Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 9, 1903, Page 34

august O, 1008 Belle Boyd, the Spy HE recent marriage In New York City of the eldest daughter of Belle Boyd, the southern spy of the civil war, will recall to many who were participants in the strug- gles of 1861-65 incidents in the career of this noted woman. The daughter, who was mar- ried to Charles W. Chase a few days ago, was the eldest of the three children of Bello Boyd and her second husband, Colonel John 8. Hammond. She was a few years ago re- garded as having much of her mother’'s dis- position and daring. Belle Boyd, as she always preferred to be called, was born in Martinsburg, W. Va., in 1846, and she came from an excellent family, notwithstanding her reputation as a spy and a much-married woman-—for she had six husbands in all. They were Lieu- tenant Bamuel W. Harding, a volunteer navy officer; Colonel Hammond of Philadel- phia, Cole Younger, Sam Starr, Jim Starr and Nat R. High. She had excellent girl associations, and, though not a pretty woman, she was attractive because of her dashing and fearless manner. As a girl she won a reputation as a horsewoman, riding in men’s clothes as often as in women's dress. She was well educated; her father was a prominent merchant and her mother was of good family. She was in sympathy with the south at the outbreak of and during the civil war, and her secret service proved invaluable to the southern commmanders, especially to “Stonewall” Jackson in the Virginia campaign. Her firest work as a spy was In the course of a visit to Winchester, Va., after war was declared, when, learning of a movement which threatened her “beloved south,” as she called it, she gallantly rode by night to *“Stonewall” Jackson's head- quarters and gave him the details. From that time she was attached to Jackson's brigade, and became the pet and pride of the army. Later when Jefferson Davis stated that he wanted the trustworthy ser- vices of some one to carry an important document to England, Jackson recom- mended Belle Boyd, and sne was selected. 8he salled from Wilmington, N. C., on the swift English blockade runmer Greyhound as one of the crew on May § 1864, and a few days later the vessel was captured by thie United States gunboat Massachusetts, on which vessel Harding was an officer, and she was taken to oston, where the prize vessel and its cargo were sold. It was stated that Harding secured a large part of the proceeds of the sale, for the went to Europe soon afterward. Belle Boyd had once before been captured, court-mar- tialed and was sentenced to be shot, but her sentence was commuted to banishment to the south. At Boston she was agaln court-martialed and a second time ordered to be shot, but Harding, through the in- fluence of some political friends, had her sentence commuted to banishment, and she went to England. Harding followed her soon afterward and married her In London on August 25, 1864. He disappeared a few years later, when Belle Moyd married Colonel Hammond. Harding subsequently enlisted in the navy, and was one of the crew of the United States warship Juniata when it went to the Arctic regions In 1873 in search of the Hall-Polaris castaways, and on which vessel Commander De Long and Lieutenant Chin made their first Artic cruise. At the same time Harding had a suit in the court of claims for his pay as lieutenant, he having found that he had neither been discharged nor dismissed from the nmavy. General Butler was his counsel. —New York Tribune. Pointed Paragraphs A baby's first attempt to walk is a trial balance. On the road to prosperity there are no barrel houses. Silence may be golden, but all mutes are not millionaires. Some men are proud of their misdeeds and ashamed of their virtues. A father may disinherit his children, but he can’t disinherit the lawyers. It's no sign that stocks are feverish be- cause they absorb water freely. A man could talk almost as good as a woman if he had time to practice. It takes 2 genius to be a financier without being the possessor of any finances. In a race between a man's will and a woman's wen't the latter invariably wins. If a poor girl has hair of the spun-gold variety, folks say it looks like streaked molasses candy. The man who admits that he is senti- mental made the mistake of his life in not having been born a woman. If there's one thing that disgusts a girl more than another it is to have a young man ask if she will permit him to kiss her. ~—Chicago News. Bathing in Missouri A traveling man alighted from a train and, covered with the dirt and dust of trave!, made his way to the best hotel in a seuthwest Missouri town the other day. As he handed the porter his grips he toid THE I1LLUSTRATED BEE. Bfm he wanted to take a bath. The negro boy hesitated a moment and then replied: “Sorry, sah, but we ain't got no bath in this heah house.” “How do you people bathe?” asked the guest. “Well, sah,” returned the negro, “in de summah time we all goes out to de BEast Fork and ducks in the creek, and iIn de wintah we jes walts fo’ de good ole sum- mah time.”—-Kansas City Star. How it Happened “Why did you leave your last place? was the inquiry put to the applicant for a position. “Well, sir,”” was the straightforward re- ply, “it was this way: The firm had been located on the corner for a long time, and they had a big building there, so when we disagreed It was easier for me to move than it was for the firm."—Chicago Post. Family Goes to War (Continued from IKourth Page.) find a worse collectlon of scarecrows any- where. The men looked as if they had been dragged through a cactus hedge, feet first, and then rolled in a mangrove swamp. The officers were dressed in odds and ends of uniforms from nearly every army in the world. The rank and file made no pre- tense at uniform, but wore anything they happened to have picked up. SBome even went half naked. The Indians, who made up the bulk of the army, wore their favorite alpargattas; but a few negroes and mulattos went bare- footed. They all marched along sturdily at a swinging quickstep—almost a trot—al- though they had covered over thirty miles that day and gone through a fortnight's hard campalgning. Each man carried a Mauser, a belt full of cartridges, a machete or sword and per- haps a blanket, a mess kettle and a tin pan. The Venezuelan soldier has to be his own commissariat service or go without. As the army filed past I was surprised to see the ranks full of youngsters. There were scores of little boys, 8 or 10 years old, carrying cut-down Mausers, and stepping out as bravely and sturdily as the rest. An even stranger sight, to a foreigner’s eyes, was a company of Indian and mulatto women, armed to the teeth, who marched along at the rear of the army, with the baggage train. Here and there a whole family marched together—women and men, boys and girls, all mixed up. There was no attempt to enforce military order. If the soldier liked to enjoy the soctety of his womenfolk and children on the march, the general in- dulged his domestic tastes. He didn't think it was up to him to interfere. Indeed, it was good business for the re- public, as all the members of the family were quite ready to fight when the need arose. They cost nothing to feed, for the army had no official commissariat. It lived on the country. The soldiers foraged for themselves, with the help of their children and womenfolk. Nearly every man in the force had a little loot to show, if it was only a skinny fowl or a small bunch of plantians, slung on his Mauser rifle. The fortune of war often brings men to the front with surprising rapidity in these turbulent republics. The family which goes to war ragged and shoeless may, in a few short weeks or months, become one of the greatest in the land. Promotion is rapid for the good fighter. A man may be a ragged Indian peasant one year and a dis- tinguished general the next. ‘When President Castro fought his way to supreme power in Venezuela many men of no account went up on the crest of the wave with him. One of them, General Louis Otalora, used to be the village bar- ber at Castro’s home in the Andes. He still shaves the president, as an addition to his military duties. Another friend of Castro's, an old Indian whe had fought magnificently, was made minister of war. He immediately purchased a gorgeous uniform, with lots of gold and silver lace on it, and then wa'ked into his wife's room to show her his finery. S8he died on the spot. Her heart was weak, and the joy of secing her Jord and master so magnificently arrayed was too much for her. She had never seen him before in anything better than a ragged old smock and a pair of alpargattas. - These family troops are sometimes guilty of terrible atroci'ies, and the boys and women are often worse than the men. It is mot unusual for a lad of 14 or 16 to be made an officer if he has distingulshed himeself in battle, or happ>ns to be re'ated to the president. One of the most noted guerrilla generals in Venezuela is under 17, and eolonels and captains may be found even younger. Naturally these youngsters, unrestrained by disecipline and with practically absolute power to do as they like when campaign- ing, sometimes run amuck. In the streets of Barcelona, one of the principal towns of Venezuela, the other day, one of Cas- tro's young Indian officers was asked for a small coin by a little boy who begged in the strects. He drew his revolver and shot the boy dead on the spot. Next day two boy officers were walking e —C—————————————— S e —————————————— ST along the street, when one of them tatated the other with being a bad shot. The latter lifted his carbine and fired at the head of a child who was looking out of a top-story window, killing It on the spot. Bome foreigners accused these officers to General Velutinl, Castro's right-hand man, but they were never punished. When they do such things in the strects of a crowded city, it is not difficult to imagine thelr be- havior when they are out campalgning. In Haytl, several years ago, the late Gen- eral Manigat, who was then HNttle more than a boy, went through the streets of Jacmel with fifty ragged, barefoofed negro soldiers at his back. As he put it, he was “suppressing a slight local disorder.” In plain English he was murdering half the people in sight. He said to his soldlers, “Shoot this man!" and ‘‘Shoot that woman!' until nearly a hundred people were left dead on the sidewalks, The conduct of the women warriors is often too horrible to write about. They are far more savage than the men, es- pecially if their husbands or lovers have fallen in battle. Carpenter’s Letter (Continued from Twelfth Page.) is true of parts of the Don, the Dneiper, the Bug and other rivers. You can now go from St. Petersburg to the Casplan sc\ by the Nova, the canals and the Volga, and as the Volga is connected with the Don by a canal, you can reach the Black sea as well The czar is now spending a great deal in tmproving his harbors, The govern- ment has bullt a new port at St. Pelers- burg and reconstructed that of Odess.. There are new quays and moles at Batoum for the coal oil tank steamers, and the channel has been deepened at Archangel, There are now quays at Rostov-on-the-Don, and much dredging has bean done at the mouth of the Volga. 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