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MATtd1I 29, 1900
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Figg Street was one of those ther-
oughfares, so common in American ori -
ties, whose houses, all preoaselY alike,
are ranged with military precisiones
If marshaled in battle array by their
epee -illative builders against the army
of wage earners for whose oceupanoy t whist and was eaten over
they were doaigned, Organization and rind n er Reale it
the form of Wand
were strongly suggested by rihbits of arallel indignslihility, fn -
the uniform ranks of octagon fronts, deed, the formula of invitation during
b cit sed with its formal mansard that period might very reasonably
oori1
roof and accoutred with its high flight have been •' The pleasore of your pony is requested at n White Brick,"
of stone steps and the offset of this had perfect candor obtained.
suggestion, was promptly confessed by We were just beginning to get ate
their intimidated tenants, who paid an eustomcd to the thing when one morn -
excessive rent with apprehensive aim- ing as I was going down town I rniss-
ed it. I looked hastily up at the door,
rity. There were Bonne in the neigh- Yes, it was Number Seventeen without
borhood who, under a not unoommon a doubt', but the white' brink was
stress of peouniary eirtumstnnces. gone.
might have defied a solitary landlord 1 made a round of calls that evening
mbar but to challenge the with my wife and disseminnted this
in single co startling information, As the hearers
might of the brigaded proprietor of this important news we enjoyed a
whose capital had brought the street quite unusual popularity, and went '1'0 let u, enter the heavenly land
into being wits beyond their courage. home In n very pleasant frame of mind. And lay our harps with the angel
The third morning after, the white p P g
So the monthly tribute exticted by this brick was again in its former place uassd,
besieging force of bricks and mortar the exchange having taken place, as Of me, St. Peter, there is no doubt,
was promptly yielded, and thus it came before, some time during the night. !here'. nothing from heaven to bar
abouI was very absent-minded over my me out.
Street,
and tenants stayed in Figg duties that day, and was more than I've been to meeting three times a
Street, were penetrated,with a once shortly reprimnnded by my em -
strong sense of fellowship which quick- plover for my inattention to the rota- And awlmeaostk, always I d rise and speak.
ly engendered a friendly intimacy. tine of the office. If I had bnd ab ick sinner about leo du
1, like all of my neighbors, bad mov- in my Ana, as the slang phrase g I ve fold the s y
I could not have hemmore hopelessly when tbay d repeat oe thou. ,,,,,t way;.
ed in when the place was first built muddled then I was by the white brick l've Lou my m.igateore-1've told 'em
lured, by the odor of fresh paint and which 'could not get out of my head. all,
damp plaster, whieb is always so in This uncanny happening began to sug- 'Bout Adam and Eve and the primal
scrutably attractive to the habitual gust to my mind all kinds of dreadful laic,
rent -payer. Rumors of open plumbing!dreda of wh'e'h it might be the sign Ive shown them what they'd have to
and signal. Was Number Seventeen a do
and porcelain tubs had robbed the ad -:den of counterfeiters, thus conclusive -IP they'd patent avenues of their choicest ten
ants, and in an incredibly short time
after its establishment Figg Street
the morning I spoke of It to a neigh Sr. PS'1E%.. AT TRE GOB.
bar, and at n,,gbt to two More with
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whom Igelden
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, Peter stoodRetinal g
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and thin new )hose of the tnsera LAa ,
and as they went bootie we saw several With a nolomn .mien and an tai' lee
small parties front themneigbborhood, tette,
Walking up and down by this Inexplia- When lip to the top of the [}'olden
a 1 g
able object with an elaborate assumt>- stair
tion of indifference, evidently engaged A men and a woman aeeending there,
in verifying the strange report whet) App,lad lar admiesioe, !bay came and
el 09
13efore St. Peter, so great and good,
Ip hopes the oily oe enaee 19 Win—
To ark St. 1-eter to let them in,
The woman was tall and leek and
111111,
With a eeragg:y beardlet upon her
akin,
The new was short, and thick and
dsoul.;
His stom.tc11 was built so it rounded
out,
Hie face was pleasant, and all the
while
He wore a kindly and genial ensile.
The choirs in the Mats -awe the echoes'
awoke
And the man kept atilt while the wo-
man spoke.
had spread rapidly throughout the
street.
For a week there was a revival of the
original excitement, manifested by
much ilypocriLieal sociability. For a
week tiie white brick was always
"Oh, Lh;,u she guardest the gate,'
mad she,
"We hive come hither beseeching
pass in with the choses few.
ly' but silently indionted to interested I've mus ked their path of duty c. ear—
persons? Was it n Anent of unspeak- Lurid out Lha plan for thea 'bore
able vice, masked hy,the white purity career.
of this symbol? Were deeds too dread -
had become fully populated, with the .tel to name, or an enterprise too crim- "1've talked and talked to 'em loud
exception of one tenement. Number! inn! for utterance thus proclaimed? I ono long
Seventeen, eight doors below the house passed the day in a fever of fruitless For my lunge are good and my voice
I occupied, and upon the same side, was l speculation, and went home with but is strong,
P I one clear pltrpose—to find out when Sa good St. Teter, you'll clearly see
and by whom this baleful message was Tile gate of heaven i, open to me.
placed and replaced. But my old men, 1 regret to say, o
To this end I determined upon an Beene. waked exactly in the narrow
heroic measure. I remembered tbat way,
the brick had been exposed the first He smt.kes and he swears, and grave
time for precisely one week. Now, if• txu.ta hes got,
And I don't know whether he'll pass
or not.
not immediately taken, and remained
mysteriously untenanted for nearly a
year.
This circumstance was strongly re-
sented by a neighborhood which bad
testified so strongly by its impute- there were any un'formity in the p
nus conduct to the desirability of the pose which lay behind cit, it should be
street, the persistent emptiness of this days nightovid ceort ng yodeitrmined
refractory domicile serving as akind' to sit up all of that night, on this
of standing criticism of its hasty chance, and watch. I passed the inter -
judgment. A kind of hauteur seem- val in a state of great nervous excite -
ed upon the appointed evening
ed Lo be expressed by its persistent re established myself a•t my seeondstory
fused to come into proper relations II front window, which commanded a full
with the other houses in the block, and I view of that part of the sidewalk, witb
by degrees it became distinctly un -1 a plentiful supply of cigars, dstermin-
' ed to solve the mystery. Sitting there
in the darkness, I heard the clock
strike eleven, twelve, one, two, three,
four, and, I think, five. I fear I must
have dozed for a moment, toward
morning, however, for when daybreak
surprised me at my vigil the confound-
ed thing was gone.
Nearly two days after this it was re-
placed, remaining, as before, for a
week, nt the end of which time it
popular. Too new to be plausibly ao-
cused of being haunted, it was vaguely
slandered as possess:ng defective drain-
age, and became the subject of other
injurious rumors which tended toward
making the agent's placards in its low-
er windows permanent r;xlures. And
when, after a year's tame, It became
knows taut it bad at length been let,
all Rs accumulated unpopularity was again disappeared. All this perio
promptly and unan.mously transferred spent in a miserable state of suspense,
to its occupants as a matter of course.I reeding the criminal items which the
These were an elderly man and his enterprise of the daily press provid-
w:fe, who apparently had no family ed, and striving by the exercise Mall
and kept no servant. Their few belong- my ingenuity to somehow comae the
Ings had been moved In before it was deeds or their doers with this ominous
even noticed that the place had found manifestation, but to no purpose. I
a tenant, which was in itself general- lad said nothing to any one about my
ly regarded as an aggravating eiroum- futile experiment in detective work,
stance. No one know the man by name but I was gratified to hear it whisper-
er could find out anything about hint. ed about that several of my neighbors
It was strongly resented that from had also sat up all night with asim-
the beginning he kept the green blinds liar purpose and with similar results.
on both the front and the rear of his This had gone on for nearly two
Premises constantly closed. and when months when a Militant idea came to
it became evident that he did not in- ma. Why on earth had it never oc-
tend to put out a door -plate, popular curved to me before? Nothing could be
feeling rose almost to indignation. He simpler or more promising. nothing
did not even permit himself to be•,seen suxer to bring about .something signi-
very much, only occasionally going ficnnt—something, at least, affording
forth, wbile his wife was almost nevera clue to the mystery of Number Sev-
visible. No one ever' seemed to Visit lenteen. That night I went out secret -
the couple, whose only caller Was an ly at two a.m., in a drizzling rain, and,
occasional expressman with a parcel, removing the white brick from the
Attempts on the part of the male in- sidewalk where it had been placed two
habitants of Figg Street to draw the days before, set it in a corresponding
man Into• conversation, encountered a, position in front of my own door, put -
baffling 'resistance in his shy reticence 'ting in its place an ordinary red
of manor, while the few ladies who brick.
slept very little the rest of that
our penetrate the secret deviceos theof ni ht, but, rising early, took up my
house neighborly
the cunning e 8
a neighborly call were quite unable position at the window, to await re -
to get any response to their repeated I d t ss nothing fluent
rings at the doorbell, though they were
painfully conscious of being investi-
gated from within through the blinds
of the parlor window.
A fever of curiosity pervaded the
neigbbourbood for a time. Social
gatherings, assembled under a thin
pretext of whist or music, straightway
resolved themselves lnto deliberative
bodies sitting upon the question of.
Number Seventeen. Certain persons
even stooped to the employment of
small boys as detectives, but these un-
worthy emissaries failed as completely
as did everybody else to solve the mys-
tery of the house. Finally, the fever,
having run its course, diad out, and
Number Seventeen came to be accept-
ed as an objectionable but stubborn
feet.
For nearly two months matters re
maned in this unsatisfactory condi
tion, but at the end of that period
tea excitement was renewed by a very
peculiar cireumstaioe. Twice a day, on.
my way to business, I was obliged to
lame these mysterious premises, which
still strongly piqued my ' curiosity,
without ever baying once gratified it
ever so little. My :interest in the,
house was just beginning to flag a lit-
tle when one marning as I was going
down to the office, my always observ-
ant aye noticed sslight, but startling
change. A single white brick,bad tak-
en the piece of ene. of the coalmen red o he died in 1821,
anes•in the sidewalk In front of Nude- ear lo St. Helena, whey
ber Seventeen. It was precisely the The Teuropean power -that has seen
size of an ordinary brick, and had a. most of war during the cautery baa
smooth, enameled surface of glittering been Turkey -38 years of it as against
white, t was quite sure that it bad 62 of peace. The.Beamed on the .list
not been there the evening before is Spain, With, 32 'years of warfare, oronvn,med n,thau ht to take,
when I came up town; so striking and not counting ber Last fatal campaign. Then he Monied g t tie
a detail could hardly have os- Them comes France with 27 Tears, ltuse Slowly, half to himself, he pt ,
unusualwith.. 23. Great Thirty years with that woman there?
enped m entice, i puzzled over the. sin with 24, and; Italy w 1" , 1
all day and devoted the even- Britain has had toeless than 21. Ger- No wonder the men hasn't any hart
'ngtter
in meal to' discussarig it with my many, not Haunting Prussia, fellows Swearing is wicked ; smoke's no good.
wile, but without arriving at any. eat- with 14, Sweden with 10, and Denmark Ile smoked and swore -I should think
,sfaotory conclusion, Going down town, with a, rime would 1 .' •
sults. n order to m'i
word to the office that I was at home in the wounded. To attempt a de- have taken place within the walls of
with a sevens sore throat—whish was So SL. Peter sat and. stroked his staff; seription of the scene is beyond me, this building. One Inas that on a
indeed quite true—and ate mo' break- But. in spite of his office he had to motion to tape out fire insurance 00
Laugh, for to my •minjl tea eeono mos so bar_
uncomfortably as I eat at the the madzraal. Some members etre armee-
wing,
Then said, with a fiery gleam in his rowing, •so tragic, and withal so and, iy objected.,es they sated
To Ile Continued.
MODERN WARS.
Thirty years with tbat }vogue SO
than)!
Ohl Aug01 Gabriel I Give blot a harp!
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God sir, l
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Gabriel, give bite a soat••-a sent alone—
One with a maiden, kp Hoar the
tl)rcene
Pail up tonne angels to sing.their best,
Get Alan enjoy the mess and rest.
" See that on fittest ambrosia he feeds!
tie's bad about all the hell he needs.
11 lan't hardly the lbing to do—
lio roast him on earth; in future too."
they gave elan a harp with gelrlee
strings.
A glittering robe and apeer of wings;
And he said, as he entered the realm
of day, •
"Well, this beats cucumbers, any
wave as orae to ass
And so the scripture h a pass,
" That the last shall be first and the
first shall be last."
"He never would pray with an earn -
eat vim,
Or go to revival, or join in a hymn;
So 1 had to leave him in sorrow there,
While, 1 with the chosen, united in
prayer,
He ate what the pantry those to af-
ford,
While 1, in my purity, sang to the
Lord.
And ii cucumbers were all he got,
It's a chance if he merited them or
not.
INJURES YOUNG MEN.
French p'rllcr Declares Illillary, Life
5 nn"eN I/egenerney.
Muth discussion leas been started be
the publicatice in France. of a work
ley a: military writer in which Llie au-
thor asserts that miLtary service is
in forerunner of degeneracy, and that
Rs ill ef_aots are clearly apparent.
TM wiiter, with lasts and ,igures,
seeks to show that Gfe in the barracks
saps ties strength and Leads to the
moral and plvyeioal decay of ibe young,
men in the army.
II. points out that men after service
see unfitted for anything etas; that
they are broken in health, and often
become charges on the community.
Aa EngL_binau has written a long
article in reputation 01 the Frenoh-
man's arguments, and now, in Ire our -
rent issue the Army and Navy Tour -
nal takes up the question in its lead-
ing editorial.
The writer is strongly in sympathy
with the Englishman's side of the
question. In part, he nays:
"No one who has ever miaowed the
progress of a recruit from the aavk-
ward squad to a tinisbed soldier in the
multi wet fail to appreci,ue the justice
of the Engler hanan's observations. In-
stead of operating against the physi-
cal and moral development of a youth,
mti.titary training tenets to build him
up into sym.metricat and intelligent
manhood.
"Where do our Public Soh.00t in-
structors go when they are in search
of systems with which to ati fen Lhe
molal fibre of, their pupils l They go
to the army:. Every year there is a
'But uh, St. Peter, 1 love him sol
To the pleasures ofheaven please let
•him go. ,
I've done enough`— a saint I've been—
Won't that atone? Can't you let him
in?
By my grim gospel I know 'tis so,
That the unrepentant must fry be-
low'
But isn't there some way you can see
That ha may enter who's so dear to
met
It's a narrow gospel by which I pray,
But the chosen expect to find some
way
OF coaxing or fooling or bribing you,
So that their relations can amble
through.
And gay, St. Peter, it seems to me
This gate isn't kept as it ought' to
be.
You ought to stand right by the open-
ing there,
And never sit down In that easy
chair.
"And say, St. Peter, my sight Is dim-
reed,
Bat '1 don't like the way your whis-
kers are trimmed;
They're cut too wide, with anoutward
toys
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ielileIe the Ilrtl1411 Armies tinder 1•ol'd
?Werr s Arse Now dapllesed to be »reel.
,1. of
Two things aro noted about mast
the Du1011 towns in ,South Woe:
They are ailed to be laid Out meth
alike and they have the reputation of
being very slew, at least accordion to
Cugli.411 notions. The capitate of the
two Boer repubees, to which attention
is mew • being direoled by the advaane
at the British armies, are Do wimp -
liens. Pretoria and Bloemfontein
cannot lay eladnt to much hustle or
beetle at ordi.onry times at least. But,
they are the bounce of quiet -loving peo-
ple, content to let the world. take what
way it Walk so long as that way' does
not interfere with their senLusion and
restful lives,
P.arbaps Pretoria is the more inter-
esting of the two cities, i. there is any
choice. It W111 founded away back in
1835 atter the risers had de Dated the
British at BL-earnfontein. That ewes
in Tune, 18,8, when Pretor:ua, the Boer
commander, drove the British out of
Bl,,embentein. But in August Gov.
Savith aroused the river and towards
One is et liberty td wiik In and there
Ira little formality in getting to the
ear of the great Othe Paul, Pretoria
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P111 CAPITAL Ol' PIIL FR111D STMVD,
BLoeaxabonloin, as !alas beon indicated,
i4 so older 0117 tbltn Paetorta, as the
°vee ^e Free State is al,ler than the
Transvaal. Nor lyes the Orange Free
State been torn awl twitted by the
exciting mm'7'oh of evonte ea has the
Transvaal 13tocros1an:ein it built on
e large plain at a high elevation and
I lye aL:uaate is said, to be h,oalth'tul, al-
Ih,cugh ono traveler says: "It must
oer.nlnly be one Of rho hottest places
In Afrioe," It Ls ninety miles from
Kimberley, 738 from Qslpe 'Bowe, 4(0
from Durban, lblany 18051 11 people
comivclor it excellent as a health re-
sort on account 01 its day ation. Iloem-
Lernteinthes abuut 4,000 iulutbitants, but
magas some really fine buildings.
0.1e of the a is the "pt'esitlency," or the
home of Pre.'i'dSteyn,
5005 ly built a£ pentolished freestItoneishanendd-
few Engl., h oily hawses surpass It. The
gaLutldl are Inel,.ased by a stone fence,
wi lain which ere extensive gardens,
well laid o, rind orchards.
The Raadzeal, al hough not so pre-
tentious as that at Pretoria, is of ex-
a design, combining the front of
a Greek tempts, with the central dome
of modern archi.eoture. The muter-
ial Is a wlai.e stone which as strange-
ly oantraeted against the black atone
of the wall .beh,nd the oolunsns. The
raadza„l will begun in 18.,0 and open-
ed in 18,13.
Bloeinfonlein contains n number of
churches, the finest being the Dutch
the anti Of Lhei month !ought the bat- Lteior'med cathedral, which is entirely
tie of Brooneplaatz, de eating the of stone. and cosi; $103,00J. There are in parLkcular. rcgalara or colonels, ,tor
Biers. Then Preetoruas Lad his pea- a Cathio cathedral and several Pro- both nor weary ixoura behaved mag rat
le fur.ber north ucr.,se therivor Vaal tasV%11 rhvra.hes, ch p 1e and missions. oenLly, and means m gat have been
pThere aro ancestry
people of watch and more promptly adopted for helping
and the i.irst Transvaal repubhu . was Englii;.iiu ancestry in the fawn, and it
founded with Pretorius se Its prep!: Ls quite as usual to Lear English spok. them' '
r The stories of snare and stampede,
H.OW SP1Ol SOP WAS LO
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!tuner Was t ietineed at the Weeder -4'h
emcee Ilad Apt!ai e,aily 116, 11 55c111!6µ.
cd Intieryau IYhlrlwlad et' stelae 011
R terse
WriLi:ll trove Potgietor's ?)rift, 'Mr.
Bennet llurle,gb, epactal war come -
pendent of the DAILY Teltg:ape, tells'
the story of the takirg of Spion ILpp
and subse iaent retirtiment. Ile throws
some l:ig,rt on the vetted question of
the 0auee et the Breath retreat, wheob
apparently was the misunderstanding
o,. an order Ile says:—
When I let the western base 01
Spon Key, after six p. m.,'all was well.
Thi gun and musketry itrc was almost
qu:eament. Only at rare intervals did '
the "poen pone" break in, and as for
the ri les, only the relentless anipera
were shaotis g. The woundel were
bei g broughr down in hundreds, and,
as 1 have said, the mountain battery,
was, with the naval gene, on their way
toward Thaba Emunyama.
An hour and a hal: later a disas-
trous oh'at:gs set in. The green troops„
who lied' never been under giro; must,
I suspect, have been shaken by the
subsequent whirlwind of Boer shells
and bullets that descended upon the
mountain. I dislike to name anybody
dent. The capital ally took its name Pre ident Sten is a man of broad eou-
Y Whether of the raw I•mper:al L gat Lr
frena tLe general and prstdent, 1L 1
ca bon, and. al ratined ideas, and he faniry levies or certain of aha r, gu-
waa laid oaC on brood, regular. lines hrao done much to raise the standard la's, may. be brushed aside as nnw,.r-
n'I.h )Linty of room for a much larger of education in Lir country'and town,,thy as credence. That in the daris-
cl y than hers yet grown up there.
The streets are merle, but unpaved, and
in summer the sun bents down with
fierce directness. 'Travellers have de-
scribed. it se the "hottest plans in Af-
lira" but sll..w:ancas must be made for
that statement, as it was probably
mode 'leder Lite remembrance of un-
eamfortable circumstances.
en al it 'a to Lear the Boer Language.
THE CENTRE OF INTEREST
in Pretoria' is the big church square,
en which the principal buildings of
the city Lane. Thin is an immense
tract of land in the centre 01 the city.
In it stands this Deformed Dutch
ehurch. Ordinarily the square is
dusty and ill -kept, and around the
church similar oandi.ions exist. The
-chuccb is inclosed by a broken wire
fence wit.hl posts of rough' tree trunks,
growing number of schools in whet within wbloh is a ragged patch of
mili,ary Instruction in some form or dust rasa strewn wide rubbish.It
other 1s a part of the curr.culum. The y g
fire dr:11 among tele smallest sehelars is here dant mace a year the burghers
RI a,sclauol.is simply an Map Beton of gather its at no other place. For fi-ty
one, ae the advantages o, raiLtary my wound they cos or on horarlback to take waning
training. flock to Pretoria
•
"No one looks for signs of degener- in g
icy in the soldiers of u nation. IL is part Lu tin great fest:val of the Boers,
the Whitechapel and. East bide die- the Nachtmaal, or oommunuon service.
treats of London and New York, where The egLaaxe at that time, is crowded
military knowledge is practically nil, with, h waggons and tents in which the
that ane tinctsathe evidences of 15751-
cal and moral disintegration. a visitors live and oftentimes tilt amdi-
"No system can tend to the dectrue- emcee in the church Melling contain
Liornet tiro moral and physical Libre air many as 2,000 people. Perhaps the
of a nurixm that teaches patriotism,
Lb deuce, fairnasa, tl,anliness, so- :fact of so many people Living on the
b,La.y, respect 10 superiors, honor for equare Wt the Nachtmaal acooamtsfor
a brave fee, forgiveness of the von- the unttdyness of its reppoaranoe.
quiehed and strict attention to duty. Pretoria itself lies in a hollow basin
If it were not so our military end nay- surrounded byhills. It is described
sl aaadem'ies would not turn out so
Neel a class of cl.izen and patriot. and as unsanitary. Tha hills that Sur -
the presence of an ex-o_ficer of our round it are cowered with forts, and a
service among the criminaic et the stubborn defense could be maintained
country would not oau=e the wixle- there. although i,t the enemy's guns
spread aurpriae add regret Mut now were ever planted on these hills they
aeoampany such a rare spectacle. would have easy command of the
_ el•ty below theta:.
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THAT MARVEL—TOMMY ATKINS.
The most itaa hall, building i t
Pretoria is the Raadzal'I, or parliament
house, 'which faces on the Church
f:enerai auger's Chaplain I7evcrfere the square. It is boat of stone and is
rlrnl,h soldier Anter a nettle, 171 feet wide by 2.20 feet deep, rising
The foLLdwin totter has been for- to,a.height of 125 feet, where the eta
B tue of Puberty 'stands ' gracefully
warded to The Methodist Times from crowniarg the structure.
It is a able- 1®y a0ulh of the equator, whose saver have sent duly a hundred armors
the Rev. Thomas H. Weinman, the re- slantiai and imposing structure of eignty has not been. claimed by some of sick anti wounded to rail and hogpL
f evil dvp tinted chaplain 1 to Sir three Atonies , containing the Pirat European power now remains. ' 'It is Leis 'in Maritzburg. Now they kava
Y� p volkaraad chamber, the second cham-
ber, the rooms of the president and of the valley 01 ]Blarotse, fifty or sixty to be jolted' in anseulanees or ex via
public ollicials. The building was
put up from desegns by the govern-
ment architect and oast 5000,0.10. It
is said some very amusing debates
AT THE TOP.
I'oxl.lon of the. Drum Clomp 1n the Anti'
theme. habil.
There are grades of honor, even am-
ong horses. We are apt to think of
the war-horse as a proud animal, and help in the task of claaria.g the Beers
so he is, and bus b right to be, For o_f the 1s lis, and that they wouideosne
he is called upon to be as brave as he under the shell and title fire of both
is proud. But proudest and most dig sides, an order ivas sant them to re-
nified. of all the horses of the army lire. Theroid lies the mystery and
Ls the animal that Fills the position cru • of all that ensued, So tar as I
am able tlo glean the order int question
of drum -Horse in the regimental band. tuns samgily addressed to the
"O. C. "
nes a them' g and melting proems
set in I tan lbeeeve, but it was induce
ed and , glravated by another stoma -
stance numb 1 dare to call
A CRIMINAL BLUNDER,
Seen that th. Sixtieth (lamedRoy
Royal melees were in an exposed silta-
tion where they could a Fera little
In the British army, cavalry bands
are mounted, and the most honorable
position in all the band, is that of the
Dearer of the kettle -drums.' The' horse
is selected for his oistinguisned 'ap-
pearance. He is often. piebald, al-
though sometimes pure white; but
whatever his color, his appearande
must' be consistent with aha conspte-
nous position ho huts 10' 1111.
Something more than mere beauty
o f.cer cummandau g; but that i
t was
meant the Sixtieth should withdraw to
the'aouth and jo.n tbe,Scoltieh Re len,
as some say, seams. open 'to question.
What appears 10 have happened is
th:s:-1n tea death or absence o.i Col-
onel hidden, Colonel Thernecro.t took
the mess. gi, and read it to apply to
the whole -erne upon the Spon !fop
range, A retirement whaol7 may have
beea a retreat scllowed; and U ten re;
of Corm is required of the arum -horse. en., when the rifle fire dwindled ante
He must be tinkled until he becomes a siv.pirg agum, Thaba Emunyumq was
dignified and graceful bearer of the pract.atlly' evacuated, only' a hind -n'
handsome trappings that pertain to in. men remaining under the dip of the
Lis high calling. His education is sev- m', --moss trees. Thera were these, I
ere and prolonged, bringing him up learn, who re used to take the order,
to that point whore his pride and in but whether Major General Coke act-
teiligence make him equal to the du- t
ties required of him.
His nerves are severely tried by the
booming of the Targe drums he car-
ries, but -in time he lemmas as indif-
ferent to their noise as war-horses do
to the singing bullets. In the parade,
his rider bas his hands full in the use
of the etioks. He controls the horse
by means of reins fastened to the stir-
rup -strap near the foot. •
The fame of the drum -horse is often
won on the field of battle; and some-
times a war-horse that has won lau-
rels on the battle -field, and can carry
himself with becoming dignity in par-
ades, is promoted to the honored posi-
tion of drum -horse in the regimental
band.
EVERY MA IS A KING.
to uorotar, Mona.tn'len, There Ix goo
wool Soler,
Only 000 people and one little vat
ed Upon it or not, we aril all; alike of
liotaity and unoffiaiaisy, in the d,
The Thirty-seventh company o, 'Royal
g nears had also been ordered up
wi,a the gags to ;urther add to the
de eases or the mountain.
Whatever may have bean the Daae
In Warren's camps, around Po g steres
and Spearman's, we were in bike ail of
deplorable g toranee that the position,
had been evacuated, and was than
OCCUPLE1) BY THE BOERS.
Thursday morning told its own tale.
As Uener'al Buller was renis g nut 10
ride over to Warren's Force by for Lhe
first Lime heard of the disaster.
Yet, as 1 have pointed out, the dis-
tances separating us are not great.
There is a military telegraph wire, and
from Bu'ller's headquarters Thabo
Dintenerama 13 well within lamp s.gaal-
lii g range.. Why, we had been here
lo.g enough tohave laid and run et.
I get tramway from Frere, which;.
would have reduced the convoys, re-
volutionized transport and made it in-
comparably easy for the surg'.one to
They'd took Netter narrow, cutalraight Redeem Buller's forces in Natal:
across, I arrived just at the close of the
Well, we must be going, our crowns to Tugela battle, and cites sed the
win, !
So aben, St. Peter, and let us in:" long line of stretober-bearers bringing
eye, that it beggars descrlptivn. And yet, 1F I7 WAS THE LORD'S WILL they are a tall, well seat-ul, rata, very in the balance. But no --merely an
Who is tending this gutta, you or I? everywhere around, the soldiers of the black in skin:
And then he arose In his stature tall, various regiments were busily engag- that the buiLthing.ehould b0 burned, It ' in manners they are verycourteous, occasional gun and rifle shot. Through'
And pressed a -button upon the wall, ed, °Leaning their accoutrements and would ;ba burned, and 11 would bo and .in bearing dignified. Every full glasses 1 could see hundreds oY Beira,
And said to the imp who answered the generally putting things In order, and l wrong to take any precautionary or blooded bearing
Is by birthright a upon Thaba Emunyama. A bow bel
hell, seemingly as bright and baspetal as insurance measures. ,Another set of king, and Lukes his place in the aria- cooled Tomm:es moved about among
"Escort this lady around to hell!" though a great victory had been won members objected to a proposal to er tea^icy" of the empire. In tact, as ihetn.
maany of team tinging and laughing , edicaLe a plague of lo°usts on the same every ane, is king there is no head rut- and -
The enemy could be seen' plckanq up
The fate stood tiara as a )Isco of as iha,ug.h heedless of the terrible ground, namely, that it would be fly- Lee-eletiord rifles and cartrilges,and
storie, ,tenths to which they and their fel-Ln in the tact of Providence to Lrase sail g in bringing in wounded Etood sadly,gloomily, there Wiens. YF y
The bare fact that he is a Marotse dens! to our dressirgstations and am
B Lows had been exposed the previous to exterminate the Retests which had insures the respect of the subservient
A life-long settled idea he had, evidently been sent by God, s he rows tosubs manhood vie t
5 -
miles wide, north of Lialui, in South ° I'dnre ea Gencrnl Buller was dread
41510x, and the only .reason why' the y
Bfarotse, who iaihafoit it, have. preserv- fully shocked and mortified, erode
ed their Independence is that England b f with his, staff, and has sins0. spent
Cho time with Warren's troops, .ly[gny
of us imagined that even then victors
would be wrested train defeat, and as
attack made all along our lines upon
the Boers, for more, rather thane lees,
the late of Ladysmith was tremblieg
and Portugal both: claim it, and, there-
fore, tee work of 'civilization" Is at
a standstill.
It may not be so easy to conquer
thlb-Marotse, When the time comes for
The Daratlom of the Slost of Them Sae
neeu Protracted.
The unexpected protraction of the
Boer war need not alarm Englishmen,
since much longer :wars have been
fought by them within this century.
Napoleon declared war against Eng-
land In May, 1803, the previous war
between the two countries having only
terminated by the treaty of Amiens
in October•, 1801. Tho; war of 18081aat-
ed till April, 1814, when 'Paris sur-
rendered to the allies and Napoleon
was sent as prisoner to Elba, where
be arrived on the 4,tih of May. He es-
caped from E1ba in Mercer, 1815, and
recommenced the war, which finally
terminated with Napoleon's defeat at
the battle of Waterloo on the 18th
of Tune, 1815, having lasted nearly 12
years. Napoleon wet sent as a prison-
hulances, soine of wh,ah were upon tee
mountain. Their own ambulances
were also busy eolleotirg their wound.
ed, O,ur loss is probably over 201) kill-
ed, and the total casualties quite 1,WO.
SEVERiAL OF,THE BOE111i
had ridden on horseback up the noun -
twin. General Louis Botha wee there,
shoaling we bad been lighting the' Free,
Staters, He was rather irate, Ind at
first declared `he would keepp all the
wounded in his own bands adil.our atbe
balance ;men until we etiryeit�dlred
twenty-five prisoners taken at Acton'
Homm. Major Wr'ght, of the'Ger,-.
done, in' eht'irge of the aiabiinnee
tarps, palavered for over an hour and
n ball, and ultimately Bathe lei thew
all' g,. He bade them within twenty-
four hours remove themselves and all
h°epitale south of the Tugela or Tie
would fire upon theme without sssep.
tion. t
There was an armistice Formed up-
on, extending from, ten o'clock a. m, to
2ot'lr o'clolsk,p. ml, but'it was Torg til-
ler t:hat hour ere the last of the dead
were buried anti the wounded br0u•ght
down hill. Our mee deciarn plat
they buried over ohe hundred le our
(lead' upon that; part of Spion !flop, and
saw at least fifty dead Bete.
day. Tha bravery and heroism of the
an e
mi.retlon at all who witnessed the bat-
tle—'both of officers and eivn ens.As
one of the young °Moors put it tome
"I (save never been on active service
before, and could not have believed
what I saw, though I have Looked at
pictures of the baltle_teltt, but always
regarded 'them as overdrawn, But
yesterday puts into the shade any pic-
tura I have seen. Hort Wylie, One of
the Boer positions, looked like a oa,ul-
dron of tire, shell after dhoti from
our Dannon exploding right inside it.
All around us and over us rained a
perfect: storm ce load from the
trenches., occupied, by the enemy. Shelle
were dropping acrid bursting all atwut
Vas ; ,and yet on, streutght on, marched
out' men, not, one of them turning a
hair, or even sb much as looking round
to see wh,et'e the shahs were falling;
but 1 iooksd—my ivae,il Was continually
on th+e toover-I could not keep it still,
I never thought of the British eoLdler
10 the -way I do now; but to me, air,
nowt 1te is a grand and a brave fair
Thea his wife was good and be was British saIstier is Lhq talk d th ad Pretori,il is pretty enough', although tribes, and,a g
bed. it is dull, even for a Dutch! town. Trees sense of his superiority usually lm -
He thought If the woman went down 'li aro .abundant and alis houses nestle cavern tin the native
velthe dignity
gni tyyn02 self -
below, among luxurious foliage. The moat slaves, who have bean captured from
That he would certainly have to go; the day followLtfg. impressive thoroughfare Is Church nen,ghboring tribes.
Tent if she went to the regions duan
There wasn't a ghost of a show for
him.
Slowly be turned by habit bent,
To follow where the woman went,
St. Peter, starling on duty phere,
Obeerved thvit the top of his head was
bare.
He called the gentleman bath and
maid:
" Friewed 0"nd, !row long have you been
Thirty years,. with a weary nigh;
And then be thoughtfully aaked hien,
„ `ii,hy?,•
St. Peter wan talent, with head bent
tiiawn ;
He raised hia finger and scratched les
If the hens Corm a trust they will
probably, try to control the egg plant.
street, wleioh leads directly away from
the central square.. At the lower end
of IL is a beautLfuif avenue of eucalyp-
tus trees, which Mee 10 a fine height.
A little ,further on is a pretty,bridge
crossing the smell river, and, iho
bridge us ernementeat with '11-00t,'o1. ea-
deUent wot'knvauslaip. Looking bank
tram this point the view. is through
the avenue of trues, and far in the dis-
trine° the cbnrch can be seen stand-
ing in the muddle of. the square.
Several coach Lines run front Pre-
toria, and there Li a small but Inter-
editing public museum, rich in material
Illustrating the life of the rouatry.
President Kruger's.,aomo's ,as unpre-
tentioue as any, in the city. Going
eking a street, one comes 4000 Ir 101 -
nor lot containing several rents, amt
11 turns out that lhesel are ler tlio
prosideate; gourd. Two Mottles stand
at the gate of the yard ',lust avura
this sway, but they aroeasily pn•14•.11.
The Nouse is broad and law, contain-
ing bel one little story with 1 weic
veranda along the entire front. Any -
ATTIRED FOR COLD DAYS.
It 4s a Pleasing habit of the fashion-
able woman riot to look wrapped up in
`told weather, however warmly she
may really be clad. It is the w0ntan
who does tot know how to dress that
fotcea upon us the conviotiou that
else 18 freezing to death, Extremely
Datshlonublo woman weer the jaunti-
est abort jackets, heavily lined, how-
ever.' Others went' a coat and skirt
on mite, or 0180 an extra West ,a& cha-
mole lined with flannel beneath what
might be called an unseasonable gown.
Stili, others, wear the new silk waiided
and quilted jackets.
"1• A1,NT HEART," ITC,
lirag gs--What is the use of propos-
fug to that girl when T know she does,
Hol mot
Grigglevos—Try" 11,
old
Fenn. Sho didn't
love me When she imeep10l ince