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,4;IIQII 15, 1900
The Miracle
ot St. Cecelia.
" Remember that thou hast 'but one
smile, that thou tenet diebut once;
that thou bast but one life, which Is
Abort, and peculiar to thyself, and
there is but one blessedness, and that
for ever; and thou wilt despise many
things". -S. Teresa,
From the convent they could easily
discern the long wbite road to St, Pri-
nt. From thence, in the morning,
they migbt remetrk a peasant woman
in a scarlet cloak, or a priest with a
stall, or two travelling nuns with bas-
kets, or a weary pedlar with a pack
toiling the sun -baked roads to the
gate.
From its high windows they could
Imo tbe sun flash on the sea; and the
gulls quiver on the wing; and the
brown fishing boats roll lazily over
the water; and in the silent nights
boar the breakers roar over the hence.
Now, the sisters c1 St, Cecilia were
very poor• And thougb they talked
and prayed and kept long vigil their
Poverty was still bitter upon them.
Bare, unlovely walls in their chapel;
little to give in charity, and even a
broken organ in their oratory-tbeir
cup indeed seemed full.
Their Father ;Glias only was hope-
ful, ,
"I have been meditating," once he
told the prioress with a little smile
of pleasure, " of a means of mercy in
our perplexity. An organ, for its cost,
we know la not possible. But in Paris
I have a friend who is a painter of
beautiful things. I will ask bim to
come to us, and, by the holy grace,
print on our bare ceiling a picture of
great joy,"
Forthwith be wrote to bis friend,
and the artist, sated with the city's
pleasure, welcomed a diversion so no-
vel. Ile locked his doors and kept the
secret of has retreat that be might
not be troubled. Assuredly he would
paint on their ceiling, and it should
be a study to him for a greater pic-
ture.
Thus, three days later, the famousltl
Rochemont, a member of the French
Academy, arrived at the convent, and
took up bis abode with Father .Elias
hi the woods.
On bis way thither he passed the
sisters in the garden, and some won-
dered at his fine eity °lathes, He was
no ordinaire of nature's handiwork;
but a great man in Paris and honor-
ed among the great.
Moreover, in a time be threw off
his modisb graces and Dame to the cha-
pel in bis tattered sketching jacket.
He would paint on their ceiling, "The
Assumption of tbe Virgin," and he
should come and go as he wished,
" I shall need n sitter," said the
painter to his friend.
" From the convent?" asked the
priest in perturbation,
" From the convent," said the pain-
ter, "And we must find n face -rare,
poetic, beautiful, the face of the Bfa-
donna"
So the priest POMP to the prioress,
and she, tbe mother, was in grave
quandary. There was no precedent in
the order, no reference in the consti-
tution, to such a request. And to the
father she confided her doubts.
He is a great painter," answered
the priest, "and he is my friend: And
as he noticed ber distress, he added,;
" And attending sisters shall be by
tbat it may be seemly "
In this way they won her assent,
and on tbe moa•row the painter stood,
aside near the chapel door as the meek
nuns singly passed him : and as they
courtesied they drew back their veils,
that he might clearly see their faces.'
Thus they passed him; some in the.
black habit of sisterhood, and some
in the grey of their novitiate.
At length be bent hie head to the!
mother:
"Madam" be said, "I would wish:,
for my sitting the Lady passing now.
Her face to my sense, is nearest in
fancy to that of Your Lady."
And the Mother Prioress toughed
the arm of a novice and whispered
that tbe choice had fallen to her.
Rochemont commenced bis task in
the early morning. At the lest the
attending sister was dispensed with;i
for othereyes, he said, were distracting
to his work. Fr. Elias he saw scarce-
ly ever, for he, being but a visiting
priest, was often away.
She stole in by the private door near
the alter, and stood by the rude wood-
en meat he bed prepared for her. In a
while she sank to ber seat, as he sign-
ed her, but withno blush, for of this
she had
no understanding.
She sat as he sketched her. The
coarse a ll'
oan coif a
was taken back that
he 'might the better see her face. Her
hair was close and only little curls
grew about it, and she, the youngest
among them, appeared but a child.
Ho worked on and wondered if her
eyes would ever be lifted to him. She
had drawn In her soft sandals under
her habit, and was looking towards the
altar of her Lady. He was glancing
away tbat she might fait without
feel-
ing any eyes upon her, At last she
lift her ed h face and looked full at him;
then dropped her eyes and turned
away her head.
Could you, little lady, seem lees
sad?" he said at length. "Let your
thoughts be solemn, if you wish, but
do not frame your face so woefully.
that
beautiful hair, what of
"My hair is so arranged," she n-
tvered simply, " that
may lose n
ro
Mao in dressing It."'
Some J
on 1eu
r Or wanderingmins-
trel
might have
sung past her sell in
Bummer nights, and but for this and
the voice of her priest, she bad nerer
heard the yoke of env inn, "I trust
coil aft not tiring P" he asked her
maty elutes, and this simple courtesy
Inizzlod her.
On the morrow again he spoke to
her in some common way, but she re-
' plied;
"bur Mother Prioress has ordain-
ed that we keep silent from complino
to the end of soxte--+whioh to at noon F
by our bell, Yesterday I stoned, but
alesi I had forgotten,'
So he worked silontly on, and left
her at moon. I;ttt when it oa416 that
he had finished bis sketches and was
Painting from his ladder, and she sat
in the Iittle railed galle}'y, he walked.
the woods in the morninge, and the
settings came about after the pliant
of Angelus at noon, . '.
" A grand lady," gnaw he remark-
ed, " would export to be paid for
this trouble in grand compliment. So
1 might tell her that to strive for her
picture were futile. For ,such cupid
lips and eucbanted eyes were not for
canvas, But, as you are but a little
lathmngb, s." I will tell you none of those
i•
' if they are not true things," elm
asked, gravely, " why do you tell
Ibem ever?"
On his pnlette he was 'nixing cot -i
ors, and sighing for the unattainable,
tint.
Then 3m laid his pnlette aside, and
tools a flower from his cont, '
"In reply," he answered, gravele,1
too, "I offer you u white rose, which,1
little bird, Is quite a true thing."
In doubt he asked:
"Is this necessary ?"
"1 a"eure you," he replied, and toss-
ed the flower with a cry of Pardon t"
into her lap, And she took tbe rose
and idles with it, but being a summer
rose and in bloom, it fell sway inmany
pieces whicb littered her habit, She
shook the leaves, and they fell to the
floor.
Is there no value in what I give
ou?" be said.
She looked at him wanderingly:
"God gives tbe lilies which fade in
the field," she said," and roses, which-
ever bend may pluck tbem, do they
not fade too?" '
He mode a little gesture of depre-
cation ; but no reply.
There were beautiful stained win-
dows wbiah softened the garish sun-
light as it settled on the sit,er; and
at her feet the sprigbtly s" -i -motes
danced and revered on the 'icor.
In this and inter times they talked
much together; and be told her many,
things as ono coma from a far coma
try. She despised the world, but as
one unacquainted with it, for she had
seen no life beyond the woods. And
he spoke to her so gently as one with
loved greatly and understood. •
Once, when he was putting some
last touches to his work, they spoke
of faith.
i " My faith is such that I would
go anywhere without fear," she said.
i"Yet would you, little lamb, dare
to see this world and not be anxious?"
he asked.
"I do not fear," she seed.
"But would you go and return sec-
retly," he said, "that youmight trust
, but to the angels for protection?"
She Tose from the wooden seat,
and stood before him, child that she
was.
" To prove to 'you," she answered,
who believe nothing, they say, I
would venture; for I say again I do
not fear."
"Come thn fro aur cell •a
tmid-
e m
y
i night," he whispered, "and meet ma
I by the wood, and I will show you the
world, and you shall prove all things to
ma."
That he did right or wrong he did
not stay to consider, He would care
for her and protect her ; she should see
the world, as sounds and figures in a
dream, and for herself she should
judge. He beard her say as sbe left
him:
"It is not sin to prove -even with-
out permission, and so I will come, to
you in seor'et at that hour, for I am
portrees at the gate this night." '
The day passed, and 1m waited for
ber in a light wbieb seemed to belong
to ber own world of ohildbood.-ire hop-
ed she woold came soon. Ile had never
before meta woman who for no tan-
gible reason made bim feel ashamed of
himself es em talked to her. Perhaps
at this moment be rather doubted the
wisdom of his esre,padc. Yet it was
only that 3m wished to walk througb
the rooms with her and watch the
wonder in her eyes. Shewas but a
study, 3m tried to persuade himself,
and so mere a child; and he was a
great man, honored in achievement.
Besides, was not adventure a privilege
of genius?
Seating himself on a fallen tree. he
considered the order cf bis adventure.
He would drive her to the ball -masque
at the opera bouse-she as a novice to
sisterhood, himself in the velvet jacket
of a warking painter Simply, then, he
would walk through the rooms with
Ma girl spirit by bis side, and she
should return to the convent without
harm or remark by daybreak. Father
Elias. he knew, was asleep in bis hut.
and lm bad telegraphed his carriage to
meet them hero. Even now he heard
the hoaxes pawing in the road; and
thirty minutes' drive away past the
trees, beckoned the lights of Paris.
Behind wee the convent, with Ile
great slanting slate roof, and its gates
and anima aud terraces ell sunk in
e dream3ess Bleep, and the trees that
nestled near seemed asleep too. A
Yellow hoevoet mgmn poised a full face
in the heavens, and now he uytghi
bear a lamb bleat, or an ewe tweak
its bell, oe oat ox below in, its stall.
Oe her -soft hemp Bendels the girl
proved down the great steps, passed
the Iron gate, and made her way to the
wood. Those still woods to ber were
full of sweat sighs and whispers.
Therein ebe thought ware ells at their
gambols and sylphs and fairies dame
ing in the glory of the night. She
turned iter face upward. Myriads of
stars sparkled blue in the great o'er-
hninging firmament. It was so benu-
tiPul that she was afraid, ' ''How great
is God," she whispered awefully, " who
has made this world so wonderful!"
It:
woo at this time that Roehemont
cauue to her side,
" Como, child 1" be etolnimed, "we'll
not dream now. We must hurry to
return before m'ornintr,"
Toegther tbey threaded their way
through the path to the road. It was
broken here end there by dark brush-
wood,- so that it seemed that morsels
of white cotton hod dropped that they
minht not lose their way.
So tbey came to the waiting carriage
with tile two silent men in the driving
sent ; and to her it seemed n great toy.
She took the sent beside bim, facing
the horses. The hood of the landau
was Thrown back, and they flew
through the night. He was one wbo
sought strange pleasures, and he ex-
ulted in this new sensation. He tried
to discern her face, but it was turned
from lien. He could only see her chin,
exquisite in contour and outline, rest-
ing en the snowy wimple.
You ere every silent," be said at
length. " Won't your talk to me as you
used to? You still have no fear, little
one?"
" I am not afraid," she replied with
a' queer couch of pedantry, "because I
am possessed of nothing earthly, and
love nothing earthly, and fear to lose
nothing earthly, Therefore, I am se-
cure in all places."
They were cooking over rough places
and she touched his arm; but he quiet-
ed her with a smile. They looked back
at the convent above them. lie could
sec the moonlight along the vallay,
flashing a dancing ladder to the stars,
And in the convent, too, a wanderers'
Tight was burning, and it glittered
like a spangle in the crutches of the
hill.
She knew the nuns were praying in
their separate calls, and she knew the
night flowers bad opened, their lips,
and she believed the two would rise
in praise together.
Soon the carriage wheels rattled in-
t o the city, and passed the closed shops
in the heavy streets, and came to the
opera house. T'fbeir door was flung
wide open, and over the strip of pur-
ple cloth, they passed through a crowd
of idle watchers. Many carriages had
stopped that evening to discharge
their freight of hooded women and ,
lacquered sten ; and at the doorway
they heard the jumble of street calls
laughter, and the °beery call of reg
ogn tion.
Under Venetian masts they passed;
the portals and were swept on in thei
swim of the crowd.
�1 blaze of color, lights, and spark-
ling music fell on tbeir senses. Fes-
toons of roses hung from the roof,
and all along their path were bunches;
of white blossom and great blocks of (
hoe done in fantastic shapes. i
Princess of blood walked with the'
peasants of many nations, and state-'
ly heroes of fable jostled figures in-;
famgous in history.
Zulus and Spanish Hidalgo, and 'bel
cloaks and ruffles of the Louis passed
there tis they stood; and Cleopatra on;
the arm of a frosted blue devil; and a
sprightly vivandiere consorted with a'
black -robed public executioner. All,
this they saw.
One ,r was a jester in tiny silver
bells and two shades of gooseborryl
green -touched her with some laugh-'
ing remark; hut she stood as one in
a dream.
It was the Ball of the Summer Roses,
and at midnight us they passed the
judges in procession, the dancers were
all unmasked„ Many nodded to the
painter, and wondered at the lady by
hie side. •
She wore a habit of gray 'rotas, end
the sandals el hemp, and a while cord
at her waist, and the spotless wimple
at leer neck.
He turned to her: " Well," be said
gently, " whet think you of the
world?"
"In this," she said, "is no love ;in
this there is no joy; it is sorrow-
ful." +
Suddenly (.here was commotion at
one end of the hall, and a liveried
man crossed to them; in bis hand im
bad a folded paper. He handed the
painter the paper. " To the sweetest
picture of ell -our Lady of the Angels
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"BY the shade of Velaequez," he
erled; "you are the very hazard of
eremite for you have won the gold Prize
or the president,"
She looked at him, and her eyes were
full of questioning,
"It only means, little one, that
anything you ask for Ito ten thousand
(miles is yowrs ; that is all, simply"
" Why, is this great gift 1"she ask-
ed,
Do not question-su(fieient that it
la youir5,"
' But to you nothing has been ev-
en."
"I bave already poseeselons-•,"blob
you lave not."
We are poor, truly, and want many
things. God has given this to me?"
she asked.
It may be so," be answered gent-
ly,
I do not under stand " she said. "It
is wonderful. But, as anything Task
for is mine, say I would wish a new
orgtin-in the convent of St, Cpoilia at
Grimont-will you tell them that 9"
This he wrote on a card, and break-
ing from the crowd that pressed to
them with felicitations, they left the
hall,
They come to the carriage, and shook
off the city and, mounted the obnik
road along the hill, but neither broke
the,silene0, She was silent, thinking.
in joy' 01 the gift that was to came,
and he was silent that her pleasure
might be perfect. When they game to
the green lashes of the wood he gave
her his band and helped her to alight,
Next they came to the front gate of
the convent. She lifted the great key
from her girdle, whereon were rho
knots of the vows, and she fitted the
key in the gate.
He made to leave 'her; but be turn-
ed:'
" Mind," he said --and mere was a
duals in hie voice .that was neither
banter nor warning -"mind your trust
in the angels, and you say no word
to any soul of what has passed to-
night."
o-
night. "
But be only saw her mount the
steps and pass the little wicker -gate,
and be never saw ber more.
And the sister went beck to her
cloister, and the painter to his Paris.
And it is reckoned now a miraole that
on a certain morning a great van drew
to the Convent at Grimont, and silent
men fitted in their oratory a new gold-
toned organ from the famous maker
at Versailles.
Yet for ever of this miracle there
are two interpretations. One is writ-
ten in grave characters by the Moth-
er Prioress of the time; but the other,
and the earthly reading, is here set
forth.
SEVEN WARS IN AFRICA.
The mark Continent 18' Iluv:ug Its Share or
Trouble et t'rece;,t.
• In seven distinct sections of the Af-
rican continent, in all measuring over
9,00.1,000 square miles, war is at present
being waged against the savage tribes
or settlers by the civilized nations of
Europe. England is concerned in
three of the campaigns, France in two
and (Germany in ane, while in one
corner of Northwestern Africa the
Moors are battling against tine border
tribesmen along the boundary of Al-
giers.
The bitterest struggle being waged
is ghat between England and the
Boers. Our other troubles are La the
Nile valley and the Uganda region, In
the former Gen. IdiLoheaer still has to
deal with the Khalifa's farces, who
have withdrawn to the fastnesses of
the Soudan, and (Maj. Macdonald is
the third lintiah campaign J
waging
Tho Uganda, where Ole a Wary is prac-
tically wan, but where a lesson must
impre.sed upon the scattered bands
of hill tribesmen.
The campaigns France has engaged
up,:u are modest ones. The only un-
pleasant feature of them is that when
over they will surely have to be fought
ower again.
The tirst is the Fi reau-Lamy; oxpe-
diolon, wbleh wars sent froze Algiers
more thnue a:year ago to march to the
southern border of 'the Soudan, and
there fight the wear against the Taur-
egt•• The second is a branch of the
I rel ea.0-Lamy expedition, in charge of
L e o'. Pa,l'ier, and Wile directed against
that t.ribestnen near Lake Ttthu:d. A mil -
1 s.ry nummissionwas appointed to set-
a.... upon a boundttu•y. The commission
wee set upon by the natives. Tbree
battles .were fought, but more bat-
tles will be necessary before the
whole trouble can be finally settled.
COURT-MARTIAL.
One by the Ileninbee l Process Already
Med In the iesteeraal.
In the present Transvaal operations
a drumhead Court-martial has already
iakou place, the prisoners being four
Natal Dutchmen named Oosthensen
and Jansen, who were "weighed off,"
es Tommy Ai kine galls it, for disloy-
ally, rind sentenced to five years' im-
prieoement, and their time will be put
in al Pietermaritzburg, though their
dreaal.a may be of Pretoria.
Ai drumhead Court-martial differs
front every other form of military tri-
bunal inho
t fact that it not r • is re-
stricted
striated as to the hours of sitting ; in
ordinary Courts between 8 ih the
morningand, 4 in lh
e afternoon,the
ha
proemediegs being carried on aany
that the case is one which requires
time, provided it shall be manifest
an immediate example.
During the Peninsular campilign
there were net a few instances of sen-
tences bein written upon
an upturn-
ed drum, in most cases for a flogging,
and in ethers for death.
1IiIRT HER CONSCIrINOE.
Doesn't et hurt your conscience to
Wear those pretty birds' wings on your
hat? ,
r •
I!: does a little, because they are not
real wings. They are only °lever ire-
itattons,
Have you been duly thankful for the
blessings and bounties of the past
year? If not, gel right down oe your
marrow, bones and confess yourself to
he en unregenerate sinner.
TEE RIVER OF BROOD,
NATIVE NAMII QF THE TUGELA
RIVER IN SOUTH AFRICA,
Serie Mtlelory Which (hews its Apple
prtielelless-*31g Battles Heave IWe0
lrem!ltkt °rt IN hooka net 110011 Ilii
Nellie) Tellies.
The 00180 of war, the horrible etrug-
gie of batiles, the groanoe the dying,
the shouts of the victors, aro not new
things along the banks of the Tugela,
and the bible Around Spun, Kop have
looked upon worse scenes of carn
age than they see noW, Its banks
have echoed and re-echoed with these
sounds 10 the past, and Butler 000
Joubert have but added a few notes to
es song of war. So matey battles have
taken place op the rivet' where Bul-
ler and Joubert are now, struggl,ng
that it is known to alto natives ns
Blood: River, and is frequently, called
by that name among the Boers.
The, first known battle to bave oc-
curred on its banks took place during
1832 or 1898, between Zulus' and Kaf-
firs, not far from what ie now Ween-
en, although not quite ea tan inland.
The great ,Zu1u chief, Tchaka, had, suc-
ceeded In conquering nearly all of tho
Kaffir country south of the Tugela,
and had driven the Inhabitants ei,her
to the coast or far into the south,
when, for some reason that is not
known to this day, a large party of
Kaffir warriura and many gathered
from other, tribes decided to go up the
Tugela from where they were at' that
time i.ocated near. its mouth on the
coast, They made their journey en
boats and continued it without inter-
re/3N= until among the foothills of
the Draakenburgs, where their camp
was attacked by a Zulu impa; but the
Baffles escaped to their boats and re-
treated down the river, But Zulus
pursued them, and about 100 miles
down the river
HEADED THEM OFF,
The Kaffirs-discovered the Zulus ba -
fore they were aware of their close
proximity, and determined to at-
tempt an escape inland. The large
portion of the 7.tuiu forces were on
the north bank of the stream, and( the
Kaffirs, therefore, tended on the south
side, and had marched some reties In-
land, before the Zulus were aware of
what had occurred. They at mice set
out in pursuit and overtook thein the
next morning. The Ilaffirs were vast-
ly outnumbered, but they made a good
fight, that resulted in their almost
complete anni.iulation, The few sur-
vivors were carried back across the
Tugela into the Zul u preser. es -slaver,
In 1897 the history off South Afrwa
chronicles an event that is commonly
called "Ditayo's uprising," although
this is a misnomer, for it was plot an
uprising at all. Ditayo was one, ort the
chiefs of 'the ZLuls uaader that !human
tiger Diegaan. In some way he incur-
red Dingaau's wrath. and, realizing
that death was in eons the bim, de-
termined to escape, if possible, to the
coast, where he would be safe as the
English settlements. Ditayo was a
chief. well laved by the warriors, over
whom he had long had command, and
a Large number of these decided to go
with him to the coast. .They succeed-
ed in getting ae far as the 75ugela, but
hero they Were overtaken by the fero-
etous Dingann at the head of a big
army. Ditayo and his men fought
with consummate bravery, but were
ma.teacred to a man by Dingaan s farce.
The traveler who visits the ecelle of
this battle will be shown a large tree
where tradition says Ditayo, the last
man left alive, fought ein.glerh'anded
against his foes like the heroes ni,
medieval romances, slaying over a'
score of warriors before he was finally
HACKED TO THE (11013111}.
In February, 1838, 000urred the mee-
saore o1 Piet Retief and. eseveuty of
hes followers just a little west of ,the
ground where the British and Boers
have been struggling for no many.
weeks. Retief was at, the head of a
large caravan of Boers which bad trek-
ked_ into the Zulu country, He and bus
followers bad been enticed into Dingo.-
an's kraal, to attend a big 'feast and
were treacherously slain while enjoy-
ing the black's hospitality. The bal-
ance, of the caravan ,iuoeeeded, in de-
fending themselves from Dingaan's at-
taek, and the Zulu then swept down
the Tugela slaying
all the Boers
be
culd find +thee
had, not placed them-
;elves Fn apoeition to resist his on-
slaught.
n-
slau h t. The number . of. Boers Dees a-
an killed in this raid run up to hun-
dreds. The Boers who'hed int''euched
themeetves, however, were unable to
escape, and when information of their
plight reached the coast and other
Boer eettiements preparations were et
grace made lar their relief.. Peter flys,
anoted Baer, [ed a purely Boor expedi-
tion
e1
i -
ti ointo the ZJu countty, but were
eurprtsed• near the sill of the present
•i Ui• r ca rev l y -and ou' h
Bi t sl m SCh a Lir
p Y g
they made a desperate fight, were de-
feated with heavy loss. Their lender
was killed and the tow survivors bad
a terrible time reaching the coast.
Here . their story so stirrer) the British
that the coast eeltl.ements would; have
been, almost depopulated had all the
voluetoersl to go to the relief, of the
Boers been accepted, .At l01 11 largO
force was eomplelely organized,
co
n-
si tan principally of ,British colon-
ists, though it
also numbered many
friendly natives and few e
ena f rs 1'h
Y
expedition marebed weal along the
Tugela, They bail two battles with
the Zulus, In both of whirl they were
vide -moue, but wore finally led into
an auabuscade, tot many miles from
the now famous Beton Ilop, where the
relief expedition Wee
COMPLETELY ANNIIIILA'TED.
Alter ilius vietdry Dingman bore dowel
upon the main body of Boers, the,cara-
vun' Whin') had been under tbe cora
mend of Piet Relief, and (el? upon the
Mager WIth a forge of nearly 30010
warrlors, 'here were but 9.00 halite
ing Men In this'laeger, but, they 00m-
ptotely doieatod • Dillgwtn by making
use of sta'atogY, the thielthey( bale
uzad 80 wall Ui their present war, ib
farce of 200 borseme I ware sent 001
from the Magee, and felling upon the
Zulus from the roar, eroated apanto
'n• the err ty al blaolte, which was de -
seated with alose of aboub 80001 war-
flats, a defeat that bt'olce Dingean's
power and, sent him into ignominlou:
istle, Tide victory occurred on Do-
camber 10, a day that is celebrated as
Ute Prieeipa3 event of the year In the
Cmairsvaal, ,And another bat' had bean
added to the song of war lithe Tugela
babbles to the sea.
Save for innumerable small fights,
peace now reigned along the Tugela,
until Cetewayo end Umbulazi, the two
.:ons of Pande, King' of the Zulus, be-
gtie to quarrel over their right o0, coto the til.rone, So tiaras did.
their quarrel become 'het itfinally
lett to acivil wel% The matron, was
divided over the olaimi of the brothers
and their forme finally mel on the
Tugela within sight rel the ,D'aakena
burg,., in December, 1859; All dny the
"truggle cot tinued. The green(' tram•
bled with the ru b o'f fightu,rg men,
and the hills echoed tee •snouts and
the roar of baattle. For hours the
et ruggle com,tinued without an iep-
parent advantage on either side, when
Cetswayo and Umbulazi, who had been
fighting in the front ranks of their, re-
spective armies, finally came face to
face, and a
A TERRIBLE DUEL
ensured between them. Mightily did
these brothers, giants in strength,
b .t:but h azi' a at
Bills together; Umb 1 wee
lase di_spattbed by an assegai thrust,
and his army, disheartened at the loss
of their' leader, fled from the field,
This was one of the mightiest battles
tit the history of South Afrien,,and if
the ghosts of warr,ors ling r about the
field of their death: over, '10,000 who
died in that struggle between brothers
are gazing at el fi,b.ing n,.W going on
but ashort distance from where they
encountered' death reaping his harvest
tram the plaisr of war,
Although, Umbulazi's followers had
fled from the field on, 'the death of
tbeir leader, they diad not abandon the
fight, but scattered over the. country
ilii guerrilla bands and continued the
war until 1601, when Cetewayo was de-
elaterl the legal successor to Pande.
Many battles during this period occur-
red along the Tugela. Fifteen fights,
in which enough warriors Were en-
gaged to warrant calling them' bat-
tles, took place, and in one, which oc-
curred during the latter part of 1800,
at aspot about 100 miles from the
mouth of the Tugela, nearly 12011 war-
riors were slain, including several of
Cetewayos most prominent parte.
sane.
Alter the subjugatlon of the Zulus
by the British, in 1879, the country wee
divided up into thirteen districts, and
these were given by the ,British ' to
eleven Zulus chiefs, one Basuto ebief-
tain and one white man, all of, whom
had helped the British in their War.
This arrangement resulted in numer-
ous petty wars, but during this period
stile one battle oaeurred on or near
the Tugela. This was between• a
large party of Basutos and 'lulu impi,
It was an all -day fight, but the 13asu-
toe drove their adversaries troth the
field' web enormous loss. This fight
an which more lives were last than In
ail of Buller's fighting, occurred in .a
defile of the Draekeneburgs, not live
miles from the scene of thebattleof
Spina Kop, a defile that is probably
held by the Boers to -day.
And now, don't you think the Zulu
name of Blood Ls more appropriate
than Tugela, for that stream which
flows by so many battlefields and
along whose banks so many good figbt-
ang men -white and black -have sacri-
ficed their lives ani the gory!:altar of
war?
•
THE SW,AZIE CHIEF DEAD.
The Swazie Chief Bunu must be
dead. The Swazies have the habit of
keeping such news to themselves for
et least a month, and it is more thane
month ago they were looking for a
black ox -hide. Their custom is to sew
up their dead Bing in such' a skin and
place him at the foot of a kopje.
Their ,thief Gene,nal is usually killed
at the same time, and his corpse left
with that of the Icing to keep it com-
pany.
onpany. Before the body of the King
can be interred it bas to remain for a
month .at the Royal kraal, where
meat Is constantly burned to neutral-
ize the inevitable odor. It Is also ru-
mored that Buou's muthar and the
hear to the throne halve both been pois-
oned; but thus is not confirmed.
DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE.
There's no use trying to do the im-
possible, said the discouraged religi-
ous editor,
h don' know,
now replied tsociety
U I t he
1
reporter, It. has been done. I was at
the Meeting of ltliter'ary, club yester-
day, and one lady there who read an
original poem made bon mot rhyme
with have got, �-
r • r
FRENCH NAMES 1N AFRICA..
CA.
Among the French names whioh at
the present dtJ inlay
be found
wide-
spread throughout. South Africa, fr
om
the Cale to the Zarabeat are Marais,
'Foubert, Du Plessis, De 'Villiers, Jour-
dan, Le Roux, Malherbe, Du Toit, Ma-
Retief, Thereat and Huge.
7118 NEW GRAFT.
Wirkkvfre-Look here. Tlnst is the
fourth Lime this morning you have
been in bare netting for the pro's ol
a meal.
Dismal Dawe ,n• -'Ye i urn the m c h nb-
.p
sent-3±sded beggar, rlon'1ye know.
•
THE 11OUNOABOIi1' WAY.
You 'have three brothers, soven'I:
you? he inquired.
Yes, she answered. Why?
Oh, 1 wee just wondering if you
woullike 10 make Ina a fourth,
I'm very emery, she replied, but 1
will be a wife to you.
"RUE STORIES OF THE TAR
LETTERS FM IVIWHAVE
BMLINROUNDEREN FIREHO,
`Mew the /ere 3b'gI!peet Must 0 (Bleu no
Nternaeetee-9'estiiiieelal or hoer
Mslreentuasl,th-llseralness nl Ilte 05
Trruisperts,
One of the men of the 74th Reed;
meat, who was In oharge'of the go»
that was lost in ,the Stormberg en-
gagement, writes to his father In NeW-
ensile from Stetkstrom as follows:
"We left the camp about 8,000
strong, wader Genf, Gatacre, and reach-
ed,
eached Stormberg Rill about 8 oblook on
Sunday afternoon. Under the hill the
Infantry opened nut, but all of a sud-
den the Boers let us have it with
their Manure We wore surprised, in
a trap, and well we knew it. Our an.
t;lltary, which was in battery: column
at close intervals, wheeled into line
along the plain southwest of Storm
berg Bill, to take up position under
the enemy's fire, and it was during
that moment that the gun I was in
charge ,of got stuck in a ditch. There
we were left. It wars awful -Madden-
ing; but the moment the enemy sate
the position WS were in, they turned
their fire on us. in a short time they,
wounded my three drivers; and, all lbs
while under heavy fire, myself and the
gunners were working with might and
main to get the gun out; but It was
ell to no purpose. For twenty min-
utes the Boers pounded us, and in that
time all the six were killed. I must
say that both the drivers and the gun-
ners acted splendidly.
"Of' the eight of us, not a, man left
bis horse unfil Maj. Lowrie ordered us
away. Maj. Lowrie, who bad already
got the D. S. 0 (Distinguished Service
Order) at the risk of his lite, gallop-
ed across the lino of fire with spare
horses to try to save the gun; but it
was no good. Then he said to oux
party:
"Men, you have alone your baste
and done it bravely, too; leave your
gun; it can not be saver.'
"This we slid; but we did it sulkily,
thinking the Boers would meet us
again with our own. This is the true
story of how the 74th lost their gun."
BATTLE OF COLENSO,
Private Bade, who lies wounded 119
the !field hospital at Rondesbosch,
having been hit in the battle 01 Celan-
so, writes home thus:
"1 got a Mullet clan through my het-
mer; one cut my mess can from my,
back; a third out the rifle from my,
band; and the fourth ,went right
'rbragttb both hip:., It was hard flees
on our men to be knocked down the
way they were, and most of '.hemi; did
not fire a shot. You could see noth-
ing but trenches to fire at. I bad the
pl a ure of hiving a few sho's at Orem
when they carne out to take the ar-
tillery guns. Five of us let go et
them, but they soon settled us. They
killed two of us, wounded one and Look
the other two prisoners."
That does not sounda s if Tho Boer
nmrk-manslilp had deteriorated.
C°mmenting on the transport prob-
lem, the eorrespond.ent of the Times
at Queenstown writes:
"It has been truly said that an army
f.gles on its belly -a fact that some
of our Generals at dues overlook -and
in the matter of keeping men and
horse supplied wilh food, the rix wagon
transport plays a great part in South
Africa. True it is that, so far during
this campaign, the rai,ways have done
all this; but when the Free ;;late is
reached the ox transport will be call-
ed on. Meanwhile, at the various
camps all over !the country the ox
transport is being utilized for all sorts
of useful pul'poses, such as the remov-
al of stores to outposts and tate carri-
age cif firewood. and daily damp micas-
si.ies. In Cape C.Loay a contract was
concluded wi+.h Julius Weil to supply
700 wagons, each with a span of;six-
teen oxen.
OK TRANSPORTS,
"Though, originally, the idea bad
been to allocate these in equal pro-
portions between three sdvancing col -
urns, the exigencies of the eampaign
have resulted in one-tblyd being sent
to De Aar, whioh supplies the Naauw-
poort, Arundel or Orange River forces
as called on, while the balance of about
470 wa.gons'is retained at Sterkstrom
and Queenstown. In addition to this
warren contract, another was eonalud
ed far a practically unlimited slumber
of small spans of oxen to be used in
military carts and wagons. The im-
perlal government learned several val-
u'able lessons in the Zulu War, and one
of these , was to contract for
an
trans oris
p d not to purohtise Thom.
The service is at once more efficient
and in the end is undoubtedly more
economi
Bad, The contract apparent-
ly: could not be in more able hands."
ANCIENT DENTISTRY.
. The manufacture and use of false.
teeth is undoubtedly a practice of
great antiquity. The ancient ilgyp-
tiana were no mean dentists. Jaw_
bones of f mummies
have been t'oand
with false teeth to them, anti also with
h
teeth filled with gold. The ancient
Greeks also know how to fill teeth
with gold, also how to make false
tooth,
There is plentiful evidence of skill-
ed dentistry among the .Romans, for
many of the old Latin authors have
references to false teeth. In the
"Roman Laws of the Twelve Tables"
there is a distinct reference to arti-
ficial teeth. The first part of No.10
forbids useless =poisesen
so atfunerals m
general, but en exception is permlt-
Led by No. 11, whioh allows that the
gold fillings of false teeth or the gold
with; whioh they are bound should be
buried or burned with the deceased.
Within the last year an ancient.
grave was discovered near Rome noel
opened. In it was found the ekelee
toil of a women with atlontplete sot'
of false teeth, Misplaying admirable
worlrma'nsbip and wrought otil of sol.
id gold.
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