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. 1 war departmont appears
I I tho numc of Henry D
I I Clltz, who was a major
p l in tho regular service.
kJ( ) and who roso to tho rank
01 a Dngnuicr general or
volunteers whllo In the
Union nrtny during tho
Civil war. Old army of
flccrB remember Clltz
well, but possibly mil
lions of civilians havo
well nli;h forgotten him. After tho short
official story of his service written on
the now tltneBtnlnud pnpor hidden
away In a vault of tho war depart
ment, theso words appear: "Mysteri
ously disappeared In tho year 1888."
Tho dlBappearanco of Henry D, Clltz
1b ono of tho mysteries of army llfo.
On other 'records In tho war de
partment aro brief official linos, also
on time-stained paper, telling of tho
career or Jasper A.' Maltby, colonol
of the Forty-fifth Illinois infantry,
moro familiarly
known In tho darker
daya of the country's
history ai tho "Wash
burn's Lead Mine
Regiment." Maltby's
name was brought
back not long ago
sharply to memory
by tho death of his
widow In St. Luko'e
hospital, Chicago She
was a llttlo snow-hair-cd
woman who had
borne llfo's burdens
for Just tho time al
lotted by the Psalm
lot. During the days
that this woman lay
111 at tho hospital of
the nolovcd Physi
cian, If her eyes wan
dered about the walls
of her room, It la
probable that for tho
first time In many
years when within
any room chosen by
her as an abiding
place, they failed to
rest upon the folds or
in American flag
Tho stories or Gen
erals Clltz and Malt
by were stories of
sterling patriotism, of
action and of wounds
received In the dis
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frald." l'sa. 27:1.
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Tho wnll wnn llnlfllicd In t2 days In Au
'gimt nnil Hoptoinbor.
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where In some condition still baa left in him a
aparK or the aplrit of llfo which moved him to
soldier deeds.
Recently a brigadier general of the regular
aervlce, many years retired. 'came to' Washington.
In the lobby of a hotel he mot a veteran as griz
zled and wrinkled as he. but still of an upright
physical bearing. The general looked at the
man a moment actually aghast and then with
words tbat came out in the disorder of a "route
tep' gasped:
"John I heard you were dead. I would as soon
have thought of meeting Clltz."
The two had been subalterns In CUtz's regi
ment during the Civil war and after, and had
loved bim It was perhaps tho flashing thought
of an anniversary of a disappearance at hand
that sent the returned soldier's thought to Major
Clltz when In the lobby of a Washington hotel
he met the formor comrade, who he had heard
was dead The army archives bear no stranger
records than that or this case of General Henry
B. Clltz he was only a major, however, when he
won distinction by his gallantry. It Is twenty
three years ago now tbat Major Clltz was lost.
Twenty-three years, but a man may be found
after twenty-throe years.
Major Henry D. Clltz, Twelfth Infantry, U. 8.
A., was once dead and burled and was alive again,
was lost, and the other word that should natur
ally fit here la either yet to bo supplied, or for
ever Is to remain unwritten There are scores
or soldiers today old soldiers but once a soldier
always a soldier who, In the memory of what
happened after Gaines Mills, think that one day
they mny again clasp this side of the gravo the
hand or Comrado Clltz
Henry B Clltz or Michigan entered West Point
In the year 1841, graduating four years after.
He was a schoolmate of Grant, McClellan, Sheri
dan and Burnslde Clltz went Into the Mexican
war and won praise on the llcd and a brevet
rank afterWard ror conspicuous gallantry at Cer
ro Gordo Clltz was a fighter. Ho proved this
fact every time ho had a chance, and during his
' forty-five years of service he had chances In
plenty
When the Civil war had been on for a tlrao
Clltz found himself major of the Twelfth regu
lars. He was transferred to that outfit from the
Third, another fighting regiment. It came along
toward tho time of Mechanicsvllle and Gaines
Mills The Twelfth and tho Fourteenth were ly
ing pretty close together. When the Galnea Mills
battle was on and war's hurricane was at ita
height the Twelfth and tho Fourteenth were given
a position to hold. The two regiments wore at
tacked by overwhelming numbers, but the num
bers weren't overwhelming for a long time.
There wasn't any retreat In the make-up of those
two regiments of regular Infantry. The wave of
battle simply had to come down on them and
engulf them. Afterward when General Sykea
wrote a report about the Twelfth and Fourteenth
and the fight that they put up, bo said the ranks
of the Twelfth were "decimated." General Sykea
had probably novor studied "English Lessons for
English People." Unless things havo changed,
decimated means the cutting out of one In ten.
This is the way tho Twelfth was "decimated." It
went Into the fight with 470 men; camo out with
200. They say
Major Clltz
fought that
day as he did
at Ccrro Gor
do, only a llt
tlo more so.
The regulars
resisted stren
uously for an
hour or two.
Finally some
of tho men
saw Major
Clltz go down.
A big wall of
gray was fall
ing on them
Just then, and
many others
went down
too. When the fight was over, and afterward, when
some order camo out of the chaotic hell, this re
port was turned in by General Sykea: "The
Twelfth and Fourteenth were attacked by over
whelming numbers. Tho ranks were decimated,
and Major Clltz waa severely If not fatally In
Jured. Around his fato, still shrouded in mys
tery, bangs the painful apprehension that a ca
reer so noble, no soldierly, so brave, haa termin
ated on that field whose honor he so gallantly
upheld."
Major Clltz went on the list ot the dead and
what waa left of his regiment mournod him as
few soldier? are mourned.
Suitable orders were issued lamenting the death
of this hero of Cerro Gordo and Gaines Mills, but
before the period or the real mourning was over,
though the official kind had been over ror months,
the dead camo to lire again. Major Clltz had
been shot through both legs and in one or two
other places, but on his showing" a row signs of
IKe the Confederates made a prisoner of bim and
sent him to Llbby.
Major Clltz waa paroled. When he went back
Into the aervlce again and when the war waa
over he put In twenty years campaigning on the
plains. In 1885 he retired after nearly half a
century of service, and went to live In Detroit,
Mich. Two years later his old command, with
which he bad stood in the bullet storm at Gaines
Mills, passed through Detroit on lta 'way to take
station at the posts of the great lakes. There
were not, many then in the Twelfth who were In
It In the old days, but It was the same outfit with
the same old tattered regimental banners.
Major (then General) Clltz met the command
and old memories stirred him to tears. Tho
Twelfth cheered ita old officer and then Detroit
was left behind.
Was it the stirring of old memories or what
waa It? His old comrades in arms bad been gone
but a little whllo when Major Clltz went to the
railroad station from which tho train bearing the
soldlerB pulled out, and there purchased a rail
road ticket for a lako city which ueld a garrison
of. United States troops. From the hour of the
purchase of that ticket' no one has been found,
soldier or civilian, to say tbat bo has ever seen
Major Henry B. Clltz. The army records give In
detail tho story of, bis gallantry In battlo.iand at
the end of the shining 'record are these words,
"Mysteriously disappeared in the year 1888."
There was no mystery of disappearance In the
case of Brigadier General Jasper A. Maltby. He
died as the result of wounds received In action.
His widow who survived him many years and who
died at St. Luke's hospital In Chicago held the
American flag and her husband's memory as the
most cherished things In life. Neither waa ever
long absent from her mind.
How many men are there today, bar a few old
soldiers, to whom the name Jasper A. Maltby
would mean anything unless It were coupled, as
is the above, with some specific Information?
Yet' this man Jasper A Maltby was chosen by
General Grant, on the advice of McPhersou and
Logan, to lead, with his single regiment, the most
desperate enterprise at the siege of Vlcksburg,
and, as some historians have it, one of the three
most despernto enterprises of tho cntlro war.
Thcro are today surviving members of the
Forty-fifth Illinois In whoso veins tho words "Fort
Hill Mine" will ronlto tho blood tlnglo. It was
only n week before tho Fourth on which Pcmbor
ton surrendered tho Confederate city. In Logan's
front lay Fort Hill. It was decided at n council
or tho generals that Its sapping nnd mining and
tho subsequent seizing nnd holding of the em
brasure made by tho explosion would bo or tre
mendous moral and strategical valuo to the Union
cause. Tho placo was commanded by Confeder
ate artillery and by sharpshooters In a hundred
rifle pits. It wns known that If tho explosion of
Fort Hill was a success that few of tho men who
rushed Into tho crevasses could hope to como out
alive. It would be what tho Saxons called a deed
of derrlng-do. Owing to the limited spaco to be
occupied only a single regiment was to bo named
to Jump Into the great yawning hole after tho ex
plosion and to hold it against tho hell fire of the
enemy until adequate protective works could be
thrown up.
There was as many volunteers for the enter
prise as there were colonels of regiments In
Grant's army. The choloe fell on Jasper A. Malt
by and his following of Illinois boys.
The time came for tho explosion. Tho Forty
fifth lay grimly awaiting tho charge Into death's
pit The signal was given; there camo a heavy
roar and a mighty upheaval. Sllonco had barely
fallen before there roso ono great roverberatlng
yell, and the Lead Mlno Regiment, led by Its col
onel, Jasper A. Maltby, with his lieutenant col
onel, Malancthon Smith, at his elbow, hurled
itself Into the smoking crater. Tho lieutenant col
onel was shot through the head and mortally
wounded before his feet had fairly touched tho
pit's bottom. Tho colonel wns shot twice, but
paid little heed to his wounds. A battery of
Confederate artillery belched shrapnol Into -the
ranks and sharpshooters seemed fairly to be firing
by volleys) Tho question became ono or getting
some sort of protection thrown up before the en
tire regiment ahould be annihilated. Certain men
In the pit were tolled off to answer the sharp
shooter's fire and to make It hot for tho cannon
aders In the Confederate battery. They did what
they could, but It availed little to Bave their com
rades, who were tolling to throw up the redoubt
Men fell on every side.
Beams were passed Into tho pit, and these were
put Into postylon as a protection by the surviving
soldiers. Tho Joists were placed lengthwlso and
dirt was quickly piled about them. Colonel Malt
by helped the men to lodge tho beams. He went
to one side of tho crater where there was no ele
vation. There ho stood fully exposed, n shining
mark He put his shoulder under a great piece
of timber, and, weak with wounds though ho wns
ho pushed It up and forward Into placo, Tho bul
lets chipped the woodwork and spat In the sand
all about him. Ono Confederate gunner of nrtll
lery trained his great piece directly at tho devoted
leader A solid shot struck tho beam, from which
Colonel Maltby had Just removed his shoulder,
and split It 'into kindling. Great sharp pieces of
the wood were driven Into tho colonel's sldo, nnd
bo was hurled to the bottom of tho black pit
The nctlon was over shortly, for tho gallant
Forty-fifth succeeded In making that death's hole
tenable. Then they plckod up their colonel FIh
was ttlll alive, though the surgeon shortly after
ward said tbat It would be hard work to count
his wounds. They took him to tho Held hospital
and before ho bad been there an hour there was
clicking over ho wires to Washington a message
carrying tho recommendation thqt Colonel Jasper
A. Maltby of tho Lead Mlno Regiment be mode h
brigadier general of volunteers for conspicuous
personal gallantry In the face of the enemy
A week later Grant's victorious forces marched
Into Vlcksburg
Colonel Jasper A. Maltby or General Jasper A
Maltby as It soon became, lived until tho end n
the war, but no system could long withstand Ih
shock and pain of those gaping wounds He dlr
In the very city which he had helped to conquei
Afterward a flag and a precious memory wei
rarely absent from tho llfo which finally fllckere
out when the whlto-halrcd llttlo widow died
St. Luke's bospltift. Chicago
Thcro wore oncmles within tho Jew
ish church, Soma of tho nobles and
richer men had bAn oppressing tholr
poorer brethren who woro working at
great sncrlflco In rebuilding tho walls.
No wages woro paid for this work, so
that many wero thus reduced to tho
direst straits to support themselves
and tholr families, and pay tho taxes
exacted by tho Persian government
Their misfortunes woro brought to a
climax by tho condition of hostilities,
which put an end to trade, and threat
ened town and country with ruin. It
was ImpoBfllblo to obtain regular em
ployment, and prices had gone up.
Thoso who had a llttlo property mort
gaged their homos; nnd In this way a
consldcrablo' portion of tho property
of tho poorer clauses, their ginln
Holds vlnoynnls, nnd dwellings, passed
Into tho hands of wealthy money
lenders, who demanded high usury.
Some, having no means to pay their
creditors, sold tholr children an slaves.
Tho hungry oncH wero threatening, If
tho grain wns not given to kcop them
fro mstarvatlon, (hoy would tnko It by
violence, or surrondor tho city to Its
enemies. Tho taxes (or tho Persian
government wero very heavy and ex
acting. Tho chief officers farmed out
tho collection of tho taxes, both in
money nnd In tho fruits of tho land.
Theso under officers wero tho samo as
thoso called publicans in tho Now
Testament. They wero required to
pay over to their superiors tho exorbi
tant sum fixed by law, and depended
for their profit on what they could
mako by fraud and extortion. They
overcharged, brought falso charges of
smuggling to extort hush-money,
seized upon property In caso of dls
puto und held It until their levy was
paid, forbado tho farmer to reap his
standing crops until they had wrung
from him all that his ponury could
produce. They wero universally fear
ed, hated, and despised. No money
known to havo como from them was
received for religious uses.
Now theso, who professed religion
and lived heathenism, wero tho great
est Injury to tho Causo for which
Nchomlah had come. It was against
such oa theso that Jesus launched tho
sharpest lightning of his "Woounto
you, hypocrites." They are traitors to
tholr country, their church nnd their
God. Tho church stands for tho high
est expression of man's life. A church
represents the permanont spiritual
Ideals. It embodies the loftiest human
aspirations; a nation's best expres
sion of Its religious sentiment repre
sents that nation at Its best Now
whosoever in the name of the church,
tas a member of it, does actions con
trary to its wbolo spirit, is the great
eat enemy of the kingdom of God.
Nchemlah overcame thoso enemies.
'Ho changed them from enemies to
friends. Ho rebuked them with burn
ing indignation. Ho told them to their
faco the wrong they woro doing. He
persuadod them to repent and undo
the wrongs they had done: "I pray
you, let ub lcavo off this usury. Re
store, I pray you, to thorn, even this
day, their lands, their vlnoyards, tholr
ollveyards, and their houses, also the
hundredth part of, tho money, and of
the corn, tho wine, and the oil, that
ye exact of them." Then said they
"Wo will restoro them, and will re
quire nothing of them; so will we do
as thou sayost." He set them a good
example. Ho refused to tako the usual
salary of tho governor. He bore all
the expenses of his retinue. His noble
conduct made the names of theso op
pressors show black as the smoke of
the pit
One ot the greatest powers for re
forming abuses is publicity. Let every
man's name be on his deed, on tb
work he does, on everything he says,
on all that he owns.
There Is a continual temptation to
day (or Christian workers to give ur,
their time .and strength to discussing
tho many theories and unsettled ques
tions which are continually confront
ing them. All sorts of men say all
sorts of things till It seems as If these
clouds were obscuring the whole con
tinent of Truth. This is truo or many
other things besides religion. Now
the way to escapo from theso snares
is to attend to our duties, to go to
work for tho Causo or Christ with all
our hearts, to givo ourselves to help
ing eavo our fellow men, both body
and soul. For then wo will uso the
essential things by which our work Is
accomplished. Wo thus test the work
ing theories by using them. Those
principles that bring results aro the
ones wo wont 'Wo find out what they
are worth through testing them by
what thoy will do. Working for Christ
and for his children is our safeguard.
Nohemlah was asked to leave his
work for personal safety. This was
too baso an appeal. Nehemlah indlg
nantly exclaimed, "Should such a roan
as I flee?"
The very baseness of the appeal
opened Nehemlah's eyes to tho fact
that Shemalah was not a prophet, but
a mere tool of Banballat bribed to en
snare bim. That any one could Im
aglne that he could be influenced b
rear, touched Nehemlah's heart to thf
quick, It was an Insult tbat tho gov
ernor could only put Into tho bands o
God to wipe out But In tho end tbi
wall was built.
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Tor COUCH8 and COL,P
WHO WANTS "SISSY" MAN
Since Bishop Hendrlx Would Drive
Him From the Church Whither
Will He Flee?
Bishop E. U. Hendrlx, In a church
council at Kansas City, asked why tho
church was not reaching moro men.
"Is it bocauso we aro adapting our
work moro to tho women?" ho de
manded. Another prominent clergyman, Rev.
S. M. Noel, M. D., opined that was
somowhoro near the reason. "We
want no more Hlsay men In tho pul
pit," ho declared. A "sissy" man, in
this definition, Ib ono who adapts his
preaching and hla teaching and his
general conduct of parish affairs mora
to tho women bless thorn than to
the men.
Dr. Noel Is heartily applauded by
n large number of his pulpit brethren
nnd tho spirit or tho UmcB In the
church, as manifested In such enter
prises as tho "Men and Religion For
ward Movement" soems to emphasize
what ho says tho call and need for
tho Btrong, vlrllo mnn In the pulpit
who appeals to tho man In tho pew
and In tho street, ror making the
goBpol a man's appeal, not, or course,
depreciating tho Indispensable value
of the womon.
That Is all very well, but where,
mny we ask, is the typically "sissy"
mnn wanted? What calling or busi
ness noeds him? Business and other
professions besides the ministry can
uso him no better than can the
church. Omaha Bee.
The Weak Ones.
Police Chief Sebastian of Los An
geles was talking about a married
man who bad fallen before the charms
of the beauUful "flirt catcher."
"George was always weak," said
Chief Sebastian. "Once, when he was
a boy at school, his mother was
apologizing (or bim to his school
teacher.
"'George is so easily led the
mothor said.
"'YeB,' tho teacher agreed 'except
In the right direction.' "
Jonah Snickered.
"A fine fleet," he cried, "but the
president would have something to
talk about If he reviewed me."
Herewith he entered the first submarine.
Many a man could lose his reputs
tlon and never miss It.
WORKS WITHOUT AITH
Faith Came After the Works Had Laid
the Foundation.
A Bay State belle talks thus about,
coffee:
"While a coffee drinker I was a suf
ferer (romlndlgestlon and intensely
painful BifKms headaches, from child
hood.
"Seven years ago my health gave
out entirely, I grew so weak that
the exertion of walking, If only a few
feet, made It necessary for me to lie
down. 'My friends thought I was
marked for consumption weak, thin
and pale.
"I realized the danger I was in and
tried faithfully to get relief from med
icines, till, at last, after having em
ployed all kinds of drugs, the doctor
acknowledged that he did not bellovo
It was In his power to cure me.
"Whllo in this condition a friend In
duced mo to quit coffco and try Post
urn, and I did so without the least
hope tbat It would do mo any good. I
did not llko It at first, but when It waa
properly made I found It was a most
delicious and refreshing beverage. I
am especially fond of It served at din
ner ice-cold, with cream.
"In a month's time I began to Im
prove, and in a few weeks my Indiges
tion ceased to trouble me, and my
headache stopped entirely. I 'am bo
perfectly well now that I do not look
like tho same person, and I have so
gained in flesh that I am 15 pounds
,licavler than ever before.
"This Is what Postum has done for
mo. I 8(111 use it and shall always do
o." Name given by Postum Co., Bat
tle Creek, Mich. t
"There's a reason," and it is ex
plained in the little book, "The Road
,o Wollvllle," in pkgs.
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