Show MEMORIAL DAY DAT no memorial day or decoration day ns fin it Is iq more generally Rene rally known has over ever come around since after the institution of the observance more than thirty alvo years apo ago when a better state of fee ing existed between the north and south 3 and between the men wh who 0 f foupht b I 1 ln in the war than now there ther e has ough ban cn a decided tell tendency this year t to all 11 sorts of blue and gray proceeding edin j tile the grand army posts and the confederate on federate camps have mixed s up in a most genial way i this athla does no nomona mean that tho the special value of fhe he dayto a to the northerner as a comm emor tio of the alie services and death of the union nion soldier has lost its fine edge on the contrary it has rained gained in zest the soldier died for the union an nna those who lay flowers on oil his grave cannot do so without think ing of the union and its sacredness hut but tile the union Is now flow secure forever foro vcr the of war time arp lead dead the work of the hero of that war la Is complete ta ere Is now tie no further occasion for maintaining the conflict bat chilt lie ho hat hail part in at tile the side of tile the soldiers graves in tills this year of ewo many stalwart grandsons of men inen who are buried there will stand with flowers flower g in their hands isan was mis a good while ago A certain amount of the decorating this year will be done by veterans great grandsons for there were old fellows in III the ranks of hull bull atun antl and at gettysburg on both sides but there were youngsters too and thousands of these we have with ua u still they are arc honored above nil other men and properly on memorial day it Is their day nothing can call bo be more impressive than their annual turnout it Is the nations most beautiful spectacle and the honoring of it weaves into american lives the enduring pattern of patriotism |