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was discounted, and the MAY laws"
were repealed. IT was shameful cruel
ty that he practiced upon the socialists
who, however, increased and multiplied
under it. He could not overcome the
conscience or the faith of the people
or Germany. He was an enemy Of
popular freedom. He was the Trainer
of mighty military empire.
John SWinton
MAN OF "BLOOD AND IRON.
Life Sketch of Prince Otto Eduard
Leopold Won Bismarck.
Otto Eduard Leopold Won Bismarck
schoenhausen was born on April /, 1915, Of
noble ancestry, one of six children. His
mother, who was handsome and a social
leader. was DESTROYS that he should enter
the ranks of diplomacy, but there was little
in his youth to give promise OF his brilliant
career.
After attending school in Berlin he matric-
uiated at the University Of Gottlngen to
study Jurisprudence. But instead of apply
ing himself to his books he entered vigor-
ously into all the excuses of student life.
Inc three years course was with difficulty
comploted by him in five years.
When his mother died, in 1889, Bismarck
took charge Of the Pomeranian estates Of
the family. He labored diligently to i'm
prove it's revenues, but the disspated days
OF his university life were not yet over, and
numerous stories are told of his bachelor
parties, where many stormy night was
passed in drinking and gambling ending with
a duel in the park between two half-tipsy
Bismarck"
landed proprietor and a nobleman, who, by
right OF birth, was knight deputy of the
provincial diet of Merseberg. Then began
his reform
Two years later he met the woman who
was destined to be his wife. She was Jo-
hanna Friederike Charlotte Dorothea Eleonore
Puttkammer, born on April H. 1924 Despite
the the, protests Of her people. they were mar
the adjournment of the Prussian landtag, the
first legislative body in which Bismarck sat-
The revolution of 1913 infused new hopes
, INTO the hearts OF the people. Radical ideas
were spreading and the occupants of thrones
trembled for their safety. But Bismarck
instantly identified himself with the cause
OF the king against the people. He upheld
the royal prerogatives and fercely opposed
any form Of liberalism, giving way with bad
grace to the concessions which Frederick
William eventually deemed wise to grant to
popular sentiment.
CHIEF TRAIT OF CHARACTER.
Perhaps the chief trait of his genius was
to be found in his entire freedom from pre-
conceived notions and in the limpdness of
his mind, which refused to submit to &C.
cepted fallacies. For equivocation and direct
falsehood his powerful intellect substituted
sort of outrageous frankness which be-
wildered and outwitted his adversarles Moth
ing, however, marked his strong personality
more wildly than the intense hatreds and
blind devotions with which he surrounded
himself. He had the courage to be himself.
the power to rely on himself and to meet any
emergency while his keen sense of humor
enabled MIN to see clearly the vast array of
sham and pompous pretenses of public and
private life. Never had madness more method
than was shown by the originality of this
strange strange being, half Mephistopheles, half
will the whole of European diplomacy shock
ed and Mortified the fogies of the old school
with the innuendoes and insnuations, the
S sal tah MS ana stories the gibes and jokes
Wh1ch ne lung at their heads mercilessly and
continually. The wigged and powdered pomp
winch covered diplomatic pretense and men
dac1ty was torn aside the instant he obtained
grip of political realities and his first an
pearance among the dignifed excellencies
OF the German diet constituted veritable
ieVolutlon. he mad been appointed envoy to
his loyalty ''
~ AFTER displaying marked ability as diplo-
mat ne was sent as ambassador to st. Peters
t 1urg, where ne remained till 1861. Then
STA. and Bismarck returned to Berlin as the
head Of the ministry with the great plan of
German unihcation taking shape in his mas
sive brain.
Created count upon being called to the
premiership, the Liberals regarded his ap-
Pointment as direct menace to their aims.
ne was tne most hated man in the kingdom
was hooted and Kissed at on the streets
until the time came when the triumph of the
Prussian arms gave material evidence of his
farsee1ng sagacity and genius.
The Sleswick-Holstein war was the first
serious test OF his policy. 1t was six
months campaign undertaken by Austria and
Prussia to wrest those duchies from Den
mark. on the .pretense Of broken engage
ments. Denmark was Inundated very quick
~, but the allies were soon haggling over
me me spoils. There was no alternative but to
fierce struggle, ending with Sadowa on July
2, 1885, which blotted out the military glory
OF Austria and added imperishable fame to
the Prussian eagles.
GERMAN UNITY.
Bismarck in his plans for German unity
had strong coadjutor in Won Moltke. The
first arranged matters to suit the imperial
fancy, the second disciplined the army until
1t was great death dealing machine. When
the Jealous Napoleon III. saw fit to strength
en- his power, as he supposed, by revival
OF the the martial spirit of the French, and
what those two cool, willy Germans desired
With the result of this memorable conflict
OF 197G-1 the world is familiar. The German
empire was proclaimed in the palace Of Yer
sailes, and the title of Prince Bismarck
Schoenhausen, chancellor of the German
Kingdom. was conferred upon him at the
was now at the zenith: He was recognized
everywhere as the diplomatic giant Of the
century, for he was really the handspring
and ruler Of united Germany.
When 1t was announced in 1877 that a
question would be put to the government in
the Prussian upper house as to the use of
the Guelph fund (the sequestrated fortne Of
the ex-king Of Hanover), Prince Bismarck
intended at first to answer it himself. He
would make clean breast of it, he said, at
the meeting of the Prussian cabinet that pre-
ceded the sitting and then submitted to Herr
Friedberg, the minister of justice, a number
of drastic expressions which he intended TO
use, with the question whether they were
insults in the eye of the law. Herr Fried
berry was obliged to answer in the afirma-
tive.
The prince lost his temper little and d.
not furnish any answer. In the new i'm erial
chancery great precision was the order of the
day. At that time Prince Bismarck was very
inaccessible to ordinary mortals and to ey-
traordinary ones as we'll. Even the ministers
unless their visits were announced in good
time beforehand. had often to wait in the
anterooms for hours.
PUNCTUALITY HIS PRIDE.
Unpunctuality the prince could not endure
Once German grand duke requested an
interview. The prince sent the answer that
it would be high honor for him to receive
the visit at in the evening. When the
hour approached, he threw off his undress
uniform while a report being delivered
to him, and had himself dressed in a new
ness the grand duke had not yet appe ared.
The prince said to his valet. Bring me nv
undress coat again and put away the best
The grand duke arrived Immediately after.
but the prince Is said to have done his bast
to curtai IT. the eonversation When the pr nee
chanCerV followed