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Show SHERIDANS RIDE Pidure by an Obscure Newspaper Artist Inspired Thomas Buchanan Read to Write American An Classic-'Sheri- dan's day, Bringing to Winchester fresh dis-- may, The affrighted air with a shud- : der Ride' boYe, Like a herald in haste, to the chieftains door. The terrible grumble, and rumble, and the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away. roar,-Tellin- And wider war Thundered g along the - fi of ropes1. The yarn-w- ell told by Herman R. Wallin of Brooklyn, N. Y. Herman Is supposed to be the adventurer and principal character in it, but somehow or other the ropes. tnanaged to take over the story. One-o- f those ropes chisels into this story solely on the of the fact that it well that it ju?t wasnt. If we strength mentioned it here, its only to post it as A. W. 0. L. at a time when it was needed for guard duty. The other rope comes in at the crucial point in our story. Like the hero of the old melodrama it shows up in the nick of time to right the wrong the other rope has done and prove to the world that though some ropes may be low down and oncry, there are good'ropes as well as bad. And now that Ive told you the plot of todays little drama, lets bring in Herman Wallin and on with the show. Today, Herman is a radio .operator on the S. S. Birkenhead, but this adventure happened in July, 1926, when its " But there is a road from Win- Chester town, good broad highway leading . - down; And there, through the flush of the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds of night. Was seen to pass, as with eagle V;' Jon Terrible Seconds'9 Hello, everybody: is a yarn about a couple rolled The roar of that red sea uncontrolled. Making the blood of the listener i cold, As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, . And Sheridan twenty miles away. A HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF P E OP L E ,LI KE YOURSELF I . bar; .V ADVENTURERS CLUB still-tho- se And louder yet into Winchester ) Decorative Initials Lend Personality at break of Up from the South flight, As if he knew the terrible need; , . Herman was occupying the radio shack of the S. S. Cornelia plying between New York and the West Indies. The Cornelia wai almoat at the end of her out" trip Just two or three hours run from the first of the tropical Island ports at which the was due to call. He stretched away with his utmost speed; Hills rose and fell; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from those swift r, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed, and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners as- Living by Spurts saulting their walls. Impatient to be where the battle- Tram AXS RIDE TO THE FRONT From t drawing by Sol Eytinge Jr., which appeared first in 701 Weekly In 1884 and was reprinted in 1867 with a statement by Thomas Buchanan Read say M tt inspired him to write his famous poem Sheridan's Ride. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (BtlciNd years ago this month occurred an event which is familiar to every' American Sheridans For it was on the morning oj October 19, 1864, IRide. Phil Sheridan, famous cavalry leader in the was aroused from sleep in a house in Win jSter, Va., by a staff officer who reported heavy artillery 4 from the direction of Cedar Creek, where his army EVENTY-FIV- E ; stationed, Fighting Phil' it for the poem. And it is quite his coal-blac- k that he portrayed that hisI Rienzi, and rode likely toric scene more accurately than fard the sound of the did Read, who was an artist as well as a poet. You will notice to find that his hereupon army in Reads painting of Sheridans routed by a sur-atta- Ride, which is reproduced with by Gen. Jubal of the Confederate being 1 ck jHow he checked A of Under his spurning feet the road Lika an arrowy Alpina river flowed. And the landscape sped away V , desire; He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. m T newspaper and, make jPcd of the a greatest civil had ever known, pic-;co- r4 Too all but forgotten now. will leaf through the WeeU tn ou JOa will find September 14, 1837, 7. Pture reproduced shown above ,Tthis statement: ."produce on thi page 7 the Staving of Sheri-V"'t- o the Front, pub o; and in T . with it we give the rerses of T. Buchanan known and ad-t- -- he r. country. It j51 tho following note author .w inspired by Ol Mr. Eytinge: Little thia' artlcle;' that his in dressed Phil impeccably black his with generals uniform, hat set firmly on his head as be waves his sword in ha right Sir- i, hand, while, hid charger, InRlenxl, mid-wit-h seems to be suspenced off the feet all four publUh1 Inspired m wlUi air. to ground. ' write tiw poem, of "ry respectfully. According to the testimony he T-BUCHANAN KXAD. as men who saw Sheridan this it i. evident that dashed toward Cedar Creek on who was one October 19, 1834, the reality was Weeklys special quite different from Reads picthe Civil war tured version of it. Instead of des of- es some of the cred being a veritable fashion-plat- e s he-show- cTrffued T llis Feet Were Dragging in the Wafer Whenlle Stopped. Herman clutched at that rope until he thought his arm would Com off. My feet were dragging in the water as I came to a stop, he says, and th tug of the water added to th strain on my hands. I heard faint shouts above me. The engineroom telegraph rang and I could feel the side of the ship shuddering as though Jtt.had hlt some obstruction in the water. Then I could see heads thrust out Over, th deck rail and several voices were calling to me to hang on. A couple of men sitting on the lower deck bad seen me flash by and had shouted to the officer on watch to stop the ship." " A rpe ladder came ever the side and a deckhand came down I help Herman back aboard. When I reached the deck, he says, I was so weak with fright that I couldnt stand np. They took me to a stateroom and pat me In a bank. Outside of n few bruises and pair of skinned hands, I was as good a ever In a few boors, bnt I saw to It next day that a couple of lines were stretched between those empty boat davits. And In esse you're wondering what that other rope was doing hangIt was ing over the side of the ship, here's Herman with the answer. It's a heavy rope put what is known as the guest line. he says. over the- - side-- near- - the water's edge and used - to Uo- small beat and Th ship was approaching the first of our launches near the gang-watropical ports and this line had been put out only e few hours before. ' - Buchanan SHERIDAN'S RIDE From the palntiag by Thomas name. that Read, author of the famous poem by j,. ) f facts -- -- as- riter of. suffi- unless,- - course, poetic license is cient justification for error. the first twenty miles away -- place,-Sheridan In wasn't as the man! when their statues are placed ori high," Under the dome of the Union sky. The American soldiers' Temple of Fame; There with the glorious General's . er Donkey Was Responsible for Discoyery of SilyerMines Kellogg's Jack, a diminutive but 1 thoroughbred Jackass, was responsible for the discovery a few decades ago of two silver mines In to Coeur d'Alene mountain of northern Idaho that were worth 84,000,000. Th story la that the Jack, whose bead was nearly ts large as its body, was the pack animal for N.'S. Kellogg. Phil ORourke and Coo Sullivan when the trio went prospecting up e creek near the Mub lan road, on of the first military routes through Idaho. who do their. work In Uie world evenly, steadily, quietly. They get up in the morning knowing that the day has its appointed task, which must be done. They dispose of the task with serene exactitude. The next day brings smother, and the next another; each is performed in the same spirit. There is competence, accuracy, but no excitement, no enthusiasm, and likewise there is no discourageSuch ment or despondency. persons take work and play, as they take sleeping and eating, as part of the routine of life. Other people live and move by spurts.- Everything with them is a matter of seal and passion. Thera are days when their daily labor takes on a glory. They see rich possibilities in it of achievement and distinction. They throw themselves into it entirely; they see new openings for effort, and taka advantags of them, build large and splendid edifices of hops and confidence and call upon very resource of their spirits to realiza them. Then com days of reaction. Perhaps there is a physical element to consider. At any rate, th spurt collapses. If there is character behind it, the man goes on working somehow, gets his dally task done; but there is no passion in it, and very little hope. Such lives ara made up of alternations of enthusiasm and despair. - , Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription la a tonic which has been helping women Adr. of all ages for nearly 70 years. Spare the Absent Let' no one be willing to speak 111 of the absent. Propertius. IFEEL-60- B Nr night when the small rsV mad camp they turned the animal loose to graze. In to morning It was not in sight, but the trail was found easily.,. , Kellogg and hla On partners followed ft. Finally they eqierged into a comparatively clear canyon and spotted to Jack on a hillside. It seemed to be on a point like a dog. Advancing they said they aaw to animal gazing Intently at a broad splash of mineralized rock, which proved to be a slab of rich galena. f IMtef I lisrw-giv-ri MTSkUkriMAk tovlgoretia. Da piali- T nilrf Inm akk kailarka. teUoaa Wkla, H.n vnk watlp,(la. Ika liilfry vkaa a JJ boa at NS trea yaw im-- .i ... r.k L1 kaaki Maka tka l.a K act 4aHhtail. Mara tka boa te m iiiuwai WV Ua aiS rafaa4 tka parckaaa tkm'i fata. Cat NX TaMata today. 4139 WNU-- W Use of Things . Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove Bishop HalL good. ul'.tt i'j - OUteasod by Waster Nawspapar Untoa.) And -, near-disast- -- Hurrhhl hurrah tor Sheridan! Hurrah! hurrah tor horse and or poem has it. It was only 13Ce., namc, 14 miles from Winchester to in letters both bold it Be said, dar Creek and Sheridan had his and bright, first view of his disorganized Here is the steed (hat saved the a army at Mill Creek, less than day, From frdm Winchester. tpH into the Sheridan carrying there to the actual front if By fight, . there was such a thing on that From Winchester, twenty miles and (jay of near-panaway I it wasnt much rjore than Thomas Buchanan Read. nine or ten miles. ic on - first that the General were the groups Of stragglers, and then the te? .treating .troops, . What was done? what to do? a glance told him both. Then striking his spurs, with a terrible oath, k He dashed down the line, 'mid a storm of huzzas. And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger was gray; By the flash of his eye, and the red nostrils play, He seemed to the whole great army to say, have I brought you Sheridan all the way Winchester, down to save From - the 'r day! F;' XDustrat-V- at - be- hind Like an ocean flying before the wind, And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. But lot he is nearing his hearts r? Longfellow helped Paul Revere by writ-Poeabout his famous ride ,,fafr1C of the Revolution, Thomas Buchanan Read similar service for tj8 (eriflan. t another man who mentioned along with connection with this fa-.You probably have .ward of him, for he was a artkttfor an pent-hou- tea terrible second the worst moment la Hermans life. It felt as If time had been slowed down like one of those movie teemed a though that dlvo from the top deck was taking a year. Ilermaa eaa still count over every one of those seconds can still remember hew the light of the lower deck went crawling past him ns he feQ. One ef hi arm grated the rail f the- lower deck as he went by, sad tbrengh his mind Hashed the thought that that rail was the last thing he could possibly have eanght hold of. Below him now wsro only the smooth steel plates of the ships side, straight down to the water line. Hetman thought of the propellor, threshing th water at the ship's stern nd remembered hearing that anyone falling overboard close to the side inevitably gets sucked into the vortex of the churning water and chopped to mincemeat -- Tb water was coming up at him now. -- He could see It gleaming dully beneath him and he braced himself for the shock of hitting It Then, suddenly, his left arm hit something hit it with sharp, stinging blow that bent It double and almost took Herman's breath away. Herman dldn'l knew what It was, but Instinctively he made a grab for It ne caught It and his hand skidded several yards wet, stimy svrfsc befor bo realised what It was, A along A missing rep had gotten him Int this spot la th first ropel one a rope that was very much present teemed Another place. te be helping him out ef It slew-moti- familiar a story to (th l sea-gol- And Then Came the Ten Terrible Seconds. Sttes but it is not im-th-at the memory of a exploit might have be- warned through the pass-- i e years had it not been Pt. For, Just as Henry J - And then came those one of the most dra- incidents of the War Be--? i seldom came up- on this deck, and then In the daytime only, no ropes had been stretched across the openings between the davits. And there you have not only the layout of Herman's but also the lowdown on that rope that Just wasn't there. That missing rep was quit a problem. Yen knew they don't have any open lights on the top deck of a ship because they Interfere with the vision of the officer on watch np on the bridge. On nights when there wasn't any moon, Herman ased t have te watch his step pretty carefully. Usually he weald start walking from the ladder la n straight Use, counting out the number of steps It required te get te his door. Bnt on this particular night he pawed half way la hla coarse and looked back. Lots wife was turned into e pillar of salt for stopping and looking back. Herman just sort of lost bis bearings, but that was almost as bad. When he started out again he was going the wrong way In the derk. He was still counting steps when, all of e sudden be went through an open space between two boat davits end walked overboard. the I retelling here. m and walked everbeard his and transformed' p wemed to be a disas-- A defeat into a Union vic-- f too He went throngh an a pen space between the twe beat davit . battle is Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. fleer, Sheridan and his mount were and grimy. Most of the time during his ride he was carrying his cap in his hand because he always had difficulty in keeping a hat on his head! In anround, bullet-lik- e other respect Eytinges picture is undoubtedly more accurate historically than Reads. It shows Sheridan with a full beard, instead of a moustache, and photographs taken during the Civil war confirm Eytinges accuracy in this detail, as well as the detail of his wearing a cap instead of a hat for his headgear. If Read was inaccurate as a painter, he was equally careless disorganized gathered up the glers, formed a new of 'T'lIERE are people calls; dust-cover- ed by Western Newspaper Union.) j - nons mouth; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster field 2274. These decorative initials are effective in satin, buttonHermans Radio Shack Located on After Part of Boat Deck. equally hole, seed stitch or cutwork. PatIt wii a dark night, and Ilermaa was on the lower deck, tern 2274 contains a transfer making hla way up te the beat deck where hla room waa located. pattern of two 11a inch and one And well before we go any farther with this yarn well have te 1V4 Inch alphabet; illustration of tell yon something about the way the 8. 8. Cornell wee constitches. structed. Suppose we let Herman do that hlmaelf. Send 13 cents In coins for this" My radio aback,"- Herman aaya, waa on the after part of the boat pattern to The Sewing Circle, deck the only quarters located on thla part of the ship. 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