GENERAL LINCOLN'S MONUMENT

neither honor nor love in his own town and among his own neighbors.   Not far from the first settlers' monument in the old fort, in the quiet part of the cemetery overlooking the town, where great pines sing a lullaby, and where all around are the bones and the tombs of those he knew and loved, lie the mortal remains of this soldier of the Revolution.   A stone, plain and massive, of white marble, and worthy of the man, marks the spot. On one side are the words:

   And on the other:

   Here on each Memorial Day the beautiful colors of the nation which he did so much to found, blend with the sweet flowers strewn in honor and memory by the brave men of a later time; and they who bring the laurel and the myrtle for the young lives given to their country in 1861 do not forget nor pass by the hero who made possible the later sacrifice.

   With the war the town's expenditures increased at a rate that must have seemed appalling to the conservative citizens, habitu-