Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-08-17

'AlIsS/ of the tremendous movement which
during the last 200 years has extended the British
empire into all continents and over all seas was OF
course the daring ambition of stubborn people,
dire5ted by companies of merchants and senates of
wise and patriotic statesmen, but in popular estma'
tion the credit and honor are due chiefly to the
three men named.
Eagaud, since the lesson she learned from her
great blunder in the American colonies, has invari
ably had strong man for every opportunity or
occasion which arose-a man who could marshal
his country's forces lead them on to a telling vic
tory and make the nation accept the results mat
tar bow violently it condemned the morality OF his
actions. Today the attention Of England is'een-
tered Colonel Younghusband. This restless
warrior has picked quarrel in ways that can be
Justified on no ground OF morality and has by dint
Of asms dogged tenaeitg, aud disregard Of the
laws Of humanity, pushed across the vast wilder.
neeses and through the moutain passes Of a hostile
land aud taken possession OF Lhassa, the ancient
city Of the Grand Lama, the capital Of Tibet and
the forbidden center Of the Buddhist religion.
No warrant for this campaign Of Colonel Young
husband can be found in any act Of parliament OF
instruction from his snperiors. The British news
papers and magazines divided in their treatment
Of the matter Some praise and justify the colonel,
but most Of them are violent in their deDuncat0n
of him. person unacquainted with England $
ways and character might think that preparations
were being made to court martial Colonel Young
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victims But in spite Of all this be not deceived
Engltad will accept the fruits Of Colonel Younghus
bands invasion, no matter how severely it con
demns toe means through which they were gained
Hendly Jones, Of Georgia, was a section foreman
in the employ of the SeabOard Air Line. One night
last week be riding on "A lndcar near Rem
frOes, Stewart county, Ca, IN the discharge of mis-
dull duties. Three other men were with him,
climbing heavy grsde. Up to that moment all
four graded together There dashed around curve
ahead Of them an extra freight heavily laden aud
rushing down upon them, grade and steam together
The other three nen jumped to safety They
would DO doubt defend their action by quoting the
oil axiom about setpreseFvatiOn being the first
law oi nature. But Jones did not depend upor
axoms to justify his law Of conduct; he the sor
Of man who reckoued by acts. So he stayed where
he was. It was time when the fraction Of sec
0nd was life. Jones saw this aud saw also that t
stop tue train impossible. There was il
his conception, only one-thipg for him to do auC
tbat to save the crew OF the freight at the prob
able cost of his own life. That he did, Calmly
but rapidly he stopped the handear and threw i
from the track-and the train rushed by nnharmeG
over his dead body. Jones left wife and two lit
Gle children. Some men would have pleaded tha
they must remain alive, at the cost Of the live
OF others, for the sake Of their families
But Hendley Jones did his duty and left his wife aut
children a father's memory Of whose end they eOuls
be proud 'tHe only did bis dutyGn Is the per
iormanee of oneis duty 50 commonplace thing tina
We may regard it lightlyl One Of the most iamOu
OF Russian authors once wrote a story intended Il
show how Russians die, aud he showed that the!
met death with brute apathetc courage. Hendle,
Jones died like an American.