The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-12

who approved of '.missionising' she
 native. or who believed he could be made into a ChristIan. Some mission- aries will admit that their life's work Is futile and wasted. Even Mrs. schreiner, herself the wife of mis- sionary and the mother of Olive Schreiner, said to me, Tt is all wrong, this attempt to hurry on the work Of the Creator. Tn this good time the na- tive may become fit temple for soul, but not yet, not yet"
 Good Servant But Bad Equal.
 The colonial woman has reason to
 know the Kaf1r very thoroughly Sne
 is brought up with him--more IS me pity--from childhood. He grooms her horse, he cooks her food, he house.
 maids the home. and looks after the
 boy babies. And he can be very good servant too. So long as there IS strong man and a sjambok about the
 Kafflr will be civil to the women Of the house If the housewife Is
 large, strong woman. who can use gun or whip effectually, the men folk can absent themselves for time without danger. But few women at home can realize the sinking feeling Of terror that comes over the white woman left on a lonely farm or in an | Isolated house while her men folk are away and she is left with native ser vants-- -Kafiirs who have learned at the mission school that they are as good as white men. and SO, in their render ing, better than white women Every native Is brought up to have a con- tempt for black females; the mission l ised native has an equal contempt for white women. whom he classes with
 the black female and himself with the white man. Women in these lonely | households find a measure of safety in | |. m the raw Kaffirs, who have an instinctive respect for the white woman as well
 as for the white man.
 Not only is the, Kaffir a savage. he
 is also a peculiarly atheistic savage.
 He feels no need of God to worship. When he is converted to Christianity
 he believes that the God he Is told of
 side Africa who deputes the nilsson
 aries to give him food and clothes
 and favors if he comes to church. In the whole history of the South African | native there is no tradition nor relic | of a belief in an unseen power. The only superstition they have Is che | fear of the witch doctor. who they think has the power of laying on them or their removing evil spells by which | they or their cattle may come to harm Ills power lies In fraud. the | making of charms and incantations. in
 simple conjurinE tricks and in ven- | trlToquism, as well as sometimes pre-
 tended panacea for disease have seen an English performer disperse a
 native audience in fear by trick he did to amuse them, And child's
 waxen doll has scattered circle of | grown-up Kacirs In terror They | thought 1t was witehcraft.
 | Kahira Incapable of Love.
 | Another peculiarity of the Kafir is that he has no faculty for being in
 love No one ~narrates or writes a | story of love or romance among Kaf- l frs as one might about American ne- eroes. l have never yet met any one
 who has heard of a love story among | them, though have sought to ind one
 through Rh6desia, Cape Colony. Natal
 and the Transvaal.
 The Kaffirs will marry as many
 wives as they can afford to buy, but
 there is no love or even crude affec-
 ton in the business. The wives work