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Show Increasing Importune of Memorial Hoy. When Memorial day was instituted its observances were confined to the commemoration com-memoration of the bravery and self sacrifice sac-rifice of the fallen heroes, whose graves are annually decorated with flowers and m"''u a"Z" A vearff have passed these observances have broadened, and now they include, beside the celebration cele-bration of the deeds of those who fought for the old Union and whose blood quenched the fires of civil war, consideration consider-ation of the demands of and the relations existing between the sections of the new Union. Animosities are forgotten, and the north and the south each year clasp hands in closer friendship. This is as the departed depart-ed soldiers would nave it; they fought for a common country, and in theeffacenient of the antagonisms of the past not one jot of the reverence felt for the departed U abated. |