The Portland daily press., 1900-12-27
THE KRUGzRs In PARIS.
A sketch ofThetr Personalities which
10 More Intimate than FIattertBg.

country. but also of another geological
period. The Beers have reverted toward
primitive typss. The mental faculties
have not heen ever severely taxed In the
wilds OF South Africa, They had Kafiirs
to work for them, and they had not, like
the early Greeks, who were not far from
Egypt, any high civilization near them.
No Boer farm servant will do dirty
work" II a coachman, he drives only.
The kafIirs outspan, groom the horses,
and clean the stable. The New England
Yankees had TO do all their own work.
They invented machines to relieve them
selves from manual labor. The machinery
to free their wives and daughters from
kitchen durdgery was one Of the great
triumphs Of human ingenuity. The Boer,
instead OF invanting, caught Kaifir and
saw In him Caliban. Masterful, he
became a tyrant of the blacks He prac-
ticst no civilizing art, never attempted
to store water, ana confined his husbandry
to "mealIss." At ths Transvaai Pavilion
at the exhibition the handiorafts of tn,
Kaffirs were far, very far. above those of
the Beers, both on finish and inventive
ness, says the London Truth.
kruger, one OF the most Intelligent Of
his race, shows, very ouriously, more
than any one else, rsversion to the primi-
tive type. His ears are Jugs. They are
those OF the man Ct the cave, whose fear
of q lurking enemy was aroused BY every
sound No other Boer In his following,
or In the Savage Wild Africa" show, Is
so roughly blocked ont rs Kruger. One
might think he was hewn ou3 with an
adze, and that the ohisel never touched
him His life, like that or our ancestors
OF the quartenary period. has besn one OF
the chase, OF war, and of some pastoral
farming. His career began In anildhood
Like the infant Hercules, he had 90
strangIe serpents In his CRADLE. He had
later to fight Kaffirs, Swazis. Znius, lions,
crocodiles. And while fighting then he
made a man of himself BY lighting his
own passions. Yes. He fought every
thing in himself that his conscience con-
deinned, and thus became a king over his
rude fellows. HadAthat conconscience
been wider, Kruger would have been pro-
digiousIy great. When he rose to power
the Beers accepted him as their con-
science lie was lhomme pointiH.
Kruger became at once Dopper minister,
president dictator, statesman, diplomat,
capitalist. lie dreamed dreams OF extend
ing 1.-THE Promised Land that God had
given the Beers from the Cape TO the
Zambesi. lie knew what he was about
when he persuaded Lord Derby to drop
the queens suzerainty, which Gladstone
guarded, and to accept the alien bracing
title of South African Republic. There
Was programme and n promise to all
his Beers in.that title. 1t swelled their
pride and opened new vlstas to them.
liz is the height of folly to suppose that
government emanating from watts and
the Primrose league can do more than
scotch Kruger and this Beers. AT the
same time, / think they are destined ulti-
mately to be submerged In the flood of
Uitlanders, or they will bs so modified as
to become something else than Beers. IL
lie better, perhaps, for them to be Tor some
time under q cloud. With the Rand
theirs, they would have desrse OF I'M
munity for which no race 10 lit. They
must be a check, even conquered on some
Uttiander propensities which naed not
mention. IL the UitlAnuers try TO use
blacks, as in the Kimberley compounds,
the latter Will lind allies in Kruger peo-
ule, who are flexible as reeds and slim In
more ways than one.
/ aid not say all that might have said
last week about Pres. kruger's grand
daughters. They are in all the Illustrated
papers But the artists WHO engraved the
plates toned down all that Jared with
their ideas of ladylike distinction. Mime
klotT and Mile, Guttmann. her sister, are
theiI pictorial presentments. They have
wonderful sex charm. But they must be
cIassed as ephemeral, because without
mental interests Carking care has been
a stranger TO them. Black labor spared
them domestic drudgsry. Hence their
high spirits. But Doupar education has
not Killed in them taste for the vain
things of the world. some American
lady Journalists wanted to interview
them at Marseillss. AT last one holder
than the rest remembered she had In her
possession the wishing card OF countess
she wife of charge d ahaires at som9
legation. She boldly sent It up to Mime.
Eloff, who not only receivea her, but
struck up friendship. and in ali hen car
rage drives took her with her. The in
terIoper wired every evening to Chicago
what sha heard In the drives This
went on until DIR. Leyds came. He at
once bounced the so-calIed countess.
Lsyds mas himself weakness for the
titled ones of the earth. he sowed the
Transvaal legation with Jonkneers. A
Jonkheer of ancient family was told on
TO escort Nine. Eloff, her children and
sisters to The Hague.
The eldest EIotf-a boy-is absurdly
like the great grandfather. He is about
three years old, and already seems deeply
serious and q mine OF power. The baby.
Annie, is a bright little thing with pierre
ing eyes. The boys eyes give the impress
sion Of concentration, The girls seem TO
have such a wide visual angle as to sweep
the horizon. They are most interesting
az types. Whsn at the Hotel Scribe, their
mother and aunt used to step out on the
balcony to see manifestations they some
times laughed until they lost breath.
Their dresses were alike in style. but
different In color The married sister
wore a deep rose peignoir OF velvet.
richly trimmed with lace, and the uu-
marrfad ona a skv hlua n sIOnoir uot Ias9
han dsomely trimmed. They never put
themselves forward when Populations
came. While Dom Paul received they
staid in the next room.
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.