| Show TAKING UP THE BOER REPUBLICS Mass Meeting to be Held Field on Thurs Thursday Thursday day to Urge Mediation SO ES IN SOUTh AFRICA are ro 11 J t ut at 01 oil time Veldt III Early rI New w York ork Marsh aThe New YOrk to aid the Unie United ne ot of South Africa former Judge e George M I Van JHen chairman wi wili hold I a on Thursday night In Copper Union Resolutions eili il b be adopted cling ceiling upon President hey ley to oter otter his ome towar toward mediation Champ Clark ut of Mis Missour sour souni U S Senator Joe of I Kentucky former Secretary ot of the theNAY NAY Navy McAdoo and White for tor former mer mInister ot of the to rn Lon London don vI vill be among the tho The Thio wi will be Je taken at t thIs raNting to get et up a big petition Doers for tor the fighting DEnS ARE ABE A correspondent of the Time TImes wrIt wrItIng writing Ing from Lourenzo Marques says KY KYA saysA A Dutchman gives nn an interesting no 00 cut or of n a visit he rent recently paid to the hoer camp at Colenso lie made n a short ata stay at the tent of Gen Oen Joubert who nl at the time wa was engaged wih with his secretary and the telegraph wires wireR while cose close at hOld hand and anel under time the same cn can os aa his sturdy spouse WOI was placidlY peeling potatoes al as It if no fatal tatal Issues were hanging In the balance Jalance The Tho rites of hospitality were vere observed by the commandant genell general ordering tho no na native tive e wench Eva Ea who has accompanIed him and hits his god good spouse through many manya n a fierce campaign to bring the national beverage caree coffee At the camp nn an Irish who had Just falen fallen Into the hands ot of the tho Boors remarked In conversation Sur Sure al all the Doers Ole met have leel been Irish Irishmen men Certainly the collection Wt was a most mOlt cosmopolitan one There were a afew few tew among them but the majority were either Americans ital Ions inns or In the tho Ilar near neighbor neighborhood hood Judge Kock ock and the general were sere cracking whips and stimulating lazy mules into activity hitching and un unhItching hItching harness greasing wheels ls and notching as If such sueh were the tho ordinary ot of the chair chairman chairman man of the first and a a judge ot of the Supreme Court GhASTLINESS AT SpION KOP London March ot of the Associated real ghast Iness hiness for tor n a glimpse Into the gory real reali realities ties Ues ot of war nail anel the horrors ot of the lat bat the private leter letter of a young medical o cuber at Kop printed In Inthe inthe the Dolly Daily Graphic cnn can Bercel scarcely be beat Jeal beaten en I selected I a pass he writes over overhung hung by steep clay banks Janks on the Uto top of at which I got up n a led lIed Cros Cross flag ag Cases Casel now began to pour down from Spion Kop on stretchers The Doers opened Ire fire on us and three bullets went Into the lIre fire knocking the sticks about The reason for this fre fire was WOI not the ned fled Cross nag flag but owing to some Tommies who Were strolling over oer to I it either to toke take cover coer there or orto orto to see what bat we were doing I prompt I 1 ordered them awo away A few tew minutes I after the Doers let fir fire five shells In InI quick succession In n my direction but I they the fell Il short and did no harm This i sort lort ot of thing went on rund round me for the rest ot of the diY day but I always kept wel well wellin In the lie shelter ot of tle the batik bank 1 Prom rom this time to ten next moring morning the wounded came throuGh In may dressIng station B as the pas pass was time tho on onI I exit from the hill I saw w ever eer case ense and some lome of them were mutated mutilated be beyond Je yond ond description WOUNDED AND DEAD Ful Fully wounded and dead who had died on the way passed through m my hands The cheerfulness ot of th the wound wounded ed struck me mao a ima with shattered wounds wound smoking their pipes and although starving not n a grumble did I hear Many a por ioor chap shot In th moring morning In the front trenches who i could nut le be reache reached lay IBY In the blazing sun al all da day Ol One old colonial II in Thorn with beard walked wih B a grey berd down leaning on his rifle he was n a amass mass or of ne er ear cut through by a bullet Julet his chil chin nek neck and clest chest also allo shut hot through by others and his back and aad legs torn hi J shel shell le lie came In and said he be Just dropped 11 in to let me take his finger off orr as I It was I so hat shat hati i red he could not pul pull Ih the trigger or of his 1111 riFle ns as tt it got tn in the way ot of time the next finger which lie he could ume for or he wante wanted to get back up the hi bill to topa JY pa the Dutchmen out out Ot Of course I would not lot let him go bade back Tim The bulet bullet wounds wound ar are beautifully clen clean Just a lt lit littie te tie runt round hole and as al a rule do not hot do to to much u th they oten Often go through time the hone bone without shattering I it alt and th they do not bleed much rhe shell wounds are hideous STOLE It wa vas no now frightfully dark and I put ole one ot of the lanterns on 1 a stick sUek I as asa a directing to ot of ofa light m ray one n a grup group ot of soldiers returning to tb the hi bill trl tried to run away wih with I it and I would bud lost I it only I snatched up n a sill rUle from a wounded man aid ad 1 would shoot him If hi he did not bring It back le lie dropped It and rn ma away anI and I it vent out Jut but I lt got I it again Shorty Shortly after thi this both lanterns went out and I 1 had a lt pretty bd bad tm time 8 as the tbell ll Pu often got ot blocked with I Finally I 1 could send no mo more found el etl acro across the drift ald and had to stack them wih with the d dead d In rows on the cr grass I cleto collected al all the wounded oUre 01 on stretchers around In inc and gave e thorn them brandy and n a ot of morphine The he moring morning w be wIan beiran Ian iran to dAwn about 43 alt l lit up time ghastly huU faces ot of the patients around me My I men inca now got n a tt tire redy ready mona aM Gt got seine me mOl inoru beef te tsa and cie coffee and I had Ime some myself the first mOl meal since my dinner the day after h hIng Ing the tho wounded Ime some as wel well I them 01 on the ambulances ner across the tho drift DOER BOER CO COMMANDERS Commandants and anel Burgess who were rare the DIr Boor generals came now ou time the scene The former who was wa the chief general WI was a smallish thin man With yellowish bor board and hind had n a magnificent title tier cne carved wills his name and 1 a text from the Bible lie He had 1 a couple ot of mounted carrying his ammunition and water bottle and an interpreter le lie seemed however to understand hag Ens though he refused to speak I it but nol twos and then said ld Certainly certain certainly I ly There Were quie quite a number of German ennan I herd heard one ot of them had been kie killed The They let our mon men search the dead tor or their identification cards leters letters and mOle money I It wan very ery sati Md to see the things we found In their tens Christmas cards little pocket books wih with hal halt finished letters Several ot of the tho Boers floers handed In little things the they check cherk for tor los a with money etc Some ot of the hind had trinkets rund round their necks One por poor chap ohal had a locket wih with a spray ot of white heAthe heather end we had to cut his name oft orr Ile his shirt and pin It to the locket 11 as a mens means ot of Ilent caton I am sorry rr to say Y that a a number had their cut or off to get theIr rings but the Dors Boors said that lint the they did nt not see who did I it nd amid were sere In TERRORS OF SOUTH AFRICAN CA London March ot of the Associated seized wih with sunstroke writhing and gasping for wate water vere lying every fifty yards ar or so 10 This h is not a descriptIon of a a but merly merely the tho account ot of the theet th thYe Ye et ordinary practice mae made b bOen by then Oen haNY highland brigade to on February 3 n us told b by th the correspondent to the Standard nd te the brigade had only marched ten mie milca when the Den men tItus thus began to lurter suffer It I is only from Vivid suc such l as come by J mol mail tha that the climatic conditions ot of the veldt can be Je thoroughly realized The correspondent gO goes on to 8 say the river beng being close by bywater J water otel was procurable and Ute the cose men 01 all allgot got Into camp nt at the drift by 1 Only u a few tew of the he ca cases turned out to be beY bevery very Y serious Toso 0 men were lost lether on one of hom WM was found two days later b by n a patrol ot of lancers He HeWl Wl In n a raving condition and dlo died shorty shortly uter after being brought into CM camp NO PROGRESS WITHOUT WATER WATER Te The lessons leare learned from tes these things are Inte interesting limo Tho march cerly clearly shw says the Ime same writer tb the danger J of taking Infant infantry for long di die In te the heat ot of tue tho da day without 1 a wlter water lt practically IHde decides that thal te the rout route to Pretoria Iut must be either r along n a railway or along the rivers Another thins clearly mant mani tested wa vas the unsuitability ot of the tho hea heavy equipment ot of the men for tor n a campaign In South Africa Each mAn WI carrying ll rounds round of at ammunition In pouches hung on lila his stomach and nd at wih with In an arrangement ot of straps closely resembles the ordinary mule Ule used he here Hung on hi his bak back WM was I a hevy heavy overcoat which since te the march rein Orange river be be began gan ho baa so tar far M as I Me have observed nov tr or bon boon us used onu onee Then there a are the tho water bUlt bottle canteen rOt rifle other ar articles l altogether with uni uniform fon form maim UP I a burden bUIen ot of about sixty pounds und Te The kit kilt I is Iule cult unsuitable for tor such luch n a In ah Thorns caught the kit kilts and tore the bar bare legs of the In the mOt moat cruel manne manner SUNS TERRIBLE HEAT n II F Provost from Orange river to the Morning lost gives a BUl still clearer Idea idea of at what le life Is to soldiers on the veldt I His I dispatch date dated February th te II In part as tol ful lows The sun Bun teals feels Ie like n a heated Iron held cose close to the skin on one cannot hold 1 a apiece piece of at wod wood which ha has ben been lIng lying In InI I it The deep hot bot re red sand makes In Intolerable intolerable tolerable the soles sole ot of one ones boot and the I duet dUlt rises a at teach each footstep ani and clings to everything that moves Jo fo and fro r In their midst In a trail I If dust dUlt that never settles move mOe on con continuously the lon long strange trains ot of transports Open wagons file filed wih with men ae are plC plied with guns gun or wih with men pled piled above the guns like sense em cm bl ar car tn in a procession long wide country carts halt tented brimming wih with camp equipment alternating with lh naval ordnance hooded lit In oilskin or a string of gray pontoons The sidings are choke choked with trains loaded lh on ar army Pro Progress u Is slow 10 for or there I is Jut but u a den der single lne line from De be Aar ar to the Mod o Then hen came a delicate touch ot of local clor color n a glowing description At Ate e he writes from one OM ot of these 10 low his hills by the river It looks like one of the great greut fairs of Souther Southern Russia for or In time the t twilight the veldt t has some lome something thinG thing ot of the darkness silence and mys tt ten of the steppe 18 Its purples are not 10 so deep as those thole that twilight weir wears above aboe the black earth of the olga but butte te they hue have clearness and space And the resemblance e Is when hen the floating silver veil el ot of dust dUlt social to rise wih with the evening to 10 all within It 1 a magic tents the horses bone strange cans the orange brightness of the catsup camp out on the velds Idt the laboring of at oxen can only be len seen to move by th the growing trails ot of dust dUlt behind them NO CAN pAn PAINT TIE TIlE No man can paint that picture and paint Into It the sense of war Even the burIe bugles which ct cry to each othmer down don ther there about the fires har have no tem stern hardness In thern song onI ot of death Te sickle Ick of te the new moon 00 burl burns pa paP above the hilj in the I redness which th iii un sun hI has lel left with the evening star Ie set n a moons mOon breadth 1 above I it a as In a Jewelers design There Thero is II lot not these mie nilles of air the dim fleas nUl for tad bead of dew The moon t rests unbent 11 ott II its edge rp before It moves Ihl th hi lull and clear as al the sInk I ing ln flame the lie little melancholy twitter of the phoenix laments the hour That an and not the camp bugle gives the I I real last Int post the night cal call ot of this r I bl bird country Into which we have come But It I is the ot of dust duat and tiles that make 1 life 1 so unbearable From Ies Modder river Mr writes When the first shot was fired across Wi the Modder the land Wil was green In It its way a I It had It at least tet on I It a make be j I l ot of grass gral a sparse drie dried I some lamp looking which bl h man and beast belul as fodder Now I it Is ant I a 1 l red of und sand rho rhe Jj 11 the sand Is intensIfied as regi meat II I added tu to regiment battalion reg to battalion battery to battery tery troop to troop The dust dUAt which h wa was once a nut nul sauce anee I is now little lei Jesa than B a plague I It is II always being stirred by the string strings of on f lr way to watering which pass and repa repass to the riVer al almost almost most ever hour ot of the da day by the kl kicking squealing droves of transport mules b by the long spans ot of oxen I It I rises on thi the stillest days without warn lag In thin twisting spirals ot of sand nd which take lake their own wa way p ful and abominable across neroM the camp j befouling upsetting ever every thIng that across their COUI course c I and reaching for tor hundreds ot of feet up i ward r into the still bue blue sk sky t n 1 DUST AS TIE TIlE PLA PLAGUE UE But Dut the dust evis evils are little mor more i t than an amusement to our dust ridden I souls I It is 19 tho ho duet dUlt which corel comes not 11 In dal daily but In cloud that we O fear which hides not u a t tnt tent here and there but the entire it ramp camp the rf roof of he heaven al all vestige ot of A the world which blinds Ihl time eyes ces and brin brings blood to the eyelids 11 tho ho 1 mouth wih with Il its gritty foulness and f 00 If ever every Inch ot of the bOdy with It a fm film 1 k of at brown bron which lasts not for a few blustering moments but for or hour after f J I hour of at discomfort during I it Is impossible to ride to write or to forgive torge one ones en enemies Va we shall have hae pleas please heaven henen but fan tew snore moro days das of I it now Aler After the but n a Ihor short way ay 1 file 01 tu to think as r ra a child beside the lice and the blood tl and the blame blains that lint the he Egyptians werf were t let or elf rather Ihl lightly wih with tiles tHes A short r siR alB b by tIme tho ulers alters that opinion I The tent Is blide black lh them the Jam pots hum under the hand band that lt them from time the table and the l s out between one ones fingers like black r spouts ot of water a sudden pyramid ot of put them forms torms on every morsel uNel of toad food and i iones ane ones hand II Is never at rest sweeping 11 them from ones face They the 1 Ink tS as one writes In search of some lomo fresh experience and the pen is II cogged clogged wih with their severed feet feet Beyond doubt J on one did the Egyptians an injustice But Dut with the dust dUlt |
