The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-27
THE BRITISH DEAD.

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who Il Is that defines glory as being killed
in battle and having ones name mis-
spelled in the newspapers. Worse still
~ have h miszneIIad an a nonnmenti
Bingfeld, and not Bringfeld, as the in
scription has il, was the name of the gal.
liant colonel:
"Equerry to his Royal Highnesse
Prince George of Denmark, aide-de-camp
and gentleman of the Horse to his Grace
We Duke Of Marlborough Eye victorious
general of her msjesty's forces beyond We
sea) who, while he was Remounting his
Lord, upon a fresh Horse, his former
fayling under him, had his head fatally
shott BY Cannon Ball in We Battell of
Ramelies on "Wednesday We 18th day of
May in We year of our Lord l706 and of
his Age So"
1t may please the Smithg the world
over to know that the Right Honorable
Anne, countess dowager of Clanrickard,
was once Smith-"eldest daughter of
| John Smith, ESQ.," even, who has a
| beautiful monument all TO himself over
! in the south aisle.
| Sir Issac Newton's monument occupies
q left compartment of tn OTgan-screen-|
that of Stanhope 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 1.-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-yard strikes me as
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 by the grave of
him who discovered the law of gravity. |
And the grave is Immediately in front f
the monument, a conspicuous spot, re-
peatedly refused to different noblemen,
who had asked for it. On the stone
above is written Hic depOsitum quOd
mOrtale fuit Isaaci NewtOni." Near to
Newton's grave lie two Scotsmen, Robert
StephensOn--tO whose memory q window
of stained glass has lately been given;
and Colin Campbell (LoTd Clyde. And
yet 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 "evangelize the ma.
tive races, to explore the undiscovered
secrets. 10 abolish the desOlating slave
trade of central Africa" David Living
stone, missionary, traveller, philanthropy
ist," sleeps beneath this black marble
slab; his epitaph closes with the last
words he wrote--a quotation from his
Master: "Other sheep have which are
not Of this fold; them also must bring,
and they shall hear my voice."
The accompanying Latin verses from
LucRn, though written to describe the
desire Of Julius Cesar to penetrate one
vail which then, as now, hung over the
sources Of the Nile, accurately embodies
the aspirations Of the later Livingstone:
So great IL my love of truth that
than the causes of the river that have
laid hid through so many ages.n
This insignificant tablet, wherein
simple name and dates only are written,
Ia TO Henry Wharton, an eminent thee.
Logan, who died In l649, age 3l--the
most vOluminous writer of bis years in
the world. So 1t goes. He who writes
the most il the least written about.
The monument To the "most valuable
memory" Of William CongFeve, +" sett {
up by Henrietta, Dutchess of Mari. {
borough, Al mark how dearly she re-
members the happiness and honor she
enjoyed In the sincere friendship Of 90
verify and honest a man." caused a
good deal Of talk at one time. Sarah, z
mother Of Henrietta, uncomprOmising
dOwageT that she was, made no bones OF 8
letting OF her opinion Of It. "Happi-
ness, perhaps, honor she can not say. !" d
There was no need OF perpetuRting such 4
q scandal in stone, and considering the v
righteousness Of the alliance, Che in I
scription had more appropriately been \
written in bras. Il
The iirat wife Of Sir Samuel MARYLAND Il
has two inscriptions on her back, one in G
Hebrew, another for the benefit, proba. G
bly,, OF those who do not read Hebrew q
huently--in Greek. Not 10 be partial. o.
the same widoWer a few years after Ares q
both barrels Of his Cor some one elsa'sl II
sEuditi0n over q second wife (Who hss 81
been Cleyerly brought 10 bay near by), q
ylYsng the parting shots this time n 8
Hebrew and EthiOpic. All may not Be al
iptn Hebrew, he reasoned, perhaps some n
nay not read Greek, but surely none can Q,
q ignorant Of Ethi0pic. d
Now you zee our country on the walls n