New-York tribune., 1902-02-16

pOTlanCe ana reUectS added lOStre upon her own
and take care OF the cattle. while their lord and
all day So you see, there is good reason for the
Young men to go TO the mines to get money 20 buy
wife and for the Older men TO get money 20 buy
more wives.
WONDERFUL GARDEN.
I'VE lived at the mine nine months in the year
when the country is delightful. During December
January and February the thermometer fingers
blissfully and 100 In the shade and every
one who can goes to England The altitude gives
IA lovely climate, something like that Of Colorado
although vegetation of tropical disturbance re
spends irrigation.
"Our home typical one of the upper class:
great one story bungalow. - long built of brick
covered with the inevitable white corrugated iron
ana with a Veranda % feet deep. II 200 feet
above the entrance to the mine, ana the hillside
all about was cut into great terraces. which were
planted with maEniiccut tropical plants had
200 banana trees. besides oranges and lemons
suaVas and pineapplcs, strawberries. peaches. ali
xmas OF vegetables, and the most beautiful flowers
We even had tea plants in the garden. We raised
the finest lemons ever saw; all we could possibly
use. and barrels and barrels for the hospital"
An idea OF the enormous supply of native labor
may be had from the fact that every foot OF this
great terraced garden was made OF earth carried
up the mountain on the backs of KatTirs and the
irrigation, without which nothing could grow was
given by watering pots in the hands OF Kafilr boys
1t is a gorgeous fruit country" said Mrs Blow
fd1 t M ticay on Whites farm. near Barber
pants, all In Hover. II like "A beautiful ocean
" ploom Ana there was a prOpOrttonatc number
VI bananas. oranges, lemons. mangoes and 'spon-
sPeckS a truit like our smooth yellow cantaolIne
Mrs. fSlow gave a luncheon I'm the mine which
WAS probaby unique in the history of social func-
LUIS. II was IN honor OF President SteNn of the
orange Free State and his suite at tho time he
went Ven, UP 10 sign the alliance with Kruger 1t was
ENen In stope of the mine twelve hundred feet
DeioW the surface. The stope made a great baII
E4V Ieet hlgh 100 feet long and 20 feet wide without
tiihoer 10 break the sweep. \ floor had been laid
anu great table built In the centre. This table
with all the elegant appointments OF a fashionabIs
Iuhcheon. was decorated with the orange and green
9n oil the free state. and nasturtiums for flowers
me cehtreplece was a pyramid composed of ore
specimens which were almost pure gold inter
spersed win the feathery maidenhair fern which
grows WlId IN abundance. Stope and table we're
brilliantly lighted by electricity I'm richly coiorsd
DuIDs' ana the whole looked like a piece of STAGE
setting. The roast chicken baked ham shrinn
salad, stuned tomatoes and various other dIshes
were cooked In Mrs Blows kitchen eighteen nm
dred feet above and brought down i'm the ,ninc
cages. There were tea and coffee but they vjere
passed coldly by for the champagne Each time a
haffr boy nlled one of the champagne glasses he
dropped In 1t tiny lump of gold; and the stont
burghers OF the TransVaal and the Free State vere
roma OF champagne that day. There were a number
or people at that luncheon who have since becorns
known to the world President Stevn ana ono ~
hrlgers sons. General Cronje Fraser who IeliV
cred the keys to Roberts at the fall of Rloomfon
TEN; Fisher, who has visited many countries sjnne
on the Boer Peace Commissions; Maver the poer
general; Middleburg. the president OF the Netber
lands Railroad. the only in the Transvaal. ana
Others, since widely scattered or dead on the field
of battle. ~ va 'ie "elu