Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1914 — HAS A BARBARA FRIETCHIE [ARTICLE]

HAS A BARBARA FRIETCHIE

South African Woman Binds on British Flag and Dares Boors to ? ? f Molest It. A London. —South Africa has a Barbara Frletchie. She is Mrs. Piepaar, who resides at Winburg, Union of South Africa. When General De Wet, heading the rebels, captured the town, some of his troops hauled down the British flag from the courthouse and flung It in the dirt. Mrs. Pienaar snatched it up and brushed it off and bound it around her waist. “You daren't touch it,” she declared. "I’ll carry it and when decent people return well hoist it again.”

Dispatches say Mrs. Pienaar was cursed by the rebels, but they did not offer to molest her.