Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1915 — HAS A BARBARA FRIETCHIE [ARTICLE]

HAS A BARBARA FRIETCHIE

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

London— South Africa has a Barbara Frietehie. She Is Mrs. Pienaar, who resides at Wlnburg, 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. return well hoist it again.”

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