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Show In Memory of Naval Heroes ' 1 fA' Begin by Getting Your Engagement Ring of us Then it U fair fop us to presume that you will buy all yom other jt wely and silverware of 114 too. We can save yon just ns nudum the cost of slver u wodoou . nds. dU- - ,(V X (AIT LAM Cllt This thsy hsvt dons for us, who slumber here Awoke, sllvt, though now to dumbly sleeping; Spreading th board, but tasting not Its ehasr; Bowing, but never leaping; Building, but never sitting In the shade Of the strong mansion they have msdti Speaking their word of life with mighty tongue, But hearing not the echo, million-voiced- , Of brothers who rejoiced, From all our river vales and mountains flung. Bo, take thorn, heroes of the songful paatt Open your ranks, lot every shining troop Its phantom banners droop. To hall earths noblest martyrs, and her last. Take them, 0 Fatherland! Who, dying, conquered In Thy name; And, with a grateful hand, Inscribe their deeda who took away Thy blame Civs, for their grandest all. Thins insufficient famel Take them, 0 God! our brave, . The glad fulfillers of Thy dread decree; Who grasped the eword for peace and emota to save, And, dying here for freedom, died for Theel The heights of folly and the depths of despair are not so far apart as they ' sound. Age-wor- n Moneys Orders Unearthed Tlmt thrift l not ronipmcrt wholly of tht v U SMIltr to Amply (leanmatrateU In tli lor iyWnt ol three air-wo- rti Intoniatioiinl mon.-j- r unler by the Halt Lake pnat office. The money order were iurd M yeare ago and were payahle In Kiigland. Ila1 the order, astrretcutlns ltd, keen rhed at the llmeol Iwtianre and the proceed diced In a aavlnc bank at four iiercent Intercut, , compounded annually, the , r. payee would now have Sllu.'JO "" in hla credit." Krom a Halt Lake paper. May II, ' Tht helJer of ibti artier lot! $70.90 b intereit. Daa't YOU mk lb Mat mitUba, Dtpoiri year money by mail b a taring ac- count TODAY. Walker Brothers Bankers Founded Kith k: UTA!t t. 3 a - V . Halt Lake City A Tower of HtrenKtU' 4k The man who sticks to the truth eodoin talks about himself. hi a PERA POSITIVE MANENT CUKE FOR H All He Had. report was sent out a Cleveland paper for the farmers to fill out, and the other day one of them came back with the following written on the blnnk side In pencil: "All we've got In this neighborhood Is three wlddors, two school ma'ams, a patch of wheat, the hog cholera, too much rain, about CO acres of 'taters, and a durn fool who married a crosseyed gil because she owns 80 sheep and a mule, which the same Is me, and no more at present. Tho Argonaut. A blank crop ty that there are stand heroic upon the calendar for all time. These are days honored In com- AYS A Remarkable Family. Yes," said the Marquis de Foosl-Jam- , he comes of a remarkable family. Ills great grandfather Invented a wonderful piece of machinery. And his grandfather?" Invented a new method of capitalIn And he?" "He's an inventor, too. He has a new variation of the cakewalk." Washington Star." Emphatic. "Speaking of etiquette, did you send the dollar for those advertised instructions on What to Do at Table?" Yes." "And what did you get? , A slip with one word printed on It: Eat!" To the Point. do you intend to stay man, Young here all night holding' my daughter's hand? No, sir, my Intention Vi when you retire Into the house to lace my arm around her waist and .sk a kiss. The Other Way. The grade teacher had just finished a warm plea for kindness to dumb animals In general, and to cats In parNow. children," she asked, ticular. hat can we do to prevent the poor cats from getting their heads stuck In tin cans?" An earnest faced youngster, who looked tie though he might have a solution ready, was waving his hand. "AH tight. Jimmy, let's hear your suggestion." Tie the cans to the dogs tails." Willies Plan. calls you you hide The Secret. Klymer. What is the secret of success In business? Selling tho people what they want? Muntoburn. No, not exactly; educating them Into wanting the things you have, to sell. Was Doing His Best. The Man in the Tree Hun! Run, or the bear will get you. Oh, why dont you run? . The Fat Man Run! Hang It! Do you think I'm trying to throw the race? Yes, Where? When 1 marry," said the girl, "I am not going to marry a man who drinks, smokes, plays cards, or who belongs to a club. Still, 1 want him , to have a good time. "Where?" he asked. BEAUTIFUL and touching tribute Is paid to the memory of the n: ors who gave up their lives during the Civil war by Tent No. Ili the National Alliance, Daughter of the Veteran oFthe United Sir-little boat filled with carnations, roses, lilies, jessamine in i butus, Is borne by G. A. R. veterans to the edge of the river and ji: mid prayer, to th crew of a launch who take It to midstream. There launched, and, amid the booming of a salute and the strains of the it. Spangled Banner," It sinks quietly and slowly, leaving tho water around dotted with blossom. A Thm it M pAHcilf. mm Set mu. I. 11m tr.altS .1 ri.al.lf m a Itwir mmm Iwmm. TIlE KtELElf 1J4 W. Swll) Tm.1. StrMt. Salt Uta CM. Sis Now, Willie, when George tonight, I don't want to catch peeking through the keyhole as did last time. Willie. No; I had planned to under the couch tonight Instead. - Photograph by Underwood A Underwood, N. Y. Drunkenness and Opium Diseases. ising the business." "And his father?" Invented aome Interesting Ideas orso racing and entertaining. I- , mon by races and nations. They are days that en-lid the particular of nations because 1 1 they perpetuate the mem- orles of persona famed jli for what they have done In one or another walk of life. The tendency of mankind la to seek to have the fame of the great ones equal In duration with their bestowing upon their fellow-men- . There is one day for the American people that stands alone In solitary grandeur, separated In the high fllgbte of glory that encircle It, Isolated, yet majestic, In the pathos which will ever attend Its celebration. That day la Decoration day. In these Umea. when the peace pipes are aa soundful as the pipes of Fan, when the bugle Is becoming boarse, while the berald's trumpet announces general arbitration treaties to the ends of the earth, la these times, when the progress of mankind appears to be set toward the fulfillment of the far-of- f prophecy that words shall be turned Into plowshares and spears Into pruning hooks, It Is well to lay emphasis upon the day that has the roost distinctive glory of any peculiarly American holiday. The glory of Decoration day Is that It holds In national hallowing the mighty deeds of brave men. Their deeds will be immortal, who fought not because they had spleen toward their brethren now united In the bonds of a .common home, endeavor and destiny but because they saw a shattered natlou wrecked upon the shoals of sectionalism. They will be Immortal because the tendency of mankind Is to have the fame of the doers of great deeds conterminous with the benefits conferred. The benefits will be everlasting and augmenting, so that Decoration day, far from having diminished glory when the lust of the soldiers of the nation shall have rassed away, will have even more honor paid It. The growth of the nation, the working out of Its destiny, the recession of sectionalism, the magnifying of the Incidents of national progress and national purpose these are all factors lu the march of progress that shall forever make hallowed the day sanctified by memories of the blood of the nations defenders. Sad, Indeed, the occasion (or fratricidal Btrlfe, but the working out of the national Issues from the of the nation glorious battlefields In Its great domestic contest make even the pathos of the warfare eloquent with brotherhood, unity and a common devotion. The time may come A hen w ar will be regarded aa barbarism outright, when the closeness of the nations and the Identical Interests of the powers will be such as to obviate warfare, when the tribunals will exist for the support of all international causes without recourse to war. But the lime ran never come when the laurels g the warrlot will he dimmed. No st Iconoclast will ever arise who will seek to tear down the monuments ol the men who molded the world's destinies, using the blood of the battlefield as the cement for their constructive efforts. Indeed, It is conceivable that the day may come when there can no more be opportunity for military distinction, but this very fact will Increase the glory of the ages of heroism. Then the nation will look back to the deeds of the heroes whosaved the Union, and they will be honored as living In an age, the majesty of which cannot be underrated by any change of Ideas as to the utility of warfare. Hence the tribute paid the dead heroes of the nations strife will be a less tribute than any to follow, for every year the meed of praise and the warmth of encomium will be Increased, as the widening vista of the past lends additional enchantment to the theme. The time will come when every part of the nation, without disparagement to the men who fought on the other side, will unite In acclaiming the men who preserved the nation and made It the mighty leader In all movements for the peace and honor of mankind. War may be all that It has been painted and Its horrors cannot be too gravely set forth, but there Is a profound religion In the warfare that reconstructs a nation, that Justice, that sets men free and liberates the Intellect from shackles that fetter progressive thought and prohibit the full expression of progressiva conduct. The south Is blossoming today In Its national fervor and Industries teem throughout Its domain. The north Is clasping hands with all other sections In the movement of the American brotherhood toward the highest pinnacle of lofty eth-leand serviceable achievement. The organ roll of American sentiment Is heard with deep and resonant melody. All the nations of the earth are learning from the united American state, the great federated people of the American republic, the righteousness that exalteth a nation. American statesmen. American educators, Amur lean have theologians all done mightily toward giving this country Its position of prestige In the realm of world affairs. Its reputation for probity and honesty. But the men who gave their lives for the nation made all this possible. They exalted an ideal that has placed upon the American people the destiny of necessity to support every oppressed people and to uplift the standard of freedom and moral right. Out from the furnace of the war came tho gold of American Ideals, out from the blood and strife came the type of American statesmanship and the type of American sentiment that have caused the republic to le looked up to by the people of Europe and Asia as the moral mentor and the efficient Ideal for all of them. The work of the men who are honored upon Decoration day Is not concluded, will never be. Their souls move majestically onward with the movement of the race, of the aye. of the universe. Some day there wil a be a general roll call, when those who have deserved well of mankind will pass In the review of the eternal ages, and the men who did the deeds honored upon Decoration day will not miss the tribute of the wider effects of their mission to preserve the American political tie unbroken. United, glorious and peaceful, with undimmed vision and with unshaken faith in their primary principles, the American people are one In heart and one In spirit In their purpose to have the Illustrious Ideals of the nation made Increasingly glorious for the blessing of mankind. . It is easy enough after a war has been fought to prove the uselessness of It. It has often been shown how the difference between the north and the south might have been adjusted with such a terrible waste of life and treasure. Grant that within the devices of political expediency these preventions were possible, the fact still remains that the wars were fought, that great moral faults were purged, and the God of battles enforced his ancient law of eye for eye and drop of blood for drop of blood. Children are always bearing the faults of their fathers, and the men and women of '60 to 65 poured out of their own velna and out of their own souls an equal portion of blood and misery that their fathers drew from the veins of an enslaved race. No moral debts long remain unpaid. What If the purging was drastic and the throes suffered by the war ring elements brought It staggering to Its knees, was not the cleansing complete? The nation stands today the stronger and the sweeter for that conflict. For It was not merely the quarrelsome distemper of war that afflicted the people, but a score of diseases; not human slavery alone, but factional Jealousy, greed, selfishness, state mlsgovernment and federal abuses. How vastly these have been eliminated can be appreciated only by a study of the Injustices of that period. The nation In that memorable struggle was expected by cynical observers In Europe to crumble and fall. But these observers failed utterly to grasp the significance of the struggle that was being fought for national purity and national unity. Instead of perceiving a giant rending himself, rs they thought, they were watching a giant wrestling with the evil that was within him. As the day of that conflict ever recedes, and the din grows less t to the ear. Its better significance makes Itself felt. The broad page of history teaches a lesson that participation In the actual war Itself might not have taught If any soldiers stood In the trenches unmindful of the significance of the struggles In which he was a part, be Is not unmindful now as he measures his step to the beat of the muffled drum today. For time has shown all wherein lay the universal meaning of that conflict. The nation was being bled of Its distempers, even through his veins. And it rose up. weakened and saddened, but with the courage of the victor and the resolution of the chastened. dff- - W V- - f ?. ft. - man-of-war- 3b jHemoital Bap 0crmon ii. D & - . Paator of Harvard Church Boaton o it! it t if !if the foremost rank of stands the roonu-vfment to the soldier. The myjiail mounds of rank and file stir tender and deep emotions. The veterans of the thrilling scenes of 61 and 65 are passing. Over N ls v ifiir forty-eigthousand In 1909 answered the last taps. Memorial Day should be sacredly kept and should most properly recall the stirring events of the Civil war. What mean ye by these stones?" the descendants of Joshua asked, as they saw the memorial pile by the River Jordan. So the youth of today Inquire of the silent sentinels raised to commemorate the soldier of 61. I hm reminded of an example of patriotism not usually known. Colonel Shaw, whose monument of bronze stands upon Boston Common, Is not alone In deserving such a memorial. Up among the Berkshire Hills there Is a modest shaft that marks the grave of another gallant leader of negro troops. I refer to Colonel Chauncey Bassett, of the Bassett Grand Army post of Michigan, the grandfather of ffly children and the father of that Plect lady, my wife. How Colonel Bassett Inspired his men is Illustrated by the heroism of a negro lad who was tho As Colonel Bassett handed the flag to the lad. he gave this charge: "My boy, bring back the colors or tell to God the reason why." All through the Here fight they watched that standard. Once It was seen to fall the lads arm had been shot. But grasping the staff with his left hand, the flag moved forward again, waving over the dusky troops. Once more It swayed and dropped. But after tho battle they found the little fellow prostrate upon the flag wet with his blood. He could never bring the col-or- s back. He had told to God the reason why. But I recall a memorial which comes jiose to every veteran in the land. It name endeared to you by a thousand recollections and sends tho warm blood throbbing through your Folns. It Is the dear name of Comrade, Comradel Your companions In arms! They have fallen, but your The Real Test. thoughts bring the old familiar forms and scenes Diogenes was searching for back again. You boneBt man. sleep In the Bamo ''nt and perchance share the same Find a suburbanite who will tell you his real opinion of country life in blanket or you watch by tho camp-Ar- e warming and sheltering your comwinter." he advised. rade from the cold and the storm Herewith he departed to as apply the he has done for you. You divide your greatest test of scanty rations or you dUnse the lucky catch of poultry or A msn cannot possess anythin beer him on the hot and bacon; you dusty march; i. tb,n ;h;; he stretches his hand or musket to or,e rou In the tjlb, struggle through the awamp; he fights by your side ante-bellu- color-beare- strl-den- all.-Har- per.8 br . w In the din and smoke of attack, runs and cheers with you In the ; lant charge or he stands near yon s deck and hurls the fiance at the enemies shot. Be lai be sings, he shouts; he turns stern resolve and face like flint His jon meet the bullet-storsorrows, his glory, his hardship, yours, for all the while It Is comr. It may be one today, another to: row, but always Comrade! I cannot forbear to mention more Important lesson from the n: ments of the war. It Is this: Th God of Nations Gave the.Vvt The Almightys hand has never be withdrawn from history. In the est hour a Lincolns brain and bet a true statesmans hand grasped helm and held the nation to here?: through whirlwind, victory and t disaster. In critical hours vhei elgn powers would smile encotm ment to our foe God sent a stronja across the waters to speak for man of silver tongue, the orator! I and the patriots soul, who ire' the threatened blow. Some veK member what ntter consterns:: swept over the north when thek rlmac sunk the "Cumberland i the "Congress" surrendered. T. that same evening the news sped c the wires that the "Monitor" hid rived at Hampton Roads, the sir a with shouts and men who eeldon knowledged divine Interference saying, "How providential!" chants of war-tim- e will not forget terrible depression In business. I ten years previous two thirds of countrys exports consisted of from the south. IIow could the r loss be met? In 61 and 62 there drought in England and Europe. the farmer stepped to the front fields of America, particularly k west, were, in these years, unc abundant, and foreign ports wereo? ed to receive "a value of overt hundred million dollars of the P' ucts of our soil. England more than sixty million dollar gold." At the last when the a1' was weary the Indomitable Grants Into leadership and by his sledget mer blows, "By the left the1 gave the Confederacy stroke. Thus did the King of tlons shield this land. . that Think not, fellow-citizeno,0 duty Is done; that In rearing Rtatues your obligations are fn' K The peculiar Institutions of tht try are the memorials God you to build, support and protect, to It, you who fought gallanto your country and you who today tho harvest of heroism, see to your Influence goes abroad foj morals,' and guard as your ' liberties handed down to future of our nation what citizens make it is looking to America, are no new continents. Tber other race that possesses, as do a Anglo-Saxoliberty and P" ligton," and these are the tors that will determine tbe fu the world for good. FrlendH, we are still In tbs field of battle," still In the of life," Who will be the hero: answer will be In the Blnce,i courago with which you Institutions and the liberties citizenship. Hold the na,,0llt1 aered. Ilnre your head bene folds of her flag bathed in tn ol your fathers and country-Far- dan-lerou- s ! . ya-T'he- " U today-worl- bd Fireside. |