The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-29
COUNT KARL BONDE
is VISITING AMERICA

promote friendly relations between tile
TWO countries.
The Sultan had no alternative hut -
Yield cancelled the appointmcp.. and
sent Rechid as ambBssltuu- 10 st Pet
eraDurs instead. at the Same time pro-
noting him from tao rank oi Boy. ithc
equivalent OF colonel in tho arIny.J to
that of Pasha, Hid Of Nigler that \.
10 say, to tho civilian equivalent OF
the military grade o; iisid marginal
From there Rechid Pashu was IN
course OF time transtersed 10 Vienna.
Whence he hns now Dcen promoted 10
the office OF Minister OF Foreign Aifaira.
OF course, Rechid Pasha'a sc was not
the hrst instance of "a government, or
foreign ambassador have cnumerst-
I'd many instance3 thereof In these let
tcra. But for IA ruler 10 refuse 10 re-
ceive an ambassador. and To insist up
inent after the latter has already been
ofticially gazc;tcd, and after the diplo-
mt has been declared acceptable by
the sovereign's own government, IL well
nigh without precedent. and therefore
all the more marked an afTront.
Prince Maurice d'Oettingcn Spiel
berg, who has Just died 30 suddenly a,
cTeIgR house OF Bavaria. and the story
cabicd TO this country, and extensively
printed In the newspapers OF last sun
day. confound!ng him with a scion OF
the reisning family, wrongly alleged To
be bent on marrying California ao-
tress, and saying that tho death was
due to the refusal OF the old Regent of
Bavaria 10 allow him TO we'd the wo-
man OF his choice, IL without the
slightest foundation. Prince Maurice
doctt!nsen did not even know The
Time. Is not related to the reiRning
housc of Bavaria, but was tile only son
OF Prince Albert of Oettingcn Spiel
berg. head OF the mcdiatized or form
a. t.TasN It..,s
in Suabia.
The mother o, the young prince just
dead IS one or the Two surviving
Metternich. austrian am 'Ss DOR" 20
France throughout the greater portion
OF the reign of Napoleon III. Maurice
oettingen was therefore the only
grandson of old Princess Pauline Met
ternich- Sander, and who, after govern
ing the fashions throughout her stay
In Paris as ambassadrcss. has over
OF the "Great World" AZ Vienna, the
Queen of tho Rcvels of that gay cant
tai and the organizer of every sue
cessful charitable entertainment She
but as lively, as witty, as active. ana
as chic as ever. while time has sof-
tened the acerbity of her tongue. the
cruelty OF her Judgment and likewise
that phenomenal ye, nevertheless at
tractivc ugliness which caused her to
describe herself. when in Paris as the
"nile money, and 10 ROUND the lam
Gus club known az La Cercie DIES
Ladies" (Club of the Ugly ones. Her
unmarried daughter. Clementine, now
forty years of age. lives with her. Her
other daughter, Princess Sophie Of
Oettingen. makes her home at Munich,
whore her husband is grand master OF
the crown.
The third and best loved daughter.
Antoinette, contracted singularly un-
happy marriage. with the late Count
George Waldstein, heir of tlie honors
and estates of the great Imperialisr
commander, Walienstein. of the Thirty
Years War, and she was found one
night, seated fully dressed for dinner,
before her dressing table. stark dead,
with a look OF horror on her face, ~
an empty bottle OF poison tightly
claspcd in her hard. The TRAGEDY.
which took place when the great Wal
lenstein Castle OF puX was tnronged
with guests, and within a few minutes
of the hour set for state dinner In
honor of the Austrian premier, has
never T. EN- entirely cleared up. George
Waldstein was young savage But
in his way he was passionatelv devoted
to his brilliant and fascinating wife,
whose cleverness he admired all the
moro because. despite his birth and
wealth. he was almost entirely with
out education. He did not long
survive her, and also died in a fashion
that left doubt as to whether he had
taken his own life, or had been killed
by some one eH:.
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