Morris tribune., 1900-01-13
A DANGEROUS FOE
MISS SHELDON TELLS THE SECRET
OF Beers POWER.

Rnttles They've Won Their Country
Character and Customs Majuba Hill
Sad Memory-How Dom Paul Got Re
1igion.
Why is the English nation massing
ats armies at the gateway of the Beers
country Is it ito defend the women
and children of Johannesburg" as DR.
Jameson asserted after his unsucc-
cessful raid, or for philanthropic rea-
SONS to bring civilization to half
civilized race l hardly think it is Tor
either of these reasons.
There lies upon the great plateau
three thousand feet above the sea, in
the country called the Transvaal. the
Eldorado of the world. Its riches in
mineral and farm land are not half
known, except to a few spectators.
who have nothing to lose and all to
gain in creating a war. The smaller
gold fields beyond Johannesburg at
Ba"berton are seldom mentioned, yet
they yield over $685. monthly. The
gold-bearing quartz reef occurs In
slate formation.
Lying in a semi-tropical belt, where
the Thermometer ranges from eighty
three degrees in Summer to ffty-seV-
en- in Winter, the climate is perfect.
The water, coming directly from the
mountains. as it does. is delicious. and
sickness among the children Is very
rare 1t is the garden of South AT
Tica, where pineapples grow all the
year round. and strawberries are to
DE had from December to August.
Apples and figs grow side by side.
while sugar cane. rice and tobacco
EARNS pay richly.
With the johannesburg mines Yield
ang over two million dollars month.
and the Kimberley diamond mines In
Eriqua Land West producing over a
million and half dollars month the
reason of the present cause of restless
ness in the minds of the Uitlander IN
Souah Africa is obvious.
With Dom Paul Kruger In command
of one side of the gateway, and the
brave English army on the other side.
why should there not be carnage The
stakes are high and well worth play
ing for, says the Uitlander. But Dom
Paul says: "Show me why l should
mot guard my country and people and
dts wealth from the invading foreign
er. who never intends to live here only
dong enough to secure his booty and
carry it away with him to some tore
ign land"
The English have coveted the coun-
try inch by inch ever since the Com
mlssary Sluysken of the Dutch East |
India Company, just century ago,
decided the Castle and City of Cape
Town to His Majesty, the King OF
Great Britain. From the time the
English landed. about 1887. the Dutch
FARMER born in Africa and called
"Boer" because he was an Afrikander
born. and so distinct from the foreign
er, has been compelled to move ou
further up the country. So he trepped
on and up and over the great Ora
Pass, 1000 feet above the
SEE. 5nto Natal. where the Zulu race
in all Its Spartan strength lived.
"Ae Beer was not willy" until af
to- re ~rat the Zulu. There, in that
W. i21"a 0"radse, lived the grea1 race
D. : -r1ors whose chief. DinEeswayo,
was considered the Napoleon of Zulu
land. Tt was he who exterminated the
native tribes. numbering hundreds of
thousands Of souls, leaving only a rem
nant to live in caves and holes in the
ground Dingeswayo was the ancestor
Of King Cetewayo, who led his army
against the English forces in the last
Zulu war.
The Beers finally met the Zulus and
we're friendly IN their relations. trust
Ing to the latter to treat them fairly
and arrange to meet them in council
Ind deed them a portion of land
which they and their families were TO