The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-22

Out and About
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contains the following striking tribute
to Mr. Howells
Judged from the ordinary standard
Of advertising and reputation-pushlng
that obtains today, 1t certainly must be
admitted that Mr.. Howells, though hS
created Silas Lapham and loved him,
has never allowed Silas Lapham to
brag about him. His work has never
been pushed like the Persis Brand. He
has stolen his public. There is nothing
striking or picturesque or snowy in his
entire career. There never has seemed
to be any one occasion rather than an
other that could be picked out to make
a parade in his honor To people from
the outside who come to u.s. we give
dinners and make speeches. We make
them make speeches. We cannot help II.
Neither can they. 1t does not take very
many of us to do it, and 1t is soon over
and everybody bears up as well as he
can, but we never celebrate Mr.. How
ellis. He is part of our literary climate.
We breathe Howells-most of us. 1t
never occurs to people to hold an an
niversary for oxygen. We probably
would-if enough of it were taken away,
but as long as we have it with us we
get all we can. 1t is our only way OF
appreciating 1T The things that belong
to us, that are really a part of US, in
any great and vital and beautiful sense,
are the things that we take for granted.
1t never occurs to any one to attempt a
parade in honor of the American eli
mate. 1t would make a very pretty pro-
cession no doubt, but no one makes a
start. There never seems to be any par
ticular occasion for it, 1t is question
whether anything elemental can ever
lend itself to being celebrated 1t can
only be lived in. We cannot reduce Mr.
Howells to the celebrating stage. We
cannot get him far enough off. We can
not untangle him from ourselves. His
art belongs to US. Our common Ameri-
can lives are the warp and wool of all
that he has wrought. In his large and
sane and noiseless way he may be said
to have done more for the self-respect
Of American fiction than any other liv-
ing man."
Mrs. Frederick j. Barnard gives a
large tea Saturday afternoon for her
daughters the Misses Barnard.
Prof Ward. who lectures this after
noon at the Womans Club, is the hus-
band of the well-known club woman
and lecturer, Mrs. May Alden Ward
He is Mr.. May Alden Ward, as it We're
His lecture on Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and his gifted sister, Christina Rossetti,
Is said to be a particularly fine one
1t is expected that Wilhelm Heinrich
Of Boston, the tenor at Piedmont
church, will sing five of Rossetti's lyrics
that have been set to music. The ly-
RIGS have been adapted to music by Ed
ward Damreuther of New York.
Mrs. Harrington Howard has returned
from a seven weeks visit in Brooklyn.
At meeting of the Woman's Asso-
citation Of Central church, yesterday af-
ternoon, Mrs. Goodenough, who was a
missionary in Natal and Johannesburg,
addressed the ladies upon the causes of
the present struggle and crisis in South
Africa as seen from the mission field,
and the details of missionary work in
the Transvaal. She said in part: 1.-THE
struggle in the TransYaal is not new,
but old. We wonder that 1t has held
off so long, with so much turmoil and
unrest, and are not altogether sorry it
has come.
ITO understand the reasons for it, we
must go back 400 years, to the discov-
cry of the passage around the Cape of
Good Hope by Vasco da Gamo, and
his entrance into Durham. But it was
not for 100 years later that white men
came there, touching at Cape Colony
for water and vegetables on their way
to India. From the first there was a
question whether the Dutch or the En-
glish should have supremacy. Although
the English took formal possession of
the territory, the Dutch East India
Company founded trading station
there, about 1920. A band of French
Huguenots-the Pilgrim fathers of
Cape Colony, went there, where they
had hard life under the Dutch East
/ India Company. To escape from the
restrictions of this company and also
to obtain large grazing tracts for their
cattle, the Beers or farmers began to
TO treck or scatter by wagons about the
country. And this solitary life
strengthened hardy, rugged strength
OF character and with it made a mar
row, unprogressive race.
The Dutch Boer is 100 years behind
Europe and America He fears God
and worships his ancestors.
Dutch supremacy ended about 100
Dutch supremacy ended about 100
years ago, when Holland, was at war
with France, and fearing that France
would sieze Cape Colony, gave it for
safe keeping to England. England
handed it back, then took it agar.
FEELING that 1t would be key to her
East Indian possessions.
English rule did not prove much
more agreeable to the Beers than had
that Of the Dutch East Indian Com
pany
''The first trouble, and the root of
the present crisis, was the way of
treating the natives. The Dutch en-
shaved the colored race, while the Eng
lish did not believe in slave-holdlng
and stood between the Dutch and Hot
tentots. From that time the bitter
wrangling went on and trecking began
with great vigor. The English insisted
on freeing the slaves but gave what
the Dutch considered only half their
value; beside, the money was PAYABLE
only in England, and the Jewish spec
ulator came in, and many a Boer was
ruined
The trecking went on in three di-
rections. Some Beers went into Natal
but the English decided to take over
Natal, and the Beers trecked into the
Transvaal. Still others went into the
Orange Free State.
In the Transvaal, amid the bare hills
they built their lonely farmhouse and
set up their republic; but in an evil
hour some one stuck a pick into the
ground and discovered gold. The Dutch
melted other peoples to help mine the
gold. At once there came the noise and
clang and din of the quartz-crushing
machine, and the Dutch republic was
confronted py a strange new problem, |
for those Uitlanders clamored for, -
place in the government and the Dutch |
began to repress them. Taxing them |
without representation was a part Of
THIS repressive system The ITitlandnrn