The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-27
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Stories Told by Correspondents in the Field

| the British army and the array of CORE
spoDdents were engaged in the hardest
task of, ail-waltiAg for the word to ad-
| vance. Bennett Burleigh. of the Tele-
! graph pays the following tribute to
Burnhan, the AMERICAN scout:
South Africa knows him well. for he
| has ere now gone into battle helping
! DlilISh troops. Perhaps he is best re-
HenDered to the world as the man who
tnaed the Matabele war by managing TO
uaHk and shoot the great native witch
Doctor In eaEe1 among the hills. Burn
nam IS a square set, wiry, medium-sized
man man OF thirty, with light blue gray eyes.
are all acutefy trained and highly de
Vetoped. as much so almost as those of
Sieuth hounds Tobacco he abjures as it
Is calculated to impair his faculties fer
tracking Like an Australian aborigine.
he is guided by the sense of smell as
/ mueh as by sight. An onion, negro
and a Boer are all alike to him easily
! recognizable in the dark or if blindfold-
! ed. MANY time has he saved his own
! and others lives by his exquisite sense
OF scent. Perhaps this is not SO wonder
III as II seems, for 4 negro kraal and q
! Boer camp are powerfully odoFferouS.
could myself undertake. were the wind
! IN the TlSht quarter. to tell where either
was more than a bow shot off. But Burn
ham goes beyond that in neceties of dis
tlnctton. even to the presence of the I'm
Wdshed ftinefant, solitary dwelleF upon
I.
Lord Cecil Manners. writing from
B1oemfontein to the Morning Post, adds !:
| man like Burnham could Ill have
pAeh spared. and it is perhaps a matter
! for regret that the British army does not
possess a few more highly trained scouts
| like him.
MIXED BRITISH ARMY
H II. S. Pearse. chief correspondent at
| the front Of the London Daily News,
brings cut more clearly than has been
! done before the marvellous and varied
! composition of the British forces He
! also takes occasion to pay the Canadian
! contingent one OF the highest Of the many
! compliments they have received He
! writes:
Our kitt and kin in Cape Colony. Natal
| ana Rhodesia, knowing full web what
| Dutch supremacy unbridled would mean
| Tor item, were not likely to stand aside
ana watch the struggle without taking
| d hahq IN 1t, however much the forma-
| ttoh Oh armed forces was discouraged by
! the government of one colony. There is
scarcely a family of British descent in
oouth AMIGA that has not given father.
S5n or brother to the queens service in
this cause. We find them fighting in the
ranks Of Irregular horse, acting as scouts
| ana guides, or doing duty with the army
| service corps as transport riders and no
| men could be better fitted for the work
| they have undertaken. Town-bred many
! OF them may be- but most are accustomed
| ~ liz SetudlS, anu Il nara HE OF 6XD0S-
ufe on the Veldt only serves to bring out
| their best qualities. Hundreds of the
younger ones are with Roberts horse
loilBIhaliy raised as a second regiment of
the south African light hOrse), or Kitch-
| eher $ or Nesbit S; but all these regiments
nave IN their ranks also a considerable
number OF old cavalry soldiers and young
| English spOrtSmen who take kindly 70
! adventurous life, and rough it with the
aptitude of practiced campaigners
among them are some Of the best shots
/ In the whole force.
| To fight beside these South african
! colGnlSts and eoOnials Australia has sent
| her hardest sons from the far West.
| from victoria. New South Wales and
NSu9enSland, all good riders and nearly all
! SkillIul marksHen. One detachment is
made up almost entirely of the sons Of
! wealthy squatters-men who some day
may be owners of a hundred square miles
Of rich pasturage-who are now ready TO
/ give their lives for possession of a bar
! rem kopJe In foreign Land. Just because
t4ey want 10 see the emblem of the Brit
lsh empire hold undiSputed sway over
! south Africa. The Union Jack has a
! Wlder meaning now for us all than it ever
/ had before. New Zealand responds to
=; the call not less enthusiastically than her
/ sister colonies, and among the staIwa ri
/ mounted infantry she sends are men with
Maori blood in their veins, who speak of
/ England as home, and ask nothing bet
/ ter than to risk their lives for the honor
4 birthTight. ~ :
! - Coiidud we take on our hats. She
mas sent us, besides other worthy repre-
sentatiyes, a regiment of infantry that
WlliS admiration from every soldier. For
marching or endurance or lighting it can
1 challenge comparison with any battalion
I OF Lord Roberts army, and that is saw
ing a great deal.
Now we have Lumsden's horse from
India, nearly all rich planters with a
| planter al their head, who guaranteed
! $1,000 toward the expense of eauippine-
ana sending them over. They have found
no opportunity Of distinguishing them
selves Yet, but if their conduct in the
Held bears out the promise of their ap-
pearance on parade-and none here doubt
lt-they Will revive the glories of a name
That Is honored among Indian worthless
All are trained volunteers and sports
/ men. to whom rifle is familiar friend,
! often tried, and seldom known 10 fail
; them Ia the ranks Of this regiment arr.
/ many noted Slfikkarria, who have stalk
/ ed their lives in the pursuit of savage
/ beasts and saved themselves by cool
! SteadiHeSs OF aim.
/ Our own Imperial YeoJnanry drawn
from nearly every county of Merrie Eng
| land and Scotland, are men of similar
quality Farmers, Squires, fox hunters
gentlemen jockeys. steeplechase riders
/ sDortsnen all. and accustomed to Wig
! orous exercises all their lives Rich
! brewers and bankers are among them,
! serving IN the ranks. but there are also
men who can hold their own across co4in-
try when hounds are streaming in full
! cry over Worcestershire pastures. and
| hard TO beat at deer stalking OF any sim
| liar trial of skill and endurance Some
! may pass half The year ia luxurious case
| at home, butJthe other half is devoted
/ to field sports or, to the pursuit OF wild
| game in foreign lands. Col Ro!ieston.
! who commands one body, has six officers
/ from his own ,KeoFnanry regiment serving
| under him now as troopers ia the ranks,
! and one Of them draws an income thai
! may be rerkonad, at something like G25-
1 t05 year
i KRUEGBR OK LITERATURE
A. G. Hales. profting by his enforced
] stay among the Beers, relates same bith-
cTto untold anecdotes of KRUGER. lie
j writes:
Once. when out on shooting @xredl-
uon. the party had gathered around a
camp fire, and the conversation turned
/; upon literature There were Trl.slsx,lraeu
/ 150iaEdRrs. Germans and Beers .,-ps9n4
! and each Of them had much 10 say con-
corning celebrated writers Of prose and
! poetry. except. Dom Paul. He smoked
his eternal long stern.' and held his
7 peace. The Germans and To. Erassiis4l-
! men nearly came 10 the stripping off of
! coats concerning the relative merits OF
! Goethe and Shakespeare. At last the
] Engiishnen turned To the one silent fig
/ ire at the camp fire. saying: Look here,
! no%. Dom Paul. which do you think the
! greater writer of the two-liOcthe or
! Shaf1espeare?''
Never read either of EN-" growlcd
| the even then celebrated man, with bru-
| tai frankness.
., "Mein Gott" calculated the German:
! here is man whom the Beers call
| great, and lie has not read (soether'
! Never read VIII shakespeare howl
! ed the indignant Briton: then what the
/ deuce have you fead?''
J Only this" said Dom Paul. pulling q
| fraycd and battered Bible from his poclk
Ell "and / have not half mastered its
glories., yet ishafe read it day and night