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but nothing could we see Of them.
Snow wonder if the devils have
really gone," said Hans Botha to me,

but nothing could we see Of them.
"Now I wonder if the devils have
really gone," said Hans Botha to me.
ut is very strange"
Iwill go and see" said Indaba-zimbi.
III you will come with me, Macuma-
zahn. We can creep to the top of the
ridge and look over.''
At first I hesitated, but curiosity over
came me. I was young in those days
and weary with suspense.
Every WE'LL" I said, 1--WE will co."
So we started. had my elephant gun
and ammunition. Indaba-zimbi had his
medicine bag and an assegai. We crept
to the top of the rise like sportsmen stalk
ing buck. The slope on the other side
was strewn with rocks, among which
grew bushes and tall grass.
"They must have gone down the Dom
ga" said to Indaba-zimbi, 81 can't see
one of them."
AS spoke there came roar of men
all around me. From every rock, from
every tuft of grass rose Zulu warrior,
Before could turn, before could lift
gun, was seized and thrown.
"Hold him! Hold the white spirit
fastl'' cried voice. "Hold him, or he
will slip away like snake. Don't hurt
him. but hold him fast. Let Indaba-
zimbi walk by his side."
turned on Indaba-zimbi. "You black
devil, you have betrayed mel" cried.
"Wait and see, Macumazahn, he an
swered, coolly. "Now the fight is going
to hepin -
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News Gathering in America.
The role of the American press in the
growth of journalism has been distinctly
the development of news gathering as u
business, leaving to the work of COM
inent only a subordinate place, and, in
fact, one might say a comparatively in
significant one. In American news,
too, the field in which news may be
found has been greatly enlarged; a
much larger class of facts is drawn
on for letters and dispatches. News
i'll the journalistic sense has never
been clearly defined. Taken literally,
news is everything that a man has
not already heard; but no journal under
takes to supply him with news of this
sort. The line has to be drawn some-
where between news which may be use.
fully and legitimately served up to him
OH his breakfast table and news which
would either do him no good or to which
he has no fair claim.
When enterprise and business compe.
tition are allowed to trace this line with.
out the control of either law or morality,
it is sure to have as many zigzags in it
as there are journals, and it is equally
sure that the commercial result will
largely determine the question of legiti.
macy in the public eye. In CONNER.
cial country it is inevitable that the &C.
QUESTION of money should be the gener.
ally recognized, as it is the most easily
recognized, sign of success. AS conse.
quence of this, the modes of acquiring it
which only offend against taste or dis.
cretion, and are not legally criminal, are
treated with considerable indulgence, OF
even, in some cases, call forth admira.
ton. Nothing is more unreasonable, in
truth, than the impatience of the Amer
ican public with the excesses of the newa
gathering department of American jour.
nalism, considering the enormous re.
wards in money and in social considera-
ton which it pays and has paid to those
who work this field with least regard to
the conventions.-E. L. Godkin in North
American Review.