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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

with our bayonets, those who did not
get away went on their knees for mer-
cy, and can tell you they got it with
long hook. l had narrow escape
from being captured by three of them,
but l laid down and shot the three
within fifty yards Of me-"
A fireman on one of the armored
trains who was in the mlasts of the
battle of Elandslaagte says, IS The
Devons and the Gordons Lost 4 very
heavily. The greatest number were
killed while descending slope under
a murderous rife fire, but once at the
foot of the hill they charged the Beers
with fixed bayonets. The Dutchmefi
could not stand against this, and fed
precipitately. Meanwhile the Lancers
had been creeping up behind, and as
the Beers reached the bottom the Lam
GERS charged on them at full gallop
never seen such sight, although he
had passed through several severe en-
gagements elsewhere. Panicstricken at
their terrible reverse, the Beers threw
down their rifles and attempted to es-
cape, but it was utterly useless, for,
with shouts of 'Majuba!' the Lancers
were upon them, and the awful work
commenced. Very few Beers escaped,
and the greatest number gave them
selves up as prisoners. All the head
men belonging to the Beers were either
killed OK captured, and among them
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
HORRORS OF TIE BOER WAR

WV y large number of Germans and
Hollanders." '''' '..f- r.
Private Pritchard Of the mounted
infantry company, First Kings Liver
pool regiment, has this observation to
make after one of the fights at Lady
smith: WAR is all right so long as
the actual fighting is on. A man
doesn't seem to care whether he gets
shot or not. 1t changes fellow COM
pletely; all he seems to. think, about
is getting up to the enemy and maxi
ing hand-to-hand fight of it, But
the Beers won't face the bayonet-they
turn and run. 1t is after the
fighting is over that fellow feels it,
when he looks round and sees the
dead and wounded. / can tell you it
makes you feel bit solemn, and wish
there was no such thing as war;"
And here is another picture from a
participant in the battle of Glands
laagte, and it indicates pretty, clearly
what you may have suspected from the
statements already made, that many
of the Beers who begged for mercy
found it not, even though they indi-
vidually laid down their arms: II tell.
you," says private at Elandslaagte,
ut was a great but terrible sight to
see those horsemen hew their way
through the Beers with their swords.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

wife ran after him and followed the
regiment up the street, leaving the
children behind her. While she was
gone the clothes of the little boy OF 8
caught fire. The neighbors heard the
children screaming and put out the
flames, but when the mother returned
the little boy was dying. He breathed
his last that afternoon. The ofticial
record of the inquest that followed con-
tains this line: Inquest somewhat
delayed through mother falling pros
trate after identifying body of de-
ceased"
Bayonet scares the Beers.
The scenes at home when the private
letters and fatal official kilograms are
received are such as should not be
dwelt upon, but from these letters we
get the real news from behind the
scenes of the war. have gathered as
many as possible of these letters, and
a careful comparison of them brings
to light a fact of which the full sig
nificance has not even begun to be
realized-a fact that may have great
deal of weight in preparations for
future wars. 1t is that the bayonet,
and not the bullet or the shell, will
whip the Beers in the Transvaal. OF
course many of the letters coming in
from the participants in the struggle
are colored by prejudice or enthusiasm.
After going through great mass OF
them it can be affirmed posi2-ely that
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
As Revealed in Tommy Atkins
Letters.

in the matter of facing shot and shell
the Beers have been just as courageous
and logged as their opponents. But
when it came to bayonet and lance
they clearly were overmatched and
often frightened. A Boer soldier, writ
ing home after the charge Of Glands
laagte, says: Men on horses, carrying
sticks with spikes on top, came gal
Looping at us. They picked us up on
the spikes like bundles of hay"
No Mercy.
Some extracts from the letters writ
ten by British soldiers give more vivid
and blood-curdling glimpses Of the
actual uses of the bayonet and of the
mad fury of the charge and of the
merciless horror of war in general than
will appear in any history of this war
that comes to be written. For exam
pie: when we charged the Beers
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

ter than those at the front, where the
men must work. Probably no army
surgeon has witnessed more pltlful
scenes that has the doorkeeper of the
two small rooms of the British war Oh
ice, in Pail Mall, where the bulletins
are posted up and the names of the
dead and wounded given out.
The Doorkeeper's Story.
The procession of relatives, chums
and sweethearts torn by doubt and
anxiety is never ending.
Eyes" said the doorkeeper the other
day, ''it's just like this all day long
Sad; yes, SIR, it's mighty sad and mighty
hard to see right along. The Office no.
tides the friends of them whose ad-
dress they knows, but they're only
few, after all, and many find out here
for the first time that their husbands
and fathers and brothers is dead. It's
grim business.
zone day a tall, dark-eyed girl, nice
" dressed and with plumes on her hat,
came in with a little shaver of boy
by the hand. He was a pretty little
chap; nicely got up, too. Well, they
came in together, and the girl began
70 read the bulletin that was up, and
the little chap said, quick like, You'll
be glad, won't you, Miss Mabel, when
my brother gets homer
swell, she said something to him,
and then began readin' again, and sud-
Senly she began to SILVER. and she
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
Letters.

turned and looked at the little chap as
If lightning had struck her and him,
and then she just dragged him away
from there, and as they walked down
the street I could see that she was
crying and sobbing with every step she
took. knew mighty well what she'd
read"
Tragedies of Parting.
The news that awaits Sergeant
Archer is yet more pathetic. He is
young, and his wife took it hard when
he was ordered to the, front the other
day. The night he sailed she and the
three children sat up all night in their
room in the sergeant's quarters, the
children, in their nightshirts, keeping
awake to see the last of their father.
At in the morning the bugle sounded,
and the sergeant Rugged them all and
tore himself away. But his distracted
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
FAINT HEART NEVER WON
The Old Man Knew Human Nature and
Won His Point. '

Ano Olu huoW human CotoHo on1
Won His Point g
Detroit Free Press: Young men can
never tell where to look for an ally In
their love affairs. A few afternoons
ago one of them was leaving hand
some residence in the upper part OF the
city. He walked unsteadily, he will
never be paler, and 1t was evident that
he was in great trouble. He scarcely
noticed the brisk approach of the old
gentleman who owns the house, and
the daughter, though the sutton had
been diligently lodging the father for
months. Hello! What's this? Sick?"
and the old gentleman firmly planted
himself in the way of the retreating
lover. You're not fit to go out in the
storm, young man. Come inside. Take
a drop of brandy. What do you mean,
risking your life like this?" mot there.
SIR" in a faint voice. "Ill never en-
ter that house again. Your daughter
just refused me-" Now, the father had
told her score of times to "get rid OF
that chap" but he is sympathetic and
choleric. What" pounding the walk
with his cane, refused you? Tilted
you? Put you in this awful state? The
mink. She'll hear from me. Look as
though you were dying, poor fellow.
How many times have you asked herr"
"Once." Only once? Thunderatfon,
man, I'll bet asked her mother $4,000
times before she'd have me. It's in the
blood. Come in here. No, take walf
around the block and then come. This
idea Of that girl thinking that she
knows her own mind. It's absurd.
Brace up now. Well bring her to
time" And it looks as though they
would. The old gentleman looks sheep
ish, the girl laughs often without ap-
parent cause, and the youth calls reg
ularly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
(London Letter.)

War is beginning to come close home
% the English people, and it is the
personal news that brings it so near.
On the strength of the dispatches and
the press correspondence 1t was posi-
bic to talk loftily about right and
wrong and to criticise the movements
OF the troops. That was war in gen.
eral. But the real war, the war in par
ticular, the stories OF individual strug-
zles, the madness of butchery, the last
cries of the dying and the heart-break-
ing pictures of the dead-all that is
Just beginning to come in family let
ters from the privates who are in the
thick of it, and, in consequence, the
fighting has ceased to be distant and
1mpersonal.
And the tragedies at home, where
the women must weep. are no less Bit
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

Three times they rode right through
the Beers, hacking, cutting, slashing.
We had suffered pretty severely, and
suppose we got our backs up bit.
Anyhow, we got even with Joubert's
men. saw several Beers whose heads
had been cut right off by our cavalry
mems swords. 1t is CHASTITY, isn't it?
But it's the plain truth. Some of the
sRosrs had died in praying attitudes.
Many, I. was !: told, by friend in the
Fifth Lancers.. flung down their arms
as soon as they saw the flash of the
iances, and, clasping their hands above
their heads, begged for mercy"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

A branch of the Cigarmakers' union
in New York has for ten years made q
curious provision for its deceased
members. By this provision any mem
Der may, when he dies, be cremated at
the expense Of the union. The ashes
Of each deceased cigarmaker are put in
a lar and set on shelf in the Office.
There are now fourteen of these jars.
The cremation is carried out by the
Workingmen's Cremation society, es-
tablished by some members of social
list trades unions,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
Longest Snan of Wire.

The longest span of telegraph wire
in the world is in India, over the
River Kistna. 1t is over 5000 feet in
length.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
A Kings Reign,

Browne-A king must lead stormy
life. --owne-Yes; it's very reigny.-
Boston Traveller.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

Swords Used 1000 Years Ago.
Chinese scholars claim that iron
swords were In use in their country
1000 years ago.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

Boston's Second Church. -
The old Second church, in Boston
celebra-ed it's two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary recently.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1900-09-05
WILSON'S ADDITION
Is but a two minutes walk from the ~poStoffice
dence lots.
81

Business lots, 400 feet from the business center
Of the city on the main street. The whole ad-
service. Situated on stage roads leading to the
Cracker Creek, Granite and Red Boy districts.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-07
Th1 Slrllar,. { harm.

Ths story gees that the sidar pos gesses a charm which comes from h dia. and which brings him luck wher- ever he tours. That he is one of the iuckiast men ill Europe goes without saying. Lord Kitchener received a telegram of eongratulation from the queen on the fact that Mahdism has now been given it's final blow. The sidar replied, Your most gracious majesty, the man who does not accomplish his aim is failure I have lived to overthrow Mahaism, and he nineteen years I have struggled fos. its abolition have now been crowned with success. My mission is accom- alished."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-07
F. E. cHURcRs WORK.
Noted Paintings by Iamentea American
 Artist.

Noted Paintings by Lamented American
 Artist.
 The death of Frederick Edwin Church, the veteran landscape painter. removed WeIi-known figure in art life of this country, better remembered perhaps by past generation than by the younger set. He was born in Hart ford, Conn.,, May f, 1926. His talent for art was prominent and in early life he determined to adopt art as 6 profession and placed himself under the instruction of Thomas Cole. ana resided with him in the Catskills. He soon became well known as land- scope painter, and critics awarded him praise for his accuracy of drawing and vivid appreciation of nature. He spent a short time in Switzerland, and in 1853 visited South America to study the picturesque scenery. "The Heart of the Andes" which createl 8 great sensation, was first exhibited in 1853. and was bought by the late William T. Blodgett. Other well-known works painted about the same period are "The Andes of Ecuador" tCotapaxi." now at the Lenox library, eehinbor- ago.. His View of Niagara Falls." how in the Corcoran art gallery, Washington, D. C., is recognized as the first satisfactory production by art of this wonderful piece of nature; fl won prize at the French exhibition in 1867. Another painting of .tMagra" was painted for A. T. Stewart in 1866. the price paid for it by MT. Stewart being S12,000 In 1878 he was again represented at the French capital with two pictures, Morning in the Tropics" and The Parthenon." He travelled extensively in this country and abroad, studying nature and giving to the world numerous productions of high character. A number Of his works are owned in England, one of his principal works being sIeehergs," wss.ich was purchased by Sir Edward Watson, M. P, London. His wife died about a year ago. TWO sons and 8 daughter survive hins.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-07
THE BURLINGTON ROUTE

New Through Trains 10 Port aud, Puget Sound, ssphe Fur- lington-Northern Pacific Ex- press," No. II, from St. Louis, at 500 a, m, for Gansas City, St. Joseph, Northwestern Nebraska, Black Hills, Wyoming, Montana, " Washington, sTa- coma, Seattle, Puget Sound, and port land, Oregon, via Billings, Montana the short line and time saver to the Upper Northwest. To the Puget Sound in v Hours. Through coaches, chair cars (seats free), stand- ard sleepers and dining ears with through tourist sleepers from kansas City. This is the main travelled route St. Louis to the Northwest.
 Numbta Nebraska o1orado Ex- press" midday train from St Louis for Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Pacific Coast: one night to Denver. Also for ct. Paul. Minneapolis and beyond
 No. Is. at s 45 D. m. st. Louis 70 Kansas City, Omaha, St. Joseph, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Pacific Coast. via Denver also to tbe Northwest--1ontaBa, Washing ton, Oregon, via Lincoln and Billings
 Write,
 FM RUGG, L " WAKELY T 4, GOA Pine St., Gen. Passenger Ag't
 St Louis, Mo. St. Louis. Mo..
 HOWARD ELLIOTT, GenT Manager
 St. Louis, aIo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-07
SLEEP As A CURE FOR HUNGER
Starving Peasants of Russia Are Com.
pelled to Try the Remadz.

pei1ed to Try the Remedy.
 About the beginning of this centnrV distinguished French philanthropist. A. Joux, advised poor people to sleep as much as possible during the winter months, as only thus would they be able to live with any degree of com fort, This strange theory is now being tested by many persons in Russia. and. according to report which has been issued, their almost complete absti. uence from food has produced no harmful result, and eveu has from their standpoint proved highly benefi- cial. These people live at Pskow, a Gistrict south of St. Petersburg, and the reason why they have adopted the practice of sleeping during the winter months is because for the last few years their crops have been insufficient to provide them with the necessary of the district saw that starvation means of sustenance. When the elders of the district saw that starvation stared the people in the face they ad- vised them to make their remaining stock of food last as long as possible. and to so to sleep during the winter. This suggestion was adopted. The members of each family stretch them selves on cots around the large stove and slu1nber day and night. Once in the twenty-four hours they get up and refresh themselves with a morsel of hard bread baked last autumn and q drink of water, after which they lie down again and snore calmly. Appar- ently some of the poorest inhabitants of Pskow have been in the habit of hi- bernating for some years, but the prae- tice did not become general until re gently and it has now only attracted the attention of philanthropists and Of physicians. Medical men in St. Peters burg have decided to investigate the matter closely, as they are especially anxious to obtain answers to two qdes- tions: First, does the temperature Of persons who remain torpid and who sleep for whole months in this fashion undergo any change? And, second, in what other manner. if any. does this mode of living affect persons physical ty and mentally ?-New York Herald,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-07
Value of Birds.

A French naturalist asserts that II the world should become birdless man would not inhabit it after nine years. in spite of all the sprays and poisons that could be manufactured for the destruction Of Insects. The insects ard slugs would simply eat Up our orchards aud crops.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-07
surs-Tooted Beer Horses.

The horses which the Boers ride are Fery much like the Welsh or Scotch ponies, being very sure-footed, and with a power Of leaping from rock to rock that is phenomenal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-07
Farming in Colorado and New Mexico.

Farming in Colorado and New Mexico.
 The Denver & Rio Grande Rail. road, "The Scenic Line of the World, = has prepared an illustrated book ap- on the above subject, which will be s1nt free 10 farmers desiring to change tn hsir location. This publica- ton gives valuable information in regard to the agricultural. hortieul- Jural and live stock interests of this -ection, and should he in the hands ofever3 one who desires fo become acquainted with he methods of of farming by irr 4tion. Write s. K. Hooker, (. P. x. T. A.. Denver, Btdo.7 If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-07

 Attention Take run up there and INVESTIGATE F0R YOURSELF,

You will find the same handsome Pullmans. Cafe Cars aad Coaches Gall broad vestibnledo which delight the California tourists and cause them to say:
 YOU DON'T HAVE TO aeaEoGIzE FOR RIDING ON THE DENVER. 4. A. 6L1ssoN. C. A.PsB.
 CHARLES L.HuLL, T. P. A.
 W. r, SHIRLEY, A. c, ?. A,
 FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-07
THE MONEY 

Does not worry the residents in the Texas Panhandle Fam ous for the CATTLE, marYeI. on as WHEAT country. pro- ducing MELONS preferred by Eastern epicares, rich in FEED STUFFS. CORN and COTTON this section is now
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-06-13
PLANS FOE NEW RAILROAD.

Itpians nowin preparation do not go wrong, the American, Mexican & Pacific railway will be built, giving Phoenix a port on the Pacific ocean, opening rich mining and agricul- tural country and forming a direct connection between the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific railroads
 with the Mexican Central and the Gulf of Mexico ports.
 For several days Mrs. L. J. Velasquez Beard, one of the chief promoters of the line, has been in 1 Phoenix, and to a reporter last night
 she outlined the plan. She states
 that the nothern terminus of the road will be in this city and the [ southern at Banderas bay. The
 Arizona line will go trough Mar icopa, Pinal, Pima and Santa Cruz counties, touching Tucson and Flor
 ence, with branch line twenty miles of Nogales. Here the road is
 to go through the states of Sonora
 Sinaloa, Jalisco and Topic, viz Arispe, Alamos, TOpolobambo bay
 Altata, Culiacan, Mazatlan, Sar Bias, and hence to Banderas bay where a harbor with depth of I0( , feet may De obtained. Here tn line can connect with the Mezical , Central, giving access to the Cit, 7 of Mexico, Tampico, Vera Cruz an' , to Guatemala via the Oaxlco & Te S hauntepec railway.
 Mrs. Beard says that $S4, ,0o0,0o a ir German and Holland capital f back of the Mexican end and tha Q concessions from the Mexican gov
 ernment haze been secured for vii v tually all of the line. Incorporate s paper have been filed for the Ari n zona part of the road. The capita , stock is 5000, 900 and the incor norators are W.W.WiIIIams, S.N
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-06-13

Asyndlcate known as the Crosby Brick syndicate has been formed for gold washing on the Colorado. Ever since the occupation of this country by white men gold has been known to abound in the Colo rado. Within 35 miles Of Yuma more than a million dollars worth of work has been done, and many have been the appliances used for the extraction of gold. The amount that has been taken cut. can never be correctly estimated, but it un- doubtedIy will run into the mil lions. The new syndicate purpose to work these placers by means of a steam dredge. A machine for that purpose is now in course. of con struction and will cost in the neigh borhood of $65,O00 The promoters hope to have the dredger at work by the middle of September
 Friends of the enterprise believe that there are millions in it,
 Citizen. ------
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-06-13
DON'T GET ANGRy.

The census enumerators of 1900 are just like those of other censuses, only more 50. That is, they have the same troubles experienced by their predecessors, and new ones in proportion to the amount of addi- t1onaI information the census bureau is deeirous of obtaining this year. They are sufficiently far ad- vanced already to begin telling their experiences and embarrassing situations the leading questions on thelrenumeration blanks sometimes place them in.
 i An enumerator casually broke into a residence in the east part of town the other morning before the master of the house was out of bed
 He broke in legally all right, by hammering on the door till he was admitted. After finding out from the head of the house his name age, previous condition of seryitude
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-06-13

Hon. Chas. H. Akers, who is now ia Washington D. c, will soon march into the national convention at the head of the Arizona delega tion and will have the gratitica- ton of saying, at the proper time, "Arizona casts her six votes for William Mckinley" That will be happy moment for ArizOna's pop u!ar secretary. A little. over three years ago President Mckinley ap- pointed Charles H. Akers to be secretary of Arizona and' now the republicans of Arizona have given l Mir. Akers an opportunity to show the president he is not without eratitude-Gazette.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-06-13

The export trade of the South for the past twelve months amount cd to over $40O, 0O0,OO0. more than one third of that of the entire coun- try. These are figures which speak more eIoquentIy than the narrow Southern politicians who contribute so liberally to the Congressional Record.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-06-13
The governor thinks the present

The governor thinks the present territorial penitentiary is sleeping volcano. The Republican thinks the next legislature should make an appropriation for building a new prison. The Prospect, a paper published at Prescott thinks that east of Prescott, near the onyx mines would be the proper place for the prison to be located. All of which looks as if there was a scheme on foot to issue $300.000 or $4O0,000 in territorial bonds to build a new prison. There is nothing llke beginning in time.-Gazette.