The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-05-28

| tenderness. Tho storm had passed, tho sun
came out above tho mountains, warm and
bright, and tho mocldng bird, In tho codars
near, poured out its food OF Joyous melody.
| The poor boys pasalon found utteranoe al
last, and, In words made eloquent by gasps
and pauses, he told his love. she listened In
dlsnco, responding only IN tighter grasps
and sobs she could not repress
Her heart, In strange agony OF grief,
was communing with itself She found In
this sad event revelation and revolution
In ono, How different was this declaration
from tho ono she had oourted and intended
playing upoa And up through tho now
found love In her heart came the cry, "You
have murdered him. Ii ,HH
A long silence followed, and Bob, fooing
tho hot tears falling on his brow, tried 10
smother down tho groana the fierce pain
wrung from him, and looked up with an or
prosslon OF loving tenderness no words could
express. She saw his increased palenosA
heard his shortened broathings, and clasplng
him 10 her she said t.U
"ohl Mr. EllerAly--ohl Bob, don't die.
IL Ia killing me.N 'Ia8 l,'
Vain appeal Deaths higher claim was
closing In upon his heart. He gave one more
look, shut his eyes, a shudder quiyered
through his frame, then all was still
Tho sun glimmered brightly on tho wet
laurel leaves the mocling bird sang In tho
cedar noar, and the great world rolled on In
endless life, as II ever doos regardless Of tho
comedies and tragedies we mortals enact
The driver and escort OF tho ambulance,
hurrying down tho road, heard as thoy turned
tho bend only tina low wall OF a broken
hearted woman. For once a funeral process
sion had only Us real mournors, for Bang as
bravo man an ever stood unmoved under
fire, wept as child,
Twenty years after, business called mo 10
this part OF the Shenandoah valley, and
not only broahfasted at the old stone Inn,
but visited the rude burying ground TO look
ON Bob EllorSly's last resting place, Al
onterol saw a carriage at tho old gateway
with colorod driver in livery, and inside |
met slender gray-halrod woman coming
| from tho graves. caught only glimpse
| OF pale, hollow.chookod mourner, a. shs
passed me.
/ found tho sexton busy digging grave
for now occupant, and asking him 10 show
mo that OF tho Union officer no clainbcrcd
out and led tho way. To my surprise was
hhown a handsome monument OF marble,
| oonalstlng OF pedestal and broken column.
| was the moro amazed 10 find II gnrniShed
with raro flowers, and inscribed on the basc
readi ... Ip'll ..'
SACRED TO THE MEMORY .f'
| or RonERT ELLERsLY, U. g. A., Who FELL
FaHTING FoR HIS FLAG AND COUNTRY
1iTH or AUGUST, 1859.
"why, who erected this monumentF
asked.
'Thars whar you git me- responded tho
sexton, "for don't know. Itcome up from
Baltimore ready made and We was ordered
TO put II up, That's ALL"
"Well, who strowed these Aowersi"
"same az aforo-don't know Every Deco
ration Day, as they calls II, that female crit
ter turns up, Strows an cries, an thon
vamoosOs. An must soy, cries AZ much
now M at fustn H.,.
For fear my readers win think mo guilty
OF wild eIaggeration, lot mo call their at'
tention 10 tho fact that woman will carry
q dead lover In her hoart for twenty years,
whom sho Ia sure to quarrel with live one
within Sir months, Doss PiATT.
MAo-o-cHEEw, o., May 81