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NEWBERG, YAMHILL COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 12;« 1913.
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a man out to lift the world God-
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ward! It is heart-power, rather
than the power o f the head or
the sword-hand that lifts the
world.
Moses did not become the
great leader of Israel till he had
learned to love that stiff-necked
What kind of a man was tpe i the world has ever'seen a more
generation, and could say to
Uqion soldier o f 1861? He w a s ! dreadful conflict. v
God, “ Blot me out of thy book,
really all kinds o f a man a*
And what kind ' o f men were
but destroy opt JajjueiL” J l was
shown by the statistics o f the the Boys o f ’61?” They were of
the love o f Isaiah that held rebel­
W ar Department at Washing-: all kinds. As to nativity 75 per
lious Israel close to the heart of
ton.
' icent were born in the United
God. It was when his heart was
When the storm of civil war States, 9 per cent in Germany, 7
nigh to breaking and he cried to
burst on the twelfth day of A p ril, per cent in Ireland, 2V6 per cent
God, “ Give me Scotland or I die”
1861, and the shells began to in Canada, 2H per cent in Eng-
that Knox raised to a new - • life
drop around Fort Sumpter in land, and 4^4 per cent in other
a whole people. It was not
Charleston Bay, it found the countries.
T h e y represented
Lincoln’s keen mind nor splendid
American people singularly un- every occupation and position in
grasp o f things nor superb cour­
JENNIE C. PRITC H A RD ,
■prepared for stich a struggle asj life from millionaire today labor-
age that most o f all made him
Department President
was destined. The American jer,
the great name that he is in
people were never a w arlike1 Quite recently the world has
American history, but his tender
people and at the beginning of! been astounded to learn that the
heart that made him say, when
the w ar there was a great lack | “ Boys o f ’61,” were boys indeed,
he saw the slave market, “ I f I
o f military knowledge.
How- A n t ie t a m , Gettysburg, Cold
Pacifie College Closes a Y e a rV ever get a chance, I ’ll bit that ever, after but tw o years o f prac­ Harbor, the bloodiest engage­
thing, and hit it hard.” It was
W ork W ell Done.
tical training, experts have stattd ments the world, has ever seen,
heart-power that sent Living­
that there has probably never were fought and won by school
stone into the Dark Continent,
This has been closing week for
existed a more formidable araly boys, lads really but 17,16, and
that he might open for it the
Pacific College and the various
than that which crushed oat the many but 15 years old. Al­
path o f light. It was heart-
exercises have been well at­
though the military age limits
power that kept him there, rebellion.
tended.
Our Civil War was the greatest were from 18 to 48 years, the
spending years in the agony of
On Sunday morning Friends
and most sanguinary in 411 average age o f the soldiers, in the
sickness, that he might enlighten
church was well filled, this being
During this Union, as well as the Confederate
the darkness o f the black man. modern history.
baccalaureate d a y .
Splendid
w
ar
more
men
were
killed and armies, was about 22 jears.
It was love that brought him to
music was furnished by the
wounded
than
Great
Britian
has Thousands and thousands were
the end of his life upon his knees
church choir, a well rendered an­
so anxious to get into the armies
for Africa, and it was fitting lost in all its wars combined,
them and a vocal solo by Miss
that they entered as 18 years of
from
the
time
of
William
the
that while his body was taken
C o r r in e Bartholomew b e in g
age when they were but 17, 16,
to England to repose with the Conqueror to the present dhy.
special features.
and in some few instances but 14
great, that his heart should be T w o thousand, tw o hundred and
The sermon was given by Pres.
s ix t y - o n e engagements ware years old. As a rule, however,
buried in the heart oi Africa, the
Pennington. He said in part:
these lads made good soldiers.
continert that he had lifted, by fought, most o f them with
Keep thy heart with all dilig­
These great armies o f school
loss o f life, between 1891
heart-power, toward the light.
ence, tor out of it are the issues
biwa, boys of an age when the
1865.
Thefaitow
ing
If the lives o f the members of
of life. Prov. 4:23.
present day youth is but barely
authenticated by the recoi
the class o f 1913 are to issue in
God has given to us a very
entering high school, carved put
» win. t *
complicated life, related on the « • >
ves a record, the like
67:1
material and temporal side to their hearts are kept with all died o f wounds, 43,012; died óf of which
probably never
dust, and on the spiritual and diligence, that out of this keep­ disease, 199.720; died in prisons, again be w rit in military his­
eternal side to deity, It is im­ ing may issue eternal life for the 30,152; died from other cauats, tory.
Although they did not
portant that the material body members o f the cl as«, and for 40,154.
have their full growth or
should be cared for, because others whose lives their lives
The Confederate losses were strength, if they were able to
when the physical life fails, ser­ shall touch, and whom, by heart- not so great astho9eoftheUnion endnre and hold out at all, they
vice for God and humanity here power, they shall be able to bring forces but the losses by death in recovered from fatigue more
to God.
is ended. It is important that
the tw o armies from 1861 to qu'ekly than the older men.
M usical C oncert .
the intellect be trained, for all
T w o days after the surrender
1865 totals not less than 600,-
The program of Monday even­ 000 men.
doing has its root in knowing.
ot F o rt Sumter, April 15, 1861,
It is important that the will be ing was devoted to the concert
The entire enlistment roll o f the President Lincoln issued his
developed to its maximum of of the Music Department. Mrs. Union army during the w ar was proclamation calling tor 75,000
power and efficiency, for in the Hull and Mr. Hull were assisted 2,772,408, o f whom about half men for three months’ service,
supremacy of his will in his own by Miss Mary Jones, Miss Doro­ a million were re^nlistments. and the great Civil War was on.
sphere is man most closely thy Hull and Prof. Hawkins, the This gives a death to every six This call was followed on May
latter giving tw o humorous and one-half enlistment, a pro­ 3, 1861, by a call for 500,000
related to God.
But the author o f the text readings that Were heartily ap­ portion o f fatality that speaks men; on July 1, 1862, one for
says, “ Keep thy heart with all preciated by the audience and for itself.
This does not include 300.000 men for three years; on
diligence.” Feelings, affections, which he was compelled to the • thousands o f deaths from August 4, 1862, by a call for
emotions, are the immediate respond to with encores.
wounds received and diseases in­ 300.000 militia tor nine months;
The musical part of the pro­ curred in the service in the yesrs on October 17, 1863, and Febru­
source o f action. Intelligence is
not transmuted into will im­ gram opened with the brilliant since the war. It is doubtful it ary 1, 1864, tor 500,000 for
pulses that make the gold of the little fairy “ Nutcracker Suite”
actions o f life until we feel. A for tw o performers at the piano.
man may have a mind with the The story of the suite had been
power of Bacon, the keenness of w orked out in poetic form and
Swift and the breadth of Shakes­ was very interestingly and ef­
peare, but still be far froifc God, fectively read by Miss Katherine
unle>s his heart, his affections, Romig. Mrs. Hull and Miss
Jones gave a spirited and enjoy­
be right before his Creator
The heart needs to be kept able interpretation to the piano
fixed on the right things. .N o numbers.
Mr. Hull contributed tw ô
man falls from his high place
until he lets his heart turn aside numbers to the program. The
to things that are low. A first comprised tw o selections
man goes wrong because he for ’cello solo, and the seoond a
has not fully kept his heart group o f four songs, tw o of them 1
fixed upon the right. No man o f his own composition (a field
leav’es his home and scandalizes in which he has been having a
the community by a sensational great deal of success lately) and ;
elopement except after he has the other tw o from Cadman’s
failed to keep his heart fixed on Indian songs. These latter were
the wife whom he has promised preceded by a brief but interest­
to love till separated from her ing sketch of the use of the
by death. No man can endure Indian themes in the composi­
evil in his own life, no man can tions o f contemporary compos­
sit idly by and look with indif­ ers.
The program was ended by a
ference upon the world’s great
need, unless he has failed to keep a trio for piano, violin and
his heart fixed upon God and His ’cello—the popular “ Humoreske
of Dvorak.” Earlier on the pro­ ♦
kingdom.
The text very wisely states gram a double number had been
that out of the heart are the given in which the selections
issues of life. It is not know­ were Beethoven’s Minuet in G
ledge principally that transforms and Schumann’s Nachtstuck.
the world. Even right theology These were, as always, much
A. A. W ILLIAM S
may not prevent a man from enjoyed.
A
lit.
Adjutant
General
and Aaat. Quartermaster General
A large and appreciative audi-
bigotry and intolerance. And
Contfnucd on
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mere knowledge never sent
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STATISTICS OF
UNION ARMY
COMMENCEMENT WEEK
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three years; on March 4, 1864,
for 200,000 for three years; April,
1864, militia for 100 days, 113,*
000 men; on July 18, 1864, for
500,000 men for one, two,'-three
and four years; on December 16,
1864, fur 300,000 forgone, two,
three and four years. The ag­
gregate number of men enlisted
in the Union army was 2,772,-
408.
From the first call for 75,000
men until the end o f the war four
years later, the recruiting of
troops for the front was in con­
stant progress. Before the half
o f the first three months’
term
<*
was up the seriousness o f the
situation was realized and re­
cruiting was in progress for
T. B. M cD E VITT,
three-year men. The next call
Department Commander
was for 300,000 men, and it was
then that the famous song was
posure o f four years o f unrelent­
written:
“ W e are coming, Father Abraham— ing warfare against a foe as de­
termined, courageous andchival-
Th ree hundred thousand m ore.”
The Battle o f Gettysburg w a j ric as ever drew sword in any
fought July 1, 2, 3, 1863, aqd cause or in any country in all
was not only the greatest battle time. This could hardly be other­
of the war, but one of the great­ wise, far as time has healed the
est in all historyT" The losses in
this engagement were greater created by the straggle, it is be­
than those incurred in the Battle ing more and more impressed
o f Waterloo, where thecombined upon the survivors that the
losses of the united allies were “ Boys in Gray” were their own
23,185« The Union losses at .blood brothers—to the greater
Gettysburg were as follows; glory o f a firmly reunited Ameri-
oeoDle.
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Killed in action, 2834; wounded,
13,709; missing, 6648.
No of­
ficial report was ever filed by the
Confederate commanders, but
careful estimates compiled from
various sources place the num­
ber at from 30,000 to 36,000
killed, wounded and missing.
^The French losses a t Waterloo
were 18,500 killed $nd wqpqded
and 7800 taken prisoners, a
List o f the
to ts rf«f2 6 ,300. 1 : '
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C om n u ivlm .
Statistics of- the Union soldier
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and what he ha* done since the
The department o f Oregon
great conflict are also intensely
interesting. When General I.ee Grand Army o f the Republic was
surrendered at Appomattox there organized September 28, 1882,
were nearly tw o million men in at Portland though there were
the Union armies. Strange as it posts before that date as follows:
may seem these tw o millions ot Baker Post No. 1 Portland,
Union soldiers and the nearly April, 1868, with 58 numbers;
million Confederates, melted in­ Canby No. 4, May 1, 1873, with
to the mass of society with no 31 mem tiers. These were con­
disturbance whatsoever, and the solidated under, the name of
country entered upon a period of Baker and Canby Post No. l r
prosperity which has continued September, 1873, with 88 mem­
until the present day. Prior to bers.
the war men lived and died in
The last meeting was held,
the localities in which they were November 15, 1876, after which
born.
Those who left their the post was disbanded.
homes to go to the war, how­ July 30, 1878, Geo. Wight Post
ever, at itsconclusion, broadened No. 1 was organized under orders
out and to their energy and in­ from National Headquarters.
dustry, the far West and Pacific Other posts were organized as
Coast owes much ot its present follows: Meade No. 2 Oregon
greatness. The “ Soldier ot ’61” City, M ay 5, 1881; Garfield, 3,
has contributed six presidents to Portland, June 24, 1881; Stone-
the United States—Grant, Hayes, man, 4, Portland, September 8,
Garfield, Arthur, Harrison and 1881; McPherson, 5, Albany,
McKinley, and a host ot go v­ Sept. 13, 1881; J. B. Matthews,
ernors ot states and other of­ 6, Forest Grove, Jan. 18, 1882;
ficials.
Kilpatrick, 7, Eugene, Jan. 20,
Of the 2,772,408 soldiers of the 1882.
Civil War, more than 2,000,000
On June 1, 1882, N. S. Pierce
have passed beyond and about assumed command o f the Pro­
500.000 are still living.
The visional Department o f Oregon
youngest are over 60 and the and the following named were
average age is over 71. Their appointed as officers of the
number is being diminished by Provisional Organization:
death at the rate of over 100 per
N. S. Pierce, Dept. Command­
day and that rate must neces er; F. K. Arnold, Sen. Vice Com­
sarilv increase as time goes on. mander; O. Summers, Junior Vice
The United StatesCensus Bureau Commander; S. Parker, Medical
estimates that their present num­ Director; J. P. Gill, Chaplain.
ber of 500,000 will be reduced to j Following are the namesofthe
250.000 in 1920, to 16,000 in Department Commanders since
1926, to 37,000 in 1930, to 6300 the organization of the Depart­
in 1935 and to 340 in 1940.
ment: N. S. Pierce, 1882; G. E.
The time will soon come when Cankin, 1883; F. J. Babcock,
the gallant Grand Army of the 1884; F. H. Lamb, 1S85-6; \1.
Republic will be represented by L. Olnistead, 1887; A. E. Borth-
one last man and will then dis­ wick, 1888; E. B. Elroy, 1889;
appear from the earth.
Jos. A. Varney, 1890; O. Sum­
Long will the gallant deeds of mers, 1891; H. H. Northup,
the Federal soldier o f 1861 be 1892; J. C. Cooper, 1893; S. B.
cherished by the American people. Ormsby, 1894; E. W. Allen,
He represented the youthful man­ 1895; D. C. Sherman, 1896;
hood o f his time, the flower of a Frank Reisner, 1897; C. P. Hol­
great Anglo-Saxon people, sea­ loway, 1898; H. V. Gates, 1899;
soned in the hardship and ex-
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