The age-herald., 1900-06-24
TIE GERMAN SON
 IF 4 GERMAN SIRE
After a Varied Career Son of Bis marck May be Called to Take
 His Fathers Place.

sources that Prince Herbert Won Bismarck will be appointed imperial chancellor in the event that Count Non Hohenlohe resigns.
 Count Von Hohenlohe has intimated to the Emperor that he would like to be re- lieved from office, as he is tired of public life, and his resignation is expected within few weeks. It is believed that the Kaiser will not be averse to Von Hohenlohe's res ignation, for the chancellor is getting old, and seems to be unfit for the task of op- posing vigorously the opponents of the gov ernment.
 Prince Herbert yon Bismarck, upon whose shoulders the mantel so long worn by his distinguished father is apt to fall, is only little past fifty years of age, his last birthday having occurred on the 2Sth of December, 1S99 He resembles greatly his father-so much so, in fact, that it is said that from a profile view one would readily take him for the late chancellor if he were living.
 His long experience in public affairs and matters of state makes Prince Herbert ad- mirably fitted to fill the post which it is believed will be offered him. Since he was 21 he has been engaged in occupations of diplomacy having been brought into prom thence at the beginning of the Franco- PrusSian war, just as his fathers star of good fortune was reaching it's ascendency.
 Al that time the young prince had just completed a course of martial study laid out by his father, under whose personal direction he WAS uttered and prepared for a public life, and he grasped readily the fundamental principles of building mp a government and establishing a leadership as they were explained by his illustrious sire.
 His first appointment came in 1874, when he was made an attache of the Prussian Legation at Dresden. Here he displayed such a thorough knowledge of diplomatic affairs and was antics of foreign countries and extracted such great success from the most delicate complications, that his ac- complishments were brought to the special attention of the present Emperor's father with the result that young Prince Herbert was appointed Secretary of the Legation at Vienna.
 So at the age of twenty-eight Prince Herbert von Bismarck found himself as- sociated with the affairs of one of the most important legations belonging to his coun- try. But this appointment was of short duration. The prince went to Vienna in January, and in April. three months after his arrival, he waS recalled to Berlin to assist his father in the latter's office, Here he stayed several years, each year grow ing more and more into the confidence of old Prince Bismarck. and becoming a greater favorite with his countrymen.
 In 1884 there was a crying need for a competent secretary for the embassy at London and the question was, who should take the post. After looking around among the pick of the diplomats then in Berlin without being able to make a se- lection, young Prince Bismarck was men toned and finally taken from his fathers office, much to the parents disappoint- ment and regret, for it was impossible to supply his place.
 While in England the prince made friends, scores of them. social and political, and his term of office in the British capital one of the most brilliant in his career, in spite of the fact that it lasted only a year It seemed that he was destined 10 be shifted about, and in each he proved himself the right man in the right place.
 Just as he had regulated the entangle- ments of the British legation there arose some difficulty in the management of af- fairs at The Hague, and one day, to his sudden surprise, and what would have been displeasure had he not been de- voted to the interests of his country, he was notified that he was to be transferred to the Netherlands to look after matters there
 Some said that behind this change could be seen the shrewd management and pow erful influence Of old Prince Bismarck, who, it claimed anxious to have Germany gain possession of the Nether- lands; but subsequent events proved to the complete satisfaction of all the com plete falsity of this allegation.
 But even at The Hague Prince Bismarck was destined for only a short stay, for he had established himself here and become accustomed to the life and customs of the little Dutch kirgcn'9 he was called away, and from tEat ts1..o on until the time of the famous deposition of his father his life was of nomadc transferences from one country to another, wherever the diplomatic entangiements were most complicated.
 And this brings one to the most sensa- tional events in the life of this great son of great father It was in 1890 tns-. old Prince Bismarck had his famous quarrel with the young Emperor of Germany. However sincere might have been his pa triotism and however devoted he might have been to the welfare of his country, there existed in the breast of the young Prince Herbert Non Bismarck a filal love that was as ardent as his patriotism was great, and he felt-what he considered- the cruel injustice to his father as keenly as did the old prince himself Prince Her bert had served his country faithfully and well, and had been willing, and was even then ready, to lay down his life for the Empire, if need be, but his pride was deep ly wounded, and he desired to retire from public lie ana US crue1IleS toward ms Ia ther. to their country palace, there to live until the end should come. which all the family believed would be hastened by the old chaneeor's humilating experience
 Hearing of this intention, Emperor Will fam sent for the young prince and demand ed a reason for his desire to retire. The reply was characteristically Bismarckian in it's candor:
 q love my country, sir said young Prince Bismarck sorrowfully, "but I also love my father, and I prefer to follow him"
 "You had better follow me-" was the laconic response of the impetuous Kaiser, and there the interview ended. ,s
 From that time until the reconciliation between the Emperor and his father there was very little good feeling shown between young Bismarck and his king. In fact, al though their action in public up to year and a half ago was irreproachabe from a diplomatic standpoint, it was an open se- cret that neither bore any particular feel ing of friendship for the other.
 But the German people are looking to some one to continue that imperial policy which was founded and established by the