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MISSED THE LEADEN SHOWER. An Ex-Confederate Telis How a Kiss it 6 the Moonlight Saved Him. “I was a lieutenant-colonel of a Ken tacky, iment,” said Col. John C. fe of Kentucky, to a Boston Globe man. “Our command was in East Tennessee, and one bright moon- light night I concluded to ride away from camp and take a look about the vicinity. “I rode several miles and, coming to a farm house, hitched my horse and knocked at the door. A young woman, the} most beautiful I had ever seen, it seemed to me, appeared after a while and invited me in. “She and her aged mother were the only occupants of the house, the men of the family being in the Confederate army. We chatted pleasantly for a few minutes, when my fair hostess arose and said: ‘Colonel, you ran a great risk in leaving your horse in such an exposed position. The Yankee pickets are all about it. I will goand put him in the barn.” “She left the room and after a few minutes returned, when we resumed our conversation. Suddenly she started up and listened. ‘Colonel, you must g° now,’ she exclaimed. ‘I hear the sound of horses’ hoofs; the Federals sre coming!’ Rushing out of doors, she led my horse to the back of the house, and I, following her, jumped on his buck. “The most natural thing for me to have done would have been toset spurs to him and get uway as soon as pos- sible. But I could not. Iwas young and impressionable, and the situation ‘was entrancing. The moon shed a sil- verlight upon the earth, a gentle breeze was stirring and the rustle of the leaves in the grand old trees was like music to mysoul And amid these enchanting surroundings a beautiful face with tearful eves looked into mine, beseech- ing me to hasten. “I could not resist the temptation, and stooping down from my horse put my arm around her, drew her closer to my side and kissed her. AsIdid soa shower of bullets passed over my head. One of them went through the rim of my hat. I was in full sight of a com- pany of Federal horsemen. No - other warning was-necessary. My horse real- ized the danger as well as I and a race for life ensued. The enemy pressed hard upon me for a time, and more than once their bullets “razed my head, but fortune favored me and I at length reached the Confederate lines in safety. Do you wonder that I remember when a kiss saved my life?” Ages at Which Men Marry. Statistics show that a law of chances governs in the vast majority of cases the ages at which men marry, who are engaged in certain occupations. Work- men and artisans take unto themselves wives at an earlier age than those whose vocations are of a more intellectual kind. Thus, miners, textile factory hands, laborers und artisans marry at an average of twenty-two years. Of these the miners are first in the field, more than 100 of every 1,000 of them securing wives before they have be- come of age. Workers in textile fabrics run them close, then come shoemakers and tailors, and they are followed by artisans and labo.ers. Farmers and farmers’ sons consider twenty-five early enough. Commercial clerks seek the pleasures of matrimony at tweuty-six. Shop keep-rs and shopmen postpone the rapture a little while longer. Pro- fessional men and gentlemen of inde- pendent means rarely care to encumber themselves even with so delightiu! « burden as a wife until they have toed the line of over thirty years. Though the rich marry ata more ripe age thau the working fraternity, they continue marrying until long after the last named have ceased to wed. Whereas fourteen mivers and twenty-five artisans in every 1,000 marry between the ages of thirty-five and forty, nearly 100 of the professional and independent class do. Itis explained in this way: The rich like to see something of the world and its pleasures before settling down to sober matrimony. A laborer has neither desire nor opportunity for it. When he has a house of his own, anda wife to look after it for him, he has at- tained, perbaps, to the height of his am- bition. It is said a man is neither physically nor mentally mature until he is thirty, and if this is trne, it stands to reason a man at that age should be better fitted for the duties of a husband and father than a stripliag of twenty- one.—N. ¥. Ledger. ‘The English Language. Professor Vambery has been lecturing on the “Fashion of Languages” before the Buda-Pest English Club. English, he said, may now be called the most fashionable language in all the five parts of the world. It began to spread in the first decades of the century through English literature, and in Asia by :means of accelerated communication. ; Steamers were the wings of the English | languagegin*the far East, and its spread- jing from India and the Straits Settle- iments to China and Japan is simply miraculous. There is no exaggeration in saying ithat the number of English-speaking SAsiatics amounts today to 3,000,000; Ethat of Europeans to more than 1,000- £000, and these, added to 126,000,000 Anglo-Saxons, give a total of English- {speaking men and women of 130,000,- 000. Should the increase continue in ‘the same proportiop, the middle of next century will have 200,000,000 Eng- lish-speaking persons and the English } will have no rival in the world beside the Chinese. Phonetically E for the foreign ere ate ish is . the lecturer de- clares he always suiler pain in the jaws when speaking publicly im England and trying to imitate genuine English. The phonetic di s are, however, amply rewarded -throagh the expres- iveness, the r sion, vigor and Bexactness in which Huglish surpasses sil other Luropean tongues.—Londoa News prec SE once unsuitable | BIG BATTLESHIP SUNK. The British attleship Victoria Run Down by her Consort. The British battleship Victoria was sunk last Friday near Tripoli, a sea- port in the Wastern Mediterranean, by her consort, the British battleship Camperdown. Some 463 lives were lost. Sir George Tryon, K. C. B., Vice- Adimiral in command of the Mediterra- mean Squadron, is among those who perished. Both vessels belonged to the Mediterranean Squadron. The Victoria Hew the tiag of the V Admiral. The two battleships were engaged in naval tactics off the Syrian coast. The weather was bright and the sun shining. The two ships were going through their inaneuvers within a distance of three miles of each other, which gave each ship but a small space considering the reaction of the tide. Suddenly the Camperdown was carried towards the Victoria by the lide in a rapid way. Before the Vic toria could sieam ahead or the Cam- perdown’s commander obtain contro) of his vessel, she siruck the Victoria. The Camperdown’s ram hit the flag: ship near the foremost starboard tur: ret, tearing an immense hole in her side, extending into several water. tight compartments. The Victoria ai ouce began to settle, and while her crew were trying to shut bulkhead doors to prevent the water spreading, she turned over and instantly sans from sight. So rapidly was the plunge taken that those on board the Victoria had but little chance to cut loose the small boats. Se 1, however, were released, only to be carried the suction. Of this numbe aged to get out of the whirlpool and Were rescued by the small bodts of the Camperdown. Lye witnesses re- port that the vessel was nearly cut in two alongside, and that every one be- low deck at the time perished. The news of the disaster caused the great- est excitement throughout England. The Victoria was a single turret ship, carrying two 110-ton guns mounted in a forward turret coated with eighteen inches of compound armor; one 10- inch 29-ton gun, firing aft, and a broadside a ‘ armament of twelve 6-inch 5-ton guns. Of ariillery of smaller r re she carried twenty- one quick-tiri 1 eight achine guns. Her m v 16.75 knots. She c ow 1,200 tons of coal in her bu a her radius of action at ten-kuot speed, with her full complement of coal, estimated at 7,000 knots. Her armored belt and bulkheads consisted of compound ar- mor from sixteen to eighteen inches in thickness. It is believed this disas- ter, showing the unwieldiness of big battleships ard the terril effective power of the ram as a naval weapon, will cause another revolution in ocean warfare, and lead to a general build- ing of vessels like the Ammen ram. A complete model of the Victoria is part of the British naval exhibit at Chicago. Home Finances. Mr. Gladstone’s new financial pro- posals ins connection with the pro- posed Irish Parliament do not meet with cordial approval from Irish Home Rulers, but will probably be accepted as the best thing obtainable. The new scheme provides that the revenue shall be divided into two classes—general and special. Ireland shall bear her own civil cha A separate ex- chequer and msolidated fund shall be established. The s imposed by the Irish Parliament shall form part of the special revenue to be applied to the public tvice of Ireland. The postage duties in Ireland, until the imperial contribution iH have been ised, shall be imposed by the Im- jal Parliament. If the post-office revenue shall be less than the expen- litures the deficiency must be paid to the Imperial Exchequer out of the Irish Exchequer. An illustrative usury statement, based upou the ipts and expenditures of 1$92-93, shows a surplus of $2,560,000. New York’s New Postmaster. “I expect to take hold of my duties at that post-o 2 on July 1,” said Mr. Dayton, New York’s new post- master, “and will devote the months of July and August io a careful study of the requirements of the place. I am convinced that the office needs a thorough overhauling. Matters have been running on in the same old way there for the past thirty y , and I have a number of suggestions for changes to submit to the Postmaster- General.” Mr. Dayton added that all of the clerks who were efficient would be retained in their places, providing they come under the operations of the civil service law. An inyentory of the zovernment properties in the post- office will take place June 30; Senator Hill Denies Writing a Letter, or Hill was asked at Albany 1 letter on the silver question, purporting to have been sent by him from Albany to the President of the Board of Trade at Cincinnati. Sena- tor Hill said that he had written no letter to Cincinnati on the silver ques- tion or any other question, but that at the request of Mr. Dolph, President of the Board of Trade of that ¢ his views upon the financial que he had caused his clerk to for Mr. Dolph a printed copy of his re- marks on his bill for the repeal of the Sherman law, delivered in the Senate in February last, and stating that his sentiments were expressed in that speech. Rea‘ling’s Affairs, The Reading will have to provide for $1,500,000 interest on July 1, nearly $900,000 of which is due to holders of the general mortgage bonds. On the same date its indebtedness to Speyer Co. will fall due. The latter loan is secured } 340,000 collateral trust bonds, ”) third preference bonds and 1,000 Philadelp? Har- risburg and Pittsburg bonds. e im- pression prevails that the company le to meet the general rest, and it is possible cement will be ma made 1 & Co. to buy the coupons. » that the company will tions. The University Boat Race. The a iversity boat race be tween Harvard will tak place at y London, Conn., on day of this v The crews are bi lieved to be pretty ¢ aly matel and there is lively to th result. The Yale crey use famous “Bob Cook” stroke, while Har- vard has adopted the English Univer- sity stroke. The course is four miles. | | | INTERVIEWING, TRAMPS, Curious Information Regarding a Curious Class of Individuals. The Rev. J. J. McCook, of Re% York, preaches good zenship by practicing it. He is always pegging away at something for the public good. Now, with the help of the mayors and poliee officers of fourteen American cities, he has been taking a “tramp census,” and he communicates the results—or some of them—to the Forum. The number of American tramps covered by this census is 1,349. Thir two questions were asked in eve case, and Mr. McCook grieves that he inadvertently omitted a thirty-third, though he tells us in the same breath of one involuntarily catechumen who found the thirty-two too many. ‘That's a devil of a lot of questions,” exclaim- ed this indignant victim, “to ask a fel- low for a night’s lodging!” In the most ambitious previous tramp census of which Mr. McCook has heard—Lon- don, 1889—the number of weary wan- derers questioned was only 286. Of these 1,349 American tramps, less than one-half describe themselves as unskilled laborers, and only sixteen say they have no regular calling. Of the representatives—on the retired list —of skilled labor, 46 per cent. say they used to be sailors, firemen, brakemen, shoemakers, curriers, teamsters, hos- | tlers, blacksmiths or horseshoers. Mr. drag net caught three elec- two brokers, two reporters. a teacher, a designer, an artist .“a real German count’), a Salvation Army captain, a “gentleman,” but no clergy- nnd no professor. “The sedentary he tells us, “was just as numer- s the nomadic peddler.” Nearly all of the 1,349 tramps are in the prime of life, averaging much younger than their (:ecorded) fellow pilgrims in England aud Gi iy. “ owing my results,” says Mr. Mc- Cook, “we may expect to find one tramp in twenty under twenty years, th out of five under thirty-five, enty-five out of every 100 under fc and one in twelve fifty or ov Only one in 111 will be over seventy.” Of the whole number questioned 83.5 per cent. promptly said their health ‘good;” 8 per cent. “pretty good,” not very good;” 8.5 per cent. “bad. This at a time when the grip was rag ing among well-fed, well-housed peo- and the general death rate was uietingly high. “Neither the tramp's is health, then,” concludes “is a bar to successful labor. Only fif to having a year. out of the 1,349 owned up een on the road more than The explanations of their ence there given by 82.8 per cent. the whole number were: “Out of money,” “Out of work,” “Looking for work.” Twelve “wanted to s e 11 itry;” eight “wanted to take six said they would not wenty-five laid their tramping to « One exceptionally candid wanderer diagnosed his case in three words, “Whiskey and lazy.” As to nativity, 56.1 per cent. of the 1,349 were born in this country, 20.5 per cent. in Ireland, 6.6 per cent. in England, 8.4 per cent. in the Scandi- ian countries, 2.6 per cent in bonny Scotland. There are thirteen negroes in the lot and one Indian. Only one Southern State is represented, and that by a white man. “The tramp,” re- marks Mr. McCook, “seems to be a product of our Northern civilization and to move along the more temper ate belt, avoiding extremes of heat and cold as being ‘disagreeable and less favorable to health.” Don't think of the tramps as illiter- ate: 1,187 of the 1,349 can read and write, 18 of the 162 who can’t write can read, and one of the favorite pur- chases is the daily newspaper. Only 7.3 per cent. are married; 4.4 per cent. are widowers. Thirty of the 1,349 say they are total abstainers, 459 that they are temperate, 825 that they are in- temperate. Only 5.8 per cent. own up to having been convicted of crimes other than drunkenness. Only 113 say they have no religion. Only 116 say they have seen the inside of the alms- house. By their own admission 14.9 per cent. of the whole number are, or have been, specially dangerous to the public health. Are Women Responsible? It was Marguerite of Valois who said, with unusual severity for a wo man, that “the less one sees and knows men the higher one esteems them.” It is obvious that the cynical Mar garet really meant to say that the bet- ter one knows men the greater is one’s contempt for them. These sharp-tongued assaults are in- teresting and diverting as specimens of VANDERBILT'S MOUNTAIN HOME, How a Wilderness has Been Transformed into a Flower Garden, George W. Vanderbilt, one of the younger members of that famous fam- ily, has developed an untamed North Carolina forest into a beautiful home. He is not yet thirty years of age, but, to judge from the Lewisburg, Pa., ; description of the transfor- 2 has effected in the North Carolina tmountaius, he seems to be snding his money with an intelli- e somewhat rare among men who so much to spend, and his enter- prise is suggestive of the period which, in view of the rapid increase of the population of the country, cannot be far distant when land in the United States must be very much more valuable than it is today. Mr. Van- derbilt’s tastes are said to run in the direction of art and letters. His North Carolina enterprise indicates that he represents a development in his be yond the money acquiring stage. His first step was to purchase, besides sev- eral mountains, 18,000 acres of land along the French Broad and the Swan- anoa Rivers. The next step in which he exhibited unusual intelligence in en- joying his opportunities was to restrain the natural temptation to carry out plans of his own and to employ the services of the greatest landscape ar- tist in the country, Frederick Law Olm- stead, who had so much to do with laying out the World’s Fair grounds. So far, sixty-five miles of macadam road have been constructed on Mr. Vanderbilt’s North Carolina estate. Seven hundred men are employed, their wages running from $1 per day to the salary of $12,000 paid to the overseer. Three years ago the work of trans forming old fields, pastures and wood- lands into a harmonious landscape be- gan, and Prof. Harbeson, who has spent many days ‘n studying the devel- opment of the place, is enthusiastic over the progress made. He says that Druid Hill Park, at Baltimore; Fair- mount Park, at Philadelphia; the Bos- ton Garden ind the Central Park, of New York, contain nothing that is comparable with several miles of the approach on the Vanderbilt estate, which is art of the highest kind, a com- bination of nature and the work of man so happily joined that the eye cannot tell where the one ends and the other begins. Bowlders have been set in place, rhododendrons transplant- ed, and the whole is dechared to be a poem in plants, trees and flowers, the longest poem ever made and one of the greatest. A trained forester is set- ting out large plantations of forest trees. The arboretum is declared to surpass the famous Arnold arboretum at Cambridge, and when completed will contain every tree, shrub and woody plant found in the world which is hardy to the climate. Ten miles of railroads have been constructed to transport materials about the estate. Vast extents of land, which a year oF so ago were entirely unproductive, have been so changed by plowing, heavy manuring and green soiling that to-day Prof. Harbeson says they are growing as fine crops as can be grown in the most fertile valleys of the Northern States. Lately Mr. Vander bilt has added 20,000 acres for a hunt- ing park. There will be deer parks and lakes, and the house, which will cost about $5,000,000, it is said, will the largest dwelling-house in the wor and one of the world’s most famous | structures. Already by the introduction of mosses and vines at the bridges po® tions of the place have taken on the appearance of age and the appearance of newness has been overcome. The First Consul. Just before the review began we saw several officers in gorgeous uniforms ascend the stairs, one of whom, whose helmet seemed entirely of gold, was zene de Beauharnais. A few min- afterwards there was a rush of vers down the stairs, and among them I saw a short, pale man, with his hat in his hand, who resembled Lord Erskine in profile. But, though my friend whispered, “C’est lui,” I did not comprehend that I beheld Bonaparte till I saw him stand alone at the gate. In another moment he was on his horse, while I, trembling with emotion, gazed on him intently, endervoring to commit each expressive, sharply-chis- | eled feature to memory, contrasting also with admiration his small, simple hat, adorned with nothing but a little tri-colored cockade, and his blue coat, guiltless of gold embroidery, with the splendid adornments of the officers | who followed him. satirical raillery, but to the analytical | mind they present nothing worth while. The simple truth is, women do not hold such sentiments towards men; though every one knows that to a con- siderable extent they would be justi- fied in so holding. The general atti- tude of women is one of seeming wor- shipful admiration. This is bad, espe- cially for very young men, who are thus puffed up by conceit and made unspeakably disagreeable, whereas were they let alone they might disclose a becoming measure of modesty and self-distrust. It is about time for wo- men to face the fact that they are dl- | rectly chargable with most of the un- pleasing characteristics of man. They constantly feed his vanity; they habitu- ally practice duplicity and in their in- tercourse with him the note of sincer- ity is seldom heard. Naturally the man desires the “clinging trust” of the woman, but he is too dull-headed to perceive that what he takes for cling- ing trust is clever diplomacy, and it is an axiom that the only way to be- come a clever diplomat is to cultivate deceit. @ Thé Creole. A creole, strictly speaking, is any peton born in this country or the West Indies of Huropean ancestors; also any person born in or near the tropics, and this is the sense in which the word is usually employed. The use of the werd, however, has been by some restricted first to children of for- eign parents born in Louisiana, and, second, to children of Spanish or French parents born in Louisiana, and then in the North the word has been perverted so that it is believed to im- ply some strain of negro blood in a person to whom it is applied. It does not imply anything of the sort.—New York Herald. Already Done. Starter—I met a man this morning who said I looked like you. Smartley—Tell me who he is and I'l) go and knock ‘him down. aaa Starter—I did that myself. ay At length the review ended—too soon for me. The First Consul sprang from his horse. We threw open our door gain, and, as he slowly reascended the stairs, we saw him very near us, and in full face, while his bright, rest- less, expressive and, as we fancied, dark blue eyes beaming from under long black eyelashes, glanced over us with a scrutinizing but complacent OR oats: Opie, in Tait’s Magazine, Many Eaces In One. A comical story is told of a young man who was shown a photograph of 2 young lady which seemed to impress him very much. The impression of the countenance in the portrait denoted a strong will, yet a gentle disposition. It was the face of a young lady whom one would like to know. “Who is the original of this portrait?” the young man inquired. “The graduating class of Smith Col- lege, Northampton,” was the reply. It was a composite photograph, and the admiring young man awoke regret- fully to the fact that there was in reality no such lady as the one whose face had so strongly impressed him— or, rather, that there were forty-nine of her! A young lady who, on seeing a com- posite photograph of a small circle of friends of which she was a member, exclaimed: “It is so charming to enjo: the portrait of somebody who is ait vne’s intimate friends at once!” Mind Acting on Matter. He—I am afraid it will be a great shock to her to find that her fiance is flirting with that handsome blonde. She—Yes; I shouldn’t wonder if it made her hair turn light in one night. —World’s Fair Puck. eodless Advice. If you drink Pre ng water in it you ruin the ¢ of your stomach. Hen E: (absently}—Never mind; it’s an old coat—Puek. without pu Thos. H. Clarke,| Fifty Cents Per Week REAL ESTATE AND LOANS. 606 F Street, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C TS AL ASD Subscribe to and advertise in the Bzx, THE INDUSTRIAL BUILD- ING AND SAVING CO. Loans money to buy or build homes. Shares $1 each, payable monthly. Dividends declared ev- ery January. Secretary’s office: 609 F st.,n. w. 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