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/. ARE MEMoRALIzED.
lowan Delivers Grafton on Nations
Dead at CONGRESSIONAL Cemetery.

'o"o" SS'SS'S STditoH OF Ndtou s
Dead at Congressional Cemetery.
Washington, D. c.. May 30.-(Spe-
cial.)-Judge Edward p Seeds of
Manchester, deputy auditor for the
war department, delivered the Grafton
upon the occasion of the Memorial eX.
ercises at the Congressional cemetery.
this afternoon.
This place of burial is one of the old
est in the national capital. Here are
buried two yice-pr,sidents of the
United States, George Clinton, of New
York, and Elbridge Gerry. of Massa-
chusetts,, and other distinguished men.
Each year congress. appropriates a
sum for the maintenance of this Gem
etery and this appropriation, by an I'M
written law, carries with it the privil-
eye of interment
Some years ago congress bargained
with aTVirginiR qrsarryman for large
number of tombstoness of boxshaped
architecture,aan each time member
| of congress died, years ago, one of
these stones was erected to his mem
DRY. There they stand today; in reg
ular rows, presenting most unique.
if not pleasing appearance. The
stones are of cheap sandstone and are
very much the worse for wear; the
lapse of time and the action of the
elements have wrought sad havoc with
these strange. monuments.
Judge Seeds Adress.
Judge Seeds spoke in part as fol-
| lows:
This hallowed spot, this day assc-
\ mic with vi ,f
conspire to aliay the emotions of pas
sion, and to dispel the mists of preju-
dice, and invite our intelligences and
our souls to contemplate with teach
ableness the sacrifices of those who
in the times of our country's need. of.
fered their lives that nation, rich in
great possibilities, might not perish
| from the earth.
Army and Navy.
"The army and navy are the physi
/ cal embodiment Of the potential
| strength of people. If that strength
is one of virtue and nobleness. if its
aspiration is to carry to the future the
ideals of the past, which have beer
born through. the fire and cloud of per
severance and strenuous effort, then
/ that army and navy will be one whose
every battleswas for civilization, whose
defeat became lasting sorrow, ant
whose victories We're prophecies of the
millenial dawn.
! War Reminder.
1 War is indeed grim yisaged: except
1 in its results there are no delights. II
/ is constant acknowledgment thai
the intellect of man has not yet over
i come the limitations of passion; thai
the ideals of Christianity are yet wait
ing for the future for their fulfilment
Yet. as in all strenuous effort, the re
flex influence makes for permanent.
of substantial character,a and raises TIL,
! individual higher in the scale o
i broadening possibilities for good
though the effort be dimmed by i'm
projections; so the efforts of a jus
war make for national Righteousness.
!, and compactness of social forces fol
the Higher Good, though that wa
must mean blood and carnage, and tn,
blotting out of precious lives.
But these lives are not blotted on
! they are made immortal. We ma.
not know their names; the paths il
which they walked We're quiet paths
their associations We're with the grea
. unknown who constitute our people
, but in all these elements which maxi
the hero-self sacrifice and ,self-efface
ment. devotion to noble ideals, cour
age IN the face of death-they wer
supreme. Heroism is not measure,
by breadth of acclaim or elevation t,
places of honor and distinction No
marble and bronze typify the heroisI
of the soldier but rather the perma
nency of great principles for. whicl
they died, working successfully in TIL
{ social fabric for the good of all II
the final equation. and upon the page
I of universal history, yonder unknown
: dead who sleep amid, the .quietness @
l Arlington are as great heroes as ar
! Grant and Sheridan, as are Shermal
!, and Lincoln These unknown heroe
were those who, upon thousand bal
Z tlefields; raised the leader on thei
5 shields and projected his figure on tn