The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-13

A MEETING. WITH JOUBERT.

The Boer General as He Appeared to ar
English Correspondent.
1t must have been the next evening
as We were waiting three or four hours
as usual, for the line to clear, that Gen
eral Joubert came up in special train.
A few young men and boys In ordinary
clothes formed his 'staff." The general
himself wore the usual brown slouch
hat, with Grape band, and blue frock
coat, not luxurously new. His beard is
now quite white, but his long, straight
lair is still more black than gray. The
brown, sallow face is deeply wrinkled
| and marked but the dark brown eyes
are still bright and look out upon the
world with a kind Of simplicity mingled
with shrewdness, or perhaps some sub
tier quality. He speaks English with
a piquant lack of grammar and misuse
of words.
When 1 travelled with him next day,
almost the first thing he said to me was,
1.-The heart of my soul Is bloody with
sorrow" His moderating influence on
the Kruger government Is well known
and he described to me how he had done
his utmost for peace. But he also de-
scrfbed how, bit by bit, England had
pushed the Beers out of their inhert-
lance and taken advantage Of them in
every conference and native war.
AS telegraphed, he was particularly
hurt that thel queen had taken no no.
tice Of the long letter or pamphlet ne
wrote to her on the situation. And, by
the way, / often observed what regard
most Beers appear to feel for the queen
personally. They constantly couple her
name with Gladstone's when they wish
to say anything nice about English pol
itics AS to the generals views on the
crisis, there would be little new to say
Till the present war, his hope has been
for South African confederacy under
English protection-the Cape, Natal,
Free State and the Transvaal ALI hav-
ing equal rights and local self-govern-
ment. He knows well enough the inner
causes of the present evils. but now,'
he said, I'VE can only leave it to God
If it is His will that the Transvaal per-
ish we can onlyIdo our best"
AT Zandspruit, the scene of the old
Sand river convention, the whole Boer
camp crowded ,tO'lthe station to greet
the national hero, and he was at once
surrounded by herd of farmers, shak-
ing his hands and patting him warmly
on the back. 1t was a respectful but
democratic greeting. The Boer army
If for moment we may give that name
to an unorganized. collection Of volun-
teers--is entirely democratic. The men
are nominally under field comets, COM
manders and the general. But they
openly boast that on the field the au-
thority and direction of officers do not
count for much, and they go pretty
much as they please, The camp
though not in the least disorderly, was
confused and irregular-stores, firewood,
horses cattle and tents strewn about
the enormous veldt almost haphazard,
though the districts were kept fairly
well separate. Provisions were plenty,
but the cooking was bad. 1t took three
days to get bread made and some de-
tachments had to eat their meat raw.
I think there were not more than ten
thousand or less than seven thousand
men in the camp at that time, but the
Communicated trains crawled up every
two or three hours with their new loads
War Correspondence Of the London
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