The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-10

his movement, and his constant habit is
10 thrust either one or both hands under
ms beta practice which makes it easy
TOT artists to familiariZe his figure with
the public. He Is instantaneous and di-
rect in conversation, and goes as straight
TO the point in view as well aimed bull
let to a target
have noticed that when he meets new
people ne advances toward them eagerly,
listens intently, and in three minuteG
elther engages the new acquaintance in
earnest converse ton or has done with
him with a decisive nod of parting With
the army in South Africa his headquar-
teFS 1orns a court-almost as if he were
a part OF the royalty he represents. You
do not call upon him. You sign your
name IN a book, and he sends for you
later if he wants to see you. 1t NAV be
duke whom you find in the sale of the
residency, as it was in nv case-aud
who offers the register for you to sign
Ihe Held marshal works continuously
and to do so has to be free from inter
ruptlon; therefore, visitors meet him only
at luncheon or dinner. In Bloemfontein,
where he was living between walls. his
table was a small one standing q few
feet from the head OF the large, long ia
BILE at which sat his staff-his pOnderous
Impressive staff of distinguished men OF
the aristOcracy You dined with
"Bobs' in khaki, of course, at his small
table-if you were highly hOnored; or you
may dine with his staff, and be presented
to him after the meal for long or a
brief interview, as he pieases. That is
precisely the amount and extent of state
about his surroundings. But all state
VanisheS when you touch the hand OF
the little man and talk with him about
the two subjects which engrUSs him
the war around him and politics at
home. If you wonder that politics find
such spacious Judgment as they do in his
, mind, you have hot remembered how poll
tics affected him in his career as a gen
eral, here in South Africa-When he could
have prevented this war by a vastly
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Lord Roberts never smokes tobacco, and
with drink he has little to do. glass
of wine with two of the three meals suf-
fees for him He breaches temperance
to his soldiers and they all know that
he shows no patience with those who
drink to excess. He presides at meetings
of the Army Temperance association and
eXtOls sobriety, but like all broad
minded men, he refrains from advocating
the impOssible-one form Of which is total
abstinence He has never been known
to use an OATH and indeed, there must
be comparatively few men whose religion
influences them so deeply as does his in
every affair Of life. He never parades
his piety, never forces 1t upon those
he joined his army he has attended d.
vine service. Not a word has he ever
spoken to his staff suggesting or ordering
their presence, yet he is certain to attend
the weekly service-an example to the
army so modestly and so persistently
presented that it cannot help but be pow
erful When he took the sacrament at
Drieifontein the other day, In the face,
one might say of the whole army, it
was without a hint of the parading of re-
ligiOn. All saw in 1t an act of simple
faith 1t is almost as hard to reconcile
his gentleness and sympathy with the
firm, sometimes stern, course which
general so supreme in command, and at
the head of so large an army, must often
have to follow. l have asked many OF
his friends how he can be both 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" Is
the best answer that got; Il don't know
how, but he does"
"He IS all things to all men, in the
best sense of the phrase" said one who
knows him well. "He has the royal gift
of remembering everybody; the humane
most superhuman, gift OF justice. Good
men like him because he is good kindly
men find a responsive chord in his nature
and those who are stern feel that he, too,
is stern upon occasion
He has complimented a Tommy" on
his soldierlfness in such a way as to win
the mans loyalty to the end and sur
render of his life, and on the very same
day he has ordered home a general,
knowing that the order carried with it
the disgrace of a man who meant as wei
as himself, but 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 more days and weeks and die in
greater numbers for him than for any
other man living. And they will do al
these things willingly and gladly, where
other armies might protest and grumble
and go ahead with sullenness. He can
get more out of an army from The
Guards down to the toughest scouting
force (as he did between Modder river
and Bloemfontein) than any Russian or