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MEMOIRS OP
PAULKRUGER
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE FAM
OUS BOER PRESIDENT.
Exhibits a Clear and Intelligent
Grasp of Every Subject Touched
Upon Uncompromising" Distrust
and Hatred of Rhodes, Chainbei
lnin. and MilnerInteresting Per
sonal Confessions.
ii. ,. Shumau, in Chicago ltocord-tleiuld.
Whatever elso may be said of "The
Muniolr.s of Paul Kruger," the hook is
not dull. Apart from its hMoiicul im
port, It is one of the most interesting
works ol autobiography that havo ap
peared in many a yew. Jt i.s not un
biased, of course, but It Is virile, digni
fied, sometimes humorous, often excit
ing, in parts sarcastic and denuncia
tory. From end to end there looms n
foiceful personality that compels re
npuct. or Mr. Kruger's desire to tell
only tho 'truth there can ho no mora
doubt thun of his bitter and outspoken
luntempt'for British statesmanship nnd
for men like Mr. Cluunberlulii nnd Mr.
Rhodes.
Com Paul's book will surprise oven
lis friends by Its clear atid Intelligent
Ki'iisp of every subject touched upon.
Those who regard iliu as an ignorant
nnd narrow old man will llud it hard
to account fop this uulto remarkablo
volume. It is true that hu has had the
Advantage of an able editor and nf a
translator who writes thu choicest
Kngllsh, but these men did not make
tho book. The rugged and fearless
character of laul Kruger stands forth
on every page.
How Written. (
These memoirs were dictated by Mr.
Kruger to his .private secretary, after
which the notes wcro'.edlted and, elab
orated Jn Oerfimn by1 Ilev, Di Scho
walter.l The English and American
edition lias been translated by A. T, de
Mutton, from Dr. Schowalter's revised
Herman text, collated line for line with
Mr. Kruger's original Dutch. Dr, Scho
walter's rather extensive .foot nofes also
are translated, and there is a valuable
appendix of Mr, Kruger's public proc
lamations and other documents.
I understand that the $100,000 which
the Munich publisher, Herr Lehmann,
hud (o pay to induce Oom Paul to write
Ills reminiscences Is to be devoted to the
uses of destitute Transvaal families. Mr.
Kruger Is a rich man and at first re
fused to write the book even fo the
large sum offered, but finally consented
to do It for. the ?uke of Ills friends and
of hlstoryi ' t ' '
Though It it only a simple, and
straightforward narrative of events,
skimming rapidly through sixty event
ful vpu-s, Mr, Kruger's volume will be
of incalculable value to disinterested
historians. The author tells of his
own largo part In these events with
out either boasting or modesty. There
is not a word of complaining about his
unhappy destiny. The book is no ap
peal for sympathy or for anything else.
It In jtist the plain, but fascinating
story of a remarkable man's life.
Youthful Exploits.
I don't know how other people may
jfeel. but for myself the Initial chapters
rei;nuntJiie Paul Kruger's youthful ex
ploits as a hunter are among tho most
interesting in the book. He thinks ho
must have shot thirty or forty ele
phants and flvn hippopotamuses, and lie
tells of the killing of live lions, the first
of -widen hu shot in 1S39, when ho was a
boy of ii. The animal was in the act
of leaping nnd fell almost on top of the
bi.y when he- Hhot it. When tho men
came up to examine It, one began to
iiH'tit'ui'f the enormous teeth, whereupon
the boy, with his love of fun, jumped
upon the dead animal and paused it to
emit a teirlllo roar, frightening the man
ue.irly to death and almost securing a
hldlnff f"i' himself.
Some of young Kruger's most perilous
adventures were encountered In hunting
the rhlnoceios. On one occasion ho dis
regarded his brother-in-law's warning
and dismounted in front of tho angry
beast of this kind.
"She hud scarcely caught sight of
me," he continues, "before she wus In
hot pursuit. I ullowed her to conio
within a dlstunce of three or four yards,
When I fired, tliq percussion cap re
fused, and there was no time, for a sec
ond shot. The animal was close upon
me, and there was nothing to bo dona
but to turn round and run Jor dear life.
In attempting to do so my foot struck
against tho thorn roots, und I came
down Hat on my fuce. The beast was
upon mo; tho dangerous horn Just
missed my back; she pinned me to tho.
ground with her nose, Intending to
tramplo me to death, But at tliut mo
ment I turned upon her and got tho
contents of the second barrel full under
the shoulder blade, right Into her heart.
I owed my life to not letting go my
hold on the gun during this dangerous
adventure, The rhinoceros sprang
uwny from me, but fell down dead u
vfew yards nwuy,"
Cut Off His Own Thumb,
The fuct that Kruger amputated Ills
own thumb is well known, but it Is In.
terestlng to huvo his version of the
story, Ho was In pursuit of a rhlnoc.
eros In 1845;
"1 succeeded In getting a second
shot," ho saybj "but ut that very mo
ment my rllle exploded Just where I
held It with my left hand, and my left
thumb, the lock and the rumrod lay on
the ground and the barrel of the gun
behind me, I had no time to think, lor
tho furious animal was almost upon
me, so I Jumped on my horse and gal
loped away as fast us I could, with the
rhinoceros In fierce pursuit, until wo
came to the ford of a little spruit, when
my pursuer came to the ground und so
allowed mo to ride quietly In tho direc
tion of our wagons.
"My hand was In a horrible state.
Everyone advised me to send for a doc
tor and havo it amputated; but I posl
tiely refused to allow myself to be still
further mutilated of rav own free will.
The two joints of what was once my
thumb had gone, but it appeared that
It would still bo necessary to remove
a piece of bone. I took my knife, in
tending to perform the operation, but
they took it away from me. I got hold
of another a little later and cut across
the ball of the thumb, removing as
much as was necessary. The worst
bleeding was over, but the operation
was a very painful one."
Personal Adventures.
Many of the most interesting pages
or Ooni Paul's book relate to the wars
with th native tribes. These passages
constitute a lasting record of the large
part played by the Boers In opening up
South Africa to white civilization, the
fruit of which now fall to the Eng
lish. I will niioto only u few passages
doallnjj with some of Mr. Kruger's per
sonal adventutes. Onp of these de
scribes a battle with the Kntllr chief
Secholl:
"On Monday morning tle battle be
pan, I was well in front and brought
down a number of Katllrs with my
four-pounder, wlilcli I loaded ' with
eoarse shot. When tho mountain on
which Seehell's town lay was already
partly taken, I.ouw du Plessls, who was
serving tho guns, accidentally lilt a
large roefc, and thn ball, 'rebounding,
struck, my head with such force that I
fell to the ground unconscious. A ccr
taln Van itooyen had to help me to my
feet, und at the same tlmei bound up
my aching head In, u cloth
"Willie I was lying unconscious mid
Van Itooyen wus busying himself about
u, a Hottentot servant of my broth
er's, tliank3 to his accurate ulni, kept
tho Katllrs ut a safe distance. When 1
camo to thyself, thu first thing I saw
was that t,w Kami's were creeping up
behind rocks and bowjdurs, and I re
alized the danger that my burghers
would be exposed to If not warned in
time. I ut once got up to lead the at
tack on the dangerous points, although
my wound prevented me from carrying
my musket. Tho Katllrs kept up u hot
fire from every cave and gorge, but,
after n sharp fight, tho burghers sue
ceeded In driving them from tho moun
tain. "My lifo was in danger for a second
tliuo- during tho same buttle, One of
tho enemy's bullets, Hred from a huge
rllle, struck mo on the chest and tore
my Jacket In two."
Kruger ns a Strategist,
In 1853 the Kafllr chiefs, Mapela and
Mnkupaan, murdered the brother of the
lute General Potgleter with horrible
tortures. They skinned their victim
alive und tore his entrails from his
body before he had ceased to. breathe.
Kruger joined In a punitive expedition
under General Pietorlus und tho Kaf
firs were ut length cornered In caves
and reduced almost to starvation. '
"After the Katllrs had been besieged
for some time," says Mr, Kruger. 'I
endeavored to end o matter and '
bring about a surrender by strategem.
With this object in view, I crept in
the dark, unseen, into the cavo where
tho Katllrs lay hidden. I sat down
among them and began to talk to them
in their own language, ns though I
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that It would surely be better to sur
render than die of hunger. I also suid
that I was certain that the white men
would not kill us, and offered myself to
go to the whjto men to treat with
them. Suddenly an urmed Kafllr ex
claimed: " 'Magoa!' (white man!)
"But this dangerous moment also
passed, for, when the Kafllr shouted
'Magoa!' all the others fled deeper Into
the cavo, and I jumped up and ran
after them, right into thq back of the
cave. Tho Kaffirs now began to hunt
for the white man, looking for him In
every direction except where he was,
in their very midst."
Kruger failed In his strategy to se
cure a surrender, but escaped with his
life. A little later a Kafllr prisoner
offered to show the white men some
caves where elephants' tusks lay in
heaps, and Paul Kruger headed a small
party, to go und seek tho treasure.' On
his way ho came upon the bloody
clothes of women nnd children who
had been murdered by the Kafllrs, as
well as tho roasted remains of their
bodies left by the cannibalistic blacks.
Tho Kafllr prisoner himself wore
clothes that had clearly belonged to a
murdered white man, yet tho Boers did
not discover that the. heaps of ele
phants' tusks were a myth until tho
wily black had almost escaped.
Bitter Toward Rhodes.
Conio wo now t tho subject of tho
British, us seen through thn eyes of a
life-long enemy. Tho more than ques
tionable methods by which tho Klm
berly diamond mines wero acquired nro
briefly described. During the period
of annexation nbout 1S7S Oom Paul
thus explained to his fellow burghers
whut the self-government offered by
the British would mean,, in his opinion;
"They say to you, 'First put your head
quietly In thuinoose, so that I can hang
you up; then you may kick your legs
about as much us you pleasu!' That Is
whnt they call self-government," His
Ideas, of course, huve not changed on
this point.
Yet he shows somo discrimination lit
his animosity; ho pralbes Sir Hcrculeb
Robinson and a few other Englishmen,
But for Cecil Rhodes, dead or alive, he
Iris nothing good to say, Hero Is hla
estimate of the South African Imperial
ist: "In splto of tho high eulogiuiiis
passed upon him by his friends, he was
one of tho mosi unscrupulous charac
ters that have ever existed. The Jecu
Ideal maxim thai 'the end Justifies the
means' formed his only political creed.
This man was tho curse of South Af
rica. He had made his fortune by dia
mond speculations at Klmberley, and
tho amalgamation of the Klmberley
diamond mines put hi m in possession of
enormous influence in the finunclal
world. Rhodes was capltul Incarnate,
No matter how base, no matter how
contemptible, be it lying, bribery or
treachery, all and every means wcio
welcome to him, if they led to the at
tainment of his objects."
The Jameson. Raid.
Rhodes' part in the Jameson raid, ns
recited by Kruger, Is nothing new, nor
is his llrm conviction that Joseph
Chamberlain was In collusion with
Rhodes. The author cuoles a passage
in one of Rhodes' letters showing that
the latter 'did not care a fla" for thn
Ultlander franchise, which formed tho
pretext for the raid.
Long before tho raid Mr. Kruger ex
pressed himself thus: "Those people
remind me of . baboon I once had,
which was so fond of me that he would
not let anyone touch me. But one day
wo wero sitting round the lire, and un
fortunately the beast's tail caught In
the lire. He now flew at me furiously,
thinking that I was the cause of his
accident. Tho Johnnnesburghers are
Just like that. They have burnt their
fingers In speculations and now they
want to revenge themselves on Paul
Kruger."
Mr. Kruger protests that the Boers
had no suspicion of the Jameson raid
beforo it occurred. They were well
awure of tho ferment at Johannesburg,
of course, and of the objects of the Na
tional Union. One day when the burgh
ers pressed President Kruger for tho
punishment of tho rebellious element
he used tho words: "l'ou must give the
tortoise timo to put out Its head befoio
you can catch hold of it." Somo people
supposed from tills that ho knew of the
preparations for tho Jameson r.ild, hut
ho says ho referred only to the Na
tional Union. Ho fully believed the
British when they said they wero as
sembling their police for an expedition
against tho Kafllrs. "Tho burghers en
tertained so little suspicion that they
themselves 'assisted In the purchase ot
the military stores and In conveying
tho goods to nil the places which after
ward represented roadside stations for
Jameson's ride,"
The South African republic wns prac
tically defenseless at tho time of the
raid, and the work of armament, which
had such Important effects In tho Into
war, dated from the Uoer awakening
after tho Invasion of Rhodes' underling.
Drive nt Chamberlain.
Mr, Kruger Is convinced that Mr.
Chamberlain had abetted the Jameson
raid, and that after its failure he never
ceased to plan for tho destruction of
the republics.
i'ri 1817" he Suva. "Mr. (!hninhi'liiln
appointed Sir Alfred Mtlner governor
ot uapo colony aim nigii commissioner
of South Africa. There is no doubt
whatever that Chamberlain appointed
Mllner only with n, view to his driving
matters In South Africa to extremes.
Ula rinnnlntlllPIlt was ureoteil 111' !,.
llmrnau wllli Inml InliilnMnn. MMin ,.l,.,-
ucterjstlo aim and object of his policy
ia miuwu uy " huiud niiRii jib em
ployed to a, distinguished Afrikander:
'The power of Afrlkuuderdom must bo
broken.' i
"Tins tool ur cnanioeruun has car
ried out his mission faithfully, and to
day enjoys the satisfaction of having
turned South Africa Into a wilderness
and robbed thousands of Innocent peo
ple of their homes. Lord Mllner is a
typical jingo, autocratic beyond endur
ance and lllled with contempt for all
that Is not English. Ho let no oppor
tunity go by to harassing the republic
and putting his foot on its neck.
"Wo have seen how the attempt upon
the Independence of the republic failed.
But now Mr. Chambuilain was to set
to work to try whether he could not bo
more successful. With his assistance,
Jameson's raid was to be replaced by
a gigantic British raid.
"Ills flist step wus to Invito mo to
conio to England to confer on Trans
vaal matters, while ho began by de
claring that ho was not prepared to dis
cus article four of tho London conven
tion, the only article which still restrict
ed In any way the foreign relations of
the South African repuDHc. One would
really think, to judge from this invita
tion of Mr. Clinmherlalu's, that It was
tho republic and not England that had
to make amends. At the same time
Chamberlain sent off another dispatch
In which hu proposed that a sort of
home rule should be granted to Johan
nesburg, and lie published tills dispatch
In the London press before I received It.
When one reflects that It was tho very
question of homo rule for Ii eland that
caused Mr. Chamberlain to withdraw
from Gladstone's party, and from rad
ical to jingo, one must stand astounded
at his Impudence In making this sug
gestion to me."
Escapes Cnptuio,
The uggrcsslvo movo of tho lluers at
the opening of tho war Is sulllcleutly
uNplalntd that British troops wero be
ing massed upon their borders, nnd that
this military aggression was being aid
ed by diplomatic delays In negotiations.
Mr, Kruger does not tell thu story of
tho actlvo operations in the Held, lie
eause ho took no part la them. His
labors wero confined to the sending and
receiving of dispatches night and day at
Pretoria, with all the administrative du
ties that accumulate In war times. Once
when he visited the Doer camp at Mod
eler liver he nnirowly escaped cnptuio
at the hands of the British.
At last camo the day in 11)00 when he
had to leavo Pretoria to avoid becom
ing a prisoner of Lord Roberts' ad
vance army. One hour beforo his de.
parture he received the American lad
Jimmy Smith, who brought him an ad
dress of sympathy from the schoolboys
or Philadelphia, The event seems to
havo Impressed him quite deeply.
In Exile.
In iv few simple words the old man
tells of his sorrow over leaving his aged
wife, whom he knew ho should never
seo iiguln on earth. She died soon after
his arrival lu Europe. When he had
camped for a few weeks with the
burghers In the eastern part of the
Transvaal the active leuders took mat
ters In their hands mid decided that
Kruger could aid their muse more by
going to Europe and seeking assist
ance there than by remaining "to no
captured. Of this exile he siu'-h;
"If my departure from Pretoria was
a bitter blow to me, my 'departure,
under such sorrowful circumstances,
from tho land to which 1 had "ileyoted
my life wns doubly bitter. ""s,q.v it
swarming with the enemy, who, u"nr
rognncc, was already declaring Tthat-.thc
war was over and that onl,v j'ue,rr'llla
bands now Infested the couiytry. ' t. had
to bid good-bye to tho menWio had
stood beside mo for so manyyears and
to leavo my country and iny' people,
my gray-hnlred wife, my children, my
fi lends and the little band 'or ;ipn
hoarted fighters, who, surrounded' as
they wero on every side, had 'now to
make their way through an uhl'ntyib
lted district to the north of tho' repub
lic, there to reorganize and' recom
mence the struggle. But I had no
choice, I must cither submit to tho
decision or allow myself to bo taken
prisoner. My ago prevented mo from
riding, and It was. theiefore. Impos
sible for me to accompany the com
mandos further."
Oom Paul's ingrained religious op
timism remains in evidence throughout
his book, and even now he apparently
refuses to regard the fato of tho Boer
republics as !!na1. Ho closes his book
with these words:
"Nor, lu so far ns I myself am con
cerned, will I consent to lose courage
because tho peace Is nut such as the
burghers wished. For, quito apart from
the fact that tho bloodshed and fearful
sufferings of the people of the two re
publics are now ended, I am convinced
that God docs not forsake His people,
even though It may often appear so, ,
Therefore, I resign myself to tho' will
of the Lord. I know that Ho will not
allow the allllcted people to perish. Ho
Is the Lord, and all hearts nre In His
baud and Ho turneth them whitherso
ever Ho will."
Wlmtovcr elso may bo said of Mr.
Kruger's hook, 1 think it must bo ad
mitted that It has tho dignity of innate
strength. Them Is none of the com
plaining or ranting that would Inevit
ably como from a weaker charai'ter un
der the circumstances. While it Is nn
ex pnrtu statement of a matter that has
another side, Its bitterness Is attended
with restuilut nnd his sarciisin is the
more biting because It Is quiet. As n
human document the book possesses a
rare and lasting interest, while as a
chapter of history It can never bo Ig
nored. The volume (Ills -ISO clearly printed
pages and contains two portraits of the
author and a good Index. In England
Mr. Uiiwln prints the book lu two vol
umes and charges $8 for It. In tho
United S;ates it Is Issued by tho Pen
tury company, New York, In one vol
ume, costing $3.50, to which twenty
cents must bo added If the book Is de
livered by mall.
Tho fruit brick Is the Intent form pt
preserve. It Is rectangular or disc shaped
and done up lu oiled tlsbue paper. Tho
consistency ia tliut of a small gumdrop,
and, being composed largely of sugar, thu
flavor of thu fruit is letained admirably.
Those Inieks will soon be on the market
from California.
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