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THREE , NOTED FUNNY FELLOWS
1 Stories About Mark Twain , Bill Nye and
Jl\meS Whitcomb Riley
BUBBLING MIRTH REPRESSED BY FATHERS
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( Copyright , 16D by Front O. Carpenter. )
- WASIlING'fON No . H.-
Eugene Field dealll !
Mark Twain rulnedl
Bill Nye overworlelll !
These are recent Moms of news about men
whose wll ! and pathos have made the world
moet laugh and cry during the past l1ecal1e.
The story of the lives of Cunny men Is often
full oC snl1ness. It requires hard knocks to
develop the genius of such souls , and behind
the poetry and the humor may be found the
trouble and the heart - breaking which has
, enabled them to know the human heart , and
by their pens to IIIIIY the saddest and the
merriest of strallls upon Its strIngs. 1I0w
few geniuses ur nppreclated l whell they are
young ! Eugene I'lelll's father was a celebrated -
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brated lawyer , hut he eVllenlly ( hall no Idea
of the literary ulllllty oC his oon. The Alm ,
let him ,
almosl spollell lIy lhe fortune
drifted into newspaper worl. , nnll thence ,
atop by nee t p. climbed Into the
literary niche which he will now
hold In Allierlcan history. Mark
TwaIn's father and himself according to his
own statements , were always on the most
dlstanl terms when Marl \\'as a bo ) ' , allli he
says that n sort oC armed neutrality existEd
between them. His father had m no l stories
allen of hIs humor antics and the stories
whIch are related In Tom Sawyer are largely :
based upon Incidents of Mark Twain's curly
life whIch had no charm fQr hIs father. The
oh man could not see the v'o
art a two.story stable , and when Mark at a
circus gave the elollllllllt a plug of tobacco
the hullllull whIch follow was by no means
with the approval oC the old mall , who had
gone along to take care of the boy and look
at the animals \l another limo Mark pretended -
( tended to be talking In his sleep and got ort
II portion of a very original conundrum In
( the hearing of his father. The elder Clemens
( reproved him In a way whIch he does not like
( 10 remember to this day. In speakIng oC It
Mark asks hIs friends not to pry Into the re-
wltl of the experIment , usually concluding
with the sorrowful remark , "It Is of no
consequence lo any one but me. "
NEW STOtUES 01" WI1lTCO RILEY
It was the same . with James Whitcomb
Riley. Ills father never appreciated hIm ,
and I doubt whether ho ever realized the
real greatness oC Hiley's genius. A short
lime ago Riley and ono of hiD newspaper
frIends were talking about the days of their
boyhood , when Riley Bald : .
They .never thought I'd amount to much
at home. My father was a country lawyer ,
and he believed In facts Facts were all
he cared for end he thought that the boy
who couldn't learn arithmetic wouldn't
amount to oll'thlng. 1\ly brothers were a
good deal like him. They hall an aptitude
for mathematics . and they stood well III
i their classes lit school As for me ' I
couldn't learn arllhmelli : I never liked \ the
i blllnked crooked things called ) figures / , and I
couldn't see the lIenlla of workIng away at
them AI for readhmg I got along with It
very well. I usually read the hooks through
for the stories before the class had mastered
one-third of them. But I couldn' make It
In arltlmnetlc The result was that the whole
family pitied me. I was toM again and again
that I would probably have to be supported
by the rest and when I ran off and went
away with II circus one day to stand al the
door and eXlQI the virtues of the pilleshows II
did not make a lenutlon. My mother perhaps -
haps willed her eyes and thought thaI
might come bAck some day , borne way ; butte
to tlje rest It was nettled with the phrase ' 1
told you 10. ' 1 llon't think nay Cathet ever
understood 1110. 1 shall never forgot one
thing which estranged ale from hhn
t un was when 1 was quite II little fellow.
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Wo were just commencing a new reader , and ,
aa usual , I had finished It before the class
had read tell lee ons. There were several
plecc3 of poetry 111 the book , and one oC those
I read over and over ngaln. 11 was ! very
pathetic , and I always had to cry when I real
It. At last the class cattle to It. The day
wo were to read Il I sat 111 illY scat and IIg-
IIrell out just what verses I would have to
read. I knew where I etood In the class , you
know. Well , I saw that I would have to read
these verses where I always cried I knew
I coullin't read them before the clas ! without
crying and I wasn't golllg to bawl In public.
There was only one way out oC It , and that
was to run away. Just before the class was
called and while the teachers back : \ was
turned I slipped out. I hllll harllly left the
school house before I toot my father . lie
asked me what I was doing away from
school. I had jU9t been reading the life of
George Washington , allll I concluded that I
woulll try the cherry tree act with him. I
told the truth , saying , 'Father , I I1ldn't want
the boys to laugh ol me , and I knew It would
mole me cry :
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" \Vell , 1'1see \ IC I can't make you cry ;
said the olll gentleman , and he picked up a
tJwltch and gave me one oC the best whip-
pings I have ever had. I don't blame him
now. Ilia nature was such that he could
nol appreciate the situation. lie probably
thought my answer was merely an excuse to
get out of school , but the injustice of Il
was such that It was -lung time before I
fell close 10 my father again. Alter going
away from home I I1rlfted about hero and
there allli finally turned up at Indianapolis ,
111 the Journal ofilco I began to write
poetry , and In time became rather notorious
for that. The people oC Indianapolis made
a good deal of me and now and then I'umors
of my reputation reached the little country
town where III ) ' father was livIng. lie
couldn't see what the ( people saw In the ( J'
things of mine to lI3 worth 110 much money
and he finally gave lip trying to under-
stand It.
"I went down to see him frequently , and
one day I persuaded him to come up with
me to Indianapolis When0 arrived 111
the city I asked rather to come with lIIe to
n clothing store. lie was pretty well dressed
for a country lawyer , but not quite as well
as I thought he ought to lie for Indianapolis.
I bought him a new outfit from t.hoe-s to
hat , and then tool him home to my hotel.
I told the landlord that I wanted the best
rooms In the houe. ; ; I tool him about lime
city with me . and everywhere he went ho
was pointed out as Jim Hiley's father . I
tell you , that dill ilia Iood It was the
proudest day of 111) life. "
. Nn 'S BIG CIIECK.
"I wish you could have seen Riley when
he said that , " the newspaper man went ell
"Trlulllphs of that kind are the really great
triumphs of ono's lifeVa like to have
the worlll speak well of ) us , but It Is only
the praise oC the people \ at home that wo
really care for. Now , alto ( Bill Nye ! . Ills
experience was much the same as that uf
Riley . Wo were talking about It the last
time I saw h1m. The Nye family came
Cram Vermont , nllll of the whole tribe they
thought that little Edgar WII8011 woulll
amount to the least lie was rather sickly
and when he started west to go just as far
as he coulll go there was not much griev-
ing The rut of the family , lIIatter-of-fucl
people . were doing ! well , and two oC the
boys , who , IIIe Hlle"o arithmetical brothers ,
knew something oC figures , had gone 10 ? lUn-
neapells to practice law : 11111 Nye went liS
far as Wyoming before he Slopped ,
lIe made n reputation there In
connection with the ( Laramie Boomerang ,
and then wine east and Increased It . lie
now gets more than the salary oC time chief
justice of the United States out of his newspaper , I
paper work alone , and his lecture business
Is equal to the interest on a good-slzcJ Cnr-
tUllt' fie has almost entirely recovered his ! :
health which has been temporarily : deranged -
ranged by overwork mil with a little cure
he will come out all right lIe Is , at any
rate , practically independent Ills father
st.1I llrs on his Vermont farm lie and
DIll correspond now and then , and not long
ago the old farmer wrote his boy that ( ho
believed be would sell the farm lie said It
was heavily \ mortgaged , and Il was all he
cauid 110 to pay the interest lie had writ-
ten to lJIli ( N'e's brothers In Minneapolis , I
but ther didn't seen to be able to do anything ,
lie still \ owed $2,600 and as he was an old
I fish , this was too \ l1IQ.ch for bun to carry ,
and he thought he woulll sell As BIII \ Nye
null this hla eyes began to fill lIe is . you
know , a mighty sensitive fellow , with all hili
I fun lIP happened to have lame money Qn
deposit In the bank : , and be t09" out his
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check book and Oiled out a check for $2.fjOO.
lie sIgned It III such big letters that It allllost
covered the face oC the check , and wrote filename
name In Cull , Edgar Wilson Nye. This he
sent to his father and told him to pay off
the 1lI0rtgage , and as he dill so , away down
In his soul I venture , he said to hhnselt :
'Well I guess they'll think sOlllethln ! ; now
of the sickly little cuss wholll they thought
they would have to support , who dldn't know
figures , and who had 10 go west to make his
fortune. ' "
RILEY ON LECTURING.
I see Il stated that James WhItcomb Riley
Is to go on the lecture platform again this
\\'Inler. If this Is true , he has changed his
mind during the last few months At Indianapolis -
dlanupolls I was tolll that the best way to
nuke James Whlteomll Riley angry was to
mention the word "lecture , " and that he had
given the work up for gool1. A close friend
of his , who has much to 110 with his legal
business , told me how Riley recently received
a big lecture alter from New York. A
manager there wrote , offering him $1,000 for
four lectures. Rlley went to the telegraph
office and promptly declined , and he bald at
the time that the knowledge that he could
afford to refuse ! ' an offer of that kind made
him happy He has been ! making a great
deal oC money out of his books of late years ,
and his Income Is now bIgger than that of a
congressman. He Is not an extravagant
man , and he lives quietly In Indianapolis
wIth his brother-III-law , who , by the way ,
has a. good ) deal to do In the management oC
his buslne lie reads a great deal , and
durlllK the past two rears has been devoting
himself to the English classIcs. He Is very
fond of Longfellow , and one of his greatest
favorites ts Robert form ! ! .
MARK TWAIN'S TOUR.
The real secret of Mark TwaIn's tour
around the world Is the pullllcatlon of a new
book oC tra\'els. 1IIs lecturing will pay his
t'XI'em' ' anti will net him a small sum . but
In all proballllItr not enough to par his l1ebts.
A new book of travels will bring him tens
of thousanda oC dollars , and It will have a
sale all over the world. Mark : Twaill's ex-
Ilerience In book publishing has given him a
knowledge of what sells best , and he hiss
gnat fault In travel. Not long ago I called
IIPIII him at Hartford to get ! his advice all to
a hook of this kind In answer , he drawled
out the following :
"There-ls-only-one-klnl1-oC-a-book-
that-wlll-sell- better-than-a-book-of-
tra VI' Is-a nd-throat's-a-pious-book . "
lie then went on to tell me something
about his ! own experience In travel work ,
and gave me a far different story as to
some oC than than that generally believed
lie told \ me that the publishers , alll not the
authors , made as a rule the most of the
money out of II book and he saw ha got a
royalty oC only 5 per cent on "The Innocents
Abroad , " or from 15 cents to 25 cents per
\'olume. Ho will do better wIth his "Hound
the World Travel , " for hoe will \ probably publish -
lish It himself lie tolll me that the COlli-
pail ) ' that pUbllshel1 "The Innocents Abroad"
made a fortune out oC II , and upon my askIng -
lug him IC his royalty was not a very small
one , he replied :
"No , not as ouch things usually go , though
I thought It wan when I bade the contract.
I was advised to accept It , however , by my
friend , A. 1 > . Richardson who told me that
he got only 4 per cent for writing 'Deyond
the 1IlIsslulllpl ; and that 5 per cent was a
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good royalt "
One hundred and twenty-five thousand
copies ' oC "The Innocents Abroad" were sold
within three years after It was published ,
and the Hartford Publishing company , whIch
issued It , made more than $100,000 out of It
I doubt whether Mark : Twain got $2fjOOO , and
It was probably ' through hIs desire to remedy
such an unjust dlvh"on of the profits that
he went Into the Illlbllshing firm oC Charles
L. Wehster .C Co" , through whIch he issued
many of his books and In connection wIth
hlch he host his Corhll1e. I have hlordI \
mill that Mr . Clemens ' will issue d new
\'clume of travels upon his return , and there
III nD doubt but that , If he does so . It will
be he who will make $100.000 , and the publishing
lishing company will gel the smaller end of
\be \ profits
"TIlE INNOCENTS ABROAD . "
It was here In Washington that "The Innocents -
nocents Abroad" was written It wall away
back In 1868 , when Mark Twain Will 32 years
old 1e ( was al that time wrltllng letters for
the Sail Francisco newspapers and adding
to his ! income by a salary of $6 a day II a
clerk of one of lie committees oC the United
States senate Senator Stewart , the fatnous
advocate ot the silver question , was ' \ they
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chairman of the committee , and he gave
Clemens the job In order tint he might
have the leisure to write the book. There
was little wOI'k connected wIth the
committee , and Senator Stewart hired
a man at $100 a month to do the
work. He had ( seen Clemens' notes oC his
trip with that party of pilgrIms who went
through the holy Land and he believed with \
him that the book would be a success ,
However hard a worker he may have become
afterward , Mark Twain at thIs time liked
to loaf as well as write , and It was all that
Senator Stewart and his frIends coulll do
to get ! him at his work After he got
started , however , he kept It up like a steam
engine. lie wrote from noon till midnight
every day and he finished the book In two
months Every line oC It was penned with
his own hand , and he hall no stenographer
or typewriter to help him along This Is
the way he does mast of his work and when
ho has a book on hand he makes Il n prIn-
ciple to stick to It unlll he gets through ,
wrlllllg a certain amount every day lIe
was very particular In the composition : of
"The Innocents Abroad , " and he tore up
many a chapter before he got the matter
Into the shape In which It was published.
lIe wrote the book In a little hack room on
P street In a part oC the city which has
since been " given up to busIness , amid a man
who knew him at the lime tells me that
Merle : Twalll had about the dirtiest room he
ever saw
"It was heated , " mid he , "by a little
drum stove , which was fill oC ashes and
out of which a great dust came whenever
a hit oC coal wall thrown Into , It , The air
was sour with tobacco smoke and cigar
ashes were scattered over the carpet. The
floor was littered with newspaper clippIngs ,
and Mark Twain , with his coat and vest oil .
worked away at the hook In the mldot of
the muss. Ho seldom stopped work before
mtllnlght and would sit up unlll nearly
morning reading , smoking and singing. The
success of the work was a great surprise to
him , and he proudly wrote one of his friends
shortly after It walt published that It hall
taken thirty tons oC paler to print It. I
have been over most of the ground which
Is described In It , dud It was wonderfully
true to tile life. It Is far more accurate
than many oC the guide ! books , nUll llr. :
Clemens must have made very Cull notes In
the mll1st oC the scenes which he describes
The books which followed paid hIm much
better as far as the royalty was concerned
and the royalties which he received from
the dramatization of his stories have been
consldetnblc. "The Glldell Age , " In which
John T. Ha'mond made an Iniernllllonal
reputation for Colonel Mulberry Sellers , was
especially profitable. In cnnneetion with
this I saw the other day an II painting with
Raymond and Twain standing together
shaking hands with each other. The paint-
Ing was framed In the refuse pulp which
comes from the , grinding up of the old
greenbacks by the 'l'relur1 ! department On
a brasil plate belowlI H were printed the
words which so -oCten came from Colonel
Sellers' mouth , "Million ! ! In , II , " and as I
looked at It I u\lhnot \ help wishing that
these words sgouldItell \ I the story of Mark
Twain's tour around the world , and that : !
there ( would lie "mllllDns In It" for him
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TEXUEXUY' ' Tllil'l'IMEy. !
ChlcOIlro Post
I had < a dream the other night
Of tendl'ncll'l' . no longer slight ,
Of modern da'l ! .
I thought I saw , while thus asleep ,
Men wring theIr hands and loullly weep
O'er staging playa
I dreamed I saw "Othelo" : played ,
The title role In truth , essayed
ii ) ' woman fair.
I also saw , which gave me pain ,
A melancholy hloomered Dune
That made me store.
The Caesars and the Sh'lock8 , too ;
The Romeo that Shakespeare drew ;
\Vere thus' arrayed ;
And knights In bloomers strode the stage ,
Depleting mimic warriors' rage
With shlnlnl blade
Yet managers were heard to rave
And claim there was a tlro\:1"1II \ : grave
To grIeve their hl'atts I
I drbamed I he'ardhl'lII sadly say
There were no pereo..5 hft I to play
The WOman parts
CHEAT BRIT iUN'S ARMY CHIEF
An American Officer Reviews the Career of
Viscount Wolseley ,
A COMMANDER OF WIDE EXPERIENCE
The Cltllllthtltll In 'hleh lie Took
l'nrt timid ills l'rOllltltlOItH-AhuHC
of the Uulon Army ntul l'rltlHe
for the Confederates .
An AmerIcan army officr traces In Harper's
Weekly the varIed career oC Lord Wolseley ,
the new commander-In-chIef of the army oC
Great Britain and presents In chronological
order the numerous campaigns In whIch he
took part and won distinctIon. The past ca-
reer of any man , he writes , must furnish the
standard by which to gauge his obLllties and
to estimate his capacity for the discharge of
future reeponslb111ty Field Marshal Wolseley
has just passed his 62d birthday ; he Is there-
fore fourteen years younger than his predecessor -
ees80r , who was bOlO In 1819. Were ne IIn
American general he would now bo counting
the months and days to elapse before he be-
came : entitled to the relief that retirement
grants , or , as some would have Lt , before he
retired 10 oblivion In the English service ,
however , for the hIghest general officers , there ,
Is no such thing as legal retirement from
active service at 110 attaIned age. Tim as-
slnment : to hIs new command Is for a period
of five years-long enough for this man of ac-
tion to leave his Imprel'3 upon the army oC
BrLtaln.
A sketch oC the mllllar career of this very
interesting character may not lie out oC place.
Expresd In the Corm CamillaI' to Americans
In publIc notlcee of their generals 1l would
run about IlS follows :
Born In 1833-Appolnted ensign EIghtieth
foot , March , 1852. '
1852-3-Servcd In the Durmoh campaign
against the robber chief Myat-toon. Parllcl-
pated tn two assaults on a defensive position.
Was severely wounded warded a medal.
Invalided homo.
185-G-Lleutenont Ninetieth Coot. Served
on engineering duty In the trenches before
Sevastopol. Participated In the assault and
capture of "The Quarries , " and later In a
sortie , when he was very dangerously
wounded Was mentioned In dltopatchcs. Promoted > -
meted to captaIn and brevet major. Received
a medal. Decorated by the emperor of the i
French and the sultan of Turkey Recovered '
from his wounds , and served later In the
Crimean campaign on quartermaster duty
with the French army.
18fj7-9-Caplaln and brevet major. Served
In India against sepoy mutineers Present
and participated In two assaults , relief oC I
Lucknow , battle of Aluml1ogh , capture oC I
Lucknow and later acted ! as quartermaster
with field / columns. Repeatedly mentioned In
dispatches . and was recommended for the
Victoria Cro < ' :1 : , llecel\'el ! medal. Promoted
to brevet lieutenant colonel.
186-Served ( In China on quartermaster
duty Participated In assault on the Taku
forts and the capture of Peking. Promoted
to full major Ninetieth foot
1661-0n routine staff duty In England
16G2-3- revet lieutenant colonel Was
ordered to Canada , with a view
to active employment against the (
United States , expected to result from the
seizure of Mason and SII:1ell : , but their sur-
render prevented hoslllllles. While- on' leave
of absence ran the blockade of the lower
Potomac just after Anllelom ; joined the con
federate army under General Lee. I'ulllllh
I on account of his visit In the January number
i of Blackwood , over the nom de plumb of "An
English Officer "
1861-9-As brevet colonel continued on duty
In Canada as quartermaster.
187-Wllh ( local rank of major general had
the Independellt command ( hIs first ) of the
fled river expedition , a force of three
battalions This campaIgn ended In the flight
of the rebel Riot , and no blood was shed
The moving of this force anti Its supplies lIy
b ate through the wilderness of forest , swamp ,
portages and cataracts from fort Arthur to
Fort Garry reflects great credit upon Its com-
wander Received the dSoratippplg . . l Qf
St. Michael and St. George , also Companion oC
the Bath Declined a baronetcy and < higher
decoration of the Bath.
1S70-2-Servell on quartermaster duty In
Canada ; made the dispositions for repellIng
an expected Fenian ralll from Buffalo
1873-As major general , was appointed gov-
ercor of the Gold coast and commander oC the
Ashl1ntee expedition 2,500 British troops
Fought the battles of Amoaful and Coomassie
Captured King Coffee , Received the thanks
of Parliament , a grant of ! 25.000 , the Grand
Cross of SL Michael and St. George , decora-
Item Knight of the Bath , a medal , freedom
oC the city oC London and a sword of honor
from that munlclllallty. Was promoted to
lieutenant general "for distinguished servIce
In the field. " "
18H-Scrved In England as Inspector gen-
eral of the auxiliary forces
187fj-Wlth local rank of general , was appointed -
pointed governor of Natal Reconciled the
dlfll.cuilles between the colonists and the
government and secured the option of the
new constitution for that colony.
1876-7-Served In England as Inspector gen-
el'al. Appointed a member oC the PrIvy
council of Inl1la.
li18-9-Apponted ! chief of start to the expeditionary -
pedllionary army formed for the expected
war with Ilussl1. The war cloud was dispelled -
pelled and through Deaeonsllell1's stroke
Cyprus was annexed lie was appointed high
commIssioner , colony oC Cyprus , and om-
mander-In.chlef oC the troops
1879-Resumcd inspection duty In war of-
fice.
1879-81-Appolnted general-ln-chleC oC the
forces In South Africa , completed the suhjuga-
turell SII'Jknnl , and accomplished the annexa-
tion oC the Transvaal. Hecelved the Grand
Cross of ( the Bath
1882-As general , was appointed commander
In'chlef oC the expedition to Egypt against
Arabl Pasha , who hall rebelled against the (
sultan Defeated the Egyptians In several
minor engagements , and overthrew them com
pletely at 'rel-el-Keblr capturing all their
guns (1fjOOO ( Brlllsb- troops , his largest command -
nand In battle , against 30,000 of the enemy ) ,
Captured Cairo. Received the thanks oC l'ar.
lIament. Was raised to the peerage as Baron
\\'olseley of Cairo and Wolsoley. Promoted
to full general "for distinguished service In
the field " " Given a medal of honor and decoration -
oration lIy Ihe ( sultan of Turkey , and another
lIy the khedive
1S81-fj-A general , commanded the Nile expedition
pellUlon for the relief oC Gordon , which failed
\n \ Its object had several actions with the
1\lahdlsts. \ Was raised to a viscount In the
peerage
1865.90-AdJutant general of the British
army. Against strong opposition especially
of the duke of Cambrillge , carried Into effect
several army reforms
lS00-5-Commanller-ln-ehleC of the force ! : In
Ireland. Promoted to field marshal In 1891. ! !
Knight of St. Patrick D , C. L. oC University
oC Camllrldge.
The announcement of the appointment oC
Lord WOlseley hall been received with general
approbation , many going so far as to take
Punch seriously LI1 Its reference to him as
"Our Only General. " " There are a few who
see on the odor side oC the picture "One
Other General , " but when It Is attempted to
find agreement among thIs minority as to who
I. the "Olher , " a half . dozen names are mon
honed
The coming man Is certainly the fir : > t
soldier In England , In every way
competent and quolltlcli for his new dullell
No other general has had such varied experience -
ence and has always acquitted hhnselC so
creditably ; but ho has holll , and I'tlll has ,
his l1etrdctors. No strong man In public
, life Is without these. The late Sir Edwin
I lIamley deprecIated him , and } Sir George
Chesney cannot abide ! the mall , for ho cannot
write elegant English ; but the duke of Cambridge -
bridge sneers at him because ; he Is a writing
general. lIlt ! success IN Ova campaigns
where he hall full control , III bellttlell ( IIY
these men or ascribed to luck. The lied
river business wu a promenade list would \ be
a pastime for the Alpine club. The cam.
campaign
exploration , the most useful munltlon of war
being quinine Arabl I'al'ha's position was
carried with "gilded bayonets , " I. I e. , brbery !
Some of hIs envious detractors derive great
glee Cram the story told oC the ( French col-
onel , who saw the action , and who , when
appealed to to decide } a bet as to which was
the ( most efficient corps at Tel.el-lfhlr ,
exhibiting a 1Ir1t1ah sovereign bearing ! the
representation oC St. George astride n dra-
gen , replied } that La Cavalerle cle Saint
Georges was the most elJlclent corpa. 1'h
f0.ligro of tlu Nile campalcn-to rescue Oor-
.
don-was pointed at as proof positive of Sir
Jamet'li Incapacity. Then ho was said to
be a pushing mall , 'lIrroundlng' ' himself with
a rIng of sycophants , who exalted his prow-
ess . set him UIJ for adoration , and Inslstee
on obeisance.
Lord Garnet lids had his Cull share or
abuse , but not often has he deigned a reply
and this silence exasperated his assailants .
The fact Is , he hag rested his case on his
record , relying upon the Inborn sense of :
Justice of his countrymen to 110 him justice . .
and ( he has nol leaned on a bending reed.
The early career of the ( new commander-
In-chief was highly creditable , though not
more so than the careers of many 01 her'
young ofilcers In about ten years he rdoe
to a major , and won two brevets for gallan-
try In action While exercising hlll llellllent.
command he bas been uniformly and even .
brilliantly successful , which Is more hare .
can be said for all of his contemporaries ire
command lied Mr. Gladstone . heeded Lord
Wolseley's advice and gIven the word earlier
to embark the ( troops for the Nile , Gordon " ,
would probably lie alive tOl1ay. - . ,
The new commander.ln - chief bas graduated
In about every branch of Iho 1l111ltnry service .
and has shown , marked alllllty as an admIn-
Istrator oC civil attalrs. Though classed lie . .
the army list as a general or Infantry , lie
Las served as- an engineer , quartermaster
adjutant , Inspector , reaching the luighest
rank In each department No other Dritisla
general has commandl'(1 ( so large n force
In war-some 4fjOOO men In Egypt . Lord
Roberts Is lJerhallll a close second but his
experience has not ben so varied nor his
achievements so numerous j
There Is no present thought of materIallY ;
increasing the ( armed strength of the empire
but It Is urged that the British forces can
never bo on an equality with continentaL
armies of equal size unless all able - bodled
Englishmen are obliged to serve hue ( state
for a brief perIod , and that the military
policy of the empire should be controlled lIy a.
staff that-allowed a certain appropriation b1 :
Parliament for a specified ; oree-shall have
absolute and complete control oC the details.
A ministry that proposed such a measure
would lIe very ahort-lIvell. Probably Lord
Wobeley does not expect to accomplish this
radical change no\\-he can wall : but he
never mh'Ses an opportunity of Impressing
upon his countrymen that lie safety of
IIrltaln cannot lIe Insured by the navy alone
lie ts quite willing to ndmlt that the sea
force Is "l1omlnant partner" In defense , but ;
he lIIalntalnll that all invasion with u battle
of Dorlelng , la not a chimera The protection -
lion of England I will not be satll'Cactory
unlll there Is avallalllo a force of al leAs
7fjOOO ; regular troops , and throE ( ! times as
many reserves ! and mlllllll , all organized and
trained In the most elllelent manner III
goes so far all tll cry wolf al the suggesllon
of a tunnel at Dover
Among veterans of our civil war there la
a feeling that as respects that conflict Lord
Wolseley wall prejudiced and unfair. When
he found he had mIsJudged , misrepresented .
and vlllflftl the union army hI' was too
proud or conceited to admit hIs error Ia
other words , that he has never made sulll-
dent amend for his violent denunciations or
American soldiers , pullllsh In IIIackwooll's
Magazine , January , 1863. In his review or
Ito ( "Century War I' llertl. " pullllsh.d In the
North American Review , May to December
188:1 : , he makes admission that "our Impressions -
sions of the facts as we received them at the
moment required to be corrected by subse-
1uenl investigations " This can hardly bit
accepted as sufficient amends for each : remarks -
marks as the following characterizing the
Union army ( which by the way , ho had nevell
mien ) nil "local military autocrats , evincing a
barbarity of cOlllluct disgraceful to any notloQ
clalllling English l descent ; moll oC hate a million -
lion men : military despots ; mutinous rabble .
molls of Irish and German mercenaries , " otc. . _ t
etc.
etc.The
The Belles of North American Review articles .
Llclel closes with a paragraph expressive of
his great admiration for Abraham I.lneolo
and Robert E. Lee "lIow modest , how :
wise , how generous how large In they
views , and how granllly patriotic , as each un.
dersloed patrlotlPlnl" ! This "hrond Impres.
slon , " he says , hue formed aL the lime the
war wu In progress , and Is one that dill not
require to lie . . . . "correrted . by subsequent In-
veutlgalions , Yet In 1863 he wrote In Black
woods , 'vllo faction thai sits In W . .shln" , . _ _
ton In the name of government , " and , "Thtt
United States Is striving under the dictator-
ship oC all Insignificant lawyer to crush out :
the freedom [ oC" lire south I
A Cull confession Is a prerequisite of ab. M
101111 on Can Americans be blamed for [ willi. J
lIo\l1ln \ ; forsiveitsal ; ! .
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