The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-12

''Ye gapin' apes, he roared. "doan'
We know the difference 'twixt a goat
and unicorn? Ye well oughter. By
this time, for he has prodded yer Ouid
lion til the poor haste has naytheI
sinse nor stringth ems to git out o
Africa Goat, is it? And at yer ZOO
It's not yer zoo where Dom Paul II
go in Lunnun Give i'm a bit more
time and he'll be Twin at yer Buckin'
ham palace. An as fer whiskers, yer
bald faced Chamberlain II be thatched
all over With EN- ter hide his blush o
shame when Paul Kruger gets through
borin' holes through yer British en-
pire. Now, git
The Englishmen believing themselves
in the moral majority, were disposed
TO resent the Irishman's language, but
the latter turned to the crowd about
and explained in very good French that
three English "insulters of liberty
were ''heaping obloquy" upon the BOeT
president. For a couple of minutes
it looked as if a tripartite lynching
were imminent. but a party OF Trans
vaal employees restored peace by eject
ing the discordant visitor, who huF-
ried away to less dangerous part OF
the grounds.
One of these employees-the uni
OF bodyguard to the Kruger statue
is an appropriate adjunct to the South
African exhibition, for he is a BoeT
soldier who fought and was wounded
at SpiOn Kop. On account of his es-
pecial bravery that day, and to recup-
crate from his wounds, he was given
a furlough and sent off to Paris.
A Relic of Majuba Hill.
i
surmOunted by Dom PauPs statue is
an interesting relic of an earlier war
in the Transvaal. 1t is a quaint old
cannon, made out of the iron tires of
ox-wagons, and figured with mighty
effect at Majuba hill in 1889. Anothe-
odd exhibit is a reproduction of one OF
the famous Ox-wagons, in which BoeT
families trek" from place to place in
their vast country. Grouped nearby
in the forms of pyramids, are the gianl
bones Or skins Of CRATES, hippopota-
muses., lions and crocodiles killed by
the earliest settlers among the Dutch
emigrants.
The railing of the gallery overhead
is hung with furs. such as the Beers
use in their homes; with Kaffir and
Zulu assegais and war implements and
with the skins of mammoth pythons
On the upper floor is an interesting
collection of landscape Illustrating the
grand scenery of that rugged country
and a series of comparative photo
graphs. showing Pretoria. Johannes
burg and the other TranSvall cities
as they appear today, when contrast
ed with their condition only ten years
ago. Here are also found many KaffiT
relics, demonstrating the development
of that race from savageTy under the
influence of the Boer neighbOrship
Among these objects is one styled "A
Kaffr Piano." which proves the truth
of what has often been said of that
black race. that they possess an in
comprehensive appreciation of the
harmony of sweet sounds" 1t is a
crude arrangement of carved blocks OF
wood, strung on cords, behind which
serving the. purpose of d sounding
board. are a series of calabaSheS and
earthen jugs. The musician strikes
each block with q muffled hammer
and the white man is astonished to
learn that the notes are arranged with
absolute precision, just like our civil
lied musical gamut.
The Boer farm is an exact reprodUc-
ton of such domiciles as are to be
found scattered all over South Africa
1t is long, square, one-stOry struc-
ture, of brown, native stone, hewed
in rough blocks and surmounted by q
peaked roof of thatch. The floors are
on the level of the land outside, but
are laid in a species of peak, which