. Book of the Royal blue . in of thesides of the excavated shaft, and it is pro-posed to make further exploration. It may be proper to state that this grandold monument of the past is in danger ofdestruction, as the present proprietor cannot hold it as unproductive property. Hehas contemplated removing the tumulus andconverting the site into town lots. Theproperty has been offered to the State, alsoto the Historical and Antiquarian Society ofWest Virginia. The State should purchaseand preserve it; Ohio has set a good pre-cedent in purchasing Fort Ancient andother interesting prehistoric monume
. Book of the Royal blue . in of thesides of the excavated shaft, and it is pro-posed to make further exploration. It may be proper to state that this grandold monument of the past is in danger ofdestruction, as the present proprietor cannot hold it as unproductive property. Hehas contemplated removing the tumulus andconverting the site into town lots. Theproperty has been offered to the State, alsoto the Historical and Antiquarian Society ofWest Virginia. The State should purchaseand preserve it; Ohio has set a good pre-cedent in purchasing Fort Ancient andother interesting prehistoric would be discreditable to our civilizationto have this imposing and important pre-historic work destroyed. It is an interesting historical fact thatat the time the Baltimore & Ohio RailroadCompany was seeking an outlet to the Ohio,a writer in the Wheeling Times suggestedGrave Creek as the proper route, present-ing as an inducement, the great moundwhich crowns the flats would be an objectof interest to MEMORIAL DAY IN BOWERSVILLE. BY W. II. NESBIT. )INIES an tangled roses— a-drippin sweet with dew —We strew an heap above the sleep o the boys in gray an Lord makes no distinction in the graves there on the hill,An thats our way, Memorial Day, down here in Bowersville. Blue an the gray together, dreamin the last long dream, The peace o God smiles oer the sod where the snow-white lilies gleam. Weve long ago forgotten what they were fightin for — Theyve dreamed away to a glorious day, in a land where theres no war. Pinies an tangled roses — we scatter them all roun— With tulips red, above the dead who lie in each sunken moun. The Stars and Stripes these followed — these fought for the Stars and Bars, But they rest to-day in a land away — all blessed by the peaceful stars. The gray has long since faded — faded just like the blue — Each has a part in the home-folks heart an the heart o the Nation, too. Blue an the gray together, under the h
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