Judge — May 30, 1891 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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DECORATION- DAY. . now, it don't seem like a year hev ose, a hull roun’ year, Sence we was fallin’ into line to celebrate this here. jon't seem possible, yit that's the trick ‘me allus plays, : every year'll git more short ‘twixt Decorationdays. N" every year the roll-call ‘ll be gittin’ shorter. 100 ; We're missin’ lots o° faces that we didn't use to do. ‘The names is droppin’ off—no tellin’ which one of us ma Be counted out at muster on next Decoration-day. It's gittin’ kinder funny, too, to see the ol’ gray heads— Fer blame if every one of us ain't showin’ silver threads, OF fellers! yes, the youngest ain't got nothin’ else to say : It war'a't so tea years ago on Decoration-day. Why, we was on'y boys—mere boys—ten years ago; but then Weld somehow got the notion up to think ourselves ol” men ; _ prtaps ten years from now, if any of e'll thine that we was on'y boys this Decc Then close in, veter'ns, close in, men ; ol” comrades. git in line. Touch elbows once again—that's right—it warms you up like win: raps “tain’t often more we'll meet-—brace up 'n step out Kay; We might be angels touchin’ wings neat Decoratioa-day. So elo Play up the tunes we used We ain't too ol’ fer three times tht Shake hands all roun’ "n’ fall in, boys, THREE DECORATORS. THE proper kind of ball for the evening of Decoration-day NOT THE SAME KIND. @ cannon-ball. farie, what are those things on that tree 7" Grover Cleveland can go fishing on Decoration-day this “They're blossoms.” year.and no one:will object much, Pie pete eee put that in your head?" One of the graves which should be decorated is that in 7 Wap ieesed evandane tell auacnans that drinking was which are buried the anim between the north and the putting a beautiful blossom on papa.” south. HE WILL OBSERVE IT. éP)O YOU intend to celebrate Decorationlay this year, sire?” asked Dan Lamont as he met Grover Cleveland on Broadway. “Yes, Daniel,” replied Grover; “1 am think- ing of strewing some flowers on the grave of Dave Hill's presidential boomlet.” ORVeSSSEADEM A MISTAKE. ! VATORS. Gazzam—"1 suppose you take no interest in Decoration-day, having come to this country since the war, thereby missing the conflict?” Dighy—"Missing the conflict, did you say? Why, I've been married twenty-three years. LIBERAL AND PROGRESSIVE. CLUB of colored men in this city, whose main purpose is the cultivation of friendly relations and the advancement of Christian feeling, voted recently to draw the fall amount in the treasury— several hundred dollars—and bet it on the great racing event of the week. “De excitement at de meetin’ was powahful, powahful,” says a member of the club. “I had no idee de propahsition would create so much feelin’ an’ discussin’, De oldah membahs ‘peared like dey was downright mad. But we argied dat de 6 modern idee was liberal an’ progressive,’an’ dat six Se ‘t seben hundred dollahs mo’ in de pot ‘ud help de EVOLUTION OF A SI club wondabfully, an’ dey had to gib in.” EXPLAINED, A seaside scandal at Old Point Comfort— And its explanation. comicbooks.co