Joubert's Reply

Those who met General Joubert when he was in New York city a few years ago as the guest of Henry George recall him as a plain faced old man with a mass of black hair streaked with gray and a full, grizzled beard. He speaks English, but his wife, a woman prematurely aged with domestic toil, spoke nothing save Dutch and sat patient, though unmistakably bored, at the affairs to which she and her husband were invited. With the father and the mother was a strapping son of 16 or thereabout, who strongly resembled Joubert. 

The old general told with modesty of his negotiations with the British at Majuba Hill, and his eyes sparkled as he recited his reply to the British commander in chief.

"it does not comport with these," said the British general, pointing to the decorations on his breast, "to accede to your terms."

To which said Joubert, pointing to his riflemen. "And it does not comport with these," said the British general, pointing to the decorations on his breast, "to accede to your terms."

To which said Joubert, pointing to his riflemen. "And it does not comport with those to offer any others."--New York Sun.