oie (“ak ~ . w pe 5 . Fay nance . + LORD DUNDONALD’S GALLOPING GUN CARRIAGE USED IN SOUTH AFRICA.—[Boston Glob. } | pose to accept the intervention of any | power, the Swiss federal council, to its ‘ret must also renounce the idea of king any steps on the lines of the re quest made by the Presidents of the South African republics. ‘There re ; > for the federal council. in the | circumstances, nothing but to express | will have succeeded at | tant date in finding a WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. Interesting Particulars of the Struggle Between Great Britain and the Boers. RHODES’ VIEWS. ) % street the erview which WT) » the . : WV hatever the “man if may think about the in Cecil Rhodes granted to Julian Ralph for ication in the Daily Mail, experts are inclined to laugh and sneer. Few think it is worth while discussing all. Others say it is simply presumptuous. Cecil Rhodes is all very well in his place, but is not competent to critic's: military opera- tions. Lord Methuen, they say, may have made mistakes or may not. That } does not give Mr. Rhodes the right to say that the military project to take all the people out of Kimberley and back to the Orange River was scandalous, monstrcus and a disgrace to England. | Military men pass over Mr. Rhodes’ | tirade against the plans for the relief of Kimberley as the outburst of a dis- appointed man, who xpected the sritish would have a walk-over,or he would not have allowed himself to be shut up in the town. Of course, many others besides Rhodes had much the same idea. The military expert of the Westminster Gazette sums up an answer to Rhodes’ argument in these werds :--‘* When Mr. Rhodes can ren- der soldiers bullet proof and imper- vious to hunger, fatigue and disease, then the British and other generals may not find it necessary to plan re- treats. Mr. Rhodes has not reputation by allowing b ings to get into print in thus fiercely criticising what he affirms was Britain’s military plans.” A leading subject was the despatches published in the/ Government Gazette dealing with Gat- acre’s and Methuen’s defeats. With the light now thrown on the engage- ment at Magersfontein, lL ord Methuen, who seems from his des; atch to have blamed some of his officers for not carrying out his orders, 1s blamed by military men for his methods in attack- ing the Boers. The Magersfortein operation involved as one element of success a night attack, but night attacks are used for two purposes, to surprise the enemy or to cross ground exposed o the enemy’s fire with as little loss as possible. Methuen mace some sort of preparation to advance by shelling the enemy’s position fur only two hours. To attempt an attack in the darkness while the Boers were on the alert was courting a disaster, aS was only too well proved. muilary increased his s angry feel- EE sesen years & Trouble, and ag that I could Dear [Sire,—I was for sufferer from Broncbie) would te so hearse at tim scarcely speak shove a vi bieper. I got nO relief from anvih'ng ut il I tried ycur Miw..iD’S HONEY BALSAM. Two totiles gave relief and six bot les made 6 ‘omplete cure. 1 would hearti!y recom~ wead itto anyone euffering from thrcat OF lang trouble J. F. VANBUSKIRK, Fredericton. SONG OF EMPIRE. Mr. W. E. Henley appears to have written the most popular war song yet called out in England by the Boer war. It was published originally in The Sphere, has been set to music and is being sung everywhere. Canada and the other colonies are in the song and will be interested in it. When the music arrives we shall probably hear everybody singing “Storm Along, John!” Storm along, John! Though you fal- tered at first, Caught in an ambush, and held to the worst, All the old counties were hard on the spot, For they hadn’t a son but rejoiced in his lot. You had only to cart ’em some thous- : ands of miles; So you fell to your work with the calmest of smiles, And each with her battles, your ships you sent on, Ti! you beggared the record—Hi ! Storm along John! Storm along, John! Storm along, John! Frenchman and Russian and Dutck» man and Don Know the sea’s yours from the Coast to Canton ! Storm along, storm along, stor:n along, John! Storm along, John! ‘There was work to be done, With a foe in full blast ere you sighted a gun! Came, the news came, that you ree'ed in the brunt, And at home, by the Lord, it was “ Who’s for the front?” And your whelps overseas, John—the whelps that you knew For the native, original, pattern true blue— O, your whelps wanted blooding, they cried to come on, And—Hark to them chorusing: “ Storm along, John!” Storm along, John! Storm along, John ! Half the world’s yours, and the rest may look on, Mum, at the mp from Quebec to Ceylon, Storm along, storm along, storm along John! Storm along, John! All your Britons are Out ; Melbourne and Sydney got up with a shout ; Wellington, Ottawa, Brisbane, their best Send, with Cape Town, and the fight- ing Northwest. Horses, men, guns for you ! a-flame ! the lads of Natal have been playing the game ! From Gib. to Vancouver, from Thames to Yukon, The live air is loud with you—Storm along, John! India’s How Storm along, John! Storm along, John! Not in the best of the years that are gone Has the star which is yours thus tre- | - J mendously shone ! Storm along, storm along, storm along John ! ROBERTS FOOLED BOERS. A Boer commandant, one of Cronje’s men, who fell into the hands of Lords Roberts and Kitchener, spoke freely with a London new-paper correspond- ent of the calculauons of the Boer leaders as to the British plan of cam- paign. In the f HOW THE first place they were convinced that the British would be unable to follow any other line of ad- vance than that afforded by the rail- way. Three lines were obvious to them—-namely, the railway which en- ters the ‘Transvaal from Natal at Charlestown, that through the Free State by Springfontein and Bloemfon- tein, and the Kimberley-Mafeking route. The concensus of opinion was that the British reason for making strenuous efforts to relieve Kimberley was to secure the Kimberley-Mafeking line, whence an advance into the heart of the Transvaal from the railway would have been easy. Gen. Cronje refused to believe it possible for the British to make a long march off the railway, and therefore totally miscon- ceived the object of Lord Roberts’ strategic movement, which he imagined merety indicated a change of direction in the attack on Magersfontein by way of Jacobsdal. SWITZERLAND'S REPLY. The federal council has answered the Boer appeal for mediation as follows : “The Swiss federal council would have been pleased to co-operate in friendly mediation in order to end further bloodshed, but as the presidents of both South African republics have directly apprcached the British govern- ment in order to conclude peace on a basis indicated and the British govern- ment has shown itself against the pro- posal, and as, furthermore, the British RONG iDEA OF. +. YSPEPSIA Throws all the Blame on the Stomach—The Real Seat of Trouble is the Intestines— The Permanent Cure is Dr. Chase’s Kidney -Liver Pills. It is an old idea long since exploded that digestion is confined to the stomach, No modern scientist denies that by far the ter of digestion and the more di t part takes place in the intestines. This explains why dyspepsia is never really cured by pre- tions which merely aid stomach digestion and act only on the’stomach. 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