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Show GENERAL V. YOUNG. ' .'..1'Li.h mourns the pctsiilg'pf a inyqrite son.. The Vie lw 'he filled in t"h pfAlitt hcau may remain, empty' for '.a long line. People tvIio knew Richard Younjr wilt not forgot the soUlier-eiti-zl'ii whu rose to tho highest rank yet a named by any native of the state, and tv how bearing ami "reputation were always "becoming to an officer and a yent Ionian. ' As a cadet in the AVest Point aead-. aead-. einv, as a captain on the staff of General Gen-eral Hancock, forty years ago. as a major in the war with pain, twenty years ago. and as a brigadier general in the -world war just end?d, he always commanded the confidence and respect ff his fellow officers and the affee-! affee-! lunate regard of those who served under liim. Modest and unassuming, gent lo but r.uf altering, courageous but never belligerent, bel-ligerent, with a Christian aversion to war and a natural diffidence towards military pomp and splendor, he never-lheless never-lheless icntiene-'l his services whenever men were needed to uphold t lie flag, prompted bv a strong sense ot patriotism patriot-ism and by a conscience which placed at the disposal of his government an ability developed and trained in a national na-tional institution. Appointed as the head of the first actual i ribunal of criminal justice in nie Philippines, on the recommendation i'f a governor-general who afterwards became president of the United States, .hidv;' Young discharged the onerous hi ties of that diffieu.lt office to the satisfaction of honest natives, lo the credit of his country, and for the ad-aii'-einent of those high ideals on account ac-count of which we entered the war. As far as an unobtrusive personality would permit, l-neral Voting became a national character, and his death becomes be-comes a national lusd: but we will miss liim most v. ho knew him best as a good man. a loyal friend, a useful citi'-n. :i it able la wyr-r and as a chu n-h ma u "ho was both devout and tolerant, mod-era:- in expressing his convictions, and charitable in his judgment of others f'ourteous and dignified, tactful and i ii fd 1 e-t ua 1 . t lie ro ivas no 0"t in ei c i or military eiiele- v.'hieh he would not I-avc ra-ed. It U bfdieved ihnf I, v.-a- witiiout an enemy in the world, not a result of inaction, but becaiw; lie ai way i t'ougiit open 1 y, never stooped to -:n a 1 Ine-1-". and never -pol " - pi t c-f ul ! v or harmfully of any f e Ho w bei ng. Those with whom flift'ered eonc-ded ( j i fairne-s and a ppla ud-d bi-'d'-renev. hi :he d":ttli of Richard W. Voiing Ti,e n;iiion ic, dfprived of a d i i n gu i.-li - patrinf in his prim'-, th" -tate i;is Int one of its forenio-: eil v.t-u. ju-t a I. the ;aie '.'.i;en hi-, u,;iny political ;mkI. per--miinI t'i'icn'i-. rx (."' tfd j: to i-liow a)pr" lotion ot his u firth ynd g'"M. wliih; 'eiy ioyol, lawafdding c---' is In- -a . '-'1 of .-. i I'iend and hfdper. Th'- - ' i:. ; -:i . ii o- ol a TO j . g pioi!; gf t I ' d f J in- t f c j , j) n, i |