Show j rJl E BANNER OVER IE I a T wM on a hf tht nihlny maxilng In bey IMt that haa I Th I Nathan U r t a n I bade his mother farewell and wool I oat from be Mule home where he Lad f4 heen ro lnolI JT I rased and ablI Bmt to enders Ih5 Irll and hard clin < ft the eanip the march and the loa II t t Ithl He wa a ndfome InlelllgeBt youth a mere boy having Jnt passed him rirhtwnth birthday and Y he woo all that I tea left lo Iola wltowfd math that chat n II was not at all alrange Rote him up no luclanlly A year bfore when the drat roll fw volun IT mnttd that Numbering patriot l i i ir I heart all over the north Nathan Inn I kiln anilou lo offer Ida orvtcee bill 1111 tnnjhrr hid refused her eon a Mir ivMh the proinlw ho err that If IF i would wait until he wan eighteen b I r oriJerUon hould not aland l In hie war iik fund eda of othen Chat huiichv the Idoody elrlfe would e aw lone hatter the prior woo 1Ir and r h n ohs nor that promt ohm h1 II Hi mrlhit nhr would ever lie illd it rii 1 in rflfin It lint her word hill i m tie 11 m gnn < l so her bon t nol n h I n toil hln bed mme again to her re lil Inhlnnth birthday Mklnil her I p I lon ii Inv I his life a rarlllr llpon his i tr > n nlinr with a 11ayt 1 art I tLI I him lo gat ni I < I iii 11 m ia I I of rrli t he Levan In our ai hraarI I him lint her bl11111 lOll is I go i < h hln na ii rtr1 Inn pntrloliii OR I II tr hi Mtird > New nnlllil l > rln fair 11rr In the little old for > I I n urd on the bill Ihr ill i ih > l < pi I < > n r gem ration 1 0t1r 111 terra in son father hil twin lnyl 1 nl Hun Viola durli he b > i ii i ir In 1M7 and his nrhI l fi r had I r > m hi life In liilpKK 10 n I i rr n tli tory upon loV1 Kile In il 1 its tar 1912 A generation enter I MSI 1 i father had f oilawd V iingtiin ilirough I the eight > if of ii ulutlniiiry atnitgleo and lion sO Hi 1 hio I nunt of mull Illunlrlou yeo m n Nathan tiered l not turn Ilia lk mi ihr call of hie vounlrno note not-e n II lib patriotism should In sealed with Ms blood iimUnland all this I i mleutand Just how you feel on Ihl wi ci robbed lib mother clinging to him after ho had enumerated am uf tie brave deeil of his forerlhe dird which mint not bat dimmed by llm nwatdlen of he only one left to Itep the name lnlnlcM tea I un dei r sand vii vriilni but That deem not make Iho pining l lex bitter she added add-ed 1 Von ore nil I have and In Riving ou Lp I surrender everything every th ng You will 1111 have toil left 1 inoHier and he b I moue mud better than tilt txit of earthly friend reman Kiinicd Nathan You know tie wy N trrthetm I am conllniully with tin Cnnt you take him at hula word aid nay lion bait holden mo by thy right hand Thou shall guide me wltli thy loimwl and aflecwardt rwlvo me to glory Vi yw 1 halo no rtghl to coin lat r rf 1 n F t I f I i 1 tJ 1 if iHfr r W y Jg M li J t jl f rtft t I I Y mW l f t Fh WIUri l I J 1 HIS COMIlAIin HAD HCIIN HIM 1AIU lilalD nnawercd his mother I think I can trust him for myself but I oh haw can I eiuluro to think of > oii my bAby being romK > lld to undergo much liardnhlp al army life ueeeaeitaleat h will not be coinpultlon mother strait argued Nathan All I do or bear will bo done or borne willingly and HI sweat and glorious In die foOD fo-OD > > country And thn mother do not forget that I will bo kept In the hollow hol-low of Qodi hand and that his ban fI1 i oar ml will be lave for more than a year Nathans let ten I came regularly bright ehmy Utter Ut-ter tilling only the hippy sMe of army life and then with his r tltu I iil he went Into Ibo battle of lettyiburg hut turn days later when the roll wa railed Nathini name wee among the 3UO that did not respond A Comrade hand seen him fall hot lu the head and im hla name never appeared 1 In any hospital lint or among prisoners par used or exchanged tbo supposition be came a reality In the mlndt of hll friend Hint ho occupied one of the unknown un-known grave so hastily due on the Held at tho close ot the second days fight Accepting thl belief hli mother moth-er mourned him sa dud and II the year went by she continued to grieve over her Ina lamenting sorely that the had been denied own the pleasure of caring for hla grave lntMd of rationing her her attllrllon sealed to ours her to grow bd and a Utah and every year she lived more and more lo herself dimming her neighbors and refusing all their cllmIIDI ay inpuih > and klndneH Itegardlew nf li > r prui Ug need she ultmllly Lfiiw in Hp ply 1 for Ihi pension whl h rlghtl > IK longed In In I r II II btnnl I mom > oh Instil > blood MOIHV u nl t In u think I il 11 I 10 aI 11 > i h 1111 i of my uoyii li1 slut mauled of dying from that wound received In loll hud Nathan had oaten earned to a hospital where for moaihr I and month he lay l hovering between life and death At last h > waa given I bank to life hit refirdtom of the fair awe nt health 10 welch he te restored re-stored isa WM not hlmieir It emtld no be Mid that be WM Insane but to him I all the put woo like a dream Ifs had no dlallait rerollwllon nf hill early home and eould Rot recall even hats own name nr loll lo what Blment he helengnl The mrgeon thought that In time hi memory of the teat would I bo restored to him but It WM not and not knowing where lo sent him he remilned the hotpltal no a mine until the clone 1 of Ihe war Then In fOmplo with n hatpltal friend ho drifted lo the fir WI where b dill genre he ureeeileil In acquiring a mall properly and making for himself n home Irdlimlly oat the year went by gllmpiMn of the happy past ram back to him Vlilon of Ihe llttlo vineclad Nw linglnmt i homo tormented torment-ed I him by their obnriirlty and of tho mother who watched him Ilirough Infancy In-fancy there ram an Indistinct remembrance remem-brance llefore hn loft I the hospital ho I had regained name of his loot knowledge I knowl-edge of hook but In all hll Mud and reading of piper he never ennui across anything I that mggeteil a weible I solution I so-lution I I of the myilery surrounding his early life until one autumn day nf1 i tees peers after Ihe close ot thin war nhlle I rvadlng lute dally Illblo l lesson 1 hn coot emu lit parting words to his mother IIII banner over me IIi I II-i I lore i In an Instnnl like a fused of light 1 I from hear ihit farewell scene on i I the lurch of the old home returned to him lit rrmemheren bla mother I tad fern and her word that culled t forth hlu di duration tub banner over tux Ii i loin HIT name and hll own n nill now familiar to him and n r mute nun thought linked that iir In IK Mr wllh those of tits child hi id and hula entry Into this creep In I melt a way on in sjlvo llUl a till pfl I I urn or llm put I up I until 1ht UnIJie 1 hud been wounded III 1111 I inleilnM 11 I dared lo hope that his mother had 1 iirvlvid all ihew elgliteeii years ot tiuipfM but anxloua in know he moral he Jmmlly prvpirvl for n vldt I 10 the Kutt and In let 1 than twenty four hour woo hurrying am fait tho train could carry him toward the riling I ril-ing Hill It WM early In he mnrnlnrt of TliihksclvlHK day when lie reached Iho lull hamlet whorl nil hie boyhood day had Ixen spent I A tow wurd ot Inquiry at the stsllon gladdeneil hll hot with that atiuranec I that 1 hale mother woe yet olive Ilut when ho reaihed 1 the little collage where she dill dwelt ho found It much more difficult convince her that the gray haled l man who stood before her woo the ros > cheeked bar who elKhtten > aro liefora had gono away looking so youni and handsome In Tutu stilt uf blue After relating hi long soul experience experi-ence hn ald In lulu old boyish voice Mother 1 am your loving warm hearted Nathan pci your boy Riven hack from a ono rondlllon than death but In all theo jean Qoda banner over mo hOi been love and It wen III love that directed me to the passage In Ills word my faq et I WOS to you and through hat I banner over mo openrd dll I the lath fro 9M eel a t my I mind lo thn ndmhttjlbh ot llriflfcht for which I hnd long been prnylngj1 Ncverlhele continually thou art with me rrpMled hla mother 110 longer In doubt conoernliiK Ihln con who hail been hunt but wan now found Truly Isla banner over you has been I I love Alt these year I have been fighting agalnit Him I would have bren Ihinkful oven for Iho certainly of our death In llle grnt lava ho has denied mo the grnvn for which I wui reeking but Instead luau given mo back my boy I 1 rot year I halo not obicrved ThnnVsgltlng beeauK I fcltI had 1 1 nothing Iq 1 bo thankful Jorbii today wo will go up I la Beds house to give thank together to gho thank for I Iho banner of lure Hint tine been over ns all these years And It will be over us until Ibo end returned Nojlinn I Yea thank lod for bums unanswered proper replied tho old mother GoJ I II love now and overwore I |