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Entered at the Poatofttcein McMinnville, as Second-class matter. VOL. XXIX M’MINN VILLE, ORF One Dollar if paid in advance, SinglenninbersilveceutB. THE HEROIC DEAD. Ijr ¡Not Our Specialty Address of President II. L. Boardman, of McMinnville Col lege, at the Memorial Service for the Dead Volunteers of Company A, held at the Court House, Mc Minnville, Sunday, August 20, 1899. O resurrect stale Groceries from dark and musty corners- We believe firmly in the hygienic and business value of pure food products. As a dry goods merchant who understands his business keeps his shelves as free as possible from shop worn and out-of-date goods, so it becomes the model grocer to steer clear of musty, wormy, dirty and impure preparations. T 0 (JR Baking Powders, Syrups, Teas, Coffees, Spices and Fruits and Vegetables are selected stock—with refer ence to the fact that our customers are to use them. NEW AND SPECIALLY FINE STOCKS OF Glassware, Queensware, Crockery. Lamps, Toilet Soaps. Are you going camping? Let us figure on your Supplies^ We have met to-day to do honor to the memory of our soldier dead. In the strong, full, major chorus of the welcome we extended to the returning volunteers, there was a minor strain. It was the thought of the brave boys who went but came not. We did well to welcome the returning with happy hearts. We could not too strongly express our joy that those who went out from our homes came safely back again. To-day we turn aside to think awhile of those who went away in the sweet spring and summer days a year ago, with the buoyant step of youth and strength, and the smile of hopeful courage, and who to-day are sleeping beyond the sea. To these, our heroic dead, is this service dedicated to-day. Words seem feeble when spoken of these brave dead. Indeed, they need no words. Their living and doing speak more eloquently than any words can speak, of their true worth and greatness They need no eulogy of mine. General Summersis reported to have said at the volunteers’ reception in Portland, that the real heroes of the regiment were ly ing under the bamboo trees in the Phil- Respectfully, fer and show no sign. The primeval red man was a good type of it. He could endure all extremes of climatic condi tions, could face the blasts and brave the storms, strong in his physical manhood. The soldier is a physical hero. He must be. Ami if it be called the lowest type of courage, as compared with courage in tellectual and moral, it is yet a noble type, and most closely related to the others in their best exemplifications. The nation may well conserve the phys ical well being of her youth. Tile dis position to emphasize physical training in our present day systems of education, is to be altogether commended. A sound mind, indeed, but in a sound body, is the ideal; and when physical retrogres sion shall mark the life of a nation, the days of her best mind and soul shall have fled. These men were physical heroes. » Intellectual courage is a higher type. It is strength of mind. It manifests it self in independent thinking. The in tellectual hero refuses to do his thinking at the behest of another no better quali fied to think than he. He scorns to be- heroic, whether it be in the deeds of great men like these, or in the common place lives we live. The doing of an he roic thing depends upon the thrill of some truth, the inspiration of some con viction, the possession of some belief. The hero must believe something. These men illustrate this attribute of the hero ic. Our dead heroes were in the grip of a mighty truth. It moved them. It in spired them. It nerved them to do and to die. That idea was the belief in the rights of men, and the desire to help them to be freed from the grip and curse of tyranny. Or, it may have been, su premely, the idea of loyalty to the gov ernment which called for men to carry her standard in the struggle for humani ty. Whatever it was, the idea made he roes of these common boys from the farms and villages of this western land. Ha<l they been unable to think, to see the end to be attained, to believe in the ultimate triumph of justice and right, they had never fought and died. I And then, THK hero must bh ABLE TO FORGET HIMSELF. Self-conscious ness is the arch enemy of courage. The man who cannot lose sight of selfish, personal interest ill his pursuit of his ideal, will never be heroic. How truly these dead boys of ours sliine as heroes, when viewed in the light of this truth. Think first of self? Not they. Fair homes were theirs. Young life offered prospects of large success. Loved ones held them long in embraces which were hard to break. They turned their backs on these. They thought not of self and self’s desire. The idea mastered and overcame even these strongest bonds in human nature. Dili they think of self as they gave themselves freely to the no . :«i days, men and women whose journey from eastern homes required the stuff of which heroes are made. There they had made tlieir homes tn the western wilds. That valley had given of her sons and daughters to till places of honor and trust in public ami in private life. She had already reached a place of honora ble distinction among the communities of the west. But the day dawned when a call came ringing over the eastern mountains. It was the nation's call for men. The quiet homes and villages of this western valley had never heard such call before. But the hilltops echoed it, and the vales resounded with it. Young hearts and strong were thrilled by it as they had not been thrilled before. Anil that sweet valley, so long wrapped in the mantle of peace, gave of her bravest sons to answer the nation's call. These men were her volunteers. And they have given a name and fame to the val ley ol their birth which it never had known before. Yamhill meant much before; it stands for far more now. It had known wealth and honor before; now it knows the divine rapture of hav ing given of its hest blood for the nation ot which it is a p irt. Our volunteers have written the name of our cherished valley in the west high in the lists of the loyal communities of the commonwealth and the nation. We will raise a marble shaft upon this green. By it we shall be re minded of the debt we owe to our heroes. By it we shall say to every pilgrim who may pass this way in the coining years: "This shaft stands for our boys, our true men, our heroes, who thought it ntit too great a sacrifice to die in hospital or on battlefield for their country and their Hag. They were our VOLUNTEERS.’ .. —K <7 IS •V White’s Restaurant—^ The well-known place for the best meal in the city. 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He knows that mind field? Did they think of sell in the of the Red Cross society, and was par mad, heroic charges through swamp and ticularly for those dead heroes for whom means power, and conscious ol the di vine gift within him, he proceeds to use ■ jungle on Philippine battlefields? Did no memorial had been held, viz: Rich they' think of self as they exposed them ard E. Perry, Asa McCune, Ralph Odell it for himself. These dead bovs of ours were intellectually heroic. Had it not selves to disease and death? No; these and Edward C. Young. Rev. Geo. W. men were heroes. The hero grasps the Fender officiated in reading the scripture been so they had never enlisted ill the Thus they and in prayer, ami music was furnished service of their country. They thought idea ami forgets himself. lived. Thus nobly they died. by Mr. Snyder and his daughters, Dr. burning thoughts during the days before I they offered themselves to their country. 1 These things make the hero; but one Nelson and Miss Maud Hobbs. The vol thing more attaches to the hero at his unteers present were Lambert, Harris, The call came. They heard it. They thought intensely of all that going best. There is a positive element in the Warren, Hayes, Baker, Prentiss, Hoberg, highest type of courage which deserves Morris, Welch, Williams, Ungerman, meant to them. They arrived at inde pendent conclusions. They acted upon our earnest thought. 1 mean that truest Cooper, Thurber and Hoskins. courage is ever born of hope, not of de them. They were intellectual heroes. Moral courage is the highest type. It spair. The most heroic deed i« never Till. HOY 1*110 Wil.I, NF.VF.H is the courage of duty. It is the courage done because it cannot but lie. Heroism < one. which acts at the dictate of the divine at its best acts because it WILL, not be “ought.” One of these men said before cause it must . Herein is the true glory leaving his home, “It is somebody's of the volunteer. His very name rle- 1 hear a chortia of ringing bells In echoing tower and dome, duty," and he went. He was a moral, scrilies his real character. He is the And word is passed by a thousand tongue« hero. The same principle operated in i subject of no draft. He goes to fight That our hoys are inarching home. and to die because he WILLS to do it. But one mother watches the marching line every case to control the final decision. | I iiat steps to the rolling drum Conscience was called into play. The ' He chooses to enlist, though a thousand And cover« her eyes and sheds hot tears feeling of moral obligation is mighty. things dear to him are drawing him For a boy who will never come. back. These dead lioys of ours were Moved by it men do right because it is right, when it is easier to do wrong, i heroes, indeed, but they were VOLUN A father stands in an open field And leans on his resting plow, This high sense of duty largely controls ' TEERS. This is their highest glory. It With toil worn hand and wrinkled fare, thinking, and nerves muscle and sinew i is a glory which does not attach to mere And gray Imirs on hi« brow. professional military life. It belongs hi silence he sees the column« pas«, for their task. Without it there is no he- I Ifia Quivering lip« arc dumb— roism at its best. These men were moral , not to the soldier career of him who gives But his heart respond* with a broken sigh his military service because the form of heroes. l or a boy who will never come. government under which he lives re After all, what is this thing we call ' quires it. It belongs in its true beauty Two little children, hand in hafid, heroism? Can we analyze it? l’erhaps, and glory to the volunteer armies of Walk down the ciowded street, These men heard their coun Ami scan each face in the line that ste|ai imperfectly; but it will help us to make I America To the snarr-drum’M measured beat; the attempt First of all, THE HERO I try’s call, and, moved by no constraint, But tliey look in vain for a brother's face, MUST HAVE AN IDKA. The ability to 1 but acting in the full possession of their Whom they long to welcome home. And two children's hearts are filled with grief liberty, they volunteered to serve her grasp an idea is an essential element of ’ For a boy w ho will never come. heroism. Alexander was a hero. It I ■ cause. Palsied lie the tongue which was tiecause he grasped an idea great dares to speak a word in disrespect of A maiden sits in a mourner’s garb In the shade of a darkened 100m, They are the enough to control his life. That idea ■ 1 the volunteer armies And hears the music of martial bands was world conquest. Actuated by this highest glory of martial life. And the welc< ming cannon’s boom. There is a sweet, fair valley in the In truth she wishes her country well idea he led his conquering armies to uni As it welcomes its warriors home, versal dominion. Cromwell was a hero west. Her rich harvests wave in the tier sad young heart twats a funeral dirge The idea of the commonwealth so pos soft breezes from the sea. Meadows in- But For the boy who will never come. sessed him as to fire him with holy zeal termingle with groves and wood lands in _yon^not:jr* who Join the throng I for liberty and right Cyrus W. Field rural beauty and delight. The lowlands , That «urge« the crowded atreeta, There are various types of courage. was a hero in civil life. He believed ; reach their arms to the hills; the hills Wtlh weloiinirg hand and shout and aong There is physical courage, which, they that he could talk across the sea. Pur lean hard on the rugged mountains, and The returning brave to greet. say, is the lowest type. It is courage, suing the realization of the idea he beyond is the ceaseless music of the But I am thinking ot heart» that bleed In many a aorrowlng home. strength of muscle and nerve. It is the scorned failure and seeming defeat, and j sounding sea. That valley fair had al- And ao weave my wreath of aimpie rhyme courage which enables a man to face ' ultimately triumphed. The getting of i readv lieen the scene of heroic lives and For the boy wno will never come. physical danger and never falter; to suf- . an idea into the soul is essential to the deeds. Hither had come in long gone — Rev. P. 9. Kulght, Salem, Or. ippiue islands. It were idle to attempt to discriminate between the bravery of those who went with fullest offering of themselves in their country’s service and were permitted to return to the homes and arms which awaited them and those who went and fought by their sides, and who may return nevermore. Certain it is that those who have fallen have given the supreme proof of truest heroism. What more can a man do than die? What sweeter proof can one give of his devo tion to duty than to lay down his life in doing it? This supreme offering, this final and complete sacrifice, is the elo quent testimonial to their worth and courage before which words, mere words, are idle and helpless. Their sufficient eulogium is spoken when it is said: “They died in their country's service.” But though we can add nothing to the glory of these dead heroes, the thought of their lives and service and sacrifice may be of the greatest good to us wlio live. We have need to meditate upon characters like these ; for the world needs heroism still. 1 lie demand for it is not restricted to hattiefields and martial life. These who fought in the Philippine bat tles and have come back to their homes and to civil life,' have not escaped the j need of the heroic. Heroism is one es- ‘ sentially. In the lives of soldiers who | fight and die the world sees a splendid type of the heroic. But the very same 1 principles which make men heroes on 1 battlefields make them heroes in civil life. The heroic age is not in the past. We live in a time demanding truest her oism in common life. Hence these dead heroes of ours, the victims ot a foreign war, have a lesson in heroism for us all. May we not think of these lives as em bodying the essentials of the heroic, and find, in this meditation, our own Jives inspired to heroic living and doing? This is my hope to-day