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* "H" * 4 5 ** 1 ' f m%i. '• :i« - H& *'*_' ¥ mjotz* % ptZAHKU# Sejut. A COI»Y<e«iHT , I0O9 crcuMeotNlT $ LSHINGTON. --.-President Taft has reappointed Maj, Gen. J. Franklin Bell a# chief of the general staff, United States army. Gen. Bell has held this office for some years, and it Is un­ derstood that at the end of another year of service in the position, he will be succeeded by Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. Some second Kipling 'g Should write of one of the deeds of J. ' ^Yanklin Bell. The general went over ;; to the Philippines as a first lieutenant <)f the Seventh calavry. He had not been in the islands long before he was ^ - >'t^ut in command of a volunteer force . &Jj|i ompciaed almost wholly of regulars . vj'^rhoee terms of enlistment had ex- | ̂Ired, but who were willing to take on ' "a short term of duty to hel# in the ' ^ |learing up of the work which they |#ided in starting. •y; ^ 4 Back in one of the provinces was a |̂ «nd of Tagalogs who had given the <^•iloverninent forces all kinds of trbu- 1 * i|le. One of their chief villages was .^located," and Gen. Bell with his fol­ lowing of old campaigners took the ' |%raii for Its capture. The command- 't; .... ling officer had been through cam- . paigns against the Sioux, the Apaches, ; and other tribes of the mountains and plains, and taken more than one leaf •?:'-"̂ Drom the book of knowledge a( savage' . -warfare. '% Guides led the force to the vicin- ), J0ty of the Tagalog village. Night fell \ 'end the Tagalogs were all unsus­ picious of the approach of the white ^gnemy. At three o'clock is the morn- '•wig, "then sleep always hangs heavy on 'ilhseyes, Bell led his meu toward the . Tillage. The Tagalogs had sentinels . ;-j#08ted along an outlying line. After l^fhe manner of the people of the plains soldiers crept silently between the thickets, oniy one of whom was vigi- v r',:j»nt enough to detect the presence of ,tne enemy. He was silenced before he l, jiad a chance to startle the air with a cry or * • f".'Shot Straight into the village went Bell at the head . . of his men. Dawn streaks were beginning to / / Show in the sky, but the warriors were asleep past the ordinary waking, for were not the aeo- ^ teiels posted, and were they not bound by every dition of tribal honor to lie awake watch-. r? ~ • ' Oeut. Bell had given his men orders. The rik 'Jlpg® was cordoned with troops and there wasn't * "wjS mousehoie of escape. Bell a whimsical' * kumor. In the very heart of the Taealoe village >«ras an old muzzle-loading brass cannon, a trophy ffcaken by the Tagalogs from the Spaniards of an­ other day, and which the natives were hoping to I . against the equally hated Americans. Bell Retailed a loading party of three men. The three v became boys again, and they rammed the piece , full of powder and grass wadding, after the man- per of loading a Fourth of July cannon on the ,, , Village green in the home land. I ; i The light of coming day was strong enough for the conducting of operations. A lanyard was pulled and the brazen piece roared out its reveille, $1 . The sound of it shook the foundations of the Ta-, T": gaiog huts; it roused the warrior sleepers as '*wwdd the cracking of doomsday. They came , armed, bpt naked to the fray. The Tagalogs looked ~ an bayonet points and down gun barrels sur­ render came instanter. Gen. 3. Franklin Bell is the youngest officer %ho ever held the position of chief of staff. He Is a genial general and he is willing to talk when lie properly may on the subjects touching his profession. As the joker put it, he is a Bell who' knows when to ring off. He avoids the sins of Silence and of speech, wherein he shows that he la Wiser in his generation than some of his prede­ cessors were in their generation. When His promotion came the chief of staff, lumped irom a captaincy to a brigadier general-*' ihip, and his tremendous rank stride did not bring forth one word of criticism from soldier or. civi­ lian. Since then he has become a major general, i, | i . The army officers who were Jumped said that / ;,A :*.>»*_• Bell earned his promotion, and that if other pr& fjnotions were, like his, based solely on service Jquality, there would be no heart burnings undo* ?the blouses. , When the Seventh cavalry, in which Gen. Bell was then a lieutenant, reached the Philippines, the Spanish troops were still in possesion, for \ Dewey had reduced the fleet, but hot Manila city ; and its immediate defenses. Information was wanted concerning the Spanish earthworks Lieut. Beil volunteered to get it. He didn't tell any on* bow he was going to get It. His meth­ od was daring and • aovel. Under cover of the darkness he • went to the water front, stripped off his clothes and plunged in. He Is a n powerful summer. On that night he swam tho entire distance around the bay, landing now and then to get a closer look at the enemy's water­ front fortifications. He did this unseen of any sentinel. If discovery had come it meant almost certain death to the swimmer. He came back to his starting point with full knowledge of the strength of the Spaniards in heavy guns, and when the time for the assault came, the infor­ mation was of priceless service. Gen. Bell was called on while in the Philip­ pines to end the war in Batangas. He ended it, and in ending it he took the only course possible --a course that the civilians at a distance from the fighting denounced as altogether too severe. Bell was called a second Weyler, and a second duke of Alva, but when full knowledge came of bis operations and of the craft and horrid cruelty of the natives whom he was fighting, criticism died. Of his experience and of the criticism he said in a letter to a friend: "Knowing my disposition and kindly feeling toward the natives full well, you will have no dif­ ficulty in understanding that the necessity for se­ vere measures has been a source of distress to me. The only consolation I can derive Is by keeping my thoughts on the end and object in view. When one has- worked faithfully, consci­ entiously, and unselfishly for his country four years, without relaxation or rest, it is somewhat discouraging, not to Bay distressing, to find that even some of his own countrymen appear to have no confidence in his motives, judgment or integ­ rity." There is no use in mincing words; Gen. Belt is considered one of the most daring and dashing officers in the American service. He wears a - medal of honor for charging "single-handed and alone," a body of armed Filipinos. He was shot at repeatedly from every quarter, but in army parlance: "They didn't get him," but he got sev- . cn of them, not dead, but alive, and he led back to the American lines, his septet of prisoners, all cowering under his pointed pistol, though every ;»an jack of them was armed. If war Were to cpme there is no army doubt, although .he is far from being the ranking officer Of the service, that Gen. Bell would be given the ctii^f cothmand of the field forces. t It needs neither the bearing nor the uniform of Lieut. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee (retired}, to show that he is a soldier. You can see it la his face. His expression is at once mild and aggressive, and the eye is purposeful. Gen. Chaffee's name comes most readily to the lips when one is asked to name a typical American soldier. The former chief of staff of the army was once a private in the ranks. For two years he a AS an enlisted man, serving in the regulars^ He joined in 1861, choosing the cavalry arm of the service, and to it he remained faithful through all the years of his duty. He Is one of the finest riders that the army claims. There have been many stories of Japanese 4pl'ts who have been found taking notes of Amerlcim army operations and equipment. The Japs got their first object lesson In the way American soldiers do things from Gen. Chaffee. That ob­ ject lesson doubtless has had some influence in modifying the thought which the orientals held that they could whip the Americans out of hand. Gen. Chaffee was in command of the expedition which went to the relief of the beleaguered embassies at Peking. Japanese officers and men saw him there. The general won a fame in China which is not confined to the American continent. The geperals of Europe have gt*r- en testimony that Adna R, Chaffee is a great soldier. Orders to take command of the Chinese expedition reached Gen. Chaffee while he was at Nagasaki on board a steamer which was to take him to the Phil ipplnes. The order was unexpected, and the general had practically no chance for campaign preparations. He was to go into a strange land, to lead an expedition against a strange people, and not only was it expected of him that he be successful, bttt tliat success be won quickly, for the lives of many Americans were in danger within sight of the wall* of the "Forbidden City." " The general arrived at Tien-tsin too late to take part in the battle in which the brave Maj. Liscum of the Ninth infantry lost his life. Not only was the American soldier spurred to quick marching action by the knowledge of tha Imminent peril of the Americans at Peking, but he was spurred by the knowledge that the soldiers of other nations were to taHe part In the relief ex­ pedition, and he wished the men of his own coun­ try to show themselves worthy in the sight of the men ofother countries. They did show themselves worthy, and they re­ sponded to. the call of their commander with" an alaority that made the American leaders instead Of followers in that march beset with difficulties and dangers almost unparalleled in modern war­ fare. There are men in the army to-day who firmly believe that Gen. Chaffee did not sleep an hour during the march to Peking. The soldiers who made the march declare that the nights In China are black; that it Is impossible to see anything at all without the aid of artificial light, and these in the bivouacs of the soldiers were forbidden for precautionary reasons. There was no definite knowledge of the forces that might be in the path of the expedition, and no one knew what surprises the night might cover. Gen. Chaffee, his soldiers say, constituted himself a sentinel who refused to be relieved from guard, and through the nights he was alert and watching, and through the days he was alert and marching. There are stories by the scores of men who are Supposed to bear charmed lives. The hero of Ike book of fiction sheds bullets as a slate roof sheds rain, and in the reading of It one finds it hard to believe that any truth could be stranger than this fiction. If Gen. Chaffee doesn't bear a charmed life he has the largest allowance of luck that has fallen to any one man. Gen. Chaffee has been four times brevetted for .bravery. Two of the brevet commissions came to him for gallantry In the civil war service, and two for gallantry in battles with the Indians. He onee led a cavalry charge over rough and precipitous bluffs, where a cavalry charge was thought to be a feat well-nigh Impossible. He rode at the head of his men straight into a body of armed Indians, scattering them, but not until they had poured volley after volley into Chaf­ fee's oncoming command. That charge gave the soldier his brevet commission as a lieutenant $>lonel. When the Spanish-American war broke mat Chaffee was made a brigadier general of volun­ teers. He was in the very thick of the fighting in front of Santiago. "Capt. Arthur Lee, a British army officsr dctailsd by his government to v.*atch the field operations in Cuba, attached himself to • the headquarters of Gen. Chaffee. Capt. Lee wrote a story about th« campaign In which he paid to Gen. Chaffee the highest tribute that it is iiosslbie for one soldier to pay to another. IMMENSE SAVING TO FARMER Rpads Would Mearf Added Profit ' bf- a. Quarter of a- BUI loir * .Pollftr« -a- Yesp,' • T- % "k-"' ' ' Tl»,e opi<te of jublic roads under the IV^ptien Lbgan Wallet' Page, Has assembled some significant facts. Only about 150}«0O of the 2,100,000 miles of roads in the United 'States lure been in aw degree improved. Almost 9S per cent of our public roads may be said to be ^ a state of nature. This statement in itself is not necessarily startling. A man, even a congressman, might make the lacon­ ic rejoinder: "Well, what of it?" Just this if our public highways were as good as those of France the gain to America producers would exceed a QU^L.ter of a billlon dollars annually TM average cost of hauling produce in this country is 35 cents a mile per ton. In France It is 12 cents a mile per ton. Were our roads, then, equal to those of France, there wot^d be a gain to our farmers of 12 cents 'a mile per ton. During the crop year!905-06 our more Important farm products, which were hauled from the places where they originated to shipping points, weighed in the aggregate 85,- 487,000 pounds. The average length of haul of farm products In the United States is 9.4 miles. Hence, a saving of-14 centB a mile per ton would have meant to our farmers a gain of $58,- 900,000 on their more'important crops during the single crop year 1905-06 According to the freight figures oi the interstate commerce commission about 250,000,000 tons are now annual ly hauled to points of shipment Were our roads equal to those of France the annual gain in hauling, based on these figures, would be $305,• 000,000.--Outlook. •• \ ••' ; -SfSf®' Rather, Awiy fttm ft. 3 Yeu cannot lead men into truth by tricks.--Ae«no. Of itorseheatfc " with Original NaroeiJT Now Known as North Bfnilra and Mas. Lost Its Chief Industry; Place Made Historical by Qen. Sul­ livan's Army. , "A good many people who live there are kicking to this day because the name of Horseheads was changed to North Elmira," said a talkative citi­ zen of Chemung county, according to the New York Sun. "Do you know why? I see you don't. Well, maybe you don't know, either, why It' was called Horseheads In the first place? I see you don't. Then it is plain you've never been to Horseheads. "You see, when the first white set­ ters entered the Chemung country, a century and a quarter ago, they found the skulls of 1 don't know how many horses lying In heaps along the river In a spot that seemed to be a good sp6t to settle on. The tradition is that these skulls had. belonged to horses that were with the army of Gen. Sulli­ van when he made hia historical raid on the hostile Indian tribes up through that country and into the Genesee Country In 1779. On the return march of the Victorious army from the Gene­ see country a part of the troops en camped along the Chemung. As Gen. Sullivan intended to float down the Chemung with his force on rafts he ordered the killing of the superfluous horses. Wild animals devoured the carcasses and there the bleaching skulls lay when the first settlers came In and pre-empted the land. So they thought the matter over and called the settlement Horseheads. That's the way Horseheads came to get its name and the reason a good many people who live there are kick­ ing because the name was changed is that as time went on and Horse­ heads grew to be quite a town its queer name excited the curiosity of stranger's and It was soon noticed that the very first thing they would say on landing there was: '"Why is it called Horseheads?* "So it came to pass that patriotic citlsebs began to lie in wait for strangers, and as scon as the invaria­ ble question came It was their one great delight and recreation to tell the story in much detail. In fact competition in telling the story be­ came so close among enterprising and watchful Horsehead homers that the man who captured the ear of a stranger first and most frequently was rather looked upon with envy by the less alert of his fellow citizens. ' "At ldst one day a capitalist from the east, who was sought after to be­ come interested In establishing a manufacturing Industry in Horse­ heads, visited the place. He stepped t into a public honse near the deoot to inquire where the local capitally lived. " 'Will you kindly tell me,' said he, but that was as far as ha got. Four alert citisens were on their feet In an instant. They all addressed him: " 'In September, 1779,' they said, 'Gen. Sullivan, on his return from chasing the Indians out of the Gene­ see country, encamped on, this very spot.' "Then followed the rest of the story. The visiting capitalist stood speech­ less with surprise. The p.rojpetor of the place said to him: ? < " 'They got it badly mixed up. Or­ der your drink sent to the back room Discovery Ho rseh^ads.^'; and I'll contain and tell you the story straight.' "The visiting capitalist hurried out of the place. Meeting a boy on the street, he said to him: " 'My son, can you tell me--' "J " 'Oh, yes,' said the boy. 'In flop* tember, 1779, Gen. Sullivan--' " ! "The visitor rushed down the street and presently met the man he was seek­ ing. This citizen explained the stats of affairs to him. Then the visiting capitalist declared he wouldn't put a cent of money in Horseheads unless the name of the place was changed. They wanted his money bad, and the legislature or something was Induced to change Horseheads to North El­ mira. "But a good many patriotic citizens are kicking about, it yet, and even now, so I'm told, if you broaeh the subject they will exclaim: "'Why, it Is sacrilege! Here, where Gen. Sullivan encamped Ib Septem­ ber, 1779, after--'" BOBCAT IS A FRAUD JP -J.-. --r--? --# Number l« Steadily Growing Less Yearly. v - -V • " •f- ' .. Animal Classed as the Lynx Rufous by Naturalists Appears Danger* **s, But In Fact Is ArraUt •i- • Coward. The most deceiving animal of the Maine woods IsT the lanky, hungry- eyed and wholly disreputable bobcat, or "deer cat" of the French Canadian voyager, and the lynx rufous of the naturalists. It Is deceiving for the rea­ son that it looks formidable and dan­ gerous, when in fact, It is a cheap and common coward that will run away from the smallest dog, and If it cannot escape by running it will climb a tree and often sit among the limbs cower­ ing for hours at a time. Though a near relative of the lynx Canadensis, or loup cervier, it has many points of difference, chief among which are its cowardice, its fondness for carrion and its mangy and unclean­ ly appearance. The bobcat Is the hanger-on of the cat race, the poor re­ lation that comes in after the feast is finished and gnaws the bones and eats the crumbs, snarling and snapping all the time, and more disagreeable when it has gorged itself than it is when almost famishing from hunger. "I see that some of the papers are making a great scare about bobcats just now," said Game Warden Walter I. Neal, who examines all the game which passes through Bangor in the open season. "I have been watching the Bangor trains three months in the year for the past nine years, and I have seen fewer bobcats and loup cerviers go west this season than in any previous year. As for loup cerviers, I do not think I have seen one for three or four years. Last fall David Morrill, the oldest fur buyer in Maine, told me that he believed the loup cerviers were extinct in Maine, as the price of •PHON* OPERATOR GOT BUSY. At Washington the newspaper cor­ respondents are telling the following story about Representative Walter Brownlow of Tennessee: Recently he called up somebody at the White House. He had a fierce time. Central who tried to get the number for him, appeared to be Inexperienced or asleep- Mr. Brownlow. ordinarily the most patient of mea, finally lost Ms patience. "Look here!" he shouted; "quit this foolishness! Either get me the White House or give me woe place where I may at least talk to my Intellectual equal!" Silence, for a moment, and then over the wire came a good loud "Hel­ lo!" in a man's voice. Mr. Brownlow was much relieved. "What place Is this?" he asked. "The government hospital for the ylnBane, across the river," came the answer. Representative Brownlow Is now en- •tltjavoring to ascertain that eentral's name. He wants to have her pro- \ r »<* ^ , v _ the pelts had gone up from two dol­ lars to 97-50 in three years, and in spite of the advance In price he had not bought a loup eervier skin for six years. "Since October 1 I have talked with twenty or more game wardens on duty in eastern Maine, and have seen per­ haps 1,000 hunters, every one of whom has spent from a week to two mouths in the Maine forests, and as yet I have heard no complaint about the havoo wrought by bobcats or loup cerviers. "Wh6n a hunter from the city shoots a specimen of either species he usually takes It home to have it mounted as a sample of his prowess, and if these creatures had been one- tenth as plentiful as reported, I should have seen more bodies in transit. "If a hunter will come to my hotel and pay regular rates for his board," said the proprietor of the hotel, which Is the starting point for all hunters who go up the west branch qt the Penobscot river, '1 will agree to pay him five dollars a head for every bob­ cat or loup cervier he can shoot. I have been roaming in the woods of Maine from Mattawamkeag to Katah- din for the past 40 years. * "My offer of five dollars a head for bobcats and loup cerviers holds open until the fishing season opens. Fact Is, I want to earn some money during the dull season, and take this way of doing It. Yes, I know about Dr. Pat­ ten of Amherst getting a bounty of two dollars a head put on wildcats by the legislature of 1897. In two years the state paid for less than 1,000 ani­ mals, and half of these were smug­ gled across from New Brunswick. Six* years later Fred Campbell of Cherry- field had a bounty of 25 cents a head placed on hedgehogs and secured an appropriation of $1,600 to foot the bills for two years. "And what was the result? Why, lQ. two years Maine paid for the claws and noses of nearly 160,000 hedgehog# and nearly bankrupted several poor towns before they could get back the money they had paid ouUT . - * s moted. That's what he says to the newspaper men.--Judge. To Lydia E. Pinkbam's/ Vegetable Compound j g "I was trOfkbled|£i. Inri iHo oi^6 pains in my baelg K and side, and was miserable in eversf way. I - doctored!-^ until I. .was dis™r : -" couraged , au4& thought I shouldEpt never get welL jgffe read a testimonial!^ about Lydia EjH^C PlnkhamB Yegeta^i We Compound, ?UJ4V thought I y/rnsldj try it. After tak­ ing three bottles I was cured, and , T never It so weir in all my life. I recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to all my f r i ends . "-- Mrs . WILL YOUNG , f t , . - Columbia Avenue, Rockland, Me. rS Backache Is a symptom of femalefe' weakness or derangement. If yot»r? have backache, don't neglect it. Tff *" get permanent relief you must reach^ * t he roo t o f t he t roub le . Noth ing w& : know of will do this so safely and surely as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- . pound. Cure the cause of these dis­ tressing aches and pains anrj you will become well and strong. The great volume of unsolicited testimony constantly pouring in proves •' conclusively that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has restored health to thou­ sands of women. Mrs. Pinkham, of Iiynn, Mass*, invites all sick women to write her for advice. She bag guided: thousands to health free oi charge. . SEEMED APPROPRIATE TO HER Wife of Slek Man Thought She Had Reason for Appealing to Looo> i««vi motive Works. v One day last winter a feeble Irish woman called upon us tor aid. The case sounded urgent, so I went with her at once. Everything was just as she had stated, Her husband was •ery ill, she was too old and feeble to work, their children were dead, there was no fire and their only food was bread which their neighbors, al­ most as poor as they, had given them. I asked her why she had not come to us before and she replied that she had appealed to the church and to •overal individuals without success. "Thin," she went on, "Oi wint to th' big place 'round the strate." The only "big place" near was a plant for the manufacture of steam engines, and I wondered. "But what made you go to the loco* motive works?" I asked. "Well, ma'am, shure an' ain't m« old man got locomotive taxes?"--New York Telegram. EXPRESSIVE REPLY. 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