Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1918 — COMBINE TRUTH AND HUMOR [ARTICLE]

COMBINE TRUTH AND HUMOR

Pithy Epitaphs on Tombstones in British Cemeteries Are Worth More Than Passing Notice. In a Search for the unusual, one would scarcely expect to come across it on a tombstone. But full Justice can in some cases be done to a deceased in a single word. There is a stone in Leamington cemetery dedicated to the memory of one J. T. Burgess, who before laying aside the trammels of this mundane sphere edited the Leamington Spa Courier. His career and end are adequately summed up in one word —“Resting.” A departed auctioneer who lived In the city of Worcester had inscribed on his memorial stone as an epitaph, “Gone.” Brief, economical and retrospective. In a Sussex graveyard may be seen a stone on which are chiseled, after the name and date of death of the deceased, Just two expressive words —“He was.” Surely a sermon In a nutshell. But two of the strangest as well as the briefest epitaphs are to be found on stones in Cane Hill cemetery, Belfast. On one of them, erected to the memory ‘ of a lazy fellow by one who evidently knew him well, are the words, -“Asleep (as usual).” On the other, “Left Till Called For.” A certain photographer has this inscribed over his grave, “Here I lie, Taken From Life.” —London Tit-Bits.