Here, by » bere, oes Thal e ‘ne'e (A oN Sieh eortly Bema { cf 2 Sind n Pid al our dfidler dead r forpel. the lation, ragk, e lig belo 4 the Ti reedom a » lo nd The As we lay OUR DEATHLESS DEAD. By Edward Markham. A Tribute to Who Have For Old Gory. How shall we honor them,~- less Dead ?— With strew of laurel ly tread? With blaze of overhead? Nay, not alone these cheaper praizes bring: They will ing. Died Those our Death- and the state- banners brightening not have this easy honor | Not all our cannon, breaking the blua noon, Not the rare reliquary, writ with rune. Not all the iterance of our reverent cheers. Not all sad bugles blown, Can honor them, grown saintlier the years: . Nor can we praise alone In the majestic reticence of stone: | Not even our lyric tears Can honor them, passed their apheres. Nay, we must meet of fate As they met theirs; secrate, honor them, afar, Where they star. wit upward to | our august i and this will con- This this stir thelr souls » climbing to an ampler HOW CAPTAIN GRAFT HELD THE TOWER. there still stands, the little ‘ture which auarters of United pygmy building | have disappeared | save an insignifi- | in a Pennsyl- Fort Sheridan doom is sealed, two-room tha At though one-story, served as David IL. Infantry. tumbles there will everything on earth cant little headstone its giry Captain Craft, Si Statea When thie cemetery to ever remind one lived as David brance of person wa with mes ficer Craft ages sent him by one general of- another in valley beyond. was a His herculean frame was sithou against the sky, nd az his flags wig-wagged back and forth the enemy in the trenches caught sight of him full and fair. A bat. tery of artillery was trained place held the men. zignal but a minute to get the range. to inn giana staat it took ov ghee! struck within a few yards of the flagmen Another came, and one of the little party was dead and an other was going. Craft alone stood uninjured. The signal flag which fell from the hand of his subordinate was held aloft in his own. The wig wag- ging went on, Craft's message was oniy half completed. A glance into the valey showed him the signaled prder to leave his post and retreat to the camp. The official message was nol yet fini~hed: Craft kept on wig: wagging. The fragment of a shell shattered the flagstaff in his hand. An. other fragment tore his left arm. Qraazping the sod banner In his right band and raistg himself to his full Beight he made a flagpole of his up- Ulted arm and finished the message the 1amning shells dug about him nd Lieutenant officer, descended a brevel captain, in Army 1A 45 held the = David L that Peters- Five lines’ Reg ister ignal tower it for “Paddy” C have come to him from the scors of poliiticlans.—Ed in the Chicago Reoyrd- Sec zigzunal hil description he “pull” in burg of had raft the how nore than would work of a ward B. Clark, Herald. When First, Observed. of the Re- the day South In 1868 the Grand public first began in a formal manner aflopted the custom I graves with we before War closed an rth just Not become Army to observe ig oo} ia .* goidgiers the Civil d the practice after the general » General Lo ef of the G to the it gpread war, but until! 1868 gan Was A. R., and his of the day was the 30th of May ae the ceremoni se rvance in May, gnated for €s8 Pointed Paragraphs. tell stale st resh no sual §o ¢ . Hired ires irom { i i { he natur rally weighs If you would predict a man's fu { ture get the proper focus on his past It isn’t wnat a man 13 that him happy, it's what he thinks he is Somes are naitive that they seem to have corns all over them The base drum may not good music, but drowns a i bad music. Advice a useless thing, a wise people #0 produce it lot of is man does not want i and a fool wip not take It. Language was probably given te lawyers to enabla them to conceal the thoughts of their elients—Chlcage News. Gratitude. America's show of gratitude for the deads of her soldier heroes 13 a fitting monument to patriotism. No nation can compare with ours in the wealth of its reward for sacrifice, France prides herself upon the greatness of her Hotel des Invalides, and England boasts of the vastness of her miuitary hospitals for the “Queen's own,” bul America's National Home for Diz abled Volunteer Soldiers, as the fina! triumph of milita asyiums, sur passes anythin of the kind yet conceived. Of L¥ 4 it hord of the and vig hi ry youth that freely oered union and OTs Are for the thie thel herald march, shroud non Decorating Soldiers’ had south, its origin wit} November would re} to twine have On to the cit garlands ail there We and land tne tha graves of fallen lower suburbs of New containing shrine of 8t. Rogu reared women tn oad {rom the gt flowers hernosg Orleans the cemetary ercessior tab sliowed Memories. is tempered hy he great sacrifice and the flow sewn over the graves of those +11 in defense of ofloe fir i $ tha was the good «¢ ora str who HL of citizon hich has regen Memorial Day Sentiments, This is our day for all our patriotie saints and heroes ~QGeneral Anderson Every boy and girl of fifteen should know the names and places which have made American bravery famoua throughout the world.—Judge Richa-d Yates. "The nation that cherishes the graves of its soldiers and assembles to honot them is the nation that preserves and enlarges national life.—~HBenjamin Har rison. The nation or country that can grow men of such character and such lofti- ness of soul that they will go down to death, if need be, for a principle, can rule the world —Webster Davis, st Arlington, . New York City.—Conts stitched straps are made with much in vogue and are exceedingly smart. This very at- tractive May Manton one is adapted | BTRAPPED COAT, BOTS general colored ings of ail as well as used for tan irticelll madi to suit ters als wrap COVe: i silk with and back The tion collm ronts and shoulders th the regula front is The slecy in each cket ilor coat shape, uffs tnx Bion With Siale Collar, ort enough to th to 1 worn iH ' benien nm sive juarter yi Ut is twenty de forty-four ind hes rv ndsrslenve Effects, Many of the hands new «1 elaborate undersieeve effects held in pleasing. and droopy however. positively untidy, 0d sleeves may A KEON If Too nang these are weil agay schemes, especially be made handsome for the street. thus modish very easily broadeloth was thus treated war ripped up the back A ruffle of black Each The sleeve fam to the elbow. aide of it was one of black de Venise lace. The edges wore hidden by an applique of Oriental smbroidery lke that on the enffs and at the fronts A Ward Abhont Silk. 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