Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-01
BEAUTIFUL ARLINGTON.
The Poem Read Memorial Day by
DR.. Thomas Cnlvcr.

DR.. Thomas Cnlvcr.
The Following poem was read by the
author. DR.. Thomas Calver. during the
memorial ceremonies at Arlington National
cemetery:
Flow softly. Potomac, touch gently the banks
Were heroes are mustered in mot oness ranks;
Car, ssins the shore of their resting place sweep
With " Veicts unhroken and still as their sleep
From hillsides and dclIs that bright blossoms
Hume
To shed on the couches of brave boys asleep
Ard sw teten the dews that the woOdspirits weep.
Hush all; for we hearken for footballs today,
VI spirits in ranks and In martial array
The cadence and tread OF invisible feet
Here marching their comrades yet living to meet
lst all; for their steps In our hearts may feel,
The sense of their presence may steal,
Although to our ears may be waited sound
Of step or of voice as they gather around.
The courage that lived through the anguish OF
Devotion exhaled on their last fitting breath,
Their love of their country that cost them their
lives
And bitterest tears for their mothers and wives,
Shall quicken our souls If we greet them Alright,
With them touching elbows rs oft in the fight,
Their valor this realm OF their resting pervudes
And haliows each nook Of these loveliest gladcs.
So, silent we wait, that spirits may blend
With theirs in the love that endures to the end;
The fer, or of zeal for our beautiful land
That leads to the fray at her honor demand:
The loyalty decn!inS no sacrifice dear
That guards her and saves when her foemen ap-
The forttude full of the couquering might
That forwards her flag through the furious fight.
Nest fitting it is that the sod of this place
That here the prmeyal and towering trees
Should Gull for our brave ones the sweets Of the
breeze.
The grand dome above of the beautiful bluo
And clouds opalescent with every hue,
Are over no spot OF this green howery earth
Where beauty and sweetness more perfect has
birth.
The beauty Of manly, courageous youth
With couEtenancc spt aking of virtue and truth
Tie sweetness of ma tional love above all
Hhe passions and loves that the young heart en-
Are fifty enshrinad in dear Arlington's bowers,
Her beauty of vcrdure and sweetness of flowers.
And tears that We're shed When these gallant boys
Should freshen forever the spot where they dwell.
The eloquent tomb of the heroes unknown,
Its story, enduring and plain as its stone
To each of grandly though silently tells
And each one TO learning its lesson impels:
1t is not for honor glory, fame
Nor even remembrance in stone craven name
That heroes arise at the nations command
And lay down their all for their dear native land
Oh. Beautiful Arlington, national shrine.
How sad are the thoughts that around you cntwine-
The lap where the na ton her darling ones holds
And guarding their est, to her bosom ,nfn IJus
For many have suffered that here you night reap
Your harvest of brave ones now fallen nsiecn.p
But far from these confines of sorrow and sin
We shall understand why this anguish has been
And lessons yet further. here have to learn
Are voiced by the sleepers through tombstone and
They tell us to see that their dear ones are fed
And cherish the living while mourning the dead
So true was their worth and their deeds 80 sub
lime,
Their fame brighter grows in the friction of time
And shows In its glow that shall increase
y nation united In sweetest of peace.
The First Steamer on the Pacific.
From the Portland Oregonian.
Sixty wears ago April g. m rl,ed an i'm
portant epoch in the history Of the north
west the occasion being the arrival at Fort
Vancouver Of the Hudson Bay Company's
steamer Vancouver from England. She
reached Astoria several days earlier, but
as Vancouver was her objective POINT
when she left the old world, fshe did not
tarry at the lower port. but proceeded to
the end Of her journey as rapidly as posi-
BILE n
Steamers were scarce when the Beaver
started away from Gravesend ION her long
journey in the fall of 1885. andrIhe success-
full trip of the Savannah short time pre-
vious is all that prevented theHBeaver from
claiming the honor of being the first Steam
err to cross the Atlantic ocean AS it is the
name of the old craft will live forever in
the annals of steam navigation as the first
steamer to enter the Pacific ocean, as well
as the first one on any Of the waters of the
northwest. This fame, which will ultimate
ly become International is not 50 thorough
ly appreciated in the northwest from the
fact that the extreme age reached by the
old pioneer placed her easily within the
recollection of nearly all of the present
genera ton. All over the northwest are hun
dreds of people who remember the antique
appearing craft that spiasned around the
waters Of the sound and British Columbia
until about eight years ago, when she was
carelessly wrecked, with her timbers as
sound as the day they were put in place