The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-24


C,r.rl Stockleys wild Honey co.
T. ru.nam's Sonsl South Africa is
,,.oi,. for us-grand distances, fierce
heat q lion now and then, six mules
dr,sring the humping mail coach along
,hn road tn Buluwayo. Plainly Nivienne
carlton. though naughty, was lovely
e..goe. and fearful tales they were That
this young lady heard related concern
... ;h, effects wrought upon persons
v,. -u, lost in the bush. The coach
s,opp,d for the night at Palapye' great
tr..l u Khama King " the Bnchuana
.-.na For supper in the square hut
,tat served for a hotel the travellers
mad sp., chops. POTATOES and stcaming
g-c,n IN AIDES boiled on the cob.
Herr the disturbing tales were told
thunder Storm was raging. Lightning
streak,a through the canvas windows
and rain h-u,i Oh. earth" Tn" sub
s,aanal t,recuc shook to the celestial
upraar \ Kimberley man told " O.
r.orcor who had got lost. "Whon they
found him again" said the narrator. all
h., front teeth were gone. He couldn't
remember how it happened. But Of
course q was lying on the ground gnaw-
ing roots that did it," The Kimberley
man chccrfully enlightened hi, hearers
further REGARDING tho consequences Of
heng .ast 10 the bush. lie said: "Tve
known lots of follows whove been lost
and they all agree that the first instinct
when you realize you're lost Is TO start
running just run and run till you
drop Then the madness gets you and
You begin to tear of your clothes and
pitch them In every direction as YOU
RIM. Nearly every fellow ever found
after being lost Is stark naked '
Nlvierne pa'ed as abe listened. and she
was soon moved to leave the supper
table When, not very long afterward
she herself was lost in the bush she
justified good deal OF what the KIM
lerey man had said. but not all Of Il
only a portion Of her neat attire was
discarded and she did not lose even one
pretty tooth through gnawing rao<s
All that happened further to Vivenne
WI keep tho interest of the reader alive
her rescue by the coarse and I'M
scrupulous Roper. who supposed for "A
time that she was a boy: her defence OF
herself against tho enlightened and
alarming Roper with the HEN " the
pistol smuggled to her hy the gray
eyed Passenger who had sat near her
n me mail coach. her arrival at Rulu.
Vavn and her experience there ~ emo.
tons tender and compelling and sal,
10 he seated in the heart.
In another of these stories tho hero
= an American and tremendous
fellow he Is. Consider his blue eyes
They were blue az the inner light
~ glacier with something Of the ice,
quality In their steady starc-a fighters
ewes hard a. a rock that YOU cannot
break with an axe: the kind of eyes
that women forgive anything to-" Ham.
mond In this story justfies his eyes
He should not be misapprehended. II,
was not cruel; he was no betrayer or
the contrary. he was betrayed. and NJ
was srrupulous. He was generous
maRndnimously forgiving. Such a char,
t''er does MT leave the reader cold
The record Of him makes of thu,
story stirring and a moving tale.
Few tales are more effectively an.
strongly told than Watchers by IN,
Road" Here the careless lover dallies fol
day, conquers easily, passes on. Tt
consequences are strange and terrible
and fIr the reader there is an lmpressil r
quite deep enough to stay. Anotho
disturbing tale, but less disturbing. /,
The Molmelt of the Mountain" Thu
IS the story of a witch who devoure,
children. It is well told, but it belong
10 an order of stories that we arr
accustomed not to believe. and so IT,
polgnanCy is modified. The next tale
ON the Way 10 Beira." Is good comedy
8ettlngton who strongly desired AM
firmly Intended to remain bachelor
N ught that he was flirting with
married lady, whereas really the person
whom he was essaying TO conquer. ant
who conquered him, was the married
ladys unmarried sister 1t is impossible
70 he sorry for Bett!ngton, for althouzi
b" was deceived he managed to be ex
ceedingly happy. lie had good right q
be. The story is admirable.
The old Boer who objected to tina
form of progress which consisted in tn
laying # a British railroad through hi
farm is AT once an impressive and a
amusing figure His farm was steril,
on" Of the worst; the price offered hir
ny the railroad people was liberal an
should have gladdened his stony oil
heart, but he was not one To be pro
pioated, not a yielding person. II,
bare farm in his eyes was beautiful an
ne Aad no mind to sit on his front stOc
ana behold iron monsters tray rising TN
landscape, II was owing to his inflcX
Ihl" determination In the matter tina
AFTER ~uiuing himself in costly legal pro
ceod0gs he tried dynamite. H. made