Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1889 — The Gravestone’s Inscription. [ARTICLE]

The Gravestone’s Inscription.

“How romantic,” quoth a sentimental lady from Boston, as a turn in one of the loveliest country roads in Kennebec County brought to her view a charming scenic vista with a sort of impromptu cemetery in the background. “There may lie together the children of some grief-stricken father, cut off perhaps all at once by a furious epidemic. His warm heart could not intrust his dear ones to the oold earth of a common graveyard, where the percolating waters might mingle their clay with that of those less pure than they. How touching to bury them alone by the roadside where even the most wicked passer-by may profit by their pure example. Let me alight and read the pathetic inscription w hich records their fate.” And brushing away her tears she read through her gold-bowed eyeglasses the following touching legend: “These stones are samples made by the Get There Granite Company, who are prepared to fill all orders with neatness a,nd dispatch. A few misfit gravestones at a bargain.”—Augwata Journal. Many industries having been established in the South, particularly at the rapidly growing city of Florence, Ala., the Chicago and Eastern Illinois (Evansville Home) has decided to run five personally conducted excursion trains as follows: August 6 and 20, Sept. 10 and 24, and Oet. 8. All the railroads in the Northwest have agreed to sell for those dates excursion tickets to points in Tennessee, Alabama. Mississippi and Louisiana at one lowest first-class faro for the round trip. Tickets will be good rot turning thirty days. Persons desiring to join these excursions can obtain full particulars by writing to J. B. Morrell, Traveling Agent C. & E. I. R. 11., 501 First National Bank Building, Chicago, or (jo William Hill, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.