Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1907 — NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. [ARTICLE]

NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.

When Carl Schurz was In Washington In ISB2, waiting for his assignment in the army, he had to undergo the tribulations of persons who are supposed to have influence. The news had gofle abroad that In America there was a great demand for officers of military training and experience. This demand, writes Mr. Schurz In his ‘•Reminiscences of a Long Life,” could not fail to attract from all parts of the globe udventurous characters who had seen, or pretended to have seen, military service In one country or another, and who believed that there was n chance for prompt employment” and rapid promotion One of the many foreigners who sought my Intercession was a young German count whose identity was vouched for by a member of the Prussian legation, lie had a long line of ancestors, going buck for several hundred years, lie was greatly Impressed with the Importance of this fact, and thought It would weigh heavily In securing him a position In our army. If he could only have au audience with the President and lay his case before him, he believed the result could not be doubtful. He pursued me so arduously with a request for a personal Introduction to Mr. Lincoln that at last I succumbed, and promised to Introduce him If the President permitted. The President did penult The count spoke English moderately well, and In bis Ingenuous way he at once explained l to Mr. Lincoln bow high the nobility

of Ids- family was. and that-they had been Counts so-and-so many centuries. “Well,” said Mr. Lincoln, interrupting him, “that need not trouble you. That will not be In your way If you behave yourself ns a soldier.” The poor count looked puzzled, and when the audience was over lie asked me what In the world the President could have meant by so strange a remark.