The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-23

| went down before the guns Of the enc.
my. Mr.. French rs n lawyer with con
! siderable practice in the mountain coup-
try. and he has accumulated cous,dera.
bic property III business enterprises. lie
was never convicted of any Of the
killings done by the clan which he
proudly boasts having led. and he
speaks of his war las If it had been
| prosecuted between nations.
1.-The only time nv conscience ever
troubled me-, \" said Mr.. French on one
occasion, 'was when [ thought + WAS
about 10 die of asthma. | had heard
that all of a man s misdeeds rise before
hIm when he faces death. Well when
] Ielt that 1t was all mp with me, !
remembered that | had once drowned
an old hen. When we were small BOYS
I my brother and | thought we could
! teach the hen TO swim, but just as she
| was in fair way to learn she
! drowned. He never thought of the
| thlrty.tvc dead Evcrsolcs at all
Mr.. Fench is apparently sincere in
his belief that war between families
may be prosecuted with no more dis
honor than duel between gentlemen,
or war between two countries He
points with pride to the fact that the
mountainecrs, having once settled their
differences, are peaceful and mutually
trnstfGl people. When he is in Jack
son. Kentucky, he is always shaved by
a barber who, as au Evcrsole partisan,
would gladly have made an end of him
u he had had the opportunity while
the . war was in progress,
Ma. General ]. Frank kim Bell. chief
of-5taff of the United States army. is
an american lighting man whose career
IS like romance, but whose explnna-
tlon OF his own success, and whose re.
cipe Tor success In general is the sim
pie monosyllable "work - Just prior
to the declaration of war between the
United States aud Spain, Lieutenant j
Franklin Bell, of the Seventh United
States cavalry, was feeling about as
blue as his uniform. lie was the son
oil hentuckian whose purse was not
so long us his pedigree. His ambition
nad oeen 10 rise TO position which
would enable HIM 10 provide for his
father ID his declining years. After
l"enty-odd years of loyal service in the
regular army he found himself no high.
er IN rank than first lieutenant. There
were but fifty openings in the army
above the rank of captain, and there
we're sixty-6ve men older than Mr.,
zen ready aud waiting TO fill them.
MS prospect was TO be retired at sixty
l9ur as a captain, after forty,six years
Of service.
DesPairing Of rising 10 desirable
rank IN a reasonable time, Mr.. Bell
studied law while detailed on college
DUTY at Carbondale, H., to get in the
Judge Advocate Generals department.
isaac Clements, IN whose office he
studled, rather inclined to the opinion
that 1t was a pity for so promising
tn
army How his brilliant service in the
Phlllpplnes brought him TO the atten-
non OF the President, and resulted in
ms hDdlng himself Major, General and
Ghief- staff at so, is history. Unlike
Funston, Bell did not win fame by
single coup. His prominence came by
gooa and constant work The President
saln that Bell had done more than any
other man to simplify the situation
IN the islands, and that the thanks
or the nation were due him. Major.
General Bell is a nephew of Joe Bell
who was a great deal larger than Sec.
retary Taft, aud was known all over
the Blue Grass State as the largest
postmaster IN America.
But for the fact that chance de.
tected his course, Major General Ronald
Henry Douglas Maclver, who died in
NeT YORK short time ago, leaving a
double handful of decorations and a
trnsty sword as his valuable estate,
might have been an ornament to the
unlted States army instead of the
world s most famous soldier of for.
tune, with record of service under
eighteen flags. MacIver was born with
a love of fighting. He was son of a
chief OF the Scotch clan MacIver,
which traces its lineage back 1000
o was hor
Virginia coast when his parents were
returning from Scotland to their Vir.
ginia home At l6 he went to India
as a cadet with the Hon. British East
India company, and arrived there in
the thick Of the Sepoy rebellion. At
Jhanso he was left for dead or the
field. But for a wet towel carried in
MS helmet to prevent sunstroke he
would have been killed from an ugly
cash on the head
When Young MscIver returned from
India news came Of Garibaldi s hhera-
t!on of Sicily aud march to Naples, and
he shipped for Italy and donned the
red shirt of the Italian patriot. The
story Of Maclver's career, of his deco
ration upon the field by the great Rus,
sian commander, Tchernaiffe, of his
leadership OF forces IN Egypt. in Mexi-
-" i'inSi's III Lpoin< III tOd0IO 10
mingo. and elsewhere, and his fighting
with j. Z. B. Stuart iu the Civil war.
need not be told here He was a gen
tleman TO the core, and during his long
career picked up the polish Of the court
without the roughuess of the camp.
He spoke several languages and was a
brilliant reconteur. Between wars he
found time to write a novel. which
was published In England
1t would not he fair to discuss foht.
ing Americans without mentioning the
ancient gladiator, John L. Sullivan. who
fought 400 battles and was never
whipped until, as he explains It, he
trained for fight and found himself
engaged in a foot race John l.. Sulli-
van was born in Boston, October Is.
1858, and is therefore few days older
than President Roosevelt, upon whom
he invariably calls when he is in Wash
ington. He weighs 276 pounds today
and looks fat, but he weighed from 200
10 2QS when out of training when he
was a young man. He began boxing
when he was Is years old, and soon