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The man who is classed as a crank,
may console himself with the knowl.
edge that, in the absence of the crank,
the mighty power that moves the in
dustries of the world would sutler
paralysis.
Success in naval war depends in •
very great measure upon owning points
here and there in the ocean on which
your ship commanders and companies
may securely depend as bases for coal
and provision supplies and for re
pairs, writes Professor E. Benjamin
Andres in the New York Independent.
Without such, a strong navy may
be easily beaten by a weak one,
your war be lost, and your coast left
to the mercy of your foes. Some such
bases of supplies in the Pacifio we
must have and we canuct have too
many.
The influence of present social con
ditions in the United States upon the
birth rate is beginning to attract at
tention, for the reason that the size
of the average American family is
steadily decreasing. This is espe
cially true in New England, where
the average family has been reduced
from 5.16 iu 1850 to 4.57 at the pres
ent time, but the same thing is true
in a reduced degree of the whole na
tion. In 1850 the sizo of the average
American family was 5.55 and it has
now been reduced to 4.93. YYe are
•till maintaining a healthy birth rate,
but conditions that tend to restrict
the raising of families and to reduce
the number of births caunot be said
to be desirable.
The middleman is on the defensive;
he is having a severer struggle for ex
istence than the men either sido of
him, observes tho New York Journal
f Commerce. The contest is sharp
enough everywhere, but the middle
man is at the focus. He has served a
useful purpose; he can never be ex
terminated, because within a certain
area he is a necessity, but that area is
being circumscribed on both sides. If
the manufacturers combine they con
centrate their selling agencies; if they
remain apart the competition between
them becomes so sharp that they get
Into direct relations with the retailer.
In either case the producer and the
consumer are pushed up nearer to
each other, and the man who is be
tween the two finds his position get
tiug tighter and tighter.
A Colt's Jump From a Moving Train.
There receutly occurred in Kansas
an accident which is remarkable from
tho fact that the outcome was not seri
ous. Dr. Morris has a blooded colt,
which be bad loaded upon a Frisco
freight train to ship to Joplin, Mo.
The animal was tied in a furniture car
and the doors left partly open. About
five miles north of Arkansas City,
while tho keeper was on another part
of the train, tho animal became un
tied and jumped out of the door. The
train was going at the rate of about
twenty-five miles an hour when the
horse jumped, but the animal was un
injured. A section man caught the
horse and led it back to the city.
Tho Kind Kaiser und Ills Sermon.
In a recent story about the kaiser,
William Is made to size up bis own
ability as a preacher. It is well known
that the kaiser on his annual trip on
board the Hohenzollern to the Norwe
gian fiords is in the habit of conduct
ing divine service every Sunday moan
ing. He usually reads a short liturgy
and follows the prayers with a sermon.
In his recent trip the officers of the
Hohenzollern noticed that a sailor dur
ing divine service had fallen fast
asleep. After service the captain call
ed the sailor before him, gave him a
sound rating and sentenced him to two
days' arrest. The captain afterward
reported the Incident of the sleeping
sailor, and the punishment inflicted on
Um. "Was he on watch the night be
fore?" asked the kaiser. "He was,
your majesty." "Then, let the poor
devil off. Besides, It wasn't much of
* sermon, anyhow."
The Power of liable.
"How are you getting on with your
automobile?" asked Miss Cayenne.
"Well," answered Willie Wishlngton,
"I can rua the machine all right, but
it will be a long time before I can get
over saying 'geddup' and 'whoa' to It."
—Washington Star.
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THEBDERAS I
1 A FIGHTER. I
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOCOOOOOO
The Boers are born fighters, a na
tion of sharpshooters, they never waste
a bullet; each Boer selects his man
and kills him and keeps on doing the
Same thing all day and every day un
til the war is over. It is a commcn
boast with them which they have made
good iu more than one clash with the
British, that one Boer is equal to ten
Englishmen. They do not come out
and fight in the open, but swarm all
over a mountain side, hiding behind
trees and rocks, and woe to the thin
red line or hollow square that comes
within range of their unerring Mar
tinis and Mausers. In fact, the Boer
victories over tho British soldiers are
largely accountable for the British
feeling against them, and in the bitter
warfare against the nation the success
of the Boers has been extraordinary.
Fewer than 450 Boers resisted 12,-
000 of the fiercest Zulu warriors on
December 16, 1838, aud 3000 natives
were left dead on the field, and this
with old flint locks. President Kru
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FIELD CORNET'S MESSENGER HANDING
OVER COMMANDOS TO BOER FARMERS
TO BE READY FOR WAR.
ger, as a boy, helped the forty Dutch
men hold off 2000 of the men of Mose
litkase, then tho most renowned na
tive captain in South Africa. The
bravery of the mon is shown by the
attack that 135 of them mado on 10,000
Zulus on the Marico ltiver, driving
them out of the Transvaal.
These are simply better-known in
stances of the lighting abilities of the
Boers. Every man has handled a gun
from infancy. In the old days, when
a Boer was not fighting the fieroe na
tives he was defending himself from
savage beasts. Every Boer has been
trained in warfare. They discovered
the method of laagering their wagons,
placing them in a hollow square,which
the British generals have adopted as
the most successful way of fighting
the natives. The Boers have shown
themselves masters of strategy, the
result of constant warfare with a cruel
and treacherous foe.
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|l /T U M OFPItER ano PRIVATE-
State artillery
TYPES OF BOER INFANTRY, CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY.
The Government of the South Afri
can Republic is empowered to call
at any time the burghers for armed
aervice. The Field Cornet of each
district goe3 round and serves a no
tice on the conscripts, who, mounted
and fortjfied against hunger for ten
days by a "FT'J af buck r beef. '
cured in the sun, and called "bil
*on£>" concentrate in the specified
"dorp" or village, where they invaria
bly meet in the market place—the
church, iron gated, iron steepled, in
the background. Arms are distributed
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INSPECTION OF A "COMMANDO" OF BOERS IN THE MARKET PLACE OF A TOWN.
to those who are without them; and
as for forage, the velt is trusted to
supply it at need. The commandant,
who is the Dutch equivalent of the
English colonel, drills his forces as
best he may; and a certain amount
of military discipline is eastly ac
quired, despite the rather slouchy ap
pearance, due in part to the absence
of uniforms, except in the case of the
commandants, the other officers, and
the "State Artillery."
The Boer much resembles our Amer
ican Apache in his ability to live on
the shadow of things when in the
field. A writer of South Africa, in a
contribution to a London paper, calls
attention to the ability of the Boer to
live on rations which an ordinary
trooper would not endure and his ca
pacity to travel great distances with
horse in incredibly short time.
The Boer knows every road and
trail of the Transvaal; as a hunter he
knows the devious ways of the wastes
beyond. He is an agriculturist and a
hunter. By the law of self-preserva
tion he has learned the wily ways of
the savage whom he displaced in the
Transvaal. The seoret recesses of the
mountains are at his command. As a
horseman ho much resembles our
American cowboy. He can ride on top
of the saddle, or over his horse's
nock, or Cossask fashion, with one
foot in the stirrup, one leg on the sad
dle and his head and shoulders on the
ground. His horße is part of his fam
ily life. The beasts are very hardy,
sure-footed and affectionate. Then,
too, the Boer is inured to the hard
ships of the mountains, to long horse
back journeys, scant allowances of
food, treks on whioh the water supply
is scarce.
In the campaign of 1881 against the
English the Boer took good care that
his forces never faced the enemy in
the open field. He never offered open
engagement. He chose his eyrie in
the mountain gorges, and from that
vantage point he picked off the foe at
his will. Even when he assaulted Ma
juba Hill he came up rock by rock,
squirming like a snake, twisting in
aud out and not firing until he had a
' mark t,o hit.
An English correspondent who went
through the 1881 campaign wrote at
that time of the lighting qualities of
the Boers:
"We never are able tc see the
enemy. Except before the fight at
Majuba Hill, J never saw but a hand
ful of them at any time. And when
they thought we noticed them they
and their horses disappeared as if
swallowed up by the earth. I think
we all feel that they can shoot. Our
losses at Hatley and Laing's Nek
showed that. We were very much in
the open, but not a blessed Boer was
to be seen. But every once in a while
there was the crack of a rifle, and
then one of our poor boys would go
over, the line would close up and we
would begin chasing again for the
enemy we could never find. I was
taken prisoner just after General
Colley was killed, and I can say that
I could not have been treated better
by any people. They were kind to
our wounded, did not molest the dead
nor insult us of the living. I think
they are a very brave people, and, as
for lighting, they seem to know just
as much about it as we do."
The Boer loves his country with a
passionate patriotism. He is not a
miner, or an engineer, or a railroad
constructor. He is pre-eminenly an
WHEN JOHN BULL LEFT US.
A Monument in Boston Will Coinmsm*
orate the Historical Event.
"It is with the greatest pleasure I in
form you that on Sunday last, the 17th
inst. (1776), about 9 o'clock in the
forenoon, the ministerial army evacuat
ed the town of Boston, and that the
forces of the United Colonies are now
in actua! possession thereof. I beg
leave to congratulate you, sir, and the
DORCHESTER HEIGHTS MONUMENT.
(Marks the spot where Qeorge Washington
stood and watched the British soldiers
sail away.)
honorable Congress on this happj
event, and particularly as it was effect
ed without endangering the lives and
property of the remaining unhappy in
habitants. I have great reason to im
agine their flight was precipitated by
the appearance of a work, which I had
ordered to be thrown up last Saturday
night on an eminence at Dorchester,
which lies nearest to Boston Neck,
called Nook's Hill." Thus wrote Gen
eral George Washington to the Presi
dent of Congress March 19, 1776. The
City Council of Boston has approved
plans for the Dorohester Heights
monument which marks the spot where
General Washington stood and watched
the British sail away. The plans show
a type of to'fer common in colonial
times, with fountain and memorial
tablet on the most conspicuous side.
It will be built of old-fashioned brick
with dark headers. The trimmings
will be of Indiana stone or white terra
cotta. The height of the monument
to the base of the steeple will be about
Beventy-five feet. The original appro
priation for the monument was $25,000.
Liked Thein In Group*.
Albeit an attractive young miss in
most ways, like many other young
animals it was her habit to wolf her
food. Of this hor mhther tried to
break her, and on this particular oc
casion was remonstrating because of
the number of peas Alice seemed to
think it necessary to consume at a
mouthful.
"Take fewer peas on your fork,
Alice. Why should you want to take
so many at one time?"
"They taste so much better when
eaten in groups," was Alice's unex
pected explanation.
Altered a Trifle.
One small girl says to another:
"They are not saying rubberneck any
more."
"Why not?" aske the other with
some joy.
"Because they are saying penin
sula," says the one.
"And why peninsula?" says the
other, innocently.
"Because it stretches out to sea,"
says the one.—"Worcester (Mass.)
Gazette.
A Keinnrknble Girl.
Helen Keller, the deaf, dnml) nnd
blind girl, whose acquirements have
attracted the attention of all stndents
of oducational methods, spent last
summer at Wreutham, Mass., as
the guest of Mrs. J. E. Chamberlain.
She keeps up her study of Greek and
Arabic, nnd writes her exercises on a
typewriting machine especially de
signed for these languages, with inter
changeable cylinders. Byway of ex
ercise she delights in climbing trees,
and she is an excellent swimmer,
HELEN KELLER.
(The deaf, dumb and blind girl.)
whioh she vastly enjoys. Helen puz
zles new visitors by telling the color
of the flowers they bring, She can
even distinguish a white and yellow
pansy from a purple one, and a red
from a white rose. < Her explanation
in that the petal of the darker colored
flowers are thicker than those of the
lighter ones.
She Caught Him.
Patrice—"You know, Will said he'd
like to be caught playing golf."
Patience— "Yes."
"Well, 1 caught him on the linas
this very afternoon. We're engaged."
—Yonkers Statesman,
HANDY WITH A SHOTGUN.
•o Tliey Thought Htm, Though It WM
the First Time He Had Ever Fired One.
"I've often wondered," said a jolly
tooking man, "if anybody ever got
the credit of being a good shot as
easily as I did. I was visiting at a
house in the country, and one day tbe
host says: 'Let's go out and try the
shooting.' There were two or three
other guests there besides myself.
The host led the way into the hall,
where there were standing three or
four shotguns. He handed a gun to
me, though really I didn't want it,
supplied one or two others of the
gnests, who did shoot, with gnns, and
took the remaining gun himself, and
we started out.
"It was a delightful tramp, and a
novel experience for me, going gun
ning, for I had never fired a shotgun
in my life. I enjoyed it all verv
much, but I sort of strolled along in
the rear, a little behind the rest, to
give the others a chanoe at the game,
with the hope that I would not be
called upon to shoot. I thought I
should only make a ridiculous ex
hibition of myself; but, as it hap
pened, I fired the only shot fired that
day, and it was a bnllseya.
Right in the centre of a field that
we were crossing there was a big dead
tree, sixty or seventy feet high, and
on the topmost branch of it sat a
solitary pigeon. The quick-eyed host,
a keen sportsman himself, turning
around to see if I were coming all
right—he was walking just ahead with
the others—spied that pigeon.
" 'There's a chanoe for you,' he said
to] me, enthusiastically, as he looked
up at the bird, and I couldn't do any
less than make a bluff at it. I swung
the old shotgun up and fired, all in
one movement, and dropped the bird
just as neat as you please. The host
was delighted; it would have been a
good fair shot for anybody to make,
and ho was especially pleased that it
should have been made by one of his
guests. The rest had turned in time
to see the pigeon fall. I had pro
tested that I was no shot and they all
thought now that I was far too
modest. And so by that single chance
Bhot I got the reputation, at least for
the moment, of being very handy with
a shotgun."—New York Sun.
WISESWORDS.
They can conquer who believe they
can. —Dryden.
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners
all. —Shakspeare.
The less men think the more they
talk. —Montesquieu.
Every man is the architeot of his
own charaoter.—Boardman.
Constancy is the complement of all
other human virtues.—Mazzini.
A man of integrity will never listen
to any reason against conscience.
Home.
Nothing costs less nor is cheaper
than the compliments of civility.—
Cervantes.
One's self-satisfaotion is an untaxed
kind of property, whioh is very un
pleasant to find depreciated.—George
El iot.
Cares are often more difficult to
throw off than sorrows; the latter die
with time; the former grows upon it.
—Richter.
If wo fasten our attention on what
we have, rather than on what we lack,
a very little wealth is sufficient.—F.
Johnson.
Open your mouth and purse cau
tiously and your stock of wealth and
reputation shall, at least in repute, be
great.—Zimmerman.
The true source of ohecrfnlnoss is
benevolence. The soul that perpet
ually overflows wi(h kindness (and
sympathy will always be cheerful.
Goodwin.
Advice For Engaged Girl*.
"No, I never have a bit of trouble
with my husband," remarked the frail
little woman with the intelligent face.
"Iu fact I have him right under my
thumb."
"You don't look very strong," j
doubtfully commented the engaged
girl.
"You mistake me, my dear. It's a
mental, not a physical subjection."
"Would you mind telling me just
how "
"Not a bit! Always glad to help
any one steer dear of the rocks. First
of all you must know that a man iff
love is the biggest sort of fool, and
says things that make him almost wild
when he hears 'em in after life. I real
ized it, and from the very beginning
of our courtship I kept a phonograph
in the room, and every speech he made
was duly recorded. Now whenever
my husband gets a little bit obsreper
ous I just turn out a record or so.
Heavens, how he does rave, but ha
can't deny it I They always will though
if you don't have proof positive."
"Thanks!" gratefully murmured the
engaged girl. "I'll get a phonograph I
this very day."
Dogs of War.
For the last five yoars a society
founded under the auspiceß of Herr
Bungartz, the animal painter, has been
training Scotch shepherd dogs to as
sist the relief parties in discovering
the whereabouts of wounded in battle,
and last week the general in command
of the ambulance manoeuvres in con
nection with the Eighth German army
corps near Coblenz allowed four of
these sagacious creatures to take part
in the exercises. Their value was
abundantly proved, for they trackhd
down in a few minutes n soore of men
so concealed that the bearers could
never have discovered them in day
light, much loss at nigl t. Herr Bun
gartz gave a leoiure at tho close of the
proceedings on the breeding and edu
cation of these dogs of war, and sev
eral regiments are kooping small packs
of them on their own account.—Lou
don Chronicle.
CUPID AND_THE NURSES.
Bo neat,
So sweet,
Bo light of feot,
Tls quite a pleasure to he 111,
Bo gentle und
Bo deft of hand.
Preparing plaster, powder, pUL
Bo slim.
Bo trim,
Bo lithe of limb,
It reconciles me to be sick.
So sweet a face,
Such girlish grace
(I fear I'll convalesce too quick.)
Such wit,
Buoh grit;
I'll moan a bit,
'Twill make her think that I'm In pain.
I must contrive,
As I'm alive,
To have my forehead bathe 1 again.
The dear,
Bo near;
I'll gain her ear,
I'll vow I won't be lured to life.
Unless she's sure
That when the euro
Becomes complete she'll be my wife.
—What to Eat.
HUMOR 0~ THE DAY.
"I always enjoy the minstrel jokes.*
"Why?" "'Cause I've got such a
poor memory." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Dorothy (grcat'.y Burprised to see a
horseless carriage go by)—"My!
there's a carriage walkiug in its sleep."
—Youth's Companion.
"Do you know anything that will
make me stout, doctor?" "Why,
certainly I do." "What is it?"
"Flesh." —Yonkers Statesmnn.
"He's honest as the day Is long—"
But some one impolite
Spoke up In accents rude and strong
With, "How about the night?"
—Washington Star.
Friend —"There ought to have been
money in that invention." The
Mechanic—"Oh, yesl Half a dozen
patent lawyers got rich on it!"—
Puck.
Stranger —"Mr. Conductor, will I
have time to bid my wife good-by?"
Conductor—"l dou't know. How
' long have you been married?"— Town
| Topics.
I Mr. Penn—"One physician says
: that tbe tramp instinct is a disease."
! Mr. Pitt—"Does be recommend a
change of sceue as the remedy?"—
j Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
I "Don't leave the table," said tha
j landlady, as her new boarder rose
j from his scanty breakfast, "I must,
I madam; it's hardwood, aud my teeth
are not what they used to bo."—Tit
j Bits.
I Relative (from beyond the suburbs)
J— "'Mandy, who's that young fellow
snoopiu' around iu the kitchen?"
j City Niece—"Never mind liim, Aunt
Ann. He's tbe hired girl."—Chicago
| Tribune.
j Lady—"l wish to get a hat for my
husband." flutter —"What i kind,
ma'am?" Lady—"A telephone hat,
if you pleuse." Hatter—"l never
heard of a telephone hat." Lady—
"Oh, yes; they are tho kind you can
talk through."
One of the surgeous of a hospital
asked an Irish help which he con
sidered the most dangerous of tha
many cases then iu the hospital.
"That, sir," said Patrick, as he
pointed to a case of surgical instru
ments.—Tid-Bits.
The Doctor—"Everything goes by
favoritism these days. Even the dog
cau't get into a respectable family with
out influence." Tbe Professor
"That explains the appearance of the
dacshhuud. He's tho dog that has
had the strongest pull."
"Why is she only in half mourn
ing? Of course she married old Skin
phlint for his money, but she ought
to respect his memory now that he is
dead." "Oh, she thinks she's doing
all that is required under the circum
stances. He only left her half his
fortune."—Chicago Evening Post,
Various Kinds of Storine.
Meteorologists complain that there
is great confusion iu the popular mind
as to the proper names to apply to dif
ferent kinds of Btorins. The terms
"cyolone," "tornado," "hurricane,"
"typnoon," etc., are employed indis
criminately, and yet they each have
their proper use, iu weather parlance.
A oyclone is in general any kind of
atmospheric disturbance in which the
barometric pressure decreases toward
a central "low" region, and in whioh
there is a spiral upward movement of
tbe air. These cyoloues are not there
fore necessarily destructive. A destruc
tive cyclone, moving along a narrow
path, is properly called a tornado. In
the Orient these destructive cyclones
are called typhoons, aud in the West
Indies they are hurricanes. In the
United States the direction of the cy
clones is usually eastward; in the West
Indies it is northward, veering to
north-eastward.
"— I
Champion Koail Builder.
David C. Shepard, now living in
retirement at St. Paul, Minn., built
during his active business career more
miles of railroad than any other man,
living or dead. In total "it equals the
length of tbe great Russian transasian
line, now in process of construction,
with a thousand miles added. Mr.
Shepard has built railroads in thirteen
States and Territories aud iu Canada.
Iu 1852 he began work as a railroad
contractor, building part of what is
now the Erie road, between New York
und Chicago. Then he came West
and built 236 miles of road in Wis
consin. His greatest mileage for any
one State is 1452 miles in Miunesota.
The total number of miles luidby Mr.
Shepard is 7026.—Chicago Tribune.
Squirrel Park In Memphis.
In the heart of the oityof Memphis,
Temi., is a square containing a thick
grove of venerable trees, with a great,
cool fountain playing. Iu the trees
and over the grounds scamper hun
dreds of squirrels so tame that they
will eat from any one's hand.