An officer who served with Lord Kitchener in Egypt tells the following
anecdote of him:
"During the progress of some construction work in Upper Egypt the young
subaltern in charge had the misfortune to lose some native workmen through
the accidental explosion of some cases of dynamite. He telegraphed to Lord
Kitchener, then Sirdar:
"'Regret to report killing ten laborers by dynamite accident.'
"In a few hours came this laconic dispatch: "Do you need any more
dynamite?"--_Pittsburgh Dispatch._