Origin of the Custom of Decorating FOR DECORATION DAY. ANNUAL, REMEMBRANCE OF THE NATION'S DEAD. | pr vul Soldiers’ Graves—Famous Ora. tions Called Out by the Memories of the War on This Anniversary The G. A. R. DECORATION DAY, 1804 The heart so leal and the hand of steel t Are palsied aye for strife, Put the noble deed and the patric Are left of the hero's life yo bugle eall and the battle ball y shall rouse him never ight and fell, he riough lasts forey those then he parts which made him nny himsel! to Kray narrated | ‘ {the fort, wont r nen Juste President Lin harpshootors coin « sod i} a was proeval od uy ) danger when the fort peremtorily him ) y it Afterward Baldy Sixth Corps double sing » trefnen dust a and the » Early retired. A dotachment went gathered up the dead. not f them and hastily the pied which became the litle National comatery On Decoration Day of 1882 Pros ent Arthur, without the knowledge of any one except the gardener, caused to be sent to the cemetery the most besutiful tribute of flowers probably ever strown upon soldiers Braves wh n that place General ame on the lous cloud of Idlers of out and than two buried them In hwy more OOPS Decoration Day Speeches, One of the most notable of Decoration Day addresses was delivered by Chauncay M. Depew in the Metropolitan Opera House on May 50, 1879. Depew had a magnifl- cont audiences, He had accepted the invita tion rather reluctantly, but as he § preparing his address he became fas inate who I it was the finest him. Ingersoll Depew's man inspired thy Perhaps one higher order of se n address he rea not 1 | the trophies of the war | ganizations | was wi with } $ f [ thos have heard Depew are of opinion ti nt | to oration ever deliverad by | su It differad entirely fromthe a which was really a prose poem, address was the speceh of to lofty and solemn sentiments contemplation of the } he wa 1 ebrate, | of lonel who heard the addres th nounced it one of the finest specimens of yv over delivered by an American of of the most noteworthy of | fo ation Day addresses was delivered by | ar Garfield at Arlington, Many fin rho heard It familiar with Guar f orntory Hi on speaking on a } ptiment, and he dross of ugh the heroes achievements Ingersoll, wer wns torical achievement litical After all, bw Fhe Grand Army of the Republie, TAL ly intr rimnization printers that a dozen April 6, 1866, organiaad a post 4 ad hend Post Distriot Department © Hinols, Grand Republi phenson's name, by a slight and per ition pears on the oMaoial records as Con in hief of the department Dr, Stephenson who was born In IHinols In 1832, served Surg of the Fourteonth Hlinols Regiment from April 7, 1862, to June 24, 15864. He died st Rooky Creek, August 30, 1871 Three years ago, at the National ot ment of the Grand Army of the Rey was resolved to establish at the oity of De entur, in recognition of its being the birth place of the order, a Soldiers’ National Me morial Hall, in which it I» proposed to store and preserve the official records of the en eampmenis, departments and posts, and which belong to ore individuals, Originally it that the fund for the endowment of this structure | pate was 80 attrae tha lamive ap mn der na on Amp He, It and Intended arection and | should be ralsed by increasing the annum | { dues of the members twenty-five cents per | | annum for threa years © bet a committee ap- | po not only posts ments with ritunt win f Later or rf en that and bseriptions for the erection building, In the early day ation it had National and tate depart but district and reanizations, division, The wrisome, Instead | standing on military olonels, mnty divis- fmplified, by their of ourorg P weparate officers for « yory ong ars Being nll men ‘ n J wero Mind, an footing of “comrades lGenerals, ( und ritun! PrOseryy the trict ns were dropg id 1 ol ald and as vision forthe soldier ‘ WORLD'S FAIR PRICE It Will Cost $18.10 to See Everything at the Big Show. $ of H THE CAPTAIN REMOVED. Too Tardy in Going to Sea With Atlanta the Crulser Atlanta ment wl thy vy Yard wi with the ut: sgraphing AImiral conled | slintely and & as 8O0On As possibile AL A 0 wok evening of the 10th a message was reosived from Admiral Gherardl stating that tubes for the Atlanta's bollers were neaded Lm dinte’y Eariy on the n ris} dispat sha rar i tor her sail m the have orning of the 11th the de. partment telegraphed Admiral Gherardl “The Atlanta has eight bollers in per fect condition and two defe All oun be used, Bhe oan go around the world with two, Bpare tubes for boilers have not been delivered Supply anything needed by the Atlanta from ships under your nn i at ones Bhe must not deiny « tubes, Kend her to son Irnmedistely At 430 p, mi. on the 11th Captain Higgin son sent the following dispatch to Commo dore Malville “Flonase do not let the Atlanta sail without puting boller tubes on board, We have two soliers out of action by leaky tubes,” This telegram, in the face of instructions telegraphed Admiral Gherardl, showed Cape tain Higginson's desire to delay his depart. ure, The Department ci bites rns tos request for the vesasl on the Bth, but she did not get way until the evening of the 13th, fix tive on a {INESE EXCLUSION LAW. THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT IS CONSTITUTIONAL. Three of the Elght Justices Read Dis Field Brutal it Deport senting Opintons ~Justice Denounces the Law as Will Cost $6,000,000 to the Unreglstered Mongollans, The Bupreme Court ft) Washingt ned the of the ( Ex tration Justioe tices | nou ax tator the tern un United bat n hos aflir nex pen Mi Way porting the not registered wand 104,000 It is not ury Department that draw upon arryving out _ quiremer nti t ons were hoard that ( wivene to consider the matter A SIAMESE LEGATION, To Be Repres ister nted by a Former Min to England wool ved oe the Ntats has r inl {the purpose of Govern. Cy Hl ington, and that the oes 1 Iw charge of it Is now awaiting an opportunity 10 present his eredentinle to the Presidem Tie new diplomatic officer formerly repre sented Siam at the Court of Bt, James, and Is a gentleman of rank and cuiture The United States has bad a Legation st Bangkok, Slam, for many years, bul that country has never before had a Legation in the United States, ment of Rlam to establish wi 5 Wash viased in LABOR WORLD. GOO union THE Cal, ) cooks tu of 4.000 000 trades ur 4 Bw Thrur are inemployed 100,000 OMANA seb, has an elevator Hoya Ni Ind., has 1500 union ter Iu reas A nh BAN EnLasp has 4500 union watchmaker in Belgiur DEATHIN RAG NG FLOODS ASTERS BY STORMS AT OHIO LAKE PORTS. Iives Lost Cleveland, Connenut and Ashtabula Life savers Drowned While Trying to Fffect a Rescue A Dredge Schooner Go to the DIS | fourteen at and a» Sottom. | Peeves, Uily droeseg Miloh Cows, cof. $0 go | Calves, City drosssd | Kheep, ¥ 190 ibs Lambe, 0 He Live ¥ 100 Ma —- TONGS RIG Horses to ENOUGH. Move sixteen Lamp of Coal strong died at man. traveling Lake Placid Broxpig, the \ #8 Lirvae sach being led In opposite directions horses had been unused to the ant, tore violently pumerous blood vessels in Blondin's at abd chest were ruptured. his with NX. 1. holding a poweriul team of horses together, These purchased and were
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