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INCIDENTS IN THE WAR.

der the mounds of fresh earth scattered on-the

guns.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1900.

guy hair cut short. Till he died he drove a. conveyance belonging to the inn; he could not be induced to drive the big to the station. To that, "No, sir !" he said, "an old post boy can't go to that There be stations and callin's, and the station and callin' of a post-bey is one thing, and the station and callin' of a busman is another. You can't pass from the one to the other." He fell ill very suddenly, and died almost before any one in the town, where he was well known, suspected that he was it danger. But he had no doubt in his own mind that his sickness would end fatally, and he asked to see the landlady of the

"And will you teach me my argyment ?" said Mr. Higgs, haughtily. "Am I so reduced in intellec as to conie to you for to ask the difference between right and wrong?"

"And if you did," said the lorryman, quietly, "I would answer as it ain't right so to act as to make another man feel uncomfortable. If you want your childer to be brought up on charity, say it, and I will still respec your intellee though despising your character. But don't argy that if I don't agree with you ain't a man, but a bullock; for I will not stand it, ole friend, and so you have been warned more than once,"

bean ousted from their lands by Boer raids, bridge, even if diamonds had never been found | keen and his syms bright; he had a ruddy | ought to carry it. Promiscous cussing don't Moreover, at the period of which I speak there | at Kimberley and "ale Water-boer" had still cheek, was always closely shaven, and his | have no effec' whatever." ** was a large mining community, whose head-remained "monarch" of all he surveyed round, | The thunder of the big guns round Lady.

Dia about Drittoitspan and Bultfontein. sinith was fitful. Most of the Boers in laager quarters lay round laut Barkly West.

The village of Barkly West, the dim shadow at De Waal's farm were finishing their hastymonds of larger size and whiter in colour than

of a departed glory, or rather of a glory which morning mcal. Far away to the west rose the the stones of the, Kimberley mines had been

faded before it came into full existence, is like splintered peaks of the berg towering above the found in the bed of the Vaal river, which, on

most South African country towns, one long long slopes now growing green after the leaving the open veldt of the southern Trans-

vaal and passing through a sort of gorge with straggling street intersected by a number of parched brown of winter.

In the midst of life they were in death; un. high bluffs on either side, stretches out from openings, which at some remote period dream Fourteen Streams to the junction of the Vaaled of developing into cross-roads, 2 dream kopjes round them lay red spoil of Ladysmith's and the Hart rivers. It was then generally be-

which was never realized. The houses are of lieved, and, indeed, is still believed in many the usual plain une-storied, whitewashed, box quarters, that somewhere in the neighbour shaped order of South African architecture, hood of Barkly West there exists a vast bed But, unlike most of their fellow-tenements in af diamonds, out of which the precious stones the veldr country they are built on an eminence. found beneath the bluffs had been washed out From the top of the northem bluff they com- mand a pleasant view of the hills opposite; by some prehistoric deluge. Companies were started, prospecting works were set on fact, they have for the most part garden plots miners locked in hundreds to the river banks running down to the banks of the Vaal, in search of the supposed diamond Eldorado, and affogether they possess, a character of For a time Barkly West, not Kimberley, seem their own. A certain moral savour, too, of ed likely to become the Johannesburg as well bygone, grandeur still hangs adout the Bat deposed capital. We have all met people in as the Pretoria of Griqualand West. somehow, as i have cause to know to my own our lives who in the poorest of positions derived |

consolation from the reflection that they had known better days. So it was with Barkly West. Its citizens knew that in the eyes of the outer world they were eclipsed by the wealth of Kimberley. But they consoled themselves

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"I believe they will try to stompetitink to-day," said a German gunner. so," replied the commandant. Suddenly a volley rang out behind the farmhouse,

What's that?" he asked hastity, and for answer there came fire burghers with still smoking rifles,

"We have just captured and shot a verdue de spy they shouted. "He's a Carabinier from Maritzburg, a tenegade to our colours, who lied to us that he was a burgher of Ermelo,"

Right," replied the Commandant; "you bave done quite right; those were my orders, I'll come and see if I can identify the scound rul; I know every sold in Ermelo."

They went through the orange orchard till they came to the cattle-kraal. There in the bright morning sun lay the dead spy, stiff in his stained corduroys, with blood oozing from

beneath his wideawake.

The Commandant tumed the body over, and looked into his face.

God Almighty!" he sobbed, like a child, "it's my son!--my sont and-by my orders." The following story is told of an Irishman who was fighting with the Bores at Elands. laagte:--"While waiting at a railway station with the guani of a train the Trishman saw a party of British horsemen advancing, He was observed to gaze intently at the party, and enquiring of the guard who they were, was infonned that they were the Imperial Light Horse. Why,' says the Irishman, that's my brother in that squadion. I'm off I'mhanged if I'm going to fight against my own relations, and, quickly taking the saddle off his own scraggy pony, he put it on a better horse stand. ing near, and rode off like the dickens right into the Imperial Light Horse ranks, whence be directed his attention to his erstwhile come rades in arms."

THE DRESSING OF A "STAR."

BOW A WELL KNOWN ACTRESS TIRES

HERSELF AND OTHER PEOPLE,

loss, the Eldorado of the Barkly Peninsula has never yet been located, and the dry mines of Kimberley soon--if I may use the metaphor put out of joint the nose of the quondam capital. Barkly West at the time when I knew it had long ceased to be the seat of government, and had become about the most dead-alive place in which it has ever been my fortune to sojcurn.

A STRANDED TOWN,

by the thought that they were often also some- thing different from-in fact, "a cut above" the money-grubbers of Diamondopolis. The population, small as it was, contained an unusual proportion of officials and professional men. There were a magistrate, a collector of taxes, a Government surveyor, a mining engineer, a chief constable, a solicitor, and a brace of doc-

tors.

The only shop, if I remember rightly, was a branch of Messrs. Hill and Paddon's stores, and their business was from a social mercial-wholesale, not retail What all these point of view, whatever it might be from a com

various functionaries were supposed to do was a mystery I could never fathom. judging from my observation, they spent mest of the day, when they were not sleeping, in gossiping with cach other in the street, in dropping in and out watching for the one event of the day, the sound of the bar of the solitary town tavern, and in of the horn that foretold the arrival of the Kimberley mail-cast,

Every now and then a team of Boer waggons going Johannesburgwards outspanned in Barkly West, and in the course of my stay there was a vague hope that the projected up-country milway which now runs to Bulawayo might, in order to avail itself of the suspension bridge, select Barkly West for the point of crossing the Vaal. But the hope proved unfounded; I suspect the inhabitants of this South African Sleepy Hollow were rather glad than otherwise that their quiet was not to be disturbed by the screeching of steam whistles. Barkly West had grown callous to adversity, and on the whole would have, resented any in its decaying fortrines. Twice it had

The fates were against it. The discovery of the Rand gold mines diverted the up-country traffic from the Barkly West route to another route which crosses the Vaal at Fourteen Streams and leads on to Johannesburg by Bloemhof and Klerksdorp, Poor little Barkly West was thus left stranded high and dry To get to it at all was a work of difficulty: The distance from Kimberley is some four and twenty miles, and the mails were married. to and fro daily by a tape cart, the moŝtag? satisfactory of public conveyances ever yet, in my thinking, devised by misdirected human ingenuity. In this mail-cart there were places for half a dozen passengers; but though must have made the journey a score of times, I never remember my ever having more then two or three companions. For about a mile out of Kimberley there was a fair metalled road, which at one time was to have been prolonged to Barkly West, but the iden had been abandoned, and till one reached the Vaal river the road was a mere track across the veldi. To my mind the veldt is the most uninteresting of Prairie plains, and the veldt round about Kimberley is the dreariest of the various veldt districts which I have seen in my South African travels. When the weather is fine-and it is mostly fine-you are smothered with dust as you jolt over the uneven broken ground. When the rain falls the plain is converted into a quagmire, where the wheels sink every few minutes into a verit- able slough of despond. There is

nothing to

and at intermittent intervals of indefinite dura Sec, far or near, except the endless rows of ant- months the Masonic Lodge held a gathering, hills, cach the exact counterpart of every other, and looking for all the world like gigantic bection Mr. Creil Rhodes used to address his hives. The only signs of animal life are the constituents. It is some consolation to ne My hostess waves me to the chair, saysmeerkatzen, quaint-looking animals about the

now to reflect that though we found blue ground may smoke a cigarette, and then murmurs that size and shape of a stoat, which, when they are

and Dutch bon, and every one of the usual her maid she does not own up to a "dresser" startled by the sound of wheels, sit upright on

concomitants Idiamonds in the pipe or crater -will be in attendance in a moment.

their hind legs and stare at the passers-by with

mine, hard by Barkly West, in which I Then she half closes her eyes and sniffs uncanny eyes. Every now and then you meet

interesteil, we did not find a single diamond, the flowers again.

Boer farmer's cart or a troop of Kaffis walk. Had it been otherwise I might at the present ing in single file, the men strolling along moment have been residing at Barkly West, leisurely with lumps of putrid meat, the great waiting for the mail, evening after evening, and Kaffir dainty, slung on a stick across their counting the days till Lodge night came round shoulders, and the women laden with heavy again. If such had been my plight, I think burdens of nondescript household wares, known at even the advent of the Boers, and the rais- by the name of Kaffir truck, stumblingh, over the old hall- ruined mud fort, built of the Transvaal flag, in lieu of the Union wearily behind.

during the days when a Kaffir mid might be expected at any hour, would not have proved an utterly unwelcome variation to the monotony of my daily life.-P. M. Gazelle.

A stuffy little room, hung with old gold, a huge mirror reaching from floor to ceiling, and pivoted so as to be movable in every direction, à softly-padded lounge, a deep easy chair, table covered with jars and pois, a species of clothes-horse supporting a crowd of Costumes, stockings, cloaks, and what not.

On the lounge fanning herself, and inhaling the perfume of a bunch of lities of the valley was the object of my call.

Presently the mail comes in and busies herself with a variety of bewildering garments, and a satumine "coiffeur" who is responsible for the actress's hair stations himself behind

her chair.

Mademoisetic rises languidly, dons a long white, loose gown, seats herself before the load cd

table, and

gets to work with haresfont and puff. The coiffeur does his duty and the maid who is not a dresser, mind that assists in garbing the liute slight lady with the languishing eyes and the pouting mouth.

It is interesting to watch how she rejects this pair of stockings in favour of that.

"But Mademoiselle has only worn these once, pleads the maid.

Mademoiselle alŵrugs her shoulders. "In these clays once wearing makes anything old," she says, finally seuling upon a pair. It is the same with the shoes. They are shameful, they do not fit, she must change her shoemaker. Everything being at last as it should be, she Bits herself down on the lounge, and takes her lilies again. Then the mid holds minors before her, and behind her, and on every side, and at every angle.

A HARD ROAD TO KIMBERLEY,

Along the road-the name, on the incus non lucendo principle, given to a track in South Africa-the solitude, as, indeed, in all other parts of the veldt, is absolutely depressing. In à distance of twenty-five miles leading to the sometine metropolis of Griqualand West from -the diamond mining city one passes, as farart can recall, only two dwellings-aroadsidetavern with the name of the Half Way Bar, and a sort of boarding-house on the banks of the Vaal, which. is mainly resorted to by bridal parties from Kimberley or, at any rate, by couples with respect to whom the remark holds good that if they are not married they ought to be. In any other country but South Africa there would be tramways and excursion trains run- ning from the dry, bare, bleak, sand-driven She is not pleased with the colour of her city of Kimberley to well nigh the only spot cheeks, her eyes are too dark the Créme Im- within easy reach of the town where green peratrice has been literally lumped on. She trees, and running water, and cool breezes goes to the table and deftly manipulates her are to be found even in the baking days of the make-up materials, groaning at the stupidity hot midsummer. But here it is not so. and ignorance of people. With a few skilful remember once asking why it was that in the touches she rectifies the mistakes, and pulsveldt, where herds are plentiful, you can never, "everything right.

except at one or two favoured places, such as Then her shoes worry her and she must the Kimberley Club, get anything but preserted change them, her petticoats drag and they milk and rancid tinned butter. An old resident must be raised, her bodice is too tight, her to whom my question was addressed answered sleeves too long-there would seen to be at "because it takes less trouble to open a tin than to milk a cow." In South Africa natives, week's work before her dressumaker, and one

than discomfort. So, as I have said, Barkly Boers, and even Britishers dislike trouble more

West, which ought, byrights, to be the Richmond of Kimberley, can only be reached by a weari- some cross-country journey of four to five hours in the poorest of conveyances over the roughest tracks.

wonders when, if ever, she will liave all things When her call" comes she is perfectly in order, and trips away with a smile and her flowers. You trip away, too, glad to be free of the closeness of the yellow-húng room and to breathe the outer air once more. And as you disappear, you observe the maid and the hair- dresser gaze at one another and sigh, as who should say "Thank goodness, that's over for another night, at least."-Sport & Gossip.

BARKLY WEST.

adjusted to her satisfaction.

[BY EDWARD DICEY.]*

LIVING ON ITS REPUTATION,

change a year

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THE LAST OF THE POST-BOYS,

_AN_EXRTACT_FROM-HODD-PEOPLE-I-HAVE- MET," BY THE REV. 5. BARING-GOULD, MA, IN THE "SUNDAY MAGAZINE." George Spurle had begun life as a little urchin perched on the back of the waggon horse that had brought in the wheat and har vest, and this had so raised his ambition, that nothing would content the child but becoming a post-hoy. The scarlet of the Queen's livery presented no attraction to him, nor the blue jacket of the navy. Nothing would do but the stable, with the anticipation of at some time wearing the yellow jacket and white beaver.

When not in the stable he was to be. found in the bar, where he told many a yarn.. Were you ever robbed on the road, George I've been stoppped, but on that occasion things didn't turn out as was intended." "How so?"

"I'll just telly, gentlemen. There was some bullion to be sent up to London from India, It had been landed at Falmouth, Now the authorities had some suspicion and so they didn't send it the way as was intended, nothing about it-to go to Chudleigh-1 I had orders quite independent-I knowed reckon there was a gentleman there as wanted me to drive him across the moors to Tavistock, and he knowed he could rely on me. He was to start early in the morning, so I drove in the direction in the evening before with a close conveyance, as I knew there might be rough weather and rain next day going over the moors.

Presently he put his head out, and said, There is nothing within; I must search be hind. Search where you will,' said I; you've plenty of time at your disposal.

jon.

"Beg pardon, ma'am," he said from his bed, touching his forlock, very sorry I ha'at shaved fer two days and you should see the thus. But please, ma'am, if it's no offence, be you wantin' that there yellow jacket any more? it seemed to me post-boys is gone out altogeth er.""No, George I certainly 'do not want ic."

"Nor these?-you'll understand me, ma'am, if I don't mention 'em."--"No, George. What can you require them for?" best, but is is a bit rubbed.""I certainly do "Nor that there old white beaver? 'I did my

not not need it.

"Thank y', ma'am. Then I make so bold might be buried in 'em as the last of the old post-boys?"

UNDERFED CHILDREN.

INTERVIEW WITH MR. Migas. "The mind of a child," siad Mr. Miggs, "puzzle me more nor anythink else. For why? And I will tell you. Because it ask things which prove that, without thinking, there ain't nothing which it ain't full of curiosity about. Questions it will ask which is absurd, being obvious, and not having brains for to understand your argy ment they ask it again, til! I often feel the brain within this head aš giddy as a top.")

if a kid ask me the same question twice, said the lorryman, "I wollop it for its impidence And there ain't anythink that will eddicate a kid more than a good wollopping. It's the only eddication which I ever have myself, and

don't want no better."

"Eddication," said Mr. Miggs, is a thing which ain't proper understood. Am I eddicated man? And my answer is No. For when are soming of poor but honest parients there was no chance for me to go to school, But I ain't a wurse man for that; 'nt a better man, speaking candidly, and as man to man, because I ain't obliged to nobody for my argyment, getting it nateral and fresh, and always more from where the same come from. But if I had been aneddicated man the difference would have been sich as the world would have taken off it's hat with pride and respect. I am an uneddicated man; why, then, should 1 deny eddication which I never had myself, and it ? But t see as my childer has the

for more reason nor one. And my first reason is that if I don't send 'em to school I'm a pay- ing rates as I don't get the vally of; and my second reason is as the child which is eddicat ed has such an advantage as his father never known.

"And I don't sco no reason," said the lorryman," why a kid should have the pull over his own father. Let 'em take their chance with the others, and worry through with the rest. But I can't see no rea- son for to teach 'em to read and write, which barring drink and bad temper. I can't sign puts more men in quod nor anything else,

me own name, and so there ain't much chance of me signing another man's."

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man."

To hear him talk," said. Mr. Miggs, con-

·temptuously, you would think as the fool appear to believe that there ain't no sich things as books, every word of which is written by hand."

**

Not the Prayer-book," said the lorryman, -shaking-n sagacious head.-

"Not holding with the Prayer-book," said Mr Miggs, "I will not condescend for to say, And I will not deny as there may be same books which have growed nateral, as the state. ment goes. But my argyment is that reading and writing go together, and in 'and a-helping of each other. And I wish I could do both, though able to sign my name and reading casual without stopping for half an hour at a time."

"You call yourself a hullack," said Mr. Miggs; and if so you prefer to be called I will not deny your privilege, but do not butt your head in my stummick, which is the only argy theat as far as I have any knowledge of"

Withdror the charge," said the lorryman, rising with a frown, "or take the conse-

quences."

"I will not withdror what I have never say," said Mr. Miggs. "Who say bullock first? And well you know the word never pass my lips But thinking as your pride was your the sake of argyment, and for the sake of argy. strength, I think you call yourself a bullock for

ment I pass it without remark, meaning a com- pliment, and no offence, speaking candidly, and as man to man."

"It is handsome spoke," said the simple lorryman, relapsing into his chair with a smile. "An' I ask pardon for having a misunderstood the argyment."

Them digressions," said Mr. Miggs with dignity, "only ruffle the surface of existence, say, as the thought of them little children which leaving the racks where they was. And so I is learning reading and writing on empty bellies bring tears to my eyes, being filled with sympathy for anythink that suffers. I have subscribed a shilling to the windows why have I done so, my friends? Because and orphans which is left by the war. And

my heart is full of sorter for them which is left. And am 1 to be called a man of the empty ballies of the little childer makes no character because I will not deny that

saints with pens in their fingers worrying their me sad for to think of 'em sitting like little minds over letters which they don'thunder.

stand

"Not so, all friend," said the lorryman, "Your argyment was mistook. And what I say is fill their little bellies, and don't bother about eddication, which is as you might say an extravagance which can be done without." said Mr. Miggs; and that is why I dispise Your mind never rise above your stummick,"

your argyment though respectin' your con- stitution."-P. M. Gazette.

EXTERMINATION OF THE

WILD HORSE,

Gradually, but surely, the great herd of range horses on the American continent; on the in- terior plains of Washington, Idaho, and Mon- tana are being driven to the wall. In the last two years at least sixty-five thousand head of horses have been removed from the ranges of Eastern Washington alone. Their disposition has been approximately as follows:-Shipped to Chicago and other Eastern markets, 20,000; sent to Alaska during Klondyke rush, 8,000; canned into horse meat at Linton, Oregon, for shipment to France, 9,000; driven to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah, broken for use by new settlers in Washing largely for pack and saddle horses, 10,000; ton, 10,000; died in the last two winters, 8,000; loss from State in two years, 65,oca This loss has been double, the natural in- crease, reducing the number of wild horses in California from about 125,000 to 80,000 D 90,000. At this rate of decrease they would last for some years, but the fact is that the horses are being confined to a smaller area cach-successive-year, thereby increasing-their- chances of destruction. At least 5,000 horses died of starvation last winter in the districts north and south of the Snake River. Fifty to Bo per cent of some banks vanished under the conditions of short grasa and deep snow, The- cattle and sheep, on the other hand, are rounded in the lower valleys during the winter, The range

horses are now confined almost entirely to the thinly-populated counties of Douglas, Lincoln, Adams, and "They talk about free eddication," said the Franklin, and paris of Yakima and Klickitat, forryman; "but it ain't free if they have you in Washington. These animals are worth 3 up before the beak for not making the kids go dols, to 20 dols., according to size "and quality to school. I been up myself five times; and 1 A large number of them are cayuses; others can't bring myself for to leather the kid for are strong, large-boned horses. In June, 5,000 doing as I would have done myself. Give head of Douglas county horses were sold for me a man as can hold his own with anything shipment East at 250 dots., 3 dols, and 6 dols. about his own size and no meanness, and I will per head. A home market for many thousand say as he is a man as I am proud to know. But head has been caused by the boom in the the man which can read a book upside down wheat industry, owing to the good crops and and write without stopping, if he ain't well-good prices of the last two years. Thousands plucked I care for him no more than if he was of wild horses, weighing 1,100 lbs, and up- a Red Injin,"

wards, have been broken to the plough by both this local absorption will continue in a limited old and new settlers. The indications are that way for several years in eastern Washington. and Idaho.—Sport and Gossip,

cause we get it without paying, and what you "Eddication is free," said Mr. Miggs, "be- get without paying is worth havin, so far as the working man is concerned. But I will not condescend to be taxed for getting what- can do without, though, being a married man, I am confined to making my protest with dignity and courage. And I am glad for to see that there is a motion for to feed the children as well, taxing them as can afford to pay

Better go lo to the work'us' and be done with it," said the forryman. "I never knew a man, ale friend, as was so partic'lar fond of getting things for nothink.”

UNCLAIMED LETTERS AT THE POST OFFICE.

Letters for the following persons lie un claimed at the Post Office →→

Arnold, A. K. Barker, A. M. Bachmann, Mrs. E. Dingham, Mr. & Mrs. Barton, W. T. Bückendorff, A Brown Bros., N. P.

Butt & Co.

Yet to any sojourner in South Africa who, like myself, has got to hate the very recaller tion of the dreary, desolate veld, a visit to "I hadn't got half-way when I was stopped Barkly West is well worth the fatigue; the dust, by a man on horseback with his face blackened. the heat, and the dirt which the journey in- He held a pistol, and levelled it at my head. volves. The moment you get into the valley I had no mind to be shot, so I pulled up. In of the Vaal you seem to have entered another a rough voice he asked me who was in the world. Higher up and lower down, the Vaal chaise. No one,' said I. But there is some "And why am I fond of getting things for is a sluggish, dun-coloured stream interspersed thing? said he. Nothing in the world but nothink?" said Mr. Miggs passionately, "Be- A few days ago. I read among the items of with bare streaks of sand, and rolling slowly cushions, I replied. 'Get down, you mscal, cause I am only getting what belong to me news from the seat of war a paragraph to the seawards between flat banks scarcely higher he ordered. You hold my horse whilst and no questions asked. What am I? And effect that the Boers had occupied Barkly than the surface of its waters. But here it is a search the chaise. I'm at your service, my answer is, I am a working man which West, Probably for the great majority of my bright, sparkling stream, doted over with rocks said II and took his horse by the work hard six days a week for to keep myself Butt, W. S. fellow-countrymen, both at home and in South and islands, and running swiftly between the bridle, and as I passed my hand along alive and other people wallowing in luxury, Blasersky, A. Africa, the news of an obscure village in an outcliffa which overhang it on either side, the cliffs fell that there were saddle-bags. Do I get the full vally for my work? Dol Brown, R. A. of-the-way nook of Griqualand West have in whose depths, somewhere or other, nature's ing falled into the hands of the Boers and treasure store of diamonds lies stillundiscovered. door and went in to overhaul everything. I

Well, that highwayman opened, the chaise- get the full vally for every shilling I pay? And Bourreau, G.

my answer is as I get the vally of a penny in Bisset & Co., Messrs. having been proclaimed as belonging by The grass is green, not brown as in the veldt; had made up my mind what to do so while he the shilling and work the bones out of my Calder, Miss right of conquest to the South African Re-

there are trees rich with leaves, not bare as poles, was thus engaged I undid the traces of my flesh for to make them 'appy as treat me like Cong, G. public possessed lille or no interest. In- there are bushes, shrubs and flowers, patches of 'osses with one hand, holding the highway the dirt beneath their feet. But the time will Chubb, A deed, even in the Cape Colony, Barkly West rich colour in the landscape, houses of wood or man's 'oss with the other. is known mainly, if at all, as being the con- brick dotted over the country-side in lieu of the

came when the working men, taking my words Camillo, C. to heart, will rise in their strength and take Cooke, D. stituency which has been represented con- corrugated iron sheds which form by far the

what they want without the apology of explan- Crock, Miss H. C. tinuously by Mr. Cecil Rhodes since he first major portion of the dwellings to be met with

ation."

Charlis, W. D. entered upsa public life some Afteen years ago. on the veldt. The air is cool to breathe, shade But for me the paragraph possessed especial is not far to seck, the buzz of the mosquito is

"I can't see as your advice would do 'em Clarke, Miss M. And BO saying I leaped into his saddle. Then any good," said the lorryman. "They'd find

W. interest from the fact that during my visit to unheard, birds other than vultures are to be I shouted, Gee up and along, Beauty and Jelly themselves very much with their hair off, and

Close, C. G. South Africa I spent more time in this queer seen flitting to and fro, and everywhere one Boy and struck spars into the flanks of the nothing but bread and water to keep 'em in Churchill, W. riverside township than I did in any other hears the sound, so sweet to ears deadened by horse, and away I galloped on his steed, with spirits, I will not say but that it ain't the right Christensen, Mrs. B. place in the colony. Ishould, therefore, like the silence of the veldt, of water rippling ra to recall my recollections of one of the quaintest pidly.

my two chaise horses galloping after me, and thing for little kids to go hungry, and them as Grooback, H. we never stayed till we came to Chudleigh." of the many quaint places in which it has been-

has more than they want ought to help but Cowell, J. M. When you have left the plains behind you, a "And the saddle bags ? “There was a lot as long as I can pay my way I don't see no Cardona, J. my lot in life to take

Barkly West has a history orde for a season, fairly well-made road leads by the side of the of money in them but there's my luck. That reason why I should be treated as if I was a Duncan, Mrs.J. A.

of its own, When Vaal to the fine suspension bridge which spans fellow had robbed a serge-maker the same paralytic pauper,"

Dubbers, A. Griqualand was first declared a British posses the river nearly opposite to Barkly West. and this serge-maker came and claimed "You ain't in the argyment," said Mr. Migge Dalton, E. 0. sion, in order to hinder the province from fall. It is characteristle of the topsy-turvydum

angrily, “Do as you like, and all we ask for Dezso, D. ing into the hands of the Orange Fres State, of all South African things that this-the But you were handsomely rewarded."-- Is as you will hold your tongue about it. Hut Dawtershaw, Mrs. Barkly West was selected as its capital and finest bridge to be found in the whole country "He gave me a guinea and the highway them as ain't nateral bom fools will take all Dickie, R. was named after Sir Henry Barkly, the ben should be located on a wellnigh disused route, man's foss, and that same 'oss is the old gray they can get and ask for more, in case it should Duncan, J. W. Governor of the Caps Colony. In as far I loading from nowhere in general to nowhere in mare, gentlemen, as folks ha laughed at me be thought as they are content And them's. Dauncey, C could learn, the reason of its selection lay in particulas Even if Barkly West had fulfilled for weeping over when she were hanged. Now my principles, for which I have fought since Day, P the fact that it was situated on the Drift by the promise of its short-lived-prime, I should a cooncus sarcumstance that, so far as I no higher than your knee. And I ask, what le Dunstan, A. P. which the main track to the up-country then doubt whether the bridge in question could know, that there highwayman went acat-free to the use of teaching child to read and write Durant, A. crossed the Vaal river, and that its popu ever have commanded a sufficient amount of his grave, and the poor innocent gray were when his little belly is as empty as your head ?" Emanuel, A. H. fation at this period; mail as it must traffic to pay for its construction, At it is, I hanged:

It ain't the fault of them as give him school: Francis, Mr. have been, was probably greater than that of question whether the tolls can pay the wages. George Spurle lived to an advanced ́age, ing if the kid's starved,” said the lorryman, Finanzki, L. * any other village or township in the some of the gatekeeper The town of Barkly West but he was one of those men whose age it "Be falz, ale friend, whatever the consequence, Farraida, A time country of the Griquas, who had gradually never has and never could have lived up to the in hard to determine, His face was always and always put the saddle on the horse as

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