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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.)