daughter and his son Charles were thrown into the most exalted society of TI-t.- ,l Ip +,,t, girl. Miss LilIie Greenough. She be- came d favurite Of the emperor and em- press and frequently sang at ';he TUile- ries and Versailles. Widowed ten veal s ago she returned to America and be came the wife of Baron von Hageman. the Danish minister a Washington.
 Helena Moulton meanwhile was earn ing social triumphs of her own. At the age of r. her graceful skating on the lake in the BO.s de B1ulogne attracted the notice of the Empress Eugenie. her self the acknowledged paragon of fem mine graces. Admiration developed in to acquaintance and acquaintance into warm friendship. The American girl became d welcome guest ut court.
 It was there she met Count Hatz- feldt. secretary to the Prussian ambas- sa<lor. The ambassador was Prince Otto von Bismarck. Count HatzfelGt was 20 years Mis- MDulton's senior but he was under 40 and age had dealt lightly with him. He was the son of that countess Sophie Von HatZfeldt whO loved Ferdinand LIsalle. founder of the social-lemocratic movement in Germany.
 Out of their association grew some of the most romantic incidents of Prus- sian pc,lics. She supplied the funds for his defense when he was lrrdignsd for preaching sedition. and on his death she became the chief apostle If his creed.
 Her son entered the diplomatic ser vice and soon attracted the attention of Prince Bismarck, who formed a nigh opinion of his intelligence.
 Miss Mouf5on returned the affection which Count Hatzfeldt made known to her. and they were married with every circumstance of grandeur.
 Count Hdtzfeldt was Bismarck's right hand man during the stirring even,s incident to the Franco-Prussian war and the unification of Germany. He was rewarded in 1874 with the appoint ment of minister to SIlin. It was q stormy. transitions time in Spanish poll ics, and the count. profiting by his long training under Bismarck, acquit- ted himself well.
 Soon after the signing of the treaty of Berlin he was dispatched to Con stantinople with the special mission of nursing the ascendancy which GeIma- ny had acquired in the affairs of the Turkish empire. Again he covered himself with diplomatic glory. During tlIi5 part of his career the count was greatly aided by the talents of his wife who had developed social and diplo- matic qualities of the highest order.
 But q change was coming. difficult of compre henSiOn to an American who has nP; studied the intricacies of Flu rop,ln court life. Countess Hatzfeldt had uf,on found herself not only rank ed on official occasions many d. grees below her husband, but even barred out at functions at which he was an honored guest. She hal grown accus- toned to that SOL of thing. But the worst was to come.
 Bismarck desired his prOtege. HatZ- feldt. to go into harness at home and pressed upon him the laborious post of foreign secretary. As foreign secretary Hatzfeldt would be q parsonage Cf consequence ai court. and it was nee essary that he should be acceptable to