Show OLD HERO PASSES Bereft of h s fortune and without near relat ves to care for him Br ga d er General Charles Truman Hotchkiss a gallant sold er of the Civ 1 war d ed n a Chicago home for aged men after the storms of e ghty two w nters had passed over h s head It seems hard that the old warr or should have been an obiect of char ty when the final summons came after ha ng faced death on many a battlefield in order that h s co ntry m ght 1 ve It is fortunate however that men possessed of ample means and ii e hearts have endowed homes for the aged and fr endless such as Ceneral Hotchk ss The pass ng of the fan ous Un on ofhee re alls the sto y of dear old Colonel Newcon e the retired East In d a sold er depicted by Thackeray who paid away every Tupee of h s mone to ered tors mortgaged h s pen s on and aljowan es to the same end and became a poo brother at Grey Fr ars rather than be a burden i pon h s son Perhaps General Hotchkiss also preferred to answer the last sum n ons in the home for aged men rather than feel h melf an ncun berance in a pr ate fa ly Old warr ors are proverb ally gentle hearted and ncl ned to weather the storn s of advers ty un eonipla ningly Thev seldom real ze that age has ren lered them unfit for 1 fe s battles b t when thev do they ae . cept the decree of fate without a murmur Colo el New come s the most del ght f 1 of Thackeray s characters and i when he finallv says adsum and passes to the sleep that knows no wa ng the leader s n ar ably moved to tears and feels that dometh ng has gone out of h s 1 fe that can never be re placed Let s consider Ceneral Hotchk ss as another Colonel Newcome and drop a tear pon 1 s grae |