MEMOKIAL DAY. soldier's grave. Yours are so beautiful," shining angels bearing immortal flowers The Land of Rest. pered by indignation tbat.Heslerhtaa "You are very kind,** the widow? Daisy began, trying to control the quiver few swiftly past her, and pausing beneath dared refuse him. faltered. *'We—as you say—our' that ran through her frame. the sheltering branches of a great oak. began i™, O'ER SOLDIER'S GRAVES.^ "Who on earth" 'did she expect to trouble" "Roses for soldier's graves and my own to scatter the blossoms over an unmarked Beyond the valley lying low, a the a on thought. And here the tears stifled* utterance poor b}y filJin' a nameless o-ie in the faraway, grave. Drawing nearer, she inquired Through which our feet some day shall go, Bu Hester, pondering over it all, and she couid only turufrom him a forgotten-field! No, indeed! Didn't whose dead was buried there. The Beyond the high kill's purple haze, my Tommy carry that rcse-bush all the accepted the pain as one more sorrow reply was 'This is the grave of Private weep. Tps \j^ That stretches far beyond our gaze, way home from Tennessee a score of Thomas Denny, one of the many unknown in her shadowed life, and made no There is a place most sweet and blest Hester lifted her eyes appeatfngly, years ago, and w&sn it planted by his which Gcd and the angels watch over, Which here we call the Land of Rest. moan, looked for no sympathy meet Alfred's fixed upon her face. own hands. 'Now, mother,' said he. then the rustle of their wings awoke her, It was hard to see tne face at had "There is no longer a secret between land with hills and valleys fair, 'take care of the rose-bush, and when I but the blessed influence of their presence been ever full of sympathy and tenderness us," Hester," lie said in a low tone. And many of our loved ones there come home again it will be in bloom.' remained. When Daisy and Julia called turned coldly away hard to "Will you not give me the right of a So silently, and one by one fj$ff! But when war was over and other mothers to leave memorial wreaths for her dead hear the children wonder "why Uncle loving son to comfort your mother? They went the lonesome journey on pressed the.r boys to their hearts, boy, she placed a basketful of roses in Alfred never came to see them a ny All, with white hands upon their breast, "You know all," she said, surprised, mine ached on, for Tom, my boy, had the hands, saying: They are for the Went out into the Land of Rest. W 5. more but the routine of duty filled "an you are here!" been lett among the slain on the mountain. s»oldier3 graves. 1 cut 'em this morning each day and there was a certainty "1 he answered, gravely a 1 vowed then that his rose-bush before the dew was dry, so they would I long that happy bourne to see, Wl soon of release from the monotony of knowing your noble reason for once should never be disturbed, and from that keep fresh and sweet' Then she repeated I long to know how it will be &^%*1 teaching. I ife refusing me, I am here to ask again. 1 day to this I have watched it night and her dream, adding, '3o you see, if God AINT sigh the breezes When first these eyes of mine day. Never have my hands plucked a and the angels are tending to Tommy's October was midway orrher golden? the question I asked one summer o'er this a re The land of which the prophets toldjfpgll ground, single bud and you have the impudence grave, I have no need to be selfish with tinted journey across the earth when Of my inheritance, possessed, £W3i morning not long ago. Even as ,J|gp 1 Mellowed and softened to ask me for his roses to spread over the his roses.' Mrs. Evan was called upon to find a When shall I come to that Land of Rest? loved you then, I love you now. with the flight of graves of rich men's sons, while never a new governess. In vain she scolded ter, will you be my wife?" rf J&fS Though her aches and pains kept her years 0 blessed Land! 0 time so slowlJIPtV' ii flower is laid on his own. You need not a even wept. Hester gave no reason, from going to the cemetery that day, she And she, loving him tenderly, with** j„ Fair springs the turf Not with reluctance I shall go? j&$&%& be awaitin', for not one rose will you get. upon each narrow did not bar her doors and blind her windows, but she must go. the secret of her life revealed, the, But on my lips a happy song "^""^f'f'"" I gave my boy to die for the country, and mound, as had been her wont on similar occasions: £t It was not to spy upon her movements That it, the day looked for so long, *?*«. crime wiped OUT by death, put her a mighty poor return did I get. While I Dewy from day to but from her easy chair on the Has come to take me to that blest, at Alfred, finding the Governess hand in his and let his lips press the day with a was able to work I managed to get enough porch slie en oyed listening to the music That peaceful land, the Land of Rest. *$? leaving the house, followed her on seal of betrothal upon her own. tears. to eat and wear, but since I have been and wateh.ng the procession as it moved the train at took her to .London. the world Hester's secret is a crippled up with the rheumatiz I often And, on this chosen day, when all the past— along. iftSl-s*" —Good Housekeeping! It was only in his deep, unshaken affection,the secret still. Society does not connect have to go to bed cold and hungry. A Its tragedy, its glory, passion, woe— Though she rersistently refused to ap-, When mem'ries rush upon us thick and the tall, stately bride of Alfred Graves poor return, a poor return, I say.* fear of her future, the anxiety ply for the pension that belonged to her by fast, with the obscure convict who came THE CONVICT'S SISTER. to be sure all was to be well in rights, from that time forth she was cared Kindling to life the scenes of long ago her new life. __ from prison only to die and even Mrs. for by the vi'lagers, and Tommy's mother f—r Come we, a race of brothers, bound with Evan was never told of any mystery She did not dream she was watched ne.er again lacked for friends. When ties or sorrow resting upon the life of her as she took a cab, and, followed still, next the loyal people turn out to honor lave tola you there is a secret Cemented by the blood these heroes shed, former governess, or the quiet widow, the dead heroes, Aunt Placida's white drove to a small house on the outskirts To muse in reverence, with moistened with in my life I can share with no one. who shares the Graves' mansion and face will be missing from the window, for of Kentish Town, where an elderly eyes, finds a peaceful heaven in her daughrt And pay our tribute to the silent dead. she has gone to join her soldier boy on the Let me go my way and you yours, for woman met her at the door and ter's love and the respectful atten other side but Tommy roses she bequeathed led her weeping bitterly. Soldier, the glowing wreath that left your we could never be happy with a cloud to the childien for Memorial tions of a man who fills a son's place hand at was all Alfred saw but the of mystery between us. Day.—Bell V. Chisholm. i~ ^.^ Ui3. To lightly fall upon that cherished grave, to her. face of the weeping woman was Hester's •t Has sanctified the turf on which you stand "In other words, you refuse me!" face, should years of sorrow and And smoothed the pillow of the sleeping iVjS WRITTEN FOR THIS PAPEKr There was a quick resentment in tears set their seal upon it. brave. They Were Shy. HER TWO BOYS. Alfred Grave's tone, for the refusal of Restless and curious in spite of himself.Alfred Sister, who placed your simple garland so From the Philadelphia Record. lounged into a refreshment Son, mother, wife, whose eyelids still An Incident of Decoration Day. „4x the woman he loved to be his wife place near the little house and called are wet Maidenly modesty and female vanihave BT MKS. M. -L. KAYKE. $ was a blow at once to his heart and Your dewy gift has stolen half your woe, tor something to eat. Clcse beside him had a sharp struggle among She was a stern-visaged woman, with And told the lost that you can not forget. his vanity. He was not a conceited two officers of police (inspectors they the young ladies in this city, and especially many lines graven deep on her face by Aye, as yon grave-eyed dame forbears to man, but when he offered his hand to seemeed) were discussing some provisions, those two sculptors, time and care. Her at the fashionable schools, weep and Alfred heard one say: his sister's governess he certainly did form was somewhat bent with the weight of While strewing forth her fragrant blossoms since the small-pox scare began. The "So Stretton's time is up. He came years, but it bore the uprightness of resistance there, not expect a refusal. There had been young women dread the disease, which out of the penitenciarv yesterday." Her hero, in his everlasting sleep, yet Her hair, drawn bick under a many meetings before he spoke, and But rests the calmer for her loyal care. even it not fatal, might prove deadly mourning veil, was as white as snow. She "According to my idea," was the reply, in some of them he had thought Hester did not look tender, loving and loyal, but "he ought not to have been there to their physical charms, and vaccination No soldier's heart may burn with anger she was all three. here at all. He never did it—never!" Stretton's face betrayed her love was therefore welcomed by all* •WHAT ON AIBTII ABE YOU AFTEK?' The past lies buried, like its noble dead Accompanied by a young girl, she moved "H was wild, though.'" for him, in spite of the cold manner But the difficulty was at few of the find from these flowers, with radiance •I am really sorry for you,' said Daisy, slowly through the crowded cemetery to ''Yesjgot on a spreejtoo often and was I grand and clear, young ladies, with visions of receptions ready to cry. at was habitual to her. the lodge of the old sexton. in bad company, but never had any The light of an abiding peace is shed. 'Sorry won't put clothes on my back and "How are my two boys?'' she asked when next winter before them when Scarcely a an to measure his own more hand in at bank robbery an "To thought of strife and hate arises now food in my mouth, I can tell you,' snapped they reached him. they would appear in low-cut corsage you or I." r, merits by the length of his purse, In the fulfillment of this sacred trust the old woman impatiently. Her lips quivered, and you saw then "Got five years for it," said the other, and sleeveless bodices, cared to have For blue and gray at last join hands and Alfred Graves could not quite forget •You ought to have a pension, and I am that the luster had gone out of her vow "an he's come out to die. He's the disfiguring marks placed upon sure if the President knew how badly off eyes forever, and that the little maid at he was owner of a fine estate in Eternal friendship o'er each other's dust. over at his mother's there, "jerking their arms. In consequence there has you are, he would give you one,' ventured —Harold R. Vynne. whose hand she held was eyes for the the country, several houses in town his in the direction of the little Julia, not knowing just how a pension blind. been a great demand, especially at the house, "an won't last a week—consumption." and five thousand a year, while Hester could be obtained. I God Knows Which Was Bight. "The boys are all right, ma'am," said fashionable boarding schools in the 'A pension! the price of blood. Girl, the sexton with deep respect, "they re safe Strei/ton was hi3 sister's governess. In Bath county. Va., when the war city, for elderly physicians to whose This was the secret, then! A brother what do you mean? Would I take money and tidy. I've put a bit of decoration broke out there lived two brothers named She had come to Mrs. Evan from a care the young ladies could submit for the life of my boy?' cried the infuriated in Pentonville model prison, innocent there myself, for I thought mebbe ye Terrill, both of whom became br gade female seminary with letters of introduction, creature, laising her cane in a threatening or guilty, a convicted felon' Alfred themselves for vaccination. might not come to-day." commanders—one of them having espoused manner. "Wh I do not come, it will be because had proved herself trustworthy shuddered as he thought of the the cause of the Union, and the other As they would not be vaccinated upon 'No, no! we did not mean that, but is my feet are stayed here," answered the fair stately woman he loved, with her that o" the Confederacy. The t^o were with the children, and no one the arm and they did not care to there nothing we can do to help you?' explained blind mother. "I have the flags and flowers rure, proud nature, daily tortured soldiers of brilliant promise, but they have the pimple on the end of the had any desire to pry into her private Daisy. with me. Are their graves green?" by the secret of her brother's crime. were both kilied in battle, sustaining nose, it has generally been decided by 'Yes, you can take yourselves off and let affairs during the whole of the "As green, ma'am, as June, which He had a vague recollection of reading their widely differing sentiments. Their the fashionable female to have the me alone,' was the sharp lejoiner. it nearly is. An' the fowers a-growin' father brought the bodies of his two sons first two years. the trial of some bank robbers where delicate operation performed uoon No sooner had they turned away than of their own accord as thick as home, and buried them on the old farm, the name of Stretton occurred, but it the calf of the leg. This required "the Mrs. Evans considered her a treasure, the door was shut with a bang, and the stars in a clear sky.'' erecting between their graves a marble was only a hazy memory at best. services of the elderly practitioners, as bolt slipped back to its place. Tney moved together to the part of the and the children were much attached slab bearing the touching inscription, Hester was with her mother in a Julia was grateful to be out in the free the ladies were loth to submit to the cemetery where the little ags studded the "God only knows which was right." to her an progressed rapidly. home, even if a poor one, with crime air once more, but Daisv tender heart gaze ot the youthful doctors. A grass above the boys in blue. Why not in love them both combine? Then Alfred came back from abroad, for its inmate, and he had no right to tempted her to plead the cause of the lady who manages the fashionable "Here they are just feel of them a bit, If ago and wisdom ne'er presume and his sister, offering him the hospitality intrude upon her grief. So he ate the lonely old woman with so much eloquence boarding school near Broad and ma am. The grass as soft as a baby's To say wbi-ch chi'd, in duty's line of her house at Guildford, food before him, paid the bill and as to enlist the sympathies of the villagers Reached blamelessly tue soldier's tomb! cheek to the touch, ma am, I warrant." streets recently determined to I know but this—thet each was true, and that night a do en girls, headed by suddenly made several discoveries. went out into the street again. It have all of the young ladies under her Tue mother knelt reverently by the two Each honest, noble brave and bright Julia and herself, knocked for admittance First, she found out at although was quite dark, and he gave up any graves that were so exactly alike no eye charge vaccinated. Those who were That one wore gray, and one wore blue— again at Aunt Placidia door. the family bad thought and spoken of idea of returning to Guildford at co dd detect the difference. She laid her boarders at the school were to be God only knows which one was right. After considerable grumbling, the old her brother as an old bachelor, after night, finding his way to the West End withered fac3 against the cool glowing vaccinated by the physician, an elderly We1! I recall thei'. last dispute, woman hobbled across the room and demanded grass, and remained motionless a long all, at forty be looked younger an and a hotel. and well-known practitioner, who The towering cbne, the blazing eye, what they meant by disturbing time. And it she were crying out in rebellion some men under thirty. Next, at Three days passed before he heard The haughty gestures made to suit has usually been called in to attend her. 'If you've come thinking to tease br:ok in her heart, or if she were praying, Hester Stretton, though she was reserved, Each assertion and reply attain of Hester's brother and then the such ills as school girls are heir to-. me out o' them roses you'd better be oft,' Their favorite mounts I see them vault there weie none to know, save God, was wonderiully fair and public journals told the story: He The young ladies all protested against And vanish on my aged sight, she began but Daisy assured her that who could see and hear. could converse with Alfred long after was dead. Only twenty-six, the papers the marking of their arms, and it was To measure might in war's assault— they had not come tor that purpose, and "Bojs," she called softly at last boys, the topics were quite beyond the eldder said buc there had come comfort God only knows whica one was right. determined, after a solemn conference, asked if they might not go in. mother come!" lady's comprehension. at the last hour. Two of the gang at each one should be vaccinated Then crept an age of dragging days, Aunt Placidia granted the desired permission, SA Other mourners came briuging their The old, old story progressed, day who had been engaged in the With vague, conflicting rumor rife, upon the calf of the leg. This was muttering that she wished their flowers and passed on. An old man whose Until along our dust-hung ways after day, and she could find no good bank robbery had made sworn call to be •-hort, for it was near her bedtime entirely satisfactory until the day appointed four soldier lads slept near stopped to look Tue tidings came that chilled my life reason for sending Hester away, and statment exonerating from but when she saw the contents of for the operation. Instead at this lonely, crouching figure. Among the brave, heroic slam, surely Alfred was noB to be turned any guilty a in it. In so their baskets, and knew that food and of coming himself, the doctor sent his Where heavy fell the heavy fight, The sexton informed him in pantomime from her house. Mrs* Evans was constantly clothing to last her a long time were befoie far as he was under the influence of My boys lay wet with crimson rain— assistant, a very young man with a that she was not in her right mind—out God only knows which one was right. her, the fountains of her heart were devising schemes for shutting liquor, was in bad company and was blond moustache, whom the girls declared oi her head. opened, and the grateful tears stieafned Hester in the schoolroom, for sending Ere long I brought t'-em home to sleep led by them, he was guilty. "Shedoesn't know the difference," he looked "just too "sweet." On the old farm beneath mine eye— down her withered cheeks. As soon as her Jong errands and employing her said in an undertone, "but the two soldier Buc he was innocent because he was There was a hurried consultation of Where stranger's eyes the vigils keep, she could speak she asked: "Why did time in needlework. But if Alfred bo/s buried here r.re not hers. They are purposely kept ignorant of their intentions the ladies. "Never'' "I shall take I could not bear that they should lie. you do all this for the cioss old creature would lounge into theschoolrooman rebs. They came north and died in the and had no knowledge the small-pox first1" "He shall not No more tie bugle to the fray who had only words ot abuse for you?" hospital. They knew of her bojs, and insist upon'hearing his nephews and at he was in a bank vault until the My boys saall rouse, at dead of night, vaccinate me!" Such were the exclamations "Because you did so much for us in were the first to tell her that they died at niecea recite long poems while A deep peace holds my blue and gray— hands ot the officers of justice were of the girls. The young docto giving your son for our d.ar country," God on'y knows which one was right. Chattanooga. She was sick a long time he made pencil sketches of Hester's upon him there. was compelled to retire, and the cried Daisy. "Father says we owe all A. O. Spalding in the Courier-Journal after that, and has never been right since. profile if he would join her just as she Five weary years, disease, finally kindly old gentleman who is preceptor this and a great deal more to you, and to When these two died of their wounds and started on the long errands, and was death,had paid the penalty a was sent Tor. The^ftl then all the mothers wuose sons fill soldier's were buried here, she found it out and said What the Rose Bush Did. seized with a desire to read in the of reckless living but the stain of actual submitted without a murmur. graves." they were her boys and she always believed very room where the needlework was "And we want to be your friends and crime was lifted from his memory, it. An' it don do her a bit df A well-known physician said yesterday: TJST look at the bower in progress, what could a prudent sister come to see you, too, sometimes," ia'teied and the journals at had chronicled harm, as I can see." I doubt if there is a woman of roses:' exclaimed do more? Julia, ieeling that it was her duty to say his trial and sentence gave publicity Daisy Raymond, The old man turned away, shaking his above 15 in the city who will submit something, and not knowing just what she It was some comfort at the "infatuation," to his innocence and his decease. as she paused before head sadly, while the mother airanged to a vaccination on the arm. That ought to say, as Mrs. Evans mentally Ii- was no shame to Alfred's manhood the gate leading to the flowers on the two graves to suit her of course, is natural, and istemimne." "Come when you can, my dears, and termed it, was all on one side at at his eyes wore misty as he Aunt Placidia's cottage. sightless touch right glad will the old crone be to see your the pale face never flushed at his 'Did you ever When they were finished they were just read the obituary ot the waste of life, bright faces. But I can't give you Tommy Wills That are Not Wills. coming, or the soft, dark orbs wooed see such a bower or alike in their decorations, even to the touched keenly by the closing words, roses, for I could not bear to break him to her side. But Mrs. Evans beauty' two flags crossed at their heads. "My Chicago Times. "A widowed mother and sister were 'em off, because he was to have the first 'Such roses are not boys" murmured tho stricken mother, could not believe it possible for with him when he died." The litigation over Mr. Tilden's will one that bloo ned, and it would break my to be to a "my dear, dead soldier Loys, whom God Alfred to offer his hand and fortune Alfred could easily picture the fair, ought to be a lesson to wsalthy men old heait to ha\e his flowers a-coverin' where, replied Julia hath in His most holy keeping. Mother to any woman and be rejected. So pale face bending over the sufferer's other soldieis' graves, and his'n all grown to be their own executors. If he could will be with you soon. It is almost time, Dent 'but if we stop she fretted secretly, while Alfred pillow, and the low, tender voice comforting up to weeds," said the old woman, as she not control the disposition of his own 1 cannot see your feces, or even your dear to admire them much wooed patiently, till" on the summer him, though his hand brought opened the door ft them to file out. property after death, who can? He graves, but He will tell you that mother longer we will not morning when he found Hester in the We will not ask them, chorused the desolation into her own life. is coming soon." was noted for his ability and shrewdness rmish our wreaths before garden, for a wonder, free from the girls, too well pleased with their victory In the chamber of death, where the dark.' Oh! divine passion of human as a lawyer. had ample time, attendance ot a juvenile Evans, and to trouble about her treasures. still face upon the pillow was peaceful 'Let us go in and love and sorrow' Who shall say and the best legal talent of the country After her visitors had gone, and she had made his declaration in explicit in its last sleep, Hester and her mother ask for some of the roses and honeysuckles that Thou, too, hast not a miracle of at his com man I. His will was fully satisfied her hunger, the old woman terms. kept watchtogether. that have almost closed both door and transubstantiation tor this mother's faith! drawn with care, for it was an elaborate could not realize that the strange occurrence And without one flush on her white They had suffered most in the five window ot the wee house,' urged Daisy. That while she weeps by these two graves document, which was intended to had actually taken place, and more cheeks—if possible, even paler than Tou do not know Aunt Placidia or you wheiein lie sleeping the two brave soldier years at their lives had been separated, than once she raised the covering on the control the disposal oi millions. He usual—Miss Stretton had told him would not think of enter ng within her enclosure,' boys, some unknown mother may not be widow1 for the had been a on table, and feasted her e\es on the abundance sired to found a great public charity. said Julia. 'Why, she was going watching her brave lads in some southern there was a secret in her life at kept in a large hospital, while Hester worked spiead out before her there, to convince But it seems at there is a great to throw scalding water on Jimmie Lyons bivouac of the dead. And that for this her outside the ranks of married as governess in Mrs. Evans's family. herself that she was not laboring -for daring to cross her yard the other day. day and hour? each was given to his own, women. Still he pleaded, still he probability at his intention will Before her father's death there under a delusion. Oh you don know her, Daisy, or you by order of Great Commander, to fail because of some obscure technicality owned it was no crime or fault of her had been a home, happy and united would not think rf risking yo'ir life by iniruding whom the soldiers of the south and the own at separated them, and again of the law. The court of appeals but afterwards poverty drove them upon forbidden ground,' exclaimed soldiers of the north, the boys in gray and he urged his suit only to meet the has decided at a "valid trust clause upon the world. 4 Alice Gray, looking very sober. the boys in blue, have alike surrendered. repetition of her declaration. of a will must be so specific in its "Mother." Hester said softly, *1 'Mpther says she used to be like other "In other words, yon refuse me," have saved something in these" long benefidary can come into court and ^people, but her son was killed at Lookout Modern Improvements in Devotion. he said, with angry emphasis. demand it3 enforcement." Mr. Tilden years and we will settle ourselves Mountain, and ever since she has been a A friend of mine has a telephone in The color flushed then over Hestor's here and try to earn a living together." devised about $5,000,000 for a library tlittle beside herself,' explained Florence his East End residence Likewise he face, for there was keen pain as well and educational institution, Marks. possesses a little daughter some four as resentment in Alfred's tone. Jj'or "Yes, dear. I took the house furnished but also directed, that the trustees 'Then, if her boy lost his life in the service years in age, of winnmg ways, sweet the first time she touched his arm, for a month, thinking if Oliver of his country, she will be interested, might if they deem it expedient, apply face, and artfully artless manners. lifting her soft, dark orbs to his own. came home willing to work for an in s'rewing the soldiers' gra\es. I ani«ure this money zo such charitable, educational When bedtime came a tew nights ago There was a thrill her voice as she honest living, we should get on somehow. she will give us one rose for each grave. and scientific purposes as in the mother of this little maid could not said, steadily but in low tones: "Because She will never miss twenty, and I am going I had saved a little, too, Hester, their judgment would most widely find her. She was not in the nursery I love you, Alfred. If I had no to brave the lioness in her den,' persisted for him, and he will not need it," benefit mankind. This clause opens and, carrying on the search, her mother Daisy as she opened the gate and affection for you I would put my "Hush! You must not weep now. the door of doubt. The wide discretion reached the landing on the stairs. There walked into the yard. hand in yours and share yourVealth Remember how happily he died, given to the trustees makes it 'If you are determined to carry out your she stayed a moment, and, listening, for ray life of drudgery 'is a weary mother, the stain lifted from his questionable whether their trust can foolishness, I will go along, although you heard the babe's voice in the hall be-1 burden to me. Bu I fove you, and memory, his heart at peace. He was be enforced. No man can by law be will ha\e your pains for nothing I assure low. Looking over the banisters she* so I bid you go from me and seek to ready to go, mother. My poor brother!" you,' said Julia, following the wilful girl. compelled to do at which is discretionary was surprised to see tiny Miss Mabel forget me in a happier smile 'We will wait around the corner, and if with him. If the trust clause standing on a hall chair and talking into I Something in her tone and lace Softly the tender lips pressed the ithe old woman begins to abuse you we the telephone in a loud voice. fails the property will go to the heh?3 awed her lover from any demonstration dead man's forehead before He3ter will be near at hand,' said Alice, as she •Hello! tfello! Hello, Central!' tho and the city of New York lose the of pleasure at her frank confession. led her mother away from the room Slurried away to the place of concealment. 'TTtEY ABE FOR THE SOLDIERS' GRAVES. benefit of this great bequest. Th ch'ld was saying in exact imitat on ol He prisoned the little white They had not crossed the narrow Though Daisy had been so brave, it was When, at last, she did sleep, it was to her father's manner. 'Hello, Central! Herald says at there is reason to hand she had placed upon his arm passage to the parlor when the doorbell ^a timid knock that arouse I the old dame dream of people shewing flowers upon Give me heaven, I want t'say my fear that subsequent rulings will confirm and said: "Confide in me, then. Tell trom her habi ual rev.?r e. She was Fo rang, and Hester opened the the graves of soldiers, and Tommy's still m- prayers,!'—Pittsburg Dispatch. the fears at are entertained. me your secret, or, if you will, keep long in making her appearance that the doof^to face Alfred Graves." left without a ngle blossom. A new |^*J yjgirls, supposing that she woul I not admit it, and rest assured I wul never try to Before she could speak he entered, tho ght seiztd her, and gatheiing an armful It seems to be difficult for a an of He Left Mementoes. them, were about to retire. At that *5 surprise it." of her own roses, she started in search closing -.the door behind him, and wealth to realize at there is no Dr. Everett Wagner of Met^alf 'tnoment they heard the thump of her of the lonely grave. In her vision she I cannot. "Nothing but death can advanced to the widow, who stood scheme possibla by which he can retain j. crutches on the floor, and presently the county. Kentucky, ed recently and passed over hills and through valleys, free me, and your life is too useful, inside the little parlor. after death "a hold upon his iijg'j^bolt slipped back, and a very cross-looking his will declares" that friends who crossed rners and waded through marshes, to noble, to be spent waiting for "MrJ. Stretton, he said, lifting his property. Efforts to do so usually face appeared at the door., neglected him in life wanted small until the mountains where she knew her me. Forget me, Alfred." hat., ""'I a just beard of your sorrow, 1 result in litigation. who desire* •_ "What on airth are you after?" trinkets as mementoes hence he directs dead reposed, rose up before her like a She was gone before he could say "and have come to ask you to snapped the ungainly creature a querulous to establish a great charity should:commence mightv giant. that his body be cut into pieces and more and he knew her decision was let me aid you in any way where a voice. the work during his lifetime, divided among the mourners, while his At first she feared that her search final. Mrs. Evan' delight at her gentleman's service may be required. "Ton know to-rrrrrow is Memorial as hundreds of cases like at wo dd oe fruitless, but the sound of heavenly cash assets valued at $12,000, go brother's escape was certainly tem- I am the brother of Mra. Evans. dayA and^we^catne a ro .for each music suddenly filled the air, and two public charities. of Mr. Tilden have shown. mr ••uiii lii mm