The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-11-15
THE BRAVE BOERS.
THEIR HISTORY is FULL OF THRILL
ING ROMANCE.

william Schroeder Furnishes an Enter
prise Correspondent With Some Facts
Concerning Them That are Not Gem
orally Known.
For The Enterprise.
Az face or the handwriting may re-
fleet the character OF an individual, so
are inherent in words, the habits, strug-
giles and origin Of people. Language
10 the quarry from which may be eX-
tracted the secrets Of unwritten history.
Anglo-Saxon is . hyphenation which,
when examined within the spectro-
Scopic light Of an analytical mind. re-
solves Itself into thrilling romance.
This il the race whose dialect 10 COM
mon with that.of Thebet, Persia, Ger
many, Holland and England. They are
free thinkers, and have consequently
been the pioneers Of the world, theil
Independent methods urging them into
new fields, where the exercise OF liberal
thought and action might find undis-
puted indulgence. They we're first
forbidden the monastic rights OF Lima
ridden lhibct, and migrating north
ward and westward, they colonized
Persia and Central Europe, setteling
Brandenburg, Germany, about 400 A.
I'D.
OF fish and game. Land game was
trapped in sacks. Hence the name.
Saxon, a. q word, has received Ro-
man Influence, the aUpiratss, ch, ok
and sch being replaced by the more
Ouphonic Latin iI.
This bold tribe is aggressive only in
the zeal with which they have pushed
their homes into the hearts Of prime
val forests, dense jungleS, marshes and
mountains. AS the Puritans, they faced
the wilds Of wood and savage on the
American continent; as the Neither
landers, they rescued vast estate from
the very jaws Of mighty ocean, and
as the Beers, they braved the perils OF
darkest Africa. Though ever retiring
in habit, yet at times they have turned,
and when, their prosecutors have been
crushed.
The Beers, with whom it is the aim
Of this article to deal, migrated to
South Africa in 1874, choosing with
drawal to acceptance Of the Catholic
ultimatum proclaimed in France, Ger
many and Holland during the Lutheran
Reformation.
Though composed Of these three
branches, this colony was known by the
people name OF Beers. Boer means to
build or cultivate, and in bower" has
the double significance. "Bosr" is
a mispronounciation. Bowern is the
German for farmer. They named the
Cape Of Good Hope, on sighting, which
their hopes arose. Cape Town was the
first settlement. Before many years
the English drove the Beers north, ex-
cept that portion OF the population who
remained as voluntary subjects to
Great Britain. The excuse for this at
tack arose from England's strife with
France in Napoleon's time; she identi-
Tying Cape Colony with France, took it
from the Dutch, who had sided with
| France In that war.
A few years later, when the diamond
fields were discovered, large per cent
Of the Beers were again driven north.
since gold has been discovered
IN Transvaal, another effort has been
made on the part OF the United King
dom to still further dispossess the pio-
neer tenants.
The whole history Of the English oc-
cupancy of this territory is one ofimpu-
dent lawlessness She has no more right
in the South Afric n Republic thar
have l to my neighbor's farm or you tt
the goods of your village shopmar
without purchase and that the Boeri
have at last arisen to a sense of the in
Justice of the intrusion, and are minded
to drive these usurpe's from thei
shores, is n cummendable exposition o
beliigerancy
The probability Of their being sue
! cessful in their laudable efforts is NOR
than likely. In the first place, ever,
man, woman and adult, in this region
! are expert shots. To kill a wild beast
the eye, the temple or the ear must b.
chosen as the mark, else the anima
! will Slay the hunter. Long experience
in the jungles has taught these peopl
the craft Of true Workmanship; ant
} seventy years on the tablelands Of tn
Transvaal, 5000 feet above the sea, witt
Z its clear air, qualities them for specie
! Of long distance practice, with whicl
the Briton is not familiar. This skill
as marksmen served them well back il
! the eighties, and the English still re
member with misgivings that blood
{ dawn on Majuba hill, which won 70
J the Beers that semblance of independ
ence upon which the British lion agai
& has encroached.
! Kruger has considerable number G