The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-12

walked about q mile on tho level. and
ttlon we assembled quite high hill
and there, OH the bosom OF wide
plateau, cnCircled by beautiful noun
tains. was the cemetery. The day was
one Of your exquisite nutumnal ones
the woods were tie most glorious
things 1 had ever seen, for our trees
do not turn into tho burning bush OF
Moses in England. l stood quite stills
beauty of it all. My friend waved her
hand and said: There Is our Gods
Acre. love TO come here. and often
do so. Somehow IL takes all the
When things go very wrong with mo
] always come up here to get steadicd
and tranouilized Mnny of my dear
ones sleep here ! looked at her in
amazeIncnt.
u only remembered dark, dank.
dripping chnrchyards and the monu
mcnts have mentioned. and had
found them anything but pleasant,
When she said. Come on!' with a
sweet smile that ! still recall. i, fol-
lowed, and IN about ten ,ninutcs We
simple massive arch and stood Within
the sacred Enclosure The place was
as green Us Ireland 1t was bcautifully
cared for II was full OF late blooming
flowers. j was also flooded with sun
shine and q. delicious breeze swep: over
H. Ny friend Went to her family lot.
the flowers she had brought. propped
W some chrysanthemums and trained
some ivy around two heads tones, while
looked silently on. On one large
dear mother. name. age and date
on another was Bessie whom we 50
miss. but cannot mourn On third
was Blessed are the dead who die IN
the Lord, and tho name. age. date
On fourth the magnificent verse
~ 1ro N ms Aposry Il about the angel
nance is like lightning and whose sal
utauon is Peace In the next lot
w iss,,a,s, ,.s., marked simply:
Who.commhs him 10 Christ, the Resu,-
rcction and the Life. On little
hiaeys .as aston was. Little Emme
could fnd no resting place for the
sole OF its feet. and 1t returned into the
ark Everywhere there was faith.
most say happiness. We walked 81
lentiy all over the place After. ter
Fiele suffering, sweetly borne. sister
PEI and underneath, after the usual
entres Right dear in the sight Of the
Lord Is the death OF HIS saints on
another read. John and Hannah Nor
timer, after nifty years of happy mar
ried life, vest here In the certainty OF
joyful resurrection The family
,ene' ne family feeling. the Sweet.
Fhe religion OF those tomhs was 50
'rinarkable TO me and SO beautiful
that from that day 10 this l have never
asi;i death In sil the cemetery
We're rulgar and in bad taste. Ana
observed the same thing at two Other
cemeteries &c that i yisited--one in the
" est and enc in the south What /
/ had missed from our monuments was
| the personal tenderness. The simple ex-
!,ression Of the inourners love: and 1t
vlrW 20 what others would think and
say Wedseh up in one corner OF the
Western cemetery was a newmadt,
! EieNe Single headboard was there
ct hae u
I printed on coarse wrapping paper and
s ~. BIN, IN cleft Of the Single was,
NY Hapy u seemed to me far more
aHeclins than the ROYAL ones. 1t was
rcEai; Tor it expressed the poor moth
heartbreak To her there wasn't
n nno,. s Raby on earth. Very likely the
| poor Soul never could afford any othe,
epllaPh or monument, but that Was
Jcnnne's Mother.
The mother Of Zcbcdcc's children,
i WIS q type OF whole tribe OF women,
bound TO the whole family of man only
oy having a. Sood husband and dear
ana'd IRE or ,leir own. to whom they
gre intensely devoted. They are ,nscl.
nsh women, and tender hearted. ind
h ms the1r glory and delight in the
next - ,h SKI ICY, ga ana serve for whom;
put IN this world at all, And doing
.n ,e duty by them fully. in their own
PA , tney are Of far more value to
them stupid" and marrow mind ed. :"
ana spread out their benevolence and
81 pf' Iifa Ike butter on the bread
OF lie, so illimitably and foolshlv lint
, no one Is benefited by 1t in the least,
a woma an Is not called upon to rule + Ia
unm,l,ycrse, but to make Zebedee and the
t thaia. en-, happy and comfortable and
20 tneHiAa pleasant one 10 many an
other: they are not called UPON 10
s Msigh INC stars, but TO Keep tho lamps
niled and the brasses shining and Tia
name or the hearth bright and warm
since next to that OF the altar It is
me most sacred, beautiful and bench
70 regulate the world. but to com fort
I and help to make 1t sweet and fair:
goad 10 tmrow brick bats, but to make
some, one else to do SO There is moth.
ing III this world finer for q woman
20 90 than to keep {, clean heartll, 10
loves own help and welcome for her
| own family and friends beside t az
long as she lives sixteen languapes
/ I'VE I've. Instruments. distinction in a col
itSe course. mathematics. astronomy.
philosophy. biology, phllology, pa thol,
oey. enthropology, botany. oonchologv
I1 eos So,, ana fifty other ologies and
IN the same breath with these three
simple propositions, when tho value or
"omans life comes 10 be summed
s!stent Influence for good; that cen
Taiizsng weight Of association and
hap't which Is too often lacking in
modern character" The shrine q
household duties. beauties and pietics
Is sadly neglected IN these days BY a
large body Of foolish women, Sto
,hlnk 10 ut tie world with a feeble
lever ana fulcrum OF their own wilfnI
invention, which they greatly prefer
70 the mighty one that God has nut
IN their hands: but. though water can
pe forced uphill by constant hydraulic
pressure, 1t naturally runs down. il
always has. and a,wayg VIII Whi,e
as Hro"ning says, Cod in His woridr'
4ero VIII always be domestic women,
: ana Happy homes, lot the Adrlamites
| frahce-GeoTge SANDS Nohant-thors
Is an Old. old feuda! graveyard in which,
sne lles under a huge. hidcous kind oi
| stone chest with her children nbou,
nor. under the oh9cure name OF the nus.
| paahd enc repudiated and disgrncsa