NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
Memorial Day was all that could be 
desired as far as weather conditions were 
concerned, both on Sunday and on 
Monday. The days were clear and 
balmy, Old Sol smiling his benediction 
upon the old veterans. On Sunday the 
services were held at the Baptist church, 
as announced in last week’s paper, and 
the exercises on Monday were carried 
out precisely as announced before hand. 
At the church Sunday, 20 veterans 
were out. The splendid weather of 
Monday brought outa record attendance. 
Of the 26 living members of the Post 24 
were out; two were unable to attend, 
one being in the west; and there were 
two visitors, making the total number on 
parade 26. There were some 48 Sons 
of Veterans in line, including a dozen 
visiting Sons from Camp 24 of Glouces- 
ter. These with others in line made a 
total of about 100, none the least of 
whom were the members of the police 
force, with the new chief W. H. Sul- 
livan at the head of the column. Many 
complimentary remarks were heard on 
the fine appearance of the new chief and 
his men. 
Ninety-two bereaved veterans were 
honored by the living, eight at the 
Washington street cemetery, eight at 
Union, 55 at Rosedale, and 16 in the 
vacant lot, besides two at Gloucester and 
two at Beverly Farms. 
The services at the water side by the 
members of Allen Relief Corps and the 
children, in honor to the sailor dead, 
were impressive. 
Following the parade a concert was 
given on the Common by Teel’s Military 
band of Boston, which furnished the 
music for the parade, and the veterans 
and Sons partook of a supper at Grand 
Army hall, served by the Relief Corps. 
The exercises in the evening were of 
a very interesting order. The Lotus 
Quartet of Boston sang most creditably 
four selections: ‘‘ Away,’’ ‘‘ Vacant 
Chair,’’ ““Shall I be Forgotten,’’ and 
** Rock of Ages,’’ and as an encore to 
the last, ‘‘ Gathering Home.’’ After 
the invocation by Rev. L. H. Ruge the 
quartet chanted the Lord’s Prayer. 
One number not on the original pro- 
gram was the delivering by Master 
Ralph Stearns of the Gettysburg Address. 
Rev. DeWitt S. Clark of Salem was 
the speaker of the day. ** Abraham 
Lincoln—the American Model’ was his 
subject. He premised his address with 
the saying of the Roman consul and 
patriot, that ‘Republics are not ungrate- 
ful,’’ and he would prove it true in the 
case of our own. He referred to the 
debt of gratitude owed by the people of 
this nation to those who maintained it in 
the days of its imminent peril. He re- 
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called the solemn pledges of remem- 
brance of and care for those who would 
then volunteer to go forth in defence of 
the Union, to stand between life and _ its 
foes 
These promises have been redeemed, 
in the enormous annual pension pay- 
Rev. Dr. DeWitt S. CLark 
ments; in the homes, both state and 
national, which are open to them; inthe 
monuments, standing in almost every 
town and village, and in the literature 
which in increasing volume commemo- 
rates their valor and sacrifices, and in the 
universal respect and honor paid to the 
surviving veterans of the Civil War. 
Never before or elsewhere has such 
gratitude been shown to those who jeop- 
arded their lives for a nation they loved. 
This is a day for recounting those prin- 
ciples which have made our experiment 
of self-government a success. ‘These 
are abiding, in any age or land. 
As the first Colonists on these shores 
in their ““ Social. Compact,’’ pledged to 
each other, ‘‘their lives, their fortunes 
and their sacred honor,’’ so did the later 
Apostles who went forth, armed, to offer 
themselves for the cause in which they, 
in common, supremely believed. Be- 
cause of their fidelity and bravery—we in 
assured strength—are reviving today, the 
memory of those strenuous times. 
We are wise enough to know that the 
decay of virtues and ideals which they 
heeded and which inspired them, must 
mean the overthrow of all this mighty 
fabric of empire. 
Evil forces and agents are untiring in 
the effort—deliberately or ignorantly— 
to pull down what has been raised at 
priceless cost. 
The meaning and use of such a day 
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and such an observance as this, is in 
strengthening and renewing those prac- 
tices and aims by which this nation’s 
wonderful growth and prosperity has been 
secured. 
It is not difficult to discover and state 
the fundamental laws, the builders’ and 
conservers of this nation observed, and 
by which they wrought. We are fortu- 
nate in the conspicuous examples of 
those who heeded and acted upon these 
eternal canons of popular success. 
In this Centennial year, we have been 
extalling one, whom every section of the 
country is learning more and more to call 
its “Savior."? We have confidently 
pointed to that simple life as typifying 
what—till a better appears—we would 
have this Republic stand for, before the 
world. 
Following Abraham Lincoln, as he 
walked along the untried paths of nation- 
al development, and practicing the simple 
precepts which were the law of his being, 
the citizens of this mighty nation cannot fail 
to establish their primacy and honorable 
place among the peoples of the earth. 
Patriotism means as much as _ that. 
Gratitude to those who have won for us 
these privileges—greater than men ever 
before had—implies such a resolve on 
the part of each and all. 
In the study of his career it is plain 
that, opportunity 1s not conditioned upon out- 
ward circumstance. 
From the greatest poverty and most 
forbidding surroundings and associations 
he rose to the first place in this nation. 
There is no obstacle so great that the 
determined soul, reaching out after 
knowledge and truth and righteousness, 
cannot overcome. Every school boy has 
a better chance than he. Every move- 
ment he made was against the sharpest 
competition and the most forbidding re- 
sistance. It was as if to disprove the 
favorite theory of the time, that environ- 
ment makes us what we are. 
Men can reach such heights of human 
distinction, influence and power, with- 
out certain qualities which are the reason 
of his triumphs. It is possible to see and 
to state these ina character so open to 
the sunlight—so transparent as his. 
No one has more correctly outlined 
and analyzed these, than his intimate 
friend and business partner, who has, in 
general, defined them as, 
The power of clear reasoning, 
An excellent understanding, 
An exalted idea of right and wrong, 
An intense innovation for what is true 
and good. 
The speaker dwelt, at length, upon 
these several points, relating many inci- 
dents and sayings of ‘‘ Honest Abe,’’ of 
** Father Abraham,’’ of the Commander 
