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THE

were busy throwing up earthworks
around the sacred edIffiCe That after
noon ten Of our Carbineers with myself
were asked to go out and get some horses
and we divided into two parties, four
others with myself taking the road to
the WonderbOon port, a miniature kyber
Pass, fanked on one side by a river and
on the other by high cliffs. The road was
narrow and it was risky exploit but
we got through in safety. On the other
side of the pass we found a large Boer
farm where seventy horses had been col
lected, Of course only for farming
purposes" We surrounded the band, had
them well in toward the foothills be-
fore the assembled Beers collected sense
enough to open fire, and brought them
into Pretoria on the dead run. 1t was
not bad collection for our first day out
Of church.
Martial law was now proclaimed-and
the city was found untenable. All citizens
moved TO the military camp where, under
canvas. in stables, outhouses and in the
open 200 of us formed homes. Rations
were issued by Government orders in
equal share to all, and all who could were
forced 70 carry arms, the stronger women
being included.
Foot and mounted volunteer corps were
formed and L was attached to the Pre-
toria Carbineers Much work was to be
done and all were expected to assist.
There We're" an old Irish redcoat de-
clared, mo gentlemen in camp" On the
night Of December Il a flash signal from
one Of the forts reported light in q
house some distance beyond our lines It
was supposed to be a secret meeting of
the Beers and word was sent to the car
bineers, some twenty of whom, under
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surely" and so they proved to be.
Our men at the river signaled to US to
ride to the farm | had just left, as the
Beers We're rapidly increasing in numbers,
and already the bullets were singing
around our ears. One horse was down and
many wounded. / carried, as in the Zulu
war, Henry carbine, an effective
weapon, good at a thousand yards and
easily manipulated by one hand. The
other volunteers had rifles. We reached
the farmhouse and threw ourselves from
our horses One fellow on a white horse
was especially active and my carbine was
Its contents at $50 yards, thus firing the
hrSt British shot in the Pretoria siege.
My friends now got into action and we
managed to check the advance of the
Beers though as their numbers were
continually being added to 1t was useless
70 attempt to hold them at bay. So, still
hrlng, and carrying our wounded with us,
We crept back to the cover of the brush
at the river. The Boer firing was hot,
put they did not attempt to rush us. In
the rear OF the river was a kopje of bowl
derS, to which we gradually worked. The
Boers closed in, but as they did not now
the unequal fight kept on, the Beers get
ting the worst of it until the firing was
heard IN camp and the carbineers came
out at the gallop, giving us the support we
needed. Gradually the Beers retired, and
thus ended our first fight with the enemy
at the historical Six-mile spruit.
AT the engagement at / o'clock on the
morning OF January Piet Marias, a young
loyal Boer, and myself went ahead as
scouts.
Riding forwardeebout a. mile and a half,
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cover Of darkness, crept up to within
striking distance of the house, when we
extended in open order, keeping under
cover of the brush. Later on we rushed
the house, met with no resistance, only
few Beers being there These we sent
back to camp under escort, while ten Of
us were instructed to patrol toward the
quarter Of a mile apart, and l, going
through an orchard which lay on my
line, emerged to find none of my com
panions in sight. l crossed a river close
at hand and making my way out of the
brush found myself in a field adjacent to
several houses where a Boer and a lot
of Kaffirs were at work. ! saw that the
Boer was unarmed so l rode up to him
and asked him If there were any Beers
in that vicinity.
He started and admitted, ''Yaas, a Boer
patrol was on the hill this morning yon-
der" pointing TO a hilltop about half
mile distant. Without another word l
rode in the direction he pointed to warn
my comrades who / had concluded, were
somewhere around On the other side
our men, who had crossed the river
higher up and told them the news, but
ali being quiet we decided to dismount
and wait for the Others as we had been
seven hours in the saddle and were over
six miles distant from camp.
AS we were resting and chatting one of
my friends saw several horsemen coming
toward US from the river.
Here are the BoerS!' he cried, but I
thought they were our men until turning
around I saw some others coming over
= mount; cried, "here are the Beers.
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(Fron "on Trial." by "Zock.'D

and Hamblen's I'VE Win. Since the
novel was invented nearly every corner
of the human spirit has been explored for
subjects, and nearly every type of human
nature studied and tormented in the
manufacture of heroes After historical
novels local novels, class novels, problem
novels, we have Occupation novels.
Naturally it is the bOlder occupation,
those which afford scope for herotsm,
The soldier and the sailor have, of course,
long been stock figures. Yet, even in the
sea novels and the war novels the stories
were external. They dealt with the
humorS and the romance of their sub
1ects, but not with the real life Of the
soldier and the sailor. Here is Kipling 5
originalty-he has tried not to study
from without but to create from within.
His method is often tediously technical,
and will be fruitful one. For the pres
ent his influence upon most who have ta-
ken suggestions from him has been in
many ways injurious. He encourages a
brutal realism of style and has helped to
confirm the deluson that the raw materi-
al of a story is story. In the ideal tale
of occupation, character and action will
be colOred through and through by the
occupation chosen, but the work will
and the true dignity of art. The circum-
stances of the tale will be those of the
railroad, the lumber camp, the telegraph
company; the human nature will be uni
VerSal human nature displaying itself in
those circumstances.
In the three books the names of which
are mentioned, each author has had g.
different view of the problem of the rail-
road story. Mr.. Hill, in Stories of the
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I'm the Poe Circle, by Joel Benton.
Mansfield & Vessels, New York Price
u "A "A, Local Habitation," by Walter Leon
Sawyer. Small, Maynard & Co, Boston.
"A Married Man" by Frances Aymar
'For the sake of the Duchesse." by S.
Walkey. Frederick A. Stokes Co, New
well. After All -, by F. Frank
fort Moore. Dodd, Mead & Co, New
?isc "Bugies s'Gs and Bells,"' by f. E. Ewing.
140 Ellis street, San Francisco.
Prince Timoteo," by Dayid Ska1ats
Foster; F Tennyson Nggiy New " York 66ln.
"A Drama in Sunshine" by Horace
AAnnesIey YaGhell. S' :, The h Macmillan Co.
Reader" by John W. Troeger. D. Apple
ton & Co, New York. Price 50 cents.
"a Bitter Heritage" by J. ,Bloundelle-
'Mammon & Co." by E. F; Benson.
D. Appleton & Co, New York. Price,
'SThe Hygiene of Transmissible Dis
eases" by A. G; Abbott, NJ. D.. w. B.
1oIa9s Phadsp4 6f the P5Ss P1o Eax :; Dv
Carlton Dave; r. F. FennO & Co, New
Through the Turf Smoke, by SeurneG
MacManus. Doubleday q Mcclure Co,
y "Westminster Abbey" by Dean Far
rar. Mansfield & Vessels, New York
THE Buckingham Letters" by Sir
F. Pollock & Ella Fuller Maitland. Dodd,
Mead & Co, New York.
= "on Trial" by "zack.;", g. scribner'S
RrsdH TaleS 8oubsdaE 81 the hoc9yr. BY COM
pany, New York, Price, s. 30:
ford. The Macmillan Company, New
York. Price, 81.
Cattle Rapch to College" by Russell
pany, New York Price, 81.
Studies in Literature: Burns, Scott,
Byron" edited by Seymour Eaton.
Doubleday & Mcclure Company New
Mickey Finn Idyils." by Ernest Jar
FSld Es& YoTF 3910l9aqy Prige s. 4 Mcclure Company
Doubleday & Mcclure Company, New
York. Price, 81 90.
Arms and the Woman" by Harold
McGrath. Doubleday & MCCLURE Com
NiShaf5 Pdnder9d Rolr bgsSn boggbeday " Mcclure MiH
Company, New York. Price, 81 %.
"a Modern MerCenary, by p. and Hes
keith Prichard. Doubleday & Mcclure
Company, New York. Price 81 25.
"Quaint Corners, of Ancient Empires"
by NJ. NJ Shoemaker. G. P. Putnam
& vessels, New York Price. 81 25.
"Stories of the Railroad" by J. A
Hill. Doubleday & Mcclure Company.
New York. Price 81 80.
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road from Pretoria and heard the familiar
rattle of the gun carriages, which sound
ed strangely out Of place; but such was
the material reply to the appeal for pro-
+ecrion given the Sheriff Of Potchefs
toon. Little did the gunners or the in
fantry accompanying them dream that
they were 10 be the principal actors III
one of the most trying ordeals the British
soldier was ever called upon TO endure.
A few Of us viewing the situation more
clearly than the rest formed mounted
,,atrol about two miles outside Of the city
2H-Jtb the watchword Essex" On the
,,ipb+ of December II a variety show was
OF J-er in camp, and between acts the COM
SS2andiug officer suddenly disappeared. The
mine was sprung. The wagon incident
bad rrecipitated war, and the memory OF
1Dingaau's day-DeCember Twas good
- 7Se Roer He hauled down the flag in
1Iadfiberg and hoisted his own; and this
,,auls Was deemed definite enough to up
se+ tbe dress circle Of our evenings en-
+ertaiument. Thus was war proclaimed
in the city Of Pretoria
we were shut off from the outer world,
Gov. naxt day the last mail cart reached us.
tba mails were seized by the Beers, but
+ba passengers, an Irishman and his two
Jauebters were allowed to go through.
one of these girls, with true Irish
bravery and loyalty, managed to secrete
a. the bosom Of her dress the dispatches
intended for Governor Lanyon.
evident that we had in our midst many
who would fire from the rear: Every
yrecaution was necessary. We dug
trencbes and converted the old church
tnto a haven for the women and children.
It was Sunday. but all thar day kaf1rs
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Maurice Hewlett's Little Novels OF
Italy" are novels in the old Italian sense
short amorous tales. Boccaccio himself
would not have been ashamed to own
some Of them. The scenes are laid in
Italy in the fifteenth century and the
language has a tinge of antiquity Just
sufficient to give il a gracious melody
and a certain quality of romance. Mr..
Hewlett's style has quaint and deli
pressions.
She saw his pale profile burn like
silver coin in the DUSK His rusty cloak.
the white Of his observant eye, the cram
ing of mis- neck, the very angle Of his
sword-cocked up for frolc like a wren's
tail-spoke the profuse tonspirator;"
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her eyes should be, watched with quicker
awe the Glow movement of her arms, lift
ed their own to what she held up, ana to
the running undercurrent Of the two sob
bing drabs muttered in one voice their
remembered alteration" Such pictures
shine on nearly every page. 1t is seldom
indeed that a writer conveys the impress
sion Of womanly beauty and chcrIn with
so much vIvidness as Mr.. Hewlett.
The tales are swift, decisive, full of
warmth and color; in the main gay; even
where they strike a note of seriousness
or OF tragedy, more interesting for their
brilliant l'fe and energy than for their
power Of moving the heart. In fact, they
tative works of conscious art can attain
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already formed an opinion about the new
novel, and most people are disappointed
IN it. Some think 1t weak. The truth is,
The Kings Mirror is not like Anthony
Hopes earlier novels; and the public sell
the nature Of an authors work. II you
have your mouth made up for a cherry
the best strawberry in the world will not
taste right. The geography of The
Kings Mirror is the same as that of
'Zenda," but the climate has changed,
and romance does not thrive in It. The
brethren-Hope's other heroes. He has a
wise head, a steady heart, strong hand:
but instead of gallantly achieving the
impossible he sees with smiling but bitter
hOpelessness the triumph Of common
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e Workers i'm the Literary World Are Doing
BY professor H. B. LATHROP OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY

THE Via Della Gatta was cobbled, shah
by-white, secret, blind; it echoed silence,
was place for slippering crones, for fur
tive cats and the smell of garlic and
charcoal fires" Against mild
radiance, softer than any lamp
woman'B figure. They saw the round OF
her cloaked head. they saw the white
stream OF her underrobe run from a peak
at her bosom in broadening path to her
her facs. guessed by the dark rings where
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saved by the ready wit Of Ippolita, who
blinded six thieves and destroyed with a
movement of her fair hand all the judges
and half the police of the realm, and how
an earthquake brought the island down,
leaving him and her, their dog and the
q little rock in the lake-are they not all
written in his own veracious chronicle Of
Firenzalino?
prince Timoteo' IS a charmfngly gay
and audacious piece Of nonsense. (F Ten
uysOn Neely, New York;
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that height and Mr. Hewlett's art is both
initiative and conscious. But for charm,
grace, finish, gayety, the JOY OF living,
these tales could not be surpassed. (Ihe
Macmillan Company, New York. bO)
AS is usual at this season, large pro.
portion OF the books recently publlshed
are in whole or in part reprints from
magazines: One of these LIS Anthony
Hopes The Kings Mirror" which gains
book form Pretty nearly everybody has
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place fate. The wind which blew infec-
tious cheer through the earlier books has
fallen and died
The trouble IS that the story has no
crisis. If the King could only have been
worthily killed or nightly triumphant In
q clean fight the reader would have been
content; but 1t was not worth while max
ing such fine fellow of him only to tie
him hand and foot, and. in the end, to
leave him face to face with the insoluble
problem of weary, disillusioned life
On the other hand, the book is painfully
true, and the gradual conquest of the
Kings free impulses is developed with
power There is trifing line In Ham
let' which has a melancholy reverbera-
ton, and which might have served as
motto for this novel-"The Prince is at
his princely exercises" Do you suppose
freedom to love or to lead is granted him :?
Poor fellow! he must learn to be King;
to hide his thoughts; to distribute his
faVors; to smile; to bow; to marry; to lay
cornerstones, as his exalted position re-
quires. Has he some wish to do his coun-
try good? Let him choke it; the King
must not be a partisan. Would he have
a friend? Let him beware; the King
must have no favorites. Does he love?
Let him remember that Princes wed not
for love, but for reasons of state. Little
by little the man becomes King. 1t is
to the credit of Anthony Hope that his
King remains a loVable man. d. Appleton
& Co., New York; 81 80.
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Parts Of three books of railroad stories,
now published by the Doubleday & Nc
Clure Company, have also appeared in
magazines: Brady's "Tales of the Tele-
graph" Hills Stories of the Railroad"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
SHORT LOCAL HAPPENINGS

Read Joeckers 'ad" this week.
All kinds Of silver Novelties at
Weber Bros
C-Dance at the City hall Monday,
New Years night
Q-Lou BETTER Of Mt Hope was in
the city Thursday.
The Finest Line Of Hand Dccorat-
ed China in the city at Weber Bros.
All persons indebted to Miss b. j..
Schlosser are notified to call and settle.
Miss Emma McCarn Of Platteyille
visited relatives in this city last week.
John Burns has complete line of
Christmas candies and nuts now on
sale.
Mrs. Lesser Of Fennimore was a
Lancaster visitor several days of last
week.
Postollico closes Christmas at
$3.50 4. Nj, till y Closes at ?. NJ,
till or. NJ.
Mrs. +. c. Burr visited in Belot
and Chicago this week, returning
home Tuesday.
r Meyer, Jr., and wife returned
Saturday from their trip to New York
and Washington
We seemed to have been hur-
ried from bIossoming summer into
Gbloominn winter
Jocckel Brothers have very at
tractive display in the window for the
holidays this year.
DR. McElwec the successful and
well known specialist, at the Grand
Central hotel, Friday, Dec goth.
The famous Fisk Orchestra's CON
cert and dance at the City opera house
Friday, Dec 22nd. Everybody in
vited.
Helen Reed and Leta Kinney came
home Saturday from Cornell College
at MI Vernon, Iowa, for short va
cation
Weber Bros. can save you the
middle mans profit in Watches, jew
elry and Silver Wme We buy direct
from manufacturers
Mrs. I. NJ. Cronin and daughter
Emily went to Galena Saturday for q
few days visit with relatives and also
TO hear the Scalchi opera company
who played in that city Saturday
evening.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

~fS~ss~tASat ott4 10
wonderfully successful In promptly curing
lame back, kidney, bladder. uric acid trou-
bles and Bright's Disease, which isthe worst
form Of kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-R0ot is not rec
ommendedfor everything but if you have kid
ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found
just the remedy you need. Ithas been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor TO pur-
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that a special arrangement has
been made by which all readers Of this paper
who have not already tried ii, may have a
sample bottle sent free by mail, also book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how to
find out ifyou have kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention reading this generous
offer in this paper and EySk
send your address to ssa:iFsYk as::: 5Issss
hamton, N. Y. The s.ssls.s !asls. :e3EHEl 9
regular fifty cent and Home of swamp-Root.
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

simple. and safe way to clean costly and easily
injured articles is to make suds of hot water and
Ivory Soap and allow it to cool until lukewarm. This
solution while very effective, is perfectly harmless
Ivory Soap contains no akal. 1t will not destroythe
surface or texture Of any material, however delicate
Ivory Soap differs from other soaps. 1t is moe
carefully made and the materials used in its manu-
facture are the purest and best.
opeeu4ru Bpyr4po AoAnaIoo onouenu
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

Mrs. S. S. elise is on the sick list
The Hub speaks for itself this
week.
For lessons in oil painting and
pen drawing, see Thyrza Mitchell.
If YOU want Ring, Weber Bros,
Jewellers, haye Five Hundred patterns
to show you.
A very fine line of handkerchiefs at
c. H. Basford & Co. Price from one
cent each up to as high as you wish.
Go to II. S. Rhodes for useful and
attractive Xmas presents. A piece Of
new furniture is always appreciated.
Charles Nye Jr. of Milwaukee,
and Dick Nye of Muscoda are expected
home Saturday to spend the holinays.
Hurry up. Select your Christ
mas presents while you have nice
assortment to select from at C. H.
Basford 4 Co.
If you want watch, Weber
Bros, jewelers., can sell you the
cheapest. We have the largest stock
and buy direct from manufacturers.
How about the fine assortment of
rockers and fancy chairs, jardinere
stands, odd. stools and everything to
be found in furniture store. You
can surely find something suitable for
Xmas gifts at II. S. Rhodes.
William Corduroy, one Of the
Oldest and most prominent merchants
of Platteyille, died Wednesday night
about 2 O'Clock in his store from a
stroke of paralysis which occurred
early in the evening. He leaves wife
and family.
Mr.. Barkell of Heathe, Nebraska,
is visiting relatives and friends in
and about Lancaster. Mr.. Barkell
was formerly Grant county boy, but
is now ranchman in Nebraska. Mr..
Barkell expects to remain until after
the holidays and on his return his neph-
ew Master Reuben Barkell will accom-
pany him. The good wishes Of his
many friends 90 with him.
We have just received copy of
Kerry Mills new cake-walk entitled
"Impecunious Davis" through the
courtesy of F. A. Mills, Music Pub
Usher. Kerry Mills is the originator
Of the style Of composition known as
''the cake-walk march Cor two-step')
the first composition of that character.
ever known being .'Rastus on Parade.
"Whistling Rufus and at a Georgia
Camp Meeting" are by the same COM
poser and 'Impecunious Davis isl
one of his best
DIR. McElwee, who has visited
Lancaster every month during the
past four years, says that if persons
who are complaining with headaches,
and rheumatic pains here and there
and many other distressing symptoms,
would have a thorough analysis made
Of their urine that they would FREE
quently learn quickly the cause of all
their suffering. The examination
might show startling deficiency in
some poisonous product that instead
Of being filtered through the kidneys
is carried about in the blood, poison
the body from head to foot. Or the
microscope may show destructive
changes in the kidneys, proving the
presence of Brigbt's disease, and never
such thing suspected by doctor or
patient! DR.. McElwee, it is said,
never omits a complete examination
of the urine in any case where the
symptoms are at all puzzling, and ne
says that the microscope and chemi-
calls often throw light on cases that
must have remained in darkness with
out them. These painstaking methods
OF examination are doubtless the rea-
sons for the doctors success in curing
many invalids who have been cropping
for aid in the dark.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

Mrs S. S. elise is on the sick list.
The Hub speaks for itself this
week.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

AZ ohce. MARRH MFG, Co.,
No. 542 West Lake St., Chicago.
The Northern Vindicator of
Estherville, Iowa, of last week gave a
lengthy write-up OF the opening of
the pew Hotel Orleans at that place,
Dec. 9th. The landlord, Mr.. Geo Wood
house, and his family are well known
in this county. "Dode,n as he is
familiarity called is the son of Simeon
Woodhouse, who owned the Blooming
ton hotel many years ago, thus George
was Ito the manor born. He began
his career as landlord at Fergus Falls,
Mimi, in 1890, after which he had
charge of the Vest Hotel at st. Cloud,
and later was proprietor of the How
ard house at Litchield Mimi. This
house being sold he engaged in other
business for several years. On Christ
mas day 1884 he was married to Miss
Nellie Greene, formerly of Lancaster,
and sister Of Mrs. Geo. Hyde of this
city. The wife has shared her hus-
bands public career and is thoroughly
equipped to take her place as hostess
both in the public and in social func-
tons of popular hostelry. She is
a prominent member OF the Eastern
Star and ofthe literary club movement
and was member of the Woman S
Literary club Of Litekfeld. which she
several times represented as q dele
gate at the Minnesota state eonven-
tion OF Woman's clubs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

Candidate for Michigan Goernorship.
At meeting Of prominent republic
ans Of Saginaw county. Michigan, the
candidacy Of Coz A. T. Bliss for gov
ernor was formally launched
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
Lndge caldwell ! candldate.

United States District Judge Cald-
well Of Arkansas, silver republican. is
prominently mentioned as vice-presi-
Dental candidate on the democratic
ticket.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

Major Peyton c. March of the Thir-
ty-third infantry has abandoned his
pursuit of Aguinaido and has reached
Baguen. His troops are worn out,with
fatigue.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

cures made by DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root
the great kidney. liver
and bladder remedy.
1t is the great medi-
caltriumph of the nine
teenth century; dis
covered after years Of
scientific research by
DR.. Kilmer, the emf
nent kidney and blad-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
Iowa Mine. shut pown.

Allsthe big coal mines in Webster
county, Iowa. are reported to be tied
up BY the strike of about 500 men at
Kalo. Coalville, Lehigh and Carbon.