New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-03

They were TO go wherever he went wherever they
70 me his face suggests the front Of granite
mountain scanned. lined, battered by storm STRAIN
ana rackfng change It records acquaintance with
ever trial 70 when nortas are put, all suffered in
the solitude OF undivided responsiDlnity. CaLGi
worry sickness, danger, unceaslng renecton! Oh. a.
had left their marks there, yet an were "rdL1en n
across gentle; saa1 stern and Wholly igno-
rant Of passion. have known many great kftIes,
rhat in the minds of their worshipPers, some OF
The soberer gods OF the Ole mythoios1es mad races
Re dresses in serge khaki which, plain as that
ding il of all orders and decorations. There are
men his sraf-there was even an american
r7eyysDaper reporter of the arnles--Who
wear a line and a half of ribbons. But the ChleI
day for every duty and function, with turic as
bare Of decorations as that OF any cIV1la ne Is
so neat and precise in his dress that suspect ne
nick and nervous in his movement and his
stanT habit is to thrust either one both hands
artists 10 familiartze mis- figure with the public ne
is instantaneous and direct in conversation, and
goes as straight the point in view as well
aimed bullet o a
! nave noticed that when he meets people ne
advances toward them eagerly, listens intenLy. ana
in three minutes either engages The new acqualnt-
snce IN earnest conversation or has done with MIN
,osT az i ne We're parT of the royalty he repre-
san+s You DO not call upon him You sign your
in q book, and he sends Tor You later II ne
wants 10 see you II may De DUKE whom you
find in the sale Of the Residency-es IL was In my
esse-and VINO offers me register LUI you I'D - 70 30
so mas 10 from interruption, therefore, Wis
FIoernTontein where ne living between walls,
MS table was q small one, standing rev , feet
his sta1f-hs ponderous, impressive stan OF dis
tnguIshed men Of the arisuocracy. You dlned with
.'Eobs'' in khaki Of course, a his small rable-if
you were highly hOnored; or you may dine with MS
STAFF, and be presented 10 him after the meal for a
precisely The amount and extent Of state about his
surroundings. all vanishes when you
touch the hand Of THE little man and talk with
the the war around him and politics at home you
wonder that politics ind such spacious lodg1len55
Ip s~ min haV
aD% PoIlcS sonIE Africa-when he could have
Kandahar. in many fields. Lord Roberts never
a glass Of wine with of the three meals sui
diers. and they all know that he shows no patience
with those VINO drink TO excess. he pIesloes az
ez-tols sobriety but like all broad minded men he
refrains from advocating the impossible-one form
eT17y3arer+veIy, Few men whose religion Influences
gII6 SO dee1v as does his in every affair OF life
He never parades his plety, never forces II upon
Joined his army attended divine service
Not word has he ever spoken to ms stan s.; sng,
costing or ordering Jher presence yer ne Is c5rl
attend the weekly serylce-an example 10 me
mat II cannot help but De powerful. When he took
the sacrament at Dreifonten the other day in the
without hint OF the parading Of religion All saw
in IL an act simple faith. II is almost as hard
70 reconcile mis- gentleness and sympathy with the
lirrn sometimes stern. course which general so
supreme in command. ana al ne head or so iargss
MANY Of mis- friends how he can be both sorts or
men at once-how he can possess traits which we
ina zine must with another.
He does possess them that's all is the best
answer that got; Il don't know how, but he does
Fse is all things all men, in the best sense OF
the phrase" said who knows MIN well; ne
has the royal gift OF boring everybody the
humane quality OF fawless tact the superior al
most sllperhuman gift OF justice. Good men Ike
MIN because ne is good. kindly men md re-
sponsive chord in mis- nature and those VINO are
stern feel that he too. Is stern upon occasion
He cOmpiimented Tommy on MS sol
6ierlfness in such a way TO win the man loyalty
10 the end and surrender Of his life. and on the
very same day he ordered home general
knowing that order carried with II the dis
had not the capacity TO realize his ambition. HIS
army will do anything for him. march longer.
starve harder. go without tents, blankets and rum
days and weeks and die IN greater numbers
for him than for any other man alive. And they
other armies might protest and grumble and go
ahead with sullenness. He get more OUT OF an
army from the Guards down to the toughest scout
Ing force (as be did between Mocder River and
Bioernfontein) than any Russian or German gen
eral could have extorred with iron and discipline
and adamantine authority. II was the so-calIed
London pets"-uhe Guards-who broke all Euro
pean records A three days march into the Free
State Instead Of grumbling, they made II a mat
for boasting. Whenever other prlVates would
damn another leader, Roberts's men would say
simply. " Bobs knows what 'e's about; Bobs VIII
do the Job" II suffices the majority merely 10
up Lord Roberts with this phrase; L Is
man" He can make mistakes That his army