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Show We VETERANS f Their battle flags have gathered dust, Their bugles are no longer blown. Their guns are covered deep with rust, 4 The youthful hopes they had are flown-Neat- many atnound their comrades lie. Their heads are bent, their step is slow, And een perchance you wonder why They fought s6 madly long ago; Eut, though the cannon has been stillo And foolish prejudice has died. His soul is small who is not thrilled To see them marching side by s . ji.iUTIFUL, ever are' the tender memories that - come with Metnorlal-Day- , when a grateful renders homage ta its defenders whd have passed on and to those whom wq still uuy honor In their life. in Hail, old heroes! your presence the voice of party and of faction is hushed to silence. Republicans and Democrats and Socialists and Progressives stand with ' heads uncovered before you, with hearts, throbtoward the men to with gratitude bing Ration Backwa: J, turn backward. s g him ' In Grant v "Patient of toll, serene amid alarms Inflexible in faith, Invincible Arms" Logan, whose legions unvexci current of the Mississippi frpin the .Ohio to the sea. Hooker, whose men battled above the clouds ai Lookout (noun tala. Meade, who dFove the foe southward away from the soli of Pennsylvania, and alt the $ne rats and, and captains, and not least of all the hosts, from the greatest to the poorest and most unlettered soldier who went over his to battlp'ror the flag that knew disaster, but never knew anyhow. Ily the time pa got home the house H13," pa said when. we was all upset and ma said her hhves were at breckfust, "is were all frazzled out, but pa looked so a (Uy that ought to sad when he came In that we felt sort bring grand thots to us ry for him, find after he hung up his all It ought to bo one hat and sat down and wiped his fever of the sacredest days of nd brow a few times ma went over and the year, and It makes put her ch4k against his and said: me proud of my country "Try to be cheerful. I suppose you when 1 seo my fellow cant help thinkln' of your lincle Wll situuns cloning up the Mam at a time like this; but remember shops and stores and how glorious it wap for him to give goring reddy to not do his life for his country. - It's a sad any thing but have patrie occasion, .but always remember that otCc thots and make some must lose while ethers win 'In the speeches and strew flow- battle of life. What happened must ers over them that were the nations bull works ToIn times of need col-.onel- com-rnand- door-311- 1 some-dime- s dishonor Honor and reverence and gratitude for the gray survivors. ' Loving remembrance to those vw ho sank to rest with all their country's , When the banner fell wishss Mast. we had from Sumters battlements hrtyta'wrungLcg' and discordant Ststof populated by 30,000,000 of peo-it- f day we hav,e Now forty-eigh- hoino-4- r t geucoss sad harmonious common- wealths, containing 90,000.000 of souls, iad our flag floats from the Arctic to ' the Caribbean and jreacbes across seas to Orieat isles. fTnen we had war and privation. Now we have poade and plenty. r Then we ranked fifth or sixth among the nations. Now we are not second to any power on earth. We are first in letters, arts and arms, first in freedom and prosperity and happiness These things we owe under the of God to the members, dead And living, of the Grand Army of the Republic. Again, and again, and yet Again, HsQ! to the veterans. prov-luenc- e y the afternoon she took us out to sec the parade, but before It came along a horefe ran away, and "ma got scared and aald a crowd was no place for women and children that didn't have a father there to protect them, so she brought us home again before the procession arrived, and It was a sad day for us. Little Albert made a sail boat that he tried to sail In the bath tub, but he fell in with his best suit on, aud ma aaid she wished therenever was such , a thlngas Memorial day. a hollow mockery because It waa-a- ll mothers, and sisters, and wives, sweethearts, moistening as with a .chrism the brave faces lit with the lam of the bannered stars. Again we behold them led by their brave captains. Sheridan the Rupert who rode "to conquer or to fall." Sher- tman whose army "sang the mighty .chorus from Atlanta to the sea." nd - baek- - lie couldn't help it, only it was a ahaine we couldn't, have the .day to ourselves After pa litjils cigar and slahed jTwuy ma told me and llttle Albert to always remember the words our father had spoken,and try to grow up tq be good and patrie ottic ilk Backward to the May mornings ago when we beheld the man-- i years -fcood of the iand marcbtng tow-ounddeath that the nation might live. ,J jmd Marching along, marching along For God and (or country they went march-laalong," with the farewell tears of " ports came wo gather to consecrate the hal- Today we put away all sectional feellns, no noilh, no south, no east, no west, but all Americans with one great purpose and mournin' at a common shrine." Ma looked at pa as tho aha felt awful proud of him, and there was nearly tears tn her eyes wheu she lowed dead. guns. 1 was almost as much of a feat for Oil- er Hazard Perry to build tfce vessels as to win the. battle of Lfike The commodore had been In the American navy . for ' some time, and In 1811 as a lleutenantln command of the schoonbr Revenge he ran the vessel ashore at Watch Hill, R. I., and wrecked It In a storm. He was tried by court martial -- ' - harmed men. Including commander and surgeon' "were left on The Niagara for some reasoh had remained in the rear. The smaller American vessels seemed unable to do anything to prevent a' British vic- board.""' tory. E-l- With the audacity of genius Perry called four sailors to man the boats, and with his brother Alexander, the flag of. the Lawrence wrapped - round hlsarm, he left the ship. ' At first he waa shielded by the battle smoke. Then he waa rowed through the enemys fire for fifteen min utes, at last reaching the Niagara unharmed. The breeze now freshened, speeding the Niagara and the American schooners Into action. The Queen Charlotte of the British fleet was disabled while getting Into position for a broadside. She fell for this, bnt acquitted foul The American schooners of the Detroit. He failed to get took The full battery of the positions. when raking the command in the Niagara, steady and rapid fire, joining War of 1812 started. decks. British the to Kentucky riflemen In swept he applied Then as the marines' tops picked off every acting Commodore Chauncey 3 visible. At British flag was the reto enemy oclock was and ojdered hauled down. It was the first time In Britains, Erie. Lake at port history that she had lost a whole squadron. Then On March 27,. 1812, It was that on the deck of the Niagara Perry disLake at arrived he patched to the secretary of the navy the- - brief Erie and found a force account of his victory and shortly afterward sent of fifty shipwrights. J JICTTOIT TfWGARA to Gen. William H. Harrison the line: We have The squadron had to met the enemy and they are ours. be built from the forests near by. A fleet of nine ing snow and cracking ice seemed no deterrent Congress voted Perry thanks, a medal and men. regihis .A and to their frenzy. vessels was built by him the rank of captain. The city of Boston prement of Pennsylvania militia covered the shlpWithin a few days the battered craft had been sented him with a set of sliver, anJ other cities work. were at builders while they raised higher above the water and propelled to voted him thanks. He assisted In the defense The battle against a superior British squadron shore on pontoons. She is soon to be hauled to of Baltimore, and In the squadron that was sent was dismantled, a "shipbuilding yard near by, where she will ba lasted all day, and the Lawrence to the Mediterranean In 1815 he commanded the so that Perry bad to row through a hail of shot partly rebuilt and put into shape for her last frigate Java. In June. 1819, while In command hts again. flag to the Niagara, where he hoisted splendid cruise on Lake Erie this summer the John Alams and other United States ves- of dlsAt 3 o'clock he was able to send his famous On this cruise the Niagara will viBit all the " - sels In the West Indies, he ' contracted yellow are and they' patchr '"We have met the, enemy principal ports 'of the great lakesrdeckecTwlth In the Orinoco and died. fever ours. flags and varicolored bunting, aud wallowing The United States has appropriated $250,000, years Commodore Perry was then twenty-seveas entour and befits of a her size, ship splendidly for a Perry memorial to be erected at old. noble achievement. She is 110 feet long, has a on Bass Island. The great shaft will stand In son t Perry was a Rhode Islander by blrth.TheIrishbeam and Is about 10 feet deep There h e"m t d sp'or "t an of "apa r&Z Individual states have navaT"offlcefand the daughter Is llOthTng of the ( Iipiier shTp about her, but there TraH the total up to 1700.000. New York gave brought most woman of unusual attainments, he had the is a stanchness that kept her steady while she Ohio. .$50,000; $83,000; ' Erie Pennsylvania, $75,000: so Lake after that careful early training, emptied broadsides at a whole English fleet In Wiscqn8in, $50 000. Other States that interested Mrs. It as of who the some knew spoke family her prime, at the time of the decisive battle of themselves were Michigan, Illinois, Rhode Island,' Perrys victory." Young Oliver Hazard Perry Lake Erie, she was a7'brtg'of the old fashioned Kentucky and Minnesota and fond of was Plutarchs Lives, Shakespeare sort, with an enormous spread of sail for those About a year ago the national commissioners Rochambeau. Count of a He was Addison pupil days. She had single topgallantsails and, what of fine arts accepted a design for the memorial a was commissioned At fourteen he midshipman. was more characteristic of the time, single topsubmitted by J. H. Freedlander and A. D. SeyWhen the war with England began there was sails Thus the number of her sails was not apmour, Jr. The design provides for a plaza Amerin officer no the better ordnancf probably parently great, but her actual spread of canvas 1.000 feet and about 200 feet deep. On the long was ican navy, and in the training of his crews he was very large for her day. was all will be a Doris column 320 feet plaza Bv to in details attention high. The .unwearying personal of the old stle sort. Her main, fore and mlzzen island on which the column will rise Is one of a he his gained occasionally assembling gunboats in were for she fenced ?eally lookouts and tops group at the western end of Lake Erie. actual knowledge of the evolutions of a fleet. had a spanker to aid her in maneuvering better The fourteen acres have been acquired to proHe also practiced sham battles, which taught him than her natural square rig would vide a reservation around the memorial. The much Capt V. L Morrison of the Inited States Doric column will serve aB a hours after receipt of ComWithin twenty-foulighthouse. Other training ship Wolverine, who is an official of the features are a museum, a statue typifying peace modore Chauncey's order to go to Lake Erie he an on and Perry centennial celebration authority flanked by a colonnade. In the museum will bo had seni off a detachment of fifty men, and five historical facts relating totheNlagarat has madc panels arranged for mural paintings descriptive out "with set hts later he himself younger the prediction that in the vessel's hold will be - days of historical events connected with the battle of brother, Alexander. Traveling chiefly tn sleighs discovered many old buckles and revolvers and Lake Erie.- 27. on reached March. he Erie There he found In a the world will know If he ls The pl3ncallsfor-- a Noah Brown, shipwrights and Sailing MasterDob; 7 right. will be placed the bodies of American and bins awaiting fifty carpenters from Philadelphia British sailors who perished in the battle, which Raising the Niagara was the hardest kind of The carpenters were more than five weeks Svork It is a big f.Ather in the cap of the local were burled 6n the Island The sum of the wintry journey. $l,0t)000 contractor, who succeeded in lilting the hulc' has been set aside for harmonizing the landrc-.p- a The keels of two twenty gun bries and three from the mud of the lake bottom where she had with the general scene. gunboats had already been laid Incredible toil lain for a hundied years The task had to be The members of the commission In the wilderness enabled Perry to collect nine charge done In winter in order to use spring-tof get the "vessels of 1.671 tons with 54 guns the Parry centennial celebrationhaving will try to capable of vessel in shape Winter on the great lakes Is secure a brief suspension of that convention throwing a broadsM of 936 pounds of metal, of such as to make a naturally delicate job of this the United States and Canada which 28 pounds crui be fired at long range. by which sort well nigh impossible . warships m may not enter the Great Lakes. The seen this figures Puny dread day of. The- - interstate board of the centennial idea is to have British ard American naughts but In they were respectable if not battleships To- - raise "official charge of the work " the exactly Impressive reniony of dedicating the column to the hulk took just three months The original Perry'S victory and possibly a warship, or two The Lawrence and the Niagara, which were contract called for the task to be done in thirty the two twenty, gun ships, carried two long ' of Canadas new navy. days, but bad weather knocked this sihedtile skv twelve pounders and eighteen thirtv-twThe national commission of fine arts which sepounder ' high. carronades The long range guns were the chief lected the design for the memorial conIt was planned at first to sink pontoons alongsists of Daniel H. Rurnham, Perry dependents of the Americans To make his chairman Daniel C. side the Niagara and pump them out, bringing fire effective perry relied on grape and French Thomas Hastingsr5Freaerl?lr Law the ship to the surface with them Had the rarister shot and favorite American ammunition. Gilbert and .Francis D. weather Permitted this the .salvage-- . aL wttcli ' Minet They were unanimous In their choice of out or scraps of Tron would' have been accomplished in contract time sew ed up in leather bags a design. Commander George H. Worthington. Storms, however threatened the undertaking force q f men consisted1 pf about 500 Gen, Nelson A MilP8 and Col. Henrv Watterson Perrys dav and the contractor dared not' every landsmen and sailors' many of whom had never are on the Interstate board In charge of the sink his pontoons lest he Jose them Therefore seen salt water On the British side Captain ' celebration , four pontoons were anchored on eif'er side of Barclay had six vessels of 1 460 tons, manned by here--re- .1. b 's h t er.t icaUy neartv. 500 menIhut he.had cannon to tho lake's suiface Other pontoons were staRarclav was one of Nelsons veterans tioned over her how and stern Chains were As the fleets approached each other at abent made fasj to the wreck by divers and she was 11 o'clock the bugle sounded from the flagship. simply pulled up to the water edge men The of the whole British line gave three I dpn t want any afternoons out, mum; Ice piled up six feet high about the pontoons cheers and the long guns of the Detroit I ni satisfied if I can opened workmen were in constant danger of losing their go to church Sunday on the I.awrence at a distance of a mile and a evenlns. lives in the black and icy water Several ielf hglf. By noon the battle began In earnest in into" airholes in thawing ice but were rescued Harry, you've hen an awful long time makthe form of a duel, the heaviest vessel in each The .Niagar had to be raised thrc?ugh twenty ing up your mind to aek me' to marry you! fleet .confronting the other Barclay had at first ' feet of watefr a manifest ackvantage The doctor,-ionly about half what I -' j;unnersof And expected it. would be." TPnCP,'Hepjhdlng too touch on their carronades ' historic dav fired tnrrfast. and oyerfhottlng their - Bobh. Ive kept you in after "school id tell guns The- - Niagara "amLATrmnfbddfe Perry s flagship were able only to pit and dent. the stumpy you you're a dear, good little boy. sides of the Won't you the Lawrence, were the only two vesaels in the Detroit. So the Lawrence was Tedueed to a htiik give your old teacher a kiss? American fleet of six ships that. eva in 1813. by axsteady British fire, After two hours "No, sir, 1 haven't anything in stock that's i con id' hare" been called They were gun was left mounted, the cockpit was as good as what you are quite 500 tons burden each, and each can-retrt crowded with wounded and only eighteen' untwenty that druggist across the street asking for; - , 30-foo- , said: "Pa, you don't know how grand it is to hear you when you talk that way. If you could only speak euch gtand things when you get up in front of a crowd it would make folks think you were a great orator Your sentamunts are perfectly splendid, and it would bo a great thing for the coming generation if everybody could hear yo.u." "Thanks," pa said - "it makes me glad to think that once in a while I can say something you, are willin' to l'stcn to." How Can I Help Itf "its a sharpe, ma answered, "that a' like rest the holiday yourcanVhin'e have been for the best or God wouldn't of the people, so you could go out f let it happen that way, you know." where they strew the flowers and Yes." pa answered, almost groanin', " show that you are not a barbarian "1 know wh.it la true you say am goin" to havea holiday," pa he sat Then there and seemed to ba told her "1 thot wouldn't let you sonu-Hitfithat couldn't ba thlukin'of I It know about wanted before, ben) Fifty Year of Hletory. ; helped These are the yeara it to be a surprise for you Is there anything I can do for you?" so ma "Now I'm glad," says of the Civil war years In which one we"Oh, can take the boys and go some- - ma asked. may follow from day to day the oents "No, (here a no help for It now," pa Of that unparalleled conflict, and , answered trace from stage to. stage the pol"Don't look that way," ma said icies which guided It and to which Jt "How can I help lt? pa asked, but It gave birth Fifty years seems a brief waa easy to- - see that he didn't know space through whlchto regard an hls- what ma was talkin' about "It makes tori cal Interval of four jrears duration, me mad to think of a'trowd of fannAlthough In other lights 50 years is a ers ltke these fellows from the retail ' far reach of time half a century! department goin' in and winnin'by the And when we stop to reflect that 50 seore of 3S to 7, and then have our years represents more than one-thirmen blame it on me beco my pttchin' of the life of the republic to this date arm went back on me in the fourth ' And that the republic was only 85 If they wouldn't of taken me inning out cf the box just. when i was ironin' years old When the Civil war burst ' gain e my nerve b.u k the potency of the years Then he happened to look up at tna. and stopped as though-h- e had thot of Soldiers Graves Holy Altars. something he hadn't remembered Each recurring- - Memorial, day con and the rest of the evening was Aecmtes anew the heroic sacrifice of Mi dism"..l that it tfuJTi t seem as tho those men who grave their lives that pa ever had a patrie ottic thot in hm lite the Republic might live It Is a day of i Aacred. solemn memories It dedicates ns. the fifing, to the completion and Strew Flowers Over Graves.- the defense of the work begun by The method of decorating tho Im Going to Have them, the dead. Every flower-strewat Ailington is differeut from graves Is an altar before which we grave where and see the parade and cheer that fol'owed in many communities pledge anew our lives, our fortunes for the veterans when they pass by There are so many graves that it is And our sacred honor that- the blood and have rmf of the question to place upon each the whole day together" of these soldier heroes shall not have a neatly tied bouquet of flowers and a beautiful went thing,'1 on, pa 'It8,a been shed in vain; that free governwjiat ma had -- said, "for wreath. -- such as forms the accepted ment of, by. and for the people shall notnotieiul men to lot their better natures have a Vetnorinl I'av token' tn many of our from the earth that this pot pej-istchance A'ter they get Ailed with titles and towns Instead the flower ration conceived In liberty shall be sublime sentamqnts they can go buck girls and veterans at Arlington will passed on to our children and our to work feelin' so much better that it' simply pass through the cemetery, children's children still dedicated to " pays In the long run" stiewing flowers on the graves. The j , equality and Justice. Ma laid one of her hands on pa's 'circumstance that every grav'e Is to arm, and her Voice was all trembly.be dtcoiated'at rilngton facilitates Smallest National Cemetery. when she said' this me'hod. which might not be so cemetery ! know geUtir-uK-eiW here the early pFseiieeble- in - cemetv-net at "alls Bin It Va. It is on the snd-wasthe bovs nnd then you can resting places of soldiers have to be battlefield ofHurt name. i of nil out where the celebration Winded oof' from greatnumberse?J. "I t 'r I 86 f r on feet takejis it all to u chil ofier graves F ?d and is ,Luat4 ontl?rge bluff dren will idea of the sacred getan I eg rt r ners-- cf - the gri ves cl one known and ' I wienthotrjfjgn could, pa answered,-"onlFlftyears ago "there was the soxnd unsown isudiers. I got to tpke part in some patrie ottic of drum in the streets, with the other men from thq the drums of war leading recruits from , oflice. But ou and the bos can go,' the homes of this city and state to the and seethe parade anyhow, and you! fort wherer'unfforros and instructions wire given them. Women were sewing. sheets and scraping' lint for the field hospitals of the armies. I 1 g aeml-centenni- d n -- aI -- - S ijr-Ji- fty- y jir m? Put-ln-Ba- y j 1 pjzrky n - "I -- illffl with culty. Once it became evident that the battered hulk was actually that of the- Niagari the scoffers were eager to rush upon the wreck and tear her to pieces for Bllnd- souveulrs - -- ie tn sight a .throng of half frozen curio seekers was held 5. E. Kiser 4n thy flight" f ft Time O 1 r And scorn the belted soldier trade. Or speah the deep contempt we feel For mimic warriors on parade, Eut these old men, whose heads are bowed, Are worthy still of our applause ; Their valor still may mak us proud. Though Time has cleared away their cause. Peace reigns, and shallthrough all the years, Yet, mean at heart, his blood is cold Who feels no thrill and Sheds no tears As their bravqstory is retold. JacJLthtjhreJsa gOVlTQ. U) wjiich For worldwide peace we may appeal na-tlo- n wkQm.wft-PWeJLh- e famous ship Niagara, the vessel turned defeat into victory for Hazard Perry in the battle of yfirt-Lake' h rie on September 13, 1SU, will "sail again' this summer the waters J w here she cuifiiiiPfei! a British' fleet. The raiding of the Niagara is the most striking feature of the impending cele-bration of Perry's victory whjh stayed ' the fortune of the Fritted States a hundred years ago. This engineering seems to have no exact It. I)araReJ, and iri sennriiental. an.d jialrloUc-lnterest- . Is the most notahle--4ias- e of the corping centennial celebration. To attempt to lift the hulk' from the mu4 of Erie harbor was a daring Idea from the start. To make the project fact' required courage and perseverance of a high order. Many were the scoffers. It was said, to the very last, that the contractor had hold of an old canal boat, and not til) the gun ports of the Niagara appeared above the surface of the lake did the great crowds ashore concede that Perry's ship was being actually raised. When the gun. IIP I t im h j ty-fo- but-the- t W J y were-exercize- s i . Her-riggin- g -- r -- -- hort-lme - -- i - mak-iin- g o be-twe- ceiebra-tlonha- the d o - - car-rona- Olm-Cas- ; vv e-- s. vHar-hiT- Id--- sixty-thre- e LITTLESURPRISES i Your-bin-. s the-Law- ara the-Niag- e pnlv-on- tnen-ofwa- - each ribbon was a little hag of bon 'themselves. Each Wednesday UToilr ramhowartr, ' NmsAttaehetl string was the noon one of the mothers takes alt nt tnvitationa written upotr blue paper mystic number T. entitling the finder tho Chddff tor-Iaff .. e ln"mrluk l ivon tlielF' armai me Jo th ...y emueuts of IheTreasure pot A prT,nr,n mothother showed cake pink, yellow', brown erg fnr ,hat children w Jre delighted, with what ree or soria and white with a frost-delicate ! saw. first that layers,' The they thing greeted 00000 martnoo or anY other them big rainbow-o- f blue, jet- - - In? of purple, making a rainbow effect. pleasure , is only N low, red pvink and purple cheesecloth The ice cream k,as pink, the sherbet, once . f f, stretched through two rooms Atone yellow, and the flowers for decorations has all the 'children, it does notbe- end was the pot of gold. In the pot tTescme. Tb6'.cb'ldrpn fat was the number 7 and a mysterious Several young mothers with small their V1 Party package. Colo'red ribbons led through children, who do not keep maids, are enjoy it. ' Th'usJaliy mlkeTlin he hoi m' and each chose the ribbon following a novel plan of entertain-afternvnf'o Tv5 J MCh M..J to follow.- At the end of , Rent for the children and relief for mother folloi s her own inclination aftpr-Torii- e tai to-on- o as to that. Simple refreshments are served, and the jtlan has proved a .great success; ; ! -- fara , , I ; 1 - . ? -- - V . Towel Has Lasted. Many- - Years. Miss Ada Walker of Brickervllle, Pa., has the date 104 years old It has sewed on the border. It is a homemade linen thwel. It was woven hv her It Is decorated with solid embroidered stars, plants, bird 9 and horses. It Is in an excellent state of preservation. IS09 great-grandmoth- Zart-ma- . 1 |