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Show A 7 i Mtricf over theis men? I aaked. He' shook hiahead. It wouldn be good policy; heboywouH come up and it would make eni feel bad, and it might make the siok ones worse. I believe more would die than do if. wft .hsd reg ular funerals. Dont ywthinir ao, Bill?" e, sandy-haireBill wasa-palman in Rongn Riders uniform. He said be thought very likely more -- would die. T d 1 1 L -- I looked at the wooden croBtes and saw that on each wasjcrawl ed in pencil a mans name along i ' , i r 1 ?! 1 e f-- away, between one. osau captain and a dozen privates there was no LA hesitation. V The priest and I walked down to the dead houee,? or dead tent, and saw coffins stacked up there half way to' the ridgepole; coffins ? insidaand cuteiderrcoffins-alread- y soon to be occucoffins occupied, in plain eight was All this pied. of sick men in twelve hospital fever-stricke- dig-him-u- - p nine-tTitw- 7 d, er o. he d g -- Hef-ferma- n, d as I er ! o, 13k? UUQUrvU vl vui worn more than a hundred, nave iers, teen mauled about and dumped into the ground byacursin, shovel pitting, gang v 4 I believe there are many people in4his country who wonld have demanded better treatment for these poor troopers and infantrymen; I believe there are. thankful mothers and sisters and wives who would have plucked flowers. from their gardens and tent them here with blessings New York is only four hours away; 1 believe there are rich men who would have furnished decent coffins fo these boys in blue, not painted packing boxes. Yes, and clean hearses with springs to bear them, instead of jolting army wagons; aud solid stones to mark .their gravesinstead -- of boards.' And eingers would have journeyed to this camp with joy and asked no' pay for the privilege of chanting Abide With Me and Lead Kindly Light where" these boys lay. ,1 amsure Jhat gentlemen would have come and organized this burying business properly, and ladies would have come at.d done what they could, and the whole thing would have been better, so much better, f they bad only known, if' they had only kuftl A acid-squirtin- tents hot a "handed yards away, and brought small comfort to n them. ,Jt is not good for soldiers to smell the bodies of dead comrades. - The priest's face was sad and stern as he tamed away; we agreed to meet at 4 oclock on the morrow for the burying of a double batch, The next afternoon .1 arrived betimes at the pestilential burying ground, and, stretching myself on the grass to the- windward, .watched the unloading of the dead. At intervals an army wagon without springs, loaded with coffins, would bump its way up, the driver usually cursing, the mules kicking. The shovel gang would gather at the wagon tail with carrying bars and as they lift the coffins outr-The- n, lowered each box Jnto its grave, tbe talk would run on briskly: Easy dere; youll drop -- him. Git yer rope under, you Nowdown be geos,1 and known!- then a squirting of tobacco juice But, ...those with some company and regiment. But in going along the rows I came to several crosses on which there were no names. How is "imhese are not marked? I asked. Nobody knows who the men said the bearded soldier. were, That seems queer, but its a fact. In the Santiago mixup they got lost in the shuffle somehow; plenty .of men fought with regiments they didnt belong to and afterward they were too sick o tell who they were delirious, likely." I was in New York for three days after this, but on my return I went again to the burying ground and saw the shovel gang at work. GrantThat no one dear to me fall -- into such hands when it comes his from Bower ylips. time to go bak to earth! Then another coffin aud another, the asked one of What is it? I driver calling out after each: the men, and pointed to a box. And some is dat bloke? Which Case of again one the box. a on would read name of the Second infantry boys. , Died one . Naw, its three "days ago: was in there Hook, I tell ye. Cook." sure Samuel it is; Hook, to open grave. Family pointing want him shipped going toThave aint it wrote on de cover ? Well, him embalmed; but say, de lad den, heres his cross, and another dat does de job will have some cross would.be pitched out to the A diggers. sport. bodies 4 of most the oclock Come here, Curly, said one of . By a now had and dis box come, and the gaDg, open up young up, oneoyouse mix up some o dat man appeared with Y. M. C. A. on his hat. The head chaplain was disinfectant stuff, will ye? The box was opened and lbs flies busy again and he was to replace swarmed down inside, the disin- him. Three ladies also came fectant staff was mixed and'ponred across the field; one of them was in out of a tin can- .- I could see a in black, her face was pale, her grayish," blackish hand "reaching lips were quivering. -- But she stoed out of the ehroud. Then came firm aklhey Jed herttr grave where her son was lying. more order s w hi ch I noted do w n He was acorporal, aged 20. They carefully: Get a piece o cloth to lift his had opened the wrong coffin at the . head wid. Now easy. Up you dead houeelolether see himTTShe Leave birdie. come, my end over. had seen enough, aud was content at Boost up .his "pillow higher and to stare .down now, dry-eyebrowivbbx the in the grave. These keep that thing to This last to a were the first ladies who had visit-th-e away from here. and the shovel-gaD- g bnrying-groun- d man who was over-eagto put the bared their heads. cover on. Now Father Hefierman stepped Then came the clatter of hammers and.screw-driver- s, the placing forward beside tbe chaplain and of the closed coffin in a larger pine the two stood at grave ninety-twbox for shipment, and the hauling There was a pause when only the latter by an outfit of buzzing of flies was. heard, and a away of-tand a lazy driver. mules kicking sniffing from the -- woman. Then a Finally, nurse told me that a the chaplains voiee sounded low funeral service was held at the but distinctly: All flesh is not the and continued burying-grounevery afternoon at same flesh 4 oclock. So the next day I re- through that beautiful fifteenth ported at 4 oclock, to witness the chapter of Corinthians, ending were with the words, Therefore, my ceremony. The shovel-ganthere as before, only more of them, eloved - brethren,-b- e. y a steadfast, and I found two chaplains waiting unmovable,Val ways. abounding the ' to begin. Chaplain Bateman, reg- work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your 'labor is nothin ularly in charge, and Father v a Roman Catholic priest, vain in the Lord. listened in - who-haThe shovel-gan- g come u p from Brooklyn to 'strained attitudes intended HuTThe assist him. A pile of hospital burniDgTiearby, and ths respectful; some folded tfieir arms odor' of graves and disinfectants hard, some worked thelrcheeks and dont was strong in the airr ' tried bravely not to spit.- We are waiting for the bodies to think the mother was shocked by come up from the deadhouss," said anything; she did not notice what -- the head -get that chaplain LTha men was about her; she did not whiff from a rattling dead-wago- n have been digging graves all day which 'came up just as the chapyou see the ones that are ready and also taking up bodies for re- lain threw Jown a handful of moval. A great many are being earth upon the coffin, and she did not see the mule-drivtaken up. I should say one-thir- d smoking bis cigar. She was thinking of her of them." boy, the corporal, aged 20." We waited about ten . minutes, A blessing by "the priest con the shovel-gan- g chatting in groups, clnded the ceremony, which lasted of One and them swearing. jesting amused himself by shying chunks about tea minutes and was meant of fresh earth at another down in a to include all the bodies put down grave. The head chaplain paid no that day, as well as the occupant It was ten heed, the priest shook hi , head of grave ninety-twminntesof These men are reverecci agaiust ten and whispered: It was good of irreverence. hours dreadfully profane. I cant bear ' but as far as it went, to hear them curse in Gods name. prisst and be first to the would Presently an orderly rode op chaplain far en not it and spoke to the head chaplain: maintain that goes backs were our General Wheeler. wants to ough. Scarcely shovel the when how soon yon can go turned gang were - know, sir, with Captain Morrisons body. at it as' before on the newly The chaplain looked at v the brought bodies; these would get hours graves, looked at his prayer.book tbeir blessing twenty-fon- r and said that he would go at once later. I believe there are many his associate might read the ter people in this country who will cry vice over these. Then he went out 'Shame! when they learn . - JtmKNAL. UtokH. UTAH OCTOBER 4 ffv g -- r r who did know, .or should' have known, what " have they been doing these days? How it that the officers and generals whose triumph was aided by these dead eoldiers have Jefttbe handling of this honored clay to hirelings from a citys slums? Was it not right that soldiers should be buried by soldiers? Where was the keen-eyequickthinking Colonel Roosevelt while one of his Rough Riders was being shovel-gangeto rest? Where were tbe officers of the gallant Seventy-first- , which has more than one man buried on that hill? Where were all the benevolent women? Why did not President McKinley visit the dead of Camp Wikoff as.' well as ths living? --What has been the matter with all these highly-place- d people? . .Were they too -- busy? Then they might have "called -- for help. Did they overlook it? TheD perhaps tbe'country will: not over look it! Cleveland Mofifett in comes d, d Leslies Weekly. How to Fmmt 1 Croup. JUST ARRIVED We have two children who are subject to attacks of croup. When CALL AND ever an attack is coming on my wife gives them Chamberlains Cough Remedy and it always prevents the attack. ' It is a household this country and no necessity-imatter what else we ran ont of, it would not do to be without Chamberlains Cough Remedy. More of it is sold here than of all other, cough medicines combined. JVM Nickle, of Nickle Bros., merchants, Nickleville, Pa. 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