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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-13
A REPORT FROM BADEN-POwELL

'' ATTACK ON MAFEKING ON OCTOBER Is
REPLIED BY MAXIMs.
-'hoon, Nov 12-The following dispatch
a, ~ !, Colonel Baden Powell. British commander
- %aieking. dated October % and forwarded
- General Butler. was posted this evening By
The War Office:
al Is well here. After two days Smelling and
'S commandment q body OF the enemy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-13
ATTACK on KIMBERLEY REFUSED.

r1yTIY SkIRMlSHlNG ON NOV EMBER RE-
PORTED BY COLONEL KEKEWICH.
London. Nov. 12.-The War Office issued the
following dispatch this evening from General
Sir Redvers Butler. dated Cape Town. November
H. 1910 ?. m:
Colonel Kekewich British commander at Kim
berley) reports that the enemy was very active
on November 1. principally with the object Of
driving off cattle The Orange Free State troops
retired rapidly before Colonel Turner. without
firing At 1870 p. m the Transvaal troops ad-
vanced on kenilwOrth. Major Peakman. with
a squadron Of Kimberley Light Horse, was hid
ing in the bush, and gave the enemy warm
reception. The Beers retired. firing. Colonel
Turner reinforced Major Peakman. and at u 40
D. m the enemy opened fire. with one piece Of
artillery at nearly 1000 yards range
Two guns Of the Diamond Field Artillery
were then sent in support Of Colonel Turner,
but the enemy's guns had ceased firing after the
fifth round. Consequently our guns did not
come into action. The enemy's artillery fire
was not damaging and his shooting was bad.
Our casualties in the Kenilworth engagement
were limited 10 Major Ayleff. Of the Cape Police,
who was wounded In the neck. He Is expected
10 recover. Late in the day. our pickets say.
the Beers carried off six dead from one spot
probably killed by our Maxim. The total Boer
loss probably heavy but had not been esti-
mated by Colonel Kekewich.
About $50 Colonel Turner was again in con-
tact with a new body Of the enemy, on Schnest
Drift Road From the coming tower large
number could be plainly seen about two miles
north Of the Kimberley Reservoir, and others
held walled Enclosure on their own right flank,
Colonel Turner opened with a Maxim and two
guns OF the Diamond Field Artillery sent in
support. He came into action at 5:47, and con-
tinued firing until dusk
Our further casualties there were Private
Lubbe. of the Cape Police, who was shot
through the head and who died on arriving
al the hospital and Sergeant Watermage. of the
Kimberley division of the Cape Police. who
wounded but is doing we'll
Colonel Kekewich is unable 70 state the en-
emy's loss. but believes these must have been
severe judging from the preciptate retreat Of
the Beers.
Al 6:10 the enemy opened fire with one piece
OF artillery from Hampers Dam, on Ottos
Kopje, held by the Cape Police. The enemy in
hicted no damage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-13
BOERS LIFTING" BRITISH CATTLE.
LEADING FEATURE OF THE FIGHTING
AROUND KIMBERLEY.

BOERS LIFTING" BRITISH CATTLE.
LEADING FEATURE OF THE FIGHTING
AROUND KIMBERLEY
Cape Town. Nov 1.-THE following dispatch,
undated, has been received from Kimberley by
(morning):
In yesterdays fight the Beers made their ap-
pearance near Carriers Farm The British
opened fire with Maxim. the enemy replying
with rifles By mistake our fire went down into
the valley killing a member of the Cape police
and wounding another. The British finally re-
tired the reservoir. where two guns were
brought up 10 shell the Beers. The result is not
yet known
Meanwhile some Beers had occupied Hampers
Dam. firing with one gun on Otto's KopJe. but
lot getting the range. They did no damage.
Il Is believed that six Beers were killed In the
first fight.
The Beers now surround Kimberley in great
sumbers, and bent on lifting" cattle and
arassing the British. New alarm signals were
sounded at 10 o'clock this morning the enemy
having been observed in greater numbers and
closer 70 our outposts. They fired on patrol
under Major Peakman. which engaged them, but
the firing at long range. The only casualty
was the wounding of Major Ayleff, of the Cape
police.
The enemy lifted" forty cattle northeast Of
me Sanitarium, subsequently firing eight shells
N the neighborhood of Nelsmead's Farm, at
kenilworth They did no damage and retired.
Later they fired a number Of convicts who
were working near the Santarum and eveDtu-
any went OF with a large number of cattle and
dOnkeys
The Beers are we'll mounted and from the dips
III tne veldt they appear and disappear with
marvellous rapidity. bent on lifting" cattle The
demonstration made 10 the southwest to-day
vas only fent TO cover the unsuccessful move
meht at KeniwOrth after cattle. Their field
short.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-13

Generally speaking the subject matter OF the E"fy
eoerdIa BiBhca i, that Of Bible dictionaries in general
Some important heading, will, however, be found here
for the first time. and archaeological facts have beer
Treated with greater fitness than usual.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16
EVERGREEN TREES,
When Properly Planted and trimmed
They Add Much to the ATTRACT
tiveneAs of Lawns.

When not overdone the planting of
evergreens on the lawn and around the
house can be made to add very materi-
ally to the appearance. The mistake is
too often made, however, of not allow
ing for growth, and in a few years after
plan ting the yard has a.. crowded ap-
pearance that, to say theleast, detracts
from appearances. By q little care in
allowing room for growth this may
easily be avoided.
Evergreens, rather more than most
varieties of deciduous trees, gain much
from transplan ting, for the reason that
they are usually of scant root and are
not inclined to throw out small fibrous
roots. Transplants aid very materially
in the growth and formation of fibrous
roots, acting the same with the roots
as cutting back tine top helps to form a
more dense head. On this account ever
greens may after be transplanted two
or three times before set in the place
it is to occupy permanently. By care
in .transplanting the evergreen forms a
thick compact root growth near the
stem of the tree, and when set to grow
permanently these help materially to
secure and maintain a thrifty growth.
FARMERS Voice.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16

extent, by the state of, the highway.
This, of course, is true of the country
far more than it is of the city.
"Good roads in the country would
vastly augment church attendance. It
is easy to sit in Judgment on rural sin
ners who stay at home rather than plow
through a mile or so of mud and slush
but the city critic himself, come a
stormy day in the country, is quite apt
to stick pretty closely to the hotel
veranda. Let the kings highway be
made straight, level and FIRM
It is pretty difficult to find any inter-
est, good or bad, which would not be
benefited by good roads. Every class of
society, including saints and sinners,
especially in the rural districts, has to
use the highways. The people who go
to a merry:making, dance or mar
riage, as well as those who have to at
tend conference meeting, a conven-
ton or funeral, are compelled to ira
verse roads in this country which in
some seasons of the year are a sore
trial to their bones and nerves, not to
speak of their tempEEs. So good roads
have their social, their religious and
their political as well as their business
phases. s.s " ..' !. II. s:.s 3
The good old lady who found so much
consolation in her doctrine of total de-
Pravity has her doubles in the people
who cling to the old system of road
construction and repair.-Rochester
On. W Democrat.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16
TRAINING A BULL CALF.
How to Make the Young Creature
Become Accustomed to Control
and Being Controlled.

We hear very much of the uncertain
temper Of Jersey bulls. No doubt. this
is the inevitable result of bad training
Or want of training, says an ex-
change. The bull has never been SUBJ
jected to control. He does not acquire
the confidence of his keeper and feeder,
and from the first the natural dispo-
sition is never checked or turned in the
way it should go. By feeding by hand
from the first and afterwards tether-
ing in pasture when the first milk feed
ing has continued for two or three
months-and indeed if the season adj
mits of it when it is a month old-the
calf becomes used to control and SUBJ
mits without opposition to every wish
of the keeper. After grown to near
full age the training should be con-
tinued by giving him work to do, by
which subsection is fully confirmed.
ldleness is the parent of vice; and to-
keep the young animal in this subject
i've state by work of some kind, if onlv
as an exercise, will confirm it's DISPOSE
ton and prevent the resistance to con-
troll, which is the basis of savage and
unruly ha bit afterwards. Indeed, train-
ing-by which mean the teaching and
forming of the disposition by practice
and kindness, with firmness alwaysand
at times with ipline-should be the
rule with every animal On the farm,
Even fowls will be more useful and
more easily managed by this training
when they are young, learning to be
handled and to lose all fear of their
keepers.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16
LIVING OCEAN TRAPS
Monster CLANS That Catch Huge Prey
in Their Vise-Like
Shells,

In South Pacific waters are found
some of the largest shells known. One
IS clamlike shell with huge ribs, called
the tridacna, one valve Of which has
been known to weigh $50 pounds. The
meat alone weighed rs or more pounds,
and a single animal, if served, on the
half shell, would afford a good meal for
so men. The tridacna has the habit of
lying with it's valves partly open, as
though to trap some unwary traveller.
It has earned an unsavory reputation
and is considered an animal to be avoid
ed unless means are at hand to render
it harmless.
The attention of white men was first
attracted to this trap when party of
collectors were rowing over the reef in
search of rare corals. They suddenly
saw large fish beating the surface>
violently with it's head out of the water.
AS they drew near they saw that the
fish was large shark which had been
caught in living trap. Its tail, or the
lower lobe, was held securely by giant
shell, the tridacna,' the strong and
powerful mollusk, clinging to it with a
vise-like grasp. +~"
There is a case on record of man
having been entrapped in similar way.
He was an American collector, unfamil-
lar with the reef and it's strange inhab-
itants, and, seeing what he supposed to
be agreatgreen sea anemone, attempted
to grasp it. But the anemone disap-
peared, and like a wise the edges of the
shell clamped the wrist of the unfortu-
nate collector, who, to his horror, found
himself anchored in STOPPING posi-
ton by his hand.
The tide was rising, not person was
in sight and there was apparently no
possible chance of escape. The COL
lector, fortunately, had knife, and,
almost crazed by the pain, he began an
attack upon the shell, but every thrust
he made only caused the powerful ami
NAL to clasp him closer and add to his
agony. It was impossible to cut around
the shell, the rock being too hard, and
the only thing to do was to wait and
hope that the shell would relax and
permit him to jerk his hand out. Sec
onds seemed minutes and minutes
hours. The water was rising higher
and higher; gentle breeze had sprung
up, and waves began to form that threw
the water against the captive. He had
about determined upon a terrible al
ternative-to cut off his hand to save
his life, when the shell visibly relaxed
its hold, and with quick jerk he pulled
out the manned and helpless member
and turned in shore.-N. Y, Sun.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16
a LITTLE NONSENSE.

Wooing in the Forest. Parrot (to
his newly chosen mate You are the
only bird ever loved His Mate
"Oh, say! Tn not so green as I look. .
Town Topics.
An Irritating Request The Suppl.
cant-"O sultan! live forever!" The
Sultan-;.Dog How often must I tell
you not to ask me to do anything that
might offend the Christian powers Pr
Puck. H. . "*$: i N .,sf5 III
Hicks-''I saw Winston just now
He's an odd stick" Wicks-"I believe
you. As eccentric as ever, I suppose9'
Hicks Worse, if any thing. He doesn't
claim to have had the grip."-Boston
Transcript. r..
Modest Candor-She-"An so you
saw service in Cuba? I do hope you
were one of the first to 60 up San Juan
hill" "Oh, no! WASN'T a newspaper
correspondent. I was only a soldier"
Chicago News"
Mrs. Proudfoot-"Yes, Mrs. Mala-
prop, that's an heirloom. It's been in
Mr.. Proudfoot's family oyer hundred
years." Mrs. Mala-"Do tell! "I've
been naggin at John Henry to get an
heirloom ever Since we moved to the
city, but he can't find any, except sec.
ond-hand ones."-Jewelers' Weekly.
FLOWS your wife this morning?''
"She's very happy, indeed" II under
stoodshe wassuffering with the grippe"
''She has it, but she isn't suffering.
You see, she bought 5O-cent bottle of
medicine for 4s cents some time ago
and she was beginning to despair of
ever having a chance to use it.''-Cath-
olic Standard and Times.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16

at time and twist 'em round towards
the west.
1T took us all day, and when we got
through we dropped down in the room
and fell asleep, while the pack mule
man went along through the cut, driv-
ing all our truck out before him.
I'm the morning we found the cut
empty and our sheep driven out at the
end of the cut, rounded up and waiting
for us. It just occurred to me that l
ought to have asked the man his name,
when one of my men said he guessed
the party had left his card. Sure
enough, he had tied leven sheep in a
row, and with pot and marking brush
he had painted his name in black paint
on the sides of the sheep, one letter on
each sheep. I could read it easily
enough.
'S-t-e-p-h-e-n Cage The last four
sheep were a little distance from the
rest.
''Come to find out we had got IL miles
into the cut when we met i'm, and he
had only got in a mile. Pretty cute fell
low, wasn't he?"-San Francisco Ex-
aminer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16
ICE YACHT RUNAWAY.
In Which a Young Girl Has a Mirac.
ulOus Escape from a Ter
rible Death.

Some years ago there was runaway
down at Shelter Island, in which a
young girl was left in the boat with a
gale blowing. She tried to throw the
sheet loose, but it was frozen and her
fingers were too cold, added to which
the sheet had fouled the tiller, and she
could not bring the boat up into the
wind to stop its way, the sail being so
set that the boat continued running
right along at a terrific rate of speed.
Occupants of the other boats soon
realized the position and made chase,
gaining but slowly, one boat finally
being far in the lead of the others by
the time the end of the island was left
behind. Right in front lay the end of
the ice, broken short by the action of
the tide water, and there the breakers
rolled in, throwing up the anchor ice.
dashing it down, and then retreating,
sucking it under the foe and packing it
up for another break. For some time it,
was question as to wheth the chas-
ing boat would catch up with the girl
before she was carried over the edge
to certain death. But at rlast the boats
came together for one brief second, the
girl was snatched by strong arms to
the .pursuer,s yacht, the sheet was
eased off in flash, and, spinning round
in its own length, it was set right be-
fore the wind instead of reaching into
it, just. as the runaway dashed over
into the anchor ice. A short, sharp
crack gave notice Of the parting Of the,
ice beneath the very runners Of the
now homeward bound savior, andwith
a long stagger, which only her speed
enabled her to withstand, she dashed
across the fast opening crack, safe, to.
be brought up into the wind at dis
lance, while the late runaway danced,
a wreck, among the broken ice. 1T was
one Of the close calls Of ice yachting
which, thank oodness! very seldom
occur. Wilford, F. Pond, in Frank Les
lies Popular Mont hly. 81 Ifas S
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16

they made q pig enort TO getOn top OF
lille sheep, and the sheep were wed ged
in SO tight thatkfth horses walked all
over them. The wool was thick and
soft, and it beat all the body Brussels
carpet you ever saw. After about ten
days we had to pull the building down
to get the sheep out, and the two und er
layers had eat all the wool off each 9th
er. Yet the critters seemed to. have
got along all right during that time,
and noticed that when they lay down
at night they would all lie down togeth-
er and all rise in the morning to their
feet. This puzzled the horses on top
when the mass would rise and lower
five or six feet, at which time the horses
would gallop around almost frightened
to death. s# ,
swell, we got the sheepNout and kept
tunneling along until we got along by
old Bachelors where the snow wasn't
so deep, and they made cuts instead of
tunnels.
1--WE struck splendid cut in the hard
snow. 1t was six feet deep, and just
wide enough for pack mule.
'"They told US it was made by man
who had pack mule route over the
mountains to Virginia City, and that if
we met him he'd make us turn back.
laughed at the idea, for we were all
we'll heeled and no man could turn us
unless he was quicker shot.
swell, we piled ourasheep and horses
into this cut, and things glided along
all right until the second day, when
the line came to halt.
by Jove, we'd met the pack-mule
man. I climbed out on the hard snow
and got round to the head of the column
with a big Winchester rifle, and found
him sitting on pack mule as serene and
smiling as anything. All he had in his
hand was small cane, and he looked
like he owned the earth. Behind him
was string of pack mules as far as
could see.
1--WE passed the time 'er day, and then
he began to, talk about the Fighter
way and the competitive points in
travel I had never heard of those
things before. and wasn't disposed to
place much stock in 'em, when he bal
anced the cane on the finger and thumb
of his left hand and began to play his
right along over the knots and talk, I
laid down my rifle and began to listen.
His language was convincin', I tell We.
He showed how that was only just in
the trail, and could turn back with
great deal less expense and in conven-
fence, and that as he was carrying the
United States mail, obstructing it might
result in my being taken into court for
it, and perhaps landed in the Sacra-
mento Jail for life.
''When he got through I said I'd turn
back, and so told my men. They were
hot, and went: to the front vowing to
kill him.
''They rushed up, and in few min
utes came back as meek as lambs, say
ing he had explained the whole matter
to their entire satisfaction.
"Well, to make a long story short,
the cut was SO narrow that the animals
couldn't turn, so we had to lean over
the cut and reach down and lift 'em one
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16
TIMELY DAIRY NOTES.

It takes all kinds of:people, to make a
world, but it does not take all kinds of
cows to make up dairy. Good dairy
men select the best. r.
= The man: who believes inY sheltering
pigs calves and poultry in the same
stable with his cows is only one step in
<adyance%of the peasant, who keeps his
live stock in a section of his dwelling
house. -z,
The term good milk signifies a great
deal. It means that it comes from
healthy cowsand healthy, hourishing
feed, and that it is. not contaminated by
the hands Of the milker, or.ftom other
sources after it leaves the udder. ,+.
If you have, a COW that coughs, and
tends towards emaciation on: good feed,
regard her with suspicion, and at once
isolate her from the. rest Of the herd till
she can be tested for TUBERCULOSIS
American Cultivation. af.m 4 49,.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16
CURRENT TOPICS,

MILITARY surgeons of the country
will meet at Kansas City, Mo-, next
May.
A BILL to prevent the docking of
horses tails is before the Colorado
senate.
A PHYSICIAN declares that people
who sleep with their mouths shut live
longest.
The Arkansas house is considering a
bill to make the legal rate of interest 8
per cent.
The smallest camels belong in Per-
STA. They are not more than so cent?
meters high
CHINESE streets are the narrowest in
the world-some Of them are onlv
eight feet wide.
The Delaware legislature has passed
a law requiring that barber shops be
closed on Sunday
a GERMAN law prevents proprietors
OF eating houses from serving beer to
people eating fruit
BERLIN has the smallest elephant In
the world It is one meter high and
weighs so Kilograms.
THE Texas bill to exterminate prairie
dogs is hung up in the senate ON the
point of being unconstitutional
NIAGARA river is washing away great.
quantities Of the rock cliff and a mark
ed change i'm the rivers bed Is notice.
able
= HENRT WEBSTER. Birmingham, Ala
threw beer keg out Of a window. It
struck Richard Lewis, killing him in
stantly.
THERE are more than 20 halls IN
Paris devoted to fencing, each presid-
ed over by fencing master more Or
less famous
A COMPANY has been Incorporated IN
Connecticut, with ST., SOC. 900 capital
to combine the silk industry of the
United States
A BILL has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania legislature providing for
the completion of the new capitol at q
cost of s4,O00.oo0.
A BILL prohibiting the use of money
Or other valuables in primary elections
has been defeated IN the Arkansas
house, by four majority.
KING MALIEToA, the Samoan NON
arch lately dead received d smaller
salary than any royalty $50 monthly,
and 1T was usually I'M arrears.
A BILL prohibiting depositor hap
ing more than $1,000 on deposit IN any
single savings bank has been favorably
reported to the New York house.
THERE are $1,000 bird specimens IN
the collection at the PhiIadeIphIa Acad-
envy OF Natural Sciences. and more tvoe
specimens than in any other collections
in America
THE mineral and vegetable DEPOSITS
OF the world are pretty evenly divided
1t Is believed that in China there IS 20
times as much coal as IN all Europe
and America
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-16
DR.. Temples Restless Nfxht.

Archbishop Temple was once taken
home by clergyman in the absence of
the latter's wife. Next morning the
host politely expressed the hope that
when his lordship again honored the
house Mrs. Temple would accompany
him. mo, thanks" the archbishop la
conically replied; "Mrs. Temple doesn't
at all like roughing it. So The clergy
mans feelings were deeply hurt, for
the visit had meant some expense and
much anxiety to him. lie unburdened
his soul to his wife. on her return.
."sWhy,. my dear,'' she exclaimed: ''you
didn't surely put the archbishop in the
pink bedroom, did your II certainly
did" 'Oh, then, that's it. put all the
plate in the bed for safety while I was
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