Show wasi fal apfl pl P l f 3 arodd and unafraid Through thi the years the boston dision folk last year were disposed I 1 to weep at what they thought a pathetic spectacle as they saw saw the splendid did rearguard rear guard of the grand Orand army marching in pouring ralerf through their streets in point of fact the last tiling thing these boys of war days want la Is sympathy they do not belong to the sob stuff brigade like their southern antagonists they were men from the crowns of their heads to the bottom of their f feet e et and they still march on proud and unafraid to the last rendezvous with death says the baltimore sun splendid old men are these hese on both sides of mason llalon and dixons line army life did not enfeeble them perhaps it if they had not marched arched ri so much in youth bouth they would not have been io BO ba balea leand and hearty now at an age when most men must do dd their marching in a rocking chair lathey lt they y have been so fortunate as to live so long three cheers and three times three for these sturdy survivors af pf of both grand armies abe they are of the salt that never loses its savor savor could cold 1 some c potent majidian magl clan of bt life I 1 sprinkle them with the elixir of youth and set them before us in the radiant and splendid manhood that was theirs in the OOs would the picked corps of any armies of the present rival thern them in dauntless courage in unselfish devotion to principle af of s uchi areche are arel the he eternal kingdoms of spiritual gi ghory lory of such the human sublimity that shines forever alk like the stars |