The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 10, 1899, Page 31

THE SUNDAY CALL Kruger’s Diversified Character: @lergy- man, Herdsman, Cionp-Hunpter, (eneral, Embassador, Statesman, Athlete, by on turnin 'What is another tomary question and asking ries give an insight into irst duty, he belleves second to Rhoc poisonous reptile. Kruger says, all quietness in the this man is in no rest for the t service agents on every street in Johan- the Jookout for Uitlander outward appearances, Oom I¥ plous, and though the st that it is all hypocrisy, ere is no proof that Kruger does not ve In striet ce with his preach- ed in 1842 by the oo y. an American mis- , and from that day to this has or not he indulg verely Christian life after the pre- ne he is usually puffing a s down by John Calvin. He can whole Bible, and this has dles this 3 el s well in a secular way. for he from it to speak In parables, ms that are readily Inter- e is in the mood. It gives tollowers, and have more which is & character- most brilifant rhetorical addition to his other accom- by far the best preacher in ICAL COURAGE. young man was out i ansvaal, and the Dutch Reformed ing hartebeest one day Wwith a rifle (., 0 pogsts of some capable men there. ch had not been used for a long time. K, occupies the pulpit in a mod brick ith a charge the egifice across the street from home eft thumb into wanted to 1t once a month, and always talks to dinging room only. He uses no notes, nions to the nearest but speaks offhand from a text, and does ng Boer re- not hesitate to sprink humor rg-knife, he In the discourse. In hi before mb on the stock the Raad he quotes Scripture generously, and even more so in conversation. As for his private life, that seems to be exemplary. After rising he pra; for a long time in his room, and * over with the Lord” the questions of the day. When he develops a conviction in this he to act on it o him h » sudden failed to sh ted it himself. By a piece of rawhide bl and winding fef he con- courage have 's suc- Kruger's life. A > days they ent, who was then ce down on the open th days food or d When car- ed that t for his anders relate to off- One was & HIS SISTER WITH ONE ARM,HE MET THE VICIOUs SPRING OF THE LECPARD WITH THE OTHER" T and a Hard Map to Conquer. ‘AT THE ! END OF ELEVEN HOURS THE KAFFIR DROPPED. Fipancier and .m and completed the journey. ap is s near Drelkopies, in the Orange ., at a ripe old age, 80 the experience does not seem to have Injured him. In fact, he seems rath- er proud of the distinction. When it to treatment of the blacks, however. Englishmen must remain immured in glass houses. A native will ake his chances of good treatment with a Boer every time, though his life is a mighty oleasant one at the best. The first question I put to Oom Paul was why he did not give the Ultlander the right to vote. which the English put forth as their chief cause of complaint. Mr. Kruger smoked hard for a moment, then laid down his pipe, and placing his hands on his knees, said: ‘A man can not serve two masters. Bither he will hate the one and cling to the other, or e one and love the other. Now, shman wants to do this. He de- e franchise from me, desires to become a burgher, and yet when it comes to trouble he would forsake us in a mo- ment claim the protection of the Queen. How can I give such men the chance to vote? They do not take any interest in our country. They have not come here to settle. They wish us no good. 1 want to be falr with every one who comes here to live, and when he has proved that he is a good citizen and has come to help us, I want him to vote. But we have a law for bigamy in the Trans- vaal, and it is necessary for a man to put off his old love before taking on a new.” When one has lived In Johannesburg he recognizes the truth of Mr. Kruger's reply e Rand is a stamping ground for a great mass of people from all over the earth. V few remain . and only part, be- cause they can not raise the money to get away. They comes A e .. haracter Skeich of One of the Most Remarkable are only concerned in mak- ing @a fortune rapidly, and returning to a pleasant count as quickly as po: You do not persons moving out on the veldt and cul- tivating the soil; no one cares rap about oSN \:\ ‘\, < \yy PAULKRUGER, PRESIDENT OF THE TRANSVAAL. o Mftia oo % COMMISSIONER ST. JOHANNESBURG . developing the country, are fit for that. discontented. Only the Boers _ But this surging mob is Nearly every one gambles in stocks, horse racing or poker, and when he loses 1t attributed to the Boer Government. Ninety-nine men out of a hundred h: come there to ‘‘take a fiver,” and it is {immaterial to WnG {s running the government. Not so with Mr. and the Eng- lish Colonial_Office vever. There is the stain of Majuba Hill and the Jame- son raid to be Wiped out and $100,000,000 to be made from the gold mines, England will never be happy. therefo them that stands in her way Is tha looking fellow, who IS now from constant worry and bowed with care that gives his face a look of world weariness. Mr. Kruger related to me graphically and briefly the history of the Boers from the time the ttled in Cape Colony, whence they were driven out by ti English, until they settled in the Tran: vaal. On this great trek they killed 6000 lions, out of which number Kruger him- self killed 250. They fought their way step by step until they finally reached the long ridge known as the Witwatersrand, where they 11 unconscious of the hidden wealth. *‘It seemed so a Mr. Kruger, “that even the Engli not begrudge it. So we establ a overnment, developed a constitution and ald the foundation for a nation. We built towns, cultivated the soil and were making great progress and llving peace- fully when gold was scovered. hen new and perplexing questions arose and England immediately became avaricious, but we were not willing to give up the country which we had developed by the sweat cf our brow, and so there was Ma- uba Hill. You know about that?’ Here r. Kruger blinked slyly and a laugh went around among the Boers. “So, now.” continued Oom Paul, taking up his pipe and dropping into_parables, “the #old flelds are like a beautiful rich young woman. Everybody wants her and when they cannot get her th one else to possess her. “Can the English starve you out?”’ I then asked Oom Paul. ’ 1t the Lord wills it/ yes,” he replied. If not, the English can build a wall around us as high as Jericho and we will live and prosper.”” By cutting off all sup- lies the English military expects and opes to speedily bring the Boers to terms in event of war. Against this Kruger has provided by building store- houses and granaries. where mecat and grain are kept in great quantities. The great drawback to the Transvaal is that she lacks a sea port. The most convenient one is Delagoa Bay, owned b¥ the Portuguese. As Portugal is mort- gaged to England, the latter country con- trols it. I asked Mr. Kruger if he intend- ed mkm% this port, but he only replied: rsed be he who removes his neighbor’s landmarks."” Towering over Johannesburg is a big fort, and working in subterranean pas- es the Boers, it Is sald, have under- whole town, even to Commis- do not want any sloner street, where the pride of Johan- nesburg’s buildings are located. The Boers can muster 30,000 men, all well armed and good marksmen. They have warehouses full of ammunition, and could undoubtedly, with their present defenses and power to wreck Johannesburg and the mines, afford sufficient menace to Great Britain to make her hesitate. Mr. Kruger is now 7 s old has been elected to the Pry times. His salary is 5,000 a vea §1500 for coffce. This he drinks bla so hot that the burghers say it will the hair off a dog. His life has certainly been a_remarkable one, and at different s . herdsm: js now _serving his fourth term dent. In recent years he has bo sold land a good deal, and be very weal vin ff,u‘x!.z‘ ve saved nearly all his salary these years, which would give him a ti fortune. 7 8 ‘As he closed our interview Mr. Kruge: went across the hall into a low ceilinged, whitewashed room and leaned for ment over a placid faced, mothe woman, who was seated on a chair, darning stockings. This was Mrs Kruger, who, though one never hears of her, interested me mightily, because she 1 method that he rocking Men Living & OQom Paul Jells fis Own JStory 2 seemed so utterly oblivious to the tuy- molls that are besetting her husband’'s nation. She got Mr. Kruger's hat, es- corted him to the door and then went back to her knitting. It was difficult to (g\h‘.k of her as the first lady of the land. Yet she has been Mr. Kruger's constant helpmeet through all the years of nis public life, and thelr affection for each other ms to have v succeeding year. She i g ond wife, and was a Miss Du Plessis, a rme of promi ce in South Africa. ruger's first wife was an aunt of Miss Du _Plessis re him one son, who died. Sixteer ere the fruit of this secc nd of those seven are comfortably sion fn South tune in real supposed to be Kruger's acts notl is captain of i a Mr. and Mrs. Kru- ger live n_a little two-story cottage, painted white front with morn mutual ambj- 1 independent of end their iast and quietly in this little tion Great Britain, days peacefully home. Scientists do queer things sometimes. One of them attempted to calculate in cold mathematics how soon we may ex- pect the Judgment Day; and he | pared a paper on the subject which he expects to.read before the American As- sociation for the Advancement of Scic when it meets next month in Columbus. | Starting with the total amount of, cnergy stored in the sun and the fact that the orb of day Is continuously distributing encrgy equivalent to the work of seven men for each area of the earth's surface on t'.c size of the human body, our calculates that it will require years_of outpouring before a sensible di- minution of the quantity of energy mven out can be detected. Up to this distant period mountains will stand, rivers will run, plants will grow and animal life vl exist very much as it does to-day. If vou realize that solar energ soon as used reasserts itself in some other form, either as sound, electricity or simple motion, it is easy to see that this estimate is too small rather than too great. At any rate the world is not liable to stop going for a few years yet, according to his reasoning. Some ldea of the vastness of the force that is meted out to us from the physical source of earthly life may be galned, he The End of the World. by considering that if the energy the ives to carth in a singie ay could be bottled up and directed zainst ira Falls it would cause that great hody of wate bick again up hill for 4000 ycars. irned into a sin- gle buest of it would cause cvery v creature intaneous! blizht and the around the s would be melted in one and thre minutes anu in another eleven seco all the oceans would be turned into steam. If transmuted into electricity a spark he earth as as the If collected into a single it thereof would Hog v ear drum in the world, upraot the giant trees of the and cven mour I ed into o momentary f its burst would be so. bi < the walls of (he st dungeons roy the sight of ¢ living crea- c- 0 brillia 1 would ex- cecd the bri € tsel a million times. e e one man to expend an amount of en- sivalent to that which the earth ives m the sun in the tenth part of & second hbe would have to work hard con- tinuously for 0,000 rs is calculation is remarkable in that its resuit differs by more than 3,370,000,000 years from the {:eflod when scientists gen- erally belleve that the world will come .o an end. Such experts as Darwin and Hux- ley believed that it could not sustain life 1000 years hence- s