The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-29

ample of this. AS a lad he was so deli
cate that when he went out to India on
his first voyage there as a soldier 1t was
| generally supposed by his most Intimate
friends and relatives that his life would
necessarily be short, SO pale and delicate
was he. We have several Independent
| accounts of how the crew Of the ship and
| some of his messmates pitied the tender
| looking young Anglo-Indian and prophe-
| sled an early grave would be his.
But the Indian climate, his native ell
mate, too, set him up and worked Won
ders with him. How have those prophets
| Of evil been falsifed by what we in our
| time see and know todayi
The Duke OF Wellington was not at all
strong when a lad, and his mother was
often much concerned about his health.
| At Elton he got the reputation Of being
| rather a silent, taciturn, somewhat sui
| len youth. But it is generally believed
now that this was as much due to his
delicate health as 40 any individual char
! acteristics Of his own temperament.
Arthur Wellesley could not stand the
knocking about and tumble
life that some Of his Elton friends enjoyed
at that time, and they were not slow to
make him aware of the fact.
Rochefort Mcguire, whose recent ad-
ventures III Kimberley and help to the
known even than before the siege, was
almost given up when a boy, so poor
was his general health.
| His destined career had to be changed
for no other reason than that his health
would not stand 1t, and he had to go out
to the Cape in order to seek that health
which seemed to be denied him In Eng
land. Happily he found 1t there, and
found fortune, too, at the same time; so
fate. 1
more influential than he himself was to
become, a man who also had had to leave
England and the prospect of being a cler-
gyman owing to his weak state OF health.
This man had once been intended for a
parson, like his father, and would have
perhaps ended his days as a country Vi
car had not bad health stepped in and
made him give UP that idea and set out
for Cape Colony. Then his health became
renewed and today the whole world
knows Cecil Rhodes almost as well as it
knows anybody.
Rhodes may well be called a Soldier
as regards fighting, for. though not a
military man by profession, he was al
ways willing to take any share of fight
Ing that came along his way, and his ad-
vice to doubtful Britons during the late
crisis in Kimberley, to ''be like me and
1t was said that Kruger had such an
opinion of Cecil Rhodes fighting pow
ers that he proposed to put him into
cage when Kimberley was taken, but it
may be also said that Rhodes would
have shown the Beers no small amount
of resistance first before he had thus al
lowed himself to be taken, for he is by
instinct fighting man to the very bone.
Havelock was never very strong and as
a boy he was decidedly on the dark side
of health. Even when a man his pale
face was a general subject of remark
among his followers. But they all knew
his worth and courage when the time OF
trial came.
Perhaps no civilian in this century was
more a born fighter than was Lord By
ron, had he been able to become a real
soldier, but he was kept back from that
by his deformity and by constant bad
health. Yet he went forth manfully to
help the Greeks in their struggles for in
dependence against the Turks and per-
ished at MissolOnghi.
The present kaiser has never been
robust man and as a lad was still more
delicate His deformed arm always gave
him much trouble in affecting his general
health, especially in his younger years.
But he has, by his splendid resolution
and care, grown out of this constant bad
health, and today he IS fighting man
with whom all Europe has to reckon
man not easily to be beaten in what
he undertakes.
So that there is much hope for. delicate
boys after all, if they have the right sort
of British puck in them.
Health and strength are largely mat
ter of will power. after all.