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THE KING OF SPAIN.
SOME REFLECTIONS ON HIS AP
PROACHING 31 \JO it IT V.
Hi* Education—Preparations for In
iroUa'lnK Him to Hl* Fntnre Sub.
Coronation Not to lie
Postponed.
From ih© New York Bveping Post.
Madrid, May 25.—0n the occasion of the
fourteenth birthday of the young King of
Spain, May 17, 1900, Spaniards have begun
to realize that the minority of their sov
ereign is fast drawing to a close, as the
posthumous son of Alphonso XII will
come of age, under the present constitu
tion of the monarchy, on May 17, 1902.
When the late St nor Canovas del Castillo
frame! the constitution of 1876 with the
assistance of the first Cortes of the res
toration, he c nttmolated fixing the ma
jority of future sovereigns at the age of
eighteen, ar.d he reconsidered his decis
ion chiefly because the then r igning sov
ereign, Alphonso XII, had been restored
to the throne of his ancestors by the mi i
tary pronunciam, nto of Marshal Marti
nex Campos in Decemeber, 1874, at the a e
of seventeen, and had perfectly playe.l his
part. There were precedents beside® in
the past of Spain. One King Don Jaime
1. (11 Conquistador) was declared of ;< e
at eleven by the Cortes held at Mouzon.
Three kings succeeded at thirteen years
old, one at fourteen, two at fifteen, cne
at sixteen, and two at twenty. The pres
ent King’s grandmo.her, the ex-Qu. n
Isabella, was declared of age at thirteen
in 1843 by the Cor.es. to put an end to
the regency of the widow of King Ferdi
nand VII, Dona Christina of Naples,
which had lasted ten years. The present
regency has lasted already more than
fourteen years, as Dona Maria Christina
of Hapxburg became a widow and reg ru
jit the end of November, 18:5, nearly six
months b fore the birth of her son, Al
phenso XIII.
It cannot be denied that the widowed
Queen has and gallantly .ion
her duty to the elate and her adopted
country. She has made herself wonder
fully respected by the people, and no for
eign ruler can ask more. She has done
so especially by her irreproachable con
duct as a woman and by the indexible
way in which she has maintained the tone
and morality of ihe Spanish court. The
breath of slander has never sullied royal
ty since the reins of government passed
Into the hands cf ihe Austilan wid w . f
Alphonso XII, when she was only s.x-and
twenty. Her subjects of all classes, h r
enemies, the Carlists and Republicans,
have never challenged her devotion to
her children, and particularly to the son
whom she has had to watch and att. n 1
to affectionately and so anxiously
through seveta severe il'nessos in his in
fancy and childho and. It is said .hit she
has been rewarded in the way that moth
ers naturally appreciate most, i y u <x
♦ raordinary affection and confidence on
the part of the still delicate-looking b y
Prince, whom she has so cate Tilly rea.ei
in the traditions cf the House of ]><fur
bon, ming.ed with nor a f- w of the ideas
and traditions of the Hapsburgs.
After looking co his health, she has si, w
ly developed his tastes for outdoor ex r
ciees and athletic sports in the noil s cf
the day not occupied by a very bra i
range of studies. Some of those who . p
proach royalty even express fear that t e
precocious interest, the inquiring disp si
tion. of their young King have bee:: too
much used by his many professors to
cram him with classics, sciences, logic,
metaphysics, literature, history and mith
ematics. He has shown so much .ip i- al
for foreign languages that he talks end
writes beside® his paternal Spanish ad
his maternal German, English,, French
and Italian. He is said to bo veiy fond of
music, and singularly enough, equally so
of German classical music and of the
sprightly, gay. popular Spanish mel dies
and guitar tunes. The Queen R* gent has
shown that, like her pre iecesso., she is
convinced that a King of Spain must b 1
above all a Catholic and a soldier. She
secured for him as a godfather Ik pe L o
XIII, who has showered on his royal
godson and on his moth, r marks of s.m
pathy and regard, which have* sadly <;i -
pleased and disappointed the pntisans of
the pretender Don Car os, and of his on,
Don Jaime, still plentiful in many prov
inces of Spain, in the ranks of the iu al
and cathedral-clergy, and. ab. v-> ad. in
the religious orders of both sexes. She
brought her son up and his sisters, she
Princess of the Austria® an l the Infai
Maria Theresa, as stanch Cath li -s. Sh>*
gave him as confessor her own spiritua
adviser, the Jesuit Father Mont n . a. <1
Alphonso XIII has been confirmed an I
taken his first communion in th • chape,
royal at the palace. He is a regular com
municant several times t\ year.
The military training of the King be
gan directly Gen. Sanchis was placed at
the head of his staff of professors, and
the colonel of artillery, Loriga, and two
other officers, detailed to initiate him to
soldiering. A select band of young no
bles of about his own age were drilled
with him. and later on by His Majesty,
in the Casa de Cainpo, a large and pic-
turesque royal domain outside Madrid,
and during the summer months in the
grounds ot the Palace of Miramar at San
Sebastian. This training was tested for
the first time shortly before Alphonso
XIII's fourteenth birthday in Madrid. The
Queen Regent, with the War Minister,
Gen. Azcarraga, and all the generals of
her military household, the professors of
her son, accompanied the King to the
barracks, where a crack regiment of Ca
xadores is quartered with the first regi
ment of the line, styled “Immemorial del
Rey,” the lineal successor of the famous
“terctos of Flanders’’ of Charles V. Ai
phonso XII wore on this occasion, as he
does at levee, drawing-rooms and all state
ceremonies, the uniform of the Infantry
Cadet School at Toledo, dark blue tunic,
red trousers and the infantry shako.
Round his neck hung the toison d'or or
Spanish golden fleece, and on his breast
was the Black Eagle cross of Germany,
a recent present from the Kaiser. He
took his place first on the right of a
company in the evolutions of which,
sword in hand, he took part like any su
baltern, and then, stepping out to the
front, he pu* the company through all
its tactical movements, giving the word of
command in a shrill, still boyish vol e.
Afterward he Inspected both ri giments,
and it Is intended that he shall hence
forth be frequently put into contact with
the army both in Madrid and in the
provinces, over which lie will tour during
the next two years. Nor will the fleet be
neglected, It seems, as it Is an open se
cret that Gonna Christina wishes to em
bark with her son and daughters in July,
on the flagship of the squadron of evolu
tion, to visit successively Bilbao* Santan
der, Gtjon, Corunna, the arsenal and
dockyard of Fcrrol, Vigo, going l ater on
in the autumn to Cadiz, San Fernando,
and round to the Mediterranean ports in
order to wind up at Barcelona, despite
the Separatist and CatiUanist agitations
that ore just now so lively in Catalonia.
Indeed, there are strange and widespread
undercurrents moving In all ela * s • (
Spanish society which seem to have
aroused at court the desire to do more
than hitherto to keep up the spirit of loy
alty and show the nation, the Church and
the army and navy til© Frince who will
be their ruler in 1002.
This activity of royalty has been mm h
commented upon, as it had been rumored
that the idea of postponing for two yr.'.'V,
With the assent of the Cortes, the coming
of age of Alphonso XIII, had been mooted
In very high quarters, both on account of
the King’s health and with a view to com
plete his education and training. This
suggestion was so unfavorably received
by the public that the ministerial and dy
nastic press were Instructed to s iv that
no such thing was contemplated. It h Ip
ed, however, to make politicians and the
press give more attention than usual this
year to the King's birthday and to his \
doings. El Impartial, a paper that Is j
known to receive Its Information coi ant
ing the royal family from vert tr •
worthy sources In the palace, and' whoa©
editor and co-proprtetor, Senor Gasset, a
man under forty, has accepted a seat in
*he' cabinet, preskied over by Senor Stl
vtia, as Minister of Tublks Works, Corn
merce, Industry, anti Navigation, publish
ed an article that created much impree
sion on the very day aft. r Alphonso a
birthday. El Imparctal clearly point® out
that it is not sufficient, when the King
hs only two years ahead of him before
his becoming of age. to let his subjects
see him at palace, religious, or state cere
monies. and in the barracks and *at the
opening of the Parliament. This paper,
which has the largest circulation in Spain.
u.>s much stress upon the necessity of 4
completing the training and edu<*ation of
th 2 young monarch by putting him close
ly. if prudently, and by degrees, In con
tact with the country and people he will
so soon have to govern, allowing him to
see much that he cannot learn in books
or from the best of professors, and letting
him hear from men of all classes and con
ditions what a constitutional and par
liamentary ruler must know in a nation
where parliamentary and constitutional
government exist chiefly on paper and in
the outward forms. It is only fair to say
that Spaniards themselves are very frank
and plainspoken in telling foreigners
that the education of their future ruler
is more difficult from every point of view
than that of any European sovereign, tr?-
cauce everybody knows that their elec
tions, political, provincial, and municipal,
ore never sincere, and only the result of
more or avowed understanding® bo
tween the oppositions and the powers that
be, so that often in the last tWenty-slx
years the sovereign has had necessarily
to intervene.
SLAIN BY THEIR OWN SOLDIERS.
Officer* Who Die in Rattle From
JlulletM Fired From Rear.
From London Tit-Bits.
Tragic Indeed is every incident connect
ed with the battlefield, but more so are
some of the mysterious occurrences which
have ofttimes taken place during a cam
paign, and which might be put down as
cold-blooded murders. It seems a very
unlikely thing (hat in the heat of a hard
fought conflct the origin of a man's death
can be determined—that is to say, wheth
er he died by the hands of one of his
comrades or by those of the enemy; con
sequently men wkh a grievance against
their officers have often made use of such
opportunities to wipe off old scores and
have gone undiscovered.
A notable instance cf this occurred just
before the battle of Woerth, in the Fran
co-Prussian war. A certain officer of con
siderable repute had got himself gener
ally disliked by his perseverance in bully
ing those under him. A few days before
this the first great battle of the war, when
the French were near the border in their
hopeless endeavor to reach Berlin, a
rumor ran through the camp late at nigh*
that the Prussians were advancing and
would shortly he up. Instantly pande
monium reigned and scouting parties
were sent out in all directions. One of
these was under the officer in question
and when some way from camp he was
fired upon, the bullet bringing him down.
The Frenchmen, thinking they had got
into an ambush, retired, firing at an in
visible foe as they did so, but os no
counter-shots were received they grew
courageous again and, after being re'r
forced, advanced to the fatal spot. The
body of the officer was found, but not
so that of his assailant, who had evi
dently escaped unscathed.
On returning to the camp it was found
that no trace of the enemy had been dis
covered; in fact, at that time the Prus
sians were far away from the spot on- the
other side of Woerth. Accordingly a post
mortem examination was held on the offi
cer’s body and a French service bullet
was extracted therefrom, but the murderer
was never detected, although he was
doubtless in the camp and had slipped out
unawares to commit the crime.
But this is only' one of many tragedies
which took place during the war, and it
is said that at least 2 per cent, of the
French officers killed fell by' the hands
of their own men, and a little over half
that number in the Prussian army. In the
former instance the -crimes were due for
the most part to the national feeling of
never forgetting a grievance, and in the
latter to the rigidity of discipline, which
sometimes amounts to bullying.
Even Marshal Bazalne was nearly mur
dered before he capitulated at Metz. He
was by no means a popular man, and on
this account always stood In dread of the
assassin, and Ills fears were not lessened
when a plot was discovered to put poison
in his food, the scheme being hatched
by his own men. The offenders, or some
of (hem, were promptly tried and shot be
fore many hours were over.
A rather ead case is forwarded In con
nection with the Italian disaster at
Adowa. of a few years ago. During the
melee a man was seen io shoot in the di
rection of his captain, who at the same
time fell mortally wounded. When the
battle was over the man was charged with
the crime, and after a scant trial shot by
his comrades, despite his protests of in
nocence, one of the chief means for his
condemnation being that he was known to
have a grievance against the officer. Nev
ertheless the affair was soon forgotten till
some nine months afterward, when a sol
dier came forward from the same regiment
with the crime. He related
the facts in detail, giving his motive as
petty tyranny on the part of the officer
some years previous, wljen he, the mur
derer, was a recruit, and stated that he
would never have given himself up had
not another man died in his stead. Need
less to say. this did not excuse him, and
he perished in the prison yard of Naples.
Not many months ago thre Spanish sol
diers were executed at Madrid for the al
leged murder of an officer during the hos
tilities in Cuba, although the evidence
against them was meager. Sufficient wa
it that subsequent to the battle of Sin
Juan the officer was found dead seme way
from the battlefield with a Mauser bullet
in his brain, and the three men referred
to were seen in the vicinity at about ihe
time the affair must have takeni place.
Of course they may have been Justly con
demned, as tragedies of this nature were
especially frequent in the Spanish ormy
throughout the war, but at the same 1 ini
the authorities failed to take into account
that there were many so-called “loyal'’
Cubans attached to the Spanish forces
and also present at San Juan who had
been given Mauser rifles and ammuni kn
by their oppressors, but whose dislike to
Spanish officers was proverbial.
Although such crimes are more common
in the majority of continental armies th in
in our own, we must not imagine that
similar oases have never taken place in
which Tommy Atkin* has participated.
In the Zulu war, just prior to the battle
of Ulundl. a young lieutenant In one of
the line regiments was found shot some
way from camp, and after the campaign
a soldier on his deathbed at Davenport
confessed to having been his mu derer.
Similarly, too, during the hostilities In
the Soudan in 1883 an officer of feme te
pule was found to have been mysterous
ly killed by an English bullet, and, al
though the affair was hushed up and pat
down to the dervishes, who were said to
have obtained some British rides by inex
plicable means. It was subsequently dis
closed that, whereas, they actual.y did
gain possession of some of our rifles, they
obtained no ammunition with them. De
spite tills significant fact, however, the
perpetrator of the crime was never ar
rested.
Tlie IliKher Education.
Mary Isabel Brush in the University of
Chicago Weekly.
She wore a big, black velvet hat trim
med with feathers, and a shirt waist with
frivolous pearl buttons down the back.
Anil yet she seldom “flunked" her classes.
Indeed, she confided to me at a Kelley re
ception that she wa* studying so hard
that she feared Ihe strain would affect
her health. Her specialty .was English,
and she was then deep in the romantic
movement. After ekts one day sha In
vited me to stop at her room anil make a
cup of chocolate. Just as we were ready
to boll the milk, however, It transpired
that some unknown person had borrowed
her stove. While she went In search of It
I turned to her library. It was contained
In a tall, slim structure of severe design,
and was concealed by a brown silk cur
tain. .On Investigation It was found to
consist of two volumes, one “The Sorrows
of Satan" and the other "Ships That
Pass in the Night." ,
THE MOBNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 11)00.
MILLIONAIRES OF LONDON.
’ /
MOSTLY AMERICANS \\l> AFRICAN,
IT AYOI’LD SEEM.
They Are Not Very Welcome and
They Are Printed About in a AVay
Which 31 ust Pain One Refugee
From Publicity Here.
From the London Mail.
“We are not a rich aristocracy,” wrote
Lady Warwick seven years ago. ‘‘Wo
are, many of us, deadly poor, little better
than splendid paupers.”
Are these splendid paupers, long owners
of rural England, and worthy sustainers
of the traditions of a noble race, giving
way to American manufacturers, to South
African speculators, to German merchant
princes? Our old aristocracy absorbed the
Rothschildo and pentincks of previous
generations, and made them part of itself.
The new millionaires threaten to absorb
it. From Skibo Catfile, near Dornoch
Firth, clown to Norres, by' Cowes, the cos
mopolitans of capital are seizing some of
the fairest spots of our land.
These millionaire invaders ore so enor
mously rich that they are indifferent to
the fancy prices arked* for great estates.
At least one of them, Mr. Astor, has an
income of a million a year, secured ir>
ground rent® and railway bonds. When
he wanted Cliveden he could afford to M l
high enough to tempt even the multi
millionaire Duke of Westminster. The
£200.000 he is said to have paid for that * s
tate represented only about a fifth of his
yearly profits.
Mr. Carnegie’s income equals that of
Mr. Astor. Quito half a dozen of the in
vaders count their ycarl.v gains ot from
£200,000 to £500.000. The men who make £2OO
a day arc quite a host.
It must be a very extraordinary English
estate which cannot now be rente 1 for
from £2,000 to £3,000 a year. The upkeep
of such a place will cost from £6,0C0 to
£IO,OOO a year more. Even the poorest
millionaire, the man who is not making
more than £50,009 a year, can afford this
Meanwhile, in at least on* 1 case, the man
wkh a family history of 800 yearn behind
him. has to bury himself in. n £OO a year
semi-detached villa in some quiet town
near London. The rent of his old man
sion goes to satisfy mortgages, leaving
him perhaps £SOO a year for himself. This
is no fancy picture.
\\ here They Come From.
Most of our milli- naire inv Ip, a r rrv
from America and South Af.i a. Amorg
the best of them is Mr, Andrew C mege.
Scotch by birth. American by adoption,
he started life on four .shillings a w-ek,
and is now worth ftO.OCO.OTO. He found
America a good land for earning money,
hut ho loves to spend it in tin- land if
his birth. The traditions of his p-ople
drew him back to Scotland. At fits' ho
rented Cluny. but. watching hi- chance
he secured the great estate or Ski!*> fa t>
at n bargain. He loves to net pa t . f
the laird. Simple, quiet, modest, kindly,
all hie neighbors like him. A year ago h"
startled the world by dccluirg (hat he
means to distribute all his money 1. •for
his death. “The rrfan who dies rich dies
disgraced,” says he.
Mr. William "Waldorf Aft or is a scion
of an ancient house that achieved wealth
In the United States-. Inheriting aa es
tate worth over £20,000,010. It. found the
lot of the rich American too hard l > be
borne. He hatfd the publh ity ply n to
hi3 smallest acts, so he cam? to England
for peace. After renting Dansdown House,
he secured a town residence iu Carbon
House Terrace, and bought the b aiKlfuF
estate of Cliveden from the Duke of W* s
- He transferred all his. bn, i; os
interests hen?, building an office cn the
Thames Embankment, which is nothin ;
but a gigantic s.rong-rootn. His ofli." is
probably the most charming and the h e
guarded building in the world", anel deeds
valued at SiOO.OOO.OCO are said to rest there
Mr. Aster’s one personal a m is to
avoid'publiclty; his ewe great busin -ss is
to invest in real estate. Day by ay he
goes down to his office, almost with the
regularity of a clerk. He has a pas ion
for building', and many of the new office
buildings between the Strand artel the
Thames 'are more or less under his c n
trol. His love of solitude has caused him
to forbid boating parties 'he old privilege
of landing in Cliveden Woods. He is a
cultured man of letters, and his son was
one of the most popular boys at Eton and
Captain- of Ihe Boats.
The Bradley Martins have mode them
selves a place In English soc 'tv, and
have annexed a house in Cbesre rfl 11 'I r
elens and n Highland estate at Glen Urqu
hart. Nearly thirty years ago .Mr. Bradley
Martin, a young lawyc-r cf good family,
met his future wife under roman ce < ir
cumstances at a Vanderbilt wedil tig. They
were married within two month , .nd
some time afterward the wife's father died
and left a fortune of Mb,£o*l),ooo. With ih
part of this money that came to them tie
Bradley Martins crossed the Atlantl * and
set down to conquer English society. T <>y
took one of the costliest, eer s ootines in
Invernesshire. One daughter married .<n
earl. The Bradley Matt nsc-; r and th i
real triumph when they devised the mo, t
costly and extravagant fancy dress ball
of modern times.
Jailed Plutocrats.
Seme of our Amerk an mil'l jnaire 'nvad
ers come here f r rest. Of this type Is Mr.
James It. Kent, for long cha:: pi n I" a
on the New York S.ock Exchange. With
the practically unlimi'ed capital of t e
Tobacco and Oir Trusts b hind him he
manipulated the markets almost as he
pi ased In six great d< als. in six years he
won $.3 04)3,100. Now, with a sorely tried
nervous system, he names here for p* a *-
and quiet, which h s own hurting coun
try cannot give him.
Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the New
York Word, belongs to the same ela s.
Frem the bottom cf the ladder he has go.
to the topmost Tung. His newspaper pal
ace. twenty-two storie- high, is ono of
the sights of New t orlc city. To-day, amid
his greatest triumphs, he comes away to
Loud n for some months each year. lie
seeks the Quietest town house he can find
ands tties there. He suffers perpetual \
from insomnia. But ho still looks a very
young man, and his business power is
grealer than ever. lie forgets nothing,
and extracts from every man all h- cin
tell. His one recreation Is music. Tall,
thin, full of quick movement, his figure
is f,.mt iar a' many to- certs. lie wi 1
never talk of money matt- rs, lut a few
years ago his annual income was esti
mated at £21)0.000.
Mr. Marshall Field, the merchant prin-e
of Chicago, loves Warwickshire;, where h •
Is well known in hunting circles. He has
retired fr< m bt a.nests t ow, but he was
lot g the White y and the Upton of th
windy c-i y. The desl -ns al ine of his
great store cost 3 0 ,l)30. T n thousnn 1
hepmen called him master, and 10 0))
small retailers cursed his . normous busi
ness as being their ruin. For he was the
most enterprising, the most relentless, th
mosts iccis ful of mom p 'lists*. Seme of
the millions made in Chicago now find
their way here.
Apart frem South Atria. our own colo
nies send us few millionaires, but those
who do come make their was. It would
be hard to call I-ord Mounts ephtn an in
vader, for he was born in Scotland. Yet
Canada Is his own land, and Its rume
will evtr be connected with the making
of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In town
he llv<a not iar from Mr. A i r, in the
country he has a home near Lord Salis
bury.
Lord Stralhoona is another Scotchman
who found wealth In Canada. Ho went
out to the wild West as an agent of the
Hudson Bay Company, and scon fought
his way to the ton. Although High Com
mss oner tor Canada, ho ha as in my In
terests tore ns iv r th- water II s s Un
did services during the present war ato
frish in every rrird.
Some From Almira tin.
Not many millionaire Australian* now
arrive here. Best known of them it Mr.
W. K. D'Arry, who owes his wealth to
one happy strok". Thirty-six years ago ho
was u solicitor In Rockhampton, in
Queensland. Two of his friends, brothers
named Morgan, hit on a great streak of
gold-bearing land. D'Atcy helped thftn to
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A RARE BARGAIN CHANCE.
develop it, putting some money Into the
business, and receiving in return a quar
ter share. The Morgans su'd out .for a few
thousands; D’Arcy held on. The nil-ie,
Mount Morgan, as it is called, turned out
to be one of the richest in the world. In
one year alone over £1,000,000 was distrib
uted among the owners. Mr. D’Arcy iliri
woII afford Pi take fine estates over iiyn
-ut- paupers.” He has live 1 in
England and played a great part in society
tor some time now.
A low weeks since another great Aus
tralian set out for London. The railway
station at Adelaide was almost block -d by
the crowd that assembled to see him off,
and the chief justice of the colony jcd the
3-hecrs of farewell. Numbers went down to
the boat to catch a last glimpse of the
great man, and as a sort of tip the mill
ionaire gave CO.IOO for educational purpo-.es
before his departure. Mr. George Brook
man has not sought publicity since he has
been in London. Yet he is one of the r'ch
< st men at the Antipodes, and he and his
brother are little kings in the mining world
of South and Western Australia.
The stranger millionaires from South
Africa are a host in themselves. Here they
not almost wholly absorbed Park Lane?
There is, for instance, Mr. J. 15. Robinson,
who lives in Dudley House. Born in Natal
fifty-lie years ago, he started life as a
wool buyer, ann then look to farming, lie*
prospered greatly, and numbered his Cat
tle by the thousand. Then came the dia
mond tush, and Mi*. Robinson was one of
the firs; in the field. He was one of the
■luckiest and in six weeks made HO,WO.
Soon ia* had a considerable fortune. Then
came tdiscovery of the Witwatersund
gold fields, lie was first there, and bought
l'ora few hundred pounds land that turned
out to is? worth many hundreds of thous
ands. Men though! him mad as he Invest
'd there, blit their laugh changed iu a very
few day s. In low lie came to London, and
has since made this his headquarters.
I*on.c tho ally of President Kruger, he at
last turned against him, worn out by his
obstinacy and folly. His ambition Is said
to be to leave each of his children a mill
ion. He has u large family.
A King of Diamonds.
Only a few hundred yards from Mr.
Robinson lives Mr. Alfred Beit, who Is as
rich as the Rothschilds. In politics he
has allied himself with Mr. Rhodes, and
has b< -n one of the greatest workers for
our empire in South Africa. Yet by
birth he is a German. The son of a
• ■•cat Hamburg merchant, ho went to
South Africa as a lad to study the de
velopments there. He studied to such
good effect that he made millions, ac
quired a predominant interest in the dia
mond trade, and secured a lion's share In
the gold fields. He is so quiet, gentle,
retiring in appearance, that when folks
first meet him they cannot credit the
fad that tie Is the cleverest financier of
the day.
To mention Mr. Belt calls up his senior
partner, Mr. Julius Wernher. Mr. Wi ru
ber looks more the typical South African.
He does not openly participate In politic*
like Mr. Belt, but from bis palatial of
fices lit Blshopgate street lie does more
than many give him credit for. Neither
of these multlmilllondkes has shown tho
desire to make a mark In society. Society
has come <o them, but they have not
gone to it. .Mr. Wernher now occupies
Luton Hoo, Mme. de Ftilbe’s charming
place.
But to tell of them all would be to fill
columns, 't here are triumphant cosmo
politan speculators like Mr. von Andre
anil Mr. Musenthal, princely German
merchants ilk Sir "Ernest Cassel, happy
lovers of adventure like Mr. Frank
Thompson.
There arc political “bosses” and patron*
of sport such us Mr. Richard Croker of
New York city, sober American bankers
like Mr. A. J. Drexel, of yachting and
motoring fame; social leaders such as
Mrs. Ronalds and Mrs. Mackay. Have
we not fortunate financiers like the
brothers Neumann or Mr. Hyndnry Gold
mnnn, who married Lord Peel’s daughter;
Mr. Mendel, the great promoter, and
lucky Mr. Piet Marais, owner of ro many
Transvaal ground rents? The list is un
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WAR AS IT IS TO-DAY.
JULIAN RALPH’S PICTURE OF A
MODERN RATTLE.
Dow It Looks unit Sounds—No Great
Resounding; Roar—little Fire Is
the Principal Feature Horrors
Among Wounded.
Julian Ralph In London Mall,
What is a modern battle—how does It
look and sound?
Really, the field of operations Is so ex
tensive and the range of'ntodern guns is
so great that battle conditions have al
tered until there Is no longer any general
’’clash of battle,” or even any possibility
of grasping or viewing on engagement
from any single point. There is no great
resounding noise In war nowadays. You
hear one of our big guns loosed three
miles over on the right, and another one
two miles on the left. If you are near
one it makes a tremendous noise, yet I
have not heard one explosion as loud as a
good, strong clap ot thunder. You hear
the guns of the enemy cough far in front
of you, and their shells burst within your
lines with a nearer, louder sound—but not
a really great or deafening noise, by any
mean*. Our guns create almost no smoke,
though out lyddite shells throw up clouds
of dust and smoke where they fall, miles
away. Because the Boers are using old
fashioned powder in their cannon there
Is a small white Jtloud wherever one is
fired and a spurt of red and whero their
shells dig Into the velds. The smoke of
war, therefore, and the so-called "roar of
battle” are both alike—occasional, scat
tered, Inconsiderable.
The ritie firing has been the principal
feature of our bat'les. It sounds, as I
write once before, like the frying of fat
tr like the making and stopping of
green wcod in a bonfire. If you are with
in iwo triies of ih • front you are apt
to be under fire, and then you hear the
tnu ,ic of the individual bullets. Their
songs Is like the magic note of a mos
qulto—"Z—z—z—z—z” they go over your
head; ''z-z—z—z—p” they finish as they
bury them si Ives In the ground. This Is
a sound only to ho heard when the bul
k's are very close. You kick up your
htels and run a hundnd, Of iv- n ‘"fifty,
tanis and you hear no hirg but the gen
eral crackle of rifle fire in and before
the trenches. The “putt-putt" (or Vlck
ersJNordenfleld) gun is able to Interest
>ou at a distance of three miles its ex
po ions are bfHt and s’rlhei by the nick
name given to the gun by one regiment
—“The blooming door-knocker.” Its hul
lets or shrl's are us big as (he bowl of
a largo briar-root pipe, and they tear
and slit the atr with a terrible sound, ex
pkdirg when they strike. The firing of
tho sun was heard all over the largest of
rur battlciie'ds, and tho explosions of the
shells sound a long way. because they
are apt to take place on the quiet outer
edge of the field. The whizz that even
these missis make In flying, however, is
like th*- whispered answers of a maid In
love—only to h - hea’d by the favored in
ti vidual who is especially addressed.
Not n Pandemonium.
In a word. th< re is not much nols" In
modem battles These individual sounds
of which I speak are not loud enough to
blond. The crowning, all-prevading
noises are those of the guns and of tho
rifle fire, and on the vast veldt, spread
over a double line of five or seven m les
in length, only those that are very near
ar“ Vtry loud.
The bravery of our stretcher bi arers Is
as much beyond question as it is beyond
praise. When all of us lesser and Im
mediate historians of the moment have
told of tho valor of ail the generals, colo
mls, majors, captains and "Tommies” of
the army, we shall still have in common
justice, lo describe how the chaplains,
doctors and st etcin r b are is go In and
out of the most hel ish fire—not once or
twice, hut all through every battle.
it is just without the range of fire that
you see and realize the horrors of war. It
it is there that the wounded crawl and
stagger by you: it. is there that they spend
their final outpour of energy and fall down
, to lie until, assiiituncc comes; It _1 there
. that you see th" stretchers, laden wl'h
their mangled freight, ami the sound ones
| liearlng the wounded on their backs and
!in their arms. Better yet—if so cheerful a
■ phrase is permissible In such a case—to
know the brutality and woe of war, hup
pen upon a kopje that has Just been
stormed or a trench that has been carried.
Go to such a place to-day, twenty eentu
! ries after Christ came with His message
of peace on earth and good will to men,
and behold what you shall see.
Few Groans,
"Here,” said I lo a photographer in such
a place—l think It was Belmont—"snap
this scene. Isjok at the wounded all over
the ground. Quick! Out with your came
ra.”
“Oh, I can’t,” said he, "It's too horri
ble!”
'As you please,” I said, “but It's what
the public wants.”
You read in the writings of those who
know nothing of war about the wrlthlngd
of the wounded and the jiroanlng cn tho
battlefield. There is no writhing, and the
groans are few and faint. There was one
man who was simply chewed up by t> shod
at Magersfonti in, and his sufferings must
have been awful. He kept crying, “Doc
tor, can't you do anything?” Another
begged to be killed, and the first wounded
man I saw in the war kept saying, in ever
so low ti voice, "Oh, dear, dear, dear! Oh.
dear, dear, dear!" But there is much less
groaning than you would imogine—very
little, In fact. Two things are so common
with the wounded as to be almost like
rules of behavior: First, they all beg for
water (It u.-ed to be cigarettes that they
asked tor on tho Turkish side in the last '
war In Europe), and next they seem al
ways to be mode gentle by their wounds.
Men of the roughed speech, profane by
second nature, cease to offend when stride- j
en clown.
"Well, mate,” sas one whose leg Is shat- j
tered, “you never know when your turn
will come, do you?"
And another simply cries, “Oh, dear!”
Now and then you hear. “For God’s
sake, get me taken to an ambulance," but
no profanity Is Intend'd there.
I have had half a dozen miai describe
how it feels to la; wounded. All who had j
bones shattered by expanding bullets used
nearly the same language to describe the !
sensation.
“You feel,” they say, “exactly as if you !
had received a powerful shock from an 1
electric battery, and them comt-H a blow
a* If your foot (or arm. or whatever part
It may be) was crushed by a stroke with ]
a tremendous mallet.” It is much the
same in a lesser degree If the bone Is.
struck by a Mauser bullet; but if (lie
smooth, slender, clean little shot merely
pierces the flesh, a burning or stinging
sensation Is the Instantaneous result.
"Lying six hours in the broiling sun was
pretty bad,” said one whose arm bone
was smashed; "but the really awful ex
perience; wus the Jolting over the rocks
when I was carried off in the ambulance.”
Another man—an officer—whose fool was
smashed by an explosive bullet, said;
“Look at my pipe. That’s what I did* to
keep from saying anything." He had bit
ten off on Inch of the hardened rubber
mouthpiece. That was before his wound
was dressed. The relief that Is given by
the dressing of a WOfind must be gigantic,
for you hear next to no groans or moans,
—Cons dcrable dissatisfaction Is ex
pressed In Fort Leavenworth, Kan., over
the neglect of the grave cf Gen Freder
ick Dent In the Na tonal Ctmetory In that
place. Giiiy a wooden siab marks the
grave at present. Gen. D nt was the
brother-in-law of Gon. Grant and distin
guished hime!f In the Mexican, Civil and
later Indian wars, being made malcr gen
eral in the Civil War,
C OMMON DEFEC TS OF EYESIGHT.
i Many Person* Refuse to We.-' ■■
Glasses for tlie Sake of The.,
Looks,
From the, Youth’* Companion.
The three defects of eyesight which nr
most commonly encountered In otherwt
healthy persons, and which can lie me <
or less perfectly overcome by mean* t
glasses, are near-sightedness, far-sightei
ness and astigmatism. These are all in
portnnt, for, l*eHides the discomfort ar
annoyanca of, !m|>erfect sight, the Invol
untary effort* which the sufferer mak
lo seo better strain the eyes, and not on
Injure them, but also give rise, througi
reflex action, to headaches and varied,
nervous disturbances. •
Near-sightedness, short-eightfdness, ;•
myopia, as it Is variously called, is a car
dltion of the eyeball—usually a lengthen
Trig—ln consequence of which the lays i
light are brought to u focus In fren* <.
the retina, and so the object is blurred.
This condition may exist frcn> birth, ho
Ist usually • lie result of too tnuch and ic
< arly use of the eyes, cs in the case of Ml
dents, engravers, women who do fine sew
ing. and so forth. Thus we may say that
[lulling children to work at seme ot tk*
kindergarten exercises, such a* perforitlri
and drawing, i In a double sense a short
sighted procedure.
Many rear-sighted p ople refuse to w*e"
glasses, preferring to deprive thenselve
of sight for everything Igyond the nor*
rather than to Injure their personal ap
pearame, as they think. Thin Is anoLhei
short-s'shted policy, for, besides 1 sin
much of the Joy of existence, which come
from seeing the beautiful things about an
ol>ove us, such persons are very liable t<
suffer from inflammation of the eye*, pro
duced by constant strain.
A les* common delect is long or far
sigliledness, or nypcrmetropla. This Is th
opposite of myopia, the eyeball being flat
toned or shortened, and the rays of ight
consequently not coming lo a focus by tht
time they reach the retina.
In till.? case, tlie eye often corrects the
defect more or less successfully by mak
ing the crystal line lens more convex, bu
It does this at the expense of the suffsrePf
nervous force, and so we ofien find ilret
and congested eyes, heada lies, Indiges
tion, and even serious nerve us affections.
The effort to correct the vision is entirely
Involuntary, and can be overcome only by
tin- fitting of suitable convex gU*=*.
The third and most c* tntticn defect Is as
iigmatiSm. In this condition thete is som
Irregularity, of the surface c*f the eye o
of the lens, by means of which the lmag
us it. reaches the retina is distorted. ITn
treated astigmatism Is a frequent cau*
of headai he and other nervous disturb
ances. The only relief Is the wearing o
glasses, at least while reading, writlnt
or whatever near objects are look-id at.
—‘‘Consumptives who go to New Mex!
co should make it their business to gc
well,” said Dr. John Taecher of Albt
querque, to a Washington newspupc
man. “They should have enough tnone.
to keep them from worrying. The,
should go there for the rest and not fo
sightseeing. Above all else, they shoub
disabuse their minds of the idea that the.
will get well In a rnqnth, or three month:
or six months. It takes a great deo
longer than that. They should be fre
from bother. This they cannot be If tht
are looking for employment. There at
twenty applicant* for every Job that 1
vacant. Then, again, sick people do nt
want 'to work. They should be free 1
use reserve strength In easting off the dl)
ease. New Mexico will be the greate*
health resort In the world. It has all th
advantage*. The climate Is the beet l
the world. We have more mineral spring
—containing different healthful propertte
—than any other place known in any par
of the civilised world, none excepted,
have visited all of the famous health re
sorts, and know that none of them hav
the advantage* co*essed by New Mo
lco.”-
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