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BRAVE BOERS
GIVE BP FIGHT
Surrender and Peace
Terms are Signed.
ENDS WAR IN TRANSYAAL
Dispatch Announcing the
Termination of Conflict
) Received Sunday.
According to a London special peace
has been declared In South Africa in
South Africa after nearly two years
and eight months' duration, and a war
which tried the British empire to its
uttermost and wiped the BoeTg from
the list of nations has come to an end
with Lord Kitchener’s announcement
from Pretoria that he, Lord Milner and
the Boer delegates had signed “terms
of surrender.”
This announcement had been antici
pated for several days and it was defi
nitely forecasted, but Its receipt in
London Sunday afternoon took the na
tion by surprise, as everybody had
confidently believed that the house of
commons would hear the first news
on Monday. The edge of anticipation
with Great Britain awaited the prom
ised statement In the house of com-
mons from Mr. Balfour, the govern
ment leader, was still further dulled
by the following message from King
Edward to his people, which was is
sued after midnight Sunday night:
King Edward-Announces News.
“The king has received the welcome
news of .the cessation of hostilities in
South Africa with infinite satisfaction,
and his majesty trusts that peace may
speedily follow by the restoration of
property In his new dominions and
that the feelings necessarily engen
dered by wax will give place to earnest
co-operation an the part of his majes
ty’s South African subjects In promot
ing the.welfare of their common coun
try."
How greatly King Edward’s Insist
ence that peace In South Africa be se
cured prior to his coronation ’influ
enced the present agreement will prob
ably not be known until the private
memoirs of the present regime are
given to the public.
Kruger Heartbroken.
According to a dispatch to The Lon
don Daily Express trom Utrecht, Hol
land, Mr. Kruger was Informed shortly
after 9 o’clo’ek Sunday night-that peace
had been declared. He had been
asleep.
“My God,” he said, "It Is Impossible.”
Telegram Waa Brief.
At about 1 o'clock-Sunday afternoon
the war office received the following
dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated
Pretoria, Saturday, May 31, at 11:15
p. m.:
“A document concerning terms of
surrender was signed here this evening
at 10:30 o’clock by all the Boer repre
sentatives eb well as by Lord Milner
and myself.”
The clerks oa duty at the war office
transmitted this message to Bucking
ham palace, where King Edward was
lunching. At about 5 o'clock word was
received permitting the publication of
this message and the small notice
-which was stuck up outside the war
-office consisted of a copy of Lord
’Kitchener’s cablegram. A similar no
tice was put outside of the colonial of
fice. Beyond these two skimpy bits of
paper London knew nothing of the
great event. la the dubs, the hotels
-and newspaper offices, which were al-
-most deserted, the momentous news
was ticked out on the tape. Then,
like wildfire, at about 8 o’clock London
Awakened to the fact that the South
African war was over.
PAES1DKK11AL MOMfXAlIOXM.
>LUt of CIvD Appointments Pent to
Senate for watlflcstuik.
The president Wednesday sent the
-following nominations to the senate:
Collector of Internal revenue, dis
trict of Maryland, Phillips Lee Golds-
borough.
Appraiser merchandise, district of
Baltimore, Md., C. Ross Mace.
Surveyor of customs, Knoxville,
Tenn., James C. Ford.
Postmasters—North Carolina, Geo.
W. Depriest, Shelby.
Confirmations by the Senate—Post
master, Florida, J. A. Simpson. Kissim
mee.
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TEXT OF PEACE TERMS
Baers are “Given About Every
thing Except independence,"
For Which They Fought.
A London special says: The demand
tor accommodations in the house of
commons Monday afternoon to hear
the statement of the first lord of the
treasury and government leader, A. J.
Balfour, was unprecedented.
Mr. Balfour arose at 2:40 p. m., and
announced the terms of peace In South
Africa, as follow's:
“The burgher forces lay down their
arms and hand over all their rifles,
guns add munitions of war in their pos
session, or under their control.
“All prisoners are to be brought
back as soon as possible to South Af
rica, without loss of liberty or prop
erty.
“No action to be taken against pris
oners, except where they are guilty of
breaches of the rules of war.
“Dutch Is to be taught tn the schools.
If desired by the parents, and used In
the courts'whdn necessary.
“Rifles are allowed for‘protection.
“Military occupation Is to be with
drawn as soon as possible,, and self
government substituted.
"There is to be no tax on the Trans
vaal to pay the cost of the war.
“The sum of 3,000,000 lb. sterling Is
to be provided for re-stocking the
Boers’ farms.
"Rebels are liable to trial, according
to the law of the colony to which they
belong. The rank and file will be dis
franchised for life.
“The death penalty will not be In
flicted.”
BILL ARKS LETTER
Biitbday of Mr;. Arp Heraltbd as
a Great Event*
RIOTS IN CHICAGO.
EAS REACHED THREE SCORE AND TEN
Striking Teamsters and Chicago
Policemen Engage in a
Bloody Clash. •
'Riots and bloo'dshed marked the
progress of the teamsters' strike at
Chicago Monday. There were numer
ous fights between the police and the
strikers and their sympathizers. Street |
car traffic was stopped while the fight- j
lng went on, the police and employes
of the packing companies were stoned,
and, at one place, when surrounded by
a dense crowd of men and women, the
police, fifty strong, maddened by the
numerous stones with which they had
been pelted, drew their; revolvers and
charged full Into the crowd, which
ehowed no disposition to retreat Fists,
Btones and clubs were brought Into re
quisition by the strikers and the po
lice used their batons and the butt
en*s of their revolvers freely. When
this fight was over there were a num
ber of strikers needing surgical at
tendance. None were dangerously In
jured as far as known, however, and
the wounded strikers were carried oft
by .their friends. The fighting began
on the west 'side shortly after noon,
and In different parts of the city con
tinued practically all of the afternoon.
GROUND GLtSS IX STOMACH.
Sensation Sprung In Mrs. nooks Blur-
der Case at Memphis.
For some days Mrs. George Emma
Hooks has been on trial at Memphis,
Tenn., on the charge of having mur
dered her husband, Cerro Gordo
HookB, t6 whom she had given $60,OOP
just prior to their marriage.
Upon his death rumors of poison be
came so rife that an autopsy was or
dered and arsenic and ground glass
were found In the stomach.
The rumors spread back to the
death of her former husband, W. H.
Atkinson, and her son, Harry Atkin
son. The state proved that Harry
died of acute gastritis just as he was
on the verge of becoming of age and
with a $30,000 life Insurance policy
payable; to his mother.
Monday tbo prosecution played Its
trump card by producing Dr. William
Krauss, the eminent chemist, who
swore he found glass and evidences of
arsenic in Harry’s stomach.
. Harry’s body was exhumed secretly
at night In Junuary and relnterred, so
that oo one knew of it until now.
Though His Better Half is Seventy,
She Can 8iill Flash Her Poca-
hontaS Eyes Upon the, Sage
of Bartow.
Birthdays are very common things
in-this sublunary world. There are
sixty millions of them every year and
that means about one hundred and
fifty thousand every day or six thou
sand every hour. Just think of it—
every minute one hundred mortal souls
come Into this world—to live and die,
for good or for evil—for happiness or
misery. As far back as we have any
history, sacred or profane, kings and
princes have celebrated their birth
days with feasts and wine and song
and even the humble and the poor
take note of their annual return. Fna-
raoh celebrated his in Joseph’s day
and It was on Herod’s birthday that
the. daughter of Herodias danced be
fore him for the head of John the Bap
tist.
1 was ruminating about this because
today Is a notable birthday In my fam
ily. The maternal Ancestor has at last
reached her three-score years and ten,
the alloted age of man and womankind,
and from now on every day she lives
will be one of grace. David says that
the days of our years are three score
years and ten, but If by reason of
strength they be four score years yet
Is their, strength labor and sorrow.
Poor old man, he did have a troubled
life. He sinned and he repented In
great anguish, as he exclaimed, "My
sin Is ever before me.” Solomon salth,
“The day of one’s death is better than
the day of hts birth.” And Job said,
"Cursed is the night when I was bftjrn.’/
Jeremiah’s life was one of laments-
! tlop. The maxims and precepts of
these old prophets and preachers are
I wonderfully beautiful and have never
been equalled, but great men are not
always wise, and even Solomon fell
from grace and died accursed. The
man who said, “Rejoice In the wife of
thy youth and be thou always ravished
with her love,” forsook his own and
consorted with a thousand others of all
nations, creeds and colors. He reigned
1 eighty years anil died a disappointed;
dishonored, degraded and miserable old
man. But old age Is not necessarily
unhappy. The poet speaks of
i
CANADIANS ARE REJOICING.
Newt of Fndlnrof Burr War Receiv'd
With Great I'leasnya
The peace news from South Africa
was greeted at Ottawa. Ont, by demon
strations of joy. The bell in the city
hall was rung for ten minutes. The
mayor arranged for a demonstration
Monday to celebrate the ending of the
war. Flags were hoisted on public and
private buildings; a royal salute was
fired at noon, and the school children
were given a halt holiday. Monday
night there was a display of flreworls
and a military parade.
An old age serene and bright,
1 As lovely as a Lapland night,"
i
and another poet says: “The world la
very lovely. Oh, my God, I thank Thee
that I live.” Our old age is very much
what we choose to make It. It Is a sad
thing to be weary and tired with the
weight of years. It Is pitiful to look
upon an old man who never smiles,
who has outlived all social pleasures
and whose company is neither sought
1 nor desired. For the sake of our nelgh-
i bors and friends It .Is our duty to be
j cheerful in their company. We should
, sometimes smile even it we have to
\ force it. Let us grow old gracefully.
I have now In mind Just such an one—
a bale, healthy old-time gentleman of
tour score years, whose presence Is al
ways welcome and whose children,
grandchildren and neighbors and
friends give him glad greeting when he
comes. .He will be missed when he
dies, tor the world Is better that
be lives in It. Hls Christian faith, bis
moral conduct, hls good example and
hls cheerful disposition are a bencdcc-
tlon to the community.
I But I was thinking about my wife’s
birthday. There are thirty-seven birth
days In our family, and she knows
them all and never forgets them. Th jy
average about three a month, but this
( one ofi hers Is a notable one, for. she Is
the maternal ancestor, and this day
fulfills her years and crosses the lino.
Seventy years ago she. was born, and
not long after that the stars fell. Of
course they did. Seventy is a numeral
’ of sacred significance. There were sev
enty elders of Israel and seventy wise
men compiled the Old Testament. The
I Jews were kept In captivity seventy
1 years. The Lord sent out seventy of
| bis disciples to preach and teach the
people, and seventy years is the allot
ted age of mankind. But my wife is
j not old. Time has not written any
wrinkles on her brow nor furrows on
her cheek nor sllvfered her raven hair.
If the long war had not Intervened shp
would not look more than 50 years
now. But the wear and tear of the
war and anxiety while fleeing from the
foul Invader, with six hungry, children
tagging after her, made years cf
months and weeks of days. But women,
especially mothers, can endure more
distress and suffering than men. The
I maternal tysttet xeeps them up. They
can suffer and be. strong. It looks like
the motherhood of ten children would
wear a woman out. but they seem to
thrive on It, and late In life they tako
on flesh and round up all the corners.
But they never stop work. My wife
has made over five thousand little gar
ments and Is still malting them, for
the little grandchildren keep coming
on. Her reputation for nice needle
work and making buttonholes has been
long established, and she Is proud of
It. She never stops sewing until she
loses her spectacles, and then she bor
rows mine. No, she is not o'd. James
Russell Lowell said of Julia Ward
Howe, on her seventieth birthday that
It was better to be seventy years
younger than forty years old. It Is
this endurance, this cheerfulness In ad
versity that makes the women outlive
the men. There are three times as
many widows In this community as
widowers. There are seventeen in our
little Presbyterian cnurch and only
four widowers, and the war was not
the cause of it. Maternal love Is a pre
servative of health.- It Is a tonic, a
promoter of digestion, a panacea,
whereas a man will pursue money un
til he'loses his digestion. Be. i*aut
said thkt “The love of money is tbo
root of all evil,’’ but he had no thought
of applying It to women, for she has
no love for money. If she gets any she
is not happy until she spends It. The
girls said their mother wanted a new
bonnet, so they bought one tor her
birthday, and all i had to do was to
pay for It. She always lets me do that.
She Is a free trader and will keep me
In decent clothes whether I want them
or not. She always waa w free trader.
I was a merchant before we ware mar
ried and she was my best customer.
She never asked the price of anything,
but just bought what she wanted and
trusted me to tote fair and deal justly.
Good gracious! What a long time
ago that was, and how trim and beauti
ful she was to me. She wore No. 2
shoes and stepped like a fawn and
flashed her Pocahontas eyes bewitch-
lngly when she said goodby. She can
flash them yet. Seventy years old and
gwlne on 71—trying to catch up. May
be she wllL when I am dead, but not
till then. I remember when I was
twice as old as she was, for I was 12
and she was 6, but she keeps gaining
on me. I remember when she was in
her early teens and wore short dresses
and pantalets and rode a fast pacing
horse while her long black Iqdlan hair
i hung In tresses down her back. She
i was a daisy then, and she is a daisy
yet, sometimes. But she can’t climb
i ’Simmon trees any more. She Is 70—
I the mother of ten children and twenty
grandchildren, and they,are scattered
| from New York to the balls of the
Montezumas. She is troubled now
about her -baby boy, who lives under
the dark shadows of Popocatepetl, In
Mexico, which means the smoking
mountain and Is smoking now and
: maybe will burst forth in these vol
canic times and destroy the people as
- at Martinique. Two weeks from today
I will be my birthday and sho will give
■ me something, I know not—not a bon
net, but perhaps a Slimmer hat from
Porto Rico. A bird Id. the air whlS'
pered that to me.—BUI Arp, In Atlanta
Constitution.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
A light visible thirty miles will Ik
put ou the dreaded Hutteras shoals.
An automobile stage line will shortly
begin operations between lledkey and
Dunkirk, Ind.
Two hundred furniture manufac
turers'hnre formed n pool nt Chicago
to regulate prices.
Cambridgeshire (England)fruit grow
ers are paying children a halfpenny
for every wasp they capture.
Argentina has ordered two Ironclads
superior lu strength to those recently
ordered by Chile from England.
An official report gives the estimated'
additional cost necessary to complete
Siberian railroads as $30,050,001).
The Supreme Court of South Dakota
has been called upon to decide a case
growing out of the ownership of •
cat.
Watch dogs are to be purchased and
trained to nccoinpnny the police on
their nightly rounds nt Schncrbeck,
near Brussels.
Kingston-on-thc-Tbnmes, .England,
has just celebrated the millennial ol
the coronation of King hid ward tin
Elder, son and successor of Alfred the
Great.
On tlic-summit of Mount Lofty, near
Adelaide, South Australia, u white
inonolltb Ims been erected nnd named
“Flinders Column,” in honor of the In
trepid navigator who named the peak
n century ago.
The United States Government is
planning to scenrc the ground and
tomb of William Henry Harrison, at
North Bend, Ohio, overlooking the Ohio
River, and transform ” Into n burial
place, licfittlng that of an cx-Prcsldent
of this country.
Isidore Newman, of New Orleans.
La., has just contributed a big sum ol
money for the erection of n training-
school for the. boys and girls of that,
city. Mr. ixewinan will also give ai
ample sum for the equipment nnd per
manent endowment of the Institution.
::Cream of News.?
, r X
Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each Day.
—Governor Jennings, of Florida, de
livered the literary address at Mercer
university at Macon, Ga., Wednesday.
Governor Candler and ex-Governois
Northern and McDaniel were honored
guests.
A telegram from Richmond women
who went to New York to confer with
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, states she has
withdrawn her objection to the arch.
—No mention Is made of the Kansas
City platform or of Mr. Bryan In the
resolutions adopted by the Indiana
democrats, though a hard fight was
made to refer to Mr. Bryan.
—There were many conflicts be
tween the strikers and police at Chi
cago Wednesday. It Is estimated that
over one hundred men were Injured.
—Senator Morgan opened the debate
on the Isthmian canal Wednesday by a
strong speech in favor of the Nlclragua
route. He alleges that the talk of seis
mic disturbances in Nicaragua is for
the purpose of defeating the bill.
—The New York board of trade has
asked President Roosevelt to make an
effort to settle the strike of the anthra
cite coal miners.
For hls services In South Africa,
Lord Kitchener has'been created a
viscount, and parliament has been
asked to grant him $250,000.
—At Quebec the attorneys for
Greene and Gay nor has filed auswer
to the petition to set. aside the habeas
corpus writs.
—In an eloquent eulogy of Jefferson
Davis, Mayor LtvlngBton Mims, of At
lanta, makes vigorous attack on Gen
eral Miles.
—President J. M. Egan has designed
as president of the Ocean Steamship
Company and Is succeeded by Major J.
F. ltanson.
—It Is reported by close friends of
Solicitor W. W. Quarles, of Selma, that
he will oppose Governor Jelks for Ala
bama’s executive chair.
—It is believed that owing to the op
position of Mrs. Davis and her daugh
ter, Mrs. Hayes, the plan for a memo
rial arch to President Jefferson Davis
In Richmond may fall.
—Throughout the south Tuesday
there was appropriate observance of
the birthday ct President Jefferson
Davis. - . 4
—Immediately after the. passage of
the Philippine bill, the Nicaragua ca
bal measure was taken up by the sen
ate Tuesday. Senator Morgan is con
fident of the passage of the measure.
—The Philippines government bill
was passed by a vote of 48 to 30. Me-
Laurln, of Bouth Carolina, voted with
the republicans, and Hoar, Mason and
Wellington voted with the democrats.
—Just prior to the parage of the
Philippines bill. Senator Beveridge in
sinuated that General Miles had been
furnishing democrats Information In
regard to cruelty In the Islands.
—Several lives have been lost and
much property destroyed by a flood at
Joliet, njsr
—It Is charged that many American
citizens have been unjustly confined in
prisons In Ecuador until they became
physical wrecks. Heavy claims tor
damages have been filed.
—It Is said that Lord Kitchener will
be granted a title abd $600,000 for
bringing about peace In Bouth Africa.
—Advices from Mexico state that a
general uprising of the Yaqul Indians
U imminent.
—In the trial of Mrs. Hooks In Mem
phis, charged with murdering her bus-
band with glass and arsenic, the state
produces evidence to show her son's
body showed glass In the stomach af
ter death.
—Riot an$ bloodshed marked the
progress of the meat strike in Chicago
Monday. The policemen were assailed
by rocks and bad to use their revolv
ers.
—The house passed a resolution'
Monday thanking Secretary Hay for
his memorial address on McKinley.
Forty-six democrats voted nay, claim
ing the speech was partisan.^,,
—London celehjmted the announce
ment of peace in mad fashion Monday.
The. terms granted the Boers are .con
sidered exceedingly liberal.
—From statistics prepared by the re
lief committee, it is shown that 216
persons lost their lives in the Prater-
vllle horror, and 383 persons are left
without support
—A young white man named Bar
clay has been placed under arrest
near Paducah, Ky., charged with hav
ing Inveigled a girl into a mock mar
riage end abandoning her after sever
al weeks.
—Chicago Federation of Labor baa
asked bankers to help the teamsters
tn their strike.