Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1869 — Tomb of Adam. [ARTICLE]

Tomb of Adam.

The tomb of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, and friends, and all who cared for me, thus to cover the grave of a blood relation. True, a distant one, but still a relation. The unerring instinct of nature thrilled its recognition. The fountain of my filial affection was stirred to its profoundest depths, and I gave way to tumultuous emotion. I leaned upon a pillar and burst into tears. I deem it no shame to have wept over the grave of my poor dead relative. Let him who would sneer at my emotion close this volume here, for he will find little to his taste in my journeyings through Holy Land. Noble old man—he did not live to seo me—he did not Uve to see his child. And I—l—alas, I did not live to see him. Weighed down by sorrow and disappointment, he died before I was born—six thousand brief summers before I was born. But let us try to bear it with fortitude. Let us trust that he is better off where lie is.— Mark Tirain. m • ©» '' " —There are pear, tree* in a garden in the town of Elliott, Me., from which fruit was taken 140 years ago.