Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1910 — DERNBERGR'S EARLY LIFE. [ARTICLE]

DERNBERGR'S EARLY LIFE.

German Colonial Secretary W«« •nn n laborer la America. The Invitation received. friAn London by Herr Lemberg, the Qemnn co-

lonlal secretary, to be the principal guest at the African society’s first dinner, recalls that few public men can boast of such a romantic career as this son of a village shopkeeper a few miles outside Berlin, a Berlin dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer says. Thq early years of his life were spent as assistant to bis father and subsequently behind the counter of a Berlin store. Finding, however, Insufficient scope for his energies, he made up his mind to emigrate to -the United States. After days of tramping about in search of permanent employment, keeping himself In the m din time on the proceeds of casual laboring Jobe, he was engaged as a clerk In a Wall street office in New York. Ho remained there for Just over a year, and, upon his employer's refusal to raise his salary 10 shillings a week, left the Stales and returned to Germany. Herr fi«C*berg Is a persona frets with the Kafkerr -*»..„qjnnectlon with this, he tells a good •ion when -hi the company ofnflP Majesty and Prince von Buelow he attended some military maneuvers. In a group of people almost under the heads of the horses, one spectator nudged another, and remarked: "There's Buelow behind you.” The other merely grunted his recognition, whereupon the first speaker asked: "But who la the funny little fellow with him?” pointing to the Kaiser. At this question his companion turned and regarded the “funny little fellow" closely. "Oh, I don’t know,” he said. "A mere nobody, I suppose.” And, concludes Herr Dernberg, none laughed more heartily than the Emperor when told of the Incident.