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Show are veritable forts, solidly But the coming of peace has stirred built of stone, and for ma- to new energy both Boer and Briton, THE ENTERPRISE. THE TI5ACK OF WAR bridges, as well one rifles. loop-hole- d FRED JORGENSEN, PoblUher. . EPHRAIM, TRADE . SOUTHERN ON EIGHT , HUNDRED SHOWN MILES OF BATTLEFIELDS. ON UTAH. RIVERS. From Beaufort West to Johannesburg, Boer and Briton Grappled In Death Devastated Territory Must Have Been Terrible Spectacle. Struggle Queer Looking Flatboats Used by Peddlers on Water, flatboats, varying In size and capable of carrying many ' tons of freight, having on board a rude home for the owner, are again beginning to ply up and down the broad expanse of the Ohio river and Its tributaries. One In particular has attracted the attention of the farmers through whose lands it occasionally wends its way. It has been fittingly named The American Trader, in that it Is a veritable floating store and Queer-lookin- g (Special Correspondence.) Eight hupdred miles of battlefields in an almost straight line from Beaufort west of Johannesburg. Yet this is only one of the three great lines along and between which the fights of modern days were As the Limited Mail pounded waged. and trundled on for two days and nights through the stricken fields ones mind went back to the querulous questionings of the armchair tactiJunkhouse. cians at home as to when the war was According to river men, the life of the water trader is far more pleasant stub-borne- st t J j! '!r' VSSSSSEf r t H 1 (v m ; , Jr V as On chine guns of these, guarding the bridge just outside Richmond road station, stands in bold black letters the familiar legend: "This house to let. Imagine the joy that must have been in the hearts of the humorists who traced these words on the walls of what. had been their fortress prison for so many' weary weeks. It is only when you have traveled at a very respectable speed fdr fifty hours or so through blockhouses, fences, and cunningly devised networks of entanglements that you can form any clear idea of the colossal magnitude of the scheme which K. of K. conceived, and the patient hands of Mr. Atkins executed. In Cape Colony the relics of war are few and far between, and many a farm that sheltered the enemy and stood to him as an arsenal has escaped the fate it merited. In fact, I only say one or two in ruins all the way from Beaufort west to the Orange river. But from thence onward you may trace the red track of war from end to end of the once smiling and prosperous land. Just across the bridge a little to, the right, the blackened ruins of a big farm house stand gaunt and silent amid its groves of poplars and the orchards on both sides of the little stream that flows through what was once a smiling oasis in the wilderness of the veldt. Hence for hundreds of miles you can scarcely see a farm that is not deserted, or a house that is not roofless and tenantless. The country for 100 miles south of Johannesburg is an absolute wider-nestenanted only by ragged Kaffirs, mangy dogs and mobs of forlorn horses, mules and donkeys, turned loose to rest and feed or starve and die as the remains of their strength may determine and the asvogels wheeling watchfully above them, waiting for some poor starving brute, too weak to feed, to sink on to Its knees and roll over. It was here that the fury of Mr. Atkins was finally let loose; here that the disasters and disgraces of Spion Kop, Nicholsons Nek, Colenso and Magersfontein were wiped put 'in blood and fire. Every night as the demoralized Boers sought refuge and a little breathing space in the hills, they looked back and saw miles of fire marking where their crops and homesteads had been twenty-four hours before. Only a single house in all the hundred miles was left unburnt, and that was saved by the prayers and tears of a newly wedded bride. Those who saw it tell me that that hurricane of and the development of the devastated country is proceeding with remarkable speed. Soon the restocked farms will have the aspect of happiness and prosperity they wore before the flood of war swept them bare. With the tide of immigration that inevitably will set in when the territory has been put in order, a new era will begin, and the foundations will lie laid for the great republic which . it is South Africas destiny to become. Our illustrations show three of the principal buildings in the city of Pre- - Raadzaal. toria. The Dutch church is the one in which Kruger wornt shiped. - t . s, A Trading Boat. Grand Hotel, to end. For the man who travwhose vocation necessitates the fre- going els from to Johannesburg quent cleaning and continual looking with his Capetown wonder is that the open, eyes after a horse. Then, again, there are ever ended. it enough residents along the larger rivOn the lower portions of the line ers to make an inland trip altogether war has left few traces behind it. A than that of the average peddler, unnecessary. blockhouse - perched here and there The trading boats are supplied with about the stony heights of the Hex groceries and provisions of all kinds, river pass whither the boldest of and take in exchange such artiXc-a- s butter, eggs, iron, wool ancf b When laden it puts oft to some and there sells its accumulatio 3oer stock. It is said that long before the the flatboat was used to take proL. .. down the rivers, but that with its passing came the modern barge, now almost a novelty, yet often a useful one. As a general rule these "traders keep to the smaller streams, like the Wabash and White rivers, that are not so easy of navigation by the larger steamers. the that long-pent-u- p trotting gait peculiar to narrow-gaugrailways, across the Karroo, a long range of hills rises to the left, and as we swing past a little wayside station called Bothas Halt' a red cleft opens about six miles away. It is one of the many graves of reputations which the war has left behind it, for Into that death trap, scoutless and unsuspecting, marched a convoy 250 strong. On the plain below, by a little dark clump of blue gums, are the graves of the 160 men whose wasted lives paid the penalty of carelessness - and incompetence. ; Presently a little octagonal, brown-wallestructure, surrounded by a mound of red earth, looms up ahead to the right. It drops behind, and another rises to the left, and now mile after mile, hour after hour, and day after day, they will succeed each other as interminably as the endless lines of barbed wire on either hand for now we have entered that mighty , web which the patient genius of K. of K. slowly spun round the feet of the elusive Boer, till at last, tripped, entangled, and cornered, he had to own himself beaten. There are few out of all the thousands of these tiny fortresses that do not mark the center of some nameless little battlefield, and every here and there you may see proof of this in mounds beside them, the pebble-ringenameless as the fight in which the, Dutch Church. sleeper below gave his life for his, country. Near some of them are the shot and shell, bullet and steel, flame remains of gardens, the paths marked and furious vengeance, was the most with white stones, and in the center terrible spectacle in ' all the war. a mound bearing the device of the 4 Would that, in some prophetic vision, regiment to which the lonely little It might have been beheld four years ago by the men whose greed and am- garrison belonged. Many of the larger ones, near im- bition made it the ghastly necessity portant stations and at the-- ends of that it was. e hundred-mile-sweeDin- HAS SALOON IN TENT. Enterprising Man Makes Fortune in Novel Manner. Ben Chinicaini of Girard, O., saw the opportunity of a lifetime when the town, with its dozen saloons, was "voted dry. He was the boss of a gang of men on, the Pennsylvania companys line at the time, but he established a bar in a tent Just outside the village limits. At all hours the tent is crowded. At night sometimes it is impossible to get near the bar. The temperance people prepared to take action. A petition was started for a local option election in the township. Chinicaini, however, says that it will be at least ninety days before the township can be voted dry, and d, grey-roofe- d d Chlncainis Tent Saloon, that by that time he wll be willing to quit business. Or he says that he can easily move his circus tent to the line of some other village that has gone "dry. g OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. How Scotchman Satisfied Conscience and "Got the Siller. tourists staying at a hotel in Inverness wished to go out for a row on the loch one fine Sunday, and went to find the boatman, whom they met Just going to church Bible under his with an extra-sizearm. We would like to hire a boat for a row on the loch, said one of them. The boat hirer looked surprised. "Dae ye no ken its the Saw-bat- h Yell no get day? he asked. a boat frae me the day, for Ill hae ye ken Im an elder o the kirk. After some expostulation by the tourists he continued: Ah, weel. Ill no let ye the boat, but dae ye see yon green boat doon amang the rashes? Yes, replied the tourist. "Weel, shes ready. Jist ye gang doon there an row oot tae the middle, an Ill come doon tae the bank an swear at ye. But dinna heed me, jist row on, an Ill ca for the siller the morns Scottish American. mornin. A couple of d Wife Not Wanted n Joseph Dempster was a character in Dundee, of which he was bellman. One day he had to make a curious proclamation. It was nothing less than, the serious loss of a householder in Dundee of his wife and child. Lost! cried the eccentric bellman, "belonging to a man, his wife and child! Whoever can gie such information as may lead to the recovery of the child will be handrewarded. But, continued somely a swing round and great with Joseph, emphasis, the wife is not wanted! Scottish American. well-know- . Statistics of Stammering. As stammering is a cause of rejec- tion for military service its frequency statistics of the examination of recruits in different nations. The number rejected as stamIs shown by the merers is 7.50 per thousand examined in France, 3.23 in. Switzerland, 2.87 in England, 2.2 in Austria, .86 in Italy and but .19 iu Russia. Millions Sent From America. .The United States postoffice department in 1902 issued domestic money orders amounting to over $313,000,-00- 0 and foreign amounting to nearly The money sent abroad $23,000,000. was almost entirely remittances to relatives by immigrants. v |