Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-04-28
IN THE CHURCH-YARD.
"A BIZ OF Reality Calculated to Bring Tears
of Sympathy to the Eve,

IA DAS VI Realty Calculated to Bring Tears
of Sympathy to the Eye.
low mound, with wooden slabs rot
ting away under its brier-grown turf, a
paby form long since handful of dust.
Old-old almost as the burying-ground
In which the village dead were sleeping
1T had lain beneath sunshine and
shadow, while the years crept by un-
numbered.
Often 1 had passed it there in it's quiet
corner; no other graves were nigh it, and
tangled weeds grew rank above the for.
gotten dust. The white head-stones of
many quiet sleeper marked life's last
mile-posts. on the slopes above it, but
here only a wooden slab crumbled and
crumbled away
One day new mound, scarcely so
long, was heaped beside it, and in the
calm, October sunshine I read in pencil,
on the card above it, the one word
ttLois.'
The named, and the nameless. Inno>
cont alike before the great bar of iudg>
ment and, alike, hushed forever in the
everlasting arms. AS 1 stood above
these quiet mounds, the old sexton, with
pick and spade, came toward me.
1T hurts me to do it, sir" he said,
me as has babbies of my own at home,
but genlman as has bought the lot
says as how the little 'un must be took
away" and he rubbed the sleeve of a
worn jacket across his eyes.
1T pears to me-" he continued, "that
II 1t had been ono of my own babbies"-
pointing to the new mound-'Id kinder
have wanted the little 'un to keep COM
pany-lt wouldn't have seemed so lone
some like, an'-an'-it couldn't have
done no HARM" and the old mans voice
grew husky.
where do 1 move the wee 'un?-
down to tother side, where the graves
Is Free" he replied in answer to nv
question; there's many of 'em there.
Sir, older than / can remember, and 7
think, sometimes, I'd like to be buried
there myself. Sometimes I wonder If
these great stones mightn't be in the
way when the dead rise again at His
comin'."
And thus volubly the old man pratt
tied on, and his spade sunk deeper and
deeper, and the heap of brown earth
grew larger.
1t was only rude box, very, very
small, but reverently 1 followed it to
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the pauper dead lay sleeping. Into a
shallow grave we lowered the nameless
dust, and on the little mound we laid
an autumn garland in memory Of Him,
all-pitying, who forbade not such as
these unto His presence.
And you're safe in that fold, wee
sleeper; hands may not break your rest.
Nameless, sleep on with the unknown
dead; brier and weed grow rank above
you, but over all is Gods blue sky and
sunshiue.-Detroit Free Press.
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