Pole by lingarwood Xibaerwood By ELMO SCOTT WATSON EARLY every lar with the story of the of Memorial day—how a group of women Miss. SOON a the set American Is origin in Columbus, : , Ose af to {ter the el Civil war, decided aside April 26 cial day the graves of Confederate on that date ¥ flowers for decorating how in 1866 they covered with their soldiers as of this dead, not only the graves of own kinsmen but of Union well, the story act was reported in pers the nest spring and sent a thrili throughout the North and directly next year to the issuing the Order No. 11 by Gen John A. Logan which resulted in the observance of a national memorial day from that But not so familiar with the how gracious northern newspa- how it led ithe + of famous time on. many of action the the carried story how a poem also resulted from the southern women und It played In doing away with which had been from the war between In Ithaca, N. Y. there uug lawyer named Finch, When he heard what Col- umbus (Miss) women bad done it in- ired hin these part bit rerness over he states lived =a Je Francis the — 3 write {I “he io 1 Verses he gave the title of Blue und the € seemed to xtrike a responsive chord in the hearts of thousands and widely reprinted and |; and According it was to ane iter set music sung. to historian, “the singing and reading of Finch’'s poem did more to re-establish harmony than any of the well thought- out plans of reconciliation of the dip- lomats.™ The late Chauncey M. Depew in one his famous addresses in referring to the cusiom of decorating the graves of the soldier dead on Memorial day, sald: “Thus out of sorrows common alike te North and South came this beautiful custom.” Although in- spiration for the observance of Memo rial day came from a group of south- ern women, it was the large gronp of northern men who kept the custom alive in its earliest days, This group was the Grand Ariny of the Republic The Grand Army of the Republie, or the G. A. RR. as it is more familiarly known, was organized in Decatur, IL, April 6, 1866, at the suggestion of Dr. B. Stephenson and Chaplain W, J. Rutledge of the Fourteenth lilinois In- fantry. 118 membership was composed of northern veterans of the Civil war and at one time this rembership reached the total of 400.480, Perhaps its most famons command. er was Gen, John A. Logan who, as previously noted, Issued the famous order which led to the regular obsery- unece of Memorial day. In the words of one G. A. R. veteran, whose remi- of the aa Ge a —- eS Li The Blue and the Gray By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-gram quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the daad: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the jdgmont-day; Under tie one, the Blue, Under the other, the Gray hese in the robings of glory, Those in the gloom of defeat, All with the batile-blood gory. In the dusk of eternity mest Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment-day; Under the laurel the Blue, Under the willow, the Gray. From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners po, Lovingly laden with flowers Alike for the friend and the foe: Under the sod and the dew Waiting the judgment.-day; Under the roses, the Blue, Under the lilies, the Gray Se with an equal splendor, The morning sun-rays fall, With a touch impartially tender, On the blossoms blooming for 2 Under the sod and the dew, Walting the judgment.-day; Broidered with gold, the Flue, Mellowed with gold, the Gray So. when the summer calleth, On forest and field of grain, With an equal murmur (alleth The cooling drip of the rain: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Wet with the rain, the Blue, Wet with the rain, the Gray. Sadly, but not with upbraiding, The generous deed was done, the storm of the years that ar. fading No Braver battles was won: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment.day; Under the blossoms, the Blue, Under the garlands, the Gray. in No more shall the war-cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red; They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of ou dead: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Due, Tears and love for the Gray. ~=Francis Miles Finch niscences of the earlier observances of Memorial day were published In a New York newspaper last year, “It seemea for many years that the ob servance of the day in the spirit of Order No, 11 was left to the veterans only, while others made merry on this legal holiday, going to horse races, prize fights and all kinds of noisy amusements, This class called it Dee oration day. As a rule the veterans made no protest to what seemed to them an desecration of the day. They met and carried out the mandate of Order No. 11 and did so patiently and devotedly, But of late years there has been a marked reaction. As the old men grew fewer number and went abo their sacred duties more wearily, all that they had | bers and physics! turned in moral and spiritual st In many villnges the and, sg p abandoned in POWErS SeOmey and cities is are nenris and the the people ily with few veterur they He services I come together to hold All alike not may aay is Union that “Few that statement kept that it is while there the BHD ton, for the memory ddiors who gave their lives the nation might live in blue™- is of the men of it Year w veterans Bow true who have glive the tradition Memoria her parades wend their sireets of American In Andrew Johnson stood stand on Washington 1865 President in a reviewing Pennsylvania avente in and saw 20050 men ant and Sherman, poss by. In 1015, President Woodrow Wil son stood on the sume spot amd saw the survivors of that grand view murch once more down Penn syivania avenue. In 50 years the 200. XX} had bren reduced to than 20000, And that is typlesi of how the ranks of the men who wore the Blue ns well as those who the Gray have been reduced by time. So it Is easy that is near at band when neither the Gray nor the Blue will be represented in the Memorial day parades which honor the men who lost their when the United States was in throes of the greatest civil war in history, But the gaps bedan to appear in the ranks of the Blue and the Gray their places were taken by men who wore the khaki of 188 and the "0. PD.” of 1918. For Memorial day now is more than a day of memary for the Blue and the Gray. This Ig a day for honoring our soldier dead, the countless host of those who gave up thelr lives in the Civil war, the Indian wars. the Spanish-American war, the Philippine insurrection and the World war, Conceived as a symbol of forgive ness for civil strife and a nation re- united it has become the symbol of a nation more strongly united than ever before because it honors the memory ~=not only of the men who fought un der two different flags but alse the memory of their song and grandsons who fought and died for one flag. Orig: inating in the South bot taken up and made a permanent national ohserv ance mainly by the North, the spirit of Memorial day now knows no North, no Sonth, no East, no West, It honors the fighting men of no partienlar war but of al] ware. It is the symbol of Ameriea’s gratitude to her fighting men whe have died In her defense, the soldiers of Gr first re fous ware to see the time Hives ihe uns Great American Victory I The battle of St. Miliel, because It wus such an almost perfect vic tory, was regarded by some as an eagy achievement, The more than 4,000 dead give no such evidence, for while not that many St. Mihiel dead remain at Thiaucourt, a great many have heen brought back to the stntes these seven or eight years gone, [It was un perfect victory in that every objective was taken on schedule time, or sooner. But the perfect victory wns scored only by the perfect cour age of a half million American fight. ing men, and by the heroic saerifice of many who were left on the fleld, as the well-timed movements of the drive surged on to seize each chosen objective, WA Sl AAS At St. Mihiel On September 12, 1017, the first American army, trained and operating as a unit, attacked the St. Mihie! sa lient both from west and south, drove in its sides and collapsed It on the Germans, taking nearly 16,000 prison. ers in the operation, After that the St. Mibiel salient never bothered any. one, In taking it, the Yanks took the town of Thiaucourt, and at the eage of that town there later was located the permanent American cemetery, where rest the dead from the St. Al) hiel drive, and also the muny others who died In training or in battle in that area of northeastern [Prance. which was the tralning ground of the A. KE, FP. Fun ous Causes Clover Failure cline in Popularity as Forage Crop. of Agriculture.) “Clover failure” has been one of ity of red clover gre amounz as a forage crop. the Important of the crop, and anthracnose Is the In Technical Bulle the diseases Important, * Just pub- United States Depart- John Monteith industry This the Agriculture, by of raused by the fungus Colletotrichum subsequent paper will similar disease caused by been in many clover growing Mr. Monteith reports that other legumes, but not all, since re. tions, it greatest dam more there particularly readily because high and spread of the fungus at the time Control by spraying or it were reduced elif tive. The Injury can be a change of seeding dates thrives in the heut of seeding is delayed until plants are likely and go into the and would t one before the height the second summer, If August escape injury in make at fungus is The com to winter good ©COn en crop year. practice of sowing a nurse crop clover is particularly unfavorable clover somewhat crop at the conditions loses protecting shade when the is harvested, this time when the fungus most Best Control, wenkened and hu ppens ¢ favorable of strains Such found in the selection re sistant the was developed periment high sits New ports that the damnagy a similar anthracnose cao fungus he has 10 disease, at the Tennessee station and bas of resistance, strain failed when England, but Mr, Monte there ex 3 degree This re nt seeded in th re was from hy (he A000 we] studied other grown seed from stock produced In regions where the disense in more than imported seed, or seed from re gions is not preva lent. selection must be pended ob to play an important part, Mr. Monteith concludes, in increasing the t in clover ance grown continunonsiy in anthracnose $ rnd Soyer: Is, Repernd where the di Natural i PRES degree of resis an infested This acter and application partment PD. C. region. bulletin is may be obtained io the char upon Iw in free United States technical Individual Feeding of Different cows have different eapu cities for converting feed into No man who has not a full apprec ation of the wide variation in inagi a feeder. Some cows may have ural capacity for prodocing quantities of milk, and may not re ceive feed enough for maximum pro duction. By increasing the the highest-producing cows and care fully consulting the milk sheets on which each cow's daily production is feed of find that some cows in respond to the Increased allowance On that ditional feed hand, there limited capacity for and are very liable to be overfed. given, are cows beyond which any addition to Short Farm Notes Cabbage growers need particularly to watch crop market reports. In a short crop year, consider holding part of the crop, unless the fall price is very high. * . Grain growers annually lose milllons of dollars from plant diseases. These diseases can be controlled. 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