THE ‘BLACK PERIL.
A HORRIBLE POSSIBILITY OF THE BOER-
BRITISH WAR.
South Africa Would Mcan May Occa.
sion Atrocities that Would Appall the
World.
One of the horrible possibilities of
the British-Boer war is an outbreak
of the black population in South
Africa. The natives hate the Boers for
the traditional cruelty of the latter,
and if the British forces are unable to
restrain them the blacks may work
atrocities that will appall the world.
The disproportion between the black
and white population in South Afriea
8 enormous. In every case throughout
this part of the continent the black
greater or less extent; in some Instan-
ces the disparity is stupendous, as In
Natal Rhodesia and British Central
Africa.
the illustration indicate the total man
jut
man
The
the total man power of the whites,
it will be observed that the black
carries a spear, theswhite a ritle,
following comparative
numbers of the two races:
Country. Black.
Cape Colony. ... . 1,600,000
Rhodesia 1,000,000
Transvaal. ... 850,000
S30.
0,000
20.0
S0.000
HK)
Ni) UHM)
lasutoland. . 250,000
Orange Free State...
Swaziland. .
British Cent,
Bechuanaland
The centre of interest In the present
juncture naturally the Transvaal,
where there are 850,000 and
250.000 whites. The natives are most
iy confined to the northern portions of
Zoutpansoverg,
and here they
thousands.
labor is
2060), 000)
TO ERY
KL 000
250 O00)
Africa 0
Se
is
natives
the republie, the Spelon-
ken and Letaba districts,
Hive and thrive in their
The Witwatersrand mine
largely supplied from these distric
and the Transvaal government has
native scattered
throughout the country. There not
very much chance of any fous
ger Transvaal from
sn
commissioners
x
in
ser
to the the natives
its borders, all sporadic up-
take
men
place among the
and
generally speaking,
risings mi
Inte Magato's
M’'pefu, but,
Transvaal nati
bull
under
the
tribes
are too downtrod
den, ted to offer
inasmuch :
handing over
autho
aga
trol.
the Zuln
If they
the Trac
Os
in
(HH) native
and
3
tween these
ed. there
are
lays and * ]
whom are practically half
the former to all intents and purposes
whites. The Malays form an integral,
and lerable
the population of Cape Town and
They are all Mohammedans,
and have their own mosques and had
jles, Most law-abiding,
they make excel
tizens, They are,
loyal of her
EYL
‘ape the
CASIes
reliable, consi portion of
its
suburbs,
or priests,
thrifty,
lent and desirable of
moreover
majesty’s
in Basutola
ders of the Orange
I (KK natives
and honest,
among the most
subjects,
nd, which lies on the bor
there
Gin)
State,
barely
tives are exeellent agri
to the Zulas. per
of the
Free
and
next
i of any
nent.
cent portion of
the British sway
* beat specime:
of the subcont
South
Africa to o » under
is Rhodesia, which embraces the
bined prov of Matabeleland,
pei ne Manicaland, and also
portion of what was
Natural
mized, the
DIOR, 10
na
CO
f! «
formerly Lind
Is . ing as yet barely
wtion of races
Rhodesia there
"tives and fewer than At
time it may safely be taken
for granted that it is to this portion of
the continent that the tide of emigra-
tion will set during the next year. In
Bri
O00 natives and 500 whites, This huge
tract of country, although under Brit.
ish influence, will take many years to
colonize, and is now and bound to re.
main for a long while a “blackman’s
country.” Bechuanaland, which
now formally annexed to ‘the Cape
Colony, and Includes the vast
land at ove time known as Khama's
country, numbers 250.000 natives aml
2000 whites, The latter are mainly
farmers, transport-riders, storekeepers,
and that section of the police formally
called the B, B, P.,
Border Police, a very fine body of men,
ongid Ie ¥ al sl ©"
's country.
only
hwe
dispropu i= enot
million
L000 ww
are over an
hites,
the same
is
tary corps of mounted infantry,
fewer than 530,000 natives, almost all
Zulus (Natal Is reckoned as Includeag
Zululand proper), and 50.000 white
folk. There are thus twelve natives to
every white inhabitant, The Zulus are
a fine, healthy upstanding race, and,
when not contaminated by European
influence, customs and viees (for the
Zulu is very hmitative), they are trust.
worthy, honorable, and, in short, a
tribe of nature's noblemen. Unfor.
tunately, they easily deteriorate, but
when isolated in their own locations
they keep up all traditions of a fearless
independence, They are loyal to Eng-
land.
By a curious condatenntion of events
which is not without its bestring upon
the manner in which the Boers treat
natives, according to thelr Inunemerinl
custom, the Orange Free State pre.
sents the nearest approach to equality
between the two races, Here there
are 200.000 natives and 80.000 whites,
or about two and one-half to one
There is a lesson in this which may
bear evil fruit in the near future. The
total white population of the whole of
South Africa Is approximately 820,000
of which 432.000 may be classed as
Duteh and 388.000 as English, in sym.
pathy, at any rate, if not by birth,
PACIFIC COAST FISHING INCIDENT.
Narrow tscape of a Small Boats Party from
a Whale's Mad Rush.
that
unless
The theory whales refuse to ot
men they themselves
assailed was exploded a few days ago,
At the hour stated a monster whale
in length made
a vicious charge nt a boat anchored off
Point Cavallo nnd badly frightened
occupants, Bat for
had the
might have
boat,
ne
its
the coolness of the
boat in charge the
been disastrous,
the fisherman
was pulled to a
off Moint
who
result
The containing
children,
Wi foe Cavol
point about 1.0
The party were fishing Industiriously
vile entered the Golden Gate
I toward them. The
mal excited the
of the young fisher folk, but cau
alarm. Suddenly his whaleship caugh
sight of the
an
hoat and he reared his ma
jestic
to
building
proportions aloft until he seeme
in the water like
He
and
was evidently
his bearings as he caught
the bos
The Window in the
“Ve
wanted
and yon
in the back o
as ave riapped i
“
%
i
down tl
tent
A SCA,
we middle of the
the ridge pole
used to cut the
up near t
and spread the «i
in a stick six
across the middie,
opening.
ning
the
ground
tent from
and we
along that
the tont,
sen,
putting
long
diamond shaped
long. which
rabily.
The
of the tent,
served th
men's guns stood at that
butts resting on
the barrels held in
secured to the
ind changed
cme
of the
would come in on the guns and on us,
and get up and
otit and let the canvas come together
there, and then open the tent 4
and, at the front,
all used to Kind o
then somehow, though practi
it was just what I would have
done in the old house at home and
just what I'd do here pow.” New
York Sun.
A piece of
eracker box,
of a holder
if the wn
night
sort
pole, of
rainy and ground to b
pinat the back font. the
then somebody would
ag
in
“This
strange,
seein
A Novel Race,
Anglo-Indians are passionately fond
and have originated some
clever and unusnal outdoor entertain.
ments, Not long ago a race was got
up in which 2 camel, an elephant, a
horse, a bicyele and an automobile eart
were the entries, The camel and the
amd the horse, bicycle and automobile
were managed by experts, The course
was three miles, and the race was a
handicap. the elephant and camel being
given haif.a mile and the antomobile
an eighth of a mile. The elephant won
the race, the bleyele and the automo:
bile fishing a second and find,
He Gave ¢ His Com
It was at a society wedding. ‘he
clergyman after proclaiming the banns
of matrimony between the young con
ple concluded by saying: “If there be
any objections they ean now be stated,”
A fashionable youth, an old admirer
of the intended bride, noticing the eyes
of a portion of the congregation fixed
upon him, rose up and exclaimed: “1
have no objections for my own part,”
and then quietly resumed his seat ae if
he had atteaded to a mere formality,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
It will cont $250,000 to
necessary repairs on the Olympin,
But they wonld be made all the same,
sven if it cost four times that su,
improve an individual's appearance,
it cannot be denied that many people
look better through them.
The Sultan of Turkey denies the re-
port that he drowned a number of the
harém ladies suspected of conspiracy.
The Sultan evidently does not desire
to furnish the basis for an aggressive
equal rights movement in his domain,
We are apt to 2 Took upon Russian as
a somewhat backward country in in
dustrial enterprise, butit isa fact that
Russia leads all the ecuntries of Eu-
rope in the use of air brakes and other
safety appliances for railroads,
The latest educational novelty at
Chicago is a school just opened under
university suspices., It is designed
as # home for abnormal pupils or de
fectives who will receive special in-
struction under supervision of mind
experts,
Adam Bmith, noted
maplishiment
pins by
A century ago
as a remarkable
of
x
any.
an
the
ten
t
is
“noe
4% 000
in
ordinary ac
’ S00, GOO pilus
men these times }
considered
ihn
hievelnent
for three men to make T
in Lhe same Linney,
The
te
things
is
modded
Ie nesses, One ©
out 25 iN
PAM
ing,
EM 0
Of th
£100 000
“Te
maing
Fra:
Facts multiplying daily go to prove
the famine from which the
ni the pre sent
Car
faont
what is worse,
the
and,
18 " i lesprea i ‘ever
known, jnstead of
as has been
iraus
past, vat
probability of
ns
is
in the 1nd
sting all winter,
The flag of the Red Cross Associa-
tion now floats over a fully equipp« d
hospital in China, where fifty to
Lhe
perhaps,
ctor In
alice
from
has complished,
tha
Cross
ac
any other one fa
civilizing the world, and the ad
of the Hed Cross in China will do
moch towards bringing that nation to
au appreciation of modern ideas,
What becomes of all the pennies ?
A superficial answer might be that we
spend them, as in truth we do; bat
did you ever stop to consider the
enormous quantities of the little cop-
per coins turned out by the Philadel-
phin Mint every year ? The figures
are really appalling in thelr magni.
tude, There are at prevent abont
1, 000, 000,000 cents in cirenlation, and
yet the mint is compelled to turn ont
nearly 4,000,000 a month to keep up
the supply. It seecimns as thongh this
most common coin must in some mys-
terions fashion vanish in thin air, for
surely nobody boar as Siem, ’
A queer Brazilian eustom is men:
tioned in the Anglo-American,
a young man of the poorer classes be-
comes engaged to a girle—and all the
courting among the parties in this
country is doue by the parents of
those mont
ench week BAVes
earns and BOM
with her own savings until they have
enongh to buy the absolute necessa:
ries to begin the married state,
ES rk 0 me on od
Judge Van Sickel in the Supreme
Court of Union county, N. J., has
rendered an opinion as to the validity
of a lease on a novel claim, Several
yours ago a house was built on the
dividing line between the farms owned
by Victor D. Schomp and John Maire,
at Dog Corner... The structure en
erosched twelve foot on the propert
of Bohowon. To overcomes PAP
enlty without removing the houses,
| Bchomp issued a lease to Maire for
the a time the
structure, ol
but this
house that burn-
the lease, The
the cellar under the
ed still maintained
a hard-fought suit on Loth sides, the
Court decided that the cellar did not
constitute a valid claim for continuing
the lease,
A change for the better in the char-
acter of lialian immigration is noticed
by the Pittsburgh Dispatch smong
the Italians arriving in thecity. Un
til recently the immigration was com
posed principally of men, who came
with the intention of remaining only
until they had accumulated enough
money to make their condition
on their return to their native
The persons now arriving are mainly
farm-laborers and mechanics, In
nearly every instance the immigrant
is accompanied by his family, and has
come with the intention of never re-
turning to Italy. The families are
usunl ly posse ssed of a little means,
und their first business, after secur.
ing work, to invest their money in
yroperty., A number
red permanent
ensier
lund.
in
of these people
NER intlely
» 3 . ¥
» who have child fend
a disposition to buy
of the
BLOW
residence property oulside
various Italian colonies,
By
ny ove
out of the
¢ ot
when laying enrbe
he sidewalk drains freely
weather instead
the street ap
verandas are
passers-by,
thie
NH Bre
walks,
: atlreetl in wel
the
wider, and front
scree from
pian is urged upon persous cut
water:
. 3
eq
ting new streets,
Waiting for the Coin
whilst examining
ARON,
of the monster revoly
to a light house, a
ng
fy Boe
shing
onds would elapse b plete i
half crown
1 ie 4
i it on
:
piece
thu
1 Watch In hand,
patiently wy for the coln «©
ain to where he was
but no half-crown appeared
mda length into minutes,
«ill no half crown
“Strange!” he exclaimed,
Ie the reason of it¥”
111 order to ascertain be walked round
to the other side of the lamp, and in
doing so encountered one of the light
house men, whe touched his cap, and
fron pocket and place
i g frame work
he i
come routs] ag
standing
The sec
ened
“What can
gald, in an undertone, “thank you, |
wir.”
The man, seeing the coin coming to i
ward him. had procured it thinking it
was meant for a tip.
Big Trees in the Tarheel! State.
Mr. Thomas Garrison has given the
News some valuable information in re
gard to another very large poplar
tree. The tree is 20 feet and 10 inches
in circumference, Mr, Garrison also
tree in the
same township that is 24 feet and ©
This tree ie
one ide. Mr, Garrison, who is 6 feet
down crosswise without touching the
sides of the tree, The opening is large
enough on the inside for liorse to
be turned around in. Mr. Garrison
says the hollow is large enough for a
good stable~Charlotte (N. C.) News,
Sma
Nearly every citizen in Springville
District, Greennp County, Ky. was ar
rested recently for refusing to work on
the yords, ns required by the Kentucky
road law.
Wi
TINY Oks TH MESSENGER
Terrible Opportunities of Secret Murder |
Lurk ina Late Device.
Warden Hagen, of the Tombs Prison,
New York City, has in his possession
fn noval weapon, perhaps the most dan-
gerous ever taken from a prisoner,
The origin of this deadly implement
was an ordinary hypodermic syringe.
It is the hypodermic syringe adapted
to crime,
The slender, hollow
which the puncture Is
drug injected in ordinary us
into a sort of tiny blow pipe
which, when the piston Is pressed, will
fly for a distance of fect with
suflicient the flesh
and remain almost Im
pered ptible its hol
low core is large enough suffi
clent quantity of a drug cause
unconsciousness or de
Pressed against a pers
or body In a crowd snd
shoved hard the deadly
through any ordi
clothing and carry it=
into the flesh,
Commissioner Li
of the pry
numin
have
needle with
and the
i made
dart
made
several
force to
buried
vound it
puncture
the
make
in
tO Carry
to
ath
on's arm or leg
speedy
the piston
would
BO
of
dore
thickness
faial
nary
dose deep
Campbell,
intr
son? medical and a
+ of expert
examined the
pronounced it not onl
in the Implements
thing more deadly
than they has
“We found
in the
inclined to
He Way
At
that a
disease
in :
icant fact
large percentage of those who
suffered from an attack
time before the seizure
old ‘grape wepl’ caused a
deal of to
operators, 1!
is In son
associated with any
rate, it ix a signif
have it
of grip
The
great
Liny ©
a short
theory
HOADECeKEAry anxiety early
When they
failed to find anything
of the appendix they
posed fo fear that thes
mistake in
we knife
unusual in
need
and
fhe sac wore dis.
made a
and that the
of appen
BAY many
of
had
the diagnosis
case was, after all, not
dicitia, To be frank, 1
a sur reported the
one
dare
discovery
or something in the
line when the was really as
The poor fellow had
escape But
atid there is no occa
Renn
srape wielln ela
ame SAC
empty as a dram
io
know better now,
sion for suliterfuge. The
to do It censure,
good health,
cases is very
New Orleans
when the patient is in
The death rate in such
small--really trifling.
Times Democrat,
Going to the Dogs!
ter came to her mother-indaw with a
heartbroken expression recently and
threw herself on the floor in the aban.
donment of grief,
“Why, what is the matter, Mary?”
the elderly lady exclaimed. “Has any.
thing happened to WII?”
“Oh, mother, he's taken to staying
out nights!” walled the unhappy young
woman,
“How long has this been going on,
my dear? It doesn't seem possible! |
used to know all about my boy's hab.
its, and be never went anywhere he
shouldn't. How late does he stay
away?’
“You know he usually leaves the of.
fice at b o'clock, mother. Night before
fast be never got home until 6, and last
night he didn't set foot in the house
until 20 minutes after 6. Ob, what
shall 1 do!"—Chicago News,
A Floatiag Sasil.
There Is a small snail which Is so
fond of the sea that it never comes to
land, and it builds such a capital boat
for itself and its eggs that while large
ships are sinking and steamers are un.
able to face the storm it tosses about
in perfect safety,
The little snail Is of a violet color |
and » therefore called lanthina, I
has a small shell and there projects
from the under part of the body a long
| tongue-like piece of flesh, This is the
and it is bullt upon most scien.
principles, for it has compart-
It is broad and the
cannot eaprize,
Moreover, the snail knows how to
slow away ts cargo, for the oldest
and those which hatch the soon.
ext are placed in the center and the
lightest and newest on the side of the
The Ianthina fills it own air com-
partments by getting a globule of air
ath its head, the body then
downward beneath the raft,
tilted on one side,
and fills the
feeds on a beautiful little jelly
it, raft-like form
little mail upon it, and they
multitudes when the
PEFR
Bm
tinderne in
ved
the head being
Cur
air rushes in BPH CeS,
It
which has a fi:
pretty
fish,
with a
con.
gregnte in Ben (8
calm,
Bometimes mens washed
upon fhe northwestern coast of France,
en they handled
iolent dye.
pec are
and wi are they give
out a
REPORTER WORTH A MILLION,
Now Editor snd Proprietor of the Jersey
City Joursal
Phelps,
Journal
Rheflield owner
Was
s
A Singular Fricudatip,
: lamb will
matter on
can have lit
wrined when
dog and
equally Inter
, for the have
them,
should
will
nev.
jown together is a
most opt]
One is not surg
ns the
nor the
esting cat and monkey
much in common, and many o
but that Tabby and a chicken
fraternize with the good
i= surely worthy of remark
A wanite had a pet hen,
mounting into her lap, with cackles and
delight. would deposit its morning of-
fering in the nest. The
creature was special
and the fam.
interest for the com-
One morning they noticed
hen at breakfast, and again, half
hour later fowl was strutting
in apparent indifference to her
21
jorse affil
inte,
Fy
&
i
utmost
who,
subur
improvised
finally
in the carriag
waited
brood
get in a
hox ¢ house,
iy with
ing
the
an
about,
the
cooling eges.
“Khe’'ll make no setter,” was the dis.
comment. “She's been too
Following her to the carriage house,
the woman was just in time (0 see a
fluffy mass leap from the box and the
hen serenely take its place on the nest,
This continued throughout the three
When Madam Hen took hes
morning constitutional Tabby would
obligingly Keep house and look after
her interests, leaving the moment the
little lady returned.—New York Her
ald,
Light and Airy. »
The Abyssinian soldier's ordinary
dress is not very attractive. It con.
wists, it is said, of a white linen shirt
down to his knees and a pair of light
linen trousers to lmif.way down his
calf, Over this he wears a belt of fold.
od linen, and, as a rule, a “shamma.”
or white cotton sheet, draped round
Cloaks of blue, red, green, yel
embroidery, leopard skins, sheepskins
and even lon skins are worn on special
secasions by the officers and small
chiefs, and the army then presents a
noble show,
Any man who has killed a lion or an
elephant, or has distinguished hinsel
much in battie, wears an aureole, or
lion's mane, on his head. For each
five men he has killed he wears a sil.
ver band on his sword seabbard. The
highest recompense for valor is a sort
of velvet top hat ornamented with sil.
ver, and great officers