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About The American. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1891-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1898)
THE AMERIOAN rUrllri of Ml 1 If.- t.j (.1 Hifr tllnd I fiwitM inf. tm n w hi hiimiii mi n.ns u til Mli'HI IX lain I .tm a ttitift i I I liil I'lt-ito ! in lli i mr a hi a li n III I ( t n i. ii 1 1 I I it r t I ttinfi li'H In l t-'iiii II Hi In 0 flint tillttf pl II I T lir i ! r nil Ann r .in and fnnnr 0ttiati Aim m :t lliw I " i I (" Ii soft "if I l. ii 'I I." I'M Isuii.iin k wtlj I l'i or ii ff I I 1 t linmili ii Th rtrt iiiii'int i f If tnmii iiuli.t tton era mi differi-id from trtltli and Frtn h ilitfl. iiii til 1 1. hI tM biography Binut roltiiin In with Stlne little hili.t. Tin1 in. 1 1 11 i f f.tirn. in ili ilitw lif ef the lim i l,ll a K,MMI liilt-ii iiiHint 'I U lb handa of III In l Ik n Baltic Irtlsa tr ttii nation hud ni i-tKipJ uinUr Ik Fifiii h mnl Norman To uliln tbM aeml Matoinc uiiUlleretacriiMdea War M ill mi fiMii, mnl lli WHrrinri i f the criHta hiii) df lli feudal German em pire were rewarded w it h the feudal or Military Iniuli whit h they tk from the elite Among these it n li lit ' t ii war rior wers Ilia aiueators i f ltuian k. B ki Imm Aril I, leI5. anil might bar 111 called among American school boy, therefore, an April kil. la bis babyhoiid Napoon hod burst trots Flbe ami carried hie banner again for 100 days elinut to Ilia North aea. Il laying law Napoleon a ha paaeed through Germany from Rusia Ilia year mvlonsly ap-eered cm lb field aa a rroaaiao prima, with Blutber and hia elder. I ha long lired king whom Pis aoavnk m to aerv 40 year afterward M prime minister Bismarck wm aii fmn younger than Gladstone ami or fear younger than Pope Lao X11L mm v i i ttjr..!i r: ..V a. -rial ' I 2 iHHam in Tim neicHiTa Th wtifd Itiariinn k I an alt-rr vlmln f Jimliop f Mark and ri f'-r to lha I'Uli jiaof UarallxTif, whfMiw u-d Id Mark that la, tli marr b cr lin to ll fiM)iil, Tt word la iwntimie'l early a IVOII, M baarljr S00 yuara Ufora Culurnlua, tb rlf er Hum atood twr tlli-4 tb lJUinarck Ixmrnt, in wtili U by traU to 1 1 red tilif loti wbo Ui'(urxl ll.a fOtatMc(if ilia lurrcmndiriK fanmri, It ta uow aaid that tbla myth la r fli Htm 0 (ions iirrviwua l(Mid whlrb Datl ib lower tfurr tb Holy (.", th Wtedlab bnrbartitna prrbafiacctiMt'lfririg Ibat tbla Oiriotmti rmllMO ct tbtn ttMar land and tbtr crti BiMiiartk a frandfalbrr wm an Inu I Uctual umri. and bta falbir ril tb tbaficeltor la bU fuiln-r i;mr rld IxrniM Mnikim, wbo wm IS, ami abalirad till 1839, 8bWM tb(rtibn AaegbUrr of iiry cmriarl"f, and br family had lltorary traiia Id r fatln-r frspibitd wtta tu frxncli ravuia ttoa and dil in IK1, Diaioan k li4 tbraa lfotbera and twoalatm, IU u tTOQKbt op In rmratita, aUmt KnW-jf bcf. whlcb tat iiiamarck rMifil udi I uw. At yaars (if aic tllmuarc k wu a-rit toachuol in Urlln i f tb ilff but xldirr brotbi, wlio livd rry bfi lt iiit immita wlnt-r BKmtba in Wlin, Aiwik tt- firnt tbitiK tiioriiari k attfrfKlM to wm tb fttidy of laiiKoaKi, bcni)ri fclally at rot i k in tiiKlmh and Frfil, Ilia Bxtbr waa bandabtna and audally In CaantlaL Hlia wm a bad ifiaiaicr, liow mr, and bt too rnocb motiy at th tvniRiar waUrtng placfra. rilia mncb d atrad Otto to bwcotna a dipUuiatiat, In 114 from tba aid cf tbla fatluff ftauiarck wroM tobia iltTi "I lira hr With fatbaf. ravllfiK, itiiokliiif, walktiig, Mping blm aat laipryt and piMtg In farta calltd foi buntinjc Wa wit la tba pouring rain or fr't with thraa wnranu, anrronnd an ld ttiab in a Vortainaiilik.i way, allctit m tl.a ifrarn, aitd tba aerranta maka lit moat rll fiona niTiM, wbiia fathT atanda x-rf tly lock (till, bta rifla tmt, J'mt M if ba fully pMtd acuta Uaat, tatbtrf a It a tu ta tba cocloat manner if I bar a nt ain irtuatbtiig, and 1 rly wltb IU m't tat oral atomli until, 'Nutblng in tba World.' TUn irrbwllng at tba rain wa tart fur another tmli, find H'iliiriK and play tba farca ovir aiiiiu Tin g'-a rm tor tbraa or four tnmr witbont fatbt-r fcalng In tba lat tlted," Tba tail yotinKi dtiiitry (tiirrfm. Srtiiml In bin hnr. li at l-rlirt In 1M Ba wm a apoilixl toy and rmly Ml lila fa ttiar'i r'Hif I J now and tti'-n wnfit liowu, taklug tha aMtfw at IV-rllfi In lli'i trvwilrig and K'sttiiig tu Mutim at um llio n't day, and by tlm third day ba would rnu h XlUspliof and bara bla bifliday ot tliro Waeka, At ;IhjI be btrtxl tba bbttory itit ttatira country, bratidmiburg, lYoa ala and Unniiany, and hia hlnUirb al aU taiaioetita were cvur autlnant. Ha wm bot rery good In Lalln, but dfiiarUxl for tba L'uivomlty of Uot ttiugeu at 1? )an agw m thin, graciful boy, quit tiuL ' wmm -a- ft I hi -i (k l.t.. ! m . It nU l I 11 l I Ul I 't II a I i : a a I t.-.ii i n l . tl .t . Ail ' i bl 1 t I tm ' h ti t t - a' l- fi llil'itil tat a ' t i ! 4 li' I . I i- t- t- i 1 ! ,Uh I tl M I. 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I Al ." rm rta inaiiti nuinrj it f hiii tin f In I ' i I tit and had imirb iniln r.Hli jlt ttliiK ilivnrt i a Atanitirl hull ba lm I Ina fiiluiti iniilir and king, who waa I rut h nltb hia lull form and yrliiiriHiti 1 tniiiirf. "J nt !, ld I'rini'a Wil liam, "tnnt nth lirr ailrix atfa nccord' I j. .. a . !..., I.,. ..l.t t ll. ..I- tt A lll III lllfir lli'IKII III tllf illili,, n famril iMnmin fin itn him a h Hit Iv (It hvi r, wliii b h furgiii, and n lif n h rt tiiriinl It tubrr In lhn wtt ka Imatiid, "1 did nut di linr Una In urdi-r Itti-ntirp-ly euro my rniiiii of tba babil of minut ing ina with Icttrra." HhiiiHihimi ba would lid a pari-id of young fi Into tba drawing room. A man of talNd apirlta, to whom tba dry, common lifa of I'ruMila waa iimuf fli iml, l)iiiiuri k waa aura to attain dia tii lion only in aomn irregular, -rhua or-r Wring, way. IU wm all tba t) ma grtUng rt-aily to I a diplomatiat, m bla mothr dairttd, and for that ranu w-nt to Ail la-Oiapi ll, In the wi-aU-rnatM tlon of I'ruaaia, wbtra tbt ra wm a apodal rourt. but tbla wm a bathing reaort, and lhaman k full in with Frnitb, Iklgiaoa and Knglialuui-o and wtnt wltb tbrfn on aicurattma artry wbwa, Ilia Drat rata Kngliab uiada bim a farorita with tba young nuii of that nation, but ba got into many at rapa and i:iniifntly baI biuiM lf ttaimft rrl tu I'otwlaui, tba old royal rcaidi'iica, an lumr'i ride from lv-r-lin, whfra afti WIH ba wrnt Into tha UiMarooin amoi.g bla fvllow guarda Ilia fatht-r'a rtat-a wfra falling to ruin, and ba ondrtook to b-ar agricul tural lift ii r Tba aon took cliarga of tbHr pari-nta' aatak-a ia or'l?r to Mra tliMn from d-troi'fion f Jo went into tha I'rotintial dn-t of I 'omentum at Stet tin, but got tired of it mootiiy A an agruultitrlat, bower-r, ba abowd aoma rigor and wm a rather aerere tin filoyer. yet after a bard day'a anperrl- aioii ba would get on hia borao and rida 10 tuilea to aoma yeniiig aaaeuibly In a town Ua waa moody at tunea f nun tha want of real doinmtie life, and aoma Called blm "mini liUmartk." btmetiuiea.Urt'tured by dark thonghta, ba would danh through tba fielda in anil tnda and again bring in a loud coin fny and muka a night of it, ao that talea wera told of bim m ii ba wera aotna haunted aplrlt Hotm-tlmt-a ha apeurnd to ba a Liberal in tolitica. In tbia coun try aolituda at Knlepbof, wm tba liiiltii', bowtn-r, ba rad mm b in rry dir tltrfi ihe'-lotfy and pbiloaopby m well m biatory Ua tled Hpinoata de-dy, via luul Frani a arid Kngland and bifl a ra markahla immdetKa with bla official u lrif. Tlia old fatbi diel In K4. and tba acti dlrid4 tha pri'l-erty, and line Dinrr k kept Knlepbof and Ki'boetihanaen, Wa muat nnderatand that fruaaia bal andergofia a rompleta tranaforiruitiori In tha aarly rt of tba ireerit century, when alia recklessly attakod Napoletm and wm orerruu by him In ona iru t campaign, Ua IrrifioaMl Uxn tier con dltiotia of tba bardeat tharat W, Jler weteni (irovtrMsea wera almorleJ in ona of blaperimerinl klnkdoma, and her army wm compelled to ba U-rt at a low tandard. Two remarkabla men, lltfln and rv hariiborat, underttiok to hep theaa eonditiona and yt raiaa I 'mania to her former military rank. They therefora eomeIlel tba whola fiulatUn to k certain period under arma, and thia wm tba couirnetmemeht of tlm great military tyatem of 1'ruaaia, and )lmr k'a firnt promlneiu:a in politxawM in contending agaluat tba taspayer who would not allow tba army to ba kept np to an e traragant ataodard at their rtena, wbila ba meditated ra reating Oerrnany by dii ring A um rid out of It and eonaoli dattng tba amaller atatea, whi b after tba cloaaof tba Frew b rarolution gorernetl tba diet at Frankfort, wbii h wm atrtna wbat Ilka a weak congrea in tha United Huu-a, In abort, throughout Germany, until liiaman k reformed it, thera wm aima thlng lika atatea rigbU, with a diet or cotigreaa at Frank frt, In which Anatria and f'ruaaia wera tha two great rival", to ba compared to Virginia and New York in tha atory of tha United HUtea, It may alo m iplaiue4 that Uer many wm pw-uliar among tha nation of Kuroj after tha couut of tba Itoman ampira by tla Oermana wboaa different trlbea and leader fonnad narly arery kingdom In Kuropo. Franca pulled away from thaauipira of Cliarlernagna and left Oirmaoy to Woma tha repreaontatireof tha old Roman emjiir. Tba Uerinan am peror we,ra alao calM king of Roma and after being uletM in a peculiar way generally went to Koma at their con rem ain' U ba crownl by tha pofta, Tbua mlxod military and tplritaal cmpir axinted north of tba Alpa until tba tlma of Luther, when tlm minor princea, fueling tha pfmlar inaplratiim againat ao much Italian iiilerfi rema in Uannany, went Into revolt, I'ruaaia wm tha impacial country of Luther and rnmainad I'roteatant and wm not tnmih afl'tctwd, lika other imrt of Oeruiany aud all Franca, bytbaCalriulaticaecond ref ormation, A rather compact church wm formed H IWttf t I h.i t.n - ik IM IH li.iml i I nt. a if .li. t at i ' a i. ta f ll e '! jf . mu lf tii. f U ) il. iil H i it i i.,' -tt t. ai I a !' I I ni i la , t I. i In tl IWint M U. I .' I f IK lilt rntt t. Il.e , . tuej Mi ti . and lb iiaf i.-i t Ii I ti li I tfl.it. ,4 H I... I ! a I ti l..i. it a. ii ti i , t fif I I'. i.i I l.'lt tl iiiie u. a In I iiv Ut I M ti'il 1 1 .i i t Hit it "II ant !. k t. r f. f ll i.ii' it' it :-tt tt lit i -linn k .ik I.i ilntt.An 111, lie . - ti t tlt if mule, t ltt ' I'tll I f ll'lt. .-11:1 ! I l" I'l 4 I' I. i h (tt,,) i (,! AiitlM, ait.l In al-.- iti t 1 1 i f tha ll. a i ft trfHi It pal 1 1 ..ul I i A '! in. mi l I" m i i nii(ie tn ti i a l.f iintr ti,i,.. miiIi tutiariit i tn , I bull n. t ii , a i-.i r l.nt t l 1 1. i t iiiH , all ni. l r ll " aliit Unit' iy aiili'ii-ni If i., I.i iiivie m, I atil Aif'rii II. t- . . il it l,.lililt I., lilllf ll. i.l'. n 'I he limn owiitil N.ttw ig ll.ihli in, a tlinmtii lint, ifiii, mi.) wtitt tutii. In al-.lili tlti liiiinitny litiiviiiiifn tu iin lnw Hi'l lililvi kIv The littln 11. Iln.iil alalt iiiieltt a rrt nt Olid ry at llil and llitt two big Uftiimii atatf bad In nnl nth cllur In giuiig to ht kU-awig llnl tliiii'a ailiiii i, lit lU Ititiimn k re intl bla drown lug at-rrant tu tlm puhliu aight at greut I til lit hi own lifii and ret i lvtil f . r it lila firt il. orli. m, Vtbirh baatill wi-nr amid prouder "tarn, tha Prtimtiitn auffty initial. Ilu waa a K'hI whila lleulenunt in the t'bltma and owned a mud i ln t nut i bargi r liiuiii'il ('ab b. Ha fell in lnv with bl wife, Juhmiiia von I'littkiiiinT, whila in tha army. Her father and mother loth opiMiaed tint marring"i but gava iu before the young woman' tear. They were married July M, 1H7, after lSiaman k wm Si year old. Hhe wm not 23. Hba aaw him firnt in hia unifonii. ' L''ii their wetlding trip King Wil liam IV of lruaHia wm at tha hotel in Veuka and commanded tba groom to dine with blm, wbh h ha did in a bor rowed dreaa tuit. Tba king aounded bim thoroughly on German jtolitk-a and auli aetueiitly uiada bim ttubaaaatlor to tha federation at Frankfort Ua batl two aatatea Hchonhauwu, a H-atory and high garret bouae, near a church, with a broad, aolid tower and wide, aliarp roof, built in tha year 171 2, and Kniepbof, far diatant in I'otuer aula. At th former.'" inowu-d hi early marril life, and hi bail threa chil dren Mary Johanna, born 1048 at Hchou liAiiaen; Nn holna Ferdinand Herbert, 1H4, at llerlln: William Otto A lliert, I M, Frankfort. Ha and hia wifa wera both of half ariatocrutic eitnittiin aud mili tary deacent, and they InberiU-tl enough to lira well. Hi father-in-law lived to a very advanced aga. In 1617 tba king anmrnoried a united diet and tba chamber, aometbing liko tha Fngliah parllamimt, and l;lman k apjieared at tha royal uliK'-e. The timo wm -rioii, m Franca waa atxiut to over ant Loui Iliilippa and mm a repute tin, and her aaarnpla wm jtentihl In Germany. . Wm It tba mere accident ot baving formed tha eronal ac)tiaintanca of (ho king or wm it original, rugged, contrary thinking which mada Uiamarck roddenly & to la a Liberal and becoma a loud military Tory? Hia brother, hi connina, bl father In law, wera alao tnem Wa. They all heard a great deal of Liberal twaddle. One man de lurwl that otily to get a frea con iiliitum had 1'ruaaia rlaeti agninat tha French in 1SI.1, Iiiamarck ivendv thatriluna to deny tbia. I'rnaaia bail riaen, be aaid, not for pohtli a, but for put ritt lain. They bowl.xl at blm and hlaaed. Ha defiantly took out a nawapapi-r and gan to read it until tba president could reatore irder. Ha had then a tall, gannttatur, abort hair, ruddy counUfnanca and blood wbiaker all rotind hi jaw and very tbining ayea, Tba dftaervatiraa wera deatitnta of good orator, lliamarik aptik in a raw and heaitating vif. Tba men of 113 wera till living-It wm but 84 year and thought they knew what tliey bal riaen for. lliarnarck went up again, "True, I did not eiiat in tboaa day a," he aaid acornfally, "I alwava thngbt, however, that tha men f 1013 roa againat a foreign aervltnda, I now learn that it lay at home. For tbia (correction 1 am not by any meana grateful," Tba I'ruaaian prea waa all Liberal. It afngltd liiamarck out for regular abuaa. It mad him. , From jerrnal feeling ha grew aonr with everything dimnx-ratic. Ua ajtok often freely and learned confidenca. with rtn aao m o. In February, 1W, only dgbt month afterward, broke out tba revolution In I'arl. Ia the meantime ha had married and met hia aoverelgn, who now knew hi well publiabed name, Ha bal a good while been a dike rnaa ter, to keep the flood of tha Kibe beck from the field, Now he wm to keep ba k, if poaaibln, revolution, Ifa mw the treet of Ilerlin carrying the I'olinh aud every flag but tba I'rua aian flag, April 3, the day of hi thirty third birthday, ba again took hi atat In tha united diet. Ha began to form antidemocratic cluba and found newapaier and gave forth the motto, "With Ood for king and oi.- fatherland." U gave the lie to a deputy wbo Mid that be paid hia Laud laborer only $10 a ear. , . lr at 'a a Ml N 0 a . t tr-bf 1. 1 W i' .at, i .tfj t-.ia 1 1 fi.a ... I .f,. ki'j( aaw I ibi t fi-e, t ., . t . i ) .,li.. .ilii. aa t. tu It t I 11 ft. I'l V Till ta l. r inn i t.int at i i-t lh I''1 ltt I 1 1 ..l. Il, l.t I I iii-l. I. tit( Itjt! 4.l lum I.i Iha ilth )!! I ! t.lt ! f aiti '. I i f !) ! I. ! I. il tMil I I,. I t k H- aH-'.pnr, II wattfv atfl lit . 1 1 1 1 t l ii. t.if 1 1 a in. I. t t Ml i lt l t I i la a I li it tt fjll tl In It nt t t li lt '"Nil W . .!l llt TH l ll.W H. -I," i - t! mlid Ili-fuurt It, "tHt II, l. . I. f M l. it I I.. I 1 It t.l iiiif j'i. I w btl atiiittl 1 1 t n if w , liiiailv a i tn. of in I t I. In. it I.. .i II If IIMMtl V 111 I ll l. " Ni . f tln . li vt it a lii. al ttnik' r an I did Ift I fin I" iti lialni it In , I l.wt r tin iv ttlioiil a. I.i iMi.a 1 l.f king tad piil d" ll Hie leu. hil..i pihinnt. k 1 1 h I mi v fniiliif aiiiiifty "I'.ia b'lig," Mid b. felling tli aimy n I mi lop, "tlm Alu.iflitv, aim la the aibili r 'f I'liHlia, will throw dtt and dfti rinliie tlm it'iito vt iy l tai ii Ihe bruttt f..rr of Imrrii toll and a eover l igiity giaiiled by biavi ii." lie ipNetl 1li Frankfort ltri-Hul Ctiliatltutioti. "Tba Frankfort crown may I very brilliant, but the gold nnmt I ivl.lt l by melting into H omitH.n the lruainn critwn, which I opt," The deiniM-rata, rllng again, wera put down In Ih rlin by a volley and a charge of cavalry. (Yied llianmn k: "The motive prim ipleaof Iheyenr IM8 were fur more enciiil than iialional. The envy the mr hiwlof the rich wa eirtted in proiirtion to the continued fitlnigof a apirit of licetme from high quarter, which destroyed the moral rtement of reaiatance in the mind of men, I do not lielieve that tbeae evil would 1 averted by democratic coticeaaton or by proa tecta of Gi rman unity. The ound of the trumjiet baa loat no charm fur the 1'ruaeian ear. Freilerii k the Great would have turned not to contitutional union from Frankfort, but to the moat promi nent iMTuliarity of Prueaian nationality her warlike element." It took 17 year to detnotiatrate that "Wa do not need," he aaid, "to aee tha I'ruaaian monarchy melt away in the filthy ferment of aouth German immoral ity. I have never yet heard a I'ruaaian soldier aing, 'What i the German fa therland?' The Thirty-eighth Gorman regiment preserved ua from the Frank fort parliament. We are FmaHiana, and lruaaiun we deaire to remain." From euch tentencea came the aong: I am a PrniMiaiil Kt- mr mlr aleamlng Tha blat-k-wlille'laiKlaril floau Mint ina frt-e, fur frlom'a rlgliia oijr tatbara' beart blow! atreaniliia Sncli, n.atk ytl mean tli black and wblta la ii.t-1 Khali I llirn ifit a coward! I'll 'r ba to th Out a nil Thutiidi dar b dull, tliwigh un alifn bright on m, I am a I'ruMlan, will a Prtuwian twl Uiaman k movwl hia family to IWlin about IH.VI, and there hi aon waa born, afterward hi father' aaaiataut, llia rnarck I lira ma a courtier and went to the king' eatate to bunt. Ho became a tiolitfcian m much m Croker In New Vfrk or Oiay in 1'imn y) vania and wm often aet-ri at a lx-r aa liam, where once ha broke hi mug over a man' bead for inanlting word about tha royal family. Ha made a good deal of fun of I'craigny, Napoleon' fellow, who came to LSerlin on a miaaion. Uia man k wrote a great deal f;r hia own fiewjajer The New I'maaian Oazelta and wm often found at tba office of nighta, Ne wm baving ao eicnralon in hia favorite I'omer&nia when new came of hi appointment to Frank fort. It wm a great, liold, jiereonal offic e. The king wm rather taken aback m liiamarck' rapid deciaion to go, and so wm Man tenffel, hi milliliter. Ha lighted a cigar before th preaiding deputy at Frankfort, roa late, bluffed uncivil superior and rode boraebeck to the neighboring Ietty court. He Influ enced the pre, Hi title wm embaaaa dor. He lived in a I'maaian merchant's bone at Frankfort and received tba visit of the prlric of 1'ruaaia, sob quently hi warrior king, wbo wm a lit tle d int tir lied at liiamarck' nonchalance and youth but Hfl, Thi prime lecame thick with liiamarck avion and wm god father to his son Dill, named for the prince in 12. The envoy rented an elegant villa, had a thimaand camoiliM in tba flower bed j and diapenaed fine hospitality, F.very rubr wltb a stata In any degree German kept a minister at Frankfort, liiamarck wm social with them all and with artist, autbir and musicians. He also gar parties to tba servant to show tba I'om eranlanway. He received many croaaea and tar to put ujxm hi lreaat, teides the life saving medal, and lent money to needy I'ruaaian traveler who had gambled at the bath he wm ona day to discipline. After 10 o'clock at night b dictated hi letter for three or four hour. At 5 o'clock in the morning be went riding, "Each of o," he aafd, "pretenda to be lieve of hi neighbor that be ia full of thought and plan If be would only tell, and at the same time we none of us know an stom more of what Is going Ut hapjteu to Germany than of neit year' snow. Nobody, not even the most ma licious skeptlo of a democrat, believe what onackery and aelf Importance thr are in thiadlplomatizing. Moat of the let ter are opened here by postal spies," To hia wife ha wrote upon bla mia spent youth! "Would it might please God to fill thi veaael with bl clear and strong wine, In which formerly the chamimgno of 21 yeara foamed uselessly and b;ft nothing but loathing la-hind. Wbero now ar Mrs, Llank and Miss lilunk? How many are buried with whom 1 then flirted, drank and did? How much ia vener able to me now that 1 then ridiculed? 1 cannot nnderatand how a man who con aider hi own nature, and yet know nothing of God and will know nothing, can endure hi esistence from contempt and wearisomeiio. I know,not how I could formerly support it. Were I to live, M then, without God, without you, with- out my children, I should not indeed It.- il.er ttl 4 Uliet ata t If. t k a -ti'' i V t t,t(.. i' t li Iiiw i,t b It.. I iti ' g -! it. jmi- i i.t Awrs l .ih tttfiiti ' A I a "I i i lit I i.i at'l tiii4it I illtt I tf..! tit I It 4 t'i b I ( .t.ist. k in t . t i.t,! .v 1111 lafit wt il . .(iirnt t I i't . '. 1 M. tt.t I ti h Hi t tv III I .nk l.t .. I. l.lttl lit l.l - i.! l e - l.i i II tin.il Nti! 1 1.. i i Hi it' uri l-f lilf. W tl h ). !. tl i t.t!tii l .1 Milif l I t I III .1 l .f liati' tit Iti f. ) . ttt tl. ' tlin I tt, l h' f w at i. t i; l kltirf i-ti tn t at lum It i l.tiv 1. 1 a btittf i.-t .ti.'.. t , t-t itoll Mi a In. pinii.i l.itit an I ht . t- tt Intuit' In lll i t all wnl !( hi 'i ii r ntif, and ! ii,,ifk I an al fin tiitii.tj ll r It-i ti U.'tini- With a liilt-t, II rtita a lim.iia-f to his cw ti i l.il In ti an I al(tnii., tt. att' ti V ll.t I AH II, tMRrK, I'HIMTaa blKMAHi K. tlon aa a i'rtinitu. In Ikoi hit figured at King William' coronation. Tbecrnr and hia mother thought much of His marck. He still longt-d for war with Anatria, saying to hi wife: "On this earth there I nothing but hyiocriay and jugglery, and whether this miiak of ftWi is to t torn off by fever or a cartridge It must fall at lust. Fools and wise men m skel eton look very much like one another." He wm only 44 when so despondent and cynicaL The horrible climate of St. Petersburg transferred him to Paris m minister in 1W)2. It wm already considered to make him prime minister) "I am more lonely In the midst of great Paris than you, wife, are at Rein fold, and ait here like a rat in an empty bouse, my only amusement to send away the cook for cheating me in the ac count." He thought Eugenie a beautiful woman; "My conscience, dear, rejirovea me for teeing ao much that I lovely without you." He walked on the sand at Iliar riti with Napoleon III, whom he wm in eight year to hold a ruined prisoner of war. In 1W52 a cabinet crisi came in lierlin, and liiamarck at 47 WMSummoned there from the Pyrenee to be the head of the government. He wm called The Hot spur of the Junker party, Baid the democrat again: "Lismurckl That is the coup d'etat!" In the midst of hi Jifo of commotion at lierlin he wrote to hi wife: ''Much good black pudding I neveratfl, and seldom such good liver. May your slaughtering be blcsaedr He worked in the government from 8 o'clock to 10 p. tu, and said: "Put health and sound sleep tremendous thirst. How I love to be lazy and how I have to witfkf" His unscrupulous yet sincere character now came fully out. He rub;d without law, but for the glory aud ultimata se curity of Prussia, "The f rontiersof Prussia," he growlwl, "are not favorable to a good statu consti tution. The great questions of the day are not to lie decided by ap-echi-s and ma jorities, but by blood and Iron," A soldier himself, his moral courage wm extraordinary In Europe, Ho was the Tectimseh Hherman of that side of the water, and the year wm that of Vicka bnrg. He had a Imdgetlea government. He went specially to Parte to take leave of Napoleon In August, M2, at M. Cloud. "Our relatiins to Austria," he declared bluntly, "muat unavoidably change for the better or the worse." "Tliat Pi marck drag us by the halter," Mid the Viennese at the Danish war, Austria went to Denmark to watch Prussia and recover jfrestige from her defeate in Italy, In li the Prussian flag waved on the Danish rampart at Duppel, and liia marck wm there with King William, The emperor at Vienna gave him the or der of Ht, Htephen and aaid, "Ah, if I had but himr The Danish war wm an experiment on the newly rezrganlzed army aud the needle gun. In WS liiamarck wm made a Pruian count. He had an Intrigue with a celebrated opera singer, it wm believed, and their picture were photo, graphed togirther like old Duma and Ada Mencken. 11 wm bo disgutd in 18A3 that he aid: "I wish that some Intrigue would necessitate another mlrilftry, ao that 1 might honorably turn my lack upon thi liver of ink. The retlene of thi ex istence I unbearable. I regard every one a a benefactor who seek to bring about my fall." Th French populace wm even then clamoring for war. Kept. 20, WA, m new major general, liiamarck rode into lierlin with the vlo torioua army, Ha wore a white uniform, orange saali, yellow collar and helmet, and wm in such bodily pain be could hardly keep the saddle. For a good wbila he wm very ill in the country. The writer of thi paper was in lierlin In July or August, 1 ), and noted the complete conipuest of tha Prussian re publican and Lileral by Hismiirck' armed policy. Men like Dr. Jocohi, whom I visited, gave up thncomjietitiou With such a lion a liismarck. And yet, it seems, he never was an actor and said new, natural, offliund things, but without much stylo, In June, 1H47, be wa in Paris with his king and soon offer became chanccllur of the North German confederation. In IM8 he seemed to be a total wreck from overwork. His horse next fell upon him. He lived in those gn at year in a 1-story house in Berlin with Yi window in front, U drank red Iiordeaux wine. He bought estate near hi wife' at Variiu. 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M-ijttf lli.iimrtk, lnhg nnbf lirw, waa the fir I to discover thei row ti prilice citinitig "Thti are not 1 1 'w furmwa," bet-rtftl, "they ar man hlng lima. " To bta w ifa be wrote from the In Mi "If w do tmt liecttme extravagant In cur di'insnd and do not imagine (hat we have captured the world, we ahall cMaiii a place worth the having At Koetiig-grat I n1o the tall roan. II wm 13 biiiira in the saddle without fod der. My ts'd wa on the ruud with a car riag cushion." He made s ace to save hia army from pest in llungury. He and the king stop- Ri in tha castle of Nicoluburg, where apoleon resided after Auaterlilz. He wm 61 years old and had been in politics nearly 20 year. Aug. 4 he wm back in Berlin, the greatest man in Europe. To the French minister he said: "Friendriiip, a lasting friendship, with France! They will, 1 hope, represent the dualism of Lav tclllgence and progreM." Unable to get the army appropriation from th lower honse, he closed the chanv tier, saying the thing would rule himself. Four session of parliament he treated In thi way, ruling without other than feudal law. lie awoke, however, the German student and patriotio feeling against the Danes and beat them by the help of Austria and other part of Ger many, and then uddeuly turned upon Austria and drove her out of the Ger man empire and extended Prussia to in clude Hanover. Hesse and finally several Other state, With a great army and the nation apienis'd he met the French and dic tated the hard term of n-ac to them. He 'could not succeed in hi long con flict with the Catholic and the pope. In 1070 he introduced a German protective tariff. In 1R4 he began German colonies. In 1NM5 he wa 70 year old and almost uprcme, In WW he demanded 700,000 men to t added to tho army. A just before the Austrian war Fer dinand Cohen tried to kill Bismarck, so In 1874 a Catholic tinsmith attacked bim at Kissingen. Statesmen in Etirojie are judged by the extension of their country they brought about. In thia view Bismarck altered the map of Kurojio more than any man since Napoleon, and hi chwigcs have the consent of tho governed. In 1 WiO he accomplished the final nnlty of Italy by hi aid, cast Austria out of Germany and took all Germany beside into a Prussian empire. In 1070 the French, cast into the shade by the magnitude of Prussia 'a wars aud annexations, made an issue with Bis marck insolently on the small matter of Spain offering her voeont crown to ft prince of the family of Hoheuzollerns, llie consequence were heavy. Franc lost the fine province of Alsace-Lorraine, with cities like Metz, Mulhauaen and Htrnsburg. The Germany remade by Bismarck Iim 47,0OO,OW people. Out of atxiut 1,160,000 annual emigrants from thia em pi r 1,116,000 come to the United States, The citie hove enormously grown, Ber lin near 1,500,000 and TA citie above 100,000, The army cost tiearl00,000,. 000 a year and I always near 600,000 men strong, Alsace-Lorraine added near 1,(100,000 to the population. Bismarck's unflinching soul took the field and made the terrible demand on Franc which, but for the gifted nature of the people and their soil and system, would have ruined her. He placed tha kaiser's crown and name mum hi king . a r i ii . . . I . . i i i at reraainea, a acenu not maicnetj oy any in Napoleon' career. Tbi Bismarck did not probably con template, France owed her humiliation to the desire for anneration whenever she found any neighbor making any. In taking Savoy and Nice from Italy she lost Alsace-lxirraine. After theae great acts of Bismarck be fell upon the residue of days. He assist ed to curb Russia and established an alli ance with Italy and Austria, but hia aged sovereign dying in 1888 he under took to superintend the country and con trol the reign of Frederick, who died in about three months, Frederick' son, a half Englishman, cameinto power in 1888 and soon showed the posseaaion of ome such trait M George 111. Bismarck was displaced and ccrn Id not brook the humiliation. Ha antagonized Chancellor Caprlvi's minis try, and from being the pink of the Hour Ikiii royalist Wains tne prompter of the agrarians, His bent for politic aud J ower bad grown to be a second nature, le became more apiiroachablo, more democratic, but not the bus proud, per sistent ami inexorable. At 78 be wm m btiMv in German politics a at IW. if he had any model, It wm in the com bination of Cavour and Garibaldi, the eecret mover and the sword. More prob ably his model was Frederick the Great, the aggressive oul end word of Prussii a century liefore. Disraeli was a mer chant stutemiian compared to Bismarck. He wa more like (Jortchakof of Rua ia, her extending spirit, and In some re spects ia more like Cromwell than any statesman tho continent has shown. Bismarck lielongs to the highest erder of sggreaitive sditiciana, like Ferdinand or tipain, Jllclielieu, itustavus Auoipnua, Peter the Great, William of Orange, Na poleon. We must pass from among uiiu-' Isters to class him truly aud comport him with kings, GEORGE ALFRED TOWN8END, '