A Kind Boer.

Manawatu Herald, 22 December 1900, Page 3

A Kind Boer.

» Major A. C. Hamilton, 6th Dragoon Guards, in a letter to his mother, Mrs J. F. C. Hamilton of £vde, dated Bemberton, Sept. 26th, says :—" I have a little moral story which you can publish in a paper if von like with names I dined with Van de Post, whom wo took here. He was a Free State commandant and Speaker of the Volksraad. He told me, after the engagement at Ramah, he found a soldier who had been out all night, bleeding to death and nearly dead. His doctor said "It is useless to do anything for him" and suggesting amputating both legs. Van de Post looked in the soldier's pocket, and found a letter from his mother to this effect : « Dear George— l* am so anxious about spu in this terrible war, but 1 hope jo* will always be merciful to j the wounded, and respect women, and cause aa little pain to others as

you can, for Christ's sake. — Your Mother." He was so touched that he wired for his carriage and the best doctor, sent the man to his own farm, which was near, and he quite recovered. His name was George Cowan, Mounted Infantry. It would ba nice if his mother knew this."