THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1897. " SUNLIT MEMORIAL SONG _— Er NNY, my steady ready to hurl all foes fron g the days of blood, pools circled with flame, land does homage to her scribed on fs scrolls of far Recallin The So follow the tattered flags whi the fie and drum, almed an faces and form ires of ough a thousan 1 old, w hates ant the can: But the memorie the bayo We write in bloe courageous qed And lay on the on sgored sod, Toe send in the odorou praises and prayers For the naw! lays ar Jewel thess tombs They sowed the harves through gl 1 nn Clasp hearts, glad in 16 NO trues OQ st Be happy, paim ent fo at las fo at last, ise ar Be grateful, prospect 1 The « nated lat with promise OBSERVANCE OF THE DAY. Mem News, should a cor row that time and suggests the gl We should be essential This i those pe annivers be In oes The stn Ie ocorat 5 Ww War Song» Live OPTeIMmOT lesser out ing aire ane of sound as” ing" have thon wh tened to mighty «l or ground « Telegraphing An ele been British post if introd Jong dist It «ill ships at sea or fron messages any w equipped with an corresponds tothe vibe ons milter in a lighthous I warning of dangerous reefs and ¢ nels may be given. These equal any system of lights or foghorns perf i May be ser eather Ever Has won Minintare Mending Lamp. Opera-goers who desire to follow the libretto or the music score during a per nee usually domo only with great difficulty from the fet that the lightsin the auditorium are more or Yess turned down. They can now carry thelr own Hght. In a new invention, a minute in. eandescent electric lamp is fastened to a pen near its point in order to illumin- ate the writing. It ean be applied to a penell, and, of course, used also for reading. A little reflector concentmtes all the light on the page | bowed w | not; | Cormeen | boys THE LESSON OF THE DAY. UT of the throes of the republic came the nation that is indivisi- ble, the people that new one in aim and their that popu- are resolved in Purpos overnment shall ever be main- tained upon th broad and sure foundation of nr g ab- ecedom for all classes s that led up strife are become but memories that are fading, long ago. and conditions. The ue to the internecine of the long, They are being forgotten in the living questions that have sprung from the greater nationality that points greater and surer development in ie coming di 1 hese strif i wide the =» lo a tl 1y ante-war contentions led to e, when blood flowed like torrents Brother and the tly over the The ummer rain. her murderous blows hov north ered constan and south alike, d The Grandeur of the Day he Heys of Sisty-One ire fewer, these old soldiers, 0: their heads iiders are more bent and they re fcoteteps are slower than were} and yet to each other they always boye.," The old jesta make them smile, the old the present he brave past 5 in uae, ay seem know 1% fancy, their youth It Is not old men who ribute of re is “the watchers they n th vears, but they to them, In back stiffly march out to pay at spect to fallen comrades It of "61." The Lesson of Patriotism, Teach the children petriotism; let them learn the names of heroes who died that a pation might live. Let Dee- oration day mean to them no mere Jumble of flowers, music and addresses, but a living tribute to the glorious dead. "These children are the future custodians of a country's honor, the men and women of another day who may be called upon in their turn to des fend it, Let them, then, learn early their sacred lesson of patriotism, that it may be stamped indelibly upon thels hearts, never to fade away. 4 i when i a, a forget the liv here 40 the snfiuished work which they who fought y } © have thus far so nobly advanced : ] It is rather for us 10 be here dedicated t o the great tamk remaining before us that from these honored dead we take to that cause for last full meas ighly increased devotion which they gave ‘ of devotion that we ) hore | ve that these dead shall not have that under ve a new birth of freedom this nation, rnment of the people ple, shall not Lincoln's Get Novem bet Iexlication Address Kind to the Living. ember the old soldier as do he Do we should? One him honor i ) nab he rest? True, he he lives In we ren day in the 3 ve erhaps of the homens that, nati Hut death In a prepared for hin what of he has faced forme and perhaps drags about tiiated body! He gave A ma of his years | young life to the purchase of freedom | than to goods In the accumulating of worldly this to give Rim, In return? let us not, then, walt until he has died in obscure poverty to place his name on monument or scroll, rather much | but show him now the love and grat. tude which will make bright his decline. Ing ya hundred | A GLAD DECORATION DAY. me tot madam." » you know e flashed © im Reese, he yward? Why. Almost alone nts the enen S] ng back their $ Yi yo etn § wind hin back ~ wom singgered “My John a hero! eried: “and for ted him!" o renched them now: door the over JO years his wn mother doul A stmin of mu she ran out, bareheaded, and began to gather } of flowers “They IH go-all!"™ she “T've longed to send them every vear, but the mother of a coward! had no right Now.” her voloe, quavering be. fore, had the note of a trumpet, “now, the mother of a hero shall lay them on ae conrades’ gravea!™ ELIBA ARMETRONG, re arm fule shall a cried i PIIDDODIIIRDEDIDIID IID, 4; 5 THE TORN LETTER ? p, p Ww { By LeBoy Arms TV "EOC LCCLOCHCUTIC 1 bd ew at rong. tudes in that must be a soldier “1 am going to enlist” BO Are OUr reso She tarnéd to | tht YER ¢ in insian blazed in worship ane ihe put ouf her bands. There ressing, there was ardor in them There had Leen an hour of resting The fifes were piping up patriotism, The company was counting fours and Jear: * the akirmish drill, At the farther le of the square a dozen recruits, or The drums sere beating again listed since the parade began, were | learning. the foot drill, and Wallace | Wade, a light rattan cane in his hand, was tenching them ho lodked in Elenor Thompson's eyes and was rewarded There was a public dinner for the soldiers. There were speeches by poll. ticians who lent their voices and be leved it excused them from lending thet arms. There was music, and the | his death When it was over | adulation of the throng. Then the dis solving of a host and the threading of river paths by two end two discarded Hardes in the gentle: of Dan Cupid's war, And Monday they mare way. who oLiCH “This is M Id Wade, oaked Mel 5 4 wo prec hall Loul NTL. | oem A wv. w. eopenl wnt be Atel w= 4 o ww rely -' You have been “but 4 1 to me,” he that woman was my mother {ly mother is living, and not dead. She was with my father when be died. You got that knapsack somehow, but she had d half of the letter which had been cut in two by the bullet that gave him wound, And she has never asked you for anything, thougls she might have asked you for moch. Now I ask for her. . Where ls she ™ And the grandfather told. He wan less bitter to the woman who Sd bent his son to the war, since she had soothed that son while be suffered. So that the judge's home received a swoet-faded woman who reaped in years of lovipg companionship the of a selfde- nial that had lasted from the day she Jeft a new made grave in the Wilder poss, and found her toddlisg son had very go anv
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