together in this, one of the most sacred days of the year for those who love this great country of ours. MR. HUTCHISON: Mr. Chairman, I will withdraw my motion in regard to this evening, but I would renew it so that the gentlemen named may speak this afternoon. I think it will be very fitting to have the Blue and the Gray join in the services, and therefore I make that motion. The question being on the motion, it was agreed to. The Chairman announced that the Memorial Service would take place at one o'clock. On motion, duly seconded, the meeting adjourned until one o'clock P. M. MEMORIAL SESSION. Clearfield, Pa., Court House, 1 P. M., At the hour designated the Memorial Service was conducted under the auspices of Post 179, G. A. R., of Clearfield, Pa. The order of exercises was as follows: Singing by Quartette. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Miller, Singing by Quartette. Introduction of Orator by Chairman. Distribution of Flowers to Veterans. Mrs. Wallace, as per program, delivered the following address: MEMORIAL DAY. By MRS. MARY A. WALLACE, Ellwood City, Pa. Mr. Chairman, Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen: As many are gathered here from almost every section of the State, attending the Farmers' Normal Institute on this Memorial Day, it is fitting that we should specially remember the soldier dead of Pennsylvania. But friends, you cannot honor these dead of ours. They have passed beyond our reach. History hath claimed them for her very own. Upon the broad facade of the Republic, their names are indelibly inscribed. Grandly they responded to their country's call, "to arms," and nobly did they do their duty as soldiers. Wherever there was need of the bravest, there were the Pennsylvania volunteers, and when the high tide of the Rebellion threatened to engulf this old Keystone State, it was one of her sons who led the forces of resistance, that turned it backward and saved the Union-Meade, Gettysburg. Gettysburg! Gettysburg! Pennsylvania is proud of thee, the nation's most hallowed shrine before which she bows her head in reverence and honor to-day. The graves of many of these dead of ours, are kept green in our National Cemeteries. Thousands are resting in the quiet churchyards and cemeteries throughout the land, while still other thousands sleep where they fell by mount, and stream and sea, the place of their sepulture, unknown to all save God and His angels. But whether they lie beneath the ocean's wave, or in the dismal swamp, beneath Southern palms or Northern pines; in the dark ravine or on the mountain top, a grateful nation pays its tribute of devotion to their loyalty to-day. May we not hope, friends, that in that land where there is no war, where the sun of peace sets, that there is to-day a grand rendezvous, a grand rally of all the soldier dead who have borne arms in the defense of our country here on earth, and that they can see and know and are rejoicing in the prosperity that hath blessed the land for which they suffered so much. And may we not hope, too, that the men in Gray who met the men in Blue with bayonet and bullet on the many gory battle-fields, are with them, are rejoicing with them, and, figuratively speaking, drinking with them from the same canteen. Comrades of the Grand Army, as memory slowly fills up the lines. in your furrowed faces and obliterates the gray hairs on your heads, we recognize you as the "boys of '61," who, in the full vigor of early manhood, when face and form were aglow with the fire of youth, went forth so grandly with the Comrades whose graves we decorate to-day to battle for your country. Each year your skeleton ranks are being reduced still more by the details ordered to join the forces beyond the river, but to you who still remain in camp on this side, I will speak a word of encouragement. When you have listened to the solemn sound of taps for the last time, when the reveille shall waken you no more, and you have turned in for that long, dreamless sleep that comes to each of us, may it comfort you to know that so long as the Stars and Stripes shall kiss the freeborn breeze, so long shall your deeds be spoken, so long shall your names be carved in the historic marble of your State and Nation, so long shall your descendants and all citizens in whom you have by your example kindled the fire of your unquenchable patriotism, assemble on each recurring Memorial Day to recount your struggles and to place a flower upon the soil that shelters a soldier's bivouac. And now friends, in closing, I would say that although Memorial Day is a day dedicated to the memory of our soldier dead, it should also be a day of introspection by every citizen. There have been other republies, great and grand and strong. but where are they to-day? Where is Greece, that mother of re publics, whose hills were the birthplace of freedom? Greece, that in the centuries of her existence as a republic had risen to the highest plane of learning, art, science and literature. Nothing remains of that once powerful republic except the imperishable thought that has come down to us from her poets, her philosophers, her states. men, her sages, and through which those brainy old Greeks are today in this twentieth century the "Sceptered sovereigns that rule our spirits from their urns.” And Rome, great and mighty Rome, what of her? Rome whose transformation from a republic into an empire, was one of the greatest crises in human events. Her history is recorded under the heading of "Republics that have been." Is it possible that the record of those republics is to be the record of the republic of the United States of America? Aye, friends, it is possible, but let us hope not probable, and that our old ship of State may take warning, and avoid the rocks upon which they were wrecked. One of these, to which was largely due the downfall of Rome, was what in these days would be termed her "territorial expansion." As Rome grew older she became ambitious to rule the world, and began reaching out after this kingdom and that kingdom, until in the end, it might be truly said that she fell by her own weight. Rome learned too late that the difficulty in maintaining a republican government is largely in proportion to the extent of the area over which it is established. Another cause for the downfall of these great republics, was the decay of those peculiar virtues so necessary in upholding a popular form of government. Patriotism and love of country, so dominant in the older Greeks and Romans, became swallowed up by the gross vices of lust for power, wealth, pleasure and personal ambition, and for years before the end they were only Republics in name, in reality an aristocracy of wealth, luxury and pride. Social and political corruption ran riot while the rich became immensely rich and the poor desperately poor. And so I say, friends, that in these days of greed and graft, when great corporations are demonstrating most forcibly that they have no souls, when millionaires are made in a night, when the wealth of the land is being centered in the hands of a few, when fathers and mothers will barter away their daughters to some scion of royalty for his title, thus showing the aristocratic tendency of the times, it is important that we stop and think; that every citizen should, on this Memorial Day, ask himself the question, allowing his conscience to answer him truly, whether or not he is living up to the high ideals of true citizenship, and the words of the immortal Lincoln, "from these honored dead take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, and highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that a government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth." And now to our soldier dead, farewell! To our soldier living all hail! Professor Massey was next introduced, and coming as a native of the South, and having fought in the Confederate army in the great conflict, added interest to his remarks. He said people talked about the New South. It was the Old South in reality represented by the younger men. While it was true that he was a representative of "The Lost Cause," he said he thanked God that the cause was lost. It was a blessing to the South; the whites were emancipated as well as the blacks. They never knew until they were taught by experience after the war, the stuff that was in them. To-day they stand by the flag as loyally as their northern brothers. The Hon. J. A. Herr, a veteran, and member of the State Board of Agriculture, also made appropriate remarks along the same line. After the exercises of the meeting were concluded, a parade was formed and marched to the Cemetery. Meeting adjourned to 7.30 P. M. Court House, Clearfield, Pa., 7.30 P. M., The Institute assembled and was called to order at the designated hour by Mr. T. E. Orr, Chairman. MR. ORR: The first topic to be taken up this evening is "The Breeding of Poultry for Egg Production; Housing, Care and Management," (illustrated by lantern slides,) by Prof. James E. Rice, in charge of Poultry Husbandry, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. It gives me great pleasure to introduce to this audience Prof. Rice, of Cornell University, as the lecturer of the evening, and I want to say to you that Prof. Rice has done more for the poultry interests of this country than any other man, or any other five living men. I have seen the work he has been doing for ten years, and I want to say that the work he is doing in his position at Cornell University at Ithaca, where he has occupied and still occupies the position of Professor of Poultry Husbandry, has been of the very greatest value; and now without extending these remarks, I will say that it is a privilege and a pleasure to introduce to you to-night, Professor Rice, and I hope you will join in giving him a hearty greeting. Prof. Rice addressed the audience as follows, illustrating his talk by lantern slides of a very interesting character, showing the latest methods of poultry raising in various parts of the country: SOME POULTRY PROBLEMS. By JAMES E. RICE, Assistant Prof. of Poultry Husbandry in Cornell University. Ithaca, N. Y. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Institute: It is a special pleasure to attend this meeting. First, because it is on one of the largest poultry states in the Union, ranking among the first six in importance and value of its poultry and poultry products. Second, because I have long desired to know more about the institute workers of Pennsylvania whom I have read about and learned so much about |