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the only way in which the clock OF oui
development can be wound up and set
it rs my conviction that at no distant
time we shall hav to fight with Austria
Tor our very existence, and that it is
not in our Iower to obviate this" He
foretold the two campaigns which We're
TO drive Austria in turn out of Italy and
Germany, and conjured his government
TO make friend of Napoleon, and not to
think Tor a moment OF standing up in de
Tense OF Austria BY the policy of non
intervention he Fad at least secured neu-
trality on the part OF two or three of
the great powers in this struggle
Not in League With Napoleon.
Soon after this ne was transferred from
Frankfort to st. Petersburg, the nature
or which transfer he expressed by saving
that he had been placed in ice lie pre-
sented his credentials at the Russian court
on his forty-fourth birthday, and rema ined
In ice for about three years. He seems
TO have enjoyed his stay at ST. Peters
burg, being well received by the Car.
anc Finding the climate as he wrote
TO friend, less severe than / had ex-
pected.' One OF the things for which
he became known while there was his
ability to drink the entire court under
at this time supposed by many to be in
secret league with Napoleon, but, aIthoue h
he had avowedly wished to conciliate the
French, he had never gone to the length
OF consenting to do so at the sacrifice
or single inch of German soil IF" he
wrote, Il have sold myself to a devil,
1T is to be a Teutonic and not a GalIic
One,.
The succession of William 1 to the
throne, IN January, 1851, began a new
era. lie summoned Bismarck in october
or that year to Baden Baden, to discuss
the political situation. The king wished
TO reorganize his army and make it much
more powerful, but the chamber did not
wish to sign away SO much of its finan-
ciaI power. and the king wished Bismarck
10 enter the ministry as an assistant in
carrying out this policy. Bismarck, how
ever, was we'll satisfied with his position
as minister, and, moreover, his health was
not good, and he did not wish to under
Lake the task OF parliament -tamer" He
went, therefore, to Paris, that he might
look at the situation from that poiut of
view, and, while there, he took a trip to
England.
At a dinner fnsLondOn, gfyenin his honor
by the Russian envoy, Baron Brunnow, he
had long talk with DisraaA. to whom he
said: Il shall shortly be compelled to un-
dertake the presidency of the Prussian gov
ernment. Ny first care viii be to reorgan-
ize the army, with or without the help of
Parliament. The King has with right I'M
posed luis task upon himself. but with his
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himself that In looking at his ereat-grand-
fathers portrait IL seemed TO him that he
was looking at his own reflection in the
glass.
The Great MINIS Mother.
The chaDceiiors -naoLheT, Louise WilhcI-
NINA Won Marken, was the only commoner
who ever married into the family he
was the daughter Of gebeiInrath, or
pney Councillor, who had helped Frederick
the Great TO manage his foreign affairs.
and If she did n ot bring noble blood into
the family, she brougat intellect. Several
learned professors at Ieipzig and else
where, poet, PliilaBder Won der Linaie,
an historiogiapher> to August the Strong
and the founder of the first magazine FOR
the learned In Germany tActa Erutitorum)
are to be found among her ancestry.
Thedead chancellor came into the World
On April / 1916 The parental announce
ment of the event requested friends of
the family to dispense with congratula
tlons.' A t the early age of six young
Bismarck went TO boarding school near
Berlin, and thence, at the age of twelve,
10 The Gre, Friars Gymnasium or high
school Here he studied for four years,
and left with a certificate of such phe
nomenai excellence as was rarely given
In those days. In his seven teenth year
he entered the Hanovcrian University OF
uottingen, where he remained for three
semestrial terms MAY, 1892, TO Noyem-
Der, 1889. One of his adventures While
there was connected with that almost
inevitable experience of the German stu
dent-a duel. He served as. second TO
friend, and displayed even then his
talent for pea making. Among his
contemporaries at Gottingeu We're Herr
Windthorst a Hanoverian, " iio was destined
TO become one of his most powerful oppo-
nents as the leader of the Catholic faction
III Parliament, and John Lothrop Motley,
with whom he formed warm friendship.
In one of his letters he referred with pies
ure toa Fourth of July spent with Motley,
Mitchell q. King, and Amory Coffin, three
Americans, and there was recorded bet
which he made at that time with Amory
Coffin, that Germany would be united In
twenty years. The stake was two dozen
bottles of champagne the WHINE To provide
the drinks and the loser to cross the
sea To join him. In the autumn of S33
he entered Berlin for the first time. Berlin,
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you never gave it me; ergo, know nothing
abniIf the 81 hole ma tier -

you never gave 1t me, ergo, know nothing
about the whole matter
sahs rrsna,Jast i,rgtosi OF Bisniarck's life
may be called his Lehriahre aud Warsier-
Jailre combined. 1t is described in many
Charming stirrs, anu appears to have been
tiE'roushiy enjoyed 10y him. The diplomat C
dispatches which he wrote at that time
have been caiied the mort Inastefiy pro-
'uctions OF the kind that were ever penned
AS specimers.,of German prose they were
not excenea by Schiller or by Heine Biz
ntarck oBcc said that those who make
history seldom write it, and those who
write IL seldom understand it. but he seeips
to have been an exception TO this rule.
There probably never was man
In German statecraft who said more
Bright things III tae FORM of political
epigrani than did Bsinarck. Some of his
remarks have pissed into proverbs. He
had come 10 see that a free press la Prussia
niGht help hiri 10 resist the pretensions of
Austria, ana " as ascoussquently more friendly
to5the press than he had been some years
before. His one tim seems 10 have been
.ha welfare Of Prussia, Inflexiole In his
hatred as in his loyalty, he refused To at
tend mass for the soul of man tschwar-
zelnurg) who had threatened Ito abase
Prussia aud then abolish her.
HIS Home Life.
Or his home lif e III Frankfort. John 10th
rop Motley wrote:
The Bisusarcks are as kind as ever 1t
some or those houses where every one does
what one likes The show apartments
are on the front OF the house; the living
rooiis are u salon ana dining room at the
back, opening upon the garden. Here and
there are young and old, gra ndparents and
cniiursn and dogs ali ut once, eating, drink
ing, smoking. piano playing. and pistol
shooting Ia the garden) all going on ut
The same time"
In the Russian war, Bismarck fought
hard and successfully for Prussia's non
intervention. He could see that at no
distant da y the northern Kingdom would
have To fight with Austria, and he wished
to- have things In the lest possible shape
FOR that fight. Prussia's participation
in the Paris conference was opposed by
Austria, but unsuccessruliy. Soon after
the Paris conference, Bismarck embodied
his views or the European situation ia a
paper OF such ma sterly grasp and insight
that it came To be known as the Pracht-
Bericht, or Splendid Report. Among other
things, he said:
Every now and then for the last thou
sand years, or every century since the
time of Charles V, German Dualism ha S
settled its disputes by an internal war.
and in the present century, too, this is
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was and never would be its Parliament
but its army.
The revolution had kindled a love Of
liberty and OF unity in the various States
A German assembly met at Frankfort
in l S4S to discuss the paramount question
OF national unity. The assembly included
such men as Dahrnann, Droysen, Duncken,
Won Raumer, and Geryinus, historians;
Welcker, the publicist; Aryidt and INLAND,
poets; Jacob Grimm, the philologist, and
Simson, the jurist. They elaborated
a constitution, and elected the King OF
Prussia to the dignity OF Emperor of the
Germans, which dignity, however. he re-
fused, regarding it mere fief from
the people, In this Bismarck supported
him, Our watchword," ne said, must
not be Federal State at any price, but
integrity Of the PrJssian Crown at any
price,"
Shortly after this Bismarck became Sec
retary or clerk of the Parliament, and en-.
gagged In bout with the press. Things
done by some OF the journalists of the cap
itaI greatly angered him and at one time
he gave ventsto1t the opinion that 1t would
be good thing IL all the printing presses
in the world were destroyed. The art
Of printing he said, lis the choice wea
pon of Antichrist.e
His Diplomatic NoYitiate.
The Erfurts Parliament elaborated an
other constitution which remained dead
letter. All that had been done was
undone, and Prussia accepted the restora-
ton OF the old Germanic Diet or Bund,
under the hegemony of ustria. The King
offered Bismarck the position of secretary
to the PruSsidn sInember of the Diet at
Frankfort, and in this position he may be
said to have gotten, his foot ON the lowest
rung OF the ladder of statecraft. There
We're people who were not much pleased
with this appointment. Bismarck was
then thirty-seven years old, and had had no
training n diplomacy. Some one had
called him with considerable appropriate-
ness 1.-The mediaeyal spirit in the flesh
He had but one decoration to show-the
humane societys medal On his arrival
among the politicians 0 Fra nkfort he wrote
to a friend, IF ever come to stand on nay
own legs here 1 shall either cleanse the
field OF weeds or go home again more than
suddenly. An incident OF this period OF
his life which was somewhat significant
occurred during conversation with Count
Rechberg. The count gave Bismarck, in
stead OF a state paper which he wished him
to read. letter of secret instructions
which were OF momentous Importance. Bis
marck, having glanced them over, landed
them back in silence, and the counts face
became very pale.
Don't be upset. said Bismarck. You
never Intended giving me the letter. Ergo,
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Kansas Wisdom.

(from the Atchison Globe)
The lszier the man the more he complains about
duil times.
Americans are great people to manufacture b,t:-
dens and carry them around
II you Loaf around store Office great deal
remember that you are not welcome
man never has as much trouble with his
mother-in-law as his wife has with hers
When the time comes TO start off on yara-
ton, nine out OF ten people wish they were going
10 stay at home
speaking OF friends, have you one that veu
regard more kindly in this weather than van r..
gard your night gown2
Men do not propose marriage outside OF novels,
though the result OF calling girl and treat
ing her to soda is just the same
A man usually dislikes TO have roast beef at
ms house Tor dinner, for the That he never
mas sharp knife with which to slice it.
Every time boy takes birds egg home his
women folks abuse him. II all the birds nests
were robbed there would be no birds for Trim
ming hats.
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Der o. the assembly, which consisted OF
eight trom'ffent Diets. II is first speech wa 1
strons pretesBh gainst enoroachni errts on
io!ai i.ietots tiyes. At tenice. on his
n"neymoon AEips lie foregathered with the
AliiS' Whose-attention lad been iavorabIy
Called 10 the young statesinaIi by this de-
cided stand. of it.s. HE regarded me, =
said bisiissirS, aiterward, las a kind Of
css, out oI svhics. he might be able some
day TO hatch a minister,
STRONG revolutionary sentiment was
abroad IN the land, and tue doings OF ths
first United Diet deepened the popular
diseontrnt, when, On tie 18th OF Maicfl,
1910, news came from Paris that the
eitizen King had been dethroned the fire
OF revolution spread quickly to berlin
lhe true motive power in tLose uays,.
SAM tisIiafck, WHO had no sympathy with
Inc agitation, was a mere lust Of ti.eft
Envy and aynfice We're at the bottoin of.
all the evil, not To be cured by mere
democratic concessions. =" lie aiist, ex Or ress4tl
the opinion that large cities, as the hot
beds OF toVctousness ana revolution, ought
to be razed to the ground --an opinion wnicl,
caused him to be known for some time is
the Town Destroyer" IF tad been in
power, he said Mt the time, Il would not.
have allowed this revolutionary riff -ra Fl To
carry everything before it." In the midst
OF the agitation, while sew eral Officers nd
politicians were talking over more OF less
ineffectuai plans, in private house, bis
iharcx who iiappenedto be sitting near the
piano, caught the eyeof an old general near
by, and played a bar or two OF infantry
quickstep. You are right" said tie gen
eral. decisive measures should have been
used"
His Literary Work
Bicmarck soon turned his attention to
literary Work, ana became one of the most
valued contributors TO the Kreuz-Zeitung
an organ founded at Berlin to oppose
with force and emphasis the unclaimed
demons of revolt. and devote especial at
tentiun to the internal development of
Prussia and Germany. The King had
always declared that he would have no
sheet of paper to stand between him and
his people," but the revolutionary troubles
had wrung from him the promise of a
constitution. He summoned a bicameral
Parliament, the first OF It's kind i'll Prussia,
and Bismarck sought and found a seat In
this Parliament. He seems to have done
little, however, but find fault with every
thing In general and in particular. He
girded at the crown for its weakness and
at the crowd for It's presumption. He
gave 1t as his firm conviction that the
main pillar of the Prussian State never
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Figures as Peacemnker.


Bismarck now figured as the peacerna ker.
The center OF gravity in Europe had been
transferred from Paris To Berlin. France had
become republic, form of government
shrewdly approved by Bismarck, who saw
in the Continual changes and unrest OF
republic less danger OF aggressions on the
part of France against Germany. 1t was
said during the next few years that Bis
marck made il his business TO throw cold
water Jets, and this observation was GER
tainly Just. His attitude with regard TO
the EASTERN question was that of strict
neutrality so long as German interests were
not interered with, but when the German
consul was murdered at Salamanca in 1876
a German squadron promptly appeared on
the scene to demand satisfaction. One of
Bismarck's great speeches was made in
February, 1878, when he offered his serv-
ices as an .'ehrliche mekler,r or honorable
broker, a mediator in the cause OF peace.
This endedin the treaty OF San Stefano.
Bismarck had been no friend to emigra-
little sympathy with those Germans who
Were able to put off their native language
and life like a cloak, Ind take on the
manners. and customs OF a new country.
Germany, however, took hand in the
opening up OF Africa. and the West African
conference resulted in the birth OF the
CUngo Free State.
In the conflict between bismarck and
the Pope, which went by the name or the
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himself that in looking at his ereat-grand-
fathers portrait il seemed to him that he
Was looking at his own reflection in the
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Exceptional Folly.

From the Chicago Post)
~There is indeed honest man He pays all
the taxes that he should
80, that isn't honesty; that's foolishness."
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the coracle. and CROPPED my way STUN
blingly out Of the hollow where I had
supped, there were but two points visi-
BILE on the whole anchorage.
One was the great fire on shore, by
which the defeated pirates lay carous-
ing in the swamp. The other, mere
blur of light upon the darkness, in
Dictated the position of the anchored
ship. She had swung round to the ebb
her bow was now toward me-the
only lights on board were in the cabin;
and what saw was merely a reflection
on the fog of the strong rays that flowed
from the stern window.
The ebb had already run some time,
and had to wade through the long belt
of swampy sand, where I sunk several
times above the ankle, before came to
the edge of the retreating water, and,
wading a little way in, with some
strength and dexterity set my coracle,
keel downward, on the surface.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-26

There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For great many
years doctors pronounced it local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable Science has proven
catarrh to be constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only
taken internally in doses from 10 drops to
teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address F. j. Cheney & Co., To.
ledo, Q. Sold by Druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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DREAMER AND SCHEMER.
Napoleon Thought He Could Win
Glory in Mexico.

Napoleon Thought He Could Win
Glory in Mexico.
When the Mexican empire was
planned our civil war had been raging
for nearly two years. From the stand
point of the French rulers, the moment
seemed suspicious for France to in
terfere in American affairs. The es-
tablishment Of a great Latin empire,
founded under French protection and
developed in the interest of France.
which must necessarily derive the prin-
cipal benefit of the stupendous wealth
which Mexico held ready to pour into
the lap of French capitalists-of an en-
pire which in the west might put a
limit to the supremacy of the United
states, as well as counterbalance the
British supremacy in the east, thus op-
posing formidable check to the en-
croachments of the Anglo-Saxon race
in the interest of the Latin uations-
such was Napoleon's plan, and I have
been told by one who was close to the
imperial family at that time that the
emperor himself fondly regarded it as
1.-THE conception of his reign
Napoleon III. labored under the dis
advantage Of reigning beneath the
shadow of great personality which,
consciously or unconsciously, he ever
strove to emulate. But however clever
he may be, man who, anxious to appear
or even to be great. forces fate and
creates impossible situations that he
may act leading part before the world,
is only schemer. This is the key to the
character of Napoleon III. and to his
failures. He looked far away and
dreamed of universal achievements,
when at home, at his very door, were
the threatening issues he should have
mastered. The story is told 81
him that one evening, at the Tui}-
cries, when the imperial party
were playing games, chance brought
to the emperor the question:: "What
is your favorite occupations to which
he answered: "To seek the solution
of unsolvable problems" It is also re-
lated that in his younger days fa-
vorite axiom of his was: "Follow the
ideas of your time, they carry you
along; struggle against them, they over
come you; proceed them, they support
YOU" True enough, but only on cordi-
ton that you will not mistake the shrill
charms of few interested courtiers
and spectators for the vioce of your
time, nor imagine that you precede your
generation because you stand alone.
He dreamed of PARKWAY glory and his
fatterers told him his dreams were
phetic.-Cornelius Stevens, in Gen.
fury.
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suddenly cut, is a thing as dangerous
as kicking horse. Ten to one, ii
were so foolhardy as to cut the ellis
PAMELA" from her anchor, I and the
coracle would be knocked clean out of
the water.
This brought me to full stop, and
if fortune had not again particularly
favored me, I should have had to aban-
don my design. But the light airs
which had begun blowing from the
| southeast and south had hauled round
while I was meditating, puff came,
caught the ''Hispaniola" and forced her
up into the current; and, to my great
joy, felt the hawser slacken in my
grasp, and the hand by which held it
dip for second under water.
With that made my mind up, took
out my gully, opened it with my teeth,
and cut one strand after another, till
the vessel swung by two. Then lay
| quiet, waiting to sever these last when
the strain should be once more'ight-
| ened by breath of wind. III
All this time had heard the sound
Of loud voices from the cabin; but, to
say truth, my mind had been so en-
tirely taken up with other thoughts
that I had scarcely given ear. Now,
however, when I had nothing else to do,
I began to pay more heed.
One recognized for the cockswain's s,
Israel Hands, that had been Flint's
gunner in former days. The other was,
of course, my friend of the red night
cap. Both men were plainly the worse
of drink, and they were still drink
ing; for, even while was listening,
one of them with drunken cry opene1
the stern window and threw out some
thing, which I OWNED to be an empty
bottle. But they were not only tipsy;
it was plain. that they were furiously
angry. Oaths few like hailstones, and
every now ard then there came forth
such an explosion as I thought was sure
to end in blows. But each time the
quarrel passed off, and the voices grum-
bled lower for awhile, until the next
crisis came, and. in turn, passed away
without result. 4. S., ss
On shore, I could see the glow Of the
great campfire burning warmly through
the shore-side trees. Some one was
singing, q dull old droning sailors song,
with q droop and q quayer at the end Of
every verse, and seemingly no end to il
at all but the Pat thence Of the singer. I
had heard il on the. voyage more5than
once. and remembe red these words:
But one man of the crew alive,
Ss#5 ~ hat put to sea with seventy-fve,s :.
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saw, all these buccaneers were as cab

saw, all these buccaneers were as cab
lous as the sea they sailed on. :
. At last the breeze came; the schooner
sldled and drew nearer in the dark;
i felt the hawser slacken once more,
and with good, tough effort cut the
last fbers through.
The breeze had but little action on
the coracle,. and I was almost instantly
swept against the bows of the His
PAMELA" At the same time the schoon-
er began to turn upon her heel, spin
ming slowly, end for end, across the
current.
I wrought like fend, for I expected
every moment to be swamped; and
since I found could not push the cor
acle directly off, I now showed straight
astern. At length I was clear of my
dangerous neighbor; and just as gave
the last impulsion, my hands came
across the stern bulwarks. Instantly
I grasped it.
Why l should have done so I can
hardly say. 1t was at first mere in
stlnct; but once had it in my hands
and found it fast, curiosity began to get
L
should have one look through the cabin
window.
l pulled in hand over hand on the
cord, and, when judged myself near
enough, rose at infinite risk to about
half my height, and thus commanded
the roof and a slice of the interior of the
cabin.
BY this time the schooner and her
little consort were gliding pretty swift
ly through the water; indeed, we had
already fetched up level with the camp
fire. The ship was talking, as sailors
say, loudly, treading the innumerable
ripples with an incessant welterine
splash; and until got my eye above the
window sill I could not comprehend
why the Waterman had taken no alarm.
One glance, however, was sufficient;
and it was only one glance that burst
take from that unsteady skiff. 1t
showed me Hands and his companion
locked together in deadly wrestle,' each
with hand upon the others throat.
ITO BE Continued