Show sermons in stones prof grander brander matthews of colum bia in one of ills his brilliant addresses of the drama said of an uni magina tive and prosaic dramatist lie ho it was I 1 tim sure who la in his youth on being asked in examination what shakespeare meant by the phrase rase germona Ser mona ip stones wrote in ili reply i when passing i by a tombstone you yo u may learn the name and the date of birth and death of tile the departed one and also from the inscription a valuable moral lesson from his or her life walking along a rural road you may see from the milestones the number of miles to the nearest towns and thus acquire geographical anfor matlon mation heaps of stones by the roadside indicate that repairs are arc to take place and so inculcate a lesson in ill neatness neat nesB |