The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-06-04

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In all the beautiful and able addresses
which marked the celebration of Decoration
Day from one end of the land to the other,
there was none more eloquent than that
pronounced at Arlington by Past Com
mander S. S. Burdett, of Washington. We
are sorry that lack of space prevents our
printing it entire We have only room for
the superb peroration:
o, that some divinely cunning hand might catch
the vision that on that day floated among these
graves! The background of awful battle we'll
nigh covered with the springing vines and fruits
and flowers of peace Justice, servant of the law,
weighing out with even balance into the hand that
so lately had smten her the demanded price,
whilst all these dead Stood forth 10 witness that 1t
was paid even to the uttcrmost farthingl
If sound at all broke in upon that matchess
the last reyerberation of those words of
patriotic faith uttered by our libeator President as.
addressing his dissatisfied ellow-country men,
the perilous ith day of March, 1861, he said
The mystic chords. of memory stretching from
every battlefield and patriot grave to every living
heart and hearth-store all over this broad land,
will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again
touched surely they will be, by the better angels
of our nature"
You shall answer for yourselves whether the
feet of those yet unborn, countrymen, shall
come with the Sprng4time to do their duty here.
The sacrifice which has prepared for them the way
perfect; the feast that shall invite them if they
h.a tn
hath been TO its sleeping fathers and TO them will
be matchless. All rs God wills
Forgive me another word Here, where all the
sanctes born of patriotic selfdenial have fit altar.
Abraham Lincoln ought TO have been buried; this
the place TO have laid away Comrade
James A. Garfield. whose voice was the first heard
at Arlington on Memorial Day. Your hearts have
shaped for the name l next would speak. When
mt the sound of the bell all men shall mourn, God
keep the day a long way Off here, and only here,
is there place meet for his sculpture There lies the
Capital of the Nation he served and saved as SOL
dier and President This is the Potomac flowing at
feet. Its banks have conservation for such
this. Mt. Vernon is near by. Here is the guard
already set. silent but faithful
Heuren's resf peace be ,ciih him as nc Joins ,yh
oil his heart to-day in reeberinghis comrades gone
before.
THE Pension Offices weekly showings of
work continue to be better and better, and
the Bureau is at last getting to where it cam
not only take care of the current receipts,
but make inroads upon the accumulations
of years. In the last fortnight the number
of claims filed was 5,395, while the number
of certificates issued was $685., making re-
duction of 1,577 in the number of pending
claims. Letters are being received and
answered at the rate of $500 day. This
begins to look as if daylight would ap-
pear. The main fear is that Gen. Blacks
health will not endure the immense strain
he is imposing upon it to infuse the required
activity into his Bureau. He is far from
strong and his wounds are a constant source
Of irritation and physical depression. He
has inaugurated his administration superbly,
and if he cal maintain his health he will
make most brilliant record.
Mrs. KATE B. SHERWOOD, author of
Campfire, Memorial Day, and Other
Poems," hardly knows whether to be most
pleased with the praise of the old soldiers or
of the children, for whom she has so warm
side Gen. Grant acknowledges a copy of
her poems with the message that he will
enjoy reading them very much, while the
little 12-year-old daughter of Mrs. Barker,
Past National President, Woman's Relief
Corps, remarked after her father, Gen.
Barker, had been reading to her, "Why,
Papa, she must be a Mrs. Longfellow." The
beauty of the book seems to be that it con-
tains thoughts for the children as well as
the veteran of many battles
THE Popular Science Noathiy talks about
the "Fuel of the Future" Really, we had
hoped that in the future we would not have
to bother about fuel, but could go right on
without harp-playing, in the assurance that
somebody else would settle the coal bills
it.
THE number Of pension certificates issued
and signed during the week ending June i,
1886, was as follows: Original, 1915; in
crease, 756; reissue, 80; restoration, so;
duplicate, 40; accrued 6. Total, 1866.
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