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MONKS LIVE WELL.


Inmates of Chinese MOnasteries Are
Treated as DemlgOds.
OF monasteries and lamaseries In
Pekin the number is endless. The
lamas and BONES who dwell therein
can be counted by the thousands. They
are mostly Thibetans and Mongolians.
supposed to be studying Buddhism un-
der the direction of an authenticated
lineal descendant of Buddha himself.
Indeed, in one particular monastery
three lineal descendants are to be seen
for a consideration. They are re-
garded as semigods and treated as
such. OF the three so favored, fed and
iattered one is youngster Of some
12 years a bright, lively Mongolian
boy, fully alive to his own Importance.
high dignity and destiny, yet not
averse to the filing of his baggy little
pockets with the dollars of such for
eign devils" as afford him the oppor-
tunity Of so doing The lamas and
BONES are a greasy, grimy, dirt-in-
crusted lot, The denser the dirt the
greater the reputation for sanctity and
close spiritual affinity with Buddha.
Their whole time seems to be passed
in eating, extracting dollars from
strangers and sleeping.-Pall Mall Ga
zette.
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WORLDS PRODUCT OF COTTON

In 1910 the total worlds yield of cot
ton was 10000, 900 tons. OF this, the
United States produced S7S,OOO,OOO
tons.
1860 total 2551 600 900 tons; United
States, 1850 900 900 tons.
1870 total 2,775 OOO, 900 tons; United
States, 1,540 900 900 tons.
1880 total 36Ol 0OO, 900 tons; United
States, 1888. .OO0,O 900 tons
1890, total, $500 600 600 tons; United
States, 4,31O. 900 900 tons.
1897 total $500 900 900 tons; United
States 4,4OO. 100000 tons.
In 1910. the world used $40, 900 tons
Of cotton, and in 1897. 2,700,000 tons.
In 1910, 100000 tons Of wool, and in
1897. 100000 tons.
In 1910, $1,000 tons Of fax, jute, etc,
and in 1897, 100000 tons.
The United States uses 1.21O 900 tons
of cotton, wool and fax, and Great
Britain uses 100000 tons.
The United States uses 100000 tons
of cotton, 2700 900 tons Of wool and 34O.-
600 tons of fax and jute.
Great Britain, 10000 tons of cotton,
23O 600 tons Of wool 100000 tons or fax
and iute
France, 10000 tons of cotton, 2lO 900
tons Of wool. 10000 tons Of fax and
iute.
Germany, $4,000 tons of cotton. 200
900 tons Of wool, 10000 tons Of fax and
iute.
Russia, 100000 tons OF cotton. 1000
tons Of wool. 100000 tons Of fax and
tute
India. 100000 tons of cotton. 10000
tons of wool, 100000 tons of fax, etc
The value OF the fiber manufactured
product Of the world in 1896 was $4,-
275. .00O,O 900.
OF Great Britain, $955 ,0OO, 900.
OF United States $40 900 900.
OF France. $575, 100000.
OF Germany, $54O,000,O00.
OF Russia, $4O5 900 OOOO.-JouFnal OF
Education.
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suporstitions That Have Obiained a
etr,n, MIA a., an, rs.,,,i.

suporstitions That Have Obtainod
strong Hold on the People.
A belief that has strong hold on
certain class Of people in Cuba is that
certain diseases can be cured By eat
ing dirt. and so when one of these dis
eases manifests itself the believer does
not consult a physician, but instead
gathers up a handful OF dirt and eats
1t. If any relief is obtained it must be
the result OF faith cure, which the pa
tient is unconsciously trying Why all
kinds Of germs are not taken in with
the dirt is a mystery possibly they
are. The moonlight seems particular
ly Objectionable and strangers are
warned not to go out in It with un-
covered head, and not to go out in It
at all If it can be avoided; it Is
thought that this light brings many
evil effects. and not under any circum-
stances will a Cuban sleep in its rays
he thinks that among other things
1t will draw his mouth to one side of
his face. To ward on sickness of vari-
GUS kinds there are little silver or tin
images to wear suspended about the
neck as kind Of charm. images OF
the same kind are offered in the
churches as thanksgiving or prayer
and so we hnd near the affairs Of Ger
tain churches cases in which are hun
dreds OF these little trinkets, hands
feet, arms and babies. The hooting
of an owl is taken as a very bad sign.
The superstitious Cuban kills any
creature Of this kind which makes
weird sounds near his home. This IS
supposed to break the spell, and it Is
not then inevitable that member Of
the family shall meet death in the near
future. Butterflies also are looked
upon as omene The Cuban women are
great believers in the ef1cacy of vari-
Gus herbs IN sicphess and have rem
edy for almost every ailment. Ameri-
can physicians find that they nave
much more knowledge in this line
than the women of our own country
and more knowledge of sickness in
general. In many homes, even the
poorest, there is a thermometer, and
if anyone is i'll his temperature is TAX
0n before the physician arrives.
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WOMAN DID sAPTIzINo.
Male Converts Took 1t, but the Women
Backed Out.


At CrameT hill, in New Jersey, hun
dreds attended a "baptizin recently.
The immerslng was done by a woman
Mrs. Lotue Miller. She marched
bravely down to the shore, followed
by the candidates. These were by no
means the least interesting features
of the baptism They were arrayed in
the cast-off black skirts of their wives
or sisters which anything but faclli-
tated their movements through the
mud. Their legs became unaccount-
ably entangled in the voluminous
folds of these garments, and before
midstream was reached the converts
were begrimed by their many trou-
bles. After a final eXhortation Sister
Miller started With her little flock on
the road to Zion Among those about
to be immersed was Mrs. Miller's lit
tie son. a chap Of about 8 years, The
party had gone only half way in the
mire when the woman's maternal in
stincts rose above her religious ones,
and without waiting to gain the deep
water she then and there "sprinkled"
the head of her son. rather than sub
tect him to the dangers OF the stream
BY this time rowboats steamboats, and
other pleasure craft had assembled in
the river, and everyone was ready for
the dipping In a stentorlan voice
which could easily be heard on shore
Sister Miller read a solemn service
Then with the help OF a deacon and
an elder she immersed the candidates
They came up spluttering "Hallelu-
jahs" and "the Song of the Saved"
greeted them as they returned to
shore II was said that arrangements
had been made to immerse ten wom-
en-, but nine OF them had backed out.
and the tenth, being Of dimensions
that made Mrs Miller look like a
dwarf. had decided to wait for a
stronger arm.
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The present strike in the coal re-
gions of Pennsylvania is result OF
contention over the arbitration of a
point in dispute between miners and
operators The miners demanded an
increase in wages and the employers
refused. The miners then asked for
arbitration. This was not refused, but
its acceptance was delayed and the
strike was called In the meantime
the price of hard coal has gone up
from So to 81 and may go as high as
SIS. The operators claim to have suf-
acient coal on hand to supply the
winters demand. But the strike viii
probably end in a few weeks.
Many ugly rumors are being put in
circulation to the effect that the strik-
ers are being made the victims Of a
political trick by their leaders and
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Three lines OF electric omnibuses in
tend to compete with the street cars
for patronage in all parts Of Chicago
are projected. The first electric We
hicles viii probably be in operation
By October. and the promoters intend
20 put the modern buses In operation
as rapidly as there Is demand for them
and they can be turued out Of the fac
tories. They win be double-decked,
each win have a seating capacity for
forty passengers. They viii make regu-
Jar trips covering their routes at the
gate of eight miles an hour.
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Tbe TIE Up al ,Sbamokfr.

The colleries operated by the Min
eral, Union. Philadelphia. and Read
ing Coal and Iron companies and by
individual operators in the suburbs Of
shamokin and employing between
$500 and 10000 men and boys were
completely tied up. In the Mount Car
mel and Locust Gap districts 1t is as
yet impossible to give the exact num-
Der Of men on strike. At the United
Mine workers headquarters the lead
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Calvin Pardee-All places working,
Colerain colliery-W Working.
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal COM
pany-Audenecid colliery, idle.
Lehigh Valley Coal company
springbrook colliery, idle; Spring
Mountain, idle; Hazleton No. 1 work+
ing
c. M. Dodson G Co.-Beaver Brook
idle.
silverbrook Coal Company-Idle.
Lackawanna region: Pennsylvania
Coal company-All collieries idle.
d., L. and Wall collieries idle.
D. and Hone place reported
working.
Wyoming region: West End CoaR
company Mocanaqua colliery, work.
ing.
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal com-
pany-The Lehigh and WilkesbarrG
Coal company reports the following
collieries working with a reduced
force Hollenback, South Wilkes
barre, Stanton, Sugar Notch, Lance
Nottingham and Wanamie.
Reynolds No. 16 and Maxwell-Idle.
Susquehanna Coal ompany-Nanti4
coke, idle; Glen Lyon, idle.
All other collieries in the Wyoming
region are reported idle.
At st. Louis anthracite coal jumped
fifty cents higher in the st. Louis
market, making a total advance OF
fifty cents per ton since the strike be-
gan. The price there is now SITS per
ton. Local dealers say the price OF
coal has been advanced to them by the
eastern mine operators and that they
are compelled to raise the prices.
At New York coal jumped to $3.50 a.
ton. How much higher it will go no
operator or dealer was willing to ven
ture a prediction.
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ers claim seventy-five per cent Of the
men in the above districts did not re-
port for work last Monday. The Op-
orators had no figures to give out.
The reports that come from Shenan-
doah, Ashland, Girardville and Miners
vile indicate that all the collieries in
this vicnty are at work with a full
complement Of hands.
With the exception Of Morea, which
is operated by Dodson & Co., of Beth
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Coal Goes UP 10 81 a Ton.

Hard coal went up during the week
to 81 ton, at Chicago. Local coal
dealers expect anthracite to jump
to So or 50 and perhaps higher next
week II the present large demand con-
tnues.
Il expect to see hard coal advance
to IS q ton before the end Of next
week." said o. 8. Richardson Of the
Arm OF o. 8. Richardson g Co. "COal
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The ordnance experts Of the army
estimate that the twelve-inch guns on
the coast fortihcations can be fired two
hundred times without being refined.
but this is only speculation. They
have never had any experience in that
line. None Of the big guns belonging
70 the United States has ever been
worn out.
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Gen. olivier, who was recently cap
tured by the British in the fighting at
Winburg, in the Orange Free State was
one OF the most active of the Boer
generals in the field, and as a guerrilla
leader ranked next to Gen De Wet.
It was Olivier who led Gen. Gatacre
into the trap at stormberg, which
proved disastrous to the British, cost
Ing them 500 casualties In discussing
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dealers had to advance the price to
81 in self-defense. The demand for
coal at 81 is extensive. It is astonish-
ing what a call there is for anthracite
at the higher figure. II this demand
keeps up the price will 90 stiil high
or. There is no present need for tins
coal, but people have become frighten-
cd and are storing It In their cellars,
"Tho yards will be depleted IN q
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Conductors Under Esplonare.

Under instructions from headquar-
ters. Canadian Pacific railroad auditors
are boarding trains at unexpected
times, and conductors are indignant at
what they call the espionage. They
particularly resent being humiliated In
the presence Of passengers. and several
nave been suspended for refusing 10
hand over their records.
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Chances That 1t VIII Be of Short
Duration

districts. and the strike was not gem
eral among the upward Of $4,000 men
employed.
Indications point to the closing OF
some mines in the last named district
despite the assertions Of officials OF
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron company and other COM
panies operating the region that they
will continue their collieries in opera
ton.
A Strike without Violence.
With the exception of a trivial In
cident at No. colliery Of the Lehigh
Coal company where a gang of boys
compelled a mule driver to seek cover
by throwing stones at him, the contest
thus far has been devoid Of violence.
The exact number Of men who
struck cannot at this time be told. as
only estimates Of the number Of men
who did not start work we're made.
Reports received by the United Mine
Workers officials from the entire an
thracite region we're to them satisfac-
tory. In this territory known as Dis
trict No. Z, there are 10000 men en-
ployed in and about the mines. OF
this number 1t is conservatively esti-
mated that about so per cent, or 5000
miners, obeyed the order Of President
Mitchell to quit work. Five thousand
Of these belong to collieries which did
not work at all and the remaining g.
600 to mines which worked short
handed.
Operators Make Report.
The operators, in a formal state
ment, declare that conditions through
out the anthracite region are as fol-
lows:
Shamokin region, Mineral Railroad
and Mining company-Cameron col
liery, working; Luke Fidler colliery,
working.
Union Coal Company Pennsylvania
colliery, working; Hickory Swamp
colliery, working; Hickory Ridge col
liery, working; Richards colliery,
working; White & White. colliery,
working
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron company-Reliance cOlliery,
working; Alaska colliery, working;
Locust Gap colliery, working; Treves-
ton colliery, working; Henry Clay col
liery, working; Midvalley colliery,
working
Lykens Valley region: Summit
Branch Coal Williamstown
colliery, working.
Lykens Valley Coal company-Short
Mountain colliery, working.
Schuylkill region: Lyttle Coal COM
pany-Lyttle colliery, working; every
man at his post.
liam Penn colliery, working.
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ers.)
the big politicians. Another casue
assigned for 1t is that it is a scheme
between the leaders on both sides of
the controversy to raise the price of
coal and wages at the same time.
Whether or not there is an element
Of truth in any Of these rumors re-
mains to be seen.
The following accounts Of the de-
velopment of the strike come from
newspaper correspondents in the re-
gions affected.
Number of Men Out.
The anthracite coal miners strike
has started in the four great districts
which supply practically all the hard
coal of the world. President John
Mitchell asserts that he has reports
showing 10000 men are out, and that
more will join the strikers ranks
within a few days.
The operators, on the other hand,
declare that while many men are out,
the United Mine Workers union has
not made the showing it promised,
and that the miners cannot hold out
long for lack of funds and because
they cannot stop all operations.
The hard coal region is divided into
four great districts-the Lackawanna
Wyoming, Lehigh and schuylkill re-
gions In the first two, representing
nearly 10000 men. the tie4up is ,prac,
tically complete. Only one mine EN-
ploying a few hundred men Is being
operated, and this the strikers say
they hope to close soon.
In Lehigh Region.
In the Lehigh region the situation is
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a standoff, about 5000 of the 10000
mine employees having quit work.
Principally because the union has com
paratively little strength in the
schuylkill region, the workmen there
have no decided grievance, as in other
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Observation-Disclosures

lehem, Buck Mountain and Mahanoy
City are reported shorthanded, but
this. 1t is said, is not due to strike.
but to Polish wedding which oc-
CURED yesterday.
The Continental. Logan and Cen
tralia collieries at Centralia were COM
PEELED to shut down after working .
few hours.
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An effort is being made to induce
the Prince of Wales to open the Glas-
gov exhibition next May. and it is
expected his royal highness will ac-
cept. There is to be a corner in the
exhibition devoted to matters pertain
ing exclusively to Scotland, showing
what the country was like some centu-
Ties ago and what it is like at the pres
ent day.
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Immlrrntion to Arrentine.

immigration to the Argentine Re
public is increasing. Official statistics
for 1899 show the number of immi-
grants from other th2n South Ameri-
can countries to have been 84,442, an
increase over the preceding year OF
44.045.
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church, and forms delicate green ira.
ceries along the inner walls.
The bell tower tree is many hun.
dreds of years old. and was a good
sized tree when Columbus sailed upor
the voyage which resulted in the dis.
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A group Of miners in Queensland,
have clubbed together and presented
Major General Baden-Powell with a
cake Of pure gold, on which is in
scribed. This is "a carat, what the
Croydon miners take you to be-"
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The new Duke of Argyll made a
statement at Oban recently to the ef-
feet that he was innocent OF music,
and could not tell the difference be-
tween Pop Goes the Weasel" and
God Save the Queen"
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Moscow has the largest hospital in
Europe, with 1000 beds. There are
ninety-six physicians and 900 nurses,
and about $4,000 patients are cared for
annually.
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In Java a small state exists which is
entirely controlled by women. with the
single exception Of the sovereign. who
is a man. He Is, however, entirely de-
pendent on the three women who form
his state council.
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Philadelphia and Reading coal re-
gion: All the eollieries Of the Read
Ing company in the schuylkill region
are working.
Mahanoy region: Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron company-All
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The famous clock LES Trolls
Graces,' now on view at the Paris ex-
position was once bought for $40, 900.
Fifty thousand pounds has now been
offered for It.
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An example Of patient industry is
the sorting of hogs bristles as it is
carried on at Tientsin, China. Each
one Of the bristles has to be picked
out, measured and placed in the bum
die Of hairs of corresponding length.
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Railroads have taken little interest
in acetylene gas for car lighting and
there have been many failures in this
field. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul railway company are making ex-
periments in the laboratory on a gem
orator for lighting car. One advan-
tage Of aeetylene gas in that each car
can be made a separate unit. There
saEisAts -ha.-segllc Atsia3s ee-t,se appara-
tus on the cars.
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the collieries Of the Reading company
in the Mahanoy region are working.
Lehigh Valley Coal company-AT
collleries in Mahanoy region working.
Mill Creek Coal company-Mill
Creek, all collieries working.
Lentz, Lilly g. Co.-Park Place
colliery, working.
Lehigh region: Coke Bros & Co..
All collieries Of Coke Bros. & Co..
working.
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A curious coincidence is mentioned
in the latest Melbourne papers. An
Australian lady, who was just conclud-
ing her visit to London, left or lost
her purse on the roof of bus in the
Strand. AS it happened, the next pas
senger to take the seat she vacated
was also an Australian and he found
the purse. One Of her visiting cards
was inside, and the finder recogniz-
ing the name, communicated with the
lady in Melbourne and the purse was
restored intact.
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Sound passes through air at the We
locity OF 1,142 feet per second; through
water 4,90O feet; through iron, 1850
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The queens autograph fetches about
e.; that Of Blackmore. 12s; Mr.. Glad
stone, los; Lord Byron's cannot be
bought as a rule for less than f5.
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short time II the orders continue 70
come in. There is every probability
OF hard coal going above $40 ton u
this strike is prolonged.
People viii have to burn soft coal
It may inconvenience many, but that
win be their only resource unless the
labor trouble Is settled"
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Queensland is being converted into
a large orange orchard The Austral-
ian orange ripenP az time whom
other countries canot provide the
fruit
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The empire Of Morocco ia the most
important state that is absolutely with
out a newspaper.
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Within the last 95 years the popu-
lation Of Belgium has doubled itself,
rising from 1900 900 to 100000.
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A foster brother Of the late King
Humbert, M Leon Gorinhot, is mayor
of the Commune of Maubert-Fontaine
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Gatacre's place that day we Beers
fancy It would not have made a great
deal Of difference"
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= A curious fact is related by the
Sydney Morning Herald" in connec-
tion with the realization of the estate
of the late Mr. James Tyson, the Aus
tralian millionaire 1t appears that
on his private Office at FELTON, being
"tidied up" fxed deposit receipts for
G. 900 in the Queensland National
Bank, scrip for 81 shares in the same
bank, and fixed deposit for $4,000
shares in the City Bank, and other
scrip were found strewn about among
a mass Of vaIueless papers.
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The famous Drum Lummon gold
mine, which for years b q been the
chief gold producer Of Montana, is vir-
tually idle. only a small force OF men
being engaged in development work
This mine was sold by Thomas Cruise
lOf Helena to the Rothsehilds of Lon
don for FIVE million dollars several
years ago, since which time It has
repaid Its cost several times in div
idends over ive hundred stamps
ceased to drop after a steady grind for
years The owners believe, however,
that the mine still contains much hid
den wealth.
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The English war office is experiment
ing with a new magazine rife 1t is
the invention of an Australian and II
possesses several advantages over the
Lee -Metford arm, which is at present
employed in the British army The
automatic feed Of the cartridge from
the magazine into the breech is a
striking feature. II was tried at Bis
ley in the recent competitions and fired
thirty shots in the minute, with 2S
hits, Of which II we're bulls-eyes
The rife is said to be vastly superior
10 either the Lee-Metford or the Mau-
ser in strength. efficiency and simpli-
city OF construction, while 1t Is 35 per
cent cheaper to manufacture and Is one
and one-fourth pounds lighter than the
present Lee-Metford rife. It has been
strongly recommended by Lord
Charles Beresford and there is little
doubt that 1t will be introduced into
the British army at the end Of the
iSouth African campaign.
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covery OF new world. Thus the for
est monarch now forms the Oldest bell
tower IN America.
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One-half the world may not know
how the other half llves-but It has
suspicious
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ABLE BOER LEADER.
oEN. OLIVIER. RECENTLY CAP
TURED BY THE BRITISH.

10 Was He who Led Gatacre Into the
Trap at stormberg Tribute Paid 20
Him by One OF the Representative
Men Of tho South African Republic.
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Loss of daily wages is s175.OOO.
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Reports say 10000 men are out
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In the Lehigh region the situation is