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Show Needed His "Stelghlng Harness." A Berlin photographer relates a characteristic anecdote of Bismarck. Early In tho seventies tho German cm-poror cm-poror nskod him to prcparo an album containing tho photographs of tho men who had dono conspicuous scrvlco In bohnlf of tho emplro, Including Bismarck Bis-marck nnd Von Moltko. After ho had taken sovoral pictures of Bismarck, ho said: "Tho emperor wants me also to take a. Ufe-slzo half-length photograph photo-graph of you." "In that caso," replied Bismarck, "I must put on my sleighing sleigh-ing harness." Tho astonished photographer pho-tographer presently discovered that Bismarck meant his dros3 uniform, which had so many orders and crossos on It that thoy Jingled, llko sleigh boll. |