Show THE rHE GRAND MARCH Tomorrow will be the day of tho the grand march of f the veterans Be sure that the children s see c it if They may not take in its full significance but the memory will remain with them and as the years ears u unroll roll and their intelligence increases the germ of the thought t pla planted tomorrow will spring g. g int into active life and they will be lm t the e better petter patriots all th their lives because of it The march to the men in inthe th the ranks will be a succession of echoes but they will be sacred ones echoes co coming coining nin back from a thousand battlefields in thought the marching column olumn will hear guns once more that long ago grew grev cold hear voices that long ago grew still i they will vill see the standards above them and they will bring back recollections of days when those st standards were for to show them the way to where men were dying and where the perpetuity per per- tiit of native land hung in the balance To the public the march will be he an object lesson they will vill see the gho ghost t of what was once an invincible array what is left from the battles' battles bloody way Sway fr from m. m the grinding friction of the years A generation genera genera- Hon tion and n a n half has passed since those me men first marched their native land laud has doubled in power arid and multiplied in wealth tenfold th the desert has been rede redeemed m d great cities have sprung up all allover allover V over the land temples to learning to justice to toV labor have been reared all the between between between be- be V V m mercy rc to way tween the seas and the change must make them VV feel as though they were almost loitering too long up lp n the he stage Long Dong ago their youth fled long g th they y lay V down at night to find in the morz- morz moni- moni V it that at the frost had gathered on their hair that V fr frost st which never melts They themselves ves feel fee V V 1 almost st more like a memory than like the stalwart V band d they were in their youth But their countr countrymen country country- m men n draw around them their countr countrymen men realize V th that t in the crisis they offered all they had for naV native native na- na V V tive land and so when they make their march under un- un V del der their tattered flags tomorrow there will be beV V V many a moist eye there will be many a silent V V prayer that their further march 1 on to the grave graye I V may aj be peaceful and free from pain and that when I VV V th thy they j finally finay sink to sleep here for their spirits beV be- be V the stars there will ill be awaiting them that reveille which will recall them once more to the i V shining ranks in which they marched here and the theold V I old commanders will be there ther the old comrades V V will be there the old glory and the thrill will wilt be bethere V V. V there l re and they will never pass awa away |