The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-10

child upon President Kruger and wife
to bid them farewell. President Kru-
ger, as arose to depart, took my hand
and held 1t fully FIVE minutes, saying:
Tell the people of the United States
the real truth This he repeated sew
eral times. 1t was sad day for me,
for I had learned TO like and respect
the Beers in my two years residence
in their country, and I knew what
was coming. President Kruger is a
grand old man. Is he rich? Yes, very
rich. He made his money in the pur-
chase of farm lands that turned out to
be gold fields. He sold one farm just
before the war commenced for even
$500,000. I presume he has plenty of
money with him at Middleburg. Do /
think the war is practically over? BY
no means, nor do I believe 1t will be
until the able-bodied Beers have been
killed. I believe they will continue to
fight among the almost inaccessible
mountains of the northeast part Of the
Transvaal indefinitely. The Beers are
the most magnificent specimens of
physical manhood imaginable. Gen.
eral Meyer, who commanded at Lady,
smith, is the most imposing looking
man ever saw.
HE stands level feet inches in
his socks, weighs 300 pounds and wears
a great white beard that reaches to his
waist. Whom do regard as the great
est Of the Boer generals? General
Cronje by all odds, and to think that
he and his brave men have been hustled
off to st. Helena and berded together
like cattle. What has been the great
est victory for the Beers? Modder
Spruit Muddy RUM. where 700 Beers
attacked 1900 British fortified on a
kopje and killed, wounded and cap
tured every man of It. Not a man es-
capped. They took 1856 prisoners. The
Beers are marvellous IN getting the
range by eye. Most any of them, while
lying in the grass, can kill springbok
lustration Of their phenomenal range
getting by sight young Boer at Lady
smith ran his vision over one of the
Long Tom guns, and his commander
asking him what was the range, he
replied that it was exactly $500 yards,
and that the shell would strike the
corner Of house he pointed out. The
gun was fired and the shell carried
away the corner of the house indi-
Gated, which was all Of the house that
could be seen when the gun was fired.
That was over three and third miles.
IT talked with Winston Churchill
the evening Of the night he escaped.
He was only imprisoned in a school
house with a low iron fence around.
The Beers like him, and treated him
with much kindness. The day follow
ing the night of his escape an order ar
rived by mail from General Joubert
for his release. The Boer officials told
me that had he been recaptured he
would only have been lectured and let
loose. The brightest journalist devel-
oped by the war is Eugene Easton. a
Cincinnati boy, whose father is now
preaching at some Of the towns near
| here. He and Richard Harding Davis
who also did excellent work. had to &c
over to the Beers In order to get the
real news out of the country. The
British censored the unfavorable stuff
| out. Easton had been doing city as
signments in Kansas City before he
went to South Africa, and made 9
| great hit. especially for an inexpe-
rienced war correspondent, and very
young at that. The Beers We're con.
fident Of the cooperation of theil
brethren in the Cape Colony, which hat
been promised but was not fulfilled
Had the Cape Colony risen it woult
have been very different"