Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-01-10
MANY PLAQUES IN AFRICA.
,th Man and Beast Are Made Mtsers
 able by Natures Pest9.

HAA#f able by Nature's feSCe
 Ainslee's Magazine: South Af- ssca Exports hides, wool and mohalr, X.ld the ranchman would revel in gSs.cfes were it not for the various pests n,S ss Nat decimate his flocks and herds lhA, he most deadly one is the rinderpest, EYE cattle plague which in the last ten fg&sars has been slowly creeping from
 SentrAl Africa southward, leaving a .sSAake of whitened bones. In travelling sSIlrough Natal I saw fifty oxen lying yAaI about a spring, so suddenly had : IAe osease attacked them. It was al sz6gost impossible to get an untinged 91lece4of steak at restaurant, though Asle proprietor resented any such
 large, and plethorie German travel .a who called out in a loud tone for
 east ~inderpest" in the railroad cafe ar De Aar Junction, Cape Colony, had =. be picked up in fragments. Dr, n'eC.och and other eminent specialists 'ald fed to stop this plague. The country dif4s now recovering from it slowly.
 mother pest is the tsetse dy, an insect ', .sembling our common house fly, but tree times as large. It's bite will kill at horse, COW or any other domestic Stac1imal in about ten days, but, strange mt say, does not affect a wild animal human being. A less dangerous, 1t more troublesome, pest is the white nt, which is about one-quarter of an ll0nch long and ubiquitous in many parts |lGf the country. They live under the
 round, and can only be routed by
 illing the queen, which sometimes the size of one inch in length
 his insect is particularly harassing in
 hodesia. At Buluwayo my travelling
 Jmpanion inadvertently left his boots
 the floor after turning in at night,
 Ind he arose next morning to find the
 ppers carefully separated from the forDles. Lucky you didn'; leave your
 lothes on the floor" was the hotel- Oaeeper's only consolation. These ants
 iD feat through anything but metal
 nd for that reason much of the build
 lg Is done with corrugated iron. The 0dlnthill is one of the conspicuous land-
 ,arks In travelling over South Africa rae
 BORROWED ARMIES
 las Secured All Over Europe to Hire
 Soldiers.
 28 This is the first war Great Britain
 as fought against white enemies with ! ut buying foreigners to fight fcs us, I avs London paper Until less than
 0 years ago, W aae had War on sand sent O. Q Germany,and
 II ovss Europe, age me-. , fign. NOr us. The mQa ,;s5ed 1efe most %,y old soldiers and were hired to fight $ until the war was fuished In 1756 an
 invasion of Ensl.1d WAS feared So
 1000 Hessians were hired to come and
 lefend these shores against the ex
 ,ected attack. These hirelings were
 ,aid at the British rate of pay, and fo,
 very man of them killed their kira vas paid so much per head. Even lalgainst the American coonists He's sian troops were employed. No won- oder our fellowE Englishmen were en. aged at this shameless action The Eandgrave of Hesse was paid Sa,355, p1O in per cent stocl: for che Hes- sians lost in the war of Independence This was the amount of $50 per man n The Irish cebellio. of 179s was put "dowL chiefly by Hessian hireiiugs, In the long struggle with Nafel4on we freely hired foreigners. hut the bulk )tOf the work was done by British sol. diers. Wellingtoa found that he could llnot rely op his moreenary gangs too h much. In 180i the Kings German le- gion'' of 10000 men vas formed. I've years later the fierce was increased by 5000 men. Besides Germans from all --the petty states, there were also en- n listed French royaitsts expelled by Na- 'polfon Corscans. Greeks, Italians Turks Portuguese. 9elgfans. Huaeari- ans and Swiss. At Waterloo, Welling. Jton's army of G7.000 was made up of only 22,000 British, and the rest were Dutch Brunswickers, Hanover:ans and Nassaumen. When peace came in 1874 Al there were mo less than 29.000 hire' soreigners forming corps in the British army The Crimean war was the last time Britain Lad 10 go a-hiring sol diers. Thirty thousand men had been M sent to the Cria4ea and more were " wanted. So the government went to parliament witE bill authorizing the enlistment of 10000 Germans, 1000 swiss and 5000 Italians, at British ]( rates of pay.
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