1. 1 THE GAZETTE: FT. WORTH, TEXAS, SUNDAY, MAY -27, 1894. side; st Kipatrick's left, a simple stone marks the burial place of the gifted and anfortunate Ranald 8. Mackenzie; at KIlmfriek's right a handsome testimonial adorns the grave of General Charles P.
Stone, who is best remembered to New Yorkers as the bullder of the pedestal of the Goddess of Liberty; further along is the grave of General Henry D. Wallen; next is that of General Cuvier Grover, who died some years ago while colonel of the First Cavalry; on 8 line with Grover's an imposing shaft has been erected in memory of General George Sykes, commander of the Regular division early in the war, and later of the Fifth Corps. 80 highly were Sykes' services appreciated that Congress appropriated $1,000 to bring his remaina from Texas, where he died, February 8, 1880, to West Point. The Army of the Potomac bad no 1 braver or better General than George Sykes. Close by are the graves of General Sherman's favorite staff officer, Goneral Joseph C.
Audenried, and of General Joseph B. Kiddoo. 'Several distinguished ordnance officers have been gathered In one section. General James Gillespie Benton, who died August 28, 1881; Colonel IT. T.
8. Laidley, April 4, 1586, and Colonel Julian MeAllister, January 3, 1897. Near them is all that remains of two eminent engineers-Genernl Quincy A. Gilmore, who died in Brooklyn, April 7, 1888, and General Nathaniel Michier, who died at Saratoga, July 17, 1881. Sedgwick and MoPherson are also buried at Wast Point.
In Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, lies all that is mortal of Henry Wager Halleck. He died in Louisville, in 1872, while in command of the Department of the South, but was brought East for burial. General Henry Weaver Slocum also sleeps in Greenwood. Another grave that hides a hero's clay is that of General George Gordon Meade, in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphin. No strungor visiting the cemetery at Norris: town, would seek the retired spot at the east corner of the enclosure where is the tomb of General Winfield Scott Hanco*ck.
Having strolled there aimlessly and sought rust beneath the branches of a weeping willow tree that stands as a sentinel over the body of Montgomery county's favorite son, the visitor would see nothing about him to Indiento that the remains of a great general rests there. General Ambrose E. Burnside resta at Swan Point, R. in the simple privacy which befits the eitizen. General Joseph Hooker buried in the beautiful cemetery of Spring Cove, near Cincinnati.
The gonoral's grave in kept condition, and attracta the attention of many visitors to the cometary. The sarcophagus of General George If. Thomas occupies a beantiful lot at the Junction of Long Drive and Albany avenue, in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, N. Y. The lot in kept in excellent condition and the tomb has not the slightest sign of wear.
The romains of General Irwin MeDuwell are Interred in the National Cemetery at the Presidio, San Francisco. The grave is situnted in the centro of the cemetery and 19 surrounded on all sides by grass plots. The corners at one end have been considerably chipped by relie hunters, and, in quence present a rough and irregular 4D: pearance. In modest relief across the centre is the single word In a beautiful, level, grassy plot in Lancaster (Pa.) Cemetery lies the dust of General John F. Roynolds.
The sod is neatly trimmed in the plot and la surrounded by low blocks of granito. Lancaster 19 justly proud of Reynolds' grave, and no patriotie occasion passes without the famous general's Inst resting place boing visited. The ashes of General George B. McClellan lie in an ordinary tomb at Riverview Cemetery, Trenton, N. J.
It is not marked by a monument, nor even a headstone. A shaft costing several thousand dollars will soon be raised over the grave. Near by rest the remains of General dorahon Mott, over whose grave is reared handsome tombatone. General Henry A. Barnum sleeps in beautiful cemetery nt Syracuse, N.
and General William H. Lytle, whose last words were "We can die but once," in Cincinnati. The same city tenderly guards all that is mortal of General Ormaby M. Mitchell. General John Pope sleeps in Bellefontaine Cemetery, at St.
Louts. In the Congressional Cemetery at Washington rests the body of General John A. Rawlins, the friend and confidant of Grant. The simple Inseription 1s a4 follows: John A. Bawling, born February 18, 1834, died September 6, 1869, Chief of Staff to General U.
5. Grant from 1861 to 1869. At the time of his death Secretary of War." General Grant paid the expenses of the funeral of Rawllus out of his own pocket, it having been reported that the chief of staff bad left his family almost destitute. "Stonewall" Jackson's grave 18 near that of his great lender, Leo, in the cemetery at Lexington, Va. Above it Is a statue of bronze, herois in wise, and portraying Jackson with uncovored head, leaning on his sword and loft log, and looking out upon a told of battle.
The grave of General William M. Pendleton is near that of Jackson. General Joseph E. Johnston is buried in Greetmount Cemetery, Baltimore, and Gonerala Pierre G. Beauregard and James B.
Hood at New Orleans. General Patrick It. Cleburno sloops at Helena, and a stately monument marks the gravo of the sellint Irish soldier who was often called the "Stonewall of the West." General Jubal A. Early 18 buried in quiet Lynchburg, where ho died few months ago, and General Ambrose P. Hill at Richmond.
General John 8. Marmaduke's grave is at St. Louis, and that of Generat Georgo E. Plokett at Norfolk, Va. Geteral Albert Sidney Jolinaton la buried at New Ortonna, and fino marks hils WILFORD GRAY.
Miss Helen M. Gould has just had built an elaborate bowling alley at her summer home, Lindenhurst, near Irving Irvington-on-the-Hudson. This alley is fitted up in magnificent style. The balls are of Brazilian mahogany, and the beds of the alloys are the perfection of carpentor work. At either end there is a bandsome rucoption room fited up with Japanese rugs, rich draperies, and furniture of Austrian bent wood.
Ench room IA provided with a huge fireplace, fenders with andirons and freirone, lu wrought iron of the most artistic dosign. A long veranda runs from end of the building to the other, and abont the reception room are Turkish divans. During the winter, Miss Gould pursues her favorite while in New York, at the Berkeley Ladfes' Athletio Club, of which she is one of the organizers, and the General Lew Wallace and Congressional Librarian Spottord, of Washington, are in favor of starting an American Academy of Lotters, that will correspond to the French Academy. So far their proposition has not met with a hearty encouragemout. The press does not support them; indeed, it Inclines to treat the idea with ridienle.
A thing may be excellent for France that would be quite out of placo here, The rumor comes from Washington that the nude and naughty World's Fair medal designed by M. St. Gaudens, has been so in- proved by the addition of necessary drapery as to meet the approval of even such stickler for the proprieties as Mr. Anthony Comstock. The Jacksonville jury that deelded that "Judgment of Paris" was way a very immoral pieture, has not yet passed on the new madal.
MEMORIAL DAY MISCELLANY. Where Peacefully Sleep the Nation's Dead. Where our Helpless Veterans AbideHow the Government Generously Provides for Its Defenders- -The Grand Army of the Republic. And while the birds are piping Sweet strains in the leafy bowers, And the winds of May o'er the low mounds play, We strew our graves with flowers, Cave Hill, near Louisville, Chalmette, N. 0., 12,521 Chattanooga, GENERAL JOHN A.
LOGAN. City Point, Cold Harbor, There aro at present more than eiglity National cometarles for Federal soldiers. The largest of these is at. Vicksburg, where more than 1,400 headstones mark the graves of brave Boys in Blue who died that their country might live. area are enclosed in its Vicksburg Cemetery, in the improvement of which the Government has expended more than half a million dollars.
Ten men under charge of a superintendent are constantly employed in keeping the grounds in order. On the most elevated point stands a monument, on the spot where Grant and Pemborton arranged for the surrender of the city after the long siege. In Vicksburg's silent eity thereure 12,710 graves marked with headstones which bear bers only, the occupants being unknown. The bones of these unidentifled sleepers were gathered from battlefteids near and Chalmette Cemetery, just below New Orleans, holds 12,521 graves, with 5,674 111- known occupants. This cemetery covers fifteen and's half acres, and is a part of the side of the battlefield on which Jackson repulsed Packepham's men, and saved New Orlonns, during the war of 1812-14, which event is duly commemorated on the 8th of January, every year, by the people of New Orleans.
The total number of interments the various National cemeteries reach the great figure of 309,331, of which there are 152,117 known whites and 119,496 unknown; colored known, 13,005 and 20,505 unknown; and Confederate prisoners, 21,661. Seventyeight of the eighty-one National cemeteries are under charge of superintendents. A list of these cemeteries, with the number of torments, follow: Alexandria, Alexandria, Andersonville, Annapolis, Antietam, Arlington, Ball's Bluff, 250; Barrancas, 955; Baton Rouge, Beaufort, S. Beverly, N. 145; Brownsville, Camp Butler, near Springfield, 111., 687; Camp Nelson, Nicholsville, Cave Hill, near Louisville, Corinth, Crown Hill, noar Indianapolis, 708; Culpepper, Custer's battlefield, M.
250; Cypress Hills, on Long Island, N. City of Mexico, Danville; Danville, 359: Elmira, N. Finn's Point, N. Florence, S. 9,958 Fort Douelson, 689: Fort Gibson, I.
1., Fort Harrison, 956 Port Leavenworth, Fort MePherson, 443: Fayettoville, Fort Scott, 409; Fort Smith, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Glendale, 636; Grafton, W. liampton, Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, 640; Keokuk, 590; Knoxville, Laurel, Lebanon, 847; Logan's Cross Roads, London Park, Marietta, Memphis, Mobile, 810: Mound City, Nashville, Natcher, New Albany, Newborn, N. Philadelphia, Poplar Grove, Port Hudson, Raleigh, N. Richmond, Rook Island, 289; Sullabury, N.
Shiloh, San Antonio, 458; Seven Pines, 789; Soldiers' Home, 0., Springflold, Stone River, Vicksburg, Whitehall, 60; Wilmington, N. Winches. ter, Yorktown, 1,580, Virginia has the largest number of cometaries-fourtoon. Virginia, Tennessee and Mississippi in their order were the battle States of the struggle for the preservation of the Union. Where Our Crippled Veterans Abide.
The Government tenderly cares for its heroes living as well as dead. In 1866 a Soldiora' National Home was established by net of Congress. A board of nine managers was constituted. To them was given authority to establish one central home and and as many branches as they thought best, Under this authority at length seven hom*os were established. The seven homes for disabled soldiers are, respectively, the Eastern, Western, Northwestern, Southern, Central, Pacino and Marion.
The Eastern branch was the first one started. It was organized at Augusta, Mo. In November of 1866 this haven was opened for all invalid United States soldiers from Now York and Now England. A tountain of Medical water, called Togus Spring, flows here. 'The Central Home la situated at Dayton, Ohio.
Here is one of the most boautiful spota in the country, though the grounds of all soldiers' homes are beautiful. The Dayton Hospital was the second one established under the law of 1860. It is the largest of all the branches. It occupies a fertile farm of 627 acros, Its landscape and green-houses are noted. Some of the choicest plants known to botanists are to be found in its consorvatories.
Mary Lowell Putnam, of Boston, is the gentle patron saint of the Dayton Soldiers' Home. She lost her only son in the war, an offering tu his country. After his death she built a monnment to him In the shape of a library for the good of other soldiers. She HAve thousands el books, papers and pamphlets to the home. The collection la named the Putnam Library.
Her interest in it and the Invalid soldiers has never died out. She still makes additions to the librare time, and works for the in other ways, There also another collection of roading matter in this home, called the Thomas There are over 4,500 inmates in the Library. Dayton Home. From Ita location in the center of the State it attracts a great number. The Northwestern Home is at Milwaukee, three miles from Lake Michigan.
It is on a picturesque and romantic looking spot. The Northwestern Home was the third one established. To insure ita location the of Milwaukee raised $10,000 and ladies bought the 140 acre farm on which the buildGENERAL PHIL SHEBIDAN. ings stand. They did it by means of a sanitary fair.
In 1869 the board of managers decided to set going a soldiers' home in the South. A lovely, salubrious location WAS selected, at the ancient town of Hampton, Va. The buildings look over the blue waters of Hampton loads, where the battle was fought between the Merrimac and Monitor. The vialtor to the Southern Home will regard it as one of the lovllest spots on earth. The grounds are exquisitely laid out.
The governor has exerted himself to entertain the battlo-searred veterans. A thentre has boon provided for them. Traveling theatrical concert companies regularly stop here and give their programmes. Guests from the great hotel at Old Point Comfort, officers and their families from Fortress Monroe, and residents of the villages hereabouts swell the audience. One of the things that will attract the visitor's attention here are the thousands of soldiers' graves, in rows, with their little white headstones.
Whatever the men were in life, they are alike now under the white hoadstonos. There are 2,700 veterans at the Southern Home. During the last ten years, three other homes have been opened. The Western Home at Leavenworth, Kansas, contalus 2,000 members; the Pacifie Home at Santa Monica, 800, and the Marion Home, at Marion, 900. The Grand Army of the Republic.
A most impressive feature of every Memorial Day demonstration will be the appearance in the thousands of parades of the veterans who compose the Grand Army of the Republic. This organization has had a marvelous history, and become one of the most magnificent bands that ever was bound together. Its fraternity is that of men who have done great deeds and suffered great hardships together. It now numbers about 400,000 men, divided into forty-four departments, with membership as follows: Alabama, 334; Arizona, 295; Arkansas, 200; California, Colorado, and Wyoming, Connecticut, Dolaware, Florida, 471; Georgia, 455; Idaho, 439; Illinols, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentueky, Louisiana and Mississippi, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, 781; Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, 626; Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, 292; New York, North Dakota, 535; Ohio, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, 552; Oregon, Pennsylvania, Potomac, Rhode Island, 2,856: South 2,769 Tennessee, Texas, Utah, 184; Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Altuska, 2,788: West Virginia, Wis on- ADMIRAL DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT. sin, 13,710, The Department of Ohio is the largest, with, that of Pennsylyanin second and New third.
The Grand Army of the Republic, with its 400,000 members, represents almost one-sixth of the entire number of enlistments during the whole four years of war. These of the enlisted men less bored than 2,000,000 ever saw service, as many of them joined the army during the last year of the war and were never in battle. About 950,000 was probably the greatest number in the Northers army at any one time. During the war 828,943 men died from wounds other onuses. This leaves less than 2,400,000 of the enlisted men alive after the Confederates laid down their arma, and carries the Grand Army's proportion of membership of the survivors up still nearer one-sixth of the total.
The number who have died since the Army leaving alive disbanded about is 1,300,700 estimated at 1,119,300, for the Union. Thus it is men who fought Army more of the Republic netually embraces seen that the Grand than a third of the survivors present time. at the Since the first National Grand Army, at Indianapolis, convention November of the 1866, it has, until recently, steadily increased 22, la membership. Veteran after been added to Its roster, and has veteran despite the it has grown vacancies left by a increasing however, death rate. The organization hns constantly average of the reached its maximum.
The ago Union soldiers twenty-four. During the few was about diately succooding the war the ratio years of imme- morwas tality during was over the 66 conflet 2-3 per as high as it had been wounded or wrecked for many who itself, and exposure, lingered in life by hardship after the war ended. When these few months years of death had passed the exceedingly small, until the death average rate became survivors cropt along through lapsing age years of to time forty. the That wns in 1871, number of and since that each old soldiers who The away death rate sear at the has present coustantly increased. average age of the veteran has time, climbed when the two, is very high.
But though their to Bitydie, their brave deeds will live bodiea of a grateful people, DAVID in the inemory PERKINS. The largest guns of modern be fired about seventy-fire navies can only worn out times and then ate LENA, THE FLOWER GIRL. JOHN AND JIM. True Ntory of a Border. State.
ALFIED R. CALHOUN. Not uncommon boys, with long, uncommon The elder was John and the younger WAR Tames, And so near of an age they played the same They lived on the line- their father was dend, A man from the South to a North woman wed, Who brought up her sons to stand in his stead: games: They went to one sohool, they road the same books, They slept in one bed, till at last, e'on in looks, These brothers were like as the stars in the brooks, But one day the dram-beat rang down through the land, fohn said: "By the Union I'm going to stand tim heard him--the brothers then stood hand in South hand- is the land from which father came, There are buried the men who have borne our name." Ho they parted, but each loved the other the same. The battle-tide swept from the East to the West, And the green valen blushed red with the blood the best, And Jim died 'neath the barn on Mission crest. John fall in a charge on the gray lines of Lee Neuthi the banner he bore and hoped to see frea From the Hast to the West, from the lakes to the sea.
The war closed, these brothere were borne to the line. Jim in gray from the Ridge, John in blue from the Mine, And men sold to the mother: sol- diets are thine By the side of their father they stoop on the bill. And that mother, with bowed head, obeying God's will, Bet flowers on each grave, and tour them still. Now, ye who ne'er fought, but who snarl o'er the dead. Bay, whose was the nobler or braver blood shedHis who fell on the Ridge, his who at the Mine bled? Oh, mother -our country! Oh, Spring of our skies, On one breast brothers sleep; at one call flowera rise O'er the blue and the gray- God only is wise.
Brother from the Southland, come, to the brim, And drink to my Tolur, while I drink to Toll And. Hs for the let us leave leto The ol fourints is now in full flood Fonti to Can shores of Europe. It ad that bot wean fifty and one Hundred thousand A per will visit the old world The of 1804, and that they wilt as pond ancond aver age hundred millions of dollars. This outpouring of money infront to year, and so long as it continues it will be impossible for the United States to hold the of trade as against the Old World. Rice, to the nations of eastern Asia.
oncupies a renter place than wheat does with us. As with the potato In Ireland, at tines it is protty arach the only food of the poorer people. The potato, however, despite the high position in our esteem, and stomachs, that it tins assumed, has never yet aspired to a place in religious meremony, and we think of wheat only 14 bread, pantry or griddle cakea, But it the Buddhlet countries. it In for grains of that the yellow urtest holda out bin. begging and takos a part In religion, baine.
indeed the commonest offering to the Deity. It la said that operators in bituminous coal have been ordering in Europe as well an Nova Bootla because of the e-reity caused by the great strike. GRAVES OF GREAT GENERALS. Brave Leaders on Land and Sea Who Fight No More. Tombs That Will He Buried Deep Under Flowers on Memorial DayLast Resting Places of Grant, Farragut, Sherman and others.
NEW YORK, May 21. ---Ulysses 8. Grant was the military as David Glasgow Farragut was the naval bero of the war for the preservation of the Union, and in death they not divided, for while Grant sleeps In Riverside Park, Farragut's grave is in Woodlawn Cemetery, only a few miles away. The site of General Grant's tomb is one of the finest In New York. It in the highest point in Riverside Park, and overlooks a long stretch of the Hudson River.
On the opposite wide, which la in the State of New Jersey, rises sheer wall of green, a little further northward becomes barren and merges into the stoop rock of the Palisades. All day long steamboats and sailing vessels pass up and down under this wall, and the people on them can plainly wee the tomb, Simple and unpretending is the grave of Admiral Farragut. On A gentle knoll in Woodlawn Cemetery a plain marble column, and at its foot, under two mounds of plants, lie the great admiral and his wife, Aldo by side. The monument represents a broken mast covered at the top with shroud. At the base of the mast is a row of belaying pina, with ropes coiled abont them, and around them are strewn the tools of navigation, the compass, sextant, wheel and pulley.
Upon thosn lie sword, a trumpet and a flag and three shields. Upon the pedestal, which is of granite, are these words: "Erected by his wife and son to the memory of David Glasgow Farragut, First Admiral in the United States Navy, born July 5, 1801, died Aug. 14, and on another side la this: D. Farragut, wife of David Glasgow Farragut, born Nov. 24, 1824, died Oct.
31, 1884." At the foot of each of the graves in a small stone bearing the initials of Farragut and his wife. Goreral William Tec*mseh Sherman rests in Calvary Camotery, St. Louis, nt. the junetion of Bethany and the Holy Rosary walks. The monument which will mark the exact spot in the Sherman lot is not yet completed, and the grave la at present without a head- ADMIRAL FARRAGUT'S GRAVE.
stone to designate it. It la diroctly in front of the centre gravestone, that or his son Willie, who died in 1568, at the age of nine years. At the left, beneath the granite crosse, lies the body of Mra. Sherman, who died In 1988, and at the right is the grave of baby Charles, who died in 1804, after having lived Insn than year. Arlington Cemetery at Washington, always beautiful, is especially lovely in this plensant month of May, Hero resta General Philip H.
Sheridan and many another hero of the war. Shoridan's grave is completely covered with Ivy, so carefully trimmed that its shape is distinetly marked in the short grass, although there is little or no mound. At the head of the grave standa the monument erected by Mr. Sheridan, a pyramidal plece of granite, bearing on its front in bronze a medallion portrait of Sheridan'a bust, showing his medals, the face looking South, the likeness remarkably good, the medallion being superImposed on graceful dais. Below It in large, plain lettera 18 the sluglo word "Sheridan." Not far away is the grave of Admiral David D.
Porter. The latter's resting place Is Itmarked by a monument as yet, but the plot 15 fenced with eight granite posta connected by a bronze chain, while the grave itself is marked in the perfeet by the well for Ivy. It is at present, planed to have a six-sided block of granite, upon which shall be placed, in bronze, illustrations of six of the most prominent incident in Admiral Portar's service of his country the capture of Tabasoo, the engagement at Now Orleans, that at Viekaburg, that at Grand Gulf, Sho assault on Arkansas Post and the attuek on Fort Fishor. Generals Melas, Hazen, Ingalls and Kelly, and Vice Admiral Stophen C. Rowan also sloop in Arlington.
General Robert E. Leo rests at Lexington, Va. On the wall abore the vault is this inscription i EDWARD LEE. Born January 19, 1807. Died October 19, The grave la now covered by the marble sarcophagus end recumbent statue of Loo, designet and exceuted by Valentine, a.
VirRials souiptor of high repute. It la a noble work, worthy of the artist, and not unworthy the Christian gentleman and soldier who sloopy benoath. Interesting to every patriot is the comotory at West Point. There General Judson Kitstoops his last stoop, and noir him rests the saganious Buford, who opened the fight at who held with two small cavalry brigades Hills entire corps in cheek for five hours, and who received bla connaission as. major-general the day he diod.
A handsome and substantial monument marks his grave, "erected by the voluntary contributions of the offleora and men of his command." The grave of General George A. Custer Is neut that of General Buford. Even without the solid memorial, the visitor. to West Point would tie attracted to the gigantic proportions of a grave in thin middle of a plot by Itself--that of the second Lieutenant Genera! of the United States Andy, Winfleld Hoott, who died May 99, 1866, nearly five years efter his retirement from the army. Jad ho lived two weeks longer, ho would have reached his eightieth birthday.
A Many other brave offcors are buried at West Point. At almost every stop is soon the name of some man that, almost forgotten now, was household word thirty yours ago. The hero of Port Bunter, General Robert Anderson, General Ethan Allen Eliteboool, end General Guares J. are side try There are many people living in New York city to-day, and not old people, elthor, who remembor "Lena, the flower girl," na she was known to the men and women who had occasion frequently to cross Madison Square. Lena was a remarkably pretty child, and though only thirteen she looked young for her years.
The long-lashed blue eyes, the tangle of flaxen curls, the sweet, gentle voice, and a certain pleading in the child's manner were very effective with strungers, and gradually won to her a nuinber of friends of both sexes who came to look for her every day. In the flower season, the child sold boutonnieres, and the blossoms seemed to gain an added charm from the dainty hands that pinned them on the coats of her patrons. When flowers were too expensive, or the weather was too cold, little Lena, with the same brave, uncomplaining spirit, sold morning and evening papera, and old men, and young men, too, who knew her and guessed that there was a pressing need for the child's constant efforts, would often walk a block out of their way in order to buy from her. Finely dressed ladies would often stop to admire the child's pretty face and to ask her some question about herself and her home life, at which they expressed interest and sympathy, but nover one of them attempted to verify little Lena's statements, or to take her away from the rough life and the temptations of the streot, It WAR the morning of Decoration Day, and in of an increased market for her anticipation, had invested all her small capital in flowers. With a large basket filled with blossoms before her, she stood at the corner of Twenty-third street and Fifth avenue, with a paper of pins in one hand, ready to pin favors on the conts of purr hasers, A tall man, who had been watching her from the opposite side of the stroot, finally crossed over, and, to her great delight, bought ten small bouquets for fifty conta; only one of which he would take.
The man wore a Grand Army button, and his erect bearing and a scar running from the left eyebrow and disappearing in a purple line under his hat told that he had been a soldier. A Decoration Day Story. With a womanly tenderness in his voice, V9; THE FLOWER GIRL. the man bent down, and looking in the child's face, asked her her name. "Lena Hermann," she replled.
The man repeated the name, looking the while still more eagerly into the pretty upturned face. Then he asked: "Is your father living, my child?" "No, sir," she responded. "He la dead; died so long ago that I cannot remember him." "Ah, that is very sad," said the man, and he pretended to smell of the flowers that he had fastened in his buttonhole, and then continued: "And your mother. Is she, too, dend?" no, said the child, with a glad ring in her voice. "Mother is living, but she is not strong any more." 4T am sorry to hear that," said the man, and he half raised his hand as if to stroke the child's head, but drew it back again.
"I am interested," he went on; "tell me something more about your father and mother, The fact that he had invested so liberally in the flowers which he did not want to take away, won Lena's confidence. That and something so gentle and friendly in his manner that she could not explain it to herself, induced her to open her heart to him, though several times during her narrative she had to desist, while she accomodated other customera. This, in brief, was the child's story: She was baby, ten months she was living with her mother and father in Buffalo. About that time the war broke out, and her father, went away, a sergeant in Clifford's Battery. He wrote regularly to his young wife, whom he dearly loved, and once after two years ho came home, wearing the shoulder straps of a captain.
Then he went away again, and after one of Grant's great battles in Virginia he was reported missing. "Mother searched and searched for years, and everybody searched, hoping that father might be alive," continued the child; ut at last, she was forced to give him up as dead, and the, people down in Washington, who said he was dead from the first, sent her a pension. This pension paid our rent, and we lived very happily, for mother could sew and embroider, and I went to school until two years ago, when she broke down and could work no more. The doctors told her it was her nerves, and that sho must give up fretting about father. They told her that thousands of other men were buried in known graves and that she must submit to what could not be helped.
But, sir," and the girl, with tears in her eyes, looked up at the bronzed face of the tall man, "mother says there are diseases the doctors cannot cure, and one of is a broken heart." "Little Lenn," said the man, and there were tears in his eyes, "I will buy all your flowers if you will take me to your mother." "Oh, sir!" cried the child, "that is too much. What can you do with os many flowers?" "We can make your mother's room pretty with them," said the big, tall man, and to the child's great surprise he took the basket in one hand, gave her the other, and told her to lead him to her home. Out of Broadway to the east, and down through narrow streets, whose towering tenements on either hand looked like the abodes of the cliff-dwellers, the child conducted the stranger. Then into one of the tall buildings she led him, and up a half a dozen flights of stairs, swarming with children, till she came to a door at the back, at which the stranger tapped. In low, sweet voice from response, a the other side called out: "Come in." And little Lena entered with her strange visitor.
There were two rooms opening Into each other, but sparsely furnished, but clean in every detail, and hear the window of the first room a young woman, still beautiful evidences of pain in her face, halt reclined despite the in a rocking chair. Lena ran forward and throwing ber arms round her mother's neck, called out: "Hero is a kind gentleman who has bought all my flowers, and wants to see you 1" The Invalid half turned and raised her face to that of the atranger. On the instant the pale face tried to lift her assumed uttered the word bands; in back, as if dend. To amazement the fall the chilly bealde the invalid's dr arms about the a he cried poured kisses out: and toura on found you at My last. Mary! Thant "Mary! loft arm, and drew the "Then be mil so he remained for some child toad and Mrs.
looked Hermann soon man she had up so to see kneeling regained long moureed ba in Lena her the generous flower girl patron of the This, in brief, was. had found her the story, and it has more records of the war. then cos At the battle of perately wounded Cold Harbor romained in the hands and takes pi until the close of the of the 0. head having war, the rabe his memory. destroyed his to be quite In some respects tion of the sane, war bat he had bet How he made his or his connect could not way to San and never will tainly reached there in 1866, recall attracted the attention of prominent physicians of decided to perform an that the fragment brain, of had bone which, operation presets of dementia.
produced this par The operation for within eight was in overy was full weeks Captain 1 mental possession of physical hospital. faculties, Useless was discharge scription here to: Attis of the man's that four years of his feelings life on blank. His story becoming generous citizens of San tan Frand WELS raised which enabled him he way back to his old home in Be at once began a fruitless wife and child. They an the close of the war, and had disapp 110 000 their whereabouts. Mrs.
Hermann's caly distant cousins at Syracuse, relatives abl not enlighten him as to bis ments. After long months of search. dear ones up for dead, and mat back to the Pacifie coast he excitement of mining to And sorrows. Being a man of reman and great force of char cumulated a considerable forte few years. He was ou his way nection with his business, brought him in contact with lit flower girl, as before described.
to That, little in truth, was a joyous Lena and her mother. drods of thousands of people the broad Republic were decorating the heroic dead, three people on the return from the grave ones whom they beltered theymeet again. Lena, the little flower girl, appeared from Madison Square, the patrons who Inquired for haps learn here for the first time fortune that betel her, Her regained her health and went Pacifle coast with her husband self, now grown to womanhood hood, la the wife of one of the members of Congress from the 0 CAPTAIN ROPE ENGLISH POLITICAL PA In Addition to Tories And 1 Have Prohibitionists, a Party, And the Irreprei Woman's Rights Part There is but one person compa average Englishman, in his entit utter indifference to every cal outside of his own country the average American. Even men of education and me gence, in this country, land there are only two parties, and the Tory. We believe, and that the Tory party upholds thi and hereditary rulers, as represe House of Lords.
And. in the way, we believo that the Liber more or less democratie, and wot with hereditary rulers it it could. are other important factors la tics boside the Liberals and Tor are, to-day, an Irish party, a Welsh party, a Woman's Suffra Temperance party, a Colonial cording to Justin McCarthy, of more or less conspienous. The the Irish party is well Party is not yet entirely etyat Home Rule is among the objects! ization. The immediate objects party are the disestablishment of in Wales, and Home Rule, such has been long demanding.
The Temperance party in Engl up in energy and vigilance what numbers. Like the corresponds it is in favor of this legislation country, against the sale el i liquors. Thus far, on national the English Tomperanco party with the Liberals; but they WON moment forsake the Liberals sad for Tories, the it great purpose of their of the Tories were to prom While the Woman's Suffrage nor been on for a number of pa as going the United States, the land, in it has suddenly leaped into pre its adherents have become in all ranks of society. sion its advocates appeared in to Commons, where advance. Among the the movement siderable of the Woman's Sett supporters are the Prost ment in England The sympathy between the 1874 labor had 00 TV plained.
Up to the English Parliament representatives McDonald of the workdagat and Burt to the Libel Burt is still a member of the there is no man more life as a hard workingman work and great in the mill aged educate by himself; and those best, say that, even to tad training, it de a formed better all-round general toples that on many labor here Since 1874 Parliament, the most to whom English is workingman, ani A to 4 9 in Parliament entered workingman first the has 4 bility, but proved far he that the own, given to and labor not The greater the fifth number and attend between life. dent..
