Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1915 — HAS A BARBARA FRIETCHIE [ARTICLE]

HAS A BARBARA FRIETCHIE

South African Woman Binds on British Flag and Dares Boers to Molest It.

London.— South Africa has a Barbara Frietchie. She is Mrs. Pienaar, who resides at Winburg, Union of South Africa. When General De Wet, heading the rebels, captured foe town, some of his troops hauled down the British flag from the courthouse and fifing 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. “HI carry it and when decent people' returA Wti hoist H agaiß/” '

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