The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14

uonality- Therefore, every Boer taught
his children to read and write. and,
above all, Instructed them in God S
word. At dinner and supper, as the
children sat around the table, they
had to read a part of the sacred scrip
write down, now this and now that
text; and this was done day by day
unless unusual circumstances made it
impossible That is how my father
taught me the Bible, and instructed me
IN its teaching during the evenings Ny
other course of instruction was COW
cred altogether by a period OF about
three months. with frequent Interrupt
tons My masters name was Fielman
Roos, VINO found much difficulty in car
rying out his mission. Whenever the
trek came TO a resting place and we
outspanned, a small hut was built of
grass and reeds, and this became the
schoOlrOom for the trekkerS' children.
This was done during the whole jour
ney TO Magaliesberg, where by father
settled.
When I was I6 years old I was en-
titled to choose two farms, like any
other independent member of our COM
munity; one as a grazing place and
the other for sowing with crops. l
lived at Waterkloof, and, il 1912.
fetched Miss Maria du Plessis from the
country south of Yaal TO be my wife"
During journey which he had I'M
dertaken in order to visit his be-
trothed, young Kruger found that the
torrential waters of the VaaI were so
swollen as to render it impossible. But
his ardor was greater than the dan
ger, and his strength mightier than the
force of the stream. He drove his
horses into the water and, dressed as
he was, swan with them across the
river under conditions which threatened
almost certain death The old ferry
man, who had not dared to cross the
river that day with his boat. read him
a fine lecture. But it was thrown away.
last long enough to render a repetition
of this hazardous enterprise necessary.
Note by the editor of the German
edition.
1t is the Jameson raid that one ex-
poets the powerful wrath of Kruger to
show itself in describing, yet this part
of the story is singularly calm and
not hesitate to blame Cecil Rhodes with
the whole affair, but he also insists that
Chamberlain knew about and counter
anced all that was going on. A number
of cablegrams supposed to pass be-
tween Rhodes and an agent in England
are reproduced, and these very clearly
implicate Mr.. Chamberlain. The story
Meantime DIR. Jameson had advanced
with the great rapidity in the direc-
ton of Johannesburg. The high COM
missioner issued a proclamation call
ing upon DR.. Jameson and all his COM
panionS to withdraw across the frontier
tthis proclamation was shortly followed
by Cecil Rhodes resignation of the
premiership of Cape Colony. The
proclamation, together with a letter
from Sir Jacobus Dewet, the British
agent at Pretoria, was carried to DR..
Jameson by Ben BOWER, a TransYaii
burgher. DR.. Jameson, however, took
not the slightest notice of it. Lieu
tenant Eioff of the Kreugersdorp police,
who rode out to meet him and TO charge
him to turn back, was taken prisoner
by his orders. A number of Transvaal
burghers, however, under Command
ants Halan, Potgieter and Cronje, had
outStripped Jameson and taken UP their
stand on the hills near Kreugersdorp.
jameson at once turned the fire of his
guns on the burghers' position, but,
as soon as his troops attempted TO
charge, they were driven back with
loss When DIR. Jameson saw that he
could not get through, he faced about
10 the right, in order to try to turn the
Boer position. He was stopped. how
ever, during the night by Field Cornet
D. Fouche, and the next morning. when
he moved still further to the right. he
came up against Cronje's burghers at
DoornkOp, who compelled him TO sur
render after a short engagement
Very little more is said of the trial
1t is not necessary to enter into de-
tails concerning the trial of the con-
spirators. The government applied TO
the Orange Free State to allow Judge
Cregorowski to preside over the trial,
the object of the request, which was
n M
who was outside the quarrel and VINO
could not be regarded as in any way
prejudiced against the TefOrmers. Most
of them escaped with imprisonment or
fines; only the four leaders, Messrs.
Lionel Phillips. Farrar, Hammond and
Colonel Rhodes, were condemned to
death; but this sentence was couanuted
by the executive raad to a fine of S25,-
coo. Thus ended the first act of the
drama of which the last act has Just
been finished on the bioodstained plains
of South Africa"
1t viii be remembered that one of
the chief conspirators was the million
aire American engineer, John Hays
Hammond.
AS to the political result, Mr.. Kruger
goes on to say: And so the attempt
upon the independence of the republic
failed. But now Mr.. Chamberlain was
to set to work to try whether he could
not be more successful. With his as
sistance Jameson's raid was 20 be re-
placed by a gigantic British raid.
His first step was to invite me to
come to England to confer on Trans
vaal matters, while he began by declar-
ing that he was not prepared to discuss
article of the London convention, the
only article which still in any way re-
stricted the foreign relations of the
South African republic. One would
really think. TO judge from this invita-
ton. that it was the republic and not
England that has to make amends.
AT the same time, Mr.. Chamberlain
sent of another dispatch. in which he
proposed that a sort of home rule
should be granted to johannesburg,
and he published this dispatch in the
London official press before I received
1t. When one reflects that il was the
very question of home rule for Ireland
that caused Mr.. Chamberlain to with
draw from Gladstones party and barter
his radicalism for his present jingoism,
one must stand astounded at the eff
frontery of his proposal. especially IN
der the existing circumstances.
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Undefeated.
(LOndon AnsWers)