The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-16
FAME is THEIRS
First Positive Announcer ent That
Bismarck Has Yielded
II Am OCT OF Harness Forever - His
Startling Announcement Made tn an
American Correspondent -Emperoy
william Wins the Game.
COPYRIGHT. 1874

Die. am OUT OF the harness forever.
That was the sensational announce
nent made 20 me by Prince Otto vor
Bismarck. ex-the Iron Chancellor" eX
The idol of Germany, ex-one of Europe's
most powerful forces.
It is the first time he has made any
such statement public. For years he
has kept Europe wondering. Now he
has set all doubts at rest. His days OF
history making are over. The man
who unified Germany, whose mods kings
and emperors attended, has been laid
npon the shelf forever. More than
eighty years old now, it is not likely
that he has much longer to live. Be
shat as il may, such measure Of days as
remains to him will be spent in quiesG
retirement. far removed from the tur-
mol of military direction and the re-
possibilities of craftsmanship.
And this announcement, which viii
BET all Europe to making over old plans
and framing new ones-fOr no calcula-
hon has been free from Bismarck's in
Huence for many, many years-and
viii, in France at least. cause a JOY
slzin to what the American confeder-
stes would have felt had news of Lin
eoln's death been heralded in the mid
He of the rebellion, was made to the
correspondent of an American news
paper, and Europe's first knowledge of
1t will have to come over seas again
after have sent it to you and you have
printed it. This, of itself, is no small
honor.
Risn1arcly,s r11oToe0fo1YS a7,Svve1. ~ NV
queries was gl-uff and quick as if l had
touched sore spot. Is it possible that
the renewal of amiable relations be-
tween the venerable prince and sturdy
young emperor is but a farce, and that
William only smiles on Bismarck be-
cause Bismarck has promised never to
interfere again?
Brightly, pleasantly the sun shone
rs | neared Varzin, Bisnarck's favorite
summer retreat. Fall weather has set
fn rather early, even for this northern
climate, and the dense LEAKAGE of the
spreading, shady beach trees was
fiecked, here and there, with dull gel
low, browns and scarlet.
THE nlghtlngales don't sing any
more this year" said the sturdy son of
the landlord in Schlarve, who acted as
my driver. The young fellow had
checks of such intense vermilliOn,
shining like varniSh, that I had never
suspected any sentimentality concealed
about his muscular person. But he
had He went on telling me all about
those birds of song and love, how
plentiful they were in the woods near
Varzin and Besswitz, how the Bis
anarcl1 family liked to sit out after
dusk and listen to them, and how the
old ex-chancellor had last year taken
a bad hoy by the ears because he had
caught him killing one of the song
isters.
Schlarve, the nearest place of any
importance, is quite a distance from
Varzin. and after a railroad trip from
Berlin to Stettin, and thence creeping
close to the shores Of the green Baltic
for a number of hours Ia another stuff
fy, uncomfortable railroad car almost
as far as Dautzic, / was not disposed to |
make a very good listener, but this |
strapping young Pomeranian was so |
iuntutored and withal so interesting to |
me that could not help lending an I
attentive ear to his laconic sayings |
about the aged statesman, his family |
and his neighbors. Varzin, you know. |
lies in the patriarchal, old-fashioned !
part of Prussia, IL farthest Pomerania.
and manners and men there form GU
rious contrast to the ways of progress
sive Berlin.
DR.. Chrysander, Bismarcl's secre-
retary and alter ego, also plays the
part of Cerberus toward all those who
wish to see and talk to the mighty de-
throned one. But having obtained an
interview with the ex-chanceIlor in
Berlin. on July 16, and knowing that
I'm invitation had been extended to me
ON that occasion to visit him during his
lengthy stay in Varzin, | found no in
superable difficulty in arranging call
there. Bismarck, anyway, has always
had weakness for America and Amer
leans. Witness his close friendship /
with Motley and his amicable rela tons /
with Bancroft and Bayard TAYLOR. To
him both countre. and nation have the
fascination of contrast. His autocratic
character is strangely attracted by
people where everybody is--or deems
himself-a sovereign in his own right.
During my previous interview with
him he had expressed an interest in q
number of American subjects the brief
conversation touched upon. and knew
that since then he had broken his.oth-
crwise infexible rule Of receiving
strangers in Varzin by kindly welcom-
sDg at least one American couple. Prof.
Burmeister, of the Peabody conserva-
tory of Baltimore, and his accom-
plished wife
We arrived about four in the after
noon, and after spending u couple Of
hours with DR.. ChrySander and Count
Rautzau, Bismarcks sou-in-law. who
took me about the fine ldyllic estate
and its Immediate vicinity. [ had the
honor of being presented 4 second time
TO the greatest living genius Of the
century. | found bismarck somewhat
changed within the past six weeks.
The accident with which he had met
early in the month-his landau was
upset and the prince hurled into 4
ditch by the wayside-had evidently
not been SO wholly devoid Of injurious
consequences As the dispatches tried To
make Us believe. But the shake he
gave me with his great fst-the same
fist that had thumped the table at Fer
rieres 50 as to brighten Theirs and
jules Favre-waS noticeable enough.
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