The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-05-01

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ioz. They had Jaws fractured. and
Eyes extlnguished. and limbs shot
away. Thousands OF them cried for
water a. they lay on the Geld the night
after the battle and got Il not They
we're homeslck. and received no mes
sage from their loved ones They died
IN barns. In bushes. In bitches. the buzz
Yards Of the summer heat the only at
tendants on their obsequies. No one
but the infinite God who knows every
thing. knows the ten-thousandth part
Of the length. and breadth. and depts
and heigh. Of anguish Of the northern /
and southern hattlehelds Why did |
these fathers leave their children and I
90 10 the front. and why did these /
young men. postDoning the marriage
day. start out into the probabilities OF
never coming back7 FOR a principle
they died. Life for life. Blood for
blood. Substitution,
But We need not 90 20 far. What Is
that monument in the cemetery Il
ls 20 the doctors who fell In the south
ern epidemles. Why GOT Were there
not enough sick 10 be attended in these
northern latitudes2 Oh. yes; but the
doctor puts a few medical books In his
yallse. and some ylals Of medicine. and
leaves his patients here In the hands
Of other physicians. and takez the rail-
train. Before he gets 10 the infected
regions ne passes crowded rail-trains.
regular and extra. taking the aging and
afirighted populations. He arrives In
a city over which a great horror IL
broodIng lie goes from couch 20
couch. feeling the pulse and studying
symptoms and prescribing day after
day. night after night. until a fellow
physician says: Doctor. you had bet
ter 90 home and rest: you look mis-
cradle" But he can not rest while 30
many are suffering. On and on. until
some morning finds him in a delirium.
In which he talks Of home aud then
rises and says be must go and look
after those patients lie IL told 20 lie
down; but he fights his attendants I'M
III be falls back. and l. weaker and
weaker, and dies for people With whom
he had no kinship. and far away from
his own family. and Is hastily put away
In a strangers tomb. and only the fifth
part OF newspaper line tells "a Of his
sacrlhce-his name Just mentioned
among i've. Yet he has touched the
furthest height OF sublimity In that
three weeks OF humanitarian service.
He goes straight Is an arrow 20 the
bosom Of Him who said: Il was sick
and ye visited me-" Life for life.
Blood for blood. Substitution,
In the legal profession see the same
principle Of self-saorihce. In 1886,
William Freeman. a pauperized and
idiotic negro. was at Auburn. ". Y.
on trial for murder. He had slain the
entire Van Nest family. The foaming
wrath Of the community could be kept
on him only by armed eonstables Who
would volunteer 10 be his counseli No
attorney wanted 10 sacrifice his popu.
larity by such an ungrateful task. Al
I
with feeble voice. that could hardly b.
heard outside the bar. pale and thin
and awkward. II was William II
Seward, who saw that the prisoner wa
ldlotIc and irresponsible. and ought Z,
be put In an asylum. rather than put q
death. the heroic counsel utterini
these beautiful words:
Il speak now In the hearing Of
people who have preiudiced prisone
and condemned me for pleading In hi
behalf lie Is a convict. pauper.
negro. without intellect. sense. or emo
ton. Ny child with an efsctlonai
smile dlsarms my care-worn face OF II
frown whenever cross my threshold
The beggar in the street obliges me q
give because ne says. God bless you,
as pass. My dog earesses me wit
fondness II will but smile on him. n
horse recognizes me when I an hi
manger. What reward. what gratltud,
what sympathy and affection can I "a
J pect here? There the prisoner siii
! Look at him. Look at the assembling
! around you. Listen 10 their iil-suI
pressed censures and excited fear
and tell me where among my neighbol
; or my fellow men. where. even In b
! heart. can expect to ind a sentlmen
; a thought. not 10 say Of reward or ,
acknowledgment. OF even Of reeogn
= ton. Gentlemen. you may think I
this evidence what you please. bring
, what verdict you can. but ! assevera'
before heaven and you that, TO the be-
Of my knowledge and belief. the pri
. oner at the bar does not at this momel
a know Why Il Is that my shadow fal
p on you instead Of his own"
, The gallows got It's victim. but Il
+ post-mortem examination OF the po'
6 creature showed to all the surgeon
0 and 10 all the world that the publ
we're wrong. and william II. Sewal
: was right. and that hard. stony 81
Of obloquy In the Auburn court roo
:. was the frst step OF the stairs OF fan
: up which be went 10 the top. or
. within one step Of the top. that Ia
= denied him through the treachery
) American politics. Nothing sublim
q was ever seen In an American couI
}. room than william II. Seward. wit
l. out reward. standing between the ful
. Gus populaoe and the loathsome imh
d cils Substitution
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= II was a most exciting day I spe
on the battle field OF Waterloo. Stal
/, ing out with the morning train fro
I Brussels Belgium. We arrived In abe
P an hour on that famous spot A q
4. Of one who was In the battle, and "
had heard from his father a thousa
X times the whole scene recited. aceo
* panied us over the field. There sio
IS the old Hougomont Chateau. the wa