The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-13
THE BRITISH DEAD.
) I'm Paul Among lIsC Tombs Of West
miHsfcr Abbey.

/ , Inn Paul Among HE TOmbs Of West
minister Abbey
John Paul writes from London to the
. New York Tribune: | do not remember
who it is that defines glory as being killed
in battle and having ones name mis-
spelled in the newspapers. Worse still
TO have it misspelled on monument!
/ Bingfeld, and not BTingfield, as the in
/ scriptiOn has it, was the name of the gal
/ liant colonel:
" Equcrry to his Royal Highnesse
/ Prince George of Denmark, aide-de-camp
and gentleman of the Horse to his Grace
/ We Duke of Marlborough (ye victorious
] general of her maiesty's forces beyond ye
/ sea- who while he was RcmoUnting his
Lord, upon a fresh Horse, his former
| fayIing under him, had his head fatally
sbott by a Cannon Ball in ye Battell of
Ramelies on Wednesday We 18th day of
| May in We year of our Lord l7OG and of
his Age So"
1t may please the Smiths the world
over to know that the Right Honorable
/ Anne, countess dowager of Clanrickard,
was once a Smith" eldest daughter of
John Smith, ESQ.," even, who has a
in the south aisle.
a left compartment of the OTgan-scrccn-
that of StanhOpc occupying another on
! the right i'll the nave. The philosopher
is represented incumbent, slightly raised
on one arm, as he may have lain under
the tree when watching the fall of the
apple which-if there be anything in the
popular account of the discovery Of grav
itation-was indeed "the fruit of the
tree of knowledge" All the devices on
the monument do not please me, illUstra-
tive though they are meant to be of his
discoveries and achievements. Weighing
the sun by a steel-yaTd strikes me rs
neither bold" nor " striking" That he
never did, and what he really did was
much more difficult. He got at the
heavenly bodies without stairs, and
weighed them in hand without the aid
of balances No feeling of levity comes
over YOU as you stand bysthe grave of
him who discovered the law of gravity.
And the grave Is Immediately in front of
the monument, a conspicuous spot, re-
peatedly refused 10 different nOblemen,
who had asked for it. On the stone
above is written: i" HiC depOsitum qUOd
mOrtale fuit IsaaCi NewtOni." Near to
/ NewtOn's grave lie two ScOtsmen, Robert
Stcphenson-tO whose memory Il window
of stained glass has lately been given;
and Colin Campbell LOrd CIyde). And
vet another Scot, who went where en-
gineering has not to this period pene-
trated, and carried peace into Africa
further than Clyde did war into India,
rests near. " Brought by faithful hands
over land and sea, after years of weary
travel, undertaken to ''Cvangelize the ma
tive races, to explore the undiscovered
secrets, to abolish the desOlating slave
frir
stone, "mis5iOnary, traveller, Philanthrop-
ist." sleeps beneath this black marble
slab; his epitaph closes with the last
words he wrOte-a quotation from his
Master: L" Other sheep l have which are
not of this fold; them also l must bring,
and they shall hear my voice"
The accompanying Latin verses from
Lucan, though written to describe the
desire of Julius Caesar to penetrate one
vail which then, as now, hung over the
sources of the Nile, accurately embodics
the aspirations Of the later Livingstone
q So great is my love of truth that
there is nothing l would rather know
than the causes of the river that have
; laid hid through so many ages"
This insignificant tablet, whereOn a
; simple name and dates only are written,
; is to Henry Wharton, an eminent theO-
, logian, who died in 1919, age 3l-the
t most vOluminOus writer of his years in
t the world. So it goes. He who writes
, the most is the least written about.
The monument to the "mOst valuable
memory" " of William COngrcve, sCtt
up by Henrietta, Dutchess of Mari
l borough, rs 4 mark how dearly she re-
members the happiness and honor Ehe
. enioved in the sincere friendship of 50
! worthy and honest a man." caused a
7 good deal of talk at one time. Sarah,
! mother Of Henrietta, unCOmprOmislng
: dowagCr that she was, made no bones OF
D letting off her opinion of 1t. Happi-
r ness, perhaps; honor she can not say.
S There was no need of perpctuating such
5 A scandal in stone and considering the
{ righteousness Of the alliance, the in
, scription had more appropriately been
t written in brass.
e The first wife of Sir Samuel Mariaud
has two inscriptions on her back, one in
d, Hebrew, another for the benefit, prOha
blv, of those who do not read Hebrew
> HuentIv-in Greek. Not to be partial
F. the same widOwer a few years after fires
] both barrels of his (Or some one clse's,
r erudition over a second wife (WhO has
been clevcIly brought to bay near by)
+ giving the parting shots this time IT
70 / Hebrew and Dthl0plC- All may ltbG Dt
/, upin Hebrew, he reasoned, perhaps; some
= NAV not read Greek, but surely none car
e be ignorant of EthiOpic.
> Now YOU see our country on the walls
for the first time. The province Of Mas
sachusctts bay erects, by order of genera
court, a memorial to Lord Howe, wh'
y fell on the march to Ticonderoga in lT56
n Later in the century this same Mas7a
t. cbusetts, then a state, was unlOrtunatel.
h As we'll as unwisely called upon to iurnlSl
/ more material for monuments. And re
( miuiscence of our great struggle with tn
g mother country we find III this monu
e nent to Andre, beloved and esteeme'
D. bv the army in which he served and Ia
e mented even by his foes" 1t has
n mournful interest To many, for all ar
4 familiar with the story. Many want a me
/ ,nonto. too. and the head Of Washington
II broken off and carried away by visitor:
% has been three times renewed. Boys {
r the nation find it easier To get ahead {
1t Washington now than did the men {
C. I776.
" All my life long I've reen looking fo
< a uerfect woman; now when ] find OH
Sc she's dead Just my luck But th
le brief and feeble tribute TO the departe
r. worth which | find OH her tomb shall 2
a, imperishabIy on record in these cla~si
s. columns:
''To the Memory Of Mrs. Katharin