Show ECCENTRIC I WRITES HIS OWN EPITAPH I Special to Register DOVER DOYER Del March l 24 Alexander Alexander J Jackson wealthy eccentric and three threescore threescore t score and ten who recently began giving giving giving ing his fortune away on the th theory ory that t it was better to dispose of ones one's wealth while alive than than b by will came here from Camden today and received ved an as elaborate monument whIch which he had or or- dered Upon UDon the shaft Mr Jackson who is had carved this epitaph epi epi- ALEXANDER JACKSON I I BORN MARCH 3 1827 1821 Man coming to this life a sensitive I organization is actuated by his man many r I environments These while he remains C here will multiply intensify and fetter r hini with unavoidable troubles ant and i cares and when he ai arrives rives at this place will no doubt be ended but his mortal morta 1 part pait a a misnomer will survive the S grave for fat fata a new departure and be relegated rele rele- gated by the dominant energies of nature na na- ture to other economic uses thus adding add add- ing another link to the chain of events event C running lunning down the tide of time without t end To have the courage to express 5 ones one's conscious convictions regardless I of the popular untenable credulities extant ex ex- tant is to he be e- e etrue true to one ones one's s self an effort t at true righteousness Any friend o or I- I others passing this way not In harmony har har- mony herewith will please do this thi S sacred spot the charity of their silence |