| Show h I Ir r I 1 1 LIVES I I 1 Distinguished P Persons Who hO Live v Century r m U t Count von on Blumenthal wino who died the theother other tay day on hi estate tt at ot of all the old l eld rear Ihal mihal In the Grman Germen army arm anti one of time last lut survivors of the military tn con contemporaries temporaries of Emperor t I says aYI the Chicago News WI Il lie WI woe brn born at on the Oder In 1510 and like Leo XII Nil was we thul thus nearly coval coeval with the century II at whose close he aw away le lie the usual altAr military of hi his ds day at the general mi mill tary school at and was rapidly advanced nod and upon lS as one ot of the promising officers ot of hIs da day lii In he took port part In the campaign fighting In man ot of the skir and ond In the battle of oC Cold In and andin In the Ile siege e of whore for hI his services he Wil was promoted promote to b be chief of this general staff or of the army In the field fter the wr war he WS was sent to l on a military embassy and rewarded rewarded for Cor hIs tucce with the order ot of the Red Eagle henceforth hil his promotion was rapid though It wa was not until at the storming ot of and the trenches At and Lii passage to the Island of nr AI Aleen en that his hll splendid military Ibl Isles had an appropriate field In whIch to exhibit themselves June 25 1564 hp he became a major general and received the order Pour lo Ie Merle In the Aus Austrian trian war lr ot of he won nw nest ti nanti In the wr war ot of 1170 wih with l France lie he again was 1 chief ot of the general star staff t to the crown prince who on receiving thC tho Iron Cross from fromn hil his lather father Insisted that a similar distinction should be conferred on Yon Von Blumenthal In 1 ISIS 8 Von Van Blumenthal was 18 made field marshal and his old ag ago wal was a peaceful and honored one Is His ph physical and mental vigor Igor reo re reamed with him In n a gret great deAree degree to lb last Though overshadowed by Von on Yon Von Blumenthal also was one oner lit r the great men ho helped to forge torge on timo allIs anvils of war the new empire iro at Versailles In these da days of elixirs elixir ot of lre life mind no counts ot of anti centenarIan lane Ian ant and when Pope to Leo XIII nt at the age ot of 0 90 and under the or of oron ofIn on In or of Ihl the best bat physIcians of at Europe I is regarded 11 as something or of n a ph physical mor It Is interesting to know that Dr Kimball David Dald Webster or of Ness ew Is sUI still n a ran clan at the age of 9 90 J has hns practiced medicine for tor years and ond ni all of that time In one leM field Daring his hip lifetime the science anti And art artof ot of medicine have hae been revolutionized and the commonplaces of medicine to J t t tIdA IdA day undreamed of when In Imi 1537 Dr graduated rom the Woo Wood Woodstock Ita stock Medical college II iii Vermont Yermont the same ear In which Queen Victoria as ascended c the throne Te The dOtor doctor hl has oh al ways been II a family physician anti his practice I Is now larely largely In hi his oct sti still It I Ii said Mid he oc occasionally harnesses hil hia own on lol horse ald end drives or off several mies miles to Se see 1 a patient He hitas been I a 1011 lover of good horses anti and has I a snatched matched teUl that I Is full of mettle antI according to one or of hit his neighbor to se see him him them ono one years old not suppose him to be 30 I |
