ABOUT THE BOERS.
THE PIONEERS OF CIVILIZATION IN
AFRICA,
tiate the English So In.
Why They
fensely--How They Punish Intemper.
ance—Idesl of Womanly Beauty.
To those vvho have not lived among
the Boers it is almost
form any idea of the real of
things in the Transvaal, or to under
afand the thousand and one petty an
poyapnces which infest the daily life
of the English under the Boer rule. A
Boer bates nothing under sun
worse than an Englishman. 1 say Eng-
lishman, for a woman, be she English
or of any other moe, Is with
kindness and
mpossible to
state
the
treated
consideration by the
of the Transvaal
This hatred is
Boér since the days of
invasion,
General Craig was ap]
governor of the Cape. A
vions to this, the French
Flusuenots, emigrated to
amd fo this blending of the Duteh am
Freoeh race we » Boer of
The patri
the old 1"
code and man
#{ill Hives In
made he
civilization
a simple |
cenfories
the Englis
meant weall
the English;
benee the Bo
be conquerer
fuller life
When at
found the go
antrodden reg
believed] hls
tied! down nnd
Andries 1
a stafe
the b
the
Iwo centaur
yolnted
century
refugees,
the Cape
to-clny
the Irony of
poor Boer
his count
and diamo:
farm gat
the whole
the sold
This {im
readily, for
father an
grant far
advanees of
fhesn the worth of
aloe of t}
ing and
needless
berome n
it to
practic alls
fm the Tr
claimed, w
forins ns
made the
very badly
financial
was af «
this crit
evel atl
Nhebha
sprang vj
berton.
famons
¥
a
olor of t
{ottering
public
on the Wi
thrown onen as a
wiveh I
right, provided the;
calms and pald
by the Vaolkamad
Jobannes!
camp of
shanties, q
and ther
groveth
of the +
in thi= :
speedily mad
who had bull
fhe tov, to say
Band In
forma that
fittle be
will give
"hint as i
ine dns
bear of
for dron
fo pot it 1
fegia
Troe
strictly enforced
advocates of pt
sternation can be more
than described of
do-wells who swarmed to the
search of a fort
of their through
fash! If was a terrible
and filled the respeciable portion of the
community with seeret amusement.
Revertheless, it soon became a great
evil and degradation to the white
man, Fuagziish or otherwise, be
Pbrovght te the level of the Kafir
threngh the medium of the whip.
Another system of curious practice
was that known as “jumping,” vik.
stealing another's clafms, which con-
sisted In paying up overdue taxes un
known fo the original owners of the
gold claims, and taking possession of
the ground “right under their noses.”
fo 10 speall
Ag.de frinm all political and financial
questions, the Boer is not a bad neigh
bor, neler is he an uninteresting
friend or companion. He has a certain
one «
f fos
fo change
camp in
© To be deprived
fear of the
state of affairs
whisky
to
stranger at the first blush, but is ex-
eeedinglydroll on a closer acquaint.
sex kas an abiding charm for him, al
beit his Ideal of beauty is not exactly
on a parallel with ours. A fie, healthy,
plump vrou is to him as attractive as
the grace and delicacy so necessary to
attractiveness In a woman according
to the English taste, With the Boer
‘the substantial is a great quality, be it
fm bis woman or his lite stock, from
#%e sheep to the horse
i
a
he Boar has many
least of which Is that of temperance,
i and no doubt this the Boer owes
his splendid health and fine appearance
together with that clear-headedness
which has stood him such good service
in the many exciting
which hig country has passed recently,
One of the most fatal things In n cli
mate lke the Transvaal is the tend
encyto much That,
wether with bad food and lack of sani
tation “killed off” more Englishmen in
than any
virtues, not the
Oo
wiirs through
“howe! too fips
the early days of the Rand
privation or hard work endured by the
digger and prospector of those times
A last word for the Boer women,
who are a kindly, hospitalble class, al
belt a trifle stupld to the average Euro
pean. They have all our love of fash
ion and predilection for shopping, as
the fine shops of Johannesburg prove
Paul's Magazine,
it
OBSTINACY OF LLAMAS,
LY
Mules Are Vacillating Compared With
These Stubborn Brutes
The boy called, “Un-pal” to
lifting
trail
the
Hamas, his finger as to point
the Ordinarily waottld
11
FERERL"}
sand
build
$05 10 iit
de him
} Nolwddy but a
Peruvian Indian ean do anvthing with
a Peruvian camel, gnd Ramon has just
shown us the proper tactics. Hurt the
animal, and be only grows more sullen:
but the pebbles merely tease him un
til he can no longer bear it. And really
he repays patience when he behave:
well, for he is the only animal that can
work effectively at these terrific alti
tudes, where horses and mules are
practically useless. But adelante (for
ward!)"-8t, Nichqlas,
a fire bes
¢ would pot get up
Trees Five Centuries Old.
Gerike, the great German forester,
the pine In Norway and Sweden have
lived to the latter age. Next comes the
gilver fir, which in the Bohemian for
ests has stood and thrived for upward
| for 400 years. In Bavaria the larch has
| reached the age of 275 years. Of foll-
nge trees, the oak appears to have sur
vived the longest. The best example
| is the evergreen onk at Aschoffenburg,
which reached the age of 410 years,
| tbr onks in Germany have lived
| to be from 315 to 320 years old. At
i Aschoffenburg the red beech bas lived
| to the age of 245 years, and ax other
| points to the age of 225 years. Of
other trees, the highest known firs:
Ash, 170 years; birch, 160 to 200 years;
aspen, 220 years; mountain maple, 225
years; elm, 130 years, and red alder,
145 years,
i
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
British are nicknamed bheeleater
The annual col
sumption of meat in Great Britain pe
124.8 pounds, of which 65.7
mutton, 28.6 pork, 2.2 othe
woe IN
The
without reason,
head is
Fignres just compiled show that dn
the vear 1880 seventy-four rail
totals
show only thirty-one roads placed
ingolvent, while the
{
A savings bank of New York keeps |
During thu
IRE there one nctol
there
but a
were 720 laborers: therk was
was only
1.302 tallors;
editor, while
were ther
thers
single
but ond
and 337 peddler
bakers
but vers
:
lots of shoemakeoers
walters, cigarmakers
musicians, liquor dealers, lnwyer
Only
aud one
fi
leemen
five p {
or policemen
soldier
of land
nvicis {oo
Hp
work
f
supervision ol the
x |
Wiis thn
"he result
20 bales of cotton
HMw hughels of
$7 OHH
v2 i miles,
{54.6000 miles; Europe, O80
Africa, 2 and
The United] St
length than any
JO 000 miles, and
comes next, although European Russin
The
in this order
Austria-Hungary,
Tiny:
61,400; 1.400), Luss
£
§7.500 miles ates
grote
g ot het
ountry Ruxsin
ther coun
Germany,
British In
da, Italy, Turkey, the Argentine Re
in point of
however, Belgium leads,
miles of territory:
*
Germany
United Kingdom bas 280 miles of tele
graph for every 1.000 miles of country
ence to women, The first
charges I8 not of any particular mo
ment, All men are more or less con-
coitex], The difference, however, be-
tween the masculine conceit and the
feminine quality of vanity must be
borne in mind. The second charge is
a very serious one, Deference to wom:
an Is a quality the absence of which is
incompatible with everything like re
finernent, It is at the base of ail chiv.
alry. It keeps men from the ensy fa-
miliarities which are the marks of the
social degenerate, It promotes the re-
gerve, which Js the first and most nec
essary thing In the social relations. A
man who is not deferential to women,
tolerns
wer, WW ill
mann
pd haldtually not be
his fellow
followed
Hoentgen's oxperiments
! efforts of othm
been by ‘he
the
newspaper
Vy ive
vars along saints Hnes, together
vith
VELL
wide
and connnon
(th
Hoentgen
ultra
to the ea
efly. 1'ro
Konrad Roen
whereby artiel
poptilar thought
pnversation a tendency town
entitle and the abstruse
HyK, X
ive—the words as familiar
Stated bir
rave, eathode ravs violet
the alphabet,
Willelm
found a means
teen ha
{ behind
fen]
prague substnnees, or contained there
phied and thelr po
it'on nceurately defined, The pletures
Hight often shadows
Their
Feed ve
in, may be photogra
hus obtained are
on the plate
the
mils character is
determined by density of
he inclosing atten If the envelope
tothe X IY
ent slight obstruct on
of the obiect
the lmpression
otigeh is proportionately
Kin
nll
Henceforth
'
i f¢01
rip
was enjoy
ane of tix COC In
all on Lim Never
of $118
clothes
plained
game day he
during
io ry
BOTOTITER
was scalded
got doctors and others to use this treat
know
this treatment, becguse I have spoken
to several about §f, but in my business
hot lead and tin and
frequently burned by the
apm ttering upon us We keep a bottle
of ammomnia at hand, and we never
have any sore places from the burns”
ment i that
we have to use
et
Thought He Knew Cold,
The Butte (Mentanay Inter-Mountain
Wilson, who owned the famons Paris
mine in Park county, Mont. Wilson
was visited by some Englishmen one
English patiern—one who knew all
about mines and a great deal about
everything else, In his own opinion
gold, and he panned out some very fine
colors for thelr edification. “But that
isn't gold” pronounced the youtliful
expert, after nu critical examination,
“Me deal fellah, 1 am a graduate of
the English School of Mines, and |
know gold when 1 see it, you know,
That ie iron.” Wilson didu't say much.
Hie just leaned over and took the al
leged expert confidingly by the ghoul
der. “Mebbe Is isnt,” he sald, “but
don’t go and give it away to those fel
lows dew at the Denver mint, for 1
have been selling this staff to them for
gold all slong.”
FOURIN-HAND,
of the Civil War,
an Oid Soldier.
Story
good gun
fpge nnd good 1
soned troops
ammunition,
fd the
tn hed
neon
ngon
i
te it a point
{
upplied. 1
ke
he best w
always f for the
the best team: and wii
was in act
tion, if it
the
1 ees
was where a 4
dammunitiion
field
wagon
right on to th
Here, for §
nacotion 4
TF'OWS Willie
road near
may be
road
i
fd
Ge RINngE ms
gtr al drama of arid Amer
ene
ica.
In the hand {
cans of
a singnant
Mexi
irrigation
indians and
the Southwest, Was
art, but the white popula
on
which it elec.
tricity and pew mining prog The
lower races merely knew that if crops
were expected fo grow on dry land they
must be artificially watered,
proceedad to pour on
radest method,
manded to Know
studied it with the
tion hans
thusiasm
a4 me
lestows upon
SRO”
the water by the
I'he Anglo-Saxon de
best supplied to meet their
pends,
through the
borhood associations,
proached hy gradual steps true seen.
tific methods, which are producing re.
the world. Century.
The Ways of the Opossum.
present day should have chosen to con
sider the opossum an animal of a lower
order than the stupid znd helpless
sloth, and the third order from the
lowest of all, i= not so easy to under
stand as if ought to be. As a matter of
fact, nature has done a great deal for
the opossum -far more than for the
great majority of quadrupeds. Note
what the creature is, and can do, and
mateh it if you can, It ean eat almost
anything that can be chewed-—wild
eggs, young birds and quadrupeds,
wie
prompts
gerne it
farce water through the bose, 0 sip
aferring the
to a rotary
nuachine
rom the
do mudguard
pearing i
change in the
power fro
i prung
TWO Arms running
rear axle, much as
braces, are let when the
chine is ready to work at a fire and
serve as stanchions to hold the na
chine firms. At the time they
raise the rear wheels from the gronad,
permitting them to without
moving the quad wheels are
then throw into action with the rear
Lube and serve as the power to work a
rotary pump hung in the rear framing.
ore
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down an
KR Ie
revolve
(sear
The Fake Telescope.
A wellknown scientist, walking
along a London stiyoel, came AeTOER aR
ftinerant astrondner, and applying his
eye to the instrument was astonished
to see a beautiful full moon, although
at the time the moon was only in her
second quarter. The instrument was
not a telescope at all, but simply a
tube, with a hole where the eyepiece
should be, and a transparency of ihe
full moon, with a light behind it at the
other end. On the scientist asking
the exhibitor how he could so cheat
the public, the man simply remarked:
“It's all right, sir. 1 used to have 8
proper "scope ouce, but I turned it up
This way pays better and gives more