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It THE BEOOKLYN DAILY EAGLE YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 29 1900. RAILROADS. WINTER RESORTS. OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. WINTER RESORTS.

PRISON SHIP MARTYRS. IN GAMP WITH THE BOERS. was ready and willing to take the chair. Duly at 8 P. he appeared and at once had some choice whisky and cigars placed on the table, and he filled up and handed round to Briton and Boer impartially.

The whisky was consigned to some of our British officers at Dundee, and Pienaar jocularly admired their choice of whisky and, indeed, as the night advanced, he quite warmed up to the officers, who, as he put It, were not so bad as he thought, as evidenced by their good taste. Poor Pienaar had a right royal time, and probably never had a jollier night in his life. It was his last on earth, for ere another sun had set he was stretched dead. on the battlefield within a mile of the scene I have just mentioned, after, from all accounts, fighting like a Trojan. "The concert proceeded merrily.

Tlie Ensrlo Bureau. Full particulars concerning nil resorts, circulars ot hotel, railroad and steamboat time tables and tourists' sullies to be had at the EAGLE FREE INFORMATION BUREAUS, Eagle Building. Brooklyn, 952 Broadway. Manhattan, and Washington and Paris. ATLANTIC CITY.

tyicris Hotel Windsor. Atlantic City, N. J. American and European Plans. Open All the Year.

Special VV inter Kates. Most Modern Hotel on Atlantic Coast O. JASON WATERS. THE ISLES WORTH, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.f OPEN AXIi THE YEAR.

Utreetly on the Beaoli enlarged ana Improved incc last seanon; modern in every detail; fresh ana aea water in every bath. Cafe. Orchestra. New Management. HALE fc SCUIX, GBAND ATLANTIC HOTEL.

Virginia av and Beach. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. OPENS FEBRUARY Largest and finest hotel. Offers special Spring rates for elegant accommodations.

Every modern convenience. Orchestra. Steam heat. Elevators. Extensive Sun Parlors.

Most central location. Within few yards ot the famous Steel Pier, which has every attraction. Coaches meet all trains. Write for booklet and terms. CHARLES E.

COPE. HOTEL ST. CHARLES. Atlantic City, N. J.

ON THE BEACH. FINEST ON THE COAST. BOOKLET. HOT SEA WATER IX ALL BATHS. JAMES B.

REILLV. THE SHEIBUHNE, Atlantic City's FAVORITE OCEAN FRONT HOTEL. ENTIRELY REMODELED AND REFURNISHED. SUN PARLORS OVERLOOKING OCEAN AND EVERY MODERN APPOINTMENT. GOLF LINKS.

n. SOUTHWICK. Manager. ATJLA.NTIC CITY, N. J.

THE QUEEN RESORT OF AMERICA FOR PLEASURE AND HEALTH SEEKERS. HOTEL DENNIS. Directly on the ocean front: OPEN entire year; modern in every detail "Winter diversions are fclf, sailing and gunning; delightful climate; cooks upon application. JOSEPH H. HADDON HALL, Atlantic City's Most Popular Hotel.

OPEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. MODERN AND COMPLETE. HOT AND COLD SEA WATER BATHS. GOLF LINKS, ETC. BOOKLET MAILED.

I.REDS UPP1XCOTT. The Chalfonte. OX THE BEACH. Extensively altered and greatly enlarged. Will EE OPEN FEBRUARY 10.

Hot and cold sea water in all private and hall baths. Same liberal management. BUZ8Y HAINES. HOTEL DE VILLE. $40 to 560 per month during Feb.

and March only. After extensive alterations, will REOPEN February S. Every modern convenience and luxury assured. Baths, sun parlors; coach meets booklet mailed. M.

W. TRUITT. ATLANTIC CITY, N. BUREAU OF INFORMATION epen Dnilyat 1,196 Broadway.Ncw YorkCity WASHINGTON, D. C.

THE SHOREHAM, WASHINGTON, D. C. American and European Plan. Absolutely Fireproof. Located In the most fashionable part of the city and within five minutes' walk of the EXECUTIVE MANSION, TREASURY, STATE, WAR and NAVY DEPARTMENTS.

John T. Devine. THE RALEIGH, COR. PENNSYLVANIA AV AND TWELFTH ST WASHINGTON. D.

C. European plan. Absolutely fireproof. Lighted by electricity. Heated by steam.

Cafe and restaurant for gentlemen and Indies. Everything: first class. T. J. TALTY.

Manager. SABATOGA SPRINGS. DK. STKOSG'S SANITARIUM. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.

Y. For health, rest or recreation. Massage, vacuum and Nnuheim treatments. Electricity, hydro electric, Turkish. Russian, mineral water and other baths and health appliances.

Sun parlor and promenade on the roof. Elevator, steam, suites with bath. A dry, quiet tonic air with much sunshine. Saratoga water. Send for Illustrated circular.

HUDSON RIVER COUNTIES. GRAMATAN INN, Lawrence Park, Bronxville. N. Y. OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND.

28 mlnutOB from Grand Central Station. PENNSYLVANIA. THE RITTENH0USE, TWENTY SECOND AND CHESTNUT STS PHILADELPHIA. A new and strictly modern and high class hotel with unexcelled cafe una restaurant service AMERICAN PLAN. S3.50 UPWRd' EUROPEAN PLAN.

S1.00 UPWARD CONVENIENT TO ALL RAILROAD STATIONS ROBT. M. BLAIR. MASSACHUSETTS. A REAL WINTEK UES 6 RT THE BERKSHIRE INN at GREAT BARR1NOTON Mass NOW OPEN; 3Vj hours from N.

Y. tVe are constructing the Court Inn at Camden. S. C. visit that next Winter.

CALEB TICKNOR SON. Props. CONNECTICUT, HEALTH SEEKERS, COMFORT SEEKERS, rest and recreation seekers all find their wishes ratified at THE WAYSIDE IX NEW MIL FORD, Litchfield Conn. OPEN all the year. Illustrated booklet free.

NORTH CAROLINA. KENILW0RTH INN, BILT.MORE. ASHlEVILLE. N. C.

OPENS JANUARY 16. 1000. One of the beat and most luxurious hotels in the. South. COMPLETE IN ALL ITS APPOINTMENTS.

Situated in the mountains, surrounded by magnificent scenery, offering all attractions, with a climate superior to any in the South for its tonic effect dolf on hotel grounds. Music and all amusements pertaining lo a resort hotel. Send for booklet and particulars. L. A KlTTUinGE.

Manager. W. A. BRTA.V Asclstant Manager. pineHforest inn, Summervilie, S.

C. SOW OPEN. For circulars, rates, address W. D. JAMESON.

Manager. Circulars, at Eagle Information Bureau. GEORGIA. hotelTbon air, AUGUSTA, GA. A popular hotel for Southern tourists, situated midway between the North and the extreme South.

The climate la mild, but bracing and healthful, and conducive to outdoor sports. A nlno hole (rolf course, greatly improved since last year, now the best south of Washington. Good shooting It near vicinity. Only twenty two hours from Nw York. Tlie Gaglc Bureaus.

Full particulars concerning all resorts, circulars of hotels, railroad and steamboat time tables and tourists guides to be had at the EAGLE FREE INFORMATION BUREAUS. Eagle Building, Brooklyn. 952 Broadway, Manhattan, and Washington and Paris. LAKEWOOD. THE LAUREL THE PINES, Lake wood, New Jersey.

HOW OPEN. More tlian one hundred rooms In bath uites added since hist season. LOUIS P. ROBERTS. Manager.

The Laurel House, Lakewood's Leading Hotel for Twenty Years, at Lakewood, Nev Jersey, NOW OPEN. DAVID 8. PLUMER, Manager. FINEY TOP TOWERS, LAKEWOOD. X.

J. A Sanatorium and Hydro pathic Institute for thoee desiring treatment, rest and recreation. Beautifully located and thoroughly modern in appointment. Private bathn. Bteam heat and electric lights.

Complete modern appliance for Hydrotherapeutlc and Electric BathB. Booklet on application. Dr. ALEXANDER HERON. Proprietor.

THE LAKBWOOD Lakewood, New Jersey, M. C. WENTWORTII ot Wentworth Kail. Jackson, White N. Lessee and Manager.

JAMES N. BERRY, formerly of Laurel in the Plnes. Assistant Manager. ARLINGTON COTTAGE, LAKEWOOD. X.

J. A neat, new cottage, with all Improvements; central location; two blocks from station; good table; with reference. Address Mrs. E. Vj.

TOWNSEND. Box 94. HOTEL LENOX LAKEWOOD, N. Select family hotel. All modern Improvements.

Private and public baths; accommodations for 100 guests. For booklet and terms address M. J. EVANS. P.

O. Box 421. LAKEWOOD. N. J.

THE MAPLEHURST, LAKEWOOD; charming house, situated between two large hotels: sun parlor, electric lights, heated throughout; moderate rate; modern improvements; fine table. BEECH WOOD VILLA, Clifton av, above Fourth st. LAKEWOOD, N. a commodious house, centrally located, convenient to hotels and plne.s; send for booklet. Mrs.

A. PAUL. Post Office address. Box 273. THE NEW LEXINGTON, LAKEWOOD.

N. J. Opposite Laurel House; OPEN all year; sunny rooms; open Arcs; private and public baths; steam heat; electric lights; rates $2.50 day up. A. S.

LARRABEE. Proprietor. NEW JERSEY. THE ALVORD, 18 South Clinton st. East Orange, N.

J. (near Brick Church station); all newly furnished; large sunny connecting rooms; steam heated. MODERATE TERMS. FLORIDA. FLORIDA WEST COAST HOTELS.

For Illustrated pamphlet and other information address PLANT SYSTEM. 290 Broadway. New York. Or apply to Eagle Information Bureau. HOTEL PUTNAM o'kVn'i.

Delightful Climate, Hunting. Fishing and Fine GOLF Course Open this Year. Write for Booklet. HAMMAXT A CHASE. Proprietors.

SOUTH CAROLINA. CHARLESTON, S. C. Your Southern trip wJI! be incomplete unless you step here Stop over pr vllegee allowed on all tickets. Finos: Winter and Spring climate in America.

Charming, picturesque drives. Many points of fascinatins historical Interest, including Magnolia Gardens, the Isle of Palms. Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie and the Great Fortifications on Sullivan's Island, Charleston Harbor. Strictly first clans. Cuisine of the highest standard.

Affording all modern conveniences at moderate rates. Send for Illustrated booklet. W. IRVING DAVIDS. VIRGINIA.

THE JEFFERSON Richmond, Va. One of tlie Finest Hotels iu America. TURKISH. RUSSIAN, ELECTRIC AND HYDRO THK11APEUTIC BATHS. LONG 151 STANCE TELEPHONE.

UNQUESTIONABLY THE BEST GOLF LINKS IN THE SOUTH. FINE TURF OREBNS. New York representative. 3 Pari: jilaec. Long distance telf phnnr.

PorilnnJt. HOTEL CHAMBERLIN, OLD POINT COMrOUT, VA. Situated on Hampton Roads. Boats dally to and from New York, Baltimore, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, connecting with all Northern points. Excellent train service from South and West.

All modern conveniences; sanitation under government supervision. Golf links in close proximity to hotel. ALAN V. CAMPBELL, Manager. HYGE2A HOTEL, OLD POINT COMFORT.

VA. Hot sea baths; music: golf. etc. Write for booklet. F.

PIKE. Proprietor. HOT SPRINGS, VA. NEW HOTEL ALPHIX. open the entire year.

Steam heat; convenient to bath house. Rates moderate. L. C. ALPHIN.

Prop. LOUISIANA. THlii WIXTElt KlisOUT OF AMERICA. NEW ST. CHARLES HOTEL, NEW ORLEANS, La.

Absolutely fire proof; modern first class hotel: accommodations for 700 guests: American and European plans ANDREW BT.AKELY Props. COASTWISE STEAMSHIPS. MAINE STEAMSHIP CO. DIRECT LINE TO PORTLAND, MAINE. Connecting w'th all railroad steamship lined to all Summer resorts.

Steamships Horatio Hall (new) and Manhattan leave Pier No. 38, E. 11., foot of Market street, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5 P. M. Steamers fitted with every modern improvement for the comfort arnd convenience of passengers.

Ticket offices No. 200 .3 roadway, corner Reade st, and general office. No. 222 South st. N.

Y. HORATIO HALL. G. T. 221! South st, N.

Y. OLD DOMINION LINE. DAILY SERVICE. For Old Point Comfort, Norfolk. Portsmouth, Pinner's Point, Newport News and Richmond, connecting for Petersburg, Richmond.

Virginia Boech, Washington. D. and entire South and West. Freight ana passenger steamers sail from Pier 26, North River, foot of Beach st, every week day, except Saturday, at 3 P. M.

nnd Saturday nt 4 P. M. H. R. WALKER.

Traffic Manager. CLYDE LINE Charleston, S. Jack MOnville, FJu. NASSAU AND CUBA. Leaving Pier 45.

North River, P. M. For information apply to THEO. G. EGER.

T. M. WM. P. CLYDE Gen.

Chcsebrough 19 State st. N. J. Lehrenkrauss Sons, 379 Ful ton st. Brooklyn.

STEAMBOATS. Boston and New England Points. VIA SOUND LINES. FALL RIVER LINE, via Newport and Fall River Leave Pier 13, N. foot of Warren week dnys only, nt "r.00 p.

M. Steamers Priscilla Pilgrim. Orchestra on each. hTONINGTON UXE, via Stoningtori Loavo Pier 3d. N.

ft. of Spring ivook days only, a 'v 'UffiL Ev.11, StIS Mnlne and New Hampshire. NORWICH LINE, via New London Leave J6' oC Spring week days only, Steamers CITY OF LOWELL anil MASSACHUSETTS. BOSTON, S2.50, VIA THE NEW ROUTE TO New Haven, Providence and Boston New Haven Line. Narragansett Bay Line.

Steamers CHESTER W. CIIAl'IN and RICHARD PECK In commission daily (Sundays excepted) from Pier 25. East River, for New Haven, Providence and Boston at 5 P. M. OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.

TOUKS TO PARIS 1900. Over SIXTY TOURS arranged, costing from $H5 to J1.100. Several parties already completed. Apply nt once for accommodate n. Suiyerior arrangements for individual Travelers.

Programmes from TH03. COOK SON. 201 and 1,225 Broadway, N. Y. or.

J. LEHRENKRAUSS SONS. 379 Fulton St. Brooklyn. A PARIS l0O.

Steamers CITY OF ROME and NEBRASKA. SPECIALLY CHARTERED for Tarls Exposition Oberammergao PasHlon l'lay and Tour of Europe t.tart June 30; booking now. Also Thirty other Spring and Summer Excursions. Holy Land Party leaves March 2. FRANK C.

CLARK. Ill BROADWAY. N. Y. CENTRAL R.

R. OF NEW JERSEY Anthracite coal used exclusively. Four tracks. "Electric Pneumatic" Signals. Slatlons in Jtw 1 iy ssi.

and South i erry. weaving lime n.n,. from Liberty except when noted. On and after Jan. ISOj.

Tl'aln3 leave foot Lilierty St. Rethl.hem. AlP tltr.wn. Mailfh Chunk. Ac.

sJf.O A. M. M. dsninj M. Sundays.

(: to hastonj A. sS P. M. p'or Wllkesbarre, Plttston and hr ranton. A.

1:30 P. Sundays. A. M. 1 Unrrlahnr lll rt 7 i or iveauuiB tinu (10:00.

11:30 to Heading) A. 1:30, tsi.ov Sundays. "4:30 (11:30 to Reading) A. 1:30, 5:30. to Reading) P.

night. For stations on the ew orU nnd Loiik Branca R. It 4:30 (3:30 to Hod liank only). rn.in I nit unlvl "il (ul 1. and Red Bank only).

1.6:23 'p. M. hunaays, iu.i .,.,.11 u.njj i. .,.,0 JC Ull u. kivt.

A. 14:10, P. M. sunaays, iu.jj For Toms River and Barnegat. 1 45 14:10 P.

M. Sundays. A. M. FOR ATLANTIC CITY', "4:30 A.

M. P. Atlantic City siMM lul, with vestl bub Coaches ami Pullman i nrlor cars.) I 'or stations between Atlantic Highlands and East Long Branch, via Matawan S.S .20 and 31:30 Atlantic Highlands only) a. ((3 and Atlantic Highlands only) P. M.

Sundays, A. P. M. For stations between East Long Branch and Highlands of Navcslnk. via liranchport, 4:30.

11:30 A. P. M. ROYAL BLUE LINE. FOR PHILADELPHIA.

BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON. From foot of Liberty St. Week davs. 4:30. 8:00.

10:00 (11:30 Dining Car) A. M. (1:00 Dining Car). 1:30 Itnyal Blue Limited). (sG.

OO Dining Car) P. mdt. Sundays. "1 10:00 (11:30 Dining Car) A. 1:3 1 (3:00 Royal Blue Limited).

Dining Car) P. mdt. Addltl trains for Philadelphia, week days. 7:30. 1 A.

P. M. Sundays. A. P.

Tickets and parlor car seats at foot of Liberty St. South Ferry. 113. 172. 261.

434, 944, 1.2S4. 1,354 Broadway, 737 6th 25 Union West. 3 East 125th 273 West 125th 243 Columbus New York; 4 Court 244. 860 Fulton Brooklyn; 98 Broadway. Wlliiamsljurgh.

The New York Transfer Co. will call for and check baggage from hotels or residences to destination. "From Liberty St. only. sFroin South Ferry five minutes earlier.

tFrom South Ferry at 5:25 P. M. nFrom South Ferry at 9:20 A. M. bFrom South Ferry at 6:10 p.

M. JFrorn South Ferry at 3:53 p. M. lennsylvania RAILROAD. STATION foot of Fulton Street.

7:45 A. ML FAST MAIL Limited to two Buffet Parlor Cars New York to Pittsburg. Sleeping Car Pittsburg to Chicago. No coaches to Pittsburg. A.

M. FAST. LINE Pittsburg and Cleveland 0:45 A. 31. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED Pullman Compartment Sleeping.

Dining. Smoking and Observation Cars. For Chiutigii. Cleveland. Toledo, Cincinnati.

Indianapolis, LouisvlilP. 3t. Louis ls5 P. M. CHICAGO AND LOUIS EXPRESS For Nashville (via Cincinnati and Louisville).

Indianapolis. Chicago, St. Luulp. 5:45 I 31. WESTERN EXPRESS For Chicago.

For Toledo, except Saturday. 7:45 I. 31. SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS For Pittsburg. Akron, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, St.

Louis. P. PACIFIC EXPRESS For PiusburR and Chicago daily. For Kncxville, daily, via Shenandoah Valley Route. Connects for Cleveland except Saturday.

I. 31. MAIL AND EXPRESS Pullman Buffet Sleeping Car New York to Altuona, East Liberty, Pittsburg and points West, dally except Sundfl' No coacnea. WASHINGTON AND THE SOUTH. 7:45.

8:13, 10:05 (Dining Car), 10:45 (Dining Car) A. 12:45. 1:55 (3:15 "Concreiona! all Parlor and Dining Cars). 3:15. 1:15 (Dining Car), 4:45 (Dining Car), 9:05 and 1I.

J5 P. M. Sunday. Stlo, 10:45 (Dining Car) A. 12:45 (3:15 'Congressional all Parlor and Dining Cars).

.1:15. 4:15 (Dining Car), 4:45 (Dining Car), 9:05 and 11:15 P. M. SOUTHERN RAILWAY "Florida Limited," 12:15 P. M.

week days. Express. 3:15. 4:15 and 11:15 P. M.

daily. NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY For Memphis and New Orleans. 3:15 P. M. dally.

ATLANTIC COAST LINE "Florida Special," 12:15 I. M. week days. Express, A. M.

and 9:05 P. M. dally. ATLANTIC CITY Express. 9:45 A.

M. and 2:25 P. M. week days. Through Yestibuled Trains.

Buffet Parlor Cars and Standard Coaches. CAPE MAY" Express, .12:45 P. M. week days. Ticket Offices: No.

4 Court Street, 98 Broadway. S60 Fnlton St, and Pennsylvania Annex Station, Brooklyn. The New York Transfer Company will call for and cheek baggage from hotels and residences through to destination. J. B.

HUTCHINSON, J. R. WOOD. General Manager. General Passr Agent.

Stations in New York, foot of topher streets. Mt. Morris Mali Ithaca Oswego Ex Chlcngo Buff. Express Scranion. Wlks.

Br( Ply'th Chicago Buff. Limited Utica, Ithacn and Buffalo Buff. Chicago Ex TSlec ners open at 9:30 P. M. Barclay and Chris Leave.

Arrive. am 5:00 pm .10:00 am pm 1:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 12:20 pm pm 7:3 um pm am pm 0:30 am Tickets and Pullman accomm 72fi Fulton street nnd 106 Broad Westcott' Express Company check to odations at 338 and way. will sail for and Daily. HAPPY FATHER OF 66. Ricks Has Twelve Wives and Hosts ot Descendants and Is a Firm Believer in Ifformonism.

In the valley of the Snake River, near where that stream terms the boundary line between Wyoming and Idaho, lives the father of the largest family on the American continent, ar.tl probably in ihc world. The owner of this unique distinction is Heber Z. Ricks, one of the faithful followers in rdigrion and practices of the late Brigham Young. Reliable persons who have known Ricks for many years sav he has 12 wives and 66 children. Many of his sons and daughters have long since taken unto themselves helpmates for life and to these have been born 21S children, thereby bringing the number of souls in the Ricks family, exclusive of the venerable father, up to 296.

The members of the Ricks family are scattered over a stretch of country fourteen miles long by two miles wide. Heber Ricks has an even dozen ranches, which, with those of the sons and daughters, make quite a good sized settlement. In the center of this set tlement a town called Ricksville has been established. Here are located a general store and a church. During week days the church is transformed into a school room, and a I regularly employed teacher (usually one of the Ricks daughters) labors with the descendants of Heber Z.

On Sundays, and not infrequently of an evening, services, which i are of, course, strictly Mormon, are held. These religious meetings are usually presided over by the elder Ricks, and are very inter estiug, being conducted in that manner peculiar to the Mormon faith. In case of the ab sence of the bishop, as the head of the family is known iu the settlement, as is frequently the case when he makes a visit to one ot his wives living in the extreme upper or lower ends of the colony, one of the sons will fill the pulpit and preach the doctrine of his father, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Heber Z. Ricks is a giant In form and strength, although he is 77 years old.

Little or nothing is known of his boyhood, except that he was reared on a farm in Western New York. He has never been known to say much about his early life other than that he landed in St. Louis in 1842. From that city he went to a small settlement in the vicinity ot where Independence. now stands, where he joined the Mormon Church.

A little band of Mormons, with Ricks at their head, left the place early in the spring of 184S and turned their faces toward Utah. Brigham Young's party of 225 persons had gone on the previous year and had left a faint trail, which Ricks and his party followed with great difficulty. This trail led them across the state of Nebraska, alone the Platte River, up the Big Laramie River and across the state Wyoming, by way of Fort Laramie, ami on into the valley of the great Salt Lake, via Echo Canyon. When Ricks lefl Missouri. it is said, he was a single man.

but when he and his party reached Salt bake valley he was the possessor of five better halves. Settling near Salt Lako Ricks continued to take unto himself additional wives until he had ten. Early in the year with the number of his wives increased to twelve; Ricks pulled up stakes and moved across the mountains through eastern Idaho to the valley of the Snake River. There, upon one of the most fertile spots to be found, on the continent, ho established himself. The first few years were ones of groat activity for Ricks and his already law family For a time all lived in one house, which was hastily erected, but later twelve houses, composed of roughly hewn Iocs, were constructed at different points alonK i'ic river.

To these were added, in due time, barns, corrals, and other outbuildings, and In a fow years Ricksville was something more than a name. AMERICAN LINE. FAST EXPRESS SERVICE. NEW YORK SOUTHAMPTON LONDON, WfMlioiiiiil at Clu rliourar. SllJNmr I If St.

Louis January February 21 St. Paul February 23 New Vrtvlr YTnV, It 7 rSalllng at 12 noon. RED STAR LINE. NEW YORK ANTWERP PARIS. Every Wednesday at 12, Noon.

Southwark Jan. 31 Kensington Feb. 14 Westernland Feb. TjNoorilland Feb. 21 These steamers carry Cabin and Third Class Passengers at iow rates INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY.

Piers 14 and 15. River. Office. 73 Broadway, N. Y.

J. LEHRENKRAUSS Si SONS. 273 Fulton st; DAVID P. WATKINS, 341 Fulton st; J. H.

SCHEIDT. ISO Graham ov. or H. F. KOCH.

43 Broadway. Brooklyn. ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINE. NEW YOKK LONDOX. MENOMINEE February 3 MARQUETTE February 17 MESAHA February 24 MANITOU March 3 MENOMINEE March 10 ALL MODERN STEAMERS.

LUXURIOUSLY FITTED WITH EVERY CONVENIENCE'. ALL. STATEROOMS LOCATED AMIDSHIPS ON UPPER DUCKS. FIRST CABIN PASSENGERS CARRIED FROM NEW YORK to irKN CFrcrtcr STREET STA TION. LONDON.

FOR S40 EACH AND UPWARD. Arrijt 1 UHUAUrtAY, Ull inw H. HENDRICKSON. 339 FULTON ST. ANCHOR LINE United States Mall Steamships to GLASGOW AND LONDONDERRY.

From Pier 54, North River, foot W. 24th st, N. Y. Jan. 31, noonlAstorla Feb.

17, noon 3, noonnthiopla Mar. 3. noon Cabin passage. SiiO and upward. 2d Cabin.

$30. Steerage. $23.30 to $24.30. For new Illustrated book of Tours and further Information apply to HENDERSON BROTHERS. General Agents.

17 and 19 Broadway. New York. Or S. W. Taylor.

60 Court st. Or H. F. KOCH. 45 Broadway.

Brooklyn. CUNARD LINE. NEW YORK TO LIVERPOOL. Via Queenstown. From Piers 5i and 52, North River.

Lucania.Feb. 10, 1 P. M. iEtrurla. 17.

6 A. M. Etrurla.Feb. 17, A. M.

iCampania.Mch.24.il A.M. Campania. Feb. 21. 31.

A.M. Lucanla.Mch. 10, IP. M.iLucanla Apr. 7, noon For passage and further information apply to VERNON H.

BROWN General Agents, 29 Broadway. New York. THOS. H. HENDRICKSON.

330 Fulton st. B'klyn. H. F. KOCH.

4S Broadway, B'klyn, K. D. NEW YORK AND PORTO RICO STEAMSHIP CO. Steamers Ponce (new) sail Around Porto Rico. ing February 10, and San Juan (new), nailing Febru uary 17, touch at San Juan.

Ponce and principal ports of the islands. The best of modern accommodations for first and second cabin pasuengers. All rooms outside on deck. MILLLR, BULL KNOWLTON, Agents, 32 Broadway, New York. Or RAYMOND WH1TCOMB, 25 Union Square, New York.

WHITE STAR LINE. NEW YORK. QUEENSTOWN, LIVERPOOL. Tntrtnin. Sn.tFeb.3.

noon; Oceanic. Feb. 9:30 A. Feb. 7.

noonTeutonlc Feb. 2S, noon For passage tickets anu aratts payanie on demand everywhere in England, Ireland. Sweden, Scotland and Norway, apply to V. 6G Court st, Brooklyn: D. R.

Banks, 95 Broadway; N. Ph. HARTMAN, fi69 DoKalb av, and H. P. KOCH, 4S Broadway.

Brooklyn. E. D. WHITE STAR LIVE. Pier 4S.

North River: Office, Broadway, New York EXCURSIONS AT SPECIAL RATES TO By the 31uiinoii Line. TO NUEVITAS (half rate). FEBRT'ARY 3. Direct to Matanzas. Saturday.

January 27. and Saturday, February 24. Interesting side trips in connection with each excursion, the latter being personally conducted. Regular weekly sailings to nortn snore ports. MUNSON STEAMSHIP LINE.

27 William St.N.Y. RAYMOND W'HITCOMB. 25 Union Canadian Pacific Railway. Intended steamship sailings from Vancouver, JAPAN, CHINA and PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. EMPRESS OF CHINA.

26. May 7. July 9 EMPRESS OF INDIA March 26. May 2S. July 30 EMPRESS OK JAMAIS lb.

June IS. Aug. 20 HAWAIIAN ISLANDS and Australia. MIOWERA Feb. 91WARRIMOO Mch.

For rates apply Broadway and 65 Wall st. FRENCH LINE. COMPAGNIE GENERATE TRAXSATLANTIQUE DIRECT LINE TO HAVRE PARIS (FRANCLZ). Sailing every Thursday at 10 A. From Pier No.

42, North River, foot Morton street. La Normandie Feb. iLa Touraine Feb. '2 La Champagne Feb. SiLa Normandie March 1 La Gascogne Feb.

loILa Bretagne 3 Gen'l Agency for U. S. and 32 Broadway N. Y. J.

LEHRENKRAUSS SONS, 379 Fulton st. opp. CItv HMI, P.rooklvn, N. Y. RAILKOADS.

Trains arrive at and depart from Grand Central Station. 42d Street. New York, as follows: Leave New York. Arrive New York. .00 a.

Syracuse Local p. m. a. Empire State Express p. m.

a. Fast Mail "10:00 a. m. a. Day Express p.

a. Rutland Express p. rn. 1:00 p. Y.

Chicago Special. :30 i m. "1:00 p. rn Southwestern Limited p. rn.

p. m. and Troy Flyer. p. m.

p. Albany Special p. m. 4:00 p. Detroit Special a.

rn. p. Lake Shove Limited. p. m.

6:00 p. Western Express p. m. p. Northern Hxpress p.

n. p. m. Adirondack and Montreal a. m.

p. Pan American Express. a 9:20 p. Buffalo S. w.

Special. a. m. 9:30 p. Pacific Express a.

in. 12:.0 a. Midnight Express 7:00 a. in. Daily.

tDaily. except Sunday. "Daily, except Monday. USaturdays only. iDaily.

except Saturdays and Sundavs. HAHLBJI UIVISIO.Y. 9:12 A. M. and 3:53 P.

M. Dally except Sundav to Plttsfield: Sundays only at 9:20 A. M. Wagner Palace Cars on all through' trains Trains Illumlnc with Pintsch Light. Ticket offices at 113.

261, 413 ann 1.216 Rroadway i I.nu.n square 235 Columbus av. Gl West r3th st, 125th st and 13Sth st Stations, New York' 338 and 726 Fulton st and 100 Broadwav, E. Brooklyn. Telephone "4930 Cortlandt" for New York Central Cab Service. Baggage checked from hotel or residence by Westcott Express Company GEORGE H.

DANIELS. Gen'l Passenger Agent. LONG ISLAND RAILROAD Trains leave Flatbush Ave. station for Green, port, week days. A.

3:33 P. M. Sundays. 9:03 A. M.

Montauk and Amagansett, the Hamptons. Sag Harbor, A. M. (3:22 exeunt Montauk). Sundays.

9:03 A. M. Center Moriches 7:07, 8:28 A. 3:22 P. M.

Sundays. 9:03 m' Patchcgue. Islip and Bay Shore. 7:07 10 ,5 A. 1:54, 3:22.

4:27. 5:21, 6:21 (12:06 Saturday nights only). Sundays. 9:03 A 1:25 P. M.

Babylon. 7:07. 7:56. 10 52 1:54. 2:51.

3:22. 3:53. 4:27 4:52, 5:21. 2l' 8:07, 10:07 P. 12:06 night.

Sundays 'i oi A. 1:25, 6:36 P. M. Wading River and' Port Jefferson. 8:34 A.

4:27 P. M. Sundays 53 A. M. Smlthtown.

Kings Park. Northport "(East Station). Huntington and Cold Spring ci 11:01 A. 4:27. 0:21 P.

M. Sundays'. 9:53 A. 0:24 P. M.

Oyster Bay. Glen Cove Sea Cliff. Roslyn. 6:37. 10:52 A.

C2 Saturdays only). 1:54. 3:22. 4:21, 5:21. 6:21 8 07 10:07 P.

M. (12:06 night. Wed. and Sat 'only)' Sundays. 9:53 A.

1:51, 4:13, 6:24 10 lP P. M. Far Rockaway, Arverne. Arverne (Straitnn 6:00, 7:07, 10:00, 11:04 A. 1:54 6:55, 10:07 I'.

12:06 night. Sundays s'V 11:23 A. 1:34. 5:43. 10:02 P.

M. via Y. and B. B. A.

1:25. 3:22, 4:27 (5:24 and 6:00 P. M. from Brooklyn Bridge onlvj 5:53 P. M.

Sundays. .9:33 A. M. Trains marked Far Rockaway only. Garden City and Hempstead 6:37.

7:56. 9:25. 10:52 A. 12:24. 1:34.

3:22 4:52 5:21. 5:33, 6:21. 6:55. 10:07 P. 12:06 night.

Sundays. 9:03. 9:53. 11:23 A. 1:54.

4:13 6:24. 7:42. 10:02 P. M. Garden City (Hempstead Crossing) and West Hempstead.

6:00 A. 4:27 P. M. Sundays. West Hempstead and Norwood 9:03 A.

M. and 1:54 P. M. LEHIGH VALLEY. Leave foot of Fulton Street.

Brooklyn. Annex. tDaily except Sunday. Other trains dally fl.2(j A. M.

Local for EASTON. 17.415 A. M. For BUFFALO. NIAGARA FALLS and West and principal local polats.

Parlor and Dining Cars. Connects for Coal Branches tll.45 A. M. "BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS." Handsomest train in the World Limited to seating capacity. Due Buffalo connecting with through Sleepers to Detroit and Chicago.

Dining Car Service a la carte 12.48 P. M. FOR WILKBS BARRE. SCRAN 1T, Bronchcs and interme Ldiam points. 4.45 P.

M. Local for MAUCH CHUNK B.45 P. M. Chicago Vestibule Limited. Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago and Toronto T.4B P.

M. Exposition Express for BUFFALO and TORONTO. H.S3 P. M. For ITHACA.

ROCHESTER BUFFALO and West. Sleeping cars to Chicago SOUTH PI.AIXFIELD and BOUND BROOK locals, dally except Sunday: 9:13 A. M. 3:45 6 06 and 9:05 P. M.

Tickets and Pullman accommodations at 328U, and S60 Fulton 4 Court 98 B'way and Annex Brooklyn. N. Y. Transfer Co. will call for and check baggage from hotel or residence through lo destination.

ERIE RAILROAD. Through trains leave New York, foot of Chambers street, as follows, and five minutes earlier from West 22d street: 9:00 A. M. Vostlbulod Express dolly for Bing bnmton. Waverly.

Elmlra. Buffalo, llradford. Arrives Burfalo 8 P. M. Parlor Car to Buffalo.

2:00 P. M. Vestlbuled Limited. Fast mall daily. Solid train for Chicago.

Arrives Cleveland 7.i0 A. Chicago a P. M. Slcoper to Chicago. Cleveland and Clnclnnntl.

Dining Car. 7:30 P. M. Buffalo and Cleveland Vestlbuled Express dally. Arrives Buffalo 7:05 A.

Bradford 7:20 A. Jamestown 7:00 A. Youngstown 10:27 A. Cleveland 12:30 P. M.

(sleepers to Buffalo nnd Cleveland). Cafe Library Car. p. M. Dally solid train for Bingham ton.

Waverly. Elmlra. Chicago. Sleepers to Burfalo Chicago nnd Cincinnati. Dining Car.

Ticket ofllcoB. 111. 113. 261. 401 and 957 Broadway.

Chambers and Twenty third st ferries. N. T. SGo and .133 Fulton st. 98 Broadway.

E. Brooklyn. New York Transfer Co. calls for and oheclcs baff race from Iiolols and residences to destination. An Englishman Who Was Taken Prisoner at Elandslaagte Tells of His Treatment.

CAPTIVES ARE WELL USED. Plenty of Good Food and Many Social Privileges Given Boers and British Dine Together. The railway telegraph operator at Elandslaagte, who was for some little time a prisoner in the hands of the Boers, till the battle of Elandslaagte set him free, writes an interesting account of his experiences as a captive, says a London correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean. Field Cornet Pienaar was In charge of the Boer troop that took possession of the station, and as Atkinson, the operator in question, refused to stop a train which was Just able to get otf before the Boers could hold it up, Pienaar threatened to have him shot. But after he had handed over his keys and cash, for which he received a "Pienaar," he writes, "addressed me in the following terms, much to the surprise of the one or two Englishmen present: 'I'm very sorry, old man.

that I said to you what I did when I first came. I said too much. You can understand ray feelings. Seeing the train escape was bad enough, because you could have stopped it, and did not. As I rode up I saw one of my poor men fall, wounded by a shot from the train, and this made my blood boll.

I spoke in the heat of passion. However, it is all over now. Here's my hand. We will have a drink." "As the evening approached more Boers rode in, so that by sunset six hundred or seven hundred of them were in the vicinity. That night about twenty of us were herded in a small ten by ten sitting room und armed guards, and our discomfort was added to by a constant stream of Boers coming in and out of the room in half dozens just to amuse themselves at our expense.

Fortunately the bar was under the control of the field cornet, and the inevitable drunkenness was thus to a certain extent limited. One. or two of the rougher youths amused themselves by pointing carbines at us, and although checked by their leaders there was always a doubt whether one of the crowd might not try his Mauser first and be punished after the mischief was over. Altogether the night was a miserable experience, and few slept in the heated atmosphere of that small room, reeking as it did of stale tobacco and gin, guarded at its only exit, and constantly disturbed by fresh arrivals, anxious to gape at the prisoners." Other portions of this letter incidentally throw a vivid light on the kind of men the Boer commandos are made of. The following passage shows how quickly they get to work when their scouts bring news: "This morning, October 20, Commander Ben Viljoen and his men arrived early and took up a strong position among the stony kopjes a mile to the east of Elandslaagte.

About 9 A. M. the scouts brought in word of an English force approaching. In a remarkably short time hundreds of Boers were in the saddle and directed first by a rather melancholy performance on a. bugle, and subsequently by numerous whistles, such as are used by English police, were off in small parties of tens or twenties in the direction of Ladysmith.

After a couple of hours' anxious wait for results the Boers returned, having had no engagement, so we concluded the Boer scouts had come into touch with some recon noitering force which had returned to camp after ascertaining their locale." In this passage there is a picture of the stern old General Koch: "When noon arrived I went to Cornet Pienaar and reminded him ot his promise of permits. He shrugged his shoulders, told me he had no further authority, and referred me to General Koch, who had arrived about 10 o'clock the previous evening. Choosing a favorable moment, therefore, I got the General alone. His bearing was very resolute, and, for a man of his advanced age and venerable appearance, wonderfully firm; but a single glance at his cold, expressionless eyes enabled me to anticipate his answer. He apparently did not speak English with ease, and called up one who I was afterward informed was his son, Judge Koch, and very deliberately told him to inform me as follows: 'You will stay here at least another two days, until the arrival of another commando, when a council will be held, and a decision taken as to what to do with you.

If you remain here you will be protected; but if any of you are found on the veldt you will be shot indiscriminately. We mean absolute business this Evidently we are fixed for a time. "A couple of hours after this I was sent for by General Koch. Could I. he asked, find a sail (local for tarpaulin) as a wagon of ammunition had broken down in a spruit some two miles distant, and the light promise i to be wet.

I promised, seeing in the commission an opportunity to see what was afoot, nnd knowing, moreover, that his own men could have got a sail, anyhow, if I had declined to find one. An escort was found me, and I went first to the station, where I knew a spare tarpaulin had Iain; it was gone, but in looking for it I found a case of dynamite which had evidently been brought from the colliery magazine, distant abotu half a mile. A tremendous hammering was going on in the office, and on entering I found an officer using a hammer and apparently opening up or nailing down a floor. I at once connected the case of explosives with the hammering, and suspected that the building was being mined. Before there was time to see what was being done I was peremptorily ordered outside, and when I was peremptorily ordered Koch had sent me for a sail I was told 'Go back and tell General Koch I don't know him." But the officers maintain discipline of a sort, as witness the following story of a duck "The afternoon dragged wearily on, and several of our party had a turn at cooking, none of the attempts seeming particularly satisfactory.

Knives and forks, crockry. were rapidly disappearing, and our usual eating habits were following suit. Those who did not care to snatch a piece of half cooked mutton from the top of the kitchener and eat it Kaffir fashion stood a good chance of going hungry. By chance, however, I had a dinner of roast duck that night. Passing a couple of officers at the table one of them asked me to join them, and passed me what he called a 'duck with a history' to help myself before he and his brother officer began.

The duck, according to his tale, had belonged to the proprietor of the hotel, and one of the rough burghers, seeing it, had cut off its head with his jack knife and was making off with his prize when he stumbled into the arms of a Held cornet, who demanded particulars of the way in which the duck came into his possession. No satisfactory explanation being forthcoming, he was deprived of his duck and sentenced there and then to fifteen lashes in lieu thereof. The duck was taken inside and cooked for the officers, and, together with a plentiful supply of potatoes, proved an appetizing dish. "We then left the station premises, and went to one of the colliery sidings, where a train of military stores was being looted. My mission and my escort together enabled me to go down th? entire train and watch the proceedings without interference.

In one wagon dozens of new military saddles were found, and this enabled the Boers to make use of the numerous horses they had captured on their way down. Another track contained whisky, which was destroyed as soon as found, the leaders thinking it inadvisable to allow whisky to get among their followers by the case. Further along the train weTe found meal, flour, bread, clothing, officers', baggage, bandsmen's uniforms and ihstru nienhs; what was useful was, of course, immediately annexed and other goods were thrown out of the trucks and picked up by the scores of Indians and natives who were enjoying the spectacle. Some queer results were seen as the Boere found the officers' baggage and the bandsmen's uniforms. One of the roughest managed to squeeze his foot into a pair of patent leather top boots and exchanged a coarse jacket for a scarlet bandmaster's tunic.

So attired he walked off, with carbine in one hand and a boot tree in the other, no doubt bent on ascertaining what the latter was used for." The Boers, too, seem to be able to sing songs other than hymns and psalms for on the second night they had a smolting concert. "As our stay seemed likely to prove a long one and the hours dragged wearily on, a emoklng concert, was mooted, whether by our men or by the Boers, I cannot say, but whoever gets the credit ol the Initiative it was duly arransod, and Field Cornet Pienaar Ex Congressman White Advocates Special Patriotic Observances in the Spring. MIGHT HELP MONUMENT BILL Burial of Bemains Just TJneartned to Be Delayed Until April. Ex Congressman S. V.

White believes, that the finding of the skeletons of more prison ship martyrs at the Navy Yard ought to ba made the occasion of special patriotic observances. He advocates that April 19. next, the anniversary of the opening ana closing of the War of the Revolution, be set aside lor exercises and a parade. Mr. White is a prominent member of the) Prison Ship Martyrs' Association, which has long been advocating an appropriation by Congress to build a monument at.

FortGreen Park. Itr is believed that there is an excellent chance that this bill, now in charge of Congressman Drlggs, will be passed before the end of the present session. Last year the attitude of the House was favorable to it, but with the great press ot business in connection with the new territories, it was impossible to bring It up for action. The members of the association are convinced that if a special observance were made here next spring that it would have an effect on Congress and that there would be no doubt of the appropriation being made. It is proposed that the burial of the bones of the heroes just found at Fort Greene Part shall be delayed until April and that a parads and public exercises be held then with an oration by some well known speaker like Senator Chauncey M.

Depew. Mr. White is quite sure that Governor Roosevelt would lend his assistance and presence to the exercises and would call out the National Guard to take part in the parade preceding solemn exercises at Fort Greene Park. "The finding of the bones in excavations being now made," said Mr. White this morning, "Is likely to be made the occasion of bringing into "needed prominence the question of building a monument in Fort Greene Park, to commemorate the heroic bravery of tha men who died on the English prison ships, in the Wallabout, during the War of tha Revolution.

"It is one of the marvels of civic neglect that the suffering and death of those thousands of soldiers who perished on thOse ships should have remained unhonored during mora than a century. "Recently the nucleus of a fund has been started and a society has been formed to build a monument to their memory which ia incorporated as the Prison Ship Martyrs' Mon rtf TTnitpri states ana I am sure the association would co operat with government, state anu muuauipai ties in holding public memorial exercises at some convenient time like next April. "This association contemplates giving a public burial with, fitting ceremonials to tha bones recently excavated from the trenches in which they have so long laid entombed. To this end Elizabeth R. Kennedy, the president of the association, has written Rear Admiral Philip to hold the remains, until a proper programme can be arranged.

"April 19, the anniversary of the beginning and the closing of the Revolutionary War, of the Battle of Lexington and of surrender at Yorktown, has been suggested as a date well suited for these ceremonies, and this data will give time to secure the co operation of patriotic societies everywhere throughout the country and perhapB also by that time appropriations may be voted by the national and state legislatures. Of course' the burial will be beside the other thousands of martyrs whose graves are unmarked in Fort Greens Park, Brooklyn. "I think the occasion should be made a public holiday and that there ought to ba suitable addresses by orators of prominence. I think United States Senator Chauncey M. Depew could be secured, and that he would be glad to deliver an oration on that occasion.

Governor Roosevelt would doubtless be pleased to be present and speak. I think; the Governor would also be glad to turn out the National Guard. "There has never been any adequate observance of the heroism of the martyrs of tha prison ships. As a nation we have been singularly ungrateful to the memory of the thousands of brave men, the bones of many ol whom are interred at Fort Greene Park. Doubtless there are many hundreds whose) bones will never be recovered and lie buried in the bottom of Gowanus Channel.

A great public memorial service would go far remove this charge of ingratitude on the part of the American people, and I think there Is no doubt that there would be a great publla response to the proposal of the association." The bill now pending in Congress appropriates $75,000 for the monument. It Is proposed to have the state provide a similar amount, and that a monument costing at least $150,000 he built. The association has on hand about $11,000, which has been collected through its efforts, and which is in tho hands of the treasurer, Felix Campbell. SABLE ISLAND PONIES. They Kesemhle Those Pictured on thB Sculptures of Nineveh.

"The story of animal life on Sable Island is strange," says GustavKobbe in Ainslee's Magazine. "Roaming the sandy wastes are herd of wild ponies, guarded by patriarchal stal llcns. These ponUs resemble the horses on the sculptures of Nineveh, and approach tha beholder seemingly out of the framework ot antiquity. They are stocky and remarkable for their long manes, which In instances have been known to grow to the length of three yards. These ponies are the remnant of a stock thought to have been left by some Portuguese fishermen the old reo ords quaintly call them who touched the Islands on their Ashing expeditions at even an earlier date than the Marquis de la Roche.

At one time there were from 400 to 500 wild ponies on the Island, but their number has been decreased by exportation, the severity ot the winters and, some people by tha Importation of improved, domesticated stallions which have made the stock less hardy and consequently more susceptible to; death from exposure. There are now between eighty and a hundred wild ponies and about thirty tor domestic use. Mounted on ponies, the Ufa savers gallop over the dunes and among the hillocks on their long patrols, and the Ufa boats are drawn to the scenes of shipwreck by teams of five ponies, three at the shaft and two leaders. Some of the wild ponies aTe sent to Halifax every year or two, and are sold at auction at an average price of from $13. "The 'Portingalls' also stocked the island with cattle, which increased so rapidly that people from the mainland made' expeditions to the island and returned with enough live stock to make their trips most profitable.

At one time tho island 'was quite overrun with rabbits. Then two rat Infested Norwegian vessels were wrecked there and the rats, swimming ashore, began to exterminate the rabbits and to attack the government stores Cats were then imported from Halifax to kill the rats, and after. a while the cats increased so in number that dogs were imported to kill the cats. Latterly the Island was again overrun with, rats from wrecked vessels, and another cargo of cats was imported from HalifaS, Once there were pigs on the island; but they have been exterminated because they, haa become ghouls, feasting on the remains castaways. Death in its most horrid forms always the burden of Sable Island's story." THE GERMAN GRETNA GBEEN.

The German Gretna Green came to an enfj on the same day as the German nineteenth century. On January 1, 1900, the marriages without previous banns or public askings, aa long in practice on the Island of Heligoland, were declared from thenceforth Illegal. During the last week of the old year, according to a Hamburg correspondent, the Heligoland steamer Silvana carried to tho Island quite a shoal of young couples who were determined to avail themselves of its privilege of sudden marriages before it was too late. Philadelphia despite the extraordinary circumstances under which It was held. It was opened by a comic soner.

rendered by a refugee from Newcastle, whose musical abilities proved of great service. He and I then rendered the old duet, 'All's Well," and, on being encored, responded with the 'Army and Navy' duet. A Transvaal burgher sang an Irish Bong, as only an Irishman can. He told us afterward that this vas his eighth campaign, but he did not know then that it was his last. Next day he was deed.

A German sergeant then sat down to the piano. Sir Joseph Barnby's glee, 'Sweet and was sung to his accompaniment, and when I say that it was a success vocally and instramentally, and add that we all had to trust to memory, it goes to show how wide is the popularity the little composition enjoys. The Boer sergeant then played a series of national anthems, including both 'God Save the Queen' and the Transvaal Volkelied. They were all played with, great taste, and I certainly never expect to hear' our national anthem played or sung again under such apparently impossible conditions. Next morning came the battle and the escape of the prisoners.

When the latter returned to Ladysmith they were surprised to And so much interest taken in them. The veracious native was the reason, and in the last paragraph of this letter Mr. Atkinson gives a good reason for distrusting the great amount of news the sole authority for which is a native's story. They found on getting to Ladysmith that "natives had. during our enforced stay with the Boers, reported seeing us roped and bound to posts; others again had seen us flogged, all of which efforts ot the imagination I only mention now as an intimation that little or no reliance can be placed on the various reports which appear from time to time 'from reliable native THE W0MBEYAN CAVES.

Picturesque Features of New South. Wales' Physical Geography Great Cavities in Limestone. New South Wales possesses numerous caves of a most picturesque and even marvellous character, several, especially the Jenolan and Yarrangobilly caves, being of enormous extent, and only partially fresh discoveries occasionally being made. With two or three exceptions they are in limestone rock, and filled with stalactites and stalagmites of every possible shape and size. The Wombeyan caves, situated about forty miles from Goulburn.

the metropolis of the southern portion of the colony, have yet to be fully explored, but even now a couple of days may be pleasantly spent in viewing the different chambers. The caves can be reached by coach from several points on the railway between Sydney and the Victorian border, the most picturesque route being through the neighborhood of the Wollondllly Rivef. The cave house, intended for the accommodation of visitors, and reached by coach from the nearest railway stations, is situated in a luxuriant valley of delightfully sylvan appearance, watered by a silvery brook flowing in the direction of the Grand Arch, passing through which it disappears down a subterranean passage. Entering the old cave (that first discovered) the visitor passes on into the drawing room, a beautiful chamber, and thence into the ceiling room, so called from the delicate formations which ornament the roof. Continuing his course, the visitor proceeds up an ascending path into the ball room, passing, in so doing, the trophy, said to be one of the grandest masses of huge stalactites to be found in Australia, if not in the world.

One of the features of the ball room is a fine echo, the sound of the voice being repeated with considerable distinctness. Near the ball room is the bat chamber, so called from its being the home of myriads of these goblin looking creatures. It has a beautiful appearance, and when illumined by the magnesium light seems like a glimpse of fairyland. Only a portion of the passages known to exist have been explored, and it is probable that other and finer chambers have yet to be discovered. The new cave is situated a short distance from the old cave.

From the beautiful entrance chamber three series of caves branch off in different directions. The first of these, to the right of the entrance, proceeds about 300 feet in a somewhat zigzag line, on a somewhat level floor, forming a kind of corridor some 10 feet in width and 12 feet in height. The floor for Eome distance from the entrance is remarkably pretty in its formation, resembling a stream of crystals overflowing from a large basin, the stream below the main basin being composed of innumerable miniature basins in terraces, each basin being filled with a pure coral like formation. Other parts of the floor are covered with spherical stalagmites resembling snow balls. The middle series of caves, by far the largest, consists of a chain of chambers, ranging from the size of a small cabin to that of a lofty cathedral.

These are formed by immense rocks falling and wedging themselves together in all shapes, which necessitates the making of a number of steep ascents and descents. The chambers are well filled with all the prettiest formations to be found In the other caves. An instance is also observable of a large column formed by a number of stalactites having been naturally broken across at a point about halt way between the floor and the roof, the broken surfaces being separated from each other by a space of about two inches, so that the upper part of the column remained suspended from the roof. A further extension of this cave consists of a roomy chamber, the floor of which might appropriately be named the Crystal Lakes, the so called lakes being a large number of pure white and transparent basins formed into a succession of terraces, each basin being partly filled with minute crystals having the exact appearance of water, the illusion being discovered only by touch. The third series of caves are equally interesting.

In several of the chambers fossil bones have beeen found, and In others the roots of kurrajong trees, growing 50 feet above, have penetrated through the roof. Lloyd's Weekly. A TEST OF LOCALITY. The Various Methods of Pronouncing a French Term. "Hanging in the elevator car over at our place," said a man, who lives at one of the big hotels, reported In the Indianapolis News, "Is a card announcing a table d'hote dinner at a certain hour.

It is almost always subject to inquiry on the part of new guests and, Btrange as it may seem, it constitutes a fairly reliable Indication as to their place of residence. During the last couple of months I have made something of a study of the subject and have prepared a little schedule, showing the pronunciation current In a few different localities. Here it is: 'table day "Louisville, 'tabul "Des Moines, 'tay bul de "Omaha, 'table "Indianapolis, 'table de bote." "Grand Rapids, 'tabbel "Sioux City, 'tabbul de "Oklahoma, 'what d' y' callem?" "I don't claim that this is absolutely accurate and, of course, it is merely the beginning of a much wider classification, but, as tar as It goes, it may be relied on in the majority of cases. For example, when I hear a man ask where the 'tabbel dotty' is served, I feel fairly safe In inquiring how things look in his part of Michigan. If ho says, 'Where's that table I make some pleasant remark about Mr.

Bryan or ask whether the Nebraska farmers are still In line on free silver, and about live times out of seven he gives me a stony glare, which shows I have hit it right and that he takes me for a bunco steerer. I have estimated that there are at least forty different ways ot pronouncing tho term 'table each peculiar to some city or section. It is a very fascinating study and I am thinking of Incorporating my researches In my great work, entitled 'Hints to Hotel Men on How to Size Up Strangers Without Looking at Thorn.".