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THE PUMPKIN.
It Is born beneath the shadow of
a ,lelrt °* w,lT| nx oorn [( Mfi'mljl frmVi dA
•tfJI From n flower whose golden color (i yy J) ' ,\yJKHIk
-*•&- raff outshines the glow of morn. ffc ll! uH j 1 fi
Where the bumblebees are work- I !
tug, their rough backs all lii ,1 ill/
Bfotf* V. V'V \ bright with gold, II MYS&kf
And we loarn the wondrous secret /
'Mm their busy hum bos told. I i' v * m
lVSlltlWl They say this flower sometimes V k 'Sj
Will take a different form Ilf^.Uißn
11 ink And be the yellow pumpkin I t\/H~‘ ~'V\\Y
Ml When autumn sunshines warm. ’I I \\ml,
Ii iirl When the skillful housewife turns j - J/tf I
lilt’® It by some necromancy keen l ~*yl\ [ 'MI /
Into the pie so toothsome, with a ffeWj v.. 1
MH §f-?5 color bright and clean Sis'llf 1
\V>Ja 1 M| As the yellow of the pumpkin us jfbjjf ffiiS I
Vi It y.'M It lay the corn among, 9>!ff ffvl
\®3 1 • up Has a flavor sweet whoso richness SfH *1 18*3
'tP jIRA by poet Is unsung. J.-j I HjV
V W Tk. So give to me the pumpkin Wq
H v YmT* With the good old-fashioned pie. Mfy
All hall, ali hall King Pumpkin,
Vl3 Live ye long and never die.
THE BOER AS
A FIGHTER-
The Boers are born lighters, u na
tion of sharpshooters, they never waste
a bullet; each Boer selects his man
and kills him and keeps on doing the
same thing all dny and every day un
til the war is over. It is a common
boast with them which they have made
good iu more than one clash with the
British, that ono Boer is equal to ten
Englishmen. They do not come out
and fight in the open, but swarm all
over a mountain side, hiding behind
trees and rocks, and woe to the thin
red line or hollow square that comes
within range of their unerring Mar
tinis and Mausers. In fact, the Boer
victories over the British soldiers are
largely accountable for the British
feeling against thorn, and in the bitter
warfare against the nation the Success
of the lloers bus been extraordinary.
Fewer than 450 Boers resisted 12,-
000 of the fiercest Zulu warriors on
December 10, 1838, and 3000 natives
were left dead on tlie field, and this
with old flint locks. President Kru-
Kl !pi
rf'>.
FIELD CORNET'S MKSSENGF.It HANDING
OVER COMMANDOS TO BOER FARMERS
TO UK READY FOR WAR.
ger, as a boy, helped the forty Dutch
men hold off 2000 of the men of Mose
litkuse, then the most renowned na
tive captain in South Africa. The
bravery of the meu is shown by the
Attack that 135 of them made on 10,000
Zulus on the Marico River, driving
them out of the Transvaal.
These are simply better-known iu
ctauees of the lighting abilities of the
Boers. Every man has handled a gun
from infancy. In the old days, when
a Boer was not fighting the liorce na
tives he was defending himself from
eavage beasts. Every Boer has been
trained iu warfare. They discovered
the method of laagering their wagons,
placing them in a hollow square, which
the British generals have adopted as
the most successful way of lightiug
the natives. The Boers have shown
thomselves masters of strategy, the
result of constant warfare with a cruel
and treacherous foe.
WfttfS OM PCIUaTE
,f STATE- ARTIU.6RV
TYPES OF BOER INFANTRY, CATALRY AND ARTILLERY.
' The Government of the South Afri
can Republic is empowered to call
•t any time the burghers for armed
service. The Field Cornet of each
district goes round and serves a no
tice on the oonsoripts, who, mounted
emd fortified against hunger for ten
days by a supply of buck or^^ef,
cured in the sun, and called “bil
tong,” concentrate in the specified
“dorp” or village, where they invaria
bly meet in the markot place—the
church, iron gated, iron steepled, in
the background. Arms are distributed
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INSPECTION OF A “COMMANDO” OF BOLUS IN THE MARKET PLACE OF A TOWN.
to those who are without them; and
as for forage, the velt is trusted to
supply it at need. The commandant,
who is the Dutch equivalent of. the
English colonel, drills his forces as
best he may; and a certain amount
of military discipline is easily ac
quired, despite the rather sloucliy ap
pearance, duo in part to the absence
of uniforms, except in the ease of the
commandants, the other officers, and
the “State Artillery.”
The Boer much resembles our Amer
ican Apache in his ability to live ou
the shadow of things when in the
field. A writer of South Africa, iu a
contribution to u Loudon paper, calls
attention to the ability of the Boer to
live on rations which au ordinary
trooper would not endure and his ca
pacity to travel groat distances with
horse in incredibly short timo.
The Boer knows every road and
trail of the Transvaal; as a hunter he
knows the devious ways of the wastes
beyond. He is an agriculturist and a
hunter. By the law of self-preserva
tion he has learned the wily ways of
tho savage whom he displaced iu the
Transvagi. The secret recesses of the
mountains are at his command. Asa
horseman ho much resembles our
American cowboy. He can ride on top
of the saddle, or over his horse’s
neck, or Oossask fashion, with one
foot in the stirrup, one leg on the snd
dle and his bond and shoulders on the
ground, ilis horse is part of his fam
ily life. The beasts ave very hardy,
sure-footed and affectionate. Then,
too, the Boer is inured to the hard
ships of the mountains, to long horse
back journeys, scant allowances of
food, treks on which the water supply
is scarce.
In the campaign of 1881 against the
English the Boer took good care that
his forces never faced the enemy iu
the open field. He never offered open
engagement. He chose his eyrie in
the mountain gorges, and from that
vantage-point he picked off the foe at
his will. Even when he assanlted Ma
juba Hill he came up rook by rock,
squirming like a snake, twisting in
and out and not firing until he bad a
mark to hit j
An English correspondent who went
through the 1881 campaign wrote at
that time of the fighting qualities of
the Boers:
“We never are able tc see the
enemy. Except before the fight at
Majuba Hill, 1 never saw but a hand
ful of them at any time. And when
they thought we noticed them they
and their horses disappeared as if
swallowed up by the earth. I think
we all feel that they can shoot. Our
losses at Hatley and Laing’s Nek
showed that. We were very much in
the open, but not a blessed Boer was
to be seen. But every once in a while
there was the crack of a rifle, and
then one of our poor boys would go
over, the line would close up and we
would begin chasing again for the
enemy we conld never find. I was
taken prisoner just after General
Colley was killed, and I can say that
I could not have been treated better
by any people. They were kind to
our wounded, did not molest the dead
nor insult us of the living. I think
they are a very brave people, and, as
I for fighting, they seem to know just
as much about it as we do.”
The Boer loves his country with a
passionate patriotism. He is not a
miner, or an engineer, or a railroad
! constructor. He is pre-eminenly an
agriculturist. In Gape Colony nearly
the whole pf the wheat growing
is done by the Dutch farmers of
the Western province. In the in
terior the bulk of the grain used is
supplied by the Dutch farmer of the
Transvaal. The whole of the fruit
crop is produced by Boers. Evou far
up in Bechauanaland you will find
Boer wagons from tho Republic
loaded up with fruit, oat forage and
other products.
The Boers, in short, are a pastoral
folk, stolidly content to be that and
nothing else. They shun towns, shop
v-py
BOERS RECEIVING AMMUNITION.
keeping and gold mining. ask
only to live iu a moderate degree of
comfort, iu a rude plenty; to provide
for their children as they grow up and
to he let alone.
German Viceroy in the Caroline*.
A correspondent of the Berlin
Tageblalt calls attention to the fact
that a German was Viceroy of the
Caroline Islands thirty-five years
ago. His name was Teteus, and he
was captain of a ship which exported
snails to China. Iu 18fi5 he married
one of the daughters of tho “King”
of the Carolines and bought of him
one of the islands.
Mule Gont* Among Sheep.
A correspondent, of the Charleston
Nerws and Courier sends the following
information, based on personal ex
perience, to the farmers of South
Carolina: ‘‘lf yon put among a flock
of sheep from three to four male goats
the dogs will rarely attack them.
Sheep always run to the goats for pro
tection.”
Novel Sport In the Fur Fust.
The effete Parisian has just taken
up the sport of fish contests. Oriental
sporting men in Siam, Cochin China
and some parts of Japan have long
taken great delight in the lively con
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SIAMESE FIGHTING FISH.
tests of the little fighting fish which
are bred in the East for this particular
purpose. The little finny belligerents
are prettily colored red and blue fish,
and when it comes to a matter of fight
ing tlirsys stick to it to the death.
BOERS WERE WAITING
Further Particulars of Destruc
tion of Armored Train.
TOWN ON ENGLISH SOIL BESIEGED
The Transvaal Flat: Is Raided Over New
Castle—Kimberly Mines
Are Threatened.
The London Daily Mail’s Cape
Town correspondent, telegraphing
I Sunday evening, says:
“Kimberly is besieged and the
Boers are massing in force. No de
tails, however, are obtainable.
“The Boers have cut the railway at
Belmont, have seized the Spyfontein
railway station and constructed forti
fied earth works. There are strong
defending forces at Modder bridge
and the Orange river bridge.
“The object of these energetic oper
ations is believed to be the capture of
Cecil Rhodes. Kimberly is now iso
lated, both railway and telegraphic
communication being cut.”
The Daily Mail’s Glencoe Camp
correspondent under date of Sunday
says:
“A force under Commandant Viljoen
from Spitzkep, occupied New Castle
Saturday afternoon, and it is reported
planted their flag over the town hall.
“It is rumored that the Boers have
captured a police patrol of six men at
Dejagers, on the Buffalo river.”
So far as actual news is concerned,
very little change in the situation is
noticed. The state affairs at Mafeking
can only be conjectured. The occupa
tion of New Caytle by the Boers was
prepared for and expected, the place
having been abandoned by the British.
The Boers are reported by press dis
patches to be menacing Kimberly.
Boers Were On the Watch.
Further details are at hand regard
ing the destruction of the armored
train at Kraaipan. These show that
Captain Nesbitt, who was in command
of the train, was warned at Maribago
that the Boers held the line. He re
plied that he was bound to proceed.
Nearing Kraaipan, the train dashed
into a culvert that had been blown up
by the Boers, v’ho were lying in wait
for the train. The Boer artillery im-
I mediately opened fire and a desperate
i fight appears to have ensued, lasting
j four hours, with the odds greatly
against the British. The precise de
[ tails are nnoertain.
It seems, however, that a police
patrol, attracted by the firing, ap
proached within about two thousand
yards of Kraaipan, saw the train
ditched with the Boer artillery still
pounding at it, but noticed no re
sponse. The Boers seemed afraid to
approached until the wreck was com
plete; and tho police feared, as there
was no sign of life near the train, that
the entire force had perished in a des
perate attempt to get the train hack to
Mafeking, where they knew it was
anxiously awaited with itsload of guns
and ammunition.
It i.s reported that the Boers lost
heavily, but there is no means of ver
ifying this. Two miles of rails were
torn up.
There is no authoritative confirma
tion of the report that a battle has
been fought in Natal between Sir
General George Stewart White and
the Orange Free Styite troops, although
there is no question that the Boers
have crossed the frontier at several
points.
MA*Y EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS.
Death List on the Inland of Coran Said to
Have IJoni Fotir Thousand.
Official dispatches from Batavia, cap
ital of The Netherlands Indies, con
firm the reports regarding the recent
earthquake on the island of Cornu.
Not only the town of Amhoi, on the
south side of the inland, was destroy
ed, but several other villages were
wrecked. The official advices declare
that no fewer than 4,000 people were
killed and hundreds of others serious
ly injured.
Mareliand Wanted Revenge.
Advices frotn Paris state that Major
Marcliaud, who commanded the French
expedition in the Soudan, wished to
go and fight for the Boers for revenge
for being compelled to withdraw from
Fashoda, but the government refused
him permission.
SOLDIERS OX THE RACK.
Misconduct of Georgia Troops IVfori
Court of Inquiry.
An Atlanta, Ga., dispatch says: The
court of inquiry appointed by the
governor to investigate the miscon
duct of the Georgia troops in North
Carolina, while enroute home from
the Dewey celebration, began its la
bors Wednesday night. All the offi
cers who were aboard the train at the
time were examined.
The hearing was held behind closed
doors, but nuless all signs fail, the
issue was not entirely satisfactory. It
is given out that all who are shown to
have been concerned in the depreda
tions will be dishonorably discharged.
JUDGE HENDERSON DEAD.
Was For Twelve Year* Georgia's Agricul
tural Commlstloner.
Judge J. T. who was
for twelve years commissioner of ag
riculture for Georgia, and for many
years a prominent figure in the state,
died at the home of his son-in-law in
Atlanta Monday morning after a long
illness.
He was seventy-two years of age,
and had been in feeble health for sev
eral years.
(iov. Mai It \g^ as,lin 2*
too Utscii Speak.
SOME Y§t TL^DEDUCTIONS
The jrs Held Different
Vie*r I* Were Liberally
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At Huntsville, Ala., Thursday, the
two foremost negroes of the country
and a representative white man of the
south talked plainly and fearlessly on
the race problem to the delegates at
tending the Southern Industrial con
vention. Anticipating the discussion
of this subject, the Huntsville opera
house was crowded by delegates, their
friends and representative citizens
from the northern part of the state
when the morning session began.
The cause of the negro was upheld,
but on different lines, by Prof. Booker
T. Washington, president of the Tus
kegee Normal school, and William H.
Council!, principal of the Agricultural
and Mechanical college, at Normal,
Alabama.
The views of these two men are
well known. Professor Washington
believes the ignorant negro should not
be allowed to vote, but favors the
placing of the same restriction upon
the illiterate white rnau. Professor
Couneill wants the negro eliminated
from politics and his edueatian as an
industrial factor promoted.
The speeches of these two negroes
were remarkable, and the cheering
from their white hearers was as brisk
as that sent out by men of the speak
ers’ color, who packed the galleries.
Governor MacCovkle was liberally ap
plauded by both whites and blacks.
His recommendation that a strict edu
cational qualification be imposed upon
all negro voters was received with fa
vor by both whites and negroes. The
concordance of views presented by the
speakers prevented any controversy
and *he quick adjournment of the
convention at the conclusion of the
speeches shut off discussion if any
were intended.
Transvaal War Touched Upon.
The only departure from the subject
discussed by MacCorkle, Washington
and Councill was an address on agri
culture by Prof. C. W. Dabney, of
Knoxville, Tenn., president of the Uni
versity of Tennessee. As he conclud
ed, Prof. Dabney said:
“We hear today that the peaceful
farmers of the Transvaal are on the
verge of being forced from their do
mains. "Whither are they going? They
are hemmed in on all sides by foreign
powers. I believe a great crime is
about to be perpetrated. But it is the
result of the march of progress. It is
inevitable. It is the law of nature and
the law of nature is the law of God.”
Great interest attached to Governor
MacCorkle’s speech, as he was expect
ed to make suggestions of a radical
nature regarding the settlement of the
negro problem. He was loudly cheer
ed as he arose. Mr. MacCorkle said
in part;
“To the practical men who desire
the upbuilding of the south, the time
has come to speak plainly and hon
estly. The race question is no longer
a question of the south. It is a ques
tion of the whole country, and is af
fecting the whole body politic.
“In my judgment, the negro is not
ready to be left to himself. It is the
duty of the people who brought him
here to stand by him and to help him
during the evolution of the great
problem.
“If you do not colonize these peo
ple, how will you save the country
from the natural increase? Will they
not overwhelm and become the domi
nant race, thus displacing the Anglo-
Saxon civilization. This argument is
often heard and often believed. Many
people are of the opinion that the ne
gro from more natural increase will
become the dominant race factor in
the south.
“I do not believe that this danger
threatens us. Since the events of the
last year, I am more impressed by the
suggestion that in addition to Cuba
and Porto Rico, we should have under
our conti ol Hayti and San Domingo.
The educated black of this country
will then naturally turn to these is
lands, where his labor in every sphere
is at a premium, and where he can
live better and easier and be more effi
cient than in any other part of the
world, excepting Africa.
Boers Possess Thirty Maxims.
Hiram S. Maxim, in the course of
an interview at London, said: “So
far as I am aware the Boers possess
thirty Maxims, but the British need
not fear the Boer artillery, which has
always proved a source of weakness
rather than strength to the burghers.”
JON'BS IN ST. LOUIS.
Chairman of National Democratic Com
mittee Take* Charge of Affair*.
Chairman Jones, of the national
Democratic committee, arrived in St.
Louis Sunday evening from New York
and went to the Planters’ hotel, where
he will confer later with Vice Chairman
Stone and other party leaders. He was
met by Urey Woodson, member of the
national committee from Kentucky,
and the two spent some time talking
over the situation in the Blue Grass
state. <
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