The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-27

! such glorious lines as King David. the
ancient Poet of the jews has left US in
either Shakespeare or Goethe have writ
| ten the Songs of Solomon? If l want to
read OF hunting, | find it in the 3 BILE
If [ want to read of love, where in ali
the books in all the world is love de-
| scribed so simply and yet so beautifully
| as in the Bible? If | want to read Of war
| or ambition. need [ go further than the
Bible? If l want an example of patience,
can do better than study the Book of
gop? III feel tempted by a woman, can
l learn the folly of such things better
| than by Picturing the mighty Samson
shorn OF his strength and his eyesight
| thfoug n the treachery of DeliIah? Sam
| son alone in the midst of his foes Do
1 think of the friendship of man for man?
! Tell me. you b0okworms where in all
! me libraries OF Europe can 1 read of any
thlng as well told as the love of Day
Iof MS friend Jonathan? Can any books
| Ieach us a sons daty to his father better
! than the Bible? What book or books can
better guide a man in his duty to his
| country? Burn nine-tenths of the hooks
! in the world today, and give each boy and
girl a Bible, and the next generation of
! men and women would be drawer and bet
! charitable and thoughtful more lovable
ana more content than the men and
women of today seem to be-"
me German pulled his head we'll into
MS Pat and said no more concerning
Goethe. The BFitisher drew a flask from
side pocket and washed the taste of
ohakespeare's name down his throat, and
| TOOK an early opportunity to change fha
| topic of conversation into channel hear
| ing en- the next days shooting, while Dom
/ raul sitting just where the freight and
taie hlGherihg shadows fell. read once
| more the tale he almost knew by heart
| concerning Boaz and the maiden Ruth
| THE BLOW THAT CRUSHED
MT Hale who was taken prisoner by
! the Beers and returned by them to Gen.
IataeFe. sends his paper the News an
account of how the Beers received the
news of Cronje's surrender He was al
Bufghersdorp when the news came
| through. He writes:
| When the news came the folks would
not believe il. They would Just as soon
| nave believed that the sun could fall from
J the heavens and leave the earth in dark
/ ness as that Cronje, the iron wIlled tiger
hearted Cronje could throw down his
arms. Had the news come that he had
made a mad rush at our guns, and perish
ed With all his men around him, they
! might have believed it-beiieYed it and
| wept. and even as they wept they would
nave sworn to avenge him. But they
would not, they could not, and they did
! they had placed their faith had surren-
| dered with thousands of his men,
But at last the truth became known.
| Some who had escaped from Cronje's
| lager brought in the fateful news, and
then the stolid looking fighting men broke
| down: They wept like boys. Great rugged
| DSoIhco HIell QdSHeA their rifles the
ground and spurped them with their
| boots, While down their sun and wind
| tanned faces the tears poured readily
| Others took the news sadly, with chlns
| dropping on their chests, with hard set
| faces, white with passionate pain too deep
| for words; they stood leaning upon their
rifles, with hands hard gripped until one
| would think the frightened musc'e5 would
| leave the impress of the straining fingers
/ upon the cold steel. Others, again, crowd
ed together and looked dumbly from face
! 70 race, ike cattle fOregathePed to the
shambles. The blow had stunned them.
| To them Cronje was something more than
q mamie was an idol What the great
| Corsican was to the French soldiery after
/ the battle OF Austerlitz, so Cronje was to
| these rude farmers. He was their brain
| center. their rallying point Had Paul
/ tAruegef betrayed them to their foes for
/ the sake Of British gold, they would not
nave felt the shock as they felt this one
| man S surrender. If Cronje had loved his
country half as we'll as his country loved
/ nm, he would have marched right onto
| Inc point Of British bayonet on that
! morning so disastrous to the Boer arms
and have yielded up his life in order
| That the memory of his name might have
remained as a WatchWard on the Inns and
! IN the hearts of his gallant yeonan SOL
9@iery. When the crash came, when the
ooefS knew Tor certainty that Cronje
mad yielded, they felt that their idol was
shattered. He had been to them as a
goa fashioned out of marble; they found
MN al at last to be only man made out
! OF mud, and when he fell the Cape Dutch
cause and the Orange Free State fell with
I nlna; Nhen ne laid down his arms he
ia9dicneq a thunderboit into the 8oer
camp which wrecked it forever
EFFECT OF LYDDITE.
reuters correspondent at Pretoria
writes interestingly of the effects AZ
| lyddite. He says:
mat the moral effect Of artillery far
dd@oeeas the practical results has been
prrsenf Ea oyer and over again in The
| the side firing has been convinced that
| 30 many hundreds of the enemy have
peen rendered hors de combat, and has
| promptly accused the enemy Of cnyod 80" ,
ing casualties when the published rnS,,Itl.
disagreed with eXpecta tons. When tba
/ ~aF commenced the burghers had board
iIoaI ii+oSu ABOUT the terrible effects of
ttguuibe mat IL was with fear and trano
| plIhS they faced the first fghting Thav
ieaf eeds however. that the ordinary Rrif
IN IN Felo battery does not fire Iyddite, and
/ t t!iat on Soit ground lyddite is COMPARE
livery harmless. For any one with vel,
nerves the whistling of the apDroac chi ~
lsuo-te Sheu and the crash as it expIodes
net a 9a ~ a ttd 70 nave a depressing, if
/ iot de1norailzng. effect, but the Roer
IS inc most phiegmatic Of men and he
U 40 nerves. AT the battle of Snion
t ht0p l saw young Boer, from whom p.
p1s IS9dite shell exploded within The
yaiIs p9 measurement, tearing an fbe
edfth and sending score of fiery fi1gers
INTO hil Inc me air. tardfly rising. and finding
'@N1-tSo fsOa@ius fDuIAefIng ia bjD1caIf.
me hedS are vicious today" Dia
Iloolcs senlet kwaai vandaag) But ali
were not SO lucky One Yot1ne hnrgbor
I pltliuliY complained that the ITddita bad
Inrh-o MS hair and skin as yellow az a
! canary Nor would the stuff come off
4 ne most general effect Of the ,1nisnnaIIs
/ greenlsh yellow cloud rising from the ew'
plosfon Was a violent fit OF ,,o1l~Fjng and
| hliId stranguiation was superinduced in
! Is'-ise cases. Ihe biggest slaughter re-
/ tr'Tn as having resulted from single
/ pig lyddite shell was three killed and
TOUR wounded one day in the trAnchas
al HciehSo after the battle of CoIenso
/ NEroh5te Is an untrustworthy explosive
NUMBERS of partially exploded shells,
were found. especially q Golengo And
sun the nileSDtoded stuff burned ali right
tor me Beers used IL by firing trains to
Alll nIeS, which became an uneadura b.
pest IN the trenches at Colenso.
OF all the stories told by, corresDond-
ehts OF Gen Kitchener this is by far the
1 best:
While Lord Kitchener was engaged in
SURPRISING the Preiska rebellion he or
dered the destruction Of a certaif, farm,
mouse Not seeing any signs of his or
! ders being carried out. he rode over with
t t. sla4, ard found an interesting situa-
/ t3oh. Ia the doorway of the doomed
farm house stood a pretty young Dutch
girl, her hands claSping the door posts
| and her eyes flashing fire from beneath
| ner DAINTY sunbonnet The Irish ser
/ geant la charge of the party of destr1,c-
! ilon was Yalnly cndeavofing to persuade
| her to let him pass in. but to all his
| establishments of 'Arrah darIint: yyisi11
now aeushia, etc. the maiden turned
! Kitchener's sharp whats thisa.' nut a
| climax to the scene. The girl evidently
| guessed that this WAS the dreaded chi II
! OF star. and her lips tremb'ed In spite
/ OF herself Kitchener eazed stelIrIy at
ri 1rcyI,