Show 1 r u 1 f ii 1 C I r I 7 11 i t L I I MAJ l lII II r fiGHTS R r C P T IF R I T l D U Q NE N 4 HIS PT 44 4 I If killed the Lic great greal 4 1 t f and terrible Matabele God thereby J ending a bloody blood war An Empire I was W lS the British I I Empire when it t V 14 j b 1 found itself hum humbled humbled 4 bled by the MC vie IC ICI I tories of the theL l L Boers Doers over its f best troops t roo p s in South Sou t h Africa t to ask for his isis help the theof theof 5 of cd an American mer can citizen because he hei i I i i c r sed bed the thc kind of brains br lins they lacked I I 1 v man mati m ln is is Major Frederick Russel I 4 the story of oC whose deeds on onI I f c Dark D Continent like the deeds of If 11 j others there reads like the in ll II i 4 ions 1115 of a romancer 1 can count on your fingers and andi i have some to spare the men who b become famous in two or more tries on their real merits who have I i to the worlds history and andt t It t the color of romance and the lire fire rf I f action into its matter of fact pages T I co O 0 not mean those professional war W lr lrI I rs rc who shio were sent out by U their rc re r tive t e countries at the head hC ld of oC legions I h he the resources and wealth of Em Eni EniS rs S behind them or men who were Ue de e heroes by b the inflated newspaper er erIt It lions of copy manufacturers Not who could not be anything but buts s 5 for Cor the mere fact that th lt they were 0 r huge sums by these nations na ions who t 1 l them The very cowardice of i 1 men is into masterly re ts and cool calm c courage in ad adt adin t ity in front of overwhelming num S You all III remember the thc Boer war warre rc re even cen stupid and disinterested Vs 4 c c were blamed hl for the crushing of General B at the hands t r f r noral Louis Botha with a handful rr r I r Boer burghers at Colenso This is is not about a mast man who could t being a hero a man who was wasi wasp p i in III spite of himself himsel f It is about a an arl at t n rl who Iio good as the Americans against prejudice in a foreign J PS as s well as in in his own A man like f c as Lafayette L Garabaldi Paul P J c Henry Stanley and the few r TI II r of their kind who have found d 1 routine nc of civilization commonplace commonplaceS f r S 1 uninteresting nerve racking in its ts T ony Ol like J lee the clash of a cracked I 1 I Such a man is Major Frederick FrederickS 1 S r i cl ci c I Burnham known everywhere f 41 ii n Melbourne to Port Arthur from F r 1 Arthur Aithur to Paris from Cape to toC toC f C iro j from rain Cairo C liro to New York from fromi i York to Frisco from ov OW wastes to the thc parched parche plains of ro Burnham who has not heard I n Had he been born with a hun bun huni hund i d 1 million behind him you rou would per pcr be bc not surprised that Frederick V k ril d cl Burnham has made a world ac lC r n 1 has put the seal of his r n IllS on Oil the earths annals Burnham Burnh lm fe I 1 not this advantage adv Instead of oft t 1 in I born with Avith the proverbial gilded f r r nn ri in m his hie mouth he probably was rv satisfied with a J galvanized iron f c He started his hi independent life liCcI i 1 I a rifle and anel a I few rounds of oC am amt amon amand t n t on and on such a beginning laid I foundation to world fame and sees I 1 while he still lives hives a J man of r f cottoned note a man to whom the thelt lt 1 ti eh h Empire is in debt 1 It i if i the habit of success purchased i f ic be t exercise of intelligent energy in 11 V rectitude and indomitable in cour re r c that made Major Burnham re rc 0 cl td d and and admired even Yen by his lis ene cr e eI r v I 1 myself f have hac tossed toss co coins coins coms with for the of hay hav n I r r ther scout privilege I 1 first fist shot at him of splitting his body t I would ti 1 i i 1 bullet Had I succeeded Is had the lugubrious satisfaction of the majors maiors obituary notice j l which di ll h had lo my aim im been true would 11 ve c rca read reach thus 1 IF Killed Jed Major Frederick Russel Burn i 11 chief of Scouts of the British attached to the column of Lord Lordi J i berts b Shot in a skirmish fifteen fi 11 r rs northeast of Instead i r rf being heing buried under the sod so of the theA A rican veld Major Burnham ever 4 danger flaunts its crimson flag flagtown i 1 down town in In Mexico among the Indians where with John Hays Ham Iam Hammond Hammon mond mon and nd Harry Payne Whitney he hc is s developing a huge tract of land which lc Ie c expects will make a considerable ad addition adI to his already alread comfortable for forS I tune une in a very ery short time That fh lt is what S ic II is doing today loday tomorrow he might 1 I be standing with his hii hi back against a arliff duff liff with half a 1 dozen savages around aroundhim him hm thirsting for his bis blood whilst hilst he lie is doing oin his to continue his I eventful existence 4 How Hov a ird d it come tEar an ati American and after all aU arc never really liked by the tho English wHo are ar always against anything that is not horn born under the Union Jack became bec a I British hero with wilE a 2 l dozen gallant deeds ced to lo Ids his Iii credit any an one of which would we e or anyone else fame 4 r ITOW ow ilk did Burnham come to tc be In n Africa r c That is the story tory of an extraordinary reer BurnHam eyes in n lire rc the storm of war around im tm when he was wa w still in Tn isis his J is mothers ms He saw aw New Ulm thin which was wasI wasH wasp H I p fired by bj the lie he Redskin Rc Chief Chic Red Rc Cloud after he had massacred the women and children of the town go up in flames On one aile occasion his fled before the savage attack of oC the Indians and knowing the heavy child in her arms would sooner or later I lter result in her capture and be the death deth of them both Watching her chance she hid her precious child under a 11 shock of corn cornand cornand and drew the pursuing redskins in an opposite direction She escaped and when the Indians were at last driven off she found her baby Fred Fre sound asleep unconscious of the terrible terr ble fighting fight ng that had lad been raging ragin around him This TIlls bap ism of fire hUed Frederick Russel Burnham for the adventurous roll roU he was to fill in after years cars He was living in Los Angeles Cali California California fornia when hin Isis his fattier father died d ed leaving him hima lii in ina a t lad I ld of twelve to ore care for his mother For a time after the head hed of the house passed away Mrs Irs Burnham and her boy bo felt the pangs of oC poverty The boy bo got gota a job as mounted messenger became the breadwinner of the th household An uncle in in one of the thc eastern states hear he hearing lr ing ng the f plight offered to care for or Mrs Burnham Burnh lm and III her son Here young oung Fred Burnhams grit rit got a ii chance to 10 o show itself and it did He refused to o become a burden hurden and an at the mature age gc of thirteen he took up his Ius rifle only brute courage and m a I carelessness about the continuance of his hiss own ex cx that succeeds in hi the arduous lask tasi of inflicting civilisation c on the It requires the thinker as IS well therefore the lie scholar schol lr and scientist arc are lound more snore frequently than the tIle ordinary ordinary ordinary nary r waiting for the main mam n chance ch Burnham during his many duties in the Southwest found Cound time to study and become a proficient naturalist naturalist alist geologist and amid This with his scouting experience and an his general ll knowledge gained gain cd in in the school of hard experience make him a valuable man for any an new country In 1803 longing for new fields of oC adventure and fresh openings for his hits energy eners Burnham packed up and an ac accompanied companied by his wife ie and brother inlaw set ct sail s lil for South Africa the time theland theland land of diamonds am n s gold Boers Doers and war and he lie got what he lie wanted wan led Primarily his idea was ws to prospect for gold old and precious stones in iii German East Africa l and an pick up a fight where he lie could coul He no sooner reached the time Dark D Continent than tItan the news of the first war reached reache his cars There was nothing else to do dono no choice to tomake male make In lit his eagerness to fight he hc forgot the quest hUest for gold and anu lured It was ws a daring plan pIn an and n J it ft required require a daring set to carry C it out The Ilie I whole affair alTair although the men Jllen were under un er the thc command co man of Major Vilson Wilson was vas practically in iii the hands of Burnham Burn Burnham ham haiti who with his Ingrain Ingram lm were to be the scouts or otherwise the eyes and intelligence of the time venture With twelve men besides Burnham and Ingram ingrain Major Vilson set out at nightfall to ride through the Mata Iata to camp seize him himan and an fight light their way out ou It was a terrible night just one for such a deeda deed a terrific thunder thunderstorm thunderstorm storm raged Rain R l n fell f Il in in torrents like silver sheets on the thi vivid blue of oC time the flash and an crash of the time lightning The incessant roIl roll of the time thunder made it impossible to lo command and the earth carth became a lake 1 c of rushing waters J Ite Three thousand warriors i were camped around aroun their king ling on ml the river and an through these in ina a wild wil ride galloped time the daring aring little land hand their only hope lying in sudden action They rushed the trek wagon which they thought Lobengula was using as his camp The Time dizzy dizz dane dancing dancing ing of the lightning which was W lS sue suc succeeded by the sudden inky ink blackness bl blinded and confused them and an they thc 4 i b ft w y r h 1 f ham old tolu bid Major Wilson Vilson r lson he lie would re rc require require quire some one olle to lead his hii horse Maor Ma lIa Major jor jOl or Wilson volunteered Burnham of often often often ten traveled on his Ills knees to keep the spoor and before morning he was re rewarded rew rewarded warded w by ur finding the time three troopers un no unharmed harmed h but hut lost host in the time jungle This feat established Burnhams reputation with wilh the British and an made him h hum m a cri en criterion cri criterion terion tenon Back at t the time hill bill again in they joined their anxious and waiting comrades and an anthen then the lie watch for dawn and m escape commenced All around they tIme the could hear the time K preparing to rush them 4 i r g C ir ji 4 cz Ic c iF I I t i iS iq L s S q L 1 j vP 1 i I f Vi rrt W ii l a r VH 4 Js I 4 4 4 1 i 4 t rc 4 t CW i r C p C I c t iti cAw ii J ci r i i I I ill All 11 ar around Ih they lucy could lIld hear licar 1 the KaBir to lo rush them and ad tv when the Ih lightning flashed they lucy could ald sr sec the lie 11 glistening naked bodies ads in ill the tain sam and went into time the wilderness w of the Great Southwest to be a scout seouL He lie fought Indians and anti highwaymen searched for gold with prospectors united limited big game to supply the tIme camps with meat always doing more than a amans l mans omans share hare At last he lie got his wish He lie became bec a t scout For fifteen Ii years ears he tie wandered d over Ocr that wilderness of canyon c and amid desert that runs from rom the lie Great Divide Div de to Mexico Fighting time the fierce Apache hunting Mexican ln thieves doing everything that lint was part of the daily life of a scout in those days Everyone throughout the Vest West knew or knew of oC Fred Burnham lm a brave braveman man maim a wonderful scout a splendid shot and a fine flue horseman What That better training could a man manhave manhave have to fit him for the position of chief of the time British Scouts in South Africa Afric His selection by the British was one of the lie th clever acts of the campaign which stands out like an incandescent light lighton on 00 a dark d road rO ld of blunders Major Burnham in appearance is s of muscular build a little un mm under den der medium me ium height has a soldierly i rl bearing hearing and amid dresses like a business businessman b s ness man Oman His face the thc conspicuous put part of him carries the story of his life and md nuts outs the seal of the time deed decd done hone on all he lie tells it is is strong stron without being leing toua a peculiar and noticeable characteristic of nf the African pioneers of nil all 11 races In Iii Africa t it mt is is not the frontiersman who has b by his love loc for danger dan cr offered his services to the British South Africa Company which was conducting a private war against King Lobengula and his Kaffir warriors It I t did not take taice Burnham long to I get into the swing suing of African cam cant campaigning campa pa ning and his imis ability was soon roe roc raco o hy by the British even een with their prejudices against all Americans I The Time destruction of Major Allen Alien Wilson Vilson and his men at the lie hands of warriors and the daring work of oC Frederick Fre erick Russel Burnham were the time two conspicuous events in inthe inthe inthe the campaign c Burnhams gallant g effort to save Wilsons party made him a hero where practically every everyone everyone one had an In heroic deed to his Ius credit Major Forbes with about three hundred men who vho were all tried and amid true trite was out to give ive battle to 10 King Lobengula and his warrior warrior hosts While Forbes force Corce was pursuing the tIme king and his warriors he hc in turn was being followed by an In army arm of warlike w who were operating the surrounding movement practiced in nil all s by hy the Af African African rican r rican races related d to lo the Zulus and ani which has cost the British h more than one OtiC defeat at the time hands of the As js the fi was wa costly and the time results ip if h at It the thC best nn un certain tC British conceived c the thc idea of capturing the maui cause calise of the war var the Warrior King Lobengula 1 I found to their dismay l that they thc had imad rushed the time wrong wagon As they were riding ri ing through the time Matabele to laager they alarmed time the whole host h st and an it was now their turn to make their escape before re the thc fatal surrounding movement they knew would come if they the delayed hemmed them in in iii to their heir doom Al AI Already Already ready read they could coul hear the rush of the time enraged through the time bush on ott every side and shots from Cram their rifles and flying spears told them that there had Imad commenced a fight light to a finish for there is no quarter where the lie arc are fighting About a quarter of a amile amile I mile away there was a huge ant hill which time the flashing revealed from time to 10 time This on account of its dominating height was selected to make a stand stain on Fighting the thc black figures li in the time darkness lankness as s they thc rode rodl over orr the hi ground round exchanging shots with the lie savages as the lightning revealed them On reaching the hill a count was made and throe were found to be iC mis inc ing Maior Wilson Tilson ordered the time scout to tl find out their fate to locate them if were dead clead nr ir guide ice them hack if they lived This was a hazardous undertaking for or on account of the th darkness of nf the the of water and the lurking Kaffir it was for Ir Burnham to keco on nm 11 noor to follow it Knowing what was before bc ore him Burn II and amid when the time lightning lightn ng flashed flashe they could sec see time the th glistening ng naked bodies in in the rain rainT Just T before dawn they time thc heard the unmistakable sounds of marching cavalry They thought that time the column of Major I Forbes had ridden to their rescue In Instead Instead stead it was Captain Cap aill Borrow who simo was |