Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — Our Nation’s Dead. [ARTICLE]

Our Nation’s Dead.

In seventy-five separate and distinct national cemeteries the bodies of nearly 900,000 soldiers who died during the civil war are Interred, and the decoration of their graves with flowers on the fixed day has become a national custom. Some of the cemeteries coataln eaffh a silent army of over 10,000 soldiers, In serried sanks, marked by the white headstones, on nearly half of which Is Inscribed, "Unknown.” The world may be searched In vain for anything similar or kindred. There Is no other such Impressive sight.—Scribner’s Magaslne. We have a great horror of" becoming so rich that we can afford a butler who will langh at our way of pronouncing French dishes. The larger the mortgage on a farm, the more likely It la to be called "Clearfield."