Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-06-02

But suddenly bis promotion came. On Jan. 2 last he received as a birthday present commission as major general. This was the beginning of his promotion. From that time his advance in other re- spects has been rapid indeed.
 William is 29 years of age, and is said to be young looking for his age. He has recently been thus described by George w. Smalley:
 William has the appearance of 6 young man of %. His upper lip shows 8 spare blonde mustache, his nose is slightly Roman, with Q medium forehead. and bis hair stands back like Beethoven's. But 7z-l,t-e .a4s' Ac -- ~-ativcly weak z1iA.s r.,s cold blue eye has bravo. daring express sion. which reminds one Httlo of the Great Frederick. whom he is fondly said to resemble in character He is slender h build. and shorter in stature than his brother. the naval Hohenzollern' His left hand is badly crippled. and his le arm at least two inches shorter than his left; defect which has caused as much annoyance and mental pain as ever Byron s deformity did. He tries upon every occa- sion to conceal it, but tries, of course, in vain. Yet the skill he possesses is re- markable. 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 none 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 num- Der. His training has been very demo- cratic. He attended school at Cassel, boarding with one of tho teachers, and treated exactly as one of tho other boys Taking his lunch one day, he noticed one of his comrades eating the black bread which the poorest classes use in Germany. Wishing to taste 1t, he offered to trade with the boy-the son, I believe, of a poor mechanic-who, of course, was only too glad to do so. It pleased the princess palate so much that he made an agreement to exchange lunches with the boy every day-and hencefor ward he always feasted upon the blach bread baked in the house of the mechanic He was graduated after several years at Cassel among the first in his class to tho great satisfaction of his parents who at tended the commencement. He afterwart as is Hchenzollern custom-attendet the university at Bonn and joined tht famous Saxo- -Borussen corps, over whose annual meetings he still prcsides, and il as eager as any in relating the pranks O. his student days. And today one meets him in the streets of Berlin in civilian clothes, mingling with the people like th citizen king"
 The following incident, sent to the Nev World by The New York Times core spondent, will be interesting:
 Grown Prince William has carried t, excess the old Hohenzollern custom o giving its cadets a military training Whenever he visits his children his oldes son. who will be 6 next month, has bee1 schooled to give the word of command whereupon the two smaller brothers, aget and 4, range themselves beside him, an, all give the father soldierly salute. Tn 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 inez plicable way-a thing which German soldiers, be it explained, do i such peremptory and vehemen manner that the action can be heard for considerable distance. He was puzzled a this, went out and discovered that his lii tie boys were having some fun passing u and down the corridor enjoying the pleas ure of being saluted. The crown prime said: 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 gay the tiny fellows a sharp beating. It ough to be added that this incident of Sparta education Is much admired in Berlin"
 Whether the mother of the princelet was as well pleased with the episode something we are not told.
 A former tutor of William writes a length regarding the prince in The LOT don Times. One passage in his articl reads as follows:
 Much has been said and written abou Prince Williams crippled arm tha is far from accurate. had been in th habit of sitting close behind him ever dar for weaks before IeYeE noticed ths