Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1915 — HAS A BARBARA FRIETCHIE [ARTICLE]

HAS A BARBARA FRIETCHIE

Bouth African Woman Binds on British Rag and Dares Boers to Molest It. London. —South Africa has a Barbara Frietchie, Bhe is Mrs. Pienaar, 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 Qff and bound it around her waisL “You daren’t touch it," she declared. “I’ll carry it and when decent people . Tftumwe’y hqUt

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