Show PATHETIC SCENES IN AFRICA captive doers boers Welco welcomed mcd home by their relatives bonnet burleigh in a letter to england has told of meetings of the sur rendered rend P red veterans with long lost rela tives the path pathos osand and the humor of these te reunions unious would nil fill volumes the other day as a group of burg burghers liers came into three handsome young you ng women clad in deepest mourn mourning int 1 rushed up to an eldell elderly Y boer swept him into their arms cry m in mg g aloud and kissing him even to the fringes of his ragged coat he was their father and their moth mother er had died but two days before his return A homely elde elderly aly arow had hung about Bram fontein station for days day g always inquiring when trains with bo bors s wore coming in so at least the officials made out fot she spoke in dutch sho was going away disconsolate one afternoon when two stalwart boers leaped from an ali incoming coming ic truck and grabbed her in their arms laughing crying and screaming in a breath whilst their mother nib ther tor for such she was vas kissed hissed them passionately and sobbed aloud I 1 with joy but these are only avo two ftc if hundreds of hIn kindred dred scenes new zealand bush birog autumn annew in new zealand is the ille time of the bush fires As foon as the hot months oi of summer have done dono their work thousands of acres of forest are sot blazing until in some districts the country lies under a pall of sm bho and along the coast navigation is hindered by the huge clouds that d rift drift out to sea throughout the year the bushmen who usually its bally undertake the wo vork rk by bj co contract with the farmers have been busy felling and unde bing all the tangled undergrowth of creeper and sapling and tree forn fern smothered with moss and lichens and carpeted with beds of smaller ferns delicate as seaweed all this is ruthlessly slashed down and the trees within a certain limit and size are felled this done it rein remains ains only to pray tor for dry weather fires are lighted and in an all hour acres otma ot of ma magnificent ent forest are arc going up tip in and flame to prepare tho the land for cultivation ti the mic different races A chinaman who acted fis as secretary to a former chinese minister to england has published a book in which he says there is nothing which an american wont ero is n nothing which an englishman wont eat cat there is kotbin nothing an ail UP italian ilan wont sing there is no measure to which a frenchman wont dance and nothing russians wont colvet 4 1 41 |