Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-05-29
MEMORIAL DAY.
THE WAY In WHICH 1T WILL
BE OBSERVED TOMORROW.
The Parade, Exercises and Decora-
ton CeremOnies-FIowers for the
Graves of the HOnored Dead.

The Parade, Exercises and Decora-
lion CeremOnies-FIOwer for the
Graves of the HOnored Dead.
I" Cover them over with beautiful flowers,
Deck them with garlands, those brothers Of ours,
Lying so silent, by night and by day,
Sleeping the years Of their manhood away
Years they had marked for the joys of the brave,
Years they must waste in the molderine grave.
All the bright laurels they waited to bloom
Felfrom their hopes when they fell TO the tomb.
Give them the need they have won in the past:
Give them their honors their future forecast;
GIVE them the chaplets they won in the strife;
Give them their laurels they lost with their life;
Cover them over-yes, cover them over;
Parent, husband. brother and lover !
Crown in your hearts those dead heroes of ours
And cover them over with beautiful flowers"
To morrow is Decoration Day, and all
over the Union the graves Of the fallen
heroes will be decked with the lily Of the
valley, the Rose Of Sharon, the modest
violet, the pretty pansy, and in fact with
all the flowers that in the garden grow.
We need not say that this sad, yet beauti-
full custom, has taken deep and firm
root in the hearts Of all mankind, and will
probably last as long as life itself shall
last. The 30th Of May has been set apart
as the day OF the honored dead, a day sa-
cred to the memory Of those who have
+" spread their silent tents on flames eter-
nal camping ground" Almost every State
in the Union, and the nation itself, has
made it a legal holiday, and all over the
land it will be observed in a manner to
teach the rising generation to revere and
love the departed heroes who left their
plows, their axes, their desks, their count
ing houses, their wives, their parents and
their sweethearts, not as Homer has 1t,
to be " the first in danger and the first in
fame, but to be
H FIRST IN DANGER,
Not for fame, but to earn too oft a name
less grave and the ingratitude Of a country
whose life they saved from ill-advised at
tacks, prompted by an unfortunate mis-
construction of principles and backed up
by indomitable courage and perseverance.
II the unhappy incidents which COM
menced nearly q score Of years ago and
eliminated after nearly five years Of such
heroism as the world has rarely, if ever
seen, brought dire distress to many happy
homes of our vast nation Of sovereign
States, they lave resulted in welding us all
more closely together in the bond Of
American brotherhood. We have pitted
u strength against our mother country,
and our glorious independence has proved
that we were worthy sons of a worthy land.
We have tested ourselves in a struggle be-
tween ourselves, and have shown to the
world that the lions cubs have all the valor
nf THAR old cf0ak Qnriahad and inUfOnv-
ated
BY H OF NATIONS
Who had fought the lion in his very den.
To keep, then, ever green the memories OF
our heroes-fought they under the bonnie
blue flag that bore but a single star, or the
heaven-filched Stars and Stripes of the
Union-is the duty OF every citizen OF the
Republic, whether in the barren mountain
confines Of Eureka or the more favored
chimes Of San Francisco and New York. 1t
will encourage devotion to our country; it
will ennoble manhood; it will inspire deeds
Of honesty and fame; it will teach us all,
too, to remember that. though our friends
and kindred are under the sod, absent
from our sight, the loving tones forever
hushed, the eyes glazed in death, yet they
are not dead to us. They live in memory
and history forevermore. Place, therefore,
THE GARLANDs OF SWEET FLOWERS
And woven wreaths Of evergreen on the
graves OF those who will pass in spectral
review tomorrow; those who ''by day and
by night, through forest and over desert,
over mountains, and through swamps and
rivers, suffering physical tortures not to be
expressed in words, burned by Summer
suns, frozen by Winter frosts, hungered
and athirst, often half-clad and half-shod,
wasted by disease and shrunken by I'M
wonted exposures, crowded with emulation
and j~ostling eagerness to the banners OF
their choice, and in camp and hospital, in
skirmish and set form Of battle, in solitary
outpost and in the hurly-burly Of shot and
shell. and the dust and smoke Of fields in.
carnadined with the glorious blood Of their
youth, came to death as to a feast, and per-
ished that the American Nation might
live" Throughout the land tomorrow
the decreasing army Of the survivors OF
War OF the Rebellion will march to the
graves Of their " mustered out " comrades,
and pay the sad homage which in q few
years more will be q sacred duty only for
the grateful and patriotic citizen.
THE STREET aEAN
The procession will form, according to
the orders Of General G.. M. Sabin, the
Marshal. at II o'clock, the right resting
on Main street, near Bateman. 1t will
move up Main street. and countermarch.
Arriving at the Opera House 1t will dis
band until the conclusion Of the exercises
there, when 1t will reform and march to
the cemeteries, where the distribution OF
flowers will be made. How many sol
diers OF the civil war are buried in our
cemeteries we could not learn, as there is
no Post of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie in Eureka, that being the only organ
ization which interests itself particularly
about the dead or living Of the grand old
army Of veterans. Sufficient flowers have,
however, been received from the coast to
decorate all the graves beautifully. Each
ex. soldier and sailor in line, and the mem
bers Of two military companies from Ruby
Hill, will be provided with bouquets by
the ladies and the committee. Altogether
the day will be a memorable one for Eu.
reka. Nav it be the initial observance OF