Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-18
TIE GERMAN CnASCELLoR.
Abundant Evidence to Show That he Was
wild Young Man.

wild Young Man.
At the Hanoverian university OF Coffin
gen, To which he repaired in 1882, being
then tall, slim youth of seventeen, Bis
marck became notorious as the widest OF
wild race of students. He was rarely
seen in the class rooms, but he wasa little
100 active in other directions, for during
his three terms at Gottingen he fought no
fewer than twenty-eight duels, being vic
torious IN all. 1t is not little curious,
however, that he found great pleasure in
his converse with a very different kind OF
student, John Lothrop Motley, who after
forward became as distinguished writer
OF history as Bismarck has been in the
making of it.
1t is noteworthy that in his Gottingen
DAYS Bismarck wagered twenty-five bottles
of champagne with an American that Ger
many would be united in twenty years.
Proceeding to Berlin in 1888, the embryo
statesman still neglected his studies un-
til the close of his university ca
reer when he worked with will,
and passed his state examination In
law. His mother at tins time had
already discovered in her son the making
| of a great diplomatic. Having acted for
some time as an official law reporter al
one of the Berlin tribunals, and subse-
ouantly in the higher capacity Of refer
endary TO Aix-la-Chapelle, we next lind
him ia the crown Office at Potsdam. lie
then took his turn at years soldering
pacing at midnight with musket on shout
der, the terraces of Sans Souci.
Afterward, settling down In Pomerania
he accepted country life Ms his natura
vocation, like Oliver Cromwell. "ln TACT,
not to speak Of later resemblances II
their career, the earlier life OF the Pome
ranian squire had much IN common VIII
that of the Huntingdonshire farm
er, albeit the passion 10
nr,ver.meetings and communion witt
the saints might not have been equal.
strong IN both. Bismarck now ATTENDED
fairs, sold wool, Inspected TIMBER
handled grain, drove hard Bargains
gathered rents and sat as deputy IN IN
local diet. His wild ways, his demon
IKE rides. and his drinking bout
soon procured for him the nam
Of the "mad Bismarck" "He quaffe
hinge cups of mixed champagne and por
ter. he awoke his guests in the morning
Nv firing off pistols close to their ears
,, and he terrified his lady cousins by turn
! ing foxes into the drawing.room." fe
this cnriously complex being at the sam
time studied Spinoza deeply, ana IL J
,, said Machiayelli also.
!, In 1915 his father died, and Bismaic
came in for one of the three Pomerania
family estates, and also the ancestrl
. seat at Schonhausen, TO which he no'
repaired for good. On the 2sth OF July
!, lsi7, he married Johanna, the daughte
9 of Heinrich Won Puttkamer. This lad
= was the ideal OF German wife, an
/, the union was so happy that eve
!, Blsmarcks worst enemies could ma =
law in 1t, while the chancellor hlinseI
: has acknowledged the great debt he owe
: IN His wife for her unceaslng syInpath
y md announcement ia times OF grave ~
: 6culty. In the same year as his marriage
! but little earlier, Bismarck was electe
! as knights deputy for his native srrol
: dlssement TO the ,andtag, or proYiucN
:, diet of Pfussian Saxony II London llhe