The evening times., 1900-10-01
BACK FROM SOUTH AFRICA.
American Traveller Says the Beers
VIII Never Be Whipped.


VIII Never BE Whipped.
NEW YORK. Oct. ALLEN Sangree, SOL
dIer and sailor, who has known many
climes and many countries in the past few
years, came back to New York I few days
ago from South Africa, where he had been
with the Beers for nearly year.
Sangree, who was formerly a newspaper
man. was always rover. An example OF
his adventurous spirit was shown several
years ago in Newport, whittier he was sent
by a New York newspaper to write an ac-
count of the Whitney-Vanderbil wedding.
Many persons Will recall the crank that
appeared at the Vanderbilt mansion the
day before the wedding and made a de-
mand Of $1,000, GOO from Miss Vanderbilt,
The crank got no further than the doorway
W len he encountered a maid. The maid
saw the rough-looking person and tainted.
Next came the butler. Quaking with fear,
he begged the man to leave without trou-
ble- In the meantime someone had called
the police. The crank darted out of the
doorway and leaped over the high fence.
He made his escape by fast running
Half an hour later, SangTee, scrupuIously
| dressed, entered the Vanderbilt home He
saw Chauncey NJ. Depew and got a long III
teryiew with him on the bold crank Mr..
Depew told Sangree that Mr.. Vanderbilt
had given the butler $500 for his bravery
and each OF the other servants IN the
house. 500.
Sangree was next heard OF in South At
riea- Somebody started the report that
gold could be found there, and he shipped
before the mast on q little brig bound for
the Canary Islands, and finally reached the
Transyaal without cent
Sangree saw what there was to see in
the South Africa1 cities and then started
for the interior. For more than six
months he did not once see q white man.
spending all his time with a tribe of ma
tive dwarfs. firing of this life he started
back toward civilization. He had a gun
and small amount of ammunition when
he began his long trip. For weeks he
tranped and then it dawned upon him
that he was lost.
One day about noon he was beating his
way through a thicket when he saw a man
sitting on a log across d small stream.
Il hailed him" SangFee says, in telling OF
the meeting, and he hailed me back. He
seemed to be very Indifferent person and
rather inhospitable. He was cutting a
piece cf meat with a knife, and did not
seem at all glad to see me. 1 could have
fallen on his neck when he told me he
was an American When he learned | was
from New York he softened up a little.
:. What are you doing down here?' I
asked him.
g ! am book agent from Boston, he
answered am down here trading pic
ture cards for cattle. It's a good game.
I have a herd of several thousand over
the hill there. If I could get them bacl,
to the Transvaal I could sell them
Il told the nan I would help him drive
them back for half of the money they
brought and he accepted my proposition.
I would have given him hundreds of dol
lars just to show me the way back, but
saw where I could make a business deal
and I made it,
When the Boer war started Sangree
went to South Africa as correspondent
for New York newspapers. He stayed in
British camps for time, but the monoto-
ny was too much for him, and one night
he slipped off and joined the Beers. All
through the war he was on the fighting
lines. Never once did an English bullet
hit him, and not one days illness did he
suffer. when soldiers were dying all about
him from fevers
t-The English will never whip the
Boers.' he says. ''They may subdue them
for time, but they will never whip them.
Every Boer child is taught to hate the
English, and from the time boy can lisp
he tells what he will do to the English
when he is big enough TO carry gun"