The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-04
THE GREAT CHANCELLOR,
Abundant Evidence Shown That He Was 8
Wild Young Man.

At the Hanoverian university of Got.
tingen, to which he repaired in 1882,
being then tall, slim youth of seven
teen, Bismarck became notorious as
the widest of wild race of students.
He was rarely seen in the class-rooms,
but he was little too active in other
directions, for during his three terms
at Gottingen he fought no fewer than
twenty-eight duels, being victorious in
all. 1t is not little curious, however,
that he found great pleasure in his
converse with very different kind of
student, John Lothrop Motley, who
afterward became as distinguished q
writer of history as Bismarck has been
in the making of it.
1t is noteworthy that in his Gotting.
en- days Bismarck wagered twenty-five
bottles of champagne with an Ameri-
can that Germany would be united in
twenty years. Proceeding to Berlin in
1888, the embryo statesman still neg
lected his studies until toward the close
of the university career, when he
worked with a will and passed his state
III law. LIS IIObltcI dt
this time had already discovered in her
son the making of great diplomatic.
Having acted for some time as an Off
cial law reporter at one of the Berlin
tribunals, and subsequently in the
higher capacity of referendary to AK
la-Chapelle, we next find him in the
Crown Office at Potsdam. He then
took his turn at years soldering,
pacing at midnight, with musket on
shoulder, the terrace of Sans Souci.
Afterward, settling down in Pomer.
ania, he accepted country life as his
natural vocation, like Oliver Cromwell.
'In fact, not to speak of later resem-
blanees in their career, the earlier life
of the Pomeranian squire had much in
/ common with that of the Huntingdon-
shire farmer, albeit the passion for
prayer-meetings and communion with
the saints might not have been equally
strong in both. Bismarck now at
tended fairs, sold wool, inspected tim
ber, handled grain, drove hard bar
gains, gathered rents and sat az Deputy
in the local diet His wild ways, his
demon-like rides, and his drinking
| uouto ooOH pIoCuICu AOI Htil tilc Hdute
of .'mad Bismarck ''He quaffed
huge cups of mixed champagne and
porter, he awoke his guests in the
morning by firing off pistols close te
their ears, and he terrified his lady cou
sins by turning foxes into the drawing.
room.'' Yet this curiously-comples
being at the same time studied Spinoza
deeply, and it is said Machiavelli also
In 1915 his father died, and Bismarck
came in for one of the three Pomeraniar
family estates, and also the ancestra
seat at Schonhausen, to which he now
repaired for good. On the 2sth of July,
1847, he married Johanna, the daugh
ter of Heinrich Won Puttkamer. Thi9
lady was the ideal OF German wife
and the union was 50 happy that ever
Bismarck s worst enemies could find M
flaw in it, while the Chancellor himsel
has acknowledged the great debt h
owes to his wife for her ui1ceasing sym
| pathy and encouragement in times 0
/ grave difficulty. In the same year a
his marriage, but a little earlier, Bis
marck was elected as Knights Deput,
for his native arrondissement to tn
Landtag, or provincial diet, of Prussial
| Saxony.-London Times.