The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-29

with the firm, sometimes stern. courss
winch General SO supreme in com
mand, and at the head of so large an
army, must often have to follow. | have
asked many of his friends how he can oe
poth sorts OF men at once-how he can
POSSESS TRAITS which We imagine must
war with one another.
He does possess them, that's all, +.
the pest answer that l got; Il don't know
how, but he does
fEe is ali things to all men. in the hest
sense of the phrase" said one who knows
n m well. He has the royal gift of re-
membering everybody; the humane ouall-
ty OF fawFess tact; the superior. aim 3sf
superhuman, gift of justice Good meu
like @ MN because he is good; kindly men
ma responsive chord in MS nature. and
those who are stern feel that he, ,Gc. IS
stern upon OCCASION
lie mas complimented Tommy on
his sold .erliness in such a wav as IN wiz,
the mans loyalty to the end and surre,,-
der of his life, and on the very same .lay
ne mas ordered nome General, kno oWirg
that the order carried with II the disgr4, q
or a man who meant as well as nimsAtf
but had not, the capacity to realize his
ambition. His army will do anything f1r
MN; march longer, starve harder 20
without tents, blankets and rum more
days and weeks and die n greater num-
bers for him than for any other man
alive And they will do all these things
willingly and gladly, where other armies
might protest and grumble, and go ahe,d
with sullenness. lie can get mo>s ,ct
of an army, from the Guards down 20
the roughest scouting forcetas he ,i. he
tween Modder river and Bloeruf1n.,,i1f
than any Russian or German Iirre:-1I
could have extorted with iron AMI disc
pline and adamantine authority 1t VAS
y IA
who broke all European records IN d
three days march into the Free State
Instead of grumbling, they male it a.
matter for boast!ng. Whenever other mr.
Yates would damn another leader P1b
erts' men would say simply: 'Bobs
knows what 'es about: 'Bobs' will 10
the job 1t suffices the majority merey
to sum up Lord Roberts with this phrase:
. II is a man. He can make no mis-
takes that his army will recognize. What
ever he orders or does is regarded as tie
rejection of superhuman inspiration.
Even if he fails, he is certain to be
considered infalhble at the end There
may have been more than one WeiEii.s-
ton at the head of Britains armies in tine
past, but there has never been a previous
Roherts-never in English history has
there been such idolatry, or any such
magnetic leader.
When he visited Modder river he found
Lord Methuen established in the hotel
and that General had been at the pains
to clear out part of the bulldog anil
appoint 1t for the Field MarshaTs Iol.-
ings. But Lord Roberts. thanking him
remarked that he had ordered his tent
to be set on the veldt, and that there lc
meant to stay. When his army L; IN
motion, marching and fighting, hn iriv-
els with covered wagon and tent,
the first being his house and the second
his workroom. The wagon is a iIy1t
four-wheeled contrivance whose top is a
roomy and complete inclosure AMI de-
fence against rain and cold wind On
the sideboard is painted F NJ Lord
Roberts, so that We may all know it
when it comes along