Show englishman AND BOER general botha the bead head of the military forces arces which gave general buller v his first experience in modem wa carfare var fare 0 halted his troops at the tugo tuge la river and kept all england in suspense tor for several months until gen rubens roberts aided by gen french drove to surrender in the bed of the modder river Is now serving under th the flag he hd shot at from the heights of kop gen botha Is prime min lister in the transvaal leading tho the lawmaker 8 of the south african colony and advising them in the arts of peace who could have foreseen this remarkable transformation at the time joseph chamberlain was being hailed aa as the war ar god of england say at the time london was celebrating the relief of f the troops at mafeking Mafe king then there was a bitterness that was almost madness ditc itc ness Gs against anything boer or pro doer but since sinco the chamberlain peo plo haro have been relegated to po positions sitione 0 of liaa 1 importance and the friend of tile boer vannorman his has h is As advanced to the head of british at u fairs the change la Is for En glands glory instead ot of a policy of 0 bate hate tho the boors are being won over by friendly coop coor co op or they are being made lovers of british rule and in a few years they will be the ardent re specters of ens eng ufah justice that tho the canadians are bece ara are forgetting their differences and uniting in a mutually up building ot of a country great in material resources this Is one of the blessings of modern intelligence and sanity there was a period when the victors always n made ado tho the vanquished feel tho the ang ot defeat with an unending humiliation an implacable enmity was nurtured until the fate of war turned in favor of the harassed and thon then the haughty were in turn made to grovel in fi n tho the dust this all Is A a relic of barbarism of a t time when undisciplined minds knew nothing but revenge and vanity but modern thought Is along brighter lines there Is no sarit of revenge no gloating over the misfortunes of others no haughty superiority tho the thought uppermost in the minds of great statesmen is orle of love for all mankind prompted by a desire to do good racial differ koncos aro are lost sight of and a man is 13 esteemed for his own awn real worth regardless gard less of his birth or ancestry that 4 1 civilization that is enlightenment that ig advancement |