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| A South African 5?j How 2wager, a Bos H Postponed *fctas ^foK ?Wcc>)xc Vxp yo(c k'^c ?>?<p ^ 2T(c%?('c ??^ji,2v6owtfOu(i'&Cv5v/d w^/o'vIjo^6o^Uo\bufcibjo>J 1 Ob f7A RASSED by fI B | thoughts of the upf 11 | I set iu b u s i n e s s - I I If Anrinir tliA Smith f " ~i African crisis of ^ _j 1898, an American 1 named Phillips took fl the night train for . V^TaL' Klerksbnrg, near the Transvaal frontier. A week before Phillips had seen fho "Gold P?eef City" shivering in the panic of the expected war. His thoughts, as ho stared out the car window, may have gone back bitterly to Johannesburg, to the ridge which has made so many sorrows, and his own failure there. Clutched iu the hand, however, he held a telegram from his partner, 13urtou. and this read: "Come up to Klevksburg next Drain; mg tnug possioie nere. i Around him men were arguing heat- j ealy in various dialects as to where j Joubert would strike first, what j would happen to the Uitlcnders, and ! when it would begin to happen. The ! train raw on hour after hour; it came j to a stop at last aud discharged its j passengers iuto the excited, question- i ing crowds which tilled the streets of Klerksburg. It was almost midnight, i bat there was no quiet in the towns j of the border. A large young Englishman stepped out of the shadows and touched Phillips on the elbow. "Hero you are," he drawled., "It's late, tmt you mustn't sleep yet, Jack. You're expected." "Whut is it, anyway?" asked Phillips. "I don't know," replied the other, 'and I know at the sauie time that it is something worth our while." He was slower in his mental processes than the American, and he now fell into deep reflection. "It was Atherton who told me to get you here. Appears that there is something being planued. Come along." They turueu into quieter streets, ; walked for some distance, and came [ to a house. The front of this wa3 ! darkened, but there were lights at the ! MAMU ntA d n ? 4 U r.TT Mtvni'Aft AII A/1 ri:aif nun ai ua'j tti'|'iuatucu uiwiu Cian one man oame out autl hurried away. Burton held a low conversation with some one at tho door, and then returned to find his friend. "They want to see you alone in there," ho explained, "and I'm to wait." Phillips went forward; a servant ushered him through the huuso and bowed him into a lighted room. Three men were seated around a table there, upon which lay spread a map of South Africa. In a smaller room ; i A : a TIL ! 11 u i l y i_ km'uiuu Ji IImips cuuiu near leiegrapu instruments clacking feverishly and j now and then a message would be I ? brought out aud placed upoa a table. "London seems to be getting excited," one of the three remarked. They did not embarrass Phillips by too close a scrutiny, but they were taking note of him. "Sit down, wou't you," said ono of them, a big mail. The speaker leaned back almost shyly in his chair, and turned lus drowsy gray eyes upon another, who looked': like au ex-army officer. "You state the case, Atherton," he said. "Hem," observed the latter. "Well, Mr. Phillips, I suppose you would not be unwilling to accept of a good opportunity." Phillips smiled grimly. "I rather tr> " iie rriilinil "Ah, yes. Well, no offience, you j tno',y; but we have been led to believe that you are, a-liem, rather a j Krild young thing:." The American's square jaw tight-1 ?ned, and ho rose. "You might have , telegraphed that information," he ^ . observed. "No; sit down, please," said the big man, "aud hear us through." 'There wus a kind of fascination in his , manner difficult to explain. "You know," continued Atherton, 1 his eyes upon the table aud speaking as if by note, "whether this country : is in a healthy condition now. You are from Johannesburg, and also know how the Uitlanders are being treated. Here in Klerksburg we believe that war is inevitable and tbat the sooner it comes me better lor us an. lucre are, however, peoplo who cannot tin-: derstand this situation and they advise I delay.^ He nodded, perhaps uncou-' seiously, toward the room where the j telegraph instruments were clicking. "Not so mauy miles from here, at a pc.int which your friend Burton knows, thero is a camp of the border police. It lies about two miles from i the frontier line of the Transvaal, and ten miles on tho other side the Boers have also a camp. Very good. Now ' ^ 1 need not point out to you that Africa is lika a bin of gunpowder and that it j I neeus only a spark to set it afire. Here I , is where that spark oau be sirnck." ft Ha put his finger upon the map. ?'Just at this point over the line is ; the farm of a Boer named Zwager. He [ is an old Dutch rhinoceros, ready L Soup That Failed. I j i\o'n J I il L ?r of the Great TreK, |p t i the War. if J ? SEmmmmmmwmm enough for trouble; it would be very i easy for any one who went there, any i one who was rather wild and irrespon- ( sible, to precipitate a quarrel. It would not need extreme measures a mere quarrel, with perhaps a little misnsage, aud the Boers there in camp would do the rest, for they would atattack the bolder police as certainly at we sit here. After that some history would probably be made." Young rhillips whistled thoughtfully. "It's rather to rich for us," he said, "aud not the nicest job, especially seeing that I'm an American. No, I guess not." The big man raised himself up from his chair, the lamplight fell upon him ] redly as he stood, tall as a giant, ; above the table where lay the map of j South Africa. "An American," lie j said, "that is all the better! Americans are men of our own blood and this movement is for every man who j kuowns what progress means. It is war which must come, and in this j worlcl we must loou ugiy laets in me j j face. Teople who are afraid to do | ( this say to me: 'But it will be too 1 , dangerous;' they say to nic, 'ft is wrong;' but I say to them, 'We must i, look facts iu the face; the Boers are ; t now armiug with Mauser rifles.' I! say to them, *3Jy dear good people, I ! ( admire your scruples, but remember I . the ugly fact of those Mauser rifles. Kemember that, and then if you agree | j r-o?? tninf /?^r?in of loci fnll ruo ! whether delay v.ill not mean ten times , as many lives aud 109 times the treasure.' A united Africa, that is my idea ?an Africa free for the Anglo-Saxon ( from Capo Town to the Zambesi." , The dreamy gray eyes had lighted ( tip; the words came faster and faster , in the glow of the great idea. And as | he spoke thero breathed out of this ( man somethiug mysterious and wonderful, as out of uufathomed depths, j a spirit which could stiffen the hearts ^ of other men and drive them forward, ] reckless of barriers. Young Phillips gazed at him, aud tho cold suspicion , melted out of his face. : "I guess, maybe," said ho slowly, , "that after all I am a wild voune i thing." . The big mnn glanced at the other ] men, and a little laugh all around showed their appreciation of how \ Phillips had riseu to his chance. "Al- ( ways did like the way you Americans , could grasp a poiut," the leader said, i, and shook hands. Tho day after, Burton and Phillips !. rode out of Klerksburg, and turned (\ i Li u 11 uui vustua^a. xuoj icit iuc j . railroad lino upon tlicir loft, and, as ' | they struck into tbo open Toldt and i j saw around thera the wide circle of ' j eart'u and sky, tboir spirits gayly rose ; s to tbis adventure. Darkness found tliem still six miles from the camp of \ the border police, hut Burton knew the ground, and they pushed forward, j When they reached the camp of the . border police they were greeted with , applause. Burton knew most of the j men; a letter which he brought rnado < them still more welcome. They ate, ( and afterward among their hosts lay Kitnl* of onco ornnn.! /?oriinfirrt Tn. j visible horses champed and scuflled npon the plain around them; the j troopers smoked and looked up at the i ( watching stars until it was time to 11 tarn in. r In the morning the two adventurers [ had a last word with the captain and i ^ then mounted their horses. They rode s to a little eminence and stopped; they f were on the border line, the danger j line which needed only to be crossed by fighting paities to mean a war. A j solitary falcon hovered high in the . j uutarnished blue, and before them c stretched the Transvaal, its veldt as yellow as a sea of gold. Old Zwager's a farm lay like a dot in this and over 'j everything a Sabbath quiet brooded, j( bnt here the spark could bo struck a which should set South Africa atire. j The felt the delight of power, a senso t of danger aud daring leaped in their uioou niia iney roue siraigai xorwara a resolutely. Zwager's place was built up in a j way usual to that region. A stone ?< wall encircled the squatty Dutch \ buildings aud served to keep the (] calves in the front dooryard. A fence might have been easier, but Zwager's n great-grandfathers Lad managed it r, this way, aud what had been good } enough for thein was good enough for Zwager. They were admitted through the gate by a lazy Kaffir boy and, riding up to the house, beheld 1 the owner. w Before the door in the sunshine sat s nn old and grizzed Boer a Boer of t! the Great Trek. Ho stared at them 1< for a moment silently, and then again o turned his dull blue eyes upon the u distant view. But after eome reflec- 1 t.:ou he removed his pipo and asked b them briefly: "What do you want?" s "We waut some forage for our f< horses, first thing," Burton replied, t< and the two dismounted. Zwagcrre- p fleeted soino time, aud then an- t! nouuced: "You can't have it." j *'0, we can't eli?" remarked PLil-( ips. "Maybe that isn't for you to av." The correction appeared to be ost upon old Zwager; bo sat still and ;azed across the plain toward the blue lorthward as though be expected omething favorablo to come from bat direction. For years and years ; be older Doers bad been wout to ; lnuk of that free upconntry, the un racked wilderness which could always >e their refuge when the annoying ; iproar of a rapid civilization came too j lear. But nothing could come out of , t now except danger, aud they were | :ut off from it forever as surely as ' rom the blue sea across which their 'orefathers had wandered two cen- j uries before for a place in which to ' stagnate comfortably. Ohl Zwager nay have known this much of history roin the homespun traditions passed lown from sire to son, stories of old ;reks and battles for one's own idea of j :hings, dared by men of a stubborn 'auatic breed, like tbe Roundheads of Did Englandj or the Puritans of the Sew. But England and America rad gono forward somewhat, aud two >f their representatives, well up to late, stood now before this old man }f the people who bad slopped for two lent uries, and they hardly knew how :o take him. "Wo want some forage," Burton roared, with ferocious emphasis. ^ r* ri 1 ll.:_ J _ uia .owager consiuereu vuiji ueoaand once more, as though it had been a new one. "You ciu't have it," hetheu replied, with undiplomatic clearness, "because you are English . sehelms" (rascals). Phillips clenched his fist and (rallied up to him. "Yes, uow's your chance," encouraged Burton. The Kaffir, safe upon the wall, was apparently the only witness, and he, being a native ar.d untaught, seemed to wonder that meuof those races should ! fall to lighting. Phillips put his fist close up to the stolid face, then took it away again. "Always did understand that you 1 Amcvicaus were cu uncertain set," :ompiainea me Jingiismnan. ne i strode up to the Boer himself, and delivered au ultimatum. "You old, dense, beastly, uncivilized mule," he i thundered, "tell the boy there to get that forage, d'you hear?" The ancient man never noticed > them. Thc-y both perceived with ease j that he thought they were afraid of j him. "O, before I'd stand that!" Phillips taunted his companion. Pres- j eiitly Zwager avo3e to his feet. "You j must now go away from here," ho i proclaimed calmly, "your language is j not like the Scriptures." He went j uid picked up a heavy stick and stiff- ' ly advanced upon them. They stood and watched him come, the two strapping Saxons, and exchanged a furtive glance. Then of a sudden they broke in'full retreat; tnoved by the same impulse they slunk back to their horses and mounted j without a word. Without a word | they left behind them Zwager's place, ' md for half a mile across the veld . :koy rode a long way apart and would ! lot look at each other. Finally they j aulled up, and something had to bo said. "Er?ah?moat disgusting failure," he Englishman remarked. "I couldn't do it," tho American re- ! . t hied, "because " tie stole a glance i it bis companion, and read in his eyes in answering horror it was the awful lorror aud hatred of their race for "goody-goody talk." "Because," he ;ried triumphantly, "I thought there might be some more Boers hidden iu [he barn." "Just so," assented the Briton in j eliel, and eanio a little nearer, "My >wu idea exactly." They rode along J r* /Tninfll lAlt bnAtrinflf mrvrii UqUIUCI AAA U V J VV/ I iuii j MUV/K IUU1 V. tbout themselves than previously they ' lad known. Around them tho very 1 eldt seemed to bo laughing over . omething; and as they approached he camp again suddenly they both j aligned too. "Couldn't bo done." Lurton ex- j ilained brielly to the captain. "Ap>ears, you know, that there was con- j ealed force in the neighborhood." j IT Pt 1 A \ 1.(1 11.. flours au.erwuru vuey jeit uib camp, | ml took the road toward Klerksburg. j ?bey stopped once in the plain and i ooked behind thetn at the border line i nd all was quiet along it. Then the j Englishman, doubtless with bis | houghts upon old Zwager, said: | 'That war will come, though, as sure s the suu is up there." "Or as sure as there is gold in ohannesburg," the other agreed, 'but it won't be us that will start it. Pa twr? weren't mmla T (tiipsq to an I irty work." He flicked his horse again, and grin- ! ing cheerfuliy the unsuccessful ones ode westward in the sunshine. New 'ork ban. Patriotic Prussian PJjr?. A correspondent of the Deutsche 'ages Zcitung at Eidelstedt,in Schles ig-Holsteiu, gravely announces that uch is the patriotism of Prussian pigs hat they refuse to eat American barjy. The latter does not differ in odor r aspect from the horne-grown articlo hich the pigs devour with avidity, 'he Tages Zeitung, inspired probably y the action of tho discriminating wine, asks: "How long will it be beire all American products from ham o barley will be prohibited from imortation into Germany on account of beir suspicious character?" Corresondeuca New York Sum I FAI AID GARDEN. I ISi^ht l'lace (or tlie Orchard. At ii recent farmers' meeting ft sue- j cessful fruit raiser claimed that the j ideal place lor an orchard ivas on the t >p of a hill. I The advantage of the hill over a ' plain was that tli9 trees liter e more open to the light and air, which gave better color and flavor to the fruit, and gave the land a better natural drainage and freedom from frosts. Cure lor Scratching, My hens bothered uh some by digging in the garden and flower beds until I fixed what I call a poke and fastened it on their leg. It is made of a piece of white ash, about sjx or seven inches long, flattened at one end and sharpened on the other. A XT I SCI! ATCIIIN G Dr.VICE. The flat end is bent around the hen's log and tied with some strong thread. It drags behind when they walk, but when they go to scratch they sit down and seem quite surprised. Heavy i wire would furnish fond ones and are ! more easily nmle.?C. W. 'ohorter, iu New England Homestead. Urn in llcnliii; in Kim. Iii all the eastern portion of this J country there is usually rain enough : to prevent grain from being thoroughly dried out before it is gathered into barn or stack. Owing to the general il.xairA tr? Htr<><tli enviv ill 11 nil nf t.liiq grain is damp when threshed. If put into large bins it will beat and become mouldy. It is best to defer all large jobs of threshing until the grain in the straw has gone through the sweating process, which is really heatiog, the warmth causing the moisture to come out of the grain, straw and weeds. This is the fastest way to dry grain. But if the threshing has been done, a sharp lookout should be kept on the grain in the bin. Thrusting a long pole to near the bottom of the grain pile, the temperature may be easily determined. If it feels warm to the hand, it is above 100 degrees. The grain is in danger and should be taken cnt of the bin as qnickly as possible. When it is put back have some thoroughly dried brick ami put them , iu occasionally as the grain is thrown J in. A dried brick will absorb more I than its weight in water. If any one ' doubts it, let him try to fill a brick po j that water will stand ou the surface. . The wettest grain may bo safely put iu bins, if this precaution is used. There is nothing iu tbo brick to ferment, and the water in the grain is absorbed until the grain is dried. Iu winter all grain dies out by freezing. Sour .Milk lirtl. Professor W. W. Cooke finds that pigs do better on slightly soured milk, containing only lactic acid, than they do on sweet milk. He says the probable reason is found in the fact that when the milk sours the milk sugar is brokeu up in the lactic acid, but this chauge takes piece without any ; loss of solid matter. Ono particle of milk sugar merely absorbs some water aud splits np in: two parts of lactic acid. Eefccnt experiments in Germany seem to show conclusively that lactic acid, in common with several other vegetable acids, is digestive J aud has a real feeding value. There- ^ fore the lactic acid being in the same ( (quantity as the milk sugar, it is fair ( to presume that its feeding value would not be much reduced. If milk is allowed to 3iaud for many days this lactic acid breaks up into butyric acid and carbonic gas, the latter passing oft' aud becoming cer- , taiuly a dead loss. It conbl not be , 1 **?* AvnosJinonta ltof alrini ram num kjUI cAj/ojm?vum ^ liiilk could be kept iud<finitely and ; still not lose its feeding value, but it ' seems probable that there is no los.s in j feeding value in the lirst change of eonriug and lobbcring. As to why the sour akim-inilk should Jiavo done belter than the sweet skim-milk we cannot tell, unless the answer is found in the greater j relish with which it was eaten, or un- { less it is a fact that the acid during 4 the hot weather helps by keeping the ' digestion of the pigs in a little better * couditiou. New York Weekly Wit- t ness. Garden For Poultry. i The poulterer on the farm possesses t every advantage over the man con- J lined to ouo or two city lots. While, in our experience, free range of the farm is not the best way to raise line poultry, yet wo duly appreciate the S foods we may raise and feod fresh c from the garden to our poultry. In i our expeiieuco the fowls at large do r not confine themselves to picking up r the waste, but rather choose to take r their rations from horse mangers and t 4-^"~? TMwi-rr Caftan nn s*Mi*n o?ii^ 1 1 \tl A uuu^uo, J. nCJ inuwu vv??. *. .. perlinps the men complain with justice j "that the heus eat their heads off." 1 WTe find it better to havo yards of i medium suae, and we have about made ; t up our minds that hens at large are ! c not much improvement on bogs at , t large, and what woman can put up j t with hogs in the door yard? But if j; hens are yarded I ho/ most be fed and e t' ero ia xooti* ou'liho faiai to a t, - - - ? > ? garden for the chickens. What shall we plant? We must hare lettuce, of course. One can cut a surprising |H amount of feed from a few feet square of lettuce; then there is giant south- |H em mustard. A few rows of that, and von have a green food greatly relished nj and in quantity for a numerous flock. V W inter onions are egg producers. Per haps wo can find a corner for hemp and sunflowers. Then we must have some r I vegetables for winter. Cabbage andjL^B artichokes come lirst. Watch the biddies cat raw artichokes if yoa believe they don't like them, and seethe chicks devour them. Then wo may raise some carrots to cook and . mix jH with bran for biddie's winter breakfast V to make her lay. We can cook them 9 und mix with corn meal to fatten the 9 poultry quickly for market. Probably n no vegetable we raise gives less trouble fl or is more certaiu to yield well than 9 sugar beets. Then the ,beets keep 1 well, which is more than we can say for carrots in this locality. We put the beets through the bone cutter and feed raw. < Jk The hens greatly relish tho raw fl vegetables and the ducks must have B them if you wish eggs in January. fl The mustard will stay green long after S frosts, and when it is gone begin ou M ii.. i?1_ mi ?-;n ?r?. IUC l?LJCl?. 1UC iUU^UUU villi UUK pear the second year nor in any way ^ resemble the old fashioned sort A j great many spaces where the vegetables have been taken oft may be sown to the mustard for full feeding. Hattie By field, in St. Louis Planter. ^^CATIGN FOR MODERN BUSINESS. dj Address l?y President Hartley, of Yalo 9 University. i ^ President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale Univeisity, recently responded J tn Hl? n-.st "TiMnefttirm fnr ltfndpm Business Responsibilities." Ho said in part: "The two previous speakers Vj have told you better than I can do your greatness and the greatness of your responsibilities. It is for me to suggest how in the future men may be tried who shall till worthily the places that you now occupy. It is one of the interesting things to any f one who looks at the catalogues of the j colleges of the country to see how 1 they are becoming each year, more 1 and more, the educators of business fl men. A generation ago the great ma- 1 jority of college graduates went into B professions. To-day a large part of flj them go into commercial life. There H are two reasons for this. In tho first I p^.ace, a great inauy of the men who I go to college to-day without having I any other idea than of making the most of their life find that the busi- fl ues8 opportunity aud business rer.ponsibilities of the present generatiou are so large that there is no ohiect of their ambition so worthy as business success. Ami, on the other ^ hand, a great many men, who intend from the first to go into business, find tlia responsibilities of business, so difficult, the vastuess of its problems so great that they j prefer to take many years instead of few in prcpariug themselves j for these responsibilities. The com- : biuntion of these two things has i brought our colleges into closer con- 1 nectiou with the woild of commerce at | present than they ever were in the | past. And now the question comes np 1 how shall they fulfill, how shall the f colleges fulfill the new duties which J are laid upon them by the necessity V of preparation for this wide worth? ^ inow, to uegin witu, it is very easy to say what they shall not do. They cannot do their work by undertaking to instruct the boys in the details of what they will find it necessary to do in the aflice. If they learn these details from books they would have to "learn A them over agaiD, to unlearn all they M had learued and learu them better from the experience of practical life. fl "That education is best and high- H ?st which most fnlly brings home to fl| he boy by illustrations of history, by V uspiralions of literature, by the teach- V iQgs of the every-day life of the presmt time, that noiio of us livetii for limself; that possession means power, ^ incl that power means duty. (Ap- 1 danse.) J "Whatever form the edncation of the J lext generation may take and thero ire many unsettled questions before ^ he woik of our colleges of this one Ling wo may be sure: They will and ;hey must educate mcu to take your daces who will have from the beginling the conception to which you have ^ ittained iu your business life of busi- W aes3 success as a trust, 01 power auu mm nfluence in the country as a duty to S he country and to God." (Ap- fl| dause.) fl J?pmmm PoIIm Ktlquette, fl Chief Inspector of Police Ikigami fl jliiro, of lliogo lieu, Japan, tells liis JH tfGcers and men that they should not uake calls ou a foreigner in the early sfl noruing, at meal times or late at light, if ihey can help it. At any ate, they should pay good attention fl o tlieir clotmng prior to toe can, ana m >efore entering the house they are enoined to clean their boots. They oust not carry a cigar into the honse, lor take a seat until asked to do so, 9H hey are informed, aud "when yon 1H all on a foreigner in private clothing ake oil your hat and overcoat outside gB he room, and leave them in the (89 )roper place. Tho former is, how* ^BB iver, eometimes carml in'.* It* ^^B ccoj." nfevf 1'jrk Sun, sH