Show BOYS ARE THEY from a period hoary with antiquity comes down to the present age the story of how leonidas with a mere handful of men stood like a wall of adamant against a vast horde of persians later on but still far back the story of arnold at unter walden wits was written and has passed along the lines of succeeding ages as an the story of a man through whose self sacrificing valor the austrians Aust tans rians were overthrown all wars have their special deeds of heroism which stand out so conspicuously above their surroundings roun dings that they are remembered when all else Is forgotten or they keep all else elop in remembrance by causing them to form the perspective of an undying picture in modern modem times we look at the charge of the light brigade at balaklava and while all readers know of it how many know of the desperate work of which it was only a part still more recently the charge of the black vorse horse cavalry at bull run where of a thousand young men constituting sti the very flower of virginias proud families but a few dozen were left stands prominently to in a battle itself so prominent that it will be many generations before it ft begins to fade and leave the fadeless line to be come plainer thereby quite recently a tinge of immortality was again ira ini parted to the record of daring deeds by the mad dash of the gordon highland a ers up against the barbaric desperate forces confronting them at dargai S ridge these and hundreds of other J instances of human valor and intelli gent determination were not born to perish so long as records are kept and memory is the warder of the brain J there has never been in all the aci 4 counts of glowing deeds on the field of 4 battle a more sublime exhibition of 4 valor united to unerring judgment and aad I 1 faultless discipline than was the splendid charge of american volunteers in front of santiago on friday last at the word of command all moved forward with impulsive strides and with the utmost precision A withering volley from the ene enemy in y was poured into their ranks and so 4 destructive did it become that they had to prostrate themselves to escape an annihilation hi lation this alone to ordinary sold soldiers lers of the machine class would have created either a panic resulting in complete demoralization or a withdrawal in more or less disorder to the starting 4 place when the firing relaxed somei what they were again up and at ern em ig and again after a few steps forward 1 l was prostration necessary to escape S obliteration blit erti once more to their feet S then with a wild whoop and hurrah the 1 heights were scaled and the spaniards t driven precipitately from their shelter it was a grand triumph and a costly one por for the first time in the history of the world the personality of the anglo saxon was brought in contact with that of the descendants of old rome living n beyond the atlantic in a supreme tesi teat of individual valor and physical eu en durance and the superiority of the former was demonstrated at every 3 point and beyond all question it is idle to say after this and them the other exhibitions of personal bravery and coolness which the american peo p 3 pie have to the presented won e world that we need a larger a army than the one we had when thet war broke out twenty five thousand men are an ample force and except to toy being trainers to others and constitution a nucleus to build around and extend exten upon in time of trouble we could go get along with none at all the americal ameri c caA who as a rule seeks no duax quarrel 11 a and n will resort to every honorable jeamo deanal to avoid a fight becomes all at crift oncas wakened destroyer when the cloft contest inte to is thrust upon him he then sho wa s that he is intuitively a soldier soldie and with or without the assist assistance c of regulars understands exactly what I 1 duty is while at once proceeds proceeding edl n g un flinchingly to carry it out it is in a terrible thing for such men to have to lose we life or limb especially when tigh ing in a cause which except by synill pathy contains nothing for then them sai the honors and plaudits pl audits which in struggle of the world within a c corre 0 bonding time were ever so nurnell nur numerous nelm so well earned |