St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-01
BISMARCK'S LAST DAYS.
TIMELY GOSSIP CONCERNING KISSfH-
GEMS FAMOUS INVALID.
THE IRON PRINCES END NEAR.

The Lasting Work of the Great
est of Modern Germans-His
Wife, His Children and His
Home Life - How He Has
Passed His Time Since His
Retirement.
I. THE EARLY LIFE OF BISMARCK.
The news which comes from KiSsin-
gen indicates that death has at last laid
its heavy hand upon Prince Bismarck,
and that, though there may be tenn
pOrary rally from his present attack,
the end OF the greatest of modern Ger
mans is near at hand. 1t is not yet time
to write the final estimate of Bismarck
and his work. That will be done in an
other century, and by man of another
generation. But already he belongs to
history, according to whose verdict he
stands forth the greatest figure seen
upon the earth since the death OF Ma
pOleon BOnaparte. Many generations
contributed to the making of this Ger
man Titan, for, though his father was
au obscure Prussian squire, his family
for centuries had numbered among its
members diplOmatiStS and soldiers of
note. The fourth of a family of six
children, he was born at SchOnhauSen
on April l. 1915 but the first years of
his youth were spent OH one of his
fathers estates, near Stettin, in Pom
erania. From six to seventeen he was
at school in Berlin.
Bismarck commenced his university
career at Hanover and finished it at
Berlin. He was then a robust and
hardy specimen of young manhood. He
was swift runner and good jumper;
he had learned 10 swim, to fence, to
row, ID ride and to shoot. With his
rifle he could decapitate a duck at
hundred PAGES, and in revolver practice
also his aim was deadly. Ride ne could
like a centaur, or the most reckless
hunter in the English shires, and his
father, who bad been a rittmeiSter under
the Duke of Brunswick in his early
DAYS, declared that his son had a seat
like Hilma Cura, who had been riding
master to Frederick the Great. Snok-
Ing, drinking and fighting were then as
now the faYorite pastlmeS of the Ger
man university student. and at all these
sports Bismarck soon proved his ability
TO hold his own with the best of
them. When he left Gottingen he
had list of twenty-eight duelS. in all of
which he had come off victor. How
ever, he found time for much book
study, and when he left the Berlin uni
versity easily passed the state exam
ination in law, and was made ausculta-
tor or official reporter of one of the
Berlin courts. Within year he tired
of the dull routine of the court, to
whose proceedings his energy and i'm
patience sometimes gave an uneXpect-
ed novelty. Sir" he once angrily eX-
claimed to an intractabIe witness, take
care or l will have you kicked out"
'Herr Auscultator," interpOsed the
Judge, 1.-The kicking out is my business"
Sir" soon after cried the auscultator
to the still annoying witness, take
care or l will get the Judge to kick you
out" Every one knows on what a
generous scale he has since INDUCED
his kicking-out prOpensitieS.
In 1886 he was promoted to be refer
endary at AiX-la-ChapelJe, and in the
following year was transferred to Pots
dam, where his official training was
finished in the crown office of that
place. Later, having meanwhile served
for twelve month as a volunteer in the
sharpshOoterS of the guard, he was
made local magistrate at GriefSWaId. and
at the same time took charge of his
fathers POmeranian estates, which had
become sadly incumbered with debt.
For the following eight years Bismarck
LED the life of a prudent, thrifty country
gentleman, varied with much hard study
OF history and philosophy, occasional
drinking bouts, rare and brief visits to
Berlin, and service in the Pomeranian
landWehr. 1t