Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1888 — DECORATION PAY, 1886. [ARTICLE]

DECORATION PAY, 1886.

Two Pictures FIRST riCTURE The yartli was spread with carpet green, the sky was soft aad falr. * • The sole mu music i! on ted ou,t, upon the auntMier air, Where hands okgirlit ami boys marched torth, with baskets tilled with bloom. To deck with garnered chaplets fair, eacji)Union soldier’s tomb I 1 ■> Then -came the grizzled! veterausj upon each heart a star; , A badge of rceotlceiiou from the hitler field of War They pa.-ft ttnrepiucteri-yitF -imd now I see . (hemtregd, * With moistentd yyes. .yet martial lilfclU. dig. pathway near the dead Now you would think tljnt not one hand in all this land of ours, Would dare refuse—that holy* day -to strew , those graves with flowers. SECOND FUTURE. ISu.t diofp in Adirondack woods, where live the fish and frog, Three hundred pounds of I'rcsidcnt was sitting on a log. r~ -r Alone'he sat, like Simon I’ctcr, piscatoriaUy inellnod; - --j—- ---" Without one patriotic thought to. sanctify his mind. With pocket full of pension vetoes, and ills stomach full of grub, „ He sat and waited for a bite, from shiner, trout, or chub. „ That Adirondack fisherman ia fishing still, today, ~~ ’■ "* He has tied upon his fishing line, a little bit of gray, His little hook is baited with a squirming free trade worm. And lie fishes now with all Ills might, to catch a . i second term, MORAL. It matters not who leads us. on onr next elec'iion day; Against this simon Peter, who fished on Decoration day. it matters not, I say, who leads us in the. coming strife, Adirondack fisherman should be retired for life.