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Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25

notwithstanding these figures l do not
advise Americans to come here expecting
to make money In farming. This is hardly
a poor mans country The native labor on
the farms is made up OF Kaffirs, who re-
ceive from SO to SO a month, including
their board and lodging. White men cam
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25
Agriculture since the war.

Since the Boer war new interest has
sprung up in agriculture, and the govern
ment is now doing all it can to open up
the country and to improve the condition
of the farmers. 1t has already established
experimental farms in several places and
it is trying to better the live stock. Many
new plants are being introduced, the to-
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25

sas and Nebraska some years ago.
When the locusts come they eat almost
every green thing. The grass disappears
and the sheep and cattle perish for want
of food. ~ present the different govern
ments are paying a centaln price e0r locust
destruction. The farmers receive so cents
per bag of 200 pounds, and in Natal locust
eggs are bringing IL cents a pound, The
eggs are laid in cocoons, and it is estimated
that it takes 1000 eggs TO make a pound.
They will last for years without Matching,
so that although the locusts are killed.
a new crop may come forth again and
again from the dormant eggs.
The African natives are all fond OF
locusts. They eat them, and l am told thai
the Boer farmers frequently use dried To-
Gusts for chicken feed, paying as high as
81 per bag for them. Another trouble thai
the farmers have in many regions is the
drought. and there are also cattle fevers
and other diseases.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25

&D half dozen years. 1t seems
small and poor when one travels over It.
I entered It from Cape Colony at Fourteen
Streams, above Kimberley, and came
thence by rail through johannesburg on
my way here. The distance is a little far
ther than from New York to Washington,
and 1t is about an equal distance from
Pretoria to the east, where the Portuguese
territories begin. / am just about 300 miles
or so south Of the boundaries of Rhodesia.
These figures give you some idea Of the
area OF the country. The Transvaal is
about twice as big as Illinois or Iowa. It
is high, dry and comparatively barren, and
some OF It seems almost a desert. On my
way here 1 rode for miles without seeing
a house, and all along the way from KIM
berley to johannesburg there are no towns
of large size. The whole country has a
white population less han that of the city
of Minneapolis, and including the blacks,
who number three times the white, 1t has
not as many people as Philadelphia.
The biggest town in the Transvaal Is
johannesburg. 1t has 10000, ard of these
less than 10000 are white. Pretoria has
Sc, 600 and only 1900 whites. Both towns
claim more; but thos< a the official
figures, and they includ> very one, ne
groes, English and Beers.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25

with the flying BEETLES, with sparkling white
wings, and one looks on and on, seeing
nothing but locusts as far as the eye can
reach. Looking down along the SIDES Of
the train the ground is covered with
these crawling insects, and you can no.
tice them in front fleeing from the engine.
The locomotive seems to be sweeping them
apart like a snowdrift, and this work
continues for miles and miles as the train
goes on. SOMETHING'S they are so many
that the wheels of the cars, going over
them, crush them upon the rails, and the
rails thereby become creased and the
wheels roll round without catching.
At some Of the stations l nave stepped
out OF the train and scooped up a handful
Of locusts. They look Just like our grass
hoppers and are probably the same sort Of
insects as those which almost ruined Kan
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25
Millions in Mines.

The great Importance Of the country Is
in its mines. II leads the world as to gold,
and II bids fair to do so as TO diamonds.
l have already written Of the Premier
mire, which produced the Cullinan dia-
mond, the biggest ever discovered. 1t lies
within thirteen miles OF this city, and Z
has turned out Sc. 100000 worth OF precious
stones in the last four years. There are
other diamond mines near by, and there
are also copper and ccal. As TO the gold
mines Of the Rand. which lie within a few
miles Of Pretoria, their product is greater
than that OF any other region. They have
added more than 5000, OOO, 900 to the worlds
supply in the last twenty odd
years, and they are now yielding more
than s120,OO0.O0 a year. OF this shall
write more when I visit johannesburg.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25

MAY seem foolhardy for any
n in this great state of Ne
braska with a city like Omaha
approximating 10000 inhabi-
tants, with numerous other
municipalities ranging from
- non -. --l A,,nAraaa
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25

bacco industry has been encouraged and
experiments are being made on cotton. A
South African Agricultural college is now
proposed and General Botha is said to ia
vor It. He says that agriculture and min
ing are the two brothers Of the Transvaal
and that they must work together, hand in
hand, for the benefit of the country"
As to live stock, the colony now has
more than 10000 cattle, over 10000 sheep
and about 10000 pigs. There are about
$1,000 horses, a large number Of goats and
a few ostriches. The most of the stock is
kept on the high lands.
IS to prices OF farm animals, they seem
fair for this far-away country. Goats are
worth about s. each, pigs from $40 to 80
and merino sheep from S TO 50. Almost
any kin Of a good horse will sell for 500
and a mule for the same. Native cows
bring from SO TO $40 and those imported
from the Cape Of Good Hope sell for 500
and upward.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25
A Dutch Town.

Notwithstanding this, the Pretoria OF to-
day is a Boer town. It's people are more
Dutch than English. There are Dutch
signs over the stores and the hookshops
have many Dutch books. One hears tho
people talking in Dutch as he goes along
the streets. and the farmers in the coun-
try about are almost altogether Beers. It
is the Dutchmen who will still own most
may be seen going through the city or
standing in the market places just a. they
did when Paul Kruger ruled.
Pretoria was laid out by the Beers and
built by them. 1t is a little over fifty
years old, and is named after President
Pretorius, who founded 1t. It lies in a
valley formed by a small tributary Of the
Crocodile river, and It has grass grown
hills on every side. The streets cross one
another at right angles. They are wide and
well paved. and in many places shaded
with willows, which were set out as fence
posts and grew into trees. Most of the
houses are Of Dutch architecture. Nearly
every little home has q garden about It,
and 'the whole town is full OF flowers and
fruit.
OF late years the business section of the
city has grown, and 1t now compares favor
ably with any town Of its size in the United
States. II has good stores. a street car
line, electric lights, a public park and a
geological garden. II has a museum, a
library of 24,OOO volumes, social clubs, crick-
ct and foot ball grounds and a theater and a
opera house. II has half a dozen churches,
and among them the Dopper church where
President Kruger sometimes preached.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25
In the FootstGps of Kruger.

In the FOotBtCpa OF Kruger.
Indeed everything about the city still
bears Kruger's marks. The house in which
he lived is here, and his bones lie under
a plain monument out in the cemetary.
l went down the other afternoon and
looked at the home Of the former Boer
president.
It is a plain one-story building, situated
on the principle street, with a garden about
it. It is not much better than that of
many n clerk in the United States. Kruger
was supposed to be rich, and state
ments have been made concerning the
millions which he sent to Holland during
the Boer war. These stories are denied at
Pretoria, and the truth seems to be that
the Boer president came out Of the war
comparatively poor as far as money was
concerned. His wealth was mainly In
farms, which he had divided among his
relatives before the war began. While the
struggle was raging he lent Something
like $4,000 in cash 10 his government to
Keep the soldiers In the field. and this
was paid for in the money of that govern
ment. which IS now worthless. He also
lent about $4,000 additional, which, ! be-
lirve was in the hands Of General Botha
at the time the war closed. This was
offered to the British, but they refused it
and the money still forms a part OF the
Kruger estate. 1t is said here that Kruger
was not a money lover or money %grubber,
and that he cared more for his country
than his fortune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25

, 1908, BY Frank O. Carpenter.)
Correspond
enoe OF The Bee.)-This letter
is to be about the T'r%ansvaal.
The state has been big in the
eyes of the world for the last
half dozen years. 1t seems
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-24
A Pleasant Party

Misses Era and Jennie Lewis on last evening entertained a few couples at their home with progressive 300" compliment tary to Miss Maude kizer of Tex arkana. and the affair was en- joyed by every person seate1 at the five tables kept going during the progress of the game, Light refreshments were served at the close of the games, and it was quite late when the last guest bade the kind hostesses good night. Those present were Mir
 and Mrs A. II. Evans, Mr. and Mrs c. E. Shankle Misses Clara Brooks, Rerta Putnam, Laura leo Powell Grace Teal. kittie
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-24
A Mysterious Check

Tn the Citizens Banks mail this morning came a lettt from the Hampstead County Bank ol Hope, enclosing check, drawn for S5OOOO on the citizens Bank of Prescott, Ark, dated Septem- Der 20, 1903. and signed by J. $. Began, with the explanation that they had found the cheek in cleaning up their vault, and asking if it had ever been paid or duplicate issued, O. in fact, f the bank here or Mr. Began knew anything about the check at all. The check was issued in favor of ArliS armack, but had never been endorsed. Mr. Began took the check to Mr. W aFmack to as certain if he could give any in planation of it's origin, but that gentleman said he never saw the check before. Mf Reg4n af- ter indOrsing the instrument as a forgery sent it back to the Hope bank with the statement that he knew no more about how the cheek got in their possession than they did. but to keep it. as it might be needed in the Iu- ture.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-24
ARE HURT IN A WRECK
Railroad Accident In Which Two Pres.
 colt Visitors Are Injured

In a wreck on the Rock Islan { Railroad Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. j. $. Bell of AmCWA a. Texas, were painfully, though not seriously injured Mir. and Mrs. Bell were returning home from a visit to MT Bei's mothtt at this place when th' accident happened. They were ing in the Pullman "Seboy" when it left the rails on a curve a mile and a half east of Fouche, and rolled completely down q 12- foot embankment where it rest ed trucks upw ards while the imprisoned and bruised passen- gers were hastily releaseI from their pefilous position by pas sengers from the day coaches and the train crew. The injury to Mr. Bell was right leg bruis- ed and sprained, while Ms. Bell suffered shoulder and arm bruis- ed and cut. They were taken tO The Fouche Hotel. where thei. wounds were dressed after which they continued their jOuY- ney homeward.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-24
DEATH OF CLEVELAND
The Last of the Living Ex-Presidents
 Passes Away Today

The News was flashed over the wires this morning that Grover Cleveland, eX-presid ant of the United States and a most prom inent character in American his tory, died today at his home in Princeton, \. J.
 Death came suddenly at $40 o'clock, and was due to heart trouble, complicated with other diseases. While ne had been il for somne time the announce ment Of his death is a shock to the entire country.
 Mir Cleveland was 71 years old last March, and up to the time of his death was the only living president.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-24
Park Hotel Arrivals.

C. A. Duncan, Paris. Ky: sam C. Scull, W. l.. Baker, (. Estes, II. ?. smith. Buttry, W L. Whitehurst, Little R9,k; R. L. Skidmore, k. Berryman. l.. D. Simmons, T. C. Cole. F. G. Quinn, Tom Johnson. Jr, j. l.. Good bar, T E. Ingram, St Louis :; l. W. E. smith. Florence, Ala ; Miss Roberta sims, Texarkana. W. T. Brown. Ft Worth: $. l.. Gordon, Camden; C ]. Ragland. san Antonio Geo. !. McNew, Co., lunbus. Ark.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-24

Aburrow, Maude Kizar, ana Messrs John Brown, Arl War mack, w. B. Orner, Elmora Began, John Lewis. Ernest stanton, Pomeroy Whitten, W. D. Hat ley. k. r. Arnold
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-15
CONWAY REFUSED
Board of Excise Does Not Grant Him
q saloon License.

Board of Excise Does Not Grant Him
81 Saloon License.
The application Of Alfred P. Conway
for a saloon license for his place SO and
II Speedwell avenue, wasiErefused by
the board of excise at it's meeting
Wednesday evening. All three of the
commissioners voted against the APP
plication. Conway appeared before
the board and said that a lawyer was
to have appeared to plead his case but
had been delayed but the board MEM
bers evidently had their minds made
up before hand.
James j. Lyons, who presented an
application at the November meeting
for a saloon license for the place at 40
Speedwell avenue, withdrew the appli'
cation.
Frank Ambrose was granted re-
newal Of his hotel license for the West
End hotel, and A. W. Theilers's Sons
were granted a wholesale license.
The application of Frank e. Lipp-
man for a transfer of the wholesale
license granted to Lippman s. left to
himself few months ago was granted.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-15
It's Eighth Anniversary.

The Junior Christian Endeavor So
ciety of the First Baptist church cele-
brated its eighth anniversary by a
special service on Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. A. Vance Pierson, the superin-
tendent, presided and read report OF
the years work.
Among the points enumerated were
the collection of $4.52 in pennies by
FASTING them on strips of muslin, the
trimming of tree last Christmas for
the children in the Barker Pavilion
for Contagious Diseases, post card
showers of twenty-five cards each
given two sick members of the church,
six sunshine sheets sent to Memorial
hospital, fruit sent to ten sick people,
seven booklets of pressed flowers pre-
pared and sent to missionaries, con-
tributed 1888 to benevolent objects and
collected papers and magazines for the
hospital and mission.
The afternoons program included a
bible test which was won by Ella
Leonard and Edna Jones to whom sill
yer @. E. pins we're presented. The
meeting was attended by the mothers
of many of. the children. Refresh
ments were served after the meeting
and birthday cake bearing eight
candles was cut and eaten.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-15
Expressions Of Appreciation.

The prayer meeting In the Bap-
tist church on Thursday evening took
the form of personal experiences on
the part of members of the church as
to the helpfulness of the pastoral ser
vices Of the retiring pastor to them
personally. In answer to remark of
member that the only difference he
had had with the pastor was the fact
that he did not agree with the politi-
cal views advanced, Mr.. Horsman said
that he had no idea when he came
back to the church that his ministry
would take the form it had. He had
received new light and inspiration as
to the application OF the Gospel to the
needs of mankind and had presented
it in accordance with his convictions.
He further said that The people of his
new charge we're familiar with his
views and way OF presenting them and
were in hearty sympathy with them.
A farewell reception was given to
the Rev. Oliver G. Horsman Friday
evening at the home of Mrs. Baird,
Speedwell avenue.
The ministers of the town will give
Mr.. Horsman dinner at Days Friday
night.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-15
INJURED AT SUMMIT.

Robert jackson : IA orristown Palmer.
Badly Injured In Scaffold Accident.
BY the breaking in the middle of an
eighteen foot ladder over which two
planks were laid, and used as a swing
ing scaffold, Frank Sharp, of Division
avenue, Summit, and Robert Jackson,
of SO Sussex avenue, Morristown,
painters in The employ OF Thomas
Baird, fell forty feet TO the bottom of
an areaway between the Summit
Bank and the Muchmore building in
Springfield avenue, Summit yesterday
afternoon.
Jackson sustained compound tract
ure near the right hip, four of his ribs
were Lroken and he received injuries
to the back. 1t Is feared he is also
suffering from internal injuries.
At the Overlook hospital it was
said both men would recover. although
Jackson is in serious condition.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-15
Handsome New Houses.

Eney Grupelli' block of seven houses
which he is erecting on Speedwell ave
nue. is rapidly nearing completion.
The houses are of concrete and will be
handsome in an appearance and de-
cided improvement to that section Of
Speedwell avenue.
On the first floor Of each house will
be large reception hall separated
from the Darlor by an archway. max
ing together very large room. A
dining room of good size and a kitchen
are also on this floor On the second
floor at the head OF the stairs is large
hall with window, providing pleas
ant sewing room. Opening of Of this
hall are the bath room and three bed
rooms. In the third story will be two
bed rooms with dormer windows. The
basement Of each house will contain a
laundry.
Mr. Grupelli is considering the cree
tion of five more of the same style Of
houses on the remainder of his Speed
we'll avenue frontage.
In connection with Peter Jorgensen
Mr. Grupelli will open street on the
lakefront connecting Lakeside place
and Logan place. which he is thinking
of naming Pocohantas street.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-15
A New school in ornnge.

Charles A. LIE Master, one of the
newly elected councilmen of Orange,
who has been principal of business
college in that city for the past five
years has severed his connection with
the college and has opened in the Pru-
Dental building, corner of Main and
Center streets, Orange, the LIE Master
business institute. The school is finely
equipped and modern in all its appoint
ments, ard the courses of study are
thoroughly up-to-date.
There is proba bly, no man in north
ern New Jersey who has done more to
raise the standard of business educa-
tion and business schools in general
during the past four or five years than
Mr.. lie Master. With his experience,
ability and wide acquaintance in the
business and professional world, the
public is assured of strictly high
grade, private business school. The
school opened December 1st with a
splendid enrolment in both the dav
and night classes.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-15
CARPENTERS STRIKE OFF.
Union Gives Up Fignt on since April
LIST, 1907, for shorter Week.

Union Gives Up Fight ON since April
LIST. 1907, for shorter Week.
/ After being on strike since April
lst. 1907, the Morristown carpenters
union on Wednesday evening declared
the strike off and notified it's members
they would be permitted to go to work
for the wages and hours offered by the
master carpenters and to work with
non-union men. The carpenters are
the last of the building trades me-
chanics to give up the strike inaugu-
rated in the building trades year
and half ago.
The carpenters demanded forty-fve
cents per hour and forty-four hours
work week. This was met with a
proposition from the boss carpenters
of forty-seven hours per week and for
ty one cents per hour.
The proposition was refused by the
union and after few weeks the Geo.
A. Mills Co., w. r. Barkman and
Gates B. Parsons gave in to the unions
demands and the union men went
back to work for those firms. But the
other master builders refused to ac-
cede to the union demands and in con-
sequence mady of the local mechanics
left Morristown and sought work in
other places.
IL is estimated that about thirty
carpenters are now working outside OF
Morristown and many have moved
away from here and gone to Summit,
the Oranges and other places.
The bosses who gave into the union
will now pay the original scale. Offered
by the master carpenters, itsmaking a
difference of fifty-three cents with the
men employed by them and length
ening of the week by three hours.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-15
Sew ofneers Cor Heptasophs.

Officers of Morristown Conclave, Nc.
1854, L. 0. Heptasophs we're elected
Thursday night as follows Sitting
past archon, Frank d. Baldwin, archon,
Charles H. Meslar provost, Charles S.
Gregory; secretary, Walter M. Berry |;
treasurer, William f. Schweikhardt |;
financier. Walter v. Mesler; prelate,
AlbertV. r. Wulff; inspector, George r.
Gordon; warder, William Peters; senti-
mel, Thomas w. Malley; trustees, Joseph
M. Moody, Frederick A. Trowbridge
and Frank d. Baldwin; representative
to Supreme Conclave, Boston, June,
1909, DIR. r. ". d. Totten alternate
representative. Joseph NJ. Moody.
Several visitors attended the meeting
including District Deputy Sup. Ar
chon Frank =. Miller, Supreme Com
mitteman j. V. g. Vanderhoof, Will
liam &C. Vanderhoof, Plaintield, and
Charles r. Martin, Newark.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-15
Court street Reminiscence.

1t is with great pleasure we attract
notice to an advertisement in our col
umns, announcing the introduction to
our citizens, OF a book just published
by one of our old-time citizens. The
story is called "The@ Indian Tales !"
and are the happenings Of the boys
and girls who lived on Court street
thirty years ago and who had the
"bestes" times of any crowd of boys
and girls before or since. In Court
streets entire length-just two blocks
there were thirty-nine children.
There was no race suicide in those
days and each family laid claim to four
or five of these Indians, so it can read
lily be seen "there was something do
ing" when those boys and girls got
together and schemed against orchards
and pantries of the immediate environ
ment. This book is written by one of
the Indians and is written in childish
dialect just as ",things happened"
If some of the boys" who are still
with us in our dear, old town, will
close eyes to the present and reflect on
boyhood days they will remember the
the hut in the wood; the old blunder-
bhss, which caused SO many bumps
and bruises the night it ran into the
milk wagon on Ann hill; ard do you
recall the summer when you boys went
berrying and got in Bobby Whites
berry patch? You all skinned out
except Nifty who always used to get
caught. That's the time YOU boys all
went to court and your fathers had to
pay Bobby for the berries and costs OF
court besides. Uncle Dan showed you
what a friend was that day. He saved
your neck from the strap.
This book is gotten up in unique and
appropriate style and by very strange
but fitting coincidence the publisher
of the book was one of the " Indians. .
What a treat for these Indians, could
they meet once more and live over in
memories the good, old times. One of
the penalties of allowing oneself to
grow old is that our playmates and
friends scatter and forget, until per-
chance, "a stery or unexpected meeting
bring back the times when our heavi
est care was how to get to bed and
avoid the storm " which was gather
ing on fathers brow, and undoubtedly
would break on our back if we we're
conveniently about. This volume can
be had al any of our bookstores.