Irt ! -"X MORE TEOSDXBNG' ' fV$ " (SEINES JWMMMW?jJ J X ex. s1-- IT should be a matter 01 no lime pnae to the average American that of all the famous leaders of the world's armed lesions none has shown greater daredevlltry In battle, nr has a finer war record, than Arthur MacArthur. Lieu-tenant-Oeneral. I". S. A. And. let It be added, that the same Is true, though In less degree, hecause of less service, of the chief of staff of I'ncle Sam's armed land force, Major-General James Frank lin Bell. Only one or two of the other famous fighters now In active service have seen anything like ss much downright real fighting as Mai-Arthur: and none began garnering baitle experiences when s mere hoy. as did our own Lleutenant i.eneral. For MacArthur was only a slim, delicate boy of 17 when he first showed that cool bravery under fire that has marked his condurt In every one of the scores of skirmishes, brushes and sure enough battles in which he has drswn his sword In behalf of his coun tryfirst In the Civil War. then for L'O years, on the plains, against the Indians. an.1 latt. In the Philippines, against the Spaniards and the Filipino insurrection ists. MacArthur lacked about two months of being Is when Fort Sumter was fired upon. Nevertheless, he wanted to enlist at once, and was only dissuaded from do ing so by his father's promise not to op pose his turning soldier when he had reached his 17th birthday. In the mean time, he studied the tactlea manual, and so. when he became a member of the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin and one of Its drill masters he made a pronounced hit with the rank and file with his knowledge of. how to execute the drills, and how to Impart It. In fact, so popular was he with the men that they petitioned the iovemor of Wisconsin to make htm the regiment's Adjutant. The petition granted, and the boy armed with a First Lieutenant's com mission, some of the regiment's older officers, Jealous of his advancement and his popularity with rank and tile, dubbed him a "tin" soldier. That, how erer. was before the Badgers of the Twenty-fourth received their baptism of fire at Chaplain Hills. In Kentucky. In that clash the boy Adjutant fear lessly exposed himself time and again while carrying orders, with the result that when the days work was over his flchttng mettle wss frankly acknowl edged by his critics and he had become the hero of the regiment. Since that day MacArthur fighting ability has never been doubted. It was Adjutant MacArthur, then 18, wh won a Congressional medal of honor at Missionary Ridge by seizing his regiment's colors and planting them on the works of the enemy on the crest of the. Kidge at a time when his and other regiments were In disorder on the steep hillside. His intrepidity in dashing forward with the colors gave the troops fresh courage. Forgetting their recent panicky condition, they re formed, and, shouting, leaped forward to where ths boy MacArthur was wav ing the flag of their country. In other words, on this part of the battlefield, and for this portion of the Union Army, Lieutenant MacArthur saved the day. It was of MacArthur that the com mander of his refitment in the battle of Stone River, when over half of the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin fell, said: 'To the Adjutant of the regiment 1 am more than indebted for the aid and efficient service rendered during the engagement." and the General com manding the brlsade of which the Twenty-fourth was a unit was so Im pressed with MacArthurs conduct un H,r ftre that he mentioned him as dis playing great coolness and presence of mind. It was MacArthur. who, at 19. became .r.ir nf mhst bv this time was left of his regiment, and thereafter, until the coming -ol peace. iea it jnio uie c.uc of the fghtlng In some of the famous h.Tif of the war. At Kencsaw Moun tain he was wounded, but a packet of letters preventing the bullet from doing srious Injury. Major MacArthur kept rght on leading his "boys." most of hom were his senior in years. At the battle of Franklin he was In their fore when the brigade to which the regiment w attached reached the battlefield after m rnntH tnircli of 12 hours, and cut its may througn the enemy to the I'nion lines, thus bringing victory to the Union in n'1cil donatories the Twenty- fourth Wisconsin was credited with doing much In saving the day. which regi bent, reported the division commander, was "led by their gallant boy Colonel A'thur MacArthur." It aas while MacArthur and his mer were hewing their ay through-the Con- L " . ; ' ft - IvOA-cJOl -GEN. cJ.TBNTlLiN" BELL., , federate lines that "the gallant boy Colo nel" rece ved the only reaaiy wound of his 46 years in the service of his country. This rircumsian.ee sec.... 11 the more remarkable wnen u. is i- membcr.'d that time after time .vacAr- thur had exposed hlmsoir to nre 111 n.renilv reckless fashion wnuo m 1110 performance of duty. i nlrtlmr retires next ueo w ' . , June the Army will never again be head ed by a soldier witn a jivu He Is the last or nis ainu mo ... . . ,-1 1 . v. a Hvular Arm Of the soiaier wno join - service when the Ovil War was over and rose through the tedious years u c IJeutenant-ieneraL And with h m the 1. t i.mrninijneral will once more disappear from the Army list. He Is our llth ueuienain-cn.""""- "Washington was our first. General Bell, Another Daredevil, In Battle. Chief of Staff General James Frank lin Bell, who is 66. ana inus Mao- Arthur's Junior by 11 years. aio nu...- 1 - hi- hsttle mememoca n Congressional medal of honor. Bell won his badge or oravery , than nine years ago. near rurt, ... nuu .n.n "in advance of his regiment, he charged seven insurgents with his pistol and compelled me ou. rerder of the captain and two privates, under a close fire from the remaining insurgents concealed in a oan.u thicket." So runs the official cause of award. This, however, was not the only pic turesque thing that Bell did while serv ing in the Philippines, when, inciden tally, the regiment that he commanded recetved more medals for individual bravery than any other body of troops sent by Vncle Sam to the islands. Gen eral MacArthur could tell a vivid story of Bell s appearance before him in the nude during the course of one brush with the insurgents. You see. Bell found it necessary to report to Gen eral MacArthur. A wide swamp separ ated him from the general. In order to avoid a long detour. Colonel Bell stripped and. leading his horse, went through that swamp and up and into the presence of MacArthur. saluted and mine ' 1 " . j immaculately garbed for dress parade at an army pose Arrived in the Philippines when the c.i.rH. still held Manila. Bell began to reconnotter. In the course of this work he swam out quite a distance Into the bay so that be might find out what the Pliant; b works looked like THE SUDAY OREGOX1AN. FORTLAm OCTOBER 11, 1909. VP ;t j r ' ! I - " At ' V ' i I A,Je 1 ! lit from the rear. In the bay he remained until ha had made a minute study or the works, then he swam and waded back to terra flrma and safety with knowledge that was put to good use by the army when it attacked and took 1 1 .nl I. An t-.ur. nco lAKt AufiTUSt- Al- most a year later Bell, then colonel of ;ell then colonel of regiment, which he the 36th oiunteer had organized from among the Yankee daredevils whose enlistments other regiments had expired, was mak ing another reconnaissance, this time on land and in company of four com panions, when he ran across a band of BO Insurgents and sent them tearing helter-skelter for the sheltering Jungle. This Is the same Bell who once was almost lost to the army because he couj see nothing ahead of him but a Lieutenancy until Just a short time be fore time for his retirement by age, when he would gain a Captaincy. Dis couraged by the prospect. Bell got a leave of absence in order that he might settle himself In business. But before he could do so along came the Pine Ridge Agencv Sioux uprising in Dakota. Bell s regiment was rushed to the scene of trouble, and he. not wishing to miss any fighting, haatly rejoined his com mand and took part in the battle of Wounded Knee, which doubtless will go down to history the last important Indian battle fought within our borders. Because this outbreak came at a critical time in his career, and because oppor . - f . - --- ill 1 giiitVTs r 11 1 s 111 fsr " nif I tunities were so plentiful for the fighting man in the Philippines 10 years ago. General Bell wUl tell you. if ever you talk his career over with him, that good luck certainly has been his portion from the "9us on. Again, this is the same Bell who a. .Inn, nrnmntlfin to MalOr-Gen- Jesse M . v-h to that rank. "Lee." iid BelL In effect, "would do anything in the world for me. He is soon to be retired. I will have plenty of other chances to be advanced. I don't retire until 1920. Give the commission to Lee and let him retire with this added honor. He deserves It." By the way, this, also, is the same Bell, so strenuous in the Tt.lllnn(no, vhn mmMlmA nflRT he had been in Washington as chief of staff, was reported as recuperating at a weu--uua health farm because the President had set too hot a pace for him! Thirty years han. now Tin iKPfl elnce Bell graduated fiwn West Point, anri two and a half since he became chief of staff and member of the Presidential coterie. England's Trio or Legion Leaders. T-U .am, in a nn,r,l Rpll. SJld With a career showing many similarities to that of the American. Major-General Sir John Denton Plnkstone French, as Inspector-General, is one of the three big men of the British army today: the oth ers are General Sir Neville Gerald Lyt telton. chief of staff, and, of course , TTieHOUS IT . (LIST CEISTIES) Kitchener of Khartoum, who commands the forces in India. Of the three French la the "baby" in years; the hero of Khar toum tops him by two and his chief of staff by four years. French, like Bell, was trained in the cavalry. He, too, was recognized by his associates as a good cavalry leader years before his country ever heard much of him; and he, too, probably would have languished in some low grade and with out fame had not war fortunately come along and given him his chance to make good in the eyes of the public and gain official distinction and advancement. Like Bell, again, in war ne was extreme ly popular with the rank and file, and his soldiers fought about as much for v. V. .r AIA fny thtt FftVATnitlPnt. .Trenail u$ nnrj - a : , , . eo great was their devotion to their lead er. French, too. has a record of picturesque deeds personally performed in the Boer country. One of his war "stunts" was his escape from. Laoysmun on m im u"" that left that town before it was be leaguered. He undertook the task of car rying to safety a Datcn 01 exceedingly important papers ana documents. iae . . . n.,.vlr-n 1n the MimDIUl- ne swiicicu .1. ment of the car he occupied, crawled un der the seat, ana in tnese crajujwu 41"" ters traveled to safety under a veritable hail of Boer bullets, many of which splintered the woodwork of the car and bored the upholstery of the seat below V. I V. TT. ..V. loV TlAMlllHA Of bill flght- W1UU1 C louwi 'W ' ' lng ability, he was the idol of the British public during the war. ana nis strategy eo won the admiration of De Wet that he pronounced French the only General on the British side of the bloody contro versy. 1 Bell has been called a democratic com mander, and the stories told of hie uncon ventional ways while in the Philippines back up the statement. But Bell is not a whit more democratic than French. When in camp he lounges around in his shirt .iv. all but hobnobs with the men. onH is easily approachable. He cares so little for dress-soldiering that one day, in South Africa, he was called on by a war correspondent to noia nis norse while he went off to locate the tent of the commander none other than General French himself, who urbanely held the horse, as bid, and continued holding it until the correspondent was directed to him as the man he was looking for! When he was a youth French longed to take orders, and on Sundays he would put a nightahirt over his best duds, and in this makeshift clerical garb "preach" to his congregations of playmates. Even when he was well along in his teens French still desired to go with the church, but his father was a naval officer, he planned for his boy to follow in his footsteps, and the youngster became a naval cadet, serv ing several years afloat. This experi ence turned French's thoughts from the church; but while It resolved him to follow a fighting career. It culti vated in him no love for the sea, and, as a result. French got himself trans ferred to the Army. He had been hold AS 09MJy2ANEEle ing his commission but a short time when he had the compliment paid him by his Colonel of being the smartest young officer the Colonel had ever come across. Years later in tact, oniy a short time before the outbreak of v. nna war TTrpnch bad been recom mended for retirement because his lack of respect for Army tradition ana rea tape had caused his superiors untold annoyance. He became Inspector-General of the British army when the Duke of Cambridge vacated the now obso lete post of Commander-in-Chief, and its duties were divided between Lyttel ton and French. A Pair of Strict Disciplinarians. Lyttelton has smelled powder, and been instrumental in the making of the odor, in both hemispheres, and he has been a fighting man since the close of our Civil War. He aided in putting down the Fenian rebellion in Canada, and for his work there received a prized bauble or two. He fought val iantly at Tel-el-Keber, Khartounl and other noted battles In Egypt and the Sudan. He was in at the death of the Boer struggle for Independence, and in his time he has held Important posts in India and Ireland, being Commander-in-Chief in the Island. Were he to wear all his medals and other decora tions won on the field of battle and through distinguished service in time of peace, his breast would look like that of the traditional comic opera gen eralissimo. A brilliant strategist, a strict dis ciplinarian, and the antithesis of French in his attitude toward the rank and file. placed in contrast with Kitchener, who nas iranxiy aamniea inai ae uses luc men under him as stepping stones to the A f.oD In tHav rv nlmaolf Ktfll. no other General on the active list of the British army today can boast or a more loyal command from rank and file up 'thrfttiffh snhnlterns to his own Chief Of staff. One reason is that his men long ago found In him a real ngnting man. another is that also a long while ago they learned that Kitchener always strives to give a square deal even to the numhiABt Tftmmv A tklnj. under him. There is, for example, the anecdote of Kitchener and the sleeping boy sentry In South Africa, rne orainary coinnmuu er would have had the derelict post up ,n..rt.mrilal forthwith. Kitchener, instead, found out that the lad. before . i at,tiAnii1 sis a nicket. had been on duty for 21) hours straight running, and the soldier who got into trouble with the hero of Khartoum was not the lad but the officer who had displayed so little Judgment as to assign an utterly fagged out man to picaei aui. Tiv.11 V(thn,f'j career is of stlrr r u.i . ... . - w - ing chapters, his most thrilling experi- K.full him when he was snvins for two years in the strongholds of Mahdism. This chapter of his career began shortly after he became a Major GEN. Sue NSVILiE TJYTTEITC(7. urtrts -wr ?ta x;rr he Ecvntian army in 1RS2. and Kitchener volunteered for the task of finding out whether or not the reports that had reached the British of the phenomenal spread of Mahdism were true or otnerwlse. Disguising himself ss an Arab, he went calmly among the followers of the false prophet, in the very heart of the region hypnotized by the Mahdi. What would have happened to him had his disguise been penetrat st ho heheld one riav in the death tor tures meted out to a captured spy. But with unshakable determination Kitch ener kept at his volunteer task, though after lie had witnessed the cruel death of the unfortunate spy ho always had handy a bottle of the quickest-acting of all poisons. Germany's Trio of Legion Leaders. Kaiser Wllhelm II, as commander- in-r.hixf' of the German army and an active commander at that has, as the nrmv's chief of staff, a nephew of the iWfiltko who nlaved so important a part in the building up of the German empire by bringing about tne aeimi of France In the '70s. It was m mis war that WUhelm's leading general won the Iron cross for bravery; ne w v. a sub-lieutenant, Helmutn Johannes Ludwlg von Moltke for that Is his full name, nas Deen cmo. staff for three years now, a posuion which his distinguished uncle held for as many decades. The nephew owes his present emi nence in part to the fact that his prede cessor was unfortunate enough to be iHoVori nd badly injured at the annual maneuvers of the army. Von Moltke, at the time, was tne cniei ui assistant, and when his superior was , , j i . .... -iA ,,t t ho maneuvers so satisfactorily to his Emporer that the latter gave mm tne t" .1 cnrnA of the Count's enemies II1UL1UH. fcJW.m.w ' have been unkind enough to whisper behind their nanas uim vw mn -great stature he is nearly seven feet in his stockings has played an im- a - hi. latter Hflv career. pontine pn'.. ... - ----- - and they base their statement on their Emperor's well-known predilection for men of great height. These same ene mies declare that von Moltke, for the life of him, couian t pian a ucct' campaign. However that may be. It Is f-t that twice the Count Implored Wllhelm not to name him as chief of staff, since he himself felt ne was not the right man for the highly responsible position. But the Emperor persisted, laughingly remarking that the nephew had too much of the modesty for which his famous uncle was noted. Count Hel mutn is, indeed, a most modest man, as the American officers who have met him at the German army maneuvers can tes- Oku. Oyama, Yamagata, Terauchi. Kuroki these are some of the Japan ese warriors who would come to the front again were their country to be so unfortunate as t engage In war some time within the next few months. And on the Russian side the names of a lot of Generals who took part In the conflict with Japan would again be on the world's lips. Today, the Czar himself Is the actual as well as the nominal head of the Russian Army; and in the role of commander-in-chief of an array he proDably makes tne poorest showing of any of his fellow rulers similarly placed, even Francis Joseph, with his weight of years, ap pearing to better aavantage as head of the Austria-Hungarian forces. In General Henri de Lacrolx the French army has a supreme command er who took part In the campaign of Rome and In the war, with Germany, when he saw his only fighting, being then a sub-lleutenant. General Saletta. chief of staff of the Italian army, and with rank next to that of his King, distinguished himself in several battles when the kingdom was being formed, and the halo of those old exploits Is still kept above his brow by the Italian Nation. (Copyright, 190S. by the Asso ciated Literary Press.)