The National tribune., 1894-06-21
OH! REST, SAD HEART.
To Sue A. Pike Sanders.

Oh rest, sad heart! He knoweth besti
The early lost early biesI,
Beyond the flowers that point the way
She keeps her long Memorial Dayi
She keeps her day of love and song,
With all the rapt, ecstatic throng;
She keeps her day aud smiling waits
For you at heavens triumph.tl gates
Within your ear are songs unheard,
Within your heart the uuspoken word;
Around you are her arms unseen,
Al night, at morning, and at cen.
She walks beside you as you 60
She stays the unbidden tears that flow;
She bides, the messenger of God,
To lead you where His saints have trod.
Oh rest, sad hearth He knoweth bestt
The early lost are early blest!
And crowned with flowers that bloom for ay,
You twain shall keep Memorial Day.
Kate Il. Sherwood, Canton. o., June 8. 1894.
CAPTAIN FOSTERS GREAT SORROW.
Comrade Wallace Foster, Secretary of the
Deaf Soldiers Association, indianapolis, and
the friend and associate of the late Col. George
r. Bach in the work of teaching patriotism in
the public schools, mOurns the loss of his be-
loved wife, who died May 5, following long
period Of invalidism. Mrs. Foster was q woman
of superior qualities of mind and heart, thor
oughly in accord with her husband and of i'm
measurable assistance to him in his work.
TAKE THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
Inquiry is steadily on the increase concern
ing the great question of patriotic teaching in
the public schools. Again we would say to
those who want to secure the flag salute, patri-
otto primer. ETC., send to Mrs. George T. Balch.
80 Twenty second street, New York City, Tor a
prospectus She succeeds her husband the late
Col Balch. originator of the movement.
W.R.C women should all read The Ma
TIONAL TRIBUNE if they would keep up with
the great onward patriotic movement of the
times. That wide.awake, progressive woman.
Department President Ella Jordan Mason. of
Maine, prints the following in General Orders ::
I'VE would adj wise that committee of three
influential ladies in each Corps be appointed for
this work, that they may have time to become
familiar with the ideas and the various reasons
for the work. THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE the
past Winter has had much to say about it, and
it would be well for each Corps to take this
paper, since from it they would get much vau-
able information"
DEDICATING AN URN.
Dahlgren Corps South Boston. lent its usuaI
assistance to Dahlgren Post in arranging the
flowers for Memorial Day. They attended
services Memorial Sunday with the Post S. of
", aud ID. of V.
On Memorial Day the Corps dedicated an urn
at Emerson Street Cemetery, to the memory of
the unknown dead. While DahIgren Post was
going from cemetery to cemetery to dedicate
the graves of the soldiers, the Corps conducted
their services, assisted by the S. of v and d. of
V. After an invocation by Corps Chaplain En-
erson, the President, Lue Stuart Wadsworth.
dedicated the urn in beautiful words, after
which there were recitations, songs, addresses,
and the decoration of the mound by Corps.
Camp and Tent Dahlgren Post, upon arrival.
deposited pot of beautiful flowers on the sum-
NIT of the mound.
MEMORIAL OF THE FLOWERS.
feature of Memorial Day services, under
the auspices of Durham Post, Decatur, was the
presentation of Kate b. SherwOods 1.-THE Ne.
mortal of the Flowers" under the direction of
Past Department Secretary Ellie r. Kennedy
and members of Durham Corps
feature of the exercise was a tableau re-
vealing the God of Liberty, personated by
Bessie Spalding, holding large flag, with j.
M. Allen, Frank Miller and C. E. Wise. in s..
of V. uniform, standing on each side.
NEBRASKA MEMORIALS.
DEAR TRIBUNE: Della Sanders, Secretary
of Russell Relief Corps No. s6, Fairbury, re-.
ports an impressive public presentation of "Me.
mortal of the Flowers" on the Eve of Memorial
Day. Russell Corps has 80 members, and ia
steadily recruiting. The Corps assisted the
Post in the sacred observances Of the season.
Post and Corps, Plattsmouth, attended the
Presbyterian Church in body Memorial SUN.