Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-04-28

But suddenly his promotion came. On
Jan. 27 Inst he received as q birthday
present commission rs major general.
This was the beginning Of his promotion.
From that time his advance In other re.
spects has been rapid indeed.
William Is 20 years Of age, and Is said
70 be young looking for his ago. He has
recently been thus described by George
w. Smalley;
"William has tho appearance of .
young man Of 20. His upper lip shows .
spare blonde mustache, his nose is slightly
Roman. with medium forehead, aud his
hair stands back like Beethoven's. But
despite his comparatively weak chin. his
cold blue eye has brave, daring expires
sion, which reminds one little OF tn,
Great Frederick. whom he'is fondly said to
resemble In character. He is slender Ia
build. and shorter In stature than hi.
brother. the naval Hohenzpllern.' HI,
left hand Is badly crippled, and his lef,
arm Ut least two inches shorter than hi,
left; defect which has caused as muct
annoyance and mental pain us ever Byron.
deformity did He tries upon every occa
sion to conceal It. but tries. of course. In
vain. Yet tho skill no possesses Il re
markablo He carries his sword upon pa.
rade as well as any officer and has become
. most excellent fencer. rides like Cos.
sack and shoots with unerring aim.
"No officer In the army Is more popular
than this royal scion and mono more
clever. No wonder that his men are at
tached to him. He has pleasant word
for all, and cracks his joke with the com
mon man as though he were of his mum.
Der. His training has been very demo.
cratic. He attended school at Cassel,
boarding with ono Of the teachers, and
treated exactly as ono Of tho other boys
Taking his lunch ono day, he noticed one
Of his comrades eating tho black bread
which the poorest classes use In
Germany. Wishing to taste It, he
offered to trade with tho boy--the son,
] believe, Of a poor mechanic-who. OF
course. was only too glad to do 80. 1t
pleased the princes palate so much that
he made an agreement to exchange lunches
with the boy every day-and hencefor.
ward he always feasted upon the black
bread baked In the house of the mechanic
He was graduated after several years at
Cassel among the first in his class to the
great satisfaction Of his parents who at
tended the commencement. He afterward
las Is Hohenzolleru custom-attended
the university at Bonn and Joined the
famous Saxo- -Borussen corps, over whose
annual meetings he still presides. and is
a. eager as any In relating the pranks OF
his student days. And today one meets
him In the streets OF Berlin In civilians
clothes, mingling with the people like the
citizen king"
! The following incident. sent to tho New
World by The New York Times CORE
spondent. will be interesting;
"Crown Prince William has carried tC
excess the old Hohenzollern custom o.
giving Its cadets military training
Whenever he visits his children his oldes
son, who will be @ next month, has beer
schooled to give the word of command
whereupon the two smaller brothers. aget
% and 4, range themselves beside him, ant
all give the father q soldierly salute. TIL,
other day the crown prince was working
when his attention was drawn to the fac
that the sentries outside his room wer,
presenting arms repeatedly in an mex
plicabls way--a thing which German
soldiers. be It explained, do Ii
such peremptory and vehement
manner that the action can be heard for &
considerable distance. He was puzzled at
tie boys were having some fun passing uI
and down the corridor enjoying the pleas
iure Of being saluted- The crown prince
aaid: I must teach you that sentrie:
don't exist for little princes. but prince:
for sentries' He then called for can,
and In the presence Of the sentries gave
tho tiny fellows sharp beating, II ought
to be added that this incident of Spartan
education Is much admired in Berlin"
Whether the mother Of the princeleti
was as well pleased with the episode Il
something we are not told
A former tutor Of William writes q
length regarding the prince in The Lon
don Times. One passage In his articl
reads as follows:
''Much has been said and written Rbou
Prince Williams crippled arm tina
IL far from accurate. had been In tn
habit of sitting close behind him ever,
day for weeks before ever noticed tina
his arm was In any way different fron
that Of other people. Even then onl..
observed it because my attention wa
called to II by others. Then perceive'
that the left arm was always in almos
exactly the same attitude. and that tn,
prince could only move it very slightly
bending 1t a little up or little down from
its normal position across his body. a
though It were fixed in an invisible sling
aud that II he wished 70 use II to stead,
the sheet Of paper upon which he wal
writing. be was obliged 70 raise 1t on tn,
tahls with the other hand No doubt thi