The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1893-12-07
SOUTH AFRICH
Our Regular Correspondent
Writes Again.
HE'S BUILDING AN AFRICAN HOUSE
The Manner I'M Which AIabitatiOns
Are Constructed ON the Dark
COntinent-C0oking Done Out
of Doors IN Most Cases by
the Residents Showers
Regular Correspondence of The MAIL.

Regular correspondence of IHE M MAIL.
JAMESTOWN, DeKaap, Oct. 13.--As
am going in to Barberton in few days
| will just send you few lines. I am not
doing much in the way of development
just now; have been building house.
have built few houses before, but this
is a starter for me on this kind of a
house. There is not a nail in it. I
could get nails, but not a stick that
nail could be driven into I hunted
half day to get a stick eleven feet long,
somewhat near straight. All the timber
used in building here comes from the
states. If any one desres to SEQ pic
ture of my house they can just look into
any book on Africa and they will see it
illustrated 1t is round and built oil
grass. [ have improved little on the
general run of them by building fire
place in mine. believe great deal of
the sickness is caused from the lack of
fires IN the houses. There are plenty of
farmers who do all their cooking out of
doors, and the house gets cold when it
rains.
We have had several of what I call
heavy rains, but people here just call
them showers. lightning struck Mr..
Hills house general manager of the
Sheba) and burnod it down, and there
was barn burned down near Barberton
the same night.
The farmers are just putting in their
crops, and I see now what makes every
thing SO high priced here I am on a
mans farm and | have been watching
him work. He has put in about fifteen
acres Of corn. There are two white men
employed and about twenty Swazies, as
well as sixteen yoke Of oxen, and it has
taken them one month to put in fifteen
acres. I think one might do we'll selling
American machinery here, if the people
could be taught it's use
L have not been able to work much
lately; have had troublesome carbun-
Gle. Last Sunday [ went to see DR..
Wagner an American. I wanted him to
lance it, but he said 1t was not old
enough, and gave me some medicine for
1t and told me to home and lance it my
ooAL anu CudlReu Il1b TWO 5ullllnRS Tor IT..
1t | had gone to an English doctor
he would have got E10 out of me, any
way, as they don't look at a man for less
than that. I mention this personal OK
perience to show how the medical fra
ternity eke out precarious existence
1t this country had as many Ameri-
cans in it as there are English we would
see different set of mining laws All
the English do is to kick, while if they
were Americans they would work the
''rood" some way and get different laws
through. The English all say that the
Americans are the only people here who
get justice in any trouble with the gov
ernment where the consul takes hold of
it.
There are 120 days IN the year that a
person can do no business in this coun-
try. The stores all close Wednesday
and Saturday afternoons. which are e-
gal half holidays; besides this there are
several other church days, as we'll as the
presidents birthday. Including Sun
days 1T aggregates about 12O holidays.
Regards to all, JACK HARrwEL1.