THE OLD GRAND ARMY BOYS.

You may talk about the Masons,
And the Odd Fellows, and such;
You may call them so fraternal
As to fairly beat the Dutch;
You may praise them if you choose to,
With their mystic rites and noise,

But they cannot hold a candle

To the old Grand Army Boys.

For a man that has a memory
Can learn about the craft;
He can get degrees and passwords
That can make a funeral laugh.
And be loaded down with symbols;
But for true fraternal joys,
They cannot hold a candle

To the old Grand Army boys.

You may talk about your badges,
But the one that has the call

Is the star, flag and eagle

That is far above them all.

It was won when cannon thundered
'Mid the battle's smoke and noise;
So there's nothing holds a candle
To the old Grand Army boys.

Why they fought and bled together,
And they shared the prison pen,
And they faced the front in battle
With the touch of men.

Then the compact was cemented
'Mid the conflict's crash and noise.
So there's nothing holds a candle
To the old Grand Army boys.

They fraternal? Well, I reckon;
And their charity's all right.

Are they loyal? They have proved it,
For they left their homes to fight.
And the nation owes them homage
For the peace it now enjoys;
For there's nothing holds a candle

To the old Grand Army boys.

-Selected.

CHAPTER V.

LOUISIANA PURCHASE FLAG DAY.

INTRODUCTION BY GOVERNOR CUMMINS. SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS.

CUT OF IOWA COMMISSION.

TOPICS FOR STUDY.

MAP OF LOUISIANA PURCHASE.

ACQUISITION OF LOUISIANA.

LOUISIANA PURCHASE STATES.

Louisiana Purchase Flag Day

Resources are the gift of the Creator. Development is the great duty

of the Republic.

-Schuyler Colfax.

Centennial of the
Louisiana Purchase

1803-1903

Never was heard the cycle stroke,
Yet the dial pointed to morn,

And over the clock of God there broke
The light of an age new-born.

Then a shifting scene, and a virgin land
Like a paradise lay outspread,

And Louisiana, fair and grand,

To the Saxon world was wed.

-Hubert M. Skinner.

Official Circular

to be used in the celebration of

Louisiana Purchase Flag Day

December 18, 1903

Tssued by the Department of Public Instruction

Richard G. Barrett

Superintendent Public Instruction

A natural base for the greatest continuous empire ever established

by man.

-Gladstone, on Louisiana Purchase.

"IOWA-Her affections, like the rivers of her borders, flow to an

IOWA-"Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain."

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