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he was promoted and worked harder than
ever. That is ks way.
Such is the man who is now reorganZng
things in India and if he does not put the
indian army on the sort of war footing
that it has never been on before it will be
because the thing cannot be done.
X x
Strangely enough Kitchener and Curzon
were both born in Ireland. There seems to
be something in the atmosphere of the
most disthressful country that makes for
prominence in England's public service.
Kitchener was born at Crotter House, Bal
lylongford, in 1889. He was educated for
the army, as were also several others OF his
family. In fact, his brother, Gen. Walter
Kitchener, served with him in South At
RIGA and is now in India and Kitchener s
heir presumptive is Col. H. Z. c. Kitch-
ener, now stationed at Lahore.
But no graduate of Woolwich ever
reached the prominence of the great kitch-
ener. He first was put on survey duty with
the army and was with both the Crete and
the Palestine surveys in the early days.
Then he was transferred to Egypt, where
he saw how to do and how not to do a
great many things He was friend of the
renowned Capt. Fred Burnaby, and like
Burnaby, dearly loved a scrap" for the
sake of "scrapping." He was mentioned in
dispatches in every campaign along the
Nile. where he took part and his medals
bear clasps from 1882, when he Joined the
service.
But he was even more of an administra-
tor than he was fighter and he was made
governor of Suakim after it was captured
from 1886 to 1888. He was made sirdir in
1890 and commanded the famous expedition
to Khartum, for which he received the
thanks of parliament and ESQ, 600 in cash.
1t was after this that he was transferred to
South Africa and succeeded Lord Roberts,
rl,1 Ilrv ,II
life in the field that the campaign entailed.
Kitchener was probably the only man in
the British empire who would have carried
the campaign to successful conclusion,
and the mere fact that he had little over
six men to Dewet's one does not detract
from the glamor of his achievement in the
eyes of Great Britain.
* X
Turning from Kitchener to Curzon, one
finds man of totally different sort. He is
an administrator, and If one can judge
traveller and a student rather than a
fighter. He is wealthy in his own right
and he married millions when he won Mary
Letter. then the belle of Washington, as
his consort. Like Kitchener. he is an Irish
man by birth and halls from Kedleston,
the designation he adopted on being raised
to the peerage. Like Kitchener, too, he did
not hide his identity under his title. Lord
Kitchener of Khartoum links the gen.
erals name with his greatest achievement,
and Lord Curzon of Kedleston refers
back merely to the place of his birth.
Therein both men are unlike Lord Avebury
and several others of Burke's, who would
never be recognized by their titles Sir
John Lubbock, for instance. made his
reputation under that title and is known
and admired over the whole world by
thousands of readers who never heard of
him as Lord A,Yebury.
Curzon chose politics profession from
the time he graduated at Oxford. He en-
tered good school, too, when he took his
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quence The next night they had just fin
ished a long days march into the back-of-
beyond, mostly ignorant of where they
We're going or why. The officer who told
the story said he was sitting on an upended
cracker box, trying to snatch a bite to eat
in the midst of a sandstone, when an Off
Ger strolled up to him-a big, burly figure
wrapped in a worn-out army overcoat and
chewing the disreputable stump of two
thirds smoked cigar.
The young cavalryman, between bites and
brushing the sand out of his mouth cursed
the forced marches and inquired of the
newcomer what the he supposed *
was after picking that particular COM
mand for such diabolical piece of duty"
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somewhat the appearance of a man given
to the use of intoxicants. AS a matter of
TACT, he never touches a drop and he is
mighty intolerant of a subordinate who
drinks too much
Kitchener is a great administrator and a
great fighting commander. He is a severe
man to work for, and only scant in his
praise of a man who does his work well.
When a man does not do his work we'll
Kitchener fires him, that is all. He meas
ures his subordinates ability by his own
and when he says he wants a thing done
on Wednesday it is useless to point out to
him that it cannot be finished before Thurs
day. He simply gets some man who will
finish 1t on Wednesday, and there is the end
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4" HE break between Lord Kitchener
and Lord CurzoU in India. which
resulted in the resignation of LoId
u Curzon, and chrouicled In the press
dispatches this week, brings into
the public eye two men. both OF whom may
be rated among the strong men of the
British empire, and one OF whom Is of par
tcular interest to WashIug;ouians from his
marriage In $3.50 TO Miss Mary Letter Of
this city, who has since become the first
American viceryine Of India.
The difference between the two men is the
more important 10 the world at large. since
Il emphasizes the English dIstrust of Rus
STA and the revival Of the preparations In
India against the day which Englishmen
profess 10 confidently expect when the
gray coats pour through the Kyber Pass
This day probably VIII never come. but the
fact that preparations for Il caused split
between the two greatest men In India. and
thar the home government supported the
man OF war In the quarrel, indicates the
dread In which the Russian terror on the
north Is held 10y Englishmen even though
the northern colossus has Just now been
fought To- "a staudsIli by what was TIL re-
Gently rated as second class military
power
There might be whole book written on
Russian terror In India. but II is enough
10 state tndt II exists. mere may DE- 4
moral reason for IL. England, at the head
OF the jIint powers. has succeeded In keep
ing tho Black sea sealed up for more than
forty years and having thus barred Rus
sia's natural exit 20 the south, IL Is more
or less natural that she should look for re-
prisal from the great northern empire IN
her most vulnerable points in India.
The fact that India, for a dozen good
reasons. would make about the least desir-
able outlet for Russia on the warm waters
does not figure in the imagination of the
average Englishman. Also the fact that
Lord Curzon has Travelled and studied a
good deal more in the far east than Lord
Kitchener and is more closely in touch with
far eastern problems, does not seem 10 fig
ure In the case Lord Kitchener has de
manded supremacy for the commander in
chief In military matters in India. He pro-
poses to raise the Indian army from 10000
TO 100000 men and put 1t on more effec-
tive footing. He is the idol of Englishmen
at the present juncture, and he has won
in the present controversy.
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bite with their formidable placors. others
have a cooled sting that they dart into tae
little fish and one actually so,s at the Tiny
fish's neck like n wildcat and cuts his
throat and d.scmbowels him.
Mr.. Green has bottle Of these pests pre-
served in alcohol or Cormalino. ana they
look like a ID. T" nightmare on a small
scale But there is never any trouble IN
disposing Of the insect catch. for a bucket
full OF them tipped into the ponds Of The
bigger fish are snapped up as 4 dainty
dessert. And thus the balance uf power IS
preserved.
Located In the shaded north window Of
the office there is a beautiful little aqua
rum full of gold fishes. Mr.. Green says
that the aquarium keeping habit IS on the
increase. More people take il up every
year, and there is more general knowledge
as to how an aquarium should be kept.
That al the fish ponds is the sort now
generally adopted IA is known as the
balanced" variety. That Is. IT never has
the water changed except to make up for
evaporation. 1t is forty-eight inches long
by fourteen inches wide and the same num-
Der of inches deep. The water in II has
not been changed for four years. but new
water is added the aquarium becomes
lower from evaporation. The balance is
kept up by water plants that are allowed
| to grow along with the fish. The fish give
out nitrogen and carbon dioxide that sup
port the plants and the plants give of
| oxygen that supports the fish.
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He of the expended cigar smiled grimly
and replied oh just wanted you along
for the charm of your society,", and with
that turned on his heel and went off to
look over the horses.
1t was *" himself come along with the
column for reasons OF his own. 1t just so
happened that the horses were in good con-
dition and the work satisfactorily per-
formed. All that the officer who told the
story ever heard of It afterward was that
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worthy oracle, Mulvaney. "the Indian army
Always moves division just as If a dIvi-
SION mad never been moved before" Lord
| NNCHehcr certainly found the Indian army
nc io fl, as pdd shape when he went there
as ne round the army in South Africa when
ne TOOK hold of it, The South African
army needed 10000 men TO within an o0O
Beers. and would not have done it even
| ILth II II had not been for the ability of
kitchener 1t Is small wonder that he
| came back TO England with the government
ask. Se ~
The achievement was not a notable one
from an outsiders point of view. but he
saved the face OF the British empire and
| IN the days OF 1902 the man who did that
was hero in the eyes of England There
was great deal of adverse comment a I
the time because parliament voted hi monty
100000 along with its thanks for his sery-
| ices. though ii had already given Lord
ROBERTS $4,000 for leaving the South Afri-
| can job unfinished. But ii must be remem-
| btred that parliament had already voted
| Kitchener $4,000 for his work in F,gypt
so that to the outsider 1t looks as though
St'o'"" ana a peerage besides his pay and
keep IN the army was a pretty fair reward
! Tor what Gen. Kitchener ACCOMPLISHED
X IS needless TO say that England has a
greater faculty for keeping her heroes inta Of
| IMAM America has. Kitchener was mobbed
| ,he hfst time he went TO the Bank of Eng
| land on his return to London. The pon1Ila ce
discovered that IL was tx. of * =" in the cab
| mat drove up to the bank and he was al
! most torn to pieces in good natured enthu-
Sasm before he could reach cover behind
| the portals of the old smoke begrimed build
| ing lie mad to escape by the hack door
| ana ms cab was again recognized in Queen
victoria street and almost wrecked again
! by the hurrahing. enthusiastic crowd
lie was received by the king, of course.
| ana was made as much of a lion as he
would permit in London society But even
| this close contact with him did not disneI
| the heroic atmosphere with which the pnb-
| lie had invested him. And Kitchener Is n
| British hero still. This makes a oueer
comparison with our few heroes deyeIoned
during the Spanish-American war.
*
Kitchener is disillusioning man TO see
| Presumably he has never had but two photo
graphs taken in his life. At least there ap-
| pears to have been but two that found their
way into the American papers. Both of
| them make him look the ideal military
| hero. Both handsome. But as a mat
| ter of fact, Kitchener is anything but hand
some. Very tall, heavy. with deep pouched,
watery eyes and burned VI brick red by long
service in India and South Africa, he has
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of the less competent mans service under
TX"
At the same time he can sometimes APP
preciate a joke. One of the officers who
was with him in South Africa came back
and was ruefully telling the following story
on himself: He was with a flying column
On the veldt that had been picked up in the
middle of the night and told to hike" for
the northeast, and to lose no time about it.
The column .'hiked, as natural conse-
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the Keys OF the Bosphorus are more likely
70 De won on the banks of the Helmud
than on the heights of Plevna. To kcen
england quiet In Europe by keeping her
BUSY In Asia. that. briefly put is The sum
ana substance of Russia's policy"
Lord CurZon believes that he natural
obstacles in the way are sufficient puar1
against the danger of a Russian invSs SION
especially when taken together with what
England has already done in the military
me TO foreStall such a move
Lord Kitchener thinks differently md he
would pile up still further the expenses or
England vast standing army against a
contingency that most probably will never
develop. There he and the yicerov fnd
the parting Of the ways, the question be-
ing as 10 which should be the final Judge
of military policy in India What England
thinks OF the two views may be seen in
her acceptance of Lord Curzon's resigua-
ton.
Lord Curzon's administration of India
has been on the whole just and wise one
of his greatest helps as well as one of his
greatest handicaps has been his American
wife. She has been tactful and helpful to
him in innumerable ways. She has made a
charming hostess at both Simla and CAL
cutta, and she has been the center of envy
and jealousy among Anglo-Indian women
because she was not born a daughter of the
empire This jealousy came to a climax at
the great Durbar which celebrated King
Edwards accession. Lady Curzon decided
that she would take precedence as vice.
refine of India, and she did, but 1t was
bitter pill to the English women of rank
who We're forced to concede the honor. She
has never been forgiven for Il, even by the
people who strain every nerve to get invi-
tations to her entertainments and discuss
her adversely while drinking her wines.
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shaped hollow In the gravel, and after cast
ing their eggs stay by them until after the
fish are Matched and are big enough 10 get
food for themselves. The trout, on the
other hand, if left to their own devices,
Will lay their eggs and leave them, and
the next trout coming along is just as La
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flap Of its tail and eating up all the eggs.
But the bass, while they stay by their
young and look after them after a fash
ion, have to be prevented from eating each
others broods. the breeding ponds are
connected with the larger ponds by narrow
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Probably it is provision of nature, but
the big fish also eat the insects that prey
on the baby fish. Every time the ponds
are emptied and seined there is a great
catch Of water insects besides fish Long
bodied things like centipedes, round swim
ming Insects like black beetles. the larvae of
the gorgeous dragon fly and half dozen
other less harmful-looking water pests are
all great enemies of the baby bass. Some
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even II they do have second sum-
mers and cholera infantum. don t
have long-legged water centipedes getting
after them and cats coming to hook them
out OF their cradles at night and whole lots
OF other difficulties that befan the infant
fish
They have all those troubles and more too
at the government fish ponds. Yet they
turn ont several millions of small fish
yearly. and il is Interesting work too, if
one has any love for natural history and
the knack for handling the scaly creatures
and anticipating their wants.
The government fish ponds down west Of
the monument are much more OF show
place than they were some years back. The
fifteen acres IN the little reservation were
then almost unknown ground TO Washing
Ionians or TO the casual sghtseer When
they were in charge of DR.. Hessel a charm
Ing old gentleman and a noted fish cul-
turist they were surrounded by a hedge
and fence and the little old office building
in the center of the place was almost like
medieval castle. apprOa enable only over
moat and dra wbrdge 1t may not have
been drawbridge, but 1t was a bridge OF
some sort. and the little fish domain was
as much cut off from the outside world as
though 1t had been a hundred miles from
Washington instead Of being literally under
the shadow OF the monument Few people
ever went there and few knew what an in
tcgesting place II was.
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The water plants have to be trimmed and
kept in check a little like any land shrub
berry, but half dozen snails inside keep the
glass clean and few tadpoles act as scav-
engers and clean up from the bottom such
food as the fish do not eat. 1t may be OF
interest to amateur aquarium keepers to
know some of the best varieties of plants
for keeping the water charged with oxy-
gen. They are cobamba carolina, fanwort.
the sasittaria natans-a grass that spreads
by roofing down its own leaves like a lit
tie submarine banyan, and the ludwigia,
which has handsome greenish bronze leaf
and makes a snowy and effective aquarium
plant.
The best plan with an aquarium is not to
Keep any but the front glass cleaned and
polished. The little green growth that per-
sists on the other sides gives Just the shade
10 the water that the fish like
There are few prettIer ornaments than A
well-kept aquarium, for with the green
background and moving Snowy fish it is
like a constantly changing picture. There
Is great variety of fish to choose from
these days. The fan-tailed Japanese gold
hsh and fish with great telescope eyes set
ting out from the sides of their heads ara
among the choicer varieties and all can ba
very cheaply obtained and easily kept.
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BREEDING AND q
EXERCISING PONDS

BILE as not to build nest on the site of
the first one, destroying the old nest with
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inlets filled with chicken netting. Thus the
little fish can swim away from their elders
and play in the big pond whenever they
like, and the wire meshes prevent the big
fish from following them.
The fries and the older fish are fed daily
as much chopped fish as they will readily
take The fish food is bought each day IN
the Center market; coarse fish Ike carp
and mullet are cut up in convenient sizes
for the fish to take. The big bass know
when their feeding time comes. too, and
they will rush out in shoals from under the
lily leaves and fight for the first bits that
touch the water and follow their feeder all
around the pond if they do not think they
have had enough.
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first place as assistant rri,.a+,, so,-o.,,.,, .,
the late Lord Salisbury. His rise from that
position was steady and deserved as the
acbia,.a M r,"i m3rh though none OF ms
those of Lord I{i,cba,,ar u p"pi'C as p5u
under secretary Of state for India and i'm
1888 was under secretary of state for for
eisI aIlalrS.
riad %iis - 80 -, ioI3 thdt ne met ana mar
ward he travelled evtapSi,.eI,' g., ~ o. g.
east and knew the complex problems of the
region al first hand better than English
pupHc men He travelled in Central Asia
ing yicarn,, Of ~ ne t tnousht OF hecom-
Pamfrs and Indo-Cbina and y ooui 81 tiie
He made a study of the co,,nt rias, -, -
Travelled and his WRITINGS -, .an - -
the Persian Problem :, o. D.. lS!1 anu
Central Asian 01sStin,,,, - 'o I'd ana the
the Far Fast ali sbny,- +h - to''teIiis VI
temperate yision htto,7 III g IIess anu
lishmen. '-''' Vi iiioet EHs-
hoFu IufZon judgment on the relations
between Russia and England In can+,aI
Asia was formed from, a., axbo,,sti,., -
of the nrob1a,, - - i've s'uuy
p-oo4eAi oI the spot and after
tiiOie careful STUDY or the records and
documents in the case than is often made
by writer's on modern noIitics I;s -.
strikes an averaea h+,, 0H-''-'
tAe hussopHoDe ana the RusSOphile, though
Ii soy 't4at 'he former class
c,,ss,-, - ~ &c" III ti'e hFlush empire.
- INC possioiiity Oh RUSSIAN
~, +i'ti9 u " 'io" against lhdla' he says:
w "ot Suppose that single man in
russia with the exception of speculative
THEORISTS ana mere ana there giddy subal-
GIN ever seriously dreams of a conquest
Oh lnula. 10 any one either Russian or
hhshsh' VINO mas even specifically studied
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The proposal of Lord Kitchener to put
the Indian army on more effective footing
could hardly fail to meet with the approval
OF most Englishmen. To bark back TO that
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Thus there is always something doing in
the ponds, and a stranger walking by to-
ward the monument little dreams of the ro-
nance of fish life that is being played under
the lily pads in the ponds at his very ell
bow The black bass kept for breeding are
big, gamey fish and are given small ponds
where they can build their nests and lay
their eggs. They scoop out a little cup
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Lord Curzon of Kedleston does not show
up as well in a photograph as does Lord
Kitchener of Khartoum But he is in real
ity a much better looking man. He has
been viceroy of India for the full term OF
five years and had been reappointed for
occurred that led to his resignation. But
his retirement, while unexpected at this
particular juncture has been more or less
in the air for the past year. In fact when
he was made warden of the cinque ports in
1904 it was reported that he would never re-
turn to India, and 1t is known that Lady
Curzon for several years past has wanted
to come back to England TO raise her chill
dren as English children cannot be reared
to maturity under the burning OF In
dia.
The probabilities are that the family will
come back to London where Lord Curzon
has a magnificent house at No. 1 Carleton
House Terrace, the same house by the way
that was occupied by Mr.. Choate during
most of his term as ambassador to the
Court of St James. Possibly Lady Cur
ION will also return to America, for she
has always expressed a desire to re-enter
And ii is thought to be within the bounds
of possibility that Lord Curzon may sue
coed Sir Mortimer Durand when the latter
retires as British ambassador in Washing
ton Blu, this is dealing in futures, and time
Will show W. ether or not this phase of Lord
Curzons public career will be brought
about.
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1t has lost from the view point of the
picturesque. They used to raise carp there,
but now the twentythree ponds are de-
voted to black bass and crappie and last
year about half million of four-inch shad
werc turned loose in the Potomac
The superintendent of the ponds Is Mr.
{. X. Green, a son of the late Seth Green
a fish expert of international reputation
The work of the station is now about done
for the spring and has not yet commenced
for the fall. There is little to do but sit
on the bank and wait for the fish to grow
when their size and the cooler weather will
permit their shipping. Yet they have to be
fed and looked after like inmates of an or
phan asylum. But they are not orphans,
for the bass is the one fish under the care
of the commission that looks after its
young, and they are raised by what is
known as the natural system of propaga-
ton whereby the old breeding fish are al
lowed to lay and hatch their eggs In their
own fashion and the youngsters are al
lowed to run at large with due care to pro-
tect them from the cannibalistic tendencies
of their elders
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KITCHENER AND CURZON
HOW THEY COMPARE
Personal Sketches of Eng1and's Two Foremost
Men in India.
Personal Sketches of England
Men in India

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