Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-02


mated and had rather blank but obsei =
ant eyes. but was determined and en-
during. All persons had TO approach
him with consideration. He loved dogs,
had strong memory and was a first
class horseman. could swim, isnce and
dance, but did not like athletics
At Goettingen one Of his college mates
was Motley. ths American historian. who
was minister AT London just after Bis
mArck Inundated Austria. His mother
refused TO send him 10 Heidelberg be-
cause she thought he would get the de.
testable habit Of drinking beer there
Before he left Berlin he had fought a
duel with a jew lad named Wolf and
cut of Wolfs spectacles and received a
wipe in the leg.
He was jolly student and Travelled
through the Harz mountains o. foot
and Tor throwing bottle out through
window after breakfast was summoned
before the faculty and came In with his
enormous dog. which caused him to BE-
fined 3 thalers. He fought about 20
duels AT Goettingen and was wounded
only once. showing the scar on his cheek.
He is said never TO have attended lee
ture. rather displeased his fastidious
mother vet he passed his examination
by natural gifts He was full Of hard
pranks.
AT 90 he was made notary or exam.
liner in Berlin and had much 20 do with
getting divorces At court ball he me;
his future master and king. who was
struck with his tall form and grim coun.
,enance Justice" said Prince VIII
liam. must seek her advocates accord
ing TO their height In the guards" A
favorito cousin once gave him letter 10
deliver, which he forgot, and when he
returned II 10 her In three weeks he said.
II did not deliver this in order 10 entire
~ cure my cousin Of the habit Of intrust-
ing me with letters" Sometimes he
would let parcel Of young foxes into
the drawing room.
A man Of exalted spirits, 10 whom the
dry. common life Of Prussia was insult
hcient. Bismarck was sure 10 attain dis.
tinction only In some irregular. perhaps
oyerbearing. way. lie was all the time
getting ready 10 be diplomatist, as his
mother desired. and Tor that reason went
to Aix-la-C hapelle in the western section
Of Prussia, where there was special
court. but this was bathing resort. and
Bismarck fell in with French. Belgians
aud Englishmon aud went with them
on excursions everywhere. His first rate
English made him fayorite with the
Young men Of that nation. but he got
into many scrapc, and consequently had
| himself transferred 20 Potslam, the old
royal residence, an hours ride from Der.
lin. where after 1893 he went into the
messroom among his fellow guards
His fathers estates were falling {,
ruin. and he undertook 10 hear agricul
tural lectures The sons took charge oi
their parents estates in order 10 say,
them from destruction lie went into
the provincial diet Of Pomerania NJ Stct
tin. but got tired Of Us monotony Al
nn agriculturist. however. he showei
some vigor and was rather severe em
ployer. yet after hard days superv
sion be would get on his horse and rid'
10 miles 10 some evening assembly IN I
town. lie was moody az times from th'
want Of real domestic life, and SOM
called him mad Bismarck "
Sometimes, tortured by dark thoughts
he would dash through tbs fields In soil
tude and again bring Ia q loud com
pany and make a night Of IL, 30 that tale
were told Of him as " he were SON
haunted spirit Sometimes he appcare'
to DO a Liberal In politics. In this coun
try solitude at Kniephof, near the Baltic
however, no read much In every dircc
tion-theology and philosophy as well %
history He studied Spinoza deeply vi.
tied France and England and had a r.
markablo impudenco with his official ~
pcriors The old father died In 1915. an
tho sons divided the property, and BIZ
marck kept Kuiephof and schoenhauser
We must understand that Prussia ha
undergone q complete transformation d
tho early part Of tho present century
when she rccklosly attacked Napoloo
aud was oyorrun by him IN one bri,
campaign. Ho imposed upon her COZ
ditlons Of The hardest character. ii.
western provinces were absorbed In on
Of his experimental kingdoms, and he
army was compelled % be- kept at % loi
standard Two remarkable men, Stci
and Schluhor-t, undertook 20 keep the
conditions and get raise Prussia to Do
former military rank. They thereto.
compelled the whole population 10 be
certain period under arms, and this W.
the commencement of the great miliiar
system Of Prussia, and Bilnarcks fr
prominence IN politics was IN contendr
against the taxpayers who would ~
allow the army 20 DO kept up 20 nm 81
trayagant standard az their ogpcu
while he mcditated recreating German
by driving Austria ont Of II and consol
dating the smaller states, which after u
close Of the French revolution goyern'
the diet at Frankfort, which was som
what like a weak congress in the Unit
States.
In short, throughout Germany, uni
, Bismarck reformed IL, there was som
thing like states rights. with diet
congress- 40 Frankfort, In which Austr