Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-02-02
THE
REMEMBERED
GRAVE

had a certain triumph in it, but it end
ed with decorous sigh.
81 guess there won't, either" re-
turned her sister, Mrs. Kemp. Il guess
Phebe Ann Is too sick to thirk much
about It" Her voice sounded like
Sarah's.
Lucy Kemp dropped her Sc ding foI
minute and turned her face toward
the window. "It seems most too bad,
don't it," she said, meditatively.
When she's done so much every year.
And thought SO much about it.
Il don't know as | think it's too
bad said Mrs. Kemp. "Of course I'm
sorry Phebe Ann is sick, but when il
comes to these flowers she's always
covered Sylvester's grave with Deco
ration day, guess there was a great
deal of it for show. 1t would have
seemed different if he had been in the
war, but I've thought a good many
times, wiz n I've seen Sylvester's grave
with more flowers on il than any Of
the soldiers, that Phebe Ann had
little eye to what folks would say, for
all she fit so bad"
Il don't care anything about the
show said Sarah Cook, but dc
think such an outlay on flowers to put
on gr.ve Is wicked, when there's
folks that's her own kith and kin in
actual want It's as much as twenty
years since Sylvester Kemp died and
there amt been year that fhebe
.tln aint laid out dollars on flowers.
7 guess II we'd had the dollars right
here, 1t would have been more to her
credit"
Well, | amt ever complained lor
begged" rejoined Mrs. Kemp. mo.
body can say / have, whatever zap
pens. There's the rent money due.
anG that, ew dressmaker has come to
GoWn apG the works falling off. and
don't know y hats goin to become
Of us, but aint complained nor
begged
There's the ban3!" cried Lucy.
1t was a very warm day for the sea-
son-almost as warm as midsummer.
Fhe WinGuWs were wide open. The
two women and the girl leaned their
heads out and listened. They could
with their hands full of flowers, ran
past
They're Just forming down at the
town hall said Lucy Annie Dole
and Lottie are just going
"They came over here for flowers
this morn ng," said her mother. and
I told 'em / hadn't any to give All
l had was lilacs. besides that little
early rose-hush, and they'd got ali the
lilacs the wanted Of their own, and
there was ally just three roses on that
bush anu I could not bear to cut EN-
The proa1 sion aint coming-the mu-
sic don't sound a mite nearer. 1t won't
be here fer au hour yet"
The thr seated themselves and fell
to sewing again. The two older women
swung out their long arms with stern
persstency. Their faces were harsh
and sad, and had similarity of fea-
ture as we'll as expression. Lucy, the
young girl, bent weakly over her
work. The room was full If the faint
band music, and the perfume or l!!acs
She wished in her heart that she could
put on her hest dress and go out with
the othe- Is, but she Id moth az
They sat in the kitchen. The floor was
swept clean, and there was no fire
in the polished cooking-stove; it was
early in the afternoon. Presently
Lucy looked UP. Mother" said she,
cant | stop sewing and run outdoors
minute?'
where 90 you want to go?'
Just outdoors minute
Lucy was seventeen, but she seemed
like child in her manner toward her
mother.
81 don't care, said Mrs. Kemp.
* s'pose the child gets dreadful
tired sewing the whole time" she said
to siste~ after Lucy A3a geae out
"Somelimes / feel kind Of worried
about her"
"She won't get tired sewing much
longer, nor we, neither if we don't
have mcr~ work come in, retorted her
sister, grim,y. We aint got mite
ahead We've GOT to so on the town,
for all l see. She said town" with
scCrnful fear. as If it We're an enemy
10 whom she must surrender.
II don't s'pose Phebe AIMS husband
will lift h fingers to lip us. even
It she shou be taken away. and he
LETT without chick nor child in tas
s~.:--1a > sa;1 Mrs k7,an
Remarkable Sea Monster.
A remarkable sea monster WAS re-
Gently caught in Port Fairy bay by
some fiisharmen. 1t measured nine