Air "John Brown's
with phantom tread our marual tfeaa are-
Their scarred battle flags commingled like
blue.
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.' Their faith goes marching on.
They are leading, like the shepherds led their flocks of long ago.
To the pastures green with 'brotherhood, where blooms of kindness blow;
Let us follow "hem and lay us down where streams of mercy flow;
Let faith go marching on.
There are hoary heads and halting feet amidst the shapes of youth;
See, with shoulder set to shoulder, now they're marching for the truth;
With their eyes bent on their heavenly goal and banners flying loose,
In faith they're marching on.
In the dark hour of repining and the triumphing of wrong.
Let us think upon these m:irtyrs, be courageous and be strong.
And keep step with hope and duty, though the way be drear and long;
For faith goes marching on.
There are guards who never carried arms except our Saviour's word;
. There are soldiers of humanity who never wore a sword
Undecorated heroes of the battles of our Lord
All faithful, marching on.
In the dim, unfathomed future now benighting you and me.
We shall 'wake to see the glory of man's perfect harmony, '
With his heart and hand devoted all to love and charity, '
And faith still marching on.
JOHN IRVING PEARCE, JR.
DAY OF SENTIMENT.
Ceremonies in Cemeteries School of
Patriotism for Both Old
and Young.
On every national anniversary, ex
' cept Memorial' day, we deal with things
of life, rather than of death.
On Independence day we celebrate the
nation's birth; on Washington and Lin
coln days the birth anniversaries of its
immortal patriots; on Thanksgiving
day the fullness and blessings of na
tional prosperity.
On Memorial day alone we give pause
for tears; on this hallowed anniversary
' we weave chaplets for the nation's
glorious dead.
And how glorious they are these
, myriad sleeping soldiers and how the
glory of their deeds magnifies with the
years!
We, the living, add not at all to their
Immortality in history with our flow
ers, our prayers and our tears. But
we do add something of priceless value
to our own lives by the customs of
Memorial day. We-turn these sacred
hours into a symphony of patriotism.
The benediction of to-day's flower
strewn mounds is for the living; it is
an oasis in the storms of life; a level
ing occasion when- the finer sent'--"
creep into the souls of Ameri
and women.
And the nation's cemeteries are to
day the greatest school of patriotism for
old and young that we have. For true
patriotism counts not death, if through
death the nation shall find life and
health.
No nation is in peril that has such a
Memorial day as we have. The living
will carry on the work that these heroes
gave their lives for.
On Memorial day we come back
from forgetfulness to the realities.
We know why these soldiers died, and
we vow that their sacrifice shall not
be in vain.
This nation has been carried
through all its real perils by a citizen
soldiery, as distinguished from the
mercenary militarism of other na-
tlons.
American patriotism is something
apart. The simple flag that is more
than ever a world emblem of liberty
has no parallel as an insplrer of he
roic deeds.
There are those who place sordid
gain above sentiment, and care for our
prosperity only for individual profit.
But tire heart of real America beats
true in every crisis. No foe, open or
secret, can successfully measure
swords with the national conscience.
And this is the real lesson of Me
morial day. So long as we honor our
soldier dead we will honor our coun
try. Memorial day gives perspective.
The tottering Grand Army veteran,
and the lisping boy with cap and
drum and flag, are the visible ex
tremes of a common unity of patri
otism. Passionless, the remnants of former
contending armies unite in a common
sorrow and a common hope. The
blue and gray are not less hallowed
because time Is blending them.
The season of nature's renewal is
fittingly the season when this and
future generations will yearly deco
rate the graves of American soldiers.
And though none of these sleepers
hears the bugle call, each is taken
again to the national heart by the
fresh flowers In his "windowless pal
ace of rest." 1
ARE ONE IN BROTHERHOOD
Christian Work Kejoicea That the
Disappearance of Sectionalism
Seems at Hand.
Yes, two Memorial days and both
are ours those of the Blue and the
Qray. Here we stand nearly half a
century removed from the closing days
of the great conflicts of our civil war
a war between Americans at the
north and Americans at the south
Body."
passing in review.
their forms of gray and ,
V-
AlainlirM Ihn How "
"Americans all;" can those now liv
ing ever forget them, or will futura
generations ever cease to read of those
times from the pages of history?
Two Memorial days one for the
north, one for the south, and again,
"All Americans." No other nation has
concern in these memorial times but
our own. It was a war between broth
ers; the war has passed, the brother
hood remains. Or, if there still are
those whose hearts are fermenting
rooms ' for sectional hatred, we pity
that man or woman; surely there Is
a time to put aside if not forget a
time to regard the best of the pres
ent, not the worst of the past; a time
to cultivate amenities and loves, not
antagonisms and base passions. Yes,
there are two Memorial days; may
the sun shine clear in the heavens on
the days that commemorate the valor
and the losses of both the north and
the south; nor let either section fail
in thought, at least, to pay its due
tribute by awarding equal sincerity
and valor to the other. These days,
as 13 eventually the case with all me
morial days, have measurably . lost
their early characteristic that which
clusters around the affectional nature
and recalls the father or the son who
fell in that great struggle. It is not
in man always to mourn: and now
Hhat which was born of the affections
yucuimea uiuuumeui&i anu Historic, ana
it is well that it is so. In recent
years graves of the northern dead
have been, decorated by the brethren
of the south, and the blue have loved
to lay their floral tributes upon the
graves of the gray. So may it con
tinue to be, as in future years our
two Memorial days come around with
each recurring spring. Pass a few
tardy years and monuments to a Lee
or a Johnston or a Gordon shall find
a resting plaee at the north as well
as at the south, and so the oneness of
the peeple and the forgetfulness of
old antagonisms shall find expression
in bronze or in marble as it already
dwells in the hearts of those who are
both broadly- patriotic and strong.
Festina diem! Christian Work.
DEBT OWED GRAND ARMY.
Highest Principles of Patriotism and
Citizenship Inculcated by
the Order.
The old soldier, veteran of the civil
war, is a "living epistle, known and
read of all men." His presence among
us is a reminder of the war, an In
spiration to duty, a living exponent
and illustration of patriotism.
The Grand Army of the Republic is
made up of the honorably discharged
union soldiers. None others are eli
gible to membership in it It is a
nonsectarian and nonpartisan, politi
cally, organization, and yet its funda
mental principle is loyalty to the gov
ernment. It is a bulwark against trea
son, and everything else that men
aces the welfare, prosperity and safety
of the natlqp.
To the children and young people
the old soldier is ever an object of in
terest, and his relation of his experi
ence in the struggle for 'the preserva
tion of th-j union and the government
Is more interesting and impressive
than the printed page.
The creation of an intelligent citi
zenship and the establishment of in
stitutions necessary to the preserva
tion and perpetuation of our repub
lican form of government lie in the
development and extension of our pub
lic schools. '
Social order, exalted views of life
and appreciation of our privileges, and
the promise of our future as a nation,
are secured by an intelligent and care
ful use of our opportunities.
These things the Grand Army of th
Republic seeks to secure and foster.
No greater service ean be rendered to
our country than to promote and estab
lish her interests in the welfare, in
tel'igance and high moral quality ol
her yeopie. The veterans of the civil
wu see all this, and for them they
stand. Rev. J. J. Woolley.
WASHINGTON NOTABLES.
George Cabot Lodge, Egyptologist,
poet and student, is his father's pri
vate secretary in the United States sen
ate, Senator Clark of Montana, the
richest man In the senate, and one of
the richest men in the country, is the
most solitary man in public life in
Washington. He has no close friends.
Congressman P. P. Campbell of
Kansas is regarded as one of the best
dressed men in Washington. His cor
rect sartorial taste led one of his
friends to describe him as "the only
member of the Kansas delegation who
does not look like a Kansan."
More than ordinary interest at
taches to the persoanlity of Rt, Rev.
Shaku Soyen, who is now a guest at
the Japanese legation, Washington,
Next to the mikado, wiio is the head of
the Japanese church, Bishop Shaku is
the highest dignitary of the Buddhist
religion in Japan.
At a Japanese entertainment in
Washington for the benefit of the fam
ine sufferers in Japan Masujl Mijaka
wa, a graduate of the George Washing
ton university law school and the first
Japanese lawyer ever admitted to the
American bar, introduced the speaker,
Senator Tillman, as "one of the great
est, if not the greatest, man in con
gress." President Roosevelt frequently
takes out Senator Lodge of Massachus
etts as riding companion. Lodge is an
indifferent horseman at best, and when
the president gets out on the road and
urges his horse to the utmost Lodge
has hard work keeping up and kebplng
aboard his horse. The orderlies who
follow, it is said, are constantly pray
ing that Lodge will fall off some day.
They do not like him.
Ex-Senator William E. Chandler
Of New Hampshire, who is now at the
head of the Spanish treaty claims com
mission, misses the opportunity he had
in the senate of discussing public ques
tions, and writes frequently to the
newspapers on ' important topics.
"What are you doing now, Chandler?"
an old friend asked him the other day.
"Oh," Chandler replied, "I am a pub
licist." "A publicist? What is a pub
licist?" Chandler grinned. "A pub
licist," he said, "is a man who attenu
to everybody's business but his own."
Congressman Slemp of Virginia is
absent-minded. On a roll call recently
he complained to the speaker that hi3
name had not been called, although he
was in his seat listening for it. "The
gentleman was listening?" asked the
speaker. "I was," answered Mr.
Slemp. "The clerk will call the gen
tleman's name," ordered the speaker.
Mr. Slemp walked away and three
times the clerk shouted his name, but
Mr. Slemp gave no attention until a
colleague stopped him. "Present!
shouted back Mr. Slemp, although he
had Intended to vote "yea."
SENATOR WAS "KIDDED."
Reporter's Abbreviation Carried In
to Print Resulted in Ludicrous
The telegraph operators were spend
ing their day off in a brisk walk
through the faded autumnal country.
"You know our habit of abbreviat
ing or substituting short words 'for
long onos?" said the Washington oper
ator. "Well, this habit once did me
harm.
"Senator Grande had made a speech
about education, and in wiring the
speech out I substituted the short
word 'kids' for the long word "chil
dren,' thinking that of course the op
erator or editors at the other end
would have sense enough, in taking
down the message, to substitute the
long word for the short one. But they
didn't, and Senator Grande's ' really
eloquent and stately speech appeared
in the next day's newspaper in this
fashion:
''My friends, you will remember
Wordsworth's profound saying, "the
kid is father to the man." I need not
dwell on the vital importance to the
community of imparting a sound moral
and secular education to the kids in
their impressionable years. The kids
of this generation will be the fathers
and mothers of the next. One said,
"Suffer little kids to come unto'me,"
and we should never forget that saying
in behalf of all kids the world over.' "
Stenographer's Stunt.
The official stenographers of the
house have reported so far this ses
sion about 2,775,000 words, with the
session perhaps a little more than
half over. There is a busy, talking
time to come, however, and the full
bill will probably be about 6,000,000
words for the session. That is outside
of the committee bearings, -which will
bo more than half as much additional,
wc that the house will have sent to the
m inting office as the talk that has
T len made or 'to its members while at
ork on the floor or in the committee
rooms approximately 10,000,000 words:
The senate will easily double that. If
it does not exceed it, although the sen
ate often sitsvonly four days a week,
while the house is always busy at least
five days, and sometimes sits on Sat
urday. That will be a round total of
20,000,000 words thus uttered at this
session.
Insectivorous.
There have been many designations
of Senator Beveridge, of Indiana,
ranging from Tillman's "wasp of the
Wabash" down, but in the opinion of
many Marcus Alonzo Smith's is the
best. Marcus Alonzo, rho in the dele
gate in. congress fr Arizona p-nd
who hs been flghtif-$ Senator Bev
eridge'i plan for the admission of
Arizona and New Mexico as a state,
said; "I think, after looking him
over, that Beveridge is Vte stud cricket
f the senate."
DURATION OF LIFE.
STATISTICS SHOW THAT LON
GEVITY IS INCR.EASriIG.
Interesting Facts Concerning Births
and Mortality Are Brought
Out by Compihsrs of
Figures.
Vital statistics show that owing to
modern sanitary reforms and the ad
vancement of medical science, there
is a prolongation of human lifenofc
in all civilized parts of the world. It
has been noticed for a long time that
there has been a marked increase of
longevity in the United States, and
now the latest statistics prove that
in foreign countries a similar condi
tion prevails.
Sweden leads the world in low death
rate. The Swedes have kept vital sta
tistics for more than 150 years. No
other country has such ancient rec
ords. It Is said that all countries can
estimate the Improvement In the death'
rate for 10, 15 or 20 years, but in
Sweden the average mortality of chil
dren under 10 years f age for the 10
years previous to 1760 was 53.5 per
1,000, and this percentage has been
decreased gradually ever since, until
it is now only 26.9 per 1,000, or the
lowest in the world.
There has been also a decrease in
the death rate of all ages in Sweden.
The statistics show the rate for per
sons between 10 and 20 years of age
has fallen from 6.4 per 1,000 in 1760
to 4.3; for persons between 30 and 40
years of age it has dropped from 11.5
to 7.1 per 1,000, and for persons be
tween 40 and 50 years of age from 16.5
to 9.5. The death rate as well as the
rate of Illiteracy of the two countries
on the Scandinavian peninsula is the
lowest to be found anywhere in the
world. "
The actuaries of insurance com
panies find a decided prolongation of
human life in Holland. There the av
erage life of man has increased from
35 to 57 years, and women from 39 to
61 years, while the lowest death rate
among women is from 20 to 35 years
of age. In Great Britain and Ireland,
says the report, there has been an
improvement of about 5 per cent.,;
according to tables kept for 30 years.
Notwithstanding the great immigra
tion from Germany, which disturbs the
calculations of the statisticians. It is
found that the average duration of life
In the empire is consderably greater
than it was 30 years ago. In Hungary,
municipal statistics for Buda-Pesth
and several other cities, show a de
crease of 20 per cent, in the average
death rate, particularly among chil
dren. A Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Record-Herald, who has been
Investigating these vital statistics,
finds that there is no way of ascer
taining with accuracy the birth rate
among the people of the United States,
although such a record is scrupulous
ly kept in the cities of Europe. In
most American cities It is true that
much attention has not been paid to
this subject. Nevertheless, health au
thorities are taking hold of it at the
request of statistical associations, and
the defect in regard to birth rates will
probably soon be remedied.
In New York and .Washington there
is a birth rate given, as in Boston. In
Washington the birth rate per 1,000
is 19.8, death rate, 19.2; in New York,
birth rate 28.9; death rate 22.6; In
Boston, birth rate, 26.5, death rate 18.4.'
The highest birth rate in the world
is at Cairo, Buenos Ayres being sec
ond; thei come the great manufac
turing cities of England. The lowest
birth rates are reported from Calcut
ta, Brussels and Paris.
WAY TO MANAGE WILLIE.
"Don't," Said Has Mother, and at
Once He Posed for His
Picture.
With a Joyous smile the photog
rapher bowed his customers out, re
lates the New York Sun.
"Come again," he urged.
"Thank you!" humbly murmured the
father of little Willie, who had just
been taken.
Father's presence had been dispensed
with during that operation on the
ground that he was too upsetting. Still
he had been there the first five min
utes of the attempt, and he was de
cidedly skeptical of the photographer's
really pining to repeat the experi
ment. But he was grateful for the bland
ness of the farewell and turned a re
lieved countenance toward his wife.
She seemed singularly calm after what
she must have been through. '
"Do . you think he got him?" he
whispered, indicating Willie.
"Oh, yes," nonchalantly. "Awfully
cunning pose, too. He was holding a
tin steamboat."
"How in the world did you do it?"
"Oh," with an easy smile, "Willie
happened to pick up the steamboat
himself, and the photographer said to
me: 'You couldn't make him hold
that, could you?' and I said: 'Certain
ly! Do you want him to hold it?'
and he said he did. So I turned to
Willie and I said: 'Why, Willie, don't
you know you mustn't have that steam
boat!'" "Well?" Inquired Willie's father.
"Why," remarked his wife, "of
course Willie) hung on to the steam
boat like grim death."
Poor Father!
Bobbie Mamma.
Mamma Well?
"Were men awful scarce when you
married papa, or did you just feel
sorry ioc jum?" Judge.
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1 1 and other places of entertainment are found for
I I those seeking health and recreation.
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