The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-13
Washington's Pot-Bouille
In the Boiling Pot you have all the news
From Smart Set gossip to lawmakers views.
By ALICE LEE Q

4uailues: at once useful and
u 10 'nlis' ms accessibility. Anybody
VINO mas anything to say to him can
approach him; anybody who has any
'hins y teach him will find a ready
and grateful learner This is one of
the secrets OF his extraordinary sue
cess and universal popularity in Egypt
u SFomer was a great Egyptian
Iuier' AND his services are imperish-
aOie anu gigantic; but Lord Crom-
er was n stern, solitary, and mac
ceSSible bureaucrat who worked in
Vulnerable hours every day at his
desk, never learned the Arabic Ian
Suage, and possibly never quite grasp
ed the Arab nature, Lord Kitchener
Is the cadi under the tree. The Mayor
or the citizens Of the little Arab viii
iage can come to him, and the old
soldier, and even the falIah. alone.
and they will find Lord
ready to listen and to talk to them in
tneir own tongue, to enter with gustO
INTO the pettiest details of their daily
and sGualid lives, and ready also to
apply the remedy to such grievances
or to supply such wants as commend
themselves to his judgment.
IF I look for the roots of Lord
k~ltchener's greatness, / trace them to
intense ambition to succeed. to make
liz - VI Lie OPPOI HltlcS"dpoN
all, to the incesSant desire to work
and fill every hour of his days with
some thing done He is sent as a
youngster to Palestine; through peril
to life, through great privation
through heartbreaking drudgery, he
pursues his work until he has com
pleted a map Of all Western Palestine,
to the amaZement and delight of his
employers. And he values this ex-
perience SO largely because he learns
Arabic, and, above all, he learns the
Arabic character. One of the chroni-
clerS of his career makes the apt OBJ
servation that, while the baton of the
marshall is in every French soldiers
knapsack, Kitchener found his coro-
net in the Arab Srammer. But how
many soldiers or men of any class
would have evOted the leisure hours
Of a tiercely active task like Kitch-
ener'S in Palestine to the study Of one
of the most difficult of languages?
1.-The choice Of ~subordinates is one
Of Lord kitchener'S greatest powers
Ee nearly always has had the righ'
man in the right place. And his mer
return his confidence because he give:
them absolute confidence He nevel
hinks of asking q subordinate wheth
er he mas done the job he has giveT
him; he takes hat for granted, know
ing his man; and he never worries hi:
SubOrdinateS.
This Is one of the reasons why
though he works so terrifically, h
never is tired. never worried. II
sits down at his desk at the War OF
fee for about ten hours q day; blu
he sits these calmly, isn't ringing a
bells and shouting down pipes: h
does it all so quietly that it seem
mere paStime: and the effect of thi
perfect tranquility products an extra
ordinary result on those who worl
with him. They also do their worl
easily, TRANQUILITY, and without feelin:
it.
But when I have said all thes
things about Kitchener I feel thai
have not yet brought hCmC to tn
reader the marvellous of the man.; h
still remains. partially at least. IN
explained. What can | do in orde
to make you realize him, except t
fall back on the familiar word. pei
sonality? 1t is a thing you can neve
explain about any man: h best III
dication YOU can have or give of it
to see the great personality in aSSo
citation with other men. Napoleo
went down at 26-and after a rep
tation only as a street tighter-to TAX
, the in Italy from out of tn
: hands of soldiers that had grown era
on victorious battlefelds. and The
prepared for him a hot 1T
. when the little man looked at thef
5 with those awful eyes of his he tame
, them as quickly as though ne ma
been a lion tanner. And so wit
Kitchener
cIs%TJ INvFRODECES RFIL.