New-York tribune., 1898-10-16
ABOUT PEOPLE OF NOTE.
LOPD KITCHENER.
rrN PICTURE OF THE VICTORIOUS ENG
ILSH COMMANDER IN EGYPT.

six feet straight as a lance and looks out i'm
periously above most mems heads ms ''e.,o e..'u
are deliberate and strong; slender but hrWy
kni he seems built for tireless. steel wire en-
durance rather than for power or agility 'hat
also is Irrelevant ., ,.,,,,.o
broyys brick red rather full checks. long mus
tache beneath which you divine an imnovaple
mouth: his face il harsh and neither aPPeai' lor
stTec ion nor stirs dislike. All this Is irrelevant
TOO: neither age, nor figure. nor race. nor any
accident of person has any bearing on the
essential Sirdar. 49,. -. o,,o
You could imagine the character just the same
a. ir an inc cxternals were different He has
nn acr but the prime OF life, no npdy put OH, ~
carry his mind face but one l" Keep h'' "' an
be mind The brain and the Will are the essence
and ne, whole Of the mana brain pSrtec' anu
"a will SO perfect in their workings thal III 'nc
fac. of extremest difficulty. they never seem 10
kroy. what struggle Is. You cannot imagine the
Siidar otherwise than as S'''h6 t'c i'7
To do and doing it. .
TIis precision is so inhuinanly un'rrinE ne -
more like machine than man. YOU i',' iiT
tl3i he ought To be patented ana SHOWN "lti'
pride al the Paris international f'NP"9l|i"','
!, ,I:4h Empire: Exhibit no ! hors concourS'
H.. Soudou Ma hlne ia, ,a, ,.,oso.
!. yatrrrd him in his office. and in th" heid'
aad al ness that h. is the sort oi IN. ,,"i 1
,aeht t. bc madc manager "i tn' a. IL, hans ','r
rn,y stores Thr aphoristS tastes Id! pei FeInii11 In'i'
rr rv i'm tia. direction Of thoN" more G'h'dl
virtues which the Srdar does n0i possess, !c'
il sun nci him up perfectly. re Wuu'" -"
',.l.
q'!.r,. aie some who nurse despttate .',l,, noin
ina r.. may some day I've appointed 10 sweep
o,i liz. war Office lie would t'e SiH ,"dld
r.suaeer Of the War Ohic' lie """'! '' d
sf.'..,did manager Of any thi'G
rur n So happens that h" has tulh'd nm
Ssll t. tn inanlgen'nt "i war IN thr mf
aui he is The complet" ana tn' OH? INA i''' t,,oj
raot art Beginning life ir tue fV!" '',,9' us
,....-a soil rrpGtcd NOR" laIoTdpi' ~ ''"
,h,rcry than 10 human nature ne eaI'H YIN
= iln study If the LcVant. ii" va" one "l
81 y
I,1ccnsicld'S military TlcgiroInu.H 81 'h paI
Minor. L. VAS subsequently director oi ,i t',y r"'
osti.e Exploration Fund. After that ne sur ~
CvUrus whenoc he esoaped-s"Ine "h9P,' %i.
cri leave 80 e". thu houNarimcrt o. N'N-
a-d:id.
MASTERING THU: OCDAN PROBLEM
4, The beginning Of rho Soudan troubles ne
aI;,carcd Ne was ou" Of the "riF''d' w..
49,. onic.,. " no set to work on lhr ne" rE9P
Ian Army And in Egypt and the Soudan nc
r. br.u c,.r .inre-On the staff G"ncia'!' hEhl
inc often living with natives sometimes IA
toiirr tn problem OF the Soudan a"aY9, e
r,,.. harvest Of ffteon years is that NJ h""N ;
1,' .r,thiup that is To bc learned OF ms SuhJc'I
Ho ,ias seen and prohted by the errors t.! p'',hs ~
=. nv their succnsses. He has inherited 'i'e
wisdom and the achievements OF ms ,e ,h1
Aors flr came at tn" right h'ur' ana NJ ""' ''''
In the Egyptian Army. captain OF Roya! f"-
ciuecrs hc h"gan as second -c"niha'u " " "
regiment of cavalry. In WoistipE CdnnI,rs,. ,iI,,'
he was intelligence officer. DURING lhe sunni ,
Of 1887 he was at Korosko. negotiating WIN lne lne
ALahdeh shcks in view OF an advance a,toS
che desert 10 Abu Ha1ned. ana no't nov '' a.
actor,tiCaly he has now hlinSeh p''teieu 'n
then ahandoned project, by gong ina way 10
t;erbcr and Khartoum hiinselt-only with ran
way. 49,, ,r. no
t,uk oy.r from Lord WOlsecy. and indeed from
the inmemorial Arabs: and then from ms o" Il Il
stroke of insight and resolution amounting ~
.cni,s ne turned a raid into an irreSIstlpie Ger
taip conquest by supersedng camelS win th'
railway Others had thought of the desert
route: the Sirdar. connecting hnrosh" " ,i i,"'
used il. Others had projected desert Id'i""! >
thr Sirdar made one. That. suminailZed III one
instance is the working Of the Soudan machine;
As intelligence officer Kitchener accothpahI'u
S,r Herbert Stewart's desert column. and you
mas. hc sure chat the utter breakdown Oi trans
Inrt which must in any case have marred tha'
heroic folly was not unnotced py nun A@ltSt @
ward through the long decade ol NIUE HE"'0
+haI ,ond. ~ Egyptian Army. Kitchener was
fmlIy employed. In 1887 and 1883 ne c1inihahu
"a Suakim. and il is rcinarkabe taat ms liios
4muoTtant enterprise rs half failure. II" AT
,,nk.l o.uAr Digna at HANDFUL when most Oh
the Emir's men were away IaldihE' anu az
though ne succeeded in releasing hu"lpcI VI "
c,ntives h. thought il well to retire, hi''9eil
,,,,,tndrd in the face by Il bullet without any
decisive success. :, ,..o,,o.
for nj. force was "A tumble Of irregulars ana
L.li.s without discipline. But il Is not, perhaps
fanciful 10 believe that the Sirdar. wh" mas
never given battle without making certain OF an
.,nrthilating victory. has not forgotten ms eA
noe of haphdZard bashi baZOuking al Han
dub
REVENGE COMES IN 1855
a.. had his revenge before the end OF lNN0
oheu h, led a brigade of Soudanese over US.
mans trenches at Gemaizch. Next yea, 1 a.
TOski he aga.n coininahueu a vi Sir,ar =
be succeeded Sir Francis Grenfell as Sruar
That ho meant to bc Sirdar i'll fact as wen a. IL
nam. ne showed Immediately. Inc young nm
dive travelled south to the iTonte, an a,u ."In IN
,hn occasion 10 insult every British oihCer ne
cn,,e arross Kitchener promptly gave battle