Show I PRETORIA A DULL fOWNo Boer Capital Was LiKe an American Town Whose Boom Has BurstAIthough Only Thirty Miles from Johannesburg Johan-nesburg it Had None of the Latters BustleAt the Time of the Nachtmal it Awoke But Soon Dozed Again t i i Iti I Capetown June Pretoria I is the moat typical of Boer towns or wasbc fore Bobns troops entered and l Com Paul took the carnal off on the rail W1 > Itfl him Inhl3 private car ItT It-T was quiet moat of the year and as dull at Dutch peasant life and a small F place Indeed the visitors ot tu few years agp would have said attract the eyes call the world But nevertheless it was the seat ot Krugcra government the place In which the Jcglslators assembled to do his bidding and to pay their respects to Vrow Kruger the Presidents kitchen 1 kitch-en cabinet To Pretoria toO the Boers trekked even from the most distant laagers to be present at the Xafhtmaal or yearly commission which they celebrated In the old brick church In the center of the city At these times of lawmaklng ol breadbreaking there waa dignified plc tur squene8S jn the town most attractive C attrac-tive to the traveler The simple manners man-ners of the members of the Haadhuls and the Volkaraad the upper and lower low-er houses of Congress were delightfully delight-fully democratic BO different from what one sees In other capitals Compared Com-pared to the Boer Congressman demeanor de-meanor the action of Presidentelect Jackson In the legend of his hitching his home to ural fence and walking up to be Inaugurated Is gaudy ostentation ostenta-tion But the dignity of these ofllccrs x shows to their advantage and to Pre torias at the time of the Nachtmaal I Then there Is square camp of huge canvascovered wagons about the sacred I sa-cred edifice In this mecca ot the Transvaal Trans-vaal and the night is worth a Journey from America to see Each cart with I its rosyfaced girls and women its roughbearded men and its yokes of oxen forming a community In Itself and yet a part of the great family of worshipers each striving to live truly as their Old 1 Testament taught them Intimated to his counselors how ho would have them think Between the house and the road Is a telegraph J line on poles nothing IB l underground that region except gold and the dead There Is not even a drive leading up to the house nor was there oven a sl non n-on Lhe door to indicate that It was the Executive mansion If a visitor knocked at the entrance he was likely to wall some minutes for a servant to appear After Dr Jamesons attempt on Jo hannesburg the President had six stal i wart troopers encamped near by who formed his escort when he drove to and fro between his home and the Government Govern-ment building Along this dusty roud In which the President lived one would see huge freighting wagons with as many us sixteen oxen drawing them and here and there a group of negro I prisoners patching a particularly bad I spot In the roadbed There were men I on horseback too rou hlooking fellows fel-lows with huge beards and no learn lug except that of thc trek and the vaul They would make excellent cowboys these great beared giants for they learned to ride before they could walk I and to shoot almost as early Krugcr for instance who waa a herder killed his first big game when he was 7 years oldThe The Government building Is near the old church High on the dome above Is I the statue of liberty In whose name the Boers have fought liberty for themselves that is From the roof of the building one may see the valleys whose intersection forms the oblong saucershaped plain on which Pretoria stands The city Is named after Pro torius the first President of the late republic There are dismantled forts about It at Iloselekats Nek at Herman Kraal I at Erasmus Farm one beyond Skinners Skin-ners Court at Daspoort and at Won derboompoort of Interest historically I histori-cally rather than otherwise today and forming part of the scene which though 1000 miles from Capetown Is worth the journey to look upon h I I j fl r 2 4r1 1 m < tiiitI14 awi 4 q z 1Ajfl7 I t 3 ttt + i 2 1 t 3 o oii Paul says Where I am there is the Capital Despite the seizuro of Pretoria by the British therefore tile from his rolling Statehouse 7 Kruger will continue to conduct campaign i When tho Kuudliula and the VolkB raad wore shut however anti J It wiw not tho time of the NuHitmaul tlinji Pretoria WW quieter limn anything on earth except an American town whoso has lnlrst boom This dullness sur1rtflerl the visitor nr III ll1c capital from Johanna 1lvlng The uldeii dumgo from mlLJu burg sss and exeiunnentot the one town to lhp and luleL oC the other Wll peace J1ie tOWl1tJ urc only thirty tllarllll1g well dlflcnnt UM aiarLbut at miles be ulqrl In jolnnetibU1g the noi land l UUl bUSttOt broltcn galher rom Hm and world and the inesant of the 0 Jarl o PUDt mills lrcshlnG tins the poundlur qf WitvttteIniftntl whctc from tlio 1 de lain In llldlng theRe ffill1Y 1us trensur il1stnnsurclhe love of 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