Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1898 — THE MAN OF THE HOUR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE MAN OF THE HOUR

Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the sirdar'of the Egyptian army and the new hero of the Soudan, is a young man—being but 47—for the high place he has won by merit in the military service of his country. He was born in Ireland, and at 20 wag a lieutenant. By 1888 he had been advanced to the rank of colonel. He spent eight years surveying in the Holy Land, during which he picked up a very fair knowledge of colloquial Arabic. This, together with his knowledge of the native character, went far toward his success in the Soudan. An adequate story of the sirdar's life would read like one of Scott’s romances of the East. His wanderings In Palestine, the Soudan, Erzeroum, Africa and

elsewhere have been tilled with thrilling episodes. He has been shot at by Bedouins, almost murdered in Palestine, nearly hanged for being a spy, but his delight ha* been to penetrate dens of villainy to find out at all hazards the mysteries of the Orient for himself. He has disguised himself a score of times, and has thrown dice with death to further some military plan of his own. Such is the sirdar.

SIR HERBERT KITCHENER.