TWO AUTOGRAPHS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7416, 13 July 1895, Page 6 (Supplement)

TWO AUTOGRAPHS.

A young German lady of rank, possessed of great personal charms and singularly winning manners, the daughter of a prominent politician, herself now a happy wife and mother, once beguiled Moltke, who was paying a brief visit to her father's country house in Silesia, into writing something in her autograph album. This was the entry : — libie vtvgeht, 'Wtibrhrtt" bw»teht. V. Molten, Feidmareehall. Say :- A )U Burt SaY, Tru'h .sill p evtd!. The wily damsel now determined to bide her time until she should be able to match Moltke's dictum. When her family had again settled down in their Berlin quarters for the winter season, Prince Hismarek called one afternoon, and she showed him her book, culling his attention to what the great strategist had written, adding artlessly, ' Do you think the same, dear Prince ? Perhaps you would like to add your comment? And on the same page ? Oh, thank you so very much ! And may I send the volume to the Willielmstrasse ? . . .' The Chancellor next day returned the book, now a greatly treasured family possession, and this is what he had written beneath the contribution of his colleague :— Wohl weii-s ieh A-aa in jeuec Welt iie Wabriteir, sto'.s lien Sieg bebiilt, T>oob fifi-gi?n Lii-ie die.*;- s Lisbeiid Kampft ielhsf tin FeUlmirw.halt verjzebans. V. c_ sadoH-KANZLUE Very roughly Englished, the Chancellor's lines might run something like this :— in future worlds, beyond the pale, The truth i« string, and thail i»rowiil. ' ut 'gains; our mundrtue lies, 'us p : am Fieid-marsh.iJs even in vain