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the surge and reached the shore,
heaving belt a doyen men with the
pt noes, the root of the negroes sat
J, abalru r Jepb.son s Statement off lhTouRb the sand -hills, leading the
directed to b With them bast treating me vary
.
�Yp! is proceedings. It was a gently and respeetlsully, it w41s dif.
valet hope, Tho night was calm and Molt walking, ue we sunk overt our
tee ehip mutieniees, eo that no idea : ankles into the loose, shifting lapel
Of duty kept them vigilant, Ryson, et every step, and I eves nearly dead,
wee after the dearth of Tibbs was in ;;heat by the time we reached the native
pommeled, of both welchee, had gone , village, or Lown rather, for ie was a
below to anatoh a few hours' sleep, plea° of oonsiderable dimensions, .The
and the boatswain who was left in i houses were comical struotures not un-
charge mem standing with the other like bee -hives, and were made of oow-
two mea at the foot of the foremast. pressed seaweed cemented over with
Powerless, speechless, with the oords'a rude form of mortar there being
molting into my flesh and the mer-, neither stick nor steno upon elle roast
dered man at my feet, I awaited the nor anywbere within many hundreds
peat cot in the tragedy. la miles. As we entered the town, au
The our ruffians were standing up euormonts crowd of both sexes come
now at the other side of the desk. The swarming out to cued us, beating
cook was armed with some sorb of a tom -tams and howling and screaming,
leaver, the others had knives, and' On seeing me they redoubled their
Goring had a revolver. They were yells and assumed a threatontng at-
all leaning against the rail and look- • titude, which was instantly quelled by
Ing out over the water as if watching a few words shouted by my escort. A.
for somelhiug, i sow one of them buzz. of wonder succeeded the war -
grasp another's arm and point as if !cries and yells of the moment before,
at same object, and following the and the whole dense mass p'r'oceeded
direction, I made out the loom of a1down the broad cantina street of the
large moving mass making toward the town, having mj• esoort and myself od them to bits. In one house every-
thing As it emerged £rom the gloom; in the oenter.
I saw that it was a great mum thing was broken except a photo of
j DIy statement hitherto may aeetft co Gladstone. .. . The news hue just
crammed with men and propelled UY'strange as to exotic doubt in the minds
arrived in camp of the occupation of
at least a score stern the watch caught was the fact vvM1tich I am now about to oris will attack in the rear while we
sight, of it also, and raising a cry, relate whL.:h caw el l my own brother-ln advauoe in the front, We had to
hurried aft. They were too late, how- ' law to. insult me by disbelief, I can leave nearly everything in Ladysmith,
ever. A swarm of gigantic negroes bat relate the occurrence an the sim-
clambered over the quarter, and, led
pleat words, and trust to oh., .- be so the elaborate kit given to us is
not much good. The poor old Devens
by Goring, swept down the neck in an pleat words, and trust to
irresistible torrent, All opposition was therook like trumps. One men out the
chance and time to prove their bottoma of his trousers oft to patch
overpowered in a muluent, the un-' truth. Ie the centre of this main
armed watch were knocked over and • street there was a large building, up the back; some have no shirts,
and moat of tho men's trousers are
8,30 p',m,—Have been lying in a calm
All day. Tee coast is now abou:a
mile and a half from us.Hy
son
examined the instruments, but
nen not find any reason for their ex-
traordinary deviation.
This its the end of my private'
journal, and I must make the 're-
mainder of me statement from
memory. There is little chanceof my
being mistaken about facts which
base soared themselves into my recol-
lection. Phut very night the storm
which had been brewing so long buret
aver us, and I came to learn whither
all those little incidents were tend-
ing which I bed recorded so aimlessly.
Blind fool Ural was not to have seen
it sooner I shall tell what ocourred
as precisely, as I cane
I bad gone into my cabin about
half past eleven, and was preparing
to go to bed, when a tap came at my
door. On opening it I saw Goring's
little black page, who, told me that his
master would like to have a word with
me on deck, I was rather surprised
that he should want me at such a
late hour, but I went up without
hesitation. I had hardly put my foot
on the quarter -dock before I was
seized from behind, dragged down up-
on my back, and a handkerchief slip-
ped round my mouth. I struggled as
bard as I could, but a coil of rope was
rapidly and firmly wound round me,
and I found myself lashed to the
davit of one of the boats, utterly pow.. bound, and the sleepers drugged out of formed in the same primitive, way as
criers to do or say anything, while their bunks and secured in the (amu the others, but towering high above
Clic point of a kst18 ,pressed to my manner. Hyeon made an attetupt to, them; a stockade of bea•utifuily poli -
throat, warned me to cease my strug- defend the narrow passage leading to;
shed ebony rails was planted all round
gies, The night was so dark that I his cabin, and 1 heard a scuffle, and il, the framework of the door was
had been unable hitherto to recognize his voice shouting for aesistanc0. formed by two elephant's tusks sunk
my assailants; but as my eyes became There was none to assist, however, and so the ground oat eaahi side and meet_
accustomed to the gloom, and the he was brought on to the poop with ing at the top, an& the apertura was
move broke out through the clouds the blood streaming from a deep closed by a screen of native cloth
that obscured 11, 1 made out that I cut in his forehead. Ile was gagged t richly embroidered with gold. We
was eurruunded by the two negro sail- like the others, and a council was held made aur way to this imposing-laok-
ors, the black 000k, and my fellow- upon our fate by the negroes. I saw ing strunture, but, on reaching the
passenger, Goring. Another man our black seamen pointing toward me opening in the staokade, the multi -
was crouching on the deck at my and making some statement, which ludo stopped and squatted down up -
feet, but La was in the shadow and I was received with murmurs of aston- an their hams, wh le I was led La ough
could not recognize him. ishment and incredulity by the sate- into the inclosure by a few of the
All this occurred so raptaly that a ages. One al them then Cama over. to chiefs and elders of the tribe, Goring
minute could hardly have elapsed from me, and plunging bis hand into my (accompanying us, and in fact direct -
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SOME INTERESTING LETTERS FROM
TOMMY ATKINS.
!Weise' Waters 'fell or holdouts of talc
Italtl(—tiaallahnten Who Are 1r1111
ltnleli Wttl d. Sergeant.
Writing 10 hle parents in 17xeter,'
One, Of tate volunteers attached to the
Devuushire Regiment, •uuder'Buller's
command, says —'
if some of the Exeter people
could only see the fortifications and
entrenchments of the Boers, they
would never think of oritieizing Bul-
ler or his reverses, but would rattier
wonder how he got through. We
saw all the armoured trains just as
they were kuuakeel off the hues, end.
this graves very Ouse by. Haven't.
the Bennis got u uume in Ladysmith!.
The people there can't say enough in
their favour. , , , When we stop-
ped at Newcastle we went into the
!rouse of the manager of the coal pits.
There was not a thing left whole in.
the plane. A piano in one room Was
smashed t0 pieces ; the Boers had even
knocked out the grates` and smash-
Lhe time ImuunLel the companion un- pocket, took out my
til I found myself gagged and power_ held it up. He then handed it to a
less. It was so sudden that I could man who appeared to be a chief, who
scarce bring myself to realize it, or to examined it as minutely as the light
comprehend what it all meant. I would permit, and muttering a few
heard the gang round me speaking in words, passed it on to the warrior be -
short, fierce whispers to each other,
and some instinct told nee that my life
was the question at issue. Goring
spoke auLhoritutively and angrily—the
others doggedly and all together, as
if disputing his commands. Then
Grey moved away in a body to the
opposite aide of the desk, where I
could still hear them whispering,
thuugh they were eoncoaied from my
vieee by Ire saloon skylights.
All this time the vetoes of the Watch relief ; the group of dusky warriors
on deck chatting and laughing at the leaning on their spears ;the dead man
other end of the ship were distinctly at my feet; the line of white-faced
audible, and I could see them gather- prisoners, and in front of me the loath-
ed in a group, little dreaming of the some half -treed, looking, in his white
aide him, who also scrutinized it and
passed it on until it had gone dram
hand to hand round' the whole circle.
The •chief then said a few words to
Coring in the native tongue, on which
the quadroon addressed me in En-
glish. At this moment I seem to
see the scene. The tall masts of the
ship with the moonlight streaming
dawn, silvering the yards and bring-
ing the network of cordage into hard
dark doings which were going on
within thirty yards of them. Oh,
that T could have given them
one word of warning, even though I
bad lost my life in doing it l Bat it
was impossible. The moon was shin-
ing fitfully through the scattered
clouds, and I could see the silvery
gleam of the surge, and beyond it the
vast, weird desert with its tantastio
Band -bills. Glancing down, 1 saw
Ibat the men who had been crouching
linen and elegant clothes, a strange
contrast to his associates.
"You will bear me witness," he said
in his softest accent, "that I am no
party to sparing your life. If it rest-
ed with me you would die as these oth-
er men are about to do. I have no
personal grudge against either you or
them, but I have devoted my life to
the destruction of the( white race, and
you are the first that bas ever been
in my power and has escaped me.
You may thank that stone of yours
ung the proceedings. On reaching
the screenwhich closed the temple—
for such it evidently was—my that and
my shoes were removed, and I was
then led in, a venerable old negro
leading the way, carrying 1n his hand.
my atone, which had been taken from
my pocket,. The building was only
lighted up by a few long slits in the
roof, through' which the tropical sun
poured, throwing broad golden bars
upon the clay floor, alternating with
intervals of darkness. The interior
was even larger than one would have
imagined from the outside appear-
ance. The wails were hung with
native mats, shells, and other orna-
ments, but the remainder of the great
space was quite empty, with the ex-
ception o2 a single object in the
canter. This was the figure of a colos-
sal negro, which 1 at first thought
to he some zeal king or; high' priest
of titanic size, but as I approached it
I saes, by the way in which the ligbt
was reflected from, 61 that it was 0
statue admirably cut in jet-black
stone. I was led, up to this, idol, for
such it seemed to be, and: looking, at
11 closer, I saw that though it was
perfect in every other respect, one
of its ears had been broken short oLf.
The gray-haired negro who held my
relic mounted upon a small stool, and
on the deck was still lying there, and stretching up his arm, fitted Martha's
£or your life. Those poor fel-
as I gazed at him, a flickering ray black stone oat to the jagged surface
of [moonlight fell upon his upturned lows reverence it, and, tn- en the side of the statue's bead. Mere
face. Great Heaven! even now, deed, if it, rattily be what' they, think could not be a doubt that the ane
when more than twelve years have it is, they rave cause, Should itpzove hail been, broken oft from the other,
elapsed, sty hand trembles asI write
when we get ashore, that they. are The parts dovetailed together so ea -
mistaken, and that its shape and
that, in spite of distorted features and curutely that when the old mans re -
projecting eyes, 1 recognized the face material is a mere chance, nothing! moved hie, hand the' ear stuck in its
of Barton, the cheer young clerk , can save your life. In the uteantima
y y place for a few secande before drop -
we wish to treat you well, sot it, there
who had been my companion during; plug into his open palm. The group
h
the voyage. rt needed no medical; are any of "lir possessions which; you. round me prostrated themselves upon
eye .to see tbett he was quite dead,
would like to take with you, you aro
while the twisted handkerchief round' at liberty to get them." As ;he eintsh-
the neck and the gag in his mouth 1 0d, he gave a sign, and a couple of
showed the silent way in which the ' the ,negroes unbound me, though with -
hell -hounds had done their work. The out removing the gag. 1 was led
clew which explained every event of I down into the cabin, where 1 put a
Our voyage came upon me like a flash few valuables into my pockets, to-
ot light as I gazed on poor Harton's gather wish a pocket:campusa and
corpse. Much was dark and them my journal of the voyage. They then town im triumph, the people pressing
elttiued, but I felt a groat dim per pushed me over the side into a small forward to touch my clotting and to
cepticn of the truth, canoe, wnich was lying beside the gather up the dust on whtdle my foot
1 heard the striking of a match at large one, ands my guards followed
had trod. ule
One at the largest huts
the other side of the skylight, ,and nee, and' sboving off, began paddling
was put at disposal, and, aItban-
then I saw the tall, gaunt figure of for the, shore. We had got about a
quer of every native •delicacy was
patched over the knees. The Surreys
are beside us, and the West and East
Surreys, Devons and West Yorks form
a brigade under General 11Udyard
The Boer prisoners here refuse
bo believe that General Cronje is cap-
tured.
ENGLISHMEN WITH CROIJLe.
Private 1. Byrne, 2nd Gloucester(,
who formed the esoort of Oronje's
army from Paardeberg to Klip Drift,
writes ;—
There were plenty of Englabmen
among them. They told us they
were commandeered to fight for the
Boers. Any way, they had plenty
of tobacco and we had none, having
used it all since we left the Modder.
Sb our chaps helped themselves to the
Boers' tobacco and we had a good
smoke again, thanks to tho enemy.
the ground at the sight with a ory
of revorenoe, while the crowd oat -
aide, to whom the result was con-
mu.nioaled, set up a wildwhooping
and cheering.
In a moment I Lound myself con-
verted from a prisoner into a demt-
god, I was escorted bunk through the
Goring standing up on the bulwarks
and bolding in his hands what appear-
ed to be a dark -lantern. He loeeted
this for a moment over the side of
the ship, and, to my inexpressible as-
tonishment Isaw it li.nswered inetaa-
taneouely by a flash among.
the sand-hille on shore, which
Teel Anwelnr as ;seat pus gmuo
unless I hart' been following the dir-
ection of Goring's gaze S should never
have detected 11. Again he lowered
the lantern, end again it was answer-
ed from the shore. He then stepped
down from the bulwarks, and in doing
eo slippers, making such a noise, that
for a moment mg heart bound..
ed with the thought that
the attention of -the watch would be
hundred yards or so from the ehip served m°. I still loft, however, that
when one eteerman held up his hand
and the paddlers paused for a moment
and listened. Then, on the silence of
the eight I heart(a aort ot dull, moan -
ung sound, followed by a suacosston of
splashes in the water. That is all I
know of the fate of my p005 shlpmal 61,
Almost immediately afterward the
large canoe followed us, and the de-
serted ship was left drifting about
--a dreary, specter -like hulk; Nothung
was taken: from ,her by the( savages.
Tike whole fbondisb, transaction was
parried through as denoronely and
temperately es though it were a ree
itgious rile.
The first gray of daylight was vett-
I was not a free man, as several
apearmen were placed as a guard at
the entrance of my, huh. All day
my mind, was attempted with, plans 08
escape, but none seemed. in any; way
fenasuble. On the one side was the
great arid desert stretching away to
Timhuetoo, on the other wee a sea un-
treversed by vessels. The more I
pondered over the problem the more
hopeless did it, seem. I little dreamed
how, near I was to ate solation,
To be Continued.
A new twoeroom Public school is to
be erected la the South Ward of
btey in the °est as we.passed through Paris.
delaPh°d or duty as mounted order.,
1y to General Herten, writing ds'ogl
Umbultlwatlt Dfatlntain, thus otitis
eises the markepzansltip of the 'enc-
rny 1-
If they were what they are reputed
to be—good shuts --I should be (load
now, About fifty of them fired as
fast as they retold at two of us one',
day while we galloped about it wile
and a half. 1 know that a mounted
man is hard to tit, but L should have
expected one out of the fifty to have
done something -although, of course;,
I am glad it did not happen,
"A RAGGED -MINDED BEGGAR."
Private Albert Pearce, '2nd Bat-
talion Somerset Light hifaniry, writ-
ing from I{opper's Kop, Natal, says:
I am cafe and sound, only. I am alt,
in rage. I have had only one still of
khaki issued to me as yet, and if you
could only 'see' MO now, instead of
being the absent-minded beggar you
would call me the rugged -minded bog-,
gar because I am all in patches. You
heard long ago about our regiment
being in action, We had it stiff for
about five hours. I was in the firing
line, popping off every time we saw
a head. I cannot say whether I shot
any or not, but I tired 180 rounds of
ammunition at thein, I think the
hardest work is past, and I hope to
be en route to old England by the
end of May.
IN DEFENCE OF THE GENERALS.
I believe everyone in England was
pleased when Kimberley was relieved,
Cronje surrendered, and Ladysmith
was relieved; all within a few deys of
each other. I see that there were
speeches and flogs from the Mansion
House and processions all over Lon-
don. The people at home before that
time seemed to have lost confidence in
the Generals out here owing to their
not having rmsshed the Boors in a
week or two, buit I should hope that
they are finding out their mistake
now. They are the right men in the
right place out bare, though they
don't seem to aptireeiate them at
home. The English people here were
pleased when: we arrived. They had
bad five months' misery, and dare not
speak for fear of being imprisoned.
They turned out with colours flying
the day we marched in, and gave the
Tommies anything they wanted.
HER WORSE' FEARS CONFIRDIED.
I suppose, weld the woman who bad
sampled every kind of candy she could
reach by thrusting her arm over the
protective railing, and finally had
bargained for five cents' worth of
butterscotch, all this is adulterated.
You couldn't sell it so cheap if it
wasn't.
Yes, ma'am, returned the salesman,
solemnly, it's adulterated. That but-
tersootoh you're getting, for instance,
has mighty little butter and not a
bit of Sootoh.
HOW A SERGEANT SAVED THE
POSITION.
Sergeant Baker, of the King's Royal,
Rifles, writing home from Elands
laagte, says the final operations for
Ilia relief of Ladysmith entailed the
hardest fourteen days' fighting ever
known. At the Vaal Krantz fight
the Boers gave the English signal to
retire, buil a sergeant rallied the men
and charged the Boers, driving them
back. 'He was thanked by the offi-
sere afterwards for saving the posi-
tion, and the next morning he was
taken before the commanding offi-
cer, who shook hands with him, and
said he was proud to have such a
non-commissioned officer in the bat-
talion. Majuba Day was a day never
to be forgotten by British or Boer
soldiers. It was just as if someone
was whispering "Give them Majubal"
The artillery, and especially the big
guns, seemed as If they could not
make a mistake with their shells, and
at five o'clock, when the charge took
place, everybody went mad for a few
minutes.
THE BATTLE OF WAGGON HILL.
In a letter from Ladysmith Private
Darling, of the 1st Glouoastera (In-
dian contingent), writing of the Boer
assault on Gadyamitb, says :—
The enemy, numbering about twen-
ty to one, very nearly took Waggon
Hill, on amount of the Volunteers
being slack on outpost duty. They
challenged the enemy at Piety yards'
distance, and they ware shot dead—
the whole of them. One old chap -
1 should think be was sixty years oe
age—was lying by the side of a rock,
and he picked off fourteen ot our men.
One of our• officers sent two men to
the right flank to try and find him{
He was soon spotted, and they both
had snapshots at him and shot him
dead. When they got up to him they
found he had two bags of ammuni-
tion. We were all taken by surprise
that night,
A BOER BABY IN A BLANKET.
Writing of the battle of Pieter's
Hill, preceding Lhe relief, oe Lady-
smith, Gunner 3. Stivahuombe, of the
4th Mountain Battery, Royal Gar-
rison Artillery, says that white the
infantry were burying the 'Boers
killed in Lhe engagement they found
several dead women ib the trenches,
and even picked up a baby wrapped
up in a blanket, whioh had been left
on the battlefield. "it was alive at
the time, and i think it (s still alive
at the time of writing, it being un-
injured. 1 am sure you will admit
Lealwelt things as this makes the
enemy appear more tike savages than
civilized' people. Fancy keeping
women ,and children bn lho trenches
while a big battle is proceeding 1"
THE 1301113S AS MAltKSllllN.
Trooper W. hawker, 1,41h hussars,
MOST SAVAGE ,ON EARTH.
s'ng, wit# an enet'gy which had :bathed
theme in porepiruliou. Neat to i:boln
come three of the °biefs,followed by
A . hundred warriors, whale around was
a.orawd of at least 1,000 women. The
chiefs would go, on for b0 yards or so
While the tightislg men belted behind,
"Then the flag -bearer would wave
thus bonnet' round like Pee pose0ased,
its if his "s hiebt one Lo knoalii the
beads off' all bystanders, while the
fighting men rushed up at a run, and
ilia women kept up a' wild tumult
around, Thee this eves gone ail
over again, wiolle the onlookers went
Pato a Erensy, dancing and, chant-
ing like mad,'
WEIGHED DOWN W1'P11 .GOLD
AXJQRNMENTS.
So rich• in gold are these elllefs that
same ot ahem wear bracelets of this
procioun metal—in such quaniiy and
such weight that frtau time Lo time
they are 'oeliged, to rest: their anal(
•upon the heady of (levee. The King .e
pcisnessed aI a stool of gbh! that he
ever vows to wash in the 'blood .of Itis
enemies whenever his nation goes to
war; and at the end oft the last cam-
paign LordWolseleyee army got rich
simile in the shape of masks and other
ourtous relics of beaten gold,
Another curious thing about the
Ashantees is the manner in winch
the throne descends upon the decease
of a King, Instead of becoming the
right of his owe, issue it falls, totbis
eldest brother, and tailing a claimant
of this character goes to the eldest
son of his sister, Then, also, when
Kings or members ot the royal family
die they are put in silting., posture
and linked together by bands of gold.
Only the well-to-do Ashenleos make
any attempt at dressing.
THE UMBRELLA AS A BADGE O11'
RANK.
An' umbrella is the dietinative rank
of a great noble who is better cloth-
ed than a mere chief, and rides on
barseback. The chiefs also generally
parry an ivory staff carved epirally,
The common mea are almost naked
and carry several knives fastened in
a kind of necklace.
For weapons in the teat war the
chiefs carried a bow and quiver of
porsaned arrows, while those com-
mon men who were not fortunate
enough to possess a red -stocked mus-
ket'used also to resort to these. What
mercenary smuggling traders may
have sold them since .then it is to be
hoped we may not be forced to find
out.
The droadfue• reli twit of these peo-
ple, wht_h weal &_amerly to ta .or the
shedding, with unheard-of cruelty,
of so much bumau blood, was founded
'upon a wild idea of piety toward rela-
tions and other connections, the
Maids fancying that the rank of
their dead relatives in -the future
world was measured by the uumbar of
attendants sent alter them. To .get
victims for; these sacrifices periodical
raids were made on the coast towns
from whish great numbers of mem
and women were carried off.
3,393 WIVES.
Polygamy is another of the orimes
thiat was iadmlged in by this awful
raoe of people, some Kings having had
as many as 3,333 wives; but many of
these were employed as givards or rn
menial positions.
In the last Ashuntee war the great-
est
reatest dufficudty our troaps 'head to cone
Lend with was an absolute lack of
roads, while they suffered much from
the heat and: fevers of the country.
-- �---_
THE HUMAN BODY.
FRO11
SCOTLAND.
NEWS FROM THE HIGHLANDS_
AND LOWLANDS.
L4Ld4 , R
hin s That Happen to Inter-
est the Minds or Auld
Scotia's Sons,
Uragganpnpre Haase, Ballandalloob,
thc of 1115. Gordon smith,
distiller, was completely destreyedby.
fire.
Mr, Charles Cayzer, father of Sir
Charles Cayzer, M•;l'., of the Clan
line, Glasgow, died at his London reel-'
hence at the age of 92.
Damage estimated at 350,000 was
caused by fire wlidnh broke Dal in the
bottling and bonded stores of Andrew
Usher & Co., Edinburgh.
Mr. William Whtielaw,, Ranting-
towea', Perth,has succeeded Lord
March itt the Deputy ohatemauship
of the Hiighle,nd Ruiinway Company,
The death oorun•red at Leesido of
Mr. Geos Landies Paulin, manager of
the Tweed S'alo:ion Fishing Company.
si Beiwtuk. Deceased was aged G2.
'Ir. Da'vtd Be Glordan, Lauriston
street, Greenock, has been appointed
inspector under the "Sale of Food and
Drug° Aoie." 1 :
The Bank of Scotland's net waits
f.or the past year amounted to £193,-
696 14s. 8d., out of.whlbch the ddreaters
propose to pay a dividend for theaast
half year of 12 per cent.
Damage to the extent of £10,000was
dome by a fire it Feiss Wind, Perth,
The building destroyed was °coupled
by MrCash &o s, n merchants,
and Stevenson &SmnSons,graiboxmakers.
It le. announced that Sir William
Muir, K. C. a I„ will shortly retire
from the prbncipalehip of Edinburgh
University, and that Prof. Flint or
Prod. Botcher will be appointed to the
past, ' t
Andrew MacDonald, Sheriff -Clerk,
has .received the commission signed
by Her Majesty appointing Mr. C. N.
Johnston, MA., aclvoaate. Sheriff of
the Counties of Inverness, Elgin, and
Nairn.
Sir Douglas Maclagan, recently
Professor of Medical Jurisprudence.
:and Public Hea.ltb in the University
of Edinburgh, died in the city on the
6th inst., in his 88th year. He was a
native ot Ayr.
Mr. Join Boa, .who has tor several
years acted as' Assistant inspector of •
Poor ,and collector of rates for, the
parish of Gltlrloeh,' has been appoint-
ed to an important Government sit-
uation in Cape Town.
In the Court of Session 'Mr. John
Paterson, Ir., Lengsade, has been
awarded £680 against the Caledonian
Railway Company as compensation
for injuries sustained 'at the Central
Station. last August.
The death took place of Mr. Stuart
Clink, J.P., : Stirling, who was for
many years actively identified with
friendly society work, being treasurer
of the Denny District of. Foresters and
for about 20 years secretary of the
°Sit. Ninian's Court. •
The income of the United Presby-
terian Church of Scotland last year
from all sources was 3392,116, as cons -
pared with 3423,106 in the previous
twelve months. Whist is termed the
ordinary income was £88,749, as
against £111,489 in 1898-99.
According to the most recent stat-
istics Glasgow, the "second city," is an
easy first in, the:matter of drunketf-
ness. Police . repoiI s show than it is
five tunes worse then Liverpool, and
Liveprool is„ gaoarally regarded us
7Lnglanees "black spat" in this respect.
Some 550 trawlers arrived al Aber-
deen anarket recently web a large
catch of fish. A good .many of the
vessels could not got ber',,,,t al which
to discharge their reticles, and not
a fens left for other ports, but the
total que+niity landed wits 278( tons,
A beautiful memorial marble bablot
hate just been placed in the vestibule
of the United Presbyterian Church,
Girvan, by his relatives as a. memorial
of the late Dr. Sl:illie, who for 33
years WAS minister of the ootigrsga-
tion and resigned on account of fail-
ing health.'
Two wivet of Gordon Il,ighllandors
halo given birth in Edinburgh Lo a
son in One 01150 and a daughter! in the
other. The son has been christened
John Frederick Roberts Hector Arahl-
ASHANTEES NOW COMPLICATE AF-
FAIRS IN SOUTH AFRICA.
lieorndly of Thelr Crimes and Revolting
Cudrnlne (tender 111e .lehaatece. ilio
(Hail hood Thirdly 115°0 'flint Wert,
Meer Fought by Waite Men. .
With rumors, in the air, and the
possibility a4' an outbreak in Ashen -
tee a 000101•.ty that has nowt remained
in peaceful subjection for over a
quarter of a century, Great Britain
will have to deal with n race of sav-
ages whose) barbarities ba the past
have been of a character unique even
in the annals otO savage nations.
The enormity of their crimes, and
the revolting awfulness of the cus-
toms praoticed by these people, might
shook even, the sburdiesi, and an, ex-
cellent appreciation' of these may be
gauped when one learns that when
England' last made war upon them
they had bean im the habit( of, aeon -
Doing on an average nearly 3,100
human lives each year upon the altar
of a ghastly horrible religion. This
little item of itself should give civi-
lized nations eomething Le shudder
at and dwell upon•
Ashantee, as all stedents of buttery
and geography, know, has smuggled in
the under ooast of the soled, bodyi 08
Upper Africa, and citue south of; the
Soudan and the Great Sahara Desert.
Tha Ring, tau'ugn recognised as a
demigod, and allowed to celery on af-
fairs that would (mane under the head
of ardunary aTmtinistration, when It
comes to a mutter of peace or war,
has to consult these chiefs or Cape
tams, who are known rte eaboceers,
and the aounoil it is tbal. decides.
BARBARIC POMP AND SPLISNDOE,
Each of the oabooeers has a little
eou•ri, a•ndi retinue of his awn; winch
he curries eta with a deploy all bar-
barto pomp, only exceeded in its pi'0-
fuslveness byt the Ring's. As, for in -
statute, when In the lass: war aoouucil
of these elude, who wore friendly, was
held, their advance was described to
this fashion by an eyewitness:
"In trout of the cortege came a man
with a large yellow flag, while in the
center were two black figures, follow-
ung those were two men with tom•
tome and four mon who beat pieces of
irul, ngoinst otter pieces of iron,
s, imewitai' in the form of bells. Trees
six men kept up a tremendous beat -
It. le Cntupeted of .11llllens er Anlnmle
Welded Together. •
'iTIa rather a creepy piece of news
to hear from the scieatiste that one's
body is not, as most of us think, a
aingle animal, but is actually made
up of something like Len millions of
milldone of animals all welded togeth-
er, and helping aaah ether to live.
In other words, our bodies are com-
posed of myriads of little masses of
protoplasms, called Dells, each having
a distinct and Independent life, of its
own, Times cells are really very simi-
lar eo the tiny little animaloulae that
one Cede in ponds and in every pool
•of stagnant walor. elf you get one
of them under a microscope you will
see that it is a little mass of jelly
which is continually sending out feel -
era for food, and if ie meets with a
particle of anything 11 engulfs it.
But in the human body the masses
of jelly are each surrounded by a
dense envelope, so that they have no
power to put out feelers. They are of
different ehap•es in the muscles, lungs,
liver, intestines, brain and elsewhere bald dtacdnaa.ld 'Thompson, and the
and each does a certain part of the girl Francis Antonia Ladysmith 'Iain-
body's work—that is to say, there is elmere. •
division ot labor. A went, or two since, a nutter and
The blood brings thorn all food, and eleven men 1081 H.M.S, "Severn" for
curiously. the blood ooniains a num- the shore. It was blowing a full gale,
her of the abimalr.uinie you find in and the boort, not having returned Ler
poaids, which forage for themselves, the ship at one o'clock the next mom -
Every one of these cells is a living ing searehlighis were turned round
animal But the fat and bone of the
body contain none of them, for ties°
are really lifeless substances. On the
other hand, the muscles, nerves, heart
lungs, skin and every living part con-
sists entirely of thein.
Every woman likes to talk 013 the
"gray monotony" of her life.
Hugh McDonald, of Si. Helen's; us
now teaching school ite Manitoba.
the harbour, There was no truce of
the bout, but the raven wore disroveree
tut daylight huddled together on the
shore at Bressay where they had
spent MA night in the bitter valet
without shelter, The • boat .was ree-
nact be ire (orae of the •isthmi on the
rocks°and smashed, The tnen were
taken on board the "(Severn" end ear-
ed for.
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