The Press., 1891-06-04


 Lest from our ranks should fade the noble
 To answer to the roll-call of the ruler,
 Death.
 Few, few are left. The ranks grow thin,
 Apart as the dim armies of the past. Silent and slow they come, who once
 Their conquering forces on the foeman
 cast. Only few, with weak and faltering tread, ..,.. 1 keep s s.s .e Der the rough ways of poverty and age,
 To bivouac-grounds of rest, so green
 and deep. Thin grow the ranks. In silent camps
 they wait,
 Who shared those hours of victory or
 defeat; ... :..-...-. And marble sentries guard the sacred spot
 Where war-worn heroes rest in slumber
 sweet. -@ '.'.'
 So few are left! Where are those gallant ss ones
 Who led the eonquering bands to victory Who out of darkness brought the light of peace, And set race of suffering people free? So few, but ah! the golden-fruited years Have scattered memory-b blossoms on their way;
 And glad nation comes with thankful heart --. To tell it's love on Decoration Day. They are getting old and gray. Some yet march with a step like that of the re- turning veteran of '65, but most find other need for the cane once carried upon the shoulder musket fashion. Soon car riages will be needed to carry most of them in the procession on it's way to hon. or the greater number that lie in the cem- etery.
 Last Saturday had it's pleasant features in the weather, cloudy and comfortable, off we'll in Stafford. As in several past years, there was an increase of evidence that the day and it's purposes were un- derstood. The W. R. c. was an import ant auxiliary of services, and the new uniforms of the $. of V. made them an prominent feature in the afternoon pa- rade. Bremen in citizens dress, Temple of Honor and citizens, the latter general ly in carriages, flower committee, clergy and w. R. c. also in carriages, formed with Citizens Band a procession worthy of the day. Every cemetery and every soldiers grave was visited, and then the company assembled around the temporary monument set up in the Stafford Springs cemetery, where, with other appropriate exercises and remarks, most appropri- ate oration was delivered by Rev. E. F. Clark, which will be printed in The Press next week. Everything was well con. ducted and befitted to the day and it's du. ties.
 Secretary Foster has decided that poly. immigrants, and shall not hereafter be allowed to enter the United States. Prentice Mulford, well known in New York and California as newspaper mar and philosophical writer, was found deat in canoe in the lower part of Sheepsheat } Bay on Saturday afternoon. For severa l days the canoe, covered by 8 white can } vas awning, had been, noticed drifting l about airniessly, and on Saturday after l noon boatman rowed toward it ant found it to all appearances deserted. Tn canoe had it's name, White Cross" paint ed on the bow. On closer examination the body of man lying at full length ol the bottom of the craft was discovered life evidently having been extinct for sev eral days. In the boat were complet' outfit for camping, banjo, writing ma terials, an empty cigar case and som' pages of brown paper covered with writ , ing. Last June Mulford returned iron California and assumed the editorship o The White Cross Library, a monthly mag azine. On Monday he announced tha he was about to spend month or two il his canoe, cruising about New York Bay and gradually working his way alon , Long Island Sound to Sag Harbor, hi birthplace, which he expected to reacl by July 1. The coroner thinks death wa caused by apoplexy. MT. Mulford was i 0Xc0ll0nG u0dlLn Wn0u u0 SbtaI G0u OH Ill trip. Prentice Mulford was born in Sa
 Harbor in 1884. His father was hote keeper there. Mulford had written fo several papers while in San Francisco an had spent considerable time at sea. Soo after 1868 when he left San Francisco h took a trip to Europe, tramping throug the French provinces on foot. He ma1 ried upon his return. His wife died short ly afterward. For ten years he was O
 the editorial staff of the Daily Graphic U He was fond of going off in boat alone ' He was the author of many sketches c
 mining life in California, the second serie
 of which is now running in this paper,- n most graphic and real pictures of Califol
 mia society," in the '5O's.
 - f STOPPING OFF HORNS IN CALVES | The practice of dehorning mature cattle = l when nrOnerlv DarfOrma6 ia not mOT