The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-04-28

i Sabbath, and on this day, by a sort of
mutual agreement, neither side fired a
/ shot. Pale women and children emerge
! from the lager, dressed in their Sunday
lfbest, the shops are open and do a lively
/ trade, services go on in the little English
church, still almost uninjured, and every
/ one is able safely to ride and walk about
1 the town and outside on the veldt within
! our lines. So different is the aspect Of
1 everything that one could hardly believe
/ II IS the same town. In the afternoon.
under the auspices of the c.. o., sports
are organized, the band plays and every
/ enc thoroughly enjoys himself.
t. other Sundays the officers of the gar
| flson engage in a polo match and dis
pense tea to their friends, and almost the
whole town turns up on the polo ground.
/ fairly revealing in the fresh air and sun
SHINE. There is no donbt that to every
one, but more especially to the women
/ and children, this happy one day in the
seven is an ineSpsessible boon and that
their spirits are kept up and their health
improved by living in anticipation of this
! outing
| Inc Times correspondent sends this
| graphic personal sketch Of the man who
IS undoubtedly the greatest hero of his
Gay IN the eyes Of the English nation:
Col Baden-Powell is young, as men
go IN the army, with a keen appreciation
OF the possibilities of his career His
/ countenance is. keen, his stature short,
his features sharp and smooth. He is
eminently man of determination, with
great physical endurance and capacity.
and extraordinary reticence His reserve
| is unbending, and one would say, quoting
| a phrase of Mr.
be the only heat that would permeate
his body. He does not go about freely.
since he is tied to his office through the
multitudinous cares of his command, and
ne is chiefly happy when he can snatch
the time to escape upon one of those noe
| turnai, silent expeditions which alone
calm and assuage the perpetual excite
| sment of his present. existence. Outward
| ~, ne maintains an impenerable screen
OF self-control,1 observing with cynical
smile the foibles and caprices of those
around him. He seems ever bracing him
SELF to be on; guard against a moment in
winch ne should be swept by some UNI
natural and spontaneous enthusiasm, in,
| winch oy word, by an expression of
Lace, by movement, or in the turn Of
phrase, he should betray the rigors Of
the self-control under which he lives.
| u Every passing toWnsman regards him
| with curiosity not unmxed with awe.
Every servant in the hotel watches him,
! and he, as a consequence, seldom speaks
! Wifhoutaa "a, pref ernatural deliberatIoa and
| an air of incisive inality He seems to
close every argument with a snap, as
| though the steel manacles of his ambi-
| ton had checkmated ths emotions of
the man in the instincts Of the officer,
/ He weighs each remark before he utters
| It, and suggests by his manner, as by his
words, that he has considered the differ
| ent effects it might conceivably have on
any mind as the expression Of his own
| mind. AS an officer, he has given to
,Mafeklng complete and magnificent Sc
curity, to the construction of which he
| mas brought a very practical knowledge
Of the conditions of the Boer warfare,
Of the Beers themselves, and of the
strategic value Of the adjacent areas
| His espionage excursions to the Boer lines
have gained for him an intimate and ac-
curate idea of the value of the opposing
| forces as mass of data by which he
can Immediately counterfeit the enemy's
attack. He loves the night, and after his
return from the hollows in the veidt,
where he has kept so many anxious Wig
| lis, he lies awake hour after hour upon
his camp mattress in the veranda, trac-
ing out in his mind the various means
| and agencies by which he can forestall
their move, which, unknown to them, he
had personally watched.
He is a silent man. In the, noisy day
her yearns for the noiseless night, in
i which he can slip into the vistas of the
/ veldt, an unobtrusiye spectator Of the
/ mystic communion of tree with tree, Of
| twilight with darkness of land with
/ water. of early morn with fading night,
| with the music Of the journeying winds
/ to speak to him and to lull his thoughts
4 AS he makes his way across our lines
/ the Watchful sentry strains his eyes a
/ little more to keep the figure of the col
1 cnel before him, until the undulations of
| the veldt conceal his progress He goes
in the privacy Of the night, when it is
4 no longer a season of moonlight, when,
i although the stars are full, the light
i is dim. The breezes Of the veldt are warm
and gentle, impregnated with the fresh
fragrances of the Molopo, although, as he
i walks with rapid, almost summing, foot
i steps, leaving the black biz. 81 the town
for the arid and stormy a.e1is to the
4 west a new wind meets him, wind that
/ is clear and keen and dry, the wind of
/ The wastes that wander forever over the
1laonotonous sands of the desert. He goes
j on. never faltering, bending for a moment
/ behind a clu,np of rocks, screening him
| self next behind some bushes, crawling
upon his hands ard knees. His head is
/ .oW, his eyes gaze straight upon the camp
/ Of the enemy; in a little he moves AGAIN,
/ his inspection is over, and he either
changes to fresh point or startles some
| doing sentry as he slips back into town
The same correspondent describes the
process by which the besieged sometimes
get supplies of fresh beef at the Beers
i expense.
Black and white alike take part in
sniping, but to the native here the siege
/ has brought the means and opportunity
/ OF INDUCING in a pastime of quite diff
ferent character If sniping be the rule
/ by day, cattle raiding by night gives to
the natives some profitable employment
During last nfght.tl1e Baralonga secured
/ BY successful raid some twenty-foar
head of cattle, and in the course of last
week another raid:ng detachment. looted
some eighteen oxen. The native en:oys
himself when he is able to participate in
/ some cattle raiding excursion to the en-
envy lines, and, although the local tribe
may not have proved of much value as
unit of defense, their success at liftine.
the Boer cattle eonfers upon them "a
UNIQUE value in the garrison We were
deplor1ng the poorness of the cattle which
remained at Cur disposal only few days
/ ago, but the rich capture which these ma
1tlves have made has given us a welcome
change from bone and skin to juicy beef
hese night excursions are eagerly an
tieipated by the tribe, and almost daily
e the consent OF the colonel sought in re-