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ASHINGTOX. — President
Taft lias reappointed Maj.
Gen. J. Franklin Hell as
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
should write of one of the deeds of J.
Franklin Bell. The general wen: over
to the Philippines as a first lieutenant
of the Seventh calavry. He had not
been in the islands long before he was
put in command of a volunteer force
composed almost wholly of regulars
whose terms of enlistment had ex
pired, but who were willing to take on
a short term of duty to help in the
clearing up of the work which they
aided in starting.
Back in one of the provinces was a
band of Tagalogs who had given the
government forces all kinds of trou
ble. One of their chief villages was
“located," and Gen. Bell with his fol
lowing of old campaigners took the
trail lor its capture. The command
ing 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
from the book of knowledge of savage
warfare.
Guides led the force to the vicin
ity of the Tagalog village. Night fell
and the Tagalogs were all unsus
picious of the approach of the white
enemy. At three o'clock in the morn
ing, when sleep always hangs heavy on
the eyes, Bell led his men toward the
village. The Tagalogs had sentinels
posted along an outlying line. After
the manner of the people of the plains
the soldiers crept silently between the
pickets, only one of whom was vigi
lant enough to detect the presence of
tne enemy. He was silenced before he
i:au a tiicuice 10 sutrue me air with a cr\’ or a
shot.
Straight into the village went Hell at the head
of his men. Dawn streaks wrere beginning to
show in the sky, but the warriors were asleep
past the ordinary waking, for were not the sen
tinels posted, and were they7 not bound by every
tradition of tribal honor to be awake and watch
ful?
Lieut. Bell had given his men orders. The vil
lage was cordoned with troops and there wasn't
a mousehole of escape. Bell has a whimsical
humor. In the very heart of the Tagalog village
was an old muzzle-loading brass cannon, a trophy
taken by the Tagalogs from the Spaniards of an
other day, and which the natives were hoping to
use against the equally hated Americans. Bell
detailed a loading party of three men. The three
became boys again, and they rammed the piece
full of powder and grass wadding, after the man
ner of loading a Fourth of .Inly cannon on the
village green in the home land.
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.
The sound of it shook the foundations of the Ta
galog huts; it roused the warrior sleepers as
would the cracking of doomsday. They came
armed, but naked to the fray. The Tagalogs looked
on bayonet points and down gun barrels and sur
render came instanter.
Gen. J. Franklin Bell is the youngest officer
who ever held the position of chief of staff. He
is a genial general and he is willing to talk when
he 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 is
wiser in his generation than some of his prede
cessors were in their generation.
When his promotion came the chief of staff
jumped from a captaincy to a brigadier general
ship, 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.
The army officers who were jumped said that
Bell earned his promotion, and that if other pro
motions were, like his, based solely on service
quality, there would be no heart burnings under
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 not Manila city
and its immediate defenses. Information was
wanted concerning the Spanish earthworks. Lieut.
Bell volunteered to get it. He didn't tell any one
how he was going
to get it. His meth
od was daring and
• novel.
Under cover of
the darkness he
went to the water
front, stripped off
his clothes and
plunged in. He is a
powerful swimmer. On that night he swam the
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 v.ar 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
his 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 say distressing, to find that
even some of his own countrymen appear to have
no confidence in his motives, judgment or integ
rity.” j
There is no use In mincing words; Gen. Bell
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
en 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
man jack of them was armed.
If war were to come there is no army doubt,
although he is far from being the ranking officer
of the service, that Gen. Bell would be given the
chief command of the field forces.
It needs neither the bearing nor the uniform
of L,ieut. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee (retired), to show
that he is a soldier. You can see it in his face.
His expression 13 at once mild and aggressive,
and the eye is purposeful. Gen. Chaffee's name
conies 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 ran. two years lie was
an enlisted man. serving .-:e regulars, lie
joined in 1861. choosing the cavalry arm of the
service, and to it he remained faithful through all
the years of his duty. Me is one of the finest riders
that the army claims.
There have been many stories of Japanese spies
who have been found taking notes of American
army operations and equipment. The Japs got their
first object lesson in the way American soldiers do
tilings irom lieu. uiauee.
jeot lesson doubtless tins 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 general of Europe have giv
en testimony that Adaa 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
. ippines. The order was unexpected,
and the general had practically no
chance for campaign preparations,
lie was to go into a strange land, to
lead an expedition against a strange
people, ami not only was it expected
of him that he be successful, but
that success be won quickly, for the
lives of many Americans were in
danger within sight of the walls of
the “Forbidden City.”
The general arrived at Tien tsin
too late to take part in the battle in
which the brave Maj. I.iscum of the
Ninth infantry iost his life. Not
only was the American soldier
spurred to quick marching action by
the knov.dedge of the imminent peril
of the Americans at Peking, but he
was spurred bv tUe Knowieuge ruai uie sumirrs ui
other nations were to take 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 of other countries.
They did show themselves worthy, and they re
sponded to the call of their commander with an
alacrity tnat 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 the
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 once
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
colonel.
When the Spanish-American war broke out
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 officer detailed by his government to watch
the field operations in Cuba, attached himself to
the headquarters of Gen. Chaffee. Capt. Lee wrote
a story about the campaign in which he paid to
Gen. Chaffee the highest tribute that It is possible
for <»r« soldier to pay to another.
Social Law That is Adamant
Impossible to Be Absent-Minded and
Make a Success.
There are some rules for social suc
cess that it Is wholly impossible to
Ignore nowadays.
It is the fashion to say everyone is
bad-mannered, and, alas, it is quite
possible to be atrociously rude in
some ways, and yet be popular, but
there are one or two things one cannot
do with any hope of achieving social
distinction or even being merely tol
erated. These things are hidden,
however, from those who fondly imag*
ine they can imitate all the faults of
society with impunity.
It is the infringement or ignorance
of these esoteric by-laws which be
tray the “outsider.” One such decree,
(or example, is that in no circum
stances whatever is absent-minded
ness permissible. One may leave
notes unanswered, but one must not
be absent-minded. This is a distinc
tion with a difference.
Pipe and Cigarette.
A cigarette is especially devised for
tilting nicotine into the mouth, but ap
plies the poison so insidiously that it
is unfelt. The punishment would aptly
fit the crime if every boy found cig
arette smoking were compelled to
smoke a new clay pipe filled with
strong tobacco. Such homeopathic
treatment would be the most effective
of cures.
Happened in Boston.
Party Hanging to Lamp Post—Say.
am I sober?
Citizen—Pardon me, my friend, I
am not a judge of inebriety, but hence
forth when you are confronted with
the prtblem of transporting a con
signment of that magnitude to your
domicile I should at least suggest the
propriety of going twice fcr it.—Illus
trated Sunday Magazine.
EFFECTIVE EMBROIDERY
FOR SUMMER PARASOL
Soutache Motif Embellished with French Dots—Half of Motif.
ONE of the daintiest accessories of
the summer wardrobe is the sun
shade. A parasol boasts more virtues
than the eminently practical one of
shading the eyes from the impertinent
rays of the sun. It gives an air of
smartness to the summer girl. The
display of sunshades in the shops is as
attractive as it is varied, and many of
the models shows designs of this
year's vintage.
Decidedly the most effective of the
parasols for all-around use are the em
broidered linens. A woman who is
clever with her needle may trans
form a plain, unassuming linen sun
shade into a chic embroidered affair
that might have come straight from
Paris on the latest steamer.
A sunshade of white linen, with one
of the new square light wood handles,
may be purchased, and the above de
sign, half of which is given, applied to
each of the sections, as shown in the
sketch. The design may be traced on
the parasol with carbon paper. It is
then worked out in coronation braid.
French knots and satin stitch in doss
embroidery silk.
The coronation braid is to be sewn
on in the space between the double
lines. This outlines the flowers, leaves
and stems, and forms an inner line on
each flower petal.
i Small white French knots are
worked between the two rows of braid.
The petals are filled in lightly with
long satin stitches of irregular lengths
with delicate pink floss. The effect of
the glossy texture of the silk is ex
tremely pretty.
The center of the flower is composed
of one large yellow dot surrounded
! by tiny rose colored French knots.
The stem and leaves are of the coro
nation braid, and the latter are filled
in with pale green floss. The color
scheme is charmingly dainty, and
would harmonize with almost any cos
tume.
A sunshade decorated in this way
would be an attractive addition to the
trousseau, or to the outfit for college
commencement festivities. It would be
highly appreciated as a graduation
j gift or wedding present, and is equally
suited to town and country use.
PRETTY SiLK WAIST.
Blouse of silk, made with tueks
headed by fagoting and trimmed
yoke, fashioned with a heavy cord em
broidery.
The long, close-fitting sleeves are
encircled with tucks headed by the
fagoting, and are finished at the
wrists with ruffles of tulle or lace.
Shepherd's Plaid Coats.
Few women feel themselves fixed
for the summer without a loose top
coat hanging in the closet. They
seem more necessary in spring and
summer than in winter.
They are the height of fashion and
fortunately they are not always ex
pensive. The fashionable ones come
in a dull white camel's hair serge, and
in a black and white shepherd's plaid.
They are loose, have many pockets,
are made with long sleeves, and
reach to within four inches ,of the
ankles.
Cleaning Tan Shoes.
A raw white potato, cut in halves
and peeled, is excellent for this pur
pose. Rub the potato, which must be
ffeshly cut. well into the leather, leav
ing no part untouched. Let this dry
on, then polish with a rag with a light,
quick motion. A little turpentine on a
flannel rag is also a good cleanser for
tan leather, while several drops of
lemon or orange juice give a brilliant
polish to any leather. Olive oil, with
a brisk afterpolish, is used on patoat
leather.
FABRICS OF SILK AND WOOL.
Latest Decree of Fashion Has Over
shadowed Everything Previously
in Vogue.
There are more silk and wool ma
terials put oa the counters each week
New ones that were kept until late in
the season have been shown to the
public. These are made up into coat
suits or one-piece frocks, and are
often striped.
Some of the colors come with a
plain surface for the skirt and a
striped surface for the coat. Silk-and
woo! bengaline is possibly the favor
ite of them all. The corded fabrics
are in the height of fashion. The idea
even runs into shantung and pongee.
There seems no end to the latter
weave. ' It overspreads everything
else. Just why is hard to say, for it
is rather raglike when made up and
cannot be depended on for graceful
lines.
Some of the weaves are delightful
for house frocks, and as the material
has practically no weight, it makes a
most comfortable frock for this hot
climate.,
One of the latest weaves in it has a
diagonal cord through it. It is very
wide and heavy, much like the stylish
serge we have worn all winter.
To Keep Light Dresses Dainty.
Magnesia may be obtained either in
powder or in square cakes, and it is
very effective in cleaning laces and
delicate fabrics. Sift or rub it on the
parts to be cleaned, and lay then
away in a box or drawer where they
will be undisturbed for a day or so
and then shake them out. It is i
very good plan to apply tlx? magnesia
in this way when putting away party
dresses that have become slightly
soiled. The magnesia absorbs tht
dust and when you take the dresses
out to wear them the next time, they
will be l'resh and dainty. The mag
nesia is also effective, when applied
in the same way, for removing grease
spots.—Woman's Home Companion.
Skirts Are Shirred.
The designers have decided to put
the full skirt on the market in s<
many ways that it must be accepted
The plaited one has already gained i
wide showing, but some of the newer
ones are shirred at the waist band ii
the old-fashioned way. Others are
put on with two rows of shirring to i
little five-inch hip yoke. At the foo'
line are two or three ruffles to wider
out tho hem.
SEEMED APPROPRIATE TO HER
Wife of Sick Man Thought She Had
Reason for Appealing to Loco
motive Works.
One day last winter a feeble Irish
woman called upon us for aid. Tin
case sounded urgent, so I went with
her at once. Everything was just as
she had stated. Her husband was
very ill. she was too old and feeble
to work, their children were d-ad
there was no fire and their only food
was bread which their neighbors, a!
most as poor as they, had given them
I asked her why she had not come to
us before and she replied that sh ?
had appealed to the church and to
several 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?” 1 asked.
“Well, ma’am, shure an' ain’t me
old man got locomotive taxes?” New
York Telegram.
ASK FATHER.
Clergyman—What would your la
ther say if he saw you digging u-r
worms on Sunday?
Willie—I don't know; but 1 know
what he’d say if I did not dig for them.
That's him fishing over there."
No Butler for Pneuritch.
‘‘We’ll have to get a butler, you
know,’’ said Mrs. Pneuritch.
“What for?” asked Mr. Pneuritch.
“Well, to look after the wine cellar,
and—”
“Not much, Priscilla! I'm capable of
looking after the booze myself.”
“A butler lends dignity to an eslab
lishment, too.”
“Well, when I get so hard up for
dignity that I have to borrow it frr-n
a butler. I’ll quit and go back to tilt
retail grocery business. You manage
the hired girls, Priscilla, and I'll at
tend to running the man part of this
shebang.”
Laundry work at home would b»
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trou
ble can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
Many Seekers of the Pole.
Canada, Denmark, France. Ger
many, England, Russia, Sweden and
the United States were, in 1908, repre
sented among the 12 expeditions
which were struggling toward the
pole. Eight leaders were veterans—
Peary and Cook of the United States,
Bernier of Canada, Erichsen and Ras
mussen of Denmark, Charcot of
France, Shackleton of England and
Geer of Sweden.
The extraordinary popularity of finr
white goods this summer makes tin
choice of Starch a matter of great im
portance. Defiance Starch, being fre
from all injurious chemicals, i3 tfa
only one which is safe to use on fine
fabrics. It great strength as a stiffen
er makes half the usual quantity of
Starch necessary, with the result of
perfect finish, equal to that when the
goods were new.
Dodging Responsibility.
“Why should a man pay rent when
he can own his own home?” said the
thrifty citizen.
“I don’t know,” answered Mr. Meek
ton, “unless it’s because you'd rather
have your wife speak her mind to the
landloard than to you when the place
gets run down.”
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