Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-17

To sing with saints in ceaseless light
Around the throne with cherub
bright; ar
Where babes like me are ever blest
And in the arm of Jesus rest!"
Another is:
"The Gardener came and with one
stroke
He from the root the offspring took,
Took from the soil wherein it grew
And hid it from the parents view"
A mothers words:
"Oh, William, dear, my darling child
The treasure of my heart,
Why was it that should be called
With thee so soon to part?'
Here is one that may cause passing
smile:
"Oh think not that you are safe when
in your health:
The kick of horse was the means of
my DEATH"
But listen to this poor fellow:
sickness was my portion,
Medicine was my food;
Groans were my devotion,f n
Drugs did me no good. III
THE Lord took pity on me,
Because He saw it best, iE,r p.
And took me to His bosom,
And now my soul is at rest o'
One often runs across Inscriptions
on these memorials that do indeed
cause a smile but it is quite doubtful
if they caused people of less frivo-
lous age to smile
Listen to this one:
Sarah Pierce is my name, n
Baltimore county, Is my nation, ~
Ohio is my dwelling place, ~ q
And Christ is my salvation.
Now am dead and in my grave,
Where all my bones are rotten:
When this you see remember me
Lest l shall be forgotten"
Mound Cemetery will be largely Wis
tied by our guests to the Federation of
Women's Clubs and every effort should
be made to get it in the prettiest con-
dition possible.
How would you like to stay in bed
ON Sunday morning and hear a sermon
too? That is what some of the people
in Columbus are doing. They not on
ly get the sermon but they get themu
ic and prayers as well. They are re-
ceived by telephone and any number
of people can "cut in" The arrange
ment was made for the benefit of the
sick and those who can not get to
church but many others used 1T last
Sunday. All who tried the experiment
say that they could hear as well as if
seated in the front pew. Among the
listeners were persons who were un-
able to leave their homes or their
beds for years. The use of the tele-
phone for this purpose may soon be-
come general.
How would some of the boys of Mar
ietta like to try the washer woman
business? If the story that comes
across the waters is true. boys must
be trying it there.
Boys in London are being trained as
washer women. An officer of the
church army" first conceived the plan.
The church army has 1O2 homes, where
it keeps for time the men, women,
and children it rescues from crime and
misery. In most of the houses set
apart for boys the youths We're for
merly put to work cutting kindling
wood or other work of the sort, but
the supply of boys presently exceeded
the demand for the work they were
doing, and it was then that the officer
devised the scheme of the laundry.
Most of the boys when first intro
duced to the tubs, the wringer and
ironing board, grumbled a lot about
being made old women Of" but the
idea appealed to them more on the
whole than chopping wood. They re-
garded it as huge joke at first, but
before they knew it they began to
take real interest in the work, ant
were fairly expert when the church
army found them situations elsewhere
The boys do not do fine work, but they
can do their own linen very well. In
fact two boys became assistant super.
intendents and have been lntrusted
with fine clothes.
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