Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1883 — THE RIGHTING SLAV. [ARTICLE]

THE RIGHTING SLAV.

There is no race of men so dangerous as the fighting Slav, the Montenegrin, the Bosnian, the Herzegovinian, the Croat. Austria knows too bitterly what a terrible antagonist is the cfcrilized Dalmatian when he takes up arms. If these wilder people ever had a character resembling the Buss and Serb and Bulgar, circumstances, have transformed them. Quick of intelligence, but stubborn, cunning though fearless, patient though excitable, the mountain Slav is a very .incarnation in man, of the perfected wild beast. Under a mask of soldierly frankness he is perversely treacherous, as a rule, but also he is bound to the death by his own shibboleths, if one knew them. Pity does not move him; his brain is cool while his passions blaze to madness. And he has the physical advantages which give his character full play. Generally tall, often gigantic, he is always strong, for none but the vigorous survive. His features are handsome; his eyes of palish bine or amber yellow have the keen look fitting to a warrior. A long, fair mustache up-cnrled hides his stem month; his bearing is martial, and his stride full of arrogant>self-con-fidence. Though, rough with his fellows, a man of the upper class is su perbly courteous to the stranger. And a manly costume sets off every advantage.—Belgravia.