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Millar. Wilson, Wiggenhorn. 0ettnse.
Margaret Winger, Helen Wood; Messra.
Sumner. Tukey. Sherman, Abbott.
Mueller. Some. Mansielde. Brown,
Manchester. Crandall. Collstt. Hsecker.
Harry Shedd, Hayes, Sawyer. Bartlett,
Harmon. Wohn. Rsiney. Lau. Cramb.
Adams. A. e. Sheldon, Manley. Whit.
moro. Marley. Whipple. Kind. Barnes,
King, Yoies. BAumsnm. CIeland. Weeks,
Brown. Christensen. Weaver, Calvin.
Atwood. Donald Atwood. Folsom,
Kenuard.
The Round Table club met Mondav
evening at the home Of Rev. f. 8.
Stein. 10 speak on the subject: "News-
papers; to What Restrictions Should
They Be Subjected" Mr.. G. o. Whe-
don led the discussion. which was car.
red on at length and with spirit. Later
an elegant lunch was served. Chan
cellor MacLean and Dr.. Emlip McClaip
Of the Iowa state university Law school,
were guests Of the evening. One Of tho
members not often present of late was
Colonel William ]. Bryan. who spoke
Tor comparative license in that brilliant
and charming manner with which oven
his opponents can find no fault.
Mn. George Woods gave q card party
Wednesday evening to number Of the
younger society set. The house Wa
beautifully decorated with red roses,
aud delicious refreshments we're served.
Tho guests were Meesrs. and Mesdames
Cartice, Lottridge. Woods, Howe, Mar
shall, Wheeler. Rector, Houtz, MalIilieu,
Mohrenstecher. Fitzgerald and Woods;
Misses HoIlowbash. Harrieon, Bess Har.
rison. Burr. Tukey, Omaha; Putnam,
Aarshall. Griffith. Weller, Omaha;
Woods, Rinehart. La Fayette, Ind:
Nessrs. Zehrung. Baldwin, Mason, Low.
Shedd Hurlbut, Granger, Chapman.
Smith and Citizens.
The OotiIlion Club met Thursday
evening at the home Of Mr.. and Mra
Backstaf. DR.. Ladd led with Mrs.
Loveland. tho guest OF Mrs. G. H. vii.
son. There were number Of graceful
figures. The first was q cake walk. and
vent by the name OF Mr.. Primroee'e
Favorite. In another the dancers cir.
cled about table heapsd with flowers.
chose one each, and danced with the lady
who held the corresponding flower.
Ars. c. L. Burr and Mrs. Lew Marshall
distributed the pretty favors. Ono Of
the guests OF the evening was Mr.. Brad.
shaw. Of Des Moines.
Mr.. Roberson, who gives IN illustrated
lecture at the Oliver on Tuesday night.
d the son OF the manager OF Dunn'a
Commercial Agency at Omaha. He 10
friend OF the very popular Mr.. Blish.
d Lincoln. under whoee auspices he
comes here. No part Of the world
, more interesting to Nebraskans inst
Row than Manila. Mr.. Roberson has =
Very fice instrument and his pictures Of
places and people are life size and very
Hear.
A circular has been received from
Aiss Sarah Wool Moore, who formerly
occupied the chair OF lecturer on Art
History and Criticism in tho Stats Uni.
'ersity. announcing that she 10 about To
axe up lecturing and art classes in
Brooklyn, New York. Miss Moore il
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-06-11

ing the southern states with our ships
and armies and starving and worrying
the people out Why didn't the thing
begin in that way? What was the use
ever Of striking Ont for the heart OF the
enemy's country and attacking the
strongest places, Just where all the
power of the land was brought against
us: For more than year after the ball
opened it was talked about confidently
in high and low circles that the govern
ment troops could march in triumph
from the banks Of the Potomac and the
Ohio TO the gulf of Mexico. A plain SOL
dier cannot know much Of the science
of war, but it strikes me that it is a
game open to about as much foolhardi-
ness as any enterprise which men en-
gage in. Common sense is often thrown
to the winds.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-06-11

OCCASIONALLY
I am faced by a
critical read @ r
prim g d W t b
difficult ques-
tions. Recently /
met such a one
in an old com
.rade of the in
I a u try service,
who often shared
my fortunes at
the front, even to
blanket, ratious
and canteen. Sid
ney Walton of
Company ID, -th
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-06-11
WARS DARKER SIDE.
VALoR THROWN AWAY BY 5LuNOERs
AND BAD LEADERSHIP.

A Veteran OF the Civil War Tells Tales
Out of schooI-BrAve Soldiers sent TO
Death In Foolhardy Attempts
With Horse Sense.
copyright. 1898, by American Press Asso-
citation. Book rights reservec.J
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-06-11

again, our commanders were over
cautious when boldness would have won
the day. Boldness they had when it
was simply rashness. attacking the enc
my's strongest point, but when 1T would
have been the wisdom to have attacked
because the enemy was weak the dash
was laoking-I mean after the enemy
had been used up il battle. History
says we won by fighting, yet so far as
can make out only once in all that four
years of conflict was there a Confeder-
ate army destroyed in battle. That
same army had been defeated again and
again, but the previous victories had
not been clinched.
GAS / recall it now we never once
really let our enthusiasm loose over a
victory until Apprenticeship in spite
of all the talk about our victories and
victorious generals. After every battle
the same old enemy stood ready to try
it over on another field, and we knew
it. 1t was the custom to laugh at that
early boast of southerners that every
man in gray was the equal OF five boys
in blue. 1t really amounted to that in
the end because our plumbers reduced
the odds in their favor. Our army
movements were loudly advertised from
the time of the Bull Run cry of 'On
to Richmond!' until the end. Even
Sherman's march through Georgia was
expected by his opponents, who maneu-
vered to that end and turned the occa-
sion to profit.
"And it was the same on all our
small maneuvers. A reconnaissance or
an attack on a detached post was we'll
advertised by SO called demonstrations
intended for a blind, but which had the
opposite result. They gave our plans
away. Strike where we would, the en-
envy was alert and ready. 1t seemed as
though our leaders were too lofty to
stoop to mystery. Yet we say, All is
fair in war. -
GEORGE L. KmMER
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-06-11

81 notice that some old soldiers and
great war writers don't make much of
q hero ont of Stonewall Jackson. Per-
haps they are right and can look deeper
into it than a simple farmer man like
me- But one thing do know, and that
is we were always mighty anxious dur
ing a campaign to know where old
Stonewall was And we never did know
where he was or what he was up to un-
til we had him down on us foot and
horse. | don't mean that we were so
scared of him that we lost our nerve
oh, no--but the way he had of doing
things kept us on nettles of anxiety for
fear he'd strike once too often and make
an end of our army. 1t may be that we
thought too much about it and made a
bugaboo of him without reason, but |
set him down now as general who
never fell into the mistake of attacking
the toughest point in the enemy's line
and hurting all his strength against it
at one venture.
Every soldier will remember that
when we got orders TO the effect that
we were to do certain thing or about
to make grand stroke the boys used to
say, Wait till Stonewall Jackson is
heard from.
at was no use counting him out.
Why, when Hooker sent us word Just
before Charlottesville that he had out
generated Lee and victory ON the heights
of Fredericksburg was within our grasp,
the men hurrahed like good fellows,
then went quietly to their campfires and
said under the breath, Next we'll hear
that Stonewall Jackson has turned our
flank and the army must retreat. So it
turned out / reason it this way-that
without studying or caring anything
about the art of war or strategy or any
thing like that, our men, who were
mostly of practical and shifty kind,
took it for granted that the Confeder-
ates were no better as fighting men than
we and had nothing in their favor ex-
cept that their leaders of the Stonewall
type were more awake, audacious and
skillful. They'd have snapped the pick
of our generals for the pick of the other
side and given heavy boot.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-06-11

"Often we had generals over us whom
none of the soldiers believed in, and
they had known them on the field of
battle. The soldiers, both officers and
privates, felt that we were doomed be-
forehand to defeat, but one could almost
believe they resolved to sacrifice them
selves in hopeless battles rather than
leave room for the suspicion that the
army did not back up the cause with
hero blood. One of these generals a
man who said himself that he was not
the one for leader in the crisis then up
on us, set the army task that never
was accomplished and never could be.
1t seemed as though he went hunting
for the hardest nut in all the Confeder
acy to crack. and his throwing the army
against it was like trying to knock
down a granite wall with only human
skulls for battering rams.
"This deed, which any one in sober
senses will set down as sheer murder,
was known to the men beforehand as
murder. But that didn't hold them
back. Ten thousand of them were shot
down like dumb sheep without a pro-
test and without shadow of results ex-
cept the proof that the army was true to
the flag, no matter how incompetent its
leaders. Not only that, the men lay all
winter in plain sight of those awful
SHAMELESS of December, and the next
April marched to the spot and formed
ranks under another leader in whom
they had less confidence than the one
before. At a word they would have
dashed against the barrier, knowing
that the slaughter of December was sure
to be repeated.
Really, comrade, it is coming home
10 me now that we didn't get half nor
quarter for our work which we should
have and that what little we did get
came more through good luck than good
management. We seemed 60 be always
tackling the hardest end of it, and
whenever we carried the day it turned
out that for some reason the place was
accidentally weak. We could not have
expected it. In other words, it was hit
or miss. and we missed ten times to the
one hit we made As look at it now
he put down the rebellion by surround
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-06-11

"We had way of working up ad-
miration for the leaders on our side who
were fighters who would attack every
thing in sight. Generals we admired on
the other side were just the opposite.
They never attacked without a good
chance of success That was why they
always won and got the reputation of
never failing. Stonewall jackson was
the trump played by Lee at Gaines
Mill. In fact, he was the best bower
and the little joker at that. This is how
it came about: jackson was to turn our
right flank. Lees other divisions got to
work about noon and wore themselves
out where the lines were double and
we'll fortified The Confederates made
no Roadway ON our center and left and
were impatient to have Stonewall turn
our right. What was he doing mean
while? Simply taking it cool and wear
ing out our right flank troops gradually
by artillery and picket firing and little
spurts of infantry advance. He ground
away our division of regulars, seized
some high knobs and planted batteries
where we had to charge and drive them
off. In this way he drew the teeth of
the tiger in our front line and reserves.
Then he put his men to the charge all
along the line, and the key to the field
of Gaines Mill was in his hands. This
was case Of attacking a weak point
even though he had to wait until
strong position was made weak
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-06-11

New York volunteers, is some years my
senior, and, being of full age during
the war, did more of a certain kind of
thinking than when in the field. After
it was all over he returned to his fathers
farm, where he has passed the years
chewing the cud of his experience in
"lugging knapsack, box and gum"
To the Sidney Waltons of the army
war was prosaic and serious matter at
the'time, and old age recollections of it
are of most practical kind
Let me tell you that reading those
stories of yours has set me to thinking
in new way, said my oomrade at
one of our reunion campfires, You
make it clear beyond question that the
American soldier is as good a fighting
man as any on earth. / would trust him
now great sight quicker than would
during the war. To tell the candid
truth, / often used to feel shaky about
the whole outfit, myself included. But,
come TO think it over, there was never
any danger of our fellows fiunking clean
out. Not bit of it.
"Of course we failed time and again
and were downhearted about it, wish
ing the thing was all over or that there
was some other way of settling the fuss
than killing for the fact of the business
was that we always had the worst Of
the game in that way. Still after every
setback the boys came around in good
shape for another whack at it. And that
is what puzzles me now. The way we
faced the music after all the big blunders
of somebody or other makes me more
proud of myself and the regiment and
the army every time / read a story of
soldier daring. To think that regiments
stood up or dashed ahead until half and
two-thirds. and even three-quarters and
more, were shot down, and at the next
battle they were ready to go in again,
although the game was all give away
from first to last, and the men knew it
never used to put it that way then,
but come to go over with a cool brain
the record of what our boys did every
where, can but think the men of the
rank and file of our army were equal in
patriotism to the old continentals we
hear so much about-that is to say, the
men who stuck it out or were killed in
the attempt to see the game through.
"That is the way look at the war
through the specs of man approaching
go. l am tirmer patriot today than
when carried musket-that is, firmer
in the faith-and have more pride in
my share in saving the country and
more love for the comrades individually
and for the whole army than / had then
or for years after the war. And yet
cannot help having some ugly thoughts
about the war. The things that tried
mems souls were not hunger and cold
and wet, not the terrible marches and
the physical suffering, but the harrow
ing thought that we were being sacri
feed again and again and our cause be-
trayed by the most stupid military
plumbers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12
The Ornery Boy at A Circus.

The following from Kansas Notes
in the Capitals reprinted for the BEN
eft not of you, madam, but for Mrs.
Blank across the alley, whose chill
dreu are "such brats."
Circus time IL here. AS far as the
Ornery Boy IL concerned this comes
juet about rs near being the heydey
of jubilation as any old date in the cal
endar. From the day of the appear
ance of the first advertising Car the
OrneTy Boy is in state OF excitement
until the circus finally arrives. The
nigh before II is due the Ornery Boy
does not sleep at home. He knows
that the first section will run in before
daylight, and AS he proposes TO be on
deck when 1t arrives so as TO be sure
and get his moneys worth, he sleeps
In q hay-loft down somewhere near
the railroad yards. He wants to be
there when the gang buses walk
along the train and prod their men
from all sorts of crannies and corners
where they have been trying to get IA
few winks OF sleep. The Ornery Boy
knows every move to be gone through
with from the time the first pin is
driven from which to make the meas
urements in laying out "the lot" until
the last ear Is loaded at night, and he
sees II all. OF course he gets TO see
the show; but he don't carry water
to the elephant That is a fable
Sometimes he carries water for the
steam calli0pe but never for the ele.
phant. The elephants require so
much water that in place of taking it
IN than thAV are TAX an In tha Watar
or people who ought to know better
will probably go on forever talking
about carrying water to the .ele-
plant" as means of working one's
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12
JOHN BELL BOUND OVER.
The Murderer of Byron cushmsn Cannot Give
Bail but Is Held, Charged with MUIR
der In the First Degree.

The preliminary hearing of John
Bell, who shot and killed Byron Cush-
man during drunken spree at Hum
boldt on the night of the 4th of July,
was held before Justice Wheaton
yesterday afternoon. The defendant
was represented by lawyers Choguill
and Cox, OF Humboldt, and Farrelly,
of Chanute. The court held Bell gull
ty of murder in the first degree and
under that charge bail was refused
aud he was remanded back to prison.
There was very little brought out
at the hearing that was not already
known. Bell was drunk, and had
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12
Wednesdays News.

Eggs, butter and chickens always
wanted as 1.-The Tudor" at best prices.
Walt Mcneil went with Jim Camp
bell to take in the log rolling at Jop-
lin.
Mise Grace Wakefield came up
from Humboldt today for visit with
the Misses Bowlus.
Mrs. Hurlock came over from Moran
this morning called here by the ILL
ness of her mother, Mrs. Book.
Mrs. Cushman came up from Hum
boldt today rs a witness in the pre-
liminary hearing of John Bell.
John Funkhouser has a very severe
attack OF typhoid fever, but It's hoped
and expected that he will pull through.
At close of Summer season 1.-THE Tu-
dorn has some few remnants and bro
ken lines which will be sold at special
bargains.
Miss Nora Weaver, of Elm town
chip, took the train for Leroy where
che will attend the meeting of the
Epworth League.
Mrs. A. l.. Taylor returned from
Chanute today. She was accom-
panied home by her mother and Miss
Wilcox, of Chanute.
Mrs. L. A. Noble, who has been
Visiting her friend, Mrs. Petit, for a
short time, went to Humboldt for
a visit before returning to her home
in Chanute.
The Deer Creek s. s. convention of
the townships to be held at Pleasant
Valley church on Sunday, August 81.
The program 10 made up and indi-
Gates profitable meeting.
The camping party returned from
the hills near Fredonia today. The
returned rusticators are: Misses Min
row, Mitchell, Jennings and Evans.
They had a perfectly lovely time.
f. C.. McLain, general manager for
"the Tudor" is back from Kansas
City with very select line of goods
for the late summer and early fall
trade, A call to inspect will pay you
Mrs, Clarkson lie preparing to move
to Kansas City where her husband
has been located for some time. Her
many friends will regret the necessity
OF this move but will wish her well in
her new home.
A, l., Taylor felt so swelled up over
the fact that the Pops allowed the
Democrats to have three of the coun
ty offices that he at once gave orders
for the re-shiDgling of his office. The
work Is now on,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12

way into the show. Sometimes he
does other jobs for the showmen; but
the up-to-date Ornery Boy-and most
of them are-knows trick worth two
of that He gets a cigar, gives the
canvas man the high sign, also the
cigar, and the canvas man lifts side
wall and the Ornery Boy scoots in.
It's easy for both of them. Asa mat
ter of fact the Ornery Boy, busted
though he is, sees more than the Hot
Sports who pay half a dollar for o
ticket and two bits more for the pri vi
lege Of sitting on piece of carpet on
the reserved seats. The Ornery Boy
knows that q part of the performers
daily work is practice before the show
begins. No one Is supposed to be
present at these rehearsals, but the
OrnerY Boy slips in somehow, and
no one appears 10 pay any attention
to him. He gets to see the two regu-
lar performances with the concerts,
watches the rehearsals, and some
times manages 10 get into the side
show, and practically his entire capi-
tai consists of nerve and impudence.
One thing which the Ornery Boy
knows, and which whole lot of peo-
pie have never caught on to, Is that
mighty good show is given after the
evening performance is concluded.
This Is the taking down and packing
OF the city of tents. Ii takes rapid
systematic work on the part of the
various gangs To do this, and II has a
fascination for the Ornery Boy, who
would almost ~ soon think of missing
the afternoon performance as of going
home before the lot IL cleared He
knows that after the seats have been
taken out, the ring paraphernalia re-
moved and the side walls dropped,
that it only takes just fifteen minutes
to lower the big top" and have il
ready for packing; and he wouldn't
think of leaving before this was done.
| So he stays and watches the work,
and never starts home until the tail
| lights on the last section have disap-
peared around the bend below the
station. Then 1t occurs TO him--he
hadn't thought of it before-that he
has been on the 90 since 4 o'clock of
the morning before; that he is tired
and hungry enough tn eat raw dog
Then he starts for home crawls wear.
lily into bed and dreams OF elephants,
dappled horses, pretty girls, spangles,
brass bands, funny clowns and one
thing and another until along in the
forenoon he hears his mother calling
him TO get scuttle OF coal; and then
the Ornery boy comes back to earth
again.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12

been in town all day, had been play.
on his person, and wilfully shot and
killed Cushman. He hourished the
gun repeatedly during the day, hav-
ing drawn IL, in fact, in the morning
OH w. A. Choguill, one of the lawyers
the for defense, who made him put
it up.
The defense put all their efforts on
the attempt to get verdict of muir
der In the second degree and were
prepared to offer almost any amount
of bail. At the time of Bells arrest
some of his family made the state
ment that he was subject To "violeDt
spells" The defense fell back on this
also. They will doubtless make this
plea before the district court. From
all that can oe learned, it seems that
the whole male portion of the Bell
family are subject TO this same kind
of attacks There lie story that Mr..
Bell, Sr., once argued with gun, and
IL seems probable that young Bell IL
merely paying the penalty OF swag
gering career of license. He has had
no fits since his incarceration, and
his friends should rejoice that his
present treatment is proving beneti-
cial.
Until proved otherwise, John Bell
will be held guilty and will remain in
the county Jail. So many people saw
the shooting that there is no danger
of an injustice being done him 1t IL
| we'll