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Show United States Tombstone On one of the United States Indian reservations an old Indian lost bis wife, whom he bad dearly loved. In grief he went to the Indian agent and asked him to send for a "United States tombstone." The agent procured a stone that he thought would please the old man and took It to him for approval. But It did not suit at all. The agent tried again, but with no better success. , Finally the Indian went himself for the stone. . A few weeks later the agent noticed from a distance a peculiar looking object ob-ject In the Indian burying ground. He went closer and discovered firmly planted at the grave of the Indian's wife a barber's polel The old Indian had procured his "United States tombstone." tomb-stone." The old man has been gone long years, and barbers' poles are nearly all gone too; but that one represented a love as true as many that are commemorated com-memorated by marble -monuments. Youth's Companion. |