Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1927, Page 75

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. AUGUST 14, 1927—PART - 5 " Young American Adventurer Broke Historic Taiping Rebellion wnd dr talx and rn strate ation, now land of follow ind swarmin: the Celes an amazing thin | young American soldic the first piace bezan =0 in our ways of by the way. that the ma of the did the late o that i of o wa m: t was n educ ¢ in tiv change th or of destiny was Fred Ward, called Hwa, to t China, The sol- tions still often d of battle, . Ward con the harl 'nt in the $73.000 A red city while his thundering Priests and b rals, diplo- of Western nations h's hody to the sa Confucius m it now lies. By T Emperor, his nAme was enrolled e of the ancient gods of own v forward E leaders followed ered kiang, of tk amonz 1 of heard of in China e march from rd was first when Chaffee was on t to Peking, during the Boxer uprising. The route. 86 miles lon lay up the Peiho River, then a sl gish mud m choked with 1t hodies of Chinese slain by the Bo: he Fists of teous Har 1t my towar- ved thousand od ahout that hethar to go over to oxers or & de with the little com- of Ameri®u sians and other s e coast It 1 spirit “rederick Townsend . or at least the memory th s of the | same racial stock as the white fight- eld the hordes hack other leaders of the allies were waiting until there were more re ements hefore they marched | into the mysterious inte 1t was | waffee who finally led their on. Like Idier of for- | a arose finally gnd said . lemen, You 1may like, but 1 march at dawn So it was that the American flag at the head of a paltry 0 men, led the march against the Boxers. A devilish march, too, with vellow hordes looking down from the hills and vellow snipers in the vice fields picking men off and slipping away Every one performed astonishing feats of valo for Chaffee. who w: beloved by his men for his courage. | But it a horse that put spirit into | his men—-the last touch of fighting | spirit needed to take Peking after S miles of heroic strugsle and sacrifice This horse was old Putnam, the only 1 true so you that they must get the gun out and Frederick Townsend Ward, Whose Name Is Now Enrolled Among Those of the Ancient Gods of China, Received From Oriental Government $75.000 for Each City Recovered From Revolutionists—Commanded “Ever Victorious Army.’ horse e tes Arm be given honors pensioned by tha United and the only one ever to _funeral of full military pomp. * oK ¥ % nd THE road to Peking is one of the oldest, quite probably, {n the world. It was worn through the softer land | over which it runs to a depth varyina from £ to 18 feet. When it rains that road is a sea of yellow mud, and when it doesn’t the mud changes to fine dust, cHoking to your throat and like It heneath vour feet. The way is narrow and tortuous, When the men of one battery got up near th tes, when they began to lirinz of the Boxer garrison, wens i one of these deep cuts, Tlw voad was jammed, soldiers, horses, ficld picces,” supplics, ammunition, all piled together, and unable because of the firing from the gates to move out 1t the other end. Word came back ¢ the they into action. There was nothing to do but take her up one of those sides of the cut, at an angle of at least 45 | degrees. It looked insane, but it had to be done. The order was given to advance The two leaders dug their hoofs into that soft, sliding bank and heaved up. Rattle, noise, shouts, the thud of the behind. Old Putnam steuck the tank in turn. Up they went. Then | the twoton zun smashed into the yel- I nd sty The he | swayved, strained uggled. Their Avivers shouted and spurred them on Overhead the Dullets whined. Rut their noise couldn’t silence the report that gave evidence the forward toggle trace of the gun harne: had snapped. Instantly the team was in contu n on that hillside. The horses quit ld—all save Putnam. The great old veteran took the bit In his teeth as it he knew the danger that the whole mass of humans, animals and supplies in that hig gutter might be cut and shot 1o pieces while at a dis- wdvan Up he went, eves bulging and red muscles swelling as if to get | out into the open. from under his in. that they might work better. his | hoofs smashing into the earth | Up, up, dragging other horses, all | confused and_rearing against him, | plunging. snarling, kicking—guns and | loaded limber chests with him, Be.| fore he knew what was happening. old Put 1 at the top of the 1 foot cliff, black against the sky, hig tronger than the horses around | him, his head thrown up in trlumph. | cheered, they called him | name, and from the height that he had gained appeared for the first {time the gates of Peking. the great 'diers’ dity | corner ved the southeast Putnam had s Ha-ta portal at { of the Tartar wall. | the day. | INow. i ok the o is victory it wns during | that followed t the peace details were hein: that the soldiers heard of Fredericl ownsend Ward. There was much | talk among the soldicrs as to who had {heen the first to enter the Forbidden City, where no white “devil” was sup posed ever to have heen 1 one | ¢ a up was arguing the ore a little Chin 1on B the old hant | upation while | concluded, | 5 4 {and of a sudden spoke up in pidgeon English | What aid it matter. he want | know. which one had Ly force of broken into the temples of the ¢ were disrespectful of the gods n ods? WARD BLEW A BREACH IN THE GATE, D, SINGLE-HANDED, D THE WAY INTO THE REB. EL STRONGHOLD. were like bu ery. And they never could he the first white men to enter a sacred Chinese | temple, anyway, because there wi Hwa, the white god. Hwa had been raver than any others. and he had been good, too. He had come fror far across the sea to fight for Chin and he had been carried into a_sacred temple, and was there still. His was a victory of right ! Some of the soldiers langhed, and shouted, “Haw. haw.” But the old Chinaman's dignity was as impertur bable as his phrases, even in the sol tongue, were heautiful. They | | y | ars, for all their brav- [ went away resolved to find out about | 1 this Hwa Considering superstitions loyalties, his amazing in all the Chinese, with their ind legends and ancient oy i3 one of the most history. In the end this 27.year-old boy was an admiral weneral, the highest military rank, ind his grateful alien mieat ceremony-—ceremony such as only an Oriental could devise—had christened Wi 6,000 vellow fight- “The Ever Victorious Army." was in the throes of the Tai- ping revelt. A schoolmaster named Hung Sin Tseuen had started a re- Emperor, with | ious war on the religion of Con- | tucius, Fanatical malcontents, like | the Boxers, had flocked to his banner {and he had swept the Province qf | Hunan. Dropping down the Yangtze | River, he had made Nanking his cap- |ital. and then inaugurated a reign of | terror throughout 15 of the 18 prov- nces of the empire. Once, gathering | 6,000 enemy captlves in a field and | having established a sort of throne | from which to watch the exhibition, he had <ent 100 executioners into the field with great swords to kill them. { China_trembled at his name. The | zovernment had retreated to Shanghai and the coast towns, where, figura- tively, it cowered under the projec- tion of guns of allied warships. Frederick Townsend Ward turned up at Shanghai with the proposal that he organize a band of soldiers of for- tune and take the principal cities from the revolutionists. He had, he said, served under six flags, though he was scarcely more than 20. He had been with Garibaldi in Brazil, with Walker in ragua, had fought in Uruguay | agamst Argentine domination, with | the French in the Crimea, and with | Juarez in Mexico. He confessed frankly that China was the only place just then where war was to be had, and he had come for that reason. For 475,000 a city he would contract to drive the enemies of the Emperor into the Gobi Desert. What was the gov- ernment to do? Desperate, it contract. WARD got together a number of American soldiers of fortune who had fought with him under other flags. These he made officers. Then he recruited his 500 men from the scum of the Kastern ports—Malay pirates, Burmese dacoits, Tartar bri- gands and deserters and fugitives from all the armies of the world. One hun- | dred dollars a month was their salary, | and it was agreed that in every city | they should he allowed one day for |1ooting. He armed the officers with re- volvers and swords and the men with repeating, short-barreled rifles, and the terribly cruel and effective Malay kris. His first move was on the city of Sunkiang, one of the seven sacred sites of old China, on the Wasung River. Here was one of the temples of Confucius, one of the most revered and anclent in the land. The ¢ had walls 20 feet high, 5 miles long. It was garrisoned with 5,000 of the rebel schoolmaster's bloodthirsty, vie- tory-mad henchmen. With the dawn of a July day in 1860, Ward and his 500 men stole across the rice felds. As they rushed into the opening they were met by such a withering fire that many were killed and all the | others ran for their lives. Some one had hetrayed Ward's plan to the | accepted this boy's xR and the soldiers of the foreign coun- tries laughed at Ward, but with New England shrewdness and argument he stood upon his contract. Again he organized his legion, recruiting others to replace the casualties. Again, just at dawn, he led this company out of the rice flelds. He and William For- ester, his second in command, sprinted under fierce fire for the gates of the Local Archers Lead in Revival of Ancient Sport BY GEORGE H. DACY. F you go gunning this Fall during | the open season of small-game shooting in Virginia and Mary- land, and if you run across fellow | nimrods who have substituted bows and arrows for shotguns, do not | think that the ghosts of Robin Hood and his hand have returned to earth. | These District of Columbia bowmen | whom you may meet during your | gunning excursions are members of the Potomac Archers, one of Amer-| ica's outstanding clubs of its kind and | one which has contributed to the| making and writing of archery his- experts, Government and stu- dents, after the business school day is done, seek diversion on the archery courts, At the office of Public Buildings and | rounds it is learned that between 375 and 400 Washington archers use | the public_courts’ provided for that &port on the Monument grounds, in| Rock € National Museum. Last vear some 4.200 spectators watched the archery | contests with keen interest, and dur-| ing the current’ season the crowds of | bystanders have been considerably large Practically all #chools of Wasl the leading girls’ ington have added | archery as a_regular sport to their athletic calendars. These young wom en practice on both their school es tates and on the grounds which Uncle | Sam has staked off. The Potomac Archers are the major active organization in fostering the remarkable bow-and-arrow sport in | the District. This club is one of the ©ldest groups of it kind in the United States and is listed in all American books on archery as a pionger or- | ganization. The United Bowmen of | Philadelphia, founded in 1834, were the | first. Archery developed in Washington | under novel circumstances. Col. John T. Pickett, a prominent Washing- tonian,” during a visit to the Patent | Office one day chanced to come across | Capt. Bartlett, one of the patent ex- aminers, trying to draw a rawhide Backed how which had been sent to National Capital as a model on which patent protection had been re- quested by the originator. Col. Pick- t, who was trained in amateur arch- | ery, showed Capt. Bartlett how to| handle the bow. The Potomar Areh-| ra, established by Col. Plekett in| 1578, were the logical outgrowth of | t'chance meetin: | ubsequently Capt. Bartlett became | enthus| bowman, and even- lly succeeded in interesting one of intimate colleagues, L. W, Maxson, in the fascinating sport. Maxson, a izvge, powerful man, who had former | an stie | zation until 1905, when bi ek Park and on the Mall|d between the old Museum and the new |* | nipu | Washington covered a span of about 1y rowed on the varsity crew at Yale, | developed into a champion archer, the | most skillful howman who ever shot fiying arrows in the District. The Po- | tomac Archers persisted as an organi- | veling and tennis gained such popularity in the | Nation's Capital that the archers laid | aside their yvew bows and their quiv-| ers of arrows in favor of the new | pastimes, | Previously T. W. Maxson had be- come the outstanding archer of the | United States. 1In 1891 he won the | national championship with a flight | ®hot of 290 vards, free style. This | record stood until 1924, when it was| beaten by Prof. C. D. Curtis of South Dakota, with a mark of 304 vards.| In breaking the flight record, however, | Prof. Curtis drew his powerful bow | with both feet and hands. He lay on ! his back, and while he pressed out- ward against the bow with his feet he | pulled the bowstring and shot the | arrow with his hands. i r many s Mr. Maxson'a office | in Washington was the official head- quarters of the National Archery As-| ation. During the days when bow:- | manship was at its lowest ebb Mr. Maxson persisted in continuing the annual national tournaments. On sev- eral occasions only one or two other Washington archers competed. Max- son was determined that archery should not die out a8 a sport in the | trict while he was still able to ma- te bow and arrow | Records of the National Archery Association show that L. W. Maxson was the American archery champion continuously from 1890 up to 1895, and again from 1896 to 1900. 1In 18 C. E. McNabb and D. F. McGowan, members of the Potomac Archers, were the holders of certain American records in bowmanship. The temporary sunset of archery in 22 years. It looked as though the swan song of the sport had been sung here and that archery was to be cata- logued among the lost arts. Again, chance played an important part in the revival of bowmanship. for with the meeting and friendship of two amateur bowmen and the publicity given their favorite diversion, the Po- tomac Archers were brought back from the grave, and now flourish here. o Paul Garber, aeronautical expert the Smithsonian Institution, and G. Pratt, a Government photog- rapher, credit Is due for the revival These men for sever: ears enjoved archery on thelr home grounds and on hunting trips, as a favorite pastime. nally, they happened to meet and learn of their mutual hobby. ifter, they shot regularly together They practiced archery on the grounds near the Smithsonian Institution, designated for that purpose Other Washingtonians hecame inter- of J. G. PRATT, PRESIDENT OF POTOMAC ARCHERS. sult, at a_special meeting, held lnsl[ January, the Potomac Archers were | re-established, and now the roster is| large. 1l Garber took up bowmanship | during his Boy Scout days, when he | sought ‘the coveted merit hadge which | that organization distributes to its| aceredijed archers. Mr. Garber failed to win'the emblem during his youth | ested in the ancient sport. As a re- but, later, in the capacity of a loecal | | | Iness heart of Washington, ! | ger: scoutmaster, he passed the archery tests, He took his first lessons in hery under the direction of a | Manumuskin Indian, one of the last survivors of that once important New Jersey tribe. It =0 happened that a cousin of Mr. Garber's owned a large farm in New v where Buffalo Bill, Col. W. F. Cody, kept some of his equipment dur- ing the regular Eastern show season. The venerable Manumuskin warrior was left in charge of the supplies during a certain Summer when young arber was visiting the farm.” The Indian made bows and arrows and taught the youth to shoot. The Wash- ington lad soon acquired sufficient skill =0 that he could make better scores in rget shooting than teacher, 'his was because the | Indian, typifying the marksmanship {of his race, shot from instinet, while [the Ame gained scientific skill from p Every Thursday afternoon at o'clock, in favorable weather, the out door music of swishing arrows and pping bowstrings resounds on the only a few blocks from the busi- Flights jof arrows are showered by skillful {archers at brilliantly painted targets 10 or 50 vards distant. Miss Grace Sherman represents the {fair sox on the membership roll of Potomae Archers, and show. marksmanship that her corr of muscle, cye and sclence {equal to that of the men. Several archery-golf matches have been played between soned bow- men and prominent District linksmen. In these unique contests, which are | played on the ordinary golf course, i the archer uses bow and arrows and counts the strokes in going from the [ first tee to the eighteenth green, while | the golfer players his customary game. The archer shoots 11 paper dises placed on the greens. Usually a good archer will force a victorious golfer to play par golf to win such a combi- nation ccntest. In the t local match Paul Garber and Dr. ot Avery, Columbia Country Clib, fin- hed in a tie, wich has not since been decided. Some of the original Potomac Arch- are still living in Washington and sionally shoot with the modern men. Among these are F, 8, Sud- worth, B. Clement and F. O. Cassel- man, a retiredadumber dealer, MF. is er o | cliib l his | hy | | Clement still preserves the fine yew bow with which L, W. Mason made his remarkable record. G. Pratt, president of the Poto- mac Archers, makes the equipment which he uses of lancewood. He be- came interested in archery three years ago. It chanced that after replacing an oaken floor in his Washington home he made a bow and arrow from some of the scrap material for his hoy. In teaching the lad how to handle them Mr. Pratt became inter- ested in archery. Eventually he ex- perimented in making lancewood bows and spruce arrows, as well as straw targets. He now makes the | targets used by the Potomac Archers, They are 4 feet in diameter, made of rye straw, and represent much tedl- ous work. They ars made of rolls of straw, 4 to 6 inches in diameter, | bound together with strong cord. The | targets have to be soft enough so that the arrows will stick and yet hard enough to withstand severe service, During the open hunting season the Potomac Archers hunt rabbits and quall with bows and arrows. Such adept archers as Paul Garber, J. G. | Pratt and W. O. Robinson have killed | plenty of game during their hunting trips to the woods and fields of near- by Virginia and Maryland. They | have to atalk the small game and | birds as did the American Indians. The hunters by stealth steal up until they are within 25 to 30 vards of the quarry. Then they let iy their deadly arrows, In target shooting hoth Pratt and sarber of the Potomac Archers have cored as high as 207 apiece at 40 rards, in 30 shots, where 4-foot tar- gets were used. This is good mark manship, as it meant that th& major- ity of the arrows had to be bedded close to the hull's-eye. In archery con- tests a bull's-eye counts 9, the Sur. rounding ring 7 and the outside éon- centric rings 5, 3 and 1, respectively. Using a how of Osage orange, Dr. BY MILT GROSS. EEVE 2 look wit it stends by a noospaper a_hotticle, Wat- son seng a chirry wolce whtech It was de property from Shoilock Holmes! Yi yi vl yi T gafe a hexclamation. “You rad?” he sad. 1 deedn’t rad. So' ridd. I'm ridding—Y1 ¥l yi't HEXTRA BEEG MEESTERY ‘Willage cot-opp on de job agai: Potts from a human bing conseest- ing from a laft lag found in de pock. Hufficer Hitzenschwitzel while hit- | ing from a ‘boiglar in Bettery Pock hon odder befurr July feeftin and for a conseederable peerod derehéfter fell gradually aslipp in a hoosh—S8o bing wot it was dere a hondle, so Hufficer | Hitzenschwitzel made from de bondle a use, it should conseest from a pee- {low—Obbout tricklock in dé monnink, Labor Saving time, Hufficer Hitzen schwitzel was hawakened by his own snurring wot he gafe a look so he | nutticed wot it was reclining hunder de hoosh a strange lag wheech it deedn’t was his propert. In fect Ihalltogadder he couldn’t was hable to raccollact aver bofurr mitting dees | poteccular lag idder sussially odder jodderwice. 8o he tutt so'! Him, homs, tremps witt hubbuz slip- ping in de pock ha—It simms wot I'll {zonna hev to take stops 1 should en- So he gafe a knock witt de clob de lag tinking wot it should arozzing de tremp he should moofing hon. Instat it deedn’t ewoked de, knock, nidder a henswer nodder a rispounce. So he gafe again a sacund {knock, den gradually a thoid, den a futt witt a feeft wot kapt knocking hall de way hopton de lag till he ar- rifed by Wen Cortlend Pock wot he knocked it yat arond de golf cuss in seexty hate. 8o he said so: Him—Sond slippers {dese tremps. So he decited he should | grebbing de tremp by de sitt from de pents—8o he gafe a greb. So you }could imegine by heem de astoundish: {ment wot it deedn’t was dere nidder no sitt nodder no pents—Was jost a lag hall alone stending knemm;r high in de hair. Bo big wot de lag riffused to wukk. So de Hufficer culled de pettreil weggon wot déy hall went to de poliss station, ¥ Wal! wal! hexclaimed Holmea—dees eoitinly makes a éukking cage Heh heh, de howner coitinly couldn’t kééck! | fussing de luzz!!! Chapin of the Potomac Archers re. cently, in an unofficial trial, eclipsed the American long-flight record with a mark of 343 vards. It is probable that Dr. Chapin, J. G. Pratt, W. O. Robin- son and Paul Garber will represent the Potomac Archers at the national tournament to he held on Boston Com- mon in the late Summer. William Tell, using a crosshow many years ago, contributed an epi- sode to history by shooting an apple from the heed of another. A certain Washington sclentist recently per- formed some scientific sharpshooting almost as remarkable. He was on his way to the Smithsonian grounds for the Thursday meeting of the Potomac Archers, when he came across a small crowd of spectators watching what seemed to be two spiral columns of smoke rising from linden trees on the Mall, Close observation showed that flying insects, instead of rising smoke, caused the phenomenon. This scien- tist was an entomologist and naturally wished to secure specimes The swarming insects were circling high above the tree tops, about 90 feet above the ground. The Govern- ment expert happened to remember his how and arrow. Why not smear liquid glue on the arrow feathers and then shoot into the column of insects in an attempt to secure specimens Hurrying to his laboratory, the archer- scientist prepared several arrows and then returned to the street, where, after several shots, he secured satis- factory specimens, Government entomologists classified the archery specimens secured in this unique manner as unidentified gnats Previously entomological science has been unable to obtain specimens of | these for study. Various expedients for snaring and trapping such inhabi- tants of tree tops have fafled. The use of glue-coated arrows may solve certain riddles of insect collection which previously have baffled modern | science. ha ha ha. Noo Watson dollink fatch me mine hox from clues. 1 fatched gradually from de shalf | de box in wheech it kapt Holmes hall de bast clues. Donn it!!! he axclaimed witt a omni- bus fron on de faze. Geeve a look. Agan dot fullish lendlady trew hout hall mine clues dot dope Ho wal. Pess plizze de telaphun, denks! Hollo, hollo, Geembles??? I weesh plizze de clue dippotament Hollo. Clue dippota- Yas, Shollock Holmes spick- de wire—i weesh plizze you should sand me opp a assuttment clues—ho lat's see, say obbout tree gruss—yas, h'm, lat's see. You got gome nize frash feenger-preénts. Yas, obbout seex—yas séex feenger-preents, two from dem on a durrknob if pos- sible==yas, tree boolét-holes—a copple strends from hair—yas—two shtieks in de meedle from ds night—must be blod-coidling. De lest shrieks deedn't was woin hair-raising!! Ulsé tan yods from road witt a foot:preent in it. No, denks, T got planty from utto- moblil tire !mkn—&! plaze is jost clot- tered opp witt dem, goot pye. Mm— Geeve a look, Watson, dere's where it goes hall de profit In dees beezness! Ho hom sutt guss—I tink wot I' gonna erase minesalf!! Yoi'll wenish, yoit fminn?? sad I. Whoot gukking from iwenishing— | less dugs. ish inwention—Solf batter de mees- tery. Inspector Mitzic from Scotlend Yod. Noo how guzzit Mitzy hold spoof?? Ho ha henswerdd de inspector: got heem!!! a bobber wot we cutt heem trying to cott huff dé had from Squire Klotz in dé bobber shop. We biutt arond he should making a complitt confassion. fool Shollock, he's a tuff Rilly, sad Holmes, spick By hootch und frot” it a clinn brast ;n_?h by Jutted her ke J’m- \ader rains, ) city. Each carried a big bag of pow- der. They piled these against the gates and exploded them, expecting the portals could be basted aside. But again fortune piayed against them. The gates parted just enough to permit a single man to slip through. Even the desperate warriors behind Ward faltered, and as he looked back he knew his fate was in the balance. He recruited 2.500 men. Ten thousand of the victorious enemy ap. proached Shanghai. Ward held his Chinese against them and whipped them, driving them in panic into the interior. Soon afterward the govern- ment permitted him to raise his army to 6,000 men. And from that day he never met with another reverse, “‘Cold steel” was his motto, because he found that while his Chinese soldiers were splendid with knives and in hand-to-hand struggles, they were un- steady under longrange rifle fire. Once, when they wavered under a savage fire, he called themr to halr, and, standing with his back to the enemy, drilled these Chinese until they had regained their nerve. Then he turned and at their head stormed the A moment more and it would have been too Iate, but Ward slid through the gate and faced the hundreds of revolutionists crowded in the street. IHe rushed them, fighting like a demon. Forester crowded in behind him. The legionaries came in, one by one. Soon the garrison was being forced back A little longer and all Ward’s men were inside. He himself had beern wounded thrice. Dead lay all about him. The key to the city was a howitzer which the Chinese had placed on the great gate. The top of this platform was 40 feet high. It was reached by a narrow ramp. Up this ramp Ward' men fought their way, killing, smash- ing the defenders from the ramparts until at last they held the top. They called roll at nightfall. Three hundred and seventy-two of Ward's men were dead and of the remainder only 27 re- mained unwounded. Ward held the gate, however, through the night, and in the morning reinforcements arrived from Shanghai. Brief, sharp fighting followed, with clear daylight again the sacred city was in the hands of the govern- ment. Ward returned to Shanghai a national hero. The priests of Confu- ci acclaimed him, government of- ficials’ fawned and paid the $75,000, while grateful merchanta added the tribute of a splendid estate outside the city. * ok X % OW Ward was besieged with ap- peals that he accept for his le- gions volunteers from China as well as other countries. He went on reor- ganizing his legion for other drives. But in the midst of this triumph he was arrested by Briti: marines and imprisoned on a warship in the harbor. The charge was recruiting British warsmen. The United States 1l refused to intervene, because, as he sald, Ward had taken service with a foreign government. The Chi- nese Government could not aid him, dared not, in fact, offend London. One day when Ward sat helpless in the cabin to which they had confined him a friend obtained permission to see him. A British tar saw them while talking with lowered voices set their watches at the same hour, but sensed no danger. That night, upon an hour agreed to with his friend, Ward leaped through the porthole of the old-fashioned war- ship into the gea. Had there been the slightest slip in the plan, he certainly would have been drowned or recap- tured. As it was, the friend was nearby with a sampan, and. dragging Ward aboard, escaped before the Brit- ish knew what had happened. From shore then Ward negotiated with the British commander, Sir James Hope, and_upon his promise not to enlist Hope's tars again the matter was dropped. Sir James became Ward's great friend and advocate from that time. And his escape gave him a claim on immortality to the super- stitious Chinese. From then on Ward was quite probably the most powerful individual in all China. The govern- ment was at his mercy. Soon he led his legionaries against Singpo, but there he came face to face with a British soldier of fortune named Savage, and Savage won. Ward was severely wounded again. As he retreated, the Taipings managed to surround the legion with 20,000 men. Afraid. apparently, to attack, they sat down to starve the legion into surrender. But with night Ward. flaunting the white helmet he always affected, with his desperadoes cut his way through the human cordon to safety. The enemy planned a new drive on Sunkiang. Ward, alone. slipped into the city, and the next morning when the enemy rushed up he stepped out on the wall. The sight of his helmeted figure on the wall struck such fear into the Taipings' hearts that they retreated without a fight. He went forward with the old plan of taking cities, but another enemy came to face him. He had been wounded seven times. Doctors told him that only an_operation could save him, and, undaunted, he went to Paris. The operation helped him and he hurried back to China. He found that in his absence the Taipings had gotten back much of their pres- tige and were demanding recognition of the powers. All his work seemed to have been in vain, save for his own sudden fortune. It was then that Ward obtained from the Chinese Emperor the right to organize his “Ever Victorious sraser wot Instat pipple could a eraser dey afes time. vi yi—Sotch a drull fellow!!! Hal- ways witt de picooler inventions—You rimamber wot you had wot you in- wented de dug he shouldn't bock— Bockless dugs you nidded ha—Bock- halways bite!! Billive, me, I still werring de tee:. Bevvy Dizz— Dunt stotting opp plizze witt de full- I jost invented a from taking a batt so erasing demselfs witt Jost den it gafe de durbell de bozzer a booz— Come in, sad Shoilock—Wal! Wal! W Cuitt In de hect!! He's heem Noo dope confass!!! Ker- costuer. 1Is dees a fect noo, ?1‘ mine men!! olly I'll spick—CGimme a shot 'l tall hal—I'll make from goop till i Geove & leonton 1 N 2 deed { L% and | city and drove out the Taipings. Only {a master of war could do a thing lik | that, as every soldier knows. 2w - | JFROM then on Ward led his wor- | hiping vellow warriors against |city after city. The French, British |and other nations began more heartily |to back the government, and on occa- | sion marines of these governments fought at his side. City afier city fell, and Ward religiously collected his $75,- 100 toll for each victory. When the Civil War came in the States he sent the Northern war fund $10,000 and offered to come and fight for the Union, but his services were never accepted. After all, his critics said, Ward was not and never had heen an American soldier, no matter how brave and able he was, and, besides, there were stories that he had taken a Chinese bri¢ Whether this hurt the man spurred him to even greater effort only the gods can tell, but he began t. prosecute the war on the Taiping with increasing energy. He raced hix army across country, striking surprise blow after blow, never letting them have a rest. He performed feats of valor and skill that any warrior might have been proud to acknowl- edge for an alien people and an alien flag while his own land fought for its life. The back of the Taiping rehel. lion was broken. Peace and the re- wards of such a victory seemed just ahead of him. He was standing outside the city of Tseki, one of the last strongholds of the revolutionists. He was about to give that savage fighting yellow line of his the word to charge, when an ignominious stray bullet caught him full in the breast. He fell back into the arms of his friend Forester. They rushed him aboard a British warship in the nearby harbor. He reached up and caught Forester’s hand as they laid him down. : take the city, | nd » Ed," he whis. pered. And Forester went battle. As Ward's “Ever Victorious Army" {swept forward late that afternoon to another triumph, the man who made it passed on to his Maker—or, in the minds of his Chinese friends. to an eternal abode among their own gods. He was a gallant gentleman, a_great soldier and a man who could take the hearts of other men into his own hands as lesser humans take in coins. (Cobyright. 1027.) o The Stars by Day. S it possible for astronomers to ses the stars in the daytime? Of { course, the astronomers have devised a way. 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