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dbemotfai 2>ay THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAGS. v Br Again in the wind we are streaming, y.^fwJmWl/Msfyj) We loved the wild clamor of battle, !/f\wW2 i V J‘! ~ , T ¥h.' r a. of .!, h d e d^‘ et ' 7 '*WlfillW A S thS^em^oo^X^i, .Wc dust, long snd Ml |/|||f ij K “ l ' “ th ' bdl! Yb® blades that flashed joy are rust only, as Nay, more than the living have found us, J he far-rolling war music dumb. J|H Pole specters of battle surround us; God rest the true souls in death lying, illilXv Iblsf/sla Ye hear not, but they who are bringing For whom overhead proudly flying IS riff Ml Your symbols of honor are singing \\ e challenged the toe. iSP Wjj The song of death’s bivouac rest. The storm of the charge we have breasted, Ji)>l ls%i’ On the hearts of our dead we have rested, In the pride of a day long ago. ! || Iw Blow forth on the south wind to greet us, Ah. surely the good of God’s making 11';® 1 J jw ? j When war lines were set. Shall answer both those past awaking '■iSl '! j j Go carry to far fields of glory And life’s cry of pain; • |UB\ V.V6a? 1 The soul-stirring thrill of the story, But we nevermore shall be tossing ||jS V nnH* Of days when in anger we met. On surges of battle where crossing Rijn> Vi'Y|j —Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. The swift-flying death bearers rain. (yWi J\ Vvfl nnnnnnn EGYPT and nnd Romo all made use of flowers in their funeral ceremonies. The Greeks and Romans honored their heroic dead by magnificent fun erals and various anniversary cele brations. The greatest oratprs of the period were proud to be selected to pay tribute to the memory of their fallen warriors. Pericles was chosen to deliver the funeral oration over the slain in the Peloponnesian War, and Demosthenes over the dead in the terrible battle of Chcronea. All great nations of the past have felt nnd acted upon this sentiment, nnd those of to-day are perpetuating the beautiful custom. Americans honor their patriot war riors by strewing flowers over their graves, and by reciting in glowing language the historic battles In which they fell. The American Memorial Day is observed in almost every part of the civilized world—American sol diers lie buried in almost every clime, from the Arctic to tho tropics, in the Far East ns well as at home. Originally designed as a day to be set apnrt for patriotic teaching and for the paying of a public tribute to the men who died in their country’s service, Memorial Day has in recent years made Its observance co-ext <n slve with the boundaries of the na tion. The decoration of the graves of the soldier dead of the Civil War was one of its impressive features, but was extended in many localities to the known graves of soldiers who had fought in any of the wars of the Government. Thus soldiers of the Revolution und of the War of 1812 were duly honored, as well as those •who had served in the Civil War. Much has been said regarding the origin of Memorial Day. General Joseph Wheeler claims that General Logan’s attention, when in May, 1808, as Commander of tho Grand Army of the Republic, he issued or ders in regard to keeping green the memory of the brave "boys in blue." had. no doubt, been called to the cus tom of the Southern people of annu ally setting apart a day to pay rever ence to those who sacrificed their lives for a principle that was dearest and nearest to their hearts. "The women of the South," says General Wheeler, “were ever assidu ous In their care of the resting places of their dead, perhaps because of the customs peculiar on this side of the Atlantic to Mobile and New Orleans, where on All Souls’ Day each year the cemeteries were carpeted with untold myriads of rare and costly flowers strewn by devoted hands over the graves of the beloved dead.” During the contest between the States the women and children of the South delighted to bring flowers and THE GLORY OF BOTH. evergreens to decorate the graves of tho martyrs to their cause. As the spring brought the anniversary of the doomsday of the ‘‘lost cause,” the fair women of Southland Instituted another and a special day in honor of their-beloved soldiers; and the pa- nnnnnnnnnn thos of the devotion was the deeper in that the sacrifice of their lives had been made Seemingly in vain. April 2(5 was the day set apart by a consent spontaneous in its univer sal adoption. Alabama’s and Geor gia’s first public Decoration Day was 1866. No more fitting time than the anniversary of the loss of the cause so dear to their soulscould have been chosen for the perpetuation of the memory of their heroes. "Women, and women alone,” says General Wheeler, "inaugurated the custom. Men, more reserved in the expression of the sentiments of their hearts, might permit their departed comrades quietly to become a part of general history, but women would not have it so. The Southern States fell quickly Into line, and then the custom found Its way into the North ern States. “But It is to General John A. Lo gan, a distinguished soldier and no less distinguished as a statesman, then Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, that the nation owes the establishment of a National Mem orial Day. No doubt his attention had been called to the custom of the Southern people of annually setting apart a day to pay reverence to those who fell in battle, and saw the bene fits likely to accrue to posterity by establishing a similar custom in re gard to keeping green the memory of the brave ’boys in blue.’ General Logan issued this order May 5, 1868.*’ Tenderly bury the fair young dead— Pausing to drop on his grate a tear. Carve on the wooden slab o'er his head: “Somebody’s darling slumbers here.” —Unnamed Southern Poet. i\ ss him once for somebody's sake, Murmur a prayer soft and low; t ne bright curl from its fair mates take- They were somebody’s pride, you know 1 ’ ' JEFFERSON DAVIS, TYPICAL SOUTHERNER By General Stephen D. Lee. Jefferson Davis’ life teaches us that character is secure. Character was his bulwark against all the slander, ridicule, insult, which the wit of man could devise, and that defense stands sure. He teaches us that Iqve follows sacrifice. He who bore everything for his people received a reward such as an emperor might have envied — their unfeigned and abiding love. Asa soldier his brilliant and promising career was cut short. He had no opportunities to develop the great qualities of Lee, the prince of commanders. Asa statesman he did not quite reach, perhaps, the com manding stature of Calhoun, to whose work he succeeded. As an orator he may have lacked the impetuous fer vor of Yancey, the splendid declama tion of Lamar; he surpassed them all in his majestic thought, the chaste beauty of his strength and his thrill ing earnestness. But Davis was greater than them all. He was an accomplished soldier, a great states man and a consummate orator of his day and of all time. Around him stood that marvelous group—Lee, the flower of chivalry; Jackson, the genius of war; Toombs, the tbunderer of Benjamin, the jurist: Campbell, the judge: Bledsoe, the statesman—men fit to measure with the knightliest. Yet from the vantage ground of bistort sis sublime head lifts itself above hem all. STOP AT THE ZETTLER HOUSE. The best SI.OO a day house in the city. £t,3 FOURTH ST., MACON, G<V., Mrs. A. L. Zettler, Proprietress. FIENDS TIED HUSBAND While Assault was Made on Wife and Daughter-Heinous Crime in i en nessee, Also in Alabama. At Kingsport, Tenn., in the pres ence of her husband and 14-year-old daughter, Mrs. Frank Belcher was assaulted at an early hour Thursday morning by two masked white men. With drawn weapons the men enter ed the Belcher Home and compelled Belcher to get out of bed and be tied. One man then assaulted Mrs. Belcher, while the other made an attempt on the girl. The latter went into convulsions from terror and was abandoned by the assailant, who turn ed his attention to the older woman, just released by her first captor. Belcher’s frantic eorts to get at the men were stopped by a blow on the head which renderd him uncon scious, and Mrs. Bleher was badly beaten and choked. Her condition is critical, that of the girl being also serious. The men, after making threats, left, and the crime was not discovered until daylight. Citizens are wildly excited over the outrage, and there is open talk of lynching the guilty ones if they can be captured. Mrs. Belcher says she could identify them. Posses are scouring the coun try, and several suspects have been taken into custody, but in each in stance have established their inno- cenee. , Montgomery Girl Assaulted, Miss Tura Ogletree, aged 19 years, cashier at a moving picture show, was knocked down and robbed of $5, all the money she had, on a well lighted street, within three blocks of the old state capital in Montgomery, Ala., at 10 o’clock Thursday night, and lay on the ground for an hour before recovering consciousness. She was within 15 feet of her board ing house door while in this state, inside of which sat half a dozen per sons, knowing nething of the crime until the girl walked in so dazed by the effect of chloroform which had been administered that she stagered to the floor and fell. She was also criminally assaulted. In addition to striking Miss Ogle tree twice, the assailant chloroformed her and left her for dead on tne ground. In the struggle that ensued, the young woman made a valiant tight be fore losing consciousness, her clothes being almost torn from her body, and she was seriously injured by the rough handling she received. 'ihe man who struck her was concealed in a milk wagon, jumping out and fol lowing her* after she passed the ve hicle on her way to her residence. STATUE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS Hauled Through Streets of Richmoad by Three Thousand Children. The bronze statue of Jefferson Da vis for the elaborate; monument to Mr. Davis to be unveiled in Richmond, Va., June 3, was drawn thiough the streets of the city to the monument site Thursday by some twenty-five hundred or three thousand children, who did the hauling by means of a double rope some two or three squares long. The Children were led by Lee and Picket camps of the Confederate Vet erans, and these in turn were headed by a handsomely uniformed boy fife and drum corps. Many of the girls among the children were dressed in white, and a large proportion ot the youthful enthusiasts in the "lost cause” carried small confederate bat tle flags, which they waved indus triously throughout the march. The scene was especially inspiring, and was witnessed by thousands of people. The rope used in hauling the statue was, after the ceremony, cut into many thousands of pieces for souvenirs. KILLED FOR REFUSING TO STRIKE. Deadly Vengeance is Meted Out to a Car cleaner in Chicago. Because he refused to go on strike three weeks ago, n.dward F. Tago, a car cleaner-' mpioyed by the Chi cago and /fwm TaV 11 rallr oad. was hit ou t/11 NC, brick al Cbi * cago \y ‘Ai 1 ! i urai> c-d on/ >' t e died/ m