The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-01
DEATH OF PRINCE BISMARCK
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Inondfy Ouema, ana Tn the course or the afternoon he frequently became uncon- scious.
 Recently, besides the periods of un- usual mental clearness, the prince had had intervals of drowsiness, falling into long, sound and beneficial sleep, on aWaking from which he was completely refreshed. On Saturday evening grave symptoms appeared. Death came cas- fly and painlessly. pr. Schweninger was able to some extent to tighten the last moments by wipng the mucus from the patients mouth and enabling him to breathe more freely. The last words Prince Bismarck uttered were addressed to his daughter, Countess Won Rantzau, who wiped the perspira- tion from his forehead. They were: Thanks, my child The whole family were assembled at the bedside at the time of his death, and Dr. Schwenin- ger, Dr. Chrysander and Baron and Baroness Merck were also present. As no breathing movement or pulse was perceptible for three minutes Dr. Schweninger declared quietly and sim- ply that the prince was dead.
 "Dr. Schweninger telegraphed the news to Emperor William in Norway. The prince lies as he used to sleep in an easy position with his head slightly inclined to the left. The expression on his face is mild and peaceful. His head remained warm for an unusually long time. In accordance with Prince Bis marck's wish he will be buried upon the hill opposite the castle in the vicinity of Hirschgruppe'
 Prince von Bismarck -Schoenhausen, Otto Eduard Leopold, ex-chancellor of the German empire, was born In 1915 1n Branderburg of an old fami- ly of which various members have gained reputation both as soldiers and statesmen. Bismarck received his university education in Gottinger, Ber- lin, and Griefswald, where he studied law. After he had finished his studiess he lived for a time on his estates. Be-e fore 1S47 he was little heard of, but about that time he began to attract at- tention in the Prussian parliament as an ultra-royalist, and an advocate of the extremest absolutism He was one of those who opposed the scheme of a German empire, proposed by the Ger man parliament in 1S49. His diplo- natic career commenced in 1851, when he was appointed chief secretary of the Prussian legation, at the resuscitated German diet at Frankfort. Here he began to manifest that zeal for the in- terests and aggrandizement of Prussia, which has since undeviatingly guided him, often regardless of means. In the diet he gave expression to the long-felt discontent with the predominance of Austria and demanded equal rights for Prussia. In St. Petersburg, whither he was sent in 1859, he is said to have tried to bring about an alliance be- tween France, Prussia and Russia, but without success. By this time he had acquired the special regard and confi- dence of the king, who sent him, in the spring of 1872 as ambassador to Paris, in order to give him an insight into the politics of the Tuileries, before taking the direction of affairs at home. In au- tumn, when the kings government could not obtain the consent of the lower house to the new military organization, Bismarck was recalled, to take the portfolio of minister of foreign affairs, and the presidency of the cabinet Not being able to pass the reorganization bill and the budget he closed the cham bers, October, 1862, announcing to the deputies that the kings government would be obliged to do without their sanction Accordingly, the army reor- ganization went on; and the next four sessions of parliament were closed or dissolved in the same way, without the government obtaining, or even caring to obtain, the sanction of the house. The people were now looking for a coup d'etat, and the government for revolu- tion. At this crisis the death of the king of Denmark opened up again the Slesvig- -Holstein question, and excited fever of national German feeling which Bismarck was adroit enough to work so as to aggrandize Prussia by the acquisition of the duchieS, and re- concile his opponents to his high-hand- ed policy by being able to point to the success of the newly modelled army. Throughout the events which ended in the humiliation of Austria and the re- organization of Germany under the leadership of Prussia, Bismarck, as is universally admitted, was the guiding spirit; and such is the magic of suc- cess, that from being universally dis l1K6Q, ne ndS UGCOIflG tIlG lllOSI pOpuldE man in Germany. What is perhaps still stranger the man who of all oth- CTS living, has been the most strenuous upholder of absolutism, and has all along manifested the strongest con- tempt for public opinion, received, in 1S71 the thanks and congratulations of the extreme democrats of Great Brit ain, for giving to North Germany a constitution based on universal suff- rage. It was Bismarck who negotiated the naturalization of the Luxembourg territory, 1867. The action of France in regard to the candidature of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern for the throne of Spain gave Bimarck the opportunity of carrying into action the intensified feeling of unity amongst Germans. During the war of 1S70-n Bismarck was the spokesman of Germany; he it was that in February, 1871, dictated the terms of peace to France. He was soon created a prince and chancellor of the German empire. The most striking feature of his administration was a contest with the Catholic church, in which the expulsion of the Jesuits, July, 1872, and the carrying out of the new ecclesiastical laws, were the most