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Wanted a position as Superintendent 
of a cemetery by a young married man; 
who is a good Landscape Engineer- with 
several years experience. Would prefer 
a new cemetery or one that has consider- 
able new ground to develope. Can also 
act as secretary in connection with super- 
mtendentship. Best of references both as 
to character and ability. Address C. C. 
R., care of Park and Cemetery. 
Wanted a situation as Cemetery Sup- 
erintendent by a matried man, age 36 
years, understands laying out grounds, can 
give best of refence, am now superintend- 
ent of incorporated cemetery. Address, 
American, care of Park and Cemetery. 
Thoroughly competent Super- 
intendent of many years’ expe- 
rience, at liberty Oct. 1, desires 
engagement. Address Superin- 
tendent, care Park and Ceme- 
tery^ 
with the two ivies from the grave of Martha 
Washington, have clambered around the 
rock in mingled profusion, giving the 
boulder the appearance of a huge green 
bush. The poet sleeps beneath a luxuri- 
ant floral bed a few feet in front of the 
bronze medallion, and at some distance 
from his grave two bronze vases are to 
be filled with palms and flowering plants 
of all kinds. The scenery around the 
grave is very attractive. Open, wooded 
and rugged, it recalls his intense love for 
the beauties of nature while the cultivated 
flowers in the burial lot brings to mind the 
poetic development which surrounded 
his later years. The face in the medal- 
lion is shown in profile. The shapely 
head, with close-cut hair, is firmly and 
gracefully poised on the shoulders, which 
is more than life-size, stands out from the 
medallion in prominent relief. It is alto- 
gether one of the most beautiful of graves. 
A Guatemala Funeral Years Ago- 
Mr. John L. Stephens, a traveler in 
Guatemala some years ago, gave the fol- 
lowing account of a church burial, which 
he witnessed. Happily church burials are 
forbidden now : “The procession consisted 
of eight or ten grown persons and as many 
boys and girls. The sexton carried the 
child in his arms, dressed in white, with 
a wreath of flowers around its head. All 
were huddled around the sexton, walking 
together, the father and mother with him, 
and more than ever I remarked not only 
the absence of solemnity, but cheerful- 
ness and actual gaiety, from the happy 
conviction that the child had gone to a 
better world. I happened to be in the 
church as they approached — more like a 
wedding than a burial party. The floor of 
the church was earthen, and the grave 
was dug, inside, because, as the sexton 
told me, the father was rich and could af- 
ford to pay for it, and the father seemed 
pleased and proud that he could give the 
child such a burial place. The sexton laid 
the child in the grave, folded its little 
hands upon its breast, and placed across 
them a small rude cross. Then, having 
covered it over with a few inches of earth, 
he got into the grave and stamped it down 
with his feet; then he got out and threw 
in more dirt, and, going outside the 
church, brought back a pounder — a log of 
wood about four feet long and ten inches 
in diameter, like the rammer used among 
us by the paviors, and again taking his 
place in the grave, threw up the pounder 
to the full swinging of his arms and 
brought it down with all his strength over 
the head of the child. My blood ran cold. 
As he threw it up a second time I caught 
his arms and remonstrated with him, but 
he said they always did so with those 
buried inside the church — because the 
earth must be all put back and the floor 
of the church made even. My remon- 
strances seemed only to give him more 
strength and spirit. The sweat rolled 
down his body, and when perfectly tired 
with pounding he got out of the grave, 
more earth was thrown in, and then the 
father laid down his hat, stepped in and 
the pounder was handed to him. The 
child’s body must have been crushed.” 
Cleopatra’s Bones. 
Where does Cleopatra’s body lest? 
Scarcely a layman who would not answer, 
“Why, in Egypt.” After her cajolories, 
her wiles, her life of intense if not very ex. 
alted loves, Cleopatra was laid in one of 
the lovel est tombs that have e\er been 
fashioned by the hand of man. But what a 
change 2,000 years have brought about! 
To-day an ugly mummy, with an emble- 
matic bunch of decayed wheat and a 
coarse comb tied to its head — a mere roll 
of tightly swathed dust— lies crumbling in 
a hideous glass case at the British Museum, 
It is Cleopatra, the once great Queen, a 
Venus in charm, beauty and love. 
I found the following verse upon a tomb- 
stone in St. Clement Dane’s Church, 
Strand, London, says Mr. William E. 
Curtis in the Chicago Record: 
“Jacob Hemmet, 1595. 
While social converse shall our cares be 
guile 
The vivid ey'e, the animated smile, 
He will not be forgot by friendships few- 
The world's ingratitude full well he knew. 
A sanguine friend himself, too often he 
Mistook profession for sincerity.” 
Near by the burial place of the unfor- 
tunate Mr. Hemmet there is imbedded in 
the wall of St. Clements a large and pre- 
tentious looking tablet, which records the 
fact, with a gieat many flourishes, that 
Richard Beddoe, who died in 1605, left 
.£1.000 to the poor of the parish on the 
condition that the rector should preach 
four sermons yearly on the anniversaries 
of All Saints, the Purification, Michael- 
mas and Whitsunday on the beauties of 
benevolence, which would remind people 
to remember and give God thanks for the 
blessings they enjoy, and in these sermons 
it was stipulated that Richard Beddoe and 
his first wife, Anne, were to be mentioned 
as examples of benevolence and friends of 
the poor. 
Immediately under this is another tab- 
let, which records the fact that Margaret 
Beddoe, “the last wife of Richard Beddoe,’’ 
died in 1616, and “by her will and testa- 
ment added on ,£1,000 to the above bene- 
faction, to be employed and disposed of 
as her husband’s now is, provided her 
name is mentioned in connection with 
that of Richard Beddoe and Anne, his 
first wife, and at the same time.” 
