The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-02

Grub street. Igo into that poets corner OF
Westminster Abbey, and there l find the
grave Of Handel, the musician from whose
music we hear to-day, as it goes down re-
verberating through the ages. While !
stand at the costly tomb Of Handel, can
not forget the fact that his fellow musi-
clans tried TO destroy him with their dis
cords 90 little further in the poets
corner Of Westminster Abbey and I find
the grave of John Dryden, the great poet.
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 a thousand
verses at siXpence q line. | go q little
further on in the Poets Corner and ! find
the grave of Samuel Butler, the author of
'Hudibras." Wonderful monument,
diei In garnet. l move further on in
the Poets Corner and find the grave OF a
poet OF whom Waller wrote: IAN
old schooimaster by the name
of John Milton has written a tedious
volume on the fall of man. If
its length be no virtue, it has none" l go
little further on in the Poets Corner and
Sheridan. Poor Sheridan! Magnificent
mortuary honors. What a pity it was he
could not have discounted that monument
for mouthful OF something to eatl D. un-
flial children, give your old parents less
tombstone
AND MORE BLANKETS,
less funeral and more bedroom. Five per
cent Of the money now expended al Burns
banquets would have made the great Scotch
poet comfortable and kept him from being
almost harried TO death by the drudgery Of
an exciseman. Horace Greeley, outrage
ously abused while he lived, going out to
hls tomb was followed by the president OF
the Uuited 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, 1t
the tomb Of Charles Sumner, tried to atone
for the ignOminious resolutions with which
her legislature denounced the living sena-
tor. II WAS too late. The costly monument
At Springfield, Ill, cannot pay for Booths
bullet Costly mortuary hUnorS ON the
banks of Lake Erie-houors that cost be-
tween $2OO,0O0 and 500, OUD-cannot pay for
the assassination of James 4. Garfield. Do
justice to the living. All the justice you 30
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 pro-
cessi1n, or see the polish on the Aberdeen
granite. or to read he words of epiJaphal
commemoration. Costly mausoleum Of the
gentleman in the suburbs of Jerusalem can
not atone for Beihlehem'S manager and
Calvarean cross and Pilates ruftian judi
CARY
again! Standing in this place where the
Lord lay, | am impressed with the fact that
flora! and sculptural ornamentation are APP
prOpriate for the places of the dead We
are Ill glad that il the short time OF the
Saviour's inhumation he lay amid flowers
ard sculpture. ! cannot quite understand
what ! see in the newspapers where amid
the announcements OF obSequies the friends
request
''sEND no FLOWERS"
Why, there is no place 50 appropriate for
flowers IS the casket of the departed. If
your means allow repeat, if your means
allow-iet there be flowers on The cdsket,
flowers on the hcarse, flowers on the grave.
Put them or the brow; il means coronation.
Put them in the hand; it means victory.
Christ was buried in parterre. Christ
was buried in garden. Flowers
are types of resurrection. Death is
sad enough anyhow Let conservatory
and aboretum do all they can in the way OF
alienation. Your little girl loved flowers
while she was alive. Put them in her
hands, now that she cannot go forth and
pluck flowers for herself On sunShiny
days twist a garland for her still heart.
Brooklyn has no grander glory than her
Greenwood, nor Boston than her Mount
Auburn, nor Philadelphia than her Laurel
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Grove, nor San Francisco than
her Lone Mountain. What shall l
say Of those country grave
wards where the vines have fallen down
and the slab is aslaut, and the mound is
caved III, and the grass is the pasture
ground for the scxtOn's cattle. Are your
father and mother Of SO little account you
have no more respect than that for their
bones' Some day gather together and
StraiChten up the fence. and lift the slab
and bank up the mound, and tear out the
weeds, and plant the shrubs. After a
while, you yourself viii want to lie down to
the last slumber. II you have no regard
for the bones of your ancestors. your child 1
rem Will have no Difference for your bones. I
Do you say these relics are of no inpors
tance2 You will see Of how much ing
plrtancc they are when the archangel takes
out his trumpet. Turn all your
GRAvETARpS INTO GARDENS
Standing in this place where the Lord
lay. ! am also impressed with the dignity of