The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-03-09
WROTE VERSES THAT
ANGERED The KAISER
CAPT. sTEUNENBERG, FAMOUS
ARMY POET, RETIRES AT
OWN REQUEST.

Washington, March 3.-Captain
George Steunenberg, famous army
poet, often in hot water on account OF
his verses and once said to have been
rebuked because his poem, "The Ger
man Trained Army of the Turks"
offended the Kaiser, is out of the
army.
lie has been in i'll ehalth, follow
ing a nervous breakdown two years
ago and is now to be retired at his
own request. lie is a brother of the
late Governor Steunenberg, of Idaho,
assassinated some years ago.
Here are verses from the poem that
angered the Kaiser and almost
brought Steunenberg before an army
| cOurt-martial:
Away for Constantinople the hosts of
Allah sped,
And the only ones that halted were
the ones that stopped the lead.
Quoth Serbian lieutenant then:
"'Tis evident to me
That yon army has been studying the
books of Won Molt-kee!"
Said a painting Turkish corporal
from German teaching freed
I'VE amt much on formation, but we
sure are HI for speed"
SO they sprinted night and morning
I till their lungs were fit to burst,
But they won the six-day Marathon
they reached the city first!
A tale that points a moral. Most any
one can see
That it's time to disregard the ways
/ of Jackson, Grant and Lee;
For the sacred Scripture tells us !:
! Eye shall know them by their
/ works;
So we lift our hats to Won der Goltz
the man who trained the Turks!
And now, while Europe trembles on
~ the verge of deadly fray,
/! The dove of peace is cooling in the
good old U. S. A.
For, you bet, the foreign powers will
leave Uncle Sam alone
While our highbrows down at Leav-
enworth are studying Won
Rohne.
And while the German eagle scars
above the Balkan storm,
1t strikes us as fitting time tc
change the uniform;
Let's get one of those shiny things
they wear across the breast,
And add a cleaning helmet with ar
eagle on the crest.
And down at sunny Leavenworth lei
Dutch professors rule:
I ana puiiQ Il mOuel UreWery-dH an
mex to the school
A marble bust of Won der Goltz re
splendent in the hall.
And photographs of Kaiser Bill
adjoining ev'ry wall.
And he who seeks promotion mus
subsist solid year
On pretzels, cheese and wienerwurst
and good old German beer;
And notify the colOnels-sound thu
warning near and far!-
That they've got to sing die Wach
am Rhein" before they get the
star.
When he was 90 years old Capt
Steunenberg had a desire for servic,
in the navy, and applied for the pc
sitiOn of stoker. He did his work 81
well that when he was mustered GU
he was an engineer yeoman and {
finely educated young man for one
of his opportunities. At the begin
ming of the war with Spain he was
living in Idaho, and was appointed {
second lieutenant i'm the First Volun'
teer infantry of that State, Wher
the regiment was mustered out in
September. 1899, Steunenberg was q
captain.
Steunenberg liked the army SC
well that he refused to so back to
civilian life, and six weeks after he
was mustered out, Captain Steunen'
berg was a private in the Eleventh
United States Volunteer cavalry. He
was soon made corporal, then q
sergeant. and finally sergeant OF
Troop A. IN December, 1900, he