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The British Forces
in South Africa.
Tremendous Preparations , Made For the
Contest With the Boers.
FLOWER OF THE ARMY IN THE FIELD.
HE whole of Eu
© rope is watching
Great Britain at
this crucial mo
: ment in her mili
KB? tary affairs. For
eign statesmen
and military ex
ft perts regard the
result of, the war
with the Boers as
a foregone con
clusion. What they scan with such
anxious interest is her tremendous
preparations for the contest.
By tho result of these efforts will
her strength bo gauged. Iu assem
bling an army twice as large
as that which she scut to the Crimea
and considerably greater than Well
ington’s force at Waterloo, England
is offering an illustration, for the
first time in many decades,of hor abil
ity to fight on the land.
Although her naval strength has of
ten been demonstrated to advantage,
it has still been a matter of doubt
whether her military arm would com
pare favorably with that, of continental
nations, and in the throes of such a
test she has been engaged recently
day and night.
Gangs of men are working incessant
ly at the ports on England’s shores,
transforming liners into troop ships.
Largely augmented ammunition forces are cease
lessly turning out and
ordnance stores.
Meanwhile the men for whom these
implements of war are being made are
pouring out of barracks to tho ports,
standing by to embark, drilling, man
oeuvring and practising at targets
spare hour. The reserves are
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To commands the British forces in the
field In South Africa.)
swarming iuto Aldershot in unher
aided batches and reshouldering their
rifles as if the transformation from
civil to military life were merely au
everyday occurrence. Aldershot
The huge mobilization at
is now in charge of Major-General
Thomas Kelly-Kenny, Inspect,or-Gen
eral of Auxiliary Forces and Recruit
ing, who has succeeded General Sir
Lcdvers Buller. All tho work is new.
It is the first time that anything of
the kind has been attempted since the
sbort-serviee system went into effect.
A visit, to Aldershot produces the im
pression that everything is going like
clockwork, but it is too early yet to
express a definite opinion regarding
the British mobilization.
For the reserves themselves, who
are obliged to leave their wives and
families on a pitiful pittance from the
Government, much public sympathy
has been aroused, exemplifying the
truth of Rudyard Kipling’s jeer, “A
special train for Atkins when the band
begins to play.”
A number of reserves who were not
called out have asked to be allowed to
serve in South Africa, aud a similar
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BRITISH FIELD artillery on the natal border.
spirit of spontaneous, practical patriot
ism is seen on all sides. Sir Redvers
Buller’s force includes the flower of
the English nobility.
Sir Redvers Henry Buller is au
campaigner, who has served his
in the country to which he is
aim who is regarded in London as
most capable man for the
Sir id, w Kcavers has been a soldier since
he was nineteen. At that youthful
age he waH a commissioned oilicer of
the Thirteenth Rifles, and on pure
merit, combined with dogged deter
n.mation, hard service and remark
able bravery, ho forged his way ahead
to tho nigh position lio now holds. In
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TYPES OF THE BRITISH FORCES OPERATING AGAINST THE BOERS.
Luo war iu Zululand he wou the rare
Victoria Cross in the retreat of Iuhlo
baue. On that occasion lie saved the
life of a brother officer who was retir
ing on foot hotly pursued by the Zulus.
This gallaut deed was only a sample
of his conduct. Since that time Duller
has been a conspicuous figure in the
fierce fighting of the British on land in
vaded by their forces. He took part in
tho actions of Tel-ol-Keber and of Kas
sassin during the Egyptian war of 1882,
aud served with distinction under
Wolseley iu the Sudan expedition of
1884. It is the opinion of good judges
that, with the exception of Wolseley
aud Roberts, Buller stands head and
shoulders over any general now iu the
British army.
The excellent Boer marksmanship,
combined with tho fact that it is an
unwritten rule in the British army
that officers must always stand under
fire even though tbe men are lying
down, makes mourning probable iu
many a noble British house.
The Admiralty is perhups more on
trial than tho army, especially as it is
well known that General Lord Garnet
Wolseley, the Coinmauder-in-Chief,
does not approve a system which gives
the nuTy hucIi far-reaching power in
transporting troops,
In 1882 Great Britain despatched
fifteen thousand troops in three weeks
to Alexandria, Egypt, a feat that elicit
ed the intense admiration of Count
von Moltke, but the task of shipping
moro than fifty-two thousand men has
no parallel in tho history of England.
Already two branches of tbe service
are beginning to blame each other for
various delays, but it is scarcely ap
parent that there has yet been any
serious lack of facilities.
The ship brokers have undoubtedly
worked .something like a comer outlie
Admiralty, as t.liiey did during the
Hispauo-American War, aud the re
cent breakdown of two transports is
still the cause of considerable abuse
of the Ada iraltjr.
The most remarkable point in con
nection with the transport arrange
ments is that about eighty ships can
be taken into the Government service
withput materially disturbing the ship
ping trade.
The weakest joint iu the whole mob
ilizatiou seems to be the Army Service
Corps, corresponding to the United
States Commissary. The various sta
tions have been gutted to obtain the
necessary officers and men, yet many
line officers assure the Associated
Press that the arrangements are grave
ly inadequate for such a corps. In this
connection tho Naval aud Military
i Record says:
“It is quite dear that, if England had
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either of them, would have to go out
without a full equipment. That this
without saying. ”
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No matter what the general ‘opinion
may be as to the merits of the quarrel
between England and the Transvaal,
all the world believes that the former
will freely spend both blood and treas
are to establish her side Of the argu
meut. The troops which she will put
into the field jnolndl) many of the
most famous regiments that have ever
fought beneath English colors. This
very fact should count fpr something
* n deciding’the issue. The Boer, ol
course, will just ns cheerfully shoot at
a guardsman or a Gordon as at a
meaner mark, but it should always bo
remembered, in measuring the rela
tive value of the two armies, that while
the burgher has np regimental tradi
tions and morale to preserve, the Briton
has both, coupled with a devotion to
his Queen,which should pretty nearly
match the patriotic ardor of his Dutch
Antagonist/*
Among the historic regiments al
ready in South Africa or under orders
to go there, are the First (Royal)
Dragoons, the Royal Scots Greys, the
Sixth Iuuiskillings, the Sixth Dragoon
Guards, the Tenth Hussars, the
Twelfth Lancers, the Royal Munster
Regiment, the Gordon Highlanders,
the Black Watch, the Highland Light
Infantry, the Liverpool Regiment, the
Eighteenth Hussars aud the North
umberland Fusiliers. All of these
have records which would tell the
story of most of the victories and not
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a few of the defeats achieved and
sustained by tbe British army sines
that organization became an estab
lished entity.
The Gordons, who are now iu
Natal, have an old score to settle with
the Boors, Iu 1881 the regiment
was attached to Sir Evelyn Wood’s
column, abont 150 men being detailed
to the small force operating under Sir
George Colley’s command. They were
among the four hundred who scaled
Majuba Hill ami vainly endeavored to
hold that position against the Boer at
tack. Majors Hay and Siugleton aud
Lieutenaut Hamilton were wounded,
Singleton fatally and Captain Mac
gregor and Lieut,onants Wright, Mac
donald and Staunton taken prisoners.
An Extraordinary Mountain.
Near the little station of Maravillas,
Peru., which means “marvelous,” on
the Southern railway, there is a moun
tain of which the most extraordinary
stories a've told. It is claimed to be a
solid mass ,of ores of all varieties in
discriminately mixed, and as one
citizen declared, “all you have to do
is to blindfold your eyes, turn around
three times, throw a Tittle salt over
your left shoulder, then begin to dig
where your spade strikes and you can
get any kind of ore you want—gold.
silver, copper, lead, tin, antimony or
anything else-and it lies right on the
surface like gravel. * The fact that
this extraordinary mineralogical
phenomenon has not been utilized,
however, rather detracts from the in
terest of the story.—Chicago Record.
Gave Them Fuir 'Warning.
A Vienna paper relates that not long
ago three soldiers were drowned in a
military swimming school in that city.
A few days later an officer harangued
his soldiers as follows: “I .want
all to be careful not to get drowned,
because that creates no'end of bother
for the Colonel and the Captain. Be
sides, it is in your own interest, too!”
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The railway mileage of Russia uow
amounts to 29,000 miles, which iu
eludes the great Siberian extension
GLENN GIVES FACTS
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S <= b ° o1 C°mmiesioner
Talks Very Plainly
REGARDING EDUCATION OF NEGROES
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Commissioner Hectare* Thai It I» Not
IIow Much the N.jro Receives,
But the Benefit Derived.
The annual report of State School
Commissioner Glenn, which has just
, been recelved . . from . tbe ,. P rlnter . . * 18 one
oI tbe mf8t >mF or tant in its sngges
tions and recommendations to the leg
ifllature of any prepared by the depart
xnent of eduoatiou in recent years,
Tbe report, which has been carefully
prepared, especially those parts of it
that refer to the education of the ne
gro element of the state, contains facts
of more than general interest, many
of them startling, in fact, in their sig
nificance. ,
Thu school commissioner deals with
the negro question as applied to the
schools of the state fearlessly. His
report referring to the education of
the negro is in part as follows:
“The time is ripe for a plain state
ment of facts in regard to the educa
tion of the negro in Georgia. The
question, after all, is not how much of
the school fund he receives, but how
much benefit lias the race derived
from the education of the children? I
have observed closely the e^ect of the
kind of education we have been giving
the negro. I have tried to study ac
curately the facts in the case. I be
lieve with Mr. Emerson that in the
study of any question we 3hould ‘hug
the facts.’ Some time ago I made an
investigation, as thorough as possible,
as to wliat class of negroes constituted
the property owners whose namos ap
pear on the digest. From the most
reliable information at my command,
and the command of the comptroller
general of the state, it was estimated
that about 90 per cent of the property
owned by the negroes was acquired
by ex-slaves. Most of the property
owned by the negroes was acquired
prior to 1890. Very little has been
added to the tax books since.
“The younger class, or the educated
class, does not seem to be adding
much to the property holdings of the
race. It was also found that about 90
per cent of the prison population o:
the state was composed of young ne
groes under forty years of age. Till
records of the police courts and tlif
criminal courts of the county show
also that about 90 per cent of nil ar
rests made by the officers of the lav
are negroes who have been born sinct
the war.
“The facts, to my mind, have an ed
ucational significance. They are at
least tremendously suggestive that
something has been lacking in our
methods of educating the negro since
the war. The negro who was emanci
pated in 18q6 was not wholly unedu
cated. Association with white mas
ters and training at hard labor during
the early years of his life, gave him t
mental discipline, and formed habitf
of industry and thrift that have en
abled this class to acquire about $13,
000,000 worth of property that is nov
shown on the tax digest.
“Everybody knows that this class o’
negroes is peaceable, law-abiding, re
spected and self-respecting. There is
no friction of any kind between this
property holding class of negroes and
their white neighbors. These older
negroes took their ideals of life from
the civilization in which they were
born and under which they were
trained and tutored. If they did not
get much book learning out of their
training in slavery, they learned
something else that is quite as impor
tant as book learning, and without
which book learning has no value at
all. They learned how to obey^ laws
? nd how r « 8 P cct authority and how
to e8rn * dol ' ar * and how 0 take ca "
ot , ^ Thw training m obedience , to
authority, and m respect for honest
labor, Las been of great value to them
since they were set free. The vast
majority of them, at least, have not in
terpreted liberty to mean license. The
educational value of the training given
Lo these ex-slaves is shown everywhere
L>y Lhe esteem and respect in whieh
these people are held by their neigh
bors and friends. The otitrageons
law-breaker does not come from this
class.”
M’KINLEY RECEIVES PETITION.
Committee Wants Mediation Retweei
Great Britain and South Africa.
The resolutions adopted at a masr
meeting held in Carnegie hall, New
York city, October 11th, urging thf
president to offer the friendly services
of the United States in mediation be
tween Greftt Britain and the Transvaal
#nd Orange Free State republics were
presented to the president Thursday
b a delegation! from New York,
The president, in responding,thank
ed the gentlemen present for appear
ing and tor the sentiment expressed
in behalf of peace and assured the
delegation that the petition would re
ceive his most earnest consideration.
ARBITRATE LABOR TROUBLE.
Pensacola Mill Strike Will Be Settled In
Few Weeks.
secretary J. W. Hayes, of the
Knl S h Lf of Labor, has been in Pensa
co ^ a > F‘ a -» 8 few days, and at a joint
executive meeting it was agreed to set
tie the present strike by arbitration.
The settlement will be made about
November 26, and the meantime all
laborers will return to their work on
same rules as heretofore.
YOUNG CORNELIUS CUT OFF.
Multi-Millionaire Vanderbilt’. Will Is
Made Public.
The will of the late Cornelius Van
derbilt has been made public. It
shows that Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.,
the son of the deceased, who married
Miss Grace Wilson against the wishes
of the father, has been cut off with a
scant $1,500,000, while tho greater por
tion of the estate goes to Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt and the other chil
dren of the deceased. The will is an
interesting document, as it disposes of
one of the greatest estates in the coun
try. Itsprovisions were announced in a
statement issued by Henator Chaun
cey M. Depew.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt inherits
the larger portion of his father’s
fortune and becomes the head of the
Vanderbilt family. The will makes
no raeution of the marriage of Corne
lius Vanderbilt, Jr., to Miss Wilson,
nor to any quarrel between father and
son because of the union, but appa
rently the father’s displeasure was
visited upon the elder son. He re
ceived all told, under the terms of the
will, but $1,500,000, and $1,000,000
of this is held in trust by the executors.
Alfred Gwytfne Vanderbilt is, of
course, the residuary legatee and will
possess a fortune of probably forty to
fifty million dollars. Gladys, Regi
nald and Gertrude (Mrs. Harry Payue
Whitney), will receive about $7,500,
000 each. But Mr. Depew states that
Alfred will give from his share enough
to Cornelius to make the latter as rich
as his brother and sisters. Alfred
will, therefore, turn over to Cornelius
about $6,000,000.
The will of Cornelius Vauderbilt is
dated June 18, 189G, aud the two codi
cils thereto are dated respectively
April 24, 1897, and April 4, 1899.
PARLIAMENT PROROGUE!).
Queen Ask* Divine Blessing Upon Effort
To Whip The Boers.
The English parliament was pro
rogued at London Friday afternoon
until January 15.
The queen’s speech was in part as
follows:
“My Lords aud Gentlemen: I am
happy to be able to release you of the
exceptional duties which have been
imposed upon you by the exigencies
of public services.
I congratulate you on the brilliant
qualities which have been displayed
by the brave regiments upon whom
the task of repelling the invasion of
my Sonth African possessions has been
laid. In doing so, I cannot but ex
press my profound sorrow that so
many gallant officers and soldiers
should have fallen in the performance
of their duty.
“My Lords and Gentlemen: I trust
that the divine blessing may rest upon
your efforts and those of my gallant
army to restore peace and good gov
ernment to that portion of my empire
and to vindicate the honor of this
country.”
RIYERA WAS FIRED.
Former Civil Governor of Havana I>id Not
Resijfn as Keported.
A special from Havana says: Gen
eral Ruis Rivera, formerly civil gover
nor of tbe province of Havana, whose
withdrawal from the governorship was
cabled Thursday evening as a resigna
tion, denies that he resigned. He
says he was dismissed and that he
does not know upon what grounds the
dismissal was ordered.
He admits that he had recently re
marked that he would resign in the
event that at least one out of three
nominations he had made to public
office was not approved, but he at
tributes his dismissal to the direct in
fluence of Senor Domingo Mendoz
Capote, secretary of state in the ad
visory cabinet of Governor General
Brooke.
BRITISH WON AT KIMBERLEY.
Advices State That. Boers Were Repulsed
At That Point.
A special dispatch of Friday from
Capetown gives details of the defeat
of 700 Boers by the British north of
Kimberley, Wednesday, in which the
enemy was completely routed with
heavy loss, the British loss being
three killed aud twenty men, including
two officers, wounded.
The Boers were entrenched strongly
seven miles northward and the British
brilliantly carried the enemy’s position
without serious loss. It is said that
the Boers twice unfairly used a white
flag.
BRUMBY PLEASED.
Lieutenant I* Proud of the Fact That He
II a Georgian.
After a day replete with honors
Lieutenant Brumby, at 8:30 o’clock,
left Atlanta Thursday for Marietta,
where he will rest for ahout, ten days.
Prpfoundly impressed as he was by
the reception which he received from
his home people, Lieutenant Brumby
told the people who were with him:
“I am more proud than ever to bo
able to say that I am a Georgian. I
have been to great receptions in the
largest cities in the United States, in
New York, Boston and other places,
but I have witnessed nothing like this
brilliant affair.”
ARRANGEMENTS KEPT SECRET.
Trade of War Department With Sultnn of
Snlu Not Yet Made Known.
War department officials refused to
make public any of the provisions of
the arrangement made by General
Bates with the sultan of Sulu, the
southernmost group of the Philippines*
but state that its main features
have been touched upon in the cable
reports from Manila. The document
arrived in Washington about six weeks
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A Mother Stork’s Devotion.
Among many stories of the affection
of dumb creatures for their young, this
from a German paper is peculiarly pa
thetic: "At Neuendorf the lightning
struck the gable end of a barn where
for years a pair of storks had built
their nest. The flames soon caught the
nest in which the helpless brood was
piteously screaming. The mother
stork now protecting spread out her
wing over the young ones, with whom
she was burned alive, although she
might have saved herself easily by
flight.”—Christian Herald.
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