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in the
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were the
other.
One was a voung man of about
dark of hair and complexion,
athletic of build. Nobody i
hesitate a moment in
a Southerner. The other was a
able old gentleman, whose g
eated the clergyman. His ge
pearance indicated that he
Englander, if
itself.
“Excuse me, sir,” said the
for such he was, approaching
gentleman, ‘“‘my wife and myself are
strangers in Boston. We would like
g him
ven
pronouncin
not a native
the
cer ‘monies.
as to inform
can be seen to the
““With all the pleasure in the worl
replied the older gentleman.
pect to participate i he cere
myself. If yom ar wife
accompany to-morrow, you
have the opportunity yon desire. 3
name is Winthrop, Reverend Jol
Winthrop, of this eity.
For there was a s‘range
expression on the young Texan's face,
but it was only momentary. Extend-
ing his hand, he said, cordially :
‘I am happy to make your acquaint-
ance, gand we will gladly avail our-
Selves of your kind offer. My name is
Frank Kennedy, of Frio County,
Texas." :
Instead of taking the proffered hand
of the young man, Mr, Winthrop re-
soiled as if he had put his foot upon
a rattlesnake, Gazing at the stranger
with an expression of mingled horror
and anger, the old gntleman ex-
claimed :
“Frank Kennedy from Texas!"
“Yes,” replied the astonished Texan,
“‘that is my name. Is there
surprising in that?”
Mr. Winthrop had sunk into a chair,
and gazing at the young man, repeated
the uame as if he could hardly credit
bis senses, :
“Yes,” replied Kenedy, “I am not
in the habit of traveling
sumed name.
are the
yon will,
planation
scene.”
“1 will do so, sir, painfal as it is to
me. I willtell you why your name
fills me with horror.
wish to know?”
fiercely.
Dest advantage
"
I,
“ .
I ex-
monies,
an Yo
me
Aa moment
of vi
anything
It seems to me, if vou
geuntieman vou seem to be,
at least, give me some ex-
for this extraordinary
responded the Texan, drawing up a
the clergyman.
‘““At the beginning of the Rebel-
lion,” said Mr. Winthrop, speaking
very rapidly, ‘my only danghter was
in the city of Austin.
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Give them the meod they have wen in the
past-
Give them the honors their future forecast;
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Give the n the chaplets they won in the strile
Give them the laurels they lost with their life,
yw York Press,
And this was done by
to the vultures,
Confede rate soldiers.’
“It was not!” replied the Texan,
with deep emphasis,
“It was, sir!” thundered the old
“Other Union 1efugees flying
their lives were eye-witnesses ol
tne tragedy Toney recognized the
wagon and team that belonged to my
They saw the gray uni-
Confederate soldiers
l as they
Baw
1
on-1n-iaw,
» shooting, an
their flight
}
looked back in
the body of my
hey
daughter's husband
winging in the air. It was still there
when other refugees passed a few days
later. This was the terrible tale they
told me,” and Mr. Winthrop shud-
dered, and covered his face with his |
hands.
“lt not
1
trne that this horrible
outrage was committed by Confeder-
ate 8 diers. My futher was a Confed-
erate soldier and he not 4
words for expressing horror
such acts.”
“I can understand your motive
making that statement. The
the Confederate captain of those cut-
throats was— Frank Kennedy,” retort-
ed Mr. Winthrop.
The Texan did not express any emo-
tion. He and
l calmly
is
1.1
cond
his
for |
f
name of |
took Lireath,
Nn } ep
looking agitated
man, replied in
“Mr. Winthro
that my father
ter and he husband, it
rs toward
are. I have list-
Will you listen
sent.
“Mr. Winthrop,
IOUS Criminal,
commit
nnsuspecting Americans encampe«
near the Rio Grande. My father,
Captain Frank Kennedy, was detailed
to exterminate these ruflians
came upon Gomez and his thugs
they were plundering the camp
vour unfortunate ]
3
iil
tal
Le
reiatives,
those Mexicans were shot, except the
leader (Gomez. He captured
alive, and it was always a source of
pride to my father, who has
passed away, that, with his
hands, he hung the leader of the
thugs. The swinging body your
friends saw on the tree not that
of your daughter's husband, Your
people was decently buried by those
Confederate soldiers. Their assassins
were left to rot on the prairie, In-
stead of being the murderer of your
daughter, my father, Frank Kennedy,
was her avenger.”
was
since
own
Wis
his chair, and was gazing with un-
speakable emotion at the Texan,
“l was a child at the time. aad
know nothing of these things person-
ally, All I know is what I learned
that were picked up in the camp of
your murdered dear ones,”
“My God! ecun this be trae?
“Mr. Winthrop, I have indisputable
testimony of the truth of what I say.
to their own people.
til the only avenue open to them was
to return home by way of Mexico.
The Texan nodded gravely, as auch
os to say he understood the situation
perfoctly.
“My non-in-law and his wife, with
their infant, had almost reached the
Rio Grande, when one morning they
were treacherously murdered while in
eamp. My daughter's husband was
strung up to atree, his body left a prey
THE PARSON'S GRANDDAUGHTER,
| But I have not told you all. There
| was on golden-haired, blae-eyed little
| girl—""
‘My daughter's child!" moaned the
old man, in heartrending acoeents,
“That ohild did not die with her
porents, In their haste the assassins
| did not seo her, My father took her
| into his own family, raised her with
his own children, and she"
i
|
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i
i
living?" almost shrieked the old man.
“Frank, are you ready?"
In the door of the parlor was a fair
vision of femalo lovliness, a
woman with golden hair nnd blue eyes,
dressed for the street.
“In a moment, Mary.
throp,” said the Texan, laying his
hand on the old shoulder,
“that is your daughter's child-—and
my wife,”
On Decoration Day people wondered
who were the tall, dark young man
and the beautiful woman who assisted
the old clergyman in strewing flowers
on the graves of the Union soldiers in
Forest Hill Cemetey, and, particular-
ly, on the last resting place of Colonel
Winthrop, the only son of the aged
Mr. Win
man's
regiment in Virginia,
who remembered Mary
fore the war, gazing on her daughter,
shook his head and asked: *‘Am I
Arex. Swe
esmica—— .
THE PAUPER SOLDIER,
in a Country Town.
The little country churchyard was
villagers
who had gathered there to do rever-
to the dead Upon the
mounds, marked by little flags whos
stars and stripes fluttered in the soft
dallied with the whisper-
leaves, flowers and wreaths were
profusion, commenorative
bore for the dead,
eood-hearted
ence heroes.
ing
laid in of
the love
sleeping s«
Kind words ha
i re acl i
gO wd old i
nut
IRI swept ab nis 1
his
be ur y
BRKY BI
toward the 1,
to
up ie for the
na-i
the love
nise of
face
1 asked God bless
Oues WHO gave
right, and for al he dead who had
“
pars in
taken the great struggle of
War.
And
two graves lying cle
the tears gathered
man's eves as be recal
when fl
Wears
churchyard, wh
with wild
nggling about his bro:
er-beaten face, stood upon
n face, upon
leaning with crossed
white picket fence.
arms
His clothes wer
ragged and dirt stained; his
wera battered, ont at the toes, down
at the heels, He was a dilapidated
humanity, a voyager up-
troubled stream, drifting
from point to point as purpose
a bubble upon the crest of a
His eyes were fixed intently upon
corner of the churchyard where
briers and bushes covered in tangled
few Forgotten
i
i
i
shoes
tiga!
on life's
leas as
wave.
one
mounds, e
old pard!
1
don’t finish ¢t
i
{AKECE A
again. Poor
well, but they
The words fell from
strange man in soft, low whispers.
From a pocket of the ragged coat he
drew a bit of red cloth and wiped away
the
‘hey mean
1e work.”
04
s
he of the
tears that rolled down the seamed
face,
He walked around to entrance
and passed through the little turnstile.
No one noticed the poor, ragged fel
low who slowly wended his way along
the narrow pathways toward the tan-
| gled coruer of the churchyard. When
he reached the spot he took off his
hat and stood there with bowed head
| gazing moarefully before him. Then
he reached out his hand and pulled
the briers apd bushes aside and bent
forward.
“Just as I thought. Forgotten,
| They didn’t know you, old pard. They
| didn't know how brave you was in
time of war. There is nb flag to mark
your grave. They didn't know how
i proudly you earried
| Stripes above you at Malvern Hill"
| The birds in the bushes were not dis.
turbed by the stranger's whispered
tones. There was something so quiet.
ing in the softened words that the lit
tle birds hopped about among the
the
hands could have touched them,
iets from he grass near the fence, and
then went back to the braorbles and
| palled them aside.
‘‘Here’s n pretty blossom, pand, for
the sake of Seven Qwks; here's another
for Lookout Mountain, where you was
great; here's four or five for Malvern
Lill, where you was a hero a Nation
the others for Antietam and other
places, where yon moved with the
front line and never backed from your
duty. And my tears are for your
carver of a tramp who died 4 paupesz
soldier,"
The away and
out of the
stranger turned
walled with bent head
graveyard, He passed down the
| village street, looking neither to rig
nor left; and wed the
brow of the hill beyond he turned to-
ward the ful raved
hand, whispered ‘‘F :
then he
When the straggling ones in the
churchyard drew near the pauper’s
corner they wondered whose grave
there had atr
and they wondered
them there;
the brambles knew, and they kept the
secret to themselves. ~ H. 8. Keller, in
Frank Leslie's,
on
when he rea
hi %
and
pence
disappeared,
with violets,
had pl veel
but the little birds among
ye on Wn
who
THE GRAND ARMY,
Some Facts and Figures Concerning
Its Membership.
A most impre #sive
Day demonstratic
appearance in the ti
feature of every
1 18
1ousands of
the Grand Army of t It
iow numbers about
into forty-four
with membership as fol :
Alabama, 324; Arizona, 2
: California, 9.
and Wyoming, -
6807 ; Delawa 1
155;
,320: Indiana, 24,726
he Republic.
y
vided
}; Arkan-
sas, 2200 lorado
aorgia,
« NLRs,
184; Vi
; Washing
Virgioi i,
of the war
Of the
VOArs
Ww
- 2
328,
unds
other leaves less
2,400,000 of the enlist
ter the Confederates
Canses,
their
Army's
the
} ¢
sixth of
l
arms, and carries the
: FUT
thn
died
vd 12 estimated
who have
, leaving alive about 1,300, -
the Union
Thus it is seen that the Grand Army
of the lepublie
nore than a third of the
the present time,
Since the first
who fought for
actually embraces
survivors at
National
of the Grand Army, at It
November 22, 1866, I% bas,
cently, steadily increased in mem!
ship. Veteran after veteran
added to its roster, and it has gro
despite the vacancies left by a eon-
stantly increasing death rate. The or-
ganization has now, however, reached
its maximum. The average ag
Union soldiers was about twenty-four,
During the few years immediately sue-
ceeding the war the ratio of mortality
was over 66] per cent, as high as 1t
was doring the conflict itself, for many
who had been wounded or wrecked by
hardship and exposure lingered in life
a few years after the war ended. When
{ these months of death had passed the
death rate became exceedingly small,
until the average age of survivors crept
along through lasping years to forty.
| That was in 1871, and since that time
the number old soldiers who pass away
each venr Las constantly increased,
| The death rate at the present time,
when the average age ol! the veteran
Bas elimbed to fifty-three, is very
| high. Davip Perkins,
— ——————
Our Heroes,
Into the valley of the awful shade
Proudly they marched with clear, unfalter.
ing eyes;
Nor flinched they when the angel came and
laid
Upon their brows the wreaths of sasrifice,
| The earth, their mother, keeps her sacred
Aye and
COUYaLli
nas b
of the
trust
Andshields thein over from the suns and
ANOWS,
While Loar by year abovd their hallowed
dust
fragrant as the violet,
=~Clinton Bsoliard.
Boemembranos,
blows.
Honey as Food.
ident who inquires
honey us food Will
re
known from the
The soeript fires
been
make
and Pagan writers cele
mil
to prolong
the
death,
This
s Laree
i
i
of
Library in Her Head
Don’t Vail the Babies
The Superfiuous Guest.
in the Aus
carry only
who shar i
aptain ana
Vessel!
DASSenyers
Gane
Datsenger
an
generally col
best of
and what
One day there was a ro
ng. with sweet
Do you |
asked the captain.
sir,
meats in
puddin’.
“No
uddin’-ends said
the guest. Well, me and my mate
io,”" sail the captain, cutting the
pudding in two, and putting one-half
tlre mate's plate and the other on
hisown.
poly pudd
the middle
nds, sir?
i don't
ike
like 1
yor
EE.
134
Pretty Dress Accessories.
Naver since dress became anobject
f interest have there been more
magnificent trimming materials and
pretty accessories for the ‘‘finishing
touches’ of a costume than we have
now. The dominant note of dress
decoration is lace, and nothing but
the most zevere tailor-made cont and
skirt escapes a touch of it. How the
feminine side of humanity ever
achieved any dainty or picturesque
success in dress without the aid of
lace and chiffon is a difficult question
to answer at a time when both seem
indispensable additions to almost
every article of dresa.
A “size” in a coat is an inch, in
underwear two inches, in a sock an
ineh, in a collar half an inch, in shoes
one-sixth of an inch, and in hats one.
eighth of an inch.
i
|
Misapplied Missionary Work.
Ble , dark-visaged
and she car-
tractlets and leaflets,
ittered broadeiast among
tiie Ca CAT On
Detroit Sun.
was a‘thin, nariow
with *4
ried a package
won pees” on,
#
3
which she
#8 Avenue
ve the
two of the pamph-
% on
INIryIman go-
r hone big tur.
which he ihe
» hin
a rubber cork
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gent ext with
out of his
stuffed
tha
oval at
ple do
all but
ave
taste
And
forefinger to
she
To Cleanse the System
s Your
Blood Pu
If it is, you wi strong, viz
e
TE, JG
imalism,
and
That Tired Feeling.
gs Karen?
ousnoess slosplesanoss
ariiia pu and
wh Therelore, it isthe mod.
lesz inna
vi and
is the Only
True Blood Purifier
Prominontly in the pul
Hood's Pills
the
family catharik
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Cleanses and bent fies the hale,
Prawnotes 8 Juxeriant growth,
Never Pails to Eestore Omay
fair to 11s Youthful Dolor.
Cures sonlp ¢wenses & hair falling
Poe, and §10 st Draggists
. . .
Holstein-Friesian Cattle
un urpassed for ml
baiter, oof and te uty. FOR Sal
Ly J. W. BOLRIS, Hagerstown, Na
cla
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PLAT TAM
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