Show SCHOOL BOYS MESSAGE Messenger Delivers One from Philadelphia Phila-delphia to Kruger Philadelphia Juiu 1che North American has received the following cable ca-ble messageS message-S Pretoria May 2lIn distress of dire circumstances the message from the school boys of Philadelphia to President Presi-dent Kruger delivered this day has the tone of sympathy and sorrow at the final misfortune which Is about to wipe the South African republic from the roll of independent nation rather than an encouragement to a people flghtinr for liberty the fight has been fought nnd lost DELIVERED AT CAPITOL rime message was delivered In the cx ccutlve chamber at the capital through the windows of which came the rumble rum-ble of oxcarts and general confusion attendant upon the evacuation of the city by the families of the Boors The British ar < reported to be approaching BOER CAUSE IS LOST There was an impressive silence In tine chamber us the stern and venerable t President or lhh doomed republic bent forward to rrclw from Messonpr Jules Francis Smith tho packet which the boy had traveled 12000 miles to deliver de-liver into his hands 1 BITTHR EPIGRAM Caesar Mortturl te Sulutamus j quoted S rMnry I Sta fritz as thin j PFz1nt atpIt d the Jn jH1JiC T11cJ t 1iI I he added a bitter epigram HOn this tj i occasion the message Is reversed t > Caesar greets thoso about to die I This reference to the United States t and tho message of sympathy front F 1 1 America to the President of a dying I I sister republic profoundly movM i every one present Tears glistened In the Presidents eyes as he took tha packet from the messengers hands I S MADE MANLY SPEECH In presenting the message Smith n made a manly little speech Informing U President Kmgcr of the nature of his Ii mission as courier uf the school boys of Philadelphia Secretary of SLit Rolls translated Smiths simple sentences ft sen-tences as they were spoken II Then the book from the North American Ameri-can containing the narrative of the t movement that culminated in the dispatch i f dis-patch of the messenger and the newspaper t I news-paper clippings expressive of the tI ymi path of the people of the United Slates with the Boer cause was presinted I II KRUGERS REPLY I U I President Krugers reply was grave j and courteous He tendered hearty 1 thanks to the American people and l particularly to the libertyloving lado for f-or Philadelphia for their sympathy and charged Smith to return his greetings to the good people of America Then I with fatherly kindness he shook hands with Smith congratulating him upon completing his long journey In safety and expressing the hope that he would i have an equally safe return to his distant t 1 dis-tant home The entire group was then I 1 photographed f |