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"Oh, mother‘s u, apry :on her feet u-y’ou' be, I hldn't' thought of her gotn’wlth my one elie, but I don‘t? see why she couldn't. It’d be a real help. She ai’d‘t got nothin' to carry, [or am took a his basket of flowers Susan Ann win stout. and she had grieved "all the morning over the long walk to the graveyard. As she aunt? ponderoualy into a chair; she la- mentod: “I get heavier on my feet every day I: live. and the heat 10-day In just awhn on me. 1! mother hadn't had her hehrt no set on It. 'I wouldn‘t, try to so to the cemetery. ! just know I‘ll rpm-sick." - . . ~‘Conldn't, the walk ppIWIth‘ms?” Mrs. Rayburn Inked. "We’ll not walk - flit." - up this morning. before mental. She's inn-that wrtvmd up In Decora- Adamoonfs moo would have made a good study. From a blaze of anger it Wood through all the stages ’01. 110111091! team to ‘a stony determin- tlon. ‘ The development .of the conversa- tion beyond the paper-covered board‘ walla 'coIlected her" nebulous chaotic emotions into a. stem resolve. ‘ ‘ "Yes; laylocks was Dick's favodte flower, and he sat this bush out his- tel. and I thought I'd make a wreath tq hang on the cross on his tombstun." _ The expreuion on Grandmother l'v . RANDHOTHER ADAM reached Into the dept WDHKKOG band! hilt In her finger-- -_._- .. _r. u... um mm 1:, .Mn ”Ka'yfiurn. that lay- lock wreath?“ mm WM _ M AD ”02:." RANDIOTHER ADAMBON and reached into (ha depths of her ‘ you-09113301! handbox. but season. but. then, “’3 been awful fine for the flowerl. 'Pears like the‘ roses and' llylockl and plnlerhu just trlec their-elves to see who could do the moat. bloomln'. Now. thét'n apretty “Why. Ill-thy Ellqn. what lovely ram! Dld you ever no the floWars I0 had-one u my no this «year: Come right 1n._ It's are-1m] hot; 3111'! It? Seems like I hover hosted H to warm up u e'arly as it has this At the first words of greeting out»: moth’er ltmlgbt’ened with u snap like 9 jack-knife, md'm mry‘ color finned on her cheek; ~ an. am An. her dunghter eroded through the mo wuy load- Ing from the kitchen. hit In her fingers. touched ,tho It“! ruchlnx In the front of hor‘hut bonnet her attention was nrrentod by n ring nt the front door. Al though laddenly petrified In her Wu! Danton. mamothor waned AT A PATRIOT’S GRAVE Iieu md our time. Let It be Decora- tion tiny. I! you "mam. but don’t cull Itinemorlal day any More. It'- “It‘e jest because Jeremihh'wns a hero that his grave ain’t goin’ uto be strewed with flowers Jest like the one: where the babies and cobperheadl lies. The‘babies might a-growed up to be heroes. if they'd had a chant. but they didn't. and they'a three hun- dreq an: sixty-four and a quarter oth- er day-in the year to decorate their saves in. It's utmost u insult toâ€" to-â€"-. "Well. this day don't mean upthin" no more. - It used to be set apart that we might honor_the nation's dead, but the day, like mils and nome'ot the others here. has outlived our' useful- “Became he was a hero In why I don‘t want him decorated. Thtt’s the only way to distinguish him from them as ain‘t heroes." ' “If I hav‘e, I’ve been the oxily one that hag.” _A flourish of, her needle indicated‘ the flower-decked mounds. "But Comrade Adamant: was a hero. and heâ€"" ' ”You ham’t forgot it’s Decoration «1511‘»? you?” finesfloned the man. Witha nine sweep of hai- mm. deother rose to her hat. . f‘We’ ve come to decorate Comrade Adamson’s grave.” hesitated the nu fled Blake. "Comrade Adnmlon's grave don’t need no decoratin' â€"nve, six, narrow; one, tw_0â€"" mm on' I little splint-bottomed chair In her own mom. She paid no Ittontlon to the utonilhed group tint stopped before her. v ‘ “Ahem!” coughed the master of oenemonles. Hear": Blake. ‘ ' Grandmother kicked up, “Howdedo. Hem‘y."-‘Th‘en. looking down (mun, “one, two, three. widen; one,. two. thr‘ee. turn." mm apt-end u fu- u tidy iould over the nomads“ mound, Ind she was knitting u cflmly u it the war. know you'd want me to. I won't tske them to any one else. thonxll. Jere- mlnh, though I know you'd sey tnr me to. I! you was here. But deute, I've toured for the“ things nwnw gem they was buds, leat an tender es It they‘d n b'en bebles. and Soot so's you could hnve them today. no 1 30st can't see nny one elne have 'em. How would you like to look over thm poslee end 'see that lnyloch wreath n-henxln’ on old chh Rnybnrn's tomb- stun? Yon fought. bled Ind dled Al- most fur nothln', Jeremlnh, when that old oopperhead xlte lest on many new- ers no you do." . ' , Grandmother hnd turned up the sklrt '01 her ,blsek nlpecn drone and. Into the noeptacle thus formed. land put every flower that had lnln on hremlnh‘s grave. She carrled their. all over to a far corner of the come- tery and buried them under a plle or last year's leaves. Then she went heck to the bare mouhd. . Soon the runway notes of “Cover Them Over wlth‘Beautllul Flowers,” load thnt the processlon was cornlns. Grandmother heerd, but she did not once lltt ‘her eyes. She sat dlreetly upon the middle of the grave, her Wt HE llrlt volunteer for the civil war was Dr. Chum 1‘. Bond of Wuhlngton, D. 1'9. A certificate in the cap- ltol of New York stete no test- the prlorlty of Dr. Rand's tender 0! hls servlcee. Thls We ls slgned hy.the mnyor end two prominent cltlaens or Betnvln. N. Y..nndnlsohy the'eonnty clerhnsd the, sherla of Genesee county. stnttnz thatlnlessthentenmlnuteauter the cell for troops by Presldent Un- eoln. April 15. 1801. for 75,000 men the nune «Charles 1'. Bend was en- rolled as a soldier. . . _ Among the wnr records nt Wuh- ln‘ton' there ls none or en enrller en- listment than that of Dr. Rand end the honor has therefore been given ' him‘ by eommon oonaent. Not only was Dr. Rand the hut volunteer for .thh elvll war. but 0 we: also meant Ioldler‘to win the congresslonal medal of honor for also. ungulshed gnllnntry ln'actlon. Thls event occurred at Bleekhnrn'n Ford, vi. in {a}; then three month:- etter his. enllntlnent. Hls command was ordered to retreat. end even met- mvu over which "P” bent. V At a brilliantlydockod mound its flopped ind. kneeling. sold: “1 Into to do It, Jemmloh. but I know you'd wont me to. I won't take than to any on else. though. Jere mun. though I know you'd ny hu- me to. 11 you was here. But deuto, I've I“ Mr thou "fills. awn! gm. they won buds, jut :- tender :- It they'd o b'en babies. Ind loot Io'l you could love them 10-0». one I jest can't no my one 9110 had '91:). How would you like to look over those pools. and ’Iee that loylock wmth u-honxln' on old Dick Royburn’l tomb- Itun? You fought. bled Ind died I!- moat tut nothln', Jeremiah, when that old oopperheld nu lent to my now- on up you do.” . t ' no. a: I couldn't «appoint Mr M “3'. She's secur- rudy not. I'll m M It. I! It'll ho Ill Hunt." Thu Imeqr o! AfghanIstan says (hut the British government In wIthIn III fight: In buIldInx struggle run-wan In that country. . Memorial Dny Adana. Perhaps the most: remarkable Me~ morlal day address in the‘countrvaas that delivered at Marysvllle, Kan, by Dr. Williamson 1“. Boyakln, who was the Grand Army orator on the 100th anniversary offhiu birth. In matter and delivery the speech insnld to have beenfar above the average. ‘ Memoilul Day. No pages of a nation's history are more interesting to its people than those which record the brave'deedi of its soldiery and no nstlon on the face of the earth has established an beau- tiful a custom in that )v‘hlch is con. templated by Memorlul day. the straw ins at luring .nq'Wers over the grave: other departed soldiers. ’ . May the- hfll meaning ot the day come to ill with It]! lts-uolemnlty and all its. heanty, and with the patriotic N The congressional medal. of honor was not instituted until a year iater, ahd the first one Struck of! was pré- seated to Ra'ndfo: his distinguished gallantry on that memorable day a: Blackburn's Ford. leudn' l't prgiéng.‘ obeyed save yam End. “the line but- 18 years of are, The rent oHIln bettelion of 609 men we: swept in dil- order from' the field, but Hand held his ground, despite the fact that the field was ”plowed ‘by shot and‘lheil all about him. The enemy anally ab- noiutely refused to fire at the boy standing bravely alone and firing at then: as eoqliy 3.3 it he had ‘a regiment at his back. Rand then crept scrape the field 'and a deep ravine and Joined: the command of Gen. A. H. Barnum. Not only wu Dr. Rand the first volunteer for the civil war. but 0 was also then"! Iotdier‘to win the magma-Iona! medal of hpnor for dip anguished gallantry ln'nctlon. Tim. event med st Blickburu': Ford, Ya” In 13:5 than three month- after his cull-uncut. His command wu ordered to retreat. and every man “Jo-t look W- an. m Cu yon mlwum muse! midter- m myuu. and died to: m- hellmgul' country! I! m. Gly val I'll! It was and fur. thonvouldn't be g lover I. an. hull ("aura ex- eopdn' on I m5 unve. I reckon 11'. um. enough we do. even when u at In“: I this day-out or: yen to than n [In the“ hull lives. and 1313!!!! Mt nu- some o! ‘01:: “fits your Iowan Put 'em 0- any true you happen to no. u don't matter. m: Vh Jon Deconuo- day. 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