Arizona republican., 1898-10-12
sIsMAsck.s MARROW ESCAPE.
His Affair of Honor with 8 Dead Shot Who Was Offended by His Stare.


 In a little pamphlet regarding the state of the Wiesbadeners in Fried richsruh there has appeared a Bismarck anecdote. which shows how near Ger many once was to losing in his youth her great unifier. The same aneedote also illustrates how duels are still made in Germany.
 Bismarck first visited Wiesbaden two or three years after taking his univer- sity degree. lie went one evening to the oig dance hall in the Kurhaus and, during pause between dances, sat on a sofa talking with a friend and look ing at the persons who walked by. He had sharp eye and q defiant air, even in his best tempered moods, and several men returned his locks with ill-natCred starcs. Eventually a young doctor, Gustav Lange, of Heidelberg. walked up to the sofa and, fixing his eyes on Bis marck, inquired:
 Why do you stare at me?"
 Now Lange was very handsome young man and Bismarck was in a hap py mood. These two facts distated Bis marcl-s answer:
 Because I like your appearance"
 ''But I do not like yours,'' was Lange's reply.
 An animated dialogue followed, Bis marck at first seeking to appease Lange's wrath and Lange trying lis best to make trouble. The upshot was that cards were exchanged in order that Lange might wipe out with blood the deadly affront of heing stared at by Otto von Bismarck The seconds ar ranged that the meeting should take place in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, not far from Diebrich.
 Lange was dead shot with he pistol, and pistols were the weapons to be used in the duel. The young physician could hit the two-Inark piece, Tipped in the air, nine times out of ten. It looked bad for Bismarck. His seconds un- doubtedly felt that he was about the same as dead man from the moment he stepped into the field, and they la bored hard to find peaceable solution of the quarrel. The English captain. whom Bismarck had made one of his seconds, was especially eager to pre- vent bloodshed, and he proposed to Lange, at the place of meeting, that the principals talk the quarrel over before risking their lives for such a trivial cause. Lange said eventually that he would do his best to settle the affair without shot if his opponent would meet him half way. The EngIishman hurried to Bis. arcll with the doctors offer of the olive lranch, Eut Bismarck would rot have it. While the English nan slowly paced off the distance. stretching lis legs to make it as long as possible, the other second argued with Bismarck. Lange leaned against a tree and said nothing. Just as his sec onds were expecting the principals to take their places Bismarck yielded To the surprise of his seconds he did not wait for any preliminary conversation He walked across the field, stretched out his hand, ard remarked:
 Well, we will try to live in peace, them
 Lange shook hands and the quarrel was at an end. On his way home from the field Lange remarked to his sec onds:
 Tt is better that it ended; it would have been too bad to blow daylight through him.
 Almost 50 years later Lange cele- brated in Heidelberg the jubilee anni- versary of his graduation. After lie and his friends had reviewed the stir ring events of the last half century and the slow welding of divided Ger many into one great empire under Bis lnarck'a master hand, the doctor re- marked, quaintIy:
 Tt is better that it ended: it would have been too bad to blow daylight through him -"-N. |. Sun.