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far . THE OTON AL BANKOF MGUSTA J L. C. HAYNS, Preu't P. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. Undivided Profit? } $110,000. Factutloo" or our magnificent ??ew Vault joootalnlng 410 r-atety-I/ocK; Boxes. Dlffer (ent Sixes ar? offered- to-our patrons and the public at *&O0 to $10.00.per annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. ??G?F??LD, S. C.; WEDNESDAY; MARCH 21? ?90U; THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BARK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Intcrost on Deposits. Accounts Solicited, L. C. HATNZ, Pr?sident. W. C. WASDLA-R-, Cashier. VOL. LXV. NO. 12 .. BREAKING Thooant-dogs oianfc,'"rind tho axes gleam, And tba bushes aro black by tho swollen stream ; Tho ice swings down to the tumbled dam, Tho planking sags, and the stringers rend; The great logs jostlo ?nd grind and jam They've looked tho channel behind the bend." "Now where Is the man who will come with me To worry the logs and chop the key?" The boss looks round at bis sturdy crew, And "Singing Bob" steps up with a smile "Tm 'most as sure on my feet as you, Xn' I guess we can hustle the thing in style!" "With axe and peevy they run acroas.','\ "f* ?AT The little waterspouts leap and tots ; ^ ~" -Tl t Old Frans\ ?to pf. ? ? Encounter With the Half-breed Indian gnides ?re popu lar in the Maine woods. They must bo as useful as the white kind one "would say who saw the daily embark ation of well-equipped "sports" ?very city man in the woods is called a "sport"-who take to the road with one of these dark and unknowable off spring of the lumber camps. Perhaps the general idea is that a little Indian ftiood in a man means so mach trae bunter, or maybe the Indian will go for a little less than.the whites ' in the business. . However these things are, tho would-be hunger should pause to consider the significance of tb* ? tale, remembering that Indians never change, and that back somewhere in the sixties lived one lone Indian, a mere remnant, who fonght controls and tho vested interests of great "par ties" from the outside, because of an idea. The game was his; no white mau should have of it or come to spoil it; not even the logging crew, who did.not come to kill. '"AnIndian 'li never show you the game; not if he can help it." I had picked my gnide, Snow, for bis age and experience. He was a friend of tire late Jock Darling, that famous character and once sinful dog ger of deer, and the things he said about the woods went. Still, as he made this remark, I was considering thV' natural results of competition. Saowmet my doubting look with the firm-jawed, solid contemptuousness of Iiis kind; but on this occasion he con descended to speak out We sat in the public room of the road "hotel" that surmounted a bared and windy ridge. Fate had shoved ns in here on the way to our projected camp.between an inexorable round, red, scorching stove and .the depth of an open window.. And the weather was cold bunting weather,when the deer world be out of their safe swamps and feed ing-at their peril-along the ridges. "Back in the sixties," said Snow,) tras ;-. withy young leilo^.'and'Tvo'] 'lived round logging camps ever since I could remember anything. I believe. I used a baby axe. After a while I had my ;l spell " at^swampia' roads 8Wampin*s the onlyiwo^k that's con sideredfit for youngsters and green horns, Jbeoause, then, ..it's no matter how tile hees fall--and I'd become a regalar chopper. And when, on top of?thisjl'jBay I worked three seasons a??Titer drivin',and kept hearty.you'll realize that I must have boen a- well- : muscled young chap for my years. ^."Now, besides"-this natural educa tion, as you migTit say, Pd had a little schoolLn' through an uncle of mine at Honiton, so that when the'time came that a big new lumber1 company wanted to put a surveyor in the woods for "em, I about-fitted-the bill. - That was a good job in those days, when the business was new, though I didn't do what you're.thinkin'of. SI didn't lay do wu lines, but I just walked straight into the wo?ds and" looked ~oyer ti?? standi?' timber,^ ?nd ,.?-.t6^3RS?a& straight as I could with my eye, saw what the trees, would1 amount to, saw how rjcrany,pair horses and how many; injin could geVthe logs to water, and then ? wrote down my ideas and my figgers to the company that was wait in' to begiu work on what I said. This'] was the practical side, audit was easy larnin' the head*work, but I--mast say by the end of the second? winter I'd hod enough. A .man gets used .to being.by himself in the 'woods,thongh I've heard- regular olcV ^sports, who'd been down here hunt i a' fall after fall, teVtiPj nigh' losin4 their wits at' +he" chance, as it seemed, they'd be obliged to sleep out alone away from camp. I had my little grub outfit rind a blanket, and, pf course,: I ?new how, to make myself snug in all kinds 67 weather,so that I never had a thought that warn't pleasant till the day I met np with Fransway. It was a funny . thing I hadn't seen Fransway before, as I'd been workin' more or le3s right in the country where he put in his time. Fransway i was a character,- a big In dian, the biggest I ever saw, a mighty loan with a chest like a pork barrel, though he must have bbJn old then, and with a bad, squinting eye. He used to be a chief, the story was, but the rest of his tribe were dead. Well, the day I saw him he never looked in my direction af all, just kept right along on his snowshoes-it was in January--ind got out of sight, I thought, in a hurry. After that hard ly a week passed but what Fransway showed up somewhere to the east, west, north or south of me and my .work, never coming decently near, however. I held on to my blanket in case he was looking for a chance to steal that, but after he'd been follow in* me round a spell longer I made ont his business was something different. If it was anything to do with me, why couldn't he'com? straight up and spit it out? < ' . * "I began td think 'some then. Pd no sooner get fixed for ' the night in some nice hollow with some boughs butted up ? against the .rbiggestf and most com fortablest hemlock of tho lot when Fd .b^gin to look.for Fransway. You'll hear plenty of noises in tb ? woods so long as the sun is shining, but take it" at night and I can't think of any place so" still. Maybe I'd have an owl -for company perched up on some tree, opposite, st ari a' at me, and mad clean through at the sight of my fire. I never noticed owls before,but I began to .get lonesome, and, well, that Indian got on my nerves. "Well, one day, toward sundown I happened to see a big doe np with her flag not a dozen yards off,-and 1 heard THE JAM. The little stioks twirl and the' big sticks grind; And Bob, as be ruas, begins to sing, With never a glance at his chums behind, -The key-irfonnd- and the ases ewing. Punk punk^pbnk punk-despite "the roar r Tue chant ot the axes beats to shore, The choppett'urms have a rhythmic lift Fearless) as tho' they did not know That the river is mad, and the logs are drift, And the twisting" currents snarl below. The deed is don1?! With a plunging leap The torn logs start from their angered sleep, Across the tumult of maddened things Bob and tue boss come sprinting back, As if their cowhide boots ht J wings, Or a running jam were a cinder-track, leod?re Roberta, in Youth's Companion. ray's Hate. % B?mti?nt of a Tribe. a snot, and there was Frans way fol io win' her into the brush. He'd been right on to me, and he didn't mind letting, me .know, .or. else he wanted that meat pretty bad. I swore some then. I made it a practice ,110t to bring a gun into the woods with me. There was enough stuff to tote with out that. But I wished then I could try a little bird shot, fired off at ran dom, you-know; -just to-show T-wasn't wantin' company. ***??c- -vr .. VWell,'-about* two hours, after that, when I h?dn't half got ovei'bein' mad bnt was fo?lin' with my grub appara tus in a slam-bang sort of way over a smoking fire of half green stuff, Fr-aneway came ont of the dark and walked straight up to me pointing his gnn. . "'.How, Charley Snow,'?he said, 'me shoot you. ' "He'd pioked up my name in some loggin' camp, I suppose, and I thought he meant business. The fire Was be tween us, and I stood, up and looked at him and his dirty gun, which was 110 kind of a^weapon God ever made, I suppose, though I knew it could do for me. I looked him straight in the eyei and I talked fast. What waa he going to kill me for, I said. " 'You come here and spoil my game. Me shoot you.' "I told him I_didn't want his game, and I asked Jiim what he'd been fol lowin' me 'round for ii he couldn't Bee that. " "Nb, but you bring men here and cut down all my trees and spoil my game. Now, me shoot you.' "That Indian^had?t in,for me; hie face was just loaded down with spite; ? He'd been savin' it; up ali these weeks. I kept talking, and Frans way said: 'My game, my game,' and meanwhile I tried edging round the fire a little. | I mistrusted nis eyesight wasn't good. Then'the smokeTrohi ray fire whirled round the way it will in the woods for the wind to blow, but just a sort of corkscrew current, and tho emote took him right in the face, and I jumped for him. We both wenfdown, and Fransway's snowshoes- -.held bim so that I got away and grabbed np his gun.? T Vas tickled, yon. befand Bain*": 'Now, Fransway,_me shoot you.' jVaneway^ worked diims?lf ' to his feet sulkily,* abd "thou stood still, with out saying anything. . '. " 'S'pose we let you go,Fransway,' I said, ?will you promise not to bother me again; keep away from me-under stand ?' / "Fransway thought a long time. Then he said: " . " 'Me not shoot you now. Yon come back next year and me shoot you.' - And-;-^bat.was ail l eonid get out of him, and as there wasn't any thing else I could do without going ti an everlasting heap of trouble, I gave aim bis gun and let him go, and fol lowed hin?,"quartering down the ridge to see brm steering tor a cedar bog he'd have to cross to get out of my neighborhood. "Well, before winter they'd run a 'tole road all through that country a 'tole road's us?d for hanlin' supplies to.loggin' camps,' and it has to be a little better thau the ordinary kind io those woods-and my parties had be gun, to log all . over the place where Fransway said the game was his. J thought he must have taken a fit and ki?ked the buck?t, but it wasn't long before X saw him right after .'me, ap: pareutly not a bit discouraged. There was a j;oud between us, and I made for the new road- house, where I struck up with ^ a crowd, anil we waited tc Bee what he'd do. Pretty soon he came right iu and squinted round the room, trying to pick me out. He.was a bigger mau than any of. us, but. all drawn down with old age, and his heart was brokeu. Quick as a wink the boss had him a good hot supper ready. I don't think there was a man in the place-and they were a hard lot, too-but was sorry for Fransway.' I slapped him on the back and led'him up to his treat. Fransway never marie a sign; he saw that the crowd was too much for him. The next month a party of sports found him dead in a cedar swamp. "Now, I never forget that business with Fransway. There's nothin' in the world so jealous as au Indian when he thinks you're gettin' a deer. Every old trapper will tell you so." A Society Gradation. The lady residing in a 14-story flat was talking to the wife of the janitor. "Do you know Mrs. Higgins?" she asked. "Which Mrs. Higgins?" inquired Mrs. Janitor. "The one who comes here some times to help ma.with my sewing." "Ob," and her nose perked slightly; "Her? Tve met her, but.I don't call on her.'* , . < ' ?'She's a nice woman, isn't she?" "I nevei\ heard anything against her. She isn't in-my sei,'that's all." "Isn't her husband a janitor just as yours is?" This time Mrs: Janitor was in quite a dudgeon.: "Of course he'snot>"she exclaimed, drawing herself up disdainfully, "he is a janitor for a building that has only six stories, while nono, of our set would engage in a building of less than 10 stories and this one you know has 14," and with a 14-stoiy haughtiness of manner quite over whelming she bowed herself brit of the lady's apartment-Detroit Free Press. A DIMINISHING FUEL C?NTR?CT??N OF THE NATURAL GAS RESERVOIRS ?N THIS COUNTRY. iii n ~ Shrinkage in the Different States - Com plote "Exhaustion of the Supply Proba ble In the Near Future-A Matter of Great Economic Importance For several years it ha? been gen erally known.by persons interested in the natural-gas industry tbat the sup ply bf thiB fu?l in the United States1 was slowly but'surely failing, and in many instances the entire exhaustion of the gastields could be predicted for a very near future. In nearly every place where there ave wells there has been a decline in the pressure, and during the year 1897 there were com paratively few new wells drili?cL That the failure of the natural-gas supply is a matter of some economic importance is well shown by. a state ment of a few facts counected with the industry. In 1897 the amount re ceived for natural ga3 or the cash value of gas oonsumed amounted to $12,754,870,.and it is computed that the solid fnel, such as coal and wood, which it displaced, would have amounted to $14,175,247. lo convey this gas there were in use on Dec. 31, 1897, in the United States, 13,074 miles of pipe?, while there were also pipes from Canada bringing natural gas tb this country. The distribution of this amount of pipe among the dif ferent states shows very well the com parative use of the fuel? The leading Btates in this respect are Pennsyl vania with 5354 miles of pipe, Indi ana-with 4399 miles, Ohio with 1799 miles, West Virginia with 893 miles and New York with 414 miles. The companies concerned in the production of natural gas have taken numerous measures to keep up the supply, both by extending their lines to new wells and by the use of me chanical devices. In many localities, however, the ch >f work has been to prolong the life of the wells and to keep them free from water. As th? pressure diminishes the .wells become filled with water and their usefulness Ls entirely destroyed. It is a matter of great regret that the. supply of natural gas is on the wane, as in many places there are an increased number of uses to which it may be put. The use of incandes cent mantles with natural gas has in creased, and it is said that this method furnishes the cheapest and most satis factory method of illumination. There aas also been a growing use of natu- ( ral gas engines, particularly for pump- I Lng oil wells, since they can be worked nuch more advantageously than -team. This is the case where a num ber of oil wells occur together, for it is found that the loss of steam due to condensation in a long steampipe is in important factor in the economy pf such a plant, The gas engines are ?Iso used to operate air .compressors,, mtHtitm llrfr w?rhr^ - jan be operated' by compressed air. Lu the' manufacture of lampblack natural gas is also extensively used, md, as is well known, several" of the iron and steel mills in and 'about Pittsburg have pipe lines of their 3wu extending to the gas fields. lu ?he use of natural gas for domestic ires there has been a considerable de crease, but as far as is possible the nanufacturing concerns so equipped iontinue to burn the.natural fuel. In Pennsylvania, where the use of latural gas has been most extensive, ;he value of the product has decreased rom $19,282.375 iu 188$, when it .cached a maximum, to $ti, 242,543 in L897. In this state there are numer >us indications of the exhaustion of several fields' more or less rapidly, tccordiug to the demaud and capacity )f the gas pool. The fall in pressure, vhich is a sure sigu of the exhaustion )f the wells, has brought about the idoption of numerous changes in the nanner ! of distribution and much rreater care is exercised ia the sale iud use of the product. So much has jeeu accomplished in this direction, argely by the use of meters, that it is jstimated that one cubic foot is now lsed where formerly three or four vere consumed to accomplish the tame effect AR the pressure falls it ?akes a longer time, of course, to ob ain a given .quantity of gas, and to ceep up the supply more wells must )e drilled. j! In Ohio the same condition of affair's ixipts and the decline has been steady iud general except in tho Lancaster ield, which was extended as far south is Good Hope in Hocking county. In Fairfield county, within a few years, lew wells have been discovered and he gas from them goes to Columbus, Lancaster, Ouillicothe and' Athens. This field was considered most prom sing and is being extended south. In Indiana the value of the gas )roduced has remained almost sta ionary for three years. It is found n the Trenton limestone at depths of ess than 1000 feet A fall of pressure las also been experienced throughout ;his state. In West Virginia the consumption >f natural gas has increased and at the end of the year 1897 there were .50 producing wells in the state, r,'\ vhich 47 had been drilled during the rear. The depth of the wells in West Virginia varies from 1200 to 2800 eet, and the cost of drilling amounts O from $1 to $1.50 per foot The 1 )res8iire varies in the different wells LOO to 1100 pounds to the sqnareiuch. New York, Illinois,Kansas and M?B ouri all produce smaller amounts of \ tatura! gas, but the production is not i , o be compared with that of the states ! ilready discussed. In Canada, how- ] )V'er,!'there has been a considerable norense in the amount, and large ruautities have been piped to the ? Jnited States. \ Taking all the various statistics into j ipnsideration, it will be found that. , vhile there has been an increase in j he number of factories supplied with latural gas and the miles of pipe laid, , here has been a decrease iu the num- ( >er of wells drilled. In some field? ( t seems as'if a'limit would be reached . Within five years, but in nearly every ase where natural gas has been j ound there has been a decrease since bout 1888 br 1889, and it seems lordly possible that another genera- j ion will be able to enjoy its advan- j ages in most of the cases whore it is ; low employed. Only one-third of the, population i ? Calcutta are females. -!-^TT".--.- , r--: THE BO?R COMMISSARIAT. j One of the ltcmnrkublc Features of TJi< Army Is Its Food Supply. Dbe feature bf .the Eosr . arm j . h especially attracted attention, duri" the present war, aud that is how th have contrived with their limit resources not only to keep, the atc well supplied with ammunition, b also* with food. With all the perfection of organic tion.resulting from the accumulated,e periences of big Continental warsrit safe to say that were a European w' to break out -tomorrow it .would* ] found that now, as in the past, [ij commissariat would b ofouud wantin. An English schoolmaster who hi jus trended in Englaud after an a sence of twenty years, aiid who Bery? inrthe ranks of the Boer army wlii they fought the Basutos, has been i terviewed. ."The Boers, in my opinion,''..! said; "are the finest irregular trooj in the world,not only because of the valor, but what is quit; as importan the excellence of their commissariat "The government-has plenty j wagon's, but the hardships endure by Boers in past wars have made thei distrustful of Pretoria, . so they lia; brought the family wag.?ns and all tl Kaffirs with the exception of two < three. "It was predicted that this wi would he signal for a native uprising !jWhatJh? .Zulus and3asutosina clo I cannot say, but the Kaffirs yrX not rise as the Boers have taken a the young men and chiefs with the; to the wan -, "And now learn the f ?as?h why^t? Boer commissariat has .been so wei supplied. It.is worked by-the Kaffirs the handiest people in the world. I "Although my life was safe, I ha made up my mind to leave the 'cour try when hostilities broke out, BO th next day I bade the old vrouw and ht; daughters good-by and went soutfEfl Pretoria. "At every centre I found larg parties of mounted Boers waiting th signal to start. ; ~;i?\ "The. number pf wagons bein loaded up with ammurritton- was'ena9j mons. A vast quantity . has- ho? stored at "Pretoria, but . knowing.tbi the war ' once started there would .-.ti no chauce of getting more, s.o. vaBt? quantity had been imported that gref stores had to be built for its receptio, in every part of the country. "Scarce an hour passed day af te: day as I, rode toward Pretoria, that i did not meet huge droves of caira bound for Pretoria, where they wow be sent on railway trucks to th frontier. The Kaffirs are smart, active feUojra but ? doubt whether they wouliiWS achieved the success they have wer not the Boers most frugal eaters, "When I arrived at the camp WW^ Joubert was forming outside th? northern boundaries of Natal. lb' burghers wore doing what I sup$gi you wonld-oall-driliingv .A-J-w- v.i"* "It was hardly that-the Boen were simply getting their horses accus tomed to the work before them bj galloping them about the mountains. "Yon see the Boer has been trainee from his birth to be an irregular horse mau. When a lad he is taught to'rieb a calf and then a horse. Then he is shown the secret' of cover and how tit fight behind a bowlder and club a wal occupied by the foe. "In the open a Boer in a fighl stands behind his horse like a dragoon, only the dragoon is taught late in lifo, whereas the Boer and his horse grow up'together and are one. "As I strolled through the camp tc wish all the people I knew good-by and, mind you, I knew a good many, for the suspiciousness and reserve with which a Boer.regards the stran ger vanishes when he gets to know and like you -I saw thousands of men lying about, but all the repasts were of the simplest. "Biltong aud 'square face.' Noth? iug more. . "Not very difficult to feed an army which exists on dry meat and spirits. "No; and tho organization is fui-t ther simplified by the fact that where as au English cavalry horse requires his hay and oats, the Boer horse will do a splendid day's work on grass. "He wants looking after and rub bing down, though,and this the Kaffir does." The Story ofthe Iron Duke. The late Lord Salisbury was once aid-de'-camp to Wellington,and he told me that wheu the Chartists began their march he galloped in great anxiety tb the duke at the Horse Guards, and found him reading the morning paper. He lifted bis head for a moment and Raid: "How far are they now from the bridge?" (Westminster bridge.) Lord Salisbury replied: "One mile and a half, si; " The great duke said: "Tell me when they are within one-quarter of a mile," and he became absorbed in his paper. The Marquis of Salisbury went back to observe; When the procession reached the ap pointed distance he galloped back to' the Horse Guards and again found the iron duke quietly reading. "Well?" 3aid the duke. Lord Salisbury re ported that the procession was break ing up, and that only small detatched bodies of Chartists were crossing the bridge. "Exactly what I expected," said tho duke, and returned to his paper.-Biography of Lord Playfair, l?ric-a-Hrac Umbrella Handles. Metal is not at all the prevailing idea for umbrella handles, unless it is in elegant autique gold or silver han dle taken from an eighteenth century walking staff or verger's wand. To bave au umbrella handle that or namented one of Sheridan's "Beau Brummel's" or Charles Fox's walking sticks is a treasure indeed, but if yon can't have a fine bit of bric-a-brac for tho purpose, then buy a slim, sleek, slender silk-covered frame with a long ivory ostrich feather curling out for a. baudle, or oue of ebony qr teak wood similarly carved. . The beedie must be :jnito long, aud the feather effect is }uite the newest thiug. Another ! motif, much admired in ebony, is thfe carved head of a black poodle, one.df the kind whose hair grows in long cords. Two star rubies, or star sap phires, imitations ot' the true stones^ o? conreo, aro sot in the eyes. Um brellas with silver handlea, ending if broad, thin disks are popular. Whet rou touch a spring at one side of.sue! i disk a hnlf of it slides back to revej? i little mirror set in the other half.^ Sew York Sun. ? ,:.*'.;> . rf ? PHOTOGRAPH OF A'TYF ? ? I On Iiis never-tiring little horse, *he horses are left in the rear and the far Boer wears no uniform and carries his and wherever else he can store them. This explains the mobility of the Boer : OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCGO ?THE BLACK PERIL ? OF SOUTH AFRICA 8 Zulus and Basutos Menace Both o ' o Boer and Briton. ' ? O O OOOOOOOOGOGOOOOOOOOOCOOCO? F the Zulus seize theoppor - tunity offered by th?: Trans vaal war to strike "or freer dom, England would have her hands full. Should tho bold Basutos join arms with their-fierce oo?sins, South Africa would become hot soil for the British foot for many long months to come. Both of these uprisings are threat ened; both are greatly feared. The Zulu situation in particular is watched with anxious eye. England.for a while was overmatched in the last Zulu war and victory was bought in the end with I rivers of-English blood. Scarcely any greater misfortune could come ju3t now than an uprising such as this. The Zulu is undoubtedly the best native fighter of South Africa. He is physically a spleudid savage-fierce, powerful and enduring. Add to this the memory of a magnificent past, tho traditions and courage of a race nn whipped except by white men, and by them only at fearful odds, and you A BICH EASUTO. have a worthy foeman. Tho Zulus yielded to the sway of England through force indeed, but the fight they made then was one to keep alive the hope of a better ending for renewed struggle. The secret of the Zulu power lies, first, in organization, and second, in the tradition of victory. Organization under the great chieftain Tshaka at the beginning of the present century gave them their first superiority over other savage tribes, and an unending series of victories for half a century or more produced a race of ruro cour age and warlike prowess. The story of it describes the Zulu of to-day. Mills DEBATE IN THE JiA.' What is now known as Zululand-a j wild country, bounded on the north by thc Transvaal, on tho south and j west by Nata! and on tho oast by tho j aea-was then divided among several ! savage tribes, o? which the Zulna | '?CAL BOER SOLDIER. i Boer soldier rides to every fight. The mer soldiers walk into battle. The cartridges in a belt about his chest After the fight he mounts again, forces. were one of the weakest. The chief of a neighboring tribe, the TJmtetwas' plotted the murder of his two sons, one of whom, however, - escaped, and in his wanderings fell m with the British, the organization of whose forces he noted with shrewd under standing. After his father's death he returned to his tribe, was made chief, and proceeded to organize his warriors into brigades, regiments and compan ies, British fashion, and had remark able success in warfare. One of his lieutenants was a youth of fierce and restless energy. He was the son of a conquered chieftain and his name was Tshaka. He stu died-the NATIVE POLICEMEN OF THI organization of the Umtetwa army zealously and saw in it wonderful things not acr-ci^plished by hi9 wiso but mild chieftain. He mado up his mind that some day his own chance would come. Winning consideration, Tshaka was Anally, asa reward, appointed chief of the weak tribe of Zulus. He organ ized them perfectly) and when the chief of the TJmtetwas was killed in battle Tshaka announced tho indepen dence of the Zulus and upheld it by force. This done Tshaka started in to make the Zulu power supreme. He attacked his weaker neighbors firPt, and with every victory absorbed the young warriors into his own army and destroyed the old men, women and children. Tn this way his own army grew marvelously, and his conquered neighbor? lost recuperative power and eventually identity. He divided his young warriors into regiments, distinguishing each regi ment by different colored shields, aud established with rewards a competi tive spirit among regiments. He trained them to advance and attack in solid formation, something new in South African savage warfare, and he developed the close quarters attack with the short stabbing assegai or .>UTO PAKLl?iLt?NT. spear, so generally used among South African tribes. Then he established au inviolate law that any soldier returning from battle without assegai or shield, or with a wound iu the back, should be executed as a coward- By snottier law young soldiers were forbidden wives until after long service, unles? meantime they earned tb em by dis tinguished bravery in the field. Absolute .ctrscipiice was inculcated. An expedition never k'riew' it? destina tion and purpose until far ffoni fctfzne* In attacking the first onslaught watt always in solid formation, supported on either side by wings of skirmishers. Flank movements tfere a regular manouvre, and as effective ift savage as in civilized warfare. It can easily be seen how the Zulus, under such a system, swept all ZUIiTJ BOYS IT THEIB MIDDAY MEAL "HE ALEE PAM'.1" before them. The undisciplined sav ages of the plains and forests went dowd like grain before the reaper. And every new tribe subjugated was ruthlessly amalgamated into the vic ierions nation. The Zulus swept the coast, subju gated Natal and pdshed their fierce, bloody sway far inland. The terror .of their name passed far north audfftr south. Nor was there limit to their ravages until the Dutch settled in Natal. Tben began a series of fierce fights in which the white man and the rifle finally triumphed and the Zulu power was broken, or at least reduced to the point of non-interference with the movements of the Dutch and the Eng lish, who soon after awarmed over the land. But while taught to respect the white man, the Zulu nursed his tradi tions, his pride and his ferocity. It was a disgrace in his eyes to labor ex cept in the prosecutiou of war. Un der Cetewayo, the great chief whose power England broke in a war in which she met several terrible re verses and lost hosts of splendid men, the Zulu was at heart the Zulu of the great Tshaka's days, And this is she people who now threaten to avail of England's troubles to regain their freedom. They are the same in spirit and are rich in re sentment. For years they have nursed their wrongs. What they have lost in savage fierceness by r. genera tion -of.ipeacefuL-Bubjeotior. is. more. PROVINCE OF NATAL, S. A. than matched, say recent writers, by their gaius in knowledge. They still retain their terrible stabbing assegai, but they have added the rifle, and are splendid marksmen. They dream of restoring the splendors of their past, and if they riso can be counted a ter rible foe. Znluland to-day. has a population of about a hundred and eighty thousand natives and less than fifteen hundred whites. The only occupation of the natives is the raising of cattle. There are 8900 square miles in the district A ZULU WARRIOR. and the government is a British pro tectorate. The Basutos, while by uo means the peers in war of the Zulus, occupy a strong position. Basutoland is bounded by Cape Colony, the Orange Free State and Natal. They have only 600 Europeans in their entire territory. The country is a splendid grain pro ducer, aud the Basutos are thrifty ?nd ? rich. There are wild mountain dis tricts to serve in time of need. They were once a warlike power of some consequence, and in 1879 they : stood oft' England in a war over dis- j armameut to a compromise by whioh : he Cape Government has since paid hem $90,000 a year toward the cost 4 government. They are in large measures self [overning-=of course, under British lictatiou-rand* enjoy a considerable nea8ure of civilizaci?n. About fifty housand out of a population of two ?undred and twenty thousand have )eefi converted to Christianity. In one' of the accompanying large Hu s tra ti ons is1 shown a meeting of ho most extraordinary parliament,, ?erhaps, that ever came together to liocsss State affairs. This congrega :ion of ebony skinned poMt?c?anp is ;he Kaffir Parliament of Basutoland, vhich lies to the northeast of Cape Colony, and is consequently intimately associated with the present African muddle. These Basutos rmmber over 200,000, and occupy the finett grain and grass producing territory in South Africa. The capital of the country is Maseru, with a,population of 600, and it is here that the native parliament meets to discuss matters of State. Basutoland is really a British protec torate, bnt the imperial authorities interfere very little with the liberties and ways of the natives, the only white official being a resident com missioner who levies a very small "hut tax" on the natives in return for which they receive the protection of Britieli troops along their frontier. An Arizona Curiosity. This enormous cactus grows near Phoenix, and is one of the curiosities of that region. It is about forty feet high, and its great size may be easily noted from a comparison of its height A GIANT CACTUS. with that of the men staudiug under it. The caotus fiber is used for roof ing of huts in Arizona and other States where it is found. Flies Carry Typhoid. Professor Vaughan, an authority on infections disease who was a surgeon in the Spanish-American war and was detailed by the Government to inves tigate the cause of typhoid fever, has finished his report, which contains 3,000,000 words He declares that the theory of the miasmatic origin of the disease is an ' error and that it is transmitted from an infected person to others by com mon flies acting as carriers, by per sonal contact and by flying dust. The unsanitary condition of the camps is given as the original source of the fever, and it is asserted that the commands at Tampa, Palmetto Beach. Miami and Chickamauga were unwisely located. One-fifth of the American soldiers, according to the report, developed typhoid fever, but army surgeons cor rectly diagnosed a little less than one half the cases. The percentage of deaths was sev en and one-half while eighty per cent, of the total deaths was due to this disease. _ i i Dau^erous Philippine Natives. ' The men to be feared eopecially in the Philippines are the bolo men. These rove about in small bands, armed with the deadly bolo knife, and spring uyion their victims from the bushes or tall grass, making usually { quick work of them. For every man killed they cut a deep mark in their trusty knife. Already several soldiers have beou assassinated, but in some instances the soldier supposed to be unarmed has had his revolver at hand and has given the bolo man a counter surprise. These men are nothing more than murderers and must be re duced. They will bo hard to catch, but American genius and pluck, sec onded by the friendly aid of the peace ful Filipinos, will eventually clear the country of those outlaws.-New York Independent. llanelli nc Larc?; Military Forces. Some of tho practical difficulties of bundling large military forces may be inferred from the following statements in T. Miller Maguire's "Outlines of Military Geography:" "A British division on the march along an ordinary main road without an advanced guard would be five miles in length. If the modern Ger man army were put in motion the whole military road from the Khine to the Bussian frontier would be thickly crowded with soldiers, guns and transports. If an army corps of 30,000 men and 10,000 horses rests for a day or two preparatory to a battle or daring a siege it cats up all pro visions procurable iu a piece of rich country nine miles long by five miles wide." An Accidental Consequence of a Kiss. Webster Snider, of Sullivan, Ind., went to Terre Haute to have a piece of knitting needle removed from his arm where it found lodgment when his sweetheart was playfully resisting his effort to kiss her. Snider says that when bidding the young lady good night he attempted to kiss her. She resisted and there was a scuffle. He kissed her and in doing so ran his arm against the needle, which she held in her hand. It penetrated'the arm four or five inches and three inches of it broke ofi'iu the arm. The X-ray was used by tho surgeou and thc pieca of the needle was re moved. ireful Bird In South Alvira. The ostrich is a great figure in pub lic life in South Africa. He is a source of wealth, and ofteu a friend and com panion. He is a valuable tubstitnte for a watch dog. He eau kick a horso to death, aud i.% therefore, very for midable to burglars. Hu eats witt relish tltiugs that woiild poison th? strougest goat that ever lived,