Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1892, Page 12

ES DEATIL Ouly One Man Now Living Who Saw Hun Buried. ENERAL FRANCIS J. LIPPITT Tells the Story of the Serus We Witne: The Imposing Funeral Cortese and the Attack Upon Tt on the Way to the Cem- Interesting Recollections. FRANCIS J. LIP- ee Washington in living ag those who wit- neewed the last earthly rites in bouor of the lead Marquis de La- fayette and oue of the very Americans force of cir ances, wore made patorsin the rev- ov which broke out during the early ’ man few Bronths of 18994 One chapter in Preack histor: from the Gullic metropelis His death had lowed temporarily all avenues for the Baton of the more it whic the thirty pre & contrast to the wild da: the revolution. itd Boore the scheme ef made French p of the commune and into active life ouce the republicans to abolish the 20th das of ught to head « new revolumon over the comin of the dead mas- quir.to whom more than any other French etriot was the oring attitude of ignies duriog the | from Great Hrttat the tremenciogs great general More than on history, not ime unwritten in of bumor. Me ec HOOLMASTER. Roors of sixty years ago sezaber of a cruiser’® ous states © Unit polwims: salt” circle abilities is not uc #teata propellers >lmaster” was a thove days, how- jon, which wae then Dut | Juded that seafar- | + would be the keton the lis and rates frigate | the Modi fo necessary ax be was be came into wee pretty big naval ap jer. mod after « ended ta 1582, Co Pereatecn rears of ing ae mathe very thing fer his y officers The “eho inge in was Francia noted Bowen ‘schoolmaste: fn the navy withe while the cruise wv endant of the of Newport, KL, the | ad too much hamdram work | sanguinery » oppor. though it Unele Sam's nein Portugal | his daughter, head ‘orta- | othe itary service, to resiga from left bis Emperor of na Maria sue. coded to t umn Pedro # br ! ltwo grandso | | { nority. The ux uaarping the ki sekance at the the southwest coast of I ambassadors hai > Dut the init placed Philippe raddoally una wt Donna Maria. and Lippitt straight « after leaving th: no time in} Freueb looked Constellation, LAFAYETTE IN Wis ObD Im the practicn! seclusion of hie Lafayette was ving ot prite count: eeat, “La Grange, from Paris, Still a power affairs nea member of the 4 a remarl Ghip vigorous int and bis adi was @ pronounce parece! hip pe cords» recognize Don Mag *Schoolmaster™ Lipy the of Dom Deune Maria, aunareadur Became needful ‘Throaghoat evionial army of tie French gencral wos « the Ame: the Lom of the f queutly he ¢ American fanuly « tive and asa © Lipp.tt was ptions r Lippite’s eaance 1 econ therenfier Lafayet Bis Bouse within the met pra Gen. Lippitt b Femened there ri and very occurred at ‘ay was marked renown in Paris pp att still recalie the cus cecasionsd by 2 with head bared ing the militar viages avd the Dy the most tute: b oc a May day, and more than unple a four-mie ma yed this wnark ‘The eutire bine of were: present at the tune | ef the procession ‘Was the largest ever & io French history during peace times. fuity 100,000 men—-cavalry, fatantry and artiliery—being of escort, as La- fm: etme was buried with tae honors duc a teu % general of the arm). Feeson for the humense be f that men precession is a Gen. Lippitt’s own words: ORS, LUPIPTT'S ACOOUNT OF THE FUXERAT. | was ended and nother begun on the day Lafayette was buried | } of | and wes ein; dead. THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. tion to show public reapect to La- f we had known. Hundzeds of French cavalrymen led the van of the procession from ths house of the statesman to the Chavch of the As- sumption, where the religious services were held. Then followed the coifin borne by eight of the most distinguished foreign ambassadors in Paris at that time, the immediate relatives of Lafayette following in turn and preceding the delegation of 200 Americans, who were accorded the place of honor and headed by the then United States Minister to Franse, Hon, Dun- combe Bradford. Philippe owed his position he throne to Lafayette, but the king made a mere mockery of titude to the dead by sending the roval carriages to be drawn along empty in the march to the cemetery, where interment was to be made. We could see that this action of the hing was causing the wildest excitement among the throngs en the avenues and boulevards and the long lines of infantry fully armed and equipued, faras the ye could reach, simply intensified $ growing ham and hissing from It appeared as if all the regular ma had been summoned to n, but our wonder wns soon Exactly two years before, dur- ing the funeral of Gen. La Marque, the Paris republicans dashed upon the military escort, seized the coffin as it was borne along and ral- led & mob, whoae revolution lasted three dare hough marked by the severeat and biocdshed. Philippe’s +e- bad discovered that was being planned for obsequies were in P : iy large military es cori lad been provided to nip the proposed rev- olution in the bud. The foresight of the cab- inet succeeded, bnt there was a great deal of conflict and promiscuous firing before it did. THE ATTACK ON THE PROCESSION. Leaving the Chareh of tho Assumption the procession meved toward Picpus, the famous eld burying ground in the euburbe of Paris, where more than two-thirds of the French no- bility have been accorded their last tenement. was necesmarily fered fearfully from the futense he discomfort was forgotten ip the uproar which rose at the head of the processor he Pince Vendome. Here some 5,000 nd revolutionuets were gath- n mawee, Dearing the tri-color inverted bollon Philippe.” re was commotion in ranks, of na of the civilian escort started precipitately for the sidewalks, when n tremeu- ons bh was made the revoijutioniets to- ward the cc They secured it, i ba above th heads con ng the wild cries to abolish the charge by militery ing the coffin, aod rome the ranks without mot Tn fact skirmishing was Kept ap more or less from the Place Vendome to the Des Italiennes, and from that vard Du Temps, the revoln- ‘LIFE ON THE BUMPER. | Railroad Employes and Impecunious Tourists Continually at War. SCIENTIFIC DEAD. BEATING. That Wil Hesttate at Nothing to Secure a Free Ride or Even Scores With an Enemy— A Good Story by Bill Brady. ! oe HE MYSTERIOUS desth of Engineer Strickland, which oo- curred on the Pennsyl vecin line between Washington and Phila- delpbia last week, cxe- ated more than the or- diary emount of gossip among railroad em- ployes. The fireman on ‘the same engine bad gone oaton the runzing board to oil seme of the running gear, and after a time noticed that the engine did not slow up at the regular places a usual. Returning to the cab he found bis engineer on the floor of the cab covered with blood and unconscious. Three hours later he was dead. The circumstances surrounding the death point to two causes—he was either | struck by a ing freight train or sowe mis- | creant had thrown @ stone at the passing train | with deadly effect. The wound was in the center of the forehead.and of such a nature that to the latter cause can andoubtedly be ascribed the ongineer’s death. ‘There bas been « continuous war between the railrohd employes and trampe for the leat five years. While the better nature of the railroad- occasionally asserts itself to the exteut of permitting worthy men to ride free on their trains, it is taking deaperate chances to trust any one and cost the trainman his life when bis back is turned. A regular every-day tramp will mounts trainas if the company | owed him a ride, and to approach one of these Mindividualy with «command to alight will in- | variably be met with a scowl and a challenge to | battle. After the tramp has been hustled from his stand on the bumper and be finds that there too many railroaders around ‘or him to jshow fight tho chances sre he will take his {grudge outof the next trainman that comes j along. It is almost a certainty that Engineer Strickland’s death was the aftermath of one of of Characteristics of a Social Plague—Tramps | g3" as the engine slacks up, | | f emigead must get off until she starts again and avoid the wate ful eyes of the jcinis, otherwise he will be ditched or thrown off to a certainty. “The freight is without doubt the favorite, and an empty box car, whether by day or by night, gives a good chance fora long run. On some lines, however, a stock car is preferable, as there are fewer be and the end door between the cars enables the tramp to enter un- observed. Coal trains are also worthy of at- tention, as they only pull up at the principal stations, “There are men, however, who make a point gerting on every train that passes them, re- lees of relection, and these dauntless in- lividuals will ride on the bumpers, the brake beam, the rods underneath, and even on the cowcatcher or on top of the train, anywhere, in fact, 4o long as they gaina few miles toward their destination. The exhibition of skill in this line displayed by the tramps of the country when rize Aght of magnitude occurs in New Or- leans is something remarkable. 1 was ordered down to that city when the Sullivan-Corbett fight came off to help out. and must admit the ingenuity displayed by the rovers to get in and then out of the crescent city was surpris- ing. They swarmed over the care and clung thereto fn all concelvable places, like flies in summer time, and I founda man in the water tank of the tender of the locomotive up to hi chim in water, but he growled like a savage wi I pulled bim out of hig uncomfortable quarters. MURDER OF BRAKEMAN SANDERS. “Early last Meroh, as Brakeman Sanders wos rnaning over his tram putting on brakes on the Wort Wayne road, he discovered a tramp crouching on the platform ofa car below. He ordered him off and, us the fellow hesitated about complying, began to descend the fron ttept to put hie order into effect. The train vincked up considerable and as Sanders had & formidable looking club in bis hand the tramp, with a sullen shake of hia head, con- cluded to get off ae ordered. As he reached the step and Jumped to the ground he uttered | threate of vengeance, and a more aetute man than Sanders would bave kept an eye on the fellow until the entire train had pansed bim by ‘Some fifteen or twenty cars back the tramp again mounted the train, but thie time it was more for revenge than the free ride. It waa amp's movements Y wed. Climbing to the top of the car he began making bis way toward Sanders on his hands and kneoa with the mov monts of acat. He had reoched a distance of one car length from the brakeman, who sat with his fuce toward the locomotive and back towsrd bis enemy, when the train ran on to a bridge spannii a hundred fect below. Qaickly covering the intervening space the tramp crept up to Sandera, and at a point where the distance to the ground from the bridge was the greatebt deliberately pushed him off the train. With a cry of mortal terror that could be heard above the roar of the mov- ing train the poor fellow turned over and over and Snaily brought up n mans-of crushed bones id flesh on the rocks below. showing a very determined resistance tench of tho latter localities, and making re- peated charges in an attewpt to get possession of the corpsa, WE SAW THE INTERMENT. ‘The charges were all repulsed. and the funeral train finally ended its bloody travel at the bigh brick walls of Picpus; but the incidents of the day and the long four-milo tramp under the burning sky had played havoc with the numer- ical representation of the civic escort. Of the 200 American delegates who started from the Chnrch of the Assumption two remained, and those twe were Consul Bradford and Gen. Lippitt. In this way it happened that Gen. Lippitt was permitted to view the interment and of the fourteen persons who stood court where Lafayette’s grave had been prepared by the side of bis wife the thirteenth, ibe Marquis Las Teyrie, m grandson of Le ette, died two sears ago, and Gen. Lippitt, still Living at the age of seventy-cight, is the fourteenth. Surrounded as the cemeiery was by ® high brick wall, it became necessary to break down x part of the barrier to permit the entrance of a rtillery, which was to fire the d, however, that nose but the pallbeurers, priest and relative of Lafarett but being in civilian clothes like the eight pall- bearers and the only three attending relatives, George Washington Lafayette, the seu, and the Marquis Las Teyrie and the Marquis de Chambrun, thot guard paseod ‘oneul Bradford and Gen. Lippitt uabindered. orge W. Lufayette, and some of the noted ambassadors and members of the foreigu diplo- matic corps at Paris, who acted as pall- bearers, buve been dead many years. The officiating priest, Gen. Lippitt learned trom the Marquis Las ‘Teyrie, also died two de- cades ago sud the Marquis de Chambrun was killed with hie eon while serving under Gari- buidi in one of the Italian's campaigns. The aarquine, who w ddaughter of Lafay- iving in Geneva, and Gen. Lippitt his mementoes o large photograph ite in the uniform of a major general, taken from the painting made during the states” man’s lifetime, which was presented by the marquise and beare her autograph and a com- plimentary message to the “schoolmaster” of the old Constellation. TBE REVOLUTION ORUSHED. rette's grave, Gen. Lippitt says, was located in a small comt which had been formed chapels and several crypts. The court itscif did not contain space enoagh to admit the pres ence of a large concourse of spectators at the closing cerem even if no reatrafning order had been issued, and only the measure fu ques- tion, enforced by the presence of the immense miliary contingent as a guard, prevented the recal we of the scenesof riotand further bloodshed which marked the cortege’s pas Vendome to Piepus. The con- jevard Du Ternps was, however, ene in thy short-lived revolution. I probably failed to be » more serious affair only, | Gea. Lippitt thinks, because the lapse between Eafayetie’'s death ard the day of bis funerai allowed King Philippe to summon 40 large a force of his military mimions to Paris aa to effectually overpower all the resistance the revolutionists were capable of mustering in their poorly prepared condition for offemive | Rarfare. although with the well-organized med- teal «| enteas & nucleus and ready to naxe the fret onslaught at the Place Vesdome the mob was a menacing affair to Philfppe's throne ly overcome by force of numbera. Lafayette’s thorough love for America ae bis foster country and his oftentimes expressed desire to be burfed on American soll are mat- tere of an historical nature, but the story that wishes in the latter respect were complied with by emptying ahogehead of American sand tnto his before the cofn was lowered to {ts last resting piace has generally been re-| her than any claims to autben- Lippitt does not vouch for the but says that be has every reason to regard it ae wuthentte, for he was told by the Marquis Las Tesrie, with whom he became in- timately acquainted, that the hocehead of sand had been brought from America in compliance with Lafnyetie’s wishes quite some time pre- Yiows te the marquis’ death. It was, of course, | out of the question that the interment actually be made on American soil ina u slightest occurrence of that Kind would have sent France into the worst throes of a political uprising. But from every- thing known about the matter fn 1884 and what Gen. Lippitt learned afterward there seems to | be no doubt that George Washington's bosom | fend reste’ at his burial upon the free soil | his sword helped to win, ten. Lippitt returned to America in 1835 and took up the profession of law after the con- clusion of the Mexican war, through which be fought with gallantry and distinction. His career as a Jurist was again temporarily inter rapted by the civil war, and ten years ago he retired from active practice at the District bar, | when rapidly nearing bis seventieth year. In | IMSL he assisted at entertaining the distinguished Fronch officers who came to the United States for the purpose of aking part in thecelebration st Yorktown of Cornwallis’ surrender of th British army to Washington, and if ever: | former soldier was as hale and ‘active at threi | score and eight as Gen. Lippitt is Uncle Sam's | Pension list worldn’t be the cause of much | analety at the annual sittings of the congres- | sional appropriations committee. The Knight Before Christmas. From Lite. im the cemetery by the erection of mortuary | these ttle scenes between tramp and rail- roader. When these encounters are trans- ferred from daylight to darkness itcan be easils seen wherein the great danger hes for the rail- roader that accosts one of these roatmers single handed. ‘The segregate amount of money expended [by the different railroad corporations for | salaries and expenses of special officers who keep these characters within bounds as regards their pernicious acts will foot up a sum large enough annually to meet the wants of the poor of a city almost as large as Washington. ‘This class of men are poor, too, as far as this world’s goods go, but as regards self-preservation and confidence oan be classed as millionaires of the country. They won't work, their idle habits make them vicious, and woe betide the rail- road man that crosses their path and tries to prevent them making their annual pilgrimage to chmates that suit their lazy dispositions. ‘THE NERVE OF A TRAMP. Athoroughbred tramp possesses more than ‘the ordinary allotment of nerve to undertake reckless chances, whereby bo can save himself the labor of walking. His rides under freight care, upon axles and in almost avy conceivable noek or corner of a car, from whiob the slight- est lows of presence of mind would dash him into eternity, substantiate this. It ts the idleness that spoils him and makes the vicious habite of a full-blooded indian into insignificance before the routive of hie every-day life. Not long since one of those ‘tourists’ was put off of a through freight on one of the main lings end of course swore vengeance. He came near accomplishing his purpose an hour later. Climbing on to wcar loaded with coal, standing on a side track, he selected a large lump of soft coal, weighing perhaps twenty pounds, and, | tying a loug string around its jagged edges, carried it in his arms to a bridge nearby. Wait- ing for the blowing of tho whistle of an ap- proaching train, he slowly lowered the lump of coal by the twine until it reached an altitud | of about twelve feet from the ground and ina | position to strike the engineer, looking out of his cab, full in the face. The tie |creant misjudged the distance by about six inches, und instead of smashing the} | engineer's face into a shapeless mass, as be | Intended, merely swept the latier’s cap from | his bead.” The engineer, in «peaking of his ex- perience after be had reached the end of his run, said that he didn't believe he was ever more frightened in his life. It was piteb dark shead and he was ranning at a terrific Tate of «peed trying to make up lost time when on the instant a black mass dashed by and came | close enough to his scalp aa to make him think | @ crows beam of the bridge had fallen down on his train. One of the brakemen on @ car some distence back from the locomotive observed the | maneuvers of the tramp by the glare from the firebox of the locomotive us the fireman shoveled m dhe coal, and informed the engineer at the next how close a call for his life he had had. This incident ia one of many,and il- | lustrates the cruel cunning of thts claw of peo- | ple when crossed in their purposes, and no | doubt that flend has, ere this, sent some poor railrouder to his long account for a faucied wrong. A reporter of Tax Evextya Stare few days since ran across Bill Brady, the railroad detect- ve at one of the local depots, and as be is an | old acquaintance, inquiry was mado as to any | in Enginger Strickiand’s | u original“ character, very | «trewd and close-mouthed, and there t# not a | drop of cowardly blood in’ his veins, He has | seen trying times in the west Lunting train | robbers, and while the tramps of the east hold | him in holy horror, he hax acknowledged to the | reporter at different times that they are more dificult to handle than their western brethren. Brady admitted that he was working on the Strickland case, and his ideas as to the cause of the death of the engineer were the same ae the reporter's, vir: That some vengeful tramp had tried and succecded in evening up things with | the first railroader that crossed his path. Brady's geniality finally thawed out under the influence of a good cigar,and what he had done on this last case and tramps in general were talked about. He waid: A DETROTIVE’s stoRr. “Thousands of tramps, hoboes, bums, dead deats and busted people of ail sorts beat their way over the railroads of this great country. I have given you the names under which they sail in different parts of the United States, but Ihave found it a never varying result that to wash the dirt off of them the ordinary city | burn will al be found. When I firvt started in the business of bunting tramps end anyti: trenapired out of the ordinary that especially for my attention I wouid go out on the road after them, but experience hee teught me that thecity is their hiding place uinety- nine cases out of a hundred, and thaf as soon as they have committed « crime, worthy of the name in their estimation, they make a bee-line for their winter wallows in the disreputable seo- tone. “One of the hardest obstacles I bad to over- come several years back was the friendliness of the trainmen toward the and their en- deavors to shield them. {i this way they would permit the roamers to get on a car fora seeming innocent ride and the result would be that the boards would be broken in at one end that the car bad been looted. Even the robber- tes would not have turned the trainmen agetast the tramps, but the vicious natures of the lat- ter began to assert itself ax they increased in pumbers, and now it is considered great eport for one of these fellows to ‘do’ a and a retelling of how it was done can be heard at the first gathering of # couple of wortbies sround an obscure camptire. Now it has come to pass that the railroad men and trampe are unreienting enemies, especial the exst, and os a uence my of guarding the trains and arresting dead beats w much easier. “The tramp jumped from the train at the end of the bridge, and, for the time being, es- caped to the woods. Sanders lived long enough to give a description of bis assailant. I had just arrived in Chicago from the west and was reading an account of the terrible affair, when | telegram was Landed me containing a descrip- tion of the murderer and ordering me on the ease. I believed { knew my man and decided to become a tramp and work my way to Pitts burg, so as not to miss him if he was west of thet city. Ihad just landed my man behind the bars at Columbus when [ received orders to come on here and work up Enginoer Strick- Innd’s case. ‘Playing tramp is no fun, especially if done weil and with un object in view, and that tramp ride to Pittsburg cused me lots of discomfort, but learned of many things that a railroad detective should know. But that is my busi- ness. “My make-up was a good one and my wife wouldn’t have known me. In conformity with instructions from a well-posted tramp { went to the Fort Wayne yards, where « train was being made up, and scrambled into the first empty car I saw. In a few minates we were flying slong. the road at tho rate of thirty miles an boar. Little I cared, though my hair was sometimes singed by the fying cinders, I lost no time, however, in parting with that train, ‘The thoughts of ‘an interview with cither an indignant ‘con’ or unrelenting ‘brakie’ didn't please mo, as I couldn't disclose my identi without runnicg the risk of spoiling my plan A party of tramps were holding 4 festival at the place I alighted, and I was rather startled to hear that @ posse of police had been requisi- tioned from Chicage, for they had taken pos- | session of the water.tank, around which thes slept, and their depredations throughout the neighborhoed were notorious, FOLLOWING THE DENVER KID. ‘his was the crowd I wanted, and we wero soon fast friends, As [ anticipated, their chief topic of conversation was Brakeman Sanders’ mourder and they all eeemed' to agree on one point, und thut was that the ‘Denver Kid’ had done the trick. He had been with them re- cently, and said Le was bound for Pittsburg. ‘hat was enough for me, and I resolved to ay before the anticipated police raid was ‘There was no suitable train till evening. Had it not been that nn expert in the jumping Hine turned up and. posted me I should ney have caught it. We had to lie down among some weeds and at the off side from the depot, for agent, conductors and brakemen are on the watch for night trains. Then crawling on hands and knees out of the line of light from the approaching engine and brakie's lamp, anxiously marking lis retreating steps as he ratinfied himself that there was uo necessity for him to ‘ride the blind baggage out, another ewift advance just as the train was getting under way and we were safe. “I must explain hero that when the brake- man of a pastenger train sees probable jumpers about he gets on the blind baggage, which ear- ries bim a few hundred yards, slacks up and lets him off, utterly destroying the hope of the impecur ious tourist. “At Fort Wayne Lagain alighted, as I feared my man might take the back track, but none of the tramps thereabouts bad seen him, although they all knew the ‘Kid.’ I awaited a freight train which war due ina few hours. An empty car was visible as the train passed, 80 T leaped in without hesitation. Almost immediately after- ward s brakeman appeared. Hello,’ said he, ‘where are vou going?” 'o Toledo junction,’ I replied, “‘How are you fixed?’ he asked. I kuew what Le meant. Fifty cents changed hands and I slept in a corner of the car for the next few hours, until the brakie informed me that To- Jedo junction was reached. It was raining heavily and I felt all broke up, when sudden Teaw a train stealing out of the depot and east- ward bound. Cautiously but rapidly 1 made after it, hoping it would stop to water, and keeping a line of cars between me anda tramp's natural enemy, policeman. | Then dragging myself in at an end door I discovered that 1 had struck @ coal train. ‘Got any stuff? was the formula used by the brakeman on this occasion, in reply to which I gave him what ix known as ‘song and dance,’ or tale of hard luck, accom- panied bya quarter. He demurred, but the song und dance softened him and we rumbled imto Masillion after two ininor stoppages. I wae desperately tired when I got out, as coals ving aftera few hourv’ reclining thereon. “At noon the next day, in broad daylightand under the very noses of the police and popu- lace, I caught the New York flyer, hoping to | reach Pitteburgon it. We stopped ‘at yo as | wood fer coal, the brakie spotted mo getting off, and by riding the baggage out deprived himself of my company. “‘At this place I ran across another gang of trempe and I ascertained that the ‘Kid’ was otill in my front. During the talk over the little fire one of the group remarked with « lear that the ‘Kid’ had no doubt gone to ‘Jen's’ in Pittsburg to lay low for a while. ‘Jon's’ was a low resort, kept by a dissolute woman, that all the detectives know well, and I determined to et into that ity as soon as possi pping away from my dirty com- Panions, I bosrdeti the’ next pastenges trait and dumfounded the conductor by offering my and at the next station it would be discovered | *2Aual pass. When he recovered his breath he wanted to throw me off the train, but a wink and a word fixed him, and he gave me back the pass with a amile of recognition. “I reached Pittsburg late that night. Inan hour's time Twas shaved and fixed up in re- spectable attire, and a few minutes later found me, in Sper, oof with two city detectives, on the way to ‘Jen's.’ We surrounded the piace and T captared my man. The city detectives the was an ordi ! iPUTTING | SPENDING CHRISTMAS Some Bachelors. > AND CRUSTY JOLLY TYPES. ‘The Former Makes Glad the Hearts of Those He Visits—The Latter Knows No Differ- ence Between Christmas and Any Other Day—The Young Bachelor's Enjoyment. spends Christmas this wise: He bas friends, troops of friends, young and old. He draws oat of the .| bank all the 1 he has nay, perhaps, in fit of abstraction, he overdraws his ac- count. He buys pri j ents and surprises him- If by taking agreat deal of pains to select | toys for the Little folks. There is no trouble Jabout his Christmas dinner. He has half a | dozen iuvitatious and selecta the first ove that | comes, for he would like to select them all, | And there he is the life of the party. The father of the house calla him by his first name, slaps him on the affectionately upon Lis shoulder. The chil- @ren cal! hin uncle and ure proud to sit on his knee. The mother thanks him for the presents he made them. He has to hurry away after [dinner to see another household, whefe be [undergoes the same delightful treatment. When he goes tome late at night laughter is still ringing iz bis ears aud the smile is still on his face as he recalls the lust joke that was made | before be said good-night. Does he ponder sadly upon the Toneliness of his room? Does | he reflect that he hus to go to other people's | houses to find the happinces that is not in his own house? Why should he be giving toys to | other men's children? Why should he not re- | ceive thanks from a wife of bis own? Well, well; there are divorce courts, legal separations | and horrible family rows in the world us well ay bachelors in a THE CHRISTMAS DINNER. But he has enjoyed that Christmas dinner, | and it was a success, | of it, whata glorious thing the Christmas din- ner is anyhow. It is a feast of a peculiar char- | acter and boids no relation to any other feast. What eatables it should consist of everybody knows, ‘There must be a turkey, or a big piece | of roast beef, or a goose. It is no time for | made dishes, and the services of the exterer must not be called in here. It is no Latin feast, | but an Anglo-Saxon repast. There mast be n- | insidious fricassee de poulet aux truffles, which (entices you into indigestion without your ker give you ‘fair warning when von have had enough. There ought to be pudding rather than ice cream and a cake that is cut before your eyes. Tt wnat be eaten with your family gathered | around you, and some friend who has no family or whove family is not with him ought to be | bidden to the feast. Never forget that. Go in Jeenrch of the man who is going to dine on | Christmas day at his boarding house or at a | restaurant and take Lim into the bosom of your | family and Jet him shareyour dinner. Did you ever dine alone on Cbristmas dav among strangers? If you ever did then remember now how you felt und save some poor mortal from the horrors of such afeast. Themen who enjoys it or is indifferent to it is strangely constituted, Nevertheloss, it sometimes happens that the | best inten people forget that there are | bachelors in the world and suffer them to e1 | duréa ead Christmas dinner merely because they never stop to think. But there are some bachelors that it would be hard for any one to entice away from the settled gloom in which they choose to live of their own accord. iB A DARWEN CHRISTMAS DAY. For instance, there is the one that lives alone in one emall réom and spends most of his time and all his thoughts upon his business, Of home life he has none, and it is so long since b | ever bad any that he has forgotten what home life is like. Alone in the world he does not mind it, for to him life is the business worle. Of feasts this bachelor has no experience. | At his boarding house there is turkey on Sundays, and on Thanksgiving day he uotices that the table is more bountifully spread than it is on ordinary occasions, He does not fally approve of these legal holidays. He observes that hi clerks are excited the day before a holiday and do little work and that the day afterward they have the listless, mechanical manner of men who have not hada normal amount of sleep. Still, he accepts holidays as he does taxes, They are to be avoided if possible, and no man need undergo many of them, but it is in- evitable that = man should endure some of them. So. if the dave of this man are commonplace and dreary, what are the holidays, and what, above all, is the greatest holiday of all—Christmas day? Let us see how he spends Christmas eve first. He comes home—or rather ho comes to the where he lives, for he has nohome—about ‘clock. He notices as be walks along that the streets are bright with lights, that the chil- dren are carrying bundles of presents, that the wagons are londed with presents also, which are'being delivered,» little Iate, He meete Jolly groups of females, laughing gaily as they {go to the candy st Candy! Did he over Sct-candy? Perhaps ¢& he glances through the show cases and sees the caramels and gumdro there may cross his mind the faint shadow ‘What could he do with it? When he gots within Saany oe spectability ak neat a Tes] an ‘3 neat usual "there few | 3 £ ieeeipes f r 4 f i i ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES. wck and puts his hand | When you stop to think | wledge, but solid, plain-spoken dirhes that | — nothing musual. As he enters the breakfast room he notices that the phrase merry Christ- | mas ts substituted for the usual greeting, good he treats the day the papers, goes to his office | But this pic | there such wrete the world? Is the da. elebrating so ba Yes, there are euch b there will be Hundreds of spent tomorrow. DIFFERENT TYPES OF BACHELORS. lerabie. Are really me people’ this man ond find a pleasanter picture, but may be permitted. There are three grand divisions of bachelors— the young bachelor, the second is the Jolly old bachelor and the third is the crusty old b elor. To these three there are subdivisions The young bachelor may belong to the class of those who are young bachelor Tt will be ae is regarded as je tit is expected Winget asa society j caterpillar on some | asa modest that be will cease to be 80 poor that bacbelerhoo » When luxury of ces iy enj © or that his eli- in bis being hear it wad of a 4 in getting to be a contirmod ver ig a con he ceases to be 3 man that he old bachelor, bachelor until this comes sions and ia ror a crusty old other bache visi ss known as ¢ chelor. The sub: bachelors are the « do not care for fa: life, but ti panionship of * fellows,” who love tin feasts where there are only men present, whc to talk aud sport oniy with men, or the fa bachelors who live in other men | they become a part thereof al | crusty old bachelors there are the classes that | are mean and rich, or disappotuted and poor. The Chrietmas last described was that of a crusty old bachelor, and that first dj yold bachelor's Ch remains for us to ses how the Will spend tomorrow, WOW TRE YOUNG MAN ENJOYS HIMSELF. He wili set out to enjoy himself today may do this by going to a party or by down town.” If he does the latter, there is not much to be said. He may bebave himself, but he wili be in the company a will misbehave. He will be whore hi ed the evening. party, he will be doing what ia natural proper. There he can enjoy himself in a rational and decorous manner, and he will, moreover. be paving the way for a renunciat: of his b: Christmas morni find hin with « c jmind. He ‘will go down and it will be merry Christma: all around. Perhaps there game to see, or @ friendly shooting And so the time passes until the dinner comes, and that he takes with the old folks at home, or if be bas no old folks, th friend. When he sees the Christmas tree per- haps the thought ix with him that be would like one of toys on it himself, le is pot so. old but that he remembers how hie used to start | up before daylight and grope for the stocking that contained the gifts of Sante Clans. This bachelor is not a bad one for, he will change bi ition, bi oid bachelor and the crusty old bi eno Christmas at jall or else married frie ribed oung bachelor hamed to tell it b to see his fri coe Written for the Evening Star, Christmast Season of glad Come once aj ning sad Telling of One wh Down from on Bearing earta’s ig, n aud shane, ef grect it, ng, n glad souls meet it, Let songs be sung From full hearts ‘Thankful for t Best of days, tra Laden with bilss. While with the sheplferas, Wond'ringiy dnmb, ‘To our expectant hearts Now let there come Angel notes heralding, As they did then, “Peace upon all the earth, Good will to men.” ‘Then as our feeble notes Meavenward tend, Take out the discords, Lord, Make the whole blend ‘With Heaven's harmonies— Rich, full and free— In one grand song of praise, Savior to thee. —J. Harries. ‘Wazhington, D. C., December, 192. PECL i RES Past vs. Future, From Pack. Mies Passy—“I dread to think of my thirtieth. birthday.” Miss Budd—“Why, what happened? ee Heavy Tragedy. From Judge. ‘onng men who | ar conscience -and « joliv | A Sample From the Private Reeords | joys and lacting Let us go u little further and eee if we can’t | that newspaper men know more of first a digression | nny other cluss and yet do less of it "men it wil You sometimes | | 0 to believe fn hira to love bm Tebgion— te ree citirens of the bunery and to Obr Pry tr Mew the ONE STORY FROM LIFE. of the Salvation Army. ROMANCE OF AN OUTCAST ALore That Watched Over # Poor Prank- ard for Many Years—How He Was Pin L an Saved From His live Gen, Booth and “Society “ ~ ‘ Spectal Correspondence of The Evening Star of him, and that Loxp eek OR. | caer che T Is A TIME-WORN verity that Stranger th Our dsily with medi lives teem * and thrilling and absor chapters in the prod nds of ficant. agina tions are set on fire by of those who move on the mimic stage of fiction, all the more so if just a soupeon of human truth be portrayed in their doings. How much more interested, then would we be have opened to us, tn all ite details, that in ann story of “How the Oshor Half Lives, ‘Thus story is better known to those who f low the profession of journalism than to any others. It ix onl they bear, s« ute to that kaleidoscopic and se falcompilation of latter-day journalism kuow as “the local page.” What inrtanoes of evanee cent but dearly bought pleasures and thetr re- sults they see ¢ What pictures of fleeting orrows they are familiar with apatibility and sad red into their the joys or sorry What stories of hum: What tales of ical murder become impressed on the ory tablets. What intrigues, what rain what perverted ambitions’ It is tru il than that they liveon crime without having any of itchurged up ord of this to them. And, perbaps, when the dane sphere is placed before the Thr Grace on the last judgment day the newey Li be who will testif f the full- ness of their knowleds passeth What inspires these inc: story. THE BEGIN Forty years ago in one of the most prosper- ous of the English a baby boy born and great was the consequent j of the oldest and best known families. One year later in « neigh family of distinction Lapjiness reigned because of the birth of adaughier. The b good birth, but not in the shires” wes | misused sense of that word. One day was born with a title, I will face expressed ihe the Lady Mary because that is uot oft name, it is one so eymbolicel me,andt ” expressible sweetness and devotion as to truly | in bis nai | shake hands | | with, a married ust borrow the Christmas ef a | pit | besotted and grovel 4 } philanthre | very “That ist fit her character. Boy and girl wore almost ogether im that rich Eng’ Q boy and girl will sometimes fell in tove with exch other. [t was ag? love, and, therefore, a pure one. The « they dreamt, the plana — they the hopes they whispered, the air castle they built were, I suppose, in full ke ing with the dren sand hopes « and intellig to be fam! jeed, the earl ; " . tic talents gave high promise of « brilliant J He wor ighboring sethinary, went brillian be : echool of Eton and when at the age of twenty ed from Oxford University with bos A. degree bis troth to the Lady Mary was ed and du sumeed, with in the society papers. ty vears ago. Hope was then high in their voung breasts, He was to be a gr ter. tor bis mind and fin gers bad been shaped in th then Liw family influence ai talents found him inviting employment on the Lc papers. the gre all gre live yeurs he in his “ iH ‘The murmurs of i sj euking of mulutnd: ’ ay up on f plause for true h his ears. He The Lady M in him was greater still. Yar FALL. But o talent-destroying, a reputation-killing a love ing f« was even then at work on him. It loo-en 1. ladder. talent we ad the » ig of the lad. at nem : ignted and seared the pros ne of so many others. his prospect a bition, as it ha pects and amb This force spelled —Al When the crude and jess of mankind become rum-soaked a | alchohole | due ists and economists mourn and the and the work house are thrown open. | Which * ‘ When, through drink, brains and God-given | ea heartily talents are literally dragged in the gutter the angels .must lay aside their proverbial = and wee in gnc ha The iron Railway ( of me adrunkard of the worst type. mea gambler and was driven from the halls of upper tende Ali efforts his family to reclaim him were in vain. His father disowned bim and he beeame an outcast from soc’ Hlis associntes were then of the lowest ¢ drifted into that avenge of dir- sipation where he became “known to the police. ‘The Lady Mary never ceased to love the m bat all the instincts of her ps revoled against the drunke: watched over hit as an angel would and did all that an angel could to better his hfe aud bring aboat the reformation for which +he hoped sud prayed. Nhe enlisted every reformat < in his behalf, unknown to bis family own, but without avail. If he got into she saw that his fines were paid. When the effects of bis dissipations brought him to the public infirmary | she sent the best nurses to care for him. When drink stripped bim of decent clothing aguin and again she reclothed him, and he did not knpw who his benefactor was. When he al- most reached the prison gates the intervention of ber agents saved him. When despair might have driven bim to suicide the long arm of her Jove was thereto stop him. COURTING DEATH, Time passed. John Bull turned his greed eye toward the Soudan and planned the con- juest of the mahdi. Perhaps in this our artist- q Perhaps he saw a sol- whi pest for him. and “hoped by Cesar de Bazan, to “blot he enlisted and, in a private soldier « uniform, followed Wolseley up the Nile. Who can teli nnd eleven ms Maitland. Mix bourne of « how he dared and ecoquetted with death? He was at the storming of Tel-cl Rit i Fa us f i if He Fees ' & i £ iil f i t fe ij | { g f iat g if Ber I felt the trath of th cabby. hoowe my le make ot the