The Progress., 1897-04-03

science o6 meu,cine anu surBery-."o.o e"u-
lime than astronomy, for we have more to
do with disease than with the stars; more
beautiful than botany, for bloom OF health
in the cheek of wife and child Is worth
more to us than all the roses OF the garden
for this grandest of all sciences, the SCI
enoe of healing, every pillow OF recovered
ropean hospital, may we'll cry out: THANK
God for old DIR. Hippocrates.- l, like Paul,
am Indebted to the Greeks"
Furthermore, all the world IL obligated
to Hellas more than 1t can ever pay tor Its
heroics in the cause of liberty and right
United Europe today had not better think
that the Greeks will not fight. There may
be fallinRs back and vacillations and tenn
puary defeat, but II Greece is right all
Europe cannot put her down. The other
nations, before they open the portfolios OF
their mon of-war against that small king
dom, had better read OF the battle OF Mara
thon, where 10000 Athenians, led on by
Miltiaties, triumphed over 100, 600 Of their
enemies At that time, in Greek council OF
war, i've generals we're for beginning the
battle and Ave were againstit. Callilnaoh-
MS presided at Che council Of war. had tho
deciding vote, and Miltiades addressed
him. saying: ~.r,..,,
either to enslave Athens, on, by insuring
her freedom, to win yourself an immor-
tally Of fame, for never since the Athe-
mans were people were they In such dan
ger as they are In at this moment. II they
bow tho knee to these Medes, they are to
be aiven up to Hippias, and you know
what they viii then have to suffer. but II
Athens comes victorious out OF this con-
test she has 1t In her power to become tho
first city Of Greece. Your vote y to decide
whether we arc to join battle or not. If we
do not bring on a battle presently. some
| fictitious intrigue Will disunite the Asne-
! nians, and the city viii be betrayed to the
! Medes, but If we fight before there 10 any
thing rotten In the state Of Athens b.
! Neve that. provided the gods will give fair
| Held and no favor, we are able to get the
best OF 1t In the engagement"
Greek Heroes.
That won the vote of Callimachus, and
soon the battle opened, and In full run the
men of Miltiades fell upon the Persian
hosts, shouting: ION. sons OF 6reecsi
| Strike for the freedom Of your country!
Strike for the freedom Of your children
and your wives, for the shrines Of your fa-
| thers' gods and for the sepulchers OF your
sires1" While only 102 Greeks fell q, 400
| Persians lay dead upon the field, and many
of the Asiatio hosts who took to the war
vessels in the halbor were consumed III
the shipping. Persian oppression was re-
buked, Grecian liberty was achieved, tho
cause Of civilization was advanced, and the
western world and all nations have felt the
heroics. Had there been no Miltiades
there might have been no Warrington.
Also at Thermopylm 800 Greeks. along
q road only wide enough for a wheel track
between q mountain and marsh, died
| rather than surrender. Had there been nc
Thermopylm there might have been nc
Bunker Hill. The echo Of Athenian and
Spartan heroics was heard at the gates d
! Lucknow, and Sevastopol, and Bannock
burn, and Lexington, and Gettysburg
English Magma Charta, and Declaration Of
American Independence, and the song o.
Robert Burns, entitled IA Mans NAL
For a. That" were only the long contin
ued reverberation of what was said and
.. done 90 centuries before IN that little king
dom that the powers OF Europe are nov
imposing upon. Greece having again ant
again shown that 10 men IN the right an
stronger than 100 men In the wrong. TIN
: | heroics of Leoniias and Aristades and The
mistocles will not cease their mission un
til the last man on earth Is rs free as Cox
made him. There Is not on either side o