New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-25

the branch Of tree. IT. was his sudden glance III
anger at the crow which the artist sclzed-onc
can imagine the look. fierce and even dcadi!' IL
a look could kill-and this il was which ne pht
on paper when they got home. ana inc sk'Icn
became the portrait We SEE. Ii was no HocilIi''
! nor Particularist, nor human Phlllstlh" OF All!
speces which provoked this Oympian wrath
which Lenb,ch has fixed forever on the speaking
canvas: only a crow with 10 love for music or
for musical birds.
| Our walk took us three or four miles through
the forest As we came near the house aei.h
we heard singing, and, turning into the grounds
behind the house, saw Prime" bismarck ana the
family on the balcony. and below 1t group
Of school children from HAMBURG. They w'r"
| the singers and sang song after song. Their"
were tables on the grass and tea and cake and
other GOOD things for the children, and the
inevitable lccr for the masters and perhaps for
the children too. We went up the balcony,
10 which ther" is fight Of steps, and ten was
going on there too What call bn'cony II
more like veranda without a roof or bi"id
square stone terrace with stone halustra1e, ana
room for thirty or forty persons. beside the
| tables and seats This is the scene OF the re-
| captions and greetings which occur SO Often NJ"
here. at any rate Won are remote enough from
|
incloses two sides of tie grounds. and In" trees
with every tint Of spring green against th' DARK
frs, and flowing stream. and the slopinl meadow
and woods and blue sky-blue with black
thunderc'oud coming M. The Prince had cont
plctcd his costume with a black soft felt lat.
with suear-loaf top and broad hrin. and carried
a stick on which he leaned little as he walked.
| He might not care much for the soncs-it IL
the music Of birds he cares for ard he pret"nd'
10 like the organ in the stting-room-a mechan-
| ical organ: likes it because, as he said with
| quaint kindness. il is good exercise for the
Princess But the COOL little German BOYS and
| girls went singing in good faith. and ia"
Prince listened and stood at the balustrJd' look
| ing down with sofcned face and friendly
eyes at his young admirers. The songs easel
after while and Of the masters madc a
| little speech. asking his pupils 10 notice N"
| beauty Of the spring and its foliage. and tel!
| ing them that if they had fath"rland in which
they might peacefully ENJOY its beauty. they
owed il 10 the great man who stool there on
the terrace. The little creatures cheered with
their shrll voices with night good will. again
and again. Then Prince Bismarck. instead Of
saying a word two formally and stniy from
his platform above their little heads, went down
the steps, and stood among them. and PIT Iii,
/
thank You very much. m" dear children. an yorr
teachers for coming here and singing to mo And
! hope YOU won't got wct going home The
| heavy drops were already falling and away went
| the children. But Of rain there almost none.
| The Prince thought his black. sugar-loaf. broad
brimmei hat better protection against tho rain
| than an umbrella: which he never carries lie
never carried one in politics. either. With his
hat and the hug. blue cloth cont we ha SON in
the hail. he defcs the rain. II" came Up tho
steps again and the party sat down in groups
| DR. SchwcninCcr had arrived. coming Wy train
from Perrin, to 500 his patient. from whom he Is
seldom very long away II Is not that he is III.
| hut that he requires watching If h. is 10 bc kept
in full health lie still has LITTLE Of the ned
ralga which has tormcntcd him so long. Il"
sevcnty-ci9ht years h has completed have not
tanned his energy, nor docs Punishment from III"
public service mean idlcness I, him. ! iancic1
| from what I saw and heard, that h" was likely
10 do too much unless hindercd. man who has,
in times past, thought sixteen or eighteen hours
| n fair DAYS work, docs not readily rcucr his
allowance n within such limits ns seem sufficient
10 the medical mind. Dr. Schwcningrr Thought
him tired and prescribed rest. but th" Prince said
be would take his rest talking. \ personality,
this skilfu physician, not TALL very dark eyes
and hair and beard jet black. The short beard 50
full that not much Of the face was visible except
the eyes, which nothing could obscurc,-thc eyes
| OF man whose business il is 20 find OFT secrets
which nature. perhaps sometimes his patient.
would not disclose; with half medical half
military manner seldom in thi. nation OF soldiers
is the military manner wholly wanting With
what intelligence and patient frames ana sue
cess he has devoted himself TO Prince Bismarck,
all the world knows The Prince introduced ~.
4 lao ,i. a1. GLANCE
the doctor, as the man who il You are Ill, can
| tell Won So and can make yon well. II made
| one feel as il one ought 10 have malady al
once. in order to profit by this opportunity.
As we sat upon the open balcony and watched
the clouds gather and the woods dari"n, II
was easy to reflect that elsewhere in Germany
| than at Fredrichsruh there wer" clouds and
| glocm Il was excellent opportunity Tor
| rincc Bismarck had lie been 80 minded, 70 pursue
his political alegorv, and broaden it, and give us
a view of Germany "a it may vet be. in storm
and stress, and without Pilot. But that has
| never been his way. He has ever preferred,
though the most far-sightcd OF statesmen, Tn"
practical 70 the imaginative treatment Of public
! affairs: nor is he the man = speak Of himself
as ore who rides in tie whrlwnd and directs
| tho storm.
lie watched the storm and talked of Pro'ec
! ton: Il subject on which, others, his
opinions remain unchanged, and are known. II
was Protection 10 Agriculture which seemed on
| this occasion and later, to interest him most.
| The American view Of Protection j. not thai,
nor the English, though his discourse upon the
! distress of the German farmer and German land
owrcr with whom hc identified himself, would
have found an echo in many an English breast.
But will pass from that
II is time TO bring this long narrative To
| an end or rather. I will defer the completion
| Of it to what ! hope is distant date.
| omit many incidents Of visit which was
full Of them, and full Of kind of interest which
| find it difficult and INDIGENOUS TO express 10
the public What there is Of the pathetic in
Prince Bismarck's position is not what he would
care 10 have dwelt on. Never during all