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ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN. Sir George Faudel-Pbillips, Bart., the outgoing Lord Mayor, can now boast of being a much-honoured man. He has received the "Leopold'' Order from the King of the Belgians; he is Commander of liie "White Elephant" of Siam; the King of Ssrvia has decorated him with the "St. Bava" Urder; he is Chevalier of the Lion and Sun" of Persia, and has now been appointed by the Queen Knight (irand Cross of the Or-iw of the "Indian Empire," in special token of iiis exertions in reiidxd to the Famine Fund. The Lord Mayor-elkqct proceeded on Monday morn- ing to the House of Lord,, for the purpose of being presented by his civic colleagues to the Lord Chancellor. This function formerly took place a.t the official residence of the Lord Chancellor; and it was Lord Halebury who first introduced the practice of receiving the new Lord Mayor in the Priuce7e Chamber. Aptly enough, the pedestal of Gibson's marble group of the enthroned Victoria, with which the civic visitors stood face to face throughout the ceremony, bears a fine allegorical representation of Commerce. The fee paid to Lerd HaJsbury on this event is £ 7 15s.; but, as the company always adjourn to puncheon at his lordship's invitation, the Ltird Chancellor cannot be said to be the gainer by the transaction. The Lord Alayor-elect wore for the first time the reception robe of purple silk, which he will not require agoiii until lie begins to put in his lrdinary official attendances at "the Mansion tiouae Police-court aud the Oid Bailey Sessions. Mr. Andrew Lang. in the course of his review if Lord Tennyson's memoir of his illustrious father, in Lungman's, writes.- On November 19th, 1850, Teuuyson dreamt that Prince Albert came and fcisseu him, whereto hM replied: Very kind, but very uerman!' Next day he received, Jirough the Prince's admiration, the offer of the Laureatesiiip. [iogers bad declined it, on account of his ei-cat age. Uter passing from Southr. to Wordsworth the bayf were not, at that time, ridiculous, as they were when Scott refused the crown of Pye and Cib er. ic,r tha Laurea'teship, and did not hurry in a cab to a oews- paper office with a threnody on Wordsworth's death. That deveionineut of enterprise is modern. Ha -ccepted the baj-i, Vcuahles assuring him tf!é. f would securc for bim the Jivx-r wing VI-t,u he iijied out. Here, adds Mr. L-ing, oce-us a story which may, or may not, be (fue; I have forgotten uiy auixovity. Tennyson was at a dance when a young lUall, aad, in a fit of poetical abstraction, .or seeking a place wherein to smoke, Btraye into the supper room. One old gentleman was there, who said: Y, ung snr, if you have come for the livers you are too itce. I have eaten them all." Next fumraer, if all goes wn wHJ, tlw,TJ, two ..ery interesting old men will vioit this country, writes a correspondent. They are twin brotliers. Colonel H. O. N,Úll and Ci.louel J. M NeviU, at jr.; sent residing in liarria-jr; County, Sta'e n £ Missouri. They were born in the year that- Nai fought, and are therefore eighty-tvro yr-Ar >' ¡ge They were married on tbe ,ame day to -Miss Rhoda and Mits Lily -and togfathor hpy duly enlisted in the service of the North durin; ,lk Civil War, and found them-Mlves at the signer )f peace with the brevlt x-aak of "Colonel." Rac: rother bas seven children, seventeen grw)- ■-liiiaren, and two great-grandchildren. The two old nen are still vigorous in mind and uody; both own arms, and neither of Jiem ever used tobacco or indulged in alcoholic refreshments. Their grand- ather lived to over ninety-oioe years, and their atber eighty-eight years. The latter was one of he soldiers who fought against the British in 1812. Lieutenant-Cclonftl the Comte de Fouca.:1t, military attache at the French Embassy in Berlin, ,1.10 is about tu mrry Mile. Elisabeth de la Selie, G the son of an officer who was capt ured by the iwmans at Sedan, but escaped by a daring ruse. Having got a suit of workman's clothes, he had the mdacily to ask the Prussian commandant for a pass, oy the help of which he reached Nancy safely, and, joiuing Ducrot, took part in tho deiwice of Faris. Sir Michael Elicks-Bsaeh has just comple'-ea his ixtiet.h year. He has spent more than half hie rJo u the HUlme of Commons, i,.Ps led it not without a certain measure of success, aad has twice been ;rihb Sc— atary— a post in tvhich a statesman gener- l lly leaves bel;i -il him some rancorouf resentment*; vet it is not too much to SRy th«t the Cliati-Lellor of 'ha Exchequer has nothing but respect from all parts it the House. He w:¡ actually popular with tlie Irish jarty when he was first Chief Secretary, back in tLo .¡J days when Irish members did not dia lain to cgr.tiate with a Tory Minister. Mr. A. M. Sullivan ,sed to say of him in those days that be was the jest Irish Secretary he hni* ever dealt because ia vias so frank and m iL- ;-j,tt -.in, I.-7!o 1-F yrtil;i aelp me; if not I can do nothing," vraa a gansplt of Sir blichael's way-. In the matter of the stono-laying of the new Jhrist's Hospital by the Priucc of Wales on ft'atur- iay, the occasion may serve for recailing other itnilar functions previously attended by his Royal lighncss. Early in his public career he opened ihft ew buildings of the British Orphan Asylum, aud nade an appeal for aid from those whose highest jcyment it is to ,ive a homt and education to th< .inherits? A few days after he laid hefouridatfon- tono of the new Wdrehonseincn and Clerks' Gcliooi l Ct nydon, and when the school was opened spoVc n high terms of "the great com nereis] cornn)ur.i'v f our country." Shortly before liibset-ious illness he .t,etied a new school at Duhvich CUlega. Wilhin ;■ '■■yy day,- his RcJal Highness rlso "peJed the now t-iiools for the cliikiran of seamen tt the Londmi 'orke, and laid the foundation-stoia of a new nmmar school at Reading with lull Masonic .onours. The occasion in the past most nearly -sembling that cf Saturday was the visit paid to the ,.arterhouB8 by the Prince of Wales vhen, after he removal of the Chartei hruxse School to Codahiii'.r;. lie Merchant Taylors' School was installed n withheld. Mr. Erock R. A., bas been entrusts wV:l; tho *Pcution of a lifs-aisso marble statue of th iatc adge Thomas llugbeG, to be set up at Hugby. The •sine of "Tom brown" will ever be linked with Iiat f Arnold in II igby memories. The latter was ;jb reatest of a!i, the former is the reateflt of books dealing with school liic. It made oe name of Rugby tlie synonym of all that ia :nplied in the term public school. The two unmarried daughter# of Mrs. Harriet "echer Stowe live in the house at Hartford where ,Irs. Stowe passed so many years. But the house S likely to bt- sold, and it is said these daughters' -are will not be su.Hcient for their support Mrs. tooker, a sister of Mrs. Stowe, makes an appeal for subscription for an amount sufficient to enable ..ime two ladies to retain this house, so endeared to aem as their aether's home, and made so interest- t K to a large public that it h hoiiad it may remain i the Stowe family.  Aull";te Th death is anno'm-od o! Ma?me Augn?te "om'i eur, a writer of novels and sketches of Aus- raiian life, under the pseudonym of "Tasma." Her Jatber, M. Huybers, a member of an old Antwerp ..mily, married an English lady. Miss Buybers, avly in life, was taken to Tasmania. Her hrmb ■lusband was a Tasmaiuan Sila began her connec- ion with newspaper work early, and wrote muci- for the Australiun papers. On returning to Europe itt/riined some celebrity as a lecturer, and in \eiiico net M. Couvreur, who became her second husband. ft. Couvrour was a well-known Belgiau statosuian md Free-trader, a friend of Cobdeo and Bright. Madame Couvrour had acted as Times weapu»ideut at Brussels since 1891. The Dowager Lady Lamington has returned to England in the Himalaya from a six months'visit t3 i har son at Brisbane. She proved herself to be quite the best sailer of wvl of the passenger-, and never missed playing the harmonium at the Sunday services. ]\I¡;jcr H. P. Novlhcot'n of the Leinster Regiment, who has left the intelligence Department to proceed on special service to the West Coast, is an old Wesl African had, for, after getting his company in the 19th Foot, he exchmged to the 2nd West India Regiment, and served with it from J373 to 188b. He was mentioned iu despatches for his services in the Slierbro' Expedition. Sierra Leone, 1883, and did good service with Sir Francis Scott's expedition to Coomassie in 1895-6. A Staff College graduate and 1 trained Intelligence officer, the Colonial Offic: is fortunate in finding for the present mis"inn one who so thoroughly understands the situation and kii;:wii well how to deal with natives. Mr. Kenviclf, Mr. Chamberlain's nephew, who lias pone to Australia on a mission connected with the trale of Birmingham, has been the guest of oearly all the Grivernors, and received a very enthusiastic welcome wherever he went, lie is returning to England by way of Japan. It is not generally known that among the wreathe oisced on the Nelson column on TralVigar tiay was )ue from Mtd. M'Crea, widow of Admiral M'Cre?., '.vho fought under Neison at Trafalgar, in the Swift- sure. ilirs M'Crea, who entered upon her one hundred and third year on Tuesday, resides at Guernsey, close to another centenarian, Mrs. Ntive. who is in he; one hundred and aixth veaa. In 181j ttt3 Immense publfe which reads tha Graphic wise much touched and interested in a story of military life entitled "Boo tie's Baby," which ran through the pages of that journal. The story was so fresh, true, charming and original, as to impress the critical with the belief mat "the Service had developed a Bret Harte to do for it what the noted American had done for the Western Mining Camps When "Bootle's" had run its course it appeared as a shilling issue on the book- stalls, and had an instant extension of its fltmc. Then came an overwhelming public curiosity, a close investigation of army lists, a genera) attribut- ing of the work to every army man who had ever even succeeded in getting a growling letter inserted in the Times—only an army man of long and extended experience could have fathered this book, "0 the voice of a discriminating public said. Then came the humiliation of humiliations, for it grades ally leaked out that "John Strange Winter." who had heen a lieutenant in the Guards, a captain on the retired list, a colonel with a snug sinecure at Whitehall, ws a MWMM. Once the puzzle was revealed it did not take long to "ecure deta'ts, and the wodd )ea'nt that John St,ran" Winter was the MM de plume of Mn. Arthur StAnMi'd, form<-r?y Hen? ietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer, who was born in the city of York. Her father was rector of St. "v-pvgprets, York; hut previous to his entering Holy Orders, Mr. Palmer had been for some years an officer in the Koyai Artillery, thus maintaining 'he radition of his family—his father, grandfather, and ,4Teat- grandfather having been army men. Miss Palmer commenced her literary life with a short story contributed to a IAi;er published in her native city, at the age of eighteen, subse- quently, she corrributed for eight or nine years to the Ftmily Ihrald, Ismdon Society, and numerous province] journals, aud during this period of noviciate pindueed no less "han forty novels, many of three-volume length. In 188 she married Mr. Arthur Sty.nnard, a civil engineer, who had served with distinction under the late General Gordon. Karly in their married life Mrs. Stannard chanced to shew her husband an old and battered manuscript which bad been rofussd by six sapient editors. He read th? soiled ?ges over and o?er. and made the apparently p?"p<?terous su?ees'ion that the oft-) T'f?ec'ed shfuia be tried upon the Cm?tc. Mrs. Si anna rd received the proposal with much merri-j n.cnt, but her husband insisted, and of, the tra-?llei' went again, this time to the well known office ir! the Strand. The csrnTm«jMnce was almost forgoiter until one evening Siannurd, returning frvn, h(r waiw. with a cast horse-shoe whichhe had picked up, dangling from hec finger-end, found awaiting her, upon her hall-tfcble, a polite rote fron] the editor of "I,e notifying that "Bootle's 8al y would make her how in the page-, of thf eveat. illosira'ed we/ikiy. The unlike "CMlei Back," "caught on." at once, the soundness of tht popular judgment, being endorsed by as high ar authority as Mr. John Buskin, who alluded to "Johr Suange Wbiter" as "the author to whom we OWf I the most finished and faithful rende>ing ever ve) given of the character of the ihitieh Soldies. ■ftic e. WifSi tear liovenirer contorts an inierestinw article an Lady Salisbury, the wife of the Prime Minister. Nothing, says the writer, Miss Lindsay, could have been more delightful than Lady Salisbury's girlhood. Sh j was one of a large family of bothers ami sisters, and had in her father (Baron Aldwson) a friend and companion. It was he who watched over her studies and advised her what books to read. Entertaining as the judge was when with his kgal brethren, he was even more so with- in his family circle, and the Long ;o,3"il)n was -0 his children an unbrnlten period of :oiHr. and jollity. Love for his native Norfolk led the judge to linvo his country house at Lowestoft. In tUis lovely home, with gardens and terraces sloping down to the beach. Lady Salisbury spent her summers as a girl. She walked the Denes with her father as lie read his favourite Horace or composed verses on some passing incident. Then there were delightful sketching parties, river excursions, aad picnics, which her father planned. Lady Salisbury has privod, as ww an know, an excellent wife. She was quite clever enough to act in past times as her husband's amanuensis, and the literary character of her family and her own early surroundings made her an admirable helpmeet to a man who depended largely upon his pea for his daily bread. The first eight years of her married lif, wore passed in this way, her husband absorbed in his duties in the House of Commons, where ho was known as a somewhat audacious UiO-ugli biilliaiC debater, and iu journalistic work. To turn to Lady Sslishurj- as a hostess, consider htr in two distinct roles—that of the enter- tainer of htr private friends and family, and t; .5 of the ofiiciai hostess, as the wife of a Minister of the Crown. It is in the house-parties at Hatfiela that Lady Salisbury shines most. Ever kind and thoughtful for the comfort and pleasure of her guests, she was, \iefore illness came upon her, a brilliant and entertaining talkw, recalling something of her fatfiei- "I gifts of conversation. Throughout the winter balls and d^mer-parlies used to follow ia quick succession at Hatfield. Lord Salisbury, immersed in politics or devoting his leisure hours to chemistry in his lalicrfiiyry, bRA all his life been only too glf.d to leave tha management of social j matter in the Lands of his able wife, in whose j- ment he places unlimited coulideuce. The Queen has approred the appointment of the of Buccleuch and Queensbeny, K. T., to be a Knight cf the Garter, in the room of the late Marquis of Northampton. William Henry Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott succeeded his father, the filth Duke, who carried Ladv Charlotte Anne Thynue, daughter of the second Marquis of Bath. Be was born at Montagu House, London, in September, 183L. and 1n 1859 married Lady Louise Jorte Hamilton, daughter of the first Duke of Aber- com. He was educated. at Eton aud at Christ Church. Oxford, and succeeded bÜ' father in 1884. He with M, P. for Midlothian in 1853-68 and 1874-80, The two Princesses of Mechlenburg-Strelitz are "requent visitors to England, aad favourites of the Duke of Cambridge, whose grand-niec3S they are, rincess Augusta, daughter of the late Duke of 'ambridge and sister of the Duchess of Teck. having named the Grand Duke of Vlecklenburg Strelitz in S43. Titfir only child, tin Grand Duke Adolf Frederic, married, in 1877, Princess Elizabeth of jsnlalt (sister of Prince Aribert), and has had foul rhi'idren. of whom Piii^cess Marie, born in 1878, is Ibe eldest. Princess Jutta, who promises to be very handsome, is two years younger, ana. the two sister! ire very devoted to each otber. The Princesses in fir to Loudon generally stay at Cambridge >,tt»g3, Kew, or Meoklenburg House, Bttckinsham* ,4f,% •<fcAe,' 'heb?nnlnjof the present year Lady Salis- bry's heslth hegan tc give way, and she hag been uable to mix with Uie gaieties of the Jubilee I .F.zon. Sue had spent most of the summer at Ht.field, where her dotikey-chair might be daily S'n about those beautiful old gardens and avenues "tch she loves so well; and, although now confined I tQer room, she has been able to enjoy the u3ual faily gatherings this a.utumn. Nothing is more bMtiful than the devotion of the Prime Minister tais invalid wife, by whose chair he is frequently toe seen walking when able to snatch an hour fri the cares of State. Their msrried life hss j bti one of unruffled serenity, and in no previous faily of the Cecils has historic Hatfield shewn a m* united and beautiful home life than under the ruof the present Marchioness of Salisbury. 1 Senior Chief Insp-ectorship of Schools?, under thefiducntion Departmrnt, is about to becoma vact by the retirement of the Rev. T. W. Sharpe, C.Bwhose extended period of employment in that pos\vill expire this month. Mr. Sharpe, who has neai completed his sixty-eighth year, graduated f run Trinity College, Cambridge, as twelfth wreier in 1852. He was ordained deacon in 1853. and Post in the following year. He was appointed an pector of Schools in 1859, and Inspector of Traiig Colleges in 1875. Since 1890 he has been Chieigppctor, and was made a C.B. in 1894. The sahuf the post which he vacates is ZI, 100 a year. Thfslt of the Frimate to Northampton recalls a storyi unconnected with one of the Midland sees. The Sragan Bishop of was visiting a rura! parislo officiate at some festive function, and exper to find the usual village rejoicings. But on ririg from the station to the church he noticed that tgag on the tower was flying at half-mast. Ho what ?" he ash1 the driver; who's dead ? "Tlierll't-, DO one dc,d, sir," replied the jarvey, "that'.r you, sir. We always fly tlie Bag at mast for thtjhop, and at half for the Suffragan." The l,alf- t prelate" might have been angry, but he wa;. The humour of the situation amused him gry. Anrtnaffie li-s to be added to tile Hilt. or MHitia officerso have earned distinction for themselves in the vial military service. Captain E. C. d'H. Fairtloi 4th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers havingn made a D.S.O. "in recognition of L-1, tfiating%d service whilst employed against Bawarda roarauding naiive chia,en the frontier befweetena Leone and Liberia, 1896." Lord Vs oisele, fcuown to be a firm believer in the Militia, holds strongly that the service has never t properly encouraged. At a result, several t, officers who have done good service in Africa aiSewhere have been singled out lately for ;p9Ccognidon, which in all cases has boen deservedheBe examples, remarks the Army and A'avy G-a. ought to act as an inducement till others tok employment, more particularly in; Africa. e are many keen soldiers in the com- missioneqjg of the, Militia, and the excellent reports r'=\!d to the Colonial Office from time to time of t1.vho are in its service shew clearly that they to be relied upon to do their duty when broiface to face with these bSaek enemies which ip \8t forty-two years British troops bUQ found to Îèir M<M*<t Ðal 01»" Captain William Edward Clifton Smith, another of the slain officers, entered the army in 1889, and got his company on October 21st last year. He had only recently returned to the Derbyshire Regiment, after a period of service in Africa under the Royal Niger Company. Major Forbes-Macbean, who was wounfled in the fight, has twenty-one years' service, having joined the army in 1879 He became Captain in 1884 .nd Major in 1893. He served with the 92nd (Gordon) Rigtilaiiderb in the Afghan War of 1879-80, and was piesent in the engagement at Charaaiah on October 3th, 1879, with the Maidan Expedition, in the )perations around Cahul in December. 1879, and in the action at Ch-irasiah in 1880. He accompanied [..ord Roberts during the inarch to Gawiaiiar, was present at the reconnaissance on October 31st and at [,he Battle of CAndaiiar. He received for this cam- paign the medal with three claups and the brooze iecoration. He also served in the Boer War of 1881 'md was mentioned in despatches. For those who wish to be mildly vicious at a moderate expense, says Mr. Douglas Sladen in the Graphic, Oatend is very handy. You can see fortunes won and lost in a night as you can at Monte Carlo, though perhaps not quite so often, for mly some of the people who gamble every winter gamble on through the summer. You can become a neither of the Club Prive for the whole season fo- twenty francs. There is no difficulty about being U' .ted to the club. All you have to do is to get our name put down two days before you wish to ommonce your membership by any Tom, Dick, or fiarry who is already a member. Tiiis has its dis- advantages. One day two duly elected members ntered the club and proceeded to place the naximum— £ 430, I olieve-tfw one on red and the ither on black. They were expert, players, and just is the ball was going lo settle into black the ono who had staked on re*1 Iijok up his stake and walked. Nothing coula be done he bin); these gambling clubs being technically illegal, -nit could be brought <13 the Belgian courts to «;over money. A litti, jphilc ago the wife of a leading business man. at Antwerp was discovered draping louis J'or out jf her fan on to a winning square afte. the ball had stopped. She was watched, and observed to do it K verrtI times. Inquiries were made as to who she svafi, m the good position of herhusi and wa- learnt the authorities* of the club decided to spare lim the pain of ;jiy public scandal, and neithe: expelled her from the club aor furhade her to entei it. She was pcli- ely informed that she must not sii down at the table-that was ail. She could still pUj st anding np, it being impossible then for htr to play othei'wise than fairly. Much sjmpn*hy is natu^Uy expressed for Colonel fen Hamilton, who has been deprived of his brigaie comma nd in the Tirah expedition, his horse having fallen 01 him and broken his leg. Colonel Hamilton at bovue when the frontier war brok- out, but at once tlrrew up his leave and hurried back to lnitie when it became known that an expedition was to be crgaoised under >3ir William Lockliart. Originally in the Gordon Highlanders, Colonel Hamilton's promotion has been rapid. Nov yet forty- the year. of age. he became a colonel in the Army in November, 1891 he was but tliirtv-oiglit, and he is a C. B. and a D.S. O. For a fighting soldier of his qualities it mi st be a bitter disappointment to iv. absent fro'E the ^eld at a time when there is reol hard woxk lo be dl)fJe.

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