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Show NURSE TELLS OF I DEATH OF YOUTH i "My Mother It All the; World to Me," Say. ! Dying Soldier. " ! - i How an American, soldier faced his 1 death In a French hospital fa told In a j tiuman, touching; letter written by Delia t A. McNamara. I'nlted Htates army t nurse corpsto XTrs. KuiaTI I', l.yman of J street, telling lha mother how her Mon, tirant II Lyman, met hie fate. Young l.yman la a half-brother of Apostle Richard R I-uian. and enlisted . In the marine corps on May C, IM7. He i died June 17 NURSE WRITCa. The letter follows: 1 "I received your tetter of August 12. ' resterdav," writes the nurse, "sod wish j to say that tour eon's death was due to , - being gassed He waa aleo wounded, above the right knee and below the left knee, but neither of theae wounds wss serious. Tour information that hia legs had to he amputated la Incorrect. Ilka chief complaint waa that he waa Buffering Buffer-ing from gsa. which so affects the mem-branea mem-branea of the lunga and air paaaagea that It often results fatally. "When I aked him. as 1 do all my patients. pa-tients. If there waa anything he desired , me to do for htm, and If he wished to ee a chaplain, he said. 'I'leane write a : letter to my mother and tell her ahe la I all the world to ire.' He gave me your . sddreas. When I hsd written the letter, he had me read It to him aeveral times , and finally nodded his head, meaning j that It waa all right. J -When I aaw he was gradually alnklng. t hastened to the rhaplain, who came . Immedlaiely. After he hsd apoken about j five wordn to the chaplain. be laped I "TnTo a UMTS of mrni, strd remained thns j ror an hour. e. hen the end came. I hi stsudlng st his side and gave htm a , spoonful of water five minutes before he died- He did not realise snythiug during Ih laal hour, but previous to Hist he ; waa perfectly conscloua, aa his letter to j )OU I nd testes "About his grave. He la buried In a j beautiful French cemetery In that aec- lion upon hill which la kept for the , Americana. The view from this hill com- ; mands a beautiful alley. It la only about sixteen squares or blocks from the river Marne. FLOWERS FOR GRAVES. 'Your son la burled with many of his , comrades. On the wooden cross which msrks his grsve Is a plate with his full name, his compsny. regiment and the date clearly marked. The tag he wore j on hie neck la si no nailed to thin cross, on ( his snd on all the other American graves j la sn Amcrn-sn flag. I "The nurses of this unit plant flowers ' on the gr.ics of our soldiers during their ( spare ttme. Th chaplain, with a procession of the j bote who -could be sfMred from duty, sc-cnmiuinled sc-cnmiuinled the body to the Itrsve, where the funetsl eervtcea were held and taps plsved "Whenever ther can do ao. the nureea attend the services, hut I wss sn busy , I could not attend the exercises held for our sob "The French people are unusually kind and thoughtful On many otvaslone t ' have seen them plsnt flowers on and t shout tli grave of our twya aa they do their own.' j |