The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1900, Page 7

THE SUNDAY CALL. eneral Cronje which they lnve so wen and 11l know no more. Then will ng kness, the wors! Sk of their birth Soon to Be (S’ny/and’s Prisoner on the Jsland of St Felena. THE GREAT BOER COMTIANDER DOOTED TO SUFFER EXILE IN THE FORMER PRISON OF NAPOLEON. stone and has six rooms—not as good as an humble American laborer would bulld for himself. The floors are of the beaten earth, glazed over with oxblood. The walls are bare, for the Boer does not be- lleve in art of any description. Books are scarce and the reading for the most part is confined to the Bible, for to its teaching, according to the exact letter, the Boer adheres most strongly. Cronje, Boerlike, is much adverse to in- novations and disapproves most heartily of that ultra-civilization which revels in not belong to the vaguely mixed native race whose people are called ‘‘yamstalks." BSt. Helena once collected a considerable revenue from passing vessels, and for & little while it looked possible as a living place, but all hopes of this were killed by the opening of the Suez canal. Curfous Bt. Helenans will crowd down toward the water some day before long. The yamstalks will stare openly, vulgarly, for they are lgnorant people. British sol- diers and their families will stare covert- ly, vulgarly, for they are a bit further along in civilization. It will be a great wealth and ‘uxury. Politics—never for day in Jamestown, for the prisoners will him. Always sianding aloof from parily . be coming to town. conflicts, he is reads and willing to do his ‘ Among the prisoners Pleter Arnoldus duty at his country's call. Once in 1888 . Cronje will be the cente: The onlookers he s asked by some of his friends to vill take in with greedy eyes one half compete against Kruger for the Presi- . 1dier, half farmer, all a mar dency. This he refused to do, saying at : . Pleter Arnoldus Cronje is at heart a the same time that he was satisfled with ek I soldier, although he never received any the existing order of things and did not training other than that which he has ac- see why they should be changed. The It sputation of Cronje as a fighter and one 1 with military genius has long been | throughout South Africa. ) whom Major Clark capitu- juba Hill in 1881 It was he ¢ forces which defeated and d to the notorious Jamison raid. has through < and per- and wearing ail put an e ris . past th .l beard of the Boers, Cronje 1t wus he who commenced the slege at 2 S hint a tiller of the soil than a sol- Mafeking. All the forces at Kimbetley a tiller of the sofl he s when Were under his command during the siege, except when he joined General Joubert at ¢ Ladysmith. Kimberiey came near being his Waterloo Not then. Wax given unto nim. longer He is stmple in ma ssuming and but when lead- : is another person. It 3 soldfer, Cronje the leader, who earned the title of “Lion of South He fought longer, as strength But only a litde Ush sixty. Defenses there were none, and the English poured shot In upon him. Then he surrendered, not because he wanted to but because his men, some of them despairing, forced him to. After the surrender—a wave of excite- ment around the globe, much wondering, much speculating and at last the decision. Great Britain sentenced. *“St. Helena, was what she sald. It was final. The delay of preparation will be as short as the great power can make It. Soon the curfous, walting ones on the lonely islands will have food for talk a twelvemonth long. “Did you see how proud he walked in his impudence?” and “He's little enough to be the maker of such a heap o’ trouble.”” But Cronje will not hear. In his solitude he will hear little but his own thoughts. They will grow louder day by day as thoughts do in loneliness. Shrieking things they come to be in the end. But their nature—who knows? Napoleon is reported as saying: “They perhaps think that I will put an end to myself. No; irage in supporting 1 £ becomes not a man of my character.” ‘What will Cronje think? e AR St Africa.” he time came when he was pursued by ot pu He is a patriarch and rules his own lit- the three great Englis ls, Kitch- = Y & v tle tribe, as is the custom in the Trans- ener, Roberts and ENA 1SLAND. mfl | | S, . nd to in true biblical style and with ab- was penned up at Paarsberg with scarce e . SBrintih off ite authority. His farm of 120,00 ucres 00 men. The English surrounded him . . saost: af £ Doy near Potchefstroon. His house is of with 40,00. He had five guns—the Eng- r books ot Sbety e then put the question i ¢ a hi ;“""\‘ e n does n i e R o by o on of doing anything sensible of P sirous of leaving Don’t you think.” began Nellle Horton About 3000 years before the Chris THIS G o IRL IS THE INVENTOR OF BEBSIN CHEWING GUM. chew pepsin gum? It you Forton was planning how to combine pep- DT TSSO ST ST THTOOTOTS T OSSO < S USE INDIA INK AS A FLAVOR IN TREIR BEVERAGES. NDIA ink was not first discovered, as well enough ne.” Therefore the use of obligations to sin and gum and lengthen her bank ac- H its name would seem to indicate, in India ink was d ed to be sacrilegious > en if you don’t, count. || Indla. The earliest records we have and its manufacture was prohibited. rested in Nel One day she came to her work at the © of it show that it was first made fterward it dawned upon the versatile pepsin manufactory with her determina- China, an f mind co ok b the * Hion giued to ‘the polat.. She had made supply is brought from thascou 1o confide in her employer. many things of practical utilit e taik to the ‘‘boss.” orders from behynd his roller- She took an extra chew at her timidly she repeated 't you t 4 be kind, India ink wa a discovery. That is to ual who produced it first did s by accident, without the re era a Chinese alchemist, Tien-T name, while experimenting upon some . l.\'nt J\:r:‘.” nostrum for the external preservation of = “ i life, or upon some formula for converting competition e her employer looked at her dirt into gold—it matters not what—ac- s was the who and laughed the ide 2 nswer will be, . by all the chronicles of in- the form of a liquid paint or varnish. This » 7] 1 concoction was the first India ink. The With \\or!P{]"\fl gra Bua g s not resem- black pigment which forms the base of the W& superfine in b gh T B black used in it was 3 - posdt g gparond powder so fine that . volatile as vapor and po: . x an odor of musk. Later, when competi- N A tion corrupted productfon, coarser and Ber Snes 3 e cheaper plgments were substituted for the : L as a result of the fine ones and the was artificially per- : fumed w qusk in order to disguise its 3 inferfority. 3 ; - The Chinese are passionately fond of €lie Horton was & musk, and India ink was used by them net * as many lars & g material, b also as a v put her in a pe manu- b beverages. A lt- N r envirfpnment. Her ater was consid- kness was g great love drink, but ¢ comes fresh from ardly be recom- 80 much for ha im for interfor dec- A ellle Horton played R r to the accompanin . & every order, every R Smsgon e " ogcurred L ¢ on the - She bellieveu in the vir. § I * gun Somehow the thgught N N t s Rors il 56 T TRy fore, upon an mve e? ar \Vl('!‘} as < of India ink.) From this startling Gum pepsin!’ was the isclosure of the historian we mignt ba 3 suming that all “bad” In- v oughts for many days. ming that a 3 and one day Miss dia ink is inhabited by devils. This view me to the conclusion that titudinous tri fled with delight all climes, especially digestions. A gum would kill two birds ; le Horton had half hoped for better, but Weans e fully realized that this was to be expect- ed. She only set her teeth all the harder the fresh plece of spruce gum, ink was the soot obtained by burning lac and pine charcoal. This soot was pow- dered finely and mixed with some kind size or giue. Fish glue or isinglass w: for cer! and total depravity few equals and no superiors. poor dia Ink hae pewriters were plan- eir day off or how to gowns and long- that are not in the un- the stenographer, Nellle A striking feature of the year's| writer. Shipbuiiding in 1899. produced 2447538 tons of g, Great Britain leading with The ed States follow- Un h 179,235, One of the remark- evements of the year was the one of the largest vessels ever other novelty was the steam torpedo-boat destroyer Viper, kes some thirty-five knots an the . Seventy vessels, of ., were built on the Great Lakes. 2,964 tons, and Germany came | T Hor! with en she began her experiments. Nellle h one characteristic common men and won who galn suc- wh iousands aim and where only an cecasional one hits the mark? She was absorbed in a single idea. For months she worked and experiment- ed. The gum must have the proper com- sistency and substance. It must have just | the correct amount of pepsin to make it valuable for Indigestion. It took & vast | amount of time and trouble. Her favorite spruce gum was finally abandoned. It didn't meet the require- ments. At length, after many months of experimenting, Nellle Horton made a pep- sin gum that suited her. It was a simple matter to find a market for it, once the dealers were shown its merits, Ten years ago Nellie Horton was a siip of a girl eking out a living at the type- To-day she is a woman enjoying crease of tonnage bullt | the luxuries that,an income of half a million permits. Aud: all because she hit upon the happy idea of pepsin gum. Nellie forton, “The Pepsin Gum Girl.” used, as well as bone or horn glue sometimes, in making the finer qualit. ink, pearis were boiled in the glue. Some- times dried ox tongue was added to give the ink a purple tint; and the bark f (he pepper tree was used to produce a tinge of blue. The dried and packed in wormwood leaves with lime or ashes until well seasoned. 1t is not stated whether sepla, the color- ing liquid of the cuttléfish, was added to the ink originally or not, but as the best India ink in use at present has a brownish tint, as if mixed with sepia, it is evident thdt-sepla Is used now in the manufacture of the ink. Sepla alone is used frequently 1h China in preference to the black ink. As soon as it was discovered that Indla ink was likely to be serviceable to man- kind it was perceived by the Imperial Dief to be a dangerous innovation upon the es- tablished custom of “not"” having it to use. The empire had got along very weil without India Ink priar to its discovery, and it was Chinese public policy “to let ink- was carefully molded, | | Warship Built by Actors. | Germah actors have determined to ald | Emperor William in building up a navy. d some time ago to Herr | manager of the Schloss | Braunfels Theater, in Berlin, that i | would be an excellent idea to have the | actors and theatrical managers of Ger- many unite in building a warship, and he at once wrote an appeal to the leading members of the profession, in which he suggested that arrangements be made to gtve special performances in all the the- aters and that the money obtained there- from be spent in buflding a man-of-war of the best possible type. He maintained that such a gift to the Government would { be a splendid evidence of patriotism, and | that there was no reason why the money should not be collected within a short I time.