The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-11


rs duelist, and in all Of his encounters
which were many-was never wounded save
once, and then accidentally by the breaking
of his adversaryis blade Although little
seen in the professors lecture room he is said
TO have had an intimate acquaintance with
the career, or university jail. His dress in
those days was striking. He wore high boots,
a velvet jacket, and little round visorless
cap, decorated with the colors Of his club or
fighting corps. His porcelain bowled pipe, a
yard in length, and ornamented with Uassel,
was seldom out OF his mouth. Besides other
things Dominus de Bismarck had reputa-
ton as a skilled brewer of punch, which
spread beyond the limits of Gottingen and
procured him an invitation from the stu
dents of Jena to visit the university by the
Saale and teach the inmates how to concoct
the delectable drink. A professor at Berlin,
where Bismarck finished his education, once
said: He did me the honor to place his name
on my class roll, but never saw him in the
lecture room" Yet the future chancellor
passed his state examination with credit,
having crowded the work of six semesters
into one.
Even when busted with the affairs of ma
ton tie prince loved to recall the days when
he was exuberantly reckless, and to bring
about him the friends Of his youth. One of
these, John Lothrop Motley, when United
States minister at Vienna, received letter
from the prince which began Jack, my
DEAR and continued: "Wby do you never
come to Berlin? When can you come, and
when will you? l swear that l will make out
the time TO look with you on old Logier's
quarters and drink a bottle with you at
Gerolt's, where they once would not allow
you to put your slender legs upon a chair.
Let politics be hanged and come to see me"
1t was while a student that Bismarck pur-
chased his first hound, a race from which he
has chosen his canine companions ever since.
Being summoned before the dean Of the uni
versity to receive a reprimand, he went, and
took his dog with him. The ferocious ami
NAL terrified the professor SO much that the
lad was let of with small fine on agreeing
to get that beast out of the room"
Erratic and dlssipated as was the young
counts student career it was milk and water
compared with the orgies of which he was the
hero after taking possession of his estates. He
oscillated between the widest carousaIs and
fits of melancholy. One hour he would be the
leader in the revels at a garrison mess table,
the next, anguish depicted on his features, he
would wander gloomily about the walks Of
his private grounds. His neighbOrs thought
him crazy and called him Mad Bismarck"
But even then he was imperious and master
full to degree. Soon after receiving the post
of assistant judge at the Berlin city court he
roared at an attendant who annoyed him:
''Sir, behave yourself, or l shall put you out
of the room" The presiding judge remarked:
MY young friend, the putting out is my
affair" The annoyance being repeated, Bis
marck cried: IF you don't behave will have
the judge put you out"
That, in his later years. the chancellor
could take as well as give verbal rudeness is
shown by his interview with a physician
who was attending him in illness. You ask
too many questions" said the prince. 'If
you do not want 70 be Intercepted, 90 to a
veterinary, replied the doctor The distin-
guished patient remained mute a minute and
then exclaimed: ''If you are as clever as
you are rude, you will go far" The medi-
cal man, Schweninger by name, cured him.
While staying at Marienbad, few years
ago Bismarck was assailed by a woman who
accused him Of trespassing, and placed him
in charge OF an officer, who, on learning his
prisoners name, tried to fee. The prince,
however, insisted on being taken to the sta
tion, where he charged himself with the
oGense and paid fine.
All in all it is wonderful character, that
Of the man from whose hands the reins of
pawer have so recently dropped. He has
ouafed deep draughts from every ina ginabls
fount of pleasure aud still retained health
and intellect capable, for nearly two genera
tons, of coping with the most tremendous
problems of national life, national unity and
the preservation OF the monarchial idea In