Milford chronicle., 1906-10-05

stanIards WI make his enem.eg
crafen hearted and run lor their liyesA
When Edward Braddo(k, the comf
manner of the British land colonial
forces, led his troops against Fort Du-
quesne in 1905. the young colonel,
George Washington, warned him
against the dangers into which he was
running He said, My general, You
are dealing with one of the brayest
and most treacherous foes" Pooh,
poohm answered General Braddock.
we are merely lighting lot of red
skinned savages. You may be afraid
VI them, hut ann not You have never
ieen trained In one Of the great Brit
ish military schools. | have some Of
the hest soldiers # his majesty's army.
They can defeat any body Of soldiers
ever Gathered together in those west
ern NildS." So he went ahead in his
blind folly ON he marched with his
banners flying and his drums beating
And what was the result? At Great
Meadows. the present site of the city
of Pittshurg. suddenly the woods be
came a perfect hailstorm Of Lullets
"F4Il I'm. fall I'M" cried Braddock.
"Aimi fire! Charec!' were his orders,
But whore were his troops to aim? At
what body of men We're they t. charger
The cncmy's fire seemed to come from
everywhere. and vet not an enemy
was in sight Edward Braddock. with
scores and hundreds of his bruvcst Of
fcers and men, fell mortally wounded
or were instantly killed They We're
ruthlessly slain because their com
mander. with egotistc folly, deliberate
~ shut his eyes to the strength of his
foes
Chief Cause of the War.
"What was the chief cause Of the
civil war;" I asked an aged southern
gentleman some time ago. without
amy doubt" said he. lit was due to the
ignorance of the two sections in re-
speet to the strength Of each other
This fact was never better demonstrate
ed than in the life of senator William
Yancey He used tatbe a neighbor of
mine and l knevarat n well. He was
born and br n the south. He
knew -. 4nnet. Wis SiOther region than
iie s5uth. n yas one of the most
elooueut men / fave known. He was
bitter partisan and went up and
down the southern states delivering his
inAammatorv speeches until the whole
south was in a turmoil. But after he
had iguited the fires Of rebellion and
famed those living embers into a con-
hagration. about q year before the war
broke ont. he took Il journey north. He
Travelled through New York and the
middle states and on toward the west
He saw then with his own eyes the TN
limited resources of the northern peo-
nia and ha knew that the effort to gain
southern fuleDpudeuce was doomed to
failure. IIe came back home from that
trim df<f}lusiouel and chagriued and
never opened his mouth as "a public
sneaker again. Like an incendiary who
had ignitpd HE fuse of a powder mag
azinc and could not put it out. all Thar
he con'd do was to sit and watch the
awful carnage approach as the civil
war came nearer and nearer conscious
that the appalling sacrifices of human
life and property that the south was
making would he useless" This court
Iv southern gentleman said to ne with
Quaint smile. no matter how strong
man may be, it is always well for
him TO fnd ont beforehand if his enc
INV is not as strong or even little
stronger before he takes off his coat
and begins to fight" There is infinite
wisdom in that remark. 1t is always
we'll for every man to realize the dim
cultfes which are ahead of him before
he enters the struggle of life.
Behind the Times.
One of the most famous physicians
of his day became shelved because he
would not accept the new mvestiga-
tions which had been made in the
medical world. He not only positively
refused to accept the theory Of bac-
terra. but he refused to go into con
sultaton with any practitioner who ac-
cepted that theory His practice left
him almost as quickly as the waves OF
the sea leave the shores ON the ebb
tide. Being called as an expert med
ical authority in a murder trial OF New
York. the district attorney placed him
on the stand and so twisted him up in
his answers that he nearly broke down
ana cried like little child. The man
in the business world today must meet
other conditions and plan his mercan-
tile campaigns upon different lines
from those adopted by the merchants
of fifty years ago And yet some peo-
ple after they have made a little sue
cess seem to stand still. In their ego
tism they seem to be unwilling to rec
ognize the advance of the human race
and before they know it younger men
come up to them and then pass them
! and leave them behind.
Our lives must be Il continual prog,
ress or else they will lie continual
retrocession. once read of woman
/ who had a strange dream. In her
dream she seemed to be at the bottom
of a we'll All was complete darkness
about her. But suddenly she looked