UNKNOW PORTMANTEAUX.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 51, 27 September 1900, Page 3

UNKNOW PORTMANTEAUX.

A thin mas, with & drkjfcres3irig.39.iglk wss inspecting e£me jwifcimateftus ami tiunfco in hont qf a <jonion West end shay fea other day, when th-o praprietpr of iho place appeal oa and^&sked — '!iot)kmt' for a portmanteau, air?" "Yes." ".Here's the best thirty-shilling bag ■ever .made, and I'm the only one 4h&s Btlia'eni less than five pounds." "No good," replied the thin man, with a-aoirowiul-saake of his head. " One. of these trau'cß wouldn-'fr Bten& the .journey from liei.a tp Biadfofd.* '"Whet' -J'll w&rsaat them "to go -re and t-fce vrorid. TnkchoW ai one, bang it about, and convince yourself." { "*' Do you give me leave to test its ] strength ?" <« i " Of cours» I do^ Tako hold !"' The man \v»thl;ho distressing cough drew in a fell bus^th, called oat, "By your le^ve tbsija X* \ Sis if -warning a i4atiorra- {pll, of paas^feei'sij and tb^on tpok hold of tile trunk. JjUgd wf.at the handle r < bang !-v. snathe lo«:s"rand, "as he st^od ; it on 'end apd «p®^i^JWi'd'' flopped i^ back aggiaj. 01m kijtgti^bvoks Ioqb?, ibdj it e^Ut i-n two. ft j: • With, a twist of i&e -wrist he "gave \ he 1 two halves a^lap bam{, which* «m>ple fed the wieck, and, witlma bowfeAthe sifler of portmanteaux, br^oiaed viho'terowdtand " ftJood heavecs {"^stsp^d' tti&^ropftetor '; a& kb viewed the' ruiirc; ■" but I -wa-s aus-i iaken in him lJ H:4|) a railway porter, instead of a dying- teiarelleK!" j -&-"grate firo warms Sip wh«o it's coaled."; Tho r fkkpocket Boftietiroost iellc-ws- his ' avocntion just to keeghis h^oid in. I Strange to say tW ooloar tb&t raaa is ' 1 not a fast colour. What a .curious language oms is I \ . " Xlra- esy that <3iu&ins is 4»* ol yoar,' hu^bAQcTs ftii'Jn^s ?" Failings ? Oh, no. : It is oao of- his successes," <| " l'oa say the evening wor«'«jei | did it woar on that oaiti3«|£*i Kjceaaion ?" I inquires a corre&poniiemt *" The close of I -da/, of coarsa." . j

. Tußsicurn, J&asO'ibecomtf' # household, I remedy throtjtsaa£& tlje Qolony foi^dis/Sftßesi of thfrat and lnngsr No bouie should, hi ■< witiioutrt^tus irradna&te renjedy,'*- v iich' eaves mar§y livegf Fojfaßtn«<rd'^gplia! ion;' use Witches' «Oiff ' ' ' bKildren'd -i&s^king A-coy-gbs ! ftt' -n gat, "Woods^Gl^eat JPeßpertnintiCi *cv' 3 B3%is' Wishes' C&l, Ibestmoifl^ &>x ohHlb}ains,.Jb/oa4hitisijC«<>lds|-piS6e,<^ #5. Ai-cliamifit* / " >- f -qudekly.'to' the cai»aiisft.e|Ce6tsr^)rig«j3^ara," a-svondei'icii'toiiiic. | ' J. 'Far - ?3? 3 t (m^feiqg' /cot^lis. " «i night, Wobds^G^eat^Wiefil^lt.Ouji©^ tfaq, lußgSf oppression *6! "'fisg- "chest, etc. sola all ahemista. " - , - / .1- Anyone regwiriiig boots, or "wiU sme "money $ 3?y/lwiying* |rom Berry's.' You ]er§tltho %esfr Quality,ai~fche lqweat prices, - , rEepaJrs l at _ Bevy's - iarf >|af as. : -jj^ ,A^

to Bulawayo we wore reduced to two biscuits a day. Waier w?s very scarca on the id a .-eh and we bad to go without for ihirty-six hours in the broiling sun. The return joarney occupied nine days. Two of oar tuen had to be sent to hos«)ival at Capetown for treatment in consequence of fever. One can keep pretty cleat* of fever by taking anop;,h qninme, bat it is chiefly the nardshipa that knock the ruen up. We en drained for Maf eking on the Ist iusfc., and on reaching Crocodile Pools received word thai, 50 men were to be left to guard the railway. It took us two*days and two nights ito come from Bulawayo. Ever since we came here we have been kept busy making entrenchments, bomb-proof shelters and protection woiks, bnt I don't think we shall eve.: use them. This place is only a m le from the Transvaa 1 border. Plainer had a reverse here some m ntbs a^o, when the armoured fc'-am came 10 his relief. We have aboat 50 miles of railway to patrol. I 1I 1 he re^t of our company was eont on 40 miles, to Lobatba. We don't o ct mnch news of the fighting, only thai, 1000 Free St;i ,ers were cap wared last weak. The Boers have a great sat on the New Zealauclers and Vuskalians. I was talking the other day to au Englishman who h: a Coer wife. He was fighting foe the British at Mafeking. He nold me the Boees say -they can •,booi Toinaiy Atkins, as they go iv ]»,rge Codies and do at ofLen t/fce cover, bi'i ihos« foreigners icom. New Zealand, as they call us, are ijo many for them. The colonials bake tbo Boers at their own gams, opea oat well, and take all the cover they can j,et. ' The Boers p.re uer.i'jle cowatds. aud unless i,h3y dvQ jehinl rocks they won't fij,hu As long as they can pop afa the ijrni-sh a.id not ihe British « t them ohey are all n»ht. Tho ol"nat« here is splendid, just like New Zealand in springuime. Soorh from here to Capetown, I am told, it is a nne cojnfciy. From BAea, to ohis place the co jntry Is lifcoleelsa ih»m a desert covered with bn3h, a bad holf for fever. Sines we came to &'o>iih Afrioa we hp.ve travelled J425 miios by road aid tiv/n. and of that c'isuance we ha\e done 2*iO .ai'es on foot. We hear that the L'Vot Coa«Jngent is a bodyg.iard for. ivitcbencr. I think the war will -ooq end, bin tb« Boc/s will be woppi.ig away for a Avhile yot. I -.hoa:d hko to see the f j j)ons liitie town of Ma te k mg ?udi i s ga rrison.