Evening star., 1915-01-03

of the attempt 1t is only fair to say
however, that in Scott's troop. made up
of kiowas, Comanches and ApacheS,
nothing like this happened. 1t was a
good troop. but it had to go the way
of the others. although it remained IN
service longest of all.
You have heard of old Geronimo, the
famous Apache warrior. who gave the
government much trouble in the
days when the Apaches were on the
warpath in the southwest? Well. Gen
Scott and Geronimo for three years
came near being "buddIes"
You see, after Lawtou ana Wood and
the rest of them had brought in
Geronimo and his band of Chiricah ah,I;,
Apaches the problem of what to do
with them was difficult. Finally, they
were held as prisoners at Fort SILL and
in 1894 Gen. Scott was sent to take
charge of them He remained on that
duty three years. 1S94-97.
Here was first-class ethnologist's
laboratory ready to hand a bunch of
the widest Indians ever assembled on
the continent, herded together, unable
to get away, Offering a fruitful field for
study and observation. The keeper and
the kept became fast friends, and the
Indians impaired all their plains lore
to the studious. but extremely military
Then, naturally. Gen. Scott was or
dered to Washington for duty in the
division of military information, and
assigned to the bureau of ethnOlogD In
the Smithsonian Institution. where he
proceeded to write his famous report
on Indian sign language.
But then came the Spanish American
war. Gen. Scott closed the door on that
portion of his mind devoted to abstract
science, and opened up the military
section to it's fullest. Once more he was
the fighting cavalryman. AS LudloWs
adjutant general he went to Cuba, and
presently, after the fighting was over.
he was adjutant general to Gen Wood
commanding the island. For three
years, from 1898 to the evacuation May
20, 1902, he was Gen. Woods right hand
man in doing in Cuba that historic
work that has reflected so much credit
on the nation.
Higher in rank now, he was just
eager and enthusiastic in his study of
the Cuban people as he was in those
shavetail days of 1876 away off on the
northwestern plains in studying In
dians And. as Gen. Wood tells it, very
much of the success of American ad-
ministration in the island was due to
the thorough understanding of the
people possessed by this hardworking
adjutant and to that adjutant generals
sympathetic attitude toward them.
Then to the Philippines as major of
the Sd Cavalry went Scott. there again
to Justify his reputation as the great
est little pacifier in the army" Equal
ly apt in pacifying with machine gun
and with sympathetic acts and words,
Scott once more demonstrated his
many-sidedness.
1t is given to few men to be able to
shoot up country and make the peo-
pie like it. Scott is one of the few.
He did that very thing in the Philip
pines And wonderfully 1attering
words from President and Secretary of
War-all properly spread on his rec
ord in the War Department-came to
him for the notable work he accom-
plished.
ports made by Mai. Gen. Leonard
Wood, who Is known as pretty good
judge of men. In report forwarded
to the War Department as long ago as
urging he appointment Of Scott-then
a major-as brigadier general. said;
MAI. Scott's entire record is one OF
important work we'll done. Of things
and consider II is such