Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-08


infant mortality seems to be exceptionally
large in the vicinity, as very many young
children are buried here; the favorite cpl
taph for such seem to be:
Sleep on sweet babe and take thy rest,
For such as thee our Savior blest.
It appears on more than a score of head
stones: On the grave of q child which lived
only one day is the appropriate verse:
How short the race
that manuel run
Cut down in all his
bloom.
The course but yesterd-
ay begun
Now finished in the tomb.
A sense of complete satisfaction in the de-
crees OF Providence is expressed in the fol-
lowing, which sounds more like jig than
like dirge:
Early dead early blest,
Rest in peaceful slumber rest
The extreme activity of Licking county
infant may be known from this:
Little baby he is happy.
With the angels far away;
But we miss our darling BERTHE,
For he Is at rest forever more.
Another did not seem to require "rest" 50
much as pedestrian exercise, for:
And then on time he closed his eyes
To walk in glory in the skies.
Botanical possibilities, in a future state,
are we'll shown by the Information that:
A lovely bud hath faded,
But, ah! twill bloom again.
At New Paris, o.. a physiological phe-
nomenon is indicated, as follows:
Sweet little lamb,
For earth too fair
Has gone to heaven
To unfold there.
A lamb in the process of unfolding might
be an interesting sight. At country grave
yard near Dublin, o., q writer has made sad
havoc with the grammatical second person:
We mourn thy loss for you wart dear.
But why so selfish as to wish thee hear:
There you art safe to feel those ills no more.
This. this alone. thy partner chears
And joy wips off the briny tears.
Near Mays Lick, KY. on the upper por-
ton of the headstone is represented woman
of most grotesque figure, with what was in
tended as a smile enliyening her features.
One arm rests on an altar; the other hand
points to an inscription which reads: my
kind husband is dead" Below this is
carved:
Lordi he was Thine and not my own;
charge Thee not with wrong
But thank Thee for the gracious loan
Afforded me SO long.
Phillips. Maysville. Fecit.
At Mount Gilead, KY, widower, who
evidently was fully convinced that marriage
was q success, and had no idea of long re-
manning alone, placed over his wife's re-
mains:
A loving wife, devoted mother;
Where can man find such anotherf
By thus making it known tina. he was in
the market, he soon secured another spouse.
In Bainbridge, O., is one suggestive of good
food and wet weather, along with an intima-
tion OF celestial equality somewhat at yari-
ance with the ideas of modest people:
"Now she has assembled high
Her smiling SAVIOUR for r0see
To rain with him above the sky
From time to all eternity"
Near it is the most sensible epitaph ever
saH-concise, expressive, truthful, making
no claims to transcendent moral qualities,
or supernatural knowledge o. future condi-
tions; giving no advice as to how survivors
should conduct themselves; but only plain,
matter-ot-fact assertion that cannot be con-
troverted; simply
Farewell; Pm Of
In unfayorable contrast with this is the
following from Falls Church, Virginia:
Weep not for me that is dead and gone
But for your sins pray daily mourn
My race is run my grave yous
Prepare for death and follow me.
In St. Johns churchyard, Richmond, Va,
is very full and explicit account of q
young man whose friends were desirous he
should not be forgotten:
Here lies the body Of
Mr.. Daniel Denoon,
: Gunmaker of this City, who was
Shot by James McNaught. 9th Feb 1925,
after being in his employ
years, 3months ana Is days.
Aged % years, months and Is days.
Lament, ye his friends-your loss deplore,
For virtuous Daniel is alas no more;
And you to whom each social merits dear
DroD DER his grave tributary tear;
For each loved attribute his soul possessed,
And now in heaven enjoys eternal rest.
One interesting point is omitted-why
should such good young man be shot?
The many good qualities of buried hero
are duly enumerated in this graveyard and
the account concludes as follows:
This stone
Is monument of the devoted affection
of his bereaved surviving widow.
Imagine the unfortunate gentleman's
plight if his widow had preceded him to the
spirit landi
Beneath the name of very young man is
written:
His genius fed up to the stars
from whence it came, and
that warm heart of thine
with al. its generous and
open vessels compressed
into clod of the Valley
That is the end of it; the writer had evil
IDENTIFY attempted flight of imagination
that carried him, also cup to the stars, )" and
so we may never know what it was all about.
KY. @.
A TYPICAL ENGLISH WOMAN.
Stnnley's Lady Love and Millais' Fiction
That Made Her Famous.
Before very long Miss Dorothy Tennant
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