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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1913)
TIIE BEE; OMAHA, FRIDAY, JTNE 20, 3913. T5 Held Back "Why thft Sharpshooter Was Unable to Pull the Trigger After He Had Drawn the Bead -on the General at the Battle of Gettysburg. To Be Supplied (Verses by Marie C. Jones) Copyright, 1913, International News Service. By Nell Brinkley 0O By GARRETT P, SERVI9S. One of th most significant revelations of the mind of the soldier In battle that x nave ever seen is in a letter from a confederate soldier to General J. U Chamberlain. The letter Is too Ions to be Inserted In this brief article, but you should read It In full, and in connection with the vivid picture of the scenes of that heroic contest at Gettysburg (the mightiest battle, ever fought on American soli). In (Order to under stand Its signifi cance. The Incident to which the letter refers .occurred during the struggle among the rocks for the possession of the famous "Round Tops." The writer, who was a member of an Alabama regiment, had placed himself In a secure position be tween two rocks, where, unseen himself, he had a clear view of tho nearby fed eral lines, and particularly of Qoneral Chamberlain, whose rank he recornlxed by his uniform. He know the Importance of picking off officers, and he drew a bead on General Chamberlain, resting his gun on a rock to get a sure aim. But, as he was about to pull the trigger, a sudden qualm ar rested him, and he did not fire. Then he grew ashamed of his weakness and drew a bead a second time. "I had you, perfectly certain. But that came queer something shut right down on me. I couldn't pull the trigger, and I gave It up that is, your life." There are plenty of stories of the blind madness and of the unnatural calm that, at different times, possess the soldier In battle, making him. In one case, shoot iuid thrust and strike almost without volition, and. In the other case, perform similar acts with the cold, unsympathetlo precision of a machine; but It Is rare, outside of fiction, to hear of an Incident like this, where conscience asserts Its rights. No doubt some persons would seo. In the resistless Impulse that restrained that shot, a mystic Influence which, for some providential purpose, paralyzed the finger tliat was curved to press the trigger; but such ideas belong tb the days when the Olympian gods wero believed to guide tho spear of Achilles or to throw a mantle of Invisibility about Hector. ' We should rather ascribe tho Incident to the personality of tho soldier, whoso hand was arrested by the expostulation of his own better nature. Viewed from that point, It becomes significant of tho growth of moral sentiment, which, In the end, will banish war altogether. Perhaps that merciful confederate at Gettysburg was, In a sense, faithless to his causa. Who can say that, if the shot had been fired, the result of the strugglo might have been different? The fall of a leader has lost many a battle. Very likely ilf that act of meroy had been witnessed by the commander of the Alabama regi ment he would have cut the conscientious soldier down with his sword as a recreant from duty! Yet the man who spared the general's life afterward declared that he was glad that he could not press the trigger, and .every generous mind approves his act and his sentiment. In former days, when most battles were .fought hand to hand and foot to foot, the furor certamlnis (fury of the fight) frad no such Interruptions. Moral senti ment counted for little on the battlefield. There was no time for It to assert Itself, .even If it existed then as widely as It vcxlsts today. The dreadful scenes of slaughter that attended Caesar's cam paigns In Qaul, and the sacks of cities In thirty years' war, would be Impossible mow among civilised people. When a modtsrn soldier, secure In his position, sights along his gun at an enemy, his mind Is In a state of re flection upon the nature and conse quences of his Intended act of slaughter, and the mere fact that he can strlko at t. distance and unseen may restrain him, as It did in this case, from striking at All. He balances his public duty against Jits personal conscience, and unless the former overwhelmingly appeals to him, the latter may prevail. If he can see a chance for mercy he will exercise It. All this shows plainly the direction (which the advocates of universal peace (and we are all such advocates, though 5ve may differ In our Ideas about meth ods) should take In order to bring about the result they aim at It is the direc tion of education. A gun In the hands of a conscientious soldier U a moral force for peace, and so is a powerful battle fleet In the hands of a great, civilized nation. Today's Beauty Recipes By Mme. D'Mllle. 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To remove superfluous hair cover the skin for a mlrute or two with paste made by dissolving delatone in a little water When the paste Is removed the hairs 1U be gone." Advertisement. -; i , ROBERT really is quite nice, Polished and refined; Quito a man of wealth, besides, And of cultured mind. Sentiment, Romance and Ella Wheeler Wilcox Tells Why Y oung Girls Want Foreigners, Matinee Idols, Prize Fighters or Base By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX . Copyright, 1913, by Star Company. The menu In your home may be the best In the world; yet, because you are ac customed to It, you find a new jiest In food placed before you when you visit other home, or sit at hotel tables. The eye, the ear, the mind, the taste all find a keener pleasure in the un accustomed at cer tain Intervals, oven when that which Is offered Is less ad mirable. In an Interesting letter which dis cusses to some length the follies of my own sex, the weakness of his, a question of Interest Is propounded by a man of culture. After reviewing the numerous tragedies which have occured from time to time ns the result of the Infatuation of young women In villages and Interior towns through love affairs with strangers, the correspondent says; "It has always been a great mystery to me why the stranger within our Rates has such fascinating attractions for some 1 of our American girls,. I shall eschew ; the engagements and marriages of Amerl man heiresses to foreigners. Every one knows the reasons. But the question Is a subtle and farreachlng one. Let a to tal stranger, of good appearance and polite address, come to a town and at once he Is the favorite with the girls at the prayer meeting and picnic. The ac tor, the drummer, the ball player, yes even the prize fighter, In competition for tho hand and heart of the reigning belle, will nearly always outdistance the Georgles and Charlies and Willies of the town. Is It hero worship, or what Is ItT" To the man or woman who understands what the Imaginative and romantic temperament means this question would suggest Its own answer. While familiarity does not always or often breed "contempt." It does destroy, as a rule, romantic Illusions. The average young girl God bless her! BENNIE is all sentiment, Oh, how he can talk! Quito a dude is he, in fact, With a stylish walk. Is possessed of a good share of senti ment find romance in her thoughts of the lover waiting for her somewhere In the world. She Invests him with the aualltlra desirable in her estimation and perhaps. drnwn to some extent from the novels she has read. He Is a creature of her dreams and meditations, and It is not to be supposed that she will readily clothe the youth with whom she has played "tag" and "I spy" in the garments of her dreams. The boy who has been repeatedly pun ished at school or whipped by an older -fcThe Last of By REV THO.MAB B. gVeOOHY. The battle of Pydna, fought 2,0sl years ago today, was doubly decisive It ended the Macedonian rule and completely established that of Rome. In 179 B. C, tho Romans, claiming that Perseus, the king of Macedon, had violated his treaty with Rome, de clared war against Macedon and soon the legions were In motion. First Crassus, then Hos tlltus, and then Phlllppus were sent out, but only to be In turn de feated by Perseus. Kor three years the Macedonians held Rome at bay, and It began to look as though In Perseus a second Hannibal had come. Finally Rome sent out her great Bmlllus, with 40,000 of her finest soldiers. Kmlllus met Perseus at Pydna, and the tug of war began. Extending across the plain In solid ranks, bristling with the long spears a huge human wave the Macedonian pha lanx came sweeping on and bearing down upon the silent Itomuns. In vain did the Romans try to stem the wave. It would not be checked. "Face to the rear and retreat,' shouted Emlllus. The order was W ILLIAM is a handsome man. Dimple in his chin; Such a happy, merry face, Once I thought he'd win. brother In her presence or who has been the cause of disagreeable neighborhood criticisms because of his oversupply of youthful vitality; the boy who has teased and tormented her and shown all the un attractive traits of the average growing lad Is not liable to "become her Ideal by any sudden transformation. The stranger who comes to town has passed through all these unattractive phases In his own village, and he may be far' less worthy of her admiration and much further removed from the standard of her Ideal than her old playmate, but she sees In him the object of her dreams, the Phalanx J obeyed, and with perfect discipline the men retired to the broken ground beyond the plain. After thtm'followed the Mace donians, until the hills were reached, when their lines were broken by the roughness of the land. Seeing his oppor tunity, temlllus ordered the trumpets to fcound, and Instantly the legionaries faced about, rushed Into the gaps of th pha lanx with their stout swords and put It to utter rout. Twenty thousand lay dead on the field and 11,000 were made prisoners out of a total force of 40,000. Tho legion had annihilated the phalanx. The mighty military machine with which Alexander the Oreat had conquered the world, was no more. It had fought Its last battle-and the emplro of Alexander, established by the victory near Darllus, at Arbela, 103 years before, passed for ever out of existence. Advice to Lovelorn Bf BEATRICE FAIRFAX That Will De Knsy. Dear Miss Fairfax; I have been ac quainted with a girl for about nine months and I love her and I know she cares for me. How can I propose to htr and court her7 II. W. M. Begin by making her the object of all your attentions. Take her to places of amusement, consult her taste and wishes, never cease In your devotion and before you realize it you will find yourself engaged. :j:W:mm--'- -mms THEN, there's James and Henry, too, Teddy 'and the rest; But of all the men on earth, Uno I love the best. Love to Marry Titled Ball Players J free from nit crudity, and he seems to her a wholly superior being. Whatever ho may have been In the process of evolution she finds him her finished Ideal when they meet. He has come Into her life suddenly, and by the will of kind Providence she be lieves. There Is a novelty in all he says and does; ho has a new trick, of pronunciation, or a new set of phrases and he brings the atmosphere of a now world nto her mo notonpus life. He tells her of new scenes new people. It Is as If she had listened n.11 her life to one air, and now , new melody Is soUnded. Harmonies undreamed of be come perceptible to the ear of her heart. She listens to his recital of boyish days and pranks, and while the tales he re lates differ little from the actions of the boys with whom she has been reared, they are surrounded with a halo of charm In her mind which places his past In a realm quite apart from the commonplace; and It Is this oommonplace association of neighborhood life which has stood be tween her and dreams of her boy lovers. Whatever affairs of the heart the stranger may have passed through In his evolving period she has not been a wit nes thereof nor a confidant of the other maidens In the case, as sne has been with her childhood's companions. When he tells her that he loves her she noes not recall the fact that two or three years ago he was the devoted cava lier of her sister, or her cousin, or her rival in the high school. Even his former sweethearts are In vested with a certain mist of romance by her Imagination. They were rare crea tures, but he passed them all by, waiting for the lady of his dreams. And the accident of their meeting, the day they first looked Into each other's faces, the hour they first spoke all these Incidents are thrilling and wonderful and food for hours of happy memories, Blessed Is she to whom suoh memories and dreams remain forever surrounded by a romantic hulol For never In any ordin ary association of childhood and never In the more commonplace development of friendship Into love can there be found quite the depth of joy and sentiment which result from the sudden advent of a great and lasting love. w TENDER, strong, indulgent, good, Like the God above, Ho loves me unselfishly, And I love his love. Warmed - By BEATRICE FAIRFAX The woman who has been taught by necessity to mako both a virtue and an art of economy will take what was left from one meal and make of It an appe tizing dish for the next, often a more pleasing dainty than It was on Its first appearance. Driven by the present IiIrIi cost of liv ing and tormented by the spectre of htghor prices In future, housewives are making economy a greater virtue every day, and warmed-over dishes are re. cetvlng a respectful recognition, that In days of lower prices was steadfastly de nied them. This Is an art that adds to tho ma terial prosperity, and that should be ox tended to Include within Its scope the ability to warm over odds and ends of past happiness since prosperity Is not worth the trouble to achieve, and does not last long, unless happiness attends. It Is not enough to make an old garment Into now, nor to turn the residue of yesterday's dinner Into a dinner for today; one must be able to make of yesterday's happy events food for pleas ant memories today. That Is the greatest of all economic virtues, and the one we most need, I once knew a woman who could recall an event of twenty, thirty or forty years before, and laugh as heartily over the memory as she laughed at the tlmo of the happening. "It seemed funny to me then," she would say, wiping the tears of laughter from her eyes, "and It seems funnier every time I think of It I believe that little circumstance has resulted la hundreds of good laughs since." She always, she added, remembered all the pleasant things that had happened to her, filling her mind so full of Inci dents to laugh about there was no room for the lugubrious. The picnics she at tended as a girl, and which had been spoiled by rain, were pushed out of mind by those In which the pie was upset In the lemonade, or some one sat In the potato salad, little mishaps that add to the general merriment when one Is young. Every mlrth-convulslng Indlcent of her youth retained Its mlrth-convulslng powers. If there was no now joy for today, she had always yesterday's Joys to warm over. It seemed to me to be the kind of economy the old world needs, a sort of WHO is this my ideal man One so true and tried? Really, I can't tell, because Ho's to bo supplied. MAEEE C. JONES. Over Joys J saving of post sunshine and using Jtt light and warmth on days that have llttlo or none. "But one must begin," said this wise woman, "when ono Is young, for It la then tho sun shines warmest and bright est. Just tell tho dear young girls o re member all that Is pleasant and forget all that Is dlsagrocable. Tell them to economlzo on their pleasant memories and throw away all that hurtB and rankles. "There are hard times ahead for them, and I don't mean the hard tlmeB thai effect the pocketbook, for while they are hard thoy are the easiest of all to bear. I mean times that try hope and faith and courage; the kinds of troublo that come to tho rich and the poor alike, and that pass on leaving bereft and broken hearted women In their trail. "It is then they should be able to turn to their mental storehouses and find & lot of happy memories stored there to he brought out and used to sweeten today's griof. nut they must store them away! They won't find anything In mom ory to smile about If they employ th present In storing away odds and ends of resentment, bitterness and dlsappolnt meent. Wo only find what we put away and I put away the best of every day s happenings." (Jet the habltl It Is the suspremest of all the arts of economy. FRECKLES Don't Hide Them With a Veil I Remove Them With the Othlne Prescription. 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