town with tha privilege of contribut ing to tli9 tappoit of PretDr'a, bat otherwise hardly a part of ths Trans • rail at all. All tin buildings, ill th? wea'tb. belonged to foreigners — tli3 Boors owned ncth'ng— and inoh a capture has nsver been witnessed tefore. Paul Kruger ostentatiously urgei opon tha Bee s tint th9y muiti respect the propetty of th8 Uithnder, tlrs atitade in tliia mater is on a p»r with many of bia otlnr pwadoxica 1 attersncei ;all the XJitlindetn 1 propeity hai besa taken «way, and when the set of spoliation U completed, thsBoerj Ate told tiny muit rcipect propeity. For a moQth no word his resell d tbe looter world with retard to tin Bt*ta ! of Jobanneiburg. Daring thii long ictarvil the Boers htve no doubt con* dnued t'aeir acbe of confiscation. By this time onlytli3 vagueit idcis exist) to whnm any special property eloogg. Very many will have lost the fiuibi of ye«8 of tlififb and h»rd ! work, although oltimataly eome measare of reparation may be made*

JOHANNESBURG TO DA Y, What a diff rence the Johannesburg of tvday must present) to the Johan neaburg of a few months ago. No more active crowds between ttc chilus cigec to know how tbe London Stock ExchaDge was finally cbsed and bat bened down, sot to be ic opened until altar tli3 war, in accordance wi h the dtciaion of tbo few memtc a of tto in* Citation still remaining in the tawo. According to tbe Leader, th3 pUce where throngs of baiy mei were wont to congregate, was t*ken possession of by a fe?r lugubrious iadividaala, who talked in whispers of tbe glorious past. Every th'ng in Johannesburg radic ated from th 3 Stock Exchange. If ■bate* went up the town waa in bnoy« •nt spir'ty, and when elnres went down the t)wn w»s *in tli3 dampa Peihapi, in no town in tin world did speculation ran higher thin it did in Jobanneebarg, and tbe ten years that ccpara'ci tin Johannesburg of 1899 from tha Jobanccbarg of 1889 wit oesiei a traneformit on exper ejesd in no other miniDg town in ths rest of the wo. Id. It ii carious to specohta whab Jo* Innnesbarg mast look like bo-day. All the shops must be closed. 