The Weekly Journal. — 1903-09-04 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

REVENGE. seer which most amused him occurred at a small town in Kansas, where • two-minute stop was made. The President had been talking freely of his" riwe suicide" notion that day. At the station in Kansas a man atoad hoWing three small children on his shoulders, and a women beside him carried two babin. The President's speech was going along smoothly when suddenly the man with tho three children broke in with a voice that could be heard a onartor of a mile away. " Her, Teddy," he shouted, 'can you beat this!' it's a fall house, Teddy—triplets and twins; Hine of a kind and a pair"'  week. The Boers had got up their heavy gnu, the bombardment began to grow daily a more unpleasant reality; and presently the inhabitants began to feel the pinata of hunger. Sickness increased, ehildren died more and more rapidly, poor little simile; and the women, ece:l the wealthier of them, gradually lost their looks and their normally comfortable appearance their faces liecame peaked, drawn, and anxious. Yet the spirit of the plans was ex.:client, no thought of surrender ever entered the mind of man, woman or child. They could keep the besiegers at bay, and they meant somehow to do it un... relief came to them. 'they knew Methuen was near, and  from him tliey hoped so mach. Far away, from the direction of the Modder, their could he:..r the boom of his guns, and coula hear, ales, ali:o the fierce resonfrat reicee a cronie.t, answering C311120/1. One MA morning. early in January, Jim Glenny was engaged with some of the Colonial troops, on a reconnaissance in force some way out of the town. They had been under fire for an hour or two, and baying pushed the reconnaissance a geed distance and inflicted some loss, were now retiring before strong reinforcements, brought swiftly by their nimble adversaliCe from another part of the veldt. Far away on their flank rose the grey masses of the debris heaps, those vast piles, of now cureless blue ground from which tho diamonds have been extracted, so well known to all who pawl in end out of Kimberley. Out in front of them, two miles and more distant, bellowed the Boer guns, while, yet further beyond, now and again came the sullen roar of a huge Crensot, belching its terrible missile into the heart of the beleagiired town. ft was desperately hot lying upon the anndrenched veldt: the glare was pitiless: above the scanty grasa the beat waves incessantly reuse and quivered. Every patch of cover was priceless; if a man moved, or exposed his head even, vicicus little pnlfc of smokeless powder from Manger rifles, eight hundred yards in front, showed instantly, and the thin hut charily bullets whistled ferociously near. The Boers ware in turn pressing the attiek, and their numbrrs were manifestly increasing. As (fleetly and some of his men lay prone. returning shot for shot, just managing to hold their own against the persistent foe, but no more, a man, dripping with blood fram a bullet wound in the neck, crawled op to the firing line from the grass on their lett front They missed firing for a few minutes to let him come in. Glenny interrogated him. " There's three of our men out there hebini that patch of bush," said the