The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-05

mander-in-chief. they were passed on
| to those of General tStonewalI' Jack
! son with whom they spent very
| pleasant evening, and were aSreeaoiy
! surprised to find him genial and at
/ fable, having been informed that they
| would find him retfcent, and, indeed,
1 morose-
THE SOLDIERS POCKET BOOK"
| 1t was during his long term of ser
! vice in Canada, which extended, With
intervals Of leave home, from 1852 I'M
! til 1870 that Wolseley prepared and
! published the first edition OF that most
| pracucal and comprehensive work,
| 1.-The Soldiers Pocket Book While
/ it meets every emergency Of the sol
| der needs on field service, it throws
g. strong light on Wolseley personal
| character. Naturally, it is for the
most part technical; yet the civilian
reader may ENJOY many pages OF 1T.
I For its author is endowed with the
rare git or relieving the driest details
! with bright flashes of quaint, fresh
originality Every page is infused
with his racy individuality and
quiet, easy humor. The sanitary Of
ticer on Campa- gn," he remarks, for in
stance, lis a very useless tunctionary-
/ l have never heard him make any use
Iul Suggestions, whereas 1 have heard
! aim MAKE many very silly ones. But,
| TO be sure, this is not wholly his fault;
/ Tor with an army moving it is inn
| poSs bic to drain town or to carry
out any great sanitary measure" In
| culcatmg, as he never tires of doing.
| the cultivation of the military spirit,
! he writes: The better you dress
| the soldier the more mighty viii he
! be thought of by women, and con-
| sequently by himself There is a
| direct frankness in the occasional cyni-
ctSm of the Soldiers Pocket Book" of
which the following is a characteristic
| specimen: "As a nation We are bred up
| TO feel it a diScredit even to succeed
| by falselhood; we keep hammering
| along with the conviction that hon
| esty is the best policy, and that truth
| always wins in the long run These
pretty little sentences do well for a
child S copybook; but the man who acts
on them IN war had better sheathe his
! sword forever. The commander who
! would succeed. /. seems, r'I'et 70 like
a Russian diplomat, and Y olseley ge-
llla44y eSS6es.s5 20 il4Iil mat, INCL ala.
he can, by spreading false news
among the gentlemen Of the press, use
| them as a medium by which to de-
cefve the enemy" He is a born foe To
wooden uselessness. do not be coGl-
| tented he demands, with any but
| IlAC OCOI OlllONIO cl3lll Il1S OCoI 444S44 AO1
! these small wars of ours; and if some
old Adjutant General Pipeclay refuses
! to let you have them, be assured the
English people viii support you; their
! sound common sense will be too pow
erful even for the opposition Of poor
Lieutenant General Regulation Rou-
! tine" 1t will be seen from such out
| spoken utterances that even while in
comparative obScurity WolSeley was
r6Gn6Hfpr A
| thorough soldier, he insists en- the value
of GOODNESS in action. "a staff officer,
he writes, 'galloping in a high state
of excitement with an order to col
umn may play old Harry with the
spirits Of the men. whereas the man
who canters up with a SMILING face
and gives his orders without any furry,
having nod for his acquaintance in
the ranks, spreads about a feeling of
security and success which soon per-
meates to the smallest bugler. [ once
saw a staff officer gallon with an or4'-T
| to column sheltered from fire; as he
! neared it g. round staot struck llle
ground directly under his horse. The
| horse sWerVed, but was checked by MS
rider without taking from his mouth
| the cigar he was smoking, apparently
! having taken no notice whatsoever of
the occurrence. He gaAoped up to the
| column, coolly gave his orders and then
| cantered back gently over the open
| space where the round shot were str1k-
! ing pretty thickly, still smoking his
cigar The manner in which he ignored
altogether the existence of any danger
had a capital effect upon the column,
consisting chiefly Of young soldiers. ="
Further quotation is not here possible;
I but it may be- said that strewn over
! the pages of 1.-THE Soldiers Pocket
| Book NAV be found instance on in
stance of its authors singular power
! of dashing In with a few strong strokes
| of his pen a picture that speaks, and
! lives, and remains in memory.
THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION.