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EN. HUGH L. SCOTT was Just get
ting tho chair of chief of staff of tho
army comfortably warmed when, the
other day, ho was hurriedly dis
patched to tho Mexican border-to per
suade tho turbulent Mexicans to take
tholr civil war out of Arizona's front yard.
That's always the way. fcicott never gets well,
started on an army Job anywhero but what ho Is
yanke,d away to go somewhere and do somo
pacifying.
Ho Is Uncle Sam's star pacifier.
Dark-skinned people, whether they bo Mexican
or straight Indian, or Cuban or Filipino, take to
him as children tako to a fond undo. Some
times ho has to lick them, first. Whon ho does,
ho licks them thoroughly. But that Is only on
rare occasions. As a rule ho has them eating
out of his hand within a week.
Two years ago, with a Hfotlmo of experience
behind him, ho went down to tho Mexican border
as colonol of tho Third United States cavalry.
There ho remained until laBt April, whon ho
camo to Washington to becomo assistant chief
of staff and a brigadier general. Only a fow
wcoks ago ho moved up to bo chief of staff.
1 Thoso two years on tho border mado him, ob
viously, tho man to settle tho now troublo that
has arisen. AH through his army career ho haB
mado it a rulo in all problems with which ho has
had to deal to "study the personal equation.'"
So ho studied tho personal equation of Pancho
Villa, for ono, and of Benjamin Hill, tho Carranza
general, who has boon making most of tho recent
fuss near Naco, Ariz. Ho camo to know both
men well, and they, in turn, conceived a pro
found respect for him and oven a sincere affec
tion. His hold over thont 1b said to bo remark
able It is admitted that no man living knows tho
American Indian moro thoroughly than does Gen-
oral Scott Ho has fought tho Indian and con
quered him, but many times moro ho has rea
soned with him and conquered him even moro
completely. Tho pre-eminent master of Indian
sign language, the author of standard scientific
works on American ethnology, General Scott is
quito as wall known in tho field of scholarship
as in his profession.
Lacking political Influence or poworful friends.
General Scott was thirty years in tho army bo
foro the country at largo came to know his namo
at all. His work, remarkable as It was, was done
out of tho publlo eye. Ho did not havo tho
faculty of pushing himself forward. But in re
cent years tho reward has come. Promotion, so
long delayed, whilo younger men leaped over
hlB head, has been rapid. And now he heada
tho army.
Observo him at his desk in tho war depart
ment, his bullot-torn bands, shy several fingers,
busy with tho multitude of papers presented to
him, giving his orders in gentlo, conversational
tones, his appearance, his manner, his atttyudo
precisely Jho same as when ho was a major of
tho lino thoso fow years ago, modest, democratic,
kindly. Tho erect head, tho keen, searching oye3,
tho strong jaw proclaim tho man who is master
of hlmsolf, fit for command,
Curiously, tho dependents of Undo Sam know
him even better than tho civilized folk know him.
With tho Indians of tho West and with tho sav
ago peoples of tho Sulu archipelago tho name of
Scott lu held In reverence. Their faith in him
is nbsoluto, their devotion unswerving.
Away back in 1891, whon occurred through
all tho West tho last serious Indian outbreak,
when, in somo mysterious manner tho Indians
from tho Canadian lino to tho Mexican bordor
suddenly fell victims to tho Messiah crazo, went
to ghost dancing and left tholr reservations for
tho war path, tho grim jost that was bandied
about through tho army posts ran:
"Tho United States army Is holding down tho
Indians in tho Northwest; Scott 1b holding them
down In tho Southwest."
It was genorally admitted that Scott did tho
bettor Job of tho two.
Every slnco then, whonovor tho Indians any
whero got restless and troublo starts, both tho
interior department, which has jurisdiction over
tho Indians, and the war department sot up tho
ory, "Sond for Scott!"
Exporionco has shown that It is far bottor,
cheaper and moro elllclent to put Scott on tho
Job of
peaco to
bringing
tho trou
bled , Indian souls
than to send out a
Bquadron of caval
ry, as was done in
ancient days.
Back in 190 8,
when Scott was
serving as superin
tendent of tho
military academy at
West Point, tho
Navajos in New
Mexico and tho Mex
ican Kickapoot in
Arizona started
trouble. Scott was
yanked away from
West Point, sent
among tho hostiles
practically alone,
and presently tho
troublo was all over.
Again in 1911
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when tho HopI Indians in Arizona flew the track.
Scott went down and brought them back. Only a
year ago, whon moro of theso sprradic disturb
ances started, this time in tho Navajo country,
Scott had to leave his cavalry command on tho
Mexican border and adjust matters. These are
but a few Instances.
How does ho do it? Because he knows tho
savago and the savage mind. Ho knows how
tho savago thinks. Ho has tho ability to put
himself in the placo of the savage.
"Brothers," ho begins, when ho has to do with
a band of Indians who are war dancing, "tell
mo what troubles you."
And straightway they tell him of this wrong
they havo suffered at tho hands of tho offlcers
appointed over them, of that indignity which in
their opinion has been put upon them.
"My heart bleeds for you," ho. tell them. "I
grieve that this troublo has been made between
you and tho great father at Washington, whoso
soldiers are as tho leaves of the trees. I do not
want them to come among you and kill you. Is
there not somo manner in which wo can adjust
tho differences; somo way to restore tho friend
ship between you and tho great father who
wishes you well?"
And then they get down to a settlement.
Ono of General Scott's ancestors was Benjamin
Franklin tho general's mother was a great
granddaughter of the immortal Ben. It would
appear that somo of tho genius tho philosophy,
tho diplomacy and the conciliating powers of
this, the first American diplomatist, has descend
ed upon tho now chief of staff.
But, llko old Ben, whoso phrase on tho sign
ing of tho Declaration of Independence, "We
must all hang together, or wo shall hang sepa
rately," is immortal, General Scott knows whefn
to abandon pacific measures and to fight.
So it was when, in 1903, ho became governor
of the Sulu archipelago he determined that this
was no time and no placo to "brother" the bel
llgorent natives. Tho Malay mind ho mastered
as ho had mastered tho Indian mind. A licking
first and brothorlng afterward plainly was tho
course marked out for him.
And such a licking ho gnvo them!
Then camo tho task of breaking up tho slavo
trado in the islands of tho archipelago. Alter
nately "brothorlng" nnd punishing, Scott
achieved his purpose. Ho wiped out slavery ab
solutely. And whon, in 1900, he camo to leave, tho people
wept. Hero was a man they could understand; a
man whoso word always was kept They asked,
through their chiefs, that be remain to rule ovor
thorn, but his tour of duty was ended.
Back ho came to tho states to instil) other
lessons as superintendent of tho military acad
emy at West Point, for a period of four years.
Adaptability, thai is ono of his qualities. He
Is adaptable because ho knows men, civilized
men as well as savago men. Is It any wonder
they mado him a doctor of tho humanities?
Seldom does it occur that a young offlcor just
out of West Point "a shavbtail" as tho army
knows such an officer gets his baptism of firo
within a fow wcekB of his graduation. Scott is
ono of tho fow.
Born in Kentucky In 1852, ho wns graduated from
West Point In tho class of 1876. Thnt summer Cus
ter had gono out with his regiment, tho famous
Seventh cavalry, as part of General Terry's column,
In tho expedition against tho Sioux. Custor and five
companies of his command wero cut off and wiped
out to tho last man on tho Little Big Horn river In
Montana. ,
Scott and a nu.nber of other graduates of lila
class wero hurried West to tako tho places In the
regiment of those killed. Ho Joined his regiment
nt Fort Abraham Lincoln, on tho Missouri river, in
Dakota territory, and ho, with five other ofllcers,
slept their first night in tho room formerly occupied
by Custer.
Then to the field. Through all tho Northwest
country tho Indians wero in arms. The Seventh
was sent down tho Missouri to disarm and pacify
tho Indians. It was bitter, trying work, a mixture
of pacific and warlike
measures; horo a
tribe to bo won to
peaco by palaver;
there to bo whipped
into docility.
As his fellow-ofll-cers
tell it, Scott had
not been in tho field
twenty-four hours
when ho became fas
cinated by a study of
tho Indian, and par
ticularly of the In
dian sign language.
Ho was forever talk
ing with tho Indian
prisoners, learning
from them, gaining an
insight Into their
mental processes.
Tho next year
1877 oame tho Nez
Perces uprising in
Idaho and that won
derful retreat of Chief
Joseph from Idaho
1,500 miles through
Montana and almost
to his goal, tho Cana
dian lino. Howard
and Gibbon pursued
from behind; Miles,
from tho east, at
temptedand finally
succeeded to head
off the wily Indian
strategist boforo sanc
tuary could be found.
In Canada. Tho Sev
enth cavalry was in
tho front, but just be
fore Joseph and his
band wero caught at
Snako Creek, and just
before that two-day
battlo in which Jo
seph was forced to
surrender, Lieutenant
Scott wns detached
for special duty.
In 1878 Lieutenant Scott's regiment was at
Camp Robinson, Neb., and par clpated In I e
Cheyenne expedition. Then, until 1891. tho young
officer served continuously on Ptoins. flghfr
ing and studying and learning. And presen y
he became the acknowledged Indian authority
in tho army. So when the ghost dancing erase
of 189i camo along ho was sent alono to do tue
work which ordinarily a column of cavalry
would havo been called upon to do and ho did it.
You havo heard of old Geronimo, tho famous
Apacho warrior, who gave the government so
much troublo in the days when tho Apaches
wero on the war path in the Southwest? Well,
General Scott and Geronimo for three years camo
near being "buddies."
You see, after Lawson and Wood and tho rest
of them had brought In Geronimo and his band
of Chirlcahua Apaches, tho problem of wha to
do with them was difficult. Finally, they wero
held as prisoners at Fort Sill, and in 1891 Gen
eral Scott was sent to tako charge of them. Ho
remained on that duty three years, 1894-97.
Hero was a first-class ethnologist's laboratory
ready to hand, a bunch of tho wildest Indians
ever assembled on tho continent, herded togeth
er, unable to get away, offering a fruitful Held
for study and observation. The keeper and tho
kept became fast friends, and the Indians Im
parted all their plains lore, to tho studlour but
extremely military person who had them in band.
Then, naturally, General Scott wns ordered to
Washington for duty in tho division of military
information, and assigned to tho, bureau of eth
nology in tho Smithsonian institution, whero he
proceeded to write his famous report on Indian
sign language.
But then came tho Spanish-American wnr.
General Scott closed tho door on that portion of
his mind devoted to abstract science, and opened
up tho military section to its fullest Once moro
ho was the fighting cavalry man. Ab Ludlow's
adjutant general ho went to Cuba, and presently,
after tho fighting was over, he was adjutant gen
eral to General Wood, commanding tho island.
For threo years, from 1898 to the evacuation May
20, 1902, ho was General Wood's right-hand man
in doing in Cuba that historic work that has re
flected so much credit on the nation.
Higher in rink now, ho was just as eager and
enthusiastic in his study of the Cuban pcoplo nB
ho was In thoso shavetail days of 187C away off on
tho Northwestern plains in studying Indians.
And, as General Wood tells it, very much of the
success of American administration In tho Island
was due to tho thorough understanding of tJo
people possessod by this hard-working adjutant
i and to that adjutant general's sympathetic atti
tude toward thorn.
Then to the Philippines aB major of tlio Third
cavalry went Scott, thero again to Justify his
reputation ns "the greatest little pacifier in tho
army." Equally apt In pacifying with a machine
gun and with sympathetic acts and words, Scott
onco moro demonstrated his many-sldednoes.
It is given to few men to bo ablo to shoot up
a country and mako the peoplo llko it. Scott is
ono of tho few. He did that very thing in the
Philippines.
Dullders of Human Habitations
Well to Avoid Too Many
Straight Lines.
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LAND A PRECIOUS POSSESSION
Feasants of Europe Cllno Tenaciously
to tho Few Acres They Own
and Cultivate.
In a story from tho western battlo
front tho following bit of information
was gloanod!
Ono of tho moot striking features
of tho battlefield, nnd ono entirely In
congruous with tho work in hand, wbb
tin, eight of peasants plowing tholr
(loldB as if war wero hundreds of rallea
away. Theso farmers are apparently
fearless for tholr own personal safety,
but keenly concerned for their homos,
many of which havo been destroyed by
shell fire.
How tonaclously theso poor peas
ants of Europe cling to their land!
Not oven tho machlno guns and tho
nrtlllery firo can dislodge them. Thoy
aro as uneasy and unhappy when di
vorced from their little ucro of soil
as a sailor dobarrcd from tho sea.
Thoy know the meaning and tho value
of the possession of u ploco of land.
In Europe tho landowners aro tho so
cial and political leadors. How Im
portant tho ownership of land Is In tho
oyes of Europeans la demonstrated by
tho zeal which European Immigrants
show in getting hold of farms in this
country. They labor ceaselessly to ob
tain land, and when thoy securo It thoy
cling to it with bulldog persistence.
But tho phenomenon noted in tho
war dispatch baa Us cheerful sldo. Tho
resoluteness with which tho peasants
maintain their hold on the land and
continue to cultivate it oven while bul
lets whiBtlo and shrapnel hisses
around them, is a prophecy of tho
quickness with which! thoy will repair
tho ravages of tho war when tho rod
scourgo has passed.
One on the Pill Compiler.
"I always euro my own hams," re
marked a prominent physician at a
banquet the other evening. "If that is
the case, doctor," rejoined a lawyer
who wns present, "I'd rather bo ono
of your hams than ono of your pa
tlonts." Indianapolis Star.
Nature makes no straight lines, foi
whether it he tho ennopy nbove, the
horizon about us, tho shore of ocean
or pond, tho course of streams, tho
lines, of horse, bird, or oven of tho
human figure, beautiful curves and
vnrioty and multiplicity of curves
everywhere abound. Without guld
nnco such ns a taut cord, a straight
edge, or ruler, man cannot mako a
Btralght line. Even with tho assist
ance of a crack or continuous joint
In a sidewalk tho homeward-bound In
tho "wee snm hours anont the twal"
cannot mnlntaln their physical dig
nity and equilibrium, however assidu
ously their feet woo "the straight
and nnrrow path of rectitude." It
must then bp npparent that nature
novei intended man to mako straight
lines, and the present writer loves
thom not, oven In a dwelling-house.
Tho clay cottago with thatched roof
la tho very acmo of beauty in shel
ters for mankind, and often tho sim
ple, old-fashioned garden round about
holds moro of natural charm than tho w
most favored part of the grandest es-'i'
tate.
Thosowho havo tramped over freshly-fallen
snow, though Irilent upon go
ing in a straight lino from ono specific
point to another, looking back upon
tholr course, may easily descry what
beautiful and smoothly-flowing curves
they have traced upon earth's win
try shroud. Even the paths of do
mestic animals through their pastures
aro of most artistlo and gentle .de
parture from tho monotonous straight
line. Still, wo would not advise fol
lowing theso In tho economic disposi
tion of traffic, as did tho Bostonians
with Sam Foss' calf trail. Likewise,
we Bhould avoid violation of the' dic
tates of common sense by trying to
institute curves in a front walk from
street to door when the distance Is
but a few paces. Curves must not bo
made to appear ridiculous. Sometimes
restricted scopo precludes their use
and straight lines must prevail. Still,
the straight lino is not, as Ruskln 13
roputed to havo said, "the line of
beauty."
SAVING NEW YORK'S TREES
Planting Association of the Great
Metropolis Finds Itself Facing
a Hard Problem.
Manhattan presents a hard problem
for thoso who want to beautify tue
metropolis with shade trees. It seems
that certain streets are not altogether
hopeless, according to tho report of
tho Tree Planting association of Now
York, just out.
Such are Seventh avenue and Lenox
from Ono Hundred and Tenth street
up; Broadway north from Fifty-ninth
street, also West End avenue, West
One Hundred and Thlrty-olghth, West
Seventy-ninth street, etc.
On all of theso thero are plantations
at present. In splto of the fact that
Borne people have tho idea that New
York has few shade trees there aro
dozens of varieties of all shades and
Btyles and patterns, from aristocratic
shado trees to scraggy slum dwarfs.
Tree doctors and surgeons are very
necessary, and tree surgery has be
come quite a definite science. Many a
fine old tree is saved by "filling its
tooth," as it wore that Is, filling Its
hollow cavity with cement to prevent
further decay. V
The committee of ttioVassodatlon
has divided up Now York'nto dis
tricts for special examination, n"njl the
report on tho different geographical
locations Is exhaustive
City-Planning Association.
For a number of years tho city of
Now York has contemplated tho crea
tion of a city-planning commission for
regulating tho various civic Improve
ment undertakings of tho municipal
ity, as well as those of private Individ
uals. Tho work which would coma
under the supervision of such a clty
plannlng commission would include,
among other things, housing, indus
trial structures, tho conveyances of
supplies nnd materials of manufacture
and manufactured products, the dis
posal of waste material, the arrange
ment of tho various sections of the
city In accessiblo manner, rapid and
convenient means of transportation,
tho provision of facilities for educa
tion and public recreation.
Theso aro tho fundamental objects
of city planning, but many other city
activities would come under the super
vision of tho city-planning commis
sion, such as regulating the height of
buildings, dividing tho city into dis
tricts and zones,, traffic regulations,
etc. '
Good Judgment Needed.
Good Judgment not a matter of
opinion, but a matter of principle,
training and experience Is necessary
to tho selection of a proper location
for a civic center in order to avoid
the criticism and condemnation of fu
ture generations to which wo lay our
selves open if wo do not exerciBo
proper judgment at tho crucial moment.
One Solid Benefit.
"I tell you, sir, tho great benefit of
a college education lies In tho friends
you make." "Thitt's so. No matter
how old you aro, if you have been
through college you can always find
come ono to play, poker or bet ou tho
races or go on a spree with." Life.
More Important Thing.
Tho lateBt estimate places tho age
of the oarth at 100,000,000 years. How
over, tho ago of tho earth isn't halt
as important to somo men as tho age
of tho liquor they consume.
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