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■""-WASHINGTON. President
WTaft has reappointed Maj.
Gen. J. Franklin Bell as
chief of the general staff,
Bell has held this office for
JBrSfrH some years, and it is un
tt/Ajt&l derstood that at the end
of another year of service
\ in the position, he will be
succeeded by Maj. Gen.
y_Carg>iJ Leonard Wood.
Some second Kipling
should write of one of the deeds of J.
Franklin Bell. The general went over
to the Philippines as a first lieutenant
of the Seventh calavry He had not
been in the islands long before he was
putin 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 m 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 for 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
had a chance to startle the air with a cry or a
■hot.
Straight into the village went Bell at the head
of his men. Dawn streaks wore beginning to
show in the sky, but the warriors were asleep
past the ordinary waking, for were not the sen
tinels posted, and were they 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
•as 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 July cannon on the
Tillage 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 iooked
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 hia
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
jumpej irom 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
•Bt ll carni'd 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. 1/ell
jwas then a lieutenant, reached the Philippines,
':he Spanish troops were still in possesion, for
jDewey 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
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 i>riceless service.
Gen. Bell was called on while in the Philip
pines to end the war in Batangas. He ended it,
and in ending it he took the only course possible
—a course that the civilians at a distance from'
the fighting denounced as altogether too severe.
Bell was called a second Weyler, and a second
duke of Alva, but when full knowledge came of
his operations and of the craft and horrid cruelty
of the natives whom he was lighting, criticism
died. Of his experience and of the criticism he
said in a letter to a frieftd:
"Knowing my dispcpition and kindly feeling
toward the natives full well, you will have no dif
ficulty in understanding that *.he necessity for se
vere measures has been a source of distress to
me. The only consolation I can derive is by
keeping rny 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-i
rity." 1
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.
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It needs neither the bearing nor the uniform
of Lieut. Gen. Adna It. Chaffee (retired), to show
that he is a soldier. You can see it in his face.
His expression is at once mild and aggressive,
and the eye is purposeful. Gen. Chaffee's name
comes most readily to the lips when one is asked
to name a typical American soldier.
The former chief of staff of the army was
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY JUNE 24, 1909.
how he was going
to get it. His meth
od was daring and
aovel.
Under cover of
the darkness he
went to the water
front, stripped off
his clothes and
plunged in. He 13 a
once private in the ranks. For two years he was
an enlisted mail, serving in the regulars. He
joined in 1861, choosing the cavalry arm of the
service, and to it he remained faithful through all
the years of his duty. He iS one of the finest riders
that the army claims.
There have been many stories of Japanese 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
things from Gen. Chaffee. That ob-
ject lesson doubtless has had some
influence in modifying the thought
which the orientals held that they
could whip the Americans out of
hand. Gen. Chaffee was in command
of the expedition which went to the
relief of the beleaguered embassies
at Peking. Japanese officers and
men saw him there. The general
won a fame in China which is not
confined to the American continent.
The generals of Europe have giv
en testimony that Adna R. Chaffee
is a great soldier. Orders to take
command of the Chinese expedition
reached Gen. Chaffee while he was
at Nagasaki on board a steamer
which was to take him to the Phil
ippines. The order was unexpected,
and the general had practically no
chance for campaign preparations.
He was togo into a strange land, to
lead an expedition against a strange
people, and 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. Liscum of the
• Ninth infantry lost his life. Not
only was the American soldier
1 spurred to quick marching action by
j> the knowledge of the imminent peril
'i of the Americans at Peking, but he
wis snurred by the knowledge that the soldiers of
cTher 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 otlier countries.
They did show themselves worthy, and they re
sponded to the call of their commander with an
alacrity that made the American leadeis 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 ba
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 ono soldier to pay to another.
Pennsylvania!
Happenings
Philadelphia.—Following the attack
made by Clark Williams, New York
State Superintendent of Banking, upon
the system of conducting State bank 3,
the National Association of Credit
Men profited by his statements
and took action looking toward the
passage of a uniform law patterned
as nearly as possible after that of
New York State, under which Mr. Wil
liams works.
Pittsburg.—Eight bridges spanning
the Allegheny River will be raised,
six of them rebuilt, if the recommen
dations made by Major H. C. New
comer of the local United States en
gineering department are approved by
the three engineers just appointed by
Secretary Dickenson of the War De
partment to consider the matter.
Harrisburg.—Through counsel of
the railroads and the attorneys repre
senting the claimants, 179 of what are
popularly known as the yellow pine
reparation cases, were adjusted on the
same basis as the Miller a. i Green
settlement of March 18 last, which
was C 7 per cent, of the provable ship
ments. The amount involved in the
settlement will approximate $200,000.
Pittsburg.—Over 10.000 skilled work
men, members of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers, who are employed by the
American Sheet & Tin Plate Com
pany, will quit work on the night, of
June 30, at which time the " pen
shop" order of the company becomes
effective. Many unskilled workmen
<vill also be affected.
Pittsburg.—John Francies, warden
of the Western Penitentiary, has ad
vertised for bids, which will be re
ceived on Saturday, June 26, for fur
nishing beef for the prison for the
year beginning July 1, 1900. Nearly
two hundred tons will be reqrired.
The consumption of beef llone
amounts to about 6,750 pounds a week.
Chuck, plate and brisket are used in
about equal quantities.
McKeesport.—W. C. Cronemeyer,
father of the tinplate industry and
former president of the Chamber of
Commerce of McKeesport, reported to
the police that he had received a
Black Hand letter. Mr. Cronemeyer
says he was scheduled to die June 10
unless he placed SSOO in a tin can and
to be placed beneath the porch at liis
home. He forgot all about the letter
until he happened to run across it.
Dozens of McKeesport people have re
ceived such letters recently.
Pittsburg.—-Millions of dollars will
be expended by the railroads during
the last six months of this year for
supplies. This is due to the fact that
the vast amount of supplies stored in
the division warehouses has been ex
hausted and special committees have
complied reports showing that those
011 hand at present are less than for
many years. Supply dealers report
a big improvement in their line, and
are now negotiating with the railroads
for large orders to be delivered dur
ing the next six months.
McKeesport. Announcement was
made that the McKeesport Tinplate
Company will spend about $2,000,000
in the construction of ten new mills,
practically doubling its present capa
city. In order to provide for this and
other contemplated improvements the
company has purchased about two
acres of land adjoining its plant in
Portvue. The fires were lighted at
No. 3, which is the fourth furnace
started up by the National Rolling
Mills at McKeesport within the last
two weeks. It will provide immediate
employment for 150 men and will be
the indirect means of starting several
hundred others to work in the rolling
mills and tube works.
Connellsville.—Coke production in
the Connellsville region recently has
beaten all previous records. The total
production in the Connellsville and
Dower Connellsville regions amounted
to 298,486 tons in one week. The H.
C. Frick Company sent out orders for
putting in blast 2,400 more ovens. The
independent operators also put a num
ber of additional ovens in blast. The
average run for the plants was five
days. Some were in operation six days
and several were going full the entire
seven days. Generally throughout the
region there is renewed activity. Re
pairs are being made, yards are being
cleaned up and preliminaries being at
tended to preparatory to the starting
up of more coke plants. Some of the
repair shops are working overtime.
The Frick car shops at Everson are
working overtime getting out mine
cars. Several of the Connellsville
manufacturing companies are busy on
new supplies for independent com
panies.
Harrisburg.—No details of police
men have been made by the State Po
lice Department yet. They are ex
pected to be made the latter part of
the month when things get more set
tled and the troopers are well fixed
in their barracks at Pottsville.
Harrisburg.—An unusual complaint
was filed at the office of the State
Railroad Commission recently. It
came from J. D. Maloney, a scrap iron
dealer in Pittsburg who objected to
the rates charged for hauling scrap
from Pittsburg to Allegheny.
The
Ejccepl tonal
Equipment
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scientific attainments of its chemists hav«
rendered possible the production of Syrup
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excellence, by obtaining the pure medic
inal principles of plants known to act mosl
beneficially and combining them mosl
skillfully, in the right proportions, with
its wholesome and refreshing Syrup of
California Figs.
As there is only one genuine Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of Senna and as the gen
uine is manufactured by an original
method known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, it is always necessary to buy th«
genuine to get its beneficial effects.
A knowledge of the above facts enables
one to decline imitations or to return them
if, upon viewing the package, the full nams
of thcCalifornia FigSyrupCo. is not found
printed on the front thereof.
Many Seekers of the Polo.
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 Has*
mussen of Denmark, Charcot of
France, Shaekleton of England aaS
Geer of Sweden.
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would Rive my aching feet. I think it a
rare good thing for anyone having sore
or tired feet.—Mrs. Matilda Holtwert,
Providence, K. I." Sold by all Druggists,
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Suggestion.
Knicker—What reform Is most
needed?
Bocker —Politics should be taken
out of politics.
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A Correction.
"Her card club has quit playing fo*
the season."
"You mean scrapping, don't you?"
A cold on the lungs doesn't usually
amount to much, but it invariably pre
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once will break up a cold in a night.
When lawbreakers become law
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