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STORY OF THE BOER WAR.
Summary of the Stirring History of
the Laftt Eight Mouth* iu South
Africa.
From the New York Tribune.
The Transvaal War actually began on
oct 10, 1899, when the Boer government
eeiu their ultimatum. Two days later
the British agent left Pretoria. Natal
and Cape Colony were invaded, and La-
Nek was occupied; Mafeking and
Kimberley wero Invested by the Boers
anil an armored train with two guns was
captured near Mafeking within the next
two days. A combined movement was di
rei ;ed against the British, force of 4,000
men under Gen. Symons at Glet tc. Com
mandant Lucas Meyer made the attack
C n the 29th. Gen. Symons, the British
commander, carried the hill on which the
goers had established themselves, cap
tured their guns and drove them off, but
he was himself mortally wounded and died
a day or two afterward. A detachment
of Hussars wtfs captured while pursuing
the retreating foe. Meanwhile the ißoers
had seized the railway between Glencoe
and Ladysmith, and were only dislodged
after a stubborn fight at Elandslaagte on
the 21st. On this occasion Commandant
Vlljoen was killed and two guns were
taken by the British. The attempt to Iso
late the British force at Glencoe thus
failed, but as another attack was threat
ened the British force was compelled to
retire, and Join the main body at Ladv‘-
smith, leaving the wounded at Dundee.
To cover his retreat Gen. Sir George
■White had to fight again, at Rietfonitein,
on the 24th, and again the Boers were dis
lodged. The loss on both sides oo this
occasion was heavy. A little later Col.
Baden-Powell inflicted some loss on Cron-
Jo's conimand ini a brilliant sortie and
bayonet charge at Mofeking. Meanwhile
Ladysmith was gradually being invested
by Gen. Joubert, and the British suffered
groat loss on Oct. 30. On that day about
one thousand men, consisting of the Royal
Irish Fusiltiers and the Gloucestershire
Regiment, with No. 10 Mountain Battery,
were surrounded at .Nicholson’s Nek and
forced to capitulate. They were overcome
after they had lost their ammunition
through a stampede of the mule train
The British troops at Coleneo were on
Nov. 2, forced to retire over the Tugela
bridge, and all communication between
Ladysmith and the south was out off.
Also the bridges over the Orange river
into Cape Colony were seized. Allwal
North. Jamestown and Coiesberg were oc
cupied on the 18th, and a considerable
Ti mber of the Cape Colonists Joined from
the south, and Lord Methuen, commanding
n Orange river, pushed on in an effort to
relieve Kimberley, to Belmont and on
Nov. 23. defeated a strong Boer force.
Pixty-four wagons were taken, and 59.000
rounds of ammunition, with 750 shells
wore blown up. The British dealt another
x-vere blow to the Boers at Enslin on the
when the Boers fought under cover
of i white flag.
The position of Kimberley had much In
fluence on tiie progress of the war. Cecil
Rhodes went to the town on Oct. 12. end
pronounced it "as safe as Piccadilly.” The
force under Lord Methuen five days after
defeating the enemy at Belmont effected
the passage of the Modder river In the
fiee of 8,000 Boers in "one of the hojviet
" r<l ™.?V ryins flghts ln the annals of.
thf British army. '
\rrivnl ir Holler at Durban.
The arrival of Sir Reivers Buffer at
Durban markefl anew stage in the Lady
fmith campaign. The Boers, after invest
ing that place, had continued to spread
FOU,h and toward the Tugela. Before the
appearance of the British reinforcements
they occupied Colenso, as well as Beacon
lilll and the Moot river. Among the prom
inent incidents of the British advance
were a night attack on the Boers at Wil
low Grange and the armored train engage
rn“ nt at.Ohieveley on Nov, 15. when Win
s'’” ,9 ll iT chln especially diallnguehei
. m eelf. Gen. Hlldyand made an attack
hom F/stcourt on Beacon Hill, and Gen.
Jouhert had to withdraw in the direction
of olenso and Ladysmith. On the last day
°, November Ladysmith was effeclively
sh lled by the Boers from Lombird’s Kop
Dec. 8 the British stormed Lom-
f 1 s K °P and captured a Boer gun. Two
(in * later Gen. Gataere attempted to sur
prise the Boer position at Stormberg, in
” atal - The attempt resulted disastrously
hls forces being raked by the Boers’ rifle
u 1 artillery fire, without a possibility of
relying. While the Boer loss in this en
tngement was slight, the British lost 687
officers and mm. *
<>n the 11th Gen. Methuen, in attempting
io relieve Kimberley, attacked ihe Boer
position in Magersfontein, nortli of the
Modder. The British were forced to retire
with heavy losses, Gen. Wauchope and the
Marquis of Worcester being killed. Two
nays later the Boers, who were advancing
*°" ,h ln Ca P p Colony toward Nanumpoort,
were driven back by Gen. French, with a
one of forty. On the 15th the British sus
tained another serious reverse. Gen. Bui
.l° a ff rm l>iing to force a passage, of
the, rugela river at Colenso. was repulsed.
a loss of 1,007 ofllcers and mep and
It-oven gtins. Three days later the British
p-'r office announced that I.ord Roberts
Wen. 1 he sent to command ln South Ar
i ,■ with I/ord Kitchener as chief of staff,
farl that 100,000 men would be sent to
tne front.
Fof nearly the whole of the following
Wor th the hostilities consisted chiefly In
,n occasional sortie and In more or less
’,' rm,f ‘ ss artillery warfare. But on Jan. 0
boers mode a desperate attempt to
■ Ladysmith. As early as 2:30 n. tn.
lo w attacked two strong positions of the
wnish at Caesar's Camp and Wagon If ill.
battle was fiercely fought on> both
’(es. and the positions mentioned were
■nptured and recaptured three times, the
, n ot the end holding their
wn and ' inflicting tremendous loss
~n ,hp Boers. The attack eon
|">ed until 7:30 p. m. and at dark
I were driven out at the point of
I '- vnnp f■ The British losses were 450
Prs and men and those of the Boers
•’re thought to have been very much
Pr ' °” ,hp f ' amP da V Ben. French
reported a “serious accident” at Col.a
--17,1' a '' om P an V of the Suffolk Regim- nt
h sev e n officers, was captured, and
8 " core of officers and mn
e killed. On this day also Gens. Rob
an,l Kitchener reached Cape Town.
Tl 'e Vilvnncr Towards Ladysmith.
/>" da nuary 12 the British ormy, und r
. , ' arren and Lord Dundonald. prepar-
V; or a Rcneral advance from Colenso to
"a relief of Ladysmith. They crossed the
Irf,- Potgieter’s and Trlchardt’s
,s and Lord Dundonold's mounted
us engaged ln a successful action with
Beers near Acton Homes. On Jan. 20
.’yV O/ory, with a part of Gen. Warren’s
, * oLl ght for thirteen hour?*, driving 1
Vev a 8 ,rora hl " *° hlll for three miles.
an d he pursued them two miles
i..L, ' r - ,° n the 21st the Boers resinned
n>b*rdn*en of Ladysmith. On Jan.
Puller announced the .capture of
■ inn Kop, the key of the Boer position on
. ' Pr>er "PTisrela: but two days later the
■ was sent that he was obliged to give
M i,'" posl,lon - On Feb. 27 it was lram
iVh.; l, . a . SU|,p l y traln had reached Gen.
~ ' p during this engagement. The losses
: ~J° h Kop in the attempt to relieve
-•i.emith were 1,985, and the total lose
k.j * iTrltinh to that date was nearly
a_. Humor placed the Boer losses at
’'" n Kop at 1,700.
Meanwhile the bombardment'of KlmVr
continued, and it was reported,
, re without foundation In fact, that
* lumer had relieved Col. Baden-
J„n „°T Jan a - Th * * reat failure of
Bullere second attempt to relieve
wa * followed by a withdrawal
L a of the Tugela an Jan. 27. Thre • days
1 Gen. liutter, Lite undaunted, jild hlq
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troops that he hoped to be in Ladysmith
in a week, and on Feb. 5 he again crossed
the Tugela in a third attempt to relieve
the beleaguered force of Gen. White. By
the 9th he had recroseed to the south of
the Tugela, being unable to make head
way against the strong Boer position at
Vaal Kranlz.
With the operations leading up to the
relief of Kimberley the whole course of
the war seemed to change. The fact that
Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener had ar
rived and had gone earls;, in February,
to the Modder river seemed a good
omen. From this point a movement for
the invasion of the-Orange Free State, led
by Lord Robetfi, began on Feb. 11. An
expedition under Gen. Macdonald to Koo
doesberg, fifteen miles to the westward,
had been made to divert the Boers in
that direction. On the 12th a force of
cavalry, led by Gen. French, who had
made a brilliant march from Colesberg to
join Methuen’s forces, made a dash
across the Riet river, forced a passage
of the Modder river the following day.
and on the 15th entered Kimberley, where
he was met by Col. Kekewlch, who had
forced hls way out of the city. The
Boer troops under Gen. ( Cronje aban
doned their trenches at Magersfontein
and retreated eastward toward Bloem
fontein. The same day Lord Roberts oc
cupied Jaeobsdal, an important base of
supplies for the Boers, southeast of Kim
berley. To that place he transferred his
headquarters. By this time Gen. Cronje
wa? in retreat toward Bloemfontein, pur
sued by Gen. Kelly-Kenny.
On Feb. 19 the railway to Kimberley
was open; by this Roberts’
force hod moved up to Wardeberg drift,
in the bed of the Modder river, where
Cronje made his last stand and was sur
rounded by the British. After his re
quest for an armistice had been refused,
reinforcements under Gen. Botha had
been driven oft and all other assistance
from the outside proved unavailing, Gen.
Cronje, with 4,660 troops, surrendered to
Lord Roberts on Feb. 27.
Meanwhile, on Feb. 14, Gen. Buller be
gan ijis fourth advance to the relief of
Ladysmith. Four days later he executed
a fii-.nk movement and drove the Boers
across the Tugela and occupied Hlwang
w’ane hill. On tl>e 20(h Geh. Hart occu
pied Coienso, and all the soulh side of
the Tugela wns held by Gen. Buller. The
next day Gen. Warren crossed the river
at Colenso, after slight resistance. It ap
pears that, although much of Buffer’s
progress to Ladysmith was stubbornly
resisted, it was by a diminishing number
of Boers, since many of them were being
withdrawn to assist Cronje on the Mod
der river.
The Relief of Ladysmith.
On Feb. 23. the Boers gave the town
Its final bombardment, for after a sharp
engagement at Pieter’s Station, on the
24th, the rest of the march northward was
almost unopposed. On the 28th Lord Dun
donald entered’ I-odysirVlth, and on March
1 Gen Buffer visited the city; the Boers
raised the siege and hurfledly withdrew
to the northward, leaving a vast amount
of ammunition and supplies. During the
final ten days of the Ladysmith campaign
Gen. Buffer’s losses were about twenty
four hundred, and the entire cost of the
Ladysmith relief from the beginning was
about fifty-five hundred men.
While these stirring scenes were being
enacted on the Modder river and at Lady
smith. the British arms were also suc
cessful In other parts of South Africa. On
Feb. 16, Gen, ißrabant’e horse force drove
the Boers from a strong position at Dor
drecht, in Cape Colony, after right hours’
of hard fighting, (Boer attack on Mnfe
king on Feb. 17 and 18. were repulaed with
considerable loss to the attacking party.
On Feb. 25. Gen. Oatacre’s scouts suf- ]
fered a severe reverse at the hands of the
Boers, near Stormberg. On Feb. 28, It j
was reported that Gen. Cronje and his
soldiers were on their way to Cape Town j
ns prisoners of war. The same day Gen.
Clements entered Colesberg, where he met
with au enthusiastic reception.
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March opened with rejoicing throughout
the British Empire, and especially in Lon
don, over the relief of Ladysmith, for now
it seemed evident that the war was draw
ing to a close. For such a hope there
seemed good reason, since the Boers were
everywhere retreating. Ladysmith being
free of them, Gen. Brabant having dis
lodged them from Dordretch and a little
later put them to rout, and Gen. Gataere
having entered Stormberg without oppo
sition. Meanwhile Lord Roberts was pur
suing the Boers toward Bloemfontein. On
March 7, at Osfontein, he turned their
flank on the Modder river and put Gens.
DeWet and Delarey to rout. Every day
the British approached nearer to the Free
State capital, their way being stubbornly
opposed by the Boers. The latter again
resorted to their former tactics of firing
on the British under cover of a white flag
and using explosive buffets. On March
12. Gen. French, the Kimberley hero, again
distinguished himself by his capture of
hills commanding Bloemfontein. The next
day Lord Roberts and the British troops
occupied the Orange Free State capital,
which was formally surrendered to him.
On the 13th a letter from Presidents
Kruger and Steyn, relating to possible
terms of peace, and Lord Salisbury's re
ply, rejecting the proposition for the in
dependence of the two republics, were read
in the House ot Commons. The offer of
the United States to assist in bringing
about peace was also declined by the Bilt
ish government.
Lord Hubert* Enter* Bloemfontein.
The entry of Lord Roberts ipto Bio m
fonteln, followed as it was by the occu
pation of Boehof, produced a speedy result
of the highest importance. On the 17th
large numbers of Free Sialq burghers sur
rendered, opened their shops and want
back to their farms, accepting British
rule. Meanwhile the efforts to relieve
Baden-Powell at Mafeking were redoubled.
A column which Included the Kimberley
Light Horse had started from the South,
and Col. Plumer advanced from the norib
as far as Lobatsl, where he was repulsed
on the 16th, and again, nearer Mafeking,
on the 31st. Having received the submis
sion of the Free Statcfs and established a
stable condlllon of affairs Lord Kolrerts
prepared to move on toward Pretoria.
March closed with the death of Geo.
Jouhert on the 271 h, and the capture on
the 31st at Korn Spruit of 400 men, includ
ing the Tenth Hussars and seven pieces
of artillery.
April opened with a disaster—that of
Reddersburg, where on -the 4th 600 men.
Including three companies of lrlh Rifles
and two of the Ninth Mourned Infantry,
were captured by the Boers. The next day,
at Boshof, the British captured a small
company of Boers, and Col. de Villeboi*-
Mareull, the French military expert, who
had been Gen. Joubert’s ohlef of staff.
On April 9 the British garrison ot
Wepener was isolated, and the slogs
against Col. Dalgetty and hls men be
gan. On the next day they nl.-o attacked
Gen. Buller at Elandslaagie. in Natsl.
On the 11th Gen. Gatacre’s recall to Eng
land was announced, and a week later the
British war office made, public a report
from Lord Roberts, Ip which he severely
criticised Gens. Warren and- Buller and
Maj. Thornycroft In connection with the
battles of Spion Kop.
A little later Gen. Warren was appoint
ed military governor of Griqualcnd, We t.
On April 22 Lord Roberts dlap Uchcfl On.
Pole-Carew to the assistance of Gen.
Rundlc, who was hard pressed by the
Boers at Wepener. But Gens. Hart end
Brabant, who had arrived before him.
found the Investment abandoned aid ihe
Boers In fuff flight. Attempts io head
them off as they retired were unavailing. ;
The Advance From illoeinfoiitrln.
On April 30 the long expected advance
of Lord Roberts’ force from Bloemfontein
began. Brandfort was occupied on May '
3, and two day* later the Vet river was j
reached, when after a sharp bnnle. Gen.
Hutton’s mourned infantry turned the
Boers' right flank. The Boer army fell
back, and Lord Roberts captured a quan- 1
tity of stores at SmaftfeSf. Witibm'g was
also occupied by Gen. lan Hamilton. On
May 12 Gen. Roberts, at the head of tha
British army, entered Kroonstad, the tem
porary capital of the Free State, without
opposition. Hundreds of Free Staters
were reported as being anxious to surren
der. Meanwhile, Gen. Buffer began hls
advance from Ladysmith, capturing Dun
dee, Glencoe and Newcastle, the Boer*
evacuating their positions on the Biggars
berg. On May 17, Lindlby, the' latter tem
porary capital of the ""Free State, wgs
occupied. Lord Roberts also announced
the capture of three Boer generals.
But the piece of news that produced the
greatest enthusiasm on the part ,of the
sympathizers with the British cause was
that of the relief of Mafeking on May 18.
Col. S. T. Mahon, with hls troops from
tbe south, Joined forces with Col. Plumer
on the 15th, and after hard fighting for
several days, entered Mafeking unopposed.
Col. Baden-Powell, the gallant defender,
was at once promoted from the rank of
lieutenant colonel to that of major gen
eral.
On the approach of Lord Roberts' army
the Boors abandoned their strongly forti
fied position on the Rhenoster river and
retired across the Vaal river, partly de
stroying the railway bridge at Vereenlg
ing as they crossed. On the Queen’s birth
day, May 24; and the day following, the
left wing of Lord Roberts’ army, under
Gen. French, Crossed the Vaal at Parys,
west of the railway bridge. On May 27 the
main body of the British army crossed
the river unopposed, near Vereonlging,
and camped on the,north bank. Roberts’
army marched twenty miles on May 28,
reaching Klip River Station, within eigh
teen miles of Johannesburg. The Gold
City of South Africa was on the fallow
ing night within the grasp of the British
commander, Ihe progress of whose col
umns on to Pretoria Is told in current dis
patches.
THE ftUBBN’B INFLUENCE.
Victoria’s Knowledge of Men and
Her Power of Swaying Them.
Wm. T. Stead, in the June Cosmopolitan.
The Queen reigns but does not rule.
Constitutional monarchy reduces the ele
ment of pcrsortal sovereignty to a mini
mum. For two hundred 1 years no British
monarch has ventured to refuse to accept
every law passed by both houses fit Par
liament. The Queen Is as much bound
to obey the law as the meanest of her
subjects. She cannot interfere with the
courts of Justlc", great or small. On the
advlbe of the Home Secretary, she can
exercise the royal prerogative of mercy,
but as the Home Secretary must ap
prove, even this lingering remnant of
royal power is more of a shadow than a
substance. Everything’ ts done ln her
name, but the whole authority nominally
vested ln the crown is really exercis.d
by ministers, who are absolutely depend
ent for their -oTitlnuance in office from
day to day upon iho support of a major
ity of the House of Commons.
These constitutional truisms lead many
peoplb to Imagine that as the Queen has
no authority sho Is therefore of n6 ac
count. They could not make a greater
mistake. The Queen has no power by
virtue of hep ihrcne But she has Immense
Influence owing to the opportunity which
her position gives her of counselling, per
suading and some imrs even ocercing her
ministers to adopt her View rf a question.
Owing to her unique experience, l.er ex
traordinary memory and hor keen intir
ntt iu all affairs of state. Queen Victoria
is probatdy more Influential than any
of her subjects, not excluding either her
Prime Minister or Colonial fleeretary.
She has become the balance Wheel of the
Constitution. Tills extraordinary |>ositlon
li due rol ly lo her personal quu’ltles and
ihe use she ha* made of her unloue op
portunities. When, in the course of time,
sho i* succutd-.d by the Prince of Wales,
’;a greater change will be made ln tha
' working of the imperial system than
would be effected by the transfer of pow
er from the Unionists to the Home Rul
ers. Even if the Prince had ten times hls
natural capacity—which is not small, al
though it is unfortunately somewhat
obscured by a lack of fixity of resolution
—he would not Inherit hls mother’s posi
tion when he ascended the throne. The
crown can be lnherelted, but not the ex
perience, the knowledge, the innumerable
subtle, invisible ligaments, which have
made Queen Victoria the living nerve
ccntie of the British things
are personal to the present monarch.
They form no permanent i%rt of the ap
panage of the British crown.
- Editing liuportunt Dispatches.
Her Majesty, so far from being a mere
lay figure in a courtly pageant, or a good
housewife and mother of a large family,
has taken a far closer, keener, more con
tinuous interest ln the government of her
empire than any of her ministers. Until
her eyesight began to fall she never al
lowed an important dispatch to be sent in
her name to viceroy or ambassador until
she had read it, and, if need be, edited it
to her liking.
Americans have good reasons to remem
ber this royal habit, for if she, prompted
by her dying consort, had not insisted on
modifying the provocative language of the
dispatch about the Trent affair, the em
pire and the republic would in all proba
bility have been plunged into war. But
that was by no means the only occasion
on which her supervision of the dispatches
of her ministers enabled he-r to avert war.
In 1863 Lord Russell arid Lord Palmer
ston would have committed England to
war with Germany in defense of Den
mark if the Queen had not compelled them
to take back their warlike dispatches and
accept the role of neutrality, which she
saw was the only right course to adopt,
both for England and for Europe. If only
Her Majesty’s eyesight had remained as
good ns it was a few years ago she would
probably have averted the present disas
trous war ln South Africa, which was pre
cipitated by a dppatch In which ML Cham
berlain provoked war by language which
he subsequently declared was intended to
make concessions sufficient to secure
peace. The Queen of 1863, or even of 1870,
would havo compelled him to redraft hls
equivocal dispatch.
No one could lake a more serious view
of the responsibilities of exalted station,
nor could any one be more careful to as
certain at first hand the facts of the casa
to b dealt with. Her Majesty Is a vehe-Lro.
ment special pleader, tenacious in argu-.tfth
ment, ruthless ln impressing her eoncluy 86.
glons, and capable of a freedom of ex-ftiry.
pression which sometimes Jars upon thi
sensitive nerves of the men of letters 'Vi-jqc;.
whom she frequently has to do. ”Bhe W?.imCp
them all have It,” said one who knew hVw
well. "Prime minister or messenger boy
it is all one to her. She speaks her jajjii-ESl
stralght out, and If their ears burn it i.urivo
well they should be lold of tho truil'* ,,, y
sometimes.” From which it may be Inrpjß
ferred that on occasion Queen Victoria lXj; a y
capable of emulating Ihe frank speech c;t
good Queen Bess. No mistakes could b
greater, however, than to imagine
Her Majesty's plain speaking has not be-® Bs '*
hind It a solid hacking of detailed infor-
mation and intense conviction. |
The Queen’* Foresight.
The present deplorable war In South Af
rlea the Queen endeavored in va’lp e\-
avert; not only at <hc eleventh hour, hut
by the sagacious prevision with which,
In 1858, she had enegretioally supported
Sir George Grey in working for the feder.
ution of South Africa, in that yesT the
Volksraad of Ihe Orange Free State had
the resolution ln favor of union or
alliance wltH the Cape. In 1859, In com
munfsatlng this resolution to the Cape
Parliament, Sir George Grey, then Gov
ernor of the Cape, recommended tha* the
opportunity should be seized for the pur
pose of founding a federal Union of the
Dutch inul English colonies In South Af-*
rica. For this statesmanlike prop o±jtt |
ha was cashiered by the Tory government
of the day, against the vehement und
passionate remonstrances of the JJueen.
The moment the Tory government fell,
she secured hls reappointment by the ntw
administration. But It was too late. Sir
George Grey, speaking many years after
ward on the part which the Queen played
in that memorable crisis, paid the follow
ing public tribute to the far-sighted,
statesmanlike sagacity of the Queen. He
said:
“When I was a representative of the
Queen in Africa I had arranged a federa
tion of the different states there, all hav
ing agreed to come Into it except one;
but the plan was regarded with disfavor
both by the ministry and the opposition
of the day In England, and the conse
quenoe was that I was summarily dis
missed. One person In the empire held
that I was right in the action taken, and
that person was the Queen. Upon her
representation I was reinstated. Her
Majesty, together with the Prince Con
sort, held that it was necessary to pre
serve to the empire an opening for the
poor and adventurous, and experience
had shown that the Queen better repre
sented the feeling of the British people
than did the ministers of the day. The
Queen held rightly that the energies of
the British race should spread the em
pire as Instinct moved, so long as no
wrong was done to other people.”
If Sir George Grey had been allowed to
have hls way the federation of Soulh
Africa would have long ago created a sta
ble and pacific Anglo-Dutch common
wealth. The Queen, however, was foiled
by her ministers. Federation was ren
dered impossible, with results which wo
are witnessing to-day.
ALL SIGHT IS SIAGARA TO WISH.
The Awful Experience of a Georgia
Woman :MH> Feet Above the Cata
ract.
From the New York Sun.
. Niagara Faffs, N. Y., May 31.—For near
ly eighteen hours Miss Florence Irene
Leonard of Arlington, Ga., was captive on
top of the observation tower across front
Prospect Park, and all night long her
cries for help were drownrd by the awful
roar of the cataract. She was over 300
feet above the earth, and now she lies
at her boarding house suffering from the
if.ry house, with ouih'ofsv; n wid rent cbca( ai
to Oct. 1. VV. J. 'Mlacally, Jr. * lo
- '4r
FOB RENT, TWO NEW
corner Second avenue and Abercorn;>ttW-]
modem improvements. J. E. Fulloif i |
Son,
FOll RENT,' RESIDENCE, Til WFS’t
Ilroad street; 818 per month. J. E. Full”
ton * Son. ni
ion KENT, TWO-STORY A Y WIN A
dow bouse, 431 Montgomery street,
per month. J. K.< Fulton * Son. C
_ FOR RENT, THAT DESIRABLE REH-j
idence, 107 Duffy street, west; all con-tf
veniences; large yard; 122.50 per month. ].(
E. Fulton & Son. •'
FOR RENT, RESIDENCE, 205 JONKB.
street, west; outbuilding* and stable; re-1
duced rental. J. E. Fulton & Son. |
FOR RENT, DESIRABLE V'JV OF-,
Owlnp"** *'tmixL q'-gt/. ru me
G rilled her Sho shook the iron
riFLags and the elevator gates, but there
was no answering sound. The roar of the
faffs and the sighing of the wind were tho
only sounds that came to her. Her bodily
discomforts were increased by her Increas
ing nervousness, as she realized that she
had been forgotten. She thought of writ
ing notes and dropping them to tho street
below, but she had no pencil.
The number of person* seen under tho
electric light* far below ln ihe streets de
creased and she knew that the city was
going to bed. It w*s then all hope of be
ing rescued that night fled, and she
We leave de*
ceitful and sha=
dy methods to
the fakir, of
which there
are a few in
this town.
crouched down behind a portion of the
Ironwork as she sought shelter from tha
rain that began, to faff. In utter misery
and in a greatly agitated, frame of mind
she knelt there all night long. There was
a streak of light In Ihe east and she felt
that day wan about to dawn, and the hope
grow that she might attract the attention
of people below. She cried, but It was use
less.
At 9 o’clock she heard a clanging of the
elevator chains and she was overjoyed.
It was the, first trip o,f the morning olid
when the attendant stepped out of the ele
vator and saw Ihe poor girl he was
amazed. He realized it all, and as quick
ly as possible he took her down to the ho
tel below, where medical aid was called
and she was removed to her boarding
house on First street. All day she has
been quite 111. The shock and the expos
ure were very severe on her, and it may
be that she will never be herself again.
FASIISK’S IKllinilß GROWING.
Disease Complicating the Diffioalty
of Relief Work la India lion,
From the New York Sun.
A cablegram was received yesterday
from Dr. Klopsch of this city, who has
Just completed a tour of the famine dis
tricts 1n the Bombay presidency, India.
He reports a pitiful condition of affairs.
He found Ihe famine camps stampeded by
cholera and small-pox fugitives, who had
come from distant points of Infection and
are now scattering these diseases ln nil
directions. Many are dying In the fields
and ditches and along the roadside.
At Gorlbra, about tnree hundred miles
north of Bombay, In Gujarat district, there
were 3,000 deaths from cholorli in four
days. ITr. Klopsch saw, while there, six
teen bodies incinerated, this method of
disposing of the dead lielng general
throughout the famine district. Jtt Donad,
fifty miles east of Godhra, he found a
similar frightful condition of affairs, there
having been 2,500 deaths from cholera.
The air of the place was stifling and tha
water was also Impregnated with poison
irom the unburned dead. In the hospitals
the death rate was 90 per cent.
At Ahmedabnd, about eighty miles west
of Godhra, terrible mortality prevailed
among the cattle, rendering them wholly
unfit for food. In the poorhouae at Ah
tiMriabad, the death rate was 10 per cent,
daffy. The oocupont of even’ fourth cot
was already dead. The thermometer
rked 115 degree* in the shade. Dr.
opsch declares true the stories of bodies
ng devoured by vuitures, dogs and
kills.
’he Indian government is doing Its best
fight Iwrk the ravages of famine and
ease. The native officials, however, are
irliessly indifferent, and the present
id It lon of a large part of India is worse
in at any time during Ihe century,
tre are sections In which whole families
re been blotted out. The spirit of the
'pie is broken by suffering, but it is
ID feared that the worst Is yet to come,
ip the monsoon breaks and the torren
r rain* flood the relief camp* and a
to part of the famirte area s spreading
Jase, cholera especially.
fa Interdenominational Missionary
j nilttee is now engaged In the dlstrl
<on of relief funds, the 1100.(100 lately
Vied fo it from the Christian Herald
41S" having given a great impetus to the
woH.. The government, tires* and peo
ple of India nre profoundly appreciative
of the assistance rendered by the people
of the United States.
The Executive Committee of the Com
mittee of One Hundred on India Famine
Helief reports that *1,345 has been received
since Saturday's report. It has* sent to
the Adams. American, United States,
Wells Fargo, National, Southern, Pacific
and Western Express Companies, thanks
for the opening of their ofhees for the re
ceipt and free forwarding of relief con
tributions; and for offering to distribute
tho committee’s publications free uC
charge ■
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