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Show BEAVER PRESS Beay Sabiewii of Bfiye and of Gfou Custer "The Boy Tr II v. cr C 1 k t indium. Taken alone, that statement Is a mere biographical detail with little special meaning. But for the name "James Ewell Brown Stuart" substitute "Gen. Jeb Stuart of the Confederate army," and what pictures of one of the most romantic figures in American history are conjured up by that name! Consider, for Instance, these words by a recent biographer Capt John W. Thomason, Jr., of the United States marine corps In his "Jeb Stuart,' published by Scrlbners: "Jeb Stuart filled the eye. He was strong and ruddy, and In late 1SG2, commissioned major general In the Confederate army with a year and a few months left to live, he was Just under thirty. He had a dark brown flaring beard and wide mustaches that showed bronze lights In the sun. lie was 5 feet 11 Inches tall and he rode at 175 pounds. "He was large boned, long In the arms and the legs and short In the body, and he looked best on a horse. He had a blue and merry eye, which turned dork and piercing when battle warned him or his temper flamed. His nose was chiseled and adventurous, the kind of nose Napoleon admired in generals. "Also, there was an elegance about him. ne wore gauntlets of white buckskin, and rode In , a gray shell Jacket, buttoned back to show a close gray vest. His sword, a light French saber for he never carried. In the Confederate army, the United States officers' sword of the old service was belted over a cavalry sash of golden silk with tasseled ends. "His gray horseman's cloak was lined with scarlet; his wife made It. Genera! I.ee, he wrote her, admired It; and he deplored to her the bullet which whipped away Its fur collar at Fredericksburg. His horse furniture and equipment were polished leather and bright metal, and he liked to wear a red rose In his Jacket when the roses bloomed, and a loveknot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season. tint was looped up "His soft, on the right with a gold star, and adorned with a curling ostrich fenther. Ills boots sported little knightly spurs of gold admiring ladles, even those who never saw him In their lives, sent him such things. He went conspicuous, all gold and glitter, In the front of great battles and In a hundred little cavalry fishts which killed men Just as dead as Gettysburg. "He wore out his horses and be wore it his men. He rude big animals of the hnnfer type, blood bays with black points for choice, and his brother, William Alexander, was kept on Admirers gave the lookout for such mounts. hlra horses, splendid bluodt'd creatures like Star of the Kast from Fnrrpiier. and Skylark from Maryland; none of them lasted long under the service he exacted. "He was a social type, loving people, laughing much and leading nut In song; for he had a rich and golden voice. He was fond of charades and wrote execrable poetry and nfTertprj anagrams. There was never any sadness where be was. " 'Tesslr, Ah'll tell you one t'lng.' says General Lee's old ramp servant after the war. 'It mek no dlfTence how quiet our headiiimrtebs wujs' and I think General l.ee's headquarters were usually quiet 'wld'in ten minutes nv do time Glneral Stna't ride up to visit ns every, body would be a laffln! And Ah'll tell yon another thing, sah. Glneru! Stua't wuz de only one of dein big glnernls whut neveh did tech a double-breasted- fawn-colore- drapl "And says, coming out of his tent to the campnre where the young officers of his staff, and some of the old ones, too. sat singing with Stuart, and a large stone Jug, such as applejack, sat on a stone: 'Gentlemen, am I to thank Gpneral Stuart or th Jug for this fine music? to the point, like everyThe remark Is clo-ithing I.ee says; Stuart was a strong stimulant to all who taxted of his quality, and not a stimulus that died out and let you down. "He gathered to himself a train of oddities. When the cavalry commands were forming Into regiments at the opening of the war, he came upon .foxeh Sweeny, a fellow apt uon the ban-Jfurnished with all the tunes, who sprang to arms from n minstrel troupe, electing 10 serve mounted. Sweeny was si nnce detailed to the - GEORGE ARMSTRONG DECSM8R.5 .is " THEtN&fANSONTHfi IA,;,-- - illr.., Aral, Hr-- ' N, V t CusteK Statu in New Rumiey,Ohio escort, and where Stuart went, he went, with his banjo and his ditties. "The of Virginia heard old Joyous snatches ringing above the thudding of the horses' hoofs. Small country towns awoke at night, and the girls turned out In their stored finery for Impromptu dances, where Sweeny's banjo pitched the measure and Jeb Stuart led the rout But If It chanced to be Saturday night, everything stopped at 12 o'clock. Jeb Stuart had serious Ideas about Sunday." Theatrical as Jeb Stuart was, he was much more. He was a truly great cavalryman. Of hira General Lee once said, "He never sent me a piece of false Information," and in Civil war (lays military leaders had to depend upon their cavalry for Information and accurate Information was As an adored commander of the horsemen in gray ("Jeb, he never says "Go on." He says "('nine on!" they used to remark,) he led them In some of the wildest cavalry escapades of the war. Of his right to a place among the great American cavalry leaders another historian, Joseph Hergeshelmer, In "Swords and Roses," has said: ''He was a born, an Ideal, lender of cavalry. His perceptions there were faultless; he was never known to make a tactical error. Ills plans were formed Instantly with no more than a single sweeping view of a complicated battlefield. At times, however, nothing but his unconquerable resolution, a cold desierntlon, saved him from destruction. General Stuart was often forced to depend uton shnrpshoottng, but he enormously preferred pure cavalry fighting; but when his men were dismounted in skirmishes he rmnained stubbornly beside them, buoyant with encouragement and songs. "Ills great ubility was In raiding, In rapid flank movement a, charging and falling back with horse. His extraordinary energy was practically Inexhaustible; Stuart almost never slept He needed, it seemed, liltle If any rest. On the night of the second battle of Manassas he gave comprehensible orders when he was asleep. After days nnd nights without Interruption in the saddle, he would stop hy any roadside and lie down, safe or In the enemy's country, without pickets or videttes. lie did this at Carlisle, I'n. ; wrapped In his cloak he rested for an hour against a tree, and then he remounted, completely refreshed. Through moments of extreme perl! he sat with a leg thrown over the pommel of his saddle, drumming with his fingers on a knee. He was often begged not to expose himself so recklessly ; he must. It was pointed out. be killed, but his Invariable response was that he reckoned not. His life did appear to be charmed; he lived untouched In a rain of shell, canister, round shot and bullets until he was hit fatally at Tel-loTavern. "He died, happily, at the moment of his greatest glory, at the last glorious moment of the Confederacy; he suffered none of the ignominy, the poverty anr) sadness, of defeat. For that reason he was the must satisfactory, the most wholly romantic soldier of the Civil war. Nothing about him, nothing In bis career, was disappointing; )t was all handsome, all Ingratiating, like his yellow siisb with Its graceful, fringed ends." No more appropriate "Taps" could be sounded for this P.ciiu Sabreur of the Cray than by a fellow fighting man, Captain Thomason, who wrltps : "All bis life he was fortunate. It was given him to toll greatly, and to enjoy greatly, to taste no little fame from the works of his hands. by-wa- Briefly Told for Busy Readers K. F. C. APPROVES. LOW TAXES URGED. WIN NATIONAL FAME. AMPLE WATER LOOMS. BEES GIVE WELCOME. BLACKFOOT, IDA. Shelley has been selected as the 1933 summer Kansas club picnic town. POCATELLO, IDA. Increase of more than $100,000 in building permits in Pocatello was recorded during 1932. LOGAN, UT. Fleeces entered by the Utah State Agricultural college of Logan and W. S. Ilansen of were awarded first and second prizes in the purebred division at the International Livestock exposition at Chicago, recently. The wool show held each year in connection with the livestock show, attracts exhibits from the entire nation. BOISE, IDA. Storage water in the Arrowrock and Deer Flat reservoirs is 45,581 acre feet in excess of that of the corresponding time last year, it is learned from the Nampa-MeridiIrrigation district's office, and with snow piling up in the hills, Indications point to there being an abundance of water for 1933 crops. MIDWAY, UT. Under the direction of the Town Board a number of men have been employed on a relief project, cutting and hauling wood for the widows and aged people of the town. PROVO, UT. Snow storms thru central Utah have brought the precipitation up to normal at many of the snow measuring stations, according to the Provo river commissioner. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The University of Utah's application for a $175,000 R. F. C. loan to build a woman's dormitory on the campus has been approved by the state projects committee and forwarded to Washington. POCATELLO, IDA. Under the new law, all animals being brought up for sale, must be inspected, either while alive or with head and vital organs attached. PAYETTE, IDA. Fourteen hundred and eleven carloads of farm products were shipped out to markets this last year from the city of Payette. The shipments were as follows: Cattle 158 carloads, hogs 55, sheep 20, horses 1, apples C30, prunes 142, dairy products 142, other products 109. BURLEY, IDA. Close grading of potatoes will be required by the National Fruit exchange the remainder of the season, the Cassia county potato market manager has announced. Market conditions have forced acceptance of only the highest grade potatoes. BURLEY, IDA. A swarm of bees which had hibernated in the wails of a building on a farm east of Bur-leawoke recently and made a big impression. Relatives visiting the owner of the building, were quartered there and built a fire. The fire soon warmed the bees up and the visitors received a welcome in the form of a bee handshake. LOGAN, UT. The annual state club leaders training course will be held at the Utah State Agricultural college February 27 to March 4, inclusive, it is announced by D. P. Murry, state club leader. A limited number of local club leaders depending on the community population will be sent to the gathering. Training In methods of organclubs will izing and conducting be given. PROVO, UT. Free milk, payment of all relief in cash, no discrimination against needy applicants, new clothing for their families are some of the demands made on the Utah county commissioners, by spokesmen for a group of COO "hunger marchers" from all parts Of Utah county. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A campaign against noxious weeds Is to be waged throughout the state by the state department of agriculture In cooperation with county nnd Individual owners according to Harden Bennion, commissioner of agriculture. Estimates made by the district agricultural Inspectors show 37.052 acres of Utah lands Infested with white top, morning glory and thistle alone, according to state Results of experimental work have shown that frequent cultivation is the most economical method of noxious weed eradication, where infested land Is so situated that this method enn be used, Mr. Bennion It also explained. shows the necessity of enrly cultivation, as such weeds begin growtb shortly after the snows are ofT the ground. Adapted seed and frequent cultivation are advocated by the department officials. When you're on the road, in travel, Here' a riddle to unravel; What do men itrive hard to make. Then trade away for "shoes and cake? P. S. Speed yours at "home" and double ita value. an General By ELMO SCOTT WATSON IT WAS lust 100 vears airo. on Feb- I ruary 6, 1833, that James Ewell Brown I Stuart was born In Patrick county, Sally Sez intermountain News j X K ffl Colonel 1st Virginia iooi DRAWING dvairu, knjJOHft W. THOrAASON, JR. and to drink the best of the cup of living. He died while there was still a thread of hope for victory. He was spared the grinding agony of the nine months' siege, the bleak months that brought culminating disasters and the laying down of the swords at Appomattox, He took his death wound In the front of battle, as he wanted It, and he was granted some brief hours to press the hands of men who loved him, and to arrange himself In order to report before the God of Battles, Whom he served." Almost as romantic and exotic a figure as "Beauty" Stuart was another young cavalry general on the other side of the llnes Gen. George Armstrong Custer, the Beau Sabreur of the Blue. There was a striking simlliarity between the personalities of the two men and the parallelism persists down to their similar manner of dying. The recent unveiling of a monument to Custer In his home town In Ohio has served to recall the picturesque figure whose career in the Civil war would have been enough to win him enduring fame even if his tragic death In the most widely known Indian battle In American history had not Iniperishably preserved his name In the minds of his countrymen. Stuart was not quite thirty when he became a Custer was a brigadier-genera- l l at twenty-fou- r, and a at twenty-threhence the sobriquet of "The Boy General" attached to him. But to his men he was "Old Curly" because he let his yellow, curly hair grow long and sweep his shoulders. Of the achievements of Custer and his cavalrymen during the Civil war, his farewell address to the Third division tells the story: "The record established by your indomitable courage is unparalleled In the annals of war. Your prowess has won for you even the respect and admiration of your enemies. During the past six months, although In most cases confronted by superior numbers, you have captured from the enemy In open battle. 111 pieces of field artillery, 6.") battle flags and upwards of 10.0(H) prisoners of war, including seven general officers. Within the past ten days, and Included In the above, yon have captured 40 field pieces of artillery and 37 battle flags. "You have never lost a gun, never lost a color, and you have never been defeated ; and notwithstanding the numerous engagements In which you have borne a prominent part, Including those memorable battles of the Shenandoah, you have captured every piece of artillery which the enemy has dared to open upon you. . . . "And now, speaking for myself alone, when the war Is ended and the task of the historian begins, when these deeds of daring, which have rendered the name and fame of the Third Cavalry division Imperishable, are Inscribed upon the bright pages of our country's history, I only ask that my name be written as that of the commander of the Third Cavalry division." But how differently his name was to be written I For as Frazler Hunt In his biography "Custer, the l.ast of the Oivaliers," has said: "To the millions of plain Americans, he Is remen-bere- d not ns the commander of a dashing and victorious division of cavalry thfM captured 10.000 prisoners and 05 battle (lags from a gallant and stubborn foe, but as an Indian fighter who wltn a handful of troopers, 11 years later, galloped to a tragic death. He had fought and Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Smart and 'the gallant Pelhatn' but It was the naked Sioux warriors of th' plains who sent him to his deathless fame. 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