DECORATION DAY 



1737 



DECOY 



Decoration Day 



SUGGESTIVE PROGRAMS 

 1. 



One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, 

 One nation evermore ! Holmes 



Song, Battle Hymn of the Republic 

 Flag Salute 



For Decoration Day Rupert Hughes 



Over Their Graves H. J. Stockard 



Ode for Decoration Day (Extract) 



Peterson 



We'll Honor the Graves. .A. S. Sherwood 

 Song, Columbia th'e Gem of the Ocean 



May 30, 1893 J. K. Bangs 



"A Prophecy," from Lincoln's Grave . . . 



Maurice Thompson 



The Soldier's Grave E. P. Nicholson 



The Ship of State Longfellow 



Memorial Day H. H. Jackson 



Song, America 



2. 



No more shall the war cry sever, 



Or the winding rivers be red ; 



They banish our anger forever 



When they laurel the graves of our dead ! 



Song, The Star-Spangled Banner 

 Essay, The Meaning of the Day 



The Blue and the Gray P.M. Finch 



Conquered at Last M . L. Eve 



Decoration Higginson 



The American Flag Drake 



Song, Cover Them Over with Beautiful 

 Flowers 



Salute to Our Flag B. E. Burke 



Scatter Your Flowers M . N. Robinson 



A Georgia Volunteer M. A. Townsend 



Ode for Decoration Day Timrod 



The Palmetto and the Pine French 



Song, Hail Columbia 



to include the honored dead of the Spanish- 

 American War. 



General John A. Logan, commander-in-chief 

 of the Grand Army of the Republic, in 1868 

 designated the thirtieth day of May as the day 

 on which the graves of dead Union soldiers 

 should be decorated, and this date is now uni- 

 versally observed throughout the Northern 

 states. April 26 is appointed as Memorial Day 

 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi; 

 in North and South Carolina the day set apart 

 is May 10; the second Friday in May is ob- 

 served in Tennessee; and in Louisiana, Jeffer- 

 son Davis's birthday, June 3, is also that state's 

 Memorial Day. Decoration Day is now a day 

 of dignified addresses, exercises, parades and 

 military salutes, as well as strewing of flowers 

 and planting of shrubs. 



DECOY, de koi' . Hunters of wild ducks and 

 geese have a number of methods of inducing 

 their prey to come within gunshot by attract- 

 ing them to other birds, either captive or artifi- 

 cial, called decoys. Sometimes a ring is fast- 



A LIVING DUCK AND A CANVAS DECOY 



ened around the leg of a captive duck, and a 

 weight is hung from the ring by a few feet 

 of rope. When, with two or three others held 

 in a like manner, the duck is placed in the 

 water, it flutters about within a narrow range 

 and chatters loudly, and passing flocks fly 

 down to see what is the matter. With geese 

 a similar end is gained by placing captives with 

 clipped wings in a large enclosure, around 

 which they can walk but over the walls of which 

 they are unable to fly. Artificial lairds may be 

 of wood, shaped and painted, or of air-tight 

 canvas which takes the proper form when in- 

 flated. 



In England the name decoy is also given 

 to traps into which wild ducks are lured in 

 search of food. A very natural mistake is 

 often made by some people in calling these 

 contrivances duck-coys. 



