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PEN PICTURE [IF A BATTLE DEATH REAPS A HARVEST IN THE DARKNESS 0}? NIGHT. Remarkuhle Dom-,rlpllon ofu nght Attack. by a War Correnpomlentâ€"ll was a Sermon In Silence. One of the most graphic writers among the many correspondents ln South Africa during the war. has been a representative of the London Daily News. For some time his name was withheld, but latterly the arti- cles are Signed "Al Hales." A recent letter from his hzvnds under date of Springfontein. gives the followrng de- acriptioIn: It was darkâ€"(hark as the inside of a dog, not the heavy, sullen darkness of a brooding. storm. but the black blankness o! a night that looked as it it never hoped to have a dawning. Our camp lay in a hollow, like the hollow of a women's bland half closed; there were no hrills around worthy of the name, the veldt simply rose gent- ly uprward on all sides all us like the bust of s damsel in her teens. Our tents were pitched in the very centre of the hollow. In the sunlight they had shone white against the brown earth and blue sky, but now they were lost. to view, .mergeldirn the um- versal frown which had settled on the {ace of all God‘s creation. There were no camps fires to enliven the gloomâ€"not one solitary spark of (lame broke with red smile the eterâ€" nal wilderness of shladmvs. We knew l'h‘at the enemy was hovering around us; our scouts he'd ridden near enough. to count the fomnidlalble array of their grisly guns, and every movement of the foe betokened an attack during the still watches of the night. All else was still, The horses, tired with the Journey of the day. stood motionless within, their lines. Even the transit mules forbore to break the\solem-n silence with their devil- is'h cries. which: are amlxture of a tearless sob and a joyless laugh. BACKED BY BRITISH HEARTS. Then we who listened with our hearts in our ears caught alow com- mand, and men moved past us, tread- ing as lightly as armed men can tread, out on to the open veldt to girdle the camp with rows of steel. backed by British hearts. Then once again. the stillness, as of death. fell upon us where we lay. face down~ wards on‘ the soil. waiting we knew not what, it might be wounds, or that strange passage of the immortal soul which men cell death. And in the blackness where. no eye but the eye of God could reach, we each man stood face to face with his own soul, and few were there who did not Wish some pages of his past had never been written in the book of life. A SERMON IN SILENCE. The daylight had faded into twiâ€" llvgh-t, and twilight hlad passed Wlth [lest footsteps into night, and then the order had passed from tent to tent in low-toned whispers that we Ihould stand to anms to glve the sol- dlers oh the veldt a welcome worthy of the land whose flag we fought under. There was ‘no sound of. throb- bing drums to quicken the pulse and warm the blood; no harsh, metallnc nng oi, bugles on the air, no cheery word of hligh command to tell the sol- dxers that their trusted leader held thexr destinies in handâ€"nothing was heard except the low, sharp sound of feet on the African soilhor the whlspering voices 01 men mingling with] the whisperings 0.! the wind. THE SOUND. OF STEEL ON STEEL It was a. sermon in silence. yet so eloquent that every. soul was stirred. Some of us- thought of home, of wife and child; others let their fancy rove to her Whose girlish lips had clung to theirs when the dear home ties were broken by the rude hand of war, Others in that grim period thought loudly of a large and healthy rock to hide behind. and he whose hzlud traces these lines owns rendin that he was one at them. For it had lawned upon him in that evil hour PT" LIEBIO‘ S FIT CURE WI" euro E Ila rm, sy. t-YLtysQansegn, "If!" slot- u: tholr numb can address am - montlonlnz t 'Is papor. AddreuThe LIEBIG C0 I19 Kln‘g “NI. oronto ALivéHKFl-dfto any SERJFér son'd‘ln': u: tholr IIan a a address an - montlonlnz (gla papor. Nam” LIEBIG co k‘ In King sum. W WI" euro E llo 3y, “2:, LVltus Dance-n Fnl In Slai- ppsga! TRIAL BOTTLE aentF SE of And so the time passed on until our nerves were strung to that high pitch which in a woman leads to maniac laughter, haltâ€"drowned 1n tears. and foolish wringing ot the hands. '1"th fnom the outer circle of the belt of blaekmess oameasound we knew. a sound that for a space caused each heart to stamd on its edge. then leap again until the blood flooded the head and filled the eyes With crimson fire. It was the sound of gunsâ€"the deemeouthed dogs of war haying defiance to the couchant lion on the veldt. The silence fled before the sudden sound like some peor shivering soul towards the Day of Judgment. All Japan teas are colored. that all the fame and glory m the world would uoc be big enough to plug a tiny hole a Mauser bullet makes. THE WAIL 0F SHELLS. Then came the shells, shrieking and wailing through the horrible clouds of night like devils driven for ever in hopeless horror from the gates of the eternal city. We know not whence they came nor whither they were going. We only knew, and cared to know, that they were mmde of iron while we were made of someth'ung not: much. harder than mud. and a voice within us told us that ifl there were a collision it would not damage the shells. Yet we the gentlemen e-f the Fourth Estate, non<cdmbetants and peaceful scribes. stuck to our posts like heroes,, partly because we had no time to run, and partly because we did not know which way to run if we had time and to spare. OhI the sighing and the sobbing of those most damnable shells! They Seemed to weep, as they sped tonmrd us like women whorhad been widowed through the deeds of evil men. They lifted up their voices in the night and screamed as I have heard ahorse scream in the quicksnnds. They laughed as a druukard laughs when delirium has possession of his brain; they howl- ed as wolves howled through the snowâ€" covered forests of Canada; and we tried to scoop holes in the earth. to put our heads in. BURSTING OF SHELLS. We IWere not afraid, but no man who knows anythmg concerning Shells wants to stop one with; his head-â€" you wouldn’t getamedal ifyou trled to do so. You would not even getn funeral, because there would not be enough! of you left to make any sort of decent funeral, and people are too busy war time to go round abattle- field with a broom looking for odds and ends 0! war correspondents to make a. burying. Then the shells burst, and it seemed to me that some wunton devil. in Shreol had lifted the lid and dropped something dreadful out of torment. For a moment our ears seemed burstimg with sounds like the riving of timbers when some storm-tossed "trader," driven in the teeth of a gale, strikes the rockâ€" rlbbed coast-line. Then a glare of yellow light, with awhite and crim- son heart, then darkness, 3 shriek. a mean, a gurgling cry, a hurried rueh of stretchei'-bearers;a pause. The bearers return and lay something- down beside me, something that a few minutes before had been a man I hear a sound such as a man makes when trying to drink water in a west- ern desert. I reach out my hand in the blackness, and draw it away again as if I had touched fire. THEi MEMORY OF A PRAYER. What Is it I hhve touchedâ€"some- thing broken, crushed,mangl.ed, warm and wet, wet with the thick, sticky moisture I have felt at times on the heft of my hvu'nting knife? I don't need to be told; I know. That is “by I crawl away and how my head, and try to remember the words of prayer taught me years ago at a mothers knee. Once again the hellish music of the guns commences. and our guns‘ join in the devil‘s orchestra, and then, rattle, roll and rattle,the rifles' on the reldt keep time, and the death angels with all-seeing eyes 'watch the fateful bullets, and on wings of the1 wind follow them home to the hearts of Boer and Briton, whilst in: with shrivelled souls lie on the grimy earth and pray for the dawning \‘i‘hlt‘h seems to: us to have departed from the world for ever. But it comm at Last, and as it comes slowly" as it reluctmnt to open Its eyes on such a. scene, we catch stgbt of the old flag, the Empire's flag, floating. Where our soldiers placed It just before sundown, whllst far off, on the very lips of the veldt. we can just descry the last remnants ofthe enemy’s rear-guard as they move off defeated and undone. CEYLON GREEN TEA is pure and uncolored This, said the artist. is a. battle sceneâ€"time. say the year 2000 A. D. The defending force is on‘ the extreme right of the canvas- 1 can't see them, observed hls friend. Certainly not; they are strongly en- trenchedâ€" I Can‘t see any entrenchment. Of course you can’t. The entrench- ments are skillfully concealed from View. To his accomplishments asa soldier Col. Baden-Powell adds aremarkable number of natural gifts. He is a. good artist, chiefly in black and white, and has the rare ability of drawing with either hand. He is an excellent ama- teur actor, an adept stage manager, a keen sportsman, ayachtsman when he has time, and withal an author of several books, which reflect in their vigorous language, the healthy pul- sating activitx yet his mind. I should think you'd show some big guns or something. Nonsense! The guns are disa ppear- ing guns and they have disappeared. Well. how about the attacking force 3 Over here on the leftâ€"all under oov- er. You can’t expect them to expose themselves to the spectators any more than the enemy. With his bold, adventurous spirit, his strong self-reliance, his alertness and caretul watching of the enemy, his cheeriness and never-aay-die con- fidence in victory, his absolute fear- lessness and devotion, to his men. his versatility in the arts of war, Colonel Baden-Powell is an example not more to younger officers than to older ones. scape. Temperance Lecturerâ€"Who was the gentleman just here? Residentâ€"Ah. that was Dr. Skidds. He is one of our mast liberal contri- butors to the cause. Temperance Lecturerâ€"He only gave a. quarter- Residentâ€"I know it. Yes; but I take it that's how a. bat- tle will look in the year 2000. LOGIC. Motherâ€"Didn’t I tell you not to touch the preserves without my per- mission? Sonâ€"Yes, mother. Then why didn't you come to me and ask me? Because I wanted some. Three big men, he called out, and one pour horse to pull them! And its Sunday, tool Gentlemen. I'd rather be your prayer book than your horse. 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