The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-16
COUNT BILL AND COUNT HERBERT.
Count BiI is the SON OF HIS Father.
ana Three-bottIe Man With a
Record.

Count BiI is the SON of His Father.
and a Three-bottIe Man with a
Record.
Count William Bismarck has ridden on
the top wave Of the great Bismarck revi-
val in Germany. and has landed in the
Koenigsberg castle. from which hereafter
he will administer the affairs OF East
Prussia as president-in-chief. with a sal
AIRY Of $3.50 a year. Nobody in the whole
empire. except the socialists, begrudges
him his good fortune. Even the radicals
are wishing him luck and more honors.
for he is one OF those universal good fell
lows who have endeared themselves to
the national German heart.
As Il e second sen, Count Blu, as his
father calls him. never had an equal
chance with Count Herbert The en-
bassies. the foreign ministry, the high
political honors at receptions and confer
ences. were for his elder brother, and he
was put off with second class offices and
provincial obscurity. He took all this as
matter Of course drank his two gallons
Of beer and wine daily. smoked his four
1907 pipe, did his work. and said nothing
His hair dropped from his crown. his
moustache became sprinkled with gray
ana MS eyebrows grew shaggy. until one
day, few years ago, his subordfn res
discovered that their chief was me eVact
reproduction of the old Chancellor as he
appeared at his opening of the struggle
with the Prussian parliament in 1852
Then his old college chums searched
the record of his dueling CORPS and an
nouhced that In twenty-three meetings
ne hsd not suffered single defeat They
FOUND that when put on his mettle he had
oeen not only two-bottie man. like his
laDner, but even three-bottle man.
Inc next discovery was more important.
although II appealed less to German sen.
timent; Count Bin had kept his official
mouse IN such order that while socialism
nourished like green bay tree In other
parts ms own district was swept clean
or social democratic associations end
meetings-was, in fact the model ais
tIiet OF the empire, Thus he got the repu-
s"' Gerr 0t s9eialist killer" which helps
me examinations or noble birth
M9seahtline count Herbert has made him
sell me most cordially disliked young
statesman IN the empire. He had rid
zen roughshod over every man unlucky
enough 10 serve under him, had got three
sI,,Ptss; by the ears had been
shuboed by little Switzerland, and had
| peen outdone in Samoan affairs bv The
Americans. He had offended half tbe
Women OF me high nobility Of Berlin, and
nad become such an insufferable bore and
prig IN society that young men and yyo-
men fed before him at every rereption
that he attended
So, although the elder son and the right
ful heir of the Bismarck dynasty. Count
herbert cut poor figure beside Count
| Bill when the emperor decided TO please
the old chancellor's family with the gift
OF a large official plum during the birth
| day rejoicing. The East Prussian pres
ldency IS now the most important one In
Prussia, and u was given to Count Bill
who, for man In his 42d year. has now
climbed high on the Prussian official
ladder
A few persons in Germany have asked
why Bismarck. who is East Prussia 5
president at AZ. may not be Germany's
chancellor at IS or 50. especially when he
has shown the grit of the head OF the
house. Their hopes are not likely to be
realized but, If they should he visitors in
| the Wilhelmstrasse would feel that the
calendar had been turned back twenty
five years, for in the iron mans work
room they would see again the giant
stature in the kings coat, the bald head,
the overhanging eyebrows, and the wrin-
killed., determined face that was peculiar
to Count Otto Won Bismarck.
Count Bills friends say he does not
worry his head about such remote chances.
AS soon as the birthday celebration shall
be past he will go to the chief president s
castle in Koenigsberg. but n stones throw
from the famous German House." where.
In the days just preceding his civil service
examination, he left drinking record
which the landlord still preserves In white
chalk on his tavern blackboard.