Morris tribune., 1900-01-13

DER WOu& seize Lnem ana sometimes
the eye would moisten when they al
luGed TO Majuba Hill.
! The Beers are great people to re-
i lax when there is nothing to do, but
] when danger threatens their homes
and country they prowl around and
sight their enemy with a sagac1ty
! equal to the man-eating lion. and
then when least expected, they pounce
! on their prey and bring it to earth
with one fell swoop, as you might
say They have had to learn to pc
1 willy.
1 The great religious undertone OF the
/ Boer nature is constantly being allud-
! ed to and also how much he trusts and
confdes in the American. We found
the Beers particularly gracious.
| President Brandt, who for TWENTY-FIVE
years was President of the Orange
Free State, was the greatest Roman
of them all. He was educated in Eng
land, and was polished old patriarch
and the least aggressive of any Of the
leaders. He believed in coercion. ar
! bitration and in uniting the different
States into one great commonwealth.
similar to our United States, That
was his dream. and he was the Kind of
man that gave the best he had for his
country.
Dom Paul Kruger is totally differ
ent type Of man, raised up especially
for the deliverance (?) Of this gener-
alton. He was born in CoIesberg,
Cape Colony more than seventy years
ago, and when more than ten years of
age went forth with his father and
family and crossed the Orange River
in the Great Trek of 1867. In his
youth he was noted for his courage
and for being crack shot and also for
his good judgment in all things. His
running powers were famous, for men
said that he could keep up for a while
with good horse.
1t is said that he has probably not
had more than six weeks schooling in
his life. and possibly never heard any
one preach or teach. especially upon
any of the great issues of life. until
after he was thirty-four years of age.
About that time an American mis-
sionary, living in Natal, the Rev. Mr..
Lindley. applied to the Government
for leave to go up the country into the
Transvaal and preach the Gospel to
the Beers. It is said that Dom Paul
Kruger went one night to hear Mr..
Lindley preach, probably the first
preaching he had ever heard. After
services Dom Paul was nowhere to be
found. and did not return for three
days. When he did he was changed
man, and from that day his life took
on a new tone and the Bible was the |!
only book he read. 4
The Hollander Is not particularly
liked by Dom Paul and his people, any
more than is the Englishman. He is 4
no more like the Afrjkander Hutehman
than his English cousin. The Boer !
speaks patois and not Holland Dutch |
and in the event of war the Hollander
would hardly stick to the Boer. The
Afrikander is the offspring of the
Dutch colonist and French Huguenot
exile. and after 200 years struggle for
independence the Ho1lander of to-day |
is quite another type of man.
Those rich gold mines are there; SO |
is the Boer. and back of him that fac |
tor which the world will yet reckon |
with. the African savage.
This war in Africa will rouse the ma
tives to a frenzy and there will be q
terrible reckoning for somebody |
Either the Boer Or the Briton must
leave. or through the horror that will |
sweep over the land the rousfng of the
native element. unite through sheer
terror and hold the black man at bay.
The native Of South Africa is no more
to be compared with our American
negro than a civilized man Is to he
compared to a wild one.
Our fnegro.lives with all the comforts
and even .luxuries of civilization
around him. with his books and his
colleges; the other still lives in his
blanket and hunts through the pro-
vincial forests and cultivates his prim-
tive farm.
The Basutos are the great warriors
living on the borders of the Orange
Free State. They ARE intelligent and
know that their land is rich In miner
II wealth but. as they have always
oeen friendly with the Dutch, they are
more liable to turn and join with their
orces. The native Of Africa is the
,nly black race that the white mans
Iices and his whiskey do not seem to
,e able to obliterate from the face of
he earth. The natives of New Zea-.
and, Australia and America have peen
early effaced, but not SO with the
African He is temperate and takes
ride in raising large fields of grain
nd works at the white mans indus
'ies.-By Louise Vescelius-Sheldon.
Fitted For That.
Pater (sadly)-I don't know what to
o with that boy of mine He's been {
wo years at the medical schools and Q
IL keeps at the foot of his class. i
Perrins (promptly)-Make a chiropo. b
list of him.-Tit-Bits. a