SW rom _\';iral and Cape Colony and
ITS" W-my, but such is not the
onthree sides the mountains rise
‘t eve,-y point to the sweep of any
from Johannesburg.
wthe town. and it would take at
"Qty thousand men to properly
the railroad fiom Johannesburg to
mov -
the line was Enally forced to en-
W, city on a line resembling the
yu look at the mountain frontsas your
smggies to and its wav into Pre-
iind wherever the eye rests there
' d b
front of masked batteries or the
of bomb-proof rifle and cannon
They command the few, and very
narrow entrances to Pretoria.
my command the railroad to Lou-
,nyl/larqiiez and the railroad to Johan-
,sbm-g They face the north of \\'inder-
“wand guard the ways to Beersheba.
pbron and Polonia. These two formid-
;5l¢ fortifications were built by the best
other of the
lnggtgrnalappearancc the seven forts
an-alike. Theyhave masonry faces. with THE ONLY HELP' ` W
earthworks which cover their front to a
gpggtdgpdr. In this they conform with AVictini of Bright`s Disease for Many
»»---»  to b-.f;~,;»d; M- r.i.fi;;ivfii.r 
Studied Work e “ture formally of Listowel,came here as a last
Pile upcn pile Of S8-Uflbflgs fl-fe resort. Had suffered ten years with
wherever shot or shell from Bl"l8l1l»'S Disease- R@D0Yl»€d \0 be Past
~ ` .EL “Z ' i. . 1 `
my nigh-  Th--= af- ---1 ;‘§.‘i>.:~::;.‘3.";‘c.1;§;i°:i“ea”;?°ii';ifl  - ‘ ~ o' a
NC€SS€S, S@C1‘€t Passages- C°mPlel'e planation given was that!-her little boy   ,
9s`
mmulated within the forts and the city
(Pretoria to last the iiiiibitants and i . VAAL RIVER
llkarmy in the event of a siege for five .
NH The ammunition supply is est-im- ____ VERDEFORT
lcd for three years. How many guns are ‘
limxitel it isdifiicult to say.butundoubted-
lllmny ofthe Boer guns have been taken “_”
lo the mountains north. The guns ‘
llginally placed in the fort were fifteen LROODEWAT
Mfimeter Creusots, but their Dumber is
Ut d ` . f
f.,,,‘_‘f,f"‘.°'l' k”°‘"‘ S _,ts ,he most 'rn Pfeiifu -liioNN|Nc srnuir
hi!! “Pretoria is not as prett-Y 8 WW” ’ _
lBloemfontein," says Poultney Bigel0W- To Pretoria m“'”']KR00NSTAD
5'-I that is for reasons which |43 mlieS
 7".’»’7'f3f¢'7§'5,7‘g77_.i’;§i' . -'-._-.:;_,;.,.-V  __ _ E,   » , .,.: _ .
" e `  ="‘~.’~ -1 -api . -' ,. --3' = ~  .=-;f.»~,» _  -
.  z.. -'>'f_. i.. `;? `.`-f>~=-1'--_ _ = ' f_='-_ ;-,.=is» ‘.2  ,, -1- ». _
-f . , _ Wu; ,saws ,..
or
,.  -  . . ~ i' "Puri: f:irARprAu. c.°.i4.An1.<»1‘r »‘ - ~ i ° .  f' »‘ 1
i-"roiviv riiivcu EDWARD ismilo :UNE ooo ~ -4.
IORIA A CITY
0F
,ve ~.~. ~~/~~~- ---` ~-‘------:v~Y~_~.~_~_-_ _~.~_ ,»,~_~,-_~T-___ ______`,.
,tgp the lloers have been pres- `
Su-Ongholils have fallen into
incluilinzPretoria., capital
where the plans vi er: laid
bv Ooni Paul and his iulvii-
wap now in progress. lt Was
shit the1a_-t great stand of the
be at Pretoria but from
indr-at ions the Boers intended to }
to (39 mountain fast-nesses beyond
city and there make a stand
the M-my of Lord Roberts.
the city seems easy of ap-
alongside of pretentious Governmen
beholder by their size.
ticully without money. The gold mine
wgwo thousand feet above the
of the city, which is itself 4,5(l) p
sea level. Onltne forth side
facing Johannesburg, the range
to a vast level plateau ex-
may command it. The city is
from Cape Town and about
mod¢m forts command the ap-
i¢_ The civil engineers who
found mth problems of grade erted into the building of huge forts.
“tain resistance orfereil them
twists of a giant boa. constric-
offices, where much money has been spcn
ff ts, a re ou t,
to be 3 hue 0 or for show and little for beauty.”
water.
men :ind engineers of Europe. _ ` ` ’
hmewem "_1 Ap t *da While costing much to keep them in repair
géhg .(;£§‘§rb;li;rr?I;lngir?;;r;rc 0;1;`t_r“ Ct e d But this is a good fault and will abound
li
defence* to the benefit of the city in the future.
connection not only with each had insisted that she should use Dodd
an bniwirn the niiiciai buildings in KidI=°YPil1S and P1'°PheSl€_d _Phat wel; _ @ by _
._ o .
y \A¢
_ h would cure her. She says,- From th
It IS 5190 reported thas t' e “ear first few doses I began to feel better, an
appoaches are mined. and that it would after taking four and a half boxes, Isa
--  =° an my   ii;i:§2.lfeii.£ii@.gaii:;3i>ii:izafsiiii
l*"'°fkS- medicine in the world that has ever cure
'°l'll-flee” Ye.9'1`9 00|” Paul has bw" a case of Bright's Disease at such a stage.
petly with secrecy, putting up 1311652
Hences, paying something like $10,000,
Hit is said. You would know more of i '
illese forts, but it is impossible to find <
out You ask questions, but they are not
mswereil. None seems to know the in-
rml me@h,mi_t~m=, nor how the batteries
mplaced_ All say that Oom Paul can
kll,butnot even an inquisitive American
Iould ask him. When the forts were
hlldmg workmen; employed on one part i .
U the structure were not allowed to work A i
manother. Scntries were posted at all &L-°'-‘KRUGEKSDURP

s. Details of the work were ‘
from all but the President and the ,__ ~ 5 UOHANNESBURG
Umunanding oiiicers. lt has been said gg ;‘{f£"a 
that B itish spies have gained entrance.
that enough food has been ac-  VEREENKHNG
mf W
LEEUWSPRUIT `
ia is in many re pe
of all South African towns for lm 'File'
residence. The nil- is dry and ` ‘-1 Joizn/in
and is admirable for persons weak `
Tie case recorded here 58  °f the
Cbase’s Ointment was successful U1
Wal for nearly three Year! “met
ith u bad form of Eczema. ot il” »
which was very unsightly *nd
t _
MP James Scott, 136 Wfikht lnnue' ,i ~
' .
fn:=_ __ _ “.#“_VENTER5BUR(i
Eczema on --- --‘ir-l 
the Scalp 'gfifflffm
Inu me ana sum uno: the “N i ,_"_*3",__‘*,_- ,_-
 
¢meneomauynr.ciiaso’sl.U__U°°"f~
ever brought to the attention of ` Freud. 
s best physicians, audi _when gg.-‘ky
gave up all hope of reeovérf-
I. IMBERLEY y
a. perfect cure. » ,_ ._
.t..t.,,__ My boy 'rom and _ Cwsml.
¢¢_»`f\|ln¢*
all kinds of remedies and doc -
reatment. His head was in t 1.98",” .` EMR
state. We had to keev Ulm ff°’° Q -;|¢g
and at times his head would * :.,~ _ __ 
Ind me child wonidpcrea-ul lil”  * ' f
`_ For two and a half ifetfl  o
with ii in vain. but at last
A cure in Dr. Chase’s Ointment- J
five boxes were used. The
sores dried np. leavin! *he ‘km l
normal condition. To MY ll l' "
of Dr Chase s Ointment is PW i
Cliearsyefsmgllltmen at all 5_»¢33°"s";T '  
Bates I: o.. T°¥°ntP~ _ 3'  _*_  ._,»*,;. , 
_ .€1»?#:2L':£Z£.
Measure to testify tn the wonderful  ` g .r.4Pf¢t“h,“-51;., -
it ° -° ' ' 0
1 'wxa -, .. ii.
PORTRESSES.
may be obvious. Bloernfontein
gives the impression of good taste, o
general comfort, of harmonious develop-
ment. At Pretoria, on the contrary, we
find Boer cabins with mud floors ranged
f
buildings, built obviously to impress the
The Boer Government in i881 was prac-
s
snddenly threw into the empty treasury
of this “cowboy” administration so much
money that it was rather embarrassing to
know what to do with it. The Boer legis-
lators who had probably never seen a five
pound note until the Outlanders opened
the mines at Johannesburg, commenced
their career of political independence
much in the way an American cowboy
celebrates his return to civilization. ln-
stead of working slowly and spending the
money for the good of the country by es-
tablishing good schools and building roads,
bridges and things calculated to increase
comfort they acted! on the assumption
that intercourse with their neighbors was
ia bad thing, and that to be strong they
P ‘must remain a peculiar and isolated peo-
iplc. The money which would have gone
to the construction of railways was div-
Instead of welcoming Afrikanders to
assist in their administration they pre-
ferred to import clerks directly from Hol-
land and Germany, as though ;these
might give more loyalty to them than
even their kinsmeu reared at the Cape 'or
Natal. The private residences at Pretoria
are overtoppcd by monstrous government
One thing which Pretoria has is an ex-
cellent supply of water, which is in abun
dance throughout the city. Johannes
burg on the contrary has a most wretched
supply of water and it is said that people
there often wash their hands in soda
The streets of Pretoria are wide aven-
ues and were laid out with reference to
the ov trains and are to day much too
b .R from mnb obtained in wide for the normal traflic of the city,   `
y _
d .
Pneiouu ii? e
~ » f=LoEliii¢oN1e|N
oiuuvoe Rive
%@%%%
@%@%@%@%@%@%
‘@%m%&
c-if v.;f‘ in use ft'-=s.>>
%§%& @%% m
¢., ,fm
 airs .lam 
[With Whiske_rs.]
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_, _
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There was a boy whose name was Joe,
And he had a goat that wasn’t slow, .1 -
_ .And everywhere that Joe would go, '~`
That goat would want to go, you
know.
It followed Joe to school one day;
The teacher said it could not stay,
Told Joe to take his goa.t.awa.y~
Just then there was some fun to pay.
The goat he raised his tail on high.
A wicked gleam came in his eye,
At the teacher he did take a shy; `
The teacher thought he saw the sky.
He knocked the teacher on the lloo
Butteg four children through the e
oor,
_ And looked around for something I
more- " ‘
For he was mad, he wanted gore.
He started down the centre aisle
With a swagger of the dndest style.
He butted nine children into a pile
And shook his whiskers wi li a smile-
He' saw a boy who looked so neat, v
Who camly gazed into the street
The goat he says, “Ah, there, my
meat."
But that is where he met defeat.
He struck the boy below the belt, r-' -.
i But it seems the blow was hardly felt;
But on the goat it raised a welt.. _ -
And he died as dead as any smelt. _ "“
The moral of this poem bad. ( ' -
Is that the clothes worn by this lad
Were ghg toughest kind that’s to be
3. »
And we sold them to this lad’s dad. _
_,_ The suit was double pleat, ‘ i
Was in pattern smalland neat;
Was made-_for wear as well as heat,
And the thickness caused the goat's
defeat ~
They cost him just one seventy-fine,
Allwool asfsure as you`re alive;
@  They saved him a dollar twenty-five,
` .J
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 -4f,:2-" <11, ~ w1.»}~"f;l`~. 'Z-’,‘~ A .
%@%%%@ %%
_»-s
 T iii' 'si'
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T-/__
Z /1
>-_ ,__
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ananamanasananaasna
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f -~:i
1 And thegoat he never did revive.
Our 551.75 suit is a better stayer than the boy.
The strongest boy has to give up when he tackles this suit.
What Trade We Have We'll Hold and l
mama
What We Haven’t» We’re After-
nsnananasasam
"‘ ' ' I
This is the inducement we are oifaring for your patronage. _
Why suclibig reductions ‘!. You may ask. We" will te‘l you frankly.
We bought more colored shirts, in sfiff bgggmg, Ngg
Iegee silkfronts mem working shirts *hw i= fe
quired for our ordinai-y trnde- In' addition to the large purchase made
in ,M-]y spring 2 ¢a5¢s_ 5|»\||»t3 were shipped to us that had been
cancelled: Bother than?-take them back manufacturers 5g|d thgm
to us at abig reduction- _ _ _
We believe we have now the largest stock of any retail house in the
city. To dispose of this stack we oder such |ib¢|-3| diggquntg.
~ ~ = our Hmninsnninnnaried white shim nm an  Qin- its mni-im use
Flannellette Shine-. _ 17c, 25, 35 and -upwards
Buck snieen shim ._ _ - 45°. 55.. 65.
Since Lord Roberts assumed control of
British destinyin South Africa there have
'een many attempts to delineate, for they
istics and his doings at the front. None
has so pleased the people as the brilliant
-vhose actions daily rivet the world's- at-
5313-1*-°. , _
Modder River He sent for them and nd-
go. ' i
granite mountain, seamed, lined buttered " tineiixth
by the storms, strain,and rackingchmige. ` ` It'fiwa.s the
It records acquaintance with every trial -Guards-who 
to which mortals are put, all _lnfered in  A 
the solitude nf undivided responsibility. Iusteadofgrnmbling
e
yet seldom stern, and wholly ignorant of
passion.  have known many great faces,
but that of Lord Roberts is a face apart.
I fancy that, in the minds of their wor-- 511;!
shippers, some of the sobcrer gods- of the -°1'  ls.
om niyinoiogies hncfnonn like ms. . . Sewufewfi
“He dresses in ' serge khaki, which,
plain as that always must be, he .renders
more plain by ridding it of all orders and
wearaline anda half of ribbons. But
_the chief, who is entitled to perhaps four
lines, appears every day, for every duty
and function, with a tunic as bare of de-
corations as that of any civilian. He is so
pect lie must have been a dandy in
earlier life. He isquick and nervous in
his movement, and his constant habit is
to thrust either one or both hands under
his belt-a practise which makes it easy
for artists to familiarize his Bgure with
the public. .
“He is instantaneous and direct in
versation, and goes as straight to the
point in viewas a. welhaimed bullet to a
target. I -have noticed that when he
meets new people he advances toward
minutes either engages the new acquhin-
tance in earnest convenaticn or has done
With the army, in  Africa' his head"-
were a part of the royalty he represents.
name ina book, and he sends for you
later if he wants tosee you. It may be a
duke whom you find in the Salle of the
residency-as it was in my case-and who
offers the register for you to sign.
WORKS CONTINUOUSLY.
“The field marshal works continuously,
and to do so has to be free from interrup-
asmall one, standingafew feet from the
of distinguis e men 0 t c aristocracy
lg 0
.. cf 
pri. E.
i
.
\.
iw..-
I
t curesf-w
Every kiudof disease arising from stones-howvhecaaposaess
    in-rg
on  ho' ‘ i
v _persistently presented that it cannot help _
but be powerful. _ '
l ms srxrnn rnrrn.
V -' Victorlh Biol.  “When he took the sacrament at Drie- 
5 fontein the other day, in the face, one
T might say, of the whole army, - it. was
rading of
fo  y _C without a hint of ‘the pa '
 r  _ ». .  _ - religion. iiiisnwinicnn net _
R ~_..__.' ' v  -F ' _~ ' `fni¢n.1tinn1nm»¢»,»nni-aw
,;`pv`r--IU, ' -  f-‘ ’ at his gentleness and sympathy with the
_ _£1-m--nometimcsstem-course which Y-in
A ` generalsosnprcme in command, audit
hnvetofollow Ilmve askéll manyo!
ffriendzhowheeoubebothsortsof m
 the”h¢ad0f3°1ayg¢ang1-my, mngtgfwg
. Bl
*we imagine mutt WSI* With
*I gut. I don t
fhinssfroi l
5

95% SWRE
gi
i
gi.
il;
° ° ' ii ii ii. ‘ 
Britain s Great General. _ __f;?;;;§§geve1§’f£;;fh&_
`“"` _ ._ ynality. of flawless tact, the a~s_up¢riofi'_¢-==;¢..
dressed them as one who speaks tcl ’~ f wmI‘-D?L¢r9n'Bm" __ .  
friend. 1ine¢me¢i'wi.iieni maine lifted . “Hia si-my  daonyuiing-.lion  P ’
every disability and brushed away every _march longer; otarve=:hamder,-gn
‘limitation which had hampered and al- tents, blankets, and-. run more numbers 
most crippled them in their workup to  'g¢>e~
that time. They wereto write what they '\¢hoy’¥ilfdoill_  
pleased, he said, and this _was notto bt; 359611! Wl\°l'°  lnlllllt Protest l ~
censored. Only their telegrams would ‘Maud irruinble  Qlleodf-l‘¢jt¢h i,$ull¢g._~_»_'~;_ __
be scrutinized. They were to go where- ness-  an 
ever he went, wherever they willed to- f1'0ll_\ the, G!l§`!‘ll.$£lb1_|§’!’~__to the xou_¢_hent,_;.§'
 i,fom'.__1u_‘ne _aid  ’ 
°‘To me his face suggests thefront ofa extorliedvrith' iro1r`diiblpllne'and 
mere!
ii
Care worry, sickness, danger, nnceasingi WY f°F lllllllmii’
reflection, all had left their marks there, W0”-id dim”
yet all were written across A gentle, sym-~ m¢.‘_\l W°\_ll_@ ‘S5
pathetic countenance, never gay or merry, V53# _¢'° 0-l>°‘lf~
yi#
decorations. There are men on his staff"-gt 
-there was even an American newspaper. bug, tkere' has
reporter with' one of the armies-who gl-t5§|-_ievgr in
neat and precise in his dress that I sus-i found' Lord- Methuen established. in
con- “When his army is in motion.
them eagerly,lixtens_ intently,and in three"
with him with n. decisive nod of 'partinira
quarters form a court-almost as if he
You do not call upon him. You sign your l
tion; therefore visitors meet him only at l UGQKU'--DI'
lunch or dinner. In Bloemfontein, where Flod lo¢!0|'Od _¥il'8ltI‘.
he was living between walls, his table was ‘ Mrs. E. McLaughlin. "$5
head of the large, long table, at which sat W” gm' “'ea\§'tla'ngmd' and d
_ - _ _ _ -.‘_. ct ewaspooraxi
his staff-hishpizinderousf, ilpipressive staff Egg igrhzépgould s,,a,ce;y° drug
You dined with ‘Bobs’ in khaki, of course, C°mPl€'¢€lY _ UHSCFQIHE-h £5118 $101110
an _ . _ -- - - --- - - - _ __‘- V - _ sleep for more t an al .an our
="1j_=§S'"a‘1 eb” ,. 'f Yerggr ¥1'g“,,‘>' 3°; ii... .-in... ...ang up .ni ..,»i.......
ore . or you muy < me vi 1 iss an e in excnement_ _ , 7 _ .
E
p e sented to him after the meal for aslong ‘ As she v/is grcwlng'
‘ ` or brief an interview as he pleases. That WPHKGF I UECBZSUG _g;31`mfd» Nami
_ p is Precisely the amoiilnr. and extent of ;‘|11e°'ut:;§ °tms rkreagaigt tif'
“tale “b°“” ‘S "“"’°““d weeks. and from the first.
v ings. But all state vanishes decided improvement.--_"Her
 ` when you touch the hand of the little ,came better. S116 liillefi in
man andtalk ‘with him about the tw"o _ ‘ ' ‘ " '
sub}ects which engross him-the war  became ,R123 ‘nd
. _ .
_ \ around him and politics at home. W,-,mggff
» “Lord Roberts never smokes tobacco, ,en such'
_ ' _ and with drink he has; iimn in ao. A bu1?l'3erC|;;*d°
W ` ' ' ¢7 glass of wine with two of the three meals- ,num merit, In pm
 R    I  n suoices for him. He preaches temperanoe In an ¢¢g\¢;~g;.¢¢» ggimgggg, 
to his soldiers, and they all know that he Co- Toronto-
shows no patience with those who drink
.tn excess. He presides at meetings of the -""”"'“'
Army Temperance Association and extoin
sobriety, but, like all broad-minded men,
he refrains from advocating the imposi-
ible-one form of which is total abstinence;
He has never been known to use an oath;
and, indeed, there must be comparatively
few men whose religion influences' them
so deeply as does his in every adair of
life. He never parades his piety, never ‘
forces it upon those around him. Yet on;
i every Sunday since be joined his army he
has attended divine service. Not a word
‘~ has be ever _spoken to his stall’ suggesting
_or orderinf their _presence-yet he is
certain to attend the weekly service-_nn
example tothe army so modestly and 
- - I ---Q-mr. -_  _ .._,.....__... _' ----- N 7;' ~ __ F .. .  on ..’?,=_"
dmost super-human, gift of justice. Good 'j
s stern upon oeo'a.sion.’v - . 1 
man who_mean”\:fas ‘well as himself .intl ~.-2
_“The first time the correspondents saw had not the capacity to realine 
him was at the railway car window at tion. ' . "  
_ .. ,,
monde: nim. »na'.Bio¢mtoiiii£in>   
mana’ He can 'mak
I f»0_
_P|l!\S¢"3 “E
'mimke cnet
B9
i "Even if
considered
he
_`heis
fl
at the eu 
ina ` "ve
been such idolatry such
leader. ’
y IN 'rim rmnn.
“When he virited  .Hirer
h_otel,;aud that generidhad been at
painirto clear out a part of the
and to appoint it for the Held
lodgings. But Lord Roberts,
hirn,rema.rked that he had ordered
tent to be set on the veldt and that
he meant to stay. _
and htiug, he travels with
and._o__tent._ the Brat 
and the .second 'lil work 
is n light four-wheel
vous;
and  
rwuomm to 
street, Toronto, states:-le-“ Hy
about the house, md her nerves
colour returned to her face and
well.
too
wma
.t
Corset(
The
nike
neu like him because hols -good; hindi' ` 0 if,
l nen find a responsive chox;rl.inlhisfna".tii'fx€,!;_i 
oeneiit of the public, his personal charact- _ md those who are sharp -.feel that he, ftoo, 
“He has complimented- Tommy on hisg; .-
-iketch of the field-marshal which Julian soldierliness in such p. way as to win the 
Ralph contributes to the Daily Mail. X naxfs loyalty to Che end ind surrender 
' For a picturesque description ofthe man i ‘iis life, and onthe  some daiy hébjgf A’ 0
°!'d°~\'*d h°¥H¢ 5  knowing that .
tent-ion, it is unequalled. Mr. Ralph lr i;iie7orderos!'rlo_dl<wi°ith.`itfch¢  ¢§5¢;g_;' __ *'
him; »