The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-13

tempt TO iron e. There was also the . Mashona.
land restaurant. all meeis one shilling, est as
much %srs a. SyS sO S,I gslssss n snd the cOS conc sEaan and f tSsS
because he had not the luck to have a shil;
hungry mon in Johannesburg in the hard
limos, and they all passed the word" to one
cess. One man made Some money by riding
out to native kraals and bringing in gangs or
a legitimate b business, done . so on commission. but
his success was phenomenal, until he was nearly
murdered by an outraged gang OF Kafirs when
town in front OF a loaded revolver. In those
days.hand.to.n:outh days for all of us,-was
consisted Of one small sheet, containing a lurid
tale OF the RAM and the story began thus.
m nUg %Ia : d9 nav and beth shun sds5 we might " S solitary Mgy
clad in a long dark waterproof cloak which he
Aaron & Gluckenstcin, who furnish. &c"
About twenty advertisements were worked IN
the Chronicle was distributed gratis. Fifty
dollars resulted from that venture, but the paper
never progressed further than vol. !, No: l.
Thanks to that gentle climate, sleeping out
was no very great hardship when things were. so
bad that we could not pay the eSorbitant price
Pretoria road. not far from the Rand. were some
rocky hills; and. In the crannies and rccesses OF
f feS i TSSs The sn @ oqafnstS ,S ohfn ' oHsr w T{iihg n impos.
sible schcmes to make money. think they
often talked on ard on, on purpose, drcadinR TO
sleep and d~rcam-drcam Of green hedges and
cricket fields and trout brooks and the old folks
and the sisters a. home, never TO be seen and
kissed again. The dreaming was all right, but
the awakening was agonv. =.
The one great and permanent success achieved
by any member OF that hopeless band was made
by " joe a man who had been n London re-
porter. Joe read 3 chance paragraph In the Star
stating that the Mire Owners .Association was
going to bring out lumber Of skilled Cornish
miners, with their families, to settle on the reef.
Joe %pondcred over that, and talked. about 1t to
that such action on the part Of the " bosses
would hurt the pockets of the miners and con
Btitute a grievance. He argued that an indie
pendent bachelor miner could make his
terms, but a man with n family would
have TO take what wages were offered
belief that the owners were contemplating
n big cut in wages. Up to that time there had
been no union among the miners. They, had
been perfectly contcnted. But Joe turned out
Market square and mounted a table. ] don'tbe-
lieve he know the difference between n spade
and n shovel himself. and his hands were the
long. slim. steely ones Of the man who had never
known manual labor, but his opening words
Fellow workmen were quite impressive.
tary at $50 n week, and grew gray quickly. in
venting grie vances to lay before the weekly
meetings and keep the members up to the sub
scrihing pitch.
daily prayer was that "old Lobengula would
run amuck, and piece them in the saddle again.
He has since then, and been wiped out, and DR..
Jameson has led the exilcs on his foray, and
now there are stirring times out there, and j
have no doubt my old chums are as happy as
ing TO be loosetl =: somebody's throat:
p. Y. BLACK.