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Show PAGE THREE BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1930. Vanishing Figures of '61 Future Memorials Decoration day is undergoing a process of evolution. It was established after the Civil war as a specific occasion for paying tribute to the Northern Mdlers who had fallen in that strugThen the wounds of war still gle. were l!ediug. The armed clashes below the Potomac had brought heart breaks Into thousands of homes. But the specific occasion that gave birth to the holiday Is receding Into the mists of history. During the Intervening half century there have been endencies In two directions one WWard a festival of patriotism and 0 toward an occasion of general - tnemorial for all the dead. It Is this latter tendency which is likely to conquer in the end. It seems probable that gradually the occasion will attain the status of All Soul's day in some of the European countries. It will be one day in the year given over entirely to the memory of all those who have fallen on the battlefields of life and gone before us on that mysterious pilgrimage into the dark. But it will come in the high tide of the month of flowers, symbols of life and hope, rather than In the melancholy mists of autumn, when contemplation of death is most natural. A people has need of such a day. The actual observance of Memorial day long has transcended the specific purpose for which it was established. It has become a time of family mourning, not alone for soldiers who died for their country, but for mothers and fathers, sisters, brothers, husbands, wives and children. They are all gone as comrades in the one great war which encompasses all other wars that of the weak, helpless mortal against the forces of fate and nature. The time may come when May 30 will be the most profoundly religious ccaslon of the year, when the rela-ion- s of men with each other, which result in states and cults nnd wars, will be buried temporarily in contemplation of the relations of all men with the powers which rule the waves of the great ocean of time and space upon which our little world is tossed through the great darkness. East Tremonton never-ceasin- g Vision of the "Last Comrade" By HENRY W. COLBY Revised by Sydney E. Ford, Ford Gardens, Bridgewater, Mass. March your proudest, honored patriot, while your step is firm and strong; Shout yonr loudest, vailiant soldier, is your voice peals out in song; Sound your glory with the echoes of the trumpet and the drum, That the story may be ringing through the centuries to come. Loyal hearts are warmly throbbing to the music of your tramp; Memory starts the songs of legends of the bivouac and camp; Almost seems the scene repeated, were it not that while we gaze, Waking dreams of faltering footsteps cloud the light of other days. (r " Time is lending with stern usury the days that fly too fast; Backs are bending with a burden that must weigh them down at last; Ranks are thinning while no fresh recruits can swell your gallant band; Death is winning slowly, surely, every fight with certain hand. Have you never, valiant soldier, as you decked those graves in May, Thought that ever in the future there must come a fateful day, When some lonely, weary veteran, last survivor of his post, Must the only remnant linger of a vast and mighty host? Have you pondered which among yon last should lay his burden down? Have you wondered whose the weary brow to wear this martyr's crown. Who the tired, tottering one shall be, the last sad tale to tell. Uninspired by any sight or sound of those he loved so well? As romance creates heroes, with imagi- -, nation free, fytn my fancies I have pictured whose fashion by the annual reunions of vet- erans of the conflict between the states. Every year the numbers of those who are able to attend these affairs are seen to be smaller, the hands a little less steady, movements more uncertain and the line of march aided by the motor car somewhat shorter. The actual rate at which time is making Its conquest of these heroes, however, is shown In reports of the commissioner of pensions with reference to Union survivors. There must come a halt ere long, brave youth; ah! youth no longer now; "Nearer home" with every passing May, is traced upon thy brow, And each season that the march of Time is written on Life's page Stamps as treason youth's brave contest in its battling with Age, might be; Lifelike, truthful, bright before me, as a portrait from the sun, pilgrim-for- m Stands a youthful, boyish volunteer of Eighteen Sixty-On- e. Just a lad when he enlisted, able scarce his gun to bear. But clad in knightly spirit, such as manliest heroes wear; And ye rr, who in your careless thought speak slightingly of youth, Which may stir with glowing ardor on the side of God and truth. But the boys are boys no longer; youth is manhood manhood, age. And the joys of youth have ripened t the wisdom of the sage, And though real yet Life's battle, pressing constant, close and fast, Not lets real is the soldier to hie memories of the past How the facet of his comrades most to him grow doubly dear, Aa he traces by their footsteps, passing milestones, year by year, And what clustering emotions most be As stragluif the eVeps in his soul. mustering-ou- t commander another from the rsQ. Thatcher j Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Christiansen of Ruth. Nevada, wercthe guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Christianson for several upon the attention of the country days last week. But they should leave a large place Mrs. Albert Johnson and daughter, In its thought for all of those, living btella, were Promontory visitors, on and dead, who had an active part in Wednesday and Thursday. Miss Ruby Bergstrom went to Salt the period of trial, disaster and trl Lake Monday. That evenuiir she play unjpta extending from 1861 to 1865. ed for a banquet at the Newhouse Hotel. She is scheduled to plsy at the Embassador Hotel at a social function in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mitchell and children of Clinton and Miss lone Davis, of Wales, were the guests of Mi', and Mis. Roy C. Andersen, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Bradshaw and children of Tremonton, were the guests of Mr .and Mrs. A. W. Berg-stroon Sunday. IS YOUR WIFE L. R. Humphreys and son of Logan called at the George Abbott home Saturday, while enroute to Promon tory. The following were numbered amone the jrraduates from the B. R. H. S.: Rae Abbott, Wanda Garfield, Leona Garfield, Orlean Peterson, and Moe Takagaki. Mrs. Emma K. Olsen came up from Salt Lake City, Monday and will spend several weeks with her son, N. W. Olsen, and family. Mrs. Sammy Kay attended a wedding of a cousin at Morgan last Thursday. Mrs. O. L. Brough, Mrs. O. A. Seager, Mrs. H. K. Fridal, Jr., and Mrs. George Beal, attended. Relief Society conference at Collinston, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George Brough had as their guests Sunday, their granddaughter, Miss Lois Brough, of Bountiful, Utah; a niece, Miss Martha Crawford and a nephew, Seymore Beck, and his friend, Mr. Billington, of Rupert, Idaho. SWINDLE-PROOF- ? F left a widow with a substantial amount of money, might she be misled into making worthless investments ? An Income Contract offered by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is the best safeguard against the dissipation of your insurance money. It will guarantee your widow a specified income, month ly or yearly, as yoj choose; and assure your children a home. Why take a chance that the estate you are accumulating will be wasted ? Get Metropolitan Income Insurance now and that chance is eliminated. See L. C. Christopherson 43a-- Garland R. F. D. 4 Utah Representing METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY m But within my fancy's vision, at no distant day, With the din of conflict lost in space and hushed all hostile fray, On some May Memorial morning shall our soldier boy of yore Plod his way in painful solitude for aye and evermore. far-o- ff Not again his lot to decorate the graves of gallant men; Quite in vain the strength, says Holy Writ, of fourscore years and ten, And it needs no voice prophetic to remind the valiant soul That his deeds henceforth can have no speech except on Memory's scroll Time has banished with a cruel hand .the lightness of his tread; And the vanished power of manhood's pride is slumbering and dead, And the graves where sleep his comrades, move him sadly as he sees How the braves have fallen round him like the leaves from off the trees. Stilled the clamor and the turmoil of those ancient days afar; Gone the glamor of the trappings and the pageantry of war; Pomp and splendor pass unnoticed, relics of a bygone age; True and tender memories only mark the veteran's heritage. Dreams of battles haunt his visions always dreams of battles won, And he prattles in derision as the foe-m- en break and run; Bloodless fields of restrospection constant crowd upon his brain And he wields in thought, with waning strength, the ancient sword again. We guarantee this Miller Tire to outwear any other lire of efjual price vhen run under the same conditions. Geared-to-the-Roa- Nurse thy dreaming, gallant soldier 'tis the privilege of years, That, in seeming, Age may wear again its earlier smiles and tears, And the heat of battle kindles from the li as d MILLER RUBBER PRODUCTS COMPANY (INCORPORATED) Akron, Ohio, U. S. 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Oluf Johnson and family motored to And the waves of loyal gratitude, in Franklin, Idaho, last Sunday for a tide. visit with Mrs. Johnson's sister, Mrs. Guard the graves of those we hold so Parkinson. Mrs. Johnson and daughdear with reverence and pride. ter, Helen will stay for several days, Boston Herald. while the rest of the family returned Sunday evening. Vernal Johns visited his mother, Riverton Grounds surrounding Mrs. Amy Johns of Ogden, last SunRiverton Second Ward Chapel being and Monday. day improved. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Garfield were Sulphurdale Sulphur Mines starts Logan visitors last Sunday. They wer operations. aceompanied by Mrs. Jamina Check, etts, who returned to her home in Jfi&u.Mt Logan after a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Chas feterson. The thinning ranks of those who fought In the Civil war are revealed in somewhat dramatic and pathetic J ever-recurri- Mr. and Mrs. Carl Peterson of Pen rose were the guests of their daughter Mrs. P. C. C. 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