Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-06-07
JlM'S GRAVE.

MS was 900 $ day-the day of His
dead; Americas day-the day of her
heroes; the Unions day-the day of her
defenders; yea Dixie's day-and the day
Of her martyrs! For did they not all suf-
fer and die alike, according to conyic-
ton! Was the young life of Il rebel
worth less to his iand-and his mother
than that of his brother or cousin who
lived north of Mason and DiXon's line
and wore blue uniform instead of a
gray one! Were they not fed with the
same food, hurt with the same weapons,
subject to the same diseases, healed by
me same means, warmed and cooled by
the same summer and winter" And
was II not high time, as well as a beau
utul reaSsortment OF humanity, that all
such separateness of interests was for
gotten, and the ugly scar of its former
existence covered up with flowers?
IL was late in the afternoon. The
great city was almost deserted, for its
responsive millions had flowed forth to
the, silent, pleading cemeteries, laden
with blossoms for the sleepers, heart S
ease ana 10rget-me-n0tS. The ceremO-
MES We're over and the murmuring,
surging tide turned homeward. In front
the Grand Army of the Republic bristled
and lowered, with ribbons and medals
on uniformed breasts; the President of
cabinet officers in gubernatOral Splcndor;
| the governor and his staff, scarcely less
magnificent; SCARED veterans, gray
haired and tremulous, buoved up al
most to second youth by fife and drum
and marshaled pageantry; military com
panles, rank and file, knapsack. canteen,
rifle and ACQUIRED belt, with dusty feet
and flushed, tired faces, surface signs of
the inward significance of war, discipline,
duty, muster and forced marches: mayor,
council and aldermen, i'll staid municipal
dignity; mounted police force; distin-
guished citizens; casual lookersOn in
public cabs, chatting and laughing, for
getting that Decoration day means
auGht but flowers and holiday; and then
the peOple-eager, pushing, crOwding,
iamming; the mob and rabble-striving,
perspiring, toward street car and open
highway.
OFF from the line of march, upon the
dusty roadside, was an old woman cry
ing. Her dress was shabby, hands bare
and toil-hardened, her teeth gone, her
thin. gray hair disordered. Tears of to-
day ran down the beaten track of many
Yesterdays And so she sat and wept,
while the great people marched, bands
played, gayly caparisoned horses pranced
and the rabble shrieked and pushed.
A child looked from a carriage window
"a pink-cheeked. well-dressed girl of
nine or ten years of age. There was
noht IN tlle Iii,rho,. NV,
a III 80 n,.n,. +Lo Ir6anls
ent mr. i.aiI ioHe ,n rbbn1s md
broad hat brim. and imperiSIsly above
sne tolSe l5 ~ men raioe anu na,lod
81 III, Dniit'i hn, hoeD snniIad chiid for
,,o noia,'1,, a. IT.. oborad instantly The
me soienln uIlNet o5eA ~ M Lc, bnt
49, ia doy,p Jo+orminadiv and
two eager little hands gesticulated to-
M"na me me o Ti1 t+o rnnd tho fnntmon ieant
Ja,tp o Uo' o ~, The door and bundle
e r, i - ~ Nal hose hIup ribbons
OF WnlsH ShlrlS; "l"I qrt+ @Te 'i oyar and
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aI wv lie Inv, GI,s ,,on -,
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nv? 'ilDI ii.a1 ,otbntic voica nm
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10y tuIs 'llne - a "y-.hnn be ,is+ad
afounq tu ~, SpTTaHei3 AZ t,oi Tbnv'u
says /, Oi' Jeell T., uoi J., fron+ fnr The
OILY put S1u pole "c ,ir - INV ,,,oro
fepelS 70 sloot "a; , n"I 80 None
solu1ers ~ oln D., ~ -t,c,Tid or To had
go, Jlnllllle. 3uL ne "oui ~ - o,.o M, off
SoI outIons an 81 p - H., oIn+I,oe
ne put, amos lore couIu ~ MS us ,,,oro
hXed. An never seen n.Ill b no 81 40 an
re got hIleu III tiis us TI,, NV bir, n
now they doh thllh eIIousn, ., "H IN va
put no P0Sles on MS grave VAIN
heMed S9ooolns. m. o,-o,,,,;,,, cod
inc cIll rs Sio 700 IKE d, an nnIti1 ~ NE
dess' het heau ihro"H up -ooA'4I7 1t '''o
approaa ching column. o., -. o.,.o, +oo-s
wv here ms grave! she aShe4. 'ta nj
on her cheeks Whlch starred III pI'S anu
rolled oil IN Tlghteous IMAGINATION
1T on a bit 70 tseH;
Inc Inc c,llI lnterrupte,1i l Her' so;a. .,+bo,,
That's the reason she SAID; they
dldn see II. -.
She ;Sprang to the mann ROAD Wh ere
the ponce h4l cleared paS;sdISe LOT .,. ,ilt
procession, Up the open aisle she Sptuj;
IKE pro ShLnilHS te ero",lu, rt .I,,