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In tin. rMilllnnlna Islands Is
modern fighting machine. Its
name Is Lawton-Heury W. Lawton
and for nearly forty years It has worn
the uniform of the United states army
i ,oa i-iann tmm tho ranks, this fight
ing machine, leaving behind It other
machines as strong possiuiy, oui
fortunate.
Henry W. Haw ton was born In Ohio
fifty-six years ago. He was a country
boy and got only a common school edu-cntlon-not
any too much of It- It Is to
be doubted If he would havo learneu a
great deal If kept steadily at college un
til he attained his majority. Emphat
ically he Is not a book man. Studying
the printed page has been to him al
ways a task and nerer a pleasure. Men
are his books men and happenings.
His folk were plain farmer folk. From
them he derived his length and size of
bone. The tremendous muscles, the
tireless endurance which haTe marked
bim In later life had the beginning of
the development In the open air of tho
fields of his boyhood. It was said of
him that It took him longer to learn
anything and longer to forget It than
any youth that ever tramped through
the snow to a log school house. His
memory. Indeed, has been one of his
strong points since he emerged from
childhood. He remembers well par
ticularly enemies. A better hater was
never born. It follows necessarily that
he Is true In friendship. He Is, in fact,
a man's man. Women who get to
know him like him well enough, but
not many of them get to know him- In
the age of gray hair he Is still a bach
elor, and If he has ever had an affair of
the heart It has been kept to himself.
Lawton entered the volunteer service
of the United States In April, 1801. and
was given the chevrons of a sergeant In
company E of the Ninth Indiana In
fantry. In August, 1SC1. he was made
first lieutenant of the Thirtieth Indi
ana. In May, 1802. he was made a cap
tain, was a lieutenant colonel In No
vember. 1604, was breveted a colonel
for gallant and meritorious services
in March, 1SG5, and was mus
tered out of the service In No
vember, 18C5. He had had practically
four years of the most tremendous war
In the history of the nations. He had
been a participant In a dozen pitched
battles. He had led his men In charge
and counter charge on the stricken
fields of Virginia. He had stepped up
on the dead upturned faces of his broth
ers. He had been soaked with blood to
bis knees.
On the 1st of July, 1SG0, he was ga
zetted a second lieutenant In the regu
lar army, being assigned to the Forty
first Infantry. A year later he was
made a first lieutenant He was trans
ferred to the cavalry arm In January,
1871, bad advanced to a captaincy In
March, 1870, was made a major In the
Inspector's general's department In
September, 1883, and Inspector general,
-with the rank of lieutenant colonel, In
3SS9. That Is his rank In the regular
army to-day, although he wears the
epaulets of a major general of volun
teers. He Is slated for appointment to
be a brigadier general under the reor
ganization act and when the two years
for which the new soldiers will be en
listed have expired there will be enough
retirements from the service to make
bis retention as a regular brigadier a
certainty.
He has come upward step by step
solely turougn personal courage anu
nerKonnl slremrth. He has held that It
Is the first duty of the soldier to fight.
and to ugnt as soon as ne gets tne
r-hnnre. He has been nossessed bv no
particular refinements of the art of
war. He has simply gone ahead and
fought like a fiend when opportunity
nfTprpd nnd li'ft to others tli tnslc nf
explaining why and how such and such
a victory was won or defeat suffered.
He has devoted his life to the profes
sion of arms and he understands it. He
does not pretend to be an authority up
on anytuing eise. lie is a one-iuea man
Personality of tbe Man.
In person ho Is a wonder. Standing
G feet 3 Inches high, as straight as a
rule, with long arms, wide shoulders,
deep chest and thin flanks, he weighed
105 pounds of bone and muscle when
25 years old and now weighs 210. His
head is small and set on a massive
neck. His hands nnd feet are large,
He Is as active as a cat and as tireless
as a wolf. Under the sleeves of his
blue fatigue Jacket tbe muscles bulge
like cables. His stomach goes like
clockwork. Ho has not an unsound
tooth. Headaches are not known to
bim, except from hearsay. Ho can
travel for a week without food or sleep,
then make a boa constrictor ashamed
of itself and sleep for two days without
turning over. Ho has never taken any
care of himself. The soldier's rough
and exposed life has been his since
youth, but he Is as sound as a nut to
day and able to tire out a dozen young
er men. Apparently fatigue passes him
by when It lays its heavy hand upon
tlioeo apparently as strong, lie is al
ways alert and always looking for a
chance to damage an opponent One
of his many Indian names Is "Man
vin-f!nt.TJn-ln.the-Nlj:ht - to Fight"
and ho has earned It by years of prac
tically ceaseless toll. His roronwiu is
hlirh and somewhat narrow, his eyes a
bon ernv. his nose and check bones
prominent his chin square, his lips
thin. Ho wears a drooping mustnene.
hi hnlr la cut nomnadour. stands up
stiff and short like a reversed shoe
shoe brush, and he Is not pretty. This
hair Is now liberally sprinkled with
trrar. and tho whlto amid the brown Is
about his only sign of age. Army sur-
eeons who know him say that he may
live to bo 100 unless a bullet cuts short
bis strange and sanguinary career.
nenrr W. Lawton was a callant and
serviceable officer of Infantry during
four vears of the civil war. but his
peculiar talents were properly envir
oned only when he was transferred to
the cavalry and stationed In the south
west This was more than a quarter
of a century ago, and for two decades
ho was remote from the largo cities of
tbe cast He found New Mexico and
Arizona overrun and terrorized by hos
tile bands of Indians and he set him
self, along with his comrades, to hold
them down. Ther were held down. Tho
work that the cavalrymen of the United
States did In those years will never be
appreciated until a circumstantial his
tory la written and It is not probable
that the history will ever be written.
It was a life of foray, long rides, des-
nerate battles In remote valleys, mid
night surprises, combat with a foe that
often was not seen, disheartening and
fruitless chases, danger and frequent
dpnth. In fifteen years the officer saw
every friend he had made when he
went to the mountains taken from bim
by removal, age disease or the bullet
. ii. tiniiintv to death that Is
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one of tho marvels of that brief nnd
glorious campaign. It was of Lav, to"
men and not of tbe rough riders i I mt
the Spanish Infantryman said:
not understand you American soldier.
You tried to catch us with your hands.
It was Lawtoii's reputation for dar
ing nnd tireless pertinacity that led to
his becoming Internationally famous.
Ills characteristics wore known, or
course, to his superior officers as thor
oughly as they were known to the In
dlans whom ho had been lighting wr
a dozen years. For the tenth tlmo tho
baud of Chlrlcahua Apachos, headed
by Chief Naches and directed by Ger
onlmo. had Jumped tho San Carlos res
ervation, leaving behind them the usu
al trail of blood and ruin. Itancbmun
were butchered on lonely ranges, chil
dren's brains were dashed out aud the
smoke of burning dwellings rose day
and night to the brilliantly blue sky.
General Miles, a trained Boldler nnd an
Indian fighter himself, was In com
mand, and he selected Captain Lawton
for the task that was set before them.
He started with two troops of veterans,
taking a trail that at Its beginning was
broad and plainly marked. Then fol
lowed the most remarkable pursuit In
the history of Indian warfare. Day af
ter day the ceaseless toll continued.
The men speedily found themselves In
a country where horses without claws
were of worse than no account Their
nffir fllanmiintml them. "WO Will
walk them down." he said grimly. The
walk began. It was wnite piucs anu
endurance against Indian craftiness
and endurance.
Hunting Oeron'mo.
Over rocks that blistered tho hands
when touched. In ravines so deep and
dark that through the narrow rift far
overhead the stars were visible at
noontide, up tbe sides of huge hills
down which trickled rivulets of dust,
threading paths along precipices which
frowned upon green valleys 5.000 feet
below, drinking of cold, clear springs
that gushed above the cloud, some
times In the sun-baked desert, again
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master, mium. . - -
Lawton from mo " ,
In. tho Inspector general n offlcj
Washington, with mm-1. ol chtl ln
tko. a fair salary aud little to do. rue
naethM chafed him. a. It chafe. nuy
"his kind. In live yra to
more than he would hare worn In ten
Tho chance of hostilities with Hna In
found him eagerly preferring rU M
for assignment to service. Ho did not
wish to Inspect anything or to take tho
conduct of army train. He want. to
flcht It seemed to him, ho said, that
If ho could smell the smoke ouco more
and know that there was a chance to do
good work, he wouM Instantly become
young again. Tho opportunity was of.
fered him. It was recognized that In
tho Santiago campaign lighters and not
doctrinaires were wanted. At lampa
Lawton was tho first man namml by
Shafter to assist him In the dwperato
enterprise ahead. "Peco
lecn for many years on the froutlei
himself and ho kuow hi officer thor
oughly. Nothing could bare suited
Lawton so well. He was there to kill
Spaniards and ho thought ho saw his
way clear to doing It
As a brigadier general of volunteer
be was given command of a division
and In that commaud stormed El
Caney, doing as much as any man could
do to convince Toral that his cause was
hopeless. In all of the righting of that
terrlllc day he was up to the firing line,
saying little, but pacing slowly up and
down, his gaunt figure a mark for every
sharpshooter In tho enemy's lines, tho
Mauser's fllcklug up tho dut about him
or pulsing In tho air, giving to his men
tho constant example of how an Amer
ican soldier should act when under fire.
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The entire personnel of tho force
changed more than once the entire
personnel that is, except himself. He
was always left lonely, self-contained,
earnest Indefatigable and silent save
when giving commands or cheering on
his men in fight His name became a
household world In all of the tepees In
that wild land. The Chlricahuas, the
Mescaleros, the Jlcarlllas, Apaches, all
had for him the mixture of hate and
grudged admiration compelled by a
dauntUss foe. They found In him,
after a little while, a man who was
learned In every phase of their peculiar
warfare, and In ten years they dreaded
him as they have dreaded few white
men since the winning of the west be
gan. Lawton's method of handling
them was singularly his own. When he
struck a trail he kept to it with a
dogged tenacity which knew no such
thing as quit Whether the pursuit
was maintained for a day or a week, It
was maintained with a steady, unre
lenting earnestness that did more to
strike terror into the hearts of the red
men than would havo been possible to
all the rifles on earth. Tho man's phil
osophy was wholly expressed once In
a chance remark to a newspaper ac
quaintance. "If a man Is hunting for you," he
said, "get a gun and hunt him. Do It
right away. It discourages anyone to
be suddenly transferred from the posi
tion of hunter to bunted."
This rule has guided bim. He Insists
upon being the aggressor. It Is sup
posed that he would stand a charge all
right but hitherto be has always done
tho charging. He does not bellovo In
waiting for the other Bide to act This
trait was signally demonstrated in his
conduct of the right wing of the Amer
ican army at El Caney. Ho had men
that be thought could bo depended
on. At any rate ho proposed to sec
what they could and would do. So he
sent them at the blockhouses and
breastworks hour after hour with a
savage disregard of tbe chances of
t'ls-Jr,!
TI10 fellow with
looklrt' fur cranks.
The early bin) Is apt toaiitb
icatioearatieti about KaiUf.
That man who bUti khj
no leapeu prou ir uiun'i tuttii
Chicago Democrat,
H.ll.l. fur Chaw.
Pound One an ounce of MmI)
half an ounce ol allspice, u 1
Alt, hair an ouncuol knjli
radish and half an oonwo!
t urn led anil minrtered. Poll
a pint of inuihrooiu or wslittt
and let them sleep (or s
fore ittalrilnif. A teaittioafili
of this, mixed with the tatluii
which forms tho eistt l
ttek, is an acceptibU
Cincinnati Knquirer.
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druccliU. TeitltnonUli lrr,
UaJt'a raatty I'llli ro tt Utt.
A Gentian scientist uritttilt
havo not realited tho vahttfi
Finaneiert have.
Of the house In I'arii, Fruaj
are still 10,000 (with 200.WM
ants) that use well water.
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It the bt iiirdlciun we ha t"4
J. L Northcotl, Wlndaor, OuM
Mrs. VIruluia Key. a Auf
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quietly In Chicago at the sgsoMj
clambering far beyond the timber line,
Lawton and his followers struggled
on. Frequently a wisp of blue smoke
Jutted from some Inaccessible crag
and a bullet sang Its wicked way to Its
billet or spattered upon a russet rock.
It Is a country that God Almighty
made In wrath and the Imprint-of bis
anger Is on It all. Week succeeded
week. Men dropped, fainting, In the
giant hills and their comrades passed
on. There was no tlmo to stay. They
were left to find their way back to the
reservation ns best they could. Indian
and white were foemcn worthy of each
other's steel, and the Issue of the con
test was In doubt to the last day.
Finally, one night just as the sentries
were set, there was a faint hall and an
Indian stood before thorn. He was
worn to the bone, but dauntless still.
Ho said that his chief would talk to the
white man, but would talk to hlra alone.
His camp was some miles further on,
but the messenger would guide Lawton
to it If he cared to come. The aoncoms
endeavored to persundo the captain
against the venture, but he smiled sour
ly at them and told the Indian that ho
was ready. They left tho camp of tho
soldiers the next morning. By 10 o'clock
Lawton stood In tbe Apache horde.
Cavernous eyes gleamed at him. Lips
drawn back from discolored teeth
grinned at him. Wasted hands were
waved at him threateningly. Stern,
dominant, tho living, breathing person
location of tho great Whlto Spirit that
had beaten them back from tho far
eastern verge of tho land they had
owned, ho walked straight to tho medi
cine man and demanded bis surrender.
There was a brief parley. Lawton con
temptuously refused to promise any
thing or to guarantee anything, except
that he and his followers would bo fed.
"Maybe you will bo banged after
ward," he said. "I don't know about
that Anyhow, you ought to be. But
I'll feed you. I'd feed a dog In your
fix."
A month afterward Geronlmo,
Ho was one of tho three commissioners
appointed by Gen. Shafter to arrange
with Torn! tho terms of capitulation,
and after tho fall of Santiago policed
tho city In a very thorough manner un
til the establishment of a stable, form of
government was made irasslble. Law
ton's Idea of policing n place of tho kind
Is very simple. "The regulations are so
and so," ho would say, "and you have
your gun. If nnybody violates tho reg
ulations, use tho gun." It required Just
one day to quiet tho city.
Again It was tho Gcroulmo record-or
rather tho record of years In tho west
crowned by tho Geroulmo Incldeut
whlch sent him to the Philippines to
command tho American forces In tho
field. The rainy season will have uo
effect on him, whatever tho effect may
bo on thoso under him. IIo Is ns cer
tain to go strong and fast, oven If he
goes to his death, as tho sun Is certain
to rlso and set. All cllumtos nnd nil
seasons aro alike to that Iron framo,
upon which war and penco nnd tho
rigors of tho mountains nnd tho sloth
of the Potomac Vnlloy and nscoticlsra
and dissipation havo been effectless.
He Had Not Mlaaod It.
A friend making a morning call upon
Peter Burrowes, a celebrated Irish bar
rister, who was very absent-minded,
found him shaving himself with hli
face to tho wall, and asked why hi
cboso so strange an attitude. Tho an
swer WB8 "To look In tho glass." "Why
there Is no glass there." "Bless mol'
exclaimed Burrowes, "I did not notlca
that before." Then, ringing tho boll,
ho called tho servant nnd questioned
him respecting tho looking-glass which
had been hanging on the wall. "Oh, sir "
said tho servant, "It was broken nix
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