The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-28

call No man who beholds the hundreds
OF graves in the National cemetery at
Washington, d. e., or stands beside that
monument at Hollywood. Richmond. Va.
which tells the passer-by that the heroes
OF Gettysburg are sleeping there, can
doubt that patriotism in America, whether
taugat in school or inherited from an
ancestry of heroes. lives and breafhes with
us today. The tombs In the North. those
sunken graves In the South. the rows Of
dead heroes In the North, the lines Of dead
martyrs In the South, all attest the fact
that patriotism does not sleep with our
Dead but is awake In the living OF our
land today.
For four and twenty years a divided
North and South carried It's flowers a.d
preserved It's memories separately. Today
we are all united. No more does the
Yankee carry his wreath, and the
rebel bear his cross to decorate the
grave OF him who died in the defense Of
his state. Hand IN hand. the old man in
his worn suit % gray and the veteran in
his ancient suit OF blue, go together and
exchange their offerings as they do the
memories Of the past Like a man and
wife who. having disagreed and parted.
after many years become again more ten
Derby united over a new made grave 30
did 10 free Cuha, do not say my dead"
and your dead but ''our dead boys in
blue tciay.
There are some people who believe in a
resurrection of the dead which Will he the
rsincarnasion OF those we have loved and
lost JUST We saw them when they lived
in oar midst. There are many beliefs on
this subject. TO many the mos, beautiful
resurrection Of the dead Is this: To speak
no III OF him or her gone before: 10 he
have though the dead were not quite
away, hi; near enough 10 be pleased with
cur thought Of them. close enough to
silently help gs bear the many strains in
Our daily walks; not too distant for our
love 10 reach them. not 100 remote for
their silent help TO strengthen us
To show our dead soiiiers-tlcse OF The
South and Of the Norsh-fhas We honor
their me nsorieS. IL beaatsfai. To place tne
b-a.idlne rose and the fragrant foliage
upon the graves OF them that a quarter
CT century has only served 20 make
more iilusirioas, IS our privilege TIE
dear lads sho 50 lately gave their lives 10
IRE land We love are almost ali Inferred
too far away Tor oar willing hands ia
reach them. Bat in cur hsarts-ah, deep
afts!a oar newly sarsrased hear.s--fhs
eiao3. deeper ;Asn sny red, red rose wells
up 70 make car cross. and their crown. On
graves We ray never see- When the
graves are stre~n WITH flowers nsx. Tues
Say. xssA might pisce little bank Of
fragrant hioorn. and write. Fer you who
have 30 grave. save in my heart for you
beneath fsr sos in far Manila: you whose.
roshsr will never again see yossr fsre:
IAs women ~ America whose champion
yoa would Re were yea alive honor you
today. and the men u America remember
ct these United States
Ne cover with flowers the graves that
@e car Eus these far away graves that
Ne saaii never see those graves beneath
tie sea. those graves beneath 4 foreign
scxs--Ee sA~4 on these TO aowery hloorn,
hgs drops AZ cur hearts bseot a. we "rw-s
snexrAsr TIRE Maine"
No aowers Ter these who. FAR away,
Gave itse teas saves b. free today;
Bit tears. SD tears. a~~p. deep regret
And words that burn lest ne forget.
EANCy LEE.