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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
ECENT press dispatches
carried the news that Dr.
William P. Rothwell of
Pawtucket, R. I. has
caused to be cut on a
huge boulder in Oak
Grove cemetery in that
city, where he, will be
buried, this inscription.
“This is on me.” Known
as an evergenerous host,
Doctor Rothwell has said
“This is on me” so many times while
paying the check that he wants it to
he Iast word. ‘When he
snys, he wants mourning among
his friends, and believes that the
familiar words on tomhstone will
bring smiles to them instead of
row.
his he dies,
no
he
his
sO
The Rhode Island doctor is not the
first to write his own epitaph and to
do it in a half-Jesting mood. Per
haps the most famous of all American
epitaphs was written by that first
great American, Benjamin Franklin.
at the age of twenty-three. It was:
The Body
of
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
printer
(like the cover of an old hook,
And strippe f its lettering and gild.
ing)
Lica here food for worms:
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will, as he believed, appear once
more
In a new
And more beautiful edition
Corrected and amended
by
the Author,
His wishes were not respected by
his family who thought that some oth-
er epitaph than this, which reflected
his career as a printer, would be more
appropriate. In the case of Robert
Louis Stevenson, however, it was dif-
ferent, and upon Stevenson's monu-
ment In Samoa appear these beaut)
ful lines which he wrote:
Under the vide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie,
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse yon grave for me;
“Here he lies where he longed to be,
Home is the sailor, home from sea.
And the hunter home from the hill”
The self-chosen epltaphs of two oth-
er famous men are nearly as well
known. Hilaire Belloe, the historian,
chose for his:
When 1 am gone,
faid—
His sins were scarlet, but his books
were read.
may only
this be
On the tomb of the poet Gay In
Westminster abbey appears this cou-
plet which he wrote:
Life is a jest and all things show it.
I thought so once and now I know it.
A walk through an old cemetery will
reveal some Interesting facts about the
things which people wish to have
known about them after they are
gone. Especially is this true of the
epitaphs written during the Colonial
days in America and the early days
of the republic, Many of them warn
the “friend” who is passing of the
certainty of death and judgment. In
some cases the passer-by Is hailed as
“passenger” Instead of friend, as wit-
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Fining
TIEN akan
Perhaps the strangest tombstone in |
the world, shown in the photograph |
above, stands in Highgate cemetery in |
London, England. It is a marble pi.
ano erected “To the memory of My
Beloved Husband, Harry Thornton,
Age 35, A Genius Who Died Oct. 19th,
1918." His epitaph also includes this |
stanza from a poem by the composer,
Puccini:
Sweet thou art sleeping
Cradied on my heart,
Safe in God's keeping,
While | must weep apart.
ness the following from a cemetery in
Elizabeth, N. J., dated 1781:
Stop. Passenger, here lle the remains
f of a woman who exhibited to the world
| a bright constellation of the female
| virtues. On that memorable day, nev-
| er to be forgotten, when a British foe
i invaded this fair village and fired even
temple of the Deity, this peaceful
{ daughter of Heaven retired to her hal.
{ lowed apartment imploring Heaven
| for the pardon of her enemies. In that
sacred moment she was by the blsody
hand of a British rufMan dispatched
like her div redeemer through a
wath of blood her long wished-for
ative skies,
{ the
i ine
t to
A good example of the combined
“historical” and “admonitory™ epitaph |
is found on the monument of Elihu
Yale, founder of Yale which
reads:
colege,
Under this tomb lyes Interr'd Elihu
Yale of Place Gronow, Esq. born 6th
April, 164%, and dyed the Sth of July,
1721, nged 73 years
Born in America, in Europe hred,
In Africa travelled, and in Asia wed,
Where long he lived and thrived, in
London died,
Much good, some
all's even,
And that his soul thro’ mercy’'s gone to
heaven
You that survive and read, take care
For this most certain exit, to pre-
pare,
Where, blest
the just
Smell sweet and blossom
dust,
i1, he did; so hope
in peace, the actions of
in the silent
Many of the Colonial epitaphs were
long-winded affairs, but the prize goes
to the brass tablet, dated 1778, which
appears on the walls of St. Peter's,
the oldest church in Bermuda. It
reads:
To the Memory
of
George Forbes, M.
Whom living
A singular complacency of manners
Joined with many useful talents
and eminent virtues
Render'd highly estimable
Blessed with a convivial disposition
In the cheerful hour of social festivity
He shone irreprehensible
And an agreeable companion
Ever assiduous in furthering good
humor and the enjoymenis of
sociality friendly to mankind
His endeavors to mitigate the evils of
life which b~ bore himself with temper
and philosophy were not alone
confined to the healing art
Long exercised by him with much
reputation
But were likewise exerted
In composing differences
testoring friendships
Interrupted
And promoting
Peace, harmony and mutual good
understanding
Among his fellow men
Having acquitted himself with
approbation
in the several relations of life
As he had lived, respected and beloved,
80 he died.
Lamented and regretted for those
virtues
And many others
which
D,
Tho' not enregistered on this tablet
are forever engraven
On the loving memory of hls surviving
riends
He died Jan'y 5th, 1178, aged 63 years
If the epitaph chosen by the Rhode
Island doctor seems a bit flippant, he
has plenty of precedent for this kind
John RR. Kippax, a Chicago
of which would seem
appropriate for a joke
graveyard, There Is the
sOIe
be more
book than a
to
in n cemetery in Cape May, N. J.
reads:
fair,
are
she was not
grief for her
She wan not smart
But hearts with
swellin’
And empty stands
She died of eatin’
her little chaire-
watermelin
the
In the town of Burlington in
same state appears this ome:
Here lies the body of Mary Ann Low
der,
burst while
powder
Called from this world to her heavenly
rest,
She drinking a seidiitz
should have waited till It effer-
vesced,
She
Mr. Kippax is the authority for this
Pp !
one, although he does not say where
it may be found:
Here lies the body of Deacon Speer,
Wh uth did reach fromear to ear
Str tread lightly the sod
Yyapes, youre gone hy
Ee mm
Inger, oer
For if he
cod
This one comes from Counecticut:
Here lies cut down like unripe fruit
Deacon An
cing tos much coffee
Anny Dominy eighteen forty,
ae Shute;
of driz
A similar one, over the grave of a
who "ved In Savannah
tells the passer-by that:
former slave
Ga.,
Here lien old Rastus Somminy
Died a-eating hominy
In "59, anno domini.
In an Indiana gravevard there Js
this brief record of a tragedy:
Here lien }
Killed by a sky
locket in my eye
In an Ohio cemetery is an Inscrip
often quoted, which reads:
Under this sod
And under these trees
Lieth the bod.
y of Bolomon Pease.
He's not in this hole
But only his pod;
He shelled out his soul
And went up to bis God.
What could be more appropriate
than this one, written for a Long
Island (N. Y.) carpenter:
No wonder he sawed short life's span
For long he was a (n)ailing man.
Brief and to the polnt Is this from
Schenectady, N. Y.:
He got a fish-bone In his throat
And then he sang an angel note.
And here 18 an old epitaph, date un
known, which in these modern days of
motor cars and reckless drivers should
be a warning to all of us. Especial
is It recommended that “Pedestrians,
paste this in your hat":
Here lies the body of William Gray,
Who died maintaining his right of wav.
He was right, dead right,
As ho sauntered along,
But he's just as dead,
As if he'd been wrong.
Wipe Out Fowl Pest
The heavy hand of the government
1 so emphatically upon the inva.
sion of the United States by an allen
foe that within two menths of the in-
vasion the foe was exterminated.
The foe In question was one of the
most dreaded of foreign diseases from
the farmers’ point of view—the Euro-
pean fowl pest.
It was discovered when several
farmers In Morris county, New Jer.
sey, reported a strange disease which
had broken out among their chickens.
Prompt investigation of the first re.
ports. which were received in June,
disclosed that the dreaded pest had
reached this country. Within two
weeks all Infested fowls and numbers
of others which had been exposed
were destroyed, and after a month
without further reports of the dis
ease, the federal officials were con.
vinced that the outbreak had been
suppressed while In the stage of
outbreaking.
Man's Vanity
There are two oceaslons when we
mien think we look splendid—when we
rig up In evening clothes and when we
have on the regalia of the Grand In-
side Doorslammer.—8t. Louls Globe:
Democrat.
SIA.
Wisdom
Who is wise? He that learns fron
every one, Who is powerful? He thnt
governs his passions, Who 1s rich? He
that Is content, Who is that? Nobody.
Franklin
|
What Home Ownership
Means to Average Man
into the family life of the
home owner—there you find right
thinking, thrift and pride. Father,
mother and the children weeding the
lawn, planting flowers and trees.
Would they take that same Interest
working In a yard where contentment
Is measured by dollars and cents, paid
to the landlord each month?
Spare time Is speat making Im
provements, placing a touch here and
there to enhance the beauty znd 1a
crense the value of the home place,
Drive the clhty
enslly distinguish the that
owned by the family within from
which Is rented The
his children a
Good el!
Look
nnd
home
over you can
is |
the
house home
hetter
of
het -
owner gives
zens grow out
homes. They are
1 re pect
well-established
command
their
if for any reason one has outgrown |
present there |
is some
in community.
remember
to take it
Il be proud to eall it
by ull
never
After
is evident that
one’s place,
one ready over
" ho wi
te
(ne
home. should means bu
another,
unless
your own
aimless
can be satist
one does anee ownl
it fife
dug
of livi
home
seems shi
for the privilege
one's property other tha
The American hon
dignity must he
Roof Important Unit
in Decorative Scheme |
modern i
tion, according
is complete harn
as
he pote In home decors
to leading authorities
of
building.
ony color, out
inside the
According
roof of a
against the elements a
well ns
to FY idea, whil
10uSe mo prote
ust he
it U8 A
promis
the
nouse,
also add to the beauty o
In vith
roofing materi
tured in the go
ors, With
* to make the
an
bined §
tasteful con jing 1 ha
with every architectural style and
ar scheme,
a roofing
ned |
By consulting
f
$i
wrinftion is obt
to what color roof is i
a red
residence,
brick house
or
buliding. ° hoes
he color of the trim se
roof and trim n foru
whole,
Protection From Fire
wlern 1
home
builder
els n
hen he plans
i
knows,
possible
his house
for « that a
portion
"
hn we
sample, cnn
OG
giderable 1 house fires
orizinate ments
ing plan
trash or ot
So
t
5
climbing
around heat
is or In of fuel,
infin
immable
KIOTCS neh
her material
he plang to prevent such figures:
upward and through his
house,
enter through the
which is exposed fis
bers. Firesafe shingles
inate the hazard and add
to the beauty of the home,
Real fire
resistive construct in e
walls. Fire stops in unburn
able stairways, proper design of fire
nis
roof om
or tile elim
materially
fire
terion
safety also implies
fon
walls,
places and chimneys-—these are nn few
of the details the modern builder in
cludes in his far-sighted “4-11” alarm
preventive,
Be Liberal With Paint
Paint i= insurafice against losses re
sulting from weathering and decay
Paint protects a house and keeps it ir
good condition. Weathering and deeny
enuse losses, according to one author
ity, of aver. a billion and a half do!
Inrg a year. While most of us are
willing to pay for fire insurance be
cause of the sense of security I
brings, few of us realize that weather
insurance is renlly more necessary be
cause while fice rarely threatens
weathering and decay are constantls
at work to lower houses into dust. It
has been estimated that if a house je
painted evéry five years, Its value in
creases about per cent at each
paint.
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Longer Covenants Urged
In many suburban sections there
has come a change in the dusation of
restrictions placed on property. It
was formerly thought that 20 years
was long enough, but developers are
now of the belief that 33 years le
better. The reasoning behind the new
figure is that a man who buys a house
at the beginning of his business
career, and often at about the time he
takes on the responsibilities of mar.
riage, will be spproaching the close
of active participation In business at
the end of 33 years.
Plant Protection
The uprooting of ferns und other
plants growing in roads, lanes, banks
or commons is a punishable offense
In Berkshire, Kang.
IF you don’t think your whole life
can be changed by chance, read
this, It is the story of a young man
who was pretty well down and out,
but he figured he might win a prize
if he took some advice,
“As far back as I can remember
I had been a weakling,” says Mr.
Calvin L. Floyd of Orlando, Florida.
“A headache, it seemed, was to be
my life companion. 1 was always
dizzy in the mornings. Nothing I
Many a life changed by a
message like this one.
ate seemed good for me. Then I
attended a health lecture in a sana-
torium and the physician talked on
‘faulty elimination.” That was cer-
tainly my trouble. One of the patients
asked him about Nujol. He recome
mended it highly, L decided to try
one bottle to see if there was any-
thing in what he said about natural
lubrication for the human body,
“Long before I had finished the
first bottle my ‘companion-headache’
was gone, No more tired out feeling,
I get a real kick out of life now. By
the way, I almost forgot to tell you
I found a new life companion, too!”
Perfectly simple, wasn't it? Mr.
Floyd just learned the normal nzt-
ural way to get rid of bodily poisons
(we all have them) and nature did
the rest. Why shouldn't you be weil?
Nujol is not a medicine. It con-
tains no drugs. It is effective, so
you will be “regular as clock-work.”
You can buy it at all good drug
stores in sealed packages for less
than the price of a couple of good
cigars.
Begin today. Millions have foun
that Nujol makes all the difference
in the world. Nujol will make you
feel fine and you can prove it.
Cuticu
Ointment 7%
ra
It may be the little stomach: i¢
may be the bowels are sluggish.
No matter what coats a child’
tongue, its a safe and sensible
precaution to give a few drops of
ia. This gentle regulation
of little system soon sets
things to rights. A pure vegetable
preparation that can’t barm a wee
infant, but brings quick comfort
—even when it 1s colic, diarrhea,
or similar disturbance.
And don't forsake Castoria as
Hl A¥egeiaie Separator
i mining thot or Ref
Sing the Stam ond Bowes
the child grows older. If you
want to raise boys and girls with
strong systems that will ward off
constipation, stick to good oid
Castoria; and give nothing
stronger when there's any irregu-
larity except on the advice of a
doctor. Castoria is sold in every
drugstore, and the genuine always
bears Chas. H. Fletcher's signa-
ture on the wrapper,
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ng ti h they ache all over.