The San Francisco call., 1898-08-26
DISMISSAL HIS
 DEATH MARIAN I pr. SchWeninger Talks
 of BiSm arck. SCENES AT HIS LAST ILLNESS THERE WAS NO BLOOD POISON
 ING AS ALLEGED.
The Physician Also Tells How the Iron Chancellor Was Robbed of the Whole Object
 of His Life.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

BERLIN, Aug. 25.-Through the me- dium of his friend, Count von Hohens- bruch, editor of the Taglische Bund- schau, Dr. Schweninger gives a history of his personal relations with Prince Bismarck and his illness. Says Dr. Schweninger:
 My whole thoughts were centered upon the Prince Now my life seems aimless. My telegram of July 27 was in no sense a lie. It was directed against the sensational papers announcement that the Prince was afflicted with pois- oning of the blood. When I telegraphed you the Prince was particularly we'll. After long series of sleepless nights he had slept seven hours and he felt fresh and invigorated. He smoked five pipes, one after the other. I felt no un- easiness in leaving him. He was, in- deed, so well that I invited him to take champagne after having forbidden him to take any alcoholic drink since March.
 What, my dear Schweninger, may I really drink some sec again? cried the Prince, fneredulously
 We drank a bottle and a half. He was once again the Bismarck of old. His pains had left him."
 Dr. Schweninger described his histor- ical return to the dying Chancellor. He says:
 Death was due to want of air in the lungs, though he had imagined that it would result from sudden paralysis of the brain or heart. There had always been trouble in the leg since the St. Petersburg incident; but this was by no means as bad at the time of his death as at many times previously. The rapid closing of the coffin was dictated by no desire to prevent anybody what ever from seeing the body"
 Passing from his professional to his private relations with Prince Bismarck. Dr. Schweninger relates that Bismarck had repeated to him again and again that his dismissal was his death sen tence. It robbed him of the whole ob- ject of his life. The hermit of Fried richsruhe had no field in which to ex- ercise his energy.
 His superb energy of soul" says pr. Schweninger. was intense. Often did he say to me: The old Romans voiun- tarily took leave of life when they were forced to quit the scene of their activ- ity. but this fate is not for me" :"
 Eulogizing Prince Bismarck's conver- sational powers Dr. Schweninger says:
 T remember not long since listening to him discussing particular subject which he had better left unmentioned Tn his passion he suddenly clasped his head with both hands and stormed: If I could but interfere in this disgusting business and tell them what result fir will have: but, as you know, Schwen- finger. my trumpet will sound no longer It no longer holds wind
 "Mournfully the Iron Chancellor look ed into the political future. We are advancing toward difficult and danger ous times he would say.
 Despite his temperament Bismarck's pulse was scarcely sixty to the minute. His lungs were magnificent. One breath a minute would have sutfieed him if necessary. His character which I got to know as no one else, was simplicity itself. The phrase No one is great in the eyes of his valet did not apply to Bismarck"