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o r July 18, 1901 THE NEBRASKA. INDEPENDENT. .FARM WAGONS. THE ariui J Have foa n It? It Is daisy ; Las more than 30 points J of advantage over any wagon . . bstlt and costs about the,.. ears." If yon want a woa. cons fid the tew "Maadt" j with t dast-proof axles, bent J . rtrcf."tl bounds, two n.ore j t pokes- in each wLl than any J hr and numerous feature . UiOs the. It stlls iTj&elf aid Las fco equaL For aai exclusively by J FRED B. HUMPHREY 138 South 12th St. LINCOLN. NEBRASKA delusive 0Jr la all kinds of vehicles. PROTECTIVE TARIFFS A Mr. :..4 Itr.tn..t -I Crr se ll.. W vr CVac! by ta. lag.. liy r Ha.. TTtaa lb. rr.W. U . Tacar For forty yars. through tie enact ment of protective tariSs. we have tn ccrrt-pting vur public Den. Christ wstfc. a profound knowledge of bursas feature, taught Ms disciples to pray that tLy should cot be led Into temptation- Though profeftslag his teachings, we hate given our legisla tors tte power of tranEft-ning millions cf do'-ar from the hands of the people to tt pockets of the few hundred N a poliosis of finance." by a single con gressional enactment. A more stu pendous Instrument of corruption was never conceived by the perverse In genuity of man than this power con ferred upon congress. Place three or four hundred republicans or democrats of approved honesty In congress, con tinue them there for a few years, and a considerable proportion of their center will sareiy yield to the temp tation to cake money out of tariff legislation. So successful have com binations cf wealth and avarice been in controlling national legislation that today few men think f attaining wealth In great business adventures wiiloct national or state aid In the fern of special legislation. Young in fact all classes of men. pin ing lets confidence than in the olden times ia industry and ecenomy, turn their eyes to legislation as the sure eoerte of wealth, and therefrom spring tie feverish, speculative, un scrupulous spirit of the day which is sappiiig and dtroying our fine young American xnanhool. We night feel more hopeful that there was a favorable outlook for bet ter conditions were It not for the fact that the receiver of the Immense pro fits of the treets do not hesitate to de rote millions cf dollars for the cam paign disbursements of political par ti, and for the purpose of misin forming ye, even corrupting the citizen through their paid oScial news paper organs. Let us observe for a mo ment some cf the results of the un holy practice. The last century In its early and middle course witnessed a rlonous ycrjcir enthusiasm for the freezes and independence of the in divlisAl man. justly ascribing to his independence and liberty the sure foundatica of free government. In ttose days tte ladrs of poliUcal par ties tad convictions about the origin and province of government over which tier fotzght each other vigor ously. All tM Is changed now. Pa ternalUm, with its weaklings and moral slave, is upon us. Just la pro pcrtioa ijt cranied wealth has seised upa govemmect for its own purposes, so has individual character and inde pendence fallen away from its former noble estate. Convictions upon public questions, at lean among the politic ians, no longer exist. Go into your re publican or democratic clubs and list en to the talk of the leaders, and you will find that they have no higher thought thaa to qaarrel over "which net of maggots shall eat the cheese." Now turn to the voters themselves, and yoa will find that they are inoc ulated with those pernicious doctrines that good times and bad times are the immediate and sole result of party ac tion; that a trust magnate atones for his Unjust enrichment by a Liberal dis bursement of his plunder; and that those who profess to believe that pub lic office is a public trust are neces sarily hypocrites, doctrinaires, or focls. - Public extravagance is one of the most effectual means of destroying public virtue; and public extravagance In national matters has resulted, in a large measure, from the fact that the surplus income must be disposed of by one means or another in order to re move Its existence c an objection to bich tariffs. Would our representa tives in congress dare to multiply offices, approve hundreds of tin meritor ious private :lalms, enact wasteful river and harbor bills, and squander the public domain If the national ex penses had to be defrayed by an overt, irritating tax, taking the money direct- ir from the citizen's pocket? Every monument of English liberty is conse crated by the blood of men' who fought against the Imposition of an open, un just tax; while tyranny has ever thriv en rider the secrecy and mystery of income for government expenses raised by excises rnd duties. The fact that a great proportion of the irus 1 re a direct oLtip-OTvth of protective tariffs is too "well known cmong intelligent men to require ar gument; but I do wish to urge, with all the earnestness of my being, the danger to the liberty and the indepen dence of the individual man from "these domestic spoilers that make us slaves and tell us 'tis our charter." Industrial slavery Is only a stfp re moved from political slavery. There Is not a man in any humble home in all thi? land but who ought to feel ag grieved by the extortions of the trusts. "They sip in his cup, they ait at his fire, they. follow him In every step of his life and rob him. Dick Turpin was a modest highwayman. He re lieved the traveller upon Hounslow Heath of his pocket-book and his watch; but our modern highwaymen put Dick Turpin to the blush, for they Heal the very highway itself, put upon it their st?am and electric railways, and. not satisfied with this, they still follow the wayfarer to his home, and there, year in and year out, extort from him tribute upon every piece of coal or iron or steel or wire or tin plate that he uses. Clamoring for aid at home as infant Industries, and appeal ing to the people's patriotism for sup port, they sll their goods in every for eign mart of trade at lower prices than to our own domestic consumers. Ev ery true American ought to resent this. 'The store-keeper who obeys the command of the trust, the glas s jobber who dares not buy plate-glass abroad because of an Intimation that his busi ness will be ruined, each may trace his lineago back to a revolutionary sire, but It Is not of such cowards that liberty Is born and perpetuated. Louis Napoleon did not strangle the liberties of France in a night time. Ere he came, the French people had relin quished their rights of citizenship. Those who live under a representative form of government must rise moral ly or they will sink politically. We cannot measure Justice by expediency, we cannot sell our souls to material ism, we cannot fold our arms to sleep and surrender to the greed of un scrupulous wealth and still preserve free government In its integrity. We may give credent ear to the flattery of demagogues, we may console ourselves with the hope that things are not as bad as they really seem, we may de ceive ourselves with the forms of free government long after the spirit of lib erty has fled, but If we are to pre serve free government and to act worthily of those who laid Its founda tions in prayers and in blood, we must emulate them in their hatred of la Justice and extortion. FRANKLIN PIERCE. New York. SLAUGHTER IN CHINA. Chinese Convert Tells of Fright . ful Scene at Tai-Yuan-Fu. FOUTY-riVE lOEEIQH MABTYB3. It is stated that the British novern ment has imprisoned the authoress, Olive Schriner. Many people have wondered that she was so long silent as cot a word has been heard from her for many months. It now turns out that she is In close confinement and not allowed to writ, or receive let ter?. The British censors have for bidden any mention being made of the fact. HEADACHE v .....i.-iJttUJ AS l g Mores. 2S Owes 25c mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmHmmi a 1. vt. T -y-x. m v m s-m w- -m r V m. T-m AINlNUUiNCfciMtirS 1 . 0 f We hare just placed an order with the C. F. BLmke Tea &. Coffee Co. of St Louis for the largest f-hiptnent cf High Grade Coffee ever sent to a retail o o o o rne? chant in the United States, and will, commencing Monday, July 22 and continuing balance of the week, O have the finest exhibit and demonstration of coffee ever made in the world. 'All are cordially invited to vi-it our new and enlarged ? tore during the demon-' ftratioa. Each visitor will receive a useful souvenir, O and purchasers of the famous Faut Blend and other O High (Ira le Coffee, will be given handsome and val- uable presents. A cup of Faust Blend, the finest cof- $ fee on earth, j-erved free to each caller during exhibit and demonstration. O ' A . THtrty-thr.e Protestant sad Twth Roman Catholic. Beheaded Bodle. Denaded and Head Hsag In Caa. HLclonarle - Remained Calm sad Preached Till Executioner Strnclc A recent mail from China brings a thrilling account of the murder of the missionaries at Tal-Yuan-Fu on the 9th of last July, which was taken down In writing by Dr. J. A. Creasy Smith from the narrative of Yung Cheng, a mem ber of the Baptist church, who was an unwilling witness of their martyrdom, writes the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record-Herald. Yung Cheng is vouched for as a Christian of excellent characterand absolutely trust worthy. He says that he was taking treatment in the hospital on the Bap tist society's premises at Tal-Yuan-Fu when, on the 8th of July, he saw Rev. Mr. Pigott, his wife and child, John Robinson, Miss Duval and two young women named Atwater brought into the town. The two gentlemen were handcuffed and escorted by a company of soldiers and followed by immense throngs of natives. Wherever they stopped to rest Mr. Pigott and Mr. Robinson preached to the people, who gathered around them and were very 1 much astonished, saying, "You are go ing to be killed for preaching, and yet you conUnue to do so." That night the party were placed in prison with a number of other missionaries and their wives and children, including several Catholic priests. The t next morning they were all executed. "The first to be led forth," Yung Cheng says, "was Mr. Farthing, a BapUst minister. His wife clung to him, but he put her aside gently, knelt down without saying a word, and his head was struck off by on blow of the executioner's knife. He was quickly followed by Pastors Hoddle and Beynon, Drs. Lovitt and Wilson, all of whom were beheaded with one blow by the executioner. Then the gov ernor, Yu Hsien, grew Impatient and ; told his bodyguard, all of whom car ried big beheading knives with long handles, to help kill the others. Pastors Stokes, Simpson and Whitehouse were next killed, the last by one blow only, the other two by several. "When the men were finished, the ladles were taken. Mrs. Farthing had hold of the hands of her children, who clung to her, but the soldiers parted them and with one blow beheaded their mother. The executioner behead ed all the children and did it skill fully, needing only one blow; but the soldiers were clumsy, and some of the ! ladies suffered several cuts before death. "Mrs. Lovitt was wearing her spec tacles and held the hand of her little boy, even when she was killed. She spoke to the people, saying as near as I remember: 'We all came to China to bring you the good news of salvation by Jesus Christ; we have done you no harm, only good. Why do you treat us so? A soldier took off her spectacles before beheading her, which needed two blows. "Wheu the Protestants were all kill ed, the Roman Catholics were led for ward. The bishop, an old man, with long white beard, asked the governor, Yu Hsien, why he was doing this wicked deed. I did not hear the gov ernor give him any answer, but he drew his sword and cut the bishop across the face one heavy stroke; blood poured down his white beard, and he was beheaded. The priests and nuns quickly followed him in death. "Then. Pastor Pigott and his party were led from the district jail, which is close by. He was still handcuffed, and so was Mr. Robinson. -He preached to the people till the very last, when he was beheaded with one blow. Mr. Rob inson suffered death very calmly. Mrs. Pigott held the hand of her son, even when she was beheaded, and he was killed immediately after her. The lady and two girls were killed also quickly. 'On that day 45 foreign people in all were beheaded, 33 Protestants and 12 Roman Catholics. The bodies of all were left where they fell Ull next morning, as it was evening before the work was finished. During the night they were stripped of the clothing and other things, such as rings and watch es. Next day they were removed to a place Inside the great south gate except some of the beads which were placed In cages on the gates of the wall." PINQREE'S LAST TASK. Fsrpoiss mt Bts Tlstt to Esnbs and oath Africa. In an Interview In New York the other afternoon with a correspondent of the Detroit Journal Colonel Ell R. Button of Detroit, who was the travel ing companion of ex-Governor Plngree during his trip through South Africa and Europe, said: " "Haxen 8. Plngree went to South Af rica largely for the purpose of putting into practical effect three gigantic schemes for the benefit of the people of Michigan: - 5 - "First. The reclamation of the Im mense pine forests In Michigan by planting 'trees. He went to the Bava rian Black forest to expand this Idea and overworked so much that lie has tened his death. " "Second. The rotation of crops In Michigan. In pursuit of this scheme he went to Egypt, where such a system is enforced by the government. - "Third. The transportation cf every patriot Boer and his family who desir ed to come to the United States. He quizzed British officials on this subject, gained their approval of It and had an appointment to consult with Kroger about It which was only prevented by the governor's Illness. "It was his Idea to Interest some Michigan capitalists In the plan and provide lands for the Boers among the railroad systems. He thought that these capitalists could secure very low transportation rates from the seaboard to the farms, and he proposed to let the British government In " some round about way provide the ships for the Boers' transportation from Africa to this country. A number of English of ficers now In South Africa and some eminent public men in England took this plan seriously and thought well of it, provided it could be carried out without the British government's aid in the matter becoming known. "While studying the Black forest In the interest of his reforestation Idea Governor Plngree even secured the names of a number of keepers who were willing to emigrate to Michigan and assume care of the forests he pro posed to plant." the o o o o ,o T ticker Bros.Co Cor. roth and P Sts. Telephone 481. Lincoln, Nebr. o o o o o o o o Onr Xeed of Macaroni Factories. After a successful endeavor to intro duce macaroni wheat into the United States, the department of agriculture is confronted with the discouraging sequel that there is no factory at which to .market the product, writes the Washington correspondent of the New York Post. Macaroni, it should be ex plained, requires a certain species of hard wheat for Its manufacture. Ef forts have been made to use the ordi nary American wheat for this purpose, but they have not been entirely suc cessful, and at present nearly all the macaroni used is Imported. The de partment sent abroad and secured from Algiers and Russia the particular kind of wheat used In the Italian and French macaroni mills and has suc ceeded In making it grow in several parts of the west. Now the authorities say that there Is an opening for some bright young macaroni maker and an accommodating capitalist. WILL RUE WAKfNG OF CHINA Jean de Bloch'a Prediction of tho Neve Empire. "China will be a mighty world power within a generation. The powers have themselves' to thank for the prospect," said M. Jean de Bloch. one of Russia's councilors of state and a member of the cxars ministry of finance. In an Inter view the other night with the New York Herald's London correspondent. M. de Bloch has arrived in London to lecture on the lessons of the Boer war In their application to European condi tions. He continued: ; " "The allied Invasion 6f the Chinese empire accomplished but one tangible and abiding thing. It has federated a great and patriotic people as indissolu bly as did Bismarck the united states of the German empire. It has awaken ed In them a sentiment of aggressive nationalism that bodes 111 for the civili zations which so long have held them In contempt. "Perhaps the new China will, never menace the political peace of the world. It will certainly revolutionize Interna tional commercial conditions. I expect to see the day when Chinese traders will drive out of the oriental markets all the nations now. assuming exclusive rights there. With these retaken who can tell where .the ambitions of the awakened empire will stop?. China has simply been rudely aroused from cen turies of slumber. When her eyes are wide open to her own potentialities, the powers may rue the day they sounded the alarm." GREAT FIND OF RELICS. . Diver Reco-ver Can Carriages TJeed on Schooner Royal Savajre. J. G. Falcon of Burlington, Vt, a div er, recently visited the spot where the schooner Royal Savage, commanded by General Benedict Arnold, was sunk In 1776 by the British, 6ays the New York World. He found three gun carriages and about 30 cannon balls and shot. Two of the former will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution at Washing ton, and the other has been given to the city of Burlington. The relics were discovered In about SO feet of water. - The carriages are made of wood and iron, the former be ing now petrified. Further Investiga tions, It Is thought may lead to finding the private papers of Benedict Arnold which were lost on the boat. A Bis Canal Scheme In Austria. . A vast canal scheme is now under consideration by . the Austrian parlia ment, according to a report received at the state department t in Washington from Consul Mahin at Reichenberg. The plan contemplates a canal from a projected Odor-Danube waterway east ward to the Dneister river, which flows Into the Black sea, another westward to. the Elbe and still another to join the Danube and Moldau rivers. This would mean a network of canals cover ing the principal provinces of Austria, affording cheap all water routes to the Adriatic, Black and Baltic seas and linking the navigable streams of the empire. The scheme was at first re ceived with considerable enthusiasm, the government announcing that $150, 000,000 would be appropriated -for it, each interested province bearing a share of the burden. But the agrarian element has begun a strong opposition to It, as serting that by cheapening freight rates the canals would flood Austria with foreign food products. - The project is strongly supported, however, by manu facturing and commercial ' interests generally, and Consul Mahln says, though its fate Is uncertain, there are strong hopes of Its passage. DOCTORING FREE Tho British Doctors arc Doing; This to In troduce Themselves. Three Months' Ser vices are Given Vroo to all Who Coll at Their Office In tho Sheldon Block Corner 11th and K Streets A staff of eminent physicians and surgeons from the British Medical In stitute have, at the urgent solicitations of a large number of patients under their care in thU country, established a permanent branch of the Institute in this city, at the cor. of 11th and N sts., Sheldon block. These eminent gentlemen have de cided to give their services entirely free for three months (medicines ex cepted) to all invalids who call upon them for treatment between now and August 7. These services consist not only of consultation, examination and advice, but also of all minor surgical operations. The object in pursuing this course is to become rapidly and personally ac quainted with the sick and afflicted, and under no conditions will any charge whatever be made for any ser vices rendered for three months to all who call before August 7. The doctor treats all forms of disease and deformities and guarantee a cure in every case they undertake. At the interview a thorough examination is made, and. if incurable, you are frank ly and kindly told so; also advised against spending your money for use less treatment. M'ale and female weakness, catarrh and catarrhal deafness, also rupture, goiter, cancer, all skin diseases and all diseases of the rectum, are positively cured by their new treatment. The Chief Associate Surgeon of the Institute is in personal charge. Office hours, from 9 a.m. till 8 p. m. No Sunday hours. Special Notice If you cannot call, send stamp for home treatment. KIDNEY DISEASE CURED Editor Independent This i to certify that after taking seTeral months' treatment ritn the British Medical Institute for disease of kidneys and bladder, I am now entirely cored. I am pleasad to recommend the doctors of the Brit ish Medical Institute to be pleasant and cour teous gentlemen. I. C Dauberty, Gretna, Neb. THE GREAT STRIKE BOER ACCUSES BRITISH General Smuts Says Their Mode of Warfare Is Barbarous. SPECIFIES BTBEma UfSTASOES, The Steel Trnst and Orgeat z.d Labor Be-g-ln a Battle, the End or Which no Man Can Tell The greatest strike of modern times has just been inaugurated. The steel trust has thrown down the gauntlet to organized labor and it has been promptly taken. Already over sixty thousand men have struck and many of the mills of the trust have been closed. The issue involved is one of principle, and such an issue cannot well be compromised. The Amalga mated association, as these steel work ers are termed, insist that all the trust mills shall be unionized. The trust managers decline on the alleged ground that it would be unjust to a certain class of their employes to compel them to join the unions. The real reason is that by throwing orders to the non union mills the union workmen can be starved out. The question of wages is not involved. Union and non-union men receive the same. The contest, therefore, is over a question that does not admit of compromise. One side or the other must back down. Which will it be? While the mills are idle, labor will not be earning wages and the trusts will not be earning divi dends. Serious loss to both parties to this controversy is inevitable. The trust cares nothing for its non-union workmen, save as it can use them as a club with which to beat the life out of organized labor, and thus remove the only barrier which stands between workingmen and starvation wages. It the process becomes too costly from the enforced idleness of the mills the trust will finally concede the point, and from mercenary considerations only. The real safety of the non-union workmen, therefore, lies in throwing themselves on the side of the Amalga mated association and joining the un ions, thus compelling the trust to do justice to labor. Did General Funston read Harper's Weekly for December 23, 1899, which contained an imaginative sketch by Duffield Osborne forecasting "The Cap ture of Aguinaldo"? The question is raised by the resemblance which this sketch . throughout bears to the real facts as they occurred the other day. Indeed, the ruse outlined In the story is identical in almost every detail with that by which General Funston succeeded in capturing the rebel. An epitome of the story Is reprinted in the current number of Harper's Week ly, and when we remember that it was originally published fifteen months ago, it will be seen to present a ques tion of curious psychological- coinci dence. If the general did read Mr. Os borne's story, then it may be asked: "Did General Funston plagiarize Mr. Osborne?" Harper's Bulletin. KIDNEYmiBLADDER CURE Mailed to all Sufferers from Disorders of the Kidneys and Bladder, Bright's Disease, Rheuma tism, Gravel, Pain in the Back, Dropsy, etc Disorders of the Sidneys and Bladder cause Bris-ht's Disease, Rheumatism, Gravel, Pain in the Back, Bladder Disorders, difficult or too frequent passing water, Dropy, etc For these diseases a Positive Specific Cure is found in a new botanical discovery, the wonderful Kara Kara Shrub, called by botanists, the piper methysticum, from the Ganges RiTtr, East India. It has the ereat record of 1.2UU hospital cuses in 30 days. It acts directly on the kid neys and cures by dra ning from the blood the poisonous Uric Acid, Lithatss, etc., which cause disease. Professor Edward S. Fogg, the Evangelist tes tifies in the Christian Advocate that the Kava Kava Shrub cured him in one month of severe kidney and Bladder disease of many years' standing. Hon. It. C Wood, of Lowell, Ind writes that in four weeks he was cured of Rheu matism, Kidney and Bladder disease, after ten years suffering. - His bladder trouble was so great he had to get up five to twelve times dur ing the night. Rev. Thomas M.Owen of West Fa w let, Vt., and others give similar testimony. Many Ladies, including Mrs. Lydia Valentine, ast Worcester, N. .; Mrs. Maria Wall, Ferry, Mich., also testify to its wonderful curative powers in Kidney and other disorders peculiar to womanhood. That you may judge of the value of this Qreat Discovery for yourself, we will send you oae Large case by mail free, only asking that when cured yourself you will recommend it to others. It is a sure specific and cannot fail. Address The Church Kidney Cure Company; 607 Fourth Avenue, New York City. It e worts te Foraer rresldent Stern , That Prtwato Property la Betas 1 Wavatonlr Destroyed and That Wo men and Children Are Bhatnefally ; 111 Treated Crneltr of Kaffirs. The Rev. Herman 'D. van Broeck hulsen, Boer pastor of Pretoria, who Is now In Jersey City, has received a copy of the report of Assistant Commandant General Smuts to former President Steyn regarding the sufferings of the women and children in the western dis tricts of the South African Republic. The report Is an arraignment of the methods of the British and their de struction of private property, says the New York Sun. General Smuts was state attorney of the South African Re public and declares that he Is well In formed on the subject of International law, which he accuses the British of violating repeatedly. The report bears date of Dordrecht, June 25. General Smuts begins by saying that the particulars given are from evidence on oath or from his own observa tion, that they do not constitute a complete account of all the shameful and unlawful deeds committed by the enemy, but are only a few typical cases" selected from a great amount of similar material. In July, 1900, at Bronkhorstspruit station. General Smuts saw two women and some children who had been driv en from their home by the British. They were Mrs. Neethllng of Tierpoort, mother of the magistrate of Klerks dorp, and her daughter, Mrs. Du Toit, and her children. Mrs. Keethling was more than TO years old. The weather was so cold that General Smuts suf fered greatly from it, and he was In formed that several British soldiers had died there. ,The two women were entirely without protection of any sort and had only the clothing they were wearing. They were without food. Mrs. Keethling said that her home had been near the field of the battle of Don kerhoek and that one evening soon after that fight a British officer came to her house with a strong patrol and gave her notice to leave that same night, as the place was to be burned the next day. She replied that it was impossible for her. to move, as all the cattle and carts had been seized by the British and she was too old to walk to the Boer lines. The officer Insisted with such Impudence that the daughter of Mrs. Du Toit, who was the Interpre ter, told him he ought to be ashamed of persecuting defenseless and helpless women. Thereupon he shipped her In the face. ' Finally a messenger was sent to the Boer lines for a cart, but when It came the British officer, who was an Aus tralian colonist, refused to allow any food, clothing or bedding to be taken, and the women were forced to set out In the bitter weather in that destitute condition. General Smuts says this Is a typical example of what happened In hundreds of cases. "And this hap pened, he says, "when Lord Roberts was still negotiating for a general sur render and was full of expectation of reaching his aim. But when that hope was gone, when circumstances made it certain that he would keep up the fight, then all bounds of civilization were broken down. "When we wanted to fight the ene my," continues the report, "his troops took refuge behind the dwellings in which our women and children were, so that It was Impossible for us to fire at them. When we wanted to shell their camps, they were full of our wo men and children, kept there as pris oners. Old men with one foot in the grave were taken prisoners and driven along before the troops. Old Gert Oosthuizen, 73 years' old, was sent with a flag of truce by General Clem ents to General Delarey to request us to confer with him on the state of the country. When we declined to hold such a conference, he flew Into such a passion that he ordered the old man to be seized and removed as a prisoner of war. Even children of 12 years have been taken prisoners because they look ed too much like warriors. "In the pocket of an English officer who fell at Boschfonteln we found a letter In which he explained In a hu morous way how In one house the wo men and children were told that they tnlght remove whatever they liked, as the house was to be ( burned down. They were allowed one hour for the work. When they had carried every thing outside and piled it up, this lot was also set on fire. And this officer tells these things as if It were fun. If this is the way In which officers think and act, what Is to be expected from a common soldier, what from a Cape boy and the Kiffirs with whom the English army Is Infested? Very often women and children are beaten by them, as In the case of the old widow. Mrs. Goet ee of Eland's River, Rustenburg, whom after the English forces had left I found In a deplorable state because of the ill treatment 6he had undergone. "The afternoon I left Mrs. Goetzeel went on a scouting tour along the Doom river, where General Douglass had been the day before. It was night, but the moon was out when I arrived there. At the first farm everything bad been destroyed and burned down. The second farm had not been burned, but plundered, and not a living soul was left there. That night I passed by 12 or 14" farms; all of -which had been burned or looted, and not a living thing was 2eft Late that night I lay down to sleep In the yard of the beau tiful property Doornkom, which had been plundered and destroyed. The owner, Mr. MoHtert, Is a prisoner of war In St. Helena. His wife has died, and his little children were left with some relatives.- In the morning I found, to my surprise, that all the families of the district had come back from the neighboring hills, like badgers from the ground. The women , had fled with their children to the hills, thinking they were safer with the wjld beasts .than under the protection of the colors and armies of her majesty. Some of the women here had been cruelly ill treat ed, even dishonored, by Cape boys. . "When the enemy came to Groenfon tein, on tho Coste river, brave old Luikes van der Werwe, contrary to the orders of General Delarey, fired at the hostile scouts from behind a wall on his estate. His wife left the house to beg him not to do so. She was fired on and wounded mortally In the head. Her husband carried her Into the house and was taken prisoner there and trans ported to the English camp. The dy ing woman and her three or four little children were carried out of the house and Its surroundings burned down. She was taken to the house of Mr. Al bert Bibier, where several other chil dren were. She had hardly arrived there when the house was plundered. Not a rug or pillow was left for the dy ing woman, and all the food was de stroyed by fire. Mrs. Bibier protested against this violence and asked how she was to feed her children and the little orphans. To this the English re plied, 'Let the Boers look, after you.' She was allowed to save only a double handful of mealies from the flames. "The estate Cijferfonteln, belonging to Faul Grober, was not only looted and burned down, but his mother-in-law, a widow more than 70 years old, was ill treated In a horrible manner. The soldiers threw her down on the ground and partly undressed her and then by violence took from her all the money and objects of value which for safety's sake she had concealed about her person. Then - they left her for dead. I mention this case only aB an example of what happened and Is still happening almost daily. "It Is not necessary that I should enumerate the parts and districts that have been ravaged. The whole coun try, the whole republic, has been de stroyed to the root. The same specta cle of annihilation and misery is seen everywhere. I shall therefore speak of another subject namely, how the ene my avails himself of the help of the Kaffirs to make our women and chil dren suffer greater pains. The mas sacres at Derdepoort and at other places on the western border have been surpassed by what has happened since May last The Kaffir chiefs, having joined the enemy, crossed the western border and committed murders and cruelties from which even the English soldiers shrank. The consequences were that the greater part of the western and northern districts had to be aban doned by us because the women and children were constantly exposed to murder. "Camps for the women were then made In the central parts of the west ern districts, and the women were pro vided with carts, tents and food and placed under the protection of old men who were less fit for military service. It was expected that the enemy would leave these camps for women alone, but be repeatedly marched upon them, burned the carts, tents and the food, seized the aged guards who bad not been able to flee and caused misery which cannot be described. And where he did not appear himself, the enemy sent the Kaffirs, or, rather, the hordes of Kaffirs always formed a wing of the British forces, and they completed the work of destruction which had been undertaken by the English troops. "Many a time it was my. task to visit these women camps, and I cannot help saying that I had never expected to be a witness of such scenes of misery, the women and children suffering, almost every one of them, from malaria, fever and other diseases In consequence of privations and bad food, without any physicians, without medicines, without any consolation in this world, almost without clothes and. after hostile raids, ?Vi.4-hit -- trsr a nil A r A rtt nil vv V a.j v lA V CA u j vrvrvA sa ass n v u v i these women .belonged to the poorer and lower classes. Some of them were members of the richest families of our country. But privation could not curb the spirit of these noble martyrs, and by one consent they advised me and the burghers to persevc, to the bitter end." ' " COLLEGE EDUCATHN. Merely a Fad, Says Professor Starr Lacking In Proper Earnestness. , Professor Frederick Starr of the Uni versity of Chicago believes the Ameri can people are suffering from a surfeit of higher education, says the New York World. - The desire for a college educa tion, he declares, has become a fad and Is not In the majority of cases Inspired by a genuine thirst for knowledge. "Ten times too' many persons go to college - nowadays." says professor Starr. "No one should go except from a bona fide desire to learn. Most peo ple go for. some social prestige which a college education confers or because of the pecuniary value which the posses sion of a college degree carries with it In business life. As a result the stu dents at our colleges get only a smat tering of scientific hodgepodge, falsely called science, and go into the world with wrong notions because they mere ly dabble In philosophy. Furthermore, the average college student commits an cstrichlike fallacy in swallowing every thing that is given him without ques tion. The result is detrimental in Its effects. on our social and Industrial ac tivities and as" sapping the mental strength of the country." Men don't get on the limb of a tree and cut the limb off every day, but they do things equally foolish.
