ud, where flakes of light
shimmered as the sun shone upon the swinging sabres. At last the
Confederate horsemen were beaten back, and they did not come forward
again or seek to renew the combat; for Pickett's charge had failed, and
there was no longer hope of Confederate victory.

When night fell the Union flags waved in triumph over the field of
Gettysburg; but over thirty thousand men lay dead or wounded, strewn
through wood and meadow, on field and hill, where the three days' fight
had surged.

MEMORIAL DAY.

Flutter of flag and beat of drum
And the sound of marching feet,
And in long procession the soldiers come
To the call of the bugles sweet.

And the marching soldiers stop at last
Where their sleeping comrades lie,
The men whose battles have long been fought,
Who dared for the land to die.

Children, quick with your gathered flowers,
Scatter them far and near;
They who were fathers and brothers once
Are peacefully resting here.

Flutter of banner and beat of drum
And the bugle's solemn call,
In grand procession the soldiers come--
And God is over us all!

THE CAT SHOW.

BY WALTER CLARK NICHOLS.

At last the cats have had a show of their own, and for the time being
their old enemies, the dogs, have been forced to take a back seat, and
sulk at the attention which the 250 and more pussies received from the
girls and boys and grown-up people at the Madison Square Garden in New
York. It has been a gala-time for the children, especially, and the
petting which the different tabbies received would have turned their
heads had they not been so well-bred and aristocratic. For the common
tramp cat, who knows no better than to give unwelcome concerts on the
back fence at night, or the scraggly kitten, whose one ambition is
rat-catching, had no place among the cats who made their first public
bow and mieuw a week ago. Only those whose great grandpapas or
grandmammas were distinguished people in the cat kingdom were allowed to
be exhibited.

After all, the cat kingdom isn't nearly so large as the dog kingdom. All
of our domestic cats are grouped under two distinct heads--the
short-haired European or Western cat, and the long-haired Asiatic or
Eastern cat. The tortoise-shell, white, black, blue, or slate-color
(Maltese), and the tabbies are embraced in the European, and the Asiatic
includes the Persian, Angora, Russian, and Indian. So that it is e