| Show managed to beat off the enemy and they were soon In full retreat with our boys In hot pursuit At the very beginning of the chase the horse ridden by the young colonel of a rebel regiment stumbled and fell I happened to be close behind this man when the accident occurred and believing him to be badly hurt I quickly dismounted to render him such assistance as I might B’t apparently he was not hurt at all With a yell be sprang to his feet and rushed upon me with drawn sword Of course I had to defend myself Three times during the fierce fencing that ensued I unbegged him to desist and avoid necessary bloodshed Twice I was In a hair’s breadth of being killed by his skillful onslaught but in the end I was victorious and he fell I Intend ed only to disable him but unfortunately my blade passed Hear through Six weeks he was In the his body here before he military 'hospital and his body now finally succumbed lies In the Poplarville cemetery By the way” suddenly exclaimed the colonel “his name was Challoner— Col Challoner— the same name as I believe God My sir yours I hope he was not a relative — a— a — " The words died on his lips for at that moment the younger man turned slow!? around and faced him Riohard Challoner was ' pale as death his breath came in quick excited gasps his eyes shone with a fierce vlndlc tlve glare “He was my father!” The words fairly hissed through h!s clenched “I am Col teeth Challoner’s son And you were the man who killed him sir you shall By God —you — you! answer to me for that act!" Col Brant was struck dumb with horror "My reason for coming to Poplar ville to begin my business career continued the young man hoarsely "was because my father lay In your I wanted to be near cemetery here him — to care for his grave I never dreamed—” He broke off suddenly and seemed to restrain himself by a strong effort Then with a quick nervous gesture he turned on his heel and without trusting himself to utter another word he strode from the room At the foot of the stairs he met Dorothy who was waiting for him The sight of his white face and blazing eyes startled her “Richard! Richard!” she cried He brushed past her without an answering sign took his hat from the rack and an instant later the hall door closed behind him we Brant until she was within a few feet him He straightened up then and greeted her with a solemn courtly how while his cheek flushed The girl was very pale- and her eyes were red with weeping She carried an armful of roses which she silently and reverently deposited on the dead confederate’s grave Then facing the man oppositewith a look of pitying appeal she took' from her bosom a lettered handed It across to him "Read this Richard” she said In a frightened quivering voice “It was written by your father to my mother many years ago before I was born It has been preserved among mamma’s other treasures left at her death of OL LEVISON evidently the work of an artist of more BFANT was a little than ordinary talent It was a war6tartled by the newa time scene representing a battlefield that his daughter was in perspective with troops engaged in engaged to be mar- a running fight In the background half ried subject to his obscured by clouds of smoke In the fatherly approval foreground were the figures of two inStill he felt that fantry officers who had crossed swords there was no need in a duel to the death One of them for worry of the Dorothy wore the blue regimentals was 20 and since her northern army the other was clad mother’s death had in confederate gray both were stalenwart almost left been typical soldiers The artist had tirely to the care of caught the spirit of the encounter his her Aunt Mary at genius had endowed it with life acocwas tion father her while The play of the Poplarville atmosphere cupied with his business affairs in the muscles the expression of the faces city It was natural therefore in her the fire in the eyes of the combatants were wonderfully realistic lack of adequate parental protection The picthat she should turn to matrimony as ture represented the exact moment the most convenient and comfortable when the federal officer gaining a momentary advantage over his adverrefuge sary was ending the fight by driving Col Brant had come down to Poplarville in response to an Invitation his gleaming Bword through the conto deliver the Memorial day address federate’s body “That painting" said Col at the public exercises to be given unBrant der the auspices of his old Grand coming up behind Challoner and lookHe had formerly been a ing over his shoulder "is no favorite Army post It memorizes an episode in resident of the town That was be- of mine fore the growth of his business necesmy career as an army officer that 1 sitated its removal to a larger field would give worlds to forget The artand made it advisable for him to take ist was an of the scene Reverently Deposited on the Dead uj his abode in the city Dorothy and his portrayal is spoken of as the Confederate’s Grave spent the greater part of her time Aunt Mary found It last night and I— It Poplarville She was not partial we wanted you to see It and — to city life especially as It sepaplease don’t refuse Richard” rated her from Aunt Mary who was a second mother to her and from the Written by my father to your Old homestead to which she was greatmother?” he said slowly with a deeply puzzled look ly attached "Yes yes Oh please read It It It was Dorothy who met Col Brant will help you to understand at the railway station when he ar This is my last request rived on the evening preceding the Richard” He said no more but took the let80th of May 1885 and it was Dorothy ter from Its who blushlngly confided to him on envelope and read: their way to the house that a very handsome and a very worthy young Mrs Lavlson Brant-De- ar Madam: It man had been paying court to her for pains me to learn that your husband's two months past The day which custom has set aside supposed responsibility for my condition “He will call on you this evening for the annual decoration of soldiers’ has almost prostrated you do not Pray 1 assure you from score worry on papa to ask your consent" she said graves dawneP bright and beautiful my inmost that soul that I not only forgive softly Poplarville was in holiday attire The your husband but I have already begged "The deuce!” growled her father air was freighted with the perfume of his forgiveness for forcing him to commit act which he so deeply deplores “You have already given yours I supThe flowers the buildings were gay with an fault was my own and I alone pose?” t and am the oneentirely bunting flags floated at who should suffer Believe the Poplarville band discoursed pa- me I am profoundly sorry for what hap"Why papa—of course" triotic music In the public square pened and It is not a sorrow that is inAnd so it came about that Richard or tire Col Lewiston Brant mingled with the fluenced by selfish considerations Cballoner the fortunate suitor for fear of death Since I have been in this veterans of his post and not a few hospital Col Brant has become my most hand called at the homeDorotby’B remarked his grave demeanor and the valued and friend stead that evening and was formally What he unusual sadness that seemed to have has done for ine can never be told but Introduced to Col Brant He was inhe has made tne realize that there are deed a handsome and dignified young settled down upon him Apparently true gentlemen at the north as well as In he had aged ten years In as many the south man whose frank geniality and and that he Is one of the hours Col Brant delivered his Memo- noblest men in the world I thank you courtly manners had already made a tor giving me this opporrial day oration with an eloquence dear madam stanch ally of Aunt Mary and at once to say that so far from feeling tunity born of deep feeling and sincerity made an agreeable impression on the He resentment I entertain only sentiments of warmest friendship moved all hearts by his simple touchcolonel He was a budding young lawand gratitude toing tribute to the heroes who had laid ward your husband Sincerely yours yer of unimpeachable Virginia stock C HALLOA KR WILLIAM down their lives in their country’s dewho had recently established himself In Poplarville for the practice of his It Was Dorothy Who Met Col Brant fense and closed The color came and went in the with this apr and had at once bounded man’s as face peal he read and the young profession into popular favor work of a master but I should have “But while we are honoring our light in his eyes softened to a tender In the course of the evening Col destroyed the thing long ago if my sis- dead let us not forget the graves of glow Finishing he crumpled the letBrant and young Challoner retired to ter had not begged permission to keep those other brave fellows whose resti- ter convulsively in his hand and the library on the second floor of the it My sister Is Dorothy’s Aunt Mary ng place is in our cemetery — the men came round the headstone of the She bouse to Indulge In a aulet smoke and you know fully understands who were pitted against us In that aw- grave at a quick strides Here Challoner that it is not to be displayed on the ful struggle— who fell as devoted mara private interview "Dorothy” he cried seizing her broached the subject of his love for wall when I am in the house but I tyrs to a cause which they believed hand “this is a glorious revelation to Dorothy and soon gained the consent suppose this is a case of forgetfulness to be right Remember them also' me Let us hunt up your father at on her part” of the grizzled old father to the prowith your Sowers your tears and your once I will go down on my knees to When they were leavHe paused but Challoner did not prayers” posed marriage him If you like With you for a wile room after their or the In move voice finishing sorrowful In a secluded part of the cemetery and Col Brant for a speak ing p I that afternoon cigars Challoner’s attention was at- the colonel continued: Richard Challoner shall be the happiest man in Poplartracted to a picture on the wall and "The picture Is calculated to perpetustood alone beside a grave which was ville" he stopped to look at it In a moment ate the memory of a most regrettable marked by a granite headstone bearThen he affair he seemed deeply interested As you probably know one of ing the name of his father So occuThere are some people whose reand the nastiest skirmishes of the war pied was he with his own his breath sharply caught gloomy ligion wouldn’t fool the most credutook place only five miles from this thoughts that he did not notice the lous gripped a chair to steady himself experson on earth but The picture was a painting in oils spot a was in Poplarville panic But timid hesitating approach of Dorothy pect the Lord to swallow it they fi B"sf is a j rs a a tfjs a sa a nun fa itjs a is a S U IS a a a SX SSISIII XKK aja s if if g k Vf fXMSf SXSaf S iff iff f'g git it SVXSKS Between the gates that guard the dead? Ah let the banners come and go As the one blood their fathers shed Haste they to seek the willing bed? For old remembrance dip them low Bring ye and bind the Peace that saves Impatient Is the grizzled head Above the Dead that dared and died In unity these sacred graves Of daisied pillow? Say not so! God knoweth who are Justified While yet their Winter passeth slow About Ills Work He movetn slow Here blooms perennial their Spring The Flag! their sacred The roses fall the roses blow— heritage X And here the pledge of Hope they bring— He will not A Memorial Day Poem Their children’s children shall hasten— tho’ we flood engage And Lqvs— that dleth not bestow Their sponsors in a new baptism— The Earth with our 44444444444444444444444444 Impatient blood— For them to cherish let that chrism Nor that avail of all we shed EYOND a golden On their To brows dead descend Where once thelrheart of youth was fain and bless paint one rose a dbeper red the skies Th ancient bond of faithfulness Its rich florescence whits and red Are sapphire drifted Upon the field of strife to With Its renewal so shall ws Nor heeds th Rose If of the clay March to argosies onward the petals that remain grsat destiny Beneath th tint be blue or gray Bear Nor one untoward memory stand April’s showery The morning glories of their youth— Nor pearls away Between us In the Motherland That drooped not In the midday drought— Shall Love while human 'tls to err be Truth's hard Interpreter But leave— their rainHave shut on Peace —John Harrison Mills In as to a stem he Sunday bow tints sur- Stripped bare the banners cling— of them Plant nothing over me that keeps Magazine My heart apart from him that sleeps passed— All hath the beauty vanished— vain As faithful In his narrow b?3 On field and wold th Their glory to Invoke again As I in mine shall with the Dead flowers of May The Dead are reconciled— nor ws Departing May that In About the feet of these that stand Dare break their hallowed amity her arms Besids the headstone hand in hand These infant blossoms Who once were foes— their children kneel of her charms And break the close turf’s emerald seal Plant then the myrtle blue and whits The dearest gathers and her last To let the sweet rain find ths roots Its flower si Southern suns delight Farewell bestowing comes to cast Of grass and flower and the shoots To deep Its tint— or Northern snows Them on the mound of Memory Of rose and myrtls bid to grow To blanch Its color plant the rose That o’er the dust In love entwined Both white and red— and for the stars With mirtlal step and roll of drums Shall breathe upon (he Summer wind The periwinkle fade the bars What spectral host Is this that comes Sweets from the mold they bless below Of separation stripes as red gif mp f ! To the Devoted Dead ' f f f if LOST III lODSsn A'1 " - r " A L ‘V v V LIFE OF SAVED ACTIONS FUL BULLDOG BY FAH- OF - YOUNGSTER GOES FOR DOCTOR Leaves Home In Quest of Physician for Dying Father and Loses Way —Pet Guides Rescuer to Spot New York— Friends mourning with the widow of Joel T Biggs chief engineer of the battleship Connecticut who died of pneumonia in his home on Flushing avenue Jamaica learned of perils which Erwin Biggs thre years old encountered in an effort to aid his dying father perils which nearly cost the child’s life Numb from exposure and overwhelmed by terror the boy was rescued at night from the woods where he was hopelessly entangled in the undergrowth Biggs returned from the battleship cruise around the world withodt mishap Soon after the fleet returned he suffered an injury to his head and came home on furlough Pneumonia Erwin a sturdy litdeveloped later tle chap for his age saw his mbther’s grief and sought to comfort ter he an“Winny get !e nounced as he rut on his coat and hat Mrs Biggs harassed by anxieties paid little attention to Erwin when he left the house accompanied by his pets and companions a bulldog a Newfoundland and He puppy trudged unseen by anyone who knew him to the woods which skirt the Just why the child expected to city find a doctor in the deep woods Is not known Subsequent developments furnished an accurate picture of the When night fell the child was quest in the heart of the woods and lost The search for a doctor had exhausted him and he was disheartened by failure His face and hands scratched Guided by the Dog Judge Humphrey Found the Child and bleeding told of his struggles In the undergrowth before he collapsed The Newfoundland puppy trotted back home and stood whining at the door Mrs Biggs could not understand why Erwin had not returned but solaced herself with the thought that he was safe with neighbors Instinct perhaps told the bulldog that his little master wailing in the thicket needed help Erwin said later that the faithful animal stood by for a time then licked his hand and departed The child left alone Increased his cries County Judge Burt J Humphrey of Queens was walking with his niece Miss Mabel Thuillard near the edge of the woods when the dog ran toward them with manifestations of delight They followed him feeling sure that his unusual actions had significance The dog led them within sound of the lost child’s voice “Why no one lives in there” Judge Humphrey said to his niece “What is a child doing In these woods at this time of night?” The dog bounded - forward' as advanced unmitf Judge Humphrey takably indicating he would lead the way through the tangle Tle cries as Judge Humphrey grew fainter plunged through the underbrush and briars and and he trusted entirely to the dog It disappeared but a few moments later Indicated Its ' whereabouts by Incessant barking Guided in this way Judge Humphrey found the child weak frkm exposure and exhaustion and so terrified he scarcely could whisper-Afte- r disengaging the vines whiclj held the boy Judge Humphrey carried him in his arms escorted by the bulldog to the clearing where Miss Thuillard ' wag waiting ' t i ' |
