Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-07-02
BISMARCK ON THE FLOOR.
His size and voice-The Chancellor In
Anger--An Exciting Incident

His Sire and voice-The Chancellor In
Anger--An Exciting Incident
Zlrch Paper Translation.
The electric bells In the readingroom.
In the committee rooms, the journalists
room are sounded to announce the arrival
of the chancellor. who has shown that be
will speak presently, for with one Of his
pencils more than foot long, he has
noted down something on the loose
quarto sheets before him, with letters not
less than an inch deep, and this Is
a safe sign that he intends speaking. The
president bows to him. and Prince Bis.
marck rises TO take the word He Is
certainly more than six feet high; over
his powerful chest and broad shoulders
rises a strangely rounded. well shaped
head of enormous dimensions, and with
no hair upon 1t. so that it looks like a
dome of polished ivory. Thick white
brows lang over his eyes like two icicles.
These brows give his face dark and
frowning expression. and the look which
glislens In his eyes is cold and somewhat
cruel-at least in parliament His mus
tache is also thick and gray and conceal Is
the mouth entirely. The whole face is
covered with folds and wrinkles, broad
rings surround his eyes, and even his tenn
plesare covered with small wrinkles, When
be begins to speak the color of his face
changes from pale to red. and gradually
assumes light bronze shade. which gives
his powerful skull the appearance OF pol
ished metal.
It's a surprise to hear Bismarck speak
| for the first time The soft almost weak.
voice is out of all proportion with his
| gigantic frame Ii sometimes becomes so
soft that We fear IL will die out altogether,
and when he has spoken for O while IL
grows hoarse The chancellor sometimes
speaks very fast, sometimes very slowly,
| but never In loud tone. He has no
| pathos whatever. Some of his most re-
markable words, which in print look as
| II they had been spoken with full force,
as II they must have had the eject Of q
| sudden thunderbo,t ON the audience, are
| in reality emitted In an ordinary tone Of
well bred conversation. Personal attacks
upon his enemies are spoken by Bis
marck with ironical politeness, and In
such an obliging tone as II they concealed
the kindest sentiments. But II his anger
can not be heard il can lie seen; his face
gradually grows red, and the veins on his
neck swell In an alarming manner When
angry lie usually grasps the collar OF his
uniform and seems TO catch for breath.
His brows are lowered still more, so that
his eyes are almost invisible, His voice
grows shade louder, and has q slight
metallic ring in It. The sentences drop
from his III in rapid succession. He
throws back his head and gives his face 8
bard, stony expression.
But IL Is difficult TO discern when his
anger Is real and when Il Is Artificial The
chancellor has been seen trembling with
rage. and more like the elements let loose
than anything else Once, when he
thought that the word -Fiel" bad been
said by one Of the opposition party, he had
one Of his attacks, which would have
sileuced the house bad everyone been
speaking at once. With trembling nos
trils, with his teeth firmly SET with eyes
that emitted fire, and clinched hands. he
jumped from his pace to the side whers
the word had sounded II ample apollo.
gies and explanations had not been
offered. who knows how this scene might
have ended
But except upon such rare occasions
Bismarck, the orator, Is ALWAYS a well.
bred man He does not bawl or shout
any part Of his speeches, but while giving
them their full share Of pointed sarcasm.
he always maintains the form OF politi
cal conversation between gentlemen. He
has method Of his own for waging Wa
against his opponents He regards bis or
ponents speech as ball of wool, the last
sentence spoken being the end which ht
lakes in hand first, and with which he be-
| rims to unwind the whole speech as he
would unwind ball of wool But il ID
easy to see that while his tongue is speak,
ing his spirit is far in advance of il.