A MATABELE HERO.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 48, 24 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

A MATABELE HERO.

♦ Mr. Eider Haggard, in the cours of a speech recently, said :— " Latel there was staying with me my frien Mr. Barnham. --Mr. Barnliam, yo may remember, was the America scout who escaped from Wilson 1 party when it waß cut up on th banks of the Shangani. Mr. Ban ham told me that just before th* battle of the Shangani he was seoul ing -with a friend. They saw a Mat< bele warrior — a fine man, in th prime of life — ahead of them, amon some rugged ground. He was lade with his belongings : he had in h: hand a pot of beer or milk ; he had hi kaross upon his shoulders and in h: hand Ms assegai and shield ; in ehor all the paraphernalia that a nath carries with him when he traveli Now, among other things there we slung upon his back a bundle. Wei Barnham and his companion thougi itnecessary to catch this man, becaus they wished to get information froi him of the movements of tbe enemj and after great difficulty they rod him down. As he fled before then doubling like a hare among the rocki to lighten himself he cast away fin one thing and then another of to property he carried, until he we naked except for the bundle on hi back. At last they came up to bin and he, thinking escape was hopelesi turned round, as these savages do, t be killed, the leaping of his heai alone betraying his natural terroi Well, they assured him, and made : clear to him that he was not to b injured, and they asked him, ' Wh« is in the bundle on your back, an why did you not throw it away wit the other things ?' He took th bundle down and opened it, an there was a child a year old. He sait ' It is my daughter's child, that I ws taking to her.' Now, that man, i i his last race for life, had throw away everything*, and by thro win away that heavy child he might hay saved himself, as he thought, froi certain and immediate death ; but h preserved the child, prefering to di rather than abandon it." OEOMWELL AND THE ROSEBEET ANCESTORS. • The statement has been made, o the strength of current rumour, $h( Lord Rosebery is the donor of th £3000 for the Cromwell statue. If : be bo, can Lord Rosebery hay intended his gift as a lesson to on Irish friends and others agaim cherishing historical vindictivenei too long ? For the curious fact i that the Protector treated Sir Archi bald Primrose, the founder of Lor Rosebery's family, in" a very drasti manner. Cromwell captured Si Archibald at the} battle of Worcee ter; and though he did not sen him to prison, he deprived him c his office, and likewise of his estatt The faota about the " subscription for the Cromwell Statue may, by th way, be of interest. The first offe reached Mr. Herbert Gladstone in th Bouse of Commons on the nigh trhen the vote was discussed. Thi jame from three members — Mi Everett, Mr. W. Johnston, and Mi Doddington, who offered to guarante my sum up to £2000. By the nex morning's post Mr. Gladston received a cheque for the who! imount (£3000) from a donor wh remains anonymous. The choir of St. Leonard's, Leioester, hs >ome out on itrike nndsr ouriotu oiroom tanoes. For three months the ferns] ioristerg have attended the services i •Moofa and caps, but, owing to the protesl •!& °* ac «">«reg»tion, the Udfes wei nthdrawn. Nearly all the male ohorietei hereupon rewired to remain away until th