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Show cncClS AN ODD TOiVlbS i Uivl. Talked to Death by Friends" Inscribed on Monument Farmer Places at Wife's Grave. Carlyle, 111 "Talked to death by riends" Is the rather startling Inscription In-scription on a tombstone in the Pritch-Ett Pritch-Ett cemetery, 16 miles northeast o this city. Persons doubting the story have made special trips to this particular burying ground for the purpose of being be-ing convinced. Whether this woman, Mrs. Aliea Philips was actually talked to death cannot be proved beyond a doubt, but her husband must have been convinced of the fact. Thomas Phillip was a farmer and lived in East Fork township many years ago. He had more than the av erage amount of Intelligence and passed much of his time reading the high grade books and magazines of the day. Many of his neighbors declared he had peculiar ways, and the women seemed to be of the opinion that his wife did not know much about the domestic do-mestic side of life. She was advised to do this and to do that. Her neighbors were all "fond of tier" this they exhibited by their careful care-ful solicitation as to everything she did, everything she wore, everywhere Ehe went, and everybody she was seen talking to. When Mrs. Smith called In the afternoon after-noon she never failed to tell Mrs. Phillip Phil-lip how much better that blue gown would have looked if she had only trimmed it in white instead of black; When Mrs. Brown and her husband came over to supper the host was informed in-formed how much more delicious the coffee would have been if It had been allowed to boil just a speck longer. Living about In the center of the settlement Mrs. Phillip was the recipient recip-ient of all the gossip in the neighborhood neighbor-hood and she just had to listen to It all, whether she wanted to or not. Those were only little milestones In the life which Mrs. Phillip's neighbors neigh-bors led her. One day she took sick and died from nervous prostration within a short time. Her husband claimed all this volunteer advice had worried her into sickness. After she was buried he caused the tombstone with the above Inscription to be placed at the head of her grave. He is burled beside her. |