Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-30

hiIttus 1 ~ INFO bhdJ EOeUS corner OF
Westminster Abbey and there find tie
grave of Handel, the musician from whose
music VIC hear today as it goes down re-
verborting through the ages. While
. | stand at the costly tomb of Han
del cannot forget the fact that
his fellow musicians tried to destroy him
with their discords goa little farther in
the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey
and find the grave of John Dryden, the
great poet. Costly monument, great NOR
tuary honors, but cannot forget the fact
that at seventy years of age he wrote about
the expressions Of misfortune, and that he
made "A contract for thousand verses at
sixpence a line. 90 little farther in the
! Poets Corner and find the grave of Sam
uel Butler, the author of "IIudibras."
! Wonderful monument costly mortuary
| honors. Where did he dieY In a garnet.
/ move farther on in the Poets Corner
and find the grave of poet of whom
Waller wrote: can old schoolmaster by
che name Of John Milton has written
tedious volume on the fall Of man If it's
! length beno virtue it has none" goalittl
farther on in the Poets Corner and find
fthe grave Of Sheridan. Alas for Sheridan.
Poor Sherdan Magnificent mortuary
honors. What pity it was he could not
have discounted that monument for a
mouthful Of something to eatl Oh, unfilial
children, give your old parents less tomb
| stones and more blankets, less funeral and
more bedroOm Five per cent. of the money
| now expended at Burns banquets would
! have made the great Scotch poet comfort
! able and kept him from being almost har-
red to death by the drudgery of an excise
man. Horace Greeley outrageously abused
while he lived-going out to his tomb was
| followed by the president Of the United
| States and the leading men of the army
and the navy Some people could not say
| bitter enough things about him while he
| lived; all the world rose up to do him honor
when he died. Massachusetts, at the tomb of
! Charles Sumner tried to atone for the ig-
nominiOus resolutions with which her
| legislature denounced the living senator
| 1t was too late. The costly monument at
! Springfield, Ills, cannot pay for Booths
! bullet. Costly mOrtuary honors ON the
! banks of Lake Ere-honors that cost be-
| tween $500, 600 and $500 O00--cannot pay for
! the assassination of james A. Garfield
! DO justice to the living. All the justice
! you do you will have to do this side the
| gates of the metropolis. The dead cannot
wake up to count the number of carriages
in the procession or see the polish on the
! Aberdeen granite or to read the words of
! eptaphal commcmoration, Costly mausO-
| leum of the gentleman in the suburbs of
Jerusalem cannot atone for Bethlehem's
Manager and Calyarean cross and Pilates
ruilian judiciary
APPROPRIATE ORNAMENTS FOR ToMBs
| Againi Standing in this place where the
| Lord lay | am impressed with the fact
that floral and sculptural ornamentation
are appropriate for the places of the dead
| We are all glad that in the short time of
the Saviour's inhumatiOn he lay amid
! flowers and sculpture | cannot quite
understand what see in the newspapers
where, amid the announcements and OBJ
seQuies, the friends request "send no flow
ers" Why, there is no place 50 appro-
pirate for flowers as the casket of the de-
parted If your means allow repeat, If
your means allow-let there be flowers on
the casket, flowers on the hcarse, flowers
on the grave Put them ON the brow; it
means coronation, Put them in the hand;
! it means victory. Christ was buried in
| partcrre Christ was buried in a garden.
| Flowers are types of resurrection. Death
| is sad enough anyhow. Let conservatory
and arborctum do all they can in the way
Of alienation, Your little girl loved flow
ers while she was alive. Put them in her
hands, now that she cannot go forth and
pluck flowers for herself On sunshiny
days twist garland for her still heart.
Brooklyn has no grander glory than her
Greenwood, nor Boston than her Mount
Auburn, nor Philadelphia than her Laurel
! Hill, nor Cincinnati than her Spring Grove,
nor san Francisco than her Lone Noun
! .l,,I %
grayeyards where the vines have fallen
down and the slab is aslaut and the mound
is caved in and the grass is the pasture
ground for the sections cattle. Are your
father and mother of SO little account you
lave no more respect than that for their
honcs2 Some day gather together and
straighten up the fence and lift the slab
and bank up the mound and tear out the
weeds and plant the shrubs. After
while you yourself will want to lie down
to the last slumber, If you have no re
gard for the bones of your ancestors, your
children will have no Difference for your
bones. Do you say these relics are of no
importance? You will see of how much
Importance they are when the archangel
takes out his trumpet, Turn all your
gravcynrds into gardens
FOUR ONLY PRESENT AT THE BURIAL.
Standing in this place where the Lord
lay | am also impressed with the dignity
of unpreteuding obsequies. Joseph that
day was mouruer, sexton, liveryman-had
the entire charge Of all the occasion. -Four
people only at the burial of the King Of
the Universe. Let this be COnsoatOry to
those who, through small means or lack of
| large acquaintance have but little demon
stTutiDn of grief at the grave of their dead