The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-22

BgSMARCK.
Curious Souvenirs OF the Iron Chancellor From
Count Won Buest's Memoirs.

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more satisfactory after the close Of
1870, l deemed it we'll to renew with
Herr Won Bismarck the relations
which had ceased after 1866, and left
for Gastein.
The three weeks which I passed
there with him form, one OF the most
agreeable souvenirs ofmyexistence. We
lived together at the Straubinger
Hotel, and passed the. time In each
others company. When one is on
good terms with Bismarck, he is. the
most agreeable; the most amiable man
possible to imagine. The originality
OF his ideas is surpassed only by the
originality Of the expressions which he
uses. He is good-natured, and his
gOod-natured manner somewhat soft
ems the bitterness OF the opinions
which he utters. One of his favorite
expressions is; Hes an idiot" (c'est
un imbecile)-but he does not intend
to hurt ones feelings.
One day he said to me: what do.
you do, when things don't go as you
want them to? you should never lose
your temper as | do, | am an
gered with men for their wickedness.
never for their stupidity. DO o
never find q real pleasure in breaking
something on such oceasions2 With
the ideas you have, you would smash
all the furniture in the house il You
were in my place.
81 went once to see him one. day.
continued Bismarck, pointing, as he
spoke, to the windows of the Emperor
William, "but / got into an Internal
passion. | banged the. door with such
violence that the door-knob came of
in my hand. | went into L~ehndorf's,
and l slammed the door.knob into
the w~ash-basin, breaking it into a
thousand pieces. Are you sick2'
Lenhdorf asked me. No. saidL but
l was And, indeed, nay anger was
over"
He talked to me a great deal about
the war Of 1870, and his negotiations
with Jules Favre and Theirs. 'dThe
time OF the expiration of the armis-
tice was nearly over" Bismarck said
to me one day, land 1 said to Theirs,
Listen, Monsieur Theirs, | have born
your eloquence for a whole hour, and
we must have an end Of it, I give
you warning now that / WON'T talk
French any more; l shall only talk.
German But, monsieur said Theirs,
we do not understand o. word Of Ger
man. That makesno difference to me;
Ishall speak nothing but German
Then and there Theirs delivered me a,
suberh address, in five parts, which
listened to, smiling, and / answered
HIM in German. Favre and he remain
ed there haIfa an hour Inysilence; but oil
hour after they had signed this protos
col. Then | at once began to talk TO,
them in French"
Bismarck told me all this in lust
such a tone as one ordinarily uses ins
telling q h~unting-story. He did not
seem to have the least idea Of the.
mental tortures which thetwo wretch
ed French delegates must have passed
through during that half-hour.
He also told me one day that ALTER
the review held by the Emperor Will
lam upon the Longchamps race.courses
a man in O blouse came up to him
and said to him: Bismarck, ties une
canaille!" bismarck, you're a vii
lain!). 81 could have had him shot, =
continued Bismarck; 'but his courage
made IN impression on me"
Another time he told me that he
had been very much opposed to the
annexation OF Metz.
II only yielded to the military par
ty, said he, "wh0 claimed that Metz
was worth a hundred thousand men
to us. OH if Bazaine had been able
to hold out four weeks longer at Nct.x
we would have been obliged to raise
the siege OF Paris"
Otherwise it is very difficult to put
confidence in Bismarck. One day
when We were talking about the Ger
man provinces pf Austria / asked him
if he had never thought of annexing
them. s'That would be q very stupid
thing to do, he replied. 'sThe popu-
lation is Catholic. It would form I'M
opposition center. It would be q
great deal better TO annex Holland"
Several months later ! was an am
bassador at London. The Dutch
charge d,affaires, who had just ar
rived from Berlin, told me by chance
that one evening when he had asked
Herr Won Bismarck whether it was
true that Germany thought OF annex
ing Holland, the chancellor had an
swered him. THAT would be q stu
pid thing To dol 1t would only make
an opposition nenter. 1t Would DO
mucn better 20 annex Austyia!n
had another example OF this du-
plicity. Ia The negotiations which en-
sued after Eadown, Bismarck kept
perpetually talking about his love for
Austria, FOR Vienna and his wish to
spare the Viennese th6s humiliation Of
an occupation. One day (it was nt
Gastein) q certain Henry Christ, =
good Frankfort bourgeois, who used to
know Bismarck in the times Of the
Diet. asked him In my presence: "Tell
me your highness why did you not enter
ViennaIin 1862 You ased always to
ttslits us stt + rrsiikkffe fort hat the day you
would ride into Vienna at the head ol
the Prussiag treeps woHla be tao
proudest day of your life.1.
That was tho only time in my life
that ever saw Bismarck epabarrass-
ed.
CoUNT Won BEUsr.
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