The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-23

WARRIORS OF THREE TYPES,
Continued from Fifth CoIumno

| from ruth COlUmn.1
cling on a circuit with the supreme court.
and who had frequently accompanied Mr..
Steyn before he became chief of the
! state. This gentleman could hobble a
horse, could make a fire of buffalo dung,
COOK a dinner in the open, negotiate
| difficult ford, shoot, ride, forage, read the
signs of the sky-in short, he had the
| hundred odd tricks of the frontiersman
which come from a life in the veldt, but
are difficult to acquire in the barrack
yard. The South African republics have
been modified by the Introduction of the
| railway and the aggregation Of dwellings
in towns, but that modification is yet far
| from making a radical difference in their
| life. The Africander to-day has not a.
roaring lion always at hand, as had Dom
| Paul in his youth, but he has shooting
| on all sides of him when he chooses to
| take day off, and target practice is the
| regular pastime of all ages. The railway
is still rarity, and those who travel on
business or pleasure must still live in the
| wilderness and practice the arts of Rob-
lnson Crusoe to some extent. The Boe~s
to-day resemble the pioneers of the gre" Il
| West of the United States, who crossed
the Mississippi and wandered over the
| great plains in big "prairie schooners"
drawn by oxen, seeking an "Eldorado" in
| the setting sun.
The Boer is so hard to tackle because
| ne is so much like us. He is not much of
| a scholar-he reads mainly his Bble-he
knows nothing of statistics, and he de-
chnes even to take a census of the
Iransvaal, but he is a good shot, he is
cool headed, he Is operating on interior
Ing under officers he trusts he is not
swindled by political Adventures as
were our soldiers at Tampa, nor is he at
| the mercy of strategists whose capacitv
| to conduct operations was arrested many
years ago. The Boer is fighting a thor
oughly national war, war in which not
merely all the men, but a good portion
| of the women, are embarked 49,
This war is particularly important to
us Anglo-Saxons because it is giving us
| most satisfactory evidence that the South
African Boer is worthy to stand shoulder
to shoulder with us in the future con-
| quest of the world The blood Of the
! Beers Is that Of men who have faced dam
| ger rather than submit to political or re-
| ligious tyranny. 1T is the blood of those
who broke the power of Spain in the age
| Of Queen Elizabeth. The Boer of to-day
| may be wrong or may be right-but we
Anglo-Saxons must rejoice that in this
war Boer and Briton have come to know
one another as has never happened be-
| fore At last the Boer respects the Briton
and he in turn has ceased to speak dis
paragingly Of Boer courage. My own ex-
| pertence Of Beers is that their average of
all round manly virtues compares favor
ably with ours, and that they excel us in
| L.
! volksraad, as there is in congress, but
| that corruption has not yet, at least, af-
| fected his disposition to march cheer
fully into battle. Tommy Atkins spills
| his blood with equal cheerfulness, but
! does not as rule get so much in return
| he is apt to do in South Africa what he
| has been taught to do at Aldershot. He
| has an idea that 1t is unmanly to dodge
a bullet, that it is more soldferly to stand
| up and be shot. That idea he put into
| practice when Braddock lost half his men
in 1855, and it led to disastrous conse-
quences in the war which opened in 1775.
| The Boer and Yankee have learned the
| military art mainly fighting natives"
and wild animals-and, after all, sayages
ought to know the trade, for they are
practicing it all the time. The British
regular needs a lesson in this matter He
must realize that the man who shoots
from behind a rock is not necessarily a
| coward, and that the chief business Of
leader is not to advertise his dash ard
personal bravery-those things we take
for granted in men of our breed. But
what we do look for in every officer is
that he should know where the enemy is,
| how strong he is, how he is armed and
| how he may be defeated with least loss
of life to his own side. The business Of
an invading army is not to make an ex-
hibition for the benefit of newspapers,
| but to win battles and close the war
The Yankee soldier has much to learn
from Tommy Atlkins-how to secure hon.
est administration and material comforts
In camp and on the march. And in his
turn Tommy can learn much from the
. Yankee soldier in what pertains to trav-
cling light In the enemy's country, skir-
mishing and scouting with crafty en-