New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20

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DO think Of the friendship Of man for man? Tell
Europe can read Of anything so We'll told as the
love OF David for his friend Jonathan? Can any
han the aieis? WHAT fn book or books can better
the BOOKS a1 IL the World to-day and give
e each boy and sir Bible the next generation
ena n more S Snn
the men and of to-day seem to be-
The German pulled his head Wen into his hat and
drew flask from a side pocket and washed the
took an sar to Change S the opc Of
Sonyersation into a channel bearing on the next
the fireIigh! and the hicEerlns SHADOWS fell read
corning Boaz and the maiden Ruth.
THE BLOW THAT CRUSHED THE Beers.
Mr.. Hales. who was taken prisoner by the Beers
and returned by them General Gatacre sends
his paper, The News account Of how the
Beers received the news of Cronje's surrender. He
was at Burghersdorp when the news came through
He writes:
IT, They would just soon have believed that the
in as that cron the ron w ff e tee
hearted Cronte. could throw down his arms. Had
SHT guns fPn and persisted with all his
sworn to avenge him But they would not they
man in whom they had placed their faith, had sur
rendered with thousands of his
But at last the truth became known. Some who
ana 6sn e so shs s
rugged bearded men dashed their rifles on the
down their sun and wind tanned faces the tears
cns dropping on % csss With heT hard da se ae5
white with passionate pain too deep for words
hard srpped until one Would thinks the e tghfened
nes Bon e co the of the srang
tosether and looked dumhy from face to face. like
had stunned them. To them Cronje was something
more than mamie was an idol What the great
tie of Austertz. Cron5e these rude farm
Had Paul Kruger betrayed them to their foes p0 for
the sake SAKE of British geld they would not have felt
If Gronte had loved MS country half well as his
the point of British bayonet on that morn 7a.
ing SO disastrous to the Boer arms. and have
nan might have remained as watchword the
d PS AND when In the Of his gaan sol
bet e cHrd dn o that crone had yielded they fet
as god fashioned out of marble they found him
Wh asf he f be Sn nqcb made out Of mud and
ars STATE b te %fh MIN When he laid down his
camp which wrecked it forever. ''''' 'i'e DUCT
EFFECT OF LYDDITE.
Reuters correspondent at Pretoria writes inter
estngly of the effects of lyddite He says:
pr Teat the reEt 9 Gec Of a5tery far
over again in the present war After firing $50 so
man many rounds the side firing. has been convinced
rendered hors de combat and has promptly ac
GIsSd 5hg enemy of eqncsaag
When ,a the var commenced the burghers had heard
II vas with fear and trembling they faced the first
field Sss4 does Sf G that 5, the ordinary
en- En- soft ground yddite is comparatively harmless
approaching yde Shell and the the srash as IT t eR
fG s to n have seprefsng if not
Ppntefgmatc Of men. and he has At the
Big 2dd3e lhs expoGea within RRfF f5o
sending Of ery neera up the earth and
hmgf ana h ndf Reds his aIa limbs ci sound gtterng
Ro9ics schiet kwaai vandaag But all We're not SO
thaf fne TnG ddE ouhg burgher Pitifuy complained
yellow as canary. Nor would the stuff come off
yeoM fsn Tc5 of the greensh
M OF coughing and mild strangulation was
dde shell was three Killed and found I'R Wand b
81 Colenso Lyddite is an ENTHUSIASTICALLY explosive
s1qf 3rans t, all Tg9 A.. for BoeTs
durable pest in the trenches at Colenso OH '''e''-
OF all the stories told by correspondents of Gen
eral Kitchener this is by far the best:
While Lord Kitchener was engaged IN sunnress
tTan the PTeka REBELLION he ordered the desuc
lis and found n eq fe Situation 9Her with
pe yoTng d a the sq red
meath her dainty sunbonnet. The Irish sergeant in
charge OF the party of destruction was vainIy en-
deavorins to persuade her to let them pass in hut
to all his Establishments of "Arrah darlnt: wisha
now, acushla etc. the maiden turned a deaf ear
a4so deadlock prevailed Kitchener's sharp
evidently guessed that this was the dreaded c6ief
81 STAFF, and her lips trenbed in spite of herself
hltchener gaZed sourly at her standing brayely
tnough tearfuiiy there. and turned TO his mill
tary secretary: Put down." he growled that fine
commanders orders with reference to the destrmn
uon OF Rightmans farm could not be carried out
men, N' sOi''ic-
This is vouched for by c. A. McNuellen an engt-
neer recently returned from Johannesburg