The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-12
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Prince Bismarck.
A PEy PlcrrRE OF TuE GREAT STATESMAN.

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scribes Prince Bismerc
"Ue is q powerful man. That is what strikes
at once every one who sees him for the first time.
He is very tall and Of enormous weight, but not
ungainly. Every part Of the gigantic frame Is
well proportioned-the large round head, the
massive neck, the broad shoulders, and the vIgo-
rous limbs. He is now more than %, and the
burden he has had % bear has been unusually
heavy; but though his step has become slow and
ponderous, he carries his head high-looking
down even on those who are as tall a. himself
and his figure is still erect.
During these latter years he has suffered IKE
quent and severe bodily pain, but no one could
look upon him as an old man or as one 10 be
pitied. On the contrary, everybody who sees
him feels that Prince Bismarck is still in posses
sion Of immense physical power. Photography
has made his features known to all. Ii Il a
strange face, which would attract attention any
where, even If we did not know that 1t belonged
to 4 man whose doings have changed our modern
world. 1t is q face never 10 be forgotten-by no
means a handsome, but still less an ugly one.
1t was remarkably bright, full of humor, Of
merry mischief even, in days long gone by. 1t
has now become serious-almost solemn-with an
expression of uDfinchlng energy and daring.
TIL bald round forhead-an object of admir-
alton for the psychologists of quite extraordi-
nary dimensions the large prominent blue eyes,
seem as if they could look into the sun without
blinking. They are not quick-they wander
slowly from one object to another but when
they rest on a human countenance. they become
so intensely inquiring, that many people, when
they have to undergo this searching look, feel
uneasy and all, even Bismarck's equals or su-
periors, are made aware that they are in the
presence of a man with whom 1t would be wise
to play fair, as he would probably discover the
subtlest trick. His thick. well-set eyebrows are
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little to the stern, and, at times, somewhat fierce
expression of his countenance. The nose is of
ordinary size-not as long, perhaps, as might be
expected from the rest of the face the chin Is
large and massive.
Prince Bismarck has said of himself that he
was the best-hated man in Europe lie has,
indeed, many curious enemies in various parts OF
the world in his own country, to begin with,
among the Particularists, the Catholics and the
Socialists; and again at Rome, in Austria and in
France. He has not often been heard to COM
plain of this, still a bright intellect cannot possess
the knowledge of such a fact without being sad
dened by it. Prince Bismarck is by no means a
light hearted man. Sorrow and care have taken
up their abode with him. They throw shadow
on his brow, and make themselves felt in the
sound of his voice and the frequent bitterness of
his hesitating speech.
"He is no longer young he fully realizes the
fact that the best part of his life is gone, that his
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in his inner heart there is q feeling that while he
has achieved much for the greatness of his coun-
try, he has done but little for his own happiness.
Sometimes when be is sitting among his personal
and intimate friends-he has, besides his family,
some five or six of these-free from all restraint,
smoking his long pipe, patting the head of his
huge dog, attending listlessly to a conversation
going on around him in subdued tones, there
passes over his cold face a something like a soft
transparent veil, behind which his hard features
relax and take an unlocked for expression of visit
full sadness.
After all, Otto Won Bismarck, a child of the
Marches, where his family has been known since
the thirteenth century, is a thoroughbred Ger
man. Though one of the most matter-of-fact
men the world has ever known, he carries within
his breast a hidden vein of deep feeling and
though that feeling is not certainly of the kind
which gives birth to morbid sentimentality, and
it is difficult to believe that young Bismarck ever
addressed his complainings to the moon, still it
enables him to feel keenly all that a sensitive
heart has to endure during a passage through
life.''