The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-03-27

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father through, Ills whole career s sh "
las Ills pictures. too rs q So w y y
crrhtcoi, years, aEti Mt tho age OF wei wei
III and OF tWenty-eglt; ns lio y,
Colonel or Tinted States colol,sd tr q {,
1n8the war against tie Southern Con- cor
federacy In T,reedmen'sBBu times '{u as
mounted General Armstrong, y, 1850; as ,s
5r.I, D, Of both Williams ana llnrValrSd
and as ntispiece.
with his war record and the z Ns'
1',lreatt wc cannot profess the least as
8nnthyi HIS birth and boyhood IN me ne
SnndwiclIslnnds and TIE mis- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS n
Of Ills parents there are intensely ~ ~
tcres tlrg. Ills father was Scoecll.1
Irisi, Pennsylvanian, hnd educated ~ ).
princeton. His finothor was q sturdy
f,,ssnch,sptts farmers girl who. partly
Nv her own earnings, was graduated At
tic Vcstfield (Arass.) Normal School
md then held opposition In 13rooklyr' !,
n 81 Al teacherAili d Pesta lozziar FAINT 3
anhool Stha forerunner Of the present
favorte Kindergarten. They did q vast
work for both church and state IN Ha-
vail. and though differing IN 5tenpe q,
ment. pulled well together. she was ies s.
genial than he, bit both were sutliclcntly
n,1ritanlcfll, ard the rod was laid on
freely. Tho children wore not allowed ssf'
chess cards, OF chcquers. pvt
were granted indulgence to excess N
,.dng,S boating and swimming, ana the
hnvs learned 10 'lasso wild cattle eqla y
to I, Texas cowboy. They played bn Sc
ball, but not In the American f laI
and were delighted with Il spy..S38 espe-
ciallyS when they could play tin I, me w,
rr.aveynrd.% VI The bnrenl 1Isquimau slides
or, native Ice and snow, hut these tropi-t
cal Islanders coas ted down their NOUN Own n
tain slopes on native bnranas. we
would balance ourselves and then shoot
down! the hlls8lke race horses, MI They
made and sailed miniature ships and
their great feat-twas to Jump Into. tho tho
pellucil water from orags forty feet
above its surface. Moonlight riding was
a favorlte pnstime, and was often turned
irtoi a gam Twenty or thirty couples
~ .l,o,ys and girls would be riding abreast
ana there was an extra boy. Then tho
ranks would be broken and each one ne,
Including the extrn, would strive for g.
place In the line with one of the girls
an equestrian dance Of Tucker '''--thnt
would have been an abomination II
there had been q fiddle in the place OF
tho horses. e @S q u.s.
Despite strictness and theSrod. . the boys
were often unruly and made raids pom
the barrel Of lump sugar In the mission
depository. Nov We're they very reyerent
in church. 1--WE usually sat with mother
and were kept quiet by frequent ginger
bread but once father toolsSss two OF us
into the pulpit and was $obllgedsFto in-3
terrupt Ills sermon in order to settle o.
quarrel between us. So Sam Armstrong
< n az ri
VIM Il Ii s55S Eyse.;eT. 5i 3 L
He was sent to tile Royal School"
founded in 1910, where there was manual
labor; against which he kicked. He then
entered Oaker College, where he went
through freshman and sophomore clax
preharatory for Williams College. which
his father wished him to attend because
Mark Hopkins was its president. Mr..
Garfield once said, IA college Is a log
with DR., Hopkins on one end and a
student on the other"
Y At Oalser, young Armstrong dlstln-
guished himself both as a student ~ a.
teacher, and was a leader among the
athletes Just before the time for him to
60 to Williams College. his father died.
But he parted with tho bereaved family
and carried out his fathers well known
wishes His advent at Williams IN the
winter Of 1860 produced quito a sensa-s
tional STIR. One OF his classmates thus
wrote of It: Then, too. no was an
Islander; his constitution smacked of the
seas There was about him something of
the high courage of tho tar; he Carried
with him the vitalities Of the ocean. Like
all those South Sea islanders 1,e had
been brought up to the water, and 1t had
impaired to him a kind of}mental,. as
we'll MS physical amphibiousness. 1t seem
ed to him natural to strike out in any
element. But what impresses one most
was his schooling Tile could
manage a boat in a Storm teach school,
edit a newspaper, assist in carrying on
a government. take up n mechanical in
dustry at WILL understand the natives.
sympathizoS with missionaries, talk with
profound theorists, rccite well in Greek
or mathematics. conduct an advanced
class in geometry aDd make no end OF
fun for children"
IIe endured with fortitude the trying
contrast with his own climate, where one
his nXnes had hGen bare feft
while became n member OF, tho household
Eor President Hopkins, and made strong
friends of him and Ills son. He WAS
graduated with the class of 1862. and
Tecelved the honor OF the ethical ora
ton Il; 4,
Soon after he raised q company and
Joined tho United States army. But his
heart was not in the war until nfter MI.
l.lncolns proclamation emancipatlng tho
slaves. Then Ito conceived that he had q
principle to fight for and became, cnthusi'
}0red troops, he Dragged about his posi-
ton and the superiority, which he caused;
Of hIs@regiment over the other colored
ones. He has fGn1c good words IN regIn arg
before 1.-The cmancipa tlonJ PROCLAMATION
took effect wrote: ~ tell YOU thnkins
mon are more and more largely or the
, n fixed fact,mHnd am inclined to IT.
But he engaged in tho service with new
ardor. ~. &
At the close OF his8three years military
career he made the discovery that he
was thereby a LOCALIZED citizen of the
| United States, What .ho should do now
| decided not to become a preached nor en-
gage in business. but to devote himself