The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-21

ned it. It goes without saying that any man would be proud to receive such testimonial ohis prowess as soldier: but it also goes without saying that very few men would have acted as Sherman Bell did when he received it. The Transcripts writer says that Bell carried his discharge with him for months, boasted of it. showed It to eV- cry chance acquaintance and finally put it on exhibition in a store window in Colorado Springs. This was only the swashbuekling spirit manifesting it. self, He had not only true Gascon courage, his biographeF says, but also true Gaseon lack of nodesty. Sherman Bell accompanied Roosevelt during his gubernatorial campaign in this state and Jacob Riis relates how, on the clos ing day in Dunkirk, sherman Bell the Rough Rider deputy sheriff from Grip pie Creek said, in a speech in the opera house referring to Dick Croker' who had called Roosevelt a wild man.
 Who is this Dick Croker? don't know him. He don't come from my state. Let him take 30 of his best men, don't care how well they're heeled, and will take my gang and we'll see who's boss. I'll shoot him so full holes he won't know himself from honey comb. Mir. Riis adds that this inei- dent was typical of Bell. revealing as it did his total lack of logic or tact, his lack of humor. his fondness for talking. his illiterary and also his loyalty and fearlessness.
 President Roosevelt has a warm spot in his heart for Sherman Bell, despite many unfortunate, traits in the mans
 makeup. When Gov. Peabody was looking round last year for an adju- tant-general for the Colorado militia. governor wrote to President Roosevelt for advice. The president replied: If had a regiment and could only have one man in 1t, that man should be Sherman BelI.'' This was enough. Gov. Peabody at once appointed the ex- Rough Rider adjutant- general of the state militia, and the wisdom of his apointrnent has been manifested by Gen. Bells success in stamping out an iarchy and murder in the mining dis tricts of the state. At the time of his
 apointment the. Colorado militia was a
 poorly equipped and badly disciplined
 body, numbering $50 men. When on
 Septeinbsr 4, 1903. Gov. Peabody or
 dered Gen. Bell to go to Cripple Creek the adJutant- general led 1900 well
 quipped. and he left behind in reserve
 another thousand jus as efficient. Bell l is man of action, a hard worker and
 even his enemies admit that his reor- ganization of the Colorado militia is nothing short of the marvellous. So
 much for Sherman Bell, the man Of ac- I tion.
 I Gen Bell is described as a man of av. craze night, sinewy rather than muscu- liar, with smooth black hair parted ii I the middle. He has q square jaw, large
 smoothshayefl mouth, large nose an6 4 large steady eyes-the cold steel-gray teyes of the born shooter. In fact Judging by his pictures that have lately
 appeared in the reveiws, he resemble: the prize-ffter Corbett Summing uY Ethis curious Character, the Crippls
 Creek writer says: He is d blusterer but he is willing at any time at any Icost Ito make good; ;;' he would run any
 risk of life or limb for a friend. as h, .l has many a time, and in spite of al his garrulity, innpetuosity and arbitra triness, dis lack of logic and discretion and many other things that in tn,
 minds of conservative men unfit hin for the responsible position he holds
 he nevertheless has in him what ap
 peals to every man with red blood fl his yeins-he has been the gamest nlal lin "a game regiment, and is an adju
 tant-general who can't bebluffed.'
 This description fits the character Q lD'Artagnan lige glGve. Who know
 but that in some previous incarnation Sherman Bell was a swashbuclkinl
 soldier of old France? At any rate tn,
 theosphists would eplain it on som,
 such comfortable hypothesis. From tn, I IRoohester (N. Y.l Post Expresn