The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-06-27
STEAD'S TRIBUTE
TO PlNGREE.
The Dead Man an Example to
Two Worlds.

gan, uled mere, ms son beng tile only
person present at the time The
cause OF death was cancer of the
stomach The body will be enbalm-
ed and sent to the United States for
burial
GOV Pingree who was noted for
his rithy sayings and his peculiar
ideas on reform for municipalities
and states, was born in Denmark.
Me. in 1910. He was member OF
the First Massachusetts artillery in
the civil war and settled III Detroit
at the end of the war in the shoe
manufacturing business. Later he
entered politics.
Speaking of the death OF Governor
Pingree, W. T. Stead the London
editor, says:
The career of one of the most no
able modern Americans is closed. a
man who for strength OF character,
tirmness Of purpose, indomitable
energy and immense public spirit pre-
sents an example to two worlds
''Pingree had an extremely inter
esting experience in his brief visit to
South Africa He went out armed
with recommendation from Cham
berlain which enabled him to pass
everywhere freely through the Eng
lish lines. When he left London he
! was fed with all the calumnies of the
Beers which have been reported to
palliate the attempted eXtermina
ton of the republics But the mo-
ment he got to South Africa the
scales began to fall from his eyes
Recommendations from the colo
NAL office enabled him to penetrate
regions hermitically sealed to the
ordinary civilian. Accompanied only
by his secretary, he penetrated into
the heart of the seat OF war and soon
had i'm opportunity OF making the
acquaintance OF the Beers at first
hands
Extraordinary though il may be
he was able to lunch i'll the British
camp in the morning and dine with
the Beers commando i'll the evening.
He found to his astOnishment that
the Beers were by no means SO black
as they had been painted, They were
by no means devoid of human intelli-
gence, they dressed an washed like
civilized beings, welcomed with gen
erOus hospitality the travelling Amer
lean, who found them far from ex-
tremists.
The commanders he visited were
we'll clothed and well armed. every
man possessing at least two horses,
with good reserve of ammunition.
They are safeguarding it no doubt
but they still have stores Of Mauser
cartridges to fall back upon, but for
the present they are doing all their
fighting with LeeMetfOrds and cart
ridges which they supply themselves
WIFI HUH TIE bI1CISIl SICIt~
1t is impossible that such a man as
Pingree could fail to be deeply touch
ed by the spectacle of these heroic
burghers maintaining their struggle
against overwhelming odds for lib
erty and independence of their coun-
try. He found no difficulty whatever.
in traversing the hostile lines, he
drove in a Cape cart, with his secre-
tary and son riding bicycles as an
escort. 1t was somewhat perilous
for them for the Beers have the disa-
greeab BILE. although natural, habit OF
shooting all bicycle riders on sight.
for with them cyclists and British
dispatch riders are synonymous
terms.
They came back unscathed. 1t is
much to be regretted that in the in
terests of truth and Justice so keen
an observer should not have been
spared to return to his own country
to describe the Beers as he found
them in their struggle, which must
have recalled at every turn the stir
ring episodes in the war of independ-
ence"
The North German Lloyd steamer
koeningin Luise. which sails from
Bremen June %. via southampton,
June 20. for New York will take the
body of former governor Hazen :.
Pincree to the United States.
Secreted in a TreetOp.
Nashville. Tenn. June 19.-"Gid'