The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-26

Another set of four lines that has
probably been used seven thousand
times in the newspaper indicated dur
ing the past ten years is adjustable,
and can be made to fit any age, sex or
condition in life, and yet be personal.
1t runs as follows:
Dearest --, thou hast left us,
And your loss we deeply feel;
But tits God who has bereft us,
He can all our sorrows heal.
The blank is filled with the word
father, sister" brother "hus-
band" Cousin" or may even be the
Christian name of the departed, pro-
vided it did not happen to be Obediah
or other name of four syllables. The
spirit of resignation in the lines is
truly beautiful, and the last line is
parhaps particularly applicable to the
case of widows
Occasionally the chief obituarfest of
the family has read much, although
perhaps not Understandings, and then
the quotation after the prologue is Ger
tain to be shot at the stars-some-
times overlapping a bit. This for a
sample:
There. is no death.
What seems so is transition;
A sudden ceasing of the breath;
And then we call him dead.
The next is more elaborate and
gives considerable of the story. It is
also constructed on the interchangeable
plan and can be used in almost any
emergency, substitutions of pronoun3
being all required. 1t is perhaps over
critical to note such a small matter,
but the fact that line one and line six
directly contradict each other has
never caused the hundreds of users the
slightest annoyance:
Had He asked u.s. we'll we know
We should say, 80, spare the blow"
Lord, we love him, let him stay"
In love he lived, in peace he died,
His life was asked. but God denied
The husbands who use the following
lines, twelve months after bereave-
ment, should certainly be entitled to
take notice" again, for there is real
affection as we'll as confidence implied:
A helpmeet, kind and true;
In bonds of love
We lived on earth glad years a few;
She waits above.
Some people have an idea that con-
cealment consists in keeping a thing
constantly in view. The protest that
the grief of the bereaved ones is hid
deep in the hearts is hardly sustained
by giving to a daily newspaper the
following:
one year has passed, but still we miss
thee.
Friends may think the wound is
healed.
But there's none who knows the sor-
row.
Deep within our hearts concealed.
Here is a memorial that seemed to be
almost confession. 1t appears oc-
casionally signed wife" and some of
the husbands yet in this vale of tears
may give the widow credit for admit
ting the lectures and discussions after
lodge night entertainments:
Sleep, loved one, sleep;
Thy pain and tolls are DER,
Sweet be thy rest,
So oft needed before
The cheerful disposition seems to
have been characteristic of a great
many of the people, of the nearby CITY
for the following has been used prob
ably five hundred times in the past
twenty years:
Thorough all pain at time she'd smile
A smile of heavenly birth,
And when the angels called her home
She smiled farewell to earth.
Through all the years the custom,
has prevailed there does not appear
one doubter. The faith evidently that
has kept in mind a loved one for
whole year after his or her depart,ra
is sufficient to assure those remaining
a safe passage across the Styx. Hun
dreds of the little poems speak con-
fidently of the meeting on the other
side of the River. This. for instance:
Although a meeting here below
To us no more is given
Well cheer ourselves with happv
thought;
Wen meet again in heaven.
Occasionally an assignment is made
for natural phenomena that must
stretch things a little II the date Ia
10 be fillad. In the annexed annual