Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-08-23
A WOMAN WARRIOR.
Wife Of the Transvaal Commander
a Good Fighter.
Il Was Through Her That the English
Were Defeated at MaJuba-Hsf
Husband's stnnoh Com
rade.

since the DAYS OF IlcOphtTh ING NUM-
Der Of women to actually take part In
the conduct Of thu wars Of their re-
spectise countries has been few. At the
present day there Is only one woman
who, with any justice, can be termed
n general in petticoats,' and that Is
Mrs. Joubert, wife OF Gen. Jou bert, COM
nlandcr In chief OK the Transveal forces.
Mrs. Joubert has accompanied her hns-
band In all the wars he has unde riaken.
Her thecry face, almost hidden from
view under the folds of huge black
capple has become such familiar
sight That the incongruity OF one wcm-
an walking in and out among an armed
force Of several thousand men seems
to be commonplace. From the days of
her earliest childhood Mrs. Joubert has
been used TO wars alarms. She can
load and fire off gun with almost as
much skin as "sliin Pet" (Anglice,
Clever Pie,") himself, and on many oc-
casions has shown the greatest cour-
age.
1t is not generally known that 1t was
to Mrs. Jcube-t that the great defeat
OF the Ell 5lisl r., Majuba was greatly
due. The general considered the posi-
ton unassailable, but Mrs. Joubert
her eyes aiire with patriotism, urged
the attack, eventually conquerinS the
scruples of her husband and the other
coinmandants. The result is known.
Mrs. Joubert's last appearance al a
war occurred during the recent Magat-
GLAND campaign, at the extreme north
of the Transvaal. An artillery, burghcr
ard native force Of nearly 10000 men
was dispatched to the front to subdue
the rebel chief, M'Pefu, eutrenched IN
series of rocky Businesses backed by the
Limpopo. Notwithstanding what was
feared would be the bloody nature of
the war, the heat--over 100 degrees in
the shade-and the fever, the pldcky
woman joined the general week or
two after his arrival at the Hoofd Lager,
accompanied only by two or three little
KafIlr maids.
Finding Gen. Joubert in an anything
but comfortable tent, she routed him
out, erected tent Of her own. and in
stalled him amid all the comforts of
home. What was more, she. recon.
structed the generals mess arradge-
ments and cooked his meals with her
own hands. The wife Of the com
handing general peellng potatoes was
an ordinary sight during the canpaign.
On crc occasion during the war the
news car1e into camp that the general
had been taken Ill 20 miles away, in the
midst of country full Of hostile no
lives aid deadly with malaria. Without
hesitation, Mrs. Jouhert made prepara-
tons to 60 and Join her husband, and
there is little doubt that she would have
accomplished her purpose had not more
reassuring news come to hand.
The war came to an early close owing
to the military genius Of Gen. Joubert.
and, it is not too much to say, his bet
ter half. The plans of the campa gn
from the time Mrs. Joubert arriv,d till
the camp was struck were talked over
at her dinner table, her sound advice
and almost unequaled knowledge of
Kaffir warfare being held in high es-
TEEN.
Although such warrior, Mrs. Jou-
bert Is a true woman. There Is moth
ing masculine about either her appear
ance CT manner. Unlike most Dutch
Afr,kander women. she is slim, espe-
cially when compared with the robust
proportions of Gen. Pet Joubert. Won
deriully active, for her 60 years, and
over. she can accomplish as much hard
work IN an hour as town-lred womea
would in a week.
Needless to say, she is immensely pop
rlar among the hurghers. To the sick
she is ever ready TO lend asst, .nce, ard
many dying mar las blessed her min
istratio9s. Whea no, on the ,,arpath.
Mrs. Joubert Is singularly retiring.
Many Pre.orians have never seen her
although she lives in their r'dst. in
the .ewr -.casa o. Re general. of Mar,
ket s!,es.. I.2F ,; ference, however,
Is fer TIE loist Ct ne farm, where she
loves 10 realG.a uE,i. called forth 10 the
battles CT - ccaa'ry By wifely affee-
tion.--Chicago 1Ymes-Herald.