The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-31

was the master Of ceremonies and the |
Cairoites expressed themselves as be- |
ing delighted with his arrangements |
and Capt. w. P. Greaney Of company |
X especially commended him for the
attention he showed the soldiers and
the veterans.
The Memorial association elected
the following officers: James A.
Ross OF Cairo, president; O. A. Nc
Cracken OF Mound City, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Anna Frink Of Cairo sec
rotary.
Rev. Armstrong; address, which
was very eloquent and well delivered,
was listened to with rapr attention.
1t was as follows
Members Of the Southern Illinois
Soldiers and Sailors association, we
are assembled in this city of the dead,
where reposes the sacred dust of your
comrades-in-arms to pay loving tri-
butte to the arisen warriors whose
matchless heroism preserved intact
1.-THE most glorious republic of the ages
While during our address, we shall
many times refer to that court Of last
appeal" grim-visaged war with par
donable pride We momentariiy digress
to call attention to the promised era
of universal peace whose herald is
as the voice Of one crying in the viii
derness," the newborn tendency to-
! wards international arbitration Cal
: it, il you will, only dream Of vision
aries, idealists; but, believe me, the
: lfullorbed sun of peace is destined
soon to smile effulgent DER fruitful
world.
Two thousand years ago, celestial
Z voices chanted above the moon-lit
hills of old Judaea, the sweetest SONG
of all the centuries, "On earth peace;
good will to men" the annunciation OF
, 1.-THE advent OF the Prince Of Peace
q Most potent was the mystic leaven 0,
g the man of Galilee,' which, injected
into the body polite of his time, be
4 gan transmitting the lead of Semitic
Roman civilization into the gold of th'
! Christian era, and which has wrough
q a marvellous transformation in thu
Y race-such transformation tina
, soon shall come the day when the roi
Of musketry no more will be hcard
9 the garments Of humanity unstaine,
$ with blood. and then
u THE war-drum throbs no longer, ant
= the battle flags are furled
q In the parliament Of man, the fedora
Y tion Of the world"
= Defeated Ambition.
At Aixla-C hapelle is the tomb O
- the noted emperor Charlemagnc, Q
y the eighth century. The manner Of hi
y burial was one OF the most impres
y sive sermons ever preached. In tn
= death chamber the dead king sat III
s on marble chair--a chair in whic
:, rulers had been crowned--and, wral
y ped in his imperial robes, book {
- the gospel lay open In his lap. An
y MS he sat there, silent cold, motion
n less, the finger of his cold hand pon
- ed to the words Of Jesus, What sha
I, It profit a man II he gam the who
- world and lose his own aoul2"
y The masor.gannrel 81 his time, N
- poeon dreamed ~ universal cci
- quest" hut his vision did not mater
~ alize. The "lilliea OF France wei
y, frosted on The fatcful plains Of Waite
- loo, tho "old guard drew their blad'
I, in vain, and the Flttle corporal
~ came the man of 81 Helena. Ye-t
- iugly he scanned tho horizon TIL
~ seemed 70 touch tho signing tide. n
y, the orbs Of hope closed fast; for III
m lands warshlps, faithful watch doe
lty Continued on Fourth Pago.J