The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-04-21

"HAH HN HHNAA
Of men o. DO battle AI the poetry 1.
var SON vanished and left them a1tb.
ing 1ut tls terrible plasa IHeJ
#aaai knretsHP iu maa IHeF slept
DO snaF1aHEA IHgF marched tll tleiG
ent test tracked tHa EARTH THeg aarl
s#InHara out Of their honest rat.gns
end lived uu meat not 20 for a dog.
tL"F Dad fHs fractured and eyes eE.
ituEHAaHHt uu3 limbs alus aaaF.
Thousands Of them cried Dor sater "a.
they laT aE tHe uela lte H.yHl after tha
battle aut E1tltHat The were home.
sie'I aud received no messHge FROM
lae'r lowed ones They died iu barns.
ln bHsHgs J1 bitches. the bufz3rds of
taf summer haat The only altendaHts
an their ah7egHles No oGe but The
INFINITE Good who knows everything
shows tHe sen ]f4ousau3tH paFt of gae
length. and breadth, and depth aud
height 9t anguish of the northern and
southern AattleHeias Why did these
fathers leave their children and go %
the front. and why did these young
men, pa7FanlnE the marriage day.
start oat into tha probabilities OF never
coming back For a principle they
aAeA LIle Tor Ate Blood for blood
substitution.
h"t we need not go SO far, What Us
t1al monument 10 the cemetery Ii i5
i9 thr doctors vino fell in thc southern
eaaleLule7 "hF goi We're there not
enough sick tn be attended in these
northern lattaass} Oh. gesi but the
o7al'F puts q ICES" medical books in his
'a''se % some Walls of medicine and
leaves hia patients here Boa the hands of
other p1yataans and takes the rail-
lIal". hHiAff DE gets to The Infected
region he passes crowded rait-tratus.
regular aud extra taking the flying
'h0 hHfIRhted populations He ar
'tf'7 Ia a eltF over which @ great hor-
ron ls broollng lie goes from couch
10 enNah' Keeling the pulse and study
IHK @atolns anu prescribing day after
Aay nlght after might, until q fellow
physician SAYS Doctor, you had bet
etf 60 home and rest you look misera-
pic hnt be can not rest while SO
many are suffering, On and on, uu-
tit 7'lne morning finds him ina "a
oelf'Nm' in which he talks Of home,
anu lheh rises and says me must go
aua LOOK after those patients. He is
toia Io ne down but he tights his at.
lrnaanls until he fails back, and is
"eahef ana weaker, and dies for peo-
PIE win whom he a no kinshlp, and
l"' away o ms own family, and is
h"stlE pun away lu a strangers tomb,
aua oniy tine MN part OF o newspaper
Hne laiis ns OF ms sacrifice his name
just mentioned among i've Yet he
mas tooetied inc Iarthest helghto Of sub
l'LoiiE IN tnal three weeks OF humant-
1afian service Tie goes straight as an
aLfe" To the bosom OF Him who said
Was SICK ahd 70 visited me Life
Tor me Blood for blood suhstttn-
tlohl
!h ING legal profession see the same
pilhelple ,ot S~eLt-sacrihce. In 1886,
"lilah Freeman, pauperizad and idi-
Que negro was at Auburn ~, Y, on
lrlal Tor murder, lie had slain the en-
TIRE van Nest family The foaming
wrath OF the community could be kept
om nun only uy armed c~onstabies
VINO would volunteer to be his counsei2
40 attorney wanted TO sacrifice his
popularity by such an ungratefui task.
All were silent save one a young law.
yer with feeble voice, that could hardly
be heard outside the bar, pale and thin
ana awkward IL was William H..
seward, who saw that the prisoner
was ldiotlc ana irresponsible, and
ought 10 oe Pul IN an asylum rather
sn"u guy Z" Uso''' tle hero'c counsel
"'ggllnR tusse ~oo'u''lol words.
speak NO" ~ the nearing or @ peo-