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Show Youth in the Fighting Line. i I have received a pathetic .letter from a 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 for; 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 addj that in this western world the sacrn flee of young life for "a cause" is noj new thing. ; In the great Civil war in America 800,000 youths, seventeen years old) and under, enlisted In the Northern! army, and from 1861 to 18G5 more) than 2,000,000 young men, from eighty een to twenty-two, were figuring making three-fourths of the armies Lincoln put in the field. The older men were working at industries "backing up" the fighting line. Woman Wom-an had not then "found herself." F1 P., In the Vancouver World. I |