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Show i fl GIFTED AND BEAUTIFUL GIRL Threatened With Nervous Prostration, PROMPTLY 0&5? "What did he want to see you for?" over and break- bending the branch Mrs Kemp. asked clutters. off full Ing purple Lucy hesitated, s shamefaced look "What you picking those lilacs for? came over her face. "What did he "1 just thought Id pick a few." her mother asked, Impera"What for? I aint going to have want" "- tively sweet too tn the houselTheyre any He wanted to know who put aome theyre slckish!" flowers on Sylvesters grave. "I aint going to bring them into the Did you a branch Bbe let house, said Lucy. Yee'm " fly back and went across tbs yard with What did you put on?" a great bunch of lilacs In her hands. Some lilacs and rosea." "I wonder what shes up to? said You didnt flick those roses? her mother. O, mother, the lilacs didnt seem the proLucy returned just before quite enough! Aunt Phebe Ana has cession passed. The cemetery was a always done so much!" Lucy said. little way beyond the bouse. Her Her mother and her aunt looked at mother and aunt, and a neighbor who each other. "I shouldnt have thought bad come n stood at the windows you'd have picked those roses without listening eagerly to the approaching saying anything about it, said bet music. Lucy joined them. The mother, but her voice was embartiled slowly past: Tb Grand rassed rather than harsh. She went minArmy men, the village band, the back to the kitchen and proceeded iature and local Y'vultaries. and the' with her work of making biscuits tot Hovers. rear-guachildren with of supper The sewing was all finished, An accompanying crowd thronged the Lucy set the table. After supper they sidewalks. went out In the cemetery and strolled Tve Just been saying to Sarah that about looking at the flowers. In th Phebe Ann won t have Sylveatera soft, low light Who brought all that grave decked out much this year, mess of buttercups and grass, I wonsaid Mrs, Kemp. Her voice waa pleas- der?' said Sarah Cook, aa they stood anter and more guarded than before. over Sylvester's grave. T heard Pbebe Ann was pretty "1 guess It must have been Phebe low," aald the neighbor. Anns husband It looks just like a husband went softly man, Mrs Kemp replied. Lucy got Phebe' Ann behind the nurse to the bedroom. down on heT knees and straightened Phebe Ann looked up et him and beck- f the buttercups Into a bouquet I wonder If ahell live th oned imperatively. He went close and night bent over her. "Whet la it, Pbebe out, said Sarah Cook, soberly. Ana?" said ha "I've listened to hear the bell toil "la it Decoration day? abe wh every morning this week," laid Mrs with difficulty, for abe was Kemp. I don't believe she can live much longer. I'd go up there tonight growing very weak. said her if I thought she wanted me to. "Tea, tit, Pheba Ann, husband. The next morning Mrs. Kemp, list- Hava yon got any flowers for going with her head thrust out of the 8ylvestera grave?" window In the early sunlight, heard "No, I aint I aint thought of It indeed the bell tolling for Pbebe Ann. Pbebe Ana, with your being so sick, Shee gone. she told Sarah Cook and and all." Lucy; and Lucy cried. "Go get some!" she panted. Her They all went to Phebe Anns funermotioning Jiand and her eager eye al and followed her to the grave Mrs. spok louder than her tongue. Kemps-anSarah Cooks eyes were "Tee, I will. I will, Phebe Ann! red when they came borne. "There Dont you fret another mite about it" were a great many good things about Tha nurse followed him out of the Phebe Ann, after all," Mra Kemp said. room, T always said there was, Sarah "1 cant go to the green-houshe returned defiantly. The morning after the funeral John Whispered agitatedly. ItS fir. miles ' a way?" Kemp came to the' door, Lucy an-"Land, get any kind of flowers!" swered his knock He looked old and !! the nursa "Get dandelions and dejected huth . tried to- - emlktr -- I tmnereupslf youcanT And anything want to see yon a minute, said ha else. this morn"No, I cant rOme ln-- not The oid man took bla hat down with ing. Im coming beforelong. ( hope be different from what a bewildered air and Tent slowly out thlnga-tWl- ll of tbs yard, t ths gate he paused they have been. It wa her wish. I There were no went home that day and told Phebe and looked around. flowers in the yard; there were several Ann how youd put the flowers there, bushes, rose and phlox, hut It waa too end she beckoned to me to come and early for them to blossom. Over at lean over. Then she made out to tell tha left stretched a field, and that was me. She wanted you to hsv Sylvewaving with green and gold. Phebe atera money that we put In the hank Anns husband went over into the for him when he was born. Its been field and began pulling tb buttercups growing. We havent spent any, tor the flowers, and its near In great handfulla, and the grass with them. He had all he could carry five hundred dollars. She wanted me when he left the field and went sol- to give it to you right away, and youre going to have It just u soou emnly down the road. 1 Sylvester's grave waa at th farther as can get It out of the bank. Phebe aald you could have soma more Ann old The man, of side the cemetery. with hla load of buttercups and grass, schooling and not have to work so made hla way to it Th soldiers hard. And I guess youll hsvi more graves wer decorated with flags and then that, too. some day, if you outflowera but the people had tone. The live me. Phebe Ann, she thought cemetery waa very etllL When John mebbe I could make some arrangeKemp reached Sylvesters grave, hv ments with your mother and aunt to started and stared. Thera waa a great come to our house and live, ud take bunch of Ulaca on the grave and three care of It She said she didst want charming, delicate pink rosea tn a any other women In there. Si knew they wer good housekeeper vase. and "I wonder who put those flowers would keep things the way there!" he muttered. He laid th but- You tell your mother Im coming la see her some time before long" tercups and grass down on th graver to John Kemp went feebly dov the then he stood atilt. It was over twenty years since the boy 8ylveeter bad walk, and Lucy returned to the kitch- been laid there a little aoldler who bad fought only his own pain. "I wonder who put thooo flowers ihra!" John Kemp muttered again. He went out of. th cemetery, but instead of turning down th road toward his own home, walked hesitatingly the other way toward the Thom houa of hla stater-in-la- w wife, aa he always spoke of her. Lucys face was at on open window, her Aunt Sarah Cooks at th ' other. standLucy!" called tb old, man, , .- th at gata ing him to out came tremblingly. Lucy Sarah Cook ran to tell her slater; eh thought Phebe Ann must bo deadk. "Do you know who put those flowers there?" asked th old man la a , , EMEMDERED 'ICGrave.1 Mary E.Wilkens. pro-cests- rd guess ther wont ba 4 treat bow of flower on Sylvester's grave tbla ysar," uld Sarah Cook. Her voice bad a certain triumph tn It, but 1 it ended in a decorous sigh. .there won't, either," returned her slater Mrs. Kemp. "I gueea Pbebe Ann la too sick to think I gueea touch about It" Her voice sounded tike Sarah's. Lucy Kemp dropped her sewing for a minute and turned Iter face toward the window, "It aeeraa most too bad. dont It?" she said, meditatively. "When she's done so much every gear, and thought so much about It" I dont know as I think Itd too bad," said Mrs. Kemp, "Of course Im aorry Phebe Ana la sick, but when It aomes to these flowers shes always Sovered 8ylveaters grave with. Decoration day, I gueas there was a great deal of It for show. It would have earned different If he had been in the war, but Ive thought a good many times, when Ive seen Sylvester's grave with more flowers on it than any of the soldiers, that Phebe Ann had a little eye to what folks would say, for all she felt so bad." There's the band!" cried Lucy. It waa a very warm day for tha sea-to- n almost aa warm aa midsummer. The windows wer wide open. The two women and the girl leaned their heada out and listened. They could 'r-w- y tnus c TwalUllagUU with their bands full of. flowers ran , past "Theyrt Just forming down at th town hall, said Lucy. "Annie Dole And Lottie are just going." They cam over here for flowers this morning," aald her mother, "and 1 told em. I hadnt any to glva All I had was lilacs, besides that little arty rose bush, and theyd got all th lilacs they wanted of their own, and there waa only just three roses on that Lush, and I could not bear to cut era. The procession ain't coming the mn- -' Ale dont sound n mite nearer. It wont be her for an hour yet "I dont apoee Phebe Anns husband Will lift his finger to help us, even it abe should ba taken sway,' and he left without a chick nor child in the World." (aid Mrs. Kemp. i Phebe Anns husband was her own dead husband brother, but eh never poke of him by bla own name. "I wonder bow much Phebe Anns Kusband hat got?" aald Sarah Cook. "Well. I gueaa hes laid by a Uttla something. They must have, with no family 1" "klebb he will do something if It ver happens that be aint nnder anybody alaes thumb." "It wont make any difference now. Hes laid nnder th thumb to long that bes all flattened out of the shape he V v WONDER WHO POT THOSE FLOWERS THERE!" to how aind 'prat mad in. He used Anns back at tideways behind Phebe when I mst him. but he dont do that now. I met him face to face tha other day" and he never looked at me, tdont know what poor Thomas would I wonder what nay if he waa alive. for? Lucy!" lilac la picking Lucy --What aayr Lucy's sweet, thin Tolce celled lack. Her smooth, fair bead waa half hidden In a great clump 8h waa jof Uiaa bushes by the gata l PE-RU-I- JA, ( . by SAVED BY .j j d Raymond had Just been over to the Ball with hla basket of flowera, mostly, from the woods and fields. Decoration day always found him on band; and although bla contribution waa simple, he waa glad to be able to do even a little toward furnishing material for this touching memorial pervlce. n Raymond waa the grandson of a of the civil war, and this year he wanted to do something more than usual, to let the old friends of the grandfather whom he had never known understand hla loyalty, both to bla grandfather's memory and the country that he had died for. Suddenly he remembered an old tattered flag that stood In a corner In the' attic, and beside it a musket, d. he Then fuety and looked at Rover. "Can you do It, Rover?" Raymond's eyes asked the question. Th soft brown eye of the dog answered, Try vet-wa- -- tlme-stalne- me.". All right, Rover, I will." Rover's tall ceased its Impatient tattoo upon the floor, and with a yelp of delight he followed hie master up the attic stairs. Half an hour later th boy and the dog sat aide by aide upon th jtoor-ste- p. The boy held a flat piece of wood In one hand, and bl jack-kniIn the other. Occasionally he lifted a faded flag, and slipped the end of the worn etlck through a kola which he was whittling la the new piece of wood. At last he sprang to hla feet, say-l- u. "All ready now, Royer! Do you think you can hold that in your ,r fe mouth?" Rovers eyes said. Of course I can - as hla tail gave three excited tbumpa Good, faithful Rover! Raymond knew that he could be depended upon to be his color-beare- r, Now e! kiukfValcs. "I did, said Lucy. Her face flushed. "I thought there wouldnt be anybody to as to It. uov Aunt Phebe Ai sick," sba explained timidly. Her uncle looked wistfully his ayes full of teara ' "Sylvester waa a dreadful suffer n," he said. . Lucy did not know what to say. 8b looked up at him. and her aoft face seemed to tab on distressed line (ike , . hla Th old mas turned abruptly and went away. "Phebe Ann he said. Indistinctly, as he went Lucy mother and her aunt rushed to the door to meet her. "Is Phebe Ana deed?" Sarah Cook called out. "No, the aint dead." "WITH BARE HEADS en. Th door had been ajar, and her mother and Sarah Cook had every word. They were both "Coming Just now when w did?! know which way to turn! ohUi Poor Phebe Ann" Sarah Cook. Well there one thing about It said Mra Kemp, brokenly, shaut one Decoration day go j, long as I live, without 8yiTet grave being trimmed as handsom u If his mother was alive! tfouthv Companion. Peruaa has many Heads la Butte. Ray-man- flulck order, from th her tbs every man lifted front, and instantly atruck up the band the and hat. hU Banner;" and Raymond. with hla faithful dog beside Uttered him, and his grandfathers was th hero flagwavlng in the breexe, M. Richardson. of th day. Helen ed It over-stud- A jjj ly do? iOCiety hand-shak- e Isn't y. Bow fcrau Quietly Cum BmMs wf Womnklil Iht G. W. 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There which la kept In cemetery, the dead in the government by cplendid repair of While finishing school I became very nervous and was weak and sick, and could neither exhausted from eat, sleep nor enjoy life. A couple of bottles of Peruna put new fife In me. I find that having It In tha house and taking a dose off and on keeps me In fine health. praise 0 tear-dimme- d "Star-Spangl- "DO YOU KNOW WHO PUT THGbk FO LOWERS THERE?" AND SOLEMN LITTLE BROWN FACES." for his own pan in the program. The sound of approaching footsteps beat of a drum floated up to and the spot where the boy and th dog were maklng ready to honor their countrys fallen heroes. From a window of tha cottage a pair of eyes watched the strange preparations. Raymond hastily donned an old soldier cap, and shouldered the maty gun. . hoped that he looked liae a aoldler. Rovers admiring eye assured him that ha did. "Now. Rover," said Raymond, patting the dogs head, "Im going to let you hold tha flag." Rover never was happier than when he could carry n bundle; but thia waa such aa unexpected privilege that for n second or two tne flagstaff veered with each delightUke a weather-va- n ed thump of hla stub of a tall Then, seeing his masters motionless attitude. Rover took pattern; and aa tha little company of veteran drew near, the and hla master attracted eolor-beare- k Instant attention. d; Every man in Company C loved loved him for his own sake, for he waa a bright and lovable boy, and also for the sake of the brave comrade who had marched with them and through many a weary campaign, at last had given hi life for his coun- Miss Rose Cullen, President Young Woman's Club, writes from 921 Galena street, aa follows: Maos. SS 25' e'' |