Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — The Boer War. [ARTICLE]

The Boer War.

The Boors may be on the offensive, but they come a long way behind the proBoers in the United States and Ireland.— Kansas City Star. It is undoubtedly a great consolation for the British war office to know that the Tugela river is located where it is.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. English critics who were once offering comments on American warfare find their attention fully engaged in other directions.—Washington Star. There is nothing like coming up to popular expectations. The people everywhere thought Buller would be thrashed again, and he didn’t disappoint them. — Denver News. Buller has just announced that he has found the key to Ladysmith at last, but from all indications Joubert has plugged up the hole with zinc and the key doesn't fit. —Omaha News. A realistic proof of the usefulness of horses comes from Kimberley, where the beleaguered garrison has lived on horseflesh ever since Jan. 8. How far would the f ires and motor levers of an automobile have gone toward feeding the gallant but frequently hungry soldiers of the Queen?— Chicago News. The loss of prestige to the British arms under Buller is almost as melancholy as the sacrifice of life. Withal, the dogged persistence of Commander.and commanded awakens admiration simultaneously with amazement'. It may be called the quality, and it is possessed by most Englishmen—particularly those in the habit of going to wars. While it exists there will be Bullers for leaders anil unlimited material for sacrifice. —Chicago Journal.

Chicago Drainage Canal. , If the Chicago river continues to grow less putrid the. windy city may yet become a watering place. The water is reported to be taking on a blue tinge. It was long ago pointed out that the reason why the Mediterranean sea looked so blue was because it had to wash the shores of Italy. By the same token the Chicago river ought to have been of an indigo color, 10, these many years.—Evening Wisconsin. The Chicago drainage canal is a public work of a larger character than anything done by any other city in America. It cost $33,000,000, against $20,000,000 each for our Brooklyn bridges and about a third of that sum for the Bostoh subway. Boston plumed itself upon its subway for some time. We have had one elaborate bridge opening ceremony, and we shall have another in the next two years—if we are lucky. Chicago took the completion of her great work>yuietly.—Brooklyn Eagle. The Chicago drainage canal is another of the great feats which distinguish this as an engineering age and also as one in which the comfort and health of the ; people are among the highest considerations of enlightened government.—Terre Haute Express. Chicago boasts of doing big things, and one of the biggest of Chicago’s achievements is the new drainage canal, by which the foul-smilling Chicago river is made to run up hill and carry its sewage into the Illinois and Mississippi rivers instead of into Lake Michigan.—Philadelphia Tiaras.