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IN WALHALLA OF THE GREAT SITS ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR Amazing Life Story of Britain s Dead Soldier, S t?te s m an an ? Writer. H? W? 11^ 1111? 111 I JOHNSON. Tchal. its cur max of a :n? nation of | da oi it on? of ? loo" unad \uedly. 1: tbe n-. dooth fomt? a jrreat nav. i Morlberoofb should have :itllt?:i ?it Molploqoet, Napoleon at It tbe "drop pi:.- Itrieken at Quebec. N I ami m the halla of Tor, ?!-? - ? ittoa tbooa vote. shir In the lutter com pat..-. ? pool foaraeoro, ann '."or I :-.t, he had not the Ma^e, but died in the eel . .rownin^ service to re, ?nd at the i ? el t? I value cf hi? teach.- | -pie and influence o:' bis long f?ritl .' ?re more keen ly a*,: *v<?r before felt, we may sny. unprecedented in Taken in detail, the ftory of the man is mar? vellous I of all is it when broadly . urdea, in --lation to Imperial tbemei and i eeo, it eonsti ? rdace him upon the roll which bears the names o? Marl' iington, Have ek and perhaps a few more; and not the ?hem. In Fing:? pit he may have rivalled two of these, though one hesitPtes to cay with wh??t achievement his march fron ' ' Kandahar i.? ul pared, ees he outranked them toi and hod no peer amone them; while for aimplicity, ui nd moral gran? deur, he wos ill BIB, ? ded from or ? rit Oln'l ' ? ' ??'? ' : ? ! ..led the 'ature and in childhood, handicaps until he \tas th*- '? rough riders ' - - '-, he went back to India from school m England, it was to ploi .-? -'.;ck of things. HI- WORE IN T1IK NUTTO1 win- THK VIC TOBI \ < ROS& . .nd in a twink ? "rce ? ? . ? ? . Nichol through ? nrder rred him many it time Thence hi the relief of Luck .-? ? i H '? ? I i illy marking I f,?r Ojtrnm and Have? I flag which throe times and us By til ? ???? in- ' | ' ? pitted im ratiently, and then he took the lead in the Urn bcyla campaign and the storming of Mulka. Mor?? -iivalidism. ano then he ??.-as called to Africa, to ?rlth Napier of Magdala, when he marched, t_ the artillery of Europe, borne by the ele ? the mountain.? of Ras-ielas a," to vindicate th?r rights of British citizenship in the land of Pr?ster John. To his ? i was not permitted to share in the strenuous work of that romantic campaign, ? little lat?'r, when he was i th? famous Lu.'hai expedition among the Indian mountains. IMF MEASURED ROLL OF BSIT1SB DRl'MS BEAT AT 111!; GATES'pF KANDAHAR." ? chance, when, as commander of th? Pui ronticr J ore?, l;<- ?Il inad? tin- ? ,,'ir,' ' B? ?? Kurram Field Force, and then the Kabul ' re? With th? latter !.<? left Simia on nber 0 th? ?lay after hi* appointment -and or. Or- ? :n triumph "that dread city of Kabul, M't at the mountains' scarped feet." That was a great achievement, but it was a mere prelude to what was to come. The next year came the disaster of Maiwand, and the siece of the sur? vivor? at Kandahar. Roberts was at Kabul, with ten thousand men, chief among them the "Gay Gordons," more than three hundred miles away, three hundred miles of the most rugged country en the slope? of the "Roof of the World," with an enemy behind every rock and in every thicket. On Aur-ust r? h? matched oat of KnV.ul and plunged 0 the eyes and ears of the world; and on the first day of September there ?:??(! roil of Hr.ti.-!, drum- rat at 1 I Kandahar." Th? ai, ' : fare tell of no more marvellous march than tha?. ?vhich not only v?nquish?d the hostile hordes ard r??cucd th. 1? leaguered garrison, but ?Ibo set an examr > of Rrltish prowess which the tribes of the hills will remember for centuries to com". Next came South Africa. Roberts was in Eng? land, ag.v.n ?in invalid, but reccning a peerage, the thanks of Parliament and other honors innu merable, national, municipal, ncademir and irhal not. Then came the news of Mnjuba Hill. Forth HOW WARRING NATIONS RECRUIT ARMIES rp1 for the grell disparity in the troops and the ? ?' ts," that whereas ? ur foil ft] y vol? untar?. ?t. Militai, many. Prone? ti ry, the 11a ? ? rmany eoi of ? ? re army is ? in the ??? id hor.?e ortillery, in which ? ! f,,ur yOM ? ? : iod of rese?e - longing ? ? ? in join -.t tv .<*,? in ? - ? After 11- nil poli ... . . home del ' am until - -?'.lar Pq that ? ?hut it extends to the corn; * ! of the fort;. **?* ? . .... ! our years n? ..,..?. -.If il I ferred to the reserve, in which he serves for flf or fourteen years, undergoing during thia I ?two trainings of ?-ix weeks each. Having completed eigh'-- n the first line and it-; retiree, he passes into the home defence until he has completed his forty-third year. Huth France and Austria huve armies of almost equal strength. The former can put 2,000,00ii men in the field and the latter 1.896,000. The liability to service in France exists from the age renty to the age of forty-eight. For three yeirt the men MTO In the active army, and then ? ?. ? ? ivtn yiori, after which they pas? into the territorial army for ? ?en years in the terri . reset ve. On the ??ther hand, the liability to military aer B Au>'i in-Hungary e.xtends from nineteen ?going into the various net .-.?? m . Tli?? BelgilO army is railed in a nthir curious manner, foi it is n-eruited partly by voluntary and port!) , the latter . ? pi i cent of the annual contin? gent. Voluntary enlistment is retained for those who desire to make the army a profession, the year for those not eighteen and three or five yeur.? for thOM over that ago. COBOerlptl serve for ? monthI in the infantry or two years in i winch they are drafted into the roeorn loicts. -,\.-h he was ?eut thither, to save the British Em? pire in that quarter of th? w"rld: but he arrived too late. Gladstone had forestalled him by yield ing to the Boors, and thus laying the sure found? tion? of future trouble; a trouble which Roberts l,:id to compose twenty \ ? ,irs later, at fearful cost. For when in the last R.>. r war other generals had it-n tried und found ?vnnting, th? British army ?.?a- defeated and demorr'. : th? embattled 1,'iighers ?vere everywhere triumphant, he ?M again called for. ns I l.i.t de-perate resort. The -t -.'.int ?? consider the retiring OgO, responded as readily as he hid answered th? eall from Kandahar. With his landing in Cape of war wus turned, ami with grim ealrolatlofl on tire exact anniversary of Majaba . '.quered 1'ronje 111 the battle which, subsfan . ended the war. There Wer? other wars. ami ? ach ?*ren'?l?Jtl oaouah to nil a crowded vol? ume: but this is not a history. WHAT HI ACCOMPLISHED IN THE INDIAN ARMY. staterrran as "? -lier, too. A few years r.f-.er th? mBrch to Kandahar he was appointed to the command of all th" toreen in India, succeed? ing one of the most dittlnfaUhed and capable min that ertf filled that place. Sir Donald Stewart. For ?.ever, year? Roberts toiled at that tremendous ta?k. For India was then emerging from pur? Orientalism into rlose touch with Europe; pre ]: ring foi ben Bikhl and Ghoorkas are righting i'-, of Englishmen and French - ihm on ?he pliins of Flanders. His task was that of th? statesman and diplomat as well as of the loldler. The erhol? military system of the Indian Empire ?van reorganised The en?ire army, Brit? ish and In,'.ran, enormously augmented in numbers, ed and re '??; i pp< ,1 In nil respects. An elaborate system of frontier fortifications was ei eat? d. 1 ? idl and rail 'riete.! The haibors of the em 0 vastly im? ? I for commercial purpose? As for the social Ine! benefit* conferred upon tl t be] ond de.rript'on. Bettel pay, betl tment, eehoola, reading rooms, re, ???? "lore irenerom care for a rphai the i are ? -* i few of the things v r ch made Tommv Atkim fervently add "God 1 eu 'im!" ?.?her.ever the loved name of "Bobs" wai spoken. TH1 BEGABD OF THE INDIAN NATIVES FOR THE BRITISHER. Nor did any British soldier cr state?man evei more grertly endear himself to the native Indian people. They did not, indeed, worship him as a ?, ?act did and perhaps still does John Nicholson. But they did bttter than that. h? regarded them ?at years he had deperded upon Ghourkai and Sikhs an,! Pa tile, and it wu?. In policy throughout his whole career to utilize the nativ troop? to trust them and to overcom? the vain distinctions of caste. The result was nat? ural. "N,i commander in chief in any country," once tesr-'ed the Mahnr-ijnh rf Kupurthala. ''ha? ever attnintd the popularity which Lord Roberts ?h, = <?,.?..,>? i mong the poopla of ail cla?se?."' It Is because of him and of hll wort I ?i itain can now so confidently call upon Indian le? ihe European war; ami it was supremely appro pr.ate and affecting tha*. his last grent service wts performed in contirrr.ing the bonds of trust ar,?l fraternity between the two chief races of the empire. Another pha?e of hi? ?tatp?man?hip, just now of supreme interest, was manifested when he came home fr--?m Irdia tnd, burdomd with years and honore, to* k hit place amen? the lawmakers et the load. Natural:- ?? his chief attention to the military definen of the empire and of the l >,;?' .| Kit gdom. ENGLAND is DEAF TO IHK VOICI OF HF.K PROPHET. ? jreoi after year, he rose the Gilded chamber to move for the doing of such h vork il ?England a? he himself had done in India. Cotfl was no more persistent with his "Carthago deleade eitl" Hut it was all in vain Roberta irai a (Jnionitl of the Unionitta, and the Liberal? ard Home Rolen were in power. He was h toldler, and anti-militarism -was prevalent in tha council? of the kingdom. Therefore his ad? vice, his warnings, his appeals, were all rejected. Despite his splendid fame, he was made the object of aspersion. He was, they laid, an alarmi-t; he - a jingo; he was trying to conjure up alarm? and bogie* for political effect) he was wickedly trying to foment loapicien ind antagonism be tween England and Germany, when ererybody knew that Germany wat of ill nationt the most peaceful and the oioet fr ? ? : to-El ind When he proposed conscriptinn. if neeottory, to enroll a trained army of a million men. they denounced him for trying to saddle upon England the mili - ?tory burden? of the Continent. To his solemn / * warnings that .or ? root Britain would be lighting for life they replied with what passed for Homeric lau Six yi-ar-, ago, In November. IMS, Roberts warned the nation through the House of Lords of ?I danger of an attempt at German invasion of the British Isles, and urged that the army should he increased to a million men. The Lords adopted hit resolution, but of course the Commons rejected it with scorn. In April, 1911, he renewed that nielution, particularly demanding the million men for rational defence; with the ??me result. Once more, two yean ago, in a speech at Man cheater, he warned the British nation that war wi?h Germany was Impending, and entreated it to prepare for it. The reply of tho Rndicals in the Honte of Commons was to threaten that If i a did nit stop talkine ?uch BtiaohiOTOOi folly his half pay as a retired army officer would be cut off: and a member of the Cabinet apologetically reminded the House that if outrht not to tako Ferions',v the irresponsible Btatementl of a man outside of the government. The feelings with which tho"c incidents \rr now remembered are MOreely envahie. Th? bitterest grief now felt at the nation's bereavement II e\nre?sed in the lament, "If only we had heeded him!" Yet though his vision as a seer and his voice as a prophet were thu? ?corned and contemned, the greatness of the man permitted r.o angry resentment. WHICH PROVES THAT HE WAS REALLY \ GREAT HAK. When the storm broke he never dreamed of saying "I told you so!" But he emerged from his tment to join in the work of, defence aa cheerfully and as ?bole hearUdly as though h.s counsels had been accepted and faithfully fu' filled. He had truly warned Englan?! of the Ger? man menace. But when that menace was realized he had no word of savage hatred for the foe He would not. It Is true, admit eren as a supposition for argvm? iliiy of Gern ?--?ne? i ? nber," he - ? !*?t da "remember that Britain and Germany hav? | m neifhl ' That was char ;' the man m pr.n as well a* in pul, K ng I ?" ba? said of him "I! mOi was exactly trie tie? ? .- more ft from vanity and 'ove of lelf ?xpl ? *ation. N?i ?e more free from ?ealon ? I! s generoeity waa aboi ndii .' Hi? -nceritj? tran- parent. H ? ?? ? eh 1 taintt 'mm iatoi . and even from I t, vM I th.? fury of an aver.-- ? . 'tie, he hi the tenderness and the humanity of a woman wki the fl|cht "?!<- rlone. THE Bt*li*RBS8I01*i OP KIPUIfGI inRRAO ROOM BALLAD "BOBS." Twenty-odd years ago K | ?.tted nil and -hocked some of his B? " RmWmit ila tr?tv of Podsnap and Gntt? was horrited at the thought of tel r.g such tf ortie- a? a resell 0 verses were practically suppre-?e<4, You will s? :ind them in the publishe I ' K pR_| poems- alas! But of all who *?r? delighted, ?? ??'lighted ?vas Roberts h.n-.-.,f. ard h? ei the most d ? I of all arhen raUtakM M-t ment eansH ?he suppression 1' m orly h innate modesty that restrained h- from pub?.l iloclr.i ' ? uro In It, ? ' to memor mt -nimol of hearing rich gusto Trie verges o?? - ? -? r)'J*' Tommy At- MCanM M altogether comnlimentarv portrayal ot th? jrei man'r character I mav add tha? I ?hefti fTta? admired Kipling*? ?rritinga In gasen!, end tt* qaentlj 'rom teto nd ("noted, toa, El] ?*:-s ? wisdom. As a writer himself. Robert? mad? a boo nst tl the ,. pen. the itorj ? ? ffl?? ter-p^ece of graph;c recitii, hi:' M unp** t.-ntiou'ly tha' " ' rltk" himself th? eril i>?. It ? "?? in ' technical as u. thai OtttT I 1 , ? .. : ' f "" ' I - D. C. L. and LI and 'et'ers which ^e bol art* of Kandahar, I ' ' ' '.' Cou: ':'."?? G. f. h . o y ?, ? ? . v ? 1) ?? l. . LL D ?. t D 1 \ :.'*r marahal As a msn M ?* 'o be lore I. In hi? ? h'* '*' tegri?y -if ehanet? r, hii ? mode.iy Wh wheh he bare h genarseity wir .- ?' ?' ' tor-, - " -' et time or of nnv time the old "veray par| v NTBTBBT MN 11 D It tal ?' *j^ company, but one man h ? .1* * y-in-the-slot meter, but though the coa?MM ? was '? c ' JT* the machine was al ?1 calle.i. When the eonipmiy, for It! own pro**** rod to pa) for t 'r*'- b*_V| duced an ice dial ? r,<rt*L in the ?mafia* '" The ?tag M oP*V, brar.cii m Greenland ' m*? ?^ no fast. T.t-H