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 • Memorial Day. historian's work, and gives broader scope and value to a narrative that is singularly lucid and often even picturesque. Mr. King was always an active member of the bar association of his State, and for manj' years a prominent figure also in the meetings of the National Bar Association. In the meeting of the bar which crowded the United States Court-room in Cincinnati to express sorrow at his death, the key-note was well struck by the Hon. William S.

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Groesbeck, who said that with all his pro fessional activity and his valuable labors as a professor of law, Mr. King would still be best remembered by his friends and neigh bors as the model citizen, using his legal knowledge and his business acumen to aid every good cause, to foster every local im provement, to advance education in all departments, and to befriend every man and woman needing the counsel and the assist ance of a large-hearted and able friend.

MEMORIAL DAY. By Wilbur Larremore. T^ENEATH this labyrinth of mounds asleep, The victims of Antietam's bloody fray, The wearers of the blue and of the gray, Pass back to dust in many a blended heap. Sown in corruption, laurelled life they reap; Firm-rooted in mortality's decay, Returning flowers each Memorial Day The fame of heroes ever fragrant keep.

And we who see with clearer eyes than theirs The conflict was not one of choice but fate, We, of their blood not shed in vain the heirs, Possessors of a newly risen State, Should glow with love as pure as Nature wears, A brothers' love with root in buried hate.

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