i hearts of millions trembla
‘With the mighty tribulation,
. And the sad in froops assemble
‘honor's fields of
Come no more,
Farm and village, town and city
Hail them martyrs, name them si
Nobler grief than sorrowing pitys
reedom’s heroes earned in dying,
And the flower of praise is sweet
On their graves. i
Some asleep beneath the willows,
Some asleep where valor slew them,—
Soft from lips that kissed their pillows,
Soft from eyes that never knew them
Drop the benisons that greet
Fallen braves.
Far from dear domestic pleasure,
Fireside scenes and children’s prattle
ee they spent their vital treasure
In the wasting'march and battle,
Following their flag of fame
ere it flew, |
Till new hopes in moonlight beauty
Smiled thro' terrbr's lifting shadows,
I
[ill the harvest after dut;
And their dream of triumph came
Grandly true.
Lives like fallen foliage strewin
Holy ground! They fell not vainly.
Freédom’s trees are greener growing
For their fading, and more plainly
Vernal promise lights the land
“here they lie;
For their relics left to moulder !
Richer made the soil that bore them.
And their memory old and older
Tells the living who deplore them
There are deeds whose virtue grand
Cannot die.
brine your blessings, gray-haired fathers,
Childhood with your sweet sedateness.—
‘While a grateful country gathers
Round the saviors of her greatness,
And her throngs, in mourning met,
Scatter bloom.
Come with tribute true and tender
Lanrel wreaths and die numbers,
And above each dead defender
Let the love that never slumbers
Own its endless patriot debt
Af the tomb,
THERON BROWN.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
’
For Thousands of years it has been
a custom with soldiers in the field to
form comradeships, one with another,
two men agreeing to stand by each
other in life and in death, in sickness
and in wounds, and after death to ex-
ecute each other’s known desires;
There are traces of this relation in
the Greek historians. The Roman sol:
dier under Julius: Cesar called his
comrade “‘commilito”,” which simply
meant fellow-soldier.. It is such an es:
tablished custom in the French army
to form. comradeships that we find
Napoleon, on meeting a wounded sol. |
dier in a forlorn condition,asking him,
**Where, then, is'your comrade?’ as if
the relation were recognized in mili-
tary law. :
Inan army this strong feeling of
comradeship is not: confined: to ‘the
single chosen friend. It includes. the
company, the regiment, the brigade,
the division, the corps, and even the
entire army, binding a million men
into such coherency that they cin move
"and feel and act as oné man. :
It was wonderful to notice, din’ our
late war, how strong and how ;univer-
sal this army feeling was. The common
object, common perils, common suffer-
ings, common triumphs, knitted close
together the hearts and minds of that
vast multitude of diverse men. ’
Finally, when wictory crowned the
four years’ struggle, there was a com-
mon feeling of pride in the glorious
: result, which at once exalted and deep-
ened the soldierly fellowship.
After two thousand’ actions in the
field, small and great, after the enroll-
ment of nearly three millions of men,
and the death of three hundred and
sixty thousand of them, the army was
disbanded at Washington in 1865, and
the soldiers rejoined their fellow citi-
zens in the peaceful pursuits of indus-
At that final review in. Washington
there was very little left of the “pomp
and circumstance of glorious war; but
every soldier’s face shone with the
dight of victory, and eyery citizen who
had within him the soul of a patriot
felt the truth of the motto that flutter:
ed along the Capitol: “The ony nat-
ional debt we can never’ pay is ‘the
debt we owe to the victorious sol-
diers.” : ;
Already the desire was strong
throughout the army not to let die the
fellowships and friendships of the war.
Clubs, circles, societies had already
been formed, ome composed wholly of
officers, some Wheiy of privates, and
some of both. The object of all was
the same: “To preserve the cordialities
«of the camp,to secure the fame of mem-
bers by suitable memorials and records,
and to give friendly succor fo indigent
Lomrades and their dependents.
OUR BURIED Bs.
So ished
ober} ibute tear must render,
. When the champions of a natisn ;
Ripened peace on Blood-oairied meadows,
{pame of which, it was finally decided,
Open,
Over the
1 will lay al
LOSSOM, O flowers, in riotous splendor!
; 0 lingering buds to the light |
Iwill gather yon all, fresh, fragrant and tender,
| And weave you in garlands, sweet, dewy and bright!
raves where our heroes are sleeving
your beauty and innocent bloom,
That they o'er whose-dust a nation is weeping
May know that we love them, though low in the tomb,
IN
lil
ik
DECORATION DAY.
nl AN f Gh pi
sey
0 i aH
Nothing but freedom is warth stichi evotion;
Only the land whi-h ous forefathers gave: Ns
eemed and unbroken from ocean to ocean,
Is worth half the cost of one soldier'sTow grave.
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7
Oh for the tones that are silent forever,
Oh for the hearos that were true to the right,
: © Oh for the arms that knew weariness neve T,
But fought fought all the dayitill death's swift-falling night.
Eleven months after the close of the
war, at Springfield, Illinois, & scheme
was conceived of uniting all who had
served in the army or the navy, and
had received an honorable ‘dismission;
into a national society: or order, the
should be the Grand Army of the Re:
public.
The idea originated in the mind of
an officer of the Fourteenth Illinois
Infantry, Major Benjamin Franklin
Stephenson. He thought of it before
the war ended, while serving under
General Sherman in one of his rapid
expeditions.
Major Stephenson's comrade or tent
mate was the chaplain of the regiment,
Rev. William J. Rutledge. Often these
two gentlemen, as they rode. side by
side in the long marches, talked to-
gether of what would probably be-
come, after the war, of the enormous
numbers of men they saw tramping on,
before, behind and around them—Sol.
diers, wagon men, camp followers
tramping, tramping in numbers that
seemed unlimited.
They agreed that men so closely
allied, and united by so many ties, so
bound together by a common purpose,
and by so many vicissitudes shared in
common, would not willingly consent
to a total severance of a connection so
dear to their affections and their pride.
The two friends agreed that, if they
came out of the struggle. alive, they
would endeavor to work out in concert
some kind of organization for such an
object.
This agreement they kept. After the
war they planned a great society to be
formed somewhat on the basis of the
several social orders, such as the Free-
masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pyth-
ias and Sons of Temperance.
To impart a military character to the
new organization the local branches
were named Posts, and all the officers
received military titles, such as Post-
Commander, Adjutant, Quartermaster,
Officer of the Day, Post Surgeon, Post
Chaplain, Officer of the Guard and
others. >
The rooms for the weekly meetings
of the posts arearranged like the lodge
rooms of the other benevolent orders.
In a few instances the local Pokt be-
came the owner of its own quarters,
and fittedthem up with some approach
to luxnious accommodations, with li.
brary, billiard room, dining room,
‘kitchen, sustained by the rents. deriv-
ed from other portions of the edifice.
Some Posts have gathered a highly
interesting collection of warlike curi-
osities, such as banners, flags, field
glasses ‘and captured weapons. Occa-
gionally, a piece of field artillery,ident-
ified with the history of a Post, graces
can alove of its apartment. ,
The greater mumber of the Posts
assmble weekly in a hired room;plain»
ly furnished, and often used for other
purposes on other evenings. y
But not theless has the Post been to
the retired soldier like another home,
where he wassure of finding aid and
sympathy, where the record of his ser-
could meet his old conradegin social
intercourse, :
+ ‘Each Post, moreover, being connect-
ed with the county organization, and
that with the State and the national
body, membership invites a man once
again to a great national. army, not
inaptly styled the Grand Army of the
Republic.
founders of this powerful organization
were actuated by sentiment alone. It
was a thing of necessity. that they
should look for steady and’ systematic
aid to the country which they had as-
sisted to save. 4
Hence, the Order has taken the lead
in stimulating and guididg legislation
in behalf of the soldiers and their de-
pe: dents, and Congress: has shown
itself attentive to its suggestions.
A vast amount of good, however,
has been done by the local posts alone.
To the Grand Army of the Republic
we ure indebted for one of the most
interesting and impressive of our cere-
monial days—that on which the graves
of the soldiers are decorated. The idea
originated in the mind of a German
who had served @s a private in the
preserved.
Early in May, 1868, he wrote to the
Adjutant General of the Grand Army,
saying that in his native country it
was the custom of the people in the
spring to visit the burying grounds,and
place flowers upon the graves of their
friends and relatives. He suggested
that the Grand Army should designate
w day for the decoratioh of the graves
of the soldiers.
The idea met with favor, and Gen.
John A. Logan, then Commander in
Chief of the Grand Army, promptly
promulgated an order setting apart the
Thirtieth of May for the purpose.
General Logan expressed the hope
that the obgervance wonld be kept up
from year to year go long as one sur:
vivor of the war remained to honor the
memory of his departed comrades.
Memorial Day -hgs heen observed
with increasing : impressiveness ever
since,and the day is now a legal holi:
day in most of the Northern States east
of the Mississippi river.
In 1871 the Grand Army could claim
but thirty thousand members. In 1879
a great increase began,until the whole
number of niembers approached four
hundred thousand. !
‘While the great object of this army
of men has been to promote the meas-
ures looking to the reliefand advant:
age of the soldiers and those dependent
upon them, they have taken a leading
part also in the erection of the innum-
erable monuments to’ the memory of
fallen comrades which adorn our pub-
lic grounds and cemetéries. ;
Other nations have heaped the most
bountiful rewards upon the successful
generals of a great’ war. We have,
perhaps, not been sufficiently generous
to the leaders in the war; but it was
natural, in a Republic, that the rank
and file of the army should be the chief
recipients of national benefaction.
vices was deposited, and where he
I
and tc the people.
It must not be supposed that the
Union army, whose name has not been’
Grand Army to att
tion and nourish théir © 10
to the causé,’had been the annual con.
vention, or National encampment,
which has always beep an occasion of
widespread interest, both to the order
Some of the annual encampments
have been held in places remote from
the center of the country, but the local
welcome has always been general and
enthusiastic. The farther the soldiers
have had to travel,the warmer has been
the welcome they have received.
JAMES PARTON in “Youth’s Ccmpan-
ion.? :
Specimen and Sample Ewindles,
A fine old ‘‘chestnut’”—Aa ‘‘most re-
markably ' . long-headed, flowing-
pearded, and patriarchal” story, as
Dick Swiveller would put it—may be
recalled with profit, now that all our
traders are stricken with the f‘aste-
ind-try” fever. The anecdote is, in
brief, that an ingenious old lady sent
round to a number of shops for
samples of tea, and in this way ob-
# twelve-month. :
The same dodge is frequently prac-
tised on drapers.. Ladies "of others
wise irreproachable character, when
preparing for a bazaar on behalf of
some poor, untutored savages, send
to drapers for patterns of silk, dress
goods, etc., and appropriate—yes,
‘appropriate’ is the better-sounding
word—the pieces for the making of
quilts, cushions, and other articles.
By some mysterious process of reason-
ing, they take credit to themselves
for their smartness, too. 4
Taking, then, theifacility tor fraud
into consideration, is the sample game
worth the candle? Hardly, one would
think. The house-to-house system is
certainly not open to abuses of the
kind given. . Still, there is plenty of
trickery about even that. Tistribe
ators, anxious to get rid of their load,
stuff about a dozen samples in some
letter boxes, and often give a% least
as many to some woman with a keen
regard for economy. In.a known
case, a ‘lad left fifteen or sixteen
small packets of cocoa at one house
in return for a bribe of a penny; and
in another a man parted ‘with sufi-
cient soap:to'do a few weeks’ wash-
for a pint ofbeer; = = ©.
The Dainty Japs. hota
Among the people of the globe the
Japanese, in their use of tobacco, as
in'many other things, would seem to |
‘be the most temperate as well as the
most refined. The rudest 'coolie or
the coarsest farm laborer equally
with the lady of rank (the pretty
geisha).and the minister of state 1s
content with the kiseru, a tiny pipe
which does not hold enough to. make.
even Queen Mab sneeze... «@
The All-Pervading Vice,
A Virginia City (Nev.) youth was
recently detected in the act of shoots
ing an arrow, with a cigarette ate
tached, through a broken window in
thé rear of the jail to ‘some boys who
were imprisoned within.
be;
| court to Miss Emily Mather; 5 an he sub-
“1 Deel
n devotion :
tained gratis sufficientto last her for |
gv pd wind
2
DEEHING, MURDERER WEED
THE DEMON DIES LIKE A COWARD:
Career of One of the Most Remarkable
Wretcnes in the World's History.
MRLEOURNE, May 23.—Frederick Bayley
Deeniing was hanged one minute after 10
o'clock this morning.
When Deeming was led intq the yard and
to see that he was not chained, as had"
been expected. He walked unsteadily be-
tween the guards, and several times totter-
ed, as if about to fall. = He face was ashen,
and he shook like a rman, with the palsy.
4 Several times when the chaplain spoke to
Bhim encouragitely in an nndertone, Déem- |
ing parted his lipy to reply, but he “uttered
ne'sound. * He seemed to be stupitied by his’
approaching death. When his arms were
| pinigned he wavered and would have fallen
‘had he not'been caught by the warden. At
first he shook his head when his last oppor-
tunity to speak was given him. Then he
rallied from his stupor and with’ a strong
effort called out: :
Lord J esus, receive ndy spirit.”
He tried to say more and stood with his
mouth wide open, but no words came. | As
“| #he noose was adjusted his knees knocked
together and he would) have ¢olfipsed Had
1 he not been supported until he was swung
into mid-air. He died without a struggles
and almost instantly: The body, after be-
ing cut down, was taken in charge by the
prison physicians, who will superintend the
post mortem examination into the structure®
of the skull and brain, Vi
A REMARKABLE WRETCH.
Frederick Bayley Deeming was one of the
most versatile and bloodthirsty wretches in
the history of the world’s crinie. That part
of his career which led immediately to his
arrest, trial and death at Melbourne; began
in Rain Hill, a suburb of Liverpool, on July
21, 1891. He then took lodgings under the
‘name of Williams at the Commercial Hotel
in that village and shortly all «paying
sequently marrie He. rented Dinham
villa, onthe outskirts of the village, during
his courtship, and there received a woman.
“| and four young: children, who fisappedred
shortly before his marriage to Miss Mather,
After the wedding. on September 22, he and
his wife took a short wedding journey and
on October 17 they sailed for Atisiralia’
They went to live in a house in Windsor, a
suburb of Melbourne. There, on December
24, nine days after their arrival, he killed
his young wife and buried her under the
floor. He then disappeared. .. ©
About ten. weeks | later when new ten:
ants were about to take the house a pe-
culiar odor was noticed, the floor was taken
ap and the body of Mrs. Deeming was
found, ‘Marks on her head and neck show-
ed that she had been killed by blows. When
,| the news reached Rain Hill, the police: tore
| up the floor,of Dinham Villa, to satisfy {heir
1kdren
suspicion that the woman and four cl
who had been seen there with Deoming
might have suffered the same fate as. di
Emily Mather:” They ‘found under the
floors, which Deeming himself had cement
ed, thé bodies of the woman and” children.
The woman was his wife Marie, nee James, .
Gebietes in England in 1881, £0d
he childfen were his own. |
ng Was caught near Perth in Ans’
alia late in March.
cha
e3 was not and ne
os
nce 1881, may be gathered from
‘career &
fis condensed Sistements B
~ As (Frederic ayley ing, 1881—
February-Married Miss Ma ames. Went
alone to Australia.
, 1882-4Joined by his wife. Sent to jail for
six weeks for theft. = He was at that time
supposed to be working as a plumber.
Re Numerous bank. hberies took
place in Bydney, the perpetrators not being
etectede vr: 0 i
i :
1885—More robberies, burglaries,
tragodies.
v
: : ‘myster-
ious disappearances and Sh
1886—Sets up shop in a large Way, perpe-
trates a fratidulent Ere hts
from Syd 4 3 a
ney. oe
1887—Flies from Adelaide to Cape Town:
after Lopbing two brothers, whom he met,
1888_Nothing known of him, During this
perpetrated.
eer; going to Johannesburg, and succeeds in
obtainin
adydn
obtains £420 worth of jewelry and decamps.
About the same time two murderers were
committed in the Transvaal, the murder es-
caping. July 17—The eighth Whitechapel
murder. September 10—The ninth White-
chapel murder. September—Turned up un-
detective, who wanted him for the Trans-
Vaal robberies, to Camberwell, then to
Stockton-on-Tees and back again to London.
November—Sails for Australia. Leaving
the vessel at Port Said, he doubles on his
pursuers and returns to Birkenhead. !
+ A SERIES OF HORRORS.
SEVEN DEATHS BY A WRECK,
Sr. Louis,’ May 23.—In"a collision between
& passenger and freight train near Crooked
Bayou, Ark, on the Cotton Belt railroad,
seven persons were killed and 24 injured.
| The accident was caused by: the crew of the
passenger train disobeying orders.
The names of the dead are officially given :
as follows : © a ey de Beg ;
Mrs. Octave Anderson, Amarillo, Tex.;
‘Wm: Christal, Denton, Tex.; J.P." Sandér-
son, Pearce City, Mo; Mrs. R. B. Clark,
Winchester, Tenn; R..D. Crompton, Nash:
ville, Tenn.; Mrs, A.M. Henson, Fisher,
to Fort Worth, Tex.; James Morgan, Mem-
“ phis, Tenn.; Frank Nichols, fireman of the
freight, Eighteen persons werd wounded.
This has been the most disastrous and costly
wreck that ever occurred inthis State, and
happened on the same spot where two pre-
the loss of life. © a 3 %
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY PERISHED.
Loxpon, May 23.—A dispatch from Monte:
video says that the Brazilian furret-ship Sol-
imoes was wrecked off ‘Cape. Santa Maria,
near the month of the Rio dela Plata, while
enroute to Matto Grosso, and that but five of
the crew were saved, 120 being drowned. The
Solimoes was one of the vessels sent by the
Brazilian government with reinforcements
to suppress’ the rising in the state of Matto
Grosso. Capt. Castrot was drowned.
SEVENTEEN DROWNED.
~ MBLBOURNE, May 23.—An. open. boat in
Philip by two fisherman has been found
“1¢ bottom-up, and all. are supposed to have
been drowned. The boat contained fifteen
Jetsons all told. One bgdy has heen found.
thers are being searched for,
» THE MAURITIUS DISASTER,
Loxpox, May 23.—A dispatch from Mauri-
ius states thai the loss of life in the’ recent
hurricane fay exceeds the’ ‘estimates 86 far
“made, and that the death roll will not fall
‘short of 15,000.
4
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loc 000 @O
which fifteen members of .a football . team | :H9
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