HONOR THE SOLDIER DEAD.
(Continued from page 2.)
proclaiming victory for the flag and (or
American heroism.
The enemy has been defeated but oh!
at what cost. We have time to look
about us and behold our serried and bro
ken ranks, all bleeding and battle
stained; the ground covered with the
dead, dying and the wounded, the Union
blue and rebel gray foes no longer
side by side, commingling their warm life
blood with Mother Earth. In these our
comrades, their lives were made more
significant than speech, their death a
poem, the music of which can never be
suns.
Of the fifty-four of my company who
went into battle mat nav, iweniy-eieni
were all that answered roll-call that
night, and as the orderly stood in front
of t he company and called w ith a choking
and tremblHig voice:
"Corporal Green," he softly cried;
"Here" was the nimwer, loud and clear,
from the Hm of a soldier who mood new:
And "Mere" was the word the next replied.
"Cyrus Hale" then a silence fell.
1 his time no answer followed the cull
Only his rcHrmsn had seen him full;
Killed or wounded, he could not tell.
There thev stood. In the fulllns lieht.
'i hese men of bat lie, will) grave dark looks,
As plain to be read as open docks,
While slowly gathered the shades of night.
Fo- the toe had crossed from the other side
That day In the face ofa murderous Are,
That swept them down In Its terrible Ire,
And their fife blood went to color the tide.
"Herbert Cllne." At the call there came
Two stalwart soldiers Into the line,
Bearing between them this Herbert Cllne,
Wounded and bleeding to answer his name. '
"Esira Kerr" and a voice answered "Here."
"Hiram Kerr" but no man replied.
They were brothers, these two. The and
wind sighed,
And a shudder crept through the corn field
near.
"Michael Rvan." Then a soldier spoke:
"Kyan carried our regiment's colore," he
said.
"When our ensign was shot, I left him dead
Just after the enemy wavered and broke.
"Close to the road his body lies.
I naused a moment and irave him drink:
He murmured his mother's name, 1 think.
And death came with It and closed his eyes.
X was a VIL'UII y yen, mil vunv us urui.
For that company's, roll, when called that
night,
Of the fifty-four who went Into the fight.
Numbered tint twenty-eight who answered
"Here."
While the living make promises,
plight faith and praise virtue, promises
may not be kept, plighted faitb may
be broken, and vaunted virtue may tie
onlv the cunning mask of vice. We
do not know one promise they made,
one pledge they gave, one word they
spoke, but we do know that In their
(team tnev sumiuea up ana neriecteo,
by one supreme act of men and citi
zens, una gave their lives in tue ser
vice of their country.
For our misguided brother who wore
the gray and lay beside our comrade,
he, too, was brave and shed his blood
for a cause he was taught to l right.
Mistaken though he was, let us cherish
no thoughts of enmity against his
memory. His surviving comrade is
now our brother, and as such let us ex
tend to him a soldier's greeting, and
with a firm and hearty grasp of the
haud, forever bridge tue "bloody
chasm."
While we are willing to accord to the
old world her Jonidas, ner Alex
anders, her Caesura, her Napoleons and
her Wellingtons, we are proud to say,
the American republic is also ncn in
her lieroes, in the men and women
who dured to do and die for the rights
or man, tor the enlargement or liberty
and the upholding ot the republic
There is no sex in heroism; woman
can be, and have been, as heroic as
boastful man. Thousands of lives were
saved by our women during the war.
Home ot the bravest acts ot the war
were performed by women. They not
onlv ministered to the sick, wounded
and dying in the hospitals and In carnp
but were at the front, where they faced
danger as bravely as the men. I have
seen woman under fire and wounded
and in every instance did she prove
herself the heroine she is. It was a
woman who made the first flag this
country bad, and who of the old sol
diers does not remember the flags made
by our dear mothers and presented to
the company on leaving home for the
scenes ot the war?, it was an Amer
ican mother who said, "If I had twenty
sons, I would gladly give them all to
save the Union; and if I were not too
old, 1 would go to the war myself."
We have ample reasons for genuine
heroism in this land or ours. Our ting
does not stand for royalty nor for aris
tocracy, but tor liberty and equality
It is the only thing large enough to
cover ine entire republic, we have
room enough In this country to cover
almost everyiiiing,but not room enough
lor more man one nug. ah old so -
diers will remember the order of that
sturdy soldier, General Dix: "If any man
attempts to haul down theAmericau flag
snoot uiro on tue spot. John A. JJix."
It was wonderful how dear the Stars
and Ktriiies were to the soldiers. Should
his standard be assailed, scores of brave
men would rush to the rescue. When
shot down, as it often was, how quick
ly some brave spirit would agaiu raise
it on high. My own battle-stained
banner had over one hundred bullet
holes through the Held and eleven
through the stair, and the latter
was entirely shot in two at
the sanguinary battle of Chicka
mauga; and yet no rebel hand
was ever laid upon its folds. Well do I
remember a more than brave color
sergeant who, at the battle of Resaca
murched into the very iaws of death.
waving his flag in the faces of the en
emy who were fighting behlud burning
ureastworgs, ami only retired when lie
saw the Union lines falling back. This
act of heroism was repeated three
times, the brave soldier escaping with
out injury.
While soldiering in Kentucky,- no
oie om patriot, wun nowing white
beard and hair, seeing our flag the
first Stars and Stripes he had looked
upon for years clasped It in a fond and
loving embrace, and with the hot
Union-loving tears coursing down bis
furrowed cheeks, imprinted a kiss
upon Its stars.
We all remember the poet Whittier's
isaroara ireltohle at rrederioktown,"
and the brave daughters of that stauneb
old gray-haired hast lennessee Union
1st, Parson Drownlow, who kept the
flag of their country floating over their
residence during the occupation of
Knoxville by the rebel army. Here
was heroism which tiKk courage to
perform, and it was two noble girls
from the mountains of Kast Tennessee
who had the courage.
Brave men and women of our land
have teen ready at all times to lav
down their lives for their starry ban
ner, because in its stars and stripes is
represented the dignity of their free
dom, and to assail their flag is an as
sault utKin meir liberties.
The end of the war finally came, and
then the homeward march. And oh
what a home-coining it was to thou
sands of fond parents and friends hrs-e
hearts lie buried beneath the soil of the
Sunny South. This sorrowful and and
home-coming was one of the legacies of
the war w men was left to the South 1 1
ell as to the North. Xo section of our
smnlry was exempt from these heart
burn, aiud yearning of the people. In
all those festivals and rejoicings over
the return of the living, there was
hardly one whose ! were not sad
dened by the collection of some one
who did not return, whose face was not
there to gladden the hearts of relatives
and friend, but was left behind to
form part of the silent three hundred
thousand.
Grant was there, the commander
who never took a step backward; and
Farragut was there, the sailor without
an equal; and unfailing Sherman, and
the patient Thomas, the rock of Chiek
amauga; the intrepid Hancock, and
the fiery Sheridan and the dashing
Custer and Kilpatrlck were there, and
many others of lesser rank who in a
smaller theater of war would have won
larger fame.
But where was young Ellsworth?
Shot dead as soon as be crossed the Po
tomac. And Wintbrop? Killed in the
first battle. And Lyon? Fallen at the
head of his little army In Missouri.
And the eloquent Baker, Oregon's gift
ed orator, hero and soldier? Sacrificed
at Ball's Bluff. And Kearney, and
Kenoand Reynolds, and Wadswortb,
and the peerless McPherson, and scores
of others, all gone dead on the field of
honor, but nevertheless dead, and a
loss to their country. The South, too,
lost heavily In the great struggle Bee
and Barstow at Bull Run; Sydney
Johnson, leading a desperate charge at
Bhilob; Zollucoffer, at Mills' Springs;
Stonewall Jackson, Lee's right arm, In
Virginia; Polk .priest and warrior, at
Lost Mountain; Barksdale and Garnet
at Gettysburg; Hill at Petersburg, and
the Dashing Stuart, and Daniels, and
Perrin, and ..Hearing, and Dale, and
numberless others, as brave as mortal
man could be, all sleeping the sleep
which, knows no waking.
"Breathe, trumpets, breathe
Blow notes of saddest walling: '
Sadly responsive peal ye mutlled drums.
Comrades with down-cast eyes
And banners trailing,
Attend him home
The youthful warrior comes.
"Upon his shleld
Upon his shield returning;
Borne from the Held of honor
Where he fell.
Ulory and grief together claspel
In mourning;
His fame, his fate
With sobs exulting tell.
'Wran round his breast
The flag bis breast defended
His country's flag,
In battle's front unrolled;
For If he died,
On earth forever ended,
His brave young life
Lives in each sacred fold.
"With proud fond tears
By tinge of shame untainted,
Bear him and lay him
Gently in tils grave.
Above the hero write
The young half sainted.
His country asked his life,
His life lit) gave."
l lie sudden hush and sense of awe
that impresses a child when first it stent
upon a grave, may well overcome the
strongest man, when he looks upon the
face of his country scarred with battle
nelus as it is, and considers the blood
that was rudelv wasted.
The slain in the great war of the re
hellion were mostly young men, whose
native virtues nil no . living veins and
will not shine again on any field.
We cannot forget the million lives that
were freely given, nor the thousand
million dollars that were freely poured
out Crippled lives, broken hearts and
desolate homos are a part and the
greatest part of the cost of the war.
which we, comrades, the surviving sol
aiers tormed an integral part.
To my mind these annual gatherings
around the graves of our dead are but
wasted ettorts, unless we can learn some
nobler lessons than to destroy.
Men write of war as if the only thing
necessary to oe impressed upon the
minds of the growing votth were the
virtues of physical courage and contempt
of death. It seems to me this is the
last thing we need to teach, for since
the davs of John Smith in Virginia, and
the men of the Mayflower, no generation
ol men has shown the lack of it b rom
Louisburg to Petersburg, a hundred and
twenty-hve years, a full span of five
generations, they have stood to their
guns, and been shot down in greater
comparative numbers than any other
nation of men on earth.
In the war of secession there was not
a staTe, not a county and probably not a
town between ine great lakes and the
gulf that was not represented on fields
oi courage, where an men could do with
powder and steel was done, and where
valor was exhibited at its highest pitch
It was a common saying in the army
that courage was the cheapest thine
there,' easier had, sometimes, than our
rations.
While the minds of our vouth are be-
ing impressed with American bravery,
there is great necessity for teaching
mem respect lor law, reverence for hu
man life, and regard for rights of their
lellow man. It is not enough to think
they are right, but they must know they
are rignt, oeiore tney rush into any ex
periment that is to cost the lives of men.
or the tears of orphans of their own or
any other land. I would have them
comprehend that one may fight bravely
and still be a perjured felon : that one
may die humbly and still be a patriot
wnoni nts country cannot anord to lose:
that as might does not make right, so
neuner uo rags ana pare teet argue a
noble cause. I would teach them that
a political lie, whether uttered in f
newspaper, platform, or from the oul
pit, or by the cartoon method, or a pres
ident of the United States, is no less a
he; that political chicanery and sophis
try, the politician s stock in trade, when
long persisted in, is likely to end disas
trously lor the country. These are sim
ple lessons, but they are not taught in a
day, and some whom we call great no
uirougii ine wirnout mastering them at
an.
It may be necessary to learn from one
war now to conduct another, but it is
infinitely better to learn how to avert
another. I am doubly anxious to im
press this consideration upon the minds
of my hearers, because history seems to
snow mat armea conflicts have a ten
dency to come around about so often,
wim oniy an interval or a few years be
. .1 II X w
iween mem, ami uecause i tiling i see in
certain circumstances now existing
wmiiti our republic, the elements of
civil war. The enactment of unjust law s
sooner or later leads to revolution.
History, in all ages and in all countries.
teaches this fact. Where today is he
roic Greece, with her art and learning?
Where is imperial Rome, the widow of
two civilizations, pagan and Catholic?
1 hey both had her. and to both she bore
sms and daughters, but the Niobe of
nations, boasting that her children were
fairer and more holy than all the mir
ideas of justice, truth and love, off
springs of the eternal God, and for set
ting herself above all these, she sits
transformed into stone midst the bones
of tier children. Where today is the
proud I'ersian emmre. her Alr.
anders, her Xerxes, her Cyruses? All
gone, a punishment due to the oppres
sion of the people.
t resident Koosevelt, m hileon his West
ern trip, gave voice to the following
timely words: "We shall not make of
this great republic hat it must be made,
until we join together to hunt down the
successful rascal 8 just as surely as we do
the unsuccessful rascals."
This sentence, these noble words from
the lips of our president, strikes at the
heart of one of the causes of the wide
spread unrest and discontent of the peo
ple throughout our own and other coun
tries. The people feel that even handed
justice is not meted out to all alike; that
those w ho command wealth and influ
ence e sea lie a iust nunishment fur thair
evil doings, while the less fortunateonei
receive the full measure of the law.
Are there no lessons to be learned in
all this. Let us revere the laws of our
country, but let us say to the lawmak
ing power, you must give us just laws,
laws enacted for all the people, and sll
must obey alike. Without this, this re
public cannot nay should not stand
It is not possible to suppress the idea
of freedom, but it is possible to destroy
a state. A political party having geo
graphical bounds may easily be rent
asunder, but it will ' be asked, hew?
What caused the separation of the Amer
ican colonies from the mother country?
Did notour fathers love their native land?
Did they not call it home, and were
loyal with abundant fealty? Then what
made them take up arms against their
parents? It was the attempt to make
English injustice into American laws.
Who did it? The British people? Never
their hands did no such sacrilege. It
was the mercenary London merchant,
allied with the Westminster politicians,
to secure the stamp act and other infa
mous laws, and assisted by the tories in
the colonies, who for the offices, and the
gold they brought, enforced a king's un-
iust demands. It was these and not the
iritieh people who forced our fathers
against their will to take up arms
in defense of their freedom. 13 here no
lesson? We love law all Americans
love it but a true man loves it only as
a safeguard of his rights and liberties.
Destroy these and he will spurn the law,
and if he is a brave man, sooner than
submit to become a bondman to corpo
rate greed he will take up arms in de
fense of his God given rights.
The Grand Army of the Republic notes
with sadness that their ranks are thin
ning rapidly ; and with the recurrence
of each Decoration day, the roll call is
shortened by death. They realize that
the time is not far distant w hen the lov
ing service they now render to their dead
comrades as a sacred duty must be per
formed by others; therefore they turn
with confidence to their fellow citizens,
and especially to the rising generation,
and earnestly appeal to them from this
dati onward to assume their share in
the labor of love.
EUREKA
Meat Market.
.McGuike Bros., Propr's.
Dealers In l'Vesh and Cured Meats, ljird
Poultry, Fruits and Vegetables.
Free Delivery. Phone 35.
E. A. SOULE,
Contractor
and Builder.
Plans and Estimates Furnished
Upon Application.
BELIEU & REA,
Contractors
& Builders.
-Pi.an8 and Estimates FuKNisnnn-es
THE NEW
FEED STORE.
On the Mount Hood road, South
of town, keeps constantly on hand
the best quality of
Hay, Grain and Feed,
At Lowest Prices.
d22 D. F. LAMAR, Prop.
-THE
Barber Shop,
On the Hill,
S. C. JACKSON, Proprietor. Will
do picture framing in connection. Hoimi
moldings and all kinds of pletureand window
glass constantly on hand. Call and see nam
pies of wall paper. Phone 38.1.
L. H. RICHMOND,
Contractor
and Builder.
Plans furnished and Estimates given
on Buildings. juyl
Contractor
and Builder
Plans and Estimates Furnished.
S. H. COX.
Here are some of the New Goods on hand at
H
artley's.
Pure White Flour, guaranteed the best in town;
New Orleans Molasses in bulk. Fresh vegetables
every day. Minced Hani and Picnic Hams. Best
Cream Cheese. Fresh cakes on hand all the time.
Sweet and sour pickles, ltoyal Baking Powder.
Coffee from 15 to 40c per lb. Telephone orders
given special attention. Phone 571. Free delivery.
PATTON'S
Sun Proof Paints.
WARRANTED FOR 6 YEARS,
For sale at
SAVAGE'S.
PEARL BAKERY
and RESTAURANT.
Fresh Bread, Cakes, Pies and Confections. Cig
ars, Fruits. White help only.
MRS. FRANCES BROWNE, Prop'r.
STRAWBERRIES.
Do not arrange for shipping your strawberries without consulting
the HOOD RIVER FRUIT GROWERS' UNION.
They have shipped more than half the strawberries grown in
Hood River Valley the past 10 years.
They lead in everything that has made the strawberry business
so profitable.
They have maile complete settlement with their shippers when
others were kicking for money to pay pickers.
BOOKS. STATIONERY.
AGENCY
011EG0NIAN, EXAMINER, T ELKO HAM.
GEO. I. SLOCOM.
OFFICE SUPPLIES, TYPEWRITER SUPPLIES.
LAGAL BLANKS. SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
BERRY
GRIT
The Kind Wilson Makes.
I have rented the second story of the old
armory wliere a force of men, boys and girls are
busy sewing hallocks and nailing up crates. Come
examine our work, and be convinced that the
crates are the best ever sold in Hood Hiver. The
material is all spruce. You can't find neater or
stronger berry crates anywhere. The hallocks are
cut with a V-score, making the firmest hallocks
manufactured.
The crates are now ready to haul out. During
the shipping season there will be plenty of crates
at my warehouse on the railroad track.
JOE WILSON.
bone & Mcdonald.
ARE
Still
Closing
Out
Their Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats and Men's Furnish
ings goods at prices that cannot be duplicated in
Hood River. Our stock of
Groceries, Flour and Feed
Is complete and prices are right. Come and see us.
bone & Mcdonald.
Doors and Windows.
ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIAL,
Paints and Oils,
Furniture, Carpets, Heda and Bedding.
FUNERAL DIHKCTOR AND KM HALM Kit.
Geo. D. Culbertson & Co.,
DEALERS IN
f&wjji kVW5fistr writ
r- Now in the time
To use Squirrel Poison. We have
Now in A time
Tosprav your orchards. We have
all kinds of spraying material for
sale at the lowest prices.
Now s the time
To purify your blood. We have
Sarsaparillas and all kinds of Spring
tonics.
Don't forget the place.
When you want anything in t ie
DRUG LINE get it at
CLARKES'.
ONLY EYE TESTER.
I winh to let the people of Hood River know that I have the only
Eye Tester on the Columbia river between The Dalles and Portland.
Come to uie If you need siiectacles, and have your eyes tested so
that you can be suited in glasses. If your eyes are not both the
same, it is sometimes necessary to have lenses ground, cylindrical
and spherical. I have all my lenses frmmid by the very best opt i
cal company In America. They never fail to give satisfaction. And
I can sell them for less than half what you would pay in Portland,
as my expenses are small. I have a way of flxinjt rimless lenses
that is my secret, by which they are not easily broken. For com
pound stigmatism no one call be suited with lenses unless their
eyes arc treated by a regular eye-tent I njr Instrument, same as I have
in my .Ml... (J. H. TEMPLE-
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STRAWBERRY
IILL.
This magnificent location is now being plotted and will soon be
placed on the market, and surpasses anything that has ever been offered as
RESIDENCE PROPERTY.
It is high and sightly and is furnished with an abundance of
pure spring water from
MY OWN PLANT.
The soil is very sand', ho you get no seepage from cess
pools or closets. '
It is only one block from the Waucoma school house. The Uni
tarian church is in process of construction adjoining this plot, and the
Episcopal church will soon be built in the very center of this addition.
You have always wanted a lot in my STRAWBERRY
FIELD, and now is your time to get one.
We start at bed-rock prices, with terms 25
per cent cash, balance to suit the purchaser.
Don't wait until prims go up, but secure a handsome site at once.
Map ami all information at the office of George I). Cullieptson & Co., on
Oak street.
Heal
The largest list of Fruit and Berry Lands in
Hood River valley and White Salmon to select
from. Holiest treatment will award you by plac
ing your property in our hands. Loans nego
tiated. Insurance.
HOOD RIVER, - - OREGON.
Williams Pharmacy,
Otten Building,
G. E. WILLIAMS, Prop'r.
Headquarters for
Pure Drugs, Toilet Articles,
PATENT MEDICINES, SPRAYING MATERIALS.
Prescriptions my Specialty.
Bargains in Real Estate.
8 acres, 3 miles from town; fine strawberry land;
good house and barn.
10 acres, 2 miles from town, all in strawberries;
a good bargain.
10 acres, 2 miles from town; 2 acres in straw
berries, balance in apple and prune orchard in full
bearing; free water.
7 acres, 3 miles from town; 3 in berries; bal
ance in cultivation. Flumes ready for irrigating.
80 acres, ) miles from town; 30 in cultivation;
good improvements, good farm and apple land.
All can be irrigated.
20 acres, 6 miles from town; all in apple trees 2
years old.
40 acres, 4 miles from town; 33 in cultivation;
good apple and clover land; can all be irrigated.
For prices and terms call on or address
H, F, JOCHIMSEN, Hood River, Or.
City Blacksmith Shop, j.R.Nkkeisen.rrop,
General Blacksmithing.
Horse Shoeing and Wagon Wood Work
Dealer in Blacksmith and Wagon Makers' Supplies
Complete line of Syracuse
Farm Implements.
Agency for Milburn Wag-
ons, Carriages & Busies.
HANFORD'S BALSAM OF MYRRH.
Cor. 4th and Columhia. 'Phone 'H
FASHION STABLE.
Livery, Feed and Draying.
STRANAHANS. BAGLEY.
Horses houht, gold or exelnipged.
- Pleasure purtle can s'curelir(.l--liiijsriK. SpP:
cial attention given to itiovjnir Furniture
and Pinno,
We do ever thing horses pan do.
HOOD RIVF.K, OKKUOX.
Flirt nd Oak sts. p,lon(, m
H
C. COE
Stages to Cloud Cap Inn.
Ticket office for the Regulator Line of Steamer Telephone and
have a hack carry you to and from the boat landing If you want
first-claw turnout call on the
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