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JULY 7, 1911. A DANGEROUS TIME. MUD RUSH, THING TO VIEW WITH HORROR. Story ol the Kimberley Mud Fight Which Brought Medal and Fame to Englishmen. Pearson's Weekly. It would be difficult to find,in all ithe records of brave men's heroism ;a more stirring example than is given in the story of the great Kimberley mud - fight which took splace a few years ago. As a result, of it six English min lers were awarded the Edward med ial, and were hailed by our late King as patterns for the Empire j They worked in the famous dia imond mines of Kimberley, and part of their duty was the supervision of bands of natives engaged in the work. i One morning when everything was going along as smoothly as possible !and a party of-these natives were hard at work in a corner of the mine, they were startled by a dull hoise outside as if a few tons of 30ft substance had been hurled gainst the high door that separa ted the spot where they worked from the long tunnel leading to the shaft ine mua: iney criea, ana arup - ted their picks in an instant. There was no mistaking the sound was the dreaded mud, the terror of diamond miners. i Dangerous Mud Fight. ; A mud rush means certain death to all on its track. It gives no warning. It comes along silently like an ugly wriggling snake work ing its way swiftly, sparing nothing, covering everything, a sucking suf focating foe that strikes near into the hearts of all who see it- To make matters worse.the place where the natives worked was a sort of hollow a little chamber which, as already indicated, they reached by descending a steep hill. Had the tunnel been flat they could have opened the door and flounder ed through the mud quite easily but owing to the slope, the slime held them prisoners. It had risen higher than the door in a few min utes, and if it poured long enough there was nothing to prevent its rising till it streamed over the high wall in which the door was fixed. They shrieked for help and the Englishmen at the opening to the tunnel roared out, "Climb to the top of the wall," which the miners promptly did. They were safe there for the xime at least. ''Stay where you are!" the Eng lishmen calied. "If you jump down you will he sucked in and suffoca ted in two Minutes." And while the natives sat there staring wild-eyed at the great black mass that cut them off from safety the other men at the en trance to the passage set to and ; fought the foe with hundreds . of . tickets ' and: shcfcrels--- ..; ; l; Kt , . "sit was dreary work. The 'men slaved steadily on all day, and the natives looked on.and prayed, and cheered, and wept. The rush of mud had stopped fortunately, and after thousands of bucketfulls had been removed the rescue seemed cer-tajin- S The Mud Again Suddenly,almost in the moment of victory, the outlook was blackened. A loud, terrifying cry rang through the workings "The mud! The mud!" The rescurers scattered themselves like scared rats, and the cry was taken up by all. "The mud! The mud!" There it was again, a black stream of death rapidly refilling the tunnel. Within a few minutes the work of many hours had been de stroyed. The deadly swish delivered its mournful message to the imprisonec - natives, and their agonized wails mingled with the sighs of the strong beaten men staring moodily at the inky river rising and rising. The river flowed on. Soon the tunnel was a tunnel no longer, it was a dull mass of rising slime that deddened the cries of the mud-barred miners. It flowed for hours. Then, like some tired-out torturer, it slowed down again and ceased, leaving a great black barrier as a memento of its mastery. The rescurers sat round on a neighboring rock and looked down at the ill-powered King of Diamonds For the minute they held a coun cil nonplused, hopeless. Then they held a council of war. Each man was invited to suggest what he considered TiEe best means to adopt in tacking the enemy. All manner of suggestions were made, mo&t of them worthless but in the -end? it was decided to try and reach the men, not by removing the mud, but by passing over it. A Perilous Undertaking. It was a perilous undertaking.One White Enameled steel closet tanks. Clean and neat with no lining to rust out. Other fixtures never before shown in Oxford. STEAM FITTERS, P. H. Montgomery & Co. ft fees r. u H U W Shop 46V2 3IJOA1 xno op 01 BUHOJU3 m jon m sxaqumid leaiiaeaa 1S3& am go aao man placed a plank upon the face of the mud and stretched himself on it, the others standing by ready to drag him off if the support show ed signs of sinking. Fortunately it didn't. A little spade was handed to the rescuer, and he began to cut into the mud and so pull his way along down the tunnel like a man face downward in a canoe pulling himself forward with a paddle. When he had gone a few yards the danger became greater, owing to the fact that he was now beyond the reach of his friends- He was solely dependent now on the treach erous mud. If it failed him he would sink and be swallowed up be fore the eyes of his comrades. But he worked bravely on half inch by half inch. Another plank followed, with another man on it. In half an hour six men were laid flat on six planks in the mid dle of the mud surface. If the mud took to seething and 'bubbling for a moment they were doomed.There was no way out. Sixty-five feet of mud, and between them and it a plank that might heel over any second and send them to a suffocat ing death Ahead were the shrieking na tives ; behind was the hidden spring of destruction that might let lcose its slime again, flood the u1irmfi m mnro and cause the i r,inT1va tn 0n7 ir- mr.vift craft j on a turbulent sea. , And the rescuers forgetting it all plodded on their muddy way, half inch by half inch .-lis tilt? iixsvia weiii iuuuu tuuuaauu of people thronged to the head of As the news went round thousand the shaft, and by the time the first man reached the prison house all South Africa awaited the result of his bravery success or death, mud or mastery It was success. When the man on the first plank reached the wall on which the na tives were huddled he called instruc tions to them. "You've seen the way I've come," he said, still lying flat and face down. "Well, I'm going back the same way, but I'm leaving the plank for you to follow on- Crawl along the planks as much like a snake as you can Slowly the men on the planks slid back, leaving the wooden line behind them. Slowly the natives followed on. Nobody spoke- The black mass underneath, that looked as hard as rock but was as soft as porridge, seemed to the men to be all eyes grinning eyes of death. As each man reached the end plank he was hauled to safety by friends standing near and carried half fainting, out of sight of the mud. The rest dragged themselves wearily on, half inch by half inch. When the last native arrived his workmates thought he was a stran ger. His hair had turned white. PROHTBITIOX FIGURES. Quantity of "Liquor Shipped Dry Territory Startling. 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The decision of the Supreme court that this traffic was interstate and, therefore, superior to , interference by the State governments gave the industry a tremendous imputus and established the express companies as the carriers of practically the whole of this traffic. "Jacksonville, Fla., probably the largest shipping point for liquor in the South, sends out between three and four thousand packages of one or two gallons daily, or a total of about one and one-half million gal lons a year. Chatanooga ships about 786,000 gallons; Richmond 546,720 gallons: Petersburg 268,- 128; Pensacola 267,760; New Or leans 255,856; Augusta 215,150; and Norfolk, Va., Cario, 111., Em poria, Va., Louisville, Ky., Ports mouth, Va., Roanoke, Va-, and Sa vanah Ga., ships more than 100,- 000 gallons each annually. ' "The movement is much more ac tive in the South than in other sec tions of the country, partly because of the extent of the prohibition ter ritory in that section, partly De cause of the large quantities of very i , . . - j-., j eaP whw key manufactured and shipped there for the consumption of the negro population. The opinion concludes with the statement that although it is not the intention of the commission to dwell upon the moral aspect of the situation, it is considered that the traffic has an evil effect on, and is one of the most important fac tors in the race problem of the South. Exchange. EXPERIMENTS IN MATRMIONY. Women Find That Man. While No Angel Bears Nursing Along. Indianapolis News. Mrs. Lidia Ice-Green-Baker-Hayes Winslow-Brown-Jones, of Cass coun ty, who is not yet twenty-sev&n, ad mits that she has rung up another bad one on the matrimonial record. Jones '"No. 6". lacks the divine, everburning spark of love that her soul demands. She promises to keep right along .until she finds the per fect man, if the court will do its part. We fear Mrs. L. I. G. B. H. W. B.Jones' quest is in vain- She is too young a woman to waste her life so. We would advise her to journey to Newburgh.where Mrs.Pol ly Cattle Fuquay-Fuquay-Robinson-Boyden - Weed - Boyden-Ed wards Baker-Shippert lives in a little cot tage overlooking the Ohio. This woman has wasted a life, in this vain quest for the perfect man the really divine spark and now in the twilight of life she sits alone, undp tsiifed as- J to whether, she has- all her names into the above sum mary, but quite decided that the per feet man is not found outside, the story books. We quite agree with her. It is to be feared that these women who ' have made such remart able research into the subject over look two or three things.The first is that perhaps they might .find the chief defect within themselves. We are reminded of the famous Lemmon divorces its in eastern Indiana some years ago, in which it was rather conclusively shown that there is such a thing as incom patibility in woman and that it may either be a thing handed down from mother to daughter, or devel oped in their children by incompa tible mothers to a point where it becomes a divorce "man's." It is possible that those women have met all of the worst types of mankind or have they aroused in man those traits which make him unbearable? Some way or other most women seem to f-nd that while man is not an angel by any means, he will bear nursing along, and that, if pro. erly handled, he finally turns out to be tractable. As a rule, the hap piest probably do not expect too much. UNJUST DISCRIMINATION. Express Companies Own the United States and the Mails Must Keep Off the Grass. Baltimore Sun. The other day the United States pestoffice department entered into an agreement with Brazil to carry to any part of the United States packages coming from Brazil or going to Brazil. The charge for this service is 12 cents a pound,and the postoffice department will carry packages weighing as much as 11 pounds at this rate- If a citizen of the United States should be so presumptuous as to ask the postof fice to carry a package for him weighing 11 pounds from Baltimore to Washington or to Towson, the postmaster would inform him that it cannot be done. The postoffice will not accept from him a package weighing over. 4 pounds, and then the charge will be not 12 cents a pound, but 16 cents. It will carry a tenpound package from Baltimore to Rio Janerio, but it will not carry it to Towson It will carry a four-pound package from Balti more to the uttermost part of Brazil for 48 cents. But if the package is going only to Towson or J Washington the charge will be 60 cents. Why is this discrimilnation per mitted? The answer is easy. The four Express companies do not carry packages to Brazil, and so the mails are permitted to do so. But the express companies seem to own I the United States and the must keep off the grass. mails to WANTED Oak ' Slabs. Apply Ledger Office. RICHMOND EDITOR'S VIEWS. Has a Great Deal to Say in Respect to the So-called Society Set. Greensboro. Record. One of these days the young wo men of this country we mean the society-"set" is going to catch Ma jor Hemphill, of the Richmond Times-Dispatch away from home and give mm a lambasting. Just read this effusion from his paper of yesterday: Why don't the young things learn how to do something? What are they here for? To wear rats in their hair, to try on hobble skirts and make themselves conspicuous in public places, to have a good time with their fellows? Pity the xeuows atter they have been caught iuu snan be compelled to live all me time with the inanities of ex istence. Only yesterday, a fashion able dress-maker was complaining ctwuui now hard it was to get any ot the girls to work buttonholes, a vBiy simple thing it would seem. and so she had to employ a lady years of asre to do this wort and she does it well, because none oi the younger generation appear To Know how to do anything of a practical sort. i Time was when all the clothes of the family we made at home and some of, us have not forgotter tnem happy days," even if we do resent the sort of things we had to wear the seams of the trous ers that invariably came round in front of the leg when this necessa ry article of dress was put on, the bulging of the skirt about where the knees of the limbs ought to have been; and now we are told that the youngsters among the girls do not even know enough of domestic economy to work button holes. Probably they do not know how to thread -a needle or sew on buttons. It is terrible. Whither are we drifting? And what would it profit any of the young men to try to live with things like this? Of course, it will be said that "they will learn," but they ought to know enough at least to know where and how to start Think of what you must endure, young man the biscuits you must eat, the coffee you must drink,the under-done hominy and potatoes and other things you must stow away if you hitch up with the girl who doesn't know how to make a button hole Isn't this a Jimhummer? No bet ter evidence is needed that the old gentleman is a back number; he is not passing; he has passed. He ought to know that these society dears are not going to tell every thing they know. Every last one of 'em knows how to sew on but tons, but it is not in good form to acknowledge it. , MRS. CLARK "AVHALED" HIM. Wife of the Speaker Was a Strenu ous School Teacher. rom the " N. Y . Herald. t C. A. Tooneyson who calls Lad- onia his home and travels for a St. Louis wholesale grocery chouse, was talking of schoolday experiences the other day. Charlie was one of "'Peck's bad boys," one of the un teirified village cutups, when he vent to school in the seventies.He admits that he and most of his com panions were pretty hard to handle- "I went to school in Martinsburg in 1878," he said. "Miss Bennett, of Callaway county now the wife of Speaker Clark, was my teacher, and believe me, she knew her business. She was the assistant teacher in tae school, and had about fifteen pupils. "There were four boys in Miss Bennett's class who were looked up on as the really tough ones. As they used to say in those days, they were hard nuts to crack, but there wasn't a one of us that ever frightened Miss Benett. Charlie Clark, Tom Roach, Will Powell.and myself constituted this quartet of bad ones, and what meanness one couldn't think of the other could. "In spelling, we always occupied positions at the foot of the class, but I remember that on one occas ion we spelled every word that was given out to us, and when the les son was over we stood one, two, three, four, right at the head. "Then came the expose. Bill Fic klin told Miss Benett we had stealth ily looked at the book each time we had to spell a word, and that was why we made such a high aver age. "The fun began when school was dismissed. We set on Ficklin and gave him a good licking. The next day we were brought before the court, with Miss Bennett as the presiding judge. I told her that we licked Ficklin because he tattled on us and to give me the whipping and let the other boys go. This was not special heroism on my part. I got a licking every .day, anyhow. , "The other boys, with the excep tion of Bill Powell, put up a good talk. Powell refused to say a word. 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