The Springdale news., 1889-05-31

through the amDlGnt ar but TOT lIlS NIllu the day had been very warm. Even the sweet breath scarce tempered the heat to that small patriotic band of school teach CTS, school children, youths and maidens who, with wreaths of new flowers, were quickly marching to the tolling of the bell through the village street toward the cem- etery It was Memorial Day.
 The more self -providcnt had ridden or sauutered on ahead and now, when that small procession came redly and rather faggedly tramping into the cool retirement of the graveyard, they were gathered in q loose, mildly expectant crowd around a pine platform, temporarily thrown up un- der a great elm in the center of the ceme- tery, upon which the singers and the speak CT and the dignitaries generally were to sit So many years in their untimely graves And these now living inherently loyal be- ings some of them yet unborn when these graves were dug here now in the sweet evening light to remember the long depart ed!
 Such peaceful scene! Here on the vii lage's western edge the level orderly cem- etery, dappled with the grey shade of nat ural elms and suifused with the wholesome incense of hardy flowers. Yonder to the west of it a rolling sweep of tawny sedge skirted by a line of hazeful woods, every tint of rich green under the attiring brush ! of spring.
 Over the gently alert crowd assembled around the platform q gentler quiet settled as the minister rose and offered prayer, and afterwards, gave place to the singers. The music of plaintive voices in that gracious, suggestive spot tones heart rose in long swells beneath it like the ocean at eventide. l@t,. t,,I, 'cx,1,r aly Hly. q benediction
 Then the speaker arose.
 Did not the heart of the war-scarred veterans among them move with light sigh of pathetic diversion-of tender diver sion-as that slim, dapper youth child of peace and favorite of fortune, came forward in the gentle evening light and spoke out in clear, oratorical tones lines of such fine sentiment, vicarious pathos, inherent pa triotism? He to tell of war who had known only peace! He to lament the dead who experienced only lifel Yet it was . goodly sight-and they looked and listened with pleased faces, applauding him kindly-say- ' ing sotto voce how handsome he was, how oleverl
 There occurred only one diversion-One moment of withdrawn attention during his | entire address Once near it's beginning a late conner had come stepping leisurely and statelily toward the crowd, reposeful under the fire of glances which greeted her; clad in clear yellow like the primrose west; \ dusk hair seductiyely bantered by the light N fingered wind bunch of bright roses in | her hand One or two gentlemen had gone few steps to met her and she took her place on the edge of the crowd with a smil- ing glance of greeting to the faces nearest her and an instant turning of her attention upon him who was speaking. Y
 In the midst of a sentence across the clustering heads between-their eyes met; steady look of welcome and repose.
 When his address was over ther was an other song, and then the crowd began gently to trickle off toward the rows of low mounds where the soldiers slept, as they had fought, in ranks Mordant had made