The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-27

that Bismarck was playing) a man had the
best opportunity to study character, and he
was anxious to try the experiment. L
thought i vii give you a chance l lost a
couple OF hundred thalers, which l could
afterwards have collected from the govern
ment had wished, since they were spent
III the service of his Majesty. However, l
deceived him. He was led to think me reck-
less, and yielded to me in the negotiations"
A collector of Bismarckania published in
1854 this anecdote concerning Bismarck
and Moltke at the battle of Sedan:
AT a critical point in the battle Bis
marck met Moltke and offered him a cigar.
The strategist carefully selected the best
weed in the Chancellor's case and the lat
ter took comfort, in thinking that if the
general was still calm enough to make such
a choice things could not be in such a bad
way after all"
his b~iographer has allowed him to tell in
his W words:
"Ihoarded my last cigar during the bat
tie as a miser boards his treasure. /
painted in glowing colors b delightful
hour when, after the battle was won, l
could smoke in peace. But l had miscalcu-
lated. | saw a poor wounded dragon. He
lay there on the field helpless, with both
arms smashed, and whimpering for some
kind of relief. | went through my pockets
but found only money, and that would not
help him. But wait: 1 still had a fine CT
gar! This l lighted for him and stuck it
between his teeth. You ought to have seen
that poor fellows grateful smilel No CT
gar ever tasted so good to me as this one
which / did not smoke"
After the battle was won Bismarck made
the magnificent Nicolsburg castle his head
quarters. One day, in Nicholsburg, Bis
marck found a company of Prussian sol
diers fiogging an Austrian peasant.
Hello, what's up here?" he inquired.
"He's been calling the Prussians names,' -
shouted a dozen soldiers.
THAT'S a lie,n shouted back the peasant,
who did not knoW the chancellor. II only
called Bismarck Names"
There was a roar of laughter, and every
one looked in%qulringly at Bismarck, who
laughed a little too, and said: 'Let him
go. Others and greater thar him have
done the same" The closing days of the
Austro- Prussian wal were great days for
Bismarck. Perhaps for the first time he
then saw his way clear to accomplishing
the unification of Germany. Little wonder
that he often dropped into the happy
moods which gave his admirers bushels of
sparkling biographical material. But
underneath the grim humor which dubbed
upon the surface flowed the deep, strong
undercurrent of German piety and senti-
ment which have directed his life alike in
trial, conflict and success.
SIT is not agreeable he wrote, "to be
lorgnetted at fourteen PAGES and to be shot
atfour PAGES, and the little vanity, which
gets satisfaction out of being stared at, is
of short duration. All the little vanities
of life attract only sc long as they are un
attained. AS soon as they are attained
King Solomon'S words are found to be
true, that all is vanity, and that fame
brings with it no real contentment. 1 can
not, therefore, understand how a man can
endure this life if he does not believe in
another and a better one."
DR. En- TSAACSON-