The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24
Copyright. 1870. by Allen sangre,)

ext ste II e. Dut Fney cling 60 DatleTeu Jul
les with the tenacity of cesp5i r. Bodies
are Iified, while yet warm, for a cigar
cite box or love letter. A HON e-made
Transvaal bandolier sells in Cape Town
for $50 and every English merchant south
CT the Zambesi is thriving in the curio
trade. One would tn nix the war had
been gantie struggle for souvenir RS in
stead of a world tragedy.
Zeal is equally intense with Bri ish and
Beers, with combnaats AMI n9n-com-
tatants, and memertoes gain value in
tn If gIuesomensss. The Beers were the
first to go at the business in a systematic
war, as the fellow ranslat on of state
document, issued at Pretoria. will show:
s Strange Proclamation.
Fellow Burghers; Our country is al pres
ent plunged in the bloodiest war which
south Africa has ever seen. Many brave
burghers have already shed their blood
in this terrible struggle in order to re-
gain for US all complete independence and
complete freedom.
This war will btcome-if God so wills
H--the war of libraton for all South AZ
r.ca, and we hope soon to be abe to pro-
claim: The republic began the victory
Even this bloody war, however, will
soon bslong to the past, Will only live in
memory of future generations, and his
tory alone will give US the accounts of
the courage and determination of former
generators.
The burghers of South Africa have Of
ten given thei, b oo1 and offered their
lives In struggles against saVages and OPP
pesso-s; Eut there ara, alas! too few
Yang bic eouvenirs il eXiS ence of tn =
faudable deeds in battle of tie voortreck-
kers who for Us have purified the land of
savages and TIRE ach rous rulers.
Our sta mi yht have / cen in pos
session OF thousands of relics in which
we might have glor,ed. and which we
might have placed before tie eyes of
our youth in orier t. show them the
difficult and apparently insurmountable
obstacles which or ople have SOU
mounted in becoming a people, and have
geined such strength that they dared to
declare war against the mighty empire
Of England, whose boast II is that the
sun never sets thereon Because of che
innocence Of our fcre1atheIs lwever
no thought was given to the value of such
souvenirs.
'tLet this not be the case in this war.
Let us collect relics for our success oIs,
which, in later years, will give a cieA
iden of the extent and the terrors of the
stTuggls which the Afr kanders rad g
carry 10 be free and in a posi- ion 10
develop n free people, rot in oder to
boast Of their own prowess, but in praise
and thanks 10 Him on Whom our people
trusted in the dry of rouble, and also
to create and encourage in our youth
that love Of country which binds togeth-
er and makes a great nation. Let each
one con'r butte his little toward that OBJ
5ect. Many articles are taken from the
arch-enemy on the Observation-Disclosures
rifles guns. clothing, standard. papers,
which have no Intrinsic value, but viii H.
when preserved and exhibited in d nation
al museum. will assist to keep In remem-
brance the lion-hearted courage of our
forefathers, to streng hen the national
spirit. and to cause our people T. give
ever renewed thanks to Him in Whom
we trusted
with that object the management of
our national museum appeals to al faith
ful burghers in the field, ASKING hem to
contribute u the forming Of a worthy
collection of objects and souvenirs per-
tanning to this war of lioeration The
management of the state museum We
knowing what priceless value there is
for our people in such a colecto1, will
give to 1t a place of honor in the new
bu Eng. whiC viii b. finished at an
early date.
Let no one consider any object too
trifiing to send to Pre:or a. At the front
AL command MS Will, without doubt, be
very W ling to receive such objects and
rend them to Pretoria to the state mu-
scum. Your ohedert servants.
"Dr. J. w. B. Cunning
Director of the State Museum.
'spr. n. Mansvelt,
Chairman of che Curatorium."
The Struggle for CuriOs.
Frantic enthusiasm for stamp collect
ing on the Part Of philalateists may be
easily understood but to see nations en-
gagged I'm mad scramble for curious
strikes American rs humorous. Both
Beers and English, however, take the
matter seriously, and the S ruggle for
mementoes has teen going on at a most
furious pace ever since the first shots
were fired.
Profe ssonal dealers who have hoped
to make fortune in the trade here COM
plan bitterly, however. To GET relic,
they say, one must be right in the con-
Mo, and, If possible, have a bullet buried
In his anatomy. Even then success does
rot always crown ones efforts, as 10
stanced by narrowing tale narrated to
the writer by member of the Natal I'M
peiial Light Horse
This young man, like many another,
had an ambition to be wounded. At
Spien Kop his ambition was sa sfied. A
Msuser bullet struck him in the thigh,
and he had a very bad tine of it. IN
spite CT great Tain he refused to take
chloroform when operated upon because
he feared some one would apprOpr ate
the bullet aft er Ii had been extracted Fer
weeks he clut to he bit of lead, trust
ing not even the Red Cross nurse, who
hover ed about him IRA Their constantly
ana almost afecdcna tely. When he
awoke one day after the affects of a
powerful op ate he found that his sus
picions had been correct. Both nurse and
bullet were gone, and he has seen neither
since. Now tn solder can show only
mark he seize of a pinhead as an evil
dence of hi bravery, and he Is very sad
AS sugb esttd in the Pc document
qroted, no object connected with the act
uai fighting Is considered too trihing, and
consequently tie body of every dead
arch err envy" found has been thoroughly
starch5d Sometimes even the clothes
have been taken for relies This was
shown grue lonely by q photograph of
Spion Kop af er he famous fight on that
hip Dead bodies lay everywhere, fhe
clio hes of many had been riff d, ard the
garments turned inside out. Several
Dos he'd been r moved. Robbery Of
boots. indeed. has been most common:
hoo's are commodity which the Beers
lack, End English boots have been much
in ev dence on Boer feet OF late. Watch $,
rings and pockethooks Of English make
have also be en- popular among the Trans