| Show PEOPLE AND EYEIVTS Rev Dr C A Bartol of Boston the frIend of Wendell Phillips William Lloyd Garrison and other prominent abolItionIsts Is still vigorous in his Kd year He may be seen any fine day taking a constitutional on the common com-mon Mr Henry M Howe to whom has been warded by the British Iron and Steel Institute the Bessemer gold medal in recognition of his writings on the subject sub-ject of steel making is a son of Mrs Julia Ward Howe On four other Amer Icans only has this honor been prevl ously conferred namely Peter Cooper Abram S Hewitt Alexander IA Holler and John Fritz I Bishop TVilllams of Connecticut the oldest member of the American House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church Is known In this country and England as one of the wittiest men of the century He is a great raconteur and his supply of good stories Is inexhaustible I I exhaustible He has a Yankee humor that combined with great scholarship makes his conversation peculiarly fan inating An English journalist says that Presl dent Faure of Franch Is showing much more tact than CaslmlrPerler displayed The latter expected more from his office than the French people were willing to grant him He thought the Presidency meant power when it really meant pos Ing AT Faure however says the English writer may live in peace so long as he confines himself to the role of master of ceremonies of the French republic I II I General Robert K Scott of Napoleon 3hio was one of the last of the volunteer I volun-teer brigadiergenerals to be mustered out of service after the war and later was twice elected governor of South Car dma on the Republican ticket It in related lated of him that during his second campaign cam-paIgn for governor he frustrated a plot to kill him on a railway car by riding to the capitol with a navy revolver lying In plain sight across his knees Captain Auld of Baltimore police a I son of Hugh Auld who was the master of Frederick Douglass during his days of slavery possesses the original bill of sale for Douglass given by Thomas Auld to Hugh Auld It Is dated October 23 845 seven years after Douglas ran away I and the consideration was 5500 Captain Auld says that this bill was executed with the idea that the fugitive could be recovered although at the time he was In England Mme de Lesseps widow of the famous projector of the Suez and Panama canals has followed the example of the Due de Chartres who recently had his son Henri dOrleans put under a con sell judlciare or guardian Her son a noncommissioned officer In a cavalry regiment of chasseurs at Vienna was liv lag the life of a spendthrift His mother reproached him especially with having old in advance to a Jew by the name of Levy seventy shares of Suez canal stock he full possession of which was to be hIs only after his fathers death The Tribunal granted the request of Mme de Lesseps and Colonel Robert was ap pointed consell judiciare or guardian of M Ismail de Lesseps The late Marshal Canrobert Was brav cry itself This is an instance in the I I takIng of the town of Zaatcha When he I arrived with the volunteers before the fortress he found it surrounded with troops of the regular army whose officers ers had decided to raise the siege as it was thought impossible to capture the place Canrobert grew indignant at the turn things were taking and resolved to make one final effort against the Arabs before retiring Putting his men in order he dashed headlong at the fortress Every man around him having been slaIn or disabled almost immediately by I Arab missiles he mounted the breach alone and kept his post till the regulars I came up in sheer sham to his rescue whereupon he entered the town at their I had and captured it after a two hours I fight In the streets His superb action won him the commanders cross |
