Show MEMORIAL DAY DAT tomorrow may 80 the people of a great nation will observe decoration day to in the graves of loved ones who have passed to the great beyond and in services appropriate to the memory of the unions s fallen heroes As aa has been suggested teu by the soldier eold lera sl which claims in ue its membership the remaining veterans or of the great army which thirty years ago was mustered out of service erv ioe decoration day to la not the oc cation of hilarious enjoyments enjoy meota ments or ui ol boisterous mirth but of ce recalling calling memories of those who have lived and diets dien sod and of the abe mood works toy by which they benefited their follow abou naturally the subject recall cenes sceney ol of a solemn character which do not however preclude a feeling of rejoicing that the ever 11 living V I 1 dg nak memory or of loved odes who have gone tetuan of the great truth wat that though bough dead they yet live and are ral tangible objects of an affection which ble baa been by their absence in the present stagg stage of woman in ogress aa as aa a prominent factor of civil azad existence and government it la Is not inappropriate to recall that the in allt ution of beoo decoration kation day was waa due to homana Wo mana s sympathy and inspiration dome after the close of the war mrs martha 0 kimball whose death occurred in philadelphia a little more than a year ago behold beheld some southern women decorating the graves grave of confederate soldiers and ana the inspiration of a national observance of the ceremony for the union bead in theasle abe same war flaher through her mints the unfailing affection of mothers mo there wives and nd daughters forthe for the sons husbands hua banda and fathers who had bail fallen was a as 8 typical of the undying love which a nation should for those ahot fe lives had been sacrificed in its ita behalf mrs kimball communicated the idea to general ie john A logan and through the agency of the gallant soldier decora tion day was wag ineffaceably inscribed among those days day which the people delight to observe the institution of the beautiful custom found ready roe res in the hearts of a patri patriotic otio people the union dead were near dear and dear deaf to them as an their heir own kindred whom they were and so BO closely was their memory interwoven with that of the national family that by one impulse the observance of the day for the heroes of the war was wai united with its if observance for all the loved ones one lying to in the silent tomb the whole being brought within the bond of family affection strongly an aa the ceremonies of memo rial aai day remind us of the past pact of the associations and hallowed communion with those to whom we have said gald farewell in mortality and of the sorro sorrows and anguish of parting their presence with us Is still more suggestive of immortality and of the impotency of death to break the chain that binds us ui to intelligent tell igent organized existence A change has come as aa we witness changes day by day but as aa the influence of the light and warmth of the day that closes la is not lost loat in nature but continues to the coming of another day so the ties and memories of the be associations experienced bough buried for fora a time in darkness dark nesa and gloom live on to a renewal of the associations at a future time death as the night has hae its season and when death la Is overcome as aa when the darkness of the night la Is dispelled by means within the power of our own owa manipulation there to la unending life as aa we may have unceasing light the triumph over death has hag been wrought out by the great captain who will make a glorious union of the nations to mortals its joys joya are reached through the portals of 0 the tomb this generation does well to remember in affection those who have passed before especially the good and the brave to keep fresh their acquaintance and to hallow their associations in the manifestations of eternal love in ia the beautiful order of strewing flowers on decoration day that those acquaintances and andola to dismay be renewed in unbounded may the lesson ba deeply sm im pra aed oo on succeeding generations to recognize past present and future existence as they are till the great family reunion when the sting ui of dt dath ath ehll ahall have passed away sod and grave cravea is victory tie be but a distant memory 0 ry welcome the decoration day with its sweet and Olain plaintive tive memories romin dire of the pleasures plea ples aures eures sacrifices and triumphs patt pat and harbingers ol of the bra brighter ahter joys and glories yet to COMO comi |