Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-08-30

TYfIhelmina, and Mrs. Van Aarndt and
her sisters were often playmates of
5GSEr present queen of Holland.
The brave little Dutch woman relates
.asoz1e Of her experiences in the war
-as follows:
eve were at Interlachen when we
First heard that war was certain. We
~xsere Eli together incognito-the queen,
her mother, my sister and my husband.
Il had been married only a few months,
,zEadl zNas very, very happy.
-'One morning while we were playing
-f1ennnis telegram was handed to my
EseisI9and- He requested permission of
&E> queen to go and send a reply, and
4<zsaa of the other men took his place
EN- she game. AS soon as l could l hur-
Esed away and into the hotel and found
Eny husband throwing some things in
III great hurry into a travelling bag.
INSTANTLY 1 realized what the tele-
gram meant.
-4I am going, too said, for it was
=snddenIy made perfectly clear to me
~VafhOut my being told, that Pet was
szgSszxae home, and that the war had be-
sun
After reaching their home in South
ASrica, Mr.. Van Aarndt offered his
services to President Kruger, who sent
kISIn on TO Cronje. Mrs. Van Aarndt
stayed for a time in Pretoria, and then
'NzEGnt TO her farm on the border between
Cape Colony and the Orange Free State.
Ne Esas one Sunday morning that she
Ma%2Fd the coming of the British SOL
-zGxkers who stopped at her place for
.-Eest of five hours as they told her, aft
SPY taking the breakfast from the stove
shat the maids were preparing. Very
-exEuEckly the bright little woman real
Ex:ed that they were planning a sur
x1rise for the Boer soldiers, and she
hacked her brain with the thought:
How can get them word?" Pretend
Tng to go to the milkhouse to get a
= -<9riGk for one of the officers, she man.
aged TO secure. saddle, fastened it on
"A horse and was soon speeding away
with aaer message, never stopping I'M
I'll SHE had carried the warning to Gen.
SCronje.
Mrs Van Aarndt remained among
-1hEe aSssh1ing Beers until after the death
ssf her husband.
~7One day she recounts, 81 saw three
Eoa=a carrying a figure Sc familiar to
xue that at sight of it my heart almost
=sEopped beating
@4The dying comrade that they bore
-Ezs my husband.
~-He Nas quite unconscious. He had
h@en cut by lyddite shell and his skin
-~x2x all Il bright yellow, and, I could
==s<ss the blood dripping from his hand,
which was hanging down. L started
4D run to him, but stronger arms
x0Sxshed me back into the trench just
=as shell struck, and then a wagon
s6lz1ncd up.
eve made room and they brought
D1F husband to our trench. He was
SIM unconscious, and we were afraid
AzsSE IL would be when he saw me, for
>x1s did not know was with the army.
Ez11 rhen he opened his eyes he was
ssoS at all surprised that I was with
hEna- and did not ask how / had come
1Kzere until afterwards.
~tAt night 1 carried water, which was
tie only comfort he had. The heat
Ezs so terrible that we could have
<Sfzae without anything better than the
1aeer-
The shells were bursting out in the
-zzlAsP every minute, but we were used
To them, even when they burst on the
VERY edge of our trench and ratified the
=zSzlEx1 down.
TIE knew these were the last hours
vx1> could ever have together, for the
Erseish were coming nearer and the
z15ESMg was stronger.
@-S3h, how I prayed that he might
PASS away from it all before the end
EsE<s we were neither of us sorry we
SAzS Eot stayed in Holland.
The horses which had brought Vi