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Here is the first eemetory ever laid out. Machpelah was its name. Itkvas an arborescent beauty, where the wound of death whs bandaged with foliage. Abraham, 5 a rich man, not bein able to bribe- the kinjr of terrors, proposes here, as far as possible, to cover up the ravages. He. had no dovibt previouslj' noticed this region, and now that Sarah, his wife, had died that remarkable per son, who, it ninety years of are, had born to her the son Isaac, and who now, after ghe had reached one hun dred and twenty -seven years, had ex pired Abraham is negotiating for a family plot for her last sluipber. Eph ron owned this real estate, and after, in mock sympathy for Abraham, refusing to take anything for it, now sticks on a big price four hundred sheckels of silver. The cemetery lot is paid for, and the transfer made, in the presence of witnesses in a public place, for there were no deeds and no halls of record in those early times. Then in a cavern of limestone rock Abraham put Sarah, and a few years after himself followed, and then Isaac and Rebekah, and then Jacob and Leah. Embowered, picturesque and memorable Machpelah! That "God's acre" dedicated by Abraham has been the mother of innumerable mortury observances. The necropolis of every civilized land has vied with its metrop olis. The most beautiful hills of Europe outside the great cities are covered with obelisk, and funeral va.-.o, and arched gateways, and columns, and parterres in honor of the inhumated. The Appiau Way of Rome was bor dered by sepulchral commemorations. For this purpose Pisa has its arcades of marble sculptured into excellent bas reliefs and the features of dear faces that have vanished. Genoa has its terraces cut into tombs, and Constan tinople covers with cypress the silent habitations, and Paris has its Pere la Chaise, on whose heights vest Ralzac, and David, and Marshal Xey, and Cu vier, and La Place, and Moliere, and a mighty group of warriors, and paint ers, and musicians. ' In all foreign na tions utmost genius on all sides is ex pended in the work of interment, mummification and incineration. Oar own country consents to be sec ond to none in respect to the lifeless body. Ever3' city and town and neigh borhood of any intelligence or virtue has, not many miles away, its sacred inclosure, where alTt-ction hs.s engaged .sculptor's chisel and florist's spude and artificer in metals. Our own city has shown its religion as well as its art, in the manner in which it holds the mem ory of those who ha,ve passed forever away, by its Cypress Hills, and its Evergreens, and its Calvary, and Holy Cross cemeteries. All the world knows of our Greenwood, with now about two hundred and seventy-five thousand inhabitants sleeping among the hills that overlook the sea, and by lakes, embosomed in an Eden of flowers, our American Westminster Abbey, an Acropolis of mortuary architecture, a Pantheon of mighty ones ascended, elegies in stone, Iliads in marble, whole generations in peace waiting for other generations to join them. No dnrmitorj or breathless sleepers in all the world has so many .mighty dead. Among the preachers of the Gospel, Bcthune and Thomas DeWitt, and liishop Janes and Tyng, and Abeel, the missionarv, and IJeeeher mul llud- diugton, and McClintock and Inskip, and Hangs and Chapin. and Noah .Schenck and Samuel Hudson Cox. Among musicians, the renowned Gottsehalk and the holy Hastings. Among philanthropists, Peter Cooper and Isaac T. Hopper, and Lncretia Mott and Isabella Graham, and Henry Bergh, the apostle of mercy to the brute creation. Among the literati, the Carys, Alice and Phoebe; James K. Paulding and John G. Saxe. Among journalists, Ilennett and Raymond and Greeley. Among scientists, Ormsby Mitchell, warrior as well as astrono mer, and lovingly called by his sol diers "Old tars." Prof. .Proctor and the Drapers, splendid men, as I well know, one of them my teacher, the other my class-mate. Among inventors, Elias Howe, who through the sewing machine, did more to alleviate the toils of womanhood than any man that'ever lived, and Prof. Merse, who gave us magnetic telegra phy; the former doing his work with the needle, the latter with the .thunder bolt. Among physicians and surgeons Joseph C. Hutchinson and Marion Sims and Dr. Valentine Mott. with the following epitaph which lie ordered cut in honor of Christian religion: "My implicit faith and hope is in a merciful Redeemer, who is the resurrection and the life. Amen and amen." This is our American Machpelah, as sacred to us as the Machpelah in Canaan, of which Jacob uttered that pastoral poem in one vers: "There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife; there they buried Isaae and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah." At this Easter service I ask and an swer what may seem a novel question, but it will be found, before I get through, a practical aud useful and tremendous question: What will res urrection day do for the cemeteries? First, I remark, it will be their super nal Wautification. At certain seasons it is cu .tomary in all land to strew' riowors over the roo-.n Is of the de parted. It may have been sug DH. Proprietor. "PROVE ALL DUNN, HARNETT gested by the fact that Christ's tomb was in a garden. And when I say garden I do not mean a gar den of these latitudes. The late frosts jx nnux ami nie eariy irosts ol au tumn are so near each other that there ! are only a few months of flowers in tlie field. All the flowers we see to-day had to be petted and coaxed and put under shelter, or they would not have bloomed at all. They are the children of the conservatories. Hut at this sea son and throup-h thr -r.j.-,t of the year the Holy Laud i-; b;.ih with floral opulence. You find f t:.j ;.;.-t 1 family of flow ers there, sc ih . t you supposed in digenous to the i'ar noil'.!, arid others indigenous to the far south the daisy r.nd hyacinth, crocus and anemone, tulip and water lily, geranium and ranunculus, mignonettee and sweet marjoram. In the college at IJeyrout you may see Dr. Post's collection of I about one thousand eight hundred i kinds of Holy Land flowers; while amoiig trees are the caks cf fi-ozcn elunes, and the tamarisk of the tropics, walnut and willow, ivy and haw thorne, ash and elder, pine and syca more. If such floral and botanical beauties arc the wild growths of the field, think of what a garden must be in Palestine! And in such a garden Jesus Christ slept after, on the soldier's spear, His last drop of blood had co agulated. And then see how appro-, priate that all our cemeteries should be tloralized and tree shaded. In June Greenwood is Brooklyn's garden. ...."Well, then," j-ou saj "how can you make out that resurrection day 'will beautify the cemeteries? Will it not leave them a plowed up ground? Ou that day there will be an earthquake, and will riot this split the polished Aberdeen granite, as well as the plain slab that can afford but two words Our Mary,' or 'Our Charley?'" Well, I will tell 3rou how resurrection day will beautify the cemeteries. It will be by bringing up the faces that were, to us once, and in our memories are to us now, more beautiful than an3' calla lily, and the forms that are to us more graceful than any willow by the waters. Can you think of anything more beautiful than the reappearance of those from whom we have been parted? I do not cr.re which way the trea falls iu the blast of the judgment hurricane, or if the plowshare that day shall turn under the last rose leaf and the last china aster, if out of the brokcu sod shall come the bodies of our loved ones not damaged, but irradiated. The idea of the resurrection gets easier to understand as I hear the pho nograph unroll some voice that talked iuto it a 3ear ago, just before our friend's decease. You touch the lever, and then come forth the very tones, the very song of the person that breathed into it once, but is now de parted. If a man can do that, can not Almighty Gocl, without half trying, return the voice of your depart ed? And if He can return the voice, wli3' not the lips and the tongue and the throat that fashioned the voice? And if the lips and tongue and the throat, wh3' not the brain that suggested the words? And if tin brain, why not the nerves, of which the brain is the headquarters? And it He can return tha nerves, why not the muscles, which are less iugenious'.' And if the muscles, WI13' not the bones, that are less wonderful? And if the voice and the brain and the muscles and the bones, why not the entire body? If man can do the phon ograph. Go d can do the resurreetion. Will it be the same body that in th last day shall be reanimated? Yes, but infinite improved. Our bodies change every seven year, and yet, in one sense it is the sa'c ' On my wrist and the second f l ight hand there is a sea . ' ; ..: i.". it at twelve vears of ago. --. .-titusted at the presence of t "-. is, I tot. It a red hot iron and burred the in off and burned them out. Since then my body has changed at least a half dozen times, but those scars prove it is the same body. Vfe never lose our identity. If God can and does sometimes rebuild a man five. six. ten times, in this world, is it m3's- tenous that He can rebuild him once more, and that in the resurrection? If He can do it ten times I think He can do it eleven times. Then look at the seventeen-j-ear locusts. r6r seventeen years gone, at the end of seventeen years they appear, and by rubbing the hind leg against the wing make that rattle at which all the hus bandmen and vine-dressers tremble as the insecti e host takes up the march of devastation. Resurrection every seventeen 3-ears, a wonderful fact! Another considera tion makes the idea of resurrection easier. God made Adam. He was not fashioned after any mod el. There had never been a human organism, and so there was nothing to copy. At the first attempt God made a perfect man. He made him out of the dust of the earth. If out of or dinary dust of the earth and without 1 1 1 1.1 . 1 a moaei uoa count iuuhc n perieci man, surely out of the extraordinar3T dust of mortal bod3 and with mil lions of models, God can make each one of us a perfect being in the resur rection. Surely the last undertaking would not be greater than the first. See the gospel algebra; ordinary dust minus a model equals a perfect man; extraordinary dust and plus a model equals a resurrection bod 3'. Mysteries about it? Oh, yes; that is one reason why I believe it. It would not be much of a God who could do things only as far as I can understand. Mys teries? Oh, yes; but no more about the resurection of you body than about its present existence. I will explain to 3'ou the last mys-' ter3 of the resurrection, and make it as plain to you as that two and two make four if 3ou will tell me how your mind, which is entirely independent of your body, can act upon your body, so that at your will your e3'es open, or your foot walks, or your hand is ex tended. So I find nothing in the Bible statement concerning the resurrection that staggers me for a moment. All doubts clear from m3' mind. I say that j the cemeteries, however beautiful now, 1 will be more beautiful when the bodies j of our loved ones come up in the moru- ing of the resurrection. 1 THINGS. AND it- O.T.n T?A!sP rir -4 CO., N. C. THURSDAY APRIL 19 They will come In improved condi tion. They will come up rested. Tho most of them luy down nt the l:istverj tired. liovv oft-si you have heard therxf &ay: "I am so tired!" The fact is it is A tired worid. If I should go,througl thU audience, and go around. t'i. world, I could not find a pcrscig in any stvle of life ignorant of the sensation of fatigue. I do uot bef ; lieve there are fifty persons in thii audience who are uot tired. Your head is tired, or your back is tired, or you foot is tired, or your braiu is tiredj or your nerves are tired. Long jour neying; or business application, or bel reavement, or sickness has put on 3"of hcav3' weights. So the vast majoritj of those who went out of this work! went but fatigued. About the poores place to rest in is this world. Its at mosphere, its surroundings, and even' its hilarities are exhausting. So ioi life and inercifuilj closes the eves, and more especially gives quiescence to the lung and heart tnat nave r.ot naa ten minutes rc from the first respiration and the firs beat.. - If a drummer boy were com puled if the army to beat his drum for tvvent, four hours without stopping his oilicel would be court-martialed for cruelty! If the drummer boy should be comf peled to beat his drum for a week with! out veasing.day and night, he would diy in p.ttemptiiig it. But under j our resi raent fs a poor heart that began its druip beat for the march of life thirty, 0 forty, or sixty, or eightj' years ago, an?1 it has had no furlough by day or Uj night, and whether in conscious or cons- atosa state it went right 1 u, 101 nit naj! s'opped seven seconds j'our life wonTi have closed. And your heart will kej. going until some tune alter your spirit has flown, for the anscul-tator fhnf. r -f 1 tli. lsijf. Pnii"ili(n f-f Iunsr and the last throb of pulse, and aftr the spirit is released, the heart keep? on beating for a time. What a mercy, then, it is that the grave is the plat: where that wondrous machinery ventricle and artery can halt! Under the heathful chemist of tin soil all the wear and tear of nerve arfr muscle and bone will be subtracts and that bath of good fresh, clean. sui will wash oft tlie last ache, and the some of the same style of diij-i out of which tlie bodj- of Adu4: was constructed 'may ''be infus'l into the resurection body. Hctv. can the bodies of .the hnmaji race, which have had no replenish mefi! from the dust since the time of Adafi in Paradise, get &ny recuperation fro. the storehouse from which he wfu constructed without our goin baL into the dust? That original, life-giviaj material having been added to the.bo5 a3 it once was, and all the defects leT behind, what a body will be the rcsiirrc tion body! And will not hundreds) thousands of such appearing' above tp' Gowanus Heights make Green woin more beautiful than any Janeinoiin ing after a shower? Tlie dust of tk earth, being the original nuiterja for tlie fashioning of the first humjjii: being, we have to go back to the sajjit place to get a perfect bod3. There will be no door knob on ht inside of our family scpulcher, for Wc can not come out, of ourselves; lii; there is a door knob on the outsi?. :ind that Jesus shall 1 y hold fvf, aud, opening, will say: "Gox. morning! You have slept lotac enough! Arise! Arise!" And tiien wlra' a flutter of wings, and what ikishili; of rekindled e3rs, and what gl some rushing across the family Ht. with cries of "Father, is that 3Toi?' "Mother, is that you?" "My darling is that j'ou?" How you all hy changed! Tlie cough gone, the croiij gone, the consumption gone, the pa ralysis gone, the weariness gone Come, let us ascend together The older oues first, the 3'oiine. ones next! Quick now, get iuto line The skyward procession has alreatl; started! Steer now by that embaiih ment of cloud for the nearest gatT And, as we ascend, on one side lu earth gets smaller until it is no largei than a mountain, and smaller until: i: is no larger than a palace, and smaflei until it is no larger than a ship,, iixt' smaller until it is no larger than a wheel, and smaller until it Js no lai-ei than a speck. t: Farewell, dissolving earth! lJutJOn the other side, as we rise, Heaven first appears no larger than 3-our hawd. Ana nearer 11 looKsiue iv.cnariot, aw nearer it looks like a throne, amo nearer it looks like a star, and neajrer it looks like a sun, and nearer it looks like a universe. llil scepters that shall alwaj-s waive! Hail, anthems that shall alwav roll! Hail, companionships neyei again to part! That is what re?ur rection day will do for all the ceme teries and graveyards from the Mach pelah that was opened by Fatlic. Abraham in Hebron to the Machp-Aah 3-esterday consecrated. And that makes Lad3r. Huntington's immortal rhj'tlins most apposite: jj When thou, my righteous Jude shaH coifae To take Thy ransomed people hoaic, j Shall I amonr tTiem stun i? Shall such a worthless worm a- I, Who sometimes am afraid to Cie. Bo found at Thy right hand? Among Thy saints let me b- fojnl. 1 I Whene'er th' ar- hnel's trump shall aoocd To s$e Thy siuiiia;; face: Ji Then loudest of th throng I'lbi!?, si WbJlo heaven's rasoaadin.? arhs ring ! ; With shout of sovereign gracefc ,ti. aJesca TeDd-rns i ' Jesus gives help kiudty. He rn-ht have said:" "Forgiveness is granfjted even to the vilest; go and sin no mce." But He did say: "Neither do I fon denin thee; go and sin no more." . He might have stood aloof from Martha and Mary, and simply shown -fllis power by calling Lazarus from rthe dead, but lie first wept with themgind then took away their grief by restor ing to them their brother. He nifght drive the stra3red and lost memboi- of the flock back into the fold, but He gathers the lambs with His arm nd carries them in His bosom. Una ted Presbyterian. , p I love that tranquillity of sori in which we feel the blessing of existence, and which in itself is a prayer aad a thanksgiving. Longfellow. f; r! THAT wuipii l2 nnnn, : '. That there wasn't a saucier rebel In all tho sunny south, Tvras easy to tell by tho mischievous eyea And thoremiles of her roguish mouth. Eut how she hated the Yan-es, She couldn't bear the name; IIow dared they come and whip us? It was a burning shamel" Ono 6f those selfsame Yankees Came to her Dixie one day, And ere the week was over She'd stolen hia heart away. But how should she treat her -captivef Tie couldn't bo shot, ycu kno.w, Because the war n as ended Two dozen years ago. So, in order to keep him prisoner The rest of his life in3tead, Bho rec'soned soe'd havo to marry htm, tho' 'Twas a burrirng shame," she satd. Blue and Gray. Soma Var Correspondence. COPYIUGHT, 1SH4. E is too ycung and imp ulsivc," said one of the older members of the c onvention, speaking In an un dertone to a group of associates sit ting near. "That would not matter so much ii he were a poorer . debater. The trouble is that he is too eloquent and apt to be too severe in retort," add ed another. "Some one should suggest to him to overlook the personal part of Col. Lo Bey's remarks," the first speaker re joined. The face of everyone in the little knot suddenly darkened. . The stately Col. Le Bey rose, and asked the privilege of the floor for a few minutes to make a personal state ment. : "Does the gentleman yield?" in quired the chairman, of the young man who was thus interrupted. ' "I do," answered the gentleman ad dressed, in a quiet, courteous tone. 4 "Now, once for all, I wbsh it to be clearly tmdcrr.tood that while I am firm ly and conscientiously opposed to this resolution which takes our state out of the union, I shall go with th state if that is the determination of this con vention." Col. Le Bey's words rang through the chamber. "It is as ut terly impossible for us to break, away without a resort to arms as it is for human strength to stay the tides of ocean, or for the human mind to grasp the infinite. I do f-ee another way, 1 though, to accomplish our desire not through blood and the racrillce of lives and properly, but iu a peaceable manner, through agitation and educa tion. These hot-headed 3-oung men : are hurrying us on too fast. I know that our people hare gone violently insane on this proposition; but, 6ir, if we take this step our fields will bo wasted b3' armies aud our cities will be fuel for trie torches of an enemy whom we will respect more a few years nence than we 00 now. Col. Le Bey spoke earnestly and his words sank deep in the minds of hi3 listeners, but they received scarcely a munnur of applause. Now the former speaker resumed, It was clear that he was on the dodu- lar side, lie knew that -i.-.tory was being made. lie felt the gravity of the hour. II is speech grew im passioned. Carried awa- by his im petuous, burning eloquence, the audi ence swayed before bim. His flashing eyes swept the crowded galleries. "We are not worthy of our mothers if we hesitate at this Rubicon," he exclaimed, and the ladies broke into almost hys terical applause. Once, this young man eloquent was on the verge of replying with biting sarcasm to his elderly opponent. But, again, the speaker's, glance turned to the galleries. He rr.w a f-lfght; fair figure there ihrukbck for an instant, . A BURNING SHAME. I i $1.00 Per Yejr. In Advance 1894. F.s if before an expected blow. The next, that form recovered and ho felt a look of defiance shot back at him. No one elso in that assembly saw this tableau, though every eye was follow ing the orator. He paused for just a second, perhaps, and then there was a deep sigh of re lief as the phrase which was leaping from his lips turned into a tribute of respect and esteem for "the distin guished gentleman" who opposed the resolution. "A.nother Patrick nenry." some one shouted as he sat down. The applause was wild. The waving kerchiefs in the galleries gavo that part of the chamber the appearance of a cloud of snow. Delegates crowded about thp youth ful looking speaker and nearly crushed him with demonstrations. "Berrien! Berrien! Berrien!" cried the assembly. The tall young man, with face aglow and eyes sparkling, rose and bowed modestly in acknowl edgment of the ovation. In a little time the roll call wa-3 com pleted and another state had with- draru from tho federation of sovereign strtcs . Berrien made his way slowly toward the lobby. He saw the spectators de serting the seats above. He hoped to intercept one of those who had been looking on. His movement" was the signal for a rush from the gaUeries. 'The hundreds who had just been cheer ing him wished to grap him by the hand. On emerging from, the chamber he found himself surrounded by a larger throng than before. It was im possible for several minutes for him. to mako his w?y toward tlie marble stairway which was his immediate ob jective point, lie got one glimpse of the face which answered his look when he had paused in hi3 speech. But he could not read the expression. He saw emotion, but ho could not say what it was. A surging mass of peo ple, few 01 wiiom no knew, intervened. While he stood there, his progress blocked, Col. Le Bey passed around the crowd, took his daughter by tho arm, and, accompanied by the other ladies of her part-, pasted on toward the street. Col. Le Bey left tho city nest day, taking his daughter with him. He deeply regretted the action of his state, but no one suggested that he con templated forsaking it at this juncture. He would kaep his word and follow his state to which he declared his alle giance. It was rumored that he had gone away to place his daughter in the hands of relatives who, later, would tee that she reached Europe, where she had becu educated, and where she had many friends more, indeed, than in her native land. She had never known a mother, hers having died when she was an infant, and f-.he had spent near ly all her life with relatives abroad Col. LeLey was a rice planter on the ! j ft J y3' IS. St. i.,:, r BERKIEJI II T.D THZ CAyiZJOT TO THE II'S OF THE IAr. coast, and of course was an aristocrat whose life had something of tho flavor of an old feudal baron in it. Malcolm Berrien was a lawyer of only a few years' experience at tho bar. He had great natural gifts, and he had cultivated thcto. Ue was a fa vorite over a large sectioa of Itia state. NO. 8. $fiS ADVERTISE ING 13 TO nusi.'Vkjss Wii AT S 1 FAM IS TO- S-.tX'IIIJNr.IiY. TnAT Gpeat rorjxrx Powti; OO' )O0000OmOOOOO1O0O0OO000000UOOOOO Write up a uice advertisement abouc yourbusiuesslaud iMsert it in 'I'SIK C.V1'ESAI X:. 12 ELS and you'll "see a change iu business aP around." for he rode- tho circuits a ad the conrU ( took him into many counties from th wiregraps to the mountains. The sin cerity of his character was told in tb oft-quoted expression applied to hiro: "He always sticks to his Iriends." Berrien had met Miss L Bey during this convention to which he aud her father were delegates. She interested the up-country, la wj'er, and he ? her as frequently as . r.p-ortnnities would allow. She had runy admirers, but she had no friend, she- said. whom she appreciated more thia Mr. Berrien, for whom to oth ers she predicted a brilliant ca reer. But for that rcrH-er everyone ele did that. Coruilim.-ut did nnt poil him. And she wan too se edible a woman to be vain over the flattery be stowed upon her. The work of the convention c-ve-, Berrien returned home. In a lew months the war fever was on. Evc.y man, woman and child in Berrien's section was fom.rar. He got vp a com pany and was Elected capta? u. Tj . ; t was .some delay about getti-g Cn?p ments. The young men were eeger o get to the front. Berr"n's i! st lieu tenant declared one day that if to company did not g'et off by the nex" Monday he would goanyw. . ' ' the men started. They .m ro-uf-:.i ,.; the war would be over b fore the- gx f to tho scc-c of action. Later tktry re gretted that tcy had not been disap pointed in those earty daj's. '. 1 -7-irnent to which Berrien's covipanj- was attached wai sent to a port towi. aid there the men remained i-nth . : month without sn- . lllng pow rc 1 h: was aggravating to them. They wvro twelvemonths' men, and est! ?e mo tion of their term of oilisuv :'. ; proached they made arranv Ber.. . be transferred to a brigade which getting a taste of fighting. o their 3-ear was out, he've- r. ti t- -script act was passed am". - . - .- 1. for it. Soon after that t"'.. - : ice on the field, and some r t : r enough to thoroughly s.lL :.". ' . , eager spirits among them. i n- t lieutenant went home at the f . op portunity on some kind of 1 ?'v. One day there was a h:l churgL. Berrien sank to the ground with u bul let through a leg. II Li men p. - r--i. He dragged himself to a fcliade 1 ?ot. He thought that, ho would. V..-- xroin thirst. A desperately wounded, priv 1. 1 had water in a canteen, but r- :' reach it. Berrien Kec:rcd it, hei . v: : canteen to the lips of ho rrm . u then drank hi msclf. Tiicn they there for hours. The private said that bin n. a.. Jewett. IIw ga his corup?iy. ur.il regiment. He thought e wr. . going to die. 'Captain. I want 3 on ow:-'f -- tell my wif'S that I 'di ? ' I : . ;' is a cracker girl, but a3 goo . w-om . t as over lived. She Iovcb tue. V- uic. ried just as I., was' - cored n a-ay. . ! kissed her and come on to the fr.v. t.' Beiricn tried to cheer th" mai "You will get over thi. all right. Don't give up. Our beys will picV ' . up to-night and we will be tuke-n care of." Jewett was quiet a longtime, ri nall3" he eaid: "Ceptain, feel in my pocket and get the letter." Berrien did as requested. "I r,i3"t a very good by-nd on i-.j.d'.n writin', captafn. Vt'ouli yon mind readin'it tome?" ' v Berrien opened the pacl'e and cu he scanned th first 'page,' hf-.rr. Id to himself that Mrs. Jewett Ruvely did not write those lines. . Berries racl the letter aloud and it did J . good, lie remarked that lt bet ter and ho believed that i.c would get ; well. Capt. Berrien marveled at t'; tenderness of the letter and the rare grace with which the sentimeiit and affection were expressed. A few days later, both being; In a hospital, Berrien penned a rtply for Jewett. The latter suggested the . en timent and the amaauen-sis wrote. Jewett told of tho "relief given to him by the captain and told his wife that she must thank the captain. Jewett was disposod to make the cap tain play an important part in the bat tle, and would have given him credit for conducting a great part of the war if the captain had permitted it. - "She won't know that- you wrote this," Jewett remarked, appreciating the writer s modesty. When the letter was complete and was read over tohirrt, Jewett waj proud of it "That's the finest letter I ever have wrote," he exclaimed, look ing fondly at the sheets. "I generally put in a few more big words. I like to see .'nevertheless' in a letter." Berrien added a posteript: "Never theless." " Hwvo"al weeks passed. Both men were back with their commands. p8 day Jewett hunted Berrien up and pro duced a reply to the letter which had been written in the hospitaL It had not been opened. BerrieD broke the seal and read, lie was accustomed t do tills, for there were many inen in every regiment who could not road and write. The captain was pleased to find an inquiry in Mrs. Jewett'- letter about himself. He volunteered to an swer the letter .t once. After that he read and answered all of Jewctt's letters. " In each one that came, there was some question about Capt. Berrien. The latter wan te 3 very much to know who was coridncti::rr the correspondence at the other end of the line, but Jewett wished the cap tain to give Mrs. Jewett the credit. Ber rien 'could not get any information on this point. He would try to draw i . m out sometimes, feeling quite sure tha. the reader would not repeat it to Mr Jewett, for ho was convinced thnt t h fat worthy lady had no adyantasre. in edu cation over ber husband. Every effort of Berrien's on this line failed. Tfeo leading questions wero in variably evaded or the replies wero vagno. Once a letter came which contain. in addition to the usual personal refer ences to Capt. Berrien, a hypoth" c qe3tion which La substaace waa ih&t in the event "the captain fehould Lava the misfortune to bo unable to use sword or a pistol, who. would write bis letters home to his wife or his sweet heart, If he were unmarried. Berrien (Continued Next Week.)

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