Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1914 — Seventy Years Old, Vet Lived Seven. [ARTICLE]

Seventy Years Old, Vet Lived Seven.

'The following* story which> is. going the rounds of the papers is attributed to James Whitcombcßiley. It is well worthy of a. bachelor wit: * “While Sargent was painting my portrait,” thei poet said, “he showed me a copy of an unusual epitaph that one of his friends ihad sent him from Virginia. It was the epltagh.of a certain John Oustis, and It read: “ ‘Under::this' Marble Tomb lies ye body. of Hon.i John Oustis,: Esq,—City of Williamsburg,-* and Pariah of Bru-ton-Htormeriy. of Hunger's Parish on the Eastern Shore of Virginia-—Coun-ty of Northampton,-the-place of his nativity, aged. .70 years,!'yet lived but Beven Yearsy. which was the space of time'he kept a House at Arlington.’ “On- tie otherrflMe;of. the tomb,” said Mr. Riley- “these i words were carved apologetically: “ ‘This Inscription put on this Tomb by his Own Positive Order.”'

Some of the art treasures of Europe may be brought to Pittsburg for safekeeping until after the war. Dr. W. J. Holland, curator of Carnegie museum, said Monday he had been requested by several collectors to become custodian'of their paintings and sculpture.