The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-02-07
to bis death. Il is without doubt the best
Of its kind in existence

Nomore feel each urging breath
Ny steam Is now condensed in death
iAtes railway o'ef. each station past
IN aeath 1 m stopped, and rest II last
Some epitaphs are entirely too fulsome,
while not few err in the other direction.
This is particular apt to be the case when
the subject of the notice is woman, and
the writer, her husband, or rice rersd. We
have heard of the brute who deliberately
put over his deceased wife's head, the
words:
Here lies my wife saIile-Let her Ne y
shS's a. peane-and ~ am 1, - .
But think Of the man who could plant
little shrubs on the grave Of his wife, and
then write verse like this.
plant these shrubs on your grave dear ,gife -
Ihat something ON this spot may boast ollie:
ne shrubs may wither, you Ia ihe earth must rot;
ih'y may revive but you, thank God, cannot
On a stone in the burying ground at
Sag Harbor, Long Island, is cut the fol-
lowing at first rather puzzling inscription /.
behold ye living mortals. passing By
How thick the pardenen Of one husband le
Vast aud unsesrchAble are the ways On God;
Just but severe his Christening rod.
This is inscribed over the remains of
the third wife of Capt Hand; but notwith.
standing the severity of the christening
rod, the Capt. passed under its lashincs
twice more, and last Of all died himself,
having married and buried four out Of the
i've wives in ten years.
Another from England, with an explain.
atory postscript attached by his. widow:
Here lies the remains of Thomas woodheu
The most amiabe.of husbands and excelientof Of men
~ His real name was woodcock, but il wouldn'
1t is possible-barely possible--thoush
we doubt it, that an epigraph more gran.
eloquent, more extraordinary than the
following eau be found. Its authorship
might, perhaps be attributed to some spring
poet. Ii is from England
ELfsAByru
The wife OF Richard larklamb
passed into eternity on sunday. 2lst May. 1877.
IN The list year Of her age
kicHABD BARELANH
the anti spouse uxrious
was Inferred here g7th January 1876.
IN his sith year
WILLIAM BARKLAMn
Brother to the preceding
september 1th, isq, aged Gs Year..
When terrestrial all in chaos shall exhibit eierves
cpnce.
when celestial with their full eifuigent briliisn
| ebnlltion shine
Transcending 10 glorious regions latIacal suhiine
Then human power absorbed, deficient 10 delin,saie
,,,, such erOleent lasting sparks
where henestp plsbians ever will have preccdenc,
oNti Ambiguous, great mnnarchs.
n thJ grave yard at Jackson, Michigan
a stone stands, bearing remarkable epi
taph. 1t was the conception Of bereavet
aud disconsoate widow in commemoratiol
Of her deceased husband
Ny dear husband, erect this monument In memar
OF YOU
hope twin be pleasing to God and to you.
The friends Of one Robert Sorden. o
Union District, South Carolina, deserib
his physical characteristics, in very plai
words, devoid Of any redundancy, but per
haps savoring Of some little cxaggeration
Here lies the body Of Robert sorden.
Mouth almighty. and teeth accordln
Stranger tread lightly over this wonder
II he opens his mouth your Fe gone by thunder.
Epitaphs furnish rich opportunities 70
punning, which some are not slow to avai
themselves Of. One Of the best of thi
Kind is that on Mr.. Bywater an English
man:
Here lies the remains Of his relatives pride
ByWater he lived and by water he died,
Though by water he fell yet by water he'll rise
by water buptismRl attaining The skic.
! Another is found 10 Byron's works, OF
John Adams Of Southwell, carrier, VIII
died Of drunkenness:
John Adams lies here Of the parish Of ofsouthwcli
A OITrler who earrtod his can 10 his mouth we'll
lie carried 80 much and he carried 40 last
lie could curry no more-sO was Carried at last:
] For, the liquor he drank, being too much for one
He could not odUg 0h,-so he's now oari-0n
On William Moore, Stepney Church
Here lies Que Aors and no more than he:
Ono More aud pc a.orr how can that beG
Why one NoFo and more may Tie here alone:
But here lies one More and that's more than one
Proposed by Douglas Jerrold for Charlie
Knight, the Shakspearian critic:
Good knight
Another on the tomb Of an auctionee
at Greenwood
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