Show i THE BOEff BOER LEADER BOTHA BOTtI A AND HIS ENGLISH OPPONENT I L B a tho Iho worM world Is l vexed with warn rumors of or worn WOIN so lI ot into A It has Ity by Jy flOWS and of ot Th I old has boon tint Botha tho Doer In chief hau fi d Ills hl willingness to 10 I lont word to Lord Kitchener to 10 that l u effect tr cl Hut that report was current nearly n 1 and it 11 was then oven Oon I declared that had surrendered but subsequently the Ihl report was VOl found to lit I Without foundation in III fact Th rh war still drag drull Its weary length along and tho Iho sturdy spirit In South Attica still up 1111 the fight 11 the accounts the had hadIn In III llio field a n lUlu over men Inen di dl divided vided Into a n dozen such Much leaders as Dotha Do ot Muller Delaroy 1 Steyn Schalk bUrR t veteran all 1111 who arit fit by the IhO highest t convictions If It not by lIy the Ih highest i Their deter determination dol r has hM been beell well expressed by bytho tho ot Do Wet Wol who wild her husband hU would dlo oon r than lurren lurrender der cl slin ah hoped all the leaders u roll folt way R RH It H cannot be tI denied however tho outlook for tOl thu Doom is Ii IO 1011 N prom luom 1 I thun It II wan IM n 1 your ago and still jo lUll KO fill two ago To to the force orca now in III tho Iho Held nold Is I stripped tI to III thu waist so flO to sp ok and andIn In Ii without tho customary oll lm pediment upon an army hear ltd Jill homo fixed basu Of fighters havo overboard or ot Rot got i Id of o all 1111 their mm und of ot original or only two nt I In Boum Africa Is IR and very ery much having Ilet i r evaded capture though on oni i 11 within an lien aca ot bc bl by tho Iho vigilant 1 Of Ot tho Ihl old ooh and dead and nut Cronje In I n R pru 1111 oner at It St Helena 1181 1111 General a Botha heln Ills hili legitimate probably bin blY bino o r In his hll peor n nw a 4 bravo and nn Intelligent commander In chief It Is said thirteen out oUI of at tho original member of ot the thi 11 rat are either dead or 01 hll Ing and in till IH report reported ed II In hI tho Three hand a of or the Doer elute aro In two been four havo hl 0 surrendered and one line la Is mis 1111 i rig lili I Ir III rb l captured tho wo woo women woot r men t and children n gathered In con COli camilli whore where they aro sup al at tho Iho are nt destroyed d tho houses bou cl burned i the tho rIY republics RIO arc so 0 Ie that to uto ua a II Current r phrase a t crow would to carry hili rations with him If It he un und d rl k lo lOlly fly across tho territory Ther h te remains now but liUI ono thing to fight for tor that IH a negative privilege ce of It remaining the of oC the country formerly b bf lo III the In other words Negative lire are not nOI to the taste of ot thorn fighting and It l I not 1101 generally credited that thoy tho will consent to beg for lor them I now no any more than In tho I important of ot lato 11 II 1 Included but there theN are QI Kill 1111 left I It ea n leaders who have l vowed to corry on the Ih to the v very ry bitter end All U suggestion as to surrender aro now 1111 re 11 referred e tenell by J the Ih to Ih CI In tho field l Lord t 1 Kitchener even at ilL Town lo to And hAil had not 1101 tho war party at lit home In applying that r QUA DUll to 10 which h It la II hoped and lint will sue mill 1111 latent method has boon beon to 10 c at short l n r I I O l O with lIh I In III such a 1 manner as nN In I y tho part of th lIu bol bolI I II I territory and within j i i I nn built nt lit expense ep und by IW d engineers It la 18 fondly hoped by lIy tho that they th Y havo corralled and nUlt lilo hili forces Hut HuL n A 4 Ji now and then come of ot this or that awn Into the anti l III II II to the hill hili The cURt cost Of ot the Ihl to III 1110 has hn boen I I r I at nt n 1 billion dollars with billion lit It tho hear h nl and If It aro Hoers loft when It Is barbed will bo 0 u n drug on 01 the mar I ot In III Houth dt that tho country U I from Capi Town to on thu und north to 10 To no hl Connecting the tho latter ht I two 1116 linos lineA of ot barbed and n 1 Kf of ot that aup tho Iho natural for tor da do unIt and form torm nn on within which ot oC Doors kept lit itt bay Nearly or 01 tho whole of ot an nil well nn M Iho Colony region in III I h It II i 11 If line arc Important places and y and De O OMIl MIl on tho lino ot environment tho 1110 In 11 chief nalla falla tho Iho men of ot main resistance Hot In the roughly from 1011 to other are no II nearly II cleared of the Iho Door ait II to bo r safe aMe and mill others to 10 tho 1110 southward am liNt considered t on wholly iafe Inte Dut U I tho Iho a n now then ot ap nil In places Ih aro lout to 10 know by y Instinct tho Iho MUCH lo of ot t rC I nIt Jl through them with astound Loulu tho Door com chief ohler hu boon so u to during tha two to liln hili would sup Ho first allowed M n 1 fighter but d wholly qualities ot n ot or 11 and han won tho Iho admiration not lIot only of ot till 1111 tho under ulI or him but of ot tho rank and HUH ho hI hat to thai conco In III any proposition for tm und tho 1111 of ot at nt leant 11 Blurt Bluff AS III At tho Inter Interview view of ot In nt year by hy tho way wn perpetrated a 1 joko at 11 which tho Iho long bet b d A fruitions conference was hold and at It 1111 to conclusion Midi Well BO so long I must bo going HIli why 11 hurry n Kitchener You havo no train to catch Just It responded re sol ol I havo Rot to catch u 1 train trainA A fow tOI dayn later when It Il wan report reported ed Ill to Kitchener that had hlll not lIot only caught but looted a I train on Oil the tho 1 railway ho remembered the nil statement and acknowledged tI HIM I h lotto Cull In mi nit him Iwa trains and much sup SUI IllIe llo the tho blockhouse lights und HIM by lIy the barbed vim and hosts hosl ot guarding thu |