Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-27

80 oP%h ooNlAG ol llIC HiCllI
but the plain is not easy to find in the
Transvaal.
The mountain fastness, the forest and
the ravine are everywhere. There will
be no Waterloo in the present struggle.
There will be many a T~hermopylae. Thu
Boer women are also an element of
strength not to be overlooked in esti-
mating the fighting abilities of the peo-
pie. These daring hunters find their
most valuable assistants in their wives
ana sisters, their daughters and their
sWeethearts.
AS might be expected among a race of
men whose pride and glory is their skill
in the use of firearms and their feats of
proWess, excellence in these feats con-
stltutes their surest claim upon the good
VIII OF the gentler sex. Every one of
these sturdy fellows who shoulders his
rifle and hastens to join his comrades
ooes so with the heartiest and bravest
oI>God-speeds from the female members
of his family ringing in his ears.
NO tie is so strong and no affection
is SO tender tina he does not know full
well that it will be strengthened and
MADE more tender by good reports of his
bravery. He knows that there will be no
a"len'atlon IN the rear save only in case
OF ms own shortcomings at the front.
lie knows that the sound sense and
strong arm of wife and daughter will
manage his affairs in his absence as well
as II ne We're present. He knows that
IT ne fails in the performance of his dutv
ms death Will leave neither broken hearts
nor starving families at home. And he
knows, more than all else, that upon his
return he will have ain absolute claim up
on the heart and hand of the fair one
whom he would wed.
THESE women, too, are themselves
handy in the use of firearms, are good
SHOTS, and have all the physical vigor me-
cessary for enduring the hardships of
war. If the British ever succeed IN fore
ing fighting upo Boer territory they win
pc round with guns in their hands. and
they will prove themselves formidable
adversaries in the style of war which
must be carried on there.
Inc Beers are an essentially religious
people. l do not speak of milk and wa
ter religion. either. With these people
1t is something which colors their whole
lie and character, making of them an
earnest n sincere people and Installing
in them that fearlessness of death which
makes the Mohamrnedans the reckless
soldiers that they are. In every Boer
anil Bible reading upon rising is prac-
tlsed as regularly as any other daily
habit. And it can probably be safely
said that nearly Every Boer sololer has
in his kit a Bible, which is read in the
field as regularly as at home.
All these phases of Boer life are most
aluable moral agents not to be over
looked. whether in estimating their cali
bre as foes or in explaining their conf
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