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^0 iF« %! It Is bora a Geld )—c THE hem-alb of PUMPKIN. waving tho shallow corn of * m Jmm j. from Where outshines u the flower bumblebees whoso the glow goldnu are of work- morn, color ing, their rough backs all bright with gold,' kV^- And we learn busy the wondrous told. secret lv % their hum has I v- v ‘ They say this flower sometimes Will take n different form And be the yellow pumpkin HI When autumn sunshines warm. When the skillful housewife turns i It by some necromancy keen 1 Into the pie so toothsome, with u *T I color bright and clean As the yellow of the pumpkin as y. It lay the corn among, Has o flavor sweet whose richness 2 by toroothe poet Is unsung. pumpkin . .. Bo give j-jfl i-af i WithtbogoOdold-fashioned pie. •’ All hell, all long hull King Pumpkin, I.lve ye and never die. | OrT'ifr' THE BOER nnrn AS A I rinnmrn lull 1 o i* i 'll o The Boers are born fighters, a na tion of sharpshooter*, they never waste a bullet; each Boer selects his man and kills him and keeps on doiug the same thing all day and every day un til tho war is over. It is a cotumcu boast with them which they have made good in more than ouo clash with the British, that one Boer d<i is equal to ten Englishmen. They not come out and fight in the open, but swarm all over a mountain side, hiding behind trees and rooks, and woo 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 aro largely accountable for the British feeling against them, and in the bitter warfare-Against the nation the success of tho Boers has been extraordinary. Fewer than 45(1 Boer* resisted 12, 000 of the fiercest Zulu warriors on December 10, 13 : i8, and 11000 natives were left dead on the field, aud this with old flint locks. President Kru 9a ‘3H3T PEIS am as 11 4 i ; a® ■* t ■JS 1 >V 1 SS iPfesTva I , . m m . V*. I s' I. 1 ( ’ / A h Field cornet’s messenger handing OVER COMMANDOS TO BOEK FARMERS TO UK READY FOR WAR. ger, as a boy, helped the forty Dutch men hold off 2000 of the men of Mose litkase, then the most renowned na tive captain in South Africa. The bravery of tho men is shown by the attack that 105 of them mu.de on 10,000 Zulus ou the Marico River, driving them out of the Transvaal. These are simply better-known in stances of the fighting abilities of the Boers. Every man has handled a gun from infancy. In tho old days, when a Boer was not fighting the fierce na tives he was defending himself from savage beasts. Every Boer hns been trained in warfare. They discovered the method of laagering their wagons, placing them in a hollow square, which the British generals have adopted tho most successful wav of the natives. The Boers have themsolves masters of strategy, result of constant warfare with a *nd treacherous foe. W I/O K/ii ,il / «5<!lU\ I sir I# ti a i in ii i I ml ,\Y ir'wQ. !ll F-OOT POLICE l. a?, lb jf-AR/A–R 7, ill AVUn ! – w \ 3 Mm 9 fi l'h ¥L w 1 W( m'S It / s r ■ 1 i' « si V e kV m 'ixr i> v- !!• / /■NOUNTfcD ■wi u Po LI c£ OFTlttR and PR INCITE STATE- ARTILLERY TYPES OF BOER INFANTRY, CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY. The Government of the South Afri can Republic is empowered to call at any time the burghers for armed service. The Field Cornet of each district goes round aud serves a no tiee on the conscripts, who, mounted and fortified against hunger for ten days by a supply of buck or beef, cured in the sun, aud called “bil tong,” concentrate in ?jfa: the r 25 church, iron gated, iron steepled, in t* 10 Arms are distributed s' \ X M '\ V'/. \ \ V, • I I V~* ^ vv t '\\ N ^ ri ' , ft ' SJ N tt«g m .•J y •rtb.N ■A % I y.M -•tesEw-K* v t’l / C fi INSPECTION OF A "COMMANDO” OF BOERS IN THE MARKET PLACE OF A TOWN. to those who aro without them; and as for forage, the volt iif 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 eastly ac quired, despite the rather slouchy ap pearance, due in part to the absence of uniforms, except in the case of the commandants, the other oflieers, and the “State Artillery.” The Boer much resembles our Amer ican Apache in his ability to live on the shadow of things when in the field. A writer of South Africa, in a contribution to a London paper, calls attention to tho ability of the Boer to live on rations which an ordinary trooper would not endure and his ca pacity to travel great distances with horse in incredibly short time. 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 the savage whom he displaced in the Transvaal. The secret recesses of the mountains are at hifl command. As a horseman he much resembles our American cowboy. He can ride on top of tho saddle, or over his horse’s neck, or Cossask fashion, with one foot in the stirrup, one leg on the sad dle aud his head and shoulders on the ground. His horse is part of his fam ily life. The beasts are 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 ou 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 in 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 assaulted Ma juba Hill he came up rock by rock, squirming like a snake, twisting in and out and not fil ing until he had a mark to hit. An English correspondent who went through the 1881 campaign qualities wrote of at that time of the fighting the Boers: “We never are able tc see tho 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 Laiug’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 hoys would go over, the line would close up and w r e would begin chasing again for the enemy we could never fiud. I was taken prisoner just after General Colley was killed, aud I can say that l could not have been treated better by auy 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, aud, as 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-ominenly an agriculturist. In Cape Colony nearly the whole of 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. Even find fat up in Bechauanaland you will Boer wagous from the Republic loaded up with fruit, oat forage and other products. pastoral The Boers, in short, are a folk, stolidly content to be that and nothing else. They shun towns, shop -V !$ % fa mmw j I MVB IVI SjJH iH J Ya -' £ai BOERS RECEIVING AMMUNITION. keeping and gold mining. ask only to Mve in a moderate degree of comfort, in a rude plenty; to provide for their children as they grow up and to be let alone. * German Viceroy in the Carolines. A correspondent of the Berlin Tageblatt calls attention to the fact that a German was Viceroy of the Caroline Islands thirty-five years ago. His name was Teteus, and he w-as captain of a ship which exported snails to China. In 1865 ha married one of the daughters of the “King” of the Carolines and bought of him. one of the islands. Alale Gout* Anion £ Sheep. A correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier sqndsthe following information, based on personal ex perience, to the farmers of South Carolina: “If you put among a flock of sheep from throe to four male goats the dogs will rarely attack them. Sheep always run to the goats for pro tection.” Novel Sport in the Far The effete Parisian has just taken up the sport of fish contests. Oriental sporting men in Siam, Cochin China aud some parts of Japan have long taken great delight in the lively con ''I'-? 7. m r-iVSASt" mm •2*. TZ it- J ■ 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 alwrys stick to it to the death. GREAT WHEAT HARVEST BUSY AND INTERESTING DAYS IN THE NORTHWESTERN STATES Appearance of a Thresher’* Train a* It 4-os* Prom One .fob to Another—.What tile Separator »oen—Relative Merits <rT ilia Header and the Hinder Discussed. The hum of the threshing machine will be heard A>r the next few weeks from the east line of Minnesota to the farther boundaries of the Dakotas. The land is dotted with grain stacks, usually in groups of four, though oc casionally a farmer, who makes a herd or a flock the prominent feature of his husbandry, will have his entire crop stacked in a semicircle round the north and west sides of his corral, At in tervals slender columns of smoke tell of a “steamer” at work from dawn till dark. A stranger in the country see ing tho steamer moving from one job to another might easily mistake the outfit for an innovation in railroading. First comes the traction engine, not unlike a locomotive engine, although smaller and painted in brighter colors. Immediately behind the engine is the tender wagon fitted with a rack for hauling straw. Nearly every engine nowadays is a straw burner. Then comes the separator, a monster ma chine with thirty-six to forty-eight inch cylinder, and a sixty-inch separa tor. Behind the saparalor comes the tank, resembling very closely a Standard Oil distributing wagon, which hauls water for tha engine from the nearest windmill pump. Next the “trap wagon” carrying the loose para phernalia of the outfit, and the clothes and bedding of themeii. If the thresh era board with the owner of the grain this constitutes the train, bat if, as is generally the case, the owner of the machine boards his crew, the “grub shanty,” an ordinary house-wagon, brings up the rear, making a train from 100 to 150 feet long. The modern separator comes pretty near beingthe “whole thing. ” Instead of the threshing crew of our boyhood days—drivers, feeders, oilers, hand cutters, four to six pitchers, measurers, aud half a dozen straw stackers—the crew consists of a manager, usually the owner of the machine; engineer, oiler, waterman, six pitchers and a cook. The pitchers, three on a stack on each side of the machine, throw the bandies, higgledy-piggledy onto cylinder, an endless belt the width of the automatic guides straighten them and the belt carries them under rows of knives that cut the bands aud then feeds them into tho cylinder. The grain passes from the winnower into the elevator, is carried up ten or twelve feet to the weigher, weighed and sacked or poured into the farmer’s wagon box. The straw and chaffpass into the “blower,” or automatic stacker, a steel tube about three feet ia diameter and thirty feet long. This is set at the beginning of a job at an angle of ten to fifteen degrees above the horizon and gradually raised as the straw stack rises to an angle of fifty or higher. It also swings from right to left, stacking the straw in a semi-circle around the tail of the machine. At the bottom a “blower” or fan forces a draft through the tube strong enough to carry the straw many feet from the mouth of the stacked. Some of the threshers require the owner of the grain to board the crew, but most of them have learned that it pays better to carry their own ing house, have meals at regular hours, and keep their men together. All the farmer has to do is to haul his wheat to the granary and pay the bill, ranging from five to six cents a bushel. He finds it a great improvement over the old days when he was obliged to scour the neighborhood to get to gether a force of twelve to twenty men, and the farmer’s wife is de lighted with the change. Twenty years ago a dollar a bushel was considered only a moderately “paying” price for wheat. Ten years back, when the market had worked down below seveuty-five cents, the wheat farmer faced certain bankruptcy with a groan. Now, farmers in the Northwest are selling wheat, and making money, at fifty cents a bushel. Many factors contribute to make this possible, but heavier crops and lower wages are not among them. Lower prices on nearly everything he buys, especially machinery, leave the farmer a larger surplus from a given sum, but the result is brought about most of all by improved machinery and systemizing the business. The gang plow, tho four-horse harrow, the broad drill, the binder and the headar on the l$vel prairies of tho Northwestern wheat fields have more than doubled the producing capacity of labor. As soon as one crop is off prepara- para tion for tho next is begun, Even now in the Dakotas and Minnesota notable progress has beoh made to ward the crop of 1900. On many farms a field of forty to 100 acres was summer fallowed in June. Then, there is the eornfield, twenty to 100 acres more, needing only to have the corn stalks dragged to make it ready for the drill. As soon as the grain is in the at–ek—and here is the strong point of the large and increasing num bed who use the header in preference to the binder—the gang plow is started. The earlier the stubble is turned under the better tho promise for next year. With a fourteen-inch gang aud four good, heavy shires or Percberons, an old man past the age for arduous labor, a cripple, a bright boy of twelve or thirteen—and on a pinch the fanner’s daughter—can turn over five or six acres of the mel low soil a day. Decently at a G. A. B. campfire in South Dakota, there was a slight delay. At the last mo meat the organist, who was to accom pany a quartet in some old army songs, had sent regrets, and a young man had been dispatched for the daughter of a comrade in an adjoining town. The messenger found the girl afield with tho “gang.” In an hour sho had made a lia»ty toliet and was playing the organ as prettily as you please. By the middle of September the 100 j\cres, which is the area prescribed by the unwritten law for each gang, 'is turned. Then comes a long rest, so far as the wheat crop is concerned, until April .1. About that season of the year, if you should be driving through the realms of tho wheat kings, you would witness some transtorma tions. Yesterday ihe snowJrifs were melting in the Apiil sun; to-day the farmer, or the farmer’s man, is follow- • ing the four-horse, thirty-sis loot harrow, smoothii g an acre for the drill at every sweep acro-ss the quar ter section. To-morrow the drill starts. No daylight is wasted. Twelve to twenty acres a day is seeded till the crop is in. Then the rush is over. At more leisnre the garden is made, the cornfield plowed, planted and cultivated. In July, haying and preparation for the harvest are in order. If Fortune has smiled; if shower and sunshine have followed each other 'in due proportion; if drouth and sirocco, tornado and hailstorm have spared them, the fields of ripening wheat are a poet’s dream. But to the farmer in the great'wheat belt harvest is distinctly and emphatically non- and poetical. It means long days short nights, dust and sweat, grimy face, hands blackened with oil, weari ness and aching joints. Harvest is the most critical and important part of the ,, year , s Work, , rhe most practxcal and successful wlleat , growers are divided in opinion a3 the r0 lati'- e “ 0rits ot binder aud header , - The headers are made-to cut a te f> t"’® 1 '’ 0 or fourteen foot swath, a twelve-foot header thirty to thirty-nve , acres a day can be put in stack, but it requires a crew of sis to eight men and boya and eight or tea Uorses - Wlth a 8 «-foot binder two men with three horses will put in the shock twelve or thirteen acres. But horses are more plentiful thau men in tho Western harvest fields. By using a seven-foot binder and eight horses in two reliefs, three men frequently put up twenty header acres it or is more in a day. For the contended that the harvest can be taken off more quickly and cheaply and the graiu is in the stack when it is cut, leaving the field ready for to plow earlier than by any other means. The advocates of the binder argue that it is not always possible to secure enough hands to fill tho header crew while the farmer can run his binder with one hired man. By either method the work is pushed from dawn till dark, The farmer and his help reach the end of harvest worn down by hard work and long hours, but with a sense ©f relief that tho fruite of .the year’s labor are measurably secure against the hazards of the elements. While wheat is, and must necessarily remain, the leading feature of Northwestern agriculture, the best farmers have ceased to de pend on the wheat crop alono for their living. A herd of cattle, a flock o'f sheep, a few pigs, the great American hen, and a well kept garden supply mauy of his family wants, leaving him in hotter shape if tho wheat crop fails. Miss Proctor’s Youtlitul Critics. Miss Mary Proctor, the astronomer and lecturer, takes a deep interest in social settlement work in the big cities, and frequently gives her per sonal services toward entertaining poor children and adults. Generally her lectures are very well received. Many of her audiences often manifest better attention than those drawn from higher circles. Now and then there are exceptions. On one occasion a bright-eyed little boy, who sat in the front row with his eyes fixed upou the speaker, was asked how he liked it. “I guess,” he said, “it was pretty good, but she ought to talk about lions and tigers. That’s better for every body.” At another lecture a youngster criti cised her as follows: “It’s all very well to talk of weigh ing and measuring stars. There are some people, of course, who believe that sort of thing, but if she can fool us boys w-ith such fairy tales she’s very much mistaken.”—Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. A Startling; Mexican Custom. It is a little startling to newcomers at first to notice the universal custom ia Mexico of addressing persons of high aud low degree by their first names. As soon as friends are at all well acquainted they address each other by the given name, and this is ^ oirG n °k only by those of the same a S e aU( * cex > but indiscriminately among young men and young women, young people and cldef ptrio’gL In the latter case, or between elderly persons, a respectful prefix is uaed, as “Don” Ricardo. Public charac ters are also commonly referred to by their first names, even the wife of the President of the Republic being affectionately called Carmoncita by all classes. In the household the head of the house is called Don Joee or Don Manuel by the servants, aud a son in distinction is known as Man uelito (little Manuel). Cnrloi*3 ISilects of X.ichtmn«j. During a recent thunderstorm in Berlin most curious effects were pro duced by the lightning on the persons who were struck. Some of the strange freaks performed are described as fol lows: “None of the wounded have ex tensive burns; the wounds look as if caused by a charge of grain shot. The holes reach to the bone, and are sur rounded by a web of blue and brown lines. Mauy of the injured have quite a number of such wounds in their feet and ankles, while others got off with a skin covered with blue and brown marks, as if beaten with a thick stick,” "He Is Wise Who Talks Bat Little.’’ This is only a half truth . If <cohe rtett laid held their tongues, <we should kn OTO nothing about the circulation of the blood. If it ere not for this Advertisement you might never hno=w that Hood's Sa.rsa.pa.. rilla is the best blood tntdicinc. Myod^SqUap aiiliq Rough on the Doctors. 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