Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22

of the Holy Land that is possessed by the
world today. is owing to the work of the
man who since then has been depicted in
European prints as a hanger OF men. a
slayer Of babes and a scourger Of women.
In Cyprus.
In 1878 England, in the methodical move
ment Of her red tape machine, sent him TO
Cyprus, where he did something or an
other about the organization of the land
courts. England had only just then &C
CURED Cyprus. and there was lots Of dull.
deadly. m~onotonous work to do. He re-
mained there. on and on, until 1888.
Imagine the man who was to be My Lord
Khartoum, sitting In his hot ONCE in that
year, listening to the drone Of a sleepy
complainant and a still more sleepy de-
PENDANT, both quarreling about a matter
concerning which truth lay at the bottom
OF a we'll far too deep for human sounding
and not three hundred miles away British
guns roaring and British shells laundering
at Alexandria. and young Condor Beresford
lying under FIRE and having the time of his
life and big history making all around,
Now It is almost an established fact that
one Kitchener did witness the bombardment
OF Alexandria. It is a completely estab-
lished fact that there is no oficial record
RlNluk any hllCntutT lcdNt &c go away IRON
Cyprus. But Cyprus did not suffer, nor
did the bombardment.
Then things began to happen fast and
furious in Egypt. And then did a certain
brick red. bony and almost unpleasantiy
silent youth rage in high quarters against
law courts and civil organization and once
work in Cyprus. where a mar had to wear
a dress suit at dinner every night and do
other things equally futile.
Dress suits thereupon became things OF
the past with Kitchener. After Tel-el
Rebir saw the breaking OF Arabi's mad
might, England had to tax in hand the
reorganization OF the Egyptian army. 50
| called by courtesy. Sir Evelyn Wood was
appointed sirdar -Ccommander). He de-
handed twenty-five British officers for the
work. Being about as hopeless and IN
pleasant and Improbable and unpromlsing
a lob as ever faced white men, there was a
rush OF young Britons. Kitchener was
among them. He became an ofncer in the
glorious army Of the khedive-One Of that
curious corps who worked Loyalty for the
little brown ruler and were ready at any
moment to knock his head on il they or
dear old England didn't like anything that
he did.
A Hopeless Army.
The Egyptian arm was a band OF under
paid. underfed. undertreated and under
mined fellaheen. IL was an army without
stomach. without heart and without back
bone. II went forth TO war only with q
view to retreating at the earliest possible
moment. II slouched and loafed and die
not wash. II could not shoot. AnS
Kitchener worked over those helpless reeds
Of broken natives and gripped them and
squeezed them. and. being a mai himself
found the man in the weakened levies
before him.
He made such men out Of them that II
1857 they made him commander in Suakin
and there are remnants Of desert hordeI
yet who remember certain ensuing leal
years. They remember yet how the gaun
man stepped calmly into their camp on,
night. unarmed and alone. and cheerful,
clicked their sacred chief into the face witt
q riding whip in the midst Of his spea
bearers and gun carriers, because tina
sacred chief was just preparing 10 sxeeut
a British soldier who had been caught tina
Afternoon.
Osman DignA's men who stiH are alive re
member him. for he took his Egyptia