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against the British guns. An action last
ing six hours ensued at Reitfontein Fri
day. The enemy were driven from the
hills commanding the roads. Sir George
Whites object being accomplished the
column returned to Ladysmith. The
enemy is believed to have suffered
Several Beers own officially that they
lost 100 killed at Glands Laagte. Three
hundred prisoners, wounded and un-
wounded, are in the hands of the British,
including several of high position
''In the action at Glands Laagte. Oc-
tober 81, the Johannesburg force with a
detachment of the German corps was
completely broken up.
"All was well at Mafeking UP to Octo-
Der 81 All was well at Kimberley up to
October %. The defenders are in good
spirits
Other accounts dwell on the severity
of the rifle fire at Reitfonten. They say
that when the Beers finally retreated the
Lancers cut them off from their horses
and inflicted severe losses on them. The
retreat, 1t is added, ended in a general
rout 1t is announced in a dispatch from
Ladysmith, dated October g. that strong
reinforcements of infantry and artillery
have arrived from Pietermaritzburg. 1t
was also reported that the Beers were
again massing near Glands Laagte and
that Free State force several thousand
strong was occupying BeSters Station.
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BRITISH REPORT
OF A BATTLE
AT KIMBERLEY

CAPE TOWN, Oct. 26 Evening).-Re
ports from Kimberley. dated Tuesday,
state that Colonel Scott Turner, with 20
men. proceeded northward TO MacFar-
lanes farm. At 8 o'clock a party Of
Beers was seen on the right flank and
was quickly scattered, Colonel Scott Tur-
ner opening the fire on them and several
of the enemy being seen to fall. The
enemy moved to a sand heap and opened
fire on the British. which was returned.
Colonel Scott Turner attempted 10 pre-
vent the Beers advancing against Colonel
Murray, but was met with heavy fire
from a dam wall, 600 feet to the left. At
II o'clock Colonel Murray ordered $50 men
of the Lancashire Regiment TO proceed to
the north.
An armored train is already supporting
Colonel Scott Turner At midday Colonel
Murray started also with two field guns
and two MaXims and seventy mounted
men. One of the two British guns opened
suddenly upon the Beers, who were in an
unfavorable position. The Boer artillery
fire was brisk. Another armored train
was held in readiness.
At , o'clock the second train was sent
forward with additional ammunition.
Commandant Botha and many Beers
were killed. The British loss was three
killed and twenty-one wounded The en-
gagement was a brilliant success for the
British forces
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BASUTOS ARE
EAGER TO AID
GREAT BRITAIN

LONDON, Oct. 26-Advices from Cape
Town to-day show that the Assembly at
Putiatsu River was attended by all the
principal Basuto chiefs. The resident
commissioner. Sir Godfrey Lagden, was
present. The action of the paramount
chief. Lerothodi, in pledging the nations
loyalty was emphatically confirmed by
the chiefs urging the claim that they be
regarded as the Queens soldiers and be
allowed TO share in Great Britain's strug-
gle. Three cheers were given for the
Queen by the natives, led by Lerothodi.
The British Commissioner discouraged
the idea that the British needed assist
ance and bade the chiefs quelI the ex-
citement.
PRETORIA, Oct. 21.-President Steyn
of the Orange Free State has issued a
proclamation to the Basuto nation eX-
planning the reasons for the war and also
stating that the Boer forces have been
placed near the Basutoland border. He
makes known that the republic is at
peace with the Basutos and wishes to
continue so. adding that no injury will
be done to Basutos remaining quiet and
not assisting the British.
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TEN THOUSAND
BOERS in HILLS
AROUND DUNDEE

LONDON. Oct. N.-The Daily Mail pub
fishes the following dispatch from Pieter-
maritzburg dated October "a:
THE residents of Dundee had weary
tramp of forty miles TO the nearest town,
where they arrived in a pitiable plight,
having lost everything: The refugees in
cluded Harry Escombe, former Premier
of Natal, and the Dundee magistrate. One
of the Dundee people says that all day
Saturday trains were arriving at Com
mandant General Jouberts headquarters
at Dannhauser from the Transvaal bor-
der binging Beers, and that there must
have been 10 900 in the hills around Dun
dee. The natives report that the Beers
took on six wagons loaded with their
dead from the field of the first battle at
Glencoe. Among the killed were several
Natal Dutch. A sad feature of the en-
gagement was that three Englishmen who
were Impressed at Krugersdorp fought
with the enemy, one of them being killed.
The others, greatly affected, said they
were compelled TO fight
THE Pietermaritzburg defense corps
paraded to-day and was assigned posi-
ton in case of attack.
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RESOLUTIONS
FOR MEDIATION
ARE PRESENTED.

WASHINGTON, Oct 26.-The resolu-
tions adopted at a mass-meeting held in
Carnegie Hall. New York, October H.
urging the President to offer the friendly
services of the United States in mediation
between Great Britain and the Transvaal
and the Orange Free State republics,
were presented to the President this after
noon by a delegation from New York
headed by Tunis G. Bergin. president of
the Holland Society. The delegation also
included Alfred H. Love of Philadelphia,
president of the Universal Peace Union.
Mr.. Bergn. in his address presenting
the petition to the President, said the
delegation had no desire to embarrass the
friendly relations between the United
States and Great Britain. On the con-
trary. 1t was because of that friendliness
and good understanding that they pre-
scented the petition to the President in the
hope that in the wise and good discretion
of the executive, n way might be found to
offer the timely offices of the Government
of the United States in an endeavor to
allay the bloody conflict now going on in
Africa. This would be in line with the
new diplomacy enunciated at The Hague
peace conference. The hope was cx-
pressed that honorable terms of peace
might be secured, the honor of both
parties be sustained. and the names of
two of our sister republics not be stricken
from the earth No people would welcome
our good offices like the English people,
the South African republics were ready
for mediation, and the United States, as
the friend of both, should be the best
mediator.
The President In responding, thanked the
gentlemen present for appearing and for
the sentiments expressed in behalf of
peace. Such sentiments had lis SYM
pathy but In case where so many di-
verse interests are involved, moves must
be made with great reserve, lest, unwit-
tingly. injury be done some of the parties.
The fact, moreover. must not be. over
looked that America had interests at
stake. The President reiterated that he
was for peace, and assured the delegation
that the petition would receive his most
earnest consideration
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"On discovery that the Beers were
ma esed to the westward of the main road
"a Dundee an attempt was made by a
train to recover the body of Colonel Scott
Chisholm, killed at Glands Laagte. Inc
train was fired upon and obliged to retire,
and General White moved out to attack
the Beers believed to be Free Staters who
should have joined the Transvaalers at
tIIands I,aagte General White command
ed personally. The flltn bahcers "ele
nlaced on either flank. They first came
=, tonch with the Beers below Modder>
enr,,it. where 1900 burghers occupied
strong ridge. whence they opened fire at
1ooo wards. hitting several British. In the
,,eanwhile the Hussars and Natal car
,,iooors advanced unscathed through an
o,,anine in the ridge under fire OF Boer
I'm while the Imperial Light Horse took
mart of the crest of the hill, the 6oers
retiring. .,a
on the crest of MatawanasKop opeheu III
with great accuracy on the main force,
hitch in the meantime had come up, but
the sbells failed to explode and the Brit
,sb artillery silenced the opposition. The
whole British force then advanced and
tho action became general. large body
of Roers occupied strong positions at
Matawanaskop and the precipitous ridges
surrounding it. The British guns held the
position and the infantry advanced under
the fire. The Gloucesters and Devons
crossed a fearful fire zone beneath Tuitan-
voni hill. whence the Beers poured a
withering fire with such effect that thirty
of the attackers dropped in distance of
200 yards.
.Seeing the peril of the Devons and
Gloucesters, General White dispatched the
Carbineers and Liverpools to take the
enemy In the rear A fierce rifle and ar
tillery duel was maintained for some
time The British Maxims ratified, but the
Beers. under cover of the rocks, remained
cool and replied with an incessant rifle
fire. The British artillery swept the face
of the hills and at length the shells be-
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BOERS ACCUSED
OF DISREGARDING
FLAG OF TRUCE

LONDON, Oct. 27-The Daily Tele-
graph publishes this dispatch from its
special correspondent;
"LADYSMITH, Monday.-In the latter
part of Saturdays action cat Glands
Laagte) the Beers hoisted a flag of truce.
Thereupon Colonel Hamilton ordered the
men to cease firing. The troops stood up,
when q party of Beers furiously resumed
the firing. On the same day other parties
were guilty of similar treachery, one fir
ing from Il house which was being used
as a hospital. Another party, when close
pressed, threw up their arms in token of
surrender and took advantage of the SOL
diers grounding their rifles to shoot and in
several instances to escape. Surgeons have
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CAPTURE OF
a BOER FORCE
IS REPORTED

LONDON, Oct. 27.-The Cape Town cor
respondent of the Daily News says it is
reported there from private sources that
the British issued from Mafeking, on
Saturday last, and surrounded and cap
tured 240 Beers.
A dispatch to the Central News from
Cape Town dated Thursday, 9 p. M.
says: THE British at Kimberley have
made a brilliant sortie, routing 100 Beers.
The fighting lasted four hours Two guns
were captured. The Lancashire Regi-
ment carried Kopjo at the point of the
bayonet A Boer commandant was
killed
The dispatch does not state when the
action occurred
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KILLED AT GLANDS LAAGTE.

DURHAM. Natal, Oct. % delayed in
transmission).- ).-Ex-State Attorney Kos
ter. the defender of Won Vetheini, the
murderer of Wolf A. Joel, at one time
the partner of the late Barney Barnato,
was among the killed at Glands Laagte.
1t is said here that Colonel Schiels Ger
man force was almost annihilated at that
battle.
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WHITE WILL ATTACK.

LONDON, Oct. 26-GeneraI Sir George
Stewart White, according to dispatch
from Cape Town to the Daily Mali, will
attack the Orange Free. State forces in
Natal as soon as General Yules men have
rested. Strong British reinforcements are
being sent up from the Cape.
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GERMANY's INCREASED NAVY.

BERLIN, Oct. 26.-The correspondent
here of the Associated Press learns au-
thoritatively that the conferences be-
tween the Secretary of the Admiralty
Admiral Tirpitz, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Count Won Bulow and the I'm
perial Chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, re-
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RHODES is CONFIDENT.

LONDON, Oct. 27-The Daily Tele-
graph in a dispatch from its correspond
ent at Kimberley dated Monday says:
Cecil Rhodes is strongly of the opinion
that the Beers campaign will utterly
collapse. Locally the enemy continues to
show nervous and unenterprising dis
position, but the greatest precautions are
taken against a SURPRISE
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= LONDON, Oct. 26.-The War Of
\ flee has received the following dis
= patch from General White:
y BLACKSMITH, Oct. &c. 12:40 p. M
3 General Yule's column has just
y marched in here after very hard
= march during night of exception
+ ally heavy rain. The men, though
\ done up, are in, good spirits and
\ only want rest. The enemy did
\ not molest them"
y The War Office has received
J. telegram from General White,
! dated Ladysmith. Thursday, giving
= list of the captured officers of
4 Hussars, etc, as cabled to the AS
J. sociated Press yesterday. General
i White explained that he did not
3 have the list until General Yule's
J. force arrived to-day and adds that
4 he understood they were all alive,
i but prisoners.
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SIX BoERs KILLED.

CAPE TOWN, Oct. 26.-According to a
dispatch received here from Pretoria, in
the engagement between the British
forces under Colonel Pluer and the Beers
at Rhodes Drift, six Beers were killed
and four prisoners taken.
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MORE TROOPS FOR THE WAR.

LONDON, Oct. 26.-Orders were issued
to-day for an additional 5000 troops to sail
for South Africa, between November 4
and November 49,
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GORDON AROUND KIMBERLEY

LONDON, Oct 26.-There is little news
from the Western border The Gordon
around Kimberley is drawing closer, but
hopes are expressed that flying squad
ron will shortly be sent to its relief
The Portuguese authorities have recon-
Quoted over the Transvaal border 500
white and black prisoners, whom the
Beers released from their iails and turned
loose in Portuguese territory.
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lated solely to the increase of the, Ger
man navy by speedier and larger ships
than contemplated under the existing
programme. This is due to the radically
changed political situation of the world
1t is not intended as a threat to any one
The conferences did not refer to sending
warships to South Africa and no decis-
ion has been reached as to what shape
the new naval plans will reach the
Reichstag
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BULLER EXPECTED SUNDAY.

CAPE TOWN, Oct. 25.-Everybody is
awaiting eagerly the arrival of General
Redvers Butler, who is expected on Sun
day. 1t is certain that he will receive
grand reception.
The practice of the authorities here is
to entrain all arriving troops alongside
the vessel and dispatch them direct to
the front, thus avoiding a march through
the city and inevitable demonstra tions
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found that some expanding bullets have
been used by the enemy.
Generals White Hunter and French
with their staffs. made a round of the
hospitals to-day. The town hall and
churches as well as tents are fitted up
with beds Medical arrangements are
ample and complete. A number of wound
ed Beers were allowed to go into their
own hospitals near Glands Laagte"
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BRITISH WARSF1IPS ARE CHASING A RUSSIAN
STEAMER CARRYING ARMS FOR BOERS
In Addition to the Serious PrediCament
of Her Troops in Natal England Seems
to Be in Fair Way of Causing Inter-
esfing Foreign Complications.

MALTA, 27The British batteshp
arms
PARIS, &
sending
com by
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ARRIVAL OF TRANSPORTS.

DURHAM, Oct 26-Martial law has
been proclaimed throughout Natal A
transport has arrived with battalion Of
the Rife Brigade
CAPE TOWN. Oct 26.-The transport
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GENERAL SYMONS
DIED A PRISONER
AMONG THE BOERS
Secretary Wyndham Furnished
the Humiliating News to the
House Of Commons.

oNDoN Oct he death of General Sir William Penn Sons the Brit
n he n the
n of
of
ham,, in anneu O General said:
to by
be know
all
OF
and / isa
relative the arrangements made
of
in
EastM
osuchb
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culated in the Burghersdorp district ap-
pealing to the Dutch to stand shoulder to
shoulder against the "tyrant who never
keeps faith"
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ONDON, Oct. 26.-Details of the
fighting at Reitfontein are coming
in slowly. A special dispatch from
Ladysmith, dated October "a, filed
- after the fight, says:
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ONDON, Oct 27.-Although the dis
patches sent from the front are
contradictory three or four main
facts stand out prominently. Gen
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-09-02
A Modern soIomon.. Judgment.


The Greek ecclesiastical authorities
at Aleppo have been called upon to de-
eide a case which strongly recalls Solo
mons famous Judgment. BY a strange
coincidence woman and her daugh-
ter both gave birth to a female child at
The same time. But the babies got
mixed, and as one of them was ugly
and the other pretty and healthy both
mothers claimed the latter. The elder
woman maintained that, as all her 9TH
er children were handsome. the ugly
child could not be hers. while her daugh-
ter claimed that. being young. hand
some and strong. she could not be the
mother of weak and ugly baby. The
religious chief of the town settled the
affair in a summary way. He adjudged
the beautiful child to the daughter on
the ground that, it being her first. the
occasion was not TO be made one of hu-
initiation and disappointment, while
the elder mother could afford to forego
her claim. since she had already had
several handsome ckildren.-Constan-
tinople Malumat.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-09-02
spoNGEs FOR HoNEYc0MBS
"A Maine Man Thinks He Has Solved .
knOtty Problem I'm bee
Culture.

II the honey bees are wise they will
refrain from stinging Tom kyah, Of
Vcazie. Me-, during the remainder OF ms
natural life. because he has lately
adopted a labor saving device that en-
ables the industrious occupants OF the
hives to accumulate double the amount
of honey they could before kyah
turned his energies to bee keeping.
Tom is barber by trade and raises bees
as fad, SO as to keep his mind occu-
pied. AS a result he entertains his Gus
toners with tales of the apiary instead
of trying to sell them a new hair in
vigorator. and finds that his patronage
is increasing every week. He reads
whatever books on bee culture come to
hand. besides doing a fair amount OF
thinking and close observation on his
own hook.
According to Toms idea bee is a
well meaning and poorly educated in
sect that needs the guiding hand OF
man to bring it to fullest perfection.
The making of honey is secondary
consideration in the economy of bee
hc SoStS 'hhhN esAA~s
labor is the comb, which is manufac-
tured into storage vaults, in which the
honey is preserved in mir tight sealed
packages, stamped and labeled with
the trademark of the queen bee who
presides over the destinies of the col
ony. Different men have constructed
machinery for the stamping of beeswas
into crude imitation of the genuine
comb, and the bees have accepted this
us passable substitute for the real
thing. but Tom is the first apiarist
who has done away with beeswax II
any form and satisfied the bees.
One day last June after washing hs
buggy and sponging it off he threw the
sponge, which was large and porous,
into an empty bee hive that was in his
stable. Here it stayed until thoroughly
dry. A swarm of bees coming out.
Tom housed them in this hive without
thinking to remove the sponge, which
had clung to nail in the top board.
Two weeks later Tom looked into his
hive and found it was almost filled with
nice white clover honey. As the swarm
was not large one, the great store was
a surprise to Tom, who thought 1t
would not be full before September.
On closer observation he found that his
bees had utilized the porous sponge as
a storehouse for their honey, filling II
cell by cell and sealing it up as if sponge
was the very article that progressi,e e
bees had been seeking all their lives.
1t was too late to continue the expert
ment, as all the bees had swarmed, but
this year Tom has equipped all of his
new hives with sponge comb and be-
lieves he has solved a problem that has
mystified bee keepers for years. In
stead of compelling his bees to waste
three-fourths of their time in chewing
vegetable gum and making it into wax
for cells, he will now furnish them with
ready made comb. thus multiplying his
honey output three or four times.
When he wants some new honey he will
remove a sponge, put it in cider press,
and having squeezed out the liquid
sweetness he will replace the sponge in
the hive to be filled again.-N. Y. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-09-02

WIT AND WISDOM.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those
who need it most like it least.-John-
son.
Don't play another mans game.
This is old but good advice.-Atchison
Globe.
Some men are good only when they
are watched-but even they are better
than some others.-Somerville Journal.
81 don't think you are a man of strong
passions, Mr.. Mildly" ''You are wrong.
Miss Fortescue. l have remarkable
passion for pie" = Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Mans Inconsistency.-"You are the
apple of my eye. my DEAR" he said.
''And only yesterday" she sobbed, you
told me that / was q peach!"-Somer-
vile Journal.
Husband-''I am going to join an
other club tonight" Wife-"I don't
suppose shall see you at all after this.
Husband-"Oh, yes! They have la
dies day."-Puck.
81 always aim t'tell tn TRUTH" re-
marked an old farmer. $50 do /. Silas. !"
replied a neighbor, 'but then feller
will trade hosses once n awhile, you
know.-Ohio State Journal.
Witness-"Yis, sor, tn prisoner hod
on a cooked hat whin-" Lawyer
Hold on, there! How do you know 1t
was cooked hat?' Witness-"Because
i: wint off livery tonne tn wind blew,
sor,"-Chicago Daily News.
A Humiliating Experience.-Cholly-
81 was mawtified almost to death lawst
night" Geowgie- What happened"'
Cholly-''A bold wobbah demanded me
diamond stud or me life. and to save me
life l had to confess it wasn't dia-
mond!"-Jewelers' Weekly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-09-02
wbv ne Va. silent.

A physician describes remarkable
case of q patients confidence in his
medical adviser: when l was stu.
dent in London had a patient. an Irish
man. with broken leg. When the plas-
ter bandase was removed and lighter
one put in its place l noticed that one
of the pins went in Nth great diffi-
Guilty. and l could not understand it.
4 week afterward, on removing this
pin. found it had stuck hard and fast
and | was forced to remove it with
the forceps. What was my astonish-
ment to find that the pin had been run
through the skin twice, instead Of
through the cloth.
..Why. Pat said !. didn't you know
that pin was sticking in you?
"sTo be sure l did, replied Pat, but
1 thought you knowed your business, so
l hilt me tongue. '-Tit-Bits.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-09-02
DOWNFALL OF LITTLE WILLIE.

Being an exposition CT TIE fact that sci
&ncc. though excellent ia . its way and
perhaps indispensSb BILE. may not be good
&Eing all around, afte1 all.
Little Willies ways are 6reary,
He Is sick at heart and sore:
Once he cneered US with his laughter.
He is doing so no more.
Little Willie has sister
Who is far and twenty-three;
Never was a gentle maiden
Sweeter, Gaintier than she.
Wiliie's sister has fellow
Whom she loved with all her might.
And he comes to see her with the
Regularity of night.
Willie's sisters fellows father
Is millionaire whose one
Wish appears to be to pamper
The desires cf his son.
Willie's sisters fellow used to
Ride behind biooded pair
That could do mile in 90
Without moistening hair.
Willie used to hold those charges
While their owner was inside
Asking Willie's happy sister
To get ready fer ride
And it used to seem t. take her
Long to make her toilet, too:
Or. perhaps, twas not her toilet
Willie didn't care a sou.
Oft he sat there in the carriage
While the hours dragged along,
Holding firmly to the ribbons,
Pouring out his soul in song.
Ard his pretty sisters fellow
Glaodened him with many fee
All. the way that child spent money
Was astonishing to see!
Nearly all he ate was candy.
He had friends to turn away:
All the boys were out for Willie
Everywhere and every day.
His opinion was their gospel,
They were all on Willie's side:
Willie was their saint and leader.
WilIie's heart was full of pride.
Gone, alas, is Willie's prestige!
And his friends, oh, where are they!
One of them gave little Willie
A sad beating yesterday.
Little girls make faces at him.
Who had only smiles before;
Willie doesn't carry candy
In his pockets any more.
Little Willie's heart is heavy.
There's a shadow on his brow
Little Willie's sisters fellow
Has horseless carriage now.
IS. Il. kiser. in Chicago Times-Herald.