Show fJ l. l v r ABOUT FAMOUS GENERAL CONQUEROR OF lire Ill Like Like Nearly All AJI of Britain Greatest lie He I Is I. a Product of Ireland Ireland Inland High honors Honor at atthe atthe atthe the Age AKe of 21 U. IR HO no R RAT A Af TIO I 0 Herbert Kitchener the sirdar of or the Egyptian army and ani the new hero of or orthe the Sudan is a ayo ayoung yo young ng man man being being t but 47 for or for the high place he has won won by merit in inthe inthe inthe the military service ser sei- vice of or his country Like all of oC England's greatest generals he be is an Irishman and at 20 was as a lieutenant By 1888 he had been advanced to the r rank of or colonel He spent pent eight years surveying in the Holy Land during which he picked up Ip a very fair knowledge of oC colloquial Arabic This together with his knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge dge of the native character went far toward award his success In the Sudan When 1 chener hener went to Egypt as asne one ne of or the officers appointed to assist t Sir fir Evelyn Wood In the formation of or oran ofIn an In Egyptian army most of or the work fell ell to his lot owing to his familiarity with the fellaheen He donned the k I w S 0 i N 1 r D t a 3 5 f G b I 0 1 GEN KITCHENER uniform of or a private and mixed freely with them He found round them treated like liko brutes underfed for their religion Ins insulted and in other ways abused His- His first care was to change all this H He abolished the flogging dogging lash gave them good food rood and beds paid them promptly and fully and guaranteed them the full rull exercise of or their religion This treatment had its effects In Ina a short time the same sam sort of or men who under Hicks Pasha tamely submitted their necks Becks to or fled in fear rear from the sword of r the dervishes were changed Into brave strong warriors ready to fight fearlessly and willing to place implicit confidence In their leaders It was this at once humane and shrewd management of or the Egyptians that enabled the sirdar to lead them victoriously vIctoriously victoriously vic vIc- against the all along the Nile to the triumph at Om- Om durman and the taking of or Fashoda General Kitchener at an extraordinarily ily early age has attained to honors rare in the British army In 1878 1818 Kitchener s was as sent to Cyprus to organize the land courts of or the Island Island island and and in a short time he had mapped mapped mapped map map- ped every cranny of or the land But Dut despite despite despite de de- de- de spite his civil service Kitchener's military military mil mU- ardor did dill not abate abato a jot As long ago as 1888 he ho led an expedition of or British and some Sudanese and anda a few tew bashi to check Osman and very nearly succeeded in capturing that fiery leader In the tho same year after recovering from the tho wounds ho he had received he took part partin in the attack on the tho dervishes besieging ing commanding a brigade consisting of or the Ninth Tenth and I Twelfth Sudanese battalions This brigade carried the tho trenches of or the Arabs by storm Ho He has been in several several several sev sev- eral actions In the tho Sudan and ing always successful aba aaa t brave rAn r- r An adequate story of or the sirdar's life would read like one of or Scotts Scott's rom romances ro ro- m minces mances of or the east His wanderings in Palestine the Sudan Africa and elsewhere have been filled flied with thrilling episodes He has hag been shot at by Bedouins almost murdered in Palestine nearly hanged for being a spy but his delight has been to penetrate dens of ot villainy to find out at all hazards the mysteries of or the Orient for himself lie He has disguised himself a score of or times and add has thrown dice with death to further some military plan of or his own |