Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — LAFAYETTE’S GRAVE. [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE’S GRAVE.

It Is in Old Paris, and an American Flag Always Floats Over It. “While in Paris a short time ago,” said-a traveler recently, according to the Washington Post, “it occurred to me that It was a fitting act to make a pilgrimage to the tomb of that illustrious Frenchman dear to the hearts of nil American patriots, Marquis de Lafayette. I asked a number of people before I could find anyone to enlighten me on to the spot, but after repeated inquiry ascertained its location. The grave is situated in old Paris, within the grounds of a convent that the ancestors of Lafayette " founded, and vMiere repose the remains of many of tlife French nobility. The first thing that attracted my attention in connection with the hero’s tomb was that above it floated a silken flag bearing the stars and stripes. “It seems that a good many years ago an American gentleman left in his will a sum of money to be used for the special purpose of keeping an American flag forever flying above the grave of Lafayette. It has done so without intermission from the day the will went into effect, and whenever, through the wear of the elements, one flag becomes unserviceable, a new one straightway takes Its place. Through untold centuries the emblem of the country which in Its early struggles for liberty had his beneficent aid will ware above his ashes.” If a man hopes to be well treated In business he should always buy, and never sell.