The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-22
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Co. KERRY

This is a peculiar figure that steps
forward to take it's place in the front
ranks in the March of the Conquer
ors.
Even now, with the laurels of his
achievements fresh, men acclaim him
not nearly so much for what he did as
for the way he did it.
This is a conqueror whose men do
not go mad with love and alteration
of him when he rides over the stricken
field.
frightening, silent maxwell fitted
to go down in British history as The
Silent Destroyer. Less man than SOL
dier less man than slayer, less man
than machine-mark him as he moves
through the dead routine of drilling
hopeless native troops, the dead rout-
inc of a practice march-iron jawed,
wordless, eXpressionless, emotionless,
Iron jawed, wordless, expressionless,
emotionless, mark him moving living
men toward other living men on the
battlefields. Dongola, Atbara. Omdur-
man! Move after move, check, check
mattel For all that any man knows
this man moved other men, discarded
them, took them. lost them with as
calm method as the chess player loses
and takes the chessmen.
All the world saw the man, with his
unreliable, still face, move to his place
on the vast. bloody chessboard of the
Transvaal-a chessboard from which
Englands pieces were being swept
fast; all the world saw him move the
pieces. All the world saw the anne
still wavering, going here and going
there, with England's pawns still be-
ing swept away. And then! Check
mattel
Look back a quarter of a century.
In the Bible lands of Palestine, in CAL
lice is a tall, gaunt bony subaltern,
with a hard face, burned brick red.
laying the lines of survey, mapping
the country where a figure once went
through the Passion for the world.
Standing there on stored hills did that
young Englishman, looking out over
the scenes of the most wonderful his
tory that ever was, see himself to be
one day Lord of khartoum?
Men who know him as well as he
permits them to know him say en-
phaucally, Yes" They say that this
man is a man consumed with ambi-
ton, consumed the more that he
keeps its fires deep pent with
in him and does not let the
world see so much as a CLEAN of their
names. They say that from his youth
he moved steadily, unrestingly
never to be turned aside, toward the
prize that his ambition had marked out
for him. If he did not dream of be-
ing Lord khartoum, be sure he dream
ed-nay, knew, that he was to be q
lord of men somewhere, somehow. Con-
corning all which speculation, what re-
ply will you get from Horatio Herbert
Kitchener? No smile, no frown-noth-
ing but that same level, still, unmoved
glance that has been cast over drill
grounds in little villages, over battle
scenes and over crowds of shouting.
enthusiasm-drunken multitudes, strik-
ing their ardor cool within them.
Who Was Hes
If any man in England had asked
any other well informed man in Eng
land twenty-five years ago who is
Kitchener the answer probably
would have been a polite shrug of the
shoulders. There were ten times ten
hundred young Englishmen like him
scattered around the world and It's
seas and doing the work of the empire
well or i'll. and in either case unknown
ana unheeded, except for the heavy
official machine that fed them cut
and checked them off and kept records
of them as they gave bone and sinew
and life for the thing that men call
a government and a country.
His history up TO that time was ;hat
OF most Of the other young men whom
England sends away from home to
build for her greatness. His father
was a soldier Of no very high rank.
He managed 10 climb 10 the lieut4n-
ant-colonelcy of a dragon regiment.
the Thirteenth, a good. hard riding.
straight hghung band. Little lkiteh-
ener was born IN Ireland bat he is
more French than Irish. for Lieut. %
tol. Kitchener was a Sumolk man and
Mrs. Kitchener was a Cheyaller abd
asheended straight from patrician
French Huguen0tf
Inc BOY grew up Ike al English
p9kt q me- class one day he WAS scot
away from home io ienrn ~ be 4 r,,sf
engineer. Ana an engineer h. beoaue
Ah9 o. fneinfer h. remained and an
engineer ne %. A gfsat. steady, unfai.