1017

Date 1912-11-29

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rments and others under my 000,000 of bonds: under whieh York State tax hag been pald n received, But, th New, poration, my residuary lega also surplus left atter meet: provisions of my will, goes happy In getting all this off It 8 gruesome business, d that this arth is rapidly more nd more heayenl: good men and women I know. others. Surely--Lather, and thelr followers were gt; held that service to maa shest worship of God. ining. bid plan, Mr. Gar the cases of throe former a8 affording justification roject, the anouncement of sald Was making the de- ression. Three trustees ) would re uid this be the result, he; Ye were very careful to pro- only in case congress failed pensions-for ex-preatdente ration would stand ready to It is properly the province ition to act. We all feel CHE BATES A BRIDE g. N. Y., Nov, 28 The wed- iss Blanche Bates, the ac- George Creel, who olde the police commissioner tn the enver, took place at the untry home near here today. ony Was attended by num- rsons well known to the in publec life. The couple ned a honeymoon trip - to, Panama, returning to Den- spring to make that city e. tes, who was born in Port- in 1878, has long been one emost actresses of the Am- ge. In recent years, onder on of David Belasco, she notable successes in Under 3, The Darling of the d The Girl of the Golden Today's marriage to Mr, secon second venture into y. Her first husband was ton F, Davis; U, 8. A, to was married in San Fran- in her professional career. re sermons in stones and s in the lunch boxes of al girls. : eaf System The News Job RTY das fi key with him, arn his salary. the windows to ve him your best nt and save the ehas done. The agent about it. ll delay or spoil o has a tendency ial effort to sell hen as a special su a buyer tell roncluded not to ommission, but urself and the ness man will erty with all the sell it, and you ut you will have property to, and You can save but it will wear to overflow and 3 first-class bot- out a customer. , he will not get a rabbit to buy sidence. After ) buy now, but irit of patience i arrogant. ncy e rat Bechu: MBDIOINE: HAT DAILY NEV THE WHITE MAN WHO STAR BLACK REPUBLIC AND BECAME A COTTY SMITH S Mechanical Tin Soldier Won Over the Monarch in Bechuanaland, : * KING Inter-Tribal Fights Raised - Him from a Commander-in-Chief to a Ruler and Then the British Troops Squelched His Republic one end of Cape Colony to the other. Harry, 'W. Martin, some of whose experiences have been told in newspapers, met him last in Gape Town.- That was tn 1684, but Scotty 1 still alive and is still loved by all who know him, With no regard for the law, he has several times Gisagreed with the authorities, and there are many tales of his shady doings, all of which are tempered by the maz's big heartedness and his general likeability. The following is the story of how Scotty Smith, with three kindred spirits, established the Republic of Stellaland before the British government created a formal protecto- rate, calling it British Bechuanaland. It is told, as-nearly as Mr. Martin remembers it, in Seatty Smith's own words, and the facts are borne out by official reports in the archives of Cape Colony: BY HARRY W. MARTIN. corrtehts 1911, he the New York flemtd Co. Att rtihts reserved.) af down in Cape Town that 1 last Smith, Scotty was not 4 conversa- Whiskey talked when t wa in him fm nantits, and) sometimes If he had car rank and raw and black enongh. words qvonld chase the heavy blue rings as they floated from Aik nafrowly parted lps. That was the when. men sliould listen, Once started. Scotty's flow of lan- guage was Immensely like the driffing of the nico- tine haze. Basy. comfortable. restful, tt wits, and tore was always Something worth hearing. So F didn't ply any questions till the fourth drink was low nthe glass and the second clear was well Mehted. Why aren't you in jail?*-T asked him then. Scotty amited. T Uke you, he said: - damned frank. ;1 m not in. jail because they haven't anything on me since the last time. At least. he ex- plained, they haven't proved anything on me. for the last three years I've been a peacr loving, Jaw abiding cltlzen. In fact. I've been mak- Ing the laWs myself, Oh. It's been wonderful, Mar tin wonderful T began to almost think T titted somewhere, and then government came ialong and onsred me, i 3; Down mong the Bectinana Tye been a: president or A king) King of a republic, T guess. We. called It a republic, but I was 9 king just the same, and it's heen great. Yes. T menn to say that 1. Scotty Smith. deserter. horse thief, cun runner. ansthing.row want. Towak the. dent of the Republic of Stelialand. It began over In, Kimberley, and, ax aii good things in. it began in a caffy. . Scotty meant eats, Rill eke an T thet up with Leo Waring and Sam How: ard. and we all began to get well. you know Jnst a inte ww . T bad been selling a f w dinmonds down atound the Cape and was not overanxious to meet face to face with any of Her Majesty's officers of the Jaw. Tyke and Waring, yon know, were wanted over in the U.S. A., where they hadn't finished out their enlisted time in the cavalry. Howard well, he was dodging something, but-Iets pass that It was my dea, T fancy I-get a Uttle wilt whsn the whiskey's in m ,'and T suggested that we all blow the whole works and strike ont for ourselves go xomewhere where civilization wouldn't bear down so hard on us. tM That struck the others In the right spot. There eniv remained the question of transportation. How were we to-xet outiof Kimberley and into the forest country? Where we would go no one kuew. That idn t matter. There's a kind of fortune that looxs nfter fools and rogues, as you ought to know on one count or another. And our fortune begat right then and.there. Into * the caffy rofled four of the first gentry of the land. Dressed? Say, those fellows: were: togged oat Ike tace-horses, but we didn't pay any particular atten- In thelr hands they earried riding crops, end that was enough for us, : Tyke looked out the window. here across the gt; war Ina aw Keott, tlonalist. road, bitehed to the horse bar, were four horses a fine as you'd want to see in the Colony. It's too bad, whispered Leo Waring: we'll have to ea e.those crops behind. Leo always was some of a pessimist, but the Test of us weve satisfied, and we stroted out of that eaffy as though we were bound for a missionary pic- nlc. We hated to dusty our boots crossing the road, but there didn't seem to be any help for it. The horses were tled and we couldn't call them to us. Well, it didn t take Jong to slip the knots, and away we clatter d off through the suburbs, down the oM Mall, the shortest road to the forests. It was. thieving maybe, but, you see, there were matters of state at stake. Do you think it was any miore crooke than the games those diplomats play? Not a bit of jt Anyway, if it hadn't been for the whiskey I don't believe we would haye done it. Perhaps we woukin't have had the nerve. We didn t rest till we got over the border into the Orange Free State, and even then we pushed abead at a pretty trying pace, skirting along the bor- der of the Transvaal, then Jumping Into the western aland. We figured that the Bechuana ays Sghtin hemselyes and Hking-tor forms of government than most savages. The idea of forming a state of our own was firetty hazy as yet--but we knew that something would crop up of itself. It was hard going through the forests. We lived on the country, and sometimes there wasn t much to live op, We had oyveripotted the small matter of shelter tents and bad to si ep in the open alr in our clothes. That was ancomfortable, Tt grows cold-in the hills xfter sundown and you ree When you haven't had much to eat. Impfessing Old Monkuran. Taungs was the Oret large native settement we xtraek. That 1s the stronghold of the Monkurana, who are among the most warlike and strongest of the Rechuana, Old Monknran, the chief, recelved i not wer warmly, being In a bad hamor with the world at arge because Montsto, a chief froni about two hun- fred miles north, had just internally beaten his army. Phat looked like our one best opportunity, anc 1 daa confab with'vld Monkuran, Look here, I said after the twala nad loosened ny: tongue a bit, do you know what Montsio i ck doi with about three tues as many men to wipe you of the map. What can you do about it? You can't raise meb cuongh to Bght him under present conditions, ahdleveu If you hekd-out long enough to make a real War of it you know what the government would do, The Great White Queen's soldiers would come down here and establish a protectorate. That's what they'd do. E thought the flery old fellow would eat me up at thut. He growled and grunted and swore around in Bechuana, while I puffed away on one of my tast eheroots, When he was calm again I said: Now here am I and my three friends, just sent to you by the War God. We lave fought with the greatest armies of the white inan und we pave trav- elied days and. nights to save you from this foe trom the north. All we want is to train your armies for the space of cue moon and we will die happy when, we have driven the foe back straight to the great burning desert where no man can live. That ts all very well, sald the chief in his own tongue, which, of course, 1 understood, but how am T to know that the war god sent you? Now there was just one thing I had thought of when we started on our wild ride, and that was that we would probably need some little bauble with which to impress the savages. At Bloemfontein I had o oO Perilous Adventures Told by and of -Living Persons ee a righteous fear into.the hearts of those beggars than the whole army of Momtsio. The only thing I could find in the way of head- gear was plain white helmet, which didn't-at all live up to the gorgeousgness of the rest of my costume. But you have no idea how a great, sweeping ostrich Plume will remedy 4 thing like that. I got one and stuck t into the helmet, and I doubt If the Queen of Sheba in all her glory ever achieved anything like the appeszance Ipresented on parade. My stat some, tog, but, even though I say it myself, there never was a general who came within miles of me. The first day on the field Bil Pyke started to laugh at me, and When trode over to the ground and rawi along through the brush. When the enemy wes mented they wero to) Ne ender cover a beat they could, the artillery was to, blow ultion tasted and then the main body was to close with the enemy, Sounds good, doesn't it? Well, first thing I knew there was a frightful yel tm the woods ahead. The scouts had inet Montsio s m n, but instead of obeying Bill Tyke and retreating, they plunged headlong into the enemy and were gob- led up. Bill reached our lines almost torn to ploges. The sounds of tue battle were too much for the heavy Anfuntry and they rushea into the fight. On top of that the artillery commenced fring. It is a mistake to'give a savage, espectally a black one, a gun. As soon as-anything starts he discharges It, no matter if ta only Into the air. But this time the men were trained and instead of shooting into the air they fired into the heavy growth. where both armies were fighting. Bang went every gun In the artillery, and as many of our own mep Were bit as of the enemy. Fortunately the fire was not yery effective, owing to the age of the weapons, A0 It took so long to relond that the artil- lerymen became nervous,, and, throwing away the guns, dashed into the fight with the assegais they carried, es The First Day on the Field Bill Tyke Started to Laugh at Me, and When I Rode Over to Reprimand Him I Got Laughing So at His Own stopped long enough to buy a little tin soldier with spring inside which, when wound up, made bim strat and prance around in a, circle, moving Wis gun up and down in front of him. Phere in Monkuran's filthy tumbledown hut I brought it out of my pocket. I had kept it wound, so it was all ready. Bee, I said, here js a miniature of our own war god. The Great Spirit will enter him at my: request, and you will see this bit of metal take life aud move and walk. Monkuran grunted, but he did not believe me, Placing the toy on the ground, I released the spring, and the little plece of mechanism performed therp In the rough dirt. Monkuran was nonpinssed. He Tabbed and scratched his almost bald hend for a moment, then threw his arms about my neck. That was the worst ordeal of all. but It meant that I had him where 1 wanted him. I slipped the toy-into the eariboard box and put ti Tack-into my pocket. Then Monkuran made me commandsr i chief of all the armies. 3 Tyke, Waring and Howard were appointed major generals, and the organtzatlo he officers of th My Was complete. If we whipped old Montslo I was to have two hundred head of cattle and each of the others. would recelve a hundred 1 With that we figured on eetting up an establishment that would make us all rich, ' Phe natives are impressed wonderfully by. show, so the first thing to do was to properly uniform the staff, We requisitioned all the civilized clothes we could find among Monkuran's people and pleced out the outfit With a lttle extra stuff we had ourselves. evOne'of the natives had an old scatlet coat which tind onetime, been worn by x ant, There was 2 plentyof gold braid across the front of it, and the brass: puckles shone like ttle sues. My word but that/ oat was tight 1 used T-take it off when I ate. Phere were a Tew slits in t probably they told the sibFy of how it had eome into the possession of the Baeinisut tut Tsewed them up. Every breath Jeon: the seama though. White buckskin rid ing breeches made ne contrast tothe red coat, and a pair offpld 1 4iPian. riding, boots gave ust the proper Jauntiness o the toufensemble. 1 felt Uke a kitchen stoye or a hardware shop when I Was all togged out. The brass spurs I wore jangled 2 the ci of Notmandy and did more to Lost Rig I Near Fell Off My Horse. to reprimand bim I got 2a 7a Fig that-Icnear fell of my oe None of the natires had horses, 0 we only used ours at reviews, which was every afternoon, for Monkuran was a great stickler for formality. - For something lke a month we drilled and pranced and sw ltered around a big open field about two miles from the iMlage At the end of that time the army was able to wheel and corvette about the fleld like a regiment of militia, and I've Seen many a company at the Cape stumble throngh the manaal in worse form, Leo Waring was n command of the artillery, which consist-d of about fifty muskets in all stages of antiquity. 1 think Magellan's men dropped some of them when they circled the globe; And they were probably out of date then. The light Infantry carried nothing but assegais And were to be held ip reserve,.ready-to dash in at any pojnt where Moftsio's men were pressing us too hard. Bill Tyke was in command of them, and Sam Howard was in charge of a heavy regiment of the line armed with assegais, clubs, knives and: any- thing else that was calculated to tear through flesh and bon By a Well, ft lodked as and I told Monkuran thi whip the combined tribes of Afric: had number of steers killed and roasted, tWala w: supplied. tn tremendous qukntities and be bro out several bottles of Cape Smoke for us generals. Defeat of the Army. Every one beiug properly intoxleated, the army manceuyres began. During the ulght we massed on the banks of a smallclyer and wext day the trek began. We wanted to take old Montsio by surprise,, but i had an Intuition that we were out to doehizb and met us more than half way. Why we were okbt ing I have yet to learn, but it lt;vems thaf the children of Montsio were our hereditary enemies, a Wnen T heard that M ing to meet us I spread out the heay, ry and advanced through the heavy, woods with of the light infantry xcouting ahead, the-+restbeing held in the year as reserve. Thevartillery followed the line seginent. Our plan was ood one, and it should ha: + worked: As soon as the scouts encountered the *nemy they were to fall pack-on th main body and Montsio Dut Me That's the way our plans miscarried, but we bad a fight of it. Wor three days we struggled and fought and sweated around in that jungle, and at the end of that time Monkuran s army was completely demor- alized. We made handsome retreat, though, back to our village. As soon they had nn apd scrambled four or five miles from the conflict and Outsprinted Montsio s warriors, the Monkurana. were seized with wild longing. for. discipline-again and insisted on marching back to Tatings in close order. Tyke and I rode om ahead to bretk the new Monkuran. You've seen a tigen shot in the qhoulder? And you've seen a China Sea typhoon? Well, then you have vague idea of how the old chief took on I should have killed him on the spot, bat I knew 1 wouldn't have a chance for a getaway. The wa- tives had worshipped us as Uttle guds until we ot Ncked. Phen they turned us down eold. 1 didn't even have the wherewithal to chuck blu in front of them. My white helmet: was gone. The leather boots were mud fo the hips, and, as for the white trousers, they were unrecognizable. After Monkuran had sprinkled every leat of my family tree with venom, the wa hyou spray arsenic on a fruit ree: old was doomed, US two hours to lem the village. 2 It didn't that long. Fen minntes after te rag d we were allffour x: That Ute him by surprise, and djs warriors. having than enough of fighting, did not care 68 face Our heayy Dore rifles. We srewked awa into th 'xorest and pitthea acampgihiway betweuMthe two countries. Game wie pl dge. and th belie was out papitals OF course. ene trade Sih the isiolgietosile became friendly d' pretty comfortable titde ened ups our un foris and some of sed by them. that with us and w We c Montsio's braves were so. tm y came tolive with us co Waring, the pessimist, kicked he fy. but the rot of us got ale our blacks brought in We held court martial and dj ut wh our neighborhood elded to behead them, duced to the pro the promise thit they would ceturi with dozes men, fifty cattle and some twala and Gape smoke. tholes in the ranks of Montsio ae. long as their ammu-* Old Monkuran went up in the alr about declared war-on us. At lenst he: ned Into territory and killed half our cattle and the village. We did his soldiers up fact, we made such a success of It right on to Taungs and cleaned up The pick of both tribes was fn them fight thelr own way this Fnropean tactics, After the war ab Monkuran s tribe, eine over to their women and children with dent, Next day I a War, Bam Howard T had. beard three months old and: a grizzly, though Leo Waring had made an cutting it. pe Anyway, it tickled the republle Stellainnd. You you? About the only good: my ife, and I wanted this foo. Stella was one of Scotty stopped short for second and grog. Then he went on. Well, that tsn't the story. more twaln for the natives. and the P the Cabinet had Cape smoke. Then the Rep Stellaland declared war Montst Next before the battle about-a quarter of Montsio war) riors defected to our side. antl there was nothing to the fight. We drove him almost back to the desert. Then aye settled down to matters of state. There wasn't any constitntion. We bad, nothing to write in it, and we would not have known how to write it, anyway. Bil Tyke found a native who was.a wou- der at painting little: pictures with the pigments the savajes nse on thelr bodies, and he showed him how to mnke a face that lopked a little bit like mine. We cut-Calico Inito long strips about an inch wide, and this fellow painted the Iittle profiles om them In long columns. These were all turned 0 Sam How. Ard, who was in charge of the Post Offite Department, and when a native wanted to mall a he woutd give a certain number of beads for a many stampa as:he wanted. The stamps were made by clipping the calico strips, one. face to a stempy There was no reason in the why ttey should have mailed letters, but they liked) the idea of it, and we used the beads to purchase otter skins and other things from the natives who Do you know, Harry, J never the I got to like those black sav: Children to me, and T used to tal ing to get them lvilized. We alex ber of cattle enongh to have Golsny and we wore kings, old uniform and made it 0 had been. I used to review the army twice a and preside. aver the ell, which Teally have a thing to say about ranhin, 3 iised to come to meto-gettie the ing was at a minimum, say and they know It and you know jh )And the They show their charms and thelr: leness, you they're dancing. for, Fou datigh bat a charms, but whem you've lived for pears in thie: st away from clyiilzation, things: nie differently to yon They have charms, those wid, primitive; tiger pass sioned women, When you Know them as 1 did you know what the dance means, and I tell you there ft nothing like the sensation of having t all for you. Well, thats nbout, all, cnn ove day, embodied In the pei T knew the Sig was np when the khaki suits caro Bling out of the forest into th Clearing where my but stood? If was one evening when the smoke spper fires was rising straight foward the Til and I were talking over the ad ul peneemd-actte tke we-tomdt been Te years. Not fen minutes neoiee own the flag while we all Eto STWaye WOH in witched banner came dowa at night just 1 way the other flag your flig-omsed to when I was fa cmb MtTtery ; ae Warren stayed the nlzht with me. We AVE tAUs muck, but I Key what wits coming. Next morhing when the guard came to retes the'fiag or- derek them Hot to. There, yeas a sort of salle on Wetfen's face when be-saw the banner. THe exhm-ye anded It dverjto me i he said, youknow. ax well T do thats Get out of bere pow, you and yous, ls, This land belongs to the natives, und It s mgm vhem distast ful tvtsiness tose that It's presoryedy for th Asomeof Une Hatter bad brought the horses to euerid Warren examined them rather mare: None tov good for though, I famey neral Warren wasnt such - Ife held ont bis band sa Torede (Say I'm et shamed. of it ) Pretty good animals, fre sald, a President and bis Cubine We four mounted. bad xort afte we hud tl i nd 1 toot eof fear we-de: them 26. BI was a bit of a tmp In my throat, ze Scotty, said a you're a damned-rascal. Don t conse B a a Ta arren, as he, deopped, ily.

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