Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-07-27

names OF the men written there will
still be remembered and cherished rs
heroes who died for their country, and
you, their now living comrades will not
be forgotten.
When In the distant future sore
trials come as they must come to our
country, the commander Of the future
army shall need examples of daring to
animate his soldiers, how inspiring will
be the names and deeds of the Seventh
cavalry
So long as there remains heart
which beats to the transports of cour.
age and patriotism the deeds of the
Seventh cavalry from washita to
Wounded Knee will be sung in song
and told In story.
No more beautiful and touching
tribute was ever paid to the memory
of dead heroes than the building and
placing Of that monument here at the
home of the regiment. 1t has been
erected by the living to the memory of
the dead heroes, comrades in life; your
love and friendship borne In camp,
cherished on the weary march and
welded In the heat Of battle, was sealed
aud made immortal by their death. 1t
is the only regimental monument
erected on this continent, and stands
as a mute yet eloquent and enduring
witness Of the love Of the brave for the
brave. Bye and bye the tender cord
which love ties earth to heaven will
draw you to them and all the old
Seventh will be in camp on the other
side. 1t will not be very long, life is
so short, but the good that men do
, lives after them and every act of cour-
age aud heroism is immortal.
The graves of the Seventh cavalry
may be far apart. Captain Wallace
sleeps in the land of the magnolia and
, orange blossom. Others are here at
the old home, while others still are far
= away in the woods or in the prairies Of
the west. What boots it? In spirit
, they, the living and the dead, let us
believe, are all here today, and in
, another and happier place they shall
! all meet and see and know each other
, there.
, Prentice said when dying, al want
. to know -" and the sentence was cut
short 10y the angel that bore the re-
nowned journalist to the other shore.
p It is sad to think that one who had
= spread such rare feasts of intellect for
= the living should die with an unex-
; pressed wish upon his lips, and yet the
/ three words uttered express the ruling
passion of every soul from the cradle
/ to the grave. 81 want to know" says
the little child az 1t catches the first
Ineligible words. ~ want to know, 4"
) says the youth as he moves with elastic
step towards the school room. ~
? want to know" says the young man,
. as he bends his pale face over some
favorite author. 81 want to know, 4"
says the man OF years AZ he is strug-
I Cling in the thckest of the fight. 81
want to know" says the old man as
. his feeble steps totter towards the
grave.
But alas! The lodgings Of the soul
cannot he satisfied; a deep dark veil is
drawn between M and futurity. From
that realm Of shadows no voice comes
back To that land of the hereafter
no sublunary light can penetrate.
The soul is Gagged in bars Of iron, but
bye and bye its struggling shall snap
the cerements that bird 1t. Bye and
bye it shall mount upon angelic wings
of power and beauty and soar into the
enulgent light Of the unknown. Bye
and bye we shall know all things even
az we ourselves are known, and 1t is
then We believe that comrades will
marshal again in a single camp by the
River of Life and in the sunshine Of a
blessed presence where no foe will be
found to combat aud where suffering
, and death can never enter.
, GREATLY APPRECIATED.
J Repeated cheers and applause
, punctuated Mr. Burton's remarks.
, The duty of unwilling the monument
, was assigned to four veteran soldiers,
three of the Seventh cavalry, and one,
u member of the hospital corps, former
ly of the Seventh cavalry. Saddler
Sergeant Otto Volt, Seventh cavalry,
has been In the regiment since 1850 and
wears medal Of honor for gallantry
In action In the battle of the Little Big
Horn In 1915. Sergeant Adam Neder,
Troop A, Seventh cavalry, distinguished
himself at Wounded Knee and wears a
medal of honor, Private Daniel Nc
Mahon, Troop !, seventh cavalry, was
wounded at Wounded Knee, and
Private Frank Lohmitler, hospital
corps, U. 5. A., served in Capt. Wal
lace's troop.
The monument was covered with two
large garrison flags and as these were
drawn aside and the monument dis
closed salvo Of salutes was fired by
the artillery while eight troops Of cav
airy drawn about the monument Ia u
sami-"irnla prassot"d sahars.
Half an hour later came a sham bat
tie in which eight troops OF cavalry and
three light batteries of artillery partici-