Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12

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salary to bless himself with during
these early years, for Liebenberg,
bought with his wife's money, yield
ed no revenue to speak of.
Political Jobs for BankTupts
Eulenburg was kept poor and
made poorer year by year by the
kafser's f1attering, but expensive
visits. Like the typical PruSsian
official. he never had money of his
own.
Add to this the expensive habits of
Court life, and the terrible infliction
of having to feed seven hungry
youngsters ESQ devoted a royalist
would never think of having fewer
children. or more. than William, it
was said), and you get a vague
notion of things as they were in the
Eulenburg household.
The promotion to the Munich
post, together with the excessive al
lowance for moving, helped Eulen-
burg momentarily; but until the ap-
pointment to Vienna put consider
able funds into his pockets, he new
er breathed freely.
Royal Exchequer Keeps Wolf From
Door
Eulenburg was in the very throes
of financial despair, as everybody at
Court knew. The Kaiser alone af-
fected to be ignorant of his friends
trials, and often remarked: II like
nothing better than spending a
few days at Liebenberg; the only
trouble is. the place is so terribly
oil FASHIONED" words that were re-
peated to the Minister by the royal
house officials and occasional guests
over and over again.
So frequent and so annoying were
AI,A D-,NH <,f
Meiningen once said: He will be
driven to the Jew. If you keep on"
Keep on-what?" retorted the
Emperor angrily.
'Thowing his poverty up to him.
do you see him anywhere
about" said the Kaiser sarcastic
ally.
NO" replied the Princess Char
lottee for a wonder. there is no Eu-
lenburg present, but the gessips-in-
ordinary are" and Her Royal High
ness. raising one of her fair shoul-
ders, pointed to General Won Hahnke
and Won Plessen.
The Woman Pays
Eulenburg. however, did not go to
the usurer. but selected the safer
though thorny, road-he borrowed
from n relative. his sister-in-law
wife of Count Eulenburg. Major in
the Guard Dragons. This lady,
blessed with a considerable fortune
in her own right, allowed herself to
be persuaded to provide not only
funds for the building and furnish
ing of an imperial suite of rooms
at Count Philli's seat, but in addi-
tion, lent her brother-in-law a snug
sum, the interest of which was to
be exclusively applied to the enter
tainment of His Majesty.
And on conditions that she be in
vited to meet His Majesty twice per
year. Madam relinquished all claims
for interest.
To this extraordinary display of
respectful devotion on the part of
the Eulenburg family, His Majesty
was not insensible: not only was
Count Philli, who never in his life
had distinguished himself as a diplo-
mat, promoted beyond the dreams of
hardened office-seekerdom, but graft
tude led William to unwonted ex-
traYagance.
To improve the outlook from the
imperial suite of rooms at Lieben-
berg, he presented his host with a
stone fountain ito be erected in the
farmyard opposite His Majesty's
windows" leaving to His EXcellency
the cost of setting up and finding
water. Countess Eulenburg, she of
the loose purse, who was good at
figures told Countess Brockdorff that
the expense of rearing the orna-
ment exceeded by far the sculptor's
and stonecutter's bills.
Vices Seemed to Be Virtue
But while Eulenburg. like the rest
of His Majesty's impecunious but
useful friends. never saw the COL
1T he 4oc 81 I,
of the sweetness said to reside in
what Pitt called "the Power behind
the throne" Because he learned
to bedizen himself with the Kaiser's
weaknesses and small vices, to ac-
auicsce in his (William's) lack of
because he had it in his
heart to gloss over the KaiSer's
faults and to affect admiratio for
all his doings and sayings, one of
the chief resalisms was turned over
to his tender care-the making and
unmaking of the diplomatic corps.
"Courtiers," said the Kaiser. are
like the clothes I wear: necessities.
They have their fixed places in my
circle, men as Eulenburg on the
other hand are butter on the bread
of our pleasure; as for the rest, one
can get along without negligee at
tire, but it is mighty uncomfortable
in the long run"
Honors Heaped on Favorite
When Eulenburg inherited the do
main of Hertefeld in Rhineland.
with an income of quite 100000
marks per year ($25, ,000), the Kai-
ser created him successfully Baron
of Hertefeld, Count Won Sandels and
Prince, with the appellation of Sc
rene Highness.
And, after the late Baron Nathan
Rothschild-al1 the round table"
called him Nathie''-made the new
Highness heir to a couple of millions
of francs, the Kaiser added the title
of Right Honorable Privy Coun-
cilor to the Prussian Crown" and
sent "Phili' to the House of Lords
as his special representative.
The Eulenburg Family
Prince "Phili" is the father of two
A1exandrine and Victoria.
His eldest son, Frederick, married a
rich Viennese girl and has one
daughter. There are two younger
sons, Siegwart and Charles.
Their sister Augusta ran away
from home with her fathers secre-
tary, Edmund Jaroljmek, a Pole.
After the first Harden trial, Count
ess Augusta congratulated the editor
on his victory over her father. while
Jaroljmek, to balance accounts, de-
clared emphatically that the rumors
stamping him a victim of his father
il laws libertinage had no founda-
ton in fact-which is uplifting, to
say the least.
To finish "Philrs" family: His