Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1888 — An American Girl in Germany. [ARTICLE]

An American Girl in Germany.

Chicago Inter-Ocean. It’s an “American girl” who is now said to be standing between Emperor William and Prince Bismarck, preventing that peaceful harmony which should exist between the German Emperor and his chancellor. For some time Bismarck has harbored a latent hostility to the Countess Waldersee because of her inclination to meddle in German politics, and he has tried to shelve Count Waldersee, her husband, and the intimate friend of the Emperor. Count Waldersee has been mentioned as a certain successor to Count Von Moltke as chief of staff, but Bismarck does not care to have a handsome and venturesome wbinan directing the German armies. The Countess is an American woman. Her maiden name was Mary Lee, and she was the daughter of a New York merchant and the granddaughter of a Yankee farmer. She was very pretty as a girl, and twenty-five years ago met and married in Paris Prince Frederick, of Schleswig-Holstein. At the age of 23 she was a widow possessed of an estate worth $4,000,000. A few years later she married Count Waldersee, who was then a Major-General. By the marriage of Prince William, now the Emperor, to Princess Victoria, of Schleswig-Holstein Countess Waldersee became his cousin. , .... Henry James boasts that he has never loved a woman. If from this way we may infer that he has loved a man we think we can name the man.. Eastern Man (who has married a West•em girl and taken up a "claim)-Heaven preserve n«' The_ Indians' The Tndi-' ans! \Vh-where’s m-my g-g-gun? Western bride—The lazy, red-skinned vagabonds. Hand me the broomstick.—OmNlha VV arid. - ”