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Show WAS KIND TO EVERYBODY. The Pla'n Epitaph of a Plain JVomau In tho Mountains of Kentucky. "I saw a rude ronghly hewn stone above a grave on an eastern Kentucky hillside n few weeks since," said a traveler, tra-veler, "that was placed there before monument makers nourished In that part of K-ntucky. 1 here were but two graves lu the llttlo unfenced spot, and ihey were In the center of a sassafras thicket. This old stone, over which the Ivy had crept, well-nigh hlotiiug out the Inscription, bore these words, which seemed to hare been chiseled by n trembling angered novice: ."June Later, ded Agus. 1810. She wuz klne to evrybuddle.' I thought as I stood there by the wood crested mound of what a world of meaning there was lu thoso few slmplo words, 'She wuz alius kino to evryliuddle.' , When I shall havo composed mv weary limbs for tho last sleep I would ask no greater boon than that, such u compliment might truthfully be placed on the tomb above my silent form. It was no different troin any of the chlse led platitudes ono sees In large cemeteries. I wondered what loving heart could have Inspired It, and stopped stop-ped to ask about tho woman whose geutlo life could merit so tender a tribute. tri-bute. Nobody on either the Kentucky or Virginia side of tho mountains knew much of tho Lawler famljy, but one old mountaineer said he had been told tho woman was the wife of an old woodsman who lived and hunted on Mount Elkliorn In the first half of 'ho present century. Tho palsied hand of the loving hutbadd doubtless traced the last testimonial of rorerence," |