The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-01-28
BRITAIN'S BEST GENERAL
ER n. HERBERT KITCHENER HAS HAD
AN ADVENTUROUS CAREER.
Striking Incidents in the Life OF This Re
markabie Irishman-Having Crushed
the Dervishes His Grateful Country Is
Showering Honors Upon Him.

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the Deryishes His Grateful Country is
showering Honors Upon Him.
Like Wellington, /Wolseley and
Roberts, Major-General Horatio Her.
bert Kitchener is an Irishman, having
been born in the Kingdom OF Kerry
some forty-seven years ago. he Is
tall. standing full six feet in his stock
ing feet, and dark skinned-which
latter is but natural otter twenty years
of service in Africa. Finding his CON-
mission in the Royal Engineers too
peaceful. he fought as volunteer IN
the two great European wars OF recent
times-against the Prussians with |
General Chanzy's army of the Lore,
aud against the Cars soldiers in the
Balkans, under Baker Pasha. But
most of his service has been, IN the
East. where he first went in charge OF
a party of surveyors in Palestine.
Here he began to acquire his re-
markable knowledge of Oriental Ian
guages and tribes, of which many
stories are told. For example, at one
of his army's camps on the Nile, two
Arab date sellers were arrested as sus-
pected spies, and confined in the guard
tent. Shortly afterward third Arab
prisoner was hastily bundled into the
tent. An animated jabbering ensued
between the three, and in few min
utes, much to the establishment of the
sentry, the latest arrival drew aside
the doorway and stepped out, remark
ing: "All right sentry; I'm going to
the General.
It was Kitchener. Again, only
few minutes passed when an orderly
hurried up, and spade was handed
to each of the two Arabs, who were
marched outside the lines, dug their
graves, and we're shot. They were
two dangerous spies and Kitchener
had detected them.
Probably because he has thus been
q wanderer on the face of the earth
q modern Ulysses. who has very liter
ally "seen many men and known their
minds" also because he has
; been a terribly busy man from his
early youth, Sir Herbert has never
married. In his forty-eighth year he
. is still a bachelor. But perhaps mar
4 rage will come in the near future witt
: all the other desirable things that hi
. grateful country is preparing for him
Q It is stated in some quarters that hi
honors for Omdurman will include
!, heavy money grant, in addition to
3 peerage.
). Kitchener began his career by yer,
d slow steps, taking twelve years to gail
Q his Captaincy in the engineers. Blu
= directly his chance came his coolnes
:. and self-command, his indomitabl
!, energy, and his miraculous capacit
= for hard work marked him out as
d man of action. The turning point i
o his career came when General 81
70 Evelyn Wood undertook the reorgar
h ization of the Egyptian Army. Il
took service under Wood in 1881. an
n in 1885 his marvellous knowledge
:. the native mind and language brougl
" him to the front. He was sent ahea
of Sir Garnet Wolseley to deal wit
be- the native chiefs and officials who's
attitude was uncertain. The follow
as ing picturesque account of him whe
y engaged on this ticklish mission WI
IN written by an enthusiastic admirer
ba the Sirdar soon after the victory
Atbara:
al seThe first tim saw Kitchener
no was alone and unarmed among t.
semi.hostile Arabs, endeavoring
Hss persuade them that their interes
,ht would be best served if they took pa
with British and Egyptian fore
,er against the dervish rebellion. 1t W
ed strange sight to see this tall, sill
blne-eyed Irishman armed only wi
'ou illimitable self-confdence and fearle
lie ness, arguing with, and sometim
threatening, the powerful chiefs wi
no for aught he knew, might have be
len sworn allies of the tribe that had j.
hey murdered Colonel Donald Stewart
Consul Power not many miles furtf
up the Nile.
when persuasive reasoning failt
KID he did not shrink from tell
lch these people what their punishm'
pc would be when the White Emir q
n a his legions came upon them, mean
axe Lord Wolseley with the Brit
IS battalions that were then toiling slov
and up the Cataract. Those brave wor
be in which there was no doubt tot
t 1t of boastfulness pardonable in the
tnls cumstances, frequently gave rise
De- angry murmurs and sullen looks,
the they were met by the glance OF
OF that would not have quailed if look
Jon at grim death-eyes that IN 81
nrst moments glow so curiously that
silly |i;oht in them seems fixed as if 8
tne denly frozen"
It was Sir Herbert Kitchener
olst went ahead of Sir Herbert Stewa
re- column with two native guides IN
pull first dash for the wells OF Oak
the Near there notorious robber lea
ute who had accompanied the Mahdist
the their merciless raids, was surpr
In and chased by Nineteenth Hu
'ugn scouts. He and his few folloy
se OF would probably have escaped ii HI
lded ener, who was well mounted, had
way overtaken them. Alone, and far al
hem of the hussars, he closed with t
TOO ferocious free-booters, and called !
hape them to surrender. The cool da
IS IN that had so often succeeded toll
more lxL;, roonoanf Deceived by it