The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-28
BISMARCK IN OLD AGE.
DELIGHTFUL
INTERVIEWS WITH HIM.

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with All Glasses and Beloved by
TEEN.
Hs Vetv York Commercial Advertiser.
prinoe Bismarck was n years Of age on
- and an English correspondent
might the day appropriate to write his
LESSONS of the ex-chancellOr, based on
.I.n- interviews. They took place at Kis-
-ep where the great man was drinking
rstars. 1t was the day after the arrival
& tla prince at his favorite watering place,
- the writer, that l was invited to break
Il & with him by his son. Count Herbert.
r. house stands close to the high road. It
4 large, heavy-roofed, quaint old country
] orse. dating from the early part of the last
,aorJry, and in its early days was used as a
,o-,trv villa or shooting box by those mag
scent prelates, the prince bishops Of
Enrzburg, A policeman stood beside the
Alia-arched entrance gate, passing IN
H. which one found oneself under
p9rte cochere; large garden of the for
kind, initiated by the German prince
I'm Versailles, stretched beyond; and
,aju, beyond the pdrterres, the wooded
Re bounded the landscape. However.
ssre was little time for studying the view,
III followed the servant up narrow stair
sse. lined with bust portraits Of men in
hi. bottomed wigs, and ladies in powder
nd patches, to the first floor, and into a
asst saloon, which occupies the entire center
X the building-and with its highly orna-
rnented and painted ceiling, its portraits of
4 rinces and prelates on the high walls and
a bove the doors has a very palatial look
bout it.
d Bouquets Of roses were placed on the old
BABIES aud the room was redOlent with flow
#ers | had time to take a glance around
when Count Herbert appeared and babe
he follow him into the next room, where
~he prince was breakfasting-or rather
having luncheon. The dining>room, COM
barred to the saloon, is a small room,
fthe walls hung with last century portraits
land od-fashioned flower paintings. |
Hound there, besides the prince and Count
Herbert, only three other guests; Count
|Stalberg-an ex-ambassador and owner of
the famous Brocker mountain, which forms
part of his possessions in HartZ country
the princes physician aud his secretary.
While sitting after luncheon the prince
had taken long cherry-wood pipe, filled
With very mild sort of tobacco, which he
peacefully smoked as he talked of other
DAYS; cigar smoking, once almost a passion,
he has been liged entirely TO renounce.
When last saw him in his historical white
uniform, with culrass and jack-boo be
seemed a very Anak, even amidst crowd
of stalwart officers and princes. To-day,
dressed in loose-ftting black frock coat,
with black tie around his collar, and with
no decoration save white rosebud in his
|butonhole, he looked more like a simple
country gentleman than the man
of blood and iron" Of popular fancy.
" hat strikes one much in tie prince is the
entire freedom from any kind of 'pose"
and the genSlenesS-there is no word that
describes it better - of his manner and
speech. But how general is the idea that
Bismarck is a man of somewhat brusQue
manner and arrogant department Truly
he is the very reverse, and a more high
bred, courteous old gentleman it would be
hard to find. The color Of his face is as
fresh as that of healthy man Of 40, and
his eyes are bright aud penetrating; but he
is getting short-sighted, and when riding
wears glasses, though he uses none when
reading or writing.
The labor of the last score of years, and
the ceaseless toll, has taken from him, tie
prince said, all the ZeSt he used to feel in
former days for shooting and for riding,
for music and painting: but he still loves
Newspaper reporters have of late spread
The idea that the prince, since his retir,
ment from active political life, is in a kind
Of state Of irritability. aud anxious to re-
turn to power. Nothing can be further
from the truth, for the prince, although
perfectly willing and ready to return to the
helm if required, rejoices in his well-earned
rest; and he said what happiness he felt it
when he aWOke TO know that he had day
Of quiet and rest before him. IL would
be only natural that so energetic nature
as that Of Prince Bismarck should feel the
sudden change from a post of the
most tremendous responsibility, as well
as power, in his country, to
that of a country gentleman. 81 am
now" the prince said, ''only q soldier on the
active list" Eyes" said his son, land a
field marshal" Whether the prince feels
any shadow of bitterness at his sudden loss
IF all the high political offices which ne held
for SO many years, and at the despicable at
lacks which newspapers, both in the German
and foreign press, have made upon him since
his retirement, | cannot say; but not word
ell from his lips that could give any person
who heard him such an impression. To me
10 seemed ready to say with Wosey, when
Asked by Cromwell how he did" Why,
veil; never 80 truly happy, my good Crom-
we'll; know myself now, aud feel within
ne peace above all earthly dignities, a still
and quiet conscience"
In speaking of his old master, the late
'mperor's father, be always called him 1.-THE
ilng," and never made use Of the imperial
Atie. vi him he spoke, as far as the man
and soldier was concerned, as one of the
BEST and truest he ever know. OF the late
emperor he also spoke with deep feeling
and strong affection; it made me wish that
nose who had the imnressiOn that Bis
narck at one time did not appreciate the
nobel, chivalrous qualities Of Frederick
IL, could have heard the way in which he
old OF the marvellous patience which never
)nce deserted him in his fatal and ter
'lble illness. He had been partcu-
arly struck by this on one occasion when,
'peechless and half strangled, he had
'lgned to the prince to touch ore of five hand
oells by the bedside, and how, when he, un~
certain which TO touch, at length placed his
land on the one required, the emperor,
Win ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS look, ex-
pressed his thanks. 1t would be well, in
Iced, if those who have said that the prince
hoWed a want of feeling to the late en-
oeror could have heard him speak Of a man
le so esteemed.
l am" said the prince, returning to his
present. life, quite unused to society, espe-
iaily to crowds For the last ten years
le has led, even in Berlin, most retired
lfe-and never, except for an occasional
'lde, did he leave his house or garden. The
old king he said, bad excused his appear
ng at court. can well imagine that gen.
raj society must always haze bored the
'rlnca; and he has always been happy and
'oT tented to liue among his own family and
lis tried friends; and these he has about
Nm, even more closely than when he had