Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1905 — His Modext Epitaph. [ARTICLE]

His Modext Epitaph.

There are those who take the precaution to buy their own monuments and tombstones and write their antemortem epitaphs. What special comfort they can get out of this fs not clear, but that is their business. We recall, for instance, a true story of a fellow who had been found guilty of a very cruel murder in one of the Connecticut towns and was sentenced to die on the gallows. A few days before his execution his lawyer called at the cell and asked If there was anything thC condemned would like him to have done in postmortem arrangements. The man said that he would leave with the lawyer a sum sufficient for the purchase of a plain stone to be erected at the head of the grave and bearing the simple Inscription: “Sacred to the memory of omit). Of snob Is the kingdom of heaven.”—Buffalo Commercial.