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With June's first fair touch
Felt through last breaths of May;
With the world boon aglow,
Comes Memorial Day.
A day, when with flowers,
And slow, solemn tread,
We go to the graves of
Our dear precious dead.
We whisper above them;
Their souls surely hear!
And they feel that their loved ones
Are lingering near.
The fairest of blossoms,
All pink, white and red
Form soft, fragrant coverlets
To spread o'er our dead,
Then gently and sweetly
A farewell we say
To those loved who are sleeping
On Memorial Day.
—Age-Herald.
Ay
T WAS the
after one of the
battles, The surviving
soldiers of the battle
were fatigued, and glad
to drop down almost
anywhere te rest. Those
who had been on the re-
serve were caring for the
dead and wounded, and
in the hospital tent were
those who wore the blue
and those who wore the
gray, groaning with the
wounds received in bat-
tle, and being treated by
the Union physicians.
Near the hospital about
a dozen Union men were
sitting upon the ground,
around a fire of sticks
and limbs, trying to
“cook coffee.” On the
right and on the left, in
front of them and in the
rear, could be seen the
dead bodies, dressed In
uniform of the friend and of the
evening
greatest
the
foe.
They were just taking the coffee
from the fire when a soldier came up,
and discovering that the dozen men
were of his company, sald:
“How is it, boys; are you dry?”
“Trying to cook our coffee, Ned,”
sald one of the soldiers, "but 1 guess
it will be Virginia mud and water
mixed together.” i
“I've got something good,” said |
the first speaker, producing his can-
teen, which had hung across his
shoulders.
“What is it?"
“Whisky,” replied Nad
“You're a trump.” “that's jolly:"
“that is just the stuff;” ‘that will re-
vive us; and other expressions of
satisfaction and pleasure were made
by the men.
“Here, sergeant,” sald Ned, reach-
ing the canteen towards a tall, noble
looking fellow who had been silent,
“throw aside your temperance prin-
ciples for once and take a drink.”
“Not any, Ned, thanks,” replied
the one addressed as sergeant.
“Come, now! you have fought like
a tiger all day. You do not kcow but
what you might have to rally in five
minutes.”
“True, Ned, but excuse me,
“Not a drop?
“Not a drop!”
“Say, sergeant,” sald Ned, “if It is
agreeable to the boys, we shall ad-
journ the drink for five minutes and
you tell us how you came to be such
an advocate of temipe rance.,
asked one.
"
Memorial Statue of the Late General
Franz Sigel, by Carl Bitter,
“1 second the motion,”
soldier,
“And so do 1!"
“And 1, too!”
“Well, boys,” said the sergeant, “1
will tell you. It is a short story,
and therefore soon told, When I
sald another
owing to the death of my father. 1
came home to help my mother, who
needed me. My father had been a
prosperous farmer; he had that fru-
gality and sturdy industry character
istic of the Vermont farmers.
mother 1 always considered the most
handsome woman on earth, at least
she appeared so to me; and as a
mother, there never was one better.
“After my father had been dead
about a year, somehow I acquired a
passion for hunting, fishing, and es
BE ———— ———
me all night. She had faithfully
kept her lonely vigil watching her
drunken son, weeping and praying.
“fT am awfully thirsty,’ 1 sald. My
voice sounded strange, weak and un-
natural. I got up; my mother rose,
went to the well and brought me a
cup of water. As she handed the cup
to me she bowed her head that I
might not see her grtef; but I saw
From Her Hand and
8 Cor tents.”
“1 Took the ak J
t
Drank
drop into that cup. I took the cup
from her hand and drank its con-
tents, tear and all, Yes, boys, 1
drank my mother's tear, and I made
a solemn vow that 1 never again
would drink her tears.
“1 led my mother into the house;
I led her to the armchair, and as
soon as she was seated I got down
upon my knees.
* ‘Mother,’ I said,
it shall be the last.’
“ ‘Charles,’ said she,
fingers through my hair,
God bless you.’
“1 looked up and my mother had
fainted. [I took her In my arms,
one might take a child, and placed
her upon a bed.
“1t was the beginning of what came
‘this is my first;
running her
‘I hope so.
T0 oR G. Bn CODER
All Posts Contributed to Monument
For Dr. B. F. Stephenson.
Every .Orand Army Post contrib- |
uted to the $35,000 required for a
memorial to Dr. Benjamin F. Ste-
phenson, founder of the Grand Army
of the Republic, the design for which, |
by J. Massey Rhind, the New York
sculptor, has just been accepted by a
commission at Washington.
The statue, which will be a trian-
gular shaft, thirty feet high, with |
symbolical groups on each side, will |
be ready for unvelling on August 1,
1909. It will be erected at Pennsyl-
vania avenue and feventh street, N.
W., Washington, on a $10,000 pedes-
tal for which Congress has made an
appropriation.
The front panel of the shaft sym-
bolizes Fraternity, a soldier and |
sallor clasping hands and holding
the flag between them. Below is a
portrait medallion of Stephenson,
with Grand Army badges on either
side and an inscription, “Grand Army
of the Republic. Organized by B. F.
Stephenson, M. D., at Decatur, lil.
April 6, 1866.”
The other panels of the shaft sym-
near being her death Days
bed.
dered,
for my
praying for me,
reformation, And at
pecially cooning. There was nothing
that delighted me so much as it did
to take my dog and go out with some |
of the neighboring boys and bring
home a number of coons. One night, |
three or four of our neighbors came |
to our Bouse § alter 1 me, _They thought | i
ing to my father
gon, and that she hoped he
Every word she
like a knife cutting
sald was
aie be before lb ever tasted quo.
they had found i new place-—a corn
fileld-—where there was plenty of
game. 1 needed no urging. 1 kissed
my mother good-by, told her that |
would not be late, called my dog, and
away we went,
“1 drank some whisky, and on my
return reeled and staggered around
the yard a lite in a vain attempt to
find the steps to the house. 1 stum-
bled over something, fell down, and
was unable to get up. After a little
I went to sleep——a regular drunken
sleep.
“It seems that in the night some
time my mother became anxious be-
cause 1 did not come home. She had
not been to bed, but had fallen into
a slumber upon the couch. She
awoke, as I sald before, some time
had befallen me, arose from the
and started out to find me. And she
found me in a condition most deplor-
able, indeed.
“At first she thought I was dead,
or that I had been brutally treated
by a highwayman. But when she
stooped down to look at me, and saw,
by the moonlight, my face, she knew
that her only child was drunk. She
tried to waken me; she tried to get
me into the house, but she had not
the strength. She went to the house
and got a pillow and placed It under
my head. She covered me with
blankets; she protected my face from
the dew by placing an open umbrella
over me. She drew her shawl tightly
round her shoulders and sat down by
my side.
“In the morning I awoke just as
the sun was rising. I found her
there. Great tears were chasing each
was nineteen 1 had to leave school
other down her cheeks. I saw at
YORK.
—By St. _Gaudens.
A
“Bat, thank God, my mother got
well. It was a long time before she
was able to leave her room. 1 was
her constant companion. Somehow it
seemed to me that her life depended
upon my care.
“When the war broke out, | made
up my mind that I ought to enlist.
I told my mother about it, and asked
her advice,
* ‘Charlie,’ she said,
let you go.’
“8he blushed as she looked me in
the face. But her reply was one
never to be forgotten.
“Charlie, I am afraid that you
will be overpowered by strong drink.’
“ ‘Mother,’ said I, 'I solemnly vow
by the sacred memory of my dear
father, that I will never drink an-
other drop of Intoxicating liquor
without your consent.’
* “Then you may go to the war,
Charlie.” That was her reply, boys.
And 1 tell you what-—when I drink
an intoxicant, it will be when my
mother's own hand brings it to me
and she asks me to drink it.”
“Amen,” sald several of the sol-
diers, who were listening to the ser-
geant’s story,
“I say, boys,” sald Ned, “here goes
the whisky.” Turning the canteen
upside down, he emptied its contents
on the ground, As the liquor went
gurgling out, he sald: “I've got a
mother, too, and I'm done with
Hgquor.”
“And I, too!”
“And 1!"
Every one took the pledge, and ft
was afterwards said that the men
who were gathered around the camp-
firs that night were the
I am afraid to
Memorial to Be the ©
in Washington Dr. Benjamm
Btephenson, Founder of the Or
ganization Front Panel of Tn:
angular Shaft
Massey Rhind,
Erected by
to
Sculptor
ne
bolize, respectively, Loyalty, with a
emale
for
the other, and Charity, a
are, beavily draped, caring
young boy standing at her side
The Missing.
But, ah! the graves wha
or knows;
Uncounted graves,
found ;
Graves of the precious
no sound
Of tender weeping
goes
No loving step of kindred —0O, how flovs
And yearns our thought to them!
which never can be
"missing."
will be heard,
But Nature knows her wilderness;
There are no “missing”
ways;
In her gla
wach grave
CAess,
We cannot lay such wreaths as summer
lays,
And all her days are Decoration days!
Helen Hunt Jackson
heart is no forgetfulness:
keeps, she will adorn,
she
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That was the crime of
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