COLONEL ALBERT AUGUSTUS POPE, President of the Pope Manufacturing Company, was born in Boston in 1843. He received an ordinary public-school education, and at nineteen years of age entered the Union army as a volunteer, with the appointment of second lieutenant in the 35th Massachusetts Infantry, serving with distinction, and being gazetted lieutenant-colonel "for gallant conduct in the battles of Knoxville, Poplar Springs Church, and front of Petersburg." At the close of the war he commenced business in Boston, and, becoming interested in the development of the bicycle, he began to introduce the machines into the United States, commencing the manufacture of them in 1878. The Pope Manufacturing Company are the proprietors of the "Columbia" bicycle, and their works are among the largest of the kind in the world. Colonel Pope has taken an active interest in affairs of public moment both in his native State and throughout the country, notably so in the movement for establishing better roads, and in the welfare and education of factory employees. EMPEROR WILLIAM OF GERMANY. _Born January 27, 1859._ [Illustration: AGE 10. 1869. PRINCE WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA, YOUNGEST LIEUTENANT IN THE ARMY.] [Illustration: AGE 25. 1884. PRINCE WILLIAM, COLONEL OF INFANTRY.] [Illustration: AGE 15. 1874. STUDENT AT CASSEL.] [Illustration: AGE 20. 1879. PRINCE WILLIAM, PREMIER LIEUTENANT.] [Illustration: AGE 29. CROWN PRINCE OF PRUSSIA, IN THE UNIFORM OF A COLONEL OF HUSSARS.] [Illustration: AGE 29. EMPEROR WILLIAM OF GERMANY, KING OF PRUSSIA, IN THE UNIFORM OF A GENERAL OF CUIRASSIERS.] [Illustration: AGE 33. DECEMBER, 1892. EMPEROR WILLIAM OF GERMANY, IN THE UNIFORM OF A GENERAL OF CUIRASSIERS OF THE ROYAL BODY GUARD.] EUGENE FIELD. _Born in St. Louis, 1850._ [Illustration: AGE SIX MONTHS.] [Illustration: AGE 12.] [Illustration: AGE 20.] [Illustration: AGE 23.] [Illustration: AGE 30.] [Illustration: AGE 34.] [Illustration: AGE 42.] COLONEL ALBERT A. POPE. _Born in Boston, 1843._ [Illustration: AGE 7.] [Illustration: AGE 15.] [Illustration: AGE 19. 1862. LIEUTENANT IN THE 35TH MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY.] [Illustration: AGE 27.] [Illustration: AGE 48.] DREAMS GO BY CONTRARIES. BY GEORGE H. JESSOP. "I don't want to hurry any one," remarked our host, shaking the ashes out of a well-blackened meerschaum, "but we have a long day before us to-morrow, and if any one wants any sleep this is the time to take it." No response from any one of the half-dozen men lounging in the snug armchairs of that most perfectly appointed smoking-room. "I don't mind," said Sir Alan. "Two or three hours in bed are enough for me at any time. Please pass the spirit case, Jones. I wonder you're not sleepy, Tom Everton. You used always to be in bed by eleven when you had an early morning in prospect, but I suppose matrimony has cured you of that along with other failings." "Tom says he isn't going," some one remarked.