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Show . V - ;.- ... :'' - - ' sm - I V - ik '. , - V ' v-f- ' , ...., :. 1 juouuar" mrm&aiiTf zttas, .. . t. ; A eug- - . a l. 7 ' i Salt Lake Vol.l. City,"7 iont with Moros lory on American Arm Recent 'j., - w Yi s t ". rlghta that we. have." .The Battla.7 Now what waa lu tha battla ' ThaawonL tha bayonet. Tha bugle waking morulng, And alter aun wea act Still throbbing out tha surges, Ol toot ana cavalry! Ah, what waa In tha battla That nan bad right to die? - J. -- Lleut-Col. A. Watrotis, U. 8. A. a Men Who Deserve Medals. 'Speaking of rushing; in, said Dan I see that each of eleven member of the crew of ; the Now what waa In tha battla Bennington, whose bollera exploded That bro there eye to eya last July, have been given a medal of Fla hod Mercer, deadlier lighting! . Than awept the darkened ky honor and 9100 gratuity, for rushing And who atood on a mountain in. And there was Moses in the And aaw the battle's light. And read tha cannona thunder. but that was a long time ago, And solved tha bloody fight? ' and perhaps they were not giving . And waa ana banner gutUy, medals' at that time.. But to come And one God'a minister, down to, any,, forty-tw- o ; . Wna one' of hell tha emblem. years ago, One hagven'a Interpreter? Lieut. ' Grubb was on the rush line, Id justice win tha laurel. Did right fall In thy scale while I, Dan R. Anderson, was a dose - What meant It to bo Victor, up. full back, and the two did somo Whgt did It mean tp fall? effective work- during a crisis of sud-de- n :r Over the million eleepera and' terrible destructiveness. Each bat breast to bullet fell: OVer the darkened hearth atonal has a vacant spot on his breast await-- , Of north and aouth. aa well, ing a well earned medal. We either Who stun da upon a mountain And looks with certain eye, did or did not! 1 swear we did! And reads the sleepers' riddle: When that is done, all that is re", Which had tha right to die?". is done. Now. 1'do.not care so quired Nor yea nor nay forever! much for myself as I do for Lieut. The mountain voice Is dumb! But aye the crimson river Grubb. . If ever a man was a. hero That was the battle's sum; Grubb was I would not have igone And ever the battle's ehadow That piled against tha sky, down Into that burning pile of boxes Appeals to voiceless heaven: of ammunition at Reaaca, Ga if he - T,Why did v the brothere die?"' A. A, B. Cavanees, in National Maga- - had not requested me to. I have atgp sine. in line of battle awaiting the 'on slaught of the enemy, and have no; Unrecognized War Heroes. Not all of the men who gave the ticed the different expressions on the faces of my comrades, and when the country valuable service during the order lf charge came I noted the exi great war have been given the recog-- nitton their sacrifices, hard work, bero-- , pression of stolid determination j on nearly every face, but at the time the Sam and loyalty'en title them to.' struck the boxes of ammuniThis remark' waa made by a soldier lightning tion of Sherman's army at Reaaca, of long service,. .When requested to It was different I crawled out enumerate some of the classes he had Ga., from under a near-b- y wagon, and was' in mind he readily complied. making haste to get away, when Lieut "In the first place, there are classes Grubb came rushing out with the moat ; that from one. cause or another have expressive features 1 ever saw, " ' failed to organize. Organisation, id Every emotion known to humanity these days seems to be a necessity. stood out. in. bold relief. , separately One of t$e types of men whp did the and in groups, but distinct Z aa the nation service none of ns. should fornoonday ann on a clear day no more get or ever fail to appreciate' are the expression could you get out of the !. army telegraphers. .They organized, entire.. Encyclopedia, Americana'- than hot through modesty or lack of proper he bore on his face-ra- nd with a plero- Situation at looVthatUpok-J- n l,tng tU not ueen able, to, bring to bear j giauce, rushed for one of my kettle Influence which In modern times Is ro of water and said: Gome on! He qnired before recognition 4 cornea. went! Now, did he go beyond his duty Their services were .as necessary as in jeopardising the lives of two of Dp-cl- e that of the men in the ranks. ; They Sams soldiers in going down into encountered innumerable obstacles;' the crater of burning boxes of ammu-- 1 they frequently were placed In posi- nltlotr and ; potting out- - the fire that tions of great danger; they helped to was in the tow that the shells win battles, .Many of them . were were burning In, and ought he to have packed killed, others were made prisoners, been to tame his unand still others, returned to their Or f did 8. ' G. conquerable spirit? homes broket ja health. There are Grubb, Lieutenant of company B, First few, if any, men in the civil war who Blinols light artillery, do his whole more richly earned the right to penand does he deserve a medal and duty, sions, in cases . of lost health or something more? I learn he la quite wounds. They have received no bene- feeble and of that grows no age qn Aa a membei of the Grand Army fits. but I say to him: 01d com-- 1 of the Republic and Loyal Legion I younger, a hand, and death has no heres rade, would be very proud to receive into terrors than we have faced. greater membership in those organisations Andwefttow. " any of the war telegraphers who stood "Surety," aaid the Captain, "Grubb right up 'to the rack and did their and Anderson in 'saving Shermans duty in those four troublesome years; ammunition at Resaca risked as much and I am really sorry that the rules as did the bravest of the Benningtons and regulations of these two soldier crew. I believe that if Gen Wheeler organisations were not so formed that were alive and In congress he would men who were army telegraphworthy a 'bill ers could be made members. They need little urging their exceptional properly recognizing' were n bright, intelligent, aa soldiers. There are still class of men, and as I have bravery some old soldiers in 'congress ' who already said, deserve .more . recogni- ought to need no urging to see that tion at the hands of the government is done to the officer and solthat they so faithfully and bravely Justice who risked so much at Resaca, dier served in its days of greatest trial. as well as to the men who proved "There are hundreds of war corre- their courage at the time of the Ben-- 1 spondents and many of them the most nlngton disaster. Chicago Inter capable, bright-mindeenterprising Ocean. men employed on the papers they represented. These men, with few ex. Bragge Remark Llved. ware the steadfast friends of At Antletam Gen. Bragg was'struck ' ceptions, the country, of the army and the men down by a shot, bat Recovering, parwho commanded the army. And they arose, and while resting on nn tially, were brave me, too; they had to be elbow discovered the confederates brave men to perform their duty to charging the attached to the the publishers who sent them to the brigade with battery which' he was serving. front (n many Instances war At that moment the brigade commandamong the most eff- er, the late Gen. John Gibbon, rode up icient aids ahd nfossengers the general and called out, Are you hard hit, old officers had in time of battle. A con- man? siderable number of this claaa lost "Never mind me. Order up a force their lives, others were wounded and to save was Braggs reyour some, of them Imprisoned. If they ply. He wasbattery, lleuteuant-coloue- l a have ever organized I know nothing volunteers then and had not of yet about It At all events they are pass- learned that miliit was not ing away unrecognized, when, in fact, tary to give his superior astrictly blunt, posithey should stand well to the front tive command such as that was. among men who had a part la the That remark of the generaPa lived mighty straggles of the '60's. What .was repeated the war through frllows would be at the hundreds of times and aplendid they mind me. "Never banquets of the post and legion and Order up a force to save your batat department and national encampments. Those men who saw so much tery." A Large Order. and were t part of so many of our '' t campaigns could give us chap-er- a , now in the Soldiers' Danny B the equal of those given by any Home at Hampton, Vs., tells this one. of our soldiers or their officers. I have He says that when hia company ap--1 always regretted that we coaid not ac- proached the earthworks In front of cept into our soldier organizations this Big Bethel it was met by a terrific splendid class of brilliant, volley from the., fort The captain patriotic men. They have long gave the order to lie down, which lacked recognition. Long ago there every' man did except an old Irlah-- 1 should have been provision whereby man, who did not hear the order. all worthy men who acted as war corHe looked around and exclaimed; respondents. who wrote the most In- "My! my! They're all killed but me! Then, aa he reloaded his rifle, he teresting chapters of history that the soldiers made in those trying times, said: should be with ns In membership, hav"HI have to light hartf to take that ing lbs same honors and the same plare all by myself. R. Anderson, . .' -- 1 i : V- - Fears Continuation of Judicial Dutlsq ts May Cauap Blindness. Associate Justice Henry Billings' Brown of the United 8tates Supreme! court Intends to retire from the bench; and has notified President Roosevelt1 to that effect. Justice Brown was 70 years old on March 2. Having reached that age' and having served ten years as a. member of the Supreme bench, bei waa privileged to retire on full pay. Although strong and vigorous, bodily and mentally, Justice Brown has with falling sight, and he has: felt that a continuance of his judicial duties might cause him to become blind. , . He will serve through the present term of court end probably will retire In the fall. He expects to travel in Europe during the summer. Justice Brown was borp at South I.ee, Mass, in 1836. graduated from Yale when 20 years old, and, after studying law at the Yale and Harvard law schoola. was admitted to the bar In Wayne county, Mich., in 18&). From 1861 to 1868 he served ss deputy United States marshal and asalstant United .States attorney for the eaat- era dlatrict of Michigan, and then be-- . came Judge of the state Circuit court of Wayne county. He served only n few months, when, he returned to the practice of law in .A been-trouble- d bull-rushe- '.i jObTTCE'Elf&Wlir'WII.L'RtTrKE, r. .S ' .1 "C , , !Vf 8 ,'v- - . Pi' - . . .Tyhave V' OCSy -- - court-martial- . well-inform- ed "... d, e high-minde- d, . AW f Detroit in partnership with John Newberry and Aabley Pond. In 1876 President Grant appointed him United Staten Judge! for the eastern district of Michigan, and in December, 1890, President Harrison appointed J&JIUMT A MVXOVK? him associate justice of the United ... In. one of the most brilliant with their cannon, la ployed to good advantage, and the States Supreme court' arms : ever . engaged!; in by above sea level, and the trouble! are usually easily supTHINK TOO MUCH OF "NERVES." States troops, a force of , al naval force engaged rendered pressed. men, drawn from the army, ns forvlce in hoisting, the artillery, According to Gen. Carter the milinative constabulary, captured a sides of the mduntaln offered tary government on all of the other Mistake Made by People and Physimountain hitherto considered cians of g, and block and tackle were islands Is under the civil government. That it is not on the Island of Jolo table; on the Island Of Jolo, Mill What a fine thing It would have raising the ;: 600 Mora defenders to the last; end came on he morning of he attributes to the fact that the been few the human race bad physiThd engagement-- ' opened on 8,' when the Americans gained American army gave battle without cians , discovered never, anything morning of March 6 and ..lasted of the immense crater of the first going through much red tape. about the nervous system or Invented days, the troops dragging artlll and poured rifle and artillery In the restj of the Philippine such terms as nervous prostration the stronghold of the enemy said Gen. Carter, "the soldiers or "nervous dyspepsia. It makes one jan incline of. 60 degrees in the of bullets, with- - are not used except on the call of the green with envy to think of those forremained flri a jot a continuous living thing ' and spears. " civil government In Jolo," however, mer times when people knew little or The casualties on the Ami sianghter was necessary, as the they are under the command of their nothing about anatomy and when they side were eighteen, killed and their 'arq, fanatics, and confirmed in colonel, who Is both civil and military called things right by three wounded. Tb e heaviest Josh obammedan belief that li they were When names. they sftTe they will go straight to upon the army, although the' nai or melor jealous constabulary , , acquitted Itself ; said they were. Instead They scorned to surrender ancholy they great heroism, nearly hslfitq nu of putting everything on the poor ught. to the last gasp.' ' being killed or wounded. battle does not indicate that nerves gs we do now. When physiMai- - Gen. Leonard Wood, la .la to. be another uprising in the cians are called in and find them- !' It,merely closes a campaign selves at a loss to know just what is as brought on by absolute nec-- ; the matter wlh patient and even the There Is no. sign of trouble very cleverest of them sometimes dq ere else In the archipelago The find themselves in that humiliating ty waa merely local, and had no position they can nlwaya foil back tion with the conduct of affairs upon "nerves, with the certainty that beral, either military or civil, on the patient will quite agree with them v. elands,..' and also that he will Immediately justify the diagnosis by having a nervR08 A RACE OF FANATICS. ous attack of some sort Charleston Neva and Courier. arter Talks of the Inhabitants . of Island of Jolo. SCIENTIFIC FACT AND THEORY. ,W.; H. Carter, commander of Too Many Vagaries Indulged in by rtment of tie Lakes, with narters in Chicago, gave an lutha Thinkers. of the Island ng: description That the human race will become which, the battle was fought blind through the effects of the elecjbarter baa but 'recently returned trical current so abundantly generatfthe , Philippines, where he saw ed for modern uses Is the startling ,1 years of active service, proposition of an alleged scientist of king of the inhabitants of Jolo. Chicago. We are of the opinion that larter said:1 this statement should be classed ' S' natives, who are the direct among the vagaries of science. There never waa a time when real science idants of the old Malay pirates commanded more reared, or, to demfar years terrorized the Malay onstrated truths, more unquestioning ibclagts for the most part refused -this. They built little stone belief than the present. This la shown the heavily wooded portions by the Innumerable Instances of ap, tol-t- o then and defied island the plied science in all branches of Indus-GXJrWJXTNCAif collect the taxes. Bnt scientific demonstrations are try. ri&rsBovm: cuQUOEK.""JiaeaBc one thing and scientific speculations city at Jolo Itself is surround-- a built wall of in the the the forces manfi by who took them out to are quite another. In fact real sciand Spaniards Philippines, governor, and Brig. Gen. Bliss were oa - the to jjtfstect themselves. The Spaniards fight , entists do not Indulge in the latter. scene, although not actually engaged nryt went out to fight the natives, Gen. Carter said that the natives of Theyj announce conclusions as the rein the conflict. v The operations were bqtyere contented with defending Jolo were similar to the inhabitants sult of patient .and thorough research, e conducted by CoL Joseph W. thdffiselves within the walls of Jolo. of the Island of Borneo, with whom bnt they do not promulgate one is Jolo theories. of of the. Sixth infantry. or few tha fantastic the English government recently hid peculations '."fortunately where cavalry can y be em- - trouble. louut Dajo,' np which the Amort- Indianapolis News. . . - To-da- ," . - . , - fj . ixatiqt orjolo long-rang- . . k . - |