St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-08-10

acts business with farmers, bailiffs and
woodmen. Between | and 2 he drives or
rides over his estate to look at new farm
building young plantation or the prog
ress of field work; to look at the fishing in
one of the ponds or to visit his paper mills.
The dinner hour is $50, when the chancel-
lor always feeds his two dogs with his own
hands. After dinner cup of coffee is
taken in the billiard room, where the prince
usually sits smoking pipe in front of the
fire. Tea is served in the princess boudoir,
and at 1880 the family retire to bed. All
the food on the chancellor's table is fur
nished from his own property"
Bismarck's Turbulent Existence While at
Gottingen.
During his student days at Gottingen
Bismarck was one of the widest of the
wild. He drank and fought and roistered,
and he smoked necessarily. Still he was
not an idle student Thanks to his iron
constitution, he was able, with all his dissi
patton, to give some attention to the lee
lures He rose with the lark, for he had to
be at the lecture room before Z o'clock in
the morning to listen to Heeren on history
and ethnography. An hour later he gave
ear to Wendt on logic and metaphysics.
After that came an hour with fencing
master, and then Hugo on jurisprudence
and Goschen on some other intricate topic.
Dinner followed, and then mathematics I'M
der Thibaut. An hour or two of hard read
ing concluded the work of the day, and then
came play-and such play!
'I,a IF a OF
dents in those days were not gentle. Duels
were frequent, and the college fraternities
were in fact little else than drinking and
duelling societies Bismarck in his second
term was the leading member of the Han
novera, the leading fraternity of the time
in Gottingen, though it may be said to his
credit that his sagacity and acuteness had
as much to do with his leadership as his
capacity as a drinker and his power as a
swordsman.
1t is stated that he fought at least &c
duels, though there are detailed records OF
only four. One of them, singularly enough,
was with Windthorst, who, in the stormy
days of Bismarck's power as a politician,
parently the authorities did not learn OF
any of Bismarck's contests, for, though the
official records show that he was punished
four times, none of these punishments was
for fighting.
His first punishment was for officiating
in secondary capacity in duel between
an Engishman named Knight and GER
tain Baron Won Grabow There had been
trouble between these two at ball, and a
fight with pistols was arranged for the fol
lowing morning. Bismarck seconded Ora
bow. The two principals arrived on the
ground in the most bloodthirsty temper,
and Bismarck with the greatest difficulty
persuaded them to substitute IL PAGES fol-
the three on which they had already deter
mined.
When he came to take the measure, how
ever, he cunningly heightened the 10 into
IA, and the result was that no one was in
jured. For his part in this affair the rector
sentenced Bismarck to solitary confinement
for 10 days. The old council house in which
he was incarcerated is no longer in exist
ence, but the door of his cell, on which he
carved his name with his penknife, has
happily been preserved The English stu
dents Knight and Wright, his second in
this duel, were incorrigibe jewellers, and
together with Bismarck and John Lothrop
Motley, the noted historian Of later days,
J were responsible for half the mischief per
petrated by the Gottingen students.
A serious difference between two of the
dueling societies, which developed into q
feud involving the entire university,
brought the attention of the authorities tc
the nature of the societies, and shower OF
punishments followed. OF course Bis,
marck, who led one Of the two factions In.
to which the students had become divided
came in for his share. He was imprisoned
for three days for having been present at q
duel and four for being member of an
illegal organization. Notwithstanding Bis
marck's many duels he carried away from
the university but one scar as the result OF
A wound. In this he was more fortunate
than most of Gottingen's students in those
days. 1t was not at all unusual for their
faces to be frightfuIly and permanently
disfigured by sword cuts
Not an Orator In the Ordinary sense-His
Appearance In the Reiohstag'
Bismarck was not at all smooth, grace
ful orator but when 1t was announced In
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