Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1920 — MADE TOMBSTONE OF ROCK [ARTICLE]

MADE TOMBSTONE OF ROCK

Probably New Yorker Will Investigate Before He Carves His Name on .Another Boulder. It was quite a while before a prominent lawyer in New York related to his friends a personal experience which he had one summer when, being somewhat run down in health, he went into the Adirondacks to rest One day, as he was wandering aimlessly through the woods, he came upon a huge boulder not far from the railroad that runs along the shore of a lake. Listlessly he began to carve his name on the rock, but gradually warmed to the task and chiseled zealously away until he had wrought both name and date with various embellishing flourishes. As he was proudly surveying the result of his labor, an elderly back- ■ woodsman appeared on the scene. After the customary greeting, he dexterously shifted his pack to the ground, then with a somewhat quizzical air surveyed the lawyer’s work. •♦Quite a bit of art you’ve got there,” he observed gravely. The lawyer accepted this tribute complacently. -Kind of curious how things come about,” he went on. “Now, the first time a train was run into, these hare woods it come in contact with a tramp. owK With . first-class tombstone and an Inscription that anybody might be proud of. Kinder cnriniw ain’t it?”