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Somehow, spite of
drums, reversed,
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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
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g
(sraliame of
the cadets
fine, tall
had
had
captain
women friends in
1 that he
Likewise Peggy &
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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
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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
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it
worth w
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the
neaning must be made plain
cannot know the sorrow, the pain,
tireless anxiety and the ever -pres
that filled the
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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
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orrow |
wood
when
sraper thing
Turn
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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.”
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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