The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-16

APRIL I6, 1925.
IA span is all that we can boast,
An niche or SO of TYNE;
Man is but vanity and dust
In all his fiowere and prime"
Among the sun-dials in this section
is one on DIR. a.. 4. Applegate's lawn.
Englishtown, the old wooden one at
Washington's headquarters, Rocky
Hill. and a number Of beautiful ones
in homes along the seashore.
Old wooden, stone and bronze dials
are excessively scarce.
There are sundials of brass, of which
metal un-dials were generally made. on
several old Protestant Episcopal
churches in England.
Besides brass, sun-dials were made
of stained glass, marble, ivory, china.
bronze, pewter, silver gold and wood.
Those who went to the st. Louis
Exposition will remember the beauti-
full dial made of flowers along the
sightseeing tower.
We would be pleased to receive
copy of the inscriptions on n sum
dials our readers know about.
We have found in our search that old
sun-dials with Inscriptions or date are
excessively scarce.
There is a sun-dial at Mt. Vernon
Va.
The only octagon shaped one we
have ever seen reads:
my face
Marks the Sunny Hours
What can you say of yours.
1916"
Some of the old sun-dials werefor-
merly used for other purp nes as
shields, tombstone inscriptions, &c.
. The old dials were made round,
quare, oblong, shield-shaped and
octagon, the latter being excessively
scarce.
They were also portable ones made in
the shape of rings, cylinders, pyramids,
square box-shaped, &c.
Sun-dials are of stained glass, marble.
bronze, wood, stone, ivory and cement,
but the latter claimed to be old Egypt
ian are made from modern cement.
II stand amid ye summer flowers,
Totellye passage OF ye houres,
When winter steals ye flowers away,
I tell ye passinge of their day,
o man, whose flesh is but as grasse.
Likesummer flowers thy life shall passe
Whgles tyne is thine laye up in store,
And thou shalt live forevermore,"
4he nightcometh the hour TOO CO. es apace
am a shadow, SO art thou,
mark tyne, dostthou.
Now is yesterdays tomorrow.
Life's but a shadow,
Man s but dust,
This Dali says,
by all we must.
Love your soul for you will die
love and be happy, when you can,
For you will die
Sun-dials were from the size of a
watch tor the vest pocket to very
large ones.
On the west front of st. Paul's
Protestant Episcopal church, Prince
George county, Maryland, about twenty
miles from Washington, d. c., is an
old dial bearing on its face the motto.
"Sic transit gloria mundi," and it is
claimed has been there since the church
was built 2 0 ears ago.
In the enclosure of the gas works,
corner 23d and Market streets, Phila-
delphia, is a memorial dial to COM
memorate the builders and building Of
the Market street bridge and the four
tablets on the base tells about that
structure. 1t was removed to its pres
ent location when the bridge was pur-
chased by the city.
There is one at the Pennsylvania
Hospital, Philadelphia.
Standing ona gray granite pedestal In
the Friends burying ground, German
town, Philadelphia, on a brass plate
fastened to the stone is "Our days are a
shadow and there is none abiding"
There was before the structure was de-
stroyed by fire a large dial built in un-
der the belfry of the P, E. church at
st. Augustine, Fla.
There is an old broken dial in front
Of the old Catholic school building,
now US. Hospital 81. K~ingsbridge
New York City. in the gable Of a house
near Grace church, Brooklyn; one on
the Boston commons. a horizontal one
in Allegheny City Park, Pa; and a
floral one in Chicago.
In print for the first time.
Many sunny days have passed
Since these brief lines we're penned,
Now reader think and pause
And contemplate
The End.
Near East Relief