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Show WHEN BOERS PLAYED MARBLES. l'olltlca' Piaoners Amused Them-selvei Them-selvei Like Schoolboys. . 17ow the grave old Iloer leaders placed marbles like sehoolbojs is ' told'in Curl Jeppc's now book on the Transvaal. The old gentlemen were in prison for political icasons at tho time. Mr. Joppo sajs: "The reformers re-formers congregated all day long in tho largo central square of the prison, pris-on, which pwenled n most animated scene. In every direction jou could see men receiving their relations, friends or so,li itors. Between these eager Knots the othcM walked, or lounged on mgs and blankets, reading, read-ing, writi'ii,, or killing tune with cards and cho-. The fit' onto game, however, was that of marbles "It was n str.uij'o sight to sec middle-aged men, whoso daily occupation occupa-tion had been n game in which tho counters consisted of many thousands thou-sands of pounds, eagerly contending for tho possesion of n few round stones of tl o value of a shilling or so to the do 'on. "And it was lemarknble, too, as an illustration of the fallacy of tho popular pop-ular impression that the acquisition of wealth is 'all link,' that it was the big capitalists who held all tho marbles when tho doors of their prison opened." |
