Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-24
LIFE ON A BOER FARM
NOT INVITING FROM AMERICAN
POINT OF VIEW.
Woman Traveller Describes the Mo-
notony and Discomforts She
Found In the Agricultural Re.
gions of South Africa.

An American woman travelling In
South Africa was detained by foods
and compelled to spend a month on
Eoer farm.
The first nights monotony," she
writes in Health Culture. was broken
by the roaring OF ostriches under our
windows. We thought it was Il tame
lion.
The farmer and his :2rniiy lived
chiefly Oh sour bread and sour
skinned milk. | was therefore hum
cry most of the time and the ripe
figs hanging in clusters were pretty
ailuring. After pushing back the
skin of The fig and enjoying the soft
fruit with its tropical taste | had a
refr~ sing nights sleep, only to awak-
Ell la ,nc morning pretty welt scared.
Tor my tongue was SO swollen and
black that | could not talk.
The Bocr vile laughed and enjoyed
my discontinue and explained that
Inc skin oi the lig had numerous fine
thOrns and had not been careful
to remove II when eating.
When ! told the farmers wife
that ! liked buttcrIniik in quantity
noticed that | had n cupful or so given
the pigs. They were of far more con-
sequence TO her than |, for they would
stay longer with her and were her
familiars. was not.
Then again, when -. ,.,.ngry
for butter on my bread. a while clam
my substance made from 'sheeptail
fat was handed to me. and | could
not allow the farmers wife TO see ne
culver. She sold her butter in the
village close by at 10 cents Il pound.
more or less Sour bread and green
strawberries tplcnty OF them) were
considered good enough. .
The ECrr family was one of the
wc1'thicst OF their kind. There was
NO, ripple OF fun or cxubcrant life
In anything but the live stock Con
versa:iUn was dead languaGe--un-
known.
"'rhr women are mute ncinEs. ac-
ccpilng their destiny with Il deep
siiiiHcsE. The wife gives =! ger
strength TO the limit. and dies Alter
glviuG birth to n dozen or more emil
IN D, w il'slNt way lol WIG
two vino gives another dozen chill
drcn &C. hor country. Her adobe house,
with It's dirt floor made of anthill clay
mixed with beef gall. Is a cIa,ibcr Of
horror to an Amerivan travcli,i.
"Thc farmer depends upon his ten
to eighteen children, OF all sizes, to
help him. 4 Kanir as an cmploye
Is undergraduates as the wind that
blows. Yet that Kanir Is the hired
man in the mines and elsewhere in
Snuth africa. The white man as Il
day Iahorcr is n general failure. lie
cannot DO worked in drovcs like the
Kanir from the interior. whose Ian
guagC, In clicks and vowel sounds. Is
hardly human.
THE Bocr Is not long l!vci. one
seldom met an aged }oer OF &c" Old
stock Dom Paul Kruger. who was
rs years old when he died, was an
execution Hatred toward the Tit
lander and the lust tor gold and power
was whit ken, In" fires OF life burn
ing at white heat within him.
"To stem IN" elements alone In AZ
ric1 tai."a the alouiCSt heart. fcvers
asean The discouraged and mdcrfod
hon" boy. Tn" easily fordcd streams
hccon.c rivcIs. lik" swirling Niagaras,
In Il few hours and the terrific thun-
dcrstOrns paraIvZc one sensitive to
electrical Influences.
~ There is no pretty att, fpr.on
streak in the sky which The amateur
pinot Ographcr can catch On his iilm'
but the air Is charged with electricity
80 arraIling In Is violet hucd and
dCcp orange carihruHud clouds that
one h1y 10 come 10 u complete stand
still whether walking or riding on tho
oucn vrldt. 50 as not To attract tho
rInbonlikC lightning playing around
him and venting It's fury on any NOV
Ing o'j"ct