DOPPER CHURCH, PRETORIA.
The Dopper or Quaker Church, Pretoria, where President Kruger very often preached. It stood directly opposite his house, and has quite recently been replaced by a more modern structure.
1881-1896.] Character of President Kruger.
Mr. Kruger was by birth a peasant, and remained to the end a peasant in ideas. His will power was coupled with a subtle cunning; his horizon was narrow, and limited and never expanded; his mind was always filled with suspicion and jealousy of all that he could not understand. His patriotism had not prevented him from taking office under the British Government, and asking from that government higher pay. His attitude to the Outlanders, were these of British nationality, was one of insolent contempt. When Johannesburg presented a petition asking for reforms, he remarked, "Ah! that's just like my monkey. You know I keep a monkey in my back yard, and the other day, when we were burning some rubbish, the monkey managed to get his tail burnt, whereupon he bit me. That's just like these people in Johannesburg. They burn their tails in the fire of speculation and then they come and bite me."
THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE, PRETORIA.
This house was given to Paul Kruger by a man named Nellmapius, the original liquor concessionaire, as a small token of gratitude. The only outward signs of its purpose are the flagstaff and a lazy sentry.
"Protest! protest!" he said on another occasion, "what is the good of protesting? You have not got the guns! I have."
A MONSTER ANT-HILL.