Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-10-12

ed us, She said Isn't 1t sad to have to go,
either because there Is no work and no
money here or because of fear? And do
love Pretoria" After dinner | returned
two books to a neighbor, a very beautiful
arstocratic girl, who prdes herself on her
Afrikauder ancestry. No New York
York Knickerbocker, no daughter of the
Purtans, no colonial dame no English
pecress was ever more proud of her pcdi-
gree than this maiden. How is your
mother?" asked. "Oh, her heart is very
sad She Is mourning SO for our people.
The English have always pursued and
prosecuted our race, and my mothers
heart Is full of grief for the wives of the
burghcrs on lonely farms who must be
left alone to the mercy of the KafTirs
while our men 90 out to shoot We don't
fear the English, but We do have hor-
ror of Kafi's." 1t is a popularity of all
people colonial born--I mean Cape Colon
ials--that they dread the natives. Is it
remembrance of old sores not wiped out?
Just now there Is a great deal of scorn
and contempt exhibited over the marriage
of 10 Bengua. the up-country chief, to
an English girl, Miss Jewel 1t is unfor-
tunatc that this ill-starrcd marriage has
occurred just now, for the racial feeling
will be made more bitter by it.
We'll, to return to my talk with this
girl. who might worthily be a sister to a
but finely fitting dress and her lofty mien.
] said, Agnes, are you not cultivating
race-hatred and VIII IT not make you hard
and bitter?' I'VE must cultivate it and
we do. 1t is necessary in our feud aud
it helps to keep us up. We may be wroGs
but we refuse to look at the matter from
any other standpoint. We might be made
to see things, but we prefer to take the
point of sight of our poor, uneducatod pco-
pie, and We scorn to take modern view"
She says she Will not leave, but stay on
and aid and abet the Bocr cause if she
dies in the attempt "But, Agnes, what of
your many English friends and all your
English relatives and your own English
hlood?' Il ignore everyone and every
thing English now, aud | put them all out
of the question and do not consider them."
Now this girls mother is of old Dutch
and IIugucnot blood her father was Eng
fish; she was educated at English schools
and belongs to the Episcopal church Yet
IN war she says all is fair ana she hates
and will give all her influence against i'm
pCrialism The war issues now are really
not the franchise. nor the grievances, but
to have peace and stability in the land,
and that the Beers do not see. or refuse
to give. | asked the field comets wife
yesterday about provisions. She says the
town Is well stocked. but she intimatcd
that the burGhers families would have the
best chance in case of siege or famine.
During the last Boer war in 1881, when
martial law was proclaimed Sir owen
lanyon, the English ruler, was in charge
and everyone, Boer and English, was
treated alike, but this time We have
worse outlook. | also asked If we should
have to go into laagor, or to the forts
and she Slid she thought not She thinks
all the families in the suburbs will be or
derod in and the town itself secured. \
lady came ian at five o'clock to say that lii
Pietermaritsburg there are special meet
ingS arranged for refugees and places to
receive them, but the Beers tell ME that
Pietcrmaritzburg there are special meet
tai and ono of the old Dutch towns taken
by the English about 1888, will be one of
the places to be attacked and burnt first
of all, or blown up by the Roers. They
say that johannesburg and Pietermartiz-
burg are the objects of their direct venom
and hatred. Kimberley, because Of
Rhodcs's interests there, is also an unsafe
place.
ono Of the mine ownecs telegraphod to
all mis- mines at johannesburg last week
to have the women and children sent
down to Cape Colony. 1t was said TO lie
an impressive and yet fearful sight at
tho railway station to watch the women
with their household belongings tied up
in quilts and shawls, thousands of them
and hundreds of Cornish miners all leav-
ing in open trucks. as every available car
rage was packed full. a housekecper at
one of the mines called here for advice
on Tuesday. She says only two women
are left at that mine now and there are
f2,0N0 natives in a compound near. She is
eight miles from a railway and usually
goes to town on her bicycle. She is keep
ing house for two mine managers, the
doctor and lawyer but she does not know
whether it is safe to stay there now,
though she is well contented and has a
good salary. Should war come she would