The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-29


fit, with some unanimity, to applaud There
are many little acts of heroism--if any
acts of heroism can be little-records of
which never trouble the assistant editor
or agitate the linotype There are acts,
however, which have not the almost es-
sential lurdity Of coloring required for
your military anecdote and being such
pass out of knowledge. Because there was
nothing dashing or thrilling about the
acts of Joseph Hinton, private of the
Royal Army Medical Corps, almost hes
itate to do him into print
For over four months Private Hinton
had been nurse in charge of the enter
ic fever and other dangerous cases at
Orange River. in one of the field hospi-
tails there. The duties of a nurse in
charge of one of the marques, which DO
duty for wards, are many and arduous.
There are no white-covered beds and dim
ity window curtains. no polished floor and
shining brasSes, no soft-footed women
moving about the quiet ward, no twitter-
ing birds on the big trees outside, no
texts the walls. There are none of
these things in a field hospital. The keen
eyed orderly, bare-armed and alert, picks
his way carefully over the PROSTATE
formas lying on the hay covered floor of
the shaking marquee. A word of encour-
agement here, a word of reproof there,
and an eye ever open for the dust devils
that sweep across the clustering plain,
and will throw back and even kill the
patient who is at the critical stage of en-
teric fever When the "devil' comes the
fly Of the tent must be quickly lowered
and pegged down, and the dust and sand
and debris, which has whirled in, in
spite of all precautions, must be remov
ed Doing his duty in such a hospital,
Hinton for four months simply devoted
himself to the patients.
Long after the time came which releas-
ed him from duty he would sit among his
suffering comrades, tanning them attend
ing on them, and doing all that lay in his
humble power-for Hinton made no pre-
tensions to arstocratic orgin-to alleviate
the sufferings of those who were fortunate
enough to come into professional contact
with him. After four months hard work
Nature stepped in and extracted her re-
venge for liberties taken, and Private Hin
ton died of the disease he had ben fighting.
/ feel almost inclined TO offer an apology
for inserting this record for. as l say,
here was a Tommy who was not dash
ing who was not brilliant, only faithful
unto death"
ERectuaIIy Killed His Thirst.
Riding through the dusty veldt Tele-
graph correspondent espied a pool of wa
ter that looked limpid to his jaded obser-
walton. He says:
'I lay down to drink and placed my
pocket filter with tube into the pool. AT
that moment l noticed a strange looking
object, which on further examination
proved to be a dead Boar, who had b en-
shot apparently, through the skull. This
sinister discovery, I need scarcely say, al
layed my anxiety to quench my thirst in
the neighborhood. turned the body over
as it lay in the water, and the eyes, half
open, seemed to look forth reproachfully
upon the disturber. The man had been
stripped of ammunition and arms by his
comrades. and had been cast irto the Wa
ter with A boWlder attached TO his waist.
When l returned to camp l reported my
strange find. and 1 then learned that my
experience had been by no means unique.
1t was only few weeks ago that upward
of thirty dead Beors had been dragged
from a well, previous to which time a
great deal of the water had Deeh uSeu TO-
drinking purposes"
The scene of the rebellion in Northwest
Cape Colony is thus described by the Cape
Town correspondent Of the Telegraph:
"The portentous announcement just
made that all Kenhardt is rebeliing is dis
a picture Of South African desolatlon
should visit Kenhardt. You leave the rail-
| way at Victoria West Road, and On the
way YOU pass the imposing towns or VIC
toria West, with the enormous population
of &c: Carnarvon, seventy miles further
off with 1000 inhabitants; Van WyK
| Wei with possiblv 500 and 30 miles tur-
thor xenhardt. with about as many. Whel
mankind has learned to live on sand and
do without water this northwest part OF
The colony will become a thriving country
I Travelled two years ago part OF the way
win a Kenhardt storekotper Thai wa
the third wear during which the smiling
land had had no rain. They had seen
Few clouds float over their heads but ne er
| u ,7r1s, Of rain fell. True, a little stream.
which as usual in this land, was dignihei
| with the name of river, the Hartebeest,
ran through the hamlet to join the Orahs
river: but they had only lately ihouSht
of using its water for lrflsallon' hey -
now actually constructing irrigau n WORKS.
there-not however, so much for their eX-
| nected utility as for the salae Of giving
| environment to needy burghe1s.
III is these same "arme Bceren" Door
| Uhites). who will neither work nor starVe'
| who are now playing at rebellion ra,nSI
| Than dig reservoirs. How 1t must stupeiy
| Lord Roberts to read that all kenharol
| is in revolt. Heavy firing Is reppr.ee
| tn have taken place, and l am prepared
| for the official report from Boer sources
| that zone burgher (rebeD has lost nhset
and two horses have been frightened' on
| The British side the slaughter was terri
HE II is also in trembling accents 81
| mat Prieska, on the Orange river, mas
| rieen-ves Prieska, with nearly 500 men,
| women and children-risen. 1t is really
| drol that these so-called farmers, VINO
never farm, should rise now, when their
| friends. the Free Staters, are being driven
| on 70 Bloera Gontein, about as powerless as
| Canute was to check the rising toe
| Two Boer Hospitals.
| A bit of the hell of war is pictured by
M RI. Donohoe. in the Chronicle, in de-
scriptlon of Cronje's camp after the sur
| render.
II came upon the Boer hospital. 1t was
simply a donga, or natural trench, run
ming up from the river. 1t was ten feet
deem three feet wide at the top, narrowing
to two feet al the bottom. A piece of old
sail. held in place by few stones weight
ing 1t. covered The top. Into this pit the
| Boer wounded had been tossed-uncared
for. Within they lay-unattended. They
we're huddled together, some prostrate'
others crouching-in all manner of atti-
| tudes. Descending the river bank, en-
1 lered the hospital" The misery OF its
luckless inmates was heartrending TO wit
ness. Their eyes lighted up with thank
fulness ON learning that assistance was
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