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STEEVENS’ PROPHESY.

The Dead War Correspondent Fore told His Own Death.

the heading Vexation of pub-- lishes the sixth letter from the late Geo.

| W. Steevens descriptive of life in Lady- | smith during the siege.

Writing under date of November 25, Mr. Steevens said :

I was going to give you another dose of the dull diary. But I haven't the heart. It would weary you, and I cau- not say how horribly it would weary me.

I am sick of it. Everybody is sick of it. They said the force that would open the line and set us going against the enemy would begin to land at Durban on the rith, and get into touch with us by the 16th. Now it is the 26th ; the force, they tell us, has land- ed, and is somewhere on the line be- tween Maritzburg and Estcourt ; but of advance not a sign.

Buller, they tell us one day, is at!

3loemfontein ; next day he is coming around to prisoner at Pretoria.

gs The only thing certain is that, what-

Durban ; the next he isa !

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Interesting Particulars of the &

Britain and the

ship. We make it a grievance nowadays if we are a day behind the news that concerns us nothing.

And here we are with the enemy all round us, splashing melinite among us in most hours of the day, and for the best part of a month we have not even had any definite news about the men for whom we must wait to get out of it.

WE WAIT AND WONDER,

first expectant, presently apathetic, and feel ourselves grow old.

furthermore, we are in prison. We know now what Dartmvor feels like. The practised vagabond tires in a_fort- night of a European capital ; of Lady-- smith he sickens in three hours

Even when we could ride out ten or a dozen miles into the country, there was little that was new, nothing that was interesting Now we lie in the bottom of the saucer, and stare up at the piti'ess ring of hilly that bark death. Always the same stiff, naked, ridges, flat capped with our entrench- ments—always, always the same. As morning hardens to the brutal ciear-- ness of South Africa mid-day, they

news

march in on you till Bulwan seem to |

tower over your very heads. ‘There it is close over you, shady, and of wide prospect ;and if you try to go up you

ever is happening, we are out of it. We, sre a dead man.

know nothing of the outside ; and of the inside there is nothing to know.

Weary, stale, flat, unprofitable, the whole thing. At first, to be besieged and bombarded was a thrill; then it was a joke ; now it is nothing but a weary, weary, weary bore. We donothing but eatand drink and sleep—just exist dismally. We have forgotten when the siege began ; and now we are_be- ginning not to care when it ends. For my part

I FEEL IT WILL NEVER END.

It will go on just as now, languid fighting, languidcessation, fur ever and ever. Weshall drop off one by one, and listlessly die of old age. 1nd in the year 2099 the New Zea- lander antiquarian, digging among the buried cities of Natal, will come on the forgotten town of Ladysmith. And he will find a handful of Rip Van Winkle Boers with white beards down to their knees, behind quaint, antique guns, Shelling a cactus-grown ruin. Inside, sheltering in hotes, he will find a few decrepit creatures, very, very old, the children born during the bombard- ment. He willtake these links with the past home to New Zealand. But they will be afraid at thesilence and Having never known anything but bonibardment, they will die of terror without it. So be it

I SHALL NOT BE THERE

to see. But I shall wrap these lines up ina Red Cross flag and bury them among the ruins of Mullberry-grove, that, after the excavations, the un- numbered readers of the “Daily Mail” may in the enlightened year 2100 know what a siege and bombardment were like.

Sometimes I think the siege would be justas bad without the bombard- ment.

In some ways it would te even worse for the bombardment is something to notice and talk of, albeit languidly. But the siege is an unredeemed curse. Sieges are out of date. In the days of Troy, to be besieged or besieger was the natural lot of man; to give ten years ata stretch to it was all in a life’s work ; there was nothing else to do. Inthe days when a great victory was gained one year, and a fast frigate arrived with the news the next, a man still had leisure in his life fora year’s siege now and again.

But if the man of 1899—or, by’r

day, a siege is a thousand-fold a hard-

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‘J. F. VANBUSKIRE, Freder <'@>.

Beyond is the world—war and love Clery marching on Colenso, and all that a man holds dear in a little island under the north star. But you sit here to be idly shot at. You are of it, but but not in it—clean out of the world. To your world and to yourself you are every bit as good as dead—except that dead men have no time to fill in.

I know now how a monk without a vecation feels. 1 know how a fly ina beer-bottle feels

I know how it tastes, too.

And with it all there is the melinite and the shrapnel. To be sure they give us the only pinprick of interest to be had in Ladysmith. It is something novel to live in this town turned inside out.

Where people should be, the long, long day from dawn to daylight shows only a dead blank.

Where business should be, the sleepy shop-blinds droop, But where no bus- iness should be—along the crumbling ruts that lead no whither—clatters wagons after wagon, with curling whip- lashes and piles of bread and hay.

Where no people should be—in the clefts at the river bank, in hald patches of veldt ringed with rocks, in over- grown ditches—all these you find alive with men and beasts.

The place thata month ago was only fit to pitch empty meat tins into is now priceless stable room; two squa- drons of troop-horses pack flank to flank inside its shelter. A scrub-en- tangled hole, which perhaps nobody save run-away Kiffirs ever set foot in before, is now the envied habitation of the balloon. ‘The most worthless rock heap below a perpendicular slope is now the choicest of town lots. The whole centre of gravity of Ladysmith is changed. Its belly lies no longer in the multifarious emporia along the High street, but in the earth-reddened, half-invisible tents that bashfully mark the commissariat stores. Its brains is not the Town Hall, the best target in Ladysmith, but Headquarters under the stone-pocked hill The riddled Royal Hotel is its social centre no longer; .it is to the trench-scamed Sailors’ Camp or the _ wind-swept shoulder of Caesar’s Camp that men go to hear and tell the news.

POOR LADYSMITH.

Deserted in its markets. repeopled in the wastes ; here ripped with iron splinters; there rising again in rail- roofed, rock--walled caves ; trampled down in its gardens, manured where

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to-day two yesterday, four dead or dy- ing and seven wounded with one shell | they are nothing at all, but they | suppose we stand at | about fitty now, and there will be more | before we are dore with :t. And then!

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dribbiing bombardment can be appall- ! ing.

} happened iito the centre of the | a town one Gay when thetwo big guns | cm) were concentrating a_ cross-fire upon | Goes €B, ' : ay iS It. °

First from one side the shell came | tearing madly in, with a shrill, a blast

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A mountain of earth,and a haiisterm 3 of stones on iron rvofs. Houses winced | : es, ° at the buffet. Men ran madly away Now tht this delicious Tex has become widely known from it. A dog rushed out ere er. every home in Prinze Edward Island, and is alao and on the yelp, trom the other quar-| great tavorite in man\ places in Canada and the United Stat

ter,came the next shell. Along the broad straght street not a vehicle, not 2 while man was to be seen. Only a herd of niggers cowering under flimsy fences at a corner.

Another crash and quaking and this time in a cloud of dust an outbuilding jumped and tumbled asunder. A horse streaked down the street with a trailing

halter. Round the corner scurried the niggers : the next was due from Pepworth.

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Then the tearing scream: horror!

it was coming from Bulwan. } blast, and '

Again the annihilating not ten yards away. A roof gaped and a house leaped to pieces. A_ black reeied over, then terror plucked him up agatn, and sent him running.

Head down, hands over ears, they tore down the street, aud from the other side swooped down the implac- able, irresistable next.

You came our of the dust and_ the stench of melinite, and knowing where you were, hardly knowing whether you were fit—only knowing that the next was rushing on its way. No eyes to see it, no limbs to escape, no bul- wark to protect, no army to avenge. You squirm be:ween iron fingers.

Nothing to do but endure.

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We find the following in an ex- change : ‘*Dr. Leyds was horsewhipped by an Englishman about a fortnight ago, says an English contemporary. Tne visitor obtained access to Dr. Leyds’ private room by representing him- self as an emissary of a pro-Boer news- paperin England. Left alone with Dr. Leyds he produced a bundle of obscene cartoons of Queen Victoria, published by Leyds in French news- papers, saying, “Yeu scamp! I am go- ing to thrash you for this.” He then displayed a whip, and proptly laid it accross Leyds’ shoulders. Leyds en- deavored to summon assistance , but was unsuccessful. As his English ad- versary continued to rain blows upon him, he finally crawled under the table and in a piteous voice shrieked for help. The Englishman finally said, “I have given you what my country will give your rascally employer at Pretoria,” and then left in a leisurely manner. Leyds at first informed the police, but afte: wards begged that no notice might be taken of the outrage, as it “would make him the laughing stock of Europe He had plasters on his back when he left Berlin to dine with Prince Hohen- lohe.”

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