A Veteran of the Balaklava Charge
Another hero of the "noble six hundred" of the Balaklava charge which Tennyson has made immortal died in San Francisco August 21. His name was William Russell Parnell. He was one of the six hundred that obeyed the mistaken command to charge. He rendered great service in the American army as well as in the English, enlisting in 1860 in the Civil War, and bore the title of colonel when the war closed. After passing through all the dangers of his years of warfare, his death came by injuries from being pushed from a car. True religious liberty is the liberty of the other man to think for himself; and if any man possesses it he will labor for just that freedom for the other man, be that man his bitterest opponent.