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chimes they thought they could artillery in action beyond a _ ll. They were unable to return line of, the Chinese except at mo- ts when an assault seemed im- nent. Then the machine guns and eventing rifles tore the storming :parties to pieces. The messenger ex-â€" '[iz'essed the 'belief that it would be Vols for the foreigners to re- t much longer, as the Chinese were iprqparing to batter down the walls of the court-yard and their ammuni- tion was running low. Orders were given by Prince Tu .n. the messenger says, that since some ad been killed, not One other foreign- , should be left alive. The Chinese soldiers were exhorted to sacrifice their lives without hesitation, if by so goofing they could help exterminate the r ' Wang-Kuei-Tse.” Extreme precau- had been taken to prevent areigners from communicating with runners Who had been sent out f should be :fate. the -â€"- '7 â€"vâ€" "U" The consular body at Shanghai is of the opinion that the food and ammu- nitionof the besieged Legation forces 'at Pekin have become exhausted, 3 they must be dead or imprisoned, and that it would be futile to make a des- perate effort for their relief with an inadequate force. It is regarded at fShanghai as appalling that nothing _' is being done for the relief of the be- ‘sieged foreigners. and that they abandoned to a horrible The inability of 1,600 men- ?the latest estimates of the number ilandedâ€"to advance, is explained by ‘ the statement that the Chinese army between Tien-Tsin and Pekin has been heavily reinforced, that it has abund- ant artillery and numerous cavalry, giving it large advantages over the allies, Recommitring parties run a great hazard of being surrounded, captured, and probably executed by torture. A long delay seems certain yone outside the city. undo. numben before an effective advance and be made. lost of the Knmassi Garrison Suc- ceeds In Escaping. 2A despiltch from London, says:â€" Ool. Wine-oaks, commanding the Knmaasi relief expedition, telegraph: Colonial Office under date of Tues». y that natives report that Governor Bbdgson and the wives and families of several officers have left Kumassi, where they were besieged by the rebellious natives, and arrived at _Ekwanta, 20 miles south-west of ing out under a terrific fire up- ' id by the; hourly expectation of re- et. They knew they would not be bandoned, and that the armies of it Governments were advancing. ekimes they thought they could artillery in action beyond a1 ll. They were unable to return ' line of, the C-hunese except at m1)-l ts when an assault seemed im-f nent- Then the machine guns and Lttepenting rifles tore the storming Eperties to pieces. The messenger exâ€"- pressed the belief that it would be mole [Or the foreigners to re- ' ch longer, as the Chinese were wanting to batter down the walls of the court-yard and their ammuni- tion was running low. Orders were given by Prince Tu .n.i I l I The Daily Telegraph's Lorenzo Mar- iques correspondent attempted on ‘ednesday to interview President ' ruger at Watervalonder. Herr Kruger was there. but he depnted State Secretary Reitz to talk. The “qcretary said :â€" “We do not need to discuss peace, President Kruger wishes. through me, to repeat what he has said over and over again. The South African Repub- lic will fight for independence as mg as 500 burghers remain alive. and _ n then will continue to fight. Such is our decision.” Dr. Conan .Doyle, writing to the gBritish Medical Journal, says he gthinks that there were 10,000 to 12,000 {bases of enteric fever at one time. L V tein in one month. Dr. Doyle de- nim-es that the physicians did all they ékruger Says War Will Continue Un- ? til No Burghers Are Left. . IA deapatoh from London, Friday, :‘sayszâ€"The cordon around Gen De W'et appears still to be wide; at least he has not yet been cornered. Despatches [from the front, except official ones, deal with trifle-s or vague probabili- â€".," _ - The rumour appears to be well founded, although Col. Willcocks fails 2 understand why he has not received we from the Governor. The colonel intends to proceed to Kumassx and re- “ the place if it is evacuated. â€" fie messengers added that many were killed in breaking out of Ku- Gen. Hethuen Takes Pris oner De Wat's Head Scout. A deSpatch from London, saysâ€"The following despatch was received on Emddy afternoon at the “Far Office from Lord Roberts:â€" “Gaseral Hunter reached Frankfort July 1, without opposition, and Macâ€" donal'd joined him there yesterday. He found two men of the Seaforths and eighteen of the Derby militia in the gospital. They had been well treat- by the Boers. "Methuen reports from Paardekraal, on the Heilbronâ€"Kroonstad road, that he has captured. the commander of De W scouts two otaer prisoners, and “A ies Vt $3013,th head of the Atri- under Band.” 1 despatdb tnom London says:â€" Ir Robert. Hart’s runner, who was Itervwwed by the correspondent at in Express at Shanghai, says the mlgners were makmg a last stand I the buildings and enclosures of COMMANDER THE SIEGE RAISED. be women were starving, as they re apart of their small allowance the children. The floreigners were In was some women and children. were short of food, even of the nmonest. necessaries. British Legation. They had :y dead and wounded. Among ILLED ALL FOREIGNERS the Chinese Rumors Current in Shanghai Are Correct. N0} DISCUSS PEACE. . were killed by the Chinese. This mes- :senger succeeded in getting through by smearing his face and clothes with ‘bLood and joining in the outories The total losses exclusive of sick and wounded have been 29,708, of which the killed in action were 25!: officers and 2,- 403 non-commissioned officers and men; died of wounds, 70 officers and 610 non- commissioned officers and men; miss- ing and prisoners, 65 officers and 2,624 non-commissioned officers and men; died of disease, 133 officers and 4,024 non-commissioned officers and men; in- valided home, 844'officers and 18,433 non-commissioned officers and men. Fever a. Worse Enemy Than Boers in South Africa. A despatch from London, says:â€"The War Office om Wednesday Issued a re- turn of the British casualties in South Africa since the beginning of the war. A large army of Manchu Chinese Imperial troops. with seventy guns. is reported to be. adjvmncing m the direction of Tien-Tsin. Reliance is placed in Shanghai on most of the statements made by the messenger,” he is known to be faith- ful to the foreigners. _. I o o p Difficult Work in Keeping Up Communications. A despatoh from London, Thursday, says :â€"'l‘he commanders of the allies in Tien-Tsin inform the correspond- ents that it would be suicidal to reach Pekin with the troops now available in the face of the forces of Imperial troops and Boxers occupying the coun- try between Tien-Tsin and Pekin. So far from taking the offensive the 12,- 000 international tnoops at Tien-Tsin and the 8,000 others at Taku and in- termediate points can barely keep up communications, fighting incessantly with overwhe ming numbers, using far more numerous artillery pieces than the allies. _ Lo-Fu. Their bodies had been out to pieces and their heads were carried at the ends of bambooa. of Admiral Seymour’s force who had been killed between Lang-Fang and Regiment Received Its Baptism of Fire on Dominion Day. A despatch from London, says:â€" Stratncona's Horse with Gen. Clery’s force was engaged for the first time on July 1, in the neighbourhood of Standerton. They lost one killed, and one officer missing. The Boers, probably mistaking them. rode to within fifty yards of them, enabling a subaltern to effec- tively use his revolver. against the “ devils.” lloaded Trolley Goes Over a Preclptce at Tacoma. A despatch from Tacoma. Wash., says ;â€"Thirty-five men, women; and children were killed and eighteen were injured. nine fatally. in the wrecking of a trolley on the outskirts of Taco- ma on Wednesday. Happy excursionistsâ€"IM of themâ€" boarded a trolley car at Edison, asu- bm‘b at 8.30 o’clock. They were en rowte to this city to View the civic parade. The car bowled along at a good speed. Where the tracks tuern- ed from Delin street the car suddenly latched. and left the rails. The motor- man was powerless to check its speed. A r;n!c.h 1'30 ice: yawned below. Only a slight rail of wood ran along the edge of the precipice. LOSSES WERE ENORMOUS. STRATHCONAS ENGAGED. FIGH lIN G INCESSANTLY. 35 KILLED. 18 INJURED. v“..â€" The cable which will connect Belle Isle with the telegraph system of Canada. will be completed as far as Quebec city in about eight weeks. The Ottawa Improvement Commis- to light the city hall with gas at: 6235 a year, but the Ambitious'City aldermen will stick to electric light at $454. C. E. McPherson, general western passenger agent of the Canadian Pa- cific Railway. says that there will be a shortage in the Manitoba wheat; crop. but he believes that compensa- tion will be found in some measure in: the fine crops of the Territories. Dr. Robinson. assistant superinten- dent at Toronto Asylum. has been granted three months' leave of ab- sence. Dr. Ross will be moved from Broc-kville to,Toronto; Dr. Herriman from Toronto to Hamilton; Dr- Smith ton of Brockville will be exchanged. Crops are in phenomenally fine con- diztion in Alberta. The Duke of Westminster will mar- ry Miss Shelagh West. sister of Prin- cess Henry of Pless. Mr. Benniker Heston is now agitat- ing for Government ownership ol’ ca- bles and a two cents a word'rate for oablegrams. ' Admiral Maxse, who was naval aide- de-c-amp to Lord Raglan, commander- in-chief of the forces during the siege of Sebastopol, is dead at London. The Court of Appeals has decided that Sir Robert Peel is not entitled to share in the proceeds of the family heirlooms which were recently sold for $365,000. - Owing to the scarcity of boy labour the London District Messenger Com- pany has been forced to utilize 18- year-old girls in four of its offices. Over 150 building permits have been granted to Ottawa since the big fire. Hon. Richard McBride, one of the members of the New British Columbia Government, is not; yet thu‘ty years of age. and present it to the city. About $60,000 of the Hull-Ottawa relief fund has been distributed in amounts from $10 to $100. Hon. James Dunsmuir, the new Premier of British Columbia, attended the Hamilton Collegiate Institute 22 years ago. I n-1l- No railway legislation, as far as constructing new lines is concerned. will be introduced at \Vinnipeg this session. but schemes are being con- sidered for next year. GREAT BRITAIN Sir Henry Irving says Shakespeare is a bond between England and SPARKS [RUM IHE WIRES Newsy Items About Ourselves and Our N eighborsâ€"Something of Interest From Every Quar- ter of the Globe. America. V" "0' 11 electric magnet was successfully used by a physician at Ottawa to withdraw a piece of 3:331 fr )m a ma- chiniet’s eye. vâ€"VJ vw__, Hamilton is being urged to establish a free dental hall for needy children. Kingston hy-law granting some 834,000 bonus to the Cataraqui Smelt- ing 6; Developing (30., whwh will build works, costing 3300.000, was over- whelmingly carried. CANADA. Ottawa contractors complain that they cannot obtain bricklayers. I I9_,L London County Council has decided to send a. deputation of engineers to the United States and Canada. to investigate the public asylums. their construction and system of manage-1 Sir Robert Peel stood in' BOW] street Police Oourt dock, in London, and made a public apology for calling his brother-in-law a blackmailer, and was released on suspended sentence on a charge of criminal libel. ' UNITED STATES. Chicago has more vegetarians than any other city in the United States. President McKinley is said to look tagged out and of unhealthy colour. Several hundred school teachers have left Cuba for the United States, - Kansas wheat crop is 103,000,000 bushels and 20,000 men have been im- ported to harvest it. - U. S. Prohibition party leaders claim tfiat their National ticket will receive 300,000 votes this tall. Charles Mefford. insane, killed one person, injured three others, and shot binnse‘lt at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Chicago health inspectors found many bake shops in a revolting con- dition of uncleanlineaa. Low water has hung up 14,000,000 logs, stretching over twenty-six miles of the Penobscot River, in Maine. A Bedford, Ind., girl mu killed in her attempt to separate her suitors, who were shooting- at each other. has offered ,n Montreal BOER SUPPLIES CAPTURED. BL K. Duffield, a Chicago broker, was robbed by pdokpocketa of 855.0% on a Cottage Grove avenue cable car. Gov. Roosevelt, Republican V100- Presidential candidate, is already :13- gotiating for a residence in Washing- At the sideshow “01d Puma" at the Exposition, the balustrade gave away. and aprofessor, his wife and daughter, were precipitated into the river. The daughter was drowned. Paris papers said nothing about the fatality as the Sh‘OM' advertised heavily. Eleven Boer waggons, laden with meat and mealies, were seized at the I . front. Those in charge of the waggons declared that they were coming to the Pretoria markets, but it is contended that the supplies they were carrying were intended for Commandant-Gen- eral Botha. The United States has sent another vigorous note to the Sultan, insisting upon an immediate settlement of the indemnity growing out of the Ar- meman massacres. Foreigners Acting Suspiciously 0r- dered to Proceed to the Coast. A despatch from Pretoria says:â€" There was some firing beyond Penaar- s-poort on Tuesday, but neither the British nor the 'Boers appear to seek a general engagement. According to reports from Bombay, there were 10,277 deaths from cholera out of 15,479 cases, during the week ending June 16. ‘Four days of bat winds totally de- stroyed the wheat crop in North Da- kota and Minnesota. GENERAL. The French Chamber of Deputies has voted over $4,000,000 for fortifica- tions. A: Equao of polioam trymg to- cap- fure a. ghost in a haunted house 111 Paris. In glvmg judgment in a case in New York Judge Cowing' made a. sweepmg den-unciatwn of the license allowed papers In that. city. to defame prwate character. He declared libel to be rife. The Supreme Court of Tennessee h:as decided that women cannot practlce Law in that State. About fifty foreigners who were made burghe‘rs by the Transvaal Gov- ernment during the war, have been given passes, and advised to get to the coast as quickly as possible. It is stated that after laying down their arms they acted in such a manner as to arouse the suspicious of the British, and it was considered that it would be better for them to leave the country. The railwayis now the leading fac- tor in the settlement here. The Neth- erlands Company has been surprised by the amount of traffic carried by the line within a month after the British occupation. There is urgent need for the completion of a quantity of unfinished engineering work in the shops here, and in order,to have this done the British engineers offered to re-employ a number of the company's workmen who had been laid off when General Roberts seized the line. The offer was accepted, and the men re- sumed work for a few days, when a deputation said that they would be better protected if they were com- mandeered. This was done. but a few days later there were some defections, caused by a Boer political agent, who persuaded a number of the workmen that it was unlawful to commandeer labor. Reconciliation With the Christians is Now Impossible. A Canton dcspatch of Tuesday’s date says the Chinese papers publish two edicts from the Dowager Empress, which reached LL-Huing-Chang some days ago. They state that recon- ciliation with the Christians, against whom the whole nation, inciudtng the military and the nobles and princes l8 united. in order 00. stfam-p them Hence. for the present it seemed ex- pedxenti to make use of the antl- "fer. eign movement. The Empress says she is “1’ng to protect the 113841210118. The edicts say the foreigners began the fight agamst China with the at- tack upon Taku. The bitter f-eehng against foreigners had consequent- ly increased, and any attempt to put down the peOple) would be dangerous. It remains to be seen, she says, whether the foreigners or the Chmese are the stronger. In any‘ case Gover- nors of provinces should Immediate- 1y enrol troops tor the defence of their distncts, as tb’ey would be held responsible for any loss of territory. Prince Tuan Publicly Executing Captured Foreigners. A despatch from Shanghai, says;â€" Prince Tuan is said to be publicly be. heading all the Legation guards cap. tured by the Chinese. BEHEADING THE GUARDS. TWO EDICTS ISSUED. A despatch from Berlin, says :â€"The1 Deutsohe ‘Iiage Zeitung prints a Chetoo ‘ despatch that says that the Chinese troops seized on Monday night the Pei-Ho bridge, securing the line of re- treat of the international troops to Taku after repeated fierce attacks, in! which the Chinese lost hundreds. They next drove off the Russians from their station outside Tienâ€"Tsin after atwo days’ desperate resistance and en- circied. the Cobossion, which their artillery is now dominating. The Chinese Minister is still here. ALLIED FORCES DEFEATED. -__ wztwuuvv“ u Bishop Ahzer, bettore leawngtheoxfl‘i’h; declared it probable that the powers would master the present revolt, if they acted harmoniously throughout Oherwise he believed the revolt would epread throughout (’hhna, and then .he task would prove to he an impossible “Ti'e'n-Tsin is still surrounded. by an overwthmfing number of Chmese, who Toronto, July 10.â€"Our receipts to- day were fifty carboads of Live stock, including 1,300 hogs, 800 cattle, 300 sheep and Lambs, and a few milkers and calves. A. Paris Temps’ despatchl from Che- foo, dated Thursday, says:â€" Retreat From Tien=Tsin to Taku Has Now Been Cut Off. Good to choice butcher cattle sold at from $4 to $4.50 per cwt;.; but me- dium to common cattle were in light demand, and values were unsettled, so that the figures given below can only‘ be regarded as approximate for any- thing but the best cattle here. MARKETS OF THE WORLD Stockers are stillt weak on a very light enquiry. Export bulls are nom- inally unchanged, bu't emy. Feeders and light bulls are qu-otabiy unchang- ed. A few choice milch cows are waxmted. Stags ........................... 200 250 Toronto, July 10. â€"Manitoba wheat was higher. Sales of No.1 hard were made at 860, afloat, Fort William, and at 96c, g..i t., which is 10. better than yesterday’s figures. Ontario wheats continue easy, and in poor demand. Winter and spring wheat is quoted nominally at 700, outside. Miutee'dâ€"Duu, Bran, $13 to $13.50; and shorts, $14 to $14.50, west. Choioe ewes are woth (tom $3.50 to $4 per cwt. Spring lambs inf fair de- mand from $3.50 to $4 each. Bucks are womb from $2.50 to $3 per owt. Several Loads of interior cattle re- mained unsold axt the close of the mar- Cornâ€"Fifni, No. 1 American yelâ€" low, 48c, on track here; and mixed at 47 1-20. Peasâ€"Quiet. Car lots are quoted nominally at 69c, north and west; and 610, east. Only choice veals are in demand, up to eight to ten dollars each for the right kimd. Common stuff not wanted. Barleyâ€"Steady. No. 2400, west; 411:, east; No. 342 to 430. ' Oatsâ€"Steady. White oats, north and west, 27c; and east, 28c. Flourâ€"Buying poor owing to the unsettled wheat market. Straight roller, in buyers' bags, middle freighta, is quoted at \ '33 per bbl, asked, and (n wood, at $3.30, asked. \ Buffalo, July 10.â€"Spring wheatâ€"No. 1. hard. round Iota. 88c; No. 1 North}- Prices of Cattle, Cheese. Grain, c., in the Leading Markets. For prime hogs, scaling from 160 to 200 lbs.. the top price is 63-8c; thick fat hogs. 51-20; and light hogs. 53-8c per lb. Cattle. Shippers, per cwt ......... 8 430 s 525 Butcher, choice, do ...... 4 00 4 50 Butcher, med. to good 350 3.75 Butcher, inferior ...... 3 00 3 25 Stockers, per cwt...’ ...... 3 00 3 50 Sheep and Lambs. Following is the range of quota,- tionszâ€" Sheep, per _cwt ...... - ...... â€"Eusy; No. 2 yellow, 47 3-4 to 48c; No. 3 yellow. (7 1-20; No. 2 com, 47 1-40; em, round lots, 7860; No. 1 Northern. car Iota. 87 1-20. Winter wheat- Dull; 830 bid for red .and whmte. Corn Byeâ€"Quiet. Car bots, west, 540; CHINESE HAVE BETTER ARTILâ€" Veg , WV. fl" er «V 11.5“). a ‘ *«n 4500 and {PROM PRISON T0 BATTLE. I A despatch from Brussels, says :â€" iThe Assize Court on Thursday return.- ed a verdict of guilty of attempt to kill the Prince. of ‘Vales’ against Jean Baptiste Sipido, who fired at the I Prince on April 4th as the train bear- ' ing his Royal Highness was leaving the hNorthern station in this city for ECopenhagen. The court considered that Sipido acted without discern. 'ment, and sentenced him to a re- Iforrnatory until he shall have attained his majority. Mert Penchot and Meire, Ithe mstxgators of the attack upon are trying to cut the communications of the international forces, whose Position. 18 very dangerous. The al- lied troops, numbering 12,000 men. have succeeded with! difficulty in pre- venting by strategtic measures an assault by the Chinese, whose artil- lery greatly out-numberes the Euro- pean guns.“ DEAD THICK ABOUT THE GUNS. A despaboh from London says ;â€"Ac- cording to reports from Shanghai. the Chinese army on a march southward from Pekin has reached Lofa. This is presumably Gen. Nieh-Si-Chang’s tome en route to attack Tien-Tsin. Another force of 30,000 Chinese from Lutai has appeared northâ€"east of Tien-Tsin. The native city when cap- tured was a horrible spectacle. Chi- nese bodies lay thick around the guns. The situation in Kwang-Tung or East- ern Province grows worse. Liâ€"Hun- Chang is said to be trying to raise a force of 200,000 militia. {he Prince, were .aoquitted, as they considered the plot a joke. Anarchy is widespread in the Pro- vince of Shang-Tung in spite of the efforts of Yuan-Shikai, the Governor, to control the revolt. Happily, a band of thirty-five American and other missionaries reached Tsin-Tau safely on July 3. Viceroy Liu is reported to be freely executing disturbers of the peace at Na'nkin. ‘- . Released at Pretoria to be Killed in a Few Days. A despa‘toh from London says :â€"The Pretoria prisoners are evidently ex- periencing an early renewal of war after their liberation. Mxnneapous, July 10.--theat-In store; No. 1 Northern, July, 79 1-80; September, 79 5-8c; on track, No. 1 hard, 81 5-8c; No. 1 Northern, 795-80; No, 2 Northern, 78; 1-20. ' {In the latest list of casualties there is evidence of this. The attack on the small British force at Homingspruit entailed the death of Major B. T. de C. Hobbs, of the 2nd West Yorke. who was taken prisoner, owing to his stay- ing behind 1.0 assist a wounded man at Willow Grange. in Natal, on No- vember 23. No. 8 com, 470. 0.1 tspâ€"Weak; No. 2 white, 28 1â€"40; No. 3 white, 28 1-40; N0. 4 white, 27 3â€"40; No. 2 mlxed, 260; No. 8 mixed, 85.1â€"20. Ryeâ€"Nb. 1, 1n store norm-natty 650. Flourâ€"Steady. Chicago, July 10,â€"A thher market at leerpoof resulted in a bulge here early toâ€"day, but the market reacted because of rains in the North-West, closing- steady. Oorn closed a e‘hsade lower, and oats 1~80 down. Proviswns closed, steady, and but little changed. CAPTURED 4-0 GUNS. The Ashanti Belief Force Slum-nos the Enemy. A despatch. from London. sayszâ€"The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Earl of Selborne, an- nounced in the House 0d Lords on Thursday that: the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, Si-r Fire-date Mrt- ebell Hodgson, with sun hundred na- tive sotdletrs, commanded by Major Morrls, left Kunmssr J 11110 23rd. He added that Captain 3151109 and 100 natlve- soldiers remained there, with ra'tbo-ns sufficient to Olast until J uty 151h-. Cod. .Willcocks promises to per- sonally. relieve Kumassr by that date, under any Circumstances. Second-Idem. H. H. Smith, reported severely wounded in the same tight, belongs to the lst Gloucesters. and was “taken prisoner at Nicholson’s Prince of Wales' Multan: to be Freed When ol‘Axe. “Burroughs with four hundred naâ€" tlve soldlcrs arrwed at Domposen J My 1. The enemy was completely sur- prised, and evacuated the stockades. Burroughs captured forty guns and ammumiuorn, and killed chatty of the enemy.” Tho news of. the Governor’s leaving Kâ€"umassi was contained. m a despatch‘ from Col. Willoocksg, dalte‘d Fumsu, July 4, whxch adds:â€" SIPlDO SEN TEN CED. A despatch from London, Wednes- day, says :â€"The Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent says that the general of staff of the Russian army esti- mates the Chinese army to number 1.- 752.000 men. He also says about L- The Enormous Army Which Possesses. 000,000 Mausera have been immorted within the last four years. Features of the Mortallty Record In the South African War. The fighting in South Africa during the past two months has not been at a very murderous character and a much smaller number of British sol- diers have been killed on the field or died of wounds received in action than during the earlier months of the war. But it must not be imagined that the total number of deaths has kept pace with the reduction. Instead of falling off at a corresponding rate the death list has grown with appalling rapid- ity. The deaths by disease have in-' creased so fast that the diminished fatality of the recent fighting is much The war, as will be remembered. be- gan on October 11. 1899. and the list of casualties issued by the Britinh war office on March 12 last may be regarded as roughly covering the deaths in the first five months of hon- tilitiea. At that date there had been a. total of 3.447 deaths, of these 2.418 were killed in battle or died of their wounds and 1,029 died of disease. Here is a monthly average of 483 in the former and 206 in the latter class. more than oftset. To establish this point we present an analysis of the casualties reported at different dates. Two months later, on May 12, the total of deaths in the two classes was 5,385. of which 2,893 were on the bat- tlefield or from wounds received in action, and 2,492 of disease. This is an increase of 475 in the former and 1,363 in the latter Class, or a month- ly average of 237 in the killed in bat- tle and 681 in the deaths of disease. Thus, while the deaths in the former class had diminished more than one- half in their monthly average the deaths of disease showed a more than threefold increase. We may add that the table of casualties tor the week ended May 19 displayed an intensiti- cation of the difference. In this week Never Until Recently Outside of ms 0" only thirty-seven deaths in bade were reported. but no fewer than 311 soldiers had died of disease, mainly of en'teric fever. Truly the fever in Boer- land is much more deadly than Mau- ser bullets. General Pretorius is a descendant of. the original Pretorius. the first President of the Transvaal Republic. and the man after whom Pretoria was christened. He was wounded in one of the earliest battles of the War. taken prisoner and removed to our hospital at Wynburg with three oth- er invalid Boers. His wound neces- sitated his leg being amputated. but he does not seem to be any the worse for it, and is reported to be on the high road to recovery. The other day he was shown over a man-of-war at Simonstown. Anything you please. I feel too blur to care what I eat. Newsboyâ€"Nearly" 7. air. , Old Gentlemanâ€"And how long ban you been in the newspaper business: Thingumbobâ€"TLc only one who guessed correctly, eh? Mchggerâ€"Oh. no, Two other doc. tors got the same, and all three of them guessed wrong. You see. they were called in consultation over a patient. You feel blueâ€"and you look yet. law. I'll cook a mess of Queen (on you. McJ 1ggerâ€"Young Dr. Dow as re- SUGGESTIN G THE COMBINATION. What will you like for dinner to- day, Henry? RATHER AMBIGUOUS. Old Gentlemanâ€"How old are my little man? "Allemachtig!" he said. “It is worth while being, Wounded and los- ing a leg in order to come all this way to see what the rooineks can do with all their little bits of iron and steel. It is very wonderful. but I am afraid that playing with the forcâ€" es of nature in this way is just a trifle ungodly!" NEAR TWO MILLION. Now, the old General is one of the older generation of Boers who has never hitherto beef: out of his own country. He had never seen the sea. much less a modern man-of-war. Of course, he understood nothing of the wondrous mechanism which he saw all round him, but he was immensely impressed by the great engines, the guns, the discipline, cleanliness and order of everything on board. Newsboyâ€"Oh, ever since I was a kid. GOT THEIR FEES. ANY‘VAY‘ FEVER BEATS BULLETS. GENERAL PRETORIUS.