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 A sketch of the great life closed would be incomplete without some reference t1 taat t4H trymen. When Bismarck began hls pV liticnl career he was by no means a rieh man. He possessed some patrimonial es- tHtes. but the domain of Schouhausen, where he was born, had passed out of his control In 1s60, after the successful. war with Austria. he purchased the Var. gin estate, near Berlin, with the donation that had been accorded him by Prussia in recompense for his diplomatic skill. ln 1871 Emperor William presented him with $30O.OOO of the indemnity paid by France aud with this he purchased the estate of Friedrichsruhe, near Hamburg IL consists of 2O, 900 acres. Then iu lSS5, ou the occasion Of his seyentieth birthday. the nation bought back by public sub scription the old family domain of Schon- hausen and presented it to the prince and princess and their children forever. On his eightieth birthday celebration, in 1895, in which the entire nation took part, he was the recipient of great and resplendeni honors.
 Nor would sketch of Bismarck bs complete without reference to his colonial policy. Under him Germany branched out as q colonial rival to Great Britain, and where formerly she did not have an acre of soil outside the f,fherland, she now ranks as one of the great colonial powers of the world. Her flag floats from the great lakes at the head waters of the Nile to the shores of the Indian ocean. Vast areas in southwestern Af rica and back of the Gulf of Guinea ae- knowledge her sovereignty. She Is firmly established on the great island of Papua and has possession of many of the impor tant groups that stretch across the South Pacific ocean.
 Summary of His Character.
 But whatever the success of Bismarck. political life there Is much in it thai Anglo-Saxon civilization will not approve. As a statesman Bismarck was arbitrary, self-willed, imperious and interruptions. His political ideas were those of born feudalist. He governed. with the strong hand of absolute power and crushed out every attempt to assert the political free dom of the individual or the masses. He was an absolute believer In the divine right of kings and the throne and the army were regarded by him as the only foundation of the state. Sound in his for eign political relations, he made blunders in domestic affairs, cheating the people with a semblance of liberty and self-gov. ernment. Viewed In the light of history when time shall have furnished a truer