New-York tribune., 1900-04-15

PRESIDENT S. T. PAUL KRUGER
OF the Transvaal Republic
field hospitals there The duties OF nurse in
charge Of one Of the merquees' which do duty for
covered beds and dimity window curtains. no pol
women moving about the quiet ward. no twitter-
ing birds the big trees outside no texts on
field hospital The keen-eyed orderly. bare-armed
and alert, picks his way carefully over the pros
shaking marquee. a word of encouragement here
I st a aep e
plain. and will throw back and kill the pa
When the deVil comes the Of the tent must
be quickly lowered and pegged down; and the dust
OF all precautions, must be removed. Doing bis
N eoe sTeh se to te paens 0r four
Long after the time came which released him
rades. tanning them. attending on them. and doing
all that lay in his humble power-for Hinton made
the sufferings of those who fortunate enough
tour 70 g n2 wok sne sepped e him. in and asr
tracted her for liberties taken and Private
feel almost inclined to offer an apology for insert
ing this record; for as say. here was a Tommy
faithful unto death.
EFFECTUALLY KILLED HIS THIRST
Riding through thu dusty veldt Telegraph"
correspondent espied pool of water that looked
nnpid TO his Jaded observation. He says:
lay down TO drink and placed my pocket filter
a strange looking object. which further exam
shot, apparently. through the skull This sinister
discover / need scarcely say. alayed my anxiety
the body over it lay In the water, and the eyes
the disturber. The man had been stripped of
ssnn1uniton sn M. and arms by his comrades and had
TO his waist When returned to camp reported
eT.ce had been by no means unique 1t was only a
few weeks ago that upward Of thirty dead Beers
time great deal Of the water Rad been 10 used for
drinking purposes.
The of the rebellion in Northwest Cape
Colony is thus described by the Cape Town CORE
spondent OF The Telegraph:
The portentous announcement Just made that all
kenhardt is re5elling is distinctly comic news.
ton should visit Kenhardt You leave the railway
the imposing towns Of Vctora on h Wes with VIII f5s
enormous porulation Of 200; Carnarvon. seventy
Wei; with possibly 500 and 240 miles further Ken
learned 10 live on sand and do without water this
northwest part of the Colony will become thriv-
with enhsfdG soTekpe afH Th Pars was ot hs fhs
m qa Kear & Curing which the smiling land had had
their heads. but ne'er drop rain fell. True a
dignied with the name Of river the Hartebeest ia
but they had only aeT To }9R the M 9 9Tange
loT irrigation They actually constructing
their expected utility as for the sake Of giVng e nor
pi1yment 70 needy burghers
VINO VIII neither work nor starve, who are now
How stupefy Roberts to read tha ali
henhardt IS In revolt Heavy firing" is reported
Official report from Boer that o1e 10r bne
oS the Eff sb nd sg %o t horses have been
terrible It is also in trembling accents said that
Preska, with nearly five hundred men women and
called farmers who never farm shoi6 % rhese i so
when their friends the Free Staters. are being
driven on TO Bloemfontein about as powerless
as Canute was 70 check the rising tide
TWO BOER HOSPITALS.
A bit OF the he'll OF is pictured by NJ II
Donohoe in THE Chronicle in a description of
Cronjes camp after the surrender:
came upon the Beer hospital It WAS sin,nlv :.
river II was ten feet deep three feet wide at the
of old sail. held in place by few stones weight
ing ~ covered G the the top Into this pit the Boer
they lay-unattended. They huddled together
attitudes Descending the river bank entar6 Sr tb 5
hospital" The misery Of its luckless inmates was
with thankfulness learning that assistance yyae
abors Of the r a. G the ehSnks TO the splendid
Of the donga and being I'm our field bosnita
in the river bank Each had its
the length Of their Shelter did not per PGfon t6s for
stretch al full length. They asked for water Of
which they drank eagerly ' "
A quite different Boer hospital Was tho.
Bloemfontein. in which II. Hales a DAILY Naus"
correspondent, ley wounded after capture in Feb
rUary. He says:
The Beers have made most excellent provision
for the treatment of wounded after battle All
that science can do is done Their medical men
fight hard 10 British life or a Tritieb
limb medical men in England would batfle -
life or limb Of a private person Al the
ElOemfontein Hospital everything Is as near ,,er
fection from a medical and surgical point as any
sane man can nope TO see. II is extensive
Institution One end is set apart for the Roer
wounded. the other for the British No difer-
is made between the two in regard 10 accom-
rpodation food. medical attendance nursing or vis
iting
Mr.. Hales's mail account written from the hos
pital February q. gives a vivid narrative of his
experiences two weeks previously, when he was
captured with Captain Camerons Australian
scouts. He riding with Lambe OF The Mel
bourne Age" He says:
We had drifted a few hundred yards behind the
advance party. but a good distance in front
Of the guard when number Of horsemen
MADE a dash from the kopjes which were skirt.
iIg, and the rifles began 10 speak There was no
time for poetry: IL was a case Of sit tight and
ride hard surrender and be made prisoners
Laxnbie shouted TO me: Lets make dash, Haes"
and made it. Ths Boers were very close to