to “thetr oh tas, SFA Soc br THE MILVERTON SUN. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 8 1900. PITHY SAYINGS. We lose Abia when we we try to com- prehend Him. Th best aim to have in this life is | té aim for Heaven. , ‘There is no such thing as the right The Bible‘ offers no premium on laziness or improvidence. The way to make hard duties easy is todo uate for Christ. God never forgets the man who is willing to ae ‘a hard place. There ar any people who never pray tad aay have to. Be religious in your business, and your business will be religious. “It is hard to get some preac! terested in the subject of religion. “The time when we most noed. faith 4s when God’ 's hand is not in sight, Prove that God loves us, and you prove that He suffers when we sin. Failures never come to those who ask God what to do before they start. No matter how good the shepherd may be, a sick sheep will not follow him. - There are people who try to grow in grace before they have any grace to grow in. 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Sucre hae Polsoning from Overcoats. Poisoning from overcoats is an expected danger, but no fewer than 6 cases have been reported. been used, vapors, producing Fivawelith aut tawca ai asic pain- ed aati BIN husband believed re by killing the ql aipt of price we ‘The Ai fd, Cauiada Lite Build- un On ag Ay a cloth, in the dyeing of which chlor: con gave Dinngreeable, rt the pie sly land climate agree with you? — Easterner—No, it doesn’t even with the weather predictlons.—Somen ville (Mags.) 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Horse Power of Engi ordinary lway engine equivalent in strength to about 9% horses, : It is seieey; that greater pats Den-| Thin people should cake Miller's Com pound Iron For Metal Utensils of all kinds, Pipes, Sinks, ete. ~ For Washing Paint, Floors aud Aulmals, dad for use as in the sea than are now in circulation Coal Saving and Smoke Consuming ot fatness secs ryrnaces and manufacrarieg conteria, Thi Po Bito w per cont ie Ba eel inadiar ct nes ted eine Ti your ee rapeiee vas net r oe has "rl eruiah it ‘application for ‘anid’ Colobrated Premiam Mat ee eee Composition ete tas Modder Ric Battle. Fierce Work ‘of the Artillery and Its Effect , on the Enemy. INCIDENTS OF THE BATTLE. How the Guards Crossed the River Only to Sink in the . Mud—As Told @ more one sees. of Modder River , dattlefield, and the more one consid. ers the battle the. more terrific it is seen to have been: Some phases-of the Lien and some ee thatithere nover was a Tati uke. te At first we were impressed by. the sagacity shown by the Boer leaders smooth inclined plane, every inch which was visibla’ to, these “hidden men. oe t by remaining here long enough to go thoroughly over the field we haye learned that an even stronger and in all ways better position could have been made for most of them just hind the one shed chose and on the cae ‘age their the upward slope of the veldt, so that it is higher and more commanding | , and better yet for Boer purposes; it is Oe Wet TREES AND joers did put os here they manipulated their deadly “*Putt-putt’’ jeommanded such respect as every man who heard it bow his bead or prostrate his body. shrewd and et it ® moat, was superior to the one they aelected. ‘A story which many Boer prisoners have told us tends to explan why by those of us who are accustomed to the extraordinary phases and condi- of this strangest modern story is that a large propo: Gillis ce Giale Beers nena ce ere to fighting in the first place, and so shaken by our incessant and accurate artillery fire, ey were only kept in the trenches at the point of revolvers held over them ‘by’ their Jeaders, who swore to shoot any man who tried to desert. This story was told us by many pris- oners taken at different times and laces. Tf it is true, it may well be that st and impossible IMMEDIATELY AT THEIR BACKS. After I had seen no more of the field than their threo-mile line of ee I could not understand how been able to dislodge them or hes they had at last left the field to Kithree! Royal “Artillery sbattorla’ These were the 18th and 7th, which fired all day long, and the 62nd, which came twenty miles to our aid and got . into action at half-past four in the ternoon ee horses so fagped that mn obliged to walk the ed their shrapnel upon the men in the trenches carried their heavy motal OVER ON THE ISLAND. tion | gravel denly disappeared By Julian Ralph. ;the place. Incredible as it sounds, a |there now lie on that gr jrusty old beef’’ tin and the other a biscuit tin. Both of are riddled with shrap- nel and sh In that ec scene lies the explanation of the flight of the Boers. In that scene one finds some confirmation of the story that the Boers had to be kept to as work at the point of the revol- common pelinnce of, the Boer Em io be seen stuck in the loose dirt of the trenches. {m every trench was a surprising de- bris of shell cartridges of many sorts —Mausers, Martin-Henrys, and two or three sorts of EXPANDING AND EXPLOSIVE BULLETS. The island seems to have been where the sharp-shooters were placed—on the ground, behind frente the ees: irlnanost that tion ou in couples, and that the ila e that ne one wi or maine hte mpanion was cokes hina Gia ela. 1 oot told patches found the bodies of the Boer dead in the river, buried in the sand with fingers or boots protruding, heaped in a trench, and elsewhere. When I searched the island I found stele proofs of other burials beside new dead not included in ns tae when we touched these they came out of the earth and were seen to be tree- twigs and branches cut from trees and sick in the “monnda: AS some in the island we found ench, of a size to hold/ salad “At outed fnduiate nts, As dles the bodies of THE MORE IMPORTANT DEAD. A man, wl tage is in the rear of the field, north of the river, do- clares that all day long the wounded came to her cottage upon each other’s heels to have their wounds ee ers all said that only aoe had b Dees sailed but the deserters said the loss of life was very great and that in the river alone 100 were sunk with weights. For my part I shall not be survrised if we learn some day that in killed alone the Boers lost quite It is wonderful how the formation of in s mysterious way. : We found that all had ridden into — SECOND CAMERONIANS ~ /STRATHCONAS OWN” That is the Name the London Press STORMING SPION KOP. deata and wounding. Buf both previ- | ous battle-fields combined showed no |such number of riderless horses Bea Riyer. There was literally hundreds of them. I had lost mine | in the ght, but in the first halt hour Peat Mae chad gone half over lery fire that thinned the droke the nerve of the enemy. It was a fearful assault produced by an extraordinary discharge of ammu- nition. : The four naval guns fired, I be- lieve, 514 rounds, the 18th Battery fired 1,100 xounds, the 75th fired 900] field. ore Imow now that it was our artil- ranks and | per rifle by nineteen we been 100 rounds, CLIMAX OF THE BOERS’ DESIRE to vacate the field was reached when a stalwart British cheer broke upon Ae eats by their side and in their [atthare ationtainsttietene | agitate as to oS gi raised this, chose and small party of Coldstream Guardsmen who early in the day waded in to their waists and then swam, laden with all their gear and 160 rounds of and when they reached the eerie lies they sank in mud to their This happened on the ree right of the line, where Lord Met! made his first gallant attempt eo cross. He tried again on the far left, it was there that, beyond or dispnte, Colonel . King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infan- try, got across by a farly good fording place with a score or two dozen men, some of whom were his own, while others were men of the Argyll and ‘Sutherlandshire and the North Lanca- shire Regiments. They crossed against some trenches and an angle of stone which were held by some 800 _ Just as pent ‘were crossin; of Royal one get upon their ‘lage 6 our forces across the river ,num- . and Begun General Pole-Carew took command. 45 ited and cheered to disclose ity. That is ae trath ae a ae ‘moye- are already too when In| husband comes home reat night?” shells and our own rifle fire ioe Prey home with little “Ive been watching that stuff all day, and I don’t think much of it.” ‘One word as to that phase of their warfare which must be touched upon, the putt-putt gun and the fire sharp-shooters trained upon our am- bulance three ae and upon our oscar denig tba atl Mpa tay tee to their feet (on the right of the line) and attempted to perform their work. TELEGRAPHERS UNDER FIRE, Volunteer Workers on the “Tickers” are Doing Their Duty at the Front, The British Government Post-Tele- an seas have already con-| tributed to the army in South Africa nearly 600 men, of whom more than 200 were skilled telegraph operators, who could hardly be spared from the already undermanned i ports'to the War Office state that the telegraphers are rendering splendid service. It is said that the use of the Wheatstone automatic system on the field of battle is the first in the ae im der aie cae onduenear campaign- ing. At the Modder River Sah the tele- graphers were under fire for a whole day. Then they worked throngh the night on official, and press messages. Later, despite the rules limiting the number of correspondents oe ue length of = message each send,’ tHe operators s6nt 100,000 ronda: The total after the Magersfontein battle was much greater, but the op- patches coas ity of the ilo are volunteers members of the Bice fourth Mises “Post Office Rif officer saddles hav Has Given Canada’s Third Contingent. North-West Mou eption ut Winnipeg and Made a Fine Impression, to revise its decision against lens as asource of supply for army horse: Tt is A | that the Canadian war began, with a view to induce i War Office to make purchases pesca ranche horses, Dat without effec hay and two thousand Canadian @ been purchased, how- ever, as well as a consignments meats, dried fruit, and vege tables. € A WESTERN OPINION. — Lord Sears’ pone to raise a troop of 400 strong, Premier Haultain, of the Territories, who is visiting in ipeg, says that there were more than enough eiticiens experienced officers left in the West for the purpose.’” 4 COLONIALS IN HIG IN HIGH FAVOR. Lord Roberts Body ody Guard Will be Select 7m Them. ‘Raaophiahie ets importance of lonley onial troops, Lord Roberts has author- ized the formaton of a complete di- vision of colonials under General Brae bant. It is intended to raise in Cupe mar! Roberts, it is said, intends to select his own nena Lord Rober alienate the Gate Dutch that the military respect uae rights of of Kitchener, his chief of staif, the fol- lowing order: “The commander-in-chief wishes te ‘affecting either their own interests or those of the troops. “In all cases where supplies of any Indian Troops’ Generosity. ‘The wliole of the 8rd Bengal Cay- alry have voluntarily subscribed one day’s pay towards the Transvaal fund. The ne composed of Sikhs, Jats, Ratjouts, and Mobammedans, Their natal is likely to be. follow- giments, A peek farms have raided by the Boers. Has Become an Expert, **Are you never uneasy your “Bless you, no! Ican always: tell what lodge he has been attending by the quality of the cigar odor he brings him.”? A Needless Ques “Could yez idintity rey oak that ae ee asked Mr. Rafferty. | ed ee, Dolat a. “In course 01 cou! Ned lane ty insult me?” rejotn- | _ , and available, order these # full receipt being given.”’ Exploiting Kipling. 2 The vicinity of Mr. Kipling’s home at Rottingdean seems to be eat -ed by the ‘‘Pay, pay, pay’’ Lien ink the ‘‘Alsent-Minded-Beggar.’? ing the holidays the penyihiees’ of of The paces car which Mr. Kipling has lately ee in place of his familiar pony a general topic ot. i ee ‘Not Higher. , A Casper using story of an incident reat tok place is ‘one of nted Rifles Given a Hearty So an nine thousand tons of Can-_ eee and