The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-08-11

x1o BILL lOukcu lOI wal WITH AuSlIlAv
saying to his wife: ION this earth there
is nothing but hypocrisy and jugglery,
and whether this mask Of flesh is to be
torn off by fever or cartridge it must
fall at last Fools and wise men as skel-
etons look very much like one another"
He was only A when SO Respondent and
cynical.
The horrible climate Of st. Petersburg
transferred him to Paris as minister in
1862. 1t was already considered to make
him prime minister:
Il am more lonely in the midst Of
great Paris than you, wife, are at Rein
field, and sit here like rat in an empty
house, my only amusement to send away
the cook for cheating me in the &C.
counts"
He thought Eugenie a beautiful woman:
my conscience, dear, reproves me for
seeing SO much that is lovely without
you" He walked on the sands at Biar-
ritz with Napoleon III, whom he was in
eight years to hold ruined prisoner Of
war.
In 1862 q cabinet crisis came in Berlin,
and Bismarck at Al was summoned there
from the Pyrenees to be the head Of the
government. He was called The Hot
spur of the Junker party Said the
democrats again: Bismarck! That Is
the coup d'etat.'
In the midst of his life Of commotion
at Berlin he wrote to his wife:
"Such good black pudding never ate,
and seldom such good liver. May your
S1anrhtariuv ha hlassa1W
He worked in the government from 8
o'clock to 10 p. m. and said: But health
and sound sleep tremendous thirst.
How l love to be lazy and how have to
work.
His unscrupulous yet sincere character
now came fully out. He ruled without
law, but for the glory and ultimate Sc
curity of Prussia.
The frontiers of Prussia, he growled,
''are not favorable to a good state consti-
tuition. The great questions Of the day
are not to be decided by speeches and ma
jorities, but by blood and ron"
A soldier himself, his moral courage
was extraordinary in Europe. He was
the Tecumseh Sherman Of that side Of
the water, and the year was that of Vicks-
burg.
He had budgetless government. He
went specially to Paris to take leave Of
Napoleon in August, 1862, at st. Cloud.
"Our relations to Austria" he declared
bluntly, must unavoidably change for
the better or the worse" "That Bis
marck drags us by the halter" said the
Viennese at the Danish war. Austria
went to Denmark to watch Prussia and
recover prestige from her defeats in Italy.
In 1854 the Prussian flag waved on the
Danish ramparts at Duppel, and Bis
marck was there with King William.
The emperor at Vienna gave him the or
der of st. Stephen and said. "Ah, if
had but him!'
| The Danish war was an experiment on
the newly reorganized army and the
needle gun. In 1853 Bismarck was made
Prussian count. He had an intrigue
with celebrated opera singer, it was
believed, and their pictures were photo
| graphed together like old Dumas and
| Ada Mencken.
| He was so disgusted in 1853 that he
said: II wish that some intrigue would
necessitate another ministry, SO that
| might honorably turn my back upon this
liver Of ink. The restlessness of this ex
istence is unbearable. regard every
one as benefactor who seeks to bring
about my fall"
The French populace was even ther
clamoring for war.
Sept. 20, 1865, as new major general
Bismarck rode into Berlin with the vic
torious army. He wore white uniform
orange sash, yellow collar and helmet
and was in such bodily pain he could
hardly keep the saddle. For goot
while he was very i'll in the country.
The writer of this paper was in Berli1
in July or August, 1865, and noted th'
complete conquest Of the Prussian re
publicans and Liberals by Bismarck
armed policy. Men like DR.. Jacob
whom I visited, gave up the competition
with such lion as Bismarck.
And yet, it seems, he never was al
actor and said new, natural, ofhant
things, but without much style. IL
June, 1867, he was in Paris with hi
king and soon after became chancellor
of the North German confederation. II
1868 he seemed to be a total wreck from
overwork. His horse next fell upol
him. He lived in those great years in {
1-story house in Berlin with IL window
, in front. He drank red Bordeaux wine
; He bought estates near his wife's a
Varzin. BY the great year in his for
| :unes of 1865 Bismarck was sick, Hheu
matte, undermined.
The 7th of May as he was walkinI
from the kings palace he heard tw
shots fred behind him, and one of then
grazed his side. He grappled the assas
) sin by the throat, who fired another sho
that glanced from Bismarck's shoulder
Changing the revolver to the left hand
the assassin fired again twice, one she
burning his coat, another bending hi
rib and making him for AL instant sicl
He handed the criminal ever to the so
diery, and this person, social dems
, crat, committed suicide.
The city turned out in his praise. III
king and princes went to his house. q
|, was compelled for the first time in h
|, life to speak from his window. Austri
wanted to kill him.
In five weeks the Prussian column
were moving. June 20 the news Of vi
tory arrived. All were singing Luther
:. hymn. Lightning broke over Bismarck
head, and he shouted. "The heavens Fl,
q salute"
; July was fought Sadowa or Koenig
gratz. Major Bismarck, long under fir
! was the first to discover the crown prin
coming. "Those are not plow furrows
. he cried; "they are marching lines"
his wife he wrote from the field:
IF we do not become extravagant
our demands and do not imagine tn
we have captured the wo-ld, we sht
obtain a place worth the having. .
Koenigsgratz rode the tall roam. !
was 13 hours in the saddle without 10
der. Ny bed was ON the roed with ca
riage cushion"
He made peace to save his army fro