|g|U^ V laurels to lay / ' i ' <4)31 o'er the Blue and 112 lEwl the Gray, spread \ HI our heroes rest; ' l-Sl Let the sons of the North echo back from the South for the love that Is truest and best! Twin wreaths for the tombs of our Grant and our Lee, one anthem tor Jackson and Meade. And the flag above you Is the banner for me—one people in name and indeed! •Clasp hands o'er the graves where our laureled ones lie—clasp hands o'er the Gray and the Blue; To-day we are brothers and bound by a tie that the years shall but serve t re new: By the side of the Northman who peace fully sleeps where tropical odors are shed A son of the South his companionship keeps—one flag o'er the two heroes spread. Weave tokens of love for the heroes in blue; weave wreaths for the heroes in gray: Clasp brotherly hands o'er the graves that are new—for the love that Is ours to day: A trinity given to bless, to unite—three glorious records 'o keep. And a kinship that never a grievance shall sever renewed where the brave are asleep! 'Spread flowers to-day o'er the Blue and the Gray—spread wreaths where our he roes rest; Let the song of the North echo back from the South for the love that is truest and best! Twine wreaths for the tombs of our Grant and our Lee, one hymn for your father and mine! O the Hag you adore is the banner for me and its folds our dead brothers en twine. —S. K. lviser, in Chicago Times-Herald. «ap o " ,v: ' a ' ut a "Lovely! Grand jjii'll be dee'rnted splendid! My rose bush has two roses and three buds." "You ain't groin' to pick the buds?" "Didn't grandpa die for our country? Didn't we live, till mother died, on his > Jl_ •-• s -» ~ c •? -yr4z:^:- DECORATING UKANDI'A S GRAVE. pension? I thtnk a whole bushel of buds wouldn't be too much!" Jack was glad Polly did not know about the ten-cent flag he could have got; he had thought five cents enough to spare out of their scanty earnings, when making the purchase; but after that speech he felt small. What if he were but a bootblack, earning a most precarious living, and Polly making only an odd dime now ;yid then by .scrubbing a floor or tending children for the neighbors? Jack wished lie had done more for his soldier-grandfather! But a thought struck him. "Oh, Polly! I'll tell you what I'll .do." •'For to-morrow?" "Yes! You know it'll be years be fore we get a monnyrnent for grand pa, for we must get an eddication first; and though the Hag'll show it's ;; sol dier's grave, 1 think folks ought to .know more. Well. I've learned to print real clear, and I'll print a real nice head stone, and we'll fix it down on the grave, and folks'll set it for that day, anyway." "That's splendid; you do it, and I'll get supper." Jack rushed out for stiff brown pa per and ink. and the kind shopkeeper, who knew the children, learning what he intended to do, gave him two largo sheets of manilla paper and showed iiim how *o use the "grease crayon," thereby saving the boy from innumer able spatters of ink. Jack purchased the ten-cent flag on the spot and re turned with his prize. "We can eat dry bread awhile," he -said, iis his sister looked doubtfully at the flag; "that's my buds!" Planning to write a headstoi* 1 was one thing rptite another to do it. "We can't say ' 'reeted,' for it's goin' to be staked down; how would you "begin, Polly?" 'Xv teacher says" (Polly's teacher her unfailing standard) "if you're writing, t( just tell what you ve got to say as.short us you can." "Let's see," and Jack printed rather crookedly, but clearly: m • • JOHN* DOYLK • Wounded at Bull run : • DieD : ■ at t 42 Charles Street. i • "Do you remember when he died? .lack asked, glad to rest awhile, but delighted with his progress. "Why, 1 wasn't born, Jack! Rut can't we say his loving grandchildren have —have —fixed this to his mem ory ?" "Why, Polly!" said Jack, admir ingly. "That's real tomb-stony! That's good enough for the monnyment. Let's see;" and Jack sat with pencil poised, then, slowly and laboriously printed—Polly's bright eyes watching eagerly: • This is writ by : Polly and Jack Kerr : • in memory of : Grand Pa • : "Oh, Jack! it's jnst lovely! And—oh oh—l've got sofuetliing!" and l'olly. her bright face growing sweet ly solemn, stepped to the okl bureau and opened her most precious possession an old box which held her peculiar treasures. "Here's four of mother's hairpins," she said, solemnly. "I've saved 'em, but they'll be just the thing to fas ten down the headstone —better than bits of wood." The children could hardly sleep from excitement. Bright and early they were about, stopping a moment to gaze rapturously on"the headstone," and to water the precious rosebush, which any florist would have admired, so per fect were the buds and roses. Then Jack started out to black boots and attend to one or two furnaces, while l'oily washed dishes and tidied rooms for three different families, receiving live cents from each. At noon they were ready to start, the roses care fully wrapped within the headstone, lest the sun wilt them, the flags carried by Polly. It was a long, long walk to Ever greens; but the children's rent was due in two days, and they dared not spend money on car fare. On they trudged, the thought of the honor to be done to grandpa keeping Polly's tired feet going. But before they had accomplished a quarter of the dis tance Jack caught sight of a great ex- press cart coming up the hill. "Hold on, there's a fellow i know. He'll take us in—he's first-class! Mr. 13 he called, "can you give us a lift'.'" "Certainly," aud the good-natured expressman drew up for the children. "Going to Evergreens'.' Why, I'm tak ing a basket of plants there —I'll take you right along." And so, much earlier than they ex pected, Jack and Polly had "dec'rated" the old soldier's grave. The brown paper was carefully pinned down with the long wire hairpins, Polly kissing each one before she used it —how often "mother" had used them to fasten up the long brown hair of which the chil dren were so proud! The flags were placed at the foot, the roses at ' k lie head, and the children stood, well satis fied with the results. "Now, let's go and see some of the other dec'rat ions," said Jack,"and then we'll come back again." So they wan dered from place to place. It was the poorest part of J! 's poorest cem etery, yet there were some handsome gravestones, and many carefully kept plots. The children much enjoyed see ing- the flowers, but agreed that "our grave" was the best of all. "The soldiers have covered every bit of the grave," said a tall girl, in a dis appointed tone. "I like them to re member grandpa, but—there is noth ing for us to do, and we have so many flowers." "I have tin idea," said Aunt Mary, who always had delightful ideas, if anyone needed cheering. "Let's drive over to Kvergreens; there may be some graves there that we can deco rate; it is what dear grandpa would wish. You remember he of*--;! said; 'We oflicers get the glory, but the pri vates did the work.'" "That's a splenflid plan; we'll start at once." Tt was a long drive, through miser able streets; but May and her aunt CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1900. were used to such neighborhoods In their visits of charity. As soon as they entered Evergreens each watched for some soldier's grave. "Oh, aunty, there's one! I see a flag! Two of them! John, John! Stop! What a queer thing! What is it ?" and Mary knelt by the children's "headstone." "Aunty, Aunty! the flowers —quickly!" said the impulsive girl, her eyes overflowing. "Oh, if I could only find Polly and Jack Kerr!" Aunt Mary came with lilies and heliotrope, hyacinths and geraniums —Mary would not have one other rose beside the lovely ones the children had laid there. Smilax was carefully wreathed about "the headstone," and then Mary rose, only half satisfied. "'Forty-two Charles street' —1 think we might call there, aunty." "Not to-day, dear, we are too late already. We must hurry home." "I'm afraid we've lost the way." "No. there's the big cross grandpa is just near there. L always know our grave by that. But 1 don't remem ber any other grave that was dee'rat ed. Polly!" Jack could say no more, and. Polly catching sight of the wreath of flow ers and smilax frame at the same moment, the children knelt, speech less with amazement. "Do you think it was angels?" asked Polly, in an awe-struck voice. "No," said Jack, sturdily: "it was this headstone that did it, Polly! Somebody read that!" That was the proudest moment of Jack's life. Polly nodded her head, acquiescently, still too awe-struck for words. "And by next year we must have a real one!" "But the eddieation!" "We'll do it all," said the boy, with a new confidence in his powers. "Now let's take a few of these home to re member the day by." They took a bit of heliotrope, a hyacinth and spray of smilax, and walked, with no sense of weariness, so exalted were they by what theyj had found, back to the rooms which had been grandpa's and mother's, one of which they had managed to keep by toil almost incredible in such mere children. The next day seemed dull and prosy to Polly, as days do to till of us aft.wr unwonted excitement. The little girl had just settled down to study her lessons for the night school .lack and she attended, when there came a knock <it the door. Polly opened it and was confronted by two ladies, one tall and slim, the other "fat and comfortable," as Polly told Jack. "There are our flowers," exclaimed May, who had given her aunt no rest till she took her to 4" Charles street, "so you must be Polly Kerr." "Yes, ma'am," said Polly, much sur prised. This was the first of many visits May made to the neat little room. The general's granddaughter be friended the old soldier's grandchil dren. and. with her help and counsel, Jack and Polly have "a re;il head stone" and—an education! —Frances Harris, in N. Y. Independent. Memorial. A Nation's pride, a Nation's fame, A Notion's battle-glory; Aye, 'teac have held nn honored name In lyric, song and story. But more than each and more than all A-light with heavenly splendor The tributes o'er her dead that fall. Their requiems low and tender. A Nation's wealth, a Nation's power. Her place among the nations; Aye, these may win her for an hour A waiting world's oblations. But fadeless and forever fair The record (lod is keeping. Of Love that lays Its tribute where Her soldier sons are sleeping. —l.aiia Mitchell, in Ciood Housekeeping. On lleautll'iil .May Morning*. On beautiful May mornings I often watch and wait Where lilies of the valley grow beside tha garden gate; For when the white flowers open in frag rance and in grace, A lovely garland I shall make for my sol dier's resting lilace. When I lay the wreath upon his grave on Decoration day, X shall dream of the bright May morning when the soldiers marched away, When to ail they loved so dearly they s»jid a sad good-by. And think how grand a thing It was for their native land to die. —Mary F. Butts, in Youth's Companion. LESSEMVG HANKS. A little band of comrades, year by ye»J-. Bring the red, white and blue To plant with care upon those ioi.eiy graves; Each year their ranks grow few. —Mary K. Averill. Decorating Soldier** t;raven. The idea of Memorial day originated among the women of Maryland, who put flowers on the graves of both fed eral and confederate long before the surrender #f Appomattox. 'A'ie wom en of other states soon began follow ing the custom. The lle*t Memorial. The best memorial of our heroic dead is a reincarnation of their vir tues.—Boston Conerearationalist. FELL INTO A TRAP. Boers Fall Victims to an English man's Strategy. r* ol' naOkini; are Allowed to rupture a I'orl ami are Then Sur rounded and Overpowered - Dundee Xu rrender* to Kll llcr'n Troop* -Otber War New*. London, May 15.—fieri. Bttller's turning of the lliggarsberg position was effected l>y a bold movement. The lioers evacuated lielpmakaar, but are making u stand at llleskop laagte, seven miles from Dundee. The correspondents on the spot regard this as a rear guard action intended to cover the retreat of the army. Last night (ien. Hildyard took lndoba and i! is reported that the Boers withdrew in disorder. (ien. Puller, who seems to be em ploying his full strength, is expected to push on. His first marches were 45 miles in three days. He is thus breaking into British territory which had been administered for six months by the Transvaalers as though it were part of (lie republic, they hold ing courts and levying taxes. His success, therefore, has political us well as military consequences. While Lord Roberts' infantry are concentrating at Kroonstad, where they will rest for a day or two, his horsemen have penetrated IS miles northward. Two hundred Boers who had hidden in the river jungles near Kroonstad to escape service, surren dered to the British and took the o::th of allegiance. London, May 16. —"Food will last until about June 10," is the latest offi cial word from Col. Baden-Powell, the British commander at Mufeking, sent to Lord Koberts under date of May 7. Five days later the lioers at tempted to storm the town, and it is possible that they succeeded.although nothing is known of the attack or of its results except through Pretoria sources. Maj. l'aillie lias sent to the Morn ing Post from Mafeking, under date of May 7, this message: "This morn ing the lioers attacked us. Result as usual. There is an aching void here. 'Pass the loaf.* " The Transvaal army has taken n position at Hlaauwbaschdoort Pass, near Heilbron IJoad Station, 50 miles north of Kroonstad. its rear guard is still holding lite hills north of the Valsch river, while the Boer scouts are in touch with British reconnoit ering parties 20 miles north of Kroon stad. The Free Staters are surrendering in larger numbers than after the oc cupation of Bloemfontein. The relations between the Trans vaal and the Portuguese are strained. The Portuguese consul at Pretoria, according to reports from Lisbon, has been ordered by President Kru ger to leave the country. The Por tuguese declaration making food and clothing contraband has nearly de stroyed the usefulness of Uelagoa bay to the Transvaal. A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Lorenzo Marquez, dated Tuesday, says: "There is now no doubt that there was desperate fighting at Mafeking Saturday, but it is belieevd to have been in favor of the garrison. The war office has received the fol lowing dispatch from (ien. ISuller: "Dundee, May 15. —We have occu pied Dundee. About 2,;"00 of the en emy left yesterday for tllencoe. Their wagons also left yesterday. Almost everv house in Dundee is completely looted." London. May is.—England still waits with intense interest for news of the relief of Mafeking. One thing seems clear. The town still holds out. Were it otherwise the Boer wires laid to the camps of the be leaguered would have flashed the news. Skeleton messages from Lorenzo Marquez, based upon information that leaked out at the Pretoria war office, show that the Boer stormers suddenly fell into a trap. Col. Baden- Powell permitted them to seize one fort and he then surrounded and overbore them before the large forces near at hand perceived th>\ strate gem. It was thus that Sarel Eloff, President Kruger's grandson, and part of his commando were taken and 50 Boers killed. Michael Davitt, according to a dis patch from Lorenzo Marquez. is said to have advised the Boers, while he was in Pretoria, that it' they could hold out until the' presidential elec tion in the United States, they might feel "pretty sure of intervention." The Standard says! "From pro- Boer sources we learn that the lirst great stand by the federals will be on the ridges near Johannesburg. This position has been strongly in trenched and the burghers believe they can hold it for some time. If driven from that point, part of the force will be thrown into Pretoria to withstand a siege, while the main body will retreat to the Lydenburg district, with the intention of keep ing up a guerilla warfare from that mountainous region." .Tlnrder In a Depnrtmeiit Store. New York, May 18. —Mary Branni gan, ~4 years old, a cierk in a depart ment store, was shot and killed yes terday in the store by Edward Hall, who was keeping company witn the girl. Hall made no attempt to escape. The police say he shot the girl be cause she refused t« marry him. Tlir Amalgamated'* Convention. Indianapolis, May 17.—The most important action taken at Wednes day's session of the convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers was the.passage of a resolution that the Amalgamated Journal be the official organ of the union. Heretofore the Labor Tri bune, of Pittsburg, has been endors ed as the official organ. The reading of the president's annual report showed the organization is in good condition and that the increase in the number of members during tha past year has been 50 per cent. GOVERNOR OF HAWAII. Innford 11. Dole, I.ate l'retldent of tlie laland Itepuhllc, Appointed to the I'oaltiou. Kanford Ballard Dole, who has been appointed governor of Hawaii by the president, is regarded as a particularly available man for this important post. His name and personality are a part of the recent history of the islands. Mr. Dole was born in Honolulu In 1844. Hi* parents arrived as missionaries to Hawaii in that very year. He received his preliminary education in Pubahan SANFORD BALLARD DOI.E. (Just Appointed Governor of Hawaii by President McKinley.) college, on the island, and was latei groduated from Williams college, in the United States. lie studied law and was admitted to the bar in Boston end returned to Honolulu, where he took up the practice of law. In 1887 he was appointed to the supreme court of the kingdom. Mr. Dole, as member of the Hawaiian legislature, took part in the reform movement which culminated in the revolution of 1893. On July 4, 1894, he was made president of the republic of Hawaii. Mr. Dole was the choice oi the conservative element of the island for the position of governor. He la thoroughly familiar with the needs and the affairs of his country, and it is believed his administration will be just and wise. HE FAVORS THE BOERS. Mr. Sfhrelner, Premier of Cnpe Col on}, I* Filling a Most Difficult Plaoe Jn*t Sow. W. P. Schreiner, premier of Cape Col ony, who is now threatening to resign his office, has had a very difficult place to fill during the British-Boer war. As leader of the Afrikander element in the Cape, he was ostensibly opposed to war, although doubtless In sympathy with the Boer states. He made many efforts to preserve the peace between the peoples, and was more than once called a traitor while negotiations were under way. As to his intellect, he is certainly clever enough to have been for many years an adroit- and not entirely unsuccessful opponent of Cecil Rhodes. Mr. Schreiner was born in Cape Colony, Is of Dutch descent., and was educated in England. He studied at London and Cambridge unl- HON. W. P. SCHREINER. (Premier of Cape Colony Who Sympathizes with the Boers.) versities, and after taking his degree returned to South Africa as a barrister. Soon winning a reputation for shrewd ness, he became attorney general of Cape Colony when Rhodes was prime minister. For a time he was Rhodes' right-h.md man and intimate friend, but the Jameson raid caused a rup ture which was never healed, and the two men were long at "daggers drawn" with each other. In appearance Mr. Schreiner is a fine-looking man. He has a large head, joined to a pair of broad shoulders by a thick neck. He is a brother of Olive Schreiner, the novelist. Where <;irlx Do the C'onrtlnK. The Coroadas of Brazil have no mar riage ceremony. The suitor simply prest'nts to the bride's parents fruits or game as a token that agrees to provide for the necessities of his wife. Among the Garrows of Bengal the courting is left entirely to the girl. She wooes and wins her husband, fixes the day of the wedding and invites all the guests. When the feast is over the guests will carry the bride to the river and give her a ducking. The bridegroom makes a pretense of hid ing, but is soon found and is served in the same manner. Then his parents set up a prolonged howling and de clare that they cannot part with their son, but, all the same, a cock and hen are sacrificed and the pair are legall* man and wife. African Ilurlnl Cmtonu. In certain parts of Africa it is consid ered a mark of disrespect to bury out of doors at all. Only slaves are treated in such unceremonious fashion. The honored dead are buried under the floor of the house. The I.nree*t I.pmon (irorf. San Diego, Cal., has a lemon grove covering I,JOO acres. It la said to be the largest in the worldi It was begun is 1800 with 170 acres. Englishmen Rejoice Over the lie lief of Mafeking. A STORM OF PATRIOTISM. Glad Tumult, in Every Section of the Empire. LONDONERS WENT CRAZY. No Such Demonstration* of ■>«-11 t Have Keen Known In llie Wetropolla Miirr the War Iti Albcr ItritivU Sui'ceMei are Ifeportod. London, May 19. — London's millions spent half of last night in the street and this morning l troops of young 1 men are promenading, singing and cheering, and there are crowds in front of the Mansion house, Marlbor ough house, the clubs on I'all Mall, the war office and in Parliament Square, waving flags and joining in the national airs. This uproar of hundreds of thou sands amazes the Englishman who ceases for a moment to be an actor and becomes merely an observer. London is beside itself with emotion, (ilists of patriotism have set the town quivering twice or thrice before during the war, but nothing has equalled last night's hundred square miles of almost furious demonstra tion. It was all brought about by a 20- word telegram from Pretoria that Mafcking had been relieved. Although the government has not a word, and although nothing confirmatory has been received from any African source except Pretoria, nobody ques tions the news. The London fire insurance laws make fireworks impossible at night and the city lacked the blaze of illu mination characteristic of American cities during similar rejoicings. The Britisher, therefore, relied upon lung power, and from St. Paul's cathedral to Westminster Abbey, and up through Piccadilly to Hyde park, there was a Niagara-like roar, inces sant, rising and falling hour after hour, as the surging masses poured through London's thoroughfares like the processions on the eve of a presi dential election in the. United States. At Carlton hotel, which is filled with Americans, the bands played "Marching Through Georgia," which has been recently adapted to an Eng lish song entitled "Marching to Pre toria." "Dixie" and other American airs were played. Ten thousand people stood in front of Mrs. Baden-Powell's house cheer ing and Hinging; and a score of cabs brought congratulations. In unrestrained jubilation the provinces were not behind the me tropolis. Although London had the start by a few minutes, the great in dustrial centers and surrounding towns suddenly burst into patriotic demonstrations. Pells clang in their steeples; village bands turnAl out, and people gathered in the squares to chant "(iod Save the Queen." From all parts of the empire comes the same story. Bombay, I long Kong, Colombo and the Australian cities are rejoicing. Continental cit ies received the news sadly. The relief of Mafeking had the ef fect of suspending for a moment in terest in the operations elsewhere in the field ol war. Nevertheless yester day brought important, official an nouncements. Lord Methuen entered Hoopsind on Thursday. He is now 70 miles from Kroonstad and 50 from Bothaville. Lien. Buller entered New Castle Thursday evening. Lord Boberts is not idle. While waiting for stores at Kroonstad, he is using his mounted men to search a wide tract of coun try. Col. Broadwood occupied Lind ley on Thursday and the same day (ien. Button captured one of the Pothas, 30 miles from Kroonstad. (ien. I'undle, on Thursday, encamped at Cloelan. British successes are thus reported at every point. Pretoria, May 10.—The siege of Mafeking was abandoned on Tuesday, a British force from the south taking possession of the place. President Stcyn left here for the Free State Thursday night. Addressing a crowd on the platform, he urgeu it to be of good cheer. It is reported that 5,000 British troops have surrounded Chris tiana and that the landrost and other officials have been taken prisoners. A Lorenzo Marquez correspondent, telegraphing yesterday says: "New peace proposals will probably be put forward by the Boer government, i The recent reverses are causing de spondency." According to other advices from the same point, President Kruger and other high officials purpose leaving almost immediately for Lydenburg. The British prisoners will be con veyed there; and the foreign consuls at Pretoria are leaving for Lyden burg. In Kroonstad it is said that Kruger will surrender when Lord Koberts crosses the Tranvaal frontier. He MUX Kasy for ,Tlc«oy. New York, May 10.—"Kid" McCoy easily defeated Australian Dan Cree don at the Broadway Athletic club last night before one of the largest crowds that ever assembled at the club. Creedon made a very poor showing. At no time did he land a blow that hurt McCoy. Stage Coaelie* Held I |>, Stockton, Cal., May 10.—Both the Yosemite Y.illey stages were held up Thursday night by a lone highway man at Pig Neck Flat. About was secured from the passengers. The ladies were not molested. 3
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