Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1890 — YATES ON BISMARCK. [ARTICLE]

YATES ON BISMARCK.

No Longer Will the Prince Play the Part of a King. Edmund Yates London cable to the New York Tribune says: “The Berlin correspondents of the London press have dilated on the physical resemblance between the new Chancellor of the German empire and Bismarck. There is,indeed, astriking personal likeness except in one particular, and that is the voice, which has not been pointed out. Nothing astonishes those who see and hear the late Chancellor for the first time so much as the apparent incongruity between his physique and the weakness of his speech. “Gen. von Caprivi, on the other hand, has a clear, sonorous voice, strengthened by much use in the open air. It was in the summer of 1866, during the Bohemian campaign, that Caprivi first came into notice. He was intrusted with the revision of all telegrams to newspapers. While taking care to satisfy his military superiors, he was not less successful in winning the favor of newspapers, even of those representing democratic views. “The Emperor has made a good choice in his new chancellor. He will not attempt to overthrow the personality of his master, whose purpose is not to diminish his own brilliancy by employing ambitious and clever ministers. Gen. von Caprivi, moreover, is a bachelor. The Bismarck gatherings in Wilhelm strasse, where, In the midst of a small circle of parliamentary stars, the Prince played the part of a king, will be known no more, nor will those famous diplomatic dinners on the old Emperor’s birthday, when the Princess would light the cigarettes of any plefiinotentiary whose favor was to be cultivated, be seen in the old Prince’s garden-room again.” Saved Others but Died Himself, Halifax (N. S.) dispatch: An epidemic of diphtheria lias swept over Burin, Newfoundland. There is no doctor in the district, and the sufferers were attended by Rev. Father. Walsh, who with his own hands cleared the throats of the victims. Of forty cases the priest attended only .one proved fatal. The priest took the disease himself and died hftera few days’ illness.