| Show I 1 GEN ln the Gu Guest st hilling the It will be a 1 to the majority ot of Americans that the tho chivalrous coin I m mander ot of the liner hoer arm army General Jou brt rt visited I d this countr country as aa recently nil as 19 when lie Ire represented the republic at the Worlds Fair Fairlie lie He wn wail perhaps much overlooked but butIn butIn In the light Of after events It will be admitted that he was Willi not the least ills visitor to our Columbian ex I Wo We cannot yet et form torm an nc ac ncI accurate curate estimate of Jf this mAn mAnto manto I to whose personal genius tiff the wonderful organization of at this the army Is chief chlof I I lie and hI he alone alon lisa haa inspired momentous and tM the I organization or of the troops troop the ma strategy ai the tactics which have hat made of the intended walkover to ot of the tho J army such nn an exhibitIon and failures He h showed n a Interest In everything pertain In lag to and also mod made a number ot of friends among the more die Americans The late henry Honry George was n a friend ot of the general and nn an eyewitness relates a visit the general enral Paid to 10 II a meeting called b by henry George nt at the tho Amen Aron II flail all The general was as nn an admirer of at the author ot of i iI I hili lied been deeply interested In the ot of the Boers against the English Mn id a Lo boy und I devoured rapidly nil war I admired Intensely the tho bravo leader ot of that people never dreaming that I would ate hIm lA in ra real WI I 1 W was sl slI 1 I trifled when Mr r Henry O George rae Int intro introduced I a stranger holding him b by the hand as General loubert I or the ml Iii name ha had al already ready d won fain Camf In the battles of u a distant country 31 was the heN heri of ofa 1 a war which appealed to ml me with alt all tho romance of a an and l daring against heavy J av odds And now 1109 Ih the bearer ot of that Illustrious name arose before me totally oil In m my own native city his imper feet knowledge J of the language prevented him from speaking ud and he silently and solemnly bowing But Buthis hi his figure and face are still frh In In my memo memory DUMP the ore Ira tion ot of Mr Ir George he sat resting his hll h heavy hands OIl on hl hIs knee Ifs shoulders end and massive figure were weN noticeable In the Ow corner ot of the hall hail and compelled ener attn Hil bearing ng was tree free ot of all Ift tattoo and to an enormous amount ot of energy as well a as extraordinary nary bodily strength II lie to tobe tobe be a worthy orth of that mys continent a nt fit type at o the of thAt land lanel bl has pro the most moat species IH of nfl ani animal malt mal of the HII majestic lion the mighty elephant and the powerful he wu wee a un specimen of rain The Tue lit hit of that thai t so jo composed ed and so 10 energetic so IO serious and so 10 powerful so silent Ilent ant and so fO expressive le at o il ilat of at E seemed med to awaken a vIsion Iston of h whole brave brae root race of bt that had bad sought the distant wilderness lId and I built buill their among the beasts and horde hord of savages but were obliged to recede before the reedy greedy In Intruder to leave lean their hornet for tor 1 a new abidIng place live further north In the dl di tint tant they though rr h to escape the lust lut of the oppressor and who now make their lat last stand deter determined mined to 10 defend their last borne against 1 the of I a world empire strong In a childlike faith In the Ibe Providence and th lr strong arm to In k keep p at bay the nation whose whole fleet have t 1 tar far grater nations And wealthier states tauS thuin the farmer Canner ot of Africa An And J after all iii our I is but a mall email place Ge General nal Joubert was II interested In the mayors election In rile te New rew York and the death dath of 01 Henry George affected him deeply fhe saw General Joubert frequently at Ife H had an invariably kind face for Cr all who ho 1 him are a people without aristocracy even een without plutocracy have only been made during the past few tew years earll and U the men who bl made them have not their simple mode tit df J Every pry Bor or hh rip himself the tho equal ot of another and tb the richest do not expect oy any honors for his wealth Thus General who Is In popularity tu to Jom Patti only is IR a accessible to nil all anti top stop for tor a chat wIth ill all and sundry who Yoho care for forit it H All MI In all he thoroughly tulU u the ides Idee of n a narrow inhaled an and prejudiced Doer being a I thoroughly enlightened and modern man In his hili views a |
