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And I, white daisies bring,
A simple offering;
Emblem of holy peace,

Oh, may its reign ne'er cease
In this our happy land.

I bring the violets blue,

They say, "Be true, be true,

True to the friends that love you,
True to the God above you

And to thy native land.'

Read: Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," "The Blue and the Gray," by Francis M. Finch; "Cover Them Over," by Will Carleton.

Sing: "America," "The Star-Spangled Banner," "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "We're Tenting To-night"; also "Memorial Day" and "The Blue and the Gray Together," from Songs in Season.

Birthday: Alfred Austin, an English poet and critic, born at Headingly, near Leeds, England, May 30, 1835. He succeeded Tennyson as Poet Laureate, in 1896.

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Memorize extracts from Daniel Webster's "Bunker Hill Oration."

Birthday: Walt Whitman, an American poet, born at West Hills, Long Island, N. Y., May 31, 1819; died in Camden, N. J., March 26, 1892.

JUNE

1 GREATNESS

Lives of great men all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints in the sands of time.

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

-Ibid

2 FORGIVENESS

If those who've wronged us own their faults and kindly pity pray,
When shall we listen and forgive? To-day, my love, to-day.
But if stern justice urge rebuke, and warmth from memory borrow,
When shall we chide, if chide we must? To-morrow, love, to-morrow.

A NOBLE EXAMPLE

JOSEPH BRADFORD was for many years the traveling companion of the Rev. John Wesley, and considered no assistance to him too servile, but was subject to changes of temper. Wesley directed him to carry a package of letters to the post; Bradford wished to hear his sermon first; Wesley was urgent and insisted; Bradford refused. "Then," said Wesley, "you and I must part." "Very good, sir," replied Bradford.

They slept over it. On rising the next morning Wesley accosted his old friend and asked if he had considered what he had said, that "they must part." "Yes, sir,” replied Bradford. "And must we part?" inquired Wesley.

"Please yourself, sir," was the reply. "Will you ask my pardon?" rejoined Wesley. "No, sir." "You won't?" "No, sir." "Then I will ask yours!" replied the great man. Bradford melted under the example, and wept like a child.

Read: "A Hero from Valley Forge," from An American Book of Golden Deeds; Bible, Matt. 5: 7-9.

Sing: "Rock of Ages," from Uncle Sam's School Songs. Birthdays: John Randolph, of Roanoke, an American orator, born in Chesterfield County, Va., June 2, 1773; died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 24, 1833.

John Godfrey Saxe, an American writer, born in Highgate, Vt., June 2, 1816; died at Albany, N. Y., March 31, 1887.

3 GOODNESS

I wish that friends were always true,
And motives always pure;

I wish the good were not so few;

I wish the bad were fewer.

-J. G. Saxe

Birthday: Jefferson Davis, an American statesman and president of the Confederate States during the Civil War, born in Christian County, Kentucky, June 3, 1808; died in New Orleans, La., December 6, 1889.

4 KINDNESS

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.
-Frances S. Osgood

ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HIS MOTHER

ABRAHAM LINCOLN was devotedly attached to his stepmother. When he became a man he often spoke of her as his "saintly mother," his "angel of a mother."

She, herself, late in life, could not speak of him without tears, so great was her affection for him.

"Abe," she said, "was kind, and good, and true. He never gave me a cross word, and never refused to do anything I asked him. He was dutiful and obedient to me always, and I think he loved me truly."

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I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.-Nathan Hale

CAPTAIN NATHAN HALE

AFTER Washington's famous retreat from Long Island during the Revolutionary War, he wished to learn something about the plans of the English general, Howe. When volunteers were called for to attempt the hazardous undertaking of crossing the enemy's lines for information, brave Capt. Nathan Hale cheerfully offered to go, and Washington intrusted him with the important duty. His mission was completed and just as he was returning a Tory relative discovered the identity of Capt. Hale, causing his arrest as a spy. The next morning, after being treated cruelly by the British and refused the use of his Bible, he was hung as a spy. Letters that he had written to his sisters and mother were destroyed by his unsympathetic captors. He died like a brave man, saying: "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."

Read: "Nathan Hale," by Francis Miles Finch.

Birthdays: Nathan Hale, an American soldier and

patriot, born in Coventry, Conn., June 6, 1755; hanged as a spy in New York City, September 22, 1776.

John Trumbull, an American painter, born in Lebanon, Conn., June 6, 1756; died in New York City, November 10, 1843.

7 TRUE DIGNITY

True dignity abides with him alone

Who, in the patient hour of silent thought,
Can still respect and still revere himself.
-Wordsworth

ASSOCIATION

THERE are localities in Switzerland where the canary is caged with the nightingale so that it may catch the sweetness and breathe into its notes that harmonious melody that delights all tourists in Europe. It is a demonstration of association.

So men may make their lives strong, pure, sweet and holy in thought, word, and deed by unbroken association with those who live on a higher plane.

-Popular Educator

Birthday: Richard D. Blackmore, an English novelist, born at Longworth, Berkshire, England, June 7, 1825; died January 21, 1900. Author of Lorna Doone, etc.

8 DUTY

The boys and girls who do their best,
Their best will better grow;

But those who slight their daily task,
They let the better go.

Birthdays: Charles Reade, a famous English novelist, born at Ipsden House, Oxfordshire, England, June 8, 1814; died in London, April 11, 1884. Author of The Cloister and the Hearth.

Sir John Everett Millais, an English painter, born in

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