Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 9 November 1899 — Page 6

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1 ■ Os MS. By THEODORE ROBERTS. (Copyright, 1896, by American Press Association.] CHAPTER XV THE PASSING OF TOM BEVERLEY. Now. when the pages of my idle story have gathered dust. 1 must back to the pen again and scrape up my wits for a little more of this literary tilting ten years after our flight from London. It is Barbara who forces me to this, and it was Barbara who begged me to desist ten years ago. Yes. ten years have gone since we sat in our tall house in London, and I wrote all these pages and got the scribe’s cramp for my trouble. To my task, and in spite of my princess I will make it a short one. When the great civil war (of which every one has now heard) broke out in England —the commons against the king—l was called back to Wassmark. This was much to my displeasure, for there was never a man with whom I wished more to ride than with Prince Rupert But the most 1 could do was to give Hagart to the prince, and it was Hagai't’s fierce charge that so many times led those blithe cavaliers on to victory He was a brave horse and died on the field Barbara wept on his neck before Rupert rode him away to battle, and, if my voice bad not gone for huskiness, 1 would have withdrawn my gift at the last moment Before the trouble had grown high in England Captain Castletree and Marion and my comrade. Tom Beverley, went home to Devon Tom drew his sword for the king and in the first battle did so valiantly that he was knighted on the field Then he and Marion were wedded, and for a lang time we heard nothing more ■of them The enchanting Lady St. Arnaud became one of the family, and now lives in the old house, and there is a curly headed nephew of mine who cuts and thrusts with his wooden sword at the hale old baron and who answers to the name of D'Artagan. For three years after our return to Wassmark my princess and 1 lived in Blateuburg. but there being no wars to keep my sword from rusting and no more need to ride on strange adventures, my dreams forever turned to Isstens, of a stout house inside the park, where I might live, and all the lynx eyed courtiers be d d, for a jealous husband I am. and with no prospect of having a cooler head for 30 years to come. Barbara, too. was growing weary of the homage of the court So. seven years ago to the old park of Isstens we came, and a stone’s throw from the door of the Three Shields the masons and workmen reared us the Cadet’s Tower, in which 1 am now writing.

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The greater part of the time, though, is spent in the old house, and it was here on a blustering winter night that we heard of Tom Beverley We were all gathered about the tire in the little parlor The baron dozed in his chair with his grandson sleeping on his knee. 1 sat on the great bench between my mother and Barbara, smoking, and Harry likewise engaged, lying prone on the heanfti rug The viscountess kneeled beside him. gazing across his listless body at the fira Such peace there never was before at any hearth among so many persons. Os a sudden we were disturbed by voices in the great hall, and. before I could rise to find out the matter. Red Harding came in. his face working with emotion, leading a stranger in a faded horseman's cloak. I sprang forward. for in the thin, pain drawn face and the high forehead 1 saw my old comrade. Tom Beverley And while I stared at him, an arm’s length oft. my mother brushed by me and took his ungloved hands in hers "Tom, my boy.” she said gently, and with a low cry. the brave fellow hid his face on her shoulder His story was a sad one. Holding with the king’s cause till the last, with the cause, he and his estates had been broken. The loyal captain fell in a skirmish, cut down by three of Cromwell’s ironsides and a few weeks later, during a flight across country to seek refuge in a woodman’s cottage. Lady Beverley was wounded to death by a stray musket ball. Then, with the light of hell in his eyes, the broken soldier told us how. in a week’s time every man of the six who had formed that shooting party had been cut or shot down by his own band. He is dead himself now, from the old unhealed wounds and exposure, and his body lies in the vaults of Isstens—the brave with the brave. Tonight Barbara and I sit by our fire in the cadet’s tower, and the wind goes by with the noise of galloping ■ w Jl| My princess is gazing with me into the glowing Jagots. horses. My princess is gazing with me into the glowing fagots, her soft cheek resting on my knee. The winds come back again, pounding. pounding, like two great horses galloping neck to neck. The ground rings with their unshod hoofs, the cloaks of the riders “cheir” in the flight. And I dream that lam astride black Hagart. fleeing from the sprawling body of the baronet, and my little English comrade spurs beside. Again that long year of love and fighting comes back, scene by scene. With Tom’s shoulder to mine, we parry and thrust in the hall of the robbers’ house, and the songs of the drunken poets ring back to me. My princess awakens me in her sweet way. and I find the fagots all fallen into blinking coals, and her head on my shoulder. THE END. New Lumber Record. Minneapolis, Nov. 6. —If the sawmills here continue running after the loth inst, the total cut for the year will be 550,000,000 feet, as the cut to date has passed the halt-billion mark. The cut last year, which broke all records, was 460,000,000 feet so the prospect is that a new record will be made by an increase of nearly 100,000,000 feet.

BOER WAR SITUATION AN ARTILLERY DUEL FOUGHT AT LADYSMITH. President Kruger’s Troops Reported Badly Routed by One Correspondent, but Another Says the Town Is [ Completely Invested by the Boers. London, Nov. 6. —A special dispatch from Ladysmith describing the engage- : ment at Bester’s hill says the Boers were completely’ routed and suffered heavy loss. Their entire camp was , captured. The correspondent goes on !to say: “Au artillery duel is in proi gress. A British shell struck a Boer 40-pounder and completely wrecked it.” The correspondent of The Times at I Ladysmith, under date of Nov. 2 coui firms the report of artillery exchanges. IHe says: "The investment of the town is now practically complete. Last night the enemy tapped the wires in our rear. He can therefore cut our communication whenever he pleases. It is suggested, however, that the Boers believe that Ladysmith is iu their power and that they are therefore anxious to have us get up all our military stores before they attack us. “A reconuoisauce by Lancasters and a field battery’ today found a Free State larger which the British shelled heavily driving the Boers out.” A special dispatch from Ladysmith, describing Thursday’s fighting, says: “The artillery duel at dawn, in which the Boer’s guns were silenced, was intended to occupy the Boers and to enable Sir George Stewart White to achieve his chief purpose —the capture of the Boer camp behind Bester’s hill. For this purpose the Lancers, Hussars. Natal Carbineers and Natal Border rifles started under General French at sunrise and got within striking distance before the enemy was aware of their presence. A field battery was also sent and it secured a good position, commanding the enemy’s camp, which was a large one laagered with army wagons and other vehicles. "Bester’s Hill was well fortified and provided with good guus. The British opened fire, the Boers replying with spirit, but bad aim. The British sent a42 pound shell into the camp, inflicting terrible loss and spreading panic amongst the enemy. Our calvary then stormed the position, the Boers fleeing precipitately, leaving many dead and wounded, as well as the whole camp and equipment, in the hands of the British.” A dispatch to The Daily Mail from Kurumau, British Bechuanaland, dated Nov. 2, says: "Three hundred Bechuanaland Boers have joined Commandant Delarey’s force, which has gone to Kimberley, leaving only 200 men at Vreyburg. ” G. W. Stevens, describing for The Daily Mail the affair at Nicholsons Nek, says: “The Boers shot magnificently. The moment a Britisher raised his head to see where the enemy were, he instantly fell back with a bullet in it. On the other hand after the engagement the Boers acted with the greatest kindness to wounded and unwounded. They spent the afternoon singing doleful hymns under the trees, and they had reason to be doleful, for they lost many men. ” The Cape Town correspondent of The Standard, telegraphing Wednesday, says: "The British first class protected cruiser Terrible is steaming at full speed from Simons Town, Cape Colony, for Durban, Natal. “There is some disquietude here in consequence of a message from Pretoria, giving Commandant Oronje’s report of his operations against Mateking. The grandstand is only about a mile from Mateking and if Cronje's account is to be believed, the Boers must be very close.” Boers Badly Defeated and Driven From Their Position. Estcourt, Natal, Nov. 7.—A reliable messenger has just arrived (Nov. 4) from Ladysmith, passing the Boer lines during the night, who reports some heavy fighting around Ladysmith. The hottest engagement was on George Tatham’s farm, on the Orange Free State side of Besters. The British drove the Boers back to their camp. The enemy suffered great loss, and 30 mounted Boers were captured. .. The fighting was resumed, the Boers firing from Nosdwathshana hill near Pep worth’s farm. Again they were driven back with loss on their camp. A large Boer force, with artillery under John Wessels has taken up a position on the left of Beacon, locating on the Woodhouse, Picciones and Langvaracht farms, facing Bestopp and a small command is now encamped on the south side of Pieter’s station, commanding the railway. The Boers have torn up the culverts of the railway near Pieter’s station and have burned the wooden portions. No damage has yet been done at Colenso. The houses, stores, railway and iron bridges remain intact. The messenger says he heard that the Boers would be in Colenso today aud that the volunteers were leaving. The Boers lost 800 in killed and wounded and captured iu Thursday’s battle on Tatham’s farm, near Ladysmith. A dispatch dated Friday evening says Colenso is now in the nauds of the Boers. Before the evacuation was decided upon the enemy tried to cut off our outposts. The Durban Light Infan-

try, under Lieutenant Molyneux, and a force of Dublin Fusileers, were sent to the relief of the outposts, and a brisk fight ensued. The Boers were repulsed, leaving 12 dead. Twenty Boer horses were killed and the others stampeded. The chief motive for the withdrawal, however, was that the long-rauge guns of the Boers had made the position untenable. No orders were received for retirement. FARQUHAR'S FARM Number of Missing Is 843 as the Result of That Engagement. Durban, Nov. 6.—(Delayed in transmission) —The official rollcall (Nov. 2) shows that 843 members of the Gloucestershire regiment and the Royal Irish Fusiliers are missing as the result of the the engagement on Farquhar’s farm. Thirty-two members of the Gloucestershire regiment, 10 members of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and two members of the Tenth mountain battery were found killed. Between 70 and 100 escaped and returned to Ladysmith, whither 150 wounded have been brought. HEAVY FIRING Boers Shelled Ladysmith From Groblers Hill—Trains Fired Upon. Colenso, Nov. 6, (delayed in transmission)— Heavy firing is iu progress today (Nov. 2), at Ladysmith, which the Boers are shelling from their positions on Groblers Kloof hill, this side of Ladysmith. The Boers continue to shell Colenso and Fort Wylie, but thus far the firing is futile. They have placed heavy guns iu position, but their shots are all falling short. South Wales Lancers. Cape Town, Nov. 6. — (Delayed in transmission) — The British transport Ninevah arrived today (Nov. 2.) from England bringing the New South Wales Lancers from Aidershot. The Lancers on landing were enthusiastically welcomed by the municipal authorities and the populace. ELEVATOR FALLS Ten Persons Injured. Several of Them Seriously. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 7.—The elevator in the Phoenix building, one of the largest structures in the city, fell five stories yesterday afternoon when filled with passengers. Ten persons were injured, several of them seriously. The injured: C. B. Trafton, L. Armstrong, Carvey Donaldson, J. H. Taimadge, Sr., W. H. Place, Arthur Fredenburg, Edwin Lindahl, Charles B. Marvin, J. H. Talmadge, Jr., and an unknown woman. The cause of the accident was the giving way of the cable in the socket attached to the car, aud when the carriage dropped, the heavy weights detached from their fastenings at the llth-story fell on it crushing the occupants of the cage iu the basement. The most severe injuries are broken legs, aud it is thought all the victims will recover. The elevator was inspected a few days agoand reported to be iu firstclass condition. AUTOMOBILE lowa Man Invents a Machine That Can Be Attached to Any Vehicle. Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 7.—This city is soon to be the center of the automobile industry of the United States. A man frem lowa has invented a machine weighing not more than 75 pounds, which can be attached to any vehicle now drawn by a horse, and is capable of reaching a spead of 50 miles an hour. It is said a stock company, backed by $1,000,000, is soon to be formed in this city to manufacture the machine, and that a man well known throughout the United States will be at the head of the conceru.

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