Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-04-01

row upon row in pots and in posles,
giving evidence OF the love and affec-
Of the Princes neighbOrs, while with
his wife, who has been his constant COM
panion for nearly fifty years, Bismarck
kindly welcomes and entertains all
corners. These scenes will undOubted-
" be repeated this year on a much
more extensive scale than ever.
II is doubtful whether any other man
now living is the recipient Of so many
eougratul ations on his birthday as Bis
marck. On such occasions, in former
years, eight thousand written cOngratu-
lations have reached him ia q single
day, fully a quarter Of them being
poems, which has caused the eX-premier
dFily 10 remark that 1.-THE art OF verse
making seems 20 be spreading TO a sim
gular degree in Germany" Some OF
the addresses arc Couched IN the most
ornate Stvle, Astounding ia high-h0wn,
rsverentia phrases, and all breathing
strongly OF patriotism and sentiment.
A very large percentage Of these greet
ings come from women, some OF them
very young women indeed, for the
Prince has ever been q prime favOrite
with the fair sex. II ''all the world loves
alover," as the saying goes, IL is equally
true that most women dOte upon a
soldier, and Otto Won Bismarck has GER
tainlv been the beau ideal OF a German
cavalier. HerO-wOrShip is q popular
passion and grand duchesseS, trades
mems daughters, country girls aud
school misses alike vie with each other
in sending him their dainty productions
IN praise OF his valOr and apprecia-
ton Of his services. Just how he gets
through IL is certain, and, what is bet
tor still, he seems 20 have the happy
faculty OF cleaning the best portion OF
A. and recolleCting it. Its quite q com
mon thing for him, in conversation, to
recall some pretty patriotic cOuplet or
verse sent to him By some fair admlrer
on one of his former birthdays.
At these birthday receptions, there
are generally present, besides the
Prince and PlinceceSs, bis two sons,
Count Herbert and Count William-bet-
ter known SIS "Biily Bismarck" among
his famiiars-One or two close. family
friends and Bismarck's private secre-
tary, with the addition possibly OF few
OF mis- neighbOrs. Rarely has he appear
ed TO better advantage than in the
speecheS be has made 10 some OF THESE
decorations. He knows how to mingle
pleasantry with satire and humor with
patriotism, and be never fails to keep
his audience 10 the best possible tenn
per. whether il be composed OF distin-
Tuished officials or simple country
folks. Seldom does he permit such an
occasion to pass without letting fall
from his lips some expression that will
be of interest to the whole nation, as
was the case when, Ia addressing
marty which had waylald him one day,
he quoted the lines;
Thank God, each day,
Rising from bed, that you have naught to
say
With governing this Roman Empire,
Greatly rejoice and bless my stars therefor,
] am not Emperor nor Chancellor.
Bismarck's whole life at Friedrich
sruhe is like a Pastoral, and it Is not to
be expected that his re-eutree into pol
itlcs will wean bin greatly frRm his
love OF che country aud OF slFried'
richsrnhe solitude, lunless, indeed, fate
should once more u PIKE him Cha1fellor