Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-01-05

III OH u but wished TIT IL
had come tour minutes later, 80 that
be might have seen the job through.
~ the way, Captain Travers OF the
yDevons was grazed on the knuckie by
bullet at the same moment as anoth-
er smashed his water bottle. s; s Il:
THE Gordons had reached, the brow
OF the kopje, and the Imperial light
horse We're a little ahead of them.
Aere gluttons for the fighting, said
a Gordon, but we've. got yer bellyful
the day Mon said another, there's
nae doot that this is yer Dargai.'s The
Gordons who were not at Dargai are
as proud of 1t, by the way, as the Cor
donsEw were there.
when the cease fire. sounded, the
Gordons were standing in far toe close
a hne-a splendid target, of which the
enemy did not fail to take advantage
For some unexplained reason some one
USED the word retire In the hearing of
q bugler. i have since discovered that
the retire was sounded by Boer with
Dugte near the Gordons, close enough
to cause the regiment to think the or
DER was meant for them. The same
trick was tried on the Dublius at Ta-
lana without success. Retire be ad-
Ject1ve,' he said-or didn't say-and
promptly sounded the advance. In they
went, the Light horse on their right.
curslng for all they were worth. curses
not loud. but deep. Man fell behind
man, but the line never wavered nor
broke till the bayonets got among the
Beers. AS one man prodded a Boet
he remarked in broad. Scotch accent:
L remember Majuba You'll remem-
Der Elandslaagte.' l don't think the
Victims memory OF Elandslaagte was
very prolonged. 'Yon's for Jock said
another, with thrust, adding, With
second thrust. And yon's for my
SELL
The Beers could not stand I'D to
colo steel. They knelt and held up
tnelr hands and cried mercy. Mercy
they got; but in some instances they
returned treachery and got Justice
trooper White of G company. Imperial
Light horse, was running beside Cap
taln Mullins and couple Of troopers
when three Beers held up their hands.
Don't fire. said Captain Mullins. A
fourth Boer, standing close to the
three then aimed at Captain Mullins,
but hit Trooper White, inf,icting a
wound from which he has since died.
Then he shot Captain Mullins through
the shoulder. The others picked up
their rifles and attempted to get In
their shots before the rewaAd Of their
treachery could be inflicted. But they
failed. A Manchester. soldier told me
that an old Boer prayed for quarter
to his pal. The pal gave it, Withdraw
Ing his. bayonet; but after he had
passed on the old Boer put a bullet
through his head. There was a piece
OF cold steel in the old Beers ribs be-
fore very long," - =
r. Of Scott Chisholm, the colonel of
the Imperial Light horse, the London
Standards correspondent writes: '.Ns
, death has l,eeps more severelY sfelt than
the colonels.s He was a good man and
q gold soldier, brave to the point OF
recklessness, q wonderful, inspiring
leader and, as judged, from about
a months knowledge of him, single
minded, feryent in all his work, pas
sstonately in earnest. His regiment al
most Worshlped him. During the
fight he only, took cover once or twice,
going from troop to troop praising and
encouraging the men in, words that
were always well chosen, for no man
could phrase his blame or praise more
aptly. At the last ridge he stopped
to tie up the leg Of a wounded trooper
and was shot himself in the leg. Two
or the men went to his assistance, but
he waved them OF, telling them to 20
on. with their fighting and to leave him
alone. Then he was shot In one of the
lungs; and the men, went to his help,
but while they were trying to get him
to cover a bullet lodged In Ills head
and killed him. The last. words he
was heard to- say were. MY fellows
are doing WE'LL His fellows will al
ways remember that. =
1.-THE last time saw him was at the
outspan before the battle began. He
came 20 group OF US and gave one or:
two orders in such pleasant words that
one knew that to obey him must In it.
self be q real delight. Then he sat
down and gossiped with us, first about
bis luck in the morning, when shell
that hit the ground between his horses
feet had failed to burst. and afterwartl
about. luck in general. He advised the
officers to tell their men to sleep while
they could, and then he said, Now ri
90 and get half an hours sleep myself
But at that moment an aid-da- camp
came, saying that General: French
wanted to see him. When the colonel
returned, it. was to order his regiment
to saddle up and prepare to mount. In
half an hour he was leading the attack
on the first kopje. Experienced off,
far toll