The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-11-07

4ue lrrcCOnCllaDle Union veteran look
the hand and clasped it warmly.
think it would look better if they
stayed away, but I guess the young
fellow wants to make himself solid
with the boys until after election.
What's the matter with you, Rachel?"
Nothing at all. father, DEAR" she
said family, unless / got up too early
this morning
From the cold ashes of fratricidal
strife, of hatred, anger and all I'M
charitableness to a glorious new birth
of love divine, new country, united
and undivided forever MORE" he
quoted from Barker. Il don't feel any
call for glorious love for the men who
tried to kill their country. 1 say that
if they let us alone we are doing well
to let them alone, without loving them.
Yes, they're united and they had bet
ter stay united, too. I'd have been
man to-day and not wreck if ii
hadn't been for them"
DO you take their part?" he asked
in a sudden gust OF passion.
mo, no. she cried. 'Ill hate them,
too, for your sake and the sake of your
wrongs
mot hate them, Rachel" said the
old man, more gently, Out
The fence of whitewashed pickets
that surrounded the little cemetery
was reached and people were already
tying their horses to it end unlocking
towards the gates, bearing t.eir bask-
cts and armfuls of flowers with them.
AS Rachel got out young Fendleton
approached her, but her look was so
cold and repelling that he drew back
with sinking heart. The veterans of
the Grand Army, pathetically infirm
and crippled, many of them. were
forming into line and Rachel turned to
her father and was surprised to see
that he seemed oblivious of his sur
roundings. His gaze was bent thought
fully afar and his Inns were moving.
Rachel drew closer to him and caught
the words hatred, anger and all un-
charitableness," and a. lin, "of love
divine" Then one of his comrades
called to him and he limped painfully
to his place and unfurled the flag.
The address at the Soldiers Monu-
ment CO. Guided, the people dispersed
to lay their flowers on the graves. 1t
had been another of those addresses
that Rachels father had always styled
"mushy"--full of the forgiveness.
concord. one country and one flag"
talk, but somehow the veteran, lean
ing on his daughters arr and NOV
ing from on" gr-esv Mound to another
with the fower- that she carried, did
not feel so genuinely indignant as
usual because of this, and, presently
turning aside. he took from the basket
a wreath of white field lilies and. leay-
ing Rachel, walked over to a grave be-
side which an cd Ian was kneeling
with bent head and laid it beside an
other wreath that lay there below the
headstone that bore the name of Jared
Roberts, til Virginia cavalry. c. 8.
A. The man looked up. 1t was ..the
copperhead PEND leton.''
Thanks. comrade," said the ex-Con-
federate. simply. holding out his hand.
And the irreconcilable Union veteran
took the hand and clasped it warmly.
At the same moment Rachel felt a
touch on her shoulder and, turning.
met Dicks triumphant smile.
1t was long time before the two
old men finished their talk; in fact
they were still talking when Rachel
came and silently stood beside them.
Dick stood little aloof.
Father said Rachel.
He smiled at her little shamefaced-
ly and then at his new friend. cts az
was saying. Rachel he said.
There's no call to hate Hates a bad
thing after all, and Barker was right.
Love divine that's it. Love divinen
And its divinity Dick and Rachel
knew as they looked Into each others
sves at that parting