The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-13
TIE BRITISH DEAD.
. In rnui Among The T0mhs Of West.
minister Abbey.


John Paul writes from London to Il
|, New York Tribune: do not rcmCmb
i who it is that defines glory rs being kill,
: in battle and having ones name mi
| spelled in the newspapers. Worse sti
= to have il misspcllcd on n monumcn
BmgfcId, and not BringhcId, as the il
scription has it, was the name Of the ga
liant colonel:
EQucrry to his Royal lIighncS>
Prince George Of Denmark, aidcdc cam
and gentleman of the Horse To his GraC
We Duke of Marlborough (yc victorou
general of her mpjcsty'S forces beyond y
sca) who, while he WAS Rcmounting hi
Lord, upon fresh Horse, his formc
iayling under him. had his head fatal,
Shott by Cannon Ball in yc Battcll o
Ramclics ON Wednesday yc 18th day o
May in We wear of our Lord l70G and o
his Age So"
| 1t may please the Smiths the worl'
over to know that the Right llOnorabl
Anne, countess dowagcr of Clanrickard
was once a Smith, eldest daughter o
John Smith, ESQ.," even, who has
beautiful monument all to himself owe
in the south aisle.
Sir lssaC Ncwton's monument occupic
a left compartment Of tn" organ-scrCcn-
that Of Stanhopc occupying another on
the right, in 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 gray
itation--was indeed "thc 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 stccl-yard strikes me rs
neither bold" nor Striking" That he
never did, and what he really did was
much more difficult. lie got at the
heavenly bodies without stairs, and
weighed them in hand without the aid
of balances! No feeling Of lcyity comes
over you rs you stand by the grave OF
him who discovered the law Of gravity,
And the grave is Immediately in front OF
the monument, Il conspicuous spot, re-
pratcdlv refused to different nobcmcn,
who had asked for it, On the stone
above is written: " lie dcpostum quod
mOrtalc iuit lsaaci Ncwtoni." Near to
Ncwton'S grave lie two SCotsmcn, Robert
Stcphcnson-tO whose memory Il window
of stained glass has lately been given;
and Colin Campbell (Lord Clyde. And
vet another Scot, who went where en-
gnCcring has not to this period pcnc.
tratcd, 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 "cyangcIizc the ma
tive races to explore the undiscovered
secrets, to abolish the dcSOlating slave
trade of central Africa" David Living
stone, "missionary, traveller, philanthroP-
ist." sleeps beneath this black marble
slab; his cpitaph closes with the last
words he wrotc-n quotation from his
Master: "Othcr sheep have which are
not of this fold; them also 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:
I" 80 great is my love Of truth that
there is nothing | would rather know
than the causes of the river that have
laid hid through 50 many ages"
This insignificant tablet, whcrcon a
simple name and dates onl y arc written,
is to Henry Wharton, an eminent thco
logian, who died in 1919, age 3l-thc
most voluminous writer Of his years in
the world. 50 it goes. He who writes
the most is the least written about.
The monument to the "mOst valuable
memory of William Congrcvc, -ctt
up by Henrietta, Dutchcss OF Mari
borough, as II mark how dearly she re-
members the happiness and honor she
cnioycd in the sincere friendship of 50
worthy and honest man, caused a
good deal of talk mt one time. Sarah,
mother of Henrietta, uneOmpromislng
dowagcr that she was, made no bones Of
letting off her opinion of it. llaPpl,
ness perhaps; honor she can not say
There was no need of pcrpctuating such
a scandal in stone, and considering the
notorioilsneSs of the alliance, the in
scription had more appropriately been
written in brass.
The first wife of Sir Samuel Marland
has two inscriptions on her back, one in
Hebrew, another for the benefit, prOba
bly, of those who do not read Hebrew
lucntly-in Greek. Not to be partial,
the same widowcr few years after fires
both barrels of his (or some one else's)
eruditiOn over n second wife (whO has
been clcvcrIy brought to bay near by),
giving the parting shots this time in
Hebrew and Ethiopic. All may not bc
upin Hebrew, he reasoned, perhaps; some
may not read Greek, but surcl y none can
he ignorant of Ethiopic.
Now you see our country on the walls
for the first time. The province of Mas.
sachusetts bay ercctS, by order of general
court, memorial to Lord Howe, who
fell on the march to Ticonderoga in 1853.
Later in the century this same Massa.
chusetts, then a state, was unfortunately
as well as unwisely called upon to furnish
more material for monuments. And q re.
minisccncc Of our great struggle with the
mother country we find in this monu
ment to Andre, beloved and esteemed
by the army in which he served and Ia
mcnted even by his foes" 1t has 4
mOurniul interest to many, for all arc