Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-05-25
An incident of Docorat on Day.


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She was a stern-visagei woman, with
many lines craven deep on her face By
those two sculptors. time and care. Her
form was somewhat bent with the weight OF
years, but 1t bore the upyightness Of resist
ance yet. Her hair. drawn back under a
mourning veil, was "a white as snow. She
did not look tender, loving and loyal, but
she was all three.
Acc mpanied by young gill, she moved
slowly through e crowded cemetery to
the lodge # the Cd sexton.
How are my two boys?' she asked when
they reached him.
Her lips Quiyered, and you saw then
that the luster had gone out of her
eyes forever, AMI that the little maid
whose hand she held was eyes for the
blind.
The boys are all right, ma am, F" said
the sexton with deep respect, they re safe
and tidy. I've put bit of dc Grafton
there myself, for | thought mebbe ye
might not come to- ay
"Wh do not come it will be because
my feet are stayed here, answered the
blind mother. Il have the flags and flow
ers with me. Are t cir graves green
"As green, ma am, as June, which
It nearly is. An the towers a-grow-
in of their own accord as thick as
stars in clear sky"
They moved tpt ether TO the part Of the
cemetery whore the little ags studded the
grass above the boys in blue.
Here they are; Just feel OF them BIT,
ma am. The grass as soft as a baby's
cheek TO the touch, ma am, ! warrant.
I, G mother knelt reverently by the tNo
graves that were SO exactly alike m eye
co III detect tie difference. She laid her
Uithe ed fac against the COO growing
grass, and rema ned motionle,s long
time. And she we're crying out in re-
bellon in her heart, or If she were pay
ing, there were none to know, save God.
who could see and hear.
Boys, she called softly at last; boys.
mother come
Other mOurners came bringing their
flowers an passed on IN old man whose
four soldier lads slept near stopped to look
at this lonely, croJching figure
The sexton inf rned him in pantomme
that she was not in her right mind out
# her head.
she doesn't know the difference. a" ha
said in an undertone, but the two soldier
boys buried here cr1 not hers. They are
rehs. They came north and died in the
hospital. They knew o. her boys, and
were the first 10 tell her thai they died at
Chattanooga. She was sick a long tMe
after that, and has never been right since
When these two died of their wounds and
were buried here, she found it out and said
they were her boys and she always be-
lieyed it, An j. don do her bit Of
harm, as can see. -
The OIL man turned away. SHAKING his
head sadly. while the IN thcr arranged
the Towers on the two graves TO suit her
sightless touch.
When they were finished they were just
alike in their 1t corations, even to the
two fa-s CT ssed at their heads. "Ny
boys murmured Z e stricken mother
my dear. dea soldier toys. whom God
hath in His most holy keeping. Mother
will be with you soon. II is almost time,
| cannot see your faces or even your dear
graves, but lie will tell you that mother
is coming soon. "
Oh. divine passion of human
love and sorrow Who shall say
that Thou, too. hast not miracle Of
transubstantiation for this n others faith.
That while she weeps 10y these two graves
wherein lie sleeping he two brave soldier
boys. some unknown mother may not be
watching her brave lads in some southern
bivoUac OF the dead. ind that for this
day aud hour, each was given to his own,
10y order of g Great Commander, to
whom the soldiers of the south and the
soldiers of the north, the boys in gray and
the boys in blue, have alike surrendered.