The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-03-23
BANISHED
FROM HOME
Capt. and Mrs. Henry Say
They Were Driven From
the TranSvaal.
TALK OF AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Mrs. Henry Says She Will Go
Back and Fight,
TALK OF AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Banished from her country and thrown
out OF her home. Mrs. Ollie Henry sat in
q room in the Baltimore hotel last night
ard talked with 2 reporter for the Eagle
about the TransvaaI and the struggle OF
the Beers and the English. Five months
ago, they say. they were driven out Of
Pretoria and told not TO return Her hus-
band is a captain in the Boer army, was
taken prisoner and sentenced 70 be shot.
but being an American he was released
ard banished. That Is the story, from
his own lips.
Mrs. Henry was born in Kimberly.
Orange Free State, South Africa, and
later moved TO johannesburg, and after
her marriage made her home in the CAPT
tai, Pretoria She was married FIVE years
ago to Captain Henry, who left this
country in 1895 70 fight for the Beers and
was made a captain soon after the Jane
son raid The captain i q Californian
Mrs. Henry IS not at all like a person
would suppose q woman from South Al
RIGA 10 be. 1t seems TO be the general
impression that Boer women are dark
cOTnpleXioned and rather heshy. Mrs. Hen
y is tall and slender and very fair, but
she stated that the general run Of the
but heavier that she is. The men are
nearly all six feet tall, big raw bOned
fellows, While the women are proportion
stely large. She speaks very good Eng
hsh, II is the only language she has ever
spoken, but there is a slight difference in
the pronunciation that it was stated by
the captain as being characteristic OF
the Beers.
Captain and Mrs. Henry are travelling
London and remained a few days with
friends and then came to this country,
The government officials met them when
they landed in England and they say that
their pictures adoTn the rogues' gallery
in Scotland yard. They cannot set foot
on English soil, so they say, or the
Transvsal or Orange Free State without
laying themselves open TO Imprisonment
under the articles Of war. They are con-
sidered belligerents by the English gov
eminent and being once a prisoner and
released after being sent out of the coUn-
try they cannot return until the war is
over.
The English have misrepresented Us
to the world" said Mrs. Henry last night.
We have a country something like your
own. The English are the business men
while the Beers are all farmers. I do not
believe there are two dozen Beers in bus
mess in the whole country. They are
farmers from the ground up and all they
ask is TO be let alone with their farms.
The country never has severe winters or
hot summers, my husband tells me it is
a great deal Ike California. never saw
any snow until came TO this country.
We raise great crops OF wheat. corn and
other crops common TO this section OF the
United States and the finest OF vegeta-
bles, fruits such as are not affected by
heavy frosts The Boer is a farmer and
does not know the first principals Of con-
Quoting a business house
L have found since coming TO this
that people generally do not ex-
pect 10 learn that the Beers are educated
but I can say that they have as complete
system of schools as this country and a
great deal better than England and the
colleges rank the same as those OF your
own country. The Beers came from the
old Dutch stock and they believe IN edu-
cation as much as any peopls in the
country
Mrs. Henry hates the English. why"
she said, I am so chicken hearted that
I could not kill q chicken, but 7 believe
I could Kill an Englishman and then
glory in It Nothing would suit me bet
ter than to go back to my country and
fight. There are at present something
ike eight hundred women in the Boer
army and If the war continues I will yet
serve my country. Ny husband was
taken sick while a prisoner and when the
capture Of Pretoria took place, I was
thrown out OF my home and compelled /
to seek a living IN the streets with my
little two-year old son. The little chap /
took cold and died month after and he
makes the third baby We have buried. !
their deaths caused directly OF Indirect /
Is by the atrocities Of the English
Captain Henry stated that he was going /
back 10 South Africa within the next six (
months and his wife declared that she
would 60 with him and take her place IN T.
the army with the hundreds CT other
women now fighting bravely to prevent T.
the English from destroying their couR- /
try.
The English concentration camps ara !
the most horrible places you could mag /
ne" said Mrs. Henry. There they have |
hundreds OF cid women and little child /
rem where none CT them get enough % 4
eat ard we have pictures showing the /
children mere skeletons The death rate |
IN these camps is awful, nun 5ering /
thousands each year and the greater /
number children"
Prickiy Ash Bitters cures disease Of |
he kidneys. cieanses and strengthens /
he liver. stomach and bowels
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