firmness never overthrown, d, vision, certainty, and ever grown All ly advancing—with these we keep state The Nit nll Pr light ii WEL : Be A $74 s $ : » s 8788 BBE BEE DE Be Ae Be Ae Ae se ee ase ’ SEY YE 4 i $8 » * » * ole oie o 3 SECRET OF ? : * Ee ore @ 3 $ 3 » ® s ’ ’ + 1 * 2788 BELO De De 9s ve de bene Sevres » 4 3 $ * » 4 4 * s + oe » away nD davs and golden, held the ro a Wise § at the proper beginning Somehow, spite of drums, reversed, scarred and grizzled vet 10% grown pitifally short and there was distinetly a holiday air about the crowd which streamed into the ragged cemetery Indeed, there help but befor the lilacs, snowballs, bridal wreath and flowering almond were all riotously in blossom, the sy. ringa clumps green miracles of swell ing-white buds. Within the week a late spring had grown suddenly toward: the winds were warm and scented Jike the breath of June, and the birds sang in fall high- summer chorus, warmed and melted by the golded heat of May In the face of that youth could not be sorrowful, even though it came ont to mark the land's old desolation. It was mainly those too young to remem. | in the arms the line of TANS, thin, could not cloud of storm and distress, who came in line beyond the veterans to deck their comrades’ graves. Not a man in the fire-new Graysville cadets, march- ing as escort to the old soldiers, was over thirty. And though for long men and matrons of sober years had count- ed it their privilege to bring hither flowers and greens, upon this day the work had fallen wholly to the girls and Younger wolnen, The light frocks and fluttering rib- bons, massed or singly, seemed to re peat and accentuate the tints of the flowers in bloom there in the cemetery, and the knots and wreaths and loose handinls they bore ia their baskets or heaped in the hollow of the arm. But nobody was quite so much the day's * * 4 $8 $7878 * * Be Be Se Seibel as ae se ee 4 * s 4 * MH ' EE THE ROSES, * * ad ¥ + corationd Day ? » * * * Lae de as me Bas 4 * 4 » : embodiment g (sraliame of the cadets fine, tall had had captain women friends in 1 that he Likewise Peggy & He legion, vet not ons hinte was 8 ‘sacrifice adorers, masenline, from seven to sev not agreed that while quite good enough for her, enty, he was near it as mortal man was likely to be found with no word said in either side gossip ran riot, nor were there lacking shrewd folk to note that old home. She had been five enemy, rheumatism. Naturally temper had not improved; besides, it had been known always that she had really loved but two brother #ohn‘s memory and her own agine herself devoted to her nephew. Captain John Grahame, the elder, He had come from the long had grown within a year of peace so much his old self, handsome, hearty, behind him. When young John was born it seemed there was nothing left to wish for-—but almost in the first joy of fatherhood the end came. The bullet had touched a vital spot—with a smothsred gasping cry, a red torrent gushing from his mouth, the gallant gentleman rendered up his soul. His widow sobbed piteously, but in 8 year was consoled-—a twelvemonth 4 later bara adopted (rraham Ware ate if tremulons hat “Oh! that couldn Why Barbara could not hang a rag of She obiex J tion anywhere about Peggy has grown up here-—-we know all that is to known of her--ler mother loveliest sweet lady, and her is the grand and quite the “But her father never heard that he fought through the war on the other side—and all the time engaged to her mother, had met while at college Harvard, | think ee"? “Oh! concert. out? We knew Mrs, Farley was ufarried in London, and that her hustand died may be yon have whom he and “Oh!” eried the others in why, it's like a play! Deo ‘‘Hush! her grandfather and three beaux. That hame. Peggy, dearest, aren't you glad it is all over and that everything went so superbly, just as you had planned?” Peggy nodded with her most daz- zling smile. All day she had been very gay and high with those about her. The cadets had wheeled for the coun termarech. Now they came trooping past the group in the shade at the way- side, Again fate set the captain of them where his sweetheart's eyebeams must stream straight into bis heart. The poor lad was no stoic. He felt himself color, and for a minute: saw all things blurred and dim, because, for. sooth, a yonng creature who did not come up to his shoulder had waved her { y | hand at him and flung him a rose from The soldiers were out of sight, the town folk for the most part well home ward when Peggy, who had lingered unaccountably and was jnst outside the “Oh, 1 don’t and ran back before anvbody ord She ran o devin I after he could not keep track cometery gate, forgotten nid hurriedly someting: wait ny fw that though they looks 3 | of companion “she 1s the dearest add eros "they No doubt she w it worth w ! They know what the da f sda y 118 0 dav and 1 hes the neaning must be made plain cannot know the sorrow, the pain, tireless anxiety and the ever -pres that filled the f strinoele $13 ¢l of struggle, and we that eatnesa of Divine to watehfnlness wear had, power, for bright and shin SOME Yepr: by the : | strength and fullness of ing and glorious youngest Nation of shake off the burdens shackles of conrage wall time, that tine when the and and earth wonid discord, rise in her i fair, divinely strong, and royally and in her right mind, in her own prond position as the grandest and most to be envied of all the Nations of the earth New York Ledger The Veil of Separation. Ali, sir, there are times in the his- tory of men and nations when they | stand so near the veil that separates {mortals from immortals, time from | eternity, and men from their God, that | they can almost hear the breathing and | feel the pulsations of the heart of the { Infinite. Through such a time has {this Nation gorz, and when two hun- | dred and fifty thousand brave spirits | passed from the field of honor through | that thin veil to the presence of God, i and when at Inst ita parting folds ad- | mitted the martyred President to the { company of the dead heroes of the Re. | public, the Nation stood so near the i veil that the whispers of God were | heard by the children of men.—James | A. Garfield, THE JOKERS' BUDCET, Men of the Press, TH NGS WOMEN BAY. “What very engaging manners he has’ Yes marrying, they more enga than ring ing SRY “ao vou 0 scho my | » man?” asked the “I'm trouble ‘Yes, orrow | wood when sraper thing Turn } for you to de Fobby my smite F. nd Parent-—That dobby. Bobby os it looks better not to have it all red on one sid . WELL NAMED “The month of May is very appropri- named.” remarked the youth to his “in what regard ¥ “Because its weather is so uncertain “How does the name May apply to uncertain wea her *” “Well, it may be hot or it may be cold, it may be wet or it may be dry.” ————————— Mean Breadth of the Country. The distance across the United States ig found to be 2,625.2 geograph- ical miles from the lighthouse, six miles north of Cape May, New Jersey, to the lighthouse six miles south Punta Arenas, following the 39th par- allel of latitude as closely as possible. brenner E, Heavy servioese who in Comp ' Regiment tered Twenty-first Artillery, was at Baton Rouge, la. October 29, 1865, and disappeared made repeated efforts to find him, but without success, She then applied for a pension, but the Pension Office re- jected ber claim on the ground that she could not produce sufficient evidence to prove the death of her husband Believing her husband dead, Mrs Stenebrenner married Mr. Wolfe in the year 1875. Now being a widow once must the breadth of the country. A glance at the map will show that hopes to obtain through the medium of a private pension bill The case was turned over to Major J H. Stine, historian of the Army of the Potomac, to investigate. The result of the investigation was tne discov- an inmate of the National Military Home at Marion, Ind. and he fair an average as can be drawn. tion-—that is, by taking observations from fixed landmarks and verifying them by astronomical tests. This dis- tance across the continent thus ob- tained is 140 feet longer than that re- ported by Bessel in 1888, and ninety eight feel longer than that reported These facts have been communicated to Mre. Wolfe, who, for thirty years, bas mourned for her supposed dead husband. Louisville Courier-Journal. In 1894 there were in England and Wales only nine board schools {of 2. 382) in which no religious instruction was given. Bishop F. D. Huntington, Episcopal, of Syracuse, N. Y., has confirmed 22. 000 persons during the 27 years of his
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