El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-18

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young cadet At West Point:
"Now, boy, on your march,
don't you go and forget the old
maxim, that 'one drop of honey catch
es more flies than . half gallon OF
GALL Load your musket with this
maxim and smoke it in your pipe"
That Pickett remembered the advice of
Lincoln is shown by his work among
dialects and translated the Lords pray
er and many of our grand old hymns
into the speech of the children of the
forests. The translstion of the Lords
prayer, translated literally back into
English, has = beauty because of the
simple figures used to convey to the
savage the idea of prayer to the Great
Spirit.
"Our Father who lives in the far
above, beloved and hallOwed in our
hearts be thy nane; Great and good,
thou great the above Chief among all
people: Good always thy will upon
earth as in thy far above. Give every
day our food and water and meat. Ii
above Chief, very angry, and If anyone
evil toward us, not we angry towards
them. Mend up our broken ways.
Send away far from US all evil. Thine
Is the great strength and love. For
all the suns. Good So"
The story of Pickett in Mexico,
where he, along with many others
Beauregard, Joseph E. johnston, r.
E. Lee, John B. Magruder, and Long
street-fought for the flag that they
afterwards left to take up the banner
of the confederates, Is an interesting
page In his life and in our national
history. There is only time to COM
ment en- the fact that young Lieuten-
ant Pickett was first over the ramparts
of Chapultepec, carrying the Stars and
Stripes, proclaiming the victory won.
The roar of the Mexican guns was in
front of him, the cheers Of his soldiers
behind him. For this conspicuous gal
lsntry he wasS distinguished and bre-
vetted captain. The Mexican war
over, Pickett was kept in Texas and
on the southern frontier for awhile
and then ordered to the extreme north
west.
Here again we must record certain
definite gain that the United States
owes to him and his bravery. In 1859
Captain Pickett was sent with sixty
eight men to occupy San Juan Island
which is in the Marc Archipelago, off
the coast of the state of Washington,
nd lob NJ he,
possessions by the United States but
was greatly desired by Great Britain
for an addition to her territories in the
northwest. The Hudson Bay Fur COM
pany, and all the queens soldiers and
all the queens ships that were sent
there, however, could not persuade
Captain Pickett to even allow joint oc-
cupation of the island, much less to
concede any legal right of
Britain in the territory. The
British. threatened. Pickett said
that he and his men were there by
order of his government and intended to
stay if they died for it. The British
threatened and csjoled but did not stir
him q moment from his simple inter
probation of his duty. His force was
ridioulously small compared to the
British in the neigborhood, butt they
were convinced that Pickett would dc
as he'said, fight while there was life
against anyone who interfered with
the plans of his government.
Thus he showed the second duality
of courage. Not only did he have the
courage that dares all in the excite
ment of battle but also the courage
that fears nothing in the fulfillment o
difficult duty, nor is yet unrestrained
forcing questions to battle that may b.
settled by patience. So Genera
Pickett is credited with having KEEP
San Juan Island for his country. Thu
correspondence between him and his su
perior officers and between him and tn
Britishicommanders, as published in tn
book, is very interesting to one 'inter
ested in our country's history.
All the battles that the genera
fought in are described by Mrs. Pickett
Seven Pines, Gaines Mill, Frazier
Farm, Antietam, are the titles of sew
eral chapters of vivid description O
war, sof:ened by her woman's notice G
many details of sunsets and dews an