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Show UIXTAII BASIN RECORD Uncommon Sense Velvet Goes By CIIERIE NICHOLAS By JOHN BLAKE Service . are a Northerner, you probably think of Gen. John Hunt Morgan as a fierce, bevhlsLered leader of equally tierce, bewhiskered horsemen, a guerilla, a highwayman and a horse thief. That mental Image Is compounded of one, or all, of three YOU Items w orry. If these people would spend half the time they spend in worrying to the elimination of the cause of their and worry, they would be happier, far less of a source of annoyance to the people to whom they are always bringing their troubles. There are all sorts of worriers in the world weather worries, who see a storm In every cloud that appears on the horizon ; health worriers, who Imagine that because they have a headache or a pain In the neck, that they are going to come down with some fatal disease ; " business worriers who are downcast, not because they are not doing well, but because somebody else for some reason that they do not understand is doing better. to Develop enough philosophy take things as they come, mending them a3 much as possible by your own courage and determination. magnificent fighter in battle but he was not a great soldier. Says his biographer: A technical military book asserts that he permanently cavalry tactics and operations by giving up the saber and fighting his command as riflemen, The final Judgment of the Confederate high com, mand, however, was pretty much that of Braxton Bragg who said that, If he came back at all from one of his raids, it would be ns usual after severe losses and with a demoralized command. For Morgan allowed lilmself to be surprised and defeated by the enemy too often to be considered a great soldier and the way In which he alienated his best lieutenants and eventually lost the confidence and respect of Ills men went ens any claim he may have to being a great e Gen. and Mrs. Johp. Hunt Morgan Pictures from Swlggett's The Rebel Raider," l company. courtesy Bobbs-Merrd- high-spirite- d , Jiurr i piiject gine muni' bid open u .j on, ns to an e- -t ;p nisb ,p ovemf fji r sys ing to. A ur t TjvL and t(i But it Is not, as a rule, the peoIt" who do ple who are up against most of the worrying. It. is the little worriers, the peo made up their pie who seem to have minds that whatever Is is wrong and that hard luck will get them before long, that need a good talk- who ". . . learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery And how to scale a fortress or' a nunnery." e .'i ana The parent, sitting beside a sick of a Job, child, the workman out and not knowing where he Is to getfamthe price of the next meal his for liy sorely needs, has grounds : i U avoided. l'ou remember the stories your grandfather told you of Low he and his neighbors In Indiana or Ohio seized their squirrel rifles or muskets, back In the summer of 1SG3, and rushed forth to defend their home land from being ravaged by a party of rebel raiders. You recited at school a poem called "Kentucky r.elle" by Constance Fenimore Woolson with those unforgettable lines: Morgan, Morgan the Ifaider, and Morgans terrible men, With bowie knife and pistol, are galloping up the glen. Your childish eyes studied with fascinated Interest the Illustrations In some old book probably Harpers Illustrated History of the Civil War and you saw for yourself how terrible Morgan and his "terrible men" looked. If you are a Southerner, you probably think of Gen. John Hunt Morgan as a combination of l.eau Sabreur and Irince Itupert, as the veritable symbol of the antebellum South In which all the women were lovely and all the men were modern knights errant, riding forth to brave and daring deeds on the backs of the finest horses In the world. And, whether Northerner or Southerner, If you ever read The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" by John Fox, Jr., you remember in It the glimpses of what seemed to be one of the most dashing, romantic figures In American history, tlds same Gen. John Hunt Morgan. Somewhere between those two extremes lies the true picture of this man and It is that sort which Howard Swlggett, whose book The Rebel Raider A Iiiography of John Hunt Morgan" has just been published by the Robbs Merrill company, lias tried to paint Roth Northerners and Southerners as described at tbe beginning of this article will find much In Mr. Swlggetts book to confirm their views, hut no one, except an extreme partisan, can seriously quarrel with his conclusions about Morgan nor doubt that tlds biography Is ns honest, ns fair and ns accurate a portrait of him as can be painted from the evidence available after the 70 years which have elapsed since he died. In brief, this Is the lire story of John Hunt Morgan. Horn In Huntsville, Ala., June 1, ISlfo he grew up In Lexington, Ky., under the code of the young gallants of the Clue Grass aristocracy student at Transylvania college at the age of sixteen, he was twenty-onwhen he enlisted In the Fiist Kentucky cavalry to serve in the Mexican war. He was at Ruena Vista but saw little oilier fighting before he was mustered out the next year and returned to Lexington to engage In the manufacture of hemp and the gen eral merchandising business left him by ids grandfather. In ISIS he married Rebecca Grata Rrtice, named for her ancestress, Rebecca Gratz, whom Washington Irving described to Sir Wal ter Seott and who was the model for the character of "Rebecca In Ivanhoo. In 1S.77 Morgan founded the Lexington Rifles, a militia company of the young bloods of that town. At the outbreak of the War Rotvveen the States, Kentucky as a state tried to remain non ti til. Rut not so her young men Some of them Joined the Union army and others the Confederate. Cefore the war was over she was to know to the fullest the horrors of a civil war with members of the same family arrayed against each other nnd once more to become a Hark and ldoody Ground. After the firing on Fort Sumter Morgan bognn drilling Ids Lexington Rifles In the armory In that city and all through the summer of 1S01 continued to di ill them tinder the suspicious eyes of Union troops stationed at Camp Dick Robinson wldcdt bad been established near Lex Ington. Then, one moonlight night in September, some of the Lexington Rules, eluding the vig Dance of Union watchers, slipped away clown the pike toward the Confederate camp of Gen. Simon Roiivar Buckner at Rowling Green, Almo.st as romantic figures ns Morgan himself were some of the men who rode with him. There were his five brothers, tlio youngest, Key Mor gun, mimed for their famous relative who wrote The Star Spangled Runner." There were two others who symbolized the two sides of Morgan's nature: Basil Duke, long his second chivalrous, generous, soldierly , . . and T. II, Hines, a scholar and wit, charming to his com rades, dangerous to his enemies, Insolent to his when he joined the army captors, twenty-ona jear older than John Wilkes Booth, to whom he bore so extraordinary a physical resemblance that the vitality of the story that Booth was alive after Co arose from people seeing Captain Hines and thinking It was Booth. Iiines wns pethnpo the most recklessly competent man the Confederacy, nnd the only mind nt woik In the conspiracies: his manner of war was score service, plot, escape the very antithesis Duke." Then there Was ttie Rnglhsh soldier of fortune, St. I.oger Grenfell, "a man out of a hook by G. A. llenty rather than life, an lncred tide figure who had been a Clins-edAfrique nnd became inspector general, nt sixty joins Df and "that Ariel of the age, in Braggs army brigade, Hllsworth, the telegraph operator whose malicious military comedy was to cause havoc Ills face had the In Northern headquarters. tragic mask of the great comedian. After Joining Buckner's army, Morgan nnd Ids Lexington Rides engaged 111 scouting nnd patiol work. In It he begun that career of swift, sud den raids, gobbling up Yankee pickets nnd eviry way possible harassing the Union lines, Width laid (lie foundation for his reputation In the Not til of being a guerilla lender. It was a lepulalioil which urn them propng indlsis sedu loiely promoted, oven though be was a rt hit ly lomndssloned o Ulcer In the Confederate m my, fust as colonel of tho Second Kentucky cav dry nnd later ns a brigadier general, com nmnding a tulgade of borsenn n fiom that slate he was already on Ids I.j the spring of Syndtcai-WN- Unfortunately It is Just as nat- ilthe in to man indulge ural for lusions of worry Worry Doesnta3 It is to indulge . in the illusions nf Wm hope. If you going to have any illusions, best paying, hope illusions are the In respect to happiness. I know that there are some stances when worry Is not to By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 'F Bell Everywhere This Fall e- - -- $ way to famo In both the North and the South. At Sldloh he showed great courage under fire nnd when Beauregard fell back after that battle, It was Morgan's cavalry who covered his ret i cat Then came Ids first great raid Into Tennessee, during which he proved to the Federals that he was a tricky as well ns a brave adversary. On more than one occasion lie and his men succeeded In passing themseves off as Union cavalry and fooled not only northern sympathizers in that region but the men in blue as well. Ills next raid took him Into Kentucky, as a part of the movement made by Gen. Kirby Smith to threaten Cincinnati, a movement which had the state of Oldo In something of a panic for nvvldle. Lexington, Morgans home town, was their first objective "They rode north for the beloved blue grass through green forests nnd beside the clear Tennessee waters. There was nothing like It again, the long column singing front end to end, delirious with the glowing September weather and the beauty of their beloved state. Luke was Intoxicated with the romance of the rendezvous and wrote the Song of the Squadron on the march. Thus, the romantic kind of warfare which fits so well Into the southern version of the Morgan myth. Another element of the same kind came the following winter. During the Christinas season Morgan wns married again (Rebecca Gratz Buiee Morgan bad died In 1S01) this time to Martha Ready, a young girl scarcely half Id3 age. President Jeflerson Davis himself came to Murfreesboro for the wedding nnd they were married by Leonidas Polk, the bishop general, who wore his Episcopal robes over bis lieuten ant generals uniform. Of tills wedding, more later, for It marked a turning point In Morgan's career. In D03 came the great raid Into Indiana nnd Ohio which has been the subject of so much leg end and upon which his fame Is principally based. It ended disastrously with his captuie near Hast Liverpool nnd the Imprisonment of Moigan and his oltlcers iu tho state penitentiary nt Columbus from which ho nnd six of his office! s escaped a few months later. Making his way through the lines Morgan went to Plihmond where he was given a great ovation and a new command. Rut Ids next raid Into Kentucky wns not only a failure but brought down upon him suspicion of Incompetence or worse. The star of John Hunt Morgan wns waning fast nnd It set forever on September 3, ISC 4, when he was kill by Union troopeis in the garden of the Williams homo in Greenevllle, Tenn. Dashing and romantic a figure ns Morgan was and successful as ho was In the sheit, swift raiding typo of warfare, ho may have been commander. Although he may have altered cavalry tactics, he seems to have been lacking In an understand Ing of the principles of strategy and unable to view the conflict In vv hich he w as fighting In its larger aspects. Some of his raids were not only futile but foolish and apparently based solely upon his vanity. In the early days of the war he experienced the thrill of riding in triumph at the head of his troopers Into his home town of Lexington, there to be given a tremendous ova tlon. After that he tried above almost anything else to make a triumphal entry Into Lexington, cost what It might In military advantage." But Morgan Is not to be entirely blamed for the futility of his famous raid of G3 Into Indiana and Ohio. According to the evidence presented In this book, he made this raid under direct orders from President Jefferson Davis as a part of the Copperhead conspiracy in the Old Northwest It was timed to correspond with Lee's advance into Pennsylvania and if, as Davis hoped, southern sympathizers rallied to the Stars and Bars ns Lee crossed the Mason and Dixon line nnd Morgan crossed the Ohio, the Norths support of Lincoln's prosecution of the war would collapse and there would be a demand for peace which the northern President dare not disregard. But Davis undoubtedly had been deceived as to the power of the. Copperheads In the North and they did not rally to the Confederate flag ns he had hoped. Morgan, pushing on through Ohio, found the populace celebrating the victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg and most certainly not In a receptive mood toward him nnd his raiders. So he became the victim of Davis mistake, although he must bear some of the responsibility of his fuilure because he allowed his men to get out of hand and their looting of the property of South' ern sympathizers as well as Northern (a nils take that was later repeated In Kentucky and Tennessee) probably would have doomed the ex' pedltlon to failure If nothing else had. However, Morgans connection with the Copperhead com splracy had one Important result for him later, It aided him to escape from the Columbus penitentiary by means of bribery, and not by tunnel Ing Ills way out under its walls as the familiar letrend has It. There are a number of factors In Morgans failure ns a military leader, according to this biographer. "It appears that during the months from April to July, liC3, there began in Morgan a subtle decay of will lie bad to compromise vv ith himself. , , . lie seems to lack all balance of mind. He Is one time too gay another too depressed. In July, lSGt . lie was going to pieces rapidly. His mental in stability was now close to mania. . . . IDs whole career followed the tragic pattern of those lives which never effectively emerge from the Irrational and Imaginative Ideas of" child. . . . The great Issues of the war became personalized for him so that, like a child, he thinks himself the center of it all. He Is oecu pled with Impossible fantasies, there is seldom nssurance that he can hold to a decision. There is no doubt of bis vast attraction for both men and women, but gradually even these rein tions turn to conflict nnd antagonism, so that In the end his whole command turns away from the place where he Is dying. After the war his body was brought back to Lexington to lie In the lot with the Morgans, the Hunts, the Dudleys nnd the Dukes. Morgan lies in the inner ring of standing stones next to his mother. The ring of stones Is very close and curves slightly outward ns though all the great clan had rallied clo.se around him against his ... enemies." C by Wtstera Newspaper Caloft, I suppose the little army which fought so desperately for freedom in the days that followed the Declaration of Independence would have been Justified In worrying if anybody In the world could have been. But if they had stopped to worry, the history of the world would have changed and there would probably net er have been any United Stales of America. Buck up and do your best on your own job whatever It Is, and dont worry if troubles come along. There have been many races on tills planet since Its first peoples began to think and work and fight. But worrying never helped any of them, nor will It help you. Mr. Stefansson, the explorer, when he was asked If he was not afraid of polar Heroes of Peace bears during his sojourn in the Arctic, replied that polar bears are not as dangerous as taxicabs. Mr. Stefansson, however, Is modest. Very few people would care to take the chances he did, In order to learn more about a practically un visited region- of the earth, so that his fellow men might have better knowledge of It. - When there Is difficult and dangerous work to be done in the world, there always seems to be somebody to do It. For a number of years I have seen mail planes sail over my house day after day, In cold or heat, storm or sunshine. Flying is by no means as dangerous as it used to be, but men of iron nerve alone are willing to do it as a regular job. The same tiling used to apply to raLlroading. As a boy In a western state, where blizzards were common In the winter time, and when locomotives were not so finely designed and built machines that they are today, railroad accidents were very frequent A number of them, se rlous ones, happened not far from my home. But they did not In the least deter young men from becoming engineers and firemen on railroads. I have Just been reading one of John Fiskes series of book3 on the discovery of America. The risks that the Iingllsh, French and Dutch settlers took were enormous. First of all they had to make perilous voyages In cockle shell ships across the stormy Atlantic. Then they were In constant dan ger from unfriendly Indians. And they knew so little of how to cultivate the new soil on which they hnd located their farms, that they were always confronted with the grim fig ure of the wolf at the door. But though they now. nnd then grew disheartened, t he record shows that they remained here and in time prospered. It used to be said that ciulization would make men timid; that after ing a sheltered life they uould afraid to face serious trouble. Yet there have been abundant vol unteors for every war that the country has engaged In, and there lias never been a dearth of men to undertake new ami perilous proj-ts, ns have the men you see flying plaits o ei boil today. iki of n City ed coat LAKE will a defi S.00,OC m ihy ted to tin ik JHVhas pt tte jot sew ft iC ta fore rticfur cfiloii jin IDL the of YOU are golden round town? friend velvet. stepping along and avenue In crisp sunlit autumn days? A of calls to make about Perhaps afternoon tea with at the club? Wear tailored going bag, belt, scarf and an alpine bat in forest or pine green or tbe popular rust color. You have accepted an Invitation to dine and dance tonight? Wear regal velvet with stunning jewelry You or glittering metal accents. simply must own one of the scintillating silver mesh bag and trl angle scarf sets such as the lovely young girl In the foreground of the illustration is so proudly wearing with her handsome velvet gown. Of course the fall and winter wardrobe of the properly will Include at least one de luxe velvet coat or evening wrap. e The new three quarter shoulder coats of white velvet or trimmed with either brown fur are the latest Nor does the glory of velvet depart when the lights are out, for even when the woman of fashion retires she is supposed to dream sweet When we exdreams In velvet. plain that the velvet which makes these perfectly lovely nightrobes is of the kind that actually washes as easily and as satisfactorily as your favorite muslins, batistes and nainsooks, velvet for nighties becomes a practical as well as a fascinating d ioose-from-th- self-scarfe- d theme. IK in r to A g. (rod n You have a swanky new plaid woolen daytime dress? Top it with a swagger coat and matching beret of velvet In black or a gorgeous hue. You have a modish suit or ensemble of the loose woven nubby tweed the likes of which everybody Is wanting this season? Give It a hnal touch of distinction with accessories of rich colored velvet velvet-minde- tailored such practical about-towvelvet suits as the one pictured ti It is o the left In the picture. black transparent velvet and hast! new narrow straight skirt Th jacket could not be simpler at neater If it tried. The velvet cor ered buttons are tres chic. A whit' and silver blouse with scarf coil, is worn with this tailleur. The ve vet hat is a modish tricorne. Tw rhinestone clips hold the face n in place. Centered above In this quartet of velvet fashions is a dinner sui Velvet ensembles of this type ar r extremely roguish for occasions. They carry that luxur look vv hich is so indicative of dre' up modes tills season. Observe,!!; skirt is floor length, which at ont the practe distinguishes it fro-rdaytime velvet suit The blouse top velvet. It Is newtf of fall to wear a formal hat with ft a type of costume. Chenille-dotteand velvet fashions this sty1 toque with its cunning veil The young woman wearing t! pearl necklace w understands t bracelet matching art of dressing, for she demo strates that nothing so sets bar some Jewelry off to perfection black velvet fashioned as simply possible. It has a high cowl ne iu front, cut very low at the bar With this gown, to give it var tion, comes a pair of long detai able white lace sleeves. Deal Ja and carnelian plaques clasp b necklace and bracelet. 10 ft to the models Illustrated, tie , As spotlight is being thrown on Just 5 h afl 'i S had ?! E ml ye p y n i jt I S 'on V nl; iTB, semi-forn- ftlf ire lb?; gold-stripe- d d tour-stran- try l! p d i fr ti n of Ian 1 rJT, 1 ipi and Big corded balloon sleeves back the neck down slit high the distinguishing features of t gown worn by the fortunate pi woman possessing the sllver-ibag and scarf. , Western Newspaper Union. ill, SCARFS ARE BRAZEN WITH BRIGHT COLORS tin d si Smart Parisians Now Are 1 W01ll( highw k e tro Going About Bareheai! p sinn t dres Parisians, the smartly ixtw eer are going feminine ones, bareheaded, according to stj 0 FALLS, J Marjorie Howard, who recently ''Jtatoes a turned .from France. r the sixIf no bat at all Is too miK Shiprner once, at take to a fashion leap neck in next best tiling, says Miss Howa 'a. Tut Is a bat with a high crown. t0 fur t! The things that are definitely t com f e finished, are flowers and the wine d mre no low hat. We shall see UKfi Cjqi either for a bit, she declares. ts have ' fTlU American buyers grabbed , hat3 they could ersit, of recent fid their hands on at the Iiiiona midsummer openings in a reaf I kW Ie against the potato chip" all s stmien worn been thats headgear mer, she says. Tailored Suits Are Being A, J.- TI&f In a season that is Dot for Wear Fall luhf Projected 1 liar In the spectacular in clothe A stunning new tailored suit model skirt is the most specta Is In a rich green gaberdine. The split of all. fashion rr two double breasted Jacket has dresses are so close1dr I Day large patch pockets which feature they need the slits. Evening T A bl swing hack ijt, Inverted plaits. 8 t In are silt to the knee or even Infir with a stitched down belt Is an I1 Miss Howard. a am A white said teresting fashion note. c oie. linen mannish blouse is worn with the suit. Brown accessories and a WHIMS OF FASHIC ! it. 'An stfi'wr fox scarf add s note of disd, t i tinctive cldc to the costume. The green glove threatens Piling f a big success. foilll ace Tawny, russet browns '"Id Of Velveteen Jackets Blend for a great success in the c N, Lames appear all day Nicely With Tweed Suits r -Velveteen Jackets are striking tailored and simple, at their fa when combined with two piece 6St. hold of I r entirely tweed suits. Many of the new out's Bags composed 'rLin, blend with tbe darker tone of the beads are among the newest Scdrfs for winter are gay, almost brazen, with plaids and stripes In strong colors. Colors preferred are bright red, rust, wine, all varieties of green and some navy. Black and white still Is popular. Materials Include sheer woolens, cashmere, novelty materials, spun silk, velvet, rough heavy crepe and taffeta. Shapes Include the square and triangle, the ascot and a new favorite called the Jockey, which is narrow and long enough to twist around the neck several times. Dainty pastels in woolens, such as pale yellows and orange, are offered for tweed suits. - "V d s c I 11 r; 1 ; tw eed. Velveteen dresses for fall are seen the now high shades, such as peacock Uue, calilta red and bonar In brown Series, Gloves i','1' be con dcs J should either by their color or tnsy in evening mittens by the fashionable. f) h'U la vU; "slny I Iyf LisU |