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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1900-01-04, Page 7BRITISR SIIELL BOE llama been laid. enebling theaguna to by undergrotilid pessegoi. Trettetveys be shifted w,ith atitozaithing• rapidity, te All tbis indicates that diecielite has conquered the Boers' f manual labour. Their ammunitete has also impel:Wed tinstish Destroy a Boer House .a iaalettra.lite• Their shells now buret Magersfoutein. Boer. ShaiTsItooters Had Been Picking Of Our Soldiets--gnemy's Trenches Moved Nearer -4- . Boers Shell the Camp—,A. Correspondent Gets Into Mafelcing—Bluejackets Hunt the Boers With Shells. A despatch from beodder River, says: selves of the opportunity, It would -A reconneissance by the Britisb hee been better if the au,thorities had o owed Lord Kitchener's exarle Monday morning drew out a heavier Atbara bri Igo. artillery fire than has beim experienc- ed since the Boera occupied Meters - HAVE THE EXACT BARGE. The War Office has received the fol- fontein. The Britisb bad deteneined to idea lewing I'meateb. frees Cape TOwn, dated December 25:- stroy a house on, the bank of the river "There is no obange in the situation that the Boers were using aa 0.sholter efodder refer, Gen. Methuen is well entrenched and the Boers have not die - from which their sharpeitooters picked turbo L km." off incautious Braise soldiers. A 'dodder river despatch says: "Tbe ...At dawn the 12 -pounders and the 4.7- British, artillery fired four shots from inoh lyddite gen, with three waggons, 4.7 -inch, guns Tuesday morning. There escorted by the 12th Lancers, moved was lee response frona the Boers. alum° the. British artillery lias proved mom out to attack tb,e Doer lines in front of ceawle01 the.Boere ana trying to Don- nie kopjes. The waggons were fasten- P* ocation ot then; guns, and are ed behind the rivex bank. waiting for the Britieb, to get within As soon as the British were seen bY rifle rang^e. All permits to pass pick - the Boers thee opened fire'uptin thein. ets have been cancelled. t„ market There wes eparty of Boers stationed has been established et t e olilrkth line a pickets, where b ttehe, m wear& from the well, near Clinger's vegetables are allowued tte bez ao'Ida're cottage. A detachment enamor* at- lieensed -farmers." taoked theme but they scattered un- LORD STANLEY OFFERS. harmed. A. despatcb from London, says: - Lord Stanley, Member of Parliament: The Boers worked another gun frona for West Houghton division of Lance - the railway trace to the north, shire, bas been ordered to join Lord Altogether they had four guns, be- Roberts' staff forthrwith. •Lord Stan - sides two quick -firers. These gum ley, Edward George Villiers, is the eld- were mostly-mountedeleyondathe crest est son of the sixteenth Bail of Derby, of the kopje. The heaviest fire was and is 31 years of age, directed' against the Lancers. Mr. . Lionel Walter Rothsehild, The object of the reconnaissance was unionist member of Parliament for s,macessenue carried out, the house 011 the A.yks'bury chviston of Buckinghero- the bank being blown up, creating a shire, eldest son of the first Baron great dust. Rothschild, and the latter's heir, has The Boers fired few shots .after- °Aso volonteered for service' in South wards, but the British made no reply. Africa. He was born in 1868, and is Foto. of the horses of the •Lencers unraarried. were hit by a shell. None a themen were hurt. The enemy have • brought' their The War Office bave mewed the trenches a thoueand yards nearer to' following from Gen. Forestier -Walker the British lines since the tepulse of at Cape Town :-.. the English at Magersfontein. "Gen. Otitecre reports that a force The reconnaissance established the of 150 police have occupied Dordrecht, fact that they haee not advancedinapy -the Boers retreafing, witb no loss." of their guns. Their vanishing gun is . The occupation of Dordrecht by 11a - nearest the British lines. jor Dalgety's force. of Mounted Police,. :who' are co-operating With Gen. Gat - BLUEJACKETS AND BOERe. ' acre, is ;treated by some of thee news - Our leuejaLkets have been stirring papers as being of considemble • im- up the Boers the last few days with portance, but 2aotfiing is known beyend their big gun and some 12 -pounders. the bald official announ.cenaent of the They aend them a reveille at halepast. faot. four o'clock in the morning with a - . couple of shots from the big gun, they . DELAGOA; BAY. '- interrupt their dinner with a few shots from the Lerd Somerset writes to the ,London 12 -pounders, and onsaa Times, urging the seizure of Lorenzo sionally they give them a few lyddite Marques and its retention, it. neces- shells in the afternoon. At the clese sary, until the end. of the War, in or - of the day they seed good -night and der te Prevent the landing* df war ma - beret ebrapnel into their trenches. terial for the Roers. • That all this greatly disturbs the. , The Tiinese in a special article,: dise• eeemy is evident from. the way in (sussing the intetnational law aspects' which they are seen rushing aboet. of Boer iniportatioits. through teeing,* They eo not reply, hoWever, which is Ito; says: - a disappointment, as a sleet from their eWere we to adopt, either vidth guns would reveal their position anti without .the consent of Foreign', the give the bluejackets a chance to smash drastic measures which • are se airily suggested in some quarters we might The enemy are not Showing them- . find ourselves suddenly bonfronted selves mech./. A few have been Men with international complications. far _ moving about at the base of the kopjes• moyeaserious and injurioui to the sue; where our last battle was fought. Some cetsful prosecution of the South Afria THE BOERS RETREATED,. ERUGEIVe PRICE FOR PEACE/ A despateh from Durban, Natal, sayin-seer. Wiuston Chamblee, on ar- riving' here atter bis escape. from the Boers, received a tremendous ovation. Ile says that from convereation with members of the Transvaal Exeoutive at Pretoria, he learned that the Boers began the war with/ trepidation, but that President Kreger is new confident that Britain, will soon Met for peace. r In the blehest Tr,ansve.al aroles, kir. Cberchill amerts, there is serloua talk of a compromise, by wItich Greati Brie tale would cede the territory new or-. (settled by the armlet& of the two Re.. publics, pay an inderatilty of £20,000,-. 000, and aoknowledge the complete In. dependence of the Transvaal. i • A BRITISH DESERTER. A' despatcli frora Cape Town, says:-, A' main named Gseen, a former serge- ent-mejor a the British Balloon De- partment, is among the Boer prisionees cantered at Manersfoutein. Greeu, who deserted from Alderahot in 1893, &emitted he had been ,some time in the service of the noers and had Ma structed them in trenching:, ele, says there were 23 MO Boom at Mageessfora- • , tete, 21,000 of whoM were engaged the day of th.e battle. The Boer loeses, he also asserts, were very heavy, the trenahes being full of dead. Green further declares that if the attack had been pressed the Boers would have yielded, and says the Boer horses have to be taken to the Madder river, as water is an scarce at Mageestentete. • • GIRL PAYS DEATH -PENALTY. undo, ke intuged for the Murder or Her mist MN. A despatoh from Brandon, Mate, eays:-Emily Hilda Blake was hanged en Wednesday • morning. The drop fell at 8.40 a.m. She was perfectly calm as she walked up the scaffold steps, She wrotea letter to Chief. Kirkoal- dy on Christmas day, in. which site said: -"I have complied with 'your re- quest and written a cenfession. I did it yesterday, and do wish you had it, for I have to inard it so .closely. If anything esevents you coming up here to -morrow *I thee destroy it." The crime for whic.h Emily Hilda Blake was hanged was the deliberate and cold-blooded murder -of her 'mis- tress. Mrs. Robert Lane, of Brandon, on July 5th last. Mrs. Lane was found - lying with a bullet hole in hm breast, and the Blake girl gave the alarm, eag- le a tra d d dh tress. The whole country side waa scoured, and several tramps arrested, but the crime could not be tastened upon them. A revolver was found hidden near the house, and detectives discovered - that it had been purchased in Winni- peg by. a woman. .Hilda Blake was charged with being tbis woman, vviiere- upon she confessed the crime, saying she did it because she loved Pere. Lane's thildree, and was jealous of the mother's love. The trial was very brief, as she refused all offers of cone- sel, toad pleaded guilty. During con- finement in gaol she repeatedly ex - premeds her weal to die for the crime.' Petitions for a commutation of the sentence were ciatitlated at the last moment on the grounds that a new trial should be held, but the authoei- ties ruled there were no extenuating circurastances. of them were entrenching, others can war than the evils of witich it was _ seemingly being engaged in drill. As sought to secure an abatement." a rule, however, they stick close to their leaver. BOERS HAVE A 96 -POUNDER. IS A SCENE OF DESOLATION. .ae We dropped a lyddite shell into their A despatch from Modder River says: er• !eager on Tuesday. As it struck a kop- -The Boers have mounted a '96 -pound- - je, with the usual result of churning er to counterbalance the British pe- ep Motels of red earth, we could see -vat guns throwing lytidite shells. All men scurrying off in all directions of its shells bave thus far fallen short. - like a disturbed coloey of ants. I 8,000 BOERS IN RESERVE. -patrols go out daily, with 'the The London Daily News Cane ToWn object of inducing the Boers to show. 'corre.spondent says he learns froni themselves, but they fail to , draw welninformed Afrikander Bond sources them. that there is a reserve of 8,000 Euro - General Cronje has not fulfilled his an officers and teen at Preterite all threat to shift us if we did not shift tisT whom are skilled in modern tactics, ourselves within- forty-eight hours, tertioularly the landing of artil- Everyone here wishes he -would try. elm SORTIE FROM KIMBERLEY. ' MARCOeTPS SYSTEM IN WAR. A despatcb from Kimberley, Wednea- . A despatth from Cape Town sans: day, says :-At half -past two this --Experiments at Orange river with morning, mounted detachments, under the wireless telegraph system have C,ol. Peakman, with three Maxims and been meet successful. Perfect cornmun- three seven -pounders, under Major ication was maintained, with De Aar, May, reconnoitred. 70 miles•dista.nt. Leaving the entrenchments, the British advanced to Toll Pan. i The 7-7- . • Boer pickets fired, and our Maiims re- ENEetLYY IS AGGRESSIVE. . . . plied, the Boers disappearing. ever the ridge. ,The London Daily Chronicle's cares. , Our guns then began to Shell Toll pendent with General Methuen teae- Pan at a range ce 2,500 yarde. graphing ender eate December . 27;1 A Boer gun dropped four shells near auYe:- " .l our men, but did ne damage. As the "The enemy arinbeoombeg ;decidedly i Boers were strongly entrenched We aggressive. They shelled the British i withdrew. Their guns are well poitted. outeosts for three hours iteday with : A: WAR OFFICE DESPATCH. three well -masked guns; at a ramp of ; lowing despatch from Cape Town, dat- 6legrrlils'of the shells felt danger- - : TJae War' Office has received the fol. ed Tuesday : . ously near one of the British ree : " There Is no change in the situation. doubts." , Methuen reports that the enemy's 'CROINJE' F1NDS A MARE•S NEST. • force has increased and is eegaged in A despetch from Modder River, Dec.. entrenching three and a half miles ee, says :--Tilie Boers wasted a large from his outlying pickets. quantity of ammunition last alga.. "Methuen reoonnoitred with two They apparently thought that a cav- squadrons of mounted infantry for two alry- reconnoissence that was made miles along the Brie, and drew the ftre of four guns and two slickers machine yesterday morning Was the forerun - guns. Fout horses were hit. ner ef an attack in force, and, imagin- - " The Clues/vs Christmas massage bag fat *net 7 o'clock that 'the Britieh • was received with enthusiasm." were about to advance, the Boers. in GETS OTTO letAFEKING.• the forward trenches began firing in the direction of the outposts. Their A letter to the Pall Mall Gazette from Mafeking says: fusillade was harmiese . " Tbe hero of the hour is an Amerie The weather was boisterous and can: journalist of the nams of reason, who successfully accomplished a date ing ride from Cape TOWn up country through the Boer lines, and brings the first news from the outside which we have had." A despatch ta the Times from Iltrafe- king, says that Lady Sarah Wilson, aunt of the Duke of Marlborough, who was captured by the Boets while act. lng as eorrespondent of the London Daily Mail has arrived there, having been eta:hanged for Viljoen, a notor- ious horse thief and convIct. HOSTILE CAPn DUTCH, A special correspondent of the Lon - dot Daily Chronicle, telegrapiiing from Sterkstorm, *Cape Colony, Thursday, says: ' "Strong mem:tree are necessary to check the hostile, feeling among the Dutch coloniete, whose sedition is ahown in the reettend of relletay bolts, the obstruction of bridgea andcuiverts, and attacks upon solitary horsemen, Disaffection is bound to increase un- less immediate reinfOreements are forthdoming. The loyal Dutch and British settlere ate becoming alarming« • ly impatient" , PROCLAIMED A WARNING. rainy and the night Was dark, and in consequence it etas s,ome time before the Boers. learned thanno attack was meditated. Then the fire ceased. ta, reconnoissance by cavalry and ar- tillery in force, under Celonel Baiting - 'ton, was made this morning 'due west of Meader river station, where there are uplands where it was thought the Boers were likely to throw up defences. It was found that the enemy, held the country for a considerable distance to the westward of the railway. This Will make an attempt to turn their right flank almost impossible, owing to the great distance to he covered in a rough country where there is no water, METHUEN TO THE WA,11, OPPICE. Mite War Office has received a do- spatch this morning from CapeTown, dated Wednesday, December 27: - Methuen reports es follows: -"At 9•80 yesterday evening the Boers on the aouth side of Maggersfontein opened a heave fire for some timed Thie morn- ing the Naval Brigade fired at the metal at the west part of Magersfon- tein. The oavalry brigade is recon - mitring in a north-easterly' direction. "Lieut. Masters has made an ex- tended reconnaissanee westward and northward of Enslin and reports all A despatch from London, sayst-The well. The farmers were glad to see our Privy Council held a meeting on Wed• naen. They were suffertng from went nesday at Windsor castle, at, which of food. Queett Victoria procittinted a warning "I have eatabished a merket here, to all British subjects not to assist the where I can purchaae fresh railk, and En* State, or to Mil or transtiort vegetable& selling to the farmers tea tnerobaneise thereto, under penalty' of and other articles whiehlthey cannot the law. otherwise, purch4e. Heavy rain felll TIMES ATTACKS 'WAR OPPICE, last night.' , /The Londen Times editorially at. Gataere d French report na ehango in the situation. liaden-Powell Breporta all (well Deeember ,12; 130ER A.RMY DISCIPLINE. tacks the maradminietration og the War Offiee, calling attention to "eor. reepondence diaoloaing glaring de. feots," and declaring that the 13ritish The Loodon Daily Mall's correspond- orray is being managed for the benefit eat at PieterMaritnburg, declares that ' Of the War Office, dad not for tho lute the cheracter of the enmoa/130 haR thin. VneltilrOilik9f horse Mehl:test thrOwe jochiringg6dth7113o6rlig Thirc'Paark 6ffi°°r8 .eeitioreatied attention the question The Etritialt, he &lye, are no longer of the traneports awl the want of fighting a. avenge. foe,_but what is weggons, which may tie the British vapidly becoming a diseiplined arrair. force* to the railway& The Dally The Boers h&ve converted the hills Chronicle sayst. at Colenso into fortresses of iirtMentin "Plertry of waggons could be obtain. strength. Their trenches are exeel. ed from. the United State', belt the lently eonateueted, and many lof thorn Gententinterit, With Vers, indlecreet pee ere borethproot trintienr, baste refused to avail them,. Their mein pesitions ere tonneeted • • • Effect of tile Earthquake on ceehlmas nay at Sae Jacinto, tin. • A despatch from San Jacinto, Cal., sans :-This little city is a scene of de- solation. People are beginning to re- cover from the terror inspired, by the earthquake which centred here on Chriatmas morning and destroyed ev- ery brick building in thenown, and some definite estimate of the damage Wrought can now be Made. At the Sabola Indian reservation, near here, led:mace had been held the nigbt before, and large quantities of whiskey consumed by the Indians sent most of them into a drunken stupor before' the shock came. A, eumber of WOMB had huddled together in an old building, and were.sleeping off the effects of the liquor. The beavy walls felt in upon them, six being killed out- right. and two dying later, while a score or more were badly injured. Maio. street presents a remarkable a,ppearance It is impossible to walk along the sidewalks because of the maps of debris and. overeanging walls, Brick walls were razed to the level af the ground -with! thousands of dol- vaorth of merchandise burled un- derneath, There is not a business ho.use tn. town but has suffered. Elec- tric, wires are down, and some of tbe power -houses have fallen in. The walls of the Colony hospital were bad- ly damaired. • It is sant that rumblings bad been heard for several dap about Tequila peak in the San Jacinto range, sup- posed to be_ an extinct volcano, Be- tween Sae .Tacinto and Hemet geysers of hot sulphur water have appeared, and the ferries are so strong that no ono can get neer the geysers. . LB OW I1P A MISSION, HOUSE. 410=1•••11, Chinese Attestint to KIll a Whole tonne gatiou at Victoria, 1". A despatch from Victoria, says: -Chinese Chrietiart haters bave brought the war into the; camn of the Christians, Victoria was startled on Tuesday by the successful attenmt of Chinese to blew up the Methodist mis- sion -house there. Services were being held ht the time, but the wor- Atmore escaped, though the building was completely wrecked. It is supposed to be the work of Chine,* typees. Their ill-used slave girls were taken from them by proOess of law by the Methodists at Victoria and placed in the Rescue Home, where they are taught the English language and the Christian religion. It is be- lieved that the typees employed pro- fessional assassins te attempt the Murder of the entire congregation ot white and .Chinese Worshippers. A dynaraite bomb was used, a large fermi being attaohed. The police are already on the track of surepects, The Rev. Mr. Gardiner, the preacher at the miasion, married a Chinese woman, and wee marked for death a year ago for dieeloSing a highbindeee plot. MEECH RIFLES. The French War OffiCe ie rejoicing over a new civilizing Influence Whjobt may outde even our duro.dum It is a rifle, and experiments have proved. how, deadly a weapon it is. At 2,006 yards the bullet went right through a horse placed obliquely to the line of fire, the holies in the traok of the bend being ehockiney smash. ed. „. PLEASANT N'EIGLIBORS, Mrs. Cladd....Wiyaldnst it be grand IA atienee should discover the Moen( tObei inhabited, and hit on some way to talk with out lunar neighbors. tire. dabb-Indeed it would. They would he near 'enough to teak 10 yet net near enough to be running in et all hour* of the day, Yee ktieW." : CULLED ROI TIIE PRESS GOOD AND BAD THINGS SAID AsoFr ENGLAND AND THE WAR, WOK. Wee' Freed. wed Other ititorrit Savo to tatiocerathe Great litrilititt's ercatige and IN Illeeittons to lite War. Runk le at the gates ot India; the Germane will accommodate theemelvea perfectly with various Englitsh cols mem; Oa to Egypt, We Shall be able to /natal ourselves there very agree- ably, You say that all that is a lit - tie bit brutal. But what considera- tion need one bave towards a pirate nation, whose history is made solely by robberiee and spotiations .-Lo, France, Bordeaux. .1ma.••••, ENGLAND'S PRESTIGE. It is not for the tiltiandere alone that the Englisb are fighting, but for England'a Prestige in slither colonies and in the eyes oe the world. If the South African insurrection against the Daggett Crown had been tolerated, the whole. Empire would eave been menaced. And onaoe the English peo- Pie Understaud the war in. this light, they will know bow to find the means to attain their objeot.-Popolo Domino, Rome. )1,•••••••11•Mm FRANCE FOR VENGEANCE, The admirable bravery Of the Boers and the abnegation with Which they fight for their liberties and indepen- dence have aroused Europe to enthu- siasin, and more particularly France where the thirst for vengeance for the Fasboda incident is being awakened. Such eraotions frequently eemain ster- ile, but they sometimes lead to events of the utmost importance, and, that in why English statesmen, notwithstand- ing their self-confidence, should feel pome apprehension about what the future may have in store for them.* Vaterland, Vienna. • mm••••••••••• WISH FATHER'S THOUGHT, England's immense Empire may fall to pieces at any moknent. She- has Realest her throughout the world an amount of hatred only too justified and ill -win ao considerable, that the day when she meets wtth a reverse she will. find no one to assist and to defend her. On the contrary, it will be a question of who will be the first to foesake her end who will seize upon ' . L France, Bordeaux. .DANGEROtle AMUSEMENT. Messrs. Steyn and Kruger are amus- ing themselves by annexing British territory. They are welobrae to as much of it aa they; can keep.- -.Daily Gleaner, eamaica. • NOW BEING MADE. Lott of 'nape are being printed about the Transvaal, but those who want the real thing will de well to wait until England gives one out officially some ttme henoe.-Philadelphia Times. • eee- RAILWAY REGIMENT REQUIRED. If wars are alvISYS tobeavaked on railways, it is clear that a railway con* is a necessity to a modern army. For the ccuistruotion or repair of a line in front of an advancing army, as well as for the destruction of a line behind a retreating army, railWaymen are absolutely . necessary. - Railway I. , AN OBJECT' LESSON. • The difficulty which the British are experieneing, in conduotirig a war 5,000 miles awaY from home proves how im- possible it would be for any European power to Make important rates on dis- tant British colonies. England is secure as long as her naval supremacy is undisputed.-Militaer Revue, Vien- na. • 1, BRITAleeS SEA, POWER. ef thee defeats, sic, at Glencee and Ladysmith have not had any unpleate ant consequences for England; this is' owing . to the tranquility which at present prevails tbroughout tee vast British Einpire. There can be no doubt that. England is not up to the level of a military power of the continent, eut its naval superiority has once more been exemplified by the facility with welch she transports to South Africa tot army of nearly 60,000 men, while holeing strong fleets in readiness in all parts ef the world. et Ls to tials superiority that the English trust and go ou with their business, while a small army protects the mother coun- try and its colonies, or is employed up- on new conqueste-Fremd,enblatt, Vienna. HOW EUROPE SEES IT. The manner in whice the English nation receives the news from the front should serve as a lesson of the etmost importance to us , A great nation, a mighty empire, which has spread the folds of eta royal purple over the four cardinal points of the globe, over .all thel sees, and the continents, suffers defeat from. a mere handful of peasants, who are obstructing the civilizing work which old Albion is pursuing in Africa. And yet the English nation, whose Pres- tige has never 'been affected to such an extent from the times of the great Napoletni, has not risen against the Government, has not lost confidence in I h d, h 't, b f I lowing the ddvice of demagogues, created difficulties for its statesmen. -eileologos, Athens. --- • • NA.TAt DEMANDS ANNEXATION. Unless the Transvaal is annexed and the Dutch population prevented from exercising dominance, and Natal con- sulted for future arraagements, the empire will be disintegrated. Can- ada will start off to go to the 'United States and Australia will be deckle ing her independence. The I3oers must be deprived of representative goverrunent.-Natal Witnesa. TO A FINISH, L pure Dutch autonomy, after the war, is as inconceivable ulnae Eng- lish autonomy is impraotemble. Lord Salisburtee speech removes all fear that the British Government. is only half finishing the work in hand. -Cape Times. .*.as•N AMONG THE PO(At RELATIONS. The Triple Alliance has lived. It only exists upon paper. Germany, Russia and England are about to make a new one, which will diVide Africa anti Asia. It is sUperfluous -to add thatett thiti banquet of Omani we shall sit at the foot of the table, among the poor Deletions, and shalt only get the dishes •which the others do Mt want. We shall thus bave drunk the oup of shame and humiliation to the dregs.-- Ed. Drumont, in the Libre Parole. .61011.!•00 A.PTDICTitn WAIL It is' Most desirable that every op- portunity shOuld be taken to convince the Government of the undoubted feet that the nation would kitterly resent being deprived ot the legitimate fruits of victory. 11 expeets, and rightly ex. poet& the present Adminittration to take such order with the South African lie uhile that no each war as tite preeent will ever be preetott again. To lathe Me» out a ten the simple and obvious method of scouring this dertir. able result is by painting the A,fricati map red from Xirtaberley to Nelms. tie, and from. Tull to Aliwal North; and, to speak plainly witli anything lees than thla the nation will not be latiefiede..The London Letter, i 1 'WHEN WILL JAPAN STRIKER Both the Bowden and the Japanese Governments anxiously deny the re- ports that any °strain" exists in their relations. The denials deserve to bo recorded, as evidence that neither State yet fauelea itself quite readY, but they do not alter, the broad facts that the Japanese are exabitteeed againet Ruesia, that they are arming both ny fiCea and land, and that they openly proclaim their intention of se- eming' tlae advantagett of witiob after the war with China they were depriv- ed by Russia, Germany and France. Whether they will wait for a Euro - Peen comPtication, or anticipate events by attacking before the great Rus- sian railway is finisbed, is a seoreb still looked in the breasts of the grout* around tee Befkadot-London Spectator. DARING DEEDS OF BOYS. 1•••••• DUTIES Of' THE TRUMPETERS IN THE BRITISH ARMY. loloesriini414): ni:::::Irsol:lote-Age bleb BOYS Call ElillAt -TWO elutes. Sherlock, the gallent little Lancer trutipeter, whose recent exploit at Elandsinagte has talte.n England by storm, Is a /*eve of Canterbury, where his mother is now living. Ile joined Ins reginaent, the Oth Lancers, about eighteee. months ago in Natal, having been, sent out front the depot at Can- ter'bury, He is desoribed as a rosy- cheeked, healthy looking boy, and is a great favourite in the regiment. His exploit naturally gives rise to the query, "Is it possible. for a boy of fourteen to be on duty with les regi- ment oil active servicer It is, and the following lines will show how. According to the Army Regulations no boy can enlist as trumpeter under fourteen years of age. Ile is then put under tbe tharge of the pergeant- trumpeter, and provided he shewa average adaptability -to learn the different calls, is ih about four months' time competent to aot as- garrison trumpeter; in other words, he bas ac- quired the necessary calls for use M garrison, only. But he has yet nautsh fo learn, re6 nilarkii the London Mail. It will take him, as a rule, another four months before he haa thronghly mastered every • mill thet a trumpeter has to libun,d in garriama ane. on active ser- vice of which teeie are a huodired and f if ty. . PAN ENLIeT TiNDER 14, New, provided a boy enlisted at fourteen, this would bringi his age tip to nearly • fif teen before he could be eent• on active service. But there is another side of the question. The com- maeding officer can, give. nis consent under special cireumstances to a boy . enlisting under fourteen Take the case of a youngster- whose father is a trumpeter in the mgipaent. He was •born, and bred in barraeks; grown UP, as It were, a child of the regiment. of other then military life. he knowsPeetao 'cares. nothieth be knows eto music other than that of the. trumpet and - the bugle. What more natural, there- . fare, than that the bor seould imper- ceptibly learn the different garrison calls almost before he ceases to be en infasne and, if gifted with an ear for music, make rapid etrides towards his Ihneitii-rbtl'sowdoestirruem, petnatert r'of booming a It ' I 6 • 'the regulation .age for enlistmerit is not always strictly adhered to, and that -it ia possible for a boy of only fourteen to be eufficiently competent to take the field with his regiment, The duties of a cavalry trumpeter in action are woe, ed and dangerous, •Firet of all, not to Mention trempeters attached to bri- gade offieers, comes the commanding officer's trumpeter, whose -duty it is to follow that officer and be read* to sound any call requiree of him. Then there are the tioop trumpeters,•two to each troop, to which categore the Lan- cer boy probably belonged. , These closely follow the troop officers, and sound 'any call that may be required for the guidance of their particular 't"°P• e 'A. Goon TRUM1sETER, _eood trumpeter wet intuitively in- terpret his efecer's orders. A ges. ture, a motion ^of the hand, a move- ment of the lips will tell to the experi- enced trumpeter the call that is re- quired., in circumstances where the voice es of no avail. For it is obvious thati amid the 'noise. ane din 01 battle it( is impossible to trust to hearing. Cavalry and horse artillery tram-, peters are frequently called upon to carry a despatch or other message, a very bazardous duty; but Which,' to their credit be it said, is invarably ac- complished both with safety and ex- pedition:. Tbis duty is generally sup- posed lo be entrusted to staff officers and "gallopersr- bin: when, as often happens, the general officer command- ing finds himself with an urgent mes- sage to deliver, and all his gallopers absent an various errands, he is ocean . pelted to requisition the service of the humble trumpeter. Man.y hand -Le - band conflict hes the trumpeter to fight ma these momentous occasions, and he has to use his weapons to acme purpose. • On active service the trumpeter is armed with sword and revolver. All field calls beittg sounded Oh the bugle th b d. f b k calls, it is neceseary to carry both bugle and. trumpet. It is no doubt owing to this circumstance that 'the plucky little trumpeter of the 8th Lan- cers was referred to ea a "bugler?' The pay of the oavalry trumpeter is 2d. a day extta; thet of the Royal Horse Artillery being 9d. But, as the' cavalry trumpeter is alsa a member et the regimental band, generally a cor- net playera his pay, with extras, combs to about the same, in the end as that of his brother trunapeter of the R. H.- • PIGEONS ABE VALUABLE, *MOM MORE CERTAIN IN WARFARE THAN WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Mein Used Are Not ectuaily or me "ear. tier" Spetionetunion Minion lite par$1111Pla Was the Flno0 to Consider These neesengera. The fad that General White Man- aged recently to sand a dispa.tola from the beleagured town of Ladysmith to Durban by means of carrier pigeons mice More demonstrates the sex:lice that these birds may be in thee of war even in these clays of telegrapby, wireless mid otherwise. The attention of European nations -to "homing" or "carrier" pigeons as an adjunct to their armies may be mid to have first been excited in 1870, when, thanks to the existence of one or two societies for the flying and training of these birds in Paris during, the days of the siege, the inhaeitants of the city were able to communicate with their friends in. the country. The raethod adopted for the conveyance of these messages in imam so as not to impede the Jenks iu their flight was most ingenious, The mea- t:age:a were not allowed to exceed go words, and these were photographed to nalcrOscOplo ohaeacters on colloclion films, mob of which bore some hund- reds of these mease.ges, and as each pigeon could easily carry 10 or 12 films, about 20,000 or 30,000 messages could be sent at once, and.of these pbotographic enlargements were made when the birds arrived. at their des- tination and eistributed among tbose for whom they were intended. INCREASE IN LAND SALES. This „lite•Ir 'they Will Aggregate 410,003 Act...is-Receipts et -ire by $029,000. A despatch from Winnipeg, says: - This year's an te. 11. land sales have beela far in exeess, et those of last or any other year, and When' the, returns are made up at, the end of the week, the comMissiatter estimates that the Sales *ill aggregate 410,000 acres, for which the company will haver received 41,050,000, la 1898 the sales amount- ed to 348,000 acres, for which $1,121,- 000 was received, and in 1897 $065,000 was paid for about 208,000 acres. ta addition to the above figurest fer this year, the Canada North-West Lands Company% sale is approximated at 83,000 acres, the proceeds of which will total 8445,000. Last year the Can- ada North-West Lands Co. sold 71,000 neves for 2383,000. GROSS BUSINESS DON:04 When the sales of tOwnsites in which the 0,P.R., Company is interested4 and farm lands le British Celumbla ban- dled In, the Winnipeg trifle& are taken feta consideration, the gross business done by the railway company's land delatrinaent will total closely on two million dollar& t "*"16-1--: jPather-But oor boy is only 16 y ars old. What makea you think he lv lovet Mo (IOTA welshed hie 'neek this Morn( without being told to do so. • RUSSIA BEGA.N IT. The Met conntry to seriously turn its ettehtiOn to the utility pigeone in warfare was nussia, and experi- ments were made by a section et the Russian- En•gineers in training birds and flying the•m from fortress to forn . Oth • Id f II 1111.11, but it teas in Germany that the systematic training of these birda was first/ coramenced on a large scale. To- day, a sum a nearly 415,000 is annual- ly set aside ia the Gerinan army es- timates for the purpose of the military pigeon post, and every frontier forte ress is reported to be stocked with private v are carefully noted indi in the official records, so that call might be made upon:them es required in time of war. As was the case with the 'bicycle and. mane other innovations, Great Britain. lagged behind ber !continental neighbors for .many years in the met - tee of the trattring of pigeons for use • t• , •t ' •th• the last few years that the Intelligence Department at the British War• Of- fice has interested itself in this mat- ter, and even now it is oarxied out in a more or less • perfunctory' manner, it boieg considered that the bites would only be of service abroad. Many experiments have' been carried out, however, by• the naval authorities with regard, 'to tbe use: ot these pigeons in maintaining communication between tea- fleets around the coast and the shom, and these have, on the whole,: proved very. satisfactory. In India - the attention* of military men has for some time pest been devoted. to the training of these birds, and especial- ly. has this been the case in South Africa.,' where their utility has just been demonstrated. • • • NOT "CARRIER" PIGEONS. It may be mentioned( here that the pigeons used in this work are not' car- rier pigeone at all in the .u,sual sense of the word, for those birds are really unsuited for the work, ehe chief birds employed being of the "homer" variety. While societies for the breeding and imProlvement of pigeons exist in all countries, it is Belgium whicii produces the best birde The messages to be sent by the birds are usually attached to them in one of two ways, either to tbe under por- eion of the tail feathers or to one of their legs, .and by these means the birds cancerry long messages without being, unduly hampered by them. It is usual to send the same message be seveme birds • so that one, at least, is assured ot 'reaching. Its destinatien. Previous to the carriers. being sent off they are cat:fined ln the dark for at least eight or ten, hours, and are kept without food. When liberated the birds usually circle around their temporary horn° for some few' me - welts in aimless fashion, and then Bet ofe in the direotion of theneace from which they have berm brought, While they have been known te fly at the rate of 100 miles at), hoer, their usual speed is about a third of that. AN EVENiBAltrG.AIN. " Merriage," says a fair correspond - dee " in common With all the bless-. ings and evils of eine world; is gov- eined.by the laws of compensation. A men loses, possible, a ceitain amount of. Liberty -a vague . term, at beathe may, perhaps, have to deny himself his cigar,. and a few. other . unnecessary luxuries. He must, in short, be a little lesa elf centered than formerly, Vet are not his denials more than amply repaid by gaining e comforteble hem°, where he reigns paramount, where he is considered, loved and waited uPon at every seep? A.bove all, on securing a tender, syrap.athetio, (loving help- meet .always mady to sink into obliv- lott her own worries, and troubles,. to advise and cheer him Itt the daily fight to sympathise in trouble, to muse in illness and to transform bis very faults into virtues. Al1 this and more a man gains as a reward for it little self-:, denial and an increased responsible.' ity, and I say it is emphatically un- troe that men ' raek wedlock as atre. mendoaa andetost undoubtedly uneven bargain.' Don judge men by a few who, unwort to be husbands, them- selves, have b se disappointed in their wives, or by hose small-minded crea- tures who lack the faculty for seeing two sides of a question. No; marriage; where raan And wife are true to their calling, is an Undoubtedly even and profitable bargain. A SOA.PLESS COUNTRY. In ‚spite of British rule, India is vir- tually a sompless country. Through- out tee villages of Hindustan soap Is, indeed, regarded as a natural cur- iosity, and it Is rarely, if ever, kept in stoon, by the native shopkeeper. In the towns it ie now, sold to a certain extent, but how small •thia is, may be gathered, from the fact that the year- ly consumption of soap in India is about 100,000 hundted weight ; that is to say, every 2,600 persona use eit an average only 112 pounds ol soap am- ong them; or; in other words, con- siderably less than an ounce is the +Mirage consumption of a person, I BOERS SHOOT THE OFFICERS. It is an unwritten law of Poor war- fare to kill the enemy's officers, For this purpose the Boer commander gen-, erally seleete six of hit heat moire - men, and instructs them to shoot aim- ultaneously at the partiettlar officer in view, • • It1711/4/AllOVT HIGIMAYMEN. Did you get the money for that horse and buggy before you ia it go out? asked the proprieter of the livery stable; No, answered the employs. It's a mistake maid the preprietor. Ite look 'like it man who had moth tnonsi, but ha looked like a Man whet might have a good desel whin he beck. NAB' r TS OF TO HEM mf Niv8 IN , pom Prieee of Grain, Cattle, OMSK ir.e. in the Leading Marts. Toronto, Jan. 2. -Wheat- Outside markets were about etewly. Locally there was AO change:in the siteation. Trade is very dull. Red and w,hite On- tario in quoted alt 65 to 67o, according Leagnot,omtedime ill; goose wheal treights; and 1-2o, north and west; and sPring, east, 050. Manitoba& steady; No. 1 hard, g. et., 77o; and Toronto, and weals 70o; and track, Midland and Owen Sound, 78o, Flour -Dull and easy. Exponent bid e2.55 per Obi. for straight roller in MY- aerosk' boa2gaso,. middle freights; and heldere 10.1114.50iii.feewdo-Sst, came. Bran is quoted at 014 to $12,00, and phoets at 414 to Corn -Dull. 'No. 2, Ameriltan yellow, quoted. at 41o, traok, Toronto, and mix- ed at 40 1-2o. Canadian corn dull at 89 1-2 to 40o traok, Toronto. keas-t4uiet, Car lots are held at 57o, north and west, and at 58c, east. Export enquiry . Barley-Dema,nd, quiet. Car lots of No. 2, middle freigbts, sold at 38c; end No., 1 was quoted at 40c. Rye -Demand ligehats.t. Car lots, 49c west, end, 50c east. haaaneYhd da2n6W40,eqs ut e t 2. 5 W1-2ho t emidadtlses 12r5e°aBeigPutnellYwart:ent-Basy. Car lots, east, 49c asked, and west,. 48o asked, Oatmeal -Rolled oats, Ln bags, track, Toronto, 48.25, and in wood, 03.35 per ebb Chicago, Jan, Z. -The firmness of 0001Laitveerpool and the deerease in the olosing 1.4 to 3-8o over yesterday; street's decrease in the visible of 753, - the wheat market to -day, May corn closed 1-4o, and oats, 1-tio, lower; provisious, 10 to 17 1-2o higher. Brad -- world's visible :none NJ a support to brush:Ilse wdaays, a, steadying influence Toleeo, Jan. 2, -Wheat -No, 2 cash, 69 1-2u bid; December, 69 1-2c; May, 73 1-2c. Corn -No. 2 mixed, 31 1-2o. Oats -No. 2 mixed, 24 1-2o. Rye -No. 2 cash, 56o. Cloverseed-Prime, cash, old, $4.80; Decembere $5,80; March, OW asked. . elinneapolls, Jan. 2. --Wheat -. In store, No. 1 Northern December 64 3-4o; May, 66 1-2 to 66 5-8c; July, teo; on track, No. 1 bard, 67c; No. 1 North- ern, 65 1-20; No. "2 Northern, 062 e.M. Buffalo, Jen. 2. -Spring wheat -- Nothing doing. Winter wheat -.Held above buyers' views; No. 2 red,' 71 1-2o; No. 1 white, 70 1-2c. Corn-aFirm; No. 3 yellow, 95 1-2c, bid; No. 4 yellow, 85o; N9. 8 corn, 34 3-4 to 85o; No. 4 corn, 3e 1-4 to 84 1-2c. Oats - Firm; No. 2 white, 29o; No. 8 white,: 28 1-20; No. 4 white, 28c; No. 2 mixed, 26 3-4 to 27o; moand; InN.oz. 2 'in stor-e, .58e, YFelo--ur-Foirmer good. deniend. : • Clucago, Jan. 2 -Flaxseed closed: NortheWestern and South -Western, cash, 41.49 1-2; December, 41.48 bid; May, $1.43 3-4; Duluth, to arrtve, $1.39 easel, 81,41 1-2 bid; December, 41.41 la2; MaY, fie& Detroit, ean. 2. -Wheat closed: -No, it white, cash, 70 3-4c; No. 2 red, cashi and December,. 70 3eice, May, 73 7.80. . • THE VERY LATEST EROS ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting Item. About Our Owa CountrYi greet BOUM, the Vnited States, and A 11 Parts ot the, 010141 Condensed and Assorted for May Reading, CANADA. Sidney Silcox, of London, has been itOPointed principal of the St. Thornao Public aehools, George Mulholland, about 65 yeare ege, of Hamilton dropped timid at his residence on Mo;rday. Henry Beare, a Hamilton baker, cont. rnitted suicide by cutting lea threat with a razor an Monday. A fine has been reported near Daw- son assaying over low to the ton, one of the riciaeot finds etefir made in guar tz. A lot of brick unioadeil from the stearabarge Owen at Sandwieh (seined tbe ,collapse of the town dock, ond the brick fell into the river. The tax rate this eear in London was the highest I/1 the oity's history-. 22 millee-but in spite of this the die ficienoy amounts to el0,01)0.' The Electric Light Storage Company of Hamilton is placing sixteen storage batteries ie the Viraterloo & Berlin The War Office has agreed to sante tion the engagement of four nurse* for service with the eecond coating - eat. A deserter named Minch turned up at the Kingston Barracka on ThersdaY. He is °Adkins to go to the front. His punishment will be light. Owee Sound will next. yea:. be the headquarters of another steamship line, which will compete for •the Sault Ste. Marie and north shore business. Graduates of the Royal Milttary Cola lege of Kingston will be granted cam - missions in the Imperial army *Poe being reCommended by the Canadian militia authorities. Mgr, Falconio, the Papal Delegate, Eleotrio Street Railway system. has decided to make his headquarteis in Ottawa. He bas been oceupying - rooms at the Ottawa University. F. C. Lemieux, late accountant of La Banque Ville Marie, has been sent- enced to three yeses in penitentiary for presenting a false return to the Gov- ernment. The McLaughlin Carriage Co. will rebuild a three-storey brick factory in Oshawa on the town lending them ti0,04 without interest, repayable yearly in go years. • Mr. Howard Douglas. Superintend.: ent of the Banff National Park, who Is now in Ottawa, reports that the Ma- isie and other live stook in the' park are thriving and inereming in team. bars. • The •agreement between the Mont. • real Harbor Commiesioners and the Connors syndicate has been finally settled and guarantem enormous ad- vantages to the St. Lawrence route and Montreal harbor. Mr. J. W. Van Dyke 'of Grimsby. has begun an action against Grimsby Tovrnahip Council to compel the Coun- cil to carry out a by -lave for the pur- chase of Mr, Van Dyke's vraterworks system, and for $2,5100 damages for not having done eo. • . ' • WHIRLPOOL MYSTERY. A Sensational ,AMitr neeorter Prom Niagara Pans, Oat. A despateli from Niagara Falls, Ont., says :-An incident that: may probably teen out to be murder or murder and suicide or double suicide occurred on Monday evening at the Whirlpool Rapids park promenade, jute beim the Grand Trunk steel arch bridge. It seems that two young men •aineved at the above place in a hack owned and driven by a hackman named Daviteeeta about 5 °Week Monday eveningeaand asked to be lowered down to the, prom- enade walk alongside the rams The for his patrons, and sent one of his ,. • men not reture'..e" riy dark, 'Mr. Pow- ell, the manager, began to get alarmed help down. to see w.here the men wme, as he closes the place at six onlook. The man reported the men were no- where to be seen, on the walk below. The matter was reported to Chief of Police Young. Officer Mains and Superintendent Rothery, with a guide named • Preston, made a dethur and search of the promenade, and found by foetprints in tbe snow thet the two men had walked to tho extreme end of the promenade towards the whirlpool, and leaving it tegether had climbed' Over.the rugged rooks and fallen trees for about 5d0 feet, after which only the tracks of one man could be found. A few feet from the point where the double footprints had petered *out to one mae's' tracks there were marks of one mares body where he had fallen. On account of the darkness and dan- party gave up -the search, The police gerous condition of the locality the I have stationed men along the riyer to apprehend anyone.who should attempt to conic up front below the bank at any of the paths that lead below, and have him give an account of the where- tibouts of his companioh that went doWn the incline with him. • Either of the two men, although strangers, can be identified by Davis, who loaded them in his hack ont his father's bazaar at the Fall , where they had tintypes taken this afternoon. MARK TWAIN ON THE BOERS. eie-e •Anatysie or England's Present Poe 11.1 Time of Peace. . Mark Twain has met the Boer, and this what 'he says of him: "He Is deeply religious; protouridly ignorant; dull, obstinete, bigoted; uncleanly in his habits; hospitable, honest in his dealings 'with e the whites; a hard master to• black servant; lazy, a good shote good terminate addicted to• the chases; a lover of political in,depers- denoe; a good husband and father; not fond. of berding together in towns, but liking the aeolusion and remote- ness end solitude and empty vastneee and silence of the veldt; a man of mighty appetite and not delicate about what he appeaser) it with -well satisfied with pork and Indian corn and biltorng, requiring only that the quantity shall not be. stinted; willing to ride a long journ,ey, to take a hand in a rude alettight dance interepere- ed with vigorous feeding, and bolster. ous but ready to ride twice as far ter a prayer meeting; proud of his Duna] aed Huguenot origin and its rall,gious awl military hiatory; proud of his race achievements in South, Africa-ita bold plunges into hostile and unehertee deserts in March of free solitudes unvexed by the pester- ing and detested English; also its vie. tortes over the natives and the British proudest of all of the direct and ef- fusive personal interest weich the Deity has always taloen in ite affairs. "He caenot read, he cannot write; he hea one or two, newspapers, but he is apparently not aware of it; until lat- terly he had no schools and taught hie children nothing; neva is a terra whieh luta no meaning to him, and the thing itself he ogres nothing OW. Ile hates to he taxed, tted resents it Ile has steed dock etill in South Africa for tune centuries and a half, and would like to etand Ain until the end of time, for he has no sympathy with ultlander notiens of progress, huumile6wis bhuUtnghtlaY Ttbdrefbeereirche' rars hbe'efilia8 for riehes in esttle, nett tit fine dlothes and fins heathee and gold and dia. ;mond& The gold Ind the diamonds hare brought the godless atranger within him gates, also cantata end ,broken repose, eh they had. never A successful experiment was made with theseleotric plant and lighti of the Soulanges canal. The line will furnish light and power to open bridg- es' and look gates. There will also be a telephone line connecting all the Iocks, bridges and offices. . The joint Court House Committee' have decided to renew the arrange- meht between the City of Hamilton and the County of Wentworth for an- other five years, whereby the city pays 70 per oent. and the county 80 per - cent. of the expenses of the Court House. ' se•Meee-Wvtee eees eenittlieteecielle. ernment Agent at Trinidad and Toe bago hail 'Written to the Depart-, ment of Trade and Commerce etPresIP WtheestsaIndtisifeasc,tiaotnthfeelprot inspeothte ofirteltna bmanpraodvaedausdtetahmesabeipislsaeardval.ce between GREAT, BRITAIN.. The Duke of Westminster, "the riehest man. in England," is dead. Bernard Quariteh, the well-known bibliophile awl book dealer, is dead at London, England, ' The War Office has placed en or- der for.another 3,000 tons of hay tram Canada, for Use,in South Africa. There are rumors that the Duke ot Connaught will succeed General Lord Roberts as Coramander-ineehief of tbe Irish levies. The Governixtent of liew South Wales has decided to send a Field Holipital Corps and a battery 01 arta, lery to South Africa in addition to the Mounted, contingent. The appeal effecting the interpr,e- tation of the Dunkin Act in. Rich- mond County. Que., was argued before the Privy Council in London, end ands. meat was resuezirvIeTdtp. sTA\ TEs. -..., Mr. Dwight L. Meade, the celebrated evmanrgesalismt,uoisi edeoaindpe„ rs has been un- animously re-elected President of the American Federation of Labort--, • Dan Noble, a notorious bank slob- ber, was released from Auburn, N. Y., prison on' Monday, having served hie term. An oki woolen -a the Bowery bodily kidnapped a fou*year-old boy in the streets of New Yea* on: Monday, and & was arrested later With the child in her possessiosi • O. S. and E. F. Keenly, Chicago elec. triciatirs, ROLM of Dr. S. Karaite of Albany, N.Y., are reported to have Inherited an estate in Hungary worth , over $4,000,000. - • raadman, armed with a revolver, held unaliaputed possession. of the side. walk at 12th and Wood etreeta, Che cage, on Thuroday eVening for half an shtoeTuehpire. n go car compenies /operating In eorgian bill prohibiting the that atate from furniehing berth ne One,. . negro passengers bas been signer by -""esee the f4overner. . Frederick W. Vanderbittes been elected a direokor of the Canada South. ern Railway Couipany, succeeding" his brother, the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, Vide -President Cox has been elect» ed president of the road. A' Minneapolis deepatch itateit-that the Minneapolis & Ontario Bridge Coma pany has been Incotporated with $30, 000,000 capital to bland the internatione al bridge over the Rainy lever for the. Port Arthur, Ontario &'Western Way, now building between Pori, A.rthe ur and WitinGipieraginkt. deepatch trete Trinidad says that news has been received the -re that 6,- 000 troops have been tient by Prance to Guadeloupe and Martinique. • Buddhist priests, owing to Clenae internal treelike are hi abut. lute control in Tblbet, anti will make physical War on the ietroduetion chelstlardndilti, a popular' tourist restart on the Gulf of Salerno, Italy, an etioentous rock on which was a fine hotel fell into the sea carrying with „ it the hotel, anotherethaftevlabbetAlr nititra. monastery and rent Was a great___.......loss of lite. A pet dog was ohlortnromd to dna* , and placed in the arms of iti d miatress, Mint Ellettbeth Sy torts& N.Y. Thi w the 'dying ! .f.p!