Show SPARTAN MO MOTHER TIlEn A widowed mother speaking of the death of her two only sons after the battle of gettysburg expressed a sentiment so ringing with patriotism that wo we are arc proud to it she said with quivering lips and broken utterance 1 I would rather that they died thus like liv heroes roes than to have had them live like cowards deaf to tile the call of their country in her hour of belil and the low but solemn anion amen is is borne back as a refrain from froin hamlet and city from valley and mountain wherever loyal women burn incense on tile the alt altar ar of principle |