Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1897, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1897—26 PAGES. LODGE GATE ROYAL PIMITARY ACADEMY. Woonwicn “TRAINING OFFICERS Differences Between the American and the English Methods. WEST POINT IS MORE DEMOCRATIC But the Cadets Must Submit to More Rigid Discipiine. es WOOLWICH AND SANDHURST Written for The Ev ntlal difference iween the respective methods of Uncle Sam John Bull for the education of their embryo officers is one of money. England cemands that her cadets pay, and pay heavily, too, for thelr training, whereas the United States is content to pay her mili- tory pupils as well as educate them. There but Ettle similarity in the two systems, ough the result achieved is the same. As body knows, nominaticn by one’s 1 States senator and a plain school tion are sufficient to admit the young American, thirsting for glory, within the portals of West Point. But admission to ne Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, ‘here England trains her would-be “sap- pers” and “gunners,” 1s a very different matter. There are two military colleges in Ergland, the Royal Military College, Sand- hurst. and the Royal Military Academy, above mentioned. At Sandhurst the cadets are trained for the cavalry and Infantry branches of the service, while at Wooi- | wich. known popularly as the “shop,” com- missions are given only for the artillery and engineers—the latter being those most successful in the competitive examinatio: Entrence to these establishments is ob- teined only through a very severe com- petitive examination, held under civil ser- vice rules, and the usual medical inspection. But when the struggling student has at length overcome ail difficulties, his fathe: must face a yearly bill of $100, unless hi himself holds or held a commission in th The size of t even thou; it be only for two years, the full course, is sufficient to debar all but scions of well-to- | do families. This qualification of means i very necessary, as the young officer c: expect to live on his pay, which is only a year for some cons.derable time. Social Life. the gates, the very similar to those of our ution, but the social and recreative ms differ considerably. At Woolwich a burst the men of different no common intercourse, jing Star. The e that exists be- and | | Once with: are studies “terms” and of late | sely bad “form” terfere with another at ago the persecu- rm to | called in America, was so ¢ firaily led to a revolution. T) amusing, as the unfortunat Jers, to show their di | treatment, went to unprecedented lengths. ; If they play away from home the inst ; amount of “leave” | he sees fit, being in no way bound by any | strict }at West Point. | supposed (and with good cause) to have | had all the lat jis nice r j that there are such things as parade | punishment drills. dering ever: ing the cadet’s life is fairly happy one, as he is willing to ac- knowledge when he has left the “shop” | Scme years behind him. man's poison explains the situation fully, _for while Woolwich and Sandhurst are ssentially aristocratic institutions, West pproval of thei Marching in a body out of the academy (I am speaking of the Woolwich cadets) to Blackheath, where a fair was being held, three mile they utterly ignored the orders of i and or being threat- ened with police interference, declared that they would immedia et free an entire rie of wild animals, which was one of the features of the fair, if a policeman dared to near them. Nee less to say. ng daredevils effec tually cowed the local Dogberrys. When the fair was over the cadets returned, and were all placed in arrest on bread and wa- ter, of which ord!nance the enly notice they took was to s all the bread they could lay hands on, load the old “Waterloo” can- nons with the loa nd deliberately turn them on the governor's house, the windows of which suffered considerable damage. Thus was the backbone of a most p. nicious system of persecution broken, and now all in the “shop,” save for the oc tosching” or “ragging” of an objectionable man by his “Tesching” form of an usement Ww corsists of forcibly immer: the victim in a cold water hath, sn nerally con- fined to winte “ragging’” a man is to continual te oy and in- cenvenierce him by petty insults, such making’ “hay” of his room or ccnceali his acconterments. Distin Features. The distinctive feature of both Wool- wich and Sandhurst is tion devoted to sports an In- tercollegiate contests occur annually t foot ball, cricket and athletics, and in the atten- respective seasons of the two great na- tional games matches are made with « large number of other clubs, and the teams always get leave from stuc for the day of the match -S and drill. if necessary. ue and if tlon pays their traveling expe they play at home a good luncheon is a'- ways forthcoming for the occasion. In fact, a cadet who is never seen joining in the games is always in disfavor with the authorities, while an athlete is pro- portionately liked. Liberty of action off parade and the given is another point wherein the military schools of the two countries differ greatly. In England the cadet off parade is free to dress himself in cricket flannels and amuse himself as rules of decorum such as prevail The young Englishman is “nonsense” knocked out of him his public school, and to be therefore fit to asscciate with his fellow cadets ac- ecrding to the “schoolboy’s code of honor Leave of absence is given to all whose parents ccnsent to the arrangement every Saturday from i2 noon till Sunday night at 11 o’clcck. Most of the young fellows having friends or relatives In London it xation after the week's work plain clothes” again and forget or Three months’ vaca- tion is given in the year, one at Christ- mas and two in midsummer, so that con- to assume In conclusion. it may be safely said that the American and English systems are both equally good in their way, but neither is suited to the other country The ancient brcverb of one man’s meat being another ‘oint is truly democratic. RAILROAD ACROSS SAHARA The Camel Caravan May Soon Become a Thing of the Past. Traveling Mountains of Sand and Other Objects of Interest in the Desert. Among the most interesting and useful | pieces of work which civilization ts carry- | ing forward at the present time is the con- struction of the railroad and telegraph lines into the heart of the Sahara, which is be- ing prosecuted by the French government of Algeria. It seems not generally to be known that this civilizing work has already | laid a firm grip upon the inhospitable sands, and that as a result of its trespass many of the elements of European well- doing and refinement have found their way as permanencies fifty to one hundred and fifty miles within the desert confines. ‘These lines of message, while they may be considered to be of strategic quality indeed the avenues of commerce, the de velopment of which will ultimately fore to the wall one of the most picturesque as- seciations of the African continent—the caravan. Their penetration southward is from both the provinces of Oran and Con- stantine; from the latter the line follows the important caravan route to Lake Ichad and the central Soudan, having for its points of concentration or defense the oases of Biskra, Tuggurt and Ouargla. Between these three points, the last of which may be considered to be the final French military outpost of today, a regular diligence service is maintained three times per week, and it seems not unlikely that this service will shortly be replaced by that of the fron horse. The locomotive at the present time enters Biskra, the beginning of the flat desert, and from the further gate of this town oasis may be seen depart- ‘ng the trains of carts laden with their heavy burden of telegraph poles. ‘The car- avan route is not what, perhaps, most per- sons still continue to believe such a road- way to be, namely, a temporary soft sand road without boundaries, and constantly obliterated in part by the drifting over it of yielding sands. For much of the way, on the contrary, it has a hard and cement- ed road bed, well auapted to the passage of vehicles and hardly impeded on its surface by a cover of sand. Furthermore, long end constant use by an almost endless number of caravans, with the tread of j features which repeat themselves on even a thousands of feet of men and animals, has so clearly defined its boundaries that it presents all the appearance of an artificial construction. At is true that here and there it buries itself beneath the shifting soll of the des but even then its oblit ration is places only temporary, ju times turned by gr dinarily) small streams. which course close to its margin In certain pl. there is a xenuine effacement, where moun, tains of sand are piled up in the path of Minds blowing steadily from one quarter. The energy and work ccomplished by these winds can hardly be conceived, but some notion of their relentless power may be wathered from the fact that sand dunes 1,000 feet or more in height have been reared across their path. On both sides of the oasis of Tuggurt, M. Foureau, the em- inent French explorer of this section of the Sahara, reports the sand dunes to be fully 1,400 feet in elevation, veritable mountain features in the landseape. Aside from the wandering Tonareggs, one of whose main purposes of existence would seem to be the annihil tion of all messengers of European civilization, the main hindrance of penetra. tion into the Sahara is concentraged in these sand mountains. Yet it is not alone in the African desert that we meet with ort, in most t as it is sorme- more gigantic scale. Thus, as we are in- formed by Maj. A. area C. Yate of the 2 a luchis, the sand drifts of Iman Zaid a Helmand, lying toward Herat, in Afghan- istan, are likewise true mountains, in one or more places rising to fully 1,500 and even 2,000 feet in elevation. ——.—__ A Prize for a Circus. Decatur (Ind.) Correspondence Chicago Chronicle. Dan Berry, the well-known horse owner of this city, has made a great hit in pur- chasing an ordinary-looking nag in the southern part of the state. It appears that the owner was glad to get rid of it and thought he was doing a smart thing in working it off on Dan, but the latter is go- ing to turn the deal to his own account, for the animal is a wonder. It is nothing more or less than a climbing horse. It was foaled in the woods of an unset- tied part of Brown county, and for six months afterward it never saw a hu: being. During that period it. learned to climb trees with the agility of a squirrel, and when it was first discovered it lay sleeping in the branches of a large oak. The horse was taken home and broken to crive, and now, in every other respect, it is a well-behaved animal, except when it takes a notion to climb a tree, and no mat- ter whether hitched up or not, up the tree goes +, eee = all. ew days after coming here the hot was hired by John Peterson and John Heeler for a drive into the country. The drivers were passing through a large woods,-when the horse suddenly took a notion to climb a tree, and up it went with the buggy and men. The latter fell out, but the horse went on up into the tree, carrying the bug- sy with it. For three hours the boys tried to coax it down, but it stayed up until its desire was satisfied. The buggy was badly WAYS OF GRAFTERS Smooth Crooks Who Came to Town During the Races AND WORKED THE LOCAL MERCHANTS A Number of Their Tricks Were Very Neatly Turned. ARTISTS IN THEIR LINE ——_>+—— HE RECENT RACE meeting at Benning brought some blithe sharpers to Washing- ton. For the capital of a nation, Wash- ington, under ordi- nary conditions, is singularly fortunate In escaping the quiet, bloodless de pre da- tions of well-groom- ed desperadoes be- longing to the smooth article tribe—‘“graft- ers,” in the patois of the paddock. It is perhaps largely for this very reason that the periodical incursions of “grafters’’—the travelers in the wake of horses, the her- alds of inaugurations, the foxy couriers of encampments, conclaves, interoceanic con- ventions—are generally so eminently suc- cessful in Washington from the business point of view of the “grafters” themsely Numerous stories of the clean-ups made by the under-world of race followers before and during the Benning meeting are being told around town. The craftiest perform- ance seems to have been that of a swindler who worked on a wcil-known Washington jeweler a fin de siecle ring-palming trick, and a very profitable one. The sharper walked into the jewelcr’s es- tablisoment a couple of days after the opening of the Benning meeting. He was sly gotten up, end he looked “as if » had it on him,” as one of the clerks erward said. He was such an extremeiy A Smooth Article. heavy swell In appearance that the pro- prietor of the establishment came from be- hind tae counting room screens to attend him. Morning swindler, nodding patronizingly to the proprietor. “I've got a ring here that I want to have changed— want the stones reset.” ic Turning the Trick. He pulled off his left-hand glove, and then removed from one of his fingers a heavy gold band, in which three magnificent stones were set—a flawless pigeon’s blood ruby in the center, and on either side of the ruby a perfect blue diamond of iarge size. The ring was worth from $s to $1,000. The swindler handed the ring to the jeweler. “I want those stones set into a colled snake, he said. “Friends of mine who wear snake rings tell me they bring ‘em luck, and, although I don’t take much stock in such rot, I’m going to give the thing a trial] nevertheless. What do you think of the stones?” “Remarkably fine,” replied the jeweler. othing better in the market for their size,” and the two men talked diamonds and rubies for a while. The customer ap- peared to poss a good deal of informa- tion on the subject. Finally he gently took his ring from the eler’s hand. aid the You'll observe how deep the diamonds are,” he said, and he then went on to tell of the difficulty he had encountered in ing the two diamonds. It was right that he did the palming. He y handed a ring back to the jeweler, another ring, of course. “Try to have the job finished withi couple of days, will you, please?” he to the jeweler. “I expect to leave the city shortly. I'll have it done by tomorrow evening,” said the proprietor, and the customer start- ed for the door, pulling on his giove. Then he appeared to be struck by an after- thought, halted for a second, and then staried back. ‘Oh, by the way,” he called after the jewele ho returned to the counter, “lei ime have some sort of ring to wear on that finger, will you? I've worn the band so long I fear I'd be lonesome, or take cold, or something, without some sort of a ring on that finger.” Walked Off With Diamonds. “Why, with pleasure,” answered the jeweler, who liked his customer's winning ways and his stock of gem information. He placed a tray of fine rings before the customer, who selected a band set with three large diamonds. The ring was ticket- ed at $350. “This will answer,” he said, and he put the ring on his finger. "You are very welcome to any of them,” said the jeweler, and, with the courteousiy spoken salutations of the day, the customer walked out. It was not until five hours had passed that the proprietor of the jewelry estab- A Present From Jack. lishment discovered, when he handed the ring over to one of his workmen, that he had given away $350 worth of goods for a brass and glass replica of the real thing that was not worth two bits. Washingtcn merchants are pretty liberal with the genuine racing people who come here to the meetings, for the genuine rac- ing people leave a lot of money behind them. A handsome woman, who is said to have got a pair of $200 earrings for nothing trom a Washington gem dealer who selis nothing but diamonds, probably knew of this liberal spirit animating Washington merchants with reference to the racing people. -She employed an old method, -but it succeeded. She selected the earrings with very great care, after sg; a couple of hours in the diamond deale establishment. Worked by a Woman. “Jack promised them to me if his three- year-old should win,” she said, mentioning the name of a well-known horse owner whose entries had been doing a lot of winning at Benning, “and I might as well get Ses here as in New York, don’t you think’ $ Of course the diamond! dealer “thought,” end the handsome workan finally choso’a $900 pair. ~ > “Of course I haver't that, much money with me,” said the woman, “but this even- ing, when Jack gets buck ftom the track you may send them to the —!- hotel — “Oh, I think that ‘will’%e all right madame,” seid the djgmonti dealer. “I have known your husbind for some years und often did business” with him in New York. Take the stones, ‘along and I'll run up to the hotel and see him tonight. I want to see him, anytow, “for he REE have something good up his sleeve that he would put me on to,” - “How very kind,” said'the oman. “But, really, I don’t Mke to do tiat, you know. Yet—" and she put finger to lip and mused for a moment. “I would like to wear them at the matinee this afternoon, after all, and as long as you know Jack, maybe it would be all right, do you think?” “Why, certainly,” said the gem dealer. “Pray don’t speak of it,” and with profuse expressions of gratitude mingled with a bit of hesitancy she left the shup with the Glamonds. When the diamond dealer dropped in at the hotel mentioned by the woman to see “Jack” that same evening he learned that the horse owner's wife had died in Cali- fornia two years ago, and that he had been very neatly done. A very fashionable and very insinuating young woman 1s sald to have wormed a pile of money out of the pockets of numer- cus Washington merchants about a week before the Benning races began. Her method was novel and clever. She wert to the proprietors of some of the large The Fake Program. stores and exhibited to them a number of programs of the Morris Park, Sheevs- head, Brighton and other race meetings, all of the programs well filled with attrac- tive and well-gotten-up advertisements. A Fake Race Program. “My husband makes a business of getting up these race programs,” she said, “and it wa3 his pupose to get out an especially handsome one for the Benning meeting. But he was stricken with what I fear is appendicitis a few weeks ago, and is now being treated in a New York santtarium. Se I kave taken up the work. Of cou you will want a page display ad., will not?” and then she produced a dumm the race program she alleged she was max- ing up for the Benning meeting, with num- ercus pages marked off In pencil to indicate advertisements which She said had been already “placed” by othér mérchants. The woman pretty, bright, fasci ing, an accomplished talker, and she dif- fused the fragrance of violets. She made hardly a ure, and ber terms were in- variably in advance. Her terms were very high, too. It is said that the bitten mer- hants who went cut to the track on the first dey of the race meeting, expecting to find programs containing their well-patd- for advertisements, cane back to the city pretty mad. When the eminent “Chuck? Co: “der Powery” was here with his show a few weeks ago he was the means of nailing a pair of “grafters,” a man and a woman, and of probably saving a dealer in here quite a bit of money../Chuck” in the furrier's shop giving directions for the trimming of his winter overcoat with scalskin. The man and woman, both fash- lonably dressed, walked into the: shop and began pricing sealskins. “Chuck” got his eye on them instantly, and he quietly re- treated to the rear of the store. The fur- rier was behind his desk. “Chuck” walked up to the desk and gave a little cheeping whistle. The proprietor looked up. “Chuck” an a Detective. “Well?” said he. Conners jerked his right thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the two cus- tomers at the front of the store. “D'ye see de stiff an’ de Mag wit’ him?” said he. “The lady and gentleman near the door, you mean?” said the proprietor. “Naw, I don't mean nottin’ 0’ de kind,” said “Chuck,” with a look of disgust. “I | mean de skate wit’ de cabbage in his coat, " de Liz nex’ t’ him wot he brought in By this time the proprietor had recog- ed Conners’ check suit from the four sheet posters he had seen of him on the sl, what with a smile. E .”" said “Chuck,” ‘“de're cons, dat's ye want t' spike up dat fe and put weights on it if ye tink ye'd iike U about them?’ he inquired, “De’re Cons, Dat’s All.” have any 0’ de green left in it wit’ dem people aroun’. Bot’ dere mugs is in Byrnes’ graft book” (the New York rogues’ gal- lery), “‘an’ dey bot’ been pinched onct a week in de big town fer a hunnered years or so. I'm goin’ t’ hol’ on t’ me ticker an’ me wad till I git out o’ dis.” Both the man and woman pointed out by Conners in the furrier’s shop were identi- fied a couple of days later by Washington detectives as well-known New York crooks, whose pictures are in fact in the New York salon of rogues, and they were warned out of town, and went. A Mythical Cock Fight. A very black young colored gentleman, who had the general ornate make-up of a hot number, pulled off a good thing on some mythical chicken fights hé clijimed to have arranged. He circulated among the “dead games” out at the track and among the resorts in the city where the rounders make their headquarters, and passed the quiet tip that he was going to exhibit in a cock- pit out at Bladensburg the finest aggrega- tion of feathered scrappers that ever wore gaffs. After he had world up a very gen- eral interest—he waited three or four days to let the project “soak” into the minds of the “sports” he had talked with about the chicken fights—he t them again, purveying: fights; price, $1 per telling how much mon the thing; but it was dat the very large number who hired carriages on a Faw night about a week after they had bought their tickets and drove out to-Bladensburg in quest of a cock pit as purely mythical .as the cupolas of Camelot. A Diplomatic. aswer. A Berlin periodfcal cites an answer of a shrewd diplomatist to aneminent French banker with Whom he-Wwas on friendly terms. When & feport reached Paris that a certain sovereign had died, wWohey called upon the diplomatist to get the truth out of him. He put the question plainly. “Is the report true?” “So far as I know,” was the reply, “there are two reports. The one says that his THE NEW JAPANESE CRUISER. CRUISERS FOR JAPA Our Formidable Contribution to the Emperor's Navy. BUILDING IN AMERICAN SHIPYARDS Will Be Equipped With All the Most Effective Appliances. QUICK-FIRING RIFLES Written for The Evening Star. It has been a good many years since the shipyards of this country were busied with vesgels of any magnitude for foreign naval powers, and the craft now building at the Union iron vorks of San Francisco and at Cramps’ in Philadelphia are directly the result of our own rehabilitated service and the fine showing on the Asiatic station of ihe Charleston and the Olympia. These veesels for Jepan are now well advanced, end it will be but a brief while before they are launched. The vessels are substantially alike and a description of cne applies to the other. They have been classed by the Japanese as second-class, unarmored, protected cruis- ers, and, in displacement, are a trifle heav- ier than our San Francisco and Baltimore type. They are substantial duplications of the Buenos Ayres, built for the Argentine Republic by the Elswick yard of England, and Jarger and bettered roductions of the Yoshino, which did such effective work during the recent Japo-Chinese war. Their Dimensions. Each ship has a water-line length of 396 feet and an cyer-all lergth of 405 feet 2 inches; a maximum beam of 49 feetaand a draft of 17 feet 74 inches on a normal dis- placement of 4,76) tons. They are built of steel and have double bottoms, extending throughout their entire lengths, and are divided within into something like fourteen large or main water-tight compartments with numerous minor subdivisions. A pro- tective deck, reaching from side to side and running from the bow to the stern, com- pletely covers the “vitals” of the craft. On the flat pertions this deck is 1% inches thick, but where it slopes to the sides it is increased to 4% inches. The water-line re- gion will be constructed on the prevailing cellular system, but will not be filled with cellulose unless so decided by the Japanese after they become possessed of the ships. The bitter experiences of their recent struggles have taught them fully the dan- gtr of jire from modern explosive shell, and with that before them, they have or- dered all of tae woodwork to be fireproofed. They deem the materials so treated by us to he amply protected against contlagra- tion Typical Modern Vessels. The ships will be fitted for a complement of 405 persons, and everything will be ar- ranged to accord with the Japanese naval regulations. There will be the usual sys- tems of natural and of artificial ventilation, and the lighting throughout will be by eiec- tricity. In other words the vessels will be typical of the best modern naval practices. Each ship will have twin screws, driven by two four-cylindered, triple-expansion engines, capable of developing a maximum indicated horse power of 15,000. Upon that development a speed of 222 knots is guar- anteed, but there is but little doubt that the vessels will make quite 23 knots or more. The engines sre in two separate water- tight compartments. Steam wiil be sup- plied by eight bollers—four double-ended and four single-ended—having a total grate surface of 792 square feet and a total heat- ing surface of 22,440 square feet. Formidable Batteries. The principal offensive power of the ships is centered in a very formidable battery of quick-firing rifles. In the main battery, each ship will carry two 8-inch and ten 47-inch rapid-fire rifles; and in the sec- ondary battery there will be an effective force of twelve 12-pounders and six 2%- pounders. One 8-inch gun is mounted on the forecastle deck, while the other is aft on the poop, and each has a commanding are of fire of something like degrees. ‘The gun crews are protected by heavy steel shields on each rifie. These 8-inch guns are of the well-known Armstrong type, and are |today the highest and heaviest develop- ment of the quick-firing guns. Each piece has a recorded speed of fire of five aimed shots in sixty-four seconds, and, at each discharge, sends forth a hurtling mass of 210 pounds of hardened steel with an initial velocity of 2,650 feet a second. The record for our 8-inch guns of the ordinary service type—firing projectiles of 250 pounds—is one shot every minute and a half. In the same time the Armstrong gun discharges 1,470 pounds of destructive metal. The contract price for these ships is re- ported to be something like $1,025,000 for cach, and does not include the armament, which is to be furnished by the Armstrong people. A Japanese officer has been quoted as saying that these vessels have been built in this country merely for “sentiment’s sake.” Be that as it may; but, when finish- ed, they will be unsurpassed of their kind. A PRINCE OF THE KAFFIRS Is Enrolled as a Student at Shaw Univer- sity. 'Exxpeets to Study Medicine and Will Then Return to His Own People. Special Oorrespondence of The Evening Star. RALEIGH, N. C., December 1, 1897. Not long since Dr. Charles F. Meserve, president of Shaw University at Raleigh, one of the largest colored educational in- stitutions in this country, sald to me: “I will have in a few days as a’student Prince Impey of South Africa.” Arrangements were made to secure ar interview with the first African jrince who ever attended ates. I went Shaw University one after- noon. It Saturday, and a couple of hundred students were cither watching or participating in a game of foot ball. In a portico of the main building sat a quite dark young man, wrapped from head to foot in a heavy ulster, though the day was fair and warm for the season. This young man was the prince. At the be- ginning of the interview he was reticent, not to say shy, but as it progressed he spoke more freely. It is difficult to tell his age. He oppears about twenty and says he is nineteen years and six months. The hignness of his cheek bones is a marked feature. He is of a pronounced negre type a3 to face. I know a negro waiter in a hotel here who might pass for his twin brother. Impey’s voice Is well znoduiated. He had a map of Africa open und pointed out his home. He sald: “My name is Alfred Impey. My grand- Tather was King Kama. My father’s name was Impey. He was the third son of King Kama. My mother’s name was Balise. She, too, is dead. The present king is my uncle, King Wiiliam. After my father’s death I lived with King Will- iam. I belong to the Kaffir tribe. I am a Methodist and attended the mission school at Barnshill, where Miss Grandana was my teacher. I have been baptized. I_ was born at Milledrift, South Africa, near® Lons- dale, in Cape Colony, near the border of school in the United Si to Alfred Impey. Kaffraria. My uncle's capital is King Will- jam’s Town. He has an allowance from the British. His house is a great one, like this we are now in, and is built of stone and brick. It was built for my uncle by his people. Our Kaffir people are of two kinds. Many are like myself; that is, at- tend school and wear trousers. In Lons- king, who has no children of his own. I do not wish to be king. I wish to be a minister and a doctor, and I will perhaps be here more than ten years.” When asked how he came here Alfred said: “I rode three hours on horseback from Milledrift to King William's Town, then three days on the train to Cape Town, and then on the steamer fourteen days to Southampton. I left home July 24. I feel ee eters here.” red is very polite. He alway ys “sir,” and at least 100 questions had to be asked him to extract the above informa- tion. He speaks deliberately, quite in the English way. He says his uncle, the King, .has only one wife and has no soldiers, like the British. He was asked if he played fcot ball and replied, “No, sir; I play ten- ris and cricket. I like tennis’ better than oa game. I play it here.” 8 ears are pierced for rings. He was asked if he wore them, and replied wore them when I was a little boy. It is a cus- tom of our tribe. I suffer from the cold here. It 1s not cold in my country Alfred several times used native while speaking. Some were quite pleasant to the ear, but most were broken by a Strange clicking sound. I asked him to ‘rite his name and the Kaflfir name of Milledrift. The latter he wrote “Exesi,” and pronounced it with a strange click, so that it sounded precise ike “ik~- names laysey.” His signature is distinctively Eng- lish in the formation of the letters and might be that of any English business man. care of Prof. iversity, Alfred is under the personal F. Roberts of Shaw U who added the following informatio: “Impey was brought to this country by Rev. Mr. Jackson, a missionary, under the auspices of the foreign mission convention of the United States, to be educated for the ministry as a missionary. H. entered this university last month. It will require Seven yeurs for him to complete his educa- tlon—three years in the English course and then four years in medicine. He is a prince, and in case of the death of his cousin (who is the son of a brother of King William, older than Alfred’s father) would succeed as king. He has learned the Eng- lish language and is making fair progress in his studies. His -habits are industrious and his deportment perfect. He looks for- ward to the day when he will return to Africa to elevate and instruct his own peo- ple.” The Kaffirs are a branch of the great Bantu family. The strange clicking sounds in their language are like th the Hottentots. aera! ——.—__. Lord Nelson’s Canadian Love Episode. From Leslie’s Weekly. A pretty little romance gives Nelson's memory a sentimental interest in Canada. During his service at Quebec, in 1782, when he was but twenty-four years of age, he became infatuated with a beautiful Cana- dian girl, Mary Simpson, daughter of a great Canadian merchant of the period. At the time of- Nelson's visit she was but six- teen years old, marvelously beautiful and witty. On the 14th of October, 1782, Lord Nelson's ship, the Albemarle, was ready to sail, and he had a very sad and tender parting with Mary Simpson, and went down the St. Lawrence to board the man-of-war. The next morning arrived and the Albe- marle did not heave anchor, and Captain Nelson was seen coming back to Quebec in a boat. A friend of Nelsoi a man prominent in Quebec at the iime, espied him and asked him what had hapnened. Nelson is quoted as having sald: “I find it absolutely impossible to leave this place without again waiting upon her whose so- ciety has so much added to ‘ts charms, and laying myself and my for-une at her feet.” Nelson’s friends protested against such a rash act, and told him thar, u- ated as you are at present, your uiter ruin will inevitably follow.” “Then let it follow,” replied Nelson, earnesly, “for I am resolved to do it.” But despite his ir- tentions, the stronger will of sis friend prevailed, and he was fairty carried back to his ship and forced to leave behind the girl he loved; and it was many years before Nelscn never returned to Canada, Simpson died in spinsterhood. ———+ o+____ @ good-natured sort of a fellow who gambles. He won it at cards, and turned It over to our fund.” 21 10 BE CORRECTLY ATTIRED Good Clothes Essential to Bus- iness Success. Washington T: Famoun for Its Good lors—Remarkable Success of Two Young ™ That good clothes are a tecessery capital to all young Men ny enecessfal man will deny by no menue, “make the man.” but geod clothes WIL make a good man much better appreciated by those with whom he has business or social re tions. ‘The gind hand is well-drensed man —but many doors to those who are noorly attired. dress ts therefore ity day. Probably no elty of ttm lond cam boast of ma tany lors as Washington. Ever si capital city has been famous for the skill and tast ite sare torlate, Perhaps no tallors in America deserve More credit for having attalned the frm of J. F J. Fred. Gatchel. cupy the larger portion of the bullding at G04 12th street. Fred Gatchel, as he is famil y known to a large and admiring clientele in this city, was by a strange propriateness born in. tev ille, Pa., and began to make cents as soon as he was old enough to guide a pair of shears. Though comp paratively a young man now, he is old < the tailoring business, having served for many years previous to engaging In business on his own hook with the firm of Goo. T. Keen. by his genial manner and pleasing personality, ne Jess than by bis skill and success as a cutter and fitter of fine clothing, he has won the good opinion and patronage of Washington's most prominent men. He is the leading authority on men's dress in the city, and many of bis customers do not hesl tate to give him carte Manche even to the selection of the fabrica and colors they are to wear, rely! solely on his splendid taste to make approp selections. Asxociated with Mr. Gatchel is Mr. E F. Mudd, who, ke Mr Ga’ was also con. nected with Mr. apacity of cutter. Mr. Mudd was born in this city in 1850 and in- herits bis talent for tafloring from his father, th leading sartorial artist of Washington in ante bellum days. No man in the profession has prob ably had the distinction of clothing so many men of national prominence as hax the modest, unas suming little man with whom I talked yesterday Prosi eabinet officers, senators and congress- men, of the most distinguished of ficers of the army and navy, are numbered among his patrons. He has attained a national repute tion as a cutter and fitter and has customers tn almost every state of the Union. He has selected as his specialty the most difficult branch of th profession—the cutting and fitting of frock su! and dress #uits—and in this lne he probably has no superior in America. Mr. Gatchel is extremely reticent In discussing his own achievements, but when asked to what he ascribed bis rapid rise in the tailoring business, he said: “I believe I cwe my success principally to the fact that I have made « study of the tailoring business all my Mfe. I have never done anything else. Ihave driven my business forward from th very start—it has never driven me. I have en deavored to make clothes that would advertise me among the well-dressed men of Washington—and the majority of my patronage today is that whic has come to me through the recommendation of my eo. T. Keen for 20 years in the ew Fall Styles, “What are the correct styles for men this fall, Mr. Gatchel?” “Well,” he replied, “for business or morning Wear a sack coat about 29 inches long and closed with three or four buttons, or the three-button cutaway frock—sometim.s called the English walk ing cont with flaps on the sides be correct Trousers are rather loose at the hips, gradually E. F. Mudd. tapering to an average of 18 inches at the knee and 15 inches at the bottom. “For semi-full dress occasions the three-button cutaway frock coat will be most popular. This coat should erage about 33 inches in lemeth and may be made of unfinished worsteds, presidential hs and vicum: ‘The frock coat, closed with three buttons and two on lapel, for afternoon wear and for ministers, lawyers and professional men, is cut from the new Queen's Jubilee cloths, presidential rsteds and, for the more luxurious dressers, from fine vicunas. This coat should be finished with bead edge and corded, which gives a very nobby appearance and adds very materially to the durability of the gar- ment. “The dress coat is now made with peaked lapels. silk faced to the edge; has broad shoulders, and is of medium length. The vest may be elther singic or double breasted. ‘The favorite materials are Venetian cloths, gran‘te-finished worsteds, Queen's Jubilee cloths apd presidential cloths. Coat should be finished with corded edge. PAUL PATTON. From Tit-Bits. “Before permitting you to pass to the front,” said the officer in charge of the telegraphy to the war correspondent, “1 desire to know whether you are qualified to report our action in the field.” The war correspondent bowed and awaited the pleasure of the great man. “In the first place,” continued the soldier, “I should like a definition of the phrase, ‘fiendish atrocity.’ The correspondent smiled, as if he con- sidered the question altogether too easy. “Fierdish atrocities,” he said, “are mur- ders committed by the other side.” “Correct,” returned the officer. “Now what is ‘Just vengeance’?” “Just vengeance,” answered the corre- spondert, “‘is the term used to designate irders committed by our side.” “Correct again,” returned the officer. “T ‘will give you an order that will take you all the lines. NG VING a