Evening star., 1884-01-12
BsSMARCk'S BLACK RIDER.
The Chanccilor's Famous Messenger
The Nan of Iron.

Leverstroem is well-known figure In the
streets of Berlin. writes correspondent from
that city to the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
1T is the Black Rider" says one.
There comes Bsmarck's man exclams an
other.
Make way for Bismarck's dispatch carrier
cry score OF voices and, as Friedrich strasse is
cleared, great. glossy bay horse, carrying a
tall man in black, travels rapidly through
the center of the busy thoroughfare to
ward the Central railway station. The
horseman LOOKS neither to the right nor to the
left. and goes out of his direct course for no
one. vehicles and pedestrians clearing the way
The black Rider makes the same trip every
afternoon between and O'clock and, not
W!thsf3H6!ng that the street is one OF the most
ireGHented in Berlin. everything and every
Body stand aside for him. This man-Lever-
strO"m-Was with Bismarck throughout the
fr3nc0-HrusSian war. and was one of the
few who witnessed the meeting of the chan
c@n3r and Napoleon III. at the Weber House
After the war he was decorated with an order
for faithtulness to his master, and has become
historical parsonage. He also gets fre0uent
mention in DR.. Busch's Count Bismarck and
His People" l met Leverstroem near Bis
marck palace yesterday morning, and for the
fist time had satisfactory look at him The
nan Is fully q feet large boned and powerful.
His hair, heavy eyebrows and mutton chons are
intensely black evidently dyed. for he is some
where between 50 and So, and give him q for
bidding look, that is intensified by his square,
smooth -shaTen chin. He also parts his hair
which is well oiled, down the back His suit
was of heavy black. the inner half of the panta-
looms legs being leather, and he wore high
topped riding boots. A stiff, low-crowned
hat was pulled well down on his head, and
the order glittered on his leaf breast He
walked Slightly bow-lc-ged. as though he
had been brought up on horseback and had
the bearlngof man who expects 10 be stared at.
The other afternoon | happened to be in
Friedrich strasse when the ''Black Rider
passed. Every enc stood aside, as usual. eX-
cept mounted police officer who did not
see him.
Here. get out Of the way" yelled Bismarck's
man The policeman was unquestiOnaby star
tied. as he had his back to Leverstroem and
probably thought himself in some great danger
for no one but the BLACK Rider" perhaps
would dare confront the awful dignity of a
member of the imperial police force The dis
patch carrier turned to the left and passed like
Hash. just as the policeman saw who it was
nut too late to pay the customary courtesy Of
knowing on"
Bismarck is still at his country place Fried
rlciSruhe-" His health continues precariOus
but his summer trip to kisSengen and Gastein
seems to have given him renewed strength and
his condition does not change so often for the
worse as in the spring. The full beard he wore
last winter has been shaved Off and the latest
pictures show the Bismarck of Old though de-
cIuedly aged by his chronic illness. Minister
Won BOttcher, who returned from Frietlrchsruhe
last week, says that the prince has not been so
"ell for long time, and that he attends to his
official duties as usual