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Show A HEUY HOW LIEUT-CO- PRINCE FIGHTER. Boyal Sapling Now on a VUit lu the tailed Slates. Prince Ernest Gunther, Duke of BUTLER WON HIS MEDAL. U. X Coumtndd Mujttupiilu AfilMt thr HotUa TrlS sf Indian and t& Schleswig-HolsteiCount of Stormarn, Dithmarses and Oldenburg' head of the Augustenburg branch of the Schleswig-Holstei- n family, who arrived In this country not long ago on a visit, was born at Dolzlgnn Aug. 11, 1863, which makes him rather more than 31 years of age. In 1880 he succeeded to the rank and titles of his father, Duke He Frederick of Schleswig-Holsteiderives some portion of his Importance, apart-frotthis own-ranand the qualities which render him popular and ami- - SOME GRAND OLD WOMEN. MEN' AND Jti of Death More T WAS AT THE beginning of the civil war that conauthorised gress the sjxlktp,,Uj two JfiousandLjmedala of honor to be Mtomarrk Joining the Hand Many Still Powerful of Mind, Though of Milestone Till. K. rely Kent-bed I.lfeT It X flnds ISMARCK himself In excellent and. . .brainy company on the other r l.;a if . ... .'Lottie i acbasdFariJ still and cers, of gay old boys officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry In action and other soldierlike qualitits, during the present Insurrection. Later, congress directed that additional medals be struck from these same dies to be presented to sojdiers who had'"or who may hereafter most distinguish themselves In action. Under this enactment, a number of officers and privates in the forces that have been sent against the savages of the west have been adorned with the medals, and among these Lieut-CEdmond Butler, U. 8. A. (retired), occupies a?conspicuuus place. It was for battle of gallantry in the hard-fougWolf mountain, on Jan. 8, 1877, that Col. (then captain) Butler was awarded M stars and garters. The battle was one of a series In the campaign conducted by Gen. Miles against the confederated Sioux and Cheyennes under the daring leader, Crazy Horse, says the Illustrated American. The thermometer, on the day of the fight, registered twenty-eigh- t degrees below aero, and the snow lay two feet deep upon the ground. The tide of battle was turned In favor of Gen. Miles forces when Capt. Butler led a victorious charge against a force of Indians who were flanking the United States troops on IbeJeft and rear. Capt. Butler had a horse shot from under him, but continued to lead the charge on foot. Gen. Miles, In his official report, recommended the brevettlng-o- fthe captain for this successful charge against superior numbers of hostile Indians strongly ol ht was-goin- tft and girls. He will rfi find Pope Leo at 85, writing Latin sonnets. Just as In the olden days, when as a lad he surprised the Peecl family by his precoclousnees. He will find the English statesman. E. William Gladstone, discussing Greek prose and writing critical essays on religion and philosophy. He will be surprised to find Verdi, at 80, ' planning a new opera for the great singer Maurel, seeking his inspiration from no less a pleasant theme than Shakespeare's Tempest." Here la Professor Dana, at 82, fresh from Hawaii, giving to the world a mass of new facta In geology. Bessemer la still bright In his panoply of Inventive thought, and Blr Henry Parkes Is Just entering the realm of octogenarians, with a new educational project for New South Wales. Couldock comes gayly Into the ranks of rare old men, still treading the boards and giving the world delightDUKE GUNTHER. ful touches of mimicry. Few have able In his own dominions, from the fact fathomed life as deeply as he. Few that hla eldest sister Is the wife of the know bow to Interpret It better. German emperor, another being married But the list of famous old men and to Prince Fredertce Leopold of Prussia. women Is a long one, and darkened only here and there by the touch of mental Collage Gradnates Debtors. blight or great physical weakness. Aa Every college graduate, is a child of a rule, these Aid men and women are the public. In debt to many people. still extremely active. Bessemer, who enriched the world, Why! It will be urged "does he not pay his way?" No; no college student as has no man living or dead. In the payj his way as the following makes past, stood biting his lips with rage plain: No American college Is or can be and the higher Its rank, the greater Is the cost of the Instruction which It gives. It Is on this ground that these institu.io is ask and expect from the general public legacies and gifts to Increase their endowments and usefulness. The extra cost of college students beyond what they pay In extra fees varies from 850 to 8(00 a year. In a very few colleges this cost Is above Is 8300, and In the great mayultv-- it between 8150 and 8230. The usual basis of the best American colleges Is to pay anywhere from 8150 to 8300 per annum for each college student over and above what it receives In the form of fees. As college Income Is provided In this country, the annual expenditure above fees for each Btudent represents at least from $250 to $350, counttng 200 students as a maximum. This extra cost Is met by the endowments of each institution, and is the part which the public provides In Its equipment. This statement gives one a true idea of the position in which the higher education stands toward the whole country. It Is more dependent upon the generosity of the American people than any other of our Institutions. BUTLER. Butler was posted.. Lieut. 1827. born In Ire- He was appointed land, March 19, second lieutenant Fifth Infantry at the outbreak cf the war, and detailed to accompany Gen. Baird (afterward Inspector genera!) In Inspection of Kansas and Missouri troops. In 1862, he was concerned In remusterir.g and consolidating Kansas volunteers, and' was officially complimented by Gen. Hunter for settling without resort to force cifflcult and delicate matters affecting Kansas troops. He was in New Mexico in 1862, and In Texas In 1S64. He was promoted to a captaincy In 1864, and he commanded an expedition against-th- e Navajos, In which he Inflicted severe loss upon them. In September, 1863, he received the formal surrender of Manoelito Grande, and sent two- thousand prisoners to the reservation. In letters from his Jiead-quafte'on Nov. If and If, 1865, Gen. Carleton" wrote: To Capt. Edmond Butler I owe many thanks. To the efficiency and straightforward course and the, energy and good sense of Capt. B., I owe a great deal of the luck I get credit for as a commander. In June. 1868, Capt Butler was ordered in attendance Tn Gen. Sherman. In December, with a small Infantry force, he exhumed the bodies of the killed la the Forsythe affair, on- the Arickaree Fork, under4 the fire of the main body of Sioux and extricated his small force from a perilous position. He volunteered for the expedition against the Pawnees under Gen. Woods, and commanded the expedition after Gen. Woods was disabled by illness. In 1874 he served through the expedl- tion against the Ktowas and Coman- ches, under Gen. Miles. In the campaign against Sitting Bull, he commanded the center at Cedar Creek, and In subsequent pursuit. He was shot at by Gall while relieving an outpost. At the close of the campaign of 1877, In which occurred the battle of 'Wolf mountain, Gen. Miles wrote Capt. But-le- r as follows: leaving the regi- ' ment, be assured "In you have the thanks and good will of Its commanding officer for your hard service In the field and fortitude In action. Nothing In his service, however, touched the captain so .deeply as a letter signed by every enlisted man In his company who was in the notable charge, thanking him for "the gallant manner In which he led the charge on the 8th of January, In which they had the honor of parttcl rating, and for the kindness he had - shown them In so many different ways i'., heretofore. Capt. Butler was prowas in and 1885, moted major assigned to various posts until his retirement In 1891, when he from active service as admitted to the bar of Montana. He received the title of lieutenant-colonIn March, 1892. Col. Butler is the 'author of an "Essay on the Indian Question. honorably mentioned by the board of award of the military service Institution for 1880. After the fall of Bum ter. he wrote a series of articles In French for the Parisian and Brussels papers, presenting the Union side of Ah e question to Continental Europe. .-- lp lfe CHICAGOS POLICE CHIEF. ch at the sarcasm and ridicule heaped Leon Say, Parke Goodwin, and Russell upon hint for declaring that he had Sage will be 80 In 1896. In 1897 King discovered a cheap process for quickly Christopher of Denmark, Prof. Momm-ser- . Sir John Gilbert, andJBenator John lnto steeL AYhen enchanging M. Palmer will reach the octogenarian gineers finally appreciated bis discovEvarts, Bishery they found him disheartened, dis- stage. In 1898 couraged and ready to turn against op Coxe, and Mrs. John Drew become 89. In 1899 Queen Victoria, Julia Ward the world. Then came honors thick and fast. He was knighted. Sover- Howe, Crtspi, Longstreet, Buskin' W. eigns vied In doing him honor.,Great W. Story and Bishop Huntington will societies elected him to honorary of- make up the. (1st of young octogenariplg-lro- vLA fices. Medals were voted to him, and he Is among the happiest of the "Old Masters of England.. 8o Is William E. Gladstone. So Is Sir James Bacon, who kt the age 'of 97' lives a happy life of retired ease. Until 1886 this great English jurist sat upon the . bench, and the clearest decision ever rendered by him was that In a case tried two months before he retired from the of Eng-lanto-d- ay - ' n ans. - In 1900 the list will confprise Herbert Spencer, Florence Nightingale, Mrs. G, W. Gilbert, Jean Ingelow, Gen. Jtose-cran- z, and Susan B. Anthony. Aa for the famous people between 70 and 74, their name Is legion. r Democratic Mr, Bland. Congressman Bland lives on s small farm a few miles from Lebanon, Mo. ' In the lntervals of congress he gives None of this century's living famous more attention to bis Ben Davis apples, old men have yet reached the age at of which he has 5,000 trees, that to sil- which the philanthropist, Monteflpfe, died, a decade or so ago. Yet William the oldest member of . Salmon, the Royal College of Surgeons, comes nearIL He Is 105 this montb. and began to practice his profession when Napoleon was in the height of hip glory In 1809. He has also the honor of being the oldest Freemason tn the world. Gen. George 8Greene, U. 8. A., the oldest living West Point graduate. Is 93. Neal Dow Is Maine's grand old man. and although very weak at 91. still talks entertainingly of ths days of 1851, when at mayor of Portland he drafted a theamous Maine liquor law, Among the famous nonogenartanAare .Rev. Dr. William H. Furness of England, now 92, and Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant of England, 90, 1 . Those who enter the ranks of of 1895 are Francis William Newman, brother of the great cardinal; James Martlneau, philosopher; and George R. p. BLAND. Mueller, the orphanage founder. Dr. ver; as and they sell for 40 cents a Newman only recently completed a each 'tree yielding an average of memoir of the early days of his great bushel, five there seems to be as much brothers life, and Is now deep In the profitbushels, In them. Mr. Bland is very demoof Hla Gaetullan. of knowledge study when away from Washington, ancient languages 1 marvelously rich, cratic o some valu- and he looks and acts like a world the has and he given farmer.-net la able philological- treatise.- He - . v ' alone an abstainer from liquor and tobacco, but never touches meat, and A Rats Teeth. ta this method attrlbutes hls longevlty The " of rata teeth by sharp areJtept of living. a very peculiar provision of nature. Gladstone will be 86 this year. So will The incisors is covCassius M. Clay of Kentucky, erratic ered outer edge of the with a layer of enamel as hard as and erotic though he be, and so will while the under side Is much soft, of the Treasury Hugh Mc- flint, of the Navy Rich- er. The layers of enamel on the under Culloch, side, therefore, wear away much fastard W. Thompson of Indiana, has Just er than those on the npper surface, and celebrated his 86th birthday. . Payne of Ohio is no long- a keen -cutting- edge Is always preer very actlvt at 84, although his sen- ? d. JOHN SARTAIN. an Read. Toe, Mr. Sartain says, was a man of great modesty, but once, when excited by drink, he shouted out to Read: "Say what they will, I have written one poem. The Raven that shll live forever." . HU Smite Went with ths pots, New Tork World: An amusing Incident occurred not long ago tn a well known New Tork art school. The girl students were drawing from life -- a study of the Dancing Faun." A good looking Italian boy was the model, and as he assumed the requisite pose his face became wreathed In smiles. . He was gazing directly at the class, and each girl Imagined the smile was directed at her. "How very embarrassing," said a Long' Island glrL T wish to goodn at me." he wouldnt grin In spite of the Indignant glances cast at him the son of Italy continued to smile at the blushing girls. X Presently a stolid German girl looked up and noticed th smile, which she Imagined was aimed directly at her. You Schtop dot sehmlllng. W dont want you to schmtle at us. The boys figure Instantly atratghteilcd up and he stood before the class the very Impersonation oLoffended dignity as he said: Ladles, JT no smile at any one. I pose to youAts e Dancing Faun- - Ze smile goeswls ze pose." -- y Winter tn Chins.'. , It is not commonly known that tht fiv capital of China U months out of the twelve, or that the Chinese eould ever be g graceful skaters. The Chinese use a very -- Inferior style of skate, of their mere chunk of own manufacture wood arranged to tie on the shoe and strip of Iron, shod with- a rather broad IT Ice-bou- stolid-lookin- JSa jpJE AH.- to-d- ay -- well-to-d- . - -- :n' - . tor r - - ' ciiinjC- - - Inst,, but our prayers on the 8Ht snow was yesterday a heavy fallweofare humbly vouchsafed, for which w will burn Inrratcful. The weather cense In the did not again xall for activity on his we find this . part until July statement Prom him: um-mBlnce(b commencement of tn refreshing . showers gave great promise of an abundant harvest for the autumn. Unfortunately tso much rain so that we began to fall afterward, went ourselves twice to th temple be-of the most high to offer Incense and seech the protection of the supreme merciful one, praying that there may be a change of calm weather, la consfe were quencs of which our prayer never answered. Recently, however, and ceasing rains have again arrived, there are fears that they will turn out t0 be a calamity. We, In tur great anxiety for the welfare of our people, on have therefore decided to go againmost the 25 Inst., to th temple of the high to offer Incense and beseech the for serene weather clemency of the gods rain continued., to The once more. avalL fall, and his prayers did not. Therefore on July 27, he announced that "since they are spoiling the crops, snd there appears no likelihood of he was determined their ceasing, and beg again to go to the temple, heaven to grant calmer weather for the sake of our subjects." He proclaimed Hauen-Je- u that he would also visit the temple, and he ordered one prince to sacrifice at the temple of the Propitious Season In the Imperial name; another of prince to sacrifice at the temple Miracles, and a third prince to sacrifice at the Nlngho temple. The rain did not abate, and we read that, a month later, the emperor OTdered an Inquiry into the loss of five lives by the falling J of 250 houses In the Tartar city, and-- f thousand of "a the falling by nine lives and hundreds of walls" elsewhere In Peking, but if he continued to pray t farther with such HI luck he did advertise the fact. new choke him. -- And he was on terms of Intimacy with Pqc and Thomas Buchan- - ra J emperor op s - There were fought 2,261 engagements during the war of the Rebellion. Reformer at the Head of th Thief Taker, chief of poit I, Dadenoeh, the lice, Is well known as on of Chicagos cltisena Mr. Bade-nomost public-spirite- d old men of Philadelphia is John Sartain, who has been called the "father of engraving in America." He Is 86 years old, but a very brisk and lively octogenarian. As a boy of 13 he was employed behind the scenes at Kemble's theater, and from he has gone on accumuthat day lating reminiscences of celebrities. He recollects Longfellow as a dandy, whose stock was so high that It bade fair to la-llS- el ... ct The Father of Engraving. L. .... Ga-set- te A Noted was appointed to the board of education In 1892 and served In that capacity up to th tlm of his appointment as election commissioner by Judge Scales a year ago, when he resigned. His work In that position was that of one who knew the needs of th city schools and was not afraid to make changes where they would be beneficial. In 1886 he represented the Eleventh ward In the city council and refused renoml nation-- at the following election. He has refused other offices,' too, as it was against hla principles to accept a salary for publtc services un- - er Mother-In-La- w Arreated. Cedar Rapids. Iowa, Special About a week ago John R. Harris f this city eloped with and married Mies Georgie girt. Whn Hood, a pretty Mrs. Hood learned of the 'marriage she refused Mr. Harris admission to tl house., locked the young bride up and threatened Harris with prosecution for They have been kept apart perjury. inee,-Thlamorri- lng the young bride was driven to the depot in a closed carand riage In company with her mother relative, and the Miss Birdie Clark. for California. When Har-rt- s party started learned of their departure he secured and s warrant charging Miss Clark with abduction, and the Mr. Hood arrested at Boorje. An ofparty wassent after them, and H ts was ficer be will return with them tonight was taken from wife j his j!rrl claims Further develop-sente- d. thjB city by force. ments are awaited with a great deal of .. ?T interest, ed - '? : JOHN 3. BADENOCIL . less devoting hla entire time In that direction. In 1892 he was chairman of the republican city convention and waa afterward chairman of the campaign committee. Mr. Badenoch waa born In Banffshire.' Scotland, In 1851, and when 6 years of age came to New Tork with his parents and was there educated. In 1866 he came to Chicago to engage In the wholesale Jewelry business, and was first a commercial traveler representing a Chicago house. He had to he cross the Rocky mountain! and mfide-ttrip by stage, as it was before the railroads were completed. In 1872 he started In the grain, flour and feed bustness. In which he ta still engaged. , 'gseeeeds th Late Ward McAllister. Albert'Morrls Bagby, who has been designated as a possible successor to t Ward McAllister as arbiter of social elegancies. Is a young man on the shady side of 30 who has had a singularly successful career In music and society In New York, snd who has recently made a promising debut as an author. Mr. Bagby Is & native of Illinois, where his father was a judge, and he was destined for the law, but he chose wisely when he went to Weimar to study with Liszt. H Is s man of engaging personality, tactful, clever, and thoroughly veised unjn the fine art of living, as society derstands It. , nth Mom?" la Tarkey. the Turks bath money forma an Item In every marriage contract, the husband engaging to allow hls wife a certain sum for bathing purposes. has only to go beIfji.be withheld she fore the cadi and turn her allpper upside down. If the complaint be not thaa redressed U is ground foj divorce. J s .fplW S' One of the remarkable LIEUT.-CO- ; or so valuable and for recreation making pictures ofas the oldest of the saints and angels of the old masteras she remembered them after . . ttvcmntl, the Fek-- , pieces ,. eat dally In China Howells wrote the text for a little book these sketches and with an Issue of a that reproduce It "A Little Girl Among the Old called few smalt brown It In the public can pages between thin Masters" TouIt has get a real art Interest and yellow covers, and libraries for Itself aa a faithful setting forth of Is printed with movable wooden types It Is reprinted In different places, if 1 the Influence of beauty and high spiritam not mistaken, and It reaches all ual significance upon the mind of a parts of the kingdom, and Is of the ut- child. Miss Howells is now a young most interest and value to the educated lady In her "early twenties" as to age. Chinese. It Is merely a record of official acta, promotions, punishments, and decrees, but thesa are put forth with What seems to us amsatng frankness, so that they have been of the utmost actual life In these documents have supplied at least one English author with the materials for n hand book and a series of novelettes upon the life of the masses. t I have at hand n translation of th M. CASSIUS more CLAY. , v. important documents In the It seems aq age since she succeeded to them for 1898, and am going to cull from sufficient To show how remarkthe Coutts millions. Btlll since that time, 1837, she has endowed many bish- able a mirror la that China holds up to There la not space here to tell oprics,' has established homes for the herself. how frequently LI Hung Chang appears fallen, homes for children and In a In Its pages, or how, aeven times in ten, thousand different ways given the world object lessons In real charity. he la seen to be handling public money, Her romantic marriage with young asking for public money, or recomAahmead Bartlett la still fresh tn the mending for office or promotion those rich cltisena and prosperous officials minds of readers. But there Is a long list of ellgtbles. who have given money for relief, reThe next few years will witness many ligion, or charity. When one knows his Influence, and understands how little additions to the ranks of octogenarians should those now In Jtne remain la dons In Chinese official life except MISS HOWELLS, alive. Justice Field, Dawes, for money, it seems almost credible that he haa amassed 8150,000.000, as his and a charming girl,- - bekvd of her critics say, writes Julian Ralph In Har- friends. She writes some, now and then clever society skit, something In the pers Weekly. comedietAa the representative on earth of the vein of her father's one-agods in heaven, the emperor la custo- tas, but her chief interest In Ufa is dian of the weather. When droughts picture making. She draws cleverly and n the her sensitive artistic temperament gives Come, and pestilence nr Urines .people, he does not hesitate publicly to to her Illustrations a branch of art to' take he bhwaeof them, attributing which 'thus far she has confined her efthem ohl own remlssnes In th wor-ahforts a distinct character of their own,' of (he gods that rule such occur- Some of her cousins, as the Boston rences. did not do so the people beauty In high life. Miss Sally Fair-chil- d, would not hesitate to charge him with are fond of dress and society, the .fault. They frequently memorial but Miss Howells, while a Jolly and Ue the throne tv that effect. We read agreeable friend tier -- circle of Intithat on Jan. 6 hi majesty prayed for mate acquaintances, cares nothing at anow, but the much desired boon haa all for society of the "smart" set. Her not yet been granted. Two days later studio Is a window seat, or any place he announced that we proposed to re- - where Inspiration seises her penclL She frequently accompanies her father, but oftener upon some ' excursion Into ths slums, or to a dinner gotten up expressly for them and a few friends In a Chinese restaurant than to fashionable functions. Serious, sweet, sans affectation, gifted; this Is Miss Howells. birthday teMw sary. He will find -- ed Writes Occasionally, bat Is Devoted to Her ISette sod Brash, T "She looks more like the daughter of an Idealist than she does like the daughter of a realise" said A gentleman the other day, speaking of Miss Howells, Miss Howells la ths accepted type of the delicate sptrituelle dreamer. Tou would know she la an artist to look at her. Therefore It does not surprise you to And that when she was a little giri of U or thereabouts, when other girts are making molasses candy and doll about clothes, little Winifred the picture galleries of Europe with her Bf3 st OF W. D. HOWELLS. DAUCHTER -- n, He Has Bern In Than One. atorial cnntpmixjrary, Senate! Morrill OF CHINA. of A ernidiujtas by nr) means retired EMPEROR from active t,rk yet he. like Payne, is nearing his 85th birthday. ON EARTH REPRESENTATIVE HWri'-- t Be ln-- Blow lives 'sAth hfr on in Hartford, Conn. quietly OF THE CODS 'IN HEAVEN." She will be 8t on June 14, and the closing days of her fife are marked by extreme futtmlUn of the Weather, pMtUnr mental weakness. and Floods He Tski Credit And Bishop Clark of Rhode Island was still active at sj although now growing Wain for th Acta of . Nature's mesomewhar weaker. in the Temple. Curtins, the polished Greek scholar, la living at sq. Verdi is nearing 81, and has Just achieved a marvelous success HERE ARE MORE with Falstaff. Baroness Burdett-Coutt- s than thirty newsbegins her eighty-firtn year papers for the Chi1895, and herdife runs on as smoothly nese in China, but HEARTY AT EIGHTY. ERNEST, 4 C j ., |