Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-01-11


today toward men of two distinctive
classes-the boer and the English SOL
der. Both have been so much written
about that they are tolerably well I'M
derstood, Generals Cronge and Joubert
being fair specimens of the enemy
with whom the English have to deal.
Cronge is in command of a division of
the Transvaal army. He is the man
who defeated Jameson, and is very re-
hgious after the prescribed idea that
what is to be will be. During the bonn
bardment at Krugersdorf he was seated
on the ground in an exposed position,
and when expostulated with replied:
"God has called me to this work; if it
is His will, shall be shot; if not
am safe here as anywhere, for it is
impossible for me in that case to fall"
Yet, in spite of his religious proclivi-
ties, it is charged by his enemies that
he has been guilty of military trick
cry amounting to barbarism and has
no idea of nice points of honor. Gen
eral Joubert, the man who is giving
the English most trouble just now, has
also been charged by the English press
with being tricky. Is so, it is after the
accepted principle that all is fair in
war. Honesty led him year ago to
tender his resignation to the Volks-
raad, when the beers were actively en-
gagged in British Bechuanaland, de-
claring himself una.4e to hold Office
under a government which had DELHI
erately broken faith with England.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kruger.
The central figure of the Transvaal,
President Kruger, is not less amusing
than interesting. He lives in such an
unconventional, off-hand Dutch way.
A lady who was passing through Pre-
toria some months since was siezed
with a most irresistible desire to see
the most-talked-abou man of the day.
A friend who had the entree of the
Kruger household consented to intro
duce her. Arriving at the bungalow,
the introducer said: wait here; I
will bring him OUT She knocked at
grandson of the president. Mrs.
Kruger is not seeing anyone" he as
serted. Nonsense" replied the knock
er, '"she always sees me. l will go in
and find out what is wrong" After
a few minutes she returned. Mrs.
Kruger is in vile temper" she said,
smiling. "She is busting the dining
room preparatory to meeting of the
executive council. Yes, she absolute
ly refuses to seen English people, be-
cause some months ago she received
a party of English ladies and one OF
them remarked in her presence:
What an old trump she isl An Eng
disappearing grandson kindly trans
lated the remark to his grandmother
in order to make her feel comfortable.
She looks awfully frumpy just at pres
emit, must admit. The president is
having a nap. He always dimes at II
noon and sleeps for half an hour after
ward, so l am afraid we shall not sec
him."
AS they walked away the stranger
said: Il am so sorry to have missed
him." whereupon. one of the two
guards stationed at the entrance to
the presidency, and who had evidently
overheard the remark, ran after her
exclaiming: "Pll fetch him for you!"
Then he ran back and entered the
sanctum sanctorum. Sure enough, out
he came with President Kruger, who
was batting his eyes like an owl and
smoking his pipe with most ill-tem-
pered puffs. The guard handed him a
chair on the veranda and the stranger
was introduced, but she must have
been lacking in entertaining qualities
for the president, after nearly expec-
torating on her new boots, said SIM
ply, Good day." and shufiled off to his
meeting.
Not a Doubling Thomas.
When the old lady from America
was taken down to the London dock
she was told that the object of her Wis
it was to get good look at Tommy
Atkins as he started to the war. After
watching a dozen hundred or more
of him and the way he carried himself
she exclaimed, And everyone of ZEN
named Thomas, and every mothers
son of 'em misnamed; there ain
nothin' doubtin nor doubtful abou
EN-" That is as good as a definition
of Tommy Atkins the world over al
nobody can give. Not even Kipling IL
his most vivid description has dom
better. There is nothing doubling o.
doubtful about him; what he does h
does with vigor and confidence in hi
own ability and that of his command
ing officers. Having accepted tn
Queens shilling he stands by his bar
gain on sea or land; in battle or OF
parade ground. When he is of dut!
he is staggering around the little isl
and with a chip on each shoulder, or
If he be in the cavalry, he is cuttinj
off imitation heads from pole witt
one stroke of the sword, and spearin
them with delight as they roll on tn
] ground. At home Tommy says
"These foreign civilians. with thei
ton coats and never hat box to prov
them gentlemen. give me bad taste.
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