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Era J rv J YORK- to to tody recording to conveno above all other liberty LI No No paper tent outside North paid in advance Newmarket Out FridayDec 12 1Q02 I TERMS J per annum i if paid in aihii j 4 Every Day Sftft Africa- j presently you commence tience and tact in maintaining the and the day proves to to be one enjoy it r Very letter by a York School discipline of her class told thai might expect to find more dirt intelligence page of pleasure- The Boers too dabarred from social pleasures and we hear of among the Dutch children and were monster and sporty being agreeably surprised to find teem ranged among them Then too bright clever and exceedingly most every week bur commandant Written specially for tie Era Having spent sev eral months in the largest concentra tion tamp in the Transvaal and time made a point of becom ing quainted with the wordings of camp- 1 am pleased to attempt a short MISS description of life as I saw it there trusting that my experience may serve in a measure to dissipate the erroneous ideas of many people in regard to the Burgher Camps A weeks journey up country crawling along in a goods train t through a land f where kopje after docile and amenable to discipline The little girls particularly present a- neat and pretty appearance in their starched white eappies or camp and their life therehut never A- glimpse into the have I heard one word of discontent playground where for often an hour nor anything but praise of the before school time a happy eager and unexpected sympathy and crowd of ones axe gathered thoughtfumess- extended to them by getter waiting for the time of com- the military is ample testimony that One old Boer said Paul that they enjoy their school life was my great friend and often has taken dinner at my house but he was On the register we had the names of two thousand children and the never so good to me as is the King school assembled each morning Edward who every day sends his at nine oclock in the playground captain around to my tent to see if I for prayers which were conducted in UT J Stoves Furnaces Paints Oils Glass rose and then melted into veldt with regularity I am well and if I need anything The visit of the line was really one of inquiry as to the clean liness of the tent out the man construed it into a great compliment I wish I could take my readers Dutch language Then they marched to the marquees and after a period Scripture taken up by the Dutch teachers the work of the day commenced in the tents All the English Subjects also the to one of those tents fitted up as a needlework- drill and singing were on living room kitchen and in the school timetable and in and with the necessary t the hoys were given instructions supplemented by the husbands rid- wood working and carving and perhaps a purposc a la calculated to dampen the wPped technical school was built most roortals and it was withra- and placed in the hands of a skilled weary limbs and a sense of the i instructor they had managed to curry away them when leaving their I A Outside each tent is an open the one and we had the afternoon and evening at our disposal of the monotony of African scenery that we alighted at Irene Station A genial and hearty welcome from members of the Educational and a sumptous for fare meal which was prepared for us in the staff mess room effectually oblit erated the memory of our weeks jolt ing and we turned in alter being in- itlated into the mysteries of fastening up our tents which appeared to us to be terribly insecure dwelling places Only a canvas curtain between us and a possible attacking enemy I And our poor beads quite filled with the most harrowing tales about the deadly poisonous African snake there was no alternative and alter much laughter and teasing from the old members of the staff we laced up bur for the Our little tents proved to he very pleasant- and comfortable barters The a pot or brazier and of the cooking is done I also wish you could on Sunday as they go up to the Dutch Churchwhich our kind commandant had built for them each carrying with him his chair which is to serve as his pew in church The system of relief is also very management of a Relief JTaron to her must be reported cases of Leaving the school tents at one oclock we immediately repaired to our mess room where lunch awaited Picture a long low room a long table extending down the centre at the top a solitary man our all and I was going to add- all ages f long clothing and material are under or girls need among burgher I Then she the Vents was but- tain if relief is really needed and if such is the case gives to ter etc it sometimes savor ed a trifie the monotonous But despite the fact that one often drank the necessary material cut out and ready tor making up The must be finishc for inspection within certain rum- floor was covered with the fine tier of days The Camp fti- so has a very busy life for it is her mould from an which had been kneaded in by hand until it was quite hard and then smeared over and polished with ox-blood- The visit each of the burgher from a cup instead of a glass and helped sell to butter with a spoon instead of a Knife which is usually considered necessary we enjoyed ourselves and the rations and the and merriment duty to investigate all cases of UN nrrkUnA anA which arc reported by her line which whs to accommodate tents daily If the illness is of two persons was furnished with a nature at all serious the patient stretcher bed dressing AT Gut rices to Dye Work to from Agent Co photographers I County Weekly It Coders Do Bromide Paper will tflv i a for wl fcru it table mirror several green canvas lounging rugs and a central tent pole which womanlike we ut ilized as a wardrobe by driving it quite full of nails A daylight view the camp re vealed several hundreds of can vas tents quite a pictur esque little village on the veldt The entire was enclosed by a barbed wire fence marked its boundary and ttirii no person must go without permit from the commandant At regular distances along this fence are stationed gber Police who have authority to take Into custody any one attempt ing to go over under or thru the wires The camp is laid out in lines Wide streets run between the rows tents and are marked out small whitewashed stones row and tent has its number and the same exactness and method Is distinctive through the entire camp Each family is provided with atent and cooking and where the family is large two and three tents are allowed Alt along the rows are built- brick baking which is made use of family accord- persona which arid if fa ft qoainWpic- to wifeMhc Jong women ana who stand side the doors of the stores awaiting turn pasy in sngar etc is a fcoup every after- pails of clean as each line of ii in charge or a I a round of Wjno- on spic VIBE I found the Very hap py and contented and as I have sat tents the Inevitable coffee which Is Invariably muddy they and for hours I have listened to of the war and thing wKh It and I they have talked freely about the a i is i at once the hospital for attendance And I cannot pass without a about the camp Hospital Hem again all the out with rows of whitewashed stone and the precise regular lines of tents with the great Red Cross lag waving above them present a neat and pretty appearance Within the lenU their snowy caps long flowing white veils and crimson capes move noise lessly about and lavish upon the fev ered Doer who perhaps has just in from commando the same gentle care and attention that would he given to one of our own sol diers When the camps organized owing to the inevitable J overcrowding and the unclean linces of many of the families various epidemics broke rut and the mortality list was great but I reached camp Irene in May had Improved so much that deaths than In a town of population at liad many vacant- wards- and the nurses and doctors were haying a comparatively slack time Another reason for the spread of epidemics early the camps fact that stuhoorjjijjr Refused to allow their to into tho hospital to be cared for in many managed toeep the fact their illness fcl In until death In the made It public course foolish prejudice was broken down and cnlldrcns ward bright laughing baby happy their little and Infants prattle school proper a row huge canvas floorlews hut furnished rude benches and In each tent two usually one English and one Dutch arc- at each with class of sixty children and hoard four feet square fc As the idea discipline usual wK the Dutch teacher that of Intimi dating the youngsters by rcrearrdng at them in a shrill voice pitched to highest note teacher No several marriage among them and each these is the occasion for merrymaking After the ceremony the happy couple with their best man and the bridesmaid return to their tent arid seat- themselves- hand in hand and for several hours they are on view sitting quite still and silent while the admiring friends come to the tent door in little groups arid after looking them over for a lew minutes fait back to make room- for others After this ordeal there fol lows a feast for the relatives and friends and then formality is thrown aside and proceedings invariably con- summatcMn a Boer dance Now that peace has come the camps are gradually dwindling and each day sees long convoys leaving the camp carrying the Boer chattels and a months rations back to their own farms Soon there will remain lines whitewashed stones on veldt to mark the existence of camp but the blessing which proved to the suffering burghers will never be forgotten and has won for the military arid the Home Adminis tration the respect and gratitude the hostile Boer BERT A For the Era r a I In i BY A BANKER the the the it Sailors DURING PAST TWO WEEKS Of all the varied forms oi animal perhaps the snake is at the mostrepuIsivQ and the It is true that a lion or or a puma is not a desirable am ago is to but hunter r would rather risk an encounter with the king beasts than with for instance an enormous Anaconda or boa constrictor five and twenty bt thirty- feet in length For he that by a dire mischance bs have to strike a vital pact and the lion is upon him skat immediately it has seized him yiveg him a series of sudden quivering jerks similar to the action of a cat a mouse which appears according to the testimony of those who have un dergone the experience to the brain and to produce immediate stupefaction The tropical forests or Am erica which are the home these crawling monsters aro de scribed as a very paradise y pikes and clusters of low ers in all manner of color ing bloom in luxurious profusion long racemes of magnificent and graceful orchids depend from boughs of the stately forest trees their flowers resplendent in scarlet gold and amethyst while here and thre the forest is a tangled panorama of showy climbing plants loaded with a profusion of rich and varied bloom their tendril- covered stems surmounting evert the topmost branches of the lofty mon- of the woods Prom bough to bough Hit innumerable humming birds tiny creatures clothed in a glitter ing of ruby or azure or emer ald while resplendent macaws and other showy birds take their Cleveland Dec Not for many years has there been such a record disaster as has marked the past two weeks on the great lakes The storm which came from the North country more sedate light from tree to tree and coursed along the whole chain of j vistas of palmbordered open lakes scattered death widely Fifty- romantic glens purling sailors were drowned and their bedecked and cascades add which went around and across our mots table will 1 am sure never be forgotten by the members of the Staff Of course our life had a side to it and every Tuesday evening the members of our mess were At Home to visitors Then our drawing room would he filled with pretty frocks and gay uniforms and to realize that one was out on the bloodstained veldt When recollect how toiled and broiled in order to have a pleasant room in which to receive our guests I think our drawing deserves a few lines to Itself It was formed by Pattern tents put together and grass floor was covered with can vas cloth stretched tightly across it We were fortunate in having a plenti ful crimson army blankets which was a great comfort for they were really beautiful and besides covered a multitude sins First the walls were hung with the blank ets and some them converted Into floor rugs and then all the available packing cases were upholstered with them and manufactured into tempt ing little cozycorners We also had a supply of pale green canvas deck chairs and little tables draping the hanging lamps with roKec4ored shades ind filling every nook and cor ner of the tent with flowers the ef fect Was quite dadingto bur accustomed eyesant as iir piano a fairly good one and of our staff real musical had little left to for Then too we organized pjcnlts which will forgotten by any of us The way of travelling about the la In huge wagons by twelve or fourteen oxen and to a person who has never experienced such a tide attempt to deecrioe It proper ly The wagon a heavy ponder ous affair and trio Initial Is to pile It quite lull of rugs blanks ets and cushions Then patty climb- and scramble up and pack themselves and tne hampers away on top each person endeavor ing himself up against his neighbors on either side- The driver ncreama shrilly at the oxen the long sjambok whip whistles over the wagon creaks and moves and you are over rocks spruit and veldt while tha thumbing and bumping seems loba almost bodies are now floating somewhere in the icy waters The money loss has not been great lor the vessels which were wrecked belonged to the- old wooden Squadron with the exception of Bannock burn owned by the Montreal Transportation Co The loss of the splendid vessel is She was modern and staunch in every particular and built where they know how to build vessels to the sublime beauty of the nature adorned scene But perhaps on one of the lower outspread branches of these decorated trees an enormous loathsbmc reptile is coiled up and watch for The explorer with the beauty of the scene sees not those rnt malevo lent basilisk eyes fixed him nor regards the stealthy coiling of the from dire necessity in England She reptiles long sinuous body is the greatest loss of the l- for a spring But he is now ins worth with her cargo of striking distance and in Moreover her crew moment of time the uncouth men The Bannock burn has simply disap peared in the middle- of Lake Super ior She was more solidly built than it is- customary to build lake craft was steel from her deck house to her keel and eas ily have weathered any gale on the lakes This record of disaster will likely continue lor two weeks longer Coal has jumped to a ton lor the up per lake ports and it is a tempting morsel Insurance has expired so that all vessels putting out do so without financial protection The season the commercial stand point has been the heaviest ever has struck him full and is en girdling him in its foul embrace As he feels the hot noisome breath of animal half suffocating and realties that he is being smeared with its noxious ointment the doomed victim knows that be is to be Swal lowed whole and that- his sepulchre j will be the maw of the repulsive rep tile What a simile this of our own life with the beauties and the pleasures of our own surroundings we are apt to forget that the veno mous serpent of sin will strike if we are not wary But happily we have a sure antidote For we lice to the Saviour of the world who known The which has our spiritual passed through Marie can- evtjry will als up to Dec measured over bo tons greater than last year the serpents or lake commerce tons greater than last year The growth of lake commerce be appreciated when it Is relate that as late as the total ore movement was only tons Within a few weeks there will be Issued a new set of States postage and for the the ol putHc be displayed on the siirtly rescued from the- Serpent a deadly colls I Sttangft Tribe of The remnant of and hitherto lost tribe Eskimos recently been discovered oh South- ampler Island at the extreme north of Hudson Bay It Is said that I until recently these people Judiclous advertising the rl the opportunity of seeing a buslncsB Hie term Judicious docs I Their huts are built of not mean an occasional advertisement jaws of whales covered but a constant everlastingly always- wHh at it kind one that keeps the name and business before lighting puhliK That- kind that drying ways wins Tbe lampis only a of oil in which a wick of tin- the chief means il will mention the fact that by which these people bones their attention was drawn to the being utilized for making purchased by reading the cups and sledges- but they also use when such the case sledges of walrus tusks with deer It merchant to know antlers for cross pieces tribe his advertising Is bringing trade is- almost extinct as only sorrui six- Dec The barns on the teen are left They speak a dialect Colin Mckenzies farm peculiar to theiriselvea and very now by his sons Alexander daring hunters and John were completely destroyed by fire together with all the seasons It India that Lord crop Including twentyone valuable the Viceroy of India cattle and four horses this morning I discovered tho throne of King Solo The loss Is about or and will sir upon It during insurance 51600 Delhi durbar Our readers will always confer favor advertisers and dntjic Era