The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-24


spirit. on both sides the inheritance
was of the best old New England
stock
He was prepared for college by the
\ village minister and entered Yale in
1863 with the class of 177S. II is plain
from the evidence at hand that he
was one of the foremost figures in his
class. His energetic personality, SER
iiousmindedness, skill as an athlete
and his ardent temperament made him
a marked man.
After graduation in 1913 he taught
school in East Haddam for few
months; leaving there in March, 1774,
he became a preceptor of the Union
Grammar School in New. London,
where he was teaching when the war
broke out. Ardently patriotic, he en-
listed and served as first lieutenant in
| a CONNECTICUT regiment throughout
the siege of Boston.
/ In March, 1875, he went with his
regiment to New York and served
there until his untimely end. mean
while having been commissioned a
September, 1916. Washington had call
ed on Hale's colonel for information
of the enemy's strength and position
and the colonel called Hale He start
ed on his hazardous mission about
September II, crossing the sound at
/ Norwalk.
/ Nothing is known of his experiences
in the enemy's lines, He was execut-
ed in New York somewhere about
Third avenue and Sixty fifth street on
Sunday, September %, 1916, l41 years
ago.
/ Hale's last words have become inn
mortal. Every school boy knows them.
He left another message little known,
but timely for us His intimate friend
and companion in arms, Capt William
Hull, urged him by every possible ar
gument not to hazard his life by going
into the lines of the enemy. Hale list
ened quietly. When his friend had fin
ished he said:
Il am fully sensible of the conse-
quences of discovery and capture in
such a situation yet ] wish
to be useful, and every kind of SER
vice necessary to the public good be-
comes honorable by being necessary
If the exigencies of my country de-
mand a peculiar service its. claims to
perform that service are imperious.
Born of his self reliance and con-
secration to the service of his coun-
try those few words, Il wish to be
useful" should be taken to heart by
every young man who is hesitating to-
day to join the colors. Hale did not
wait to have this and that question
decided for him. He did not ask what
Washington's policy was. He did not
consult his family and friends He de-
cided for himself. He had enlisted in
the service of his country and any
thing pertaining to that service he felt
was in his days work.
Military necessity knows nothing of
what is labelled dangerous or D.. dis
graceful If thing has to be done in
war it has to be done, and some brave
and capable soul has to do it. This
his country's sake, but he still lives
in hsi buoyant and immortal youth.
From the supreme moment in the
orchard on that September morning
! noi
capable personality into an ever-liv-
ing hero He calls to all young men
to do their part as he did his. The
lesson of his life is not that he was
duty manfully and stepped bravely
| forward with no other thought in his
heart than to be true to his country
to his God.
ITO drum beat and heart beat
A soldier marches by;
There is color in his cheek
There is courage in his eye,
Yet to drum beat and heart beat
In a moment he must die.
From fames leaf and angels leaf,
! From monument and urn,
The sad of earth, the glad of heaven,
His tragic fate shall learn;
And on fame's Leaf and angels leaf
The name of Hale shall burn.
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