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Some of them got so flushed and gem
orally stirred that they looked as if
they had been drinking. On my COM
menting on this several of them said
that they really felt as if they hal
swallowed a dozen glasses of cham
payne. They added that patriotism was
an excellent substitute for wine and
liquor and that it never hurt anybody,
which could not be said of liquid stimu-
lants, particularly in armies
All the prisoners in Libby and doubt
less in the South generally were more
than ever inspired with patriotism on
that day, because Vicksburg, then be-
sieged by Grant, as we had learned
from the newspapers which we bought
regularly, cherished sanguine hopes of
relief from General Joseph e. John
ston, who was menacing Grant in the
rear. This we knew to be a dangerous
situation, and it naturally made us
very anxious. The Vicksburg journals
declared that Grant was in a trap
from which he could not possibly ex-
tricate himself and that they hourly
expected to hear of his surrender. We
had faith in Grant, but still we were
apprehensive of the result.
None of US could help thinking, say
what we might, about Vicksburg and
how the siege was going. Some one eX-
pressed this thought which was widely
echoed and most of us began at once
discussing Vicksburg, as we had done
scores and scores of times before.
Only a few minutes had passed when
a colored barber, whom l had always
thought, by a strange anomaly, to be
in sympathy with the South Che had
been coming for weeks into the Off
GERS quarters to shave them), slipped
up to me and whispered in my ear
with overwhelming joy that Vicksburg
had fallen. l knew he was telling the
truth when he said that he had heard
a dispatch read down stairs in the
office announcing the fact.
l Immediately repeated the informa-
ton in a loud voice, and it was receiv-
ed with a roar of applause. Then fol-
lowed John Browns Body" Hail Co.
lumbia," Star Spangled Banner and
other patriotic airs, shouted rather
than sung in stentorian tones. Is not
this dramatic incident enough to make
that Fourth of July rememberable?
We had our celebration after ALL Cen
eral Grant furnished it. And a glori-
Gus celebration it was for us.
JUNIUS HENRI BROWNE.
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Fourth Of July, 1899.

Given a bunch of ftrecrackers, few
yards of bunting in the colors of Old
Glory and a collection of whole-souled
American patriots and the material for
an Independence day celebration is at
hand This Fourth of July festival will
differ from it's predecessors in many
particulars. year ago when indie
pendence day was drawing near the
soldiers and sailors Of the United States
prepared to celebrate the Fourth with
sentries on post to call the men to arms
on. dearly won camping grounds in
Cuba and the lookout men of the war
ships watching for possible interrupt
ton of the feasting below decks. on
land and sea the forces of Uncle Sam
had one eye towards the enemy and
the other on their preparations for
keeping up the traditions of the glo-
rious Fourth, ready at any moment for
a display of fireworks that would mean
a decimating of Spanish ranks and the
Widowing of wives in the Peninsular.
1t was an anxious time at best True,
Dewey had delivered his famous knock
out blow to the Spanish squadron in the
far East and held the key to the situa-
ton there; Sampson and Schey guard
ed the gateway of Santiago, while the
American troops marched relentlessly
towards the city from the land side;
wherever our soldiers or sailors at
tackled there victory attended them.
until it seemed as though the power
that rules the destiny of nations had
determined to leave nothing undone to
complete the humiliation of Spain: but
yet there was much reason for anxiety
as the annual day Of celebration ap-
preached.
July 3 had dawned when the atmos-
phere began to clear. on that date, so
ausp1c1ously near To the glorious
Fourth, Cervera Ventured out of his
trap in Santiago to find that freedom
was considerably worse than imprison-
ment; that honorable surrender would
have been much better than the dash
for liberty that ended in his capture
after the destruction of the much
Wanted fleet Then indeed was there
reason for a celebration such as that
of few previous years had exceeded
That fleet had done much to help de-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

Written for the Sunday Standard.
The Dutchmen of South Africa, the
Puritans of the Dark Continent, are in
the midst of a life-and-death struggle.
Their national existence is at stake,
and none know it so well as them
selves. Two types of civilization are
face to face in a conflict for supremacy.
On the one side is the Boer, conserVa-
tive, retrogressiVe, pastoral, religious
to the point of bigotry, and an obstin-
ate individualist. On the other is the
South African Englishman, the same
type of man who blazed the path of
civilization in America and redeemed a
continent from barbarism. Restless,
ambitious, progressive, adventurous
masters of every industry, state-build-
ers such as the world has never before
known, intolerant of obstacles and OPP
position, they have magnificent faith in
their destiny to rule the continent of
Africa.
To be let absolutely alone so that he
may live his simple farming life as he
pleases is the one great dominant de-
sire of the Boer to defend which he
will fight desperately to the last ditch.
To make South Africa an English col
ony, possibly an independent republic,
is an ambition for the realization of
which the Englishmen will lay down
his life
Between these two there can be no
lasting compromise; it is a fight to
the end. Diplomacy can but ward off
for a time a crisis which must surely
come. The final appeal is to brute
force. Bullet and bavonet must de-
eide.
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Dom Paul Kruger,

This sketch of the South African sit
uation would be incomplete without a
few words in relation to the great CEN
trail figure, who has so long dominated
the politics and policy of the Boer re-
public. The following abstract from a
recent article presents number of un-
published incidents in his remarl1a BILE
career:
His is a strangely pathetic figure
standing as the representative of a
fOredoomed people, prepared to fight it
out to the bitter last-white bearded
white haired, acute. seCretive unscrup-
ulous, undismayed and indOmitable To
him is denied the consolation of ignor-
ance. He knows well the giant force
that is arrayed against him. His only
hope is of assistance from a Eu-
rOpean power. He must not betray
misgiving to his fanatic followers. who
regard him as one but little lower than
the Deity. He has no cabinet worthy
of the name. He consults with his as
sociates only about trifies. He carries
his griefs and despairs locked within
his own broad breast He is sentenced
to solitude. Far on in years, he bears
sturdily a strain under which few
younger men could live. He is one OF
the most extraordinary men whom the
world has produced, and if his life is
ffttingly written the nations will know
that they have had among them a
strange and powerful being compound
ed in almost equal parts of Martin
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A Geographical Prophecy.

The geographical situation of the
Boer republic is a menace in itself to
its continued existence. The Cape Col
ony covers the entire southern end of
the continent from ocean to ocean.
North of it is the Orange Free State,
practically English territory, and north
of this is the Dutch republic. Sweeping
around the latter on every side except
where the republic touches the Portu-
guese colony on the east, is English
territory, cutting off the Beers from
access to the sea and the interior. On
the map 1t describes the rude outline
of a crocodile's head, with wide-gaping,
distended jaws, the Transvaal fitting
into the capacious maw-a geographic
cal prophecy of its ultimate fate.
The Transvaal is a country well
worth fighting for. 1t greatly resem-
bles physically that portion of the Uni
ted States which lies just to the east
of the Rocky Mountains. There are the
same wide-spreading mesas and bench
lands. carpeted with waving grasses,
green in the early spring and brown in
the heats of summer. There are SINH
lar treacheTOus water courses, and the
same profusion of buttes and foothills.
And in addition to being one of the
finest cattle countries in the world, ii
is also a wonderful gold district-the
direct cause of all the present troubles.
With the discovery of the precious
metal, johannesburg sprung up in a
night, a magic city, which in ten years
has grown to a population of 1000 A
food of emigration and capital followed
until now the outlanders, mainly Eng
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Their Grievances.

In a recent article the grievances of
the outlanders We're cOncisely stated as
follows:
I'VE are subjected to a military
tyranny and a system of espionage alb
horrent to civilized man.
I'VE number three-fourths of the
population and are given no voice in
public affairs.
1--WE own three-fourths of the prop
erty and have no word in legislato on
which affects it.
I'VE pay eight-tenths of the taxes,
cannot vote for any official and our
children cannot be taught our Ian
guage in the public schools which we
support.
"A man must be resident and tax
payer for IA years before he can make
a declaration of intention to become
citizen. Then the issuance of papers
of naturalization depends upon an I'M
friendly legislature, composed wholly
of Dutchmen.
1--WE are bled constantly by the dyna
mite monopoly which takes hundreds of
thousands of dollars from our peck
cts.
THE railroads are owned by Hol-
landers who are given d monopoly OF
them, and their charges are an out
rage.
when we came to the Transvaal it
was an unQeNelOpeu country Win an
empty treasury. Its Golfers now TEEN
with wealth which we have paid for the
right to transact business.
1.-THE annual military appropriation
has been increased from $l,OO0,O00 to
Sc, 600 900. In other words, 100000 of
our money is being used to equip SOL
diers to Cypress us.
we show the world the spectacle
of hundreds of thousands of active, en-
ergetic workers producing enormous
wealth and paying almost the entire
expenses of the state without particle
of representation
In addition there is a strict press
censorship, a liquor monopoly and the
power of the president to eXpel from
the country without trial or appeal any
person he sees fit.
But the Boer is not without his grieV-
ances and justification. Hatred of
England and Englishmen embittered
by the memory of many wrongs, is
firmly implanted in the Boer character.
They established the republic; they
won it inch by inch from savage foes
and watered its green praries with
their blood. They believe they dearly
bought the right to live their simple
lives as they pleased and did all they
could, but in vain, to keep back the
tide of English emigration which they
had learned in the past meant ultimate
English supremacy. Their laws, Gus
toms, institutions and national exist
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A Priceless Document
From the New York Herald.


Did you ever see the Declaration of
lndependence-the original ma nuscript q?
If you have not you probably never
will, for now it lies in the archives of
the state department, incased in glass
and locked in a steel vault. Unless YOU
have some extraordinary reason for
viewing it, the custodian will not show
it to you. To be sure, a faithful repro
duction of the famous document hangs
in an upright glass case in the show
room of the state department. This
room is part of the library, and many
valuable historic relics are on view
there.
Several years ago the original Dec
laration hung in the case where the
facsimile appears to-day A short time
before it had been proposed to take
it to the Worlds fair at Chicago. The
managers of the fair We're extremely
anxious to secure it. There was even
talk of shipping it in a special car I'M
der guard of a squad of United States
regulars, but the secretary of state
would not consent. Ii was within his
discretion to let any of the state pa
pers go to Chicago, and he did send
some very precious manuscripts there,
but the Declaration, he said had too
great a value to be subjected to any
risk.
The discussion led to a careful exam
nation of the document. 1t is on
parchment, which does not deteriorate
much with the lapse of time but the
librarian reported that the ink, which
had been exposed to bright light for
many years, showed signs of fading.
SO in February, 1894, the parchment
was taken from it's frame, put between
sheets of glass, sealed in Theoretically.
slowed away in the steel vault, and
there it lies, beside the original consti-
tuition of the United States and the
appeal of the colonists to King George.
The copy answers all ordinary pur-
poses, and as the text of the Declara-
ton has been verified and reproduced
again and again, there is no longer any
real need to consult the original Ii
is taken out only at long intervals to
be shown to some distinguished visitor
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The Last Trek.

The Beers prepared for their last
trek, but they determined that il
should be one which England would
long remember. At Bloemfontein they
whipped the British regulars in fine
Dutch style and changed the flag from
red to white At BOomplaats they were
defeated after desperate battle, but it
simply hurried their trek across the
Vaal into what is now the South Afri-
can Republic.
Here again The old work of state
building was gone over again; new
homes were erected and the founda-
tions of another republic were laid.
But they had not yet got beyond the
reach of British greed. 1t would be te-
deious to follow the intricate course of
diplomatic and armed aggression which
England has brought to bear upon the
Boer republic in the last 80 years. 1t is
a page in history on which English
writers do not like to dwell. England's
dinIomats have been foiled by the
shrewd peasant statesmen of Pretoria.
and her armies have gone down in in
glorious defeat before the long rifles of
The bearded cattemen. Majuba hill is
A sore memory, and there is not an
English soldier who does not burn to
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wipe out the stain of that disastrous
day to British arms.
1t was in 1877 that England. in the
name of humanity, annexed the South
African republic. Majuba hill was the
penalty. The Boer had made his last
trek and was prepared to fight to the
death for his national existence.
Three crushing defeats to British
arms brought early peace in which
England acknowledged the Beers indie
pendence under fictional suzerainty.
Cecil Rhodes
Boer and Englishman. Since Glad
stones compromise both countries have
been preparing for the inevitable con-
tiiCt. 1t is the civilization of the 18th
century pitted against the power of the
18th in a struggle which will be bloody,
pitiless and hopeless, if the Beers do
not yield. and they are not made Of
that kind of clay. Under previous ad-
ministration of colonial affairs the
Beers have had to deal with men of
vacillating policy and undecided pur-
pose, and it has given the Beers the
impression that the English are race
of towards and their leaders stupid
placemen or hot-headed Adventures,
like Jameson.
But times have changed. Joseph
Chamberlain is at the head of English
colonial affairs, and in Africa itself is
Cecil Rhodes, man of colossal ambi-
ton, who dreams of the day when the
English flag, or that of an English re-
public, will float in undisputed do
minion from the Mediterranean to the
Cape. 1t is this man who, with cease
less endeaVOr is working out the deS-
tiny of the African Saxon. Already he
has thrown a barricade of English ter
ritory around the Boer republic, and
his persistent diplomatic hammering
has taught Dom Paul that at last he
has met an equal Krugers hatred of
Rhodes is intense; he recognizes him
and his plans as the greatest danger
to the Boer republic. When the Jane
son raiders thanked him for his Glenn
enCy, he said:
IF dog snaps at me 1 don't try to
kill the dog, but I do try to reach the
man who set him on
The struggle in South Africa is be-
tween Rhodes and Kruger,
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"All there is of Boer history for the
last so years is a struggle for nersonaI
liberty. The Roer is the embodiment
of republicanism without a republic
The Boer ideal is to live upon a farm
so big as to conceal from view his next
door neighbor and to be EXEMPT from
all government interference. particu-
larly that of the tax collector. His con-
stitution is framed on the theory dixie
the old German mark that every Boer
capable of bearing arms has a right tn
he heard in the national assemly and
If his view does NOT prevail if is his
tradition To secede and esta hlish a gov
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THE BOER REPUBLIC AND ITS
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE

lishmen, with a scattering of Ameri-
cans, comprise three-fourths of the
white inhabitants of the republic and
pay eight-tenths of the total taxes inn
posed by the government.
And yet, in spite of all this, they are
kept in political slavery, denied the
right to vote, to assemble, to carry
arms, and are liable to deportation
without cause or appeal at any mo-
ment. 1t is an intolerable situation for
men with the political birthright and
tradition of the Anglo-S Saxon.
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Englishmen outnumbered the Beers five
to one, and there was a hundred pounds
of English capital in the country to
one possessed by the Beers. But in
1914, as at the present time the BOer
obstinately refused to listen to any am
icable proposition to make the laws
more harmonious with English ideas
He obstinately refused to give up his
absolute right to the soil he had won
by conquest. England, however would
stand no nonsense and was in a posi-
ton to enforce her demands. The Cape
Colony was formally annexed and de-
clared to be English territory.
VI.
The Great Trek
But the Boer was determined not to
become a British subject, so he "irek-
ked,' which is Boer for moving. There
at once began a great exodus into the
Natal country, where the Beers Ire-
pared to set up new republic. And
as he quit his old home the Boer left a
trail of dead Englishmen behind him.
In the Natal he won again fertile
country from savagery and finally con-
quered a new territory, where he hoped
to live and die in peace.
A large number of Beers had been
left behind in Cape Colony, but the tyr
annical acts of the British government
finally drove them also across the bor-
der to join their brethren, and in 1887
the Cape Colony was left to the entire
control of the English.
Then came the discovery of gold and
diamonds in the Natal, and the story
of Cape Colony was repeated and the
present situation in the Transvaal re-
hearsed. In 1872. when the Boer was
fairly in possession of Natal, the cOun-
try was annexed by England and he
found himself again an unwilling sub
ject of Great Britain. He protested and
fought. Small attachments of British
regulars We're wiped out with accuracy
and dispatch but without changing the
situation. Then began the Beers sec
ond trek. soon after followed by a
third. which last brought the intrepid
frontiersman, fighting every inch of the
way with Zulus to what is now known
as the Orange Free State.
Here they won new territory. reor-
ganized their republic and prepared to
begin life anew. safe, as they supposed,
from the reach of English malignity
and greed.
But in 1S4S, Egland, with as little
pretense of right as she had previously
displayed, annexed the Orange Free
State. Is it any wonder that the Boer
has an Unborn hatred for England?
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ence itself are threatened, and any
means, they reason, are justifiable
which will conserve them. They look
upon the Englishman as we look on
the Chinese, as undesired intruders and
explain their restriction measures as
we justify our exclusion act.
How to harmonic these two sets of
grievances has proved a task too diff
cult for any statesman who has tried
his hand at it,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-28
DODDRIDGE SWORD FUND.

The public should remember there
is but one general fund for the pur-
chase of a sword for Ensign Doddridge.
This fund is being contributed to
through several mediums. one of which
is the Register. The citizens of this
community very naturally take pride
in offering some suitable testimonial to
a fellow townsman, born and reared
in their midst, whose patriotism and
bravery are unquestioned. The Regis
ter believes it duty to encourage the
sentiment behind the movement, hence
it has opened its columns to the promo
ton of the object, and in order that it
may become as general and popular as
possible, suggests that small as well as
large contributions be sent in. A dime
is not too little.
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FIRST CATCH THEM.

1t is observed that there is some
lively discussion in official circles over
what shall be done with Aguinaldo-
when that able general is captured.
This discussion reminds one that the
British cabinet has decided to Danish
President Kruger and the leaders of
the Boers-when they are conquered.
All of which brings us back to the
famous recipe for cooking a hare
FIRST catch your hare etc.
Mrs. Aguinaldo and the baby and the
grandmother and Mrs AS wardrobe
have been taken by the willy Otis, but
Aguinaldo, himself, is still at large and
the chances are he will remain at
large as long as he chooses and that
without leaving the island of Luzon.
of which Otis controls but a very
small fraction. Isn't it odd, though the
war is practically over we are now
engaged in doubling our forces at Ma
Mia, which will soon contain practical
ly our entire regular army.
Meanwhile, Aguinaldo and Dom Paul
are still in position to convey to one
another their distinguished considera-
ton from an environment of freedom.
In fact, in South Africa, although the
British reports are full of British VIC
tories, it somehow doesn't seem to stop
the steady march of the Beers south
into English territory. At last ac-
counts they were at Cape Colony and
there were rumors that the Dutch
throughout the entire country were
preparing to rise and join them.
Yes, it does seem a trife early yet for
Washington and London to be worry
ing over what they will do with Agui-
naldo and Dom Paul-when they get
them.
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DIED.

ASCHMAN-At Brooklyn, N Y, Mon
day, November q. 1899, Mrs. Martha E.
Aschman, mother of Dr. G. A. Aschman,
in the 66th year of her age.
Funeral will take place from her late
residence in Brooklyn, N. Y. on Wednes-
day, November 18th.
ASMUS-Saturday November %. 1899, at
$50 O'Clock a. M, William. son of Louis
and Louisa Asmus, in the 4lst year of his
age.
Funeral from his late residence, SS46
Wood street, Tuesday. November 18th. at
10 a. m. Interment at Stone Church GEM
etery. Friends of family invited TO attend.
McCLURE-On Sabbath, November &C.
1898. at one O'Clock p. m, Mrs. Helen Wall
Mcclure, wife of Rev J. T. Mcclure. D. D.
Funeral services at the family residence,
112s Chapline street. on Tuesday. Novem-
Der Is, at two o'clock p. m. Interment pri-
vate. Please omit flowers.