The Forrest City times., 1902-06-13

 so0.000 CT the more than
 100000 whites, only 70,000 or 1000 are Boers or oi Dutch descent; about l01O00 are of British brth or descent. about 20000 German and l0.o00 American. The Boers mostly are farmers; the other white inhabitants mostly are miners CT have mining interests, OF are employed u the towns
 The first Dutch settlement in South Africa Wa, about l652 The British took the Cape III E95, returned t to the Dutea in ls93, captured Il agaln n ls0G. and received the formal cession or u from Holland in 1915. The Dutch farmers have. from very early date, pushed taetr settlements into the wilderness, doubtless lool ns ,a escape beyond British control, but iH every Iu- stance creating new British territory, sluce they were BrIt.>a subjects. From the first they made slaves of tle natives. and the English act oi mauumi>s.oa throughout the British colonies led to their great emigra= tons, called "treks.' reported as compris- ing coco persons, n lS35, and large ad- ditlonal number m ls3s In lS4s q British proclamation ot authority. extending to the aal rYer. Was the cause oi q Baer emi- grafton seeking peace and freedom be Yond. This led to the sand rIyer conven- ton in 1852, by whlcn the Trau>yaal Boers were granted independence and to q sim liar treaty with grant to the Orange Free State Boers in 1854. The latter treaty stood unchalenged and unchanged up "a tae time ot the last war.
 With the Transvaal, the British govern ment has mad successive disturbances. In the act ot manumlsslon, aPproprlatng < loo, 100000 in payment for the slaves n all the colonies, more than S6 GOO GOO was assigned to the slave owners In South Africa The Boers Tn Cape Colony protested against the act for various reasons, but especially a. robbing them ot their slaves, and when they mad migrated beyond the Naal. one of their first acts after proclaimng their new independence IS recorded 70 have been a great slaye-hunt by 100 Bocrs against the Beeauaus. It Was about 60 yeaIs ago. ana 1t is not at all to be presumed that tAe crueltes praetced then could bc allowed among them now; but the records may snow that 1t IS not wonderful tha. the Brush government should have repeated diffieul- ties WIth them and should have incurred their hereditary dislike
 In lS77 the Boers of the Tr4nsxaal found themselves in serious difficulties as all in- dependent nation. Their government was ln financial straits and n general Confusion. \ powerful chief oi the warhke katiir. with ln their own territory Was hara,>Iug them. while they were also menaced hl an in Va~ion of the Zulus. Their condition Vas deemed by the British 10 Involve peril to all the South African colonies; and under show ot British force, and partly for pro tecuon, they aS>ented 10 the annexation of theH territory To the British empre. But tAe English governor Was either in-cAoSen or unfortunate !n his met taods. and in 1880 they rose m courageous and wclIdirectcd revolt winch was ended by a grant to them, in the Loudoa convention of 1881. of seli-government subject to the ,uzcrainty oi her maje-ty.' The reyolt above referred 10 soon ended in the crushing defeat at MaJuba Hill, where force of a lew hun. ared British troops was almost annihIlated by large Boer force of expert marksmcn. fillng mostly from behind rocks or other cover. This made known the Trausyaal rfemen as most dangerous foes. It wa. near the beginning of the revolt; and when the British reentOrcements arrived the Boers, aS military authorities agree could have met only defeat, at which point the British government then led by MT Clad stone as head of liberal ministry. granted conference, whose final issue Was. above noted, the selt-government oi the republic under British suzerainty.
 With this as one step ont of the imme dats difficulty, the Boer was queted. But