Show GENERAL W B IIAS5KN For thirty years General Hiuen has illuminated tho record of life in tho ser vice of hU country by a devotion to duty and by a heroism in battlo which marks him as no common man From his early Indian campaigns in which he wan wounded In the side down to tho utorm Ing of the bravely defended Tort JfcAlls ter his military record is a brilliant one Those who knew him personally eemcd greatly attached to him For oine cause or other ho has been 1 tho subject of newspaper criticism to a I Beater extent than most of our military I leaders of his rank Long and active service in the field in responsible coin nands to some extent unfits a man for civil or semicivil service In the army ho chief says to a man go and ho goethj j in civil life pleases do this or that and ho docth that pleases him and it may please him to resort to the news tapers and abuse his superior However How-ever this may ho In the case of General Hazen ho dies at the comparatively early ago of 57 Uiereas had ho remained away from Washington and the complications of the Signal Department very likely ho would have had a longer lease of life his life and achievements given some detail in DrMocnvr what in yesterdays I will place hU naino high on the scroll of lonorablo fame In giving duo honor to ho fast dopirting leaders let iw not forget for-get the Intrepid followers ot tho rank and lie who made it possible for their chiefs to gain renown In quiet hamlets and in lonely places they aro rapidly passing over the river and are wheeling into lino with the great majority on tho farther shore |