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Show MEMORIAL DAY. It is a beautiful custom which impels the American people to set aside this day, when nature is breathing forth her sweetest perfumes, on which to assemble and, responsive to the gratitude grati-tude which oversows their hearts, breathe forth a fragrant incense of free nnd unoorrupted praise to our heroic he-roic dead. At the close of every joyous May time we pluck the loveliest of nature's na-ture's blossoms and, as in olden times I the deathless laurel wreathed the vie- j tor's brow, we crown the last resting j place of those who, though dead, live in ' eternal remembrance in the nation's heart, and it is meet that we should! ko honor our illustrious dead. Of them it may be truly said: the good they did lives alter them, the evil is interred with their bones. Not only is it meet that we Americans should pay this tribute of honor to those who preserved t he unity of our country, but it is becoming be-coming for the human race to stop for a moment on this day and heap the 3 i tender myrtle, the sweet pansy and the deathless laurel u;ion the valorous ; ashes of the heroes who cemented north ! . tmd south, east and west and implanted ( i:i the hearts of the downtrodden of all j lands the doctrine that of man no man i is slave. : . |