Show THE TRIBUTE has any land seen costlier more extensive funereal ban were shown in th e united t k T states on saturday thousands of miles of black crape cashmere and ather fabrics adorned with sorrowful significance the dwelling places and commercial marts odthe amer iann people wealth vied with wealth in the creation ot tasteful a it i and expensive festoons fes rosettes and boquete bo for lines were burdened with accounts of tho woeful decorations this is proper for it waa the spontaneous tribute of a mighty loving people but standing out from tho wilder ness of s is this little simple story worth more thought thana all the grand drawings dra pings of broadway or fifth avenue A poor colored man in mcw ork choso whoso greatest worldly possession was the small of a street fruit stand had no money to buy ribbons and crape but he managed to secure a black bordered litho graph picture of the dead hero which he tacked upon the front of us little box and upon it this grateful man wroe he set me free how those words touch the heart lincoln and grant had each his faults made each his mistakes buy poor black ekin had been the only OHO saved from the cruel lash if the poor black hand which wrote that thrilling sentence had been the only one from which the chains had been struck if the intellect of that poor blackmar black maa had been the only one darkness into light there would be enough in his case to cover with forget fullness the failings or errors of the two grand patriots compared with such merited gratitude the gifts of monarchs are but chaff the mourning of all the world for departed hero ism is not so greatus gre atas the glory of those words the thunder of the nations sorrowing guns may chati ter vainly against the wall of eternal silence the sobbing air from fifty mil llona of loving citizens may fail to ripple the boundless sea of death but that grateful cry will pass beyond them all it will pierce the very veil of heaven and sound upon divine ears the bub lime appeal he beet tae free bad history b eford it added this last sor page the Sarat oglan bays that he whole range to which mount mcgregor belongs and the valley it overlooks are intimately connected events in tho french and indian war andla revo lution the northernmost in the chain echoed the famous sum mono of ethan alien to the commandant of fort ticonderoga to surrender in tho name of the great jehovah and the congress while its southern lopol immortalized by the battle of saratoga which is generally regarded as the decisive battle of revolution he who elands on the top of mount mcgreg or can aeo to tho north french mountain and tho narrow defile between it and the palmerton range up this defile dieskau marched ibis french column in 1755 and colonel williams hastening with his band to the support of fort edwards and here occurred the feht in which llie gallant williams perished to abo east and to tho tiglia of french mountain ia a broader ley this burgoyne flushed with liia victories at and poured hin troops in tho sum mer of 1777 ilia course may bo traced all the way down to the battle field of saratoga tho of that battle rolled up from over the top of tho genallo undulation just beyond saratoga lake bawled and driven back to alie mouth of fish creek was finally forced to bur render his army near where rises the graceful monument plainly visible in the southeast dunny these memo rable days abo americans bad a signal station on aliis very top and from hero was flashed to the top of tho areen dome beyond the hudson called hilliards Willi ards mount alii intelligence of tho first appearance of army as it emerged into the of tho hudson |