Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-25
LIFE ON A BOER FARM
NOT INVITING FROM AMERICAN
POINT OF VIEW.
Woman Traveller Describes the Mo-
notony and Dscomforts She
Found in the Agricultural Re-
gins of South Africa.

An American woman travelling in
South Africa was detained by foods
ana compelled to spend a month on
Il Poor farm
"rhc first nights moTotony," she
writes in Health Culture, was broken
by the roaring OF oStriches under our
windows We thought it was a tame
lion
THE farmer ana his fari'y lived
chiefly on SOUR bread and sour
SKINNED milk. ! was therefore hun
cry most of the time and the ripe
figs hanging in clusters were pretty
alluring. Alter pushing back the
skin of the fig and enjoying the soft
fruit with IT'S tropical taste | had
refreshing nights sleep, only 10 awuk-
en- I'm the morning pretty well scared.
Tor my tongue was so swollen and
black that | could rot talk
9TH" BOcr wife laughed and ci..oyed
my discontinue and explained that
the skin OF the fix had numerous fine
'hGrnS and bad rot been careful
TO remove II yhcn eating
when | tod the farmers VITO
that | liked buttcrmili In quantity
noticrd that | had Il Cupful or so given
nae. but she threw it by the pailful to
the pigs. They were OF far more con.
sequence to her than |, for they would
stay longer with her and were her
ramil!nrs | was not.
Then again, when -, !..HGry
FOR butter on my bread. u white clam
my substance made from, 'Shccptail
lat was handed to nc. and | could
not allow the farmers wife 10 see NO
CULVER Sh" sold her butter IN the
village close by at Is cents pound.
more or less. Sour bread and green
strawberries trlcnty Of them were
considered good enough
The llOcr family vas one az the
weaithicst Of their kind. There was
not n ripple of fun or cxubcrant life
In anything but the live stock. Con-
Veraation was Il dead languagG-'un-
known.
THE women are mite H"irG*. &C
Ccpting their destiny with . Gacp
Stiffness. The wife Eivca :! ger
strength TO the limit, and dies ni!or
giving birth to n dozen or more emil.
drCn. to make way for wife numhcr
two. who gives another dozen chit
drcn to her country. Her adobe house.
with its dirt il;"r w"hc OF authill clay
mixed with bee. ELIl. Is Cha.nDcr OF
horror to an AmCrivan travcN,s.
The farmer depends upon his Ten
TO eighteen children. of all siZC5, to
help him. \ Kalir rs an ompiOye
f. Urdcl endab'c ~ the wind that
blows Yet that Eafir Is the hired
man In the mines and elsewhere in
South Africa rho white man as
day alorcr Is general failure. Ilo
canuOt 10 worked In dr0vcs like the
KaGr rom tn" interior. whose Ian.
guagc. in clicks and vowcl ~Ounds. Is
hardly human.
The Eocr is not lorE l!v"i one
seldom net m agnd IIOCr Oi ~" old
stock DOM PauI E,ug2:, WHO was
Is years old when hc dir,;. vas an
cxccl ton. HATRED tuwrd the TIT.
lander aud ~" l".t Tor gold and power
was wh#l kcTt the fires OF life burn.
Ing nI white heat within him.
"rC stem Ii" C'cnIcuts aluuc IN AZ
rlca takes the s,0utcSt heart Fcvcra
assault the iii couraEcd md mdCrfCd
homo boy Tn" easily fOrdCd streams
bccOmC rivcis. Hike swirIlng NiaEaras.
In few hours and tho terrific thuu-
dcrsiorms raralyZc ono sensitive to-
electrical Influences.
There Is no pretty Hi;lc. Fnr-or
streak I'm tho sky which ,hc amateur
ho,OgruphCr eau catch 81 his lilu,.
hut the air Is charged VITA electricity
so appalling In It's violet hucd and
deep Craugr carthnound clouds that
one has 10 com" iO n complete stand.
still whether walking or riding on tho
open vCldt. so as not TO attract tho
ribbonlikC lightning playing around
him and venting ita fury on any NOV
ing object"