Show A SCOUT How lie Jle HIs Business to the Ish Sutherland In Philadelphia North When Captain Fred Pred left Pretoria last June Junc on account or of Injuries Lord ed him a remarkable letter It an announced announced the American appoint appointment mont ment as a 11 major in III the lie army and concluded with these words I Ido Ido do not think there Is another maim who has haa been een ot of such great service to her forces Tho tribute was wa deserved The stocky little American was known as time the eyes ot of the commander es that could see sec In the th dark Ight after lie he spent or on tIme the veldt under the cold stars away from his command moving like a shadow across the tho Plain crawling Into Boer camps camillI lying limit on his face among the tethered horses and gather in Int ever every scrap ot of Information about the enem that sight and hearing put within his Before Deture ite he would glide away through the grass and rule back to his hla own command and 10 lay before Lord art an sc BC curate picture or of this the forces with details ot of their pro probable able move moe meats for the next hours bours was not another man In the British army who could have hafl doris done timis PerilouS work Among Amons the he coloniAl lank lanky Australian plains men hiten and the from the tho Cams Cana dian northwest there ere runny many understood and Practiced scouting in III a general vay t but none ot of them ever eer time the amazing Impudence ot of In his hili ot of the enemy ui lie was captured only once thought scores or of times he was the lie Hoer lines In khaki uniform Hut It must not be hat his capture sias due to blundering lie He was sas engaged In danger to 10 the lie British h troops and only when h he SAW easy that they had caught the incidentally hulf II a do douen en Doers Were wert lolling alon along rifle bar to surrender The story was drugged out of him him omie olle night III at din dimm dinner nor ner in III Pretoria It as Its In one or of the ot of tim th Burnham doing some sOllie l scouting imy 11 daylight anI and lUco it 11 hind a lull hili kopje It if you ou fe few hundred d yards to his lett Two 1110 In front ot of thern the tue British detachment solemnly across th tue brown towards the trap rat II a up UJ on th the highest P ot of th the bill hili lie ho was ivas on stood clearly against the sky airy With on one eyt eI on the tho DONS h lie nut hits red and began a vigorous wigwagging to the he Ing troops The dust dusty column moved steadily Oil on and beat the air us mis steadily with his signal hag A fauler bullet sped past 1St with n a nasty whine and front the bIll or of Id hi eye Ie he could see e I a lArty or of running behind time the to o hI he more rapidly rapid until h lie the British Rd ad adVance Vance Scouts wheel and hiack tu to the main hOd bod Then he hits his handkerchief and threw up ht his bands and toM told the 1 hI lt WRIt was realy to hem lie Ie limped hastily Ht le not nol lad jack night II I was sias to be to lu Pretoria with a aT T ago train Th There were Ite a big vehicles In the train and In far h rod tO o or se seera If frill era ot of bern I asked ham ht imle wound him Im ImOh Oh I nt h lie said Ir r 1 that limp When took mime me just as 1 a C I 1 might need It you ou tel m my tightly Just Justn n o its knee It 10 to It bad or of COUrt course so 10 when hey mae Ino 1 0 I there was wall nothing more than a 11 There either not as mu flu h In tact was In I a wagon bout the middle or of the lie long column but ut complained lint It too crowd 01 1 ito they movE flayed him hIm further back hoek hen his imle Is ordinarily bath traits a nail 1111 to top the row the tho him ham further buck In the tho Ilium So o b bone by one tie pretext and another h he worked hi 1 i i I Y n way toward the reAr until lie he was rid nt lag Ins In the last wagon ron of all A few fe yards rants behind that rode roce six mouna men und and a quarter ot at a In 11 back rode this the rear Guard walled waited That evening as al the column wu vi crossing a drift the reAr wagons were wet delayed and time the who were wem able to walk were allowed to get It down dow and their heir legs lep One ot of the ii British caught sight eight ot of the t scout hailed him Hello ht he saId so thee got you ou Shut up retorted Ino in fIerce whisper The Doer Boer commandAnt 1111 half herd the nm name ot of the ta fe am and wheeled around harp shari I 13 When hen time the wagons got acres the drift lie he called Urt up A bushman one on ot of those linac little natives native who vii have hae time the keen instincts ot of animals animal an told hint him to watch The Theil began n it silent duel The America trout scout almost met Inet his hie match As s time the long column moved along the dim track In tb the veldt the theto Ut two to scouts tested each pach Burnham 11 lay sit at the front ot of the wager his hAt off and hits his yell eyes closed The Tim trotted beside the th front wheel With lees than han a snake among dry leaves the th American Americal wormed himself elt along under the hoot hood to 10 the back and peered out Into th lh darkness There WAS a PAtter ot of fee teet rl right ht under him and he could I see a little black shape jogging along through the dus lie He carefully ar arranged ranged Ills imis hot hat over th tailboard and Ind crawled balk back to the Ut front In three JI the little bush bushman u h hman man was at his hlf side und amid silently hand hantl handed ed hint him his hat hatI I Every ery device that lie he could think or 0 tried Jut but It seemed scented no use So he himself elt down In stillness with eyes oyes and ears wIde open Hour after hour passed yet et with dug dog patience he hung on anti waited ailed It was nearly when hll iii chattel came callie The ran forward a s fel steps to speak to the driver ot of th lenin who wu was swinging his long over oler the plodding line ot of oxen Thom few 8 Were enough Silently Burnham slipped forward or on lila hlA face tace omit on to the lie hea 1101 between till wheel oxen lie He bay Iny dow It 0 on en the big timber toll rull len length th clasped t It II with his hll arms and legs swung himself to time the under side And dropped on lila his back on the soft dust TIme Tho hea wheels creaked put peat lion thon the six mounted In Inthe the bUick the man on the ground hall had only his hili ears to him Lying tInt lint anti ami with lIh his hll crate arms close CIOFfi tu to his aisles its he IM a tell few Inches to one arid and lay lai still and on ooch side sille ot of him Pealed three bOr horses eJ their hoofs kicking dust Into his bile face Two seconds condl anti alt althe Ime he W was fr free lie He gate th m ard slant then rolled over and nd over way away II from rota the track for twenty ardC anI anIla and la lay still until the wagon waun train had out ot Time The first ot if dawn dAIn were showIng letting hi his direction he started on ona a where he would strike the nIt British lines Sod I lenly h lie saw INUI In th the 11 light within I o yards a Bose farm house houle and three w or four armed inca Ott on A hill hili near Mar b bHe by bylie lie He dropped bike Ilk a weasel euel and wriggled d tI times griles to a little where whre a tiny creek runs rup In the rainy rain I hogs were wert barking barkin arnt till the farm arrn house le He Ill In down on 14 l back lot his hll list over oer hili oy eyes and still It so 10 bad for lor an lour hour or II two to that 11 he was a a little hungry But Bul the lie chili ot of time the night e way to stif tit lair heat as tI tim sun moss roae and best on the plain Dy ly oute out he could ie that the mimed amen were N still on watch atch and here thero was wal nothing tg do hut but lie Ill still The rime attn mole 1018 It d and Burnham waa at b by snore mON th than by hurt hUll r lie hardly mo move a mu musI While Thile bf be hay bill iii khaki uniform could rould not Ix be 1 mom the dry Ir ItI ills hair his hili fal lee Itt t the Inti gus out of his hili et O OV In Iny y V hi his lips and dry throat hurt tm Hut But came at last talt the 11 I lIht rill for a tw frs minute then the When the lut iut ot of light gut was gone Buraham began h to rawl a away a on oft his hla hattie ban and kneeL kneeLa In a an ho r or two he be had bad cIrcled far al nough away from rota the hill where Ib she Opts were to pt get on his 1111 rt feet All MI that Ight he be kept tip liP itis march sail and at t daybreak U tbs British out outsets sets W What at did the say laY when ou Into ramp camp I a asked Oh I bother the sentries he I just went ht put pest them In the saab WA It is 18 m much h less III to tOIs III Is a BritIsh sentry try you on mn t know tM the countersign thin j I lit III tn let It him stop you I always U ving them 1 a chance tl to ee me nl That is III time tho man who taught tim Hilt h leathers what It means mean to be Joe a scout 0 know |