The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-29
Report that south African Financial
Questions May Figure i'm
Future Negotiations.
Beers PREPARING FOR WAR
TWO THOUSAND ASSEMBLED NEAR
THE NATAL BORDER.
Others Concentrating at Strategic
Points-Much Excitement at Pre-
toria-steyn's Reply to Kruger.

LONDON, Sept. 2.-The Times applies ia
President Kruger and the crisis in South
Africa a spirited poem by Rudyard Kip
ling, published in its columns to-day, Mrs
Kipling describing an old, dcspotic king.
"Sloven. sullen, savage, secret, uncon-
trolled-
Laying on a new land evil of the old"
concludes the poem as follows:
"All the right they promise. all the wrong
they bring
Stewards of the Judgment, suffer not this
King"
The following stanzas are part Of Mr.
Kipling's poem. which will appear In fun
in McClure's Magazine:
lcopyright. 1899. by Rudysrd KipIins.l
"All we have Of freedom-all We use %
know
This our fathers bought for US. long and
long ago.
Ancient right unnoticed as the breath we
Leave to die by no mans leave, underneath
so they bought US freedom-not at lttle
cost
wherefore must we watch the King. lest
our game be lost.
Over all things certain, this is sure indeed
Suffer not the old King-for we know the
breed.
their claim
Suffer not the old King under any names
Here is naught u-nproven-here Is naughf
to learn.
1t is written what shall fall. IL the Kina
return.
"Cruel in the shadow. crafty In the sun. /
For behind his borders shall his teaching
run.
sloven, su,ien, savage. secret, uncontrolled-
Laying on a new land evil Of the old.
Here is naught unproven. here is nothing
hid;
Step for step and word for word-so the
old Kings did.
Step by step and word by word. who ID
ruled may read.
Suffer not the old Kings. for we know the
breed.
A the right they promise. all the wrong
they bring
Stewards of the judgment. suffer not this
King"
EXCITEMENT AT PRETORIA.
Intense excitement continues TO prevail az
Pretoria, where. apparently, it is believed
that there Is no escape from war. The
commission appointed to consider the mat~
ter reported to-day as to what officials ara
necessary to carry on the government f1
the event OF war and fixing their salaries
The field cornet at Pretoria is again serv>
ing out rifles. c~ommandering Is actively
nrn4AaHSae on1 n .-r~ f4 - lxI--
made to take the field.
An Englishman named Robertson has
been arrested at johannesburg. charged
with high treason. He is alleged to have
enlisted recruits for the Imperial Lieho
Horse.
The burghers are getting uneasy at ii
concentration OF British troops between
Lady Smith and Laing's Mex, and espee
cially at Glencoe and Dundee. The Mons
inai reason for the concentration is the
protection Of the Dundee coal fields. hue
the burghers shrewdly suspect that the
real reason is the formation OF a force when
will advance across the Transvaal frontier
at Vryheid as soon as war Is declared. The
Beers do not intend 10 be caught mapping,
and are now massing around vryheid. not.
however, merely as a protective measure
but 10 be prepared. unless the British re-
Inducements across the border cease, 70
make a dash In force through a portion oe
Zululand, crossing the Buffalo river at =
| point below Rorke's Drift and then seizin8
the railroad, cut of the British garrison AZ
Dundee and Lady Smith from the SOUTH
| which would not only interrupt the British
| lines OF communication. but would seriously
interfere with a forward movement. In Or
| der to watch this portion of the railroad,
--..1l - noor f,ot.rCfon a nrfff.I $3.50
will be established at Rorke's Drift.
A dispatch from Mafeking. IN British
Bechuanaland. just across the Transvazl
border, says a stream of destitute people
is arriving there from johannesburg.
A British infantry detachment. with some
| engineers, has arrived at De Aar, southwest
of the Orange Free State and an Important
| railroad junction. Extensive fortihcatione
will be thrown up there. 4
From Cape Town comes the news that AZ
a meeting OF the ministerialists there to-day
it was Unanimously resolved TO petition
Queen Victoria. deprecating the idea OF war
and urging a joint inquiry into the effect q
the Transyaal franchise act as proposed By
the imperial government.
WATER is SCARCE.
A cable dispatch 10 the Times from Cap1'
Town says: The Beers would have taken
the initiative by now but for the scarcity
OF water. the rains not yet being suf1cien1|
| Probably there will be great difficulties 10
| providing food supplies for the people re-
naming at johannesburg after hostfII1iee|
have commenced. Several responsible peo>|
| pie here who have long chung 20 the belize
In an ultimate peaceful settlement nov ~
gard war - tnevttable-"
: The Birmingham rut says two corroo