The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-21

that the first six years of his life were passed. on the
knighty estate OF Kniephof to which, together with
Jarchelln and KulZ, In the circle Of Naugard, the
family had succeeded through the death OF cousin
OF young Bismarck To Kniephof also he always
returned In his holidays from Berlin where he re-
ceved his early education. At the age of seventeen,
in 1892 he was transferred to the University OF Got
tngen. Before this event he had already fought his
first duel. His opponent was brave lad named
Wolf. Both were rather unscient6c in the use OF
weapons, and Bismarck retired from the contest
with wounded leg, while his antagonist only lost
his spectacles Having acquired taste for the wild
student life which prevails at the University Of Hell
delberg, he had been anxious to enter that tnstitu
ton, while his mother, fearful that he might there
acquire the to her detestful habit OF beer drinking,
desired him to enter the University OF Berlin. Bat
young Bismarck was anxious to be emanclpated
from the social and academic restrictions that make
student life in that city so tame in comparison with
that of other university towns in Germany, aud Cot
tingen was fixed upon as compromise
His Wild University Career.
At Gottingen he soon became famous, not for
application to his studies, but for the widest ex
travagance and frequent participation In duels.
According to his account, he attended lectures
but twice before passing his examination and led
wild and reckless career generally. The following
story is told of this portion of his life:-
For some aggravated offense he was one day cited
to the presence Of the Dean. With careless
bravado very characteristic of him he appeared
before that awful functonary wearing q tall hat,
gay dressing gown, with riding-boots that reached
above his knees, and accompanied by an enormous
blood hound. Startled out of his by this
expected apparitoD, the poor Dean sought refuge
behind chair, and only left his hidng-place after
the audacious student had sent the dog out OF the
room. On leaving the Dean, who had fined him for
having the dog in his possession, young Bismarck
encountered party of four students belonging to
the Hanoverian Corps, who amused themselves by
N
costume. High words ensued, followed by chal-
lenge from each of the four Hanoverians.
Indeed, during the first three terms OF his univer-
sty life, he was engaged in over twenty duels. He
was wounded in one instance only, and that by the
breaking of his adversary's sword-slade, the scar
being visible on his cheek to this day.
His Entrance upou the World.
After leaving the university he was employed as
subordinate functonary in various government
offices; but, growing weary of this dull routine,
soon retired to his estates at Kniephof, which he
successfully tried to relieve fro IN the embarrassed
condition into which they had fllen through neg
,ect and msmanagement. He was then about
twenty-three years of age and ha already entered
the jaeger Guard, to fulfil The military l. duties
incumbent upon every Prus sian. When through
his excellent manage ment the estates began
to rise in value, and he was able to rely upon his
subordnates, he grew dissatisfied with the con-
tracted life around him, and plunged anew into the
wild excesses that had marked his students career.
In his youthful fancy he had formed certain ideal
of a country Junker, or squire. He owned no car
riage, and performed all his journeys on horseback
astonishing the neighborhood by riding twenty
or thirty miles to evening assemblies. Despite
his wild life and actions, he felt a continually In
creasing sense of loneliness; and the same Bis
marck who gave himself to jolly carousals among
the officers Of neighborlng garrsons, sank, when
alone into the btterest and most de ,oate state Of
reflection Throughout the surrounding co Iutry he
tha tla nf m ad r,k an
stories were told about his riding, hunting, and
drinking huge bumpers of porter and champagne.
In the very midst of these carousas he would
sometimes retire from his jovial companions and
remain shut up in his library for days and nights,
reading hard metaphysics, history, and politics. then
sallying out on long rambles accompanied only by
huge mastif, and afterwards boring his friends with
| long political dissertations
He also diversified his country life by several
| Journeys to England and France, and in. .1s47 he
married Fraulein Won Puttkammer. The parents of
| the lady on whom he had bestowed his affections
were quiet, pious people, and therefore con-
sideraby alarmed when he, man as yet only
| famous for his eccentrcities, proposed to
| their daughter, but were thunderstruck when the
maiden firmly though bashfully declared
| that she loved him. They, however, consented, and
never had to repent it, for in all the vcissi-
model husband and father. He is now the father OF
three children and his married life is said to have
! been extremely happy from the first as his wife
enters enthusiastically into all his plans and acts as
| his secretary and amanuensis Having settled down
as country squire at SChoenhausen, he not des-
| tined to remain long in that quiet character. He
became Dyke Captain there, and afterwards Knights
Deputy in the circle OF Jorichow in the Saxon Pro-
vlncial Diet at Merseburg. In that capacity he at
tended the first meeting OF the United Diets in lSiI
ON which occasion he first attracted the notice OF
| the public to himself in more extended circles.
| His Early Political Career.
King Frederic william Ill had died without full.
filling the solemn promise, made in the crisis OF
1915, of granting to his people national representa-
ton. His felt that things could not go on
as before and was willing to admit representatives
of the people to certain share in the Government
SO Frederic William " after long aud fatal hesita-
ton issued on February g. 1S47, the letters patent
granting representation composed OF delegates o
the provincial Diets but this royal grant caused
| general disappointment. The first step OF
the new Assembly was to declare that the
Convocation of the United Estates Verelnigtei
Landtag) could not be considered as a fuldlmen
Of the royal promise OF 1885, This declaration was
strongly opposed by Bismarck who had taken his
as delegate Of his provincial Diet The wars OF 1878
49, he said had not given to the Prussian people
any right to demand constitution; their object wa
| TO shake OFF the foreign yoke. The Prussian kings
held their throne not by the grace of the people, but
by divine right their power was de factO unlimited
and every concession they made was free gift
In the same spirit he opposed a bill for re-
moving the civil disabilities OF the Jews. In
short, Bismarck spoke in that Assembly as
member OF the extreme right, or feuda
party. When shortly afterwards the storm OF 134
swept away the United Estates, and the King, il
spite OF his former declarations, granted a pape
constitution, Bismarck in the last sitting OF the
Estates protested in a manful and dignhed way
and then retired to his cOuntry-seat deeply regret