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Show Decoration Day. Tlic Logan public should keep In mind that it lias been decided to make the most of Decoration Day this year. It is designed that on Satuiday, May -!, persons having lelathcsor friends In the local cemetery shall go there and make such' lmproements In the appearand of the graves as may be possible. A tilp tluough the cemetery ceme-tery rceals the fact that It has had no itKAi. attention. It is an unkept place of little order the streets aic nothing but ciookcd dilveways, headstones head-stones aic set Irregularly, and many are toppling ovei; but few giavesshow any care and loving attention In fact the cemetery seems a woe-begono plat wtieiu the dead have been left Just to get them out of sight and mind. Tlic people should aiouso themselves to tills unfortunate condition and go to the, cemetery on the 2i)tli with the idea of making as I art leal a change as Is possible In a short while, and then go away with the fixed Intention of improving tilings wonderfully during the coming year. After you liae done what can be doncon Saturday go to the cemetery on Monday, Decoration Day, and deposit on the graves some dieting of love. That place should be a perfect flowerbed flower-bed on the Iioth. Let your heaitsbe softened by memories tender and when the heart Is soft nurse that ten-deiness ten-deiness until It becomes full-blown and Is a part of your very existence. Asyou woik to make attiactlve the last lusting place of thoso still dear and once near you, let the mind dwell upon tlio fact that It Is but a little wlillo until other hands will be engaged en-gaged In a like service over your own mound. Uetlect that life Is fleeting and is largely what you makejt, full of strife, turmoil and bitterness, tears, . sorrow, anguish, Unkindly thoughts and deeds, or to the reverse sunshine, love, beauty, harmony, kindly acts toward your fellowmcn, sympathy and tenderness. Let the Decoration Day Idea dwell with you until! that time and make the observance of It a loving service and pleasant duty. |