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CURRENT TOPICS.
Kansas has eleven unorganised counties.
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' ' -?«* iNeb., is to have street rail-
a J a and a motor line.
A box car, complete, was built in four
hows at Anniston, Ala.
‘The American refugees in Canada are
‘talking of forming a club.
Tiie Late Justice Woods’ estate is van ed
«t from *150,000 to *200,000.
A bridge is to be built across the Mis
souri river at Sioux City, la.
Find,, ay's maximum gas yield
would equal 2,50 fl fiSns of coal.
Two hotels for colored people exclusive
ly have been opened in New York.
Invitations keep coming to the Presi
dent to visit various portions of the coun
try.
The proposed monument to General Lee
at Richmond, Va., will not be begun until
fall.
1 he New York Legislature has declared
everlasting hostility to the English spar
row.
A pretty town named Gladstone has
wen founded in the San Gabriel valley,
California.
No i.ess than 25,000 persons ascended the
Washington Monument during the yeai
ending April 1.
There is a village in Wales with a nam«,
containing seventy-two letters and twen
ty-two sjdlables.
Kansab will send 25,000 veterans to the
National encampment which is to be held
in St. Louis in September.
Astronomers are discovering a good
many of those celestial tramps otherwise
known as comets, this year.
In one of the French schools there is a
Yiatural magnet which is said to be capable
of lifting four times its weight.
At a recent type writing contest in New
York Miss M. C. Grant wrote 3!M words in
four minutes and forty-two seconds.
From one tree recently felled at Bowers
ville, 0., it is said that 400 fence posts
and twenty-two cords of stove wood were
cut.
Thf. Bhah of Persia would like some
enterprising American capitalist to help
develop his kingdom" by constructing rail
ways.
Hadis: Moter, of Lansford, Pa., is ten
years old, weighs 195 pounds, and is talc
ing on fat at the rate of two pounds a
week.
A resident of Savannah exhibits 124
large sweet potatoes, which were grown
on a singlo vine. They completely fill a
barrel. mnes College, says
that’ the “Devil’s darning needle has no
sting at all, but he eats millions of mos
quitoes.”
Walking conservatories is the latest
name for the florally decorated women
seen on the fashionable thoroughfares and
in showy equipages.
Divorced women are barred from Queen
Victoria’s receptions. This old rule is held
to religiously by the Queen, and she will
make no exceptions.
After all it is consoling to reflect that
the American dollars taken over to Eng
land by Henry Irving will be brought back
by Hon. Buffalo Bill.
The British authorities have again de
clared that the Gate City Guards of At
lanta, Ga., will not be permitted to parade
on English territory.
It is announced that it will take fully six
months before the English government can
demonstrate by actual experiment wheth
er coercion will coerce.
New York has a grocer named Coffey, a
curled-hair dealer named Willcomb, milk
dealers named Well and Water and a cloth
ing firm named Taylor & Cutter.
There is considerable likelihood that at
least a portion of the crown jewels of
France will spend the summer at some one
of the American watering places.
Russia has decided that the Russian
language is good enough for Russian chil
dren, and this shall be the language of
education throughout the empire.
Anglers in the State of New York are
being considerably annoyed by a law
which makes the catching of a trout less
than six inches long a misdemeanor.
An Alsatian who tattooed himself all
over with “Vive la France” was impris
oned for six months when he came to be
examined for admission to the German
army.
The New York hotel men are now so
well organized that out of the income
from 50,000 guests a day they lose less than
one per cent, of their profits by reason of
beats.
A Boston doctor raises his solemn voice
against cotton stockings for winter wear.
He says they are destroying the women of
New England with rheumatism and neu
ralgia.
Gladstone has a library containing 15,-
000 volumes. Works on theolog.V are the
most numerous. He also has large depart
ments devoted to Shakespeare, Dante and
Homer.
When the time came for Theodore Baker
to let the sheriff of Las Vegas know that
he was ready to be hanged he said: “Let
her go, Gallagher,” and died without a
struggle.
Somebody strolled into the sanctum of a
Mississippi editor, and addressed him as
“a festering sore on the body politic.” The
intruder will take his meals in bed until
further notice.
A Philadelphia economist figures out
the reduction of car fare in that city from
six to five cents as a positive loss to poor
people. He says that when they walked
before they saved six cents, and now they
only save five cents.
A fourteen-year-old girl of Pittsfield,
Mass., worked all last winter in the woods
with her father, taking a man’s place. She
took care of her team of four oxen and
hauled logs from the woods to the mill at
West Athens, working many days when
most men would have pronounced it very
rough to b« on tn* road.
BULLETS FOR O’BRIEN.
Two Revolvers Emptied Into a Car
riage Containing Himself
and Friends.
A.
All Uninjured Kxoept the Driver, Who Is
Seriously Wounded.
Jlamii.ton, Ont., May 23.—Wm. O’Brien
the Irish agitator, spoke 10-night at the
rink. After the meeting Mr. O’Brien,
Messrs. McMahon and Roche, of the Local
Branch of the Na ional League, and Den
j mis Kilbride- started tor/the hotel in a covW
ered carriage. On the driver’s seat were
John Nelson, who held the reins, and T.
a • O Brien. As they whipped up the
horses and raced for the hotel a
crowd suddenly appeared. This crowd
" nfriendl y> f° r no sooner had
Mr. O'Brien and his friends taken their
places than they set up the usual hissing
and groaning, which afterward proved to
be a concerted signal to a group of five
men who lurked around the market build
ing in Market square, and, as the carriage
wheeled into Market square there was a
sudden click, the horses pranced, and a
flash of light suddenly overspread a group
of buildings where the men lurked The
reins dropped out of John Nelson’s hands,
and, with the exclamation, “Oh, my God,
I m shot!” he fell forward on the scat.
Crash, crash, crash, quick as lightning,and
through bright flashes of flame sped the
bullets from two revolvers until eight
- iwuivcis until eigat
shots had been fired. Mr. O’Brien
stretched forward to look out, and as he
did so a ball whisked by his face and
passed through the opposite window with
out harming anybody. T. P. O’Brien, Nel
son’s companion, who had been amazed
and dazed, now grasped the reins and
lashed the horses through the square into
James street and down to the ho: cl, corner
of James and Merrick streets. Here there
was a hostile crowd, who again hooted as
the party within tried to open the door,
but could not. Mr. McMahon jumped
over the door, and drawing a revolver,
held the crowd at bay while Mr. O’Brien
and his friends were making their exit
from the carriage, also by the same un
comfortable way. As the party stepped
into the corridor of the hotel a volley of
rotten eggs was hurled at them, but no
one was hit. Nelson was taken to the city
hospital. Dr. James White extracted the
bullet. He says the wound is dangerous.
It is in the left wrist. No arrests were
made.
GAS IN A CAN.
I'iffhtMl Will, a Mjl.t. w-J . ...
Anderson, Ind., May 23.—Two lads, John
Flahvin and “Shorty” Commons, aged
respectively twelve and sixteen years,
found an old varnish can, which would
hold about eight gallons, and taking
it to the Doxey gas well, connected it
with one of the small pipes through
which gas escapes and filled the can with
gas. They then stopped the hole and
the spout of the can and carried it to the
Midland depot platform. Here Commons
began blowing in the larger hole in the
can, and Flanville applied a lighted match
to the spout. An immense explosion fol
lowed. Both boys were badly hurt, Com
mons fatally. The concussion did consid
erable damage to the Midland depot.
There was but little gas in the can at the
time the match was applied, as there
was no way of compressing it.
Fisheries Question Again.
London, May 23.— 1 n the House of Com
mons this evening Sir James Fergusson,
Political Secretary for the Colonies, reply
ing to an interrogation, said the Govern
ment had as yet received no answer from
the Government at Washington to the
note sent to Secretary Bayard by Lord
Salisbury, on March 24, concerning the
Canadian fisheries question. The Govern
ment would, therefore, he said, adopt sim
ilar measures respecting the treatment of
American fishermen in Canadian waters to
those observed last season, and trusted
that Canada would apply them with judg
ment and moderation, while it hoped that
captains of American vessels would not
make necessary their being called into
requisition.
The Colorado Pests.
Dayton, 0., May 23.— Potato bugs are t*>
be found by the millions in all this neigh
borhood, portions of farms being literally
covered with them. The bugs put in an
appearance before potatoes were planted,
and in many localities the planting was
delayed in hopes that these Colorado pests
would leave, but they are evidently here
to stay.
Train Robbers Sentenced.
Morris, 111., May 23. - Henry Schwarts
and Newton Watt, the Rock Island train
robbers, were to-day sentenced to im
prisonment for life. Leave was granted
the prisoners to file a bill of exceptions by
August 21, 1887.
Thurman'Will Not be a Candidate.
Columbus, 0., May 23. — Allen G. Thur
man, in a letter to H. H. McFaddcn, of
Steubenville, positively declines to accept
the Democratic nomination for Governor,
and says his reasons are well founded and
inflexible.
Buried in the Ruins.
New Y r ork, May 23.—A four-story brick
building. Nos. 5 and 7 Hall Place, in the
course of demoldion, collapsed this after
noon and burien ten men in the ruins.
Seven of them were injured, five serious
ly, two but slightly, and the other three
narrowly escaped with their lives. Two
of the wounded, Fred Rapp and Carl
Schreiberg. will probably die.
Fell From a Balloon.
Oskaloosa, la., May 23.—William An
drews. an amateur balloonist, fell seven
hundred feet from his burning balloon to
day, and was crushed to death on a roof.
The balloon had ignited in mid air,
TRENTON, DADE COUNTV GA., FRIDAY, MAY 27. ISS7.
VICTORIA’S SIXTY-EIGHTH.
A Gain Day Throughout the United King
dom.
London, May 24. —Great Britain is en
fete to-day in honor of Queen Victoria’s
sixty-eighth birthday. Business is aimost
entirely suspended throughout the United
Kingdom, flags are flying in all directions,
the members of municipal corporations are
jubilating, school-children and inmates of
workhouses are being feasted and other
wise entertained, and the day is being gon
orally observed on a more general scale
( than during any year since Her Majesty’s
accession to the throne. The Queen her
self, surrounded by her children, grand
children, great-grandchildren and repre
sentatives of the many royal families with
which she is connected by blood auu mar
riage, is quietly celebrating the day at
W indsor Castle. The booming of cannon,
followed by a merry peal from the bells of
the parish church, awoke the royal sleep
ers at dawn, and alter breakfast the royal
family attended divine service in the
chapel attached to the castle. Numerous
telegraphic congratulations from Paris,
Berlin, Madrid and other points on the
Continent were received during the morn
ing.
“WORST OF ALL CRIMES.’’
The President Declines to Pardon an Elec
tion Offender for Reasons.
Washington, May 24.—The President to
day denied the application for a pardon in
the case of James J. Stanley, who was
convicted, April 13, of fraudulent registra
tion-and sentenced to ninety days’ impris
onment in the jail at St. Louis. The Pres
ident indorsed the application as follows:
“Denied. I can not pardon a crime against
the election laws except it be in a case
presenting unusually strong considera
tions for clemency. I consider such of
fenses the worst of all crimes, and I know
of none the punishment of which is more
important to the public.”
Salvationist Schemes.
Pittsburgh, Pa., May 24.— The head offi
cers of the Salvation Army were in the
city this morning. Marshal Bolling Booth,
son of General Booth, who has charge of
the American forces, was the central
figure. He is just returning to New York
from a tour of the West. He has a new
scheme on foot, and will erect a number of
large tents throughout the SoutheruStatcs.
These will take the place of barracks,
and be sufficiently large to accommodate
upward of five thousand people. He has
also purchased a large church building in
New York for 124,000 in which one hundred!
cadets will be trained. Mr. Booth avaww.
that the doctrine and teachLnes eAh 9 S:lu
upwards of three hundred ministers who
were proclaiming their truths to thou
sands.
Indian Peace Medals.
Washington, May 24. —The Interior De
partment has had struck off at the Phila
delphia Mint a number of Indian peace
medals, with a bust of President Cleveland
on one side and on the reverse an engrav
ed scene representing a settler and an In
dian. Above is the word “Peace” and be
low is a tomahawk and pipe crossed.
These medals are given to such Indians as
induce their tribes to relinquish their
savage customs for those of civilization
and peace.
Killed by a Pack of Wolves.
Little Rock, Ark., May 24.— While John
Howell and James Smith were walking
through Fulton County, near the Missouri
line, they were attacked by a pack of
ravenous wolves. Howell, who was bitten
in the neck, died from his wounds, while
Smith took refuge in a farm-house. The
wolves afterward attacked three fisher
men near the same place and injured
James Thompson so badly that he is ex
pected to die.
They Say it Was a Triple Murder.
Wilmington, N. C., May 24.—Grant Best,
the negro boy who killed three of his com
panions and wounded two others at one
shot a short time since, was found guilty
of murder in the fii st degree in the crimi
nal court to-day. At the time of the shoot
ing there was a general impression that it
was the result of carelessness. Best is
seventeen years of age.
At Last the Rains Came.
Chicago, May 24.—The recent rains
throughout the Northwest have extin
guished most of the forest fires which
have been raging in Wisconsin and upper
Michigan with such destructive violence
of late.* The pastures and crops which
were suffering severely from the effects
of the drought, have been benefited.
April Immigrants.
Washington, May 24. During the month
of April past 73,107 immigrants arrived in
this country, against 49,158 in April, 18*5.
Of the number arriving in April last Ger
many sent 14,743; Ireland, 13,304; Sweden
and Norway, 11,133; England and Wales,
9,720, and Italy, 9,(kb.
Exports and Imports.
Washington, May 24.— The imports to
this country during the month of April
aggregated $03,537,078, against 157,366,226
for April, 1880. The exports were 147,503,-
043, against $54,017,34S for the same month
last year.
General Duryea Stricken with Paralysis.
New York, May 24.—General Abram S.
Duryea, the old Zouave commander, was
stricken down by paralysis this noon. His
mind was not affected, and the shock is
not expected to prove fatal.
Killed by a Horse.
Danville, Ind., May 24.—Thomas Hew
itt was kicked to death by a frightened
horse’near here. The boy had fallen from
the horse and become tangled in the har
ness.
Gas al 160 Feet.
Monroeville, 0., May 24. —A heavy flow
of gao has been struck at the depth of only
one hundred and sixty feet near here-
\ SONG FOR PEACE.
Decoration Day, 1887.
[Original.]
»MIGIITY realm be
tween the mighty
push the r crystal
And bear rich ships
by foot of field and
Vw V- While all thy high
/ ways murmur as
f / fA with bees.
1/ [M ' . I see sweet homes up
"4* . '/ft on thy happy leas.
And roofs by mount and mere and beaches
brown.
And all my heart stirs with thy brave renown
And yields its voice—e’en such slight notes as
these.
That I am of thee makes me loving bold
In question of thy welfare; e’en that thou
Pass on to utter peace this song I fold
In flowers and thy beloved banner now,
And lay the tribute on thy priceless mold—
The golden dust of each slain hero’s brq,w.
Pluck roses and mingle your tears with their
dew
Fetch poppies that fire the loDg furrows of
corn, .
Bring daisies meek-featured, and violets blue,
All pure as babe-eyes when they twinkle at
morn.
Bring spathes of the apple, and bluebells to
toll
A knell that Is fragrance above each green
tomb;
Bring mayflowers with dew in each white
waxen howl,
And pinks and laburnums just breaking in
bloom.
Bring orchis and tulips and honeyed foxglove
From haunts whore the ivy and columbine
creep.
Bring softly all blossoms that honey bees love,
And garland the graves where our gallant
boys sleep.
Let children with fingers undabbled of blood
Bear wreaths to each barrow inclosing dear
dust;
Bring sweets from the garden and fronds from
the wood,
While age gathers wisdom and swords gather
rust.
A moment turn back to the days that are dead
And mark the long lines as they marshal and
clash;
With wine brewed in battle the sections are
red,
And Order seems lost in the loud cannon’s
crash.
But the motive in nature is greater than men,
For links in the chain have been snapped in
the past
To be hurled by strong Justice togother again,
And in tsars and in bloodshed the rivets made
fast.
For when Earth swung out from its gimbals of
sire,
With Life to be forged as the cycles were
run?
Aye, deeds are the hammers that fashion the
race,
And Earth is the anvil whereon Purpose lavs
The ends of all causes and smites with a mace
That welds into girders the gold of the days.
The vast human figments must glow ere they
weld,
Be hot with red rage and the anffuish of heat,
And hard on the anvil of Purpose be held
Ere aims shall be one and the seasons be
sweet.
Lp! the tears of that time have turned into
pearls;
* The flail of War has but beaten out
Good;
O’er the blue and the gray now our banner un
furls,
sweet flower blossomed out of
tM blood.
Ihe sweep of the sections together in strife,
Like the smiting together of God's mighty
hands,
mote fire round the world and a thrill through
all life.
And buds of fair freedom broke forth in far
lands.
All wrought at God's purpose, then let us for
give.
Lo, Liberty's sunbeams our whole kingdom
kiss!
Here all are born freemen, here Justice shall
live,
Forget in the glory and greatness of this.
Then southward strong North, with flowers in
your hands,
Cast looks of glad greeting with love in your
eyes,
And northward sweet South, warm heart of all
lands,
Look a prayer of fond peace for all the broad
skies;
For ours is the queen of all realms ’neath the
sun,
The garden of Eden, the bride of the world;
Here Worth became sovereign, here Freedom
was won,
Then keep their flag high and forever un
furled.
Then garland each grave, and remember each
name
To breath it with reverence up into the air,
That silence may never flow over their fame,
That valor be dear and their couches be fair.
For these are the seals of our greatness and
peace,
The arks that the Covenants ever shall hold
Of hearts that paid blood lest Freedom should
cease.
Whose deeds are now jewels, whose ashes are
gold.
Alva Milton Kerr.
DECORATION DAY.
A Funeral-Festival, Greeted with
Smiles and Tears.
I Original.]
iHE story is told
an English
•’l if I man of rank who,
ft ii £ - -vf ••"•••• f being asked why
l I I he did not visit
\JAmerica, replied
that he was wait
ing for Ameri *
fPW • cans to stop cel
ebrating. Said he: “ America is never
free from excitement She is perpet
ually unvaiiing a statue, erecting a
monument, raising a purse for some
body AV hen she is not doing these things
she is celebrating cither Thanksgiving
Day, Fourth of July or Washington’s
Birthday. She never has a period of
repose, which an Englishman requires,
and I p.ekr to lUy at home.”
An unconscious tribute to America
lay in his words; for although the quick
and mobile blood of our young Nation
loves excitement for its own sake, yet
its chief motive for these multiplex
celebrations, which so offend the phleg
matic Englishman, is ever love, grat
itude or patriotism. All of these emo
tions combine to make Decoration, or
Memorial Day, as it is now more beau
tifully named, the Holy-Day of Amer
ica. It is the day of days which, as a
Nation, we honor. The enthusiasm,
the joy and gratitude, which on that
day swell the National heart to burst
ing are tempered by a grief which,
though subdued by time, becomes
pregnant with the approach of each
Memorial Day. No monument to the
ANSWSWMO HIS i joohtbi :’s QK. xu
<le:ul heroes, though heaven-sweeping
in grandeur, though hearing the im
press of genius and carved with the
chisel of inspiration itself, could so
simply, so effectually, so sublimely,
keep them in memory as does this sol
emn funeral festival at which all the
emotions of the human heart are swept
by undying memory.
As an vEolian harp responds to the
wind with a burst of mournful melody,
so do our hearts, at this time, stirred
by association, stirred by the sympa
thy which binds together the great
brotherhood of t lie bereaved, and,
more than all, moved by the old yet
ever new story of the martyrdom of the
<laoA ,L. .-.in. l,. )v ,.to
year ago tears Fell over the same
graves, hearts throbbed at the same re
citals which are heard on every
Memorial Day. A year hence it will
be the same. The quick responsive
American heart, while it throbs, will
venerate Memorial Day with an in
cense of sighs and tears.
“ How they so softly rest,
All the holy dead.”
The name of him who tills a soldier’s
grave is holy to us now. He who left
home, wife or parents, rushing brave
ly, buoyantly and unquestioningly to
the cail of his country, has borne the
pangs of martyrdom and shall he not,
too, bear the glory of it? “1 say unto
you, no man can do more than this —
that he lay down his lift* for a friend.”
Down from the great Teacher of the
world came echoing these words which
place the soldier among the great of
the earth: he laid down his life for
home and country —he hath done what
he could.
It does not seem a quarter of a
century since they whose names con
front us on marble tablets were
among us, fired with the earnestness
and valor of patriotism. Though not
remembered with the rancor of old,
those days will never be forgotten.
Babes yet unborn will, for generations,
be told the thrilling story of those
years. The women and children who
stayed at home waiting, with white
lips and palpitating hearts, for news
from the seat of war—these are the
ones upon whose hearts are engraved
memories •which are indelible, and
whichflow in the life-blood
of thflßuildren's children. Oh those
days of waiting and wishing! Have
they ever, can they ever, be pictured
graphically enough? The rushing
about of troops —the recruiting offices,
with their constant -excitement, the
preparations of supplies by willing
hands, the letters full of cheer from
the front, the waiting for the dreaded
newspaper after the battle, when the
long lists of killed, wounded and miss-
ing were devoured with wide-eyed and
expectant horror, the dull, cold
anguish, only to be outlived by years,
which came when a loved name was
found in these fatal lists. Will the
children of those days ever forget
these things, or their children after
them? Even at this day, who can
hear the melancholy music of the life
and drum without recalling the sol
dier’s funeral, the muffled drum, the
dead march, the brave hero coffined in
his uniform; dead, perhaps, with a
bullet in his breast, while leading an
assault, or, sadder still, dead among
strangers, far from home, after long
days of suffering. The pathos of it is
enough to soften hearts of adamant.
Faintly, faintly, did the robe of sable,
the vail of crape, express the unspeak
able woe which, black and crushing,
fell upon happy hearts in those
troublous times.
Many reminders of the old war dav*
ar« about me- Geea»i«jittUy on* may
V() \ u IV.- NO. 14.
see upon some old man, who is perhaps
proud of it, an army overcoat, with
its long, dangling skirt of blue, its
cap and government brass buttons.
That coat is sacred as the mantle of
Elijah, and he who can view that hon-
ored garment unmoved is callous, in
deed. Nearly every home in the land
has its souvenir of the war, rendered
precious by the memory of its possess
or. Reverently and lovingly as were
the Lares and Penates of old, are these
relics enshrined in places of honor and
pointed to with tender pride. Some
times it is a sword of the newly-fledged
young officer; sometimes a canteen, a
knapsack or a tattered flag. Or per
haps a portrait of a “boy in blue”
hangs over the fire-place, and the vis
itor in the household must hear the
story of his brave young life told in
tearful reverence by those who loved
him. With such reminders as these in
half of the homes of our land, think
you that Memorial Day will ever be
come an empty name? Think you
these graves, and O, how many there
are! will be left ungarlanded on this
day? Think you the time can come
when the soldier’s grave will not be
hallowed ground? No; as God and
the Right livetli. No! Rather do we
wish that these frail, ephemeral blos
soms, sweet as they are delicate, might
defy the laws of nature and, glorified
by their mission of marking a soldier’s
grave, might- bloom immor
telles, un shrivelled,-unfaded, undying,
sending up a perpetual perfume em
blematic of the unselfish, undaunted
patriotism of a soldier's heart
The most pathetic feature of Mem
orial Day, however, is not the hang
ing of wreaths and emblems upon the
lofty monuments which mark the rest
ing-places of those known and hon
ored in life. It is the decoration of the
nameless grave which shows the real
beauty of the custom. Dead hero!
deprived of ;i resting-place near those
of your kindred, defrauded by fate of
even a name upon your foot-stone,
to-day you.are remembered with rev
erence and gratitude. The fairest,
sweetest flowers rest upon you. God
knows who it is beneath the turf, and
we know you by tin glorious name of
§444 l A!‘ r v,.Jl'-U^tlgh.withered flowers arc
nameless, cherished and honored by
the Nation among its most precious
possessions.
The custom of marking the graves
of the departed is prehistoric. Every
thing which love can devise lias, in
different periods, and by different na
tions, been employed to beautify and
do honor to the tomb. Therer is a
beautiful legend of ancient Greece —
that land of beautiful customs—that a
little child having died, its grief-dis
tracted nurse carried to its grave a
bucket containing its favorite toys.
r\ _ -■
!— *
HANGS OVER THE FIRE-PLACE.
*She placed it upon the grave, covering
it with a slab that its contents might
not be disturbed. It happened that
the bucket was placed directly upon an
. acanthus root—that classic plant the
very name of which suggests beauties
of sculpture and architecture. When
spring came the acanthus began to
grow, it wound about tlie bucket, gar
landing it on all side 3.
A great sculptor passed that way
and saw it. Its beauty suggested to
him an idea, and he worked out from it
the famous Corinthian capital which
has immortalized the acanthus. Ihe
manner in which we decorate our
graves will suggest nothing to the
sculptor, but to the poet, the philosopher,
the every-day human being with a
heart in his bosom, its suggestions are
beautiful as the more material ones
which live in marble. To the poet
Longfellow, the nameless grave has not
appealed in vain. The following
beautiful sonnet expresses the intensity
of feeling which lay in his loyal heart
and which is echoed to-day by thou
sands:
“ A soldier of the Union mustered out,”
Is the inscription on an unknown grave
At Newport News beside tho salt-sea wave,
Nameless and dateless; sentinel or scout,
Shot down in skirmish or disastrous rout
Of battle, when the loud artillery drave
Its iron wedges through the ranks of brave
And doomed battalions, storming the redoubt.
Thou unknown hero, sleeping by the sea.
In thy forgotton grave '■ with secret shame
I feel my pulses beat, my forehead burn
When l remeftiber thou hast given for me
All that thou »ad»t, thy life, thy very name.
And i tbee nothing in return.' 1
bAUAH S. FHATT.