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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 Your “Safety” Is guaranteed by,our hand some, well-made and EN DURING Bathing suits. The wildest waves that ever raged cannot tear you tfrom your W ater Armor, prices en able every his or her OWN SUIT, and avoid the un ' pleasant, T T-. *§ ;;::"7' iy uneasy reflec tions that come with lump ing into EVERYBODY’S SUIT and SIZE, at the Beach. FINE NAVY BLUES "freezersT NEGLIGEE SHIRTS tosatt every limit. Nothing, how ever, worse than THE BEST GOOD. NEW WASH BAT TIES. NOVELTY LOCK BELTS. FANCY HALF HOSE. A special line in TANS, with MERCER IZED SILK HEEL AND TOE, ONLY JSI- I 9 A IK. 25 PER .CENT. DFF On nil mil ninln nr BICYCLE and GOLF CLOTHING AND SI NDR^S. 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 ending ~ *■* “Liquid Air,” the great Twentieth Century refrig- Glimmer erant, is suggested by our breezy summer com- - . .. •,,= forters for Men. Thin, cool wearing apparel is the DtS-WCTS* only successful rival of rising thermometers, and we = - - are undoubtedly ALONE in the completeness of /SSk armor for hot weather warfare. WE ARE THE COOLERS. A Our Negligee Shirt IfgJSn Selections comprise every kind of good garment that 11/fY goes towards rendering existence not only tolerable, but J The Manhattan Family -^® HE T \|| Exploits every good shirt idea—style, fabric and NEGLIGEES WITH CUFFS ATTACHED are the \l| latest correct examples of shirt propriety. 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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.”- 7