Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — Kruger’s Youthful Prowess. [ARTICLE]

Kruger’s Youthful Prowess.

Many stories are told of Mr. Kruger’s prowess as a young man. He trekked over the Vaal when he was about Bine, and was fighting the natives a few years- later. He was a field comet at twenty, and rose to be commandant general In tne Boer forces. He became a member of the executive In 1872, and has beqn president since 1882.