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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1951-05-09, Page 4Rubber - Marboleum TILE SOLD and LAID telee:,ftee eefeleesAteetea' not so apt in a eltance meeting with a bewhieltered acquaintance to ask about the health of his grandfather whoeu honored name was inscribed on a sombre stone, In the vleluiev of" Sandy Kelly's famous farm. A )art from that it called up mpaY m eat- •, °ries and the sacred dead Seeniel. to. live again, es audibly I spoke t telr • names as I read them, and .the (Valet marching up and down the marble air seemed vocal with the voices of aisles I made mental notes of those many I had "'loved long Silica and' present, concerning Whose where- lost awhile." There. I noticed little • mounds toe, and recalled rhyming years ago after leaving the old ear- ner turnstile, "That little mound points. to the spot Where rests some tiny sweet wee tot, Front out whose eye a tear ricer oozed Whose little feet were never used, i But what of that, they walk above,. Where all is Love." The experience of not finding old friends and acquaintances on the main thoroughfare is very beautifully ; I expressed by either Lowell or Long.: fellow, if it wasn't Bryant or Holmes (Postmaster Musgrove will know), • when he wrote those touching lines , supposed to be favorites of Abe Lin- i coin: The mossy marbles. rest On lips that he had pressed In their bloom: And the names he loved to hear Had been carved for many a year On the tomb." No doubt some of the Wingham Old Boys far removed from Huron County a reading the above will reach for a handkerchief and into it sob the solemn affirmation, "If she had lived X would have married her," and swift-footed memory will convert tears to smiles recalling those first sweet wonderful evenings when being one of a party of two, "A youthful loving modest pair In other's arms breathed out the ten- der tale Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale," Bennett Contracting Repair Work ii Built-in Cupboards General Contracting Company —SEE--- Canadian-built F-86 Sabre jet, f ;, ';ter is seen here being given a ai cheek by Canadair test pilot Ce en Lynes before being turned 41, el' to the ri.C.A.F. The F-86 Sebre CANAD1IA.,I140,1147' .pl,AN,.. READ), fOR ft.C.A.Fp Gi Alan Williams. Optometrist • Roy E. Bennett, • 'Phone 447 Wingham WITH BISCO'S (4y- $, fisher) When on a visit to the old town In recent years T found so few people on the main street that I knew that betook myself to the Cemetery. It had a dual significance. In slowly SW Sr • esLeeeee4e:111111116.14maiaganill For many years I have been fond of reading old epitaphs. Each really should be an epitome of the personal history of the deceased or if the per- sonage had no history front which to extract an epitome much better that no epitaph be carved and per- haps cheaper, I am quite sure that Hector MeQuarrie would not ap- prove the practice of very many of the temporary survivors, who pay for the granite, of selecting sanctimon- ious verses to be engraved at the base of the stone; which would indicate that the spirit of the body below was already in Paradise awaiting union with the spiritual body yet to be given to it and destined for the Happy Hunting Ground, when it was well known that the drunken scoundrel was what David Campbell would call " a child of the devil," Fortunately, for the cause of truth and righteous- ness, a crop of timothy frequently grows around the stone sufficiently tall to hide the hypocrisy. It seemed to me in some graveyard I read at the base of a mounment to perpetuate the memory of a house- wife; "She made home pleasant." Let us hope that was a fact and trust the weeping widower remembered with gratitude at least fifty years of domestic tranquility. Some epitaphs are very humorous. There was one I read for a dentist; "Here lies Dr. Jerkum, etc. He is filling his last cav- ity" and that one where the sculptor scrimped himself for space and in- stead of indicating to respectful vis- itors to her tomb that the good lady in life was a shame-faced woman of unusual piety, that one appeared in the burying-ground. "Lord, she was thin." The two best I recall at the moment were those in memory of the founder of the Kindergarten school and the one chiefly responsible for the authorized version of the Bible. The last first, was to Tindale. "His. life was hidden in his work and his epitaph was the Reformation." rho first last, was to Jeanne Henri Pesta— lottzi, "Here lies Jeanne Henri Pestallotzi, Born at Zurich the 12th Feby., 1746, Died at Brugg the 18th Jelly, 1827, Saviour of the poor at Newhoff, Father of the orphans at Stanz, Teacher of humanity at Verdun, A man, a Christian, a citizen. Everything for others, for himself nothing," Great lessons are to be learned in grave-yards. Perhaps our greatest poem is Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Wash Tamblyn. asked us, before dying, to call in when pass- ing by; so when occasion serves let us give them "The passing tribute of a sigh," even though Jimmy Mun- show the jeweller, was petrified on his way in from Lucknow one moon- light night when he declared he saw a ghost rise up from behind a tomb- stone, cross its hands on the top and face his way. Jimmy grabbed the whip. 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