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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
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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
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llif tin l X I lit pnM d In Maiiiiiintiittt '
I l.n'iiiiil yilU lluwita full i f Itui .1
l-rai.k.
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'
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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
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a l.f iintr ti,i,.. miiIi tutiariit
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iiiH , all ni. l r ll " aliit Unit' iy
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'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. , .
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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
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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
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f. ) . ttt tl. ' tlin I tt, l h' f w at i. t i;
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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. Bribe great vear in hi for-
t5?-l t .rt k M - k.
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1 l.e ill I it. .1 i t.l in I- 4 1 1 1W
kii at.. I ti.- Wil l l.t I i I., if. It
wa n iiijll.-l I 4 tlttt fi.M titun It Ll
i.i j. k fi lil w itiiit.w Ani'n
bhi.. I l.t k. I bim
In lire wotk Il.e ti.an i'ulitti
w 1 1 in-. i (iij .list- Oif tw a i f it
t-t altitfl .Ml wrr all ging l.tiiltt a
litiiii I ilIkoi tf Iri keottr 1'inimt. k a
In ad, an. I b boiited. 'The btaitna hrv
a aaluler
July was f. .nt hi Hadow of Kivitltra
grat. 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, '
