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THE BETTER CLASS OF CEMETERY MONUMENTS 
FIGURE ON BITRKHARPT MONI^MENT. CINCINNATI. 
Clement J. Barnhorn. Sc. 
I. O. O. F. MEMORIAE. MANCHESTER, N. IT. 
memorial recently erected in Spring Grove Cemetery in that 
city from designs by Gustav Drach, architect of Cincinnati. 
Coast & Coast of that city were the contractors for the gran- 
ite work. The figure was recently shown at the Cincinnati 
art museum and is regarded as a strong, expressive example 
of Air. Barnhorn's work. 
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The Joseph Kidder monument to a former Secretary of the 
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of New Hampshire stands in 
Alanchester, N. H., and was erected by Palmer & Garmon, 
of that city. It is a modified type of cottage design of Barre 
granite 5-0x4-0 at the base and 9-0 high. It is of Alilford, 
N. H., granite, and cost $800. Above the inscription is the 
massive three links of the subordinate lodge, and the s\'nibolic 
tent of the encampment branch. On the left side of the mon- 
ument is the moon and star emblem of Rebekah lodge, and 
on the right the insignia of the Patriarchs Militant. 
SARCOPHAGUS OF A ROMAN EMPEROR. 
Smithsonian Institution, 'Washington, D. C. 
are ram's heads with long curving horns, while festoons of 
fruits and flowers, cherubs and faces complete the design of 
the base. On the sloping roof, which skillfully imitates til- 
ing, two figures, one apparently reclining and supported by 
the other, are almost obliterated by the hundreds of years of 
exposure to the elements. Who the occupant was, or what 
his position, is pur'e conjecture for the facts are buried in 
the impenetrable shadows of the past, but it was generally 
supposed that the sarcophagus had once held the remains of 
a Roman emperor. 
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The figure of Grief illustrated on this page was modeled, by 
Clement J. Barnhorn of Cincinnati for the elaborate Burkhardt 
This ancient and time-stained sarcophagus, typical of the 
elaborately carved, but chaste and dignified sarcophagi of the 
early Syrians, stands on the lawn in front of the Smithsonian 
Institution in Washington, D. C. 
In 1839, despoiled of its royal occupant, the tomb was dis- 
covered in the hills back of Beirut, Syria, by some member 
of the Alediterranean squadron of the American Navy, and 
by direction of Commodore Elliott was embarked on his flag- 
ship, the Constitution, and brought to this country. Arrived 
safely in .America, it was placed in the old patent office at 
AVashington, and in 1845 was offered to .Andrew Jackson as 
a final resting place for his remains. ‘‘Old Hickory" declined 
the honor of a Royal tomb,- and it was accordingly presented 
to the Smithsonian Institution. 
Despite the great lapse of time the figure of a winged 
goddess, complete save for the head, stands out clearly at 
either corner of the principal side, the graceful folds of her 
flowing garment, the delicacy of hands and feet bearing testi- 
mony to the skill of the ancient sculptor who, with crude 
tools, so deftly wrought this work of art from the hard 
marhle. On the opposite corners, and carved with equal skill. 
