The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-09
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SIeaya an Interesting une. and
nany collections 81 lhen have been
Published but whit. the nddisy uf
aH,s. 49, ssss,sl.! saseir, sysr ifzs:s
absurd ~ thrs maY ~ - nA, thst
we're bpt ia" earnest expression of
deep feeling oa the part 81 The sim
pie maufnsrR Rho rgactsd Them
their lack nf education and of hu-
tesqueasss ~ ghe sentiments they
express. SAYS the <ew York san No
one can suppose for a moment tha,
The coe boys who bad engraved over
the remains uf their companion He
done hts daneast angels could do
no more. were not perfectly in ear
nest In their tFibute to the worth Of
their friend In New England
graveyard there is an inscription
which expresses the same apprecia-
ton IN somewhat more polished
terms
This modest stone. what few vain
marbles can.
MAY truly say. here Hes an honest
man
Calmly he looked on life. and here
Saw nothing 20 regret, or there 20
fear
From the same locality comes an
epitaph of quite different tone,
and one that awakens no regret at
our not having known the
speaker:
"Adieu. vain world. I've seen enough
Of thee.
And | am careless what thon say
est of me.
From the graveyard of Metho-
| dist church IN ST Louis comes an IN
scription which should meet with
! the approval of the advocates Of
! phonetic spelling. though we fear
| the sentiments II expresses would
not receive their appreciation.
I Here lie a stranger brav,
who died while fishin' the Suthern
Confederacy to save,
| Piece to his dust. BRAVE Suthern
friend, you reached a glory
! us END,
We phase this stone above the stran-
gers he'd,
i In honor of the shiverlus ded.
Sweet spirit, rest in Heven. Their
be know Yankis there
| Another epitaph to a brave soldier
of Scotland, who also fell in battle
runs thus:
Here lies the body of Alex Mac
pherson
He was a very extraordinary person
He stood six feet two, without MI
shoe.
And he was slew at Waterloo
The burying grounds of New Ems
land, especially those along IN
coast. furnish many quaint inscrll
tions From a Vermont village OF
+ has been copied which might VII
nropriety serve for the hundred vi
tins of unloaded guns whose dealt
: are so often recorded:
ooh. fatal gun, why was it him thf
YOU should kill so dead?
Why didn't you go off higher an
fire above his head?
If is a regularity of the SAM
cemetery that in nearly every III
stance the manner of death by whlcl
the deceased came to their END Il
recorded One was killed by
whale" another commentaries
sailor who died in port.
Rude Boreass winds and Neptune
waves
| Have tossed me to and FRO.
Bv Gods decree. You plainly see.
I'm harbor'd here below.
Still another has the laconlc re-
| mark
Hes done a catchin cod and gone
to meet his God.
Graveyards around some OF me
quaint old churches in rural parts oil
England furnish many amusing cpl
taDhs. and in the South Carolina
Gazette of September ~. l''s, We
find the following, copied from
tombstone in church in ESSEX
Here lies the man Richard ana
Mary his Wife.
Their surname was Prltcharo. ihtN
lived free from strife,
And the reason was plain. they
abounded in riches.
They nor care had. nor pain ana
the wife wore the br'.'h's.