New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-29
THE PASSING THRONG.

"some time ago a friend OF mine on the Dench
told me the following story" said T. f. Thomas. .,
omaha, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
FARMERS Yesterday. "He holding court
STORY WON in a certain town. one OF inc caoe'
ETc CASE on the calendar was called Tor trIai
Tho plaintiffs lawyer announced
that his side wGs ready. but no one ans"eisa ~
the call for tho defendant, until finally an oio a,u
weather beaten farmer rose In the rear Oh INC
courtroom and announcing himself as t9e hs case
I don't know Your Honor, he said what haS me
como of my lawyer. He drove into TOWN. WIZ WIZ IT, ~
TIMED ni out later that the attorney was on sPree
ThIs is suit for my farm. Your HonorI1ny a ,ai'
Going into the wilderness. by hard work ana COCO
mana cement. were able to establish there a Inc
tbn o t'c cabn wherein we lived built and In 1t
my three were born Every @ Bic planted
and tended but they arc all gone now; every lru,
tree upon it grew under my hand. FROM ,1 that
;c ~ forost ground grow under our care until u
became farm Of comfortable proportions va eiuibn ne
iisvng in the Righteousness OF our cause my VIE re
and / were willing to let our three sons ib" and
journayng 10 that battlefield. Was tTT.on and
enough to find his body among me sam n our our
font yard where boy he had PLAYED ana hs ife
man he had worked Ny second son 9sI or ms
me To- secognizs and bring home his body where Il
was buried beside that OF his elder or oonSi
could not distinguish his from the other skeletons
I'm that awful place. My wire, wneh st n ,orror
answer to her call sickenod little by little and diea T.
The only thing I've got LEFT on earth care bea they
want TO take I. away from me for taxes whicn
ny Continued the case to the following day. said
tho Judge, telling tho old farmer to ma ms
IN the mean time and to have him IN o5 farmer
was az III cold blooded nan insisted on going on
,.f.b As
three times had no choice opt 10 there wa
any there prcjudircd in of either side etc u
so to stand up one man arose. and in reply 10 a.
sNotbIn- Your Honor except that was In court
yesterday ard heard what the Defendant said ana
on with the trial. and to make long story s'ort
in spite OF all the plaintiffs lawyer coud 90 orm arG
the cloud Of witnesses he brought. that old FARMER
f. hnq t0 @y":'" '''e1 MS 'O' u '''' ''' $500
"I don't know whether all OF the news printed IN
the papers about the Transvaa is true or not,
said Henry c. Fordyce at the Hoi-
Beers AND land House yesterday. but oio
THEIR WAYS. see one paragraph that smacKeu oi
truth" Mr. Fordyce is an English
man. from Birmingham, and is interested IN the
manufacture OF mining machinery. He has been IN
the Transvaa in the course Of his travels ana ha
prisoner when asked how he reiished the oayonet
charge of the English Almighty said the Boer,
quaint people and their methods of living ana
their language is quainter. The real od stylee
Boer always profaces his remarks with Almighty.
Why they should do this do not know. but they
do. If they say the most trivial thing they preface
II with this ejaculation. 1t is sort OF generai
introduction The Beers are not To-Day, however,
what they were a dozen years ago.. Inc opening
up Of the big mines the mills and the other large
business undertakings has lured them away from
the veldt and the farm Hundreds and thousands
OF them work down deep IN the mines ana are
seldom IL ever. seen above ground In the daytime.
AS a result of this they have lost much or the
vlgor and theness that come from out OF door
life, have lost accuracy as marksmen ana nave DC
velOped into tradesmen. 1t Is no PROOF OF thelr
craftsmanship that many English oncers nave
been killed. but rather demonstration or the use
less and vainEorlous way in which the officers ex-
in ali probability one of the most quaint and
picturesque classes of people in the world. That is
what Is known the 'trekker.' These people.
whole families, drift from place to place in big
covered wagons hauled by and live on the
veldt. They never work The cattle they take
with them allowed TO Craze all day and men
moved along The women do the cooking and the
children do the odd Jobs. The men will sit around
all day, smoking, without saying word. A dull,
contemplative look is in their eye, and they seem to
be utterly oblivous to all around them ] once
asked one OF these men what he thought or from
morning TO night. He replied: Think haven t
time to think That was a sumner. They are a
dirty III dressed slothful, lazy people with appar-
emily little no intelligence With the hostile
and monotonous drifting. and think they will be
nd Loaf iVhf ~