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Show Youth in the Fighting Line. i I have received a pathetic letter! from n mother who has lost her son.! She gave him to the cause of empire,! but there Is a feeling in her breast; that at nineteen "he was too young forj sacrifice." ; I daresay a hundred sympathizing friends have consoled her with the: words ; "Those whom the gods love; die young." And I would like to atidi that In this western world the sacrifice sacri-fice of young life for "a cause" ia noi new thing. ; In the great Civil war In America S(X.000 youths, seventeen years old und under, enlisted in the Northern' army, and front 1SIU to 180") more than 2. 000, 000 young men, from eighty eon to twenty-two. were fighting making three-fourths of the armies Lincoln put In the Held. The older men were working at Industries -"harking up" the lighting line. Woman Wom-an had not then "found herself." F. P., lu the Vancouver World. |