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and three other men were caught in
storm, and were compelled to land on a
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E. Sullivan, after snalYzing the baking
powders used in that city, reported to the
health commissioner that in purity and
leavening power the "RoyaP exceeded
all others
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The only regulation bicycle shoe in
the city is on sale at Furman's shoe
house. 604 Kansas avenue,
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The herald., 1895-09-29

United States and the French directory.
One of the earliest ordinances of the
United States congress was to provide for
a ommander-in-chief OF the land and
naval forces who should have the rank of
lieutenant general. This rank was first
bestowed upon Washington, though there
had been other generals in command of
the army, and the grade of general was
created to bestow upon the Father of
His Country in the event of war with
France, but that failing of issue Wash
ington refused to accept the title and its
emoluments.
Ulysses S. Grant was the first general
of the army. and on his elevation to the
presidency the first appointment he made
was that of Lieutenant General Sherman
to succeed him as general. By act of con-
gress the rank lapsed with the demise of
General Sherman, but it was revived and
conferred upon Lieutenant General Phil
ip II. Sheridan while upon his deathbed.
TEe grade of general and lieutenant gen.
eral having lapsed with the death OF Gem
eral Sheridan the latter rank was revived
by the last congress and conferred upon
General Schoheld.
Will it be revived and conferred upon
Major General Nelson A. Miles?
General Miles will have ten years to
serve before reaching the age of retire
ment, "a years. and il he lives to reach
the age OF "a he will be the only officer
left in the army who attained distinction
during the war of the rebellion, as all
general officers and the majority OF the
limo who served in the civil war will pre-
cede him on the retired list.
General Miles for so young man has
attained to high rank, but as a boy of %,
volunteer officer, he wore the stars OF a
trigadier general.
Nelson Appleton Miles was born in
Massachusetts August s. 1889. When the
civil war broke out he was clerk in Bos-
ton. Septem Der of 1861 he was mustered
into the volunteer service as captain in
the Twenty second MASSACHUSETTS infantry
at once attracting attention by his gall
lantry IN the Army of the Potomac he
was given the lieuten ant colonelcy of the
Sixtv-first New York infantry in Sep
TENDER, 1862. the preferment coming 10
him unsolicited and from state other
than his own. Promoted to the colonelcy
of the same regiment in less than q
month be fast succeeded to the rank of
brigadier general of volunteers May II,
1864, and October 81. 1865, was commits
stoned a major general of the volunteers.
General Miles war record was made
with the Army OF the Potomac-rone
more creditable. He participated in ev-
cry battle fought by the army except
one, up TO and including all the engage
ments that preceded Lees surrender at
Apromattox. He was three times
wounded and seriously at Fredericksb urg.
Fighting his regiment and brigade all
The herald., 1895-09-29

General Grant in his operations against
Vicksburg. and at the request of Grant
was assigned to the command of the
Army of the Ohio. With this army he
| took part in the campaign against At
lsnta, which ended In the capture of
that stronghold September %, 1864.
He participated in all the great battles
of the memora bio campaign. and Octc-
Der, 1864, was detached from Sherman s
army, projecting his march to the sea, |"
to the assistance of Gen. George II.
Thomas, in command OF Tennessee and
watching Hoods movements.
Skirmishing with the enemy at Pulaski
ana Column ia, Schofield fell back to
Franklin, and Nov. 30. 1864, gave HOOD
the worst drubbing administered TO any
the battles around Nashville. Dec. Is
and Is, 1864, when Thomas routed
Hoods army and dissipate,. it.
His commission as brigadier general in
the army was dated from the battle OF
franklin, and he was breveted major
general for gallant and meritorious SER
vices at the same battle.
Conspicuously one of the great ard sue
cessful generals of the west General
Schofied performed his last services in
the civil war in the far east.
In fourteen days he transported his
command. the Twenty-third army corps,
from Clifton. Tennessee, to Washington,
Carolina. He co-operated with General
Sherman in his ''narch through the
Carolinas, which eliminated in the sur
render OF Johnston army at Durham
Station, N. c., April 26. 1864, just four
years to the day from the date he had
taken up arms in defense of the Union.
Since the war he has served in COM
mand in all parts of the country. He
has twice been secretary of war, under
presidents Johnston and Grant, ard was
superintendent of the United States mill
tary academy from March, 1877, to June,
1881. He succeeded General Sheridan in
command OF the division OF the Missouri,
at Chicago, in 1888. and followed him in
ommand of the army after his death,
August ii, 1888.
A soldier of tried courage and a general
of great ability, General Schotield retires
from the com mand OF the army with
reputation second only to the fame of
Grant Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas
as great ommander.-InterOc Ocean.
The herald., 1895-09-29
Sketches of the Distinguished Officers Who Have
Led Uncle Sans Troops to Victory
Many Many Times
scH0FIELD RErIREs AND GEN. MILES STEPS IN
The Career of Nelson Appleton Miles, Was Mus
tered in as Captain Of Company of Infantry o Fight
Battles Of the Civil o His Being
Commissioned Major General

After service in the army extending
over period of forty years General John
M. Schofeld, having attained to the age
Of GA years, will be retired from active
duty tomorrow. He will relinquish COM
mend of the United states army after a
distinguished career, and with military
honors bestowed upon MIN equal to those
with which Washington himself was in
vested.
Major General Nelson A. Miles will sue
coed, under the president, to the COM
mand of the army.
In this change of army commanders
there is something more significant than
the mere fact of SUCCESSION. General
Miles is ranking ma r-generaI, and the
command of the army will fall to him by
virtue of his rank, or custom, which has
without exception since the organization
of the army of the United States in 1879
eneailed the command OF the land furces
of the country upon the senior general of
the army. Blu. apart from this success
sion, ordinary and customary, there is
this significance;
For thirty-four years the generals COM
manding the army have been graduates
of West Point. General Miles is not
West Pointer or graduate of the United
States Military academy. His Will be
the first civilian appointment to attain to
the command of the army since Brevet
Northumberland Winfield Scott, ma
ior-general United States army, was re-
tired, Novem Der J. 1861. For seventy-two
years previous to General Scott's retire
ment, however, the army had never been
commanded by West Point graduate,
The herald., 1895-09-29
HOW DOGS
ARE MADE VALUABLE IN
THE ARMY

When Shakespeare wrote about Getting
loose the dogs of war" he probably had
in mind one Of the breeds that amiable
suburban residents keep in their stables
and allow to roam about their grounds
at night, ostensibly to terrify the passing
tramp and the burglar, but really for the
purpose, it would seem, of soaring to
death the peaceably inclined caller in
the evening. A regiment of these AMI
mails, properly trained 10 hide behind
shrubbery and run out at the enemy's
forces when encouraged by the order "sic
EMP or ste boyp from the command
Ing officer, could safely be warranted to
turn victory Into a regular Bull Run and
to return. like Artemus Wards little
bulldog with "a choice collection Of seats
of trowsers' in their teeth. In fact. if
we can believe the old historians, the
ancients used to train dogs to Go very
much this sort of thing; hence all the
talk about grim wardogs.' and so on,
that is found in much so-called Zine
writing"
Modern military science is not above
taking hint from classic times, though
it usually tries to 60 them one better; so
here is the war dog. as large as life,
coming to the front in European armies,
especially the German. where his per-
formances form no small part of the reg
ular military maneuvers. This is an
age, however, where physical force is
largely replaced by brain work or its in
genious results; instead OF fighting in
hand to- hand contest with the sword or
pike the modern soldier merely presses
q button and the electric motor on his
up.to-date Calling does the rest, pump
ing leaden hail ito his opponents at the
rate of several hundred shots minute.
SO the savage and fierce war dog of the
classic ass, whose descendant, far as we
have seen, had been adopted by the ba-
ronial suburban proprietor, appropriately
gives place to another type-that of the
travelling shows. Our war dog Is dog
who uses his brains instead of his teeth,
and is trained to lie low and keep quiet,
instead of filling the battlefield with saw
age growls. 1t is remarka BILE fact that,
although many domestic animals are
capable of great intellectual development
this capability has been scarcely made
use OF BY man, who has preferred rather
to use their physical strength. The monks
of st. Bernard, indeed. were, it is said,
accustomed to send out their dogs with
food and drink for the traveller lost in the
snow, but these stories are now said by
the best authorities to be mythical. The
n onks always went with their dogs and
never sent them out alone.
The German military authorities. how
aver, have taken their cue from the old
stories and have taught their dogs still
more wonderful things.
The herald., 1895-09-29

them. The discovery was made by Miss
KIM bark, up at Bear lake near Petoskey,
a week or two ago. She communicated
her discovery to her father and friends,
and since then more than score of peo-
pie have seen the phenomenon. Unlike
the face of the man in the moon.' it
does not require any Imagination tG
make out the faces OF these two celebri-
ties. for everyone who has been told OF
the discovery of this celestial bill posting
has been able to do it. All 1T requires Is
a pair of opera glasses. The face OF each
is in profile. and looking to the leit of
the observer. Gladstone's profile is the
left half of the moons disk, the line OF
the brow and bald head being very close
to the edge of the moons surface IN the
upper left hand quadrant. The profile
shows the grand old man looking down
slightly. bringing the tip of the nose
rather farther from the edge of the moon
than the bridge of the nose is.
The thin hair on the side of the fore.
head and about the temples is very dis
tinctly represented. The lower part
in inely .a Gladsto e as the o upper part and
the dome of the crown. Rather more of
a profile is shown than would be If ter.
restrIal medallion were made OF the two
faces. Della FoX's profile presents her as
looking straight forward. 1t is not quite
as large as that of Gladstone. Her hair
are thrown back just enough TO make
plain the graceful lines of her shapely
neck. AS the moon is now on the wane,
these tresses are being lost TO view, occu-
plying as they do, that part of the moon s
disk which is being obscured. This de-
stroys in part the symmetry of con tour
of the profile; but when the moon was at
Its full, two or three nights ago. the Co :
tour was complete and striking. In in,
profile OF Gladstone particularly, and 10
some extent in that of Della Fox, there
is that clearness of outline with lack of
harshness in the details which reminds
one of an old fashioned daguerreotype.
OF course the appearance OF these faces,
and tbers is no DOUBT of their appearance
is due to the particular conformation
OF the shadows which are always seen on
the moon. But as they have never been
noticed before, the question naturally
arises whether the have been recent
changes in the conformation OF the
moons surface resulting in change of
the conformation of the shadows as seen
from the earth.
Another question is. if there have been
such recent changes, are they merely
passing changes or will they be perma-
nent? In other words. what celebrities
will next get their Autographs on the
| face of the moon-Chicago Times Herald.
The herald., 1895-09-29

enemy's attention in any way. As car
riers the dogs are useful both in Carving
dispatches and hence keeping communi.
cation open betw cen neigh boring bodies
OF troops, in distributing ammunition,
and in other similar ways. The German
military authorities have established
special dog schools, where the animals
are trained. and such progress has been
made that dogs will doubtless play very
important part in the coming European
conflict, if ever il does come.
This fact is shown py the results of an
exhi bition OF the powers of German war
dogs given IN connection with the recent
International dog show at Dresden. This
exhibition included a sham military re- 4
connoisance, in which dogs played al
prominent part. A company of infantryI
was supposed to bs covering some trans
ports OF horses against an enemy, and a
detachment OF trained dogs, in charge of
some non-com M lssloned officers, was sent
out to watch for the enemys approach.
During their advance of about a mile and
a quarter IN the discharge of this duty
they kept up continual com m unication
with the main body Of troops by means of
the dogs, thus keeping tnein fully in
formed regarding tho enemy's move
ments, so that the transport OF horses
could le stopped in time tefore the
threatened attack. If the dogs had not
been, thus used it is evident that an equal
oured, but they could neither have car
ried the dispatches SO quickly nor so
safely, since their movements could more
easily have been detected by the enemy.
The dispatch in case of this kind is
inclosed in small metal box or canister
fastened to a specially constructed col.
lar. When used as ammunition carriers
the dogs are fitted with kind of saddle
holding about 300 cartridges. In the ex-
hIbition already referred to 1t was shown
that they could be thus OF great use in
distributing cartridges to the firing-line,
being trained to run along the line stop
ping in front OF each soldier while lie
takes as many of the cartridges as he
needs. When the ammunition in the
saddle has been all taken the dog is
trained to run back to get fresh supply,
after which he goes on with the dstribu.
ton as before. But it is in the search
for and relief of the wounded that use is
found for the very highest type of dog in
tellect. The animals have been success
fully trained not only to find wounded
men THE field, but to indicate their
wherea bouts to the am bulance men, either
by standing 10y the wounded soldier and
barking for help or by running to find an
ambulance attendant and leading him to
the spot, or by carrying the man forage
cap or bit of his uniform to the am bu-
lance men. thus attracting their atten-
tion.-New York World.
The herald., 1895-09-29

seph, and III 1873 fought, defeated and
captured band of Bannocks in Yellow
store park. He was subsequently instIu-
mental in bringing in Sitting Bull and
thus relieving settlers of the fear OF In
dians, contributed moro than a1y other
man 10 the settlement and development OF
Montana and the Dakotas. In 1856 he
captured Geronimo and his band of
Apaches, VINO had for years raided and
prevented settlement in Arizona. He has
been given a vote of thanks by the legis-
latures of Kansas. New Mexico, Montana
and Arizona for his successful campaigns
against Indians. and the people OF Ari-
coma presented him with sword OF hon
or at Tucson. November Z, 1887.
General Miles was promoted from the
colonelcv of the Fifth infantry to briga-
der general Noyem Der 10, 1850. lie COM
manded the department. OF the Coium-
ba lSS0-S5 Missouri at Fort Leavenworth
1885. Arizona 1Ss6-sS, when he was trans
fered to the command of the DIVISION oil
the Pacific at San Francisco.
He was commissioned majo general
April II, 1890. and assigned to the COM
mand of the Division of the Missouri,
afterward the department OF the Missouri.
with headquarters at Chicago. This COM
mand he relinquished on the retirement
of Major General 0. O. Howard to take
command of the Department of the East
New York, November 20. 1894
During the winter of 1901 a Sioux war
in the northwest seemed imminent, and
General Miles was dispatched to prevent
it. This he succeeded in doing, though
tue battle with the Indians at Wounded
Knee nearly jeopardzed his efforts at
the restoration Of peace.
The echoes of the rebel bonn bardment
ct Fort Sumter, which precipitated tour
wears of civil war on this country, mad
scarcely died away when John NJ. Scho-
field, though regular officer, volunteered
his service to the cause of the Union. At
the time he was on leave of absence, &C.
cupying the chair If applied mathematics
in Washington university, st. Louis, Mo.
April %, 1861, he was commissioned ma
ior of the First Missouri infantry, Frank
p. Blair's regiment among the very
earliest troops raised to save the Union.
He soon saw service. taking part in the
capture of Camp Jackson, May /, and
then he marched with his regiment I'M
der General Lyon through Missouri. This
expedition was one of the most remark
able of the civil war. ana one of the
earliest great movements of troops-con-
sidering the object to be attained under
taken. Its object was to capture Missouri
and keep the state in the Union. The
march, with handful of men, through q
hostile country alive with rebels and
rebel sympathizers, was courageous I'M
second to none occurring dur
ing this war. Success, at first. attended
the movement. The repels under General
The herald., 1895-09-29

through McClellan's peninsula campaigr.
with him at Antietam, the young soldier
took part in all the campaigns of the
army under subsequent commanders and
under Grant, especially distingui shing
himself at Spottsylvania. He attacked
the bloody angle on the right of the
rebel line, pierced their lines, routed
them, and captured Lieut.. Gen. Bushrod
johnson of the rebel army and his whole
division. At Five Forks, the last heavy
engagement preceding Lees surrender.
Miles Second division of the Second
corps Hancock s-though Humphreys
was in command of the corps at the time
comfited cavalry and Warren Fifth corps
and saved the day.
Mustered out OF the volunteer service
Sept. l., 1866. he took command of the
Fourth United States infantry. to which
he had been commissioned as colonel
July s. 1866. The regiment was stationed
IN North Carolina, and there he remained
during the reconstruction days until
March 16. 1862 when he was transferred
10 the Fifth United States infantry.
The Fifth, one of the oldest regimen Its
in the army, was at the time stationed at
Fort Harker and other forts along ths
Smoky Hill route in Kansas. The
Fifth had seen little war service except
ing in New Mexico during Sibley's incur
sion from Texas IN the early part OF the
civil war. The regiment. officers and
men, were welded to ''the pipe clay
customs OF the ''old army" and the ad-
vent OF che new, young war colonel was
none too heartily welcomed There were
several old officers who dreaded nm and
It was claimed he twas down on West
Pointers" At the very beginning he dis
counted his claim and disappointed the
croakers. There were but two West
Pointers, First Lieut.. Charles Morris and
Second Lieut. Quentin Campbell, eligible
for staff appointment in the regiment.
These two. to the chagrin and surprise OF
1.-THE hostile clIque,' he selected. one as
regimental quartermaster and the other
as adjutant.
Routine garrison work on the frontier
engaged his attention and he chafed un-
der the monotony of it. But his oppo'-
tunity came, and as the commanding off
Ger of the Indian Territory expedition in
1873-74 he began operations against In
oians which since, conducted all along
the frontier from Texas and Arizona to
the British line. have caused him to be-
come 10 BIZ regarded as the NEST success
full Indian fighter since the days Of
Mad" Anthony Wayne. During 1874
he campaigned in Indian Territory and
over tho staked plainsof Texas, and drove
the Comanches, Kiowas and Cheyennes
back to tn cir reservations. In 1876, in
the far north he subjected the Sioux,
driving Sitting Bull out OF the country
and capturing Crazy Horse and other
noted warriors. In Septem Der, 1876, be
captured the Mes PeTces and Chief Jo