The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
THE SOLDIER BOYS
Expect to Reach Home the Last OF
This Week or the First of Next.

New CONCORD, O., May 29th.
b New Concord witnessed an unusual
sight last Saturday. Five Buckeye
boys passed through here enroute
They are travelling in regular pion-
eer style, having large covered wag-
ON drawn by four mules.
Those composing the party are First
Sergeant Earl F. Detrick, Co. F; First
Sergeant Chas. E. Baldwin, Co. G;
Corporal Dave A. Light and privates
H. c. Richardson and Jasper Ewing of
Co. F.
Up to this date they have spent one
and four days on the road
and have travelled over fourteen hun
dred miles, but considering the Georgia
mud, Carolina sand and the mountain
roads, they have done very well. They
have many interesting stories to tell of
their experience along the road.
When their company was mustered
out they planned q journey home SO that
they might see some of the interesting
and historic scenes of the southland"
and find out the true state of affairs.
Their route has been by way of Rich
mond, Va, and Washington, D. c., and
many places of Interest because of their
importance in the civil war. The boys
have had their eyes open to all
things around them and can talk for
hours about the difference in customs
and habits as they appear in the North
and South.
Three political conditions which are
very noticeable and of vital Importance
to q nations welfare are price of labor,
the school system and the race problem,
of which we so frequently hear.
Particular, attention was paid to the
distribution of school houses and the
number of months during which school
is held.
A marked contrast appears when we
compare the school system of the South
with that of Ohio which ranks among
the first in the United States. AS a
proof of this they tell Of one man who
asked them if Chicago was in Ohio,
and another asked If Uncle Sam was an
Ohio man and lived in Ohio. This
question was presumably prompted by
the fact that the boys have a picture ol
Uncle Sam drawn on each side of Their
wagon.
But perhaps we should not be toe
critical when we remember that the
early founders of the Virginia colony
did not foster and encourage literary
and educational arts as did the found
ders of the Plymouth colony which al
though founded several years latel
than Virginia, yet had college many
years before Virginia. The politica
and religious tendencies of the two col
onies were widely different. The colony
of Virginia upholding the church o
England and standing by the King
while on the other hand the colonists o
the North favoring change in th'
English church and adhering to th'
Parliament. The one was thus cOnser
vative and the other progressive
characteristics that are preceptibl'
even to the present day. Literatur'
and education ever play an importan
part in the character of a natiOn-th'
school house is the exponent of tn,
nations intelligence.
Corporal Light remained ovel
Saturday and Sunday with his brothel
and friends. On Friday night he made
a twenty minutes talk to the literar!
society of the college. Monda.
morning he took the train for Zanes
vile where he expects to join his com
RAIDS with whom he will continue tn
journey. The boys expect to reacl
home by the last of this week or th'
first of next.
They say they do not intend to make
travelling the occupation of their lif'
and if any one wants to buy a span o
mules or a wagon to call around ant
see them.
All members of the party are from
Logan county except Baldwin who live
in Hardin county. G. S. BROOKES.