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PHOTOGRAPH OF A TYPICAL BOER SOLDIER.
On his never-tiring little horso, the Door soldier rides to ovory flfflit. The
horses are left in the rear biuI the farmer soldiers walk iuto battle. The
Boer wears no uniform and carries his cartridges in a holt about bis client
and wherever else he can More them. After the fight he niouutu again.
This explains the mobility of the Boer forces.
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. r F the Zulus seize the oppor
j jrll tunity offered by the Trans-
her hands full. Hhonld the
bold Basutos join arms with
their tierce cousins, South
Africa would become hot
soil for the British foot for
many long months to come.
Both of these uprisings ore threat
ened; both are greatly feared. The
"A men BASl'TO.
Zulu situation in particular is watched
with anxious eye. England for a while
was overmatched in the last Zulu war
. jtnd victory was bought in the end with
rivers of English blood. Scarcely any
greater misfortune could come just
now than an uprising such as this.
The Zuln is undoubtedly the best
native tighter of Ho nth Africa. He is
physically a splendid savage fierce,
powerful and euduriug. Add to this
the memory of a magnificent past, tlio
traditions and courage of a race tin
whipped except by white men, aud by
them only at fearful odds, aud you
have a worthy foouiau. The Zulus
a
few
DEBATE IN THE BA8UT0 PARLIAMENT.
yielded to the sway of England through
force indeed, but the fight they made
then was one to keep alive the hope of
better ending for renewed atrnggle.
The secret of the Zulu power lies.
first, in organization, and second, in
the tradition of victory. Organization
tinder the great chieftain Tshaka at
the beginning of the present century
gave them their first superiority over
other savage tribes, and an unending
actios of victories for half B century
or more produced a race of rare cour
age and warlike prowess. The story of
it describes the Zulu of to-day.
What is now known as Znluland a
wild country, bounded on the north
by the Transvaal, on the south and
west by Natal and on the east by the
sea was then divided among several
savage tribes, of which the Zulus
were ono of the weakest. Tho chief
of a neighboring tribe, tho Umtetwas,
plotted tho murder of his two sons,
one of whom, however, escaped, and
iu bis wanderings fell in with the
British, tho organization of whose
forces he noted with shrewd under
standing. Aftor his father's death ho
returned to his tribo, was made chief,
and proceeded to organize his warriors
into brigades, regiments and compan
ies, Britiuh fashion, and had remark
able success in warfare.
One of his lion tenants was a youth
of tierce and restless energy. lie was
tho sou of a conquered chieftain and
his name was Tshaka. He studied the
organization of tho Umtetwn army
zealously and saw iu it wonderful
things not accomplished by his wise
but mild chieftain. He made up his
mind that some day his own chauce
would como.
Winuiug cousidorution, Tshaka was
finally, as a reward, appointed chief of
the weak tribe of Zulus. He organ
ized them perfectly, and whon the
ohiof of the Umtetwas was killed in
battle Tshaka announced the indepen
dence of the Zulus aud upheld it by
force.
This done Tshaka started in to
make the Zulu power supreme. He
attaoked his weaker noighbors first,
aud with every viotory absorbed the
young warriors into his own army and
dontroyed the old men, womou and
children. Iu this way his own army
grew marvelonsly, und his conquered
neighbors lost recuperative power and
eventually identity.
He divided his young warriors into
rogimeuts, distinguishing each regi
ment ly dillereut colored shields, aud
established with rewards a oompoci
tive spirit among regiments. He
trained them to advance and attack iu
solid formation, something new iu
South Afrioan aavage warfare, and ha
developed the olose quarters attaok
with the abort stabbing assegai or
pear, so generally used among South
African tribes.
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. Then be established an Inviolate
law that any soldier returning from
battle without assegai or shield,- or
with a wound in the back, should be
executed as a coward. By another
law yonng soldiers were forbiddon
wives until after long service, unions
meantime they earned thorn by dis
tinguished bravery in the field.
Absolute discipline was Inculcated.
An expedition never knew its destina
tion and purpose until far from home.
In attacking the first onslaught was
always in solid formation, supported
on either side by wltigsof skirmishers.
Flank movements wnro a regular
mntnmvre, and as effective in snvngo
as in civilized warfare.
It can canity be seen bow the
Zulus, under such a systom, swept all
before them. The undisciplined sav
ages of the plains and forestH went
down like grain before the reaper.
And every new tribo subjugated was
ruthlessly amalgamated into the vic
torious nation.
The Zulus swept the const, subju
iratcd Natal and ptiHlicd their ilerce,
bloody sway far inland. Tito terror
of their name, passed far north and far
south.
Nor wits there limit to thoir ravages
until the Dutch settled in Natal.
Then began a series of fierce fights in
which the white man and the rille
finally triumphed and the Zulu powor
was brokon, or nt least roduoed to the
point of non-iuterfereuee with the
movotneiits of the Dutch and the Eng
lish, who soou after swarmed over the
land.
Hut while tanght to respect the
white ninu, the Zulu nursed his tradi
tions, his pride and his ferocity. It
was a disgrace iu his eyes to labor ex
cept In the prosecution of war. Un
der Cotewoyo, the great chief whose
power Englnnd broke in a war in
which she mot several terrible re
verses and lost hosts of splendid men,
the Zulu was at heart the Zulu of the
great Tshaks's days.
And this is the people who now
threaten to avail of F.nglaud's troubles
to regain their freedom. They are
the sauio iu spirit and ore rich in re
sentment. For years they have
nursed their wrongs. What they have
lost in savage fierceness by a genera
tion of peaceful subjection is more
NATIVE TOMCEMEN OF TIIE
than nintched, say recent writers, by
their gains in knowlodge. They still
retain thoir terrible stabbing assegai,
but they have added the riile, aud are
splendid marksmen. They dream of
restoring the splcndors-of their past,
and if they rise cau be counted a ter
lible foo.
Znluland to-dny has a population of
about a hundrod and eighty thousand
natives and less than fifteen hundred
whites. The only occupation of the
natives is the raising of cattle. There
are 8000 square miles in the district
aud the government is a British pro
tectorate ZULU 110YM AT THF.Ilt MIDDAY MEAL
"MEALIH PAP."
The Basutos, while by no moans
tho poors in war of the Zulus, ooonpy
a strong position. Basntolaud is
bounded by Cape Colony, the Orange
Free State aud Natal, They have
only GOO Europeans iu their entire
territory.
The ootintry is a splendid grain pro
ducer, and the BasutoB are thrifty and
rich. There are wild mountain dis
tricts to serve in time of need.
They were once a warlike power of
some oonsequenoe, and iu 1879 they
stood off England in a war over dis
armament to a compromise by which
the Cape Government has since paid
them $90,000 a year toward the coat
of government.
They are in large measures self
governing of course, under British
diotation and enjoy a considerable
measure of oivilizatlon. About fifty
thousand out of a population of two
hundred and twenty thousand have
been oonyerted to Christianity,
In one of the accompanying large
illustration! la shown meeting of
the most extraordinary parliament,
perhaps, that ever came together to
disouss State affairs. This congrega
tion of ebony skinned politicians is
the Kaffir Parliament of Basntolaud,
which lies to the northeast of Caps
Colony, and Is consequently intimately
associated with the present African
muddle. Tlieso Dannies number over
2110,000, and occupy the finest grain
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a ztifiti WAitmon.
and grass producing territory in Routh
Africa. The capital of tho country is
Maseru, with a population of (100, and
it is here that the native parliament
meets to discuss matters of Htate.
Basutotand is really a British protoe
toratn, but the imperial authorities
interfero very little with the liberties
and ways of the natives, the only
white oflleial being a rosident com
missioner who levies a very small
"but tax" ou the natives in return for
which they receive the protection of
British troops along their froutier.
IfAtKlllnB f.aran M tlltnry Pnrrftfl,
Home of the practical difficulties of
handling large military forces may be
I'ltOVINCK OF NATAIj, fl. A.
inferred from the following statements
in T. Miller Maguire's "Outlines of
Military Ooography:"
"A Britihh division on the maroh
along an ordiuary main road without
an advanced guard would be five
miles iu length. If the modern Gor
man army were put in motion the
whole military road from the Ithiue
to the Kussian frontier would be
thickly crowded with soldiers, gum
and transports. If an army corps of
!)0,000 mon and 10,000 horses rests
for n day or two preparatory to a battle
or during a sicgo it eats up all pro
visions procurable in a piece of rich
coirhtry jiue miles loug by fire miles
wide."
An Accidental Canicfiten of a KIM,
Webstor Snider, of Sullivan, Ind.,
went to Terre Haute to have s piece
of knitting needle removed from his
arm where it found lodgment when
his aweothoart was playfully resitting
his effort to kiss her. Suider says
that when bidding the young lady
good night he attempted to kiss hor.
She resisted aud there was a sonille.
He kissed her aud in doing so ran his
arm against tho needle, which she
hold iu her hand. It penotratod the
arm four or five inches and threo
inches of it broke off iu the arm. The
X-ray was used by the surgeon
and tho piece of the needle was re
moved. An Arizona Cnrlitilty.
This enormous cactus grows near
PhiBuix, and is one of the curiosities
of that region. It is about forty feet
high, aud its great size may be easily
noted from a comparison of its height
A GIANT CACTUS.
with that of the men standing under
it. The oaotus fiber is nsed for roof
ing of huts in Arizona and etbet
States where it is found.
new york
Designs For Costumes That Have Be
come Popular in tho Metropolis.
Nrw Your Crrr (Special). This
city is tho point where all milliners
gut their first selections. The new
J
spniNrt Motip.r.s mow rAnts.
(t. Empire. 3. Trliomn. (t. Cliatitllly.
liner. B. Iilreptolre.)
style indication already approaching
is leaving on one side toquos, berets
and round bats of the folded and cum
bersome order. These will bo re
placed by picture hats, which iu point
of style will astonish the world by tho
time the early season begins.
Marked favor is bestowed on all
sort of head wear approaching the
Directoire and First Empire styles
RIX WAYS OF
eithor in shape or mode of adorn
ment. These will be huge straw affairs
with wide brims, filled iu between and
on top with magnificent flowors, pre
ferably roses. Lots of laoe, with
strings tied under the ohin and flow
ing over the front of the gowns, is a
fair outline description of what can bo
expeoted in the later season.
The great huts of Neapolitan, Swiss
and fancy braids will be anything bnt
light looking affairs, summery only in
the sonse of protection to the fane and
in lightness of material aud decora
tions. Cut nf tho New Kklrta.
Just because we are one and all to
have skirt fullness thrust upon ns,
tbore is not the slightest reason to
fear that there's to be any painful
sameness about said fullness. No, we
may have our fullness where we waut
it, and how we want it. It may
grace a skirt or au overskirt, or
uuy other arraugement known to
feminine apparel. It may be thiok
or thin, or in dusters, only it must be
graduated; shapely, you know, and
flaring out toward the foot and taper
ing in at the bolt. In the large en
graving are six of this approved ways
of introducing the fullness.
8INOLB.
We will take a look al the single
bos plait first. This one is orna
mented with atitebed satin applique,
which, of course, pnts it in the more
elegant list. The very same plait,
sans ornamentation, however, is every
bit as graoeful and figures on any
number of effective skirts. If inverted
this box plait forms the old fashioned
side-plaited effeot.
DOUBLI.
The double bos plait is almost as
great a favorite, though one mast ad -
wit that there's mora of it to get ou'.
of shape, and disorderly generally
.
mwm.
Ono thing, wo must bo careful ii
holding up the skirt thus adorned, for
plaits awry cease to bo ornamental.
TWINS.
To return to thnsinglo plaiti somn
liko them in pairs. And, indeed,
sumo figures really do seem to be bet
tnr set off by twin plaits than by ono.
In this ciiho tho plaits are always
single.
Titttrn op A kind.
In this cine they nro single, ton.
Thcro's really no need for explana
tions, since tho cut tolls tho whold
story.
mix ri.AtTS At.r, Ai:ot;Ni).
Though theso paragraphs deal with
tlio arrangement of back, fullness, the
plaits on this graceful skirt go all
the way around.
htitciibd TtirKS.
This Is another way of taking earn
of the ubiquitous back fullness, for it
we have to have said fullness nt all,
we want it so well nnoliorod that it
will stay where it is it. This is an
attractive way of managing this part
of a skirt, which is made of orepo do
cliino or like fabrics textnres that
are not sufficiently heavy to make
good, solid box plait. As you soe,
this tucked arrangomout is habit
back, as to shape.
Am Innovation In fllrillfli.
The tiiiprecedoutod vogue of jot has
led to its use iu forms in feminine
dress hitherto unheard of. The lust
new arrival to make its appearance
among us, straight from La Hello
France, is shown by our illustration.
This is an ornamental jet girdle, mada
of fine qnality out black jut beads, on
a silk foundation, with its ends fin
ished with tassels to match. Soma
fasten simply with a hook and eye,
DKAPINO A HKII'.T.
while others fasten with a slide. They
only come in one size, as they will fit
any figure, because they are not in
tended to be worn tight.
The continued demand for jet for
costumes, millinery, chatelaine bags.
fABISIAN 1ST OIRDLB.
belts in fact, fc:r almost every pur.
' pose under the sun no doubt be
Speaks for this j'i girdle a warm wel
J -ome oa this lido of the water.
AM