Show COMMANDEERING HORSES Consul Wllliamss Trap for tho Boers that Didnt Work Co A Williams formerly American Consul al Johannesburg and now engaged en-gaged In business at that city when reCently I re-Cently In this country i In speaking of i uondlllons In hurt Transvaal subswiuent to the outbreak of horitlllilw told tho tollow log story The lipors wero commandeering com-mandeering everything right and left lor use In the war but especially horses I rom ember ono morning a friend of minI di ling Into town with lib wife In a vic torla and having1 their pair of carriage horses commandeered and taken Lr nand n-and there and their horseless victoria left high and dry upon ono of the principal I streets of Johannesburg which as It was 1 nol an automatic und at least seven miles I from home was II most dlnlresslng thing to have happened For Ito horse so commandeered Uio Boers paid a llxed price of 11 and Jdetermined to take advantage ad-vantage of this condition of affairs and set rid of a horse of mlno which 1 had long been anxious to dlnposo of Tho hoiso In question was most beautifully built Iron gray In eulor and of uiiiut I tloncd upeca and staying power 1 used him both for the saddle and for driving purposes but principally for the latter unit1 ho developed fO direful In Its con seq U < iiee a propensity to run away at any and all times us to make himself a compete nuisance At lint ho would do this only when ho was being driven by a KatUr and FO 1 SRO Instructions to the driver to always sit perfectly quiet be hind him so thai hn would not discover that 1 was not holding the ribbons In spite of this precaution however he usually made the dlsrovery and It wan about nven money whoa T left l my ear rlage nnywhcro that I wouldnt find It lucre when I got luiek So often did he do IhlH that I nt the last he would come tall Ing through Johfinnohburg at full till and no ono would til < e any notice save to wearily comment Oh1 there goes VII Jlamns borne bos run away again Al one time continued Mr Mllllams I went out to sec Victor flcmenl i l tbo Sunnier and Jack mine and I was sitting Inside when Clement called lo me Wil liams come out hero and heel nt your hon and as I gt to time nnreh 1 niight sight of him going tt headlong speed toward to-ward a tlvcfoot pile of scrip Iron with tho buggy rocklncr In his wake like a small boat In a heavy sea As ho reached tho pllo ho rose to It like a bird left the nuguy an utter and complete wreck upon It and disappeared In a cloud of dual In the dlrccllon of home It llnnlly got io that I roultlnt drlvo him at all no when they began o commandeer I com-mandeer the horses und ovry one was hiding theirs as best they coul1 I toll I ihe stolilo boy to alwav groom him In a conspicuous plnc lo tlo him outside tho stable Hid whenever he hoard t of nn of leer ciniimiinUoerlng lijr < es nnjwhro 10 tnko the bruto out and load him as though for eXercIse AVell my liorwe wa first xnd lasl led prut every Boor officer In Jo hannesburg but one and ali they utterly und abHohitely retted to eommRiidcer him So T finally gnve It un hut not until I had gone to one of the onicers and said youre In need of homes and Ivo got u Iwnuly no m my place you Finn have He looked nl me a moment with a grin and then said ily 1 llKr follow 1 think a grout deal too much of my men in r ul any of thum o trld of any equine marvel Ilk lhal Why ha mlffht laud his rider In tin British linen or at home the first fight we bpi In I gave It up nt that and tho borne li still eating Ills hfml off rt my i xuii5o concluded Mr Williams regret I fully New York Tribune I |