The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-05-07


TOLD AZ tine GRAVEYARD or 4 Fn0NTfER
TTNN Lt MILITARY POST.
y TILL. you, pard. In this western wild,
A a general thing the dirt's list piled
In rather promiscuoue sort uf MAY
On top ~ soldier mortal clay;
An i person think BY that marble SHAFT,
An the flowers n wnvin above the graft,
lhai Malor-1snsra, ho,as w snrs nrsvste,s
plume.
. remember the dry they sworc Mead In;
IA WAS palc completed, an rather thin;
He'd bin what they call q trampin' beat,
An enlisted fur want o. sumthin' 20 eat
s my s1s s, iess from from The older fruit:
An the way the boys tormentcd the cuse
Mas real down wicked, an scandalousl
:. Hstook Il ali with sickly smile.
An said II they'd wan till aftcrwhfle,
slfll be- got fed up In some sort o TRIM,
q u ne M d e cs sss s faers eye
Fur lIhc was backward, an rather shy
That behind his skeleton sort O breast,
A heart like a lions found nest!
.. One night NJ the guard, Mt twelve o'clock,
Rcievcdthc sentinel over the stock,
The corpral seen kind OF a glare
From toward the officers quarters, fherei
The alarm was raised. an the big gun Tired,
An the aoldiers not moren half attired,
Come Il rushln' out ON the harrack ground
Win wild an excited sort or bound'
The Coloncrs headquarters was all aflre!
An the flames a-moultin' higher an higher
An what with the ycils O. men. an. shrieks
O the officers wives, with their whitisn
An, tine rnar o. the flames, an dcvlish light
Iiluminatil' the pitch-dark night
'Twar sim sight As I've often Thought
You could see In hell. when it's bilin' hot!
~An then. with a Wild despaIrin' Yell
The Colonel shouted; Nv God Where''
His wife responded: she's in her bed'
Then fell 10 the ground like a person dead
Uip through the ROOF the mad flames roarcd
An the blindn smoke in a dense mas
Thrcsigh every crcvice an crack. till thu
cloud
r. II mirht'n he out o. place TO state
A kinder accnuntin' fur this Nead's fate
That Nell wnr an angel, ten year old,
With heart a. pure as the virgin R0ld
An no ha<l kind Of an angel trick
OF reatiih'. an sch like. 70 the sick,
An lnany's the dainty her hands q bear
10 Mead, one time, in the hospital thcreD
Any Godi IL was 'nough 70 raise the hair
ON the mead Of marble statuci There
stood crowd Of AZ least two hundred mcr
None DARN 70 enter that nery pen
Whose courage was never known 20 fall
Hut 10 enter that buiidin was certain death
So they stood there starin', an held thei
breath.
sThen all at once. with an carer cry,
An bulldog look In his fiashin' eyei
This Mead rushed up 70 the wailin' band.
An paper thrust In the Coionel's hand,
my mothers address, be said an then
He sort q smiled on the crowd o. men,
An list like a flash O. lightnin. shot
Through the door right into the seethin' 20
with.a ycIl OF horror the crowd looked on
Fur they felt with him Il was 'good-by
john
hut ahalf a minute after the dash
An upstairs window burst with crashl
An there stood Mead. like smiiin saint
The gal In his arms In . deafh-like faint,
lie yelled flIr rope. an let her down..
To terra nrmu-w'ich means the groun'
1Then he tied the rope 70 the winder sash
Fur 20 fOiier down-but there came cras
An the hlnzin' roof. with fearful din.
Throwed the boy 70 the ground - Il tumba
In.
We carried him WAY from the fearful hes
A hopin the noble neart still beat.
But the old post surgeon shook bis head,
An ssid. with sigh, that Mead was dcadi