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Consolidation of the Wealth ma hers and the Lincoln Independent NO. 29. VOL. XL , LINCOLN,' NEBKASKA, NOVEMBER, SO, 1800- ENGLISH GOLD GRABBERS Jka Artie in Bwr Paper which hash!! Mid to T the Real Canse of ., - the War. ' ' 1 ' '' The "wage workers in the Boer repub lic have never been allowed to bo heard. While the war is ostensibly waged in theii interests it is a fact wages to crush them. The following article which was published in the Bloomfonteiu Express,, is said to have had a great influence Up on the English gold grabber they fear ing thut some such plan might be finally adopted by' the Boer republic. They therefore doubled their efforts to bring on the war. The article is as follows: "In order to give the public some idea of how the capitalistic clique is endea voring to stimulate and intensify the present crisis in Johannesburg, wo pub lish the substance ol a letter from a iwiiner on the Rand, which has just 'reached us, and knowing the writer, we have ever? reason : to believe that the statements therein made are correct We regret that we are unable to publish the letter of our correspondent in full, but it is evident from the context that there is a very large majority of the Cornish miners who would welcome a change in private ownership of the themki 3 state ownership with con siderable' satisfaction. As things are at present, sanitary arrangements, general comfort of employees and conditions which are calculated to ensure perma nent residence are .all subjects to the greed of shareholders for record drvi- ' dends, which under wise and equitable state management would be spent in the republic, and so ,promote the general prosperity of the whole people, instead ' of, as at present, going to Europo to be ' wasted in luxury and riotous living by men who in all probability never did an . honest day's work in their lives. The f rkin men on the Rand complain very ' V'h f the conditions of employment Icq tbej' are .compelled to comply - ith. The twenty-four hours system.is & standing grievanee. The men com plain that it gives thenv no encourage ment to4tempt.to settle down in life or get their families out from England, the cry being "what would we do with a wife and three or four .children to drag abuut from one end of the reef to the othr, while we are seeking another job?" They complain of the injustice of being compelled to sign insurance con tracts, whereby in case of death compen sation is limited to one year's wages. They aw also obliged to subscribe to- a sick fund, yet have no choice in the se lection of medical men. This stultifies the capitalists cry that taxation without ' representation is slavery. Out o the ' workmen's subscriptions the gold min ting compart 'build spacious reading " roowM. They not only claim the credit for so doing, but own the buildings. They suppress as far as possible the frightful mortality amongst the Kaffirs, and fail to remedy the bad conditions .in which these are now herded together, yet howl like Australian dingosover wrongs wfcich exist only in their own imagination. The. dynamite monoply is quoted as one of those wrongs, but many ' of the companies have solved the prob lem by charging the extra cost on to the contractors.; whoj use the dynamite in some instances charging them from ten to twelve shillings.over cost. The ever present 'osire for profit is apparent in the eontewptable custom of also making a profit on dynamite caps ii.id fuse. But these are not the only sources of profit. The rapacity of the gold mining compan ies nnds vent in what in England would be a violation of the "Truck Act." They raise the rent of the. boarding houses ac cording to the increase in the number of the boarders. Theseire only a few of the numerous methods we could name, which are pursued to increase dividends at the expense of the actual producers of the gold. This kind of management shows only too clearly that it is high time the government of the South Afri can republic itself worked the L ines for the benefit of the people of the republic. Under such management it would bo possible to remove most of the taxes now falling on the producers and consumers in the way of custom-house and excise due. The incident of taxation would be altered and the revenue required to "carry on the government would come .out of nature's store house out of the Sand itself, which, if wrested frc.u the ' octopus of capitalism, mav become the most prosperous in he Southern Ufis l phere, and lead the 'orld in civilization 1 nod equitable laws. It is the fear of the . capitalists that . democracy may estab lish itself firmly in these republics that ' has evoked the cupidity of not only Eng land, but Europe as well. Hence the apathy, if not desire, to see the gold in dustry remain a practicaily private mo nopoly. Storage Reservoirs The statements made now and again ' by some western men that the govern ment will never build storage reservoirs, ioes not appear to be well founded in view of the progress of events within a comparatively recent period. The Geo logical Survey, a governmor : institution, has been and is today working steadily, making surveys for reservoir sites, and reserving the land against the time when it may be needed for reservoirs, and con gress is annually appropriating for this work; the department of agriculture is this year spending $.J0.00O, which con gress appropriated in irrigation investi gation in the west, and last year the senate, by a good majority, voted square ly to build a storage reservoir in Wyom ing. ' , The amendment was defeated by the house of representatives, but the fWht i came painfully near, to the pessimist, r oeng an out-and-out triumph for the Tke most tot wtst need this time is to stand solidly together on, this irri gation proposition and make a . united demand upon the government for what it wants, then take off its coat and work for a year, in season and out ' of season, and without let up. until it gets it.' No question but that it can get it' if it de mands, and backs up its demand with all the force and energy, at its disposal. The following press report taken from the Washington Times, shows, tke atti tude of at least one branch of the gov ernment upon this question: , - "The present agitation in the west, notably in California, concerning water storage f.w irrigation has brought in so many requests and letters to the geolog ical survey that F. II. -Newell, the hy drographer, has prepared a circular set ting forth the attitude of the govern ment with reference to the building of storage reservoirs. . ' rllte circular states, among - other things, that u large number of storage reservoir sites have been surveyed and reserved, and that the maps and esti mates of the cost of construction have been prepared and plans drawn to af ford an accurate basis for 'appropriations for construction,' The circular states that the olllcers of the survey have no concern with the question whether these reservoirs are to be built by private cap ital or public funds, but nevertheless its .statements are conceded to largely com mit the government to the policy of fed eral storage of western Hood waters, THE INDIAN RING The Old Guiig Sec him in Have lU-orKUiiived For tlx r-irporie of Taking l' The White Man'h Kurilen. The old Indian ring tnat caused such an upheaval years ago, and was finally suppressed, seems to have reorganized since MeKinley and Mark Hanna have been running things at Washington. They have carried out a systematic plan of robbery all over the United States. In Nebraska, as elsewhere, they working their schemes. Not long since the agent of the Omahas proposed to the council of that tribe to pay John M. Thurston $.50,000 for supposed legal ser vices. John L. Webster has been attor ney for these Indians ever since the fa mous Standing Bear case, and they still desired to keep him, but the agent, who is practically an appointee of Senator Thurston, would not have it that way, trom information at hand, it appears that this was nothing but a steal of the old Indian ring kind. It is not only in Nebraska that these men are "taking up the white man's burden after the fash ion he has always done when native peo ple are the objects of his solicitude, but it is all over the United States. The commissioner of Indian affairs pots up a very strong protest in his annual report The first thing he will know, off will go his head. The following is a short ex tract from his report There w lots more of the same kind. In 1889 the Chippewas were with dif culty induced to cede to the United States large tracts of valuable pine land on the representation that the sale of the pine would bring them in a fund of several million dollars. As is always the caso, many Indians were utterly opposed to the negotiations. A commission was appointed to make al lotments on ceded and reservation lands and to secure removals to VVhite Earth of those who were willing to" go ,here. Estimators were appointed to appraise the Chippewa pine. The ex;xtnse of lioth is charged to the fund of tae Indians. The expense of the commision up to date has been not less than 8200,000, most of it in salaries. The work of the estimators proved worthless and a second set of estimators was appointed with no better results, and a third set of men was assigned to the work. Up to date about 1280,000 has been charged to the Indians for es timating. Meantime large tracts of pine which have been estimated at from one fourth to one-half of their value were sold,nd the loss fell upon the Indians. Farm and Dairy School The University of Nebraska has just issued a very attractive pamphlet des criptive of the school of agriculture. Every farmer should write for one. This course in agriculture is a complete, practical and common sense thing. It is something that no farmer's girl or boy can afford to miss. The people in charce of the school realize the fact that most farmers' sons and daughters cannot af ford to spend the time and money re quired in the preparation for and com pletion of the regular college course, but believe that in farming, as in every other business, education and training Pay Keeping this in view they have pre pared a snort practical course of ihree months, beginning January 2, l'.lOO, and ending March 17. . It provides for the following studies; Soils, field crops, dis eases of farm animals, breeding of live stock, feeding of live stock, dairying, horticulture, agriculture, engineering, carpentry and blacksmithing, insects in jurious to crops, plant pest, farm ac counts and English. An explanation given in the circular of the manner in which the instruction is given, shows that the student obtains much of it py means of actual practice an observation. Not that he will be ex pected to do the work of the farm with which he is already familiar, hut such operations as stock judging, milk testing, treating sick animals, etc. No examinations are required for en trance. There is a registration fee of one dollar. The cost to each student last year for room rent, table board, book, etc., wa about thirty six dollars. BRYAfi READS A SERMON lib Hunting Trip" lias loii Him iool ialnel Six Pounds In One Week. Si'KiNc.FtEU), Mo.i Nov, 21. William J. Bryan ' yesterday came out of the woods . of the Taney Game Preserve, where ho has been hunting, and reached hero yesterday. The people in all the little towns along the Way turned out in crowds to see him, and he received a rousing reception here. Mr. Bryan had not seen the ..newspa pers for a week, and was startled to read of the dangerous; illness of United States Senator-elect llayward of Ne braska. Mr. Bryan refused to discuss the rumor that he would be appointed Senator in Ilayward's place, saying that any consideration of the matter now would be unfitting. '"I am very sorry to hear of Senator Ilayward's illness," he said. -. . ' ; CONDONS BONU OKFKH. Mr. Bryan talked faeely, however, of Secretary (Jage's oner to purchase CiV 000,000 bonds. "The republicans." he de clared, "have been saying all the time that there was plenty of money in the country. When the free silver people advocated an enlargement of the money supply they were told that the circula tion ful.y met all the demands of tTade. "Now, when Wall Street becomes short of money the government is prompt to go to the relief Of the speculators. All we free silver people ask ' is that Uncle Sam shall treat the farmer and the la borer with as much consideration. "The gold men. claiming that there is plenty of money in the country; never make -the proper distinction between a standard dollar and a credit dollar! They assume that for all purposes an actual dollar and a promise to pay a dollar are the same. "This failure to make the, distinction between the money of final account and the various forms of credit employed in the transactions of the country has greatly confused the minds of those con trolled by the gold standard idea." At the hunting park, Sunday, Mr. Bryan took part in a unique religious service. There was no minister to be ob tained, and the party of hunters were nearly fifty tiriles from a church bell. Major McCann, President of the Game Preserve Company, is an Episcopalian, He has the prayer book of his church at the lodge. At 11 a. m. the guests were assembled in the club-house parlor. Mrs. McCann played the organ and the party sang a nymn. KRYAN KEA1W A SKliMON. Major McCann read the usual Episco pal service for Sunday morning worship and then Mr. Bryan read a sermon. He seemed thoroughly clerical, and a stran ger would never-have suspected that a lavman was offlciqtjng for the first time in such a capacity. The sermon was one of St Augustine's on the Lord's Prayer found on pages 188 to 1K in the nrst volume m "The World's Best Orations," collected by Justice Brewer. Col. Bryan had the book with him on this trip. Mr. Bryan closed his hunt Saturday by killing a four-year-buck. During the hunt he killed a quantity of small game, including a Dumber of wild turkeys. He gained six pounds on the trip aud looks the picture of health and strength. Got Scared It is very evident that Seeretay Har rison and Chaimiai. Tefft of the repub lican state committee got badly scared during the last few days of the campaign over the prospeets of losing the foreign vote and they determined to save some thing out of the wreck. They remem bered the republican newspaper federa tion circular, aud proceeded to 'go after' the county clerks aud county judges wherever there was any hbpe. Iteese, the man who was to save the g. o. p., was mercilessly traded off for a chance to control the election machinery. Look at the results in a few counties and de cide for yourself if this be an idle tale. lioonc county gave Holeomb ll major ity; a republican county clerk was elect- there by ;.$(); his vote was 400 greater than lieese s. Cedar county eave Hol eomb 519 majority; a republican county clerk was elected by 2TB; his Tote was 401 greater than Reese's. Dakota coun ty gave Holeomb 121 majority; a repub lican county clerk was elected by 541 majority; his vote exceeded Reese's by 410.v Dixon county eave Holeomb 12G majority; a republican county clerk was elected by 1:5): his vote ran 228 greater than iteese s. 1 Hi tidy county cave Hol eomb 28 majority; a republican county clerk was eleeUM by 77, aud his rote was (Mi greater than that of Judge Reese. Custer county gave Holeomb 590 major ity; yet in a three-sided contest the re publican candidate for county judge bad 35 majority, a plurality of 249 over his populist opponent and 394 Totos more than the party-savior who headed his ticket Such things do not happen. They are the result of well directed ef brt. And this must be humiliating to Judge Reese and his friends. A Child's Will "Little good can come of being arbi trary with a child, by making him do as we wish without first getting at the causes of his willfulness, is the position taken by Anna Wikel writing of Break ing a Child's Will" in the December Woman's Home Companion. "A child's volitions are transient The endeavor, then, must be to get at his fleeting voli tions and train each one aright, until he can be said to have a governing purpose. Some put implicit faith in reasoning with a child. Well, it shows respect for child nature and occasionally reaches him; at least it may have some effect in developing his reasoning powers, and certainly promises confidence between parent and child. If his reason were al ready developed there would be less dif ficulty in training the will, but since it is not we must train the will through other avenues, and his feelings, bis emo tional impulses, form the best of these. In order to strengthen ind train his will a child must be ' allowed to exercise it by choosing for himself as far as practicable. The parent or teacher must advise the child before the choice is made, or when he is suffering from the result of an unr. ise choice he may well reflect oil them for not givingv him ihe ijenelit of . their experience; but after both sides are made plnm the qhild must bo left a free moral agent. If there is a choice between a pocket knife and a ne: pair of troitsers a boy wiil almost surely choose thcAknife. When ho feels ashamed oivtiis patched knees it will be a means ? culture to his judgment through (means of shame, und his nest willir,inay be along the lines of reason. it takes more than one lesson to le'n that 'we ennnot eat our cake aud bnve it, too.' Robertson says, 'There are two ways of reaching truth by reasonirk; it out and by feeling it out.' A child must feel his way to the truth. A child lives in his feelings, and through them he is reached for good or evil." : A Just Decision Circuit Judge Beeman, of Indiana, in declining a railroad pass recently, wrote thus to the railroad company: ' "If a fanner was to enclose 8100 to a judge and ifc was accepted and after wards a lawTuit was instituted by the farmer agafost a railway company in the court of tl: judge who had accepted the farmer' ii hospitality, and the knowl edge was bAmght to the defendant rail road company of the farmer's hospitality and the jupge's acceptanco of that hos pitality, tie railroad company would make haste to take a change of venue from the court on account of the bias of the judge; but, upon the other hand, a railroad company placees a puss worth $100 per annum in a judge's hands as a mere matter of courtesy, and the judge tries to educate himself candidly to be lieve that he is not influenced by the ac ceptance of the same. I have failed vo so conclude, and believe it is unwise for a judge to accept a railroad pass, just as much as it is to accept f 100 from a farm er who expects to be a party to a litiga tion in his court." An Old Republican Editor Independent: The people real ize that the fusionists put up good men on the state ticket, and the county tick ets got their share in the distribution. The farmers can sleep peacefully now, for they know that the supreme court is in good hands. I am an old republican and I am per fectly satisfied with the result of the election. They may call me a copper head or whatever they like. I am tired of hearing hein calling MeKinley ' "the good" and :trk Hanna "the ju.it," If there was .f (y good, the capitalists got the cream ft! it. -The fusion is t speakers told such facts that it made my republi can hair stand upright. I w ent, to an old pop and asked him to explain some things, and he gave me your paper to read. That got my dander up. I told my wife to burn the darned thing. She read it and said that it was all right and that I was nil wrong. She said if I would take the paper she would pay for it out of her butter and egg money. So I got it, and I am proud to say that the Nebraska Independent has told nie more truths than I ever road in the republi can papers in all my lifo. My old friends may call me what they please. They can fool the farmers some of the time, but not all the time. Now, Mr. Editor, this is something out of my line. I know more about raising corn than writing letters to you, but I just had to, to please the old woman, who bought the paper with her euz monev. So success to your paper. I will do all l can for it in my neigliliorhood. Sally and Joski-h Ilnrx. Douglas county. A Suggestive Prophecy Here is something for expansionists to swallow. The Mexican Herald, publish ed in the city of Mexicoin a long arti cle dealing with North American preten tions to dominance in this hemisphere. and, taking a clairvoyant glance into the future, gives the dates of the following annexauous oy "our excellent Uncle Sam:" 1900, St Thomas. Havti and San Domingo; 1910, Martinique, Santa Lucia, lsinmus or ranama and Central Ameri ca; 1912, Mexico; 1915, Colombia, Vene zuela. Ecuador; 1929, Chilo. Peru. Bol ivia; 1940, Argentine Republic, Uruguay, raraguay and Brazil. The article closes witn the statement that the United States will get into several imbroglios with foreign powers in the far East and fall in the year 1941. This is comforting since, if this prophet knows what he is writing about, many of us who have lived to see this expansion policy en tered upon will also live to see the ruin and fall of the American "Empire." Never Wear Out Irrigated farms never wear out It may occur to farmers who are in the habit of applying largo quantities of ma nure ana icrtiiizer to their lands and raising only moderate crops, that where irrigation is practiced and immense crops grown every season without inter mission, either increased manuring is necessary or in its alisence the land, from the increased drain put npon it, will gradually lose fertility. This is not shown to lie the case, however. Where the irrigating water is drawn from sur face supplies, it itwolf furnishes an ever lasting supply of fertility. The lands irrigated by the Nile floods are of sur passiug richness and their tillers never heard of such a thing as crop rotation, plowing under clover, manuring or fer talizing. The ancient irrigated fields of the Philippines, which yield from four to six times as much as the dry-farmed sections, have never kuown artificial fertilizing, and iu the United States we have the evidence of the New Mexican farms which nave been nndnr cultivation for 250 years and are today as produutive as virgin land. Irrigation water is both food and drink. ENGLISH SILVER LUNATICS The Director of tin- Bi'.nk of Kngltmil ! cliireH that Himt'ltnIIlMii Ik the inly Solution of the Ciir ' . ' rem-y tjueftt Ion. It has long been known that every po litical economist in the universities of England . was a bimetullist. The gold grabbers of Lombard street, like the mullet heads of this country, have re fused to listen to them. Now the Bank of England is getting into harder lines than ever. With the South African wur on hunds and the output of gold greatly reduced, there seems to be nothing ahead but another suspension, of specie payments. The Director of theUanli of England recently gave out the following statement which was' cabled to this country by a correspondent of the New York Journal. The associated press has said nothing about this and the editors of the gold standard dailies go on talk ing about silver lunatics and advising the democrats arid populists to drop free silver if they want to win. 1 lenry River side Crenfell, director of the Bank of England, said to tho Journal corres pondent: " There is no immediate cause for alarm, but sooner or later the question is bound to becomo acute. The Indian government has power to lock up in England sullicient gold to meet its lia bilites on this side. The liabilities are by no means small. Already about 700, 000 of the reserve of the Bank of Eng land has been earmarked and that is a mere flea bite to the amount that will be required for all practical purposes. This locking up of gold is equivalent in its effect to a shipment of gold to America or other foreign jiorts. The Bank of England's reserve is reduced to the extent of the locking up of the amount earmarked that is to say, it can't bo used for any other purpose than security of the currency. Obviously this will have a tendency to harden the money mnrket in general and keep up discount rates. As the scheme proceeds tho serious ness of the situation becomes more evi dent, and if the government doesn't limit in some way the amount the Indian gov ernment can lock up the effect is Iwund to be a detriment In my opinion, the most injudicious course was adopted when the currency commission recommended this step. Bi metallism is, to my mind, the only per manent solution of the curroncy ques tion in India. Had the efforts of thf Wolcott commission Iwen allowed to bear fruit a better Way would have been found out of the difficulty. Bimetallism was directed to India more than to any oth er place, but it was rejected to India's detriment. There was never an act of porfidy equal to that of McMinlay, who ran on a platform that pledged him to promote bimetallism by an international agree ment, when he deliberately went to work to defeat that very thing. The WolcoU commission had everything arranged for the opening . of the India mints and France had agreed to tho plan, hen he tent that mesoago to congress recom mending the Indianapolis plan for the establishment of tho gold standard. That message was sent for the sole pur pose of defeating international bimettal ism the very thing that he and his party was pledged to promote. History will record that MeKinley was the weak est and most perfidious president that this country ever had not even except ing a man named Hayes. The outlook now is that free silver will lie more of an issue than ever in the next campaign. If the Boers con tinue to hold the gold mines of the Rand and the war goes 'on for any length t of time, England will, be in just as bard straights as the banks of New York were last week. There is no way out of the difficulties that are threatening all gold standard nations except an increase in the amount of legal tender money. This remains as the paramount question and will so remain until it is settled right. NOT ONE WORD Th KrltlKh dm In South. Afrrra shut off AlMoluteljr Everything, The New York Journal employed Olive Schreiner as its special war cor respondent in South Africa. She has been trying for weeks to send some thing but the British censor will not allow, she says, "one word" to go con cerning the war. The following was published in the Journal last week: Cape Town, Nov. 17. The wtK-culiitor and the millionaire have their war. Will they gain all they have hoped for by it? Our African Shylock holds today in his hands the pound of quivering hu man flesh, from which drops onto Afri can earth th blood of English soldiers and African citizens, butjthat which he nas noia to gain by its osHession will he win? While the noble beasts. Enclish and African, who have been set at the ron- flict are engaged in rending each other in tbeir life and death struggle, round them sit the unclean birds of prey ith hungry maws waiting till the battle be over to engorge. fcven now one hears the imnatient rustle of their wings, ready to wheel to ward uie quarry. w look up to the blue African sky in despair, wondering if there be not bolt left. - - Kondon, Nov. 18. A letter from Olive Schroiner was received at the Journal bureau today. After giving 'details of her arrangement to follow up the cam paign as correspondent for the Journal, which ure of too confidential a . naturs to be published, she proceeds: - "I came down here from the, Trans vaal hoping to be able freely to send you wires daily with the latest news ob tainable In the colony, but tho censor ship is so stern that not one word bear ing on military mutters is allowed to pass. "With the greatest difficulty I have got through the cablo sent you, though they contain only my feelings on the political situation. "The rule here is that no expression of feelings of the people of this country is on any account to get through to Eng land or tho world. , "Ultimately, of course, they cannot stifle our voices.'- At least in some way we s!aall find voice, and ample voice, though it may not be for some months, even our letters are not safe." Old" Soldiers, Monday of lost week Gov. Toynter turned into tho state treasury au U. S. treasury warrant for 85,419.';o, same be ing quarterly payment of United States aid for ti e soldiers' and sailors' homes in this state. , y This money goes directly into the gen eral fund an is used in payment and cancellation of iegistered general fund warrants, the same as general fund tax es or any other general fund receipts. The legislature each biennium makes appropriations for complete maintenance of the soldiers' and sailors' homes against the general fund, and no attempt is made to keep the U. S. aid separate. This U. S. aid is $100 per annum for each disa bled soldier maintained at the state homes, andjs computed on statements of tho daily attendance. During this year the following sums for "state aid'" have been received: February $10,45().i8: April, $1,270.93; August, f(i,(Xi5.00; No-. vember, 85,119.00; a total of $23,80(5.21: The legislature of 1899 appropriated all told $194,870 for the home at Grand, Island, and $37,474.24 for the home at Milford. For the Grand Island home $21,720 is for officers' salaries nnd employees' wages; $44,(150 for maintenance; $0,000 for certain repairs and improvements, and $12,500 to erect anew hospital build ing. For the Milford home 85,540 is for oflicers' salaries and employees' wages: $11,700 for maintenance; $5,000 for anew hospital building; $13,500 to pay for the land upon which the home, is located: and $1,734.24 to pay deficiency claims. Total appropriations for both homes, 8132,344.24. The U. S. aid will run - about $3C,000 during the biennum, leaving over $92,- 000 to be raised by tixation, , Sinco 1887 the different legislatures Jiave appropriated for tho establishment and maintenance of these two homes $00272.41, and to date the United States has reimbursed the state of Ne braska in the sum of $141,597.01. The Volunteer; The volunteers l-.vo foUfclit every suc-'-cfcisfu! $ar th? Uftlte1 States his ever' had, They have done the bravest and hardest fighting the world over. There ' is no need of a great standing army iit any country in the world. In the fight ing that is now going on, the admira tion of tho world is centered on the vol unteers of the Dutch republic. No reg ulars who ever carried a gun have equaled them. American .volunteer would rush to a defense of the country in the same way in any righteous cause. Read an English account of how the Dutch volunteers rushed to arms. The British public has for the last few weeks been watching or reading about the departure of troops for south Africa. and this morning we chronicle a "record embaakation." Side brside with this stirring news it may be interesting to place a description of the way in which tne juoers set oil tor the front The description is contained in a letter, dated from Johannesburg, Oct. 1, which Mr. Stead prints in the War Acainst War. The writer is telling of the departure of the burghers by train for Volksrust: "It was a very interesting sight at the station, and I have admired the African wives and girls for their admirable atti tude. No weeping or crying nothing of that 'Do your duty,, then a kiss, a shake of the hand, and the train went off with husbands, brother, fathers, possibly not to return again. Touching scenes took place, There was old Fer reira, with his five sons, for instance, he himself a Boer of the old 'trekkers' type, and his sons, all six feet odd. An old Boer finds his Hen of 15 years or therealmuts has stolen away and has asked for a riffe from the vcldkornet' to join the troops. The old man in the end approves his son's desire. 'Behave as a man is his word of leave. Old and young, rich and poor, without demur- ring, without discouragement; all have flocked together at the first summons. ' leaving all behind, because the country is in want of them. No glittering of epaulets or buttons, no music, no bom bast or boasting; only calmness and ser iousness in thise resolute, tawny heads." In one district where 400 were called up t70 men presented themselves: in an other district 800 appeared instead of 150. "All from the biribest to the low est rank are ready and full of enthusiasm and reliance in the Lord." The cynic may smile. But we do not envy the man who can read of such leave-taking without a thrill. And this is the "rusti- corura mascula proles" that we have to tight in order, at the bidding of -he ICho- desian crew, "to break the dominion of A frikanderdom," London leader. . Read our premium offers on the ibiri page of ib'm issue. It might fj yM,