The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1911, 1911-06-02

that deliberately agree not to go to
war many pretext whatsoever. .-Arbi.
tration will be the sword and the shot
used hereafter. Peace and harmony
are more desirable than the possession
Of material wealth, or the satisfying
of possibly damaged honor. We thank
God for our soldiers of the past; may
they rest in peace! But we pray God
to keep the soldiers of the present and
of the hereafter from the historic oc-
cupation of those Of the past. y
In the afternoon before a packed
house the regular Memorial Day service
was held. Recitations and songs op-
ened the program.
Attorney J. j. Samson in an eloquent
eulogy to the memory of the departed
soldiers said in part:
This is the day Of mystic memories.
Once more we are gathered with the
battle scared veterans of a hundred
conflicts, the living brave. to pay low
ing tribute to the heroic dead. Even as
Alexander the Great paused for mo-
ment in his conquest of the world to
pay tribute at the grave Of Ulysses, SO
today the American people pause for
moment in the mad rush of ,mmer-
cial and civic activity to worship at
the shrine of their dead.
From the silence OF sorrow-ful hours
The desolate mourners 80,
Lovingly laden with flowers
Alike from the friend and the foe:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment Day,
Under the roses the blue,
Under the lilacs the gray.
*****This is the day Of patriotic in.
spiration and on this day we delight to
dwell on the splendor and the triumphs
of war and to recount the achievements
of the great warriors and military he
-roes whose achievements shed lustre
on the pages of history. We picture
the glorious triumph of returning vic.
torious army receiving the welcome Of
grateful people. But in the midst
of all this our thoughts revert to those
who did not come home. The countless
thousands who went forth to battle
never to return, who gave the fullest
measure Of their devotion, their life
for home and country, who died on the
old camp ground and whose grave is to-
day marked by no monument but only
little slab Of white with the simple
the tragic inscription UNKNOWN
With bowed head and tear-dimmed eyes
we stand today at the grave of ou1
unknown dead and thank God for the
! courage and patriotism of those who
there
Sleep the sleep that knows not break
ing,
Morn of toll or night Of waking.
*****Sleep on, unknown dead. Ove7
your unmarked. grave at twilight the
song birds sing their sweetest melodie:
and upon it falls with ligering cares:
the last ray of the setting sun. You
funeral hymn was the booming of can
non; your shroud blood stained Goa
Of blue;. your monument your country
one country grand, glorious ant
free. God rest you well for in you,
hallowed dust are shrined country !
hope and fame and trust.
4 Attorney F. T. Cuthbert, who deliver
ed the Memorial Address, said in part
i I cannot add to what has been sait
in times past in paying tribute to tn
veterans Of the civil war. No, indeed
for all that can be expressed by human
tongue has been said by those who hav
had the ability to clothe their thought
and ideas in the most beautiful an,
classical language. There is no pcwe
given to man to repay you for the sci
vices you have rendered; there is u
language that can express it; your re
ward must come from an all-wise provi
! dence When think of those who fel
, on the CORY battle-felds of tn esoutl
, with their last thoughts upon the love
ones at home, SO many miles away
, without even the consolation of know
, ing what benefit would come from thei
!, patriotic acts, but away from friend
! and loved ones,, in the desolation an
| gloom of the grim battlefield, givin
, their all for home and country, the
I am reminded how good our Create
/ has been to you in sparing you to Sc
not only the final triumph at Appomat
d tox, but the glories Of subsequent hi'
i tory. To you it has fallen to see one
: again united people living in harmon
$ under common flag, with a unity Q
j. purpose to perpetuate the nation to th
l cause Of liberty and civilization, an
Y when that hour arrives that must s
9 soon come to all of you, and you gaz
t. for the last time upon the land 70
e have loved and served so well, an
n there steals over your soul the COZ
0 lsciousness of having served your coul