QUEER OLD GRAVESTONES.
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QUAINT EPITAPHS IN A; CONNEC
TICUT CEMETEE7.
.The Burjln Place of Some of New
Haven's Eirly Governors Sam
ples of Colonial Poetry.
Glancing to thelright through the car
window just before the local" express
Jrushes upon the little bridge over ,3Iill
Creek to the east, and dashes on into the
village of New Milford, Conn., the New
, iYork bound passenger Cts a glimpse of
one of the quaintest old graveyards in
Ntr.v England. Its Lrcv.n,' batcarcd
gravestones are" strewn so nearthe rail
road track that the thundering express
seems to grind them beneath ite wheels.
i Some of the gravestones naxe sunk
almost out of sight. Others, with sides
warped and crumpled, push their weather-
stained noses up through the rank,
tangled grasses in defiance of time's de
cay. A few lie prone in shamefaced
overthrow. The stranger, particularly
if he be an antiquarian, will find rare
grubbing among these rusty old stones.
i Some of the gravestones are nearly 250
years bid.; .Milford was settled in 1639,
and the settlers began to die apparently
about as soon as they got here. A good
many never received the Christian burial,
as.; the Indians attended to .their
obsequies without inviting the relatives
or personal friends of the deceased.
One of the earliest inscriptions that is
entirely preserved is on a slab above the
rather pretentious tomb of Governor
Itobert Treat. It reads:
Here Lveth Interred the Body of Coll.
Robert Treat, Esq., Who Faithfully Served
This Colony in the Post of Go vernour and
Deputy Governour Near Ye Space of Thirty
Years, and at the Age of Four Score and
Eight Years, Exchanged This Life for Better.
July 12, Anno Dom. 1710.
Johnathan Law, another Governor of
the colony, is also buried in this grave
yard. He was born in Milford on August
6, 1672, and died there on November 6,
1750. He was Governor from 1742 until
irsrt TTi : i ,.
Treat's, is marked by one of the few flat j
tombstones above ground. Several
other colonial dignitaries have simple
headstones. On others the early obituary
eulogist has left his copious trade marks.
Here is a sample :
"The truly honorable and pious Roger
Newton, esq.
"An officer of distinguished note in ye ex
pedition 1709 and 1710, for many years one
of ye council and colonel of the Second regi
ment of rnilitia, judge of the court of common
pleas thirty-three years, until he departed
this life, January 15, 1771, in the 87th year of
his age. ' y
"His mind returned to God, entombed here lies
The part the hero left beneath the skies,
Newton as steel; inflexible from right,
In faith, in law, in equity, in fight."
Another panegyrist relates that Isaac
miles, Esq., was a gentleman
"Distinguished by manly sense,
Genuine intregrity and firmness,
i ,In patriotism and in virtue.
After a life active in commerce
And in public employments,
A life very useful to his family
And to the public.
And adds that at last this excelled
gentleman
"Worn out by a long and distressing asthma.
Borne with singular patience, i
He died on the 15th of November, -1780,
In the 55th year of his age."
Mortuary poetry abounds. . Some of it
is about as original and as startling as the
most versatile genius in this line pro
duces. . Neither young nor old have es
caped it in the Milford graveyard. Elihu
Fowler, son. of Jonathan Fowler, died on
October 9, 17S0, three years and four
months old, and his untimely fate is thus
cranhicallv eoitomiied :
O f w i
"His life a span, the mournful toll
Declares the exit of his soui!
Grim Death is come! His life is calTd
To take its flight the means a scald.
Ye who are young come learn your end,
By .deep repentance make Christ your friend.'
Over the grave "where li.es the body
f Mrs. Phebe Gillit, wife to Mr Will
iam Gillit, Junn," who died on February
10, 1756, twenty -nine years old, is one of
the most remarkable tributes in the en
tire graveyard. Manifestly it was writ
ten by her husband. Its orthography is
unusually eccentric even for those days
of arbitrary spelling. He:eitis:
"Her Dying Words unto nor husband are:
Refrain your passions! -Why so much Dis
N paire.
It's the will of God!' I hope it's for the Best
For you! For me! And for my mothers
i less, ,
To whome adue! To God and you
I now Commend that care
Pat torn of Patriots to the end of life.
Now Ded, she speaks to every Living wife,
Peti Such Juels Should be laid in Dust;
Hen are Unworthy and the Lord is iast.
Drollest and decidedly most realistic
of all the inscriptions are .those onthe ;
gravestones; of 3Iiss Mary .towier ana
3Irs. Sarah: Bryan, consort of Captain V
Richard Bryan: Mis Fowler was m
her 21th year whenshc died on Feb.. 1,
1792. This is the inscriptiou that was
composed in her honor :
Molly, though pleasant in her day
: Wassuddeniv seized and sent away;
How soon site's ripe, how soon she's rotten,
Dent it) me grave uuu aun uiw-"-
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Cologne.
Cologne is chiefly interesting to visit
ors on account of "its Cathedral and its
Cologne water. To see the one and to
buy some of the other are the?two great
ODiects of travelers here. But, apart
from these principal attractions, we shall
find the citv verv interestinsr. Most of
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the streets are queer and old, some of ths
houses dating from the thirteenth cen
tury ; and the Rhine, which is here crossed
by a long bridge of boats, presents a
very busy and lively scene with its craft
of many kinds.
The real Cologne water is made by.
Johann Maria Farina, but when we go
out to buy some, we may be a little per
plexed by finding that there are soma
thirty or forty people of this name, all
of whom keep shops for the ( sale of
Cologne water. There are a great many
descendants of the original inventor of'
this perfume, and the law does not per
mit any one to assume the name who
does not belong to the family; but the
boy babies of- the Farinas are generally
baptized Johann Maria, so that they can
go into the Cologne water business when
they grow up. There are two or three
shops where the best and "original"
water is sold, and at one of these we
buy some of the celebrated perfifme, gen
erally sold to travelers in small wooden
boxes containing four " or six bottles,
which we get at a very reasonable price
compared with what we have to pay for
it in America. We cannot take much
more than this, because Cologne water is
classed as spirits by the Custom House
authorities in England, and each travelef
is allowed to bring only a small quantity
of it into that conntry, St. Nicholas.
Cost of Raising- a Boy.
"My father never did anything for
me, " is an observation which is frequently
heard from the lips of joiing men, but in
mpst cags a little reflection wrould con
vince the speaker that he is making a
serious error. A recent writer, hearing
the remark .uttered by a young fellow
whose education, as the phrase goes, had
just been completed, and who was look
ing around him to find an opening in
business, took the trouble to estimate
the cost of bringing up the said young
fellow from ' his birth, which had been
defrayed, of course, by the parent referred
to in such a slighting way. These are
his figures :
$100 per year for the first five years .... $500
SI 50 per year for the second five years.. 750
$200 per year for the third five years. . .-. 1,000
$300 per year for the next three years . . 900
$500 per year for the next two years.. . .. 1,000
Total.,... .$4,150
With a few modifications, these figures
may be taken to representjthe .average'
expense entailed in raising an ordinary
boy. Many parents spend several times
as much. It would certainly be well far
young men who take all this as a matter
of course, and think that their fathers
have done nothing for them, to reflect
that they owe a heavy debt of gratitude
to those that have brought them up from
helpless infancy and equipped them, to
fight for themselves the battle of life.
Golden Argosy. .
Poisoned Arrows.
The Nome-cults were the only tribe in
the vicinity of Round Valley (CM.) who
used poisoned arrows. The largest rat
tlesnakes obtainable, and consequently
the most venomous, were caught and
killed, the poison glands carefully ex
tracted and placed in the gall bladders of
animals until the whole became thorough
ly mixed and decomposed; the arrow
heads were then anointed with some
sticky substance, usually the pitch or sap
of the pine, and then dipped into the
composition and left for. a fixed time.
These arrows were always used in war
fare, and also when the deer and other
game were wanted for the skins only.
The animal even if only slightly wounded
would soon swell up and die, and not be
ing able to run very far . would soon be
come up with. Overland,
Moderation is the silken string running
through' the pearly chain of aU virtues.
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