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6 THE DAIIiX PIOAYXINENEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY; SEPTEMBER 9, 1C0Q. 00M SSIP GTdaGNd op a t-s. saw payers i yThe- theatrical season to the city com- men cad aet Sunday nltsht with the open-l tj ofthe Crescent Tiieatre, and the appearance there "Kelly KVb." Uoompanaed feythe five musical Nosses, firllL occupy the Crescent Theatre, cam-' Tneoclng to-night. Weet End will te musacal the present- week only, ltu season inext Sunday night. 'Next Sunday the Grand Opera House Vfwlll-be opened for the season toy the new RICHARD MAJTSFIKJLD.

Grand. Opera House Stock Company, with Walter 8. Baldwin as director of amuse- 'i meats. This company lncrodes Xiavinia Shannon, leading htdy; Jane Holley, jOTeuXIie lady; Blanche Seymcrar, son- it fcrette; Attna McGreggor; old woman; 1 "Ella AfaGrecrffor. inaennei Lelzhton Leln.

leading man; often M. Sainpolis, beary xnan; Chauncey. Irving, Juvenile man; Tboa. J. comedian; L.

p. Hart, 1 1 comedian Hugh Gibson, character old nan Tboe. B. FHndiay and 1 J. i manager; GlunJo Socola, assistant stage I manager.

-J The opening play will prob- amy; be MXhe Prodigal EngllBb melodrama. "McFadden's Flate follow Herrmann the Crescent Theatre next Sunday Tulane Is being made more lfnl than ever before by painters at work Its Jiatdsome Interior, It will be ready to open a Sunday, Sept S3, with "The W9lte Horse Tavern" aa the first The people -of CharleKton," S.v are not satisned unleea the. manager of theatre puts 'pictures of splays on the fences of the town. The Charleston News cod Courier saysi The op-town tliestre- oers have a complaint to make. They say that Mr.

Keogh -does not give. them enough of the pretty posters that are dla-' nITfnl in. advance of all of the attractions i that come to the Academy of- Music dut- Inz the season, Kvery patron-or drama will sympathize with the uptown residents In this," their complaint, for one end. all of them know what unalloyed bliss it la to-watcn for- these shadows that are icasc. oy ne on-evmmg.

file marvels that are depicted on the bill hniH in rheee. latter days are. in fact. in themselves well worth naif the price that one ias to par for a see y-mr thv are not- founded on But that is neither-here nor ithere. Manager nfltTOIll ill ft- latES DdTt Of the cUy are kicking because he does not show tneia nore of his vrettf pictures, and1 it as li.tle a ne couio ao to see nut trouble la quickly and thoroughly reme- t.i1 at lii earnest convenience.

MneaaiTie ears: Mr, 7 it coming back to claim ii a a an- -sa--- t'l I II 1 1 if tim ri L- i A'yJ -J, 1 I I Sr 1 r-eM 1 IJfo wan I vtiTZSJ iJTJt "Ji 1 1 Ml II It t. gill v. I II II I I I 1 ix kAP 1 11 -vl I VI II' i bbsbBVM E-w WVBbOTSBM lis i i i ii ii rj I 11 II iin I i iv m. BBVBBaSaMBBBBBlSBSBS Sv I I bis own.v "It li announced," but nof ao loudly' as' was once the won of Robert's managers, that he will etar tiata year In his; old favorites, The Gladiator," 'lngomar," "Richard the Lion-Hearted" and "Damon and Now ciuere was a time when Bob-ert Downing could break Hamlet'e rules for the players oftener In a given time than any actor on the stage. Ue was a ranter rampant.

Ue tore passion and --tUc surroundinga tatter and the good public who liked emotion laid on with a trowel, flocked to see him and caused the ''Standing lioom Only sign to be nailed on the outer wail. But even such a. good thing aa this waa could not last and Robert Downing retained the weakest of bia company and weat Into vaudeville. (He called a "head-liner" and bad the satisfaction of seeing bis name La big type in the nigh place and bis artistic reputation began to glimmer. Whether Uis an earnest desire to be remembered as something more noble than a "twenty-minute actor," or whether tt la the flesh pots that have made him come back to the old pastures, has not been disclosed.

The point is that he Is coming back. He will once more march from rear wall to footlights -with the awful tread of outragedS majesty, 4 and be will tell nls private griefs in soft tones that can be beard half a mile away. Since Thomas Kef ne toe of the crashing "Richard III" died, there has Jven none who could dothe ranting ta Downing. time is at hand for bim. lit is sincerely hoped that he stilt has his voice.

Pictured in the "Green Boom Gossip" columns to-day are the faces of three popular actors, Richard Mansfield, Amer-' lea's greatest; James A. Heme, a famous dramatist, stage manager and character actor as he appears in "Sag Harbor;" James Hackett, a fine romantic actor and matinee idol; Leon Herrmann, a magician who Inherited a great name, and who- nas a personal right to be called great on nls'own account. A typ-ical summer girl, giving Per draperies WHHEB XOPrjXiAR ACTOR Drawa by Cbarlas HUtoa Daggett.) ABIE A. HERXE. 1st I I .11 51 1 assail a swish and swirl, sucn'aa in fact can be seen only on the stage.

City seem to be alike the world having spells of vice and They have their boodle years, their blackmailing years and their Idiotic years. Philadelphia is said to be knee-deep in municipal corruption- New Tork' ta in a terrible way, with, trusts and Tanynany troublea and race riots. Two years ago Boston's city council had an idiotic year. Some of the pin beads of-the assembly conceived the Idea that they had, a right to visit i all places amusement whenever they, pleased, without paying for admission, regardless of the rights of the managers. They even passed a resolution In the council convincing themselves that they had a right to trespass for their pleasure on the preserves of others, and to a certain extent rob of profits, managers who had -paid heavy, fines' la license for doing business.

Some of them went so far as to provide themselves with dead-beat badges and 'present themselves at the doors of Of course, they were promptly turned down, and the laugh was on thenu. They- became the butt of press comment, and managers asked them why they did not dead-beat dinners at the hotels and drinks at the The Idiot year passed away, with no7 harm done to proper old But she cannot tell how soon something else may; "be in the feeble -i y-: 7 Four of the moat talented members of the new Grand Opera House Stock Company are New: Orleans born," and with the distinction of having: won favor acting before audiences from here. They are: Lavinla Shannon, leading lady, daughter of Captain Jos. Shannon, who owned a line of steamboats running to -this port when she was horn; Jane Holley, the daughter of Harry L. Flash, poet and, business man, who moved some years una to.

California; John Sainpolis. heavy man, born and educated i 'tTmnwrn Kecromaacer, here; Giunlo Socola, assistant stage manager. The Stasre Considered. The Picayune's New York dramatic correspondent says: Rarely baa a dramatic season opened under better circumstances and 'pomp and panoply of glittering promise than the season of MCM-MCUL Anno domlnoTum et gratlce fidells, which being Interpreted means: "In the year and by the grace of our lords the trust." My Latin may be rusty but my sentiments are of the purest. They would wither under the second act of a Frohman farce.

The reason the actor does sot like business combinations of managers is because be is no longer able to tell hla acquaintances that he gets $900 a week and the reason the manager does like them is because he is able to show his creditors that he does get $000 a week. This glittering aphorism cost me a nlgnt with my well-thumbed John Stuart "Mill, Bryan's speech of acceptance and Joseph BarondeBs on "The Inequality of Wealth Distrtbutlon." I am going to utilise my newly-acquired financial acumen and doll the ermixie of dramatic chief Justiceship for the wool sack of the rue de Wall. I can tell, for instance, that a road burlesque show like the May Howard outfit makes thousands of dollars a year, while "Plus Que Reme" falls among nettles, but I cannot tell you why. The Sahib knows that before Allah I am a poor man, but if I had a yearly Income equal to Robert HUllard's estimate of his weekly value I know what I would do. I would organise a stock company, change the bill weekly as Manager in this city, lg doing, and see the trust troupes troop "drooply" past my box office line like Macbeth's victims across the runway in the cave.

Stock organisations are the regenerative of the business, and wise will that manager be who learns the trick that Henry Abbey knew so well. Alternating companies. It is not wise to kill actors and actresses. The death of Hannah May Ingham at the Murray Hill Theatre, In New Tork, early this season, was as certainly a case of "killed In action" as the demise of anjraoldier In history. This week sews of death comes from Canada, which has no such onus to carry to the throne, but which is no less sad.

Jamea W. Bankson was discovered by the late Charles Cogh-lan and had attracted the attention of James O'Neill as the coming young romantic actor of America when he died. Apropos of James O'Neill, the Lelblers' promise for this season is-elaborate and their salary list is climbing up alongside Frohman notches. No It is not "Quam Dens perdere prlus demenat," It la a case from our other old college pal, "SImllla slmlllbus curantnr." They are at present conducting rehearsals of "In the Palace of the King," with the following caat of characters: Philip II of Spain, Charles Kent; Don John of Austria, Robert Haines; Cardinal Luis de Torrea, Edgar L. Davenport; Antonio -Peres, Leslie I Allen; Miguel de Antona, William Norrls; Captain de Clarence -Handyalde; Don Lope Zapatv John A.

Holland; Don Manuel, Frank Gbeen; Xton Jamie, En-gene Sweetland; Don Giovanni. J. P. Jordan; master of ceremonies and Eudaldo, Gus Frankel Anne, queen of Spain, Catherine Curtis; Ana de la princess of BboU. MarcU Tan Dresser; duchess of Alva, Sue Van.

Duser; duchess of Medinta Sldonia, Blanche Moalton Mme. la Comtesse de Baume, Jessie Bradford; Dona' Mencla, Isabella Parker; Dona Ines. de Mendoxa, Gertrude Norman, and Dona Maria Dolores de Mendoxa, Viola Alien, The piece Is by F. Marion Crawford and Lorrkmer Stoddard, of whom a great. literary man eaM that he had written a better play of "Teas of the d'Urber-Tille" than Hardy had a noveU On second thought 1 imagine was his father, Richard Stoddard, who uttered the eulogy, wMch somewhat impairs Its rame as live news.

any. people la the. world could make Browning interesting from a dramatic standpoint 'they are Sarah, Co well Le Moyne, Otis Skinner and' the clever', actress, Eleanor Robson, who are rehearsing a' Balcony." i They win produce the piece In October at Not 1 the least' Interesting contribution to the success of the piece will be the special scenery by Homer Emena. James O'Neill will head a-: company playing "Moote Crlsto" under more dignified and important auspices than thU old-time JAMES. K.

HACKETT. favorite play has enjoyed for many years. Special scenery and modem effects will be used, and O'Neill will even go to the length of wearing crosses of the Legion of Honor and shoe buckles which be longed to such distinguished persons aa Bonaparte and Marechal Bernadotte. Just how this will affect his performance I don't know, but from my recollection of his Edmond Dan tea. I do not think it could be improved even by the pos session of Alexander Dumas' original and authentic snuff box.

Genial James rath er runs to personal bric-a-brac, anyhow. He carries on his watch chain, clatter- lug among elk's teeth, a cameo of Edwin Forrest used for many yeans as a seal by Ed wta Booth, and which was the gift of Mr. Booth himself. The Lleblers will also send out "The Mantle of Elijah" and William GUI granted them the Tights to produce "The Loves of David Garrlck." They have renewed their faitb In the "Choir Invisible." The cast will be William J. Le Moyne as the parson; Frank Bangs as General Wilkinson; George Woodward as Peter SpTlngle the Blacksmith; T.

J. McGrane as O'Bannon; William Hasel-tine as Major Falconer; Walter Hitchcock as Joseph- Holden; Gertrude Bennett as Almy Falconer; Mabel Dlxey as Kitty Porthress, and Ada Deaves as Widow- Another name that appears on the Llebler roster is James A. Hearne, who will play Sag Harbor" under their direction. He will open at the new Theatre Republic in New xork. Dlxey will be sent out In the of Francois" by this enterprising and Joseph Arthur's "Lost River" will get a New York opening Oct.

Last, but not least, Wllto'u Lackaye aa "Reb Shemnel," -will be sent to the west A consUtutlonaT'dlsease dke catarrh re quires a constitutional remedy like. Hood's sarsaparlUa. It has cured catarrh in every iorm ny taorougmy- purtrymg tne Diooa ana sealing the diseased tissues. DARKE HARD TO HOLD. Justice Kanei Decides That He Has Ho Jurisdiction 1b the Case, Yesterday afternoon Judge Nunea, of the first Justice court of St.

-Bernard, rendered his opinion on the question of Jurisdiction in the case of Jean Marie and Laurent Darre, who were charged with passing and attempting to pass two counterfeit go bills at the atock yards. The case was fixed for trial on Thursday last, and Secret Service Agent Pat Looby waa the prosecuting witness. Mr. Hy. M.

Dauneei, tne attorney oz tne aezenaanis, at once filed an objection to the trial of the accused on the ground that the court had no Jurisdiction. The counsel argued and qubted the law relative to the passing of counterfeit money and defining the power or authority of Justices of the peace. Judge Nunea took the matter under advisement until yesterday at 1 o'clock, when be handed down the following opinion in open court: "I am satisfied that I must maintain the exception filed by the accused herein to the jurisdiction of this court for the following, ameirr other reasons: Under article 128 of the constitution of the state of Louisiana the criminal Jurisdiction of this court Is aa follows: Justices of the peace shall have criminal Jurisdiction as committing -magistrates and shall have power to ball or discharge in cases not capital or necessarily punishable at hard "Counterfeiting and passing counter-felt coins, bills, etc, tinder the laws of this state (see Revised Statutes Nos. 834 to 840. 'inclusive), fix 'the punishment of this and.

make it necessarily punishable' at hard labor. The mere reading of -the constitution will show that as committing magistrate this felony is not within my cognisance. Furthermore, I must -be. guided by the criminal laws of this state, and I have been referred te none of the federal laws would increase 1 my powers or these delegated to me the state constitution and which would enable me to on this case. "This case therefore, dismissed, and affiant's affidavit rejected for this court's want of 4A SaWeSaly Como Ceo tho STtiriVAY, KKABE, iificnM A-ufviH awn pchticv nif'n irn Jiinuutiu imiiiMiif w.hwm.i wnniuiMi nnw Wliuniltfi unnu THE NATAL 9 i.

CAriPAIQN Of the Boers in -the South African i Oonntrj. iTrittea for Collier's jTfeealy bj Arthur Ijneh, Colonel of tho Second. Irish Brigade, and Beprinted In the Picayune bj Permission of the Colliers. A balmy night in May, I sat In my tent my laager being then a few miles south of Glen coe and through the open awning I looked on the orderly row of the men's teats In' front of It waa about 9 but all was still In camp. The men, accustomed to.

rise early, fonnd no difficulty In courting slumber at that exemplary hour, and there waa nothing to be seen stirring outside except the sentries keeping guard on the laager and the long tines of picketed horses. Major Mitchell and myself sat on our beds for we were luxuriously fitted up at Glen-coe; we had stretchers and rugs and ruminated gravely on the mutability of things as we gased upon the placid face of nature extended to our view, we had Just finished our supper, of which the staple waa a very excellent steak (for we had oxen always accompanying the camp), and the only liquid the chocolate-colored and mysteriously compounded coffee which Is the national drink of the Boers, Major Mitchell was smoking contentedly, while on my bed were purring a couple of tabby kittens, which had come to us I know not whence, and which gave the last touch to our picture of comfort and calm. Our "positions" were some miles distant from our laager, and overlooked the road from Waschbank to Glencoe. The positions consisted simply of a low spur from the Blggarsberg range, which ran to within a couple of hundred yards of the road, and on the ridge of which had been cut a narrow trench about teet deepL At ordinary times I posted at the positions only a brandwacht," or outlying picket, which could give the alert in time in case the English should tipproach. Moreover, from one or other of the commandoea along the range there was always a patrol or a scouting party keeping watch on the movements of the enemy.

Each commando had its own positions to account for along the entire range, and hence it was that our laager rorild reon go peacefully, and that with no ense of insecurity we could encamp wirbm easy distance or our commiwirni base, and so save our horses and men as much as pcrslbr' from the rigors of the campaign until the hour of action had sounded Major Mitchell was relosdlng his pipe with the tobacco aupplied to us by the government, and called by the Boers Maxim" tobacco, because It used to fire off so quickly, when there appeared at the entrance to our tent a florid German with blonde beard, whom 1 recog-nizeu to be one of the officers ot the German corps at Helpmakar. He had come, he said, to ask me to brlng.my brigade to Helpmakar. I was a little astonished at this request, and 1 asked him what was the matter. His reply was remarkable, for he gave a clear and fairly detailed account of what was afterward exactly verified by the course of eveata. "Alona thia whole Blggarsberg," he said, "Helpmakar Is our weak spot.

The English may demonstrate on the waschbank line, bat we can hold them there. At Helpmakar we have a Boer commando, the Plet relief men, -and ourselves. The Plet relief commandant is a coward, and so are his men. The hrst shock will fall on them, and they win run away. Then there will be only ourselves left to defend the paea, and we will naturally run away too.

If the Plet relief men stayed we could fight, but not otherwise. We want yon to come and take the place of the -Plet reliefers." I was somewhat amused at the manner In which my German Ignored General Lucas Meyer, In coolly proposing that I should forthwith betake myself to Helpmakar. It waa a weakness of the Boer generals not to keep a tight enough, nand upon the commandoes, and the same weakness was found within the commandoea themselves, where those of the burghers who had "no stomach for the fight" invariably left to their comrades to take all the hard knocks; therefore, told the German that tt was his duty to go forthwith to General Lucas Meyer and lay the case before htm, and I took leave of him without baring been able to offer him. the customary "nip" of whisky which up to that period had been part of the hoepltaMty of my laager. Luxuries were getting a little short In Natal.

General Lucas Meyer, I heard subsequently, sent a commission ot twoCommandant. Ben Viljoen and Commandant Christian Botha, brother of Commandant General Louis Botha to Investigate the situation at Helpmakar. Their report corresponded with what had been told me, but nothing in the way of remedy waa done. This neglect on the part or our commanding general waa really inexcusable, and it was the subject of a hot verbal encounter between him and -Ben Vlljoen at a subsequent war council, which we held at Charleatown after we had been forced to retire to Lalng's Nek. In order to nave a clear idea of the course of events In the Natal campaign it is necessary to -undesstand how the loss of a single position often necessarily the retreat of the whole force, and how consequently tfoe fate of an army anight depend upon the courage of a commando of 300 men.

The Biggaxanerg range, for Instance, stretched aa a barrier throughout the breadth of Natal, on the south side the hills ended rather aibruptlr in varlooa spurs, overlooking a band of fairly level country, which extended down to near iadysmlth. On tne north the hills sloped into the higher flat country, reaching away toward Majuba. It would be impossible for an army, to scale the heights of the Blggarsberg In face of our opposition, and there were but three roada, or passes, along, which the enemy could traverse the range. Once through either of these passes, however, the English would find themselves on tolerably level country in which they could maneuver with ease, and they would be able either to take us in the rear, or, by stenple securing possession of railway running from the north to Glencoe, cut off our supplies and force na to attack them in their own chosen positions. we could not face such a contingency, and hence It happened that the loea of a pass meant to ua a retreat right along the line, until we- should arrive at other positions from which, we could hold back the advance of the enemy.

Thus from Co-lenso-we had been forced back to Blggarsberg before we could make an effective stand; from Blggarsberg we should have to retire to Lalng's Nek. and If we could not hold that we. were lost cats," so far as protection of Pretoria zrom the south was concerned. And Helpmakar depended on the 800 or 400 men ot Ill-omened Pie relief 1 Pretoria, the TransvaaL South Africa, the "history of the world depended on that! For i fortnight we haoS not taken off our boots. There were wars and rumors of wars, excursions and alarms.

The English were reported as coming up toward Waschbank In force. 1 We went out to meet them, but they had disappeared. Our scouts, often unconscionable rascals, who spent -rime stealing horses, would bring us ta some exaggerated story. We would act In only to find the report contradicted by more reliable scouts. -The English did not eem to make nse of scouts er patrols, whe SOHMER, EMERSOn, our patrols were so numerous that we occasionally fired, on.

each, other by mistake. Why was Bniler waiting' He should have followed us up wlcaont a halt from the relief of Ladysmlth, and now weeks mad gone by. We were exasperated at hla dilatortness. Omce we had gone, down to smack him In bis camp at jjUandslaagte, and we had driven him out. and forced him to break no his laager and move down again further aoiM-n.

ua Erasmus done us duty that day he would have taken -the Eug-llsh. on caeir flank during their coo fusion, and. we could iiave Dinned Bullet in iLadyainith. But It waa the same Era- mua wjm oaa failed to sttop xule.in Als headlong: flight from Dundee and whose want ot grit had prevented the success of the a-tiack on a position, whence we could have shelled LadysmUh to pieces. We were exasperated with delay, and while we commandants were prone ao crfticlae our generaW.

the men coo were be a mains to ge out of hand. Xheyr looted where chey They stole horses from che veldt. They were beginning to steal horsea from other couimanooes. They scoured the country tor whisky, and when they found it abominably bad whiaky tney paid a sovereign a bo tie, and got uproariously drunk; The system of the Boers of allowing a large percentage of the men home on leave was alo a terrible business, and one of the causes of our disasters. The looting was another cane, for at ihe slightest alert each man who had a wagon became anxious to remove it to a place ot security; and once the trekking of the wagons had started was Impossible to get the burghers to stay.

The horse stealing, general looting, and the drink nuisance i put down wnth a firm hand. Stopping the leave was met with threats of uesertion. More than once 1 had' to draw njy revolver and threaten to shoot the i efore 1 could cope with thia nuisance. The Inferiority of our generals was chronic A dispatch rider galloped Into che laager, and all the men were agog. He handed me a big blue envelope containing the superscription In Dutch, for which the nearest Knglh tranala-tion "the noble, autttere Colonel Lynch" is but a weak and flaccid equivalent.

The letter waa from General Lucas Meyer, and showed great condescension on his part, for it would have been more in order, and perfectly polite, from' a superior olfleer, to have omitted the title That encouraging word, I thought, had the odor of ban tie. The letter contained the order to proceed Immediately with all my force, except he "foot-sloggers," as they were popularly called to Helpmakar. The distance to Helpmaker by the best route was about thirty miles, but there ivas no advantage In covering this long stretch at a forced speed. The Boer system Is to walk their horses as much as possible, until such time as they are actually required to make speed. Then: they gallop.

At the head of the column they place horses which have either a very last walk or the gait known down there as "trlppling." Trippling is a kind of pacing action, in whicn tne horse is aa easy to sit as In walking, but which also produces a speed of five, six or even, seven miles an hour, with much less stress to the horse than In trotting. At Helpmaker, whither we took up our march on receipt of my order, 1 saw hosts of our commandoes in position under cover of a low ridge of ground, aud in force enough between 2000 and 3000 to keep an army at bay. 1st all was lost. They had arrived too late. They could, not force the English again through the pass.

We held a war council. General Lucas Meyer presided, and all the commandants attended. It was decided to retreat, and there was but one stopping place, and that was Lalng'a That journey to Glencoe I shall never forget. I had sent a messenger back to the laager to order the tenta to be struck and the wagons to be loaded, and when I returned about nightfall all waa in readiness; all was in haste, for already we were expecting the English to come up also by Waschbank, and the sound of fighting was heard on the other side of the hul. We burned the grass as we went.

The flames raced and roared along the dry veldt, and our caravan wended Its way on the narrow road, lighted up by the ocean of fire on both sides, while the volumes of smoke filled the air. It was a picture of Inferno Itself. Seventy-two hours from my original start from Glencoe I arrived at Cnarlestown, and in that three days I had had but four hours for sleep, while I had actually sat in the saddle the greater part of the time. The English, who had been following us up with remarkable epeed, 'soon saw the cannon escaping. They sent powerful bodies of Lancers and mounted Infantry In pursuit.

The situation was critical. I called my brigade. A good few of the came at once. Others galloped off. swearing or laughing.

"Wrhy should flght" they grumbled or yelled, "while the burghers were making 'off as fast as they could? Let the burghers stand Snd they, too. would" etand to the waa a terrible argument. One of my sergeants, a daring aud desperate fellow, mocked at the men. Insulted them, called them cowards. They turned round upon him, furious.

They would like to Tend him to pieces. "Cowards!" They were no cowards! They bad more pluck than he! They swore in their wrath. They followed him. telling him they would show him who was the coward; they would teach him with whom he was dealing. They came to the hill.

That was all that we wanted. They grasped their rifles and bounded up' the rocks to the front. Captain Bicchlardi, of the Italian scouts, had joined us, a tall, handsome, black-bearded, powerful young man, a bean Ideal chief of irregular horse. General Meyer exhorted the men who rode by, called on them, ordered them to stand. They rode silently on.

Bicchlardi galloped among them, entreated them to turn back; be threatened them with his revolver; he seised the reins of their horses. It had no The burghers rode silently on. A few men came back, then more, and at. length we had a fair number. The men who atayed were from the commandoes of Johannesburg, Boks-burg.

Carolina and Zoutpansberg, and these were all very fine fellows. The English were rapidly approaching. Their numbers were so great that I felt not at all assured aa to the final result, especially as my own men, having taken cover, seemed, most of them, to have vanished Into the earth. One of my sergeants stalked by, a young Afrikander who had fought to the last at the famous first combat of Elandslaagte. He waa a quiet and taciturn man, but In the face of danger he became animated and brilliant.

It's all right, colonel," he cried, as he selected his rock; "we can hold out here against a whole army! Brave words, indeed. My Afrikanders were giants in battle. I was gaaing at the road some fifty yards off, into which I expected every moment to see the Lancers or Carbineers sweep. The moment was anxious. My secretary arrived by my side.

He was a doctor of philosophy, a middle-aged fogy, very shortsighted, a bad horseman and a worse shot, and the mildest-mannered man who ever served as trooper. For be had a mania to follow me as trooper, sad his mind waa. as lofty as that ox a knight of romance. In his right hand he carried-his rifle, and in his left a eanvaa bag. "Colonel!" he called.

I turned round. "Would tou like a biscuit, colonel he said, and he showed me that the canvas bag was full of that staple provision. I took his biscuit, shaking with laughter. "Thunder- of heaven!" I cried. And veritably the heavens seemed bursting with thunder, and the air crashed as with the cracking of Whips and with the el ping and barkiirg of demon-like dogs, waa our rifles.

We had fired too soon. We had not calmly awaited the psychological moment to pour in our lead. I called loudly to my men, and we Tan forward to the front. Meanwhile we had given the guns a good chance to escape. Already we had done our duty.

A great, number of the men left the nllL quietly, silently. They mounted their horses and galloped away. In traversing the hill they had set fire to a belt of -grass, which burned rapidly, and by its smoke hid their flight from the view of the English. -I wanted to. see what the enemy would do.

,1 waited on the hill. I saw them reforming. I saw them come Into regular order as if on the parade ground. Their artillery was brought up, also, with remarkable speed. Already it waa playing on the hill, and the balls were also striking thick near to where our horses were standing.

Afrikanders, however. choose cover most cleverly. The shells, fired high -enough to avoid the 735 ACCrjTO DC3T. PIAWOS. 1 Canal gramer.

scheffer. nmro rvfnti ij'CTTn-cfrTe W.4 l.i WWIW1U1 11, I Tl Ui.iUW I brow of the hill, must Inevitably of our horses. But the shells frightened the men. Those who had endured the terrific bom- bardment of Modder Spruit, and who had Clung to their positions on the Tugela Xor weeks -under the ahita inraAif tail when the first projectile came singing along. They were not particularly alrald of the shells, but it meant that the aaiuu couung og un, mac ume wan an b1 Th .1...

norae-nen were advancing again at a gal lop. But they had learned a lesson. Tney jltmiiWlll 1..,. nl. cover, and.

Judging trr their firing, they Tiw vuiivjua IUUVU UV Vi tactics as we would have followed. -They were probably the Natal Carbineers, and. we had ou the hilL They killed some was watching hla neighbor, ready to-leive. We left at Vast. There was now-nothing to do but to get away.

We got away at a run. -The horsemen now -chased u. They came up the slopes of the hill at great speed, hopping over the rocks, aa one ot my men said, "like raoorts. It was a case with na now of each man tor himself. I was-a little alarmed to find how far up to the front we had got, how far from our horses.

The blazing rone caused by the grass nre intercepted our path. But the English bounded across the flaming belt, ringing from rock to rock. At length, almost exhausted with running. I reached -the place where the horses were stand- I ST I T1 IT TATS" AT rt Sana VflTD Manila of these belonged to a small group of French officers who had joined my brigade. One of these officers had arrived and was the horses of his cont- nan.

oiu aim mil mere was a (ooa. chance of our being shot or of being -taken prisoners if the English should come round the bend of the road. Why they did not I do not know. Perhaps they feared another My trencherman quietly said he would wait tor his friends. Mt hnrsp.

ami that of Ma jor Mitchell, was held by a young boy, toig aa a man. and who mlirtit have been excused if he had mounted his own horse and galloped away. He sat there on glad wnen lie saw me. -1 got into tne saddle. I was eager to be out of tne place.

The shells were singing their flute-like music over my head. The bullets were buzzing like a swarm of bees. Tne enemy was probably the cause of their missing the mark. I was very impatient. At length I perceived my major turning LiiTr uicucr.

xi aibu iubl win i lieved that the horses weTe gone. He -was completely exhausted. I called out. He -nlucked no again and cam running forward. He mounted hla horse.

The boy sprang on his, and in an Instant we were off jit a Mllnn i Such are the veritable characteristlca of the isrhting during the latter part of. uc ouuiu Ainum war. I. uiucra iuui from the pomp and panoply of battle. but it la even more difficult than the heroics of the shock of embattled hosts.

It is the kind of war which the Boers -are carrying on now, and it will Ulna--trate their system of fighting, it also U4U1HU VU mr be three cardinal lessons of the entire rivinsv jrrva stiAanw wnar rim wnsa swrrisi rs campaign, tne necessity or ngntmg- sklrmrshing order, the extreme import- of tiHnarlnr T-lfl firm tn th MahMt -Ditch of efliciency. and the 'jyireaslng -value and not, as certain military the- orlsts "have argued, the aimimsning vaiue of the courage of the Individual soldier. THE CONDUIT SYSTEM. Engineer Turner, of the Edison Com panj, Leaves Here After La-yiHs; Pipes, Cables and DTaiac Thro-ajrh Plfteem Miles of Paved Streets. J.

W. Turner, who has been engineer: A. Ml W. during the two years since the inauguration of work on the conduit system waa commenced, leaves to-aay lor ues aiomes, Iowa, where he will take charge of the work of installing a conduit system xor the Hea Moines Edison Lighting Company. Mr.

Turner will still remain at the head of the engineering department here, and spend as much time here as necessary until the compleuon of the 4 system In this city. air. lurner came nere iww jwii ago from New York. He says that the duit system put in here by tne company equal to any In the country, "and it was put in under great difficulties which no corooratlon has heretofore had w. mm.

u. the company now baa in New Orleans 700,000 feet of conduit. rovering fifteen miles of atreet, and oesiaes, nas put in i i feet deep, which Is to drain the man- holes and prevent the collection of water in to the detriment of the service Bills, Uiiv aacsas i.aa vnj -a. connect with the drainage canals snd t.noTt nn rh nmnrr nnmnlnflf of he canal to keep them working. The drains' care for 174 manholes and 450 sub-man holes, and provide lor-aii out one or -two manholes of the company in the The company has lnover ninety miles of cables in the city.

he New Orleans v. engineers and those from other cities who hsve become acquainted with the work here praise it verv highly; espe- dally the drainage features. Had it not been for the conference re- gardlng the removal of the conduits in Gravler street to facilitate the drainage of that street, the Edison company would have been ready to turn the current Into the conduits, but as that work -will inter- -fere it will be perhaps six weeks ot more before they will be ready. Extra, cables and conduits must -be provided, The company now haa its conducts in in advance of the territory required up to this time by the ordinance. It has com- atan susrv u-iti si i za inn sari 1 1 ji ri i a 3 and DR.

8AKRAZW AT HOME, Thoagh His Physicians Still Ea-Join- Strict The danger to Dr. Julee J. the dentist, who waa twice wounded in the old Letchford house, on North Rampart street, by Dr." Armand -Mary, a fellow-dent 1st, some time ago, naa a i 1 u.m fortable In his home cn St. Claude and Kerlerec streets. For some days Or.

-Sarrazin's case bothered the surgeons k. vw fianitarlnm. where M7 who had the lead In the case lor ins, patient. Just how the wounds would end was a mailer oi qucuuu, attention was paid to the No one was allowed to speak to him, and even at thia bour the surgeon has for--hMitan. mm inMk -more than neces- eary.

because all speech brings' about paiiu. n. I ii 1. W.1W KAf XJ 1 mvmm mmm frPTitrth. and the danger la over, bat tn bullet that plowed into his face has not -been found yet, and it is proposed to ptrt the wounded man under the rays to find the lead, which, it Is thought, buried itself back of the right Jaw.

Dr. Sarraain wants no interview, and It Is very probable that the reading putv-llc will never learn hla aide of the story. 1 Dr. Mary, who did the shooting, has de- dined to talk at all times, and only Te- -marked that he knew that Dr. Sarrazln'a statement of the ehootlnr would, ex.

A klm eAm Kl a m. 4 Great concern is felt In sdratlfla'elreles''re. Aslatle explorer. It is feared ttit the daring uT-wugiw, woo wmw trai wo AiDt iot ill second time early in tha year 1999, was dragged into the whirlpool of the foreign hostile, movement-which menaced aH of Chinese -Asia. According to the latest intermstloo of -the traveler, whieh wsa received ta Stockholm In Febrnsry.

Hedla, following ills arrival with his expedition, had establi.hed on Dee. 7, -1699, fals winter- quarters for masy months at Yoagi-Kol, nrar Lop Nor. After breaking, np his winter quarters he Intended to go At-. rect through the desert to Cherchea..