The Newtown bee., 1905-06-09


 put our Eleventh Corps in utter rout They were flying through a lonely patch of pine woods. Nothing, ii seemed, could save the day. Suddenly Gen Pleasanton whirled to where Major Keenan was sitting with his BOG men. "Major," exclaimed Gen Pleas anton, 'you must ride into those woods and keep Jackson's men in check until I can re-align my guns. You must du it." The reply came sharp and quick; General, it is as good as saying that we must be killed; but since you order it, we will gO." Their swords glint- ing in sunlight, leaning hard forward in their stirrups, Keenan's men prick lonely pines. They did what was ask ed of them. They held Jackson s men in check until Pleasanton re-aligned his sguns and fired them, dou ble- -shotted, into enemy'S lines. Even "SGonewall'' Jackson could not resist such .raking fire. The day was saved; but not one, not one of those 300 brave men ever came back. Fighting in their stirrups they perished, not because some one had blundered, but because they knew nothing else than to obey.
 What other blessing shall we gather from the sheaf of the war?
 THIS, HERCIsM APPLIED TO ALL DE.
 APARTMENTS OF LIFE.
 1 know of no greater danger that faces our Commonwealth than this. I do not forget greedy monopoly or selfish or MOrmOnism or any other evils inn ported or native-born; but I fearlessly say that the greatest of all our dangers is this, that men will act as lions in the hour of the nation s peril, butsbecome sheep and sycophantS in the time of peace. These days of bursting gran aries and gathered store are producing laws that are only loopholes by which men escape from paying to others their rights, citizens who will not un- dertake duties that augur hardship and shrink from the Sterner reSponSi- bilities of life. Oh! for a re-baptism of the spirit of the men who charged up the steep at Lookout Mountain, when Confederate officer viewing the forming of the lines at the base said, II verify thought that those men had gone clean mad?" Let us have a sea- soning of that courage which burned in Grants breast when, after the first days fighting at Pittsburg landing, assembling his officers for conference he remarks, Well, boys, we have been beaten to-day, but we'll whip them out of their boots tomorrow The men who match we'll to the demands of war are the men who respond to the de- mands, no less exacting, of peace. On the battlefield of Antietam when the Federal forces were hurled against Lees right, an Ohio regiment was sta ttoned at the left of the bridge upon which was centered Lees terrible fire nf chnf and cho11 TN tho roor of %l,o% regiment were the supply wagons in charge of a young commissary ser geant. As the battle grew hotter this young sergeant thought those at the front would be wearied with the fight ing and would need some refreshment. Without orders from any superior of ncer, this young sergeant loaded his wagons with stores and drove them in- to the thick of the fight. The soldiers were refreshed and stood the more steady against the terrible fire. The general in command of the Ohio regi- ment recommended that this young sergeant be raised in rank for his brav- cry. His request was compiled with. Who was this general commanding this Ohio regiment? Do you not know him? The regiment was the 23rd Ohio, and it's commander was Ruther- ford B. Hayes, the 18th President of the United States. Who was this young commissary sergeant, who, with out orders from superior officer, brought refreshment to these men in the thick of the fight? Are you not familiar with the incident? It was MCKINLEY, THE GRANDEsT
 PRESIDENT WE EVER HAD.
 Are you not glad, comrades of the field, that the war is over? Are you not glad that Grant and Lee met at Are you not glad that honorable terms of peace were con- ,luded under that famous apple tree? The men who followed Lee and Jack 'On and LongStreet and Johnston strike hands to-day with the men who ollowed Grant and Sherman, Sheridan md Hooker. Oh! l tell you men who l ooked into each others eyes along rifle barrels are the men who know how to | hake hands. If. the settling of the | differences that grew out of the war lad been in the hands of men who | ought it's battle rather than in the | lands of those who went South with | that they might fill it with | poll, the horrors of the Reconstruc- ion period would not to day be chap CT in our country's history that we hould all like to wipe out. Was it not ;aptain Philip, of the battleship 'Ohio," who, when the commander f the "Viscaya" handed him his word, turned his hand away, refusing o receive the sword of one who had ought with so bravely? Is not that title incident worth recalling, that Bob" Evans when the paniards were lowering their flag on he ''Oquendo" and his tars could not epresS a cheer, motioned to them de- reciatingly: "Don't cheer, boys; don't ou see they're dying over there?' Would that the spirit that animated UT ''silent captain" were as universal s the sunbeam, who, when it was dis