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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04
Beers SHELLED LADYYSSA|THH
TWENTY THOUSAND ENGAGED.
The English siIenced Their Guns
Rumored That the Beers Re-
trented-Both Sides Lost Heavily.
Skirmish at Rhodes.

Ladysmith, Oct. 81. - Firing com
menced at a. m, the Beers Smelling
Ladysmith with 40-pound,rs. After seven.
shots the British gunners succeeded in
silencing the Boer force.
Joubert Is Pushed Back.
London, Oct. 3l.-The war office has.
received a dispatch which says General
White has fought an engagement, pre-
sumably with Joubert's forces, which
were pushed back after several hours
fighting. The British lost about 100 men.
The Boer losses were much greater.
The Beers were in greater numbers and
had better artillery.
Wild Rumor From Holland
Berlin, Oct. 3l.-A report received
from Holland says the whole British.
army at Ladysmith has surrendered and
the troops are now prisoners.
London, Oct. 3l.-A dispatch to the
Associated Press from Ladysmith, which
was sent at express rates, came through
in the remarkable time of two hours. 1t
shows crisis in operations in the pres
ent stage of the war has been reached
and that the attack ON Ladysmith by the
joint Boer forces has opened.
That the heavy guns of the Beers from
which so much was expected should be
silenced so speedily, as indicated in the
Associated Press dispatch from Lady
smith, is matter of great surprise, but
the subsequent advance of the burgher
force on the British left flank shows the.
attackers were still full OF the self con-
fidence and daring they have already ex-
hibited on various occasions.
Apparently the Beers have concentrate
ed for supreme effort at Ladysmith.
They have withdrawn their forces from.
other points which they consider momen-
tarily to be of less importance.
The latest news from the western bor-
der has apparently assured the British
authorities as to the ability of Mafeking
and Kimberley to withstand assaults.
A dispatch from Fort Tuli, forwarded
during the evening of October "a, an
nounces that Blackburn's force in Skin
mish at Rhodes drift killed II Beers.
A Kaffir spy reported many more Beers
were lying in the drift dying. Blackburn
died of his wounds on returning to Fort
Tuli. The scouts there report that the
Beers are concentrating strongly on the
Rhodesian border with Maxims.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04
BATTLE WON BY THE Beers
ENGLISH HAD TO SURRENDER.
The Royal Irish Fusileers Lost Heav-
iIy-Boers suffer Heavy Loss
Ladysmith Was sheIled-Fx imber-
Iy VIII he Next-EngIish Soldiers
Rushed There.

London, Nov. IA dispatch from Gen.
White, commanding the British forces at
Ladysmiths reports that the Royal Irish
Fusileers, mountain battery and the
Worcestershire regiment We're surrounded
in the hills by the Beers, and after losing
heavily, were obliged to capitulate.
A special dispatch from Ladysmith says
the Beers suffered severely during the en-
gagement, some persons estimating their
loss at 900 TO 1000 killed and wounded.
Reports are current here that General
White may retire to Pietermaritzburg
while the railroad is intact. There is much
divergence of opinion in military circles
as to the advisability of such a step.
Cape Town Nov. 1.-The South African
News publishes the following dispatch
from Ladysmith:
A battle is proceeding at the foot OF
Umbanbane, a few miles from Ladysmith.
Several shells have dropped into the
town.
Cape Town, Nov. lit is reported from
Barley West that the Beers are con-
structing forts around Kimberly for the
purpose of Smelling the town.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04
Rush Soldiers to the Front.

London, Nov. 1.-The war office has sent
the following dispatch to Gen. Butler:
Three extra battalions of foot and one
mountain battery, with reserves, will leave
England during the course of 10 days, to
make good the casualties.
The commander in chief, Lord Wolseley,
has issued an order for the mobilization
by Nov. of the reserves of the Suffolk,
Essex and Derbyshire regiments, who will
be added to the South African forces.
1t is learned by the Associated Press
that the war office has ordered the second
army corps to be in readiness to be called
out. The military officials have not yet
decided whether the consummation OF this
plan will be necessary, but they are de-
termined to have everything in readiness
either for demonstration in Europe Of
Great Britain's capabilities, or for sending
even a larger force to the scene of action
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04

England's youngest major is 81 years
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04

Ladysmith, Oct. 81 Firing com
menced at 8 a. m, the Beers Smelling
Ladysmith with 4O-pound,rs. After seven.
shots the British gunners succeeded in
silencing the Boer force
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-28
Profit on Eggs.

We have frequently asserted that a
farmer, having the ordinary outbuild.
ings, which can be cheaply transformed
into comfortable hen houses, can add
from 500 upwards to his cash receipts
annually by keeping fowls. 1t is
somewhat difficult to get proof of this
fact. owing to the neglect Of statistics
by farmers We are glad to find, in
m-Poultry, detailed statement in
confirmation of our declaration. Our
Boston contemporary gives a letter
from man in Maine, who modestly
withholds his name and address. Four
years ago this farmer took an abandon
ed farm in that State, and went into
the hen business. He knew nothing
about the care of fowls and had to learn
some hard lessons. But he started
right. With only 25 common scrubs
he practiced the art. His first shelters
were an old outbuilding and barn.
He wasted nothing on fancy buildings.
The seco1d year his stock increased to
175 head; the third year he kept 400
Then he built hen house, 1880 feet.
The next year he had $50 head, and
built two houses, 1850 and 1880 re-
spectively. His flock now numbers
$40 head. He lives twelve miles from
roilroad and has to pay twenty-five
cents expressage on every crate Of eggs
marketed. His fowls are mostly Leg
horns. During the year ending last
December his sale of eggs alone aver
aged S66 81 month or s79o.31 for the
year. The net, after expressage, was
s7773. The price Of eggs ranged from
81 to II cents; an average Of fraction
under 16 cents a dozen. Thirty -four
shipments went for less than this price,
and from the middle of March to the
middle Of June the price was steady at
II cents. We compile this showing to
demonstrate that the eggs pay at the
price obtainable in the South. No ac-
count is made Of the increase in flock to
the credit. The cost of feed is less in
the South than in Maine.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-28
Leading Men of the Nation Interviewed
on This Important Subject.

''The charge is pretty frequently
made by agnostics, free thinkers and
atheists that this is Goddess nation
and large proportion Of the leading
public men are either infdels or rapid
ly becoming so, says The Christian
Herald, and in order to ''test the
truth of this charge that paper re-
Gently sent to the president, members
of the cabinet, supreme court, United
States senate, commanders of the army
and navy and governors Of the various
states, the following questions:
/. Are you friend of Cristianity?
II. Do you believe that Christianity
is the friend Of mankind?
III. Does your belief extend to the
recognition of the Supreme Being, to
the Divinity of Christ, to the surpass-
ing potency Of Christianity as civiliz-
ing influence?
Hundreds Of replies we're received
and all were in the affirmative. Many
of them have the positive ring Of the
true metal and many are Of a hesitat-
ing nature. Scme of the senators
failedto answer and some Of the gov
ernors failed to answer. This failure,
if intentional, can only be taken to
mean that they dare not say no to any
of the questions, and this, more than
anything else, goes to prove what a
force they recognize the Christian re-
ligien to be.
President Mckinley replied: ''My
belief embraces the Divinity of Christ
and the recognition of Christianity as
the mightiest factor in the worlds
civilization.
is the custom of the members Of
the supreme court to decline to answer
questions of any kind; but all the
same Chief Justice Fuller declared, 81
am a friend to Christianity" Hon.
George Shiras said II am Christian,
of course" The other members of
the court refused to be interviewed; !;
but The Christian Herald thinks that
all of them are Christians.
Senator John L. McLaurin said:
"To all your questions, [ answer, Yes.
Senator B. R. Tillman said: True
Christianity is very rare thing even
in the churches, and he would be a
fool who denies the beneicient inhu
ence of the Christian religion upon
men as taught by Christ. 1t is the
best code of morals to live by that has
ever been formulated" +"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-28
JEWELS FOR MERMAlDs.
Go1d and Diamonds at tho Bottom OF tho
Sea.

On the Cornish coast, about five
miles from the Lizard, it is quite COM
mon to pick up Spanish dollars which
have been washed ashore from the
wreck Of a galleon which went down IN
1884 with large amount Of bullion On
board.
1t is surprising that with all the
modern appliances for diving, system
attic attempts are not more frequently
made to recover treasure from the
deep.
AS early as 1898 great deal Of treas
ure was recovered, including the his
torical golden cup which once belonged
to Frederick, king Of Sicily, from the
wreck Of one Of the ships Of the In
vincible Armada"
In 1850 an American named William
Phipps came over from Virginia to this
country, and craved the assistance Of
Charles II. toward recovering some
wrecked treasure on the coast Of His
PAMELA. Charles provided him with a
ship and the necessary funds, but the
first attempt proved unsuccessful.
In a second effort he was financed
by the duke of Albemarle. and this
time he succeeded in recovering specie
to the value Of 100000, and after pay
ing all expenses he was able to give
the duke the sum Of sS0,000 as his
share in the venture
The specie on board H. NJ. S. Lutine,
wrecked in 1893 of the coast Of Hol-
land, amounted to e1, 100000, and the
whole Of this still remains at the bot
tom Of the sea, with the exception Of
s99, ,S59 recovered in the year 1859. At
tempts to recover the remainder are
still being made.
Diving operations resulted in the re-
covery of eSO,OOO in gold from the
wreck of the ill-fated Royal Charter,
which took place close to Moelfra, off
the Anglesea coast, but a vast number
of diamonds are still lying about the
wreck.
Forty thousand pounds in specie was
recovered from the wreck Of the Ha-
milla Mitchell, in the Chinese sea, af-
ter lying in twenty-three fathoms Of
water for upwards Of twenty years, and
100000 in gold was saved from the
wreck Of the Alphonso XII, which was
sunk in twenty-six and one-half faith
oms Of water off the Canary Islands in
1885.
Some Of the French ships sunk at
Trafalga contained vast treasure. Five
tons Of silver plate, excluding the ia
nous silver gates Of St. Johns Cathe-
dral, Malta, and a ton and half Of gold
plate, mostly studded with jewels, the
pIunder Of the Maltese churches, were
on board one Of these ships.
Not an ounce of this treasure has
been recovered.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-28
TIE COST OF "GIORS. >
SidnsY Smiths Warning to Brcthe
Jonathan Seventy Nine Years Ago.

The New York World has dug up
from the Edinburgh Review, Sydney
Smiths Essay on America. 1t has
rather greater pertinence and signif-
cance now than it had in 1920, the
year of its original publication:
We can inform Jonathan what are
the inevitable consequences Of being
too fond of glory-taxes upon every
article which enters into the mouth or
covers the back or is placed under the
foot; taxes upon everything which is
pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell or
taste; taxes upon warmth, light and
locomotion; taxes on everything on
earth, and the waters under the ear.h,
on everything that comes from abroad
or is grown at home; taxes on the raw
material; taxes on every fresh value
that is added to it by the industry of
man: taxes on the sauce which pampers
mans appetite and the drug which re-
stores him to health; on the ermine
which decorates the judge and the rope
which hangs the criminal, on the poor
mans salt and the rich mans spice, on
the brass nails of the coffin and the
ribbons of the bride, at bed or board,
couchant or levant, We must pay.
The schoolooy whips his taxed top;
the beardless youth manages his taxed
horse with a tax bride on a taxed
road, and the dying Epglishman, pour
ing his medicine, which has paid per
cent, into spoon that has paid Is per
cent. fings himself upon his chintz
bed, which has paid % per cent, aud
expires in the arms of an apothecary
who has paid a license of hundred
pounds for the privilege Of putting him
to death.
His whole property is then immedi
ately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent.
Besides the probate, large fees are de-
manded for burying him in the chancel;
his virtues are handed down to posteri-
ty on taxed marble, and he is then
gathered to his fathers-to be taxed no
more.
In addition to all this the habit of
dealing with large sums will make the
government avaricious and profuse,
and the system itself will infallibly
generate the base vermin Of spies and
informers and a still more pestilent
race Of political tools and retainers of
the meanest and most odius descrip-
tion, while the prodigious patronage
which the collecting of this splendid
revenue will throw into the hands Of
government will invest it with so vast
an influence and hold out such means
and temptations to corruption as all
the virtue and public spirit, even Of
Republicans, will be unable to resist.
WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST?
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-28
al 25O 600 Per Pint.

Some of these growths, says q writer,
who is describing mis- visit to q germ
farm, are exceedingly expensive. In
deed, q rare bacillus seems to be as
valuable in its way as scarce orchid.
I was shown, for instance, a species
known as the bacillus indicus ruber,
which is found only in the stomach Of
certain monkeys, and for a colony Of
which & ten-pound note was asked.
On the other hand. you can buy
enough scarlet fever micrococci to in
feet decent sized town forS2.50, while
twice that sum will provide you with
a choice collection of fine, healthy
typhoid germs. Leprosy bacilli come
expensive, though S25 per colony;
while as much as $40 is asked for
selected colonies of the bacillus of con-
junctivitis or typhus. This would
work out at something like S1,25O,0OO
per pint.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-28
German Speaking Negroes.

There is a German negro colony in
Pennsylvania, who speak nothing but
German. The place is in Lebanon
county, and the negroes went there
twenty, thirty and forty years ago, and
settled among the quiet Pennsylvania
German farmers Of the Blue mountain
districts. The colored children grew
up on the farms, where they worked,
and heard nothing but German spoken.
They soon forgot nearly all the Eng
lish they knew, and now they rarely
speak anything but German. Their
children go to English country schools
in winter, but as quickly as they are
out Of sight Of their teachers they be-
gin to talk the German dialect, and
nothing else.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-28

cluncs aboGes, aa5, though appf=eia
tive C all that engravings and paintings
can do, they are in perpetual depriva
ton. You are going, after you get on
the sixth step Of that stair, just spoken
of, to find yourselves in the royal gal
lery Of the universe, the cencentered
splendors of all worlds before your
transported vision. In some way all
the thrilling scenes through which ne
and the church Of God have passed in
our earthly state will be pictured or
brought to mind. At cyclorama Of
Gettysburg blind man who lost his
sight in that battle was with his child
heard talking while standing before that
picture.
The blind man said to the daughter,
"Are there at the right Of the picture
some regiments marching up hill?"
yes" She said. WELL said the
blind man, is there a general on horse
back leading them on?" Yes" she
said. well, is there rushing down on
these men cavalry charge?" 'Ycs, "
was the reply. And do there seem to
be many dying and dead?" "Yes, was
the answer. well, now, do you see a
she'll from the woods bursting near the
wheel Of cannon?" Eyes" she said.
'Stop right there'' said the blind man.
''That is the last thing ever saw on
earth! What a time it was, Jenny,
when I lost my eyesight!' But when
you, who have found life hard battle,
very Gettysburg, shall stand in the
royal gallery of heaven and with your
new vision begin to see and understand
that which in your earthly blindness
you could not see at all, you will point
out to your celestial comrades, perhaps
to your own dear children who have
gone before, the scenes of the earthly
conflicts in which you participated, say
ing: There from that hill Of prosperi-
ty 1 was driven back, in that valley Of
humiliation | was wounded. There I
lost my eyesight. That was the way
the world looked when | last saw it.
But what grand thing to get celestial
vision and stand here before the CYCLIC
rama of all worlds while the rider on
the white horse goes on 'conquering and
to conquer, the moon under his feet
and the stars of heaven for his tiara
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-28
snsed of an EARTHQUAKE.

The course which an earthquake
runs is usually very rapid. From the
instant when the first shock was felt
at Lisbon to the period when all was
over, and many thousands Of people
killed, not more than two minutes had
elapsed. Usually from ten to thirty
seconds elapsed between the first and
last shocks of severe earthquake. But
this lightning speed IS not always the
earthquakes mode oftraVeling. While
Caracas, in Venezuela, was almost
totally destroyed and 1900 people
were killed in less than twenty seconds
by the great shock there many years
back, there are cases in which con-
stantly recurring shocks have lasted
for weeks. No matter how brief the
span, the most frightful havoc can
be wrought and the wave Of destruct-
ion propagated from the most distant
regions. The rumbling earth-sound
travels at the rate Of about 1u.000 to
1000 feet per second, and the earth
wave, on an average, about 1900 feet
in the same space Of time.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-28
Salaries Of Presidents.

Very few persons would suspect how
small the salaries Of presidents Of re-
pubics are, when the enormous sums
crowned heads receive are taken into
consideration. The foreigner often
thinks the $4,000 salary Of the Presi-
dent Of the United States is merely
a joke, and that he receives ten times
as much in reality, but the same for
eigner may not know that the French
President, in a country where the
wealthiest monachs once reigned. re-
ceives only $4,000 year. The
President Of the little Andorra Be
public contents himself with a salary
Of SIS a year, and the President Of
the Swiss Republic must be satisfied
with $1,000
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-28
sCMElHIN ABOUT GOVERNORS
UnIY Two of Them Have Died While
Holding 0fc,.

Since the ratification of tue constitu-
tion of the State, June 3, 1870, only
two Governors have died in Office.
Charles Pinckney was governor at that
time. In 1898 Patrick Noble, of Alb
beville, was elected governor. The
legislature up to the civil war elected
the governor. That was done early in
December and the Inauguration took
place few days after the election. In
1910 Patrick Noble died and vas sue
ceeded By B. K. Henagan, Lieutenant
Governor That was the first time in
the history Of the State when Lieu
tenant Governor was called on to fill
the executive Office. No other governor
died while in Office until the death of
Governor Ellerbe. So far as we know
every governor after Mobiles time serv-
ed his full term until Hampton's time.
He was elected governor iu 1876 and
again in 1878. Soon after his second
election he was elected to the Senate Of
the United States and Lieutenant-gov-
ernor, Simpson, succeeded him. Before
his term expired he was elected Chief
Justice and J. B. Jeter, president pro
tenn. Of the Senate, took the oath OF Of
fee and was governor for few months.
In 1880 General johnson Hagood was
elected governor. When the election
of 1882 came he announced that he was
not candidate for reelection. A
scramble for Office followed and when
the convention seemed to be tending
towards a deadlock. Hugh S. Thomp-
sons name was put forward aid he was
elected, with John G. Sheppard as
acknowledgement. In 1884 Hugh
S. Thompson and his entire ticket were
reelected. In July, 1886, Governor
Thompson resigned the governorship to
accept the Office Of Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury under President Cleve-
land. Mr.. Sheppard then became gov
ernor and served until end of the term.
In 1886 John Peter Richardson and w.
L. Mauldin as running mate were elect
ed, and reelected in 1888. In 1890
the Tillman regime came in and each
governor has served his full term until
the death Of Governor Ellerbe.-Caro-
| lima Spartan.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-28
Hand-SeMed Boots.

There are nearly 5000 stitches in q
pair of hand-seTn boots.
AN exchange gets off the following:
want to be farmer and till the virgin
soil, and labor in the sunshine to sweat
and stew and boil; want to earn large
acres, whereupon the rye to SOW, and
watch the cornstalk waving, and hear
the. mortgage grow; l want to be a
farmer, and grow a Hubbard squash,
the pumpkin and potatoes, and other
stuff, by gosh; l want to be farmer,
I do. upon my soul, but I haven't got
the money to buy a gopher hole