The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-29

Colonel, we want a pass" piped up the younger of the two.
 Want pass. What for?"
 "Bill, here, he's got to have tooth pulled; that's what he's goin' for" ex- plained the spokesman.
 Well, that's all right, but you, what are you going for?" catechised the col onel.
 Please, sir, I'm goin' to hear Bill holler."
 They got their passes,
 The professions taken up by one and another of us at our graduation from military service embraced a wide range. The fields of theology holds some of our brightest veterans and we are proud of them.
 Burns, Marshall, Atwood, Rogers, are quartet of lads to whom we always love to extend the "glad hand" We say to you: Forward, comrades, and watch out" in your calling. That one of this noble four is not unmindful of opportunities is shown by this incident.
 Not long since, it is reported that he
 was addressing a Sunday school at picnic, and, warming up to the occa-
 sion, was impressing upon his hearers
 some facts in regard to the creation:
 "Yes, my dear children" said he,
 God created all things-the great and
 the small. He made Niagara Falls. and he made the little dew drop. He made the roaring torrent, and he made the little rivulet. He made me, and He made a daisy"
 But lest you may become confused by the presentation of too many such shining illustrations 'in our midst" these historical notes will close with single incident proving how much of a philanthropist veteran can be.
 Whoever heard of a Fifteenth man
 who does not have big heart, so big in fact that it is just aching to crack it's shell and get out to carry the long end of the yoke for somebody. No
 one! Such a man doesn't belong to this association; whether it is that comrade who has been attempting for six years to read an original poem of fifty verses at a reunion, or that other comrade who in recent western political conven- ton wanted to have that body pass a resolution saying that they were not a "set of asses, notwithstanding the newspapers said so."
 It must be source of great joy to our officers {and I suppose they talk it over among themselves) to think of the unselfshness they taught us before our whiskers began to grow. That one of our number is carrying this virtue into practical life, is seen from the follow | ing:
 Some time since being widower, he conceived that his happiness would be greatly enhanced by entering the mar riage relation for the second time, and after the lady had been selected and the various preliminary stages gone l through, he one day made a proposal of marriage to her.
 Certainly, Charles, certainly" she replied, how happy you make me; why I could live with you on bread and wa l ter.'
 "All right" exclalfaed our comrade, l and here his noble generosity rose to | the occasion. "All right you get the bread and I'll hustle round and find the 1 water"
 l The serious side of the historian S | calling is to take note of the departure | of those of our comrades who have been relieved forever from duty since our l last reunion. These men were silently I withdrawn from the outer picket line and their posts remain vacant. We knew them. Storer, Crockett, McDer-
 mott, Scranton, Crockett, Hall Tal- n1adge
 l They went out boys with us they came home still boys with us, but they 1 soon grew to be men, and with an ex- ception or two came to be heads of | families. The ranks of death never | quite close up; missing or broken files make ragged all our company fronts, l and I have wondered whether in any I one of them it be possible to find an l original four" yet shattered as we are | l note with every recurring occasion l like this that the spirit of the surviv- ors rises to the level of the occasion. Already we have become historic to
 the new generation, and it may be we are regarded by them more for what we are than for what we did It be- comes, then, the duty of every veteran
 to reflect credit upon the great organi-
 zation to which we belong-an organi- zation which has already given two of
 our comrades, Ulysses s. Grant and I Benjamin Harrison, to the presidency of the republic, and to which by the grace of God we hope to add a third William Mckinley.