[Oct. 1899.
Enthusiasm of the British public.
The nation, too, began to feel that it had a solemn duty to its soldiers. Vast crowds followed the reservists to the points of mobilisation; eyes were dim at the thought of the sacrifice these brave men were making. For they were going to adventure "life and love and youth for the great prize of death in battle," at their country's call. They were exchanging, many of them, comfort and comparative ease for the hunger and rain and cold of the dreary bivouac, for the toilsome march beneath the burning sun of the veldt, for torture by wounds, and death in its most terrifying forms. They were leaving behind them women and children who looked to them for daily bread. Yet they came with a single heart; came cheerfully, and gave to their country all that they had to give as the choicest offering of their love and devotion.
[Photo by Elliott & Fry.
née Miss Jennie Jerome. Of American parentage; she is the mother of two sons, one of whom, Mr. Winston Churchill, was recently a prisoner in Pretoria, having displayed conspicuous bravery in a small fight at which he was present as a newspaper correspondent. Lady Randolph was instrumental in organising the hospital ship Maine as a token of American brotherhood with Great Britain.
[Photo by Gregory.
[Photo by Gregory.