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Show MADE TOMBSTONE OF ROCK Probably New Yorker Will Investigate Before He Carves His Name on Another Boulder. Tt was quite a while before a prominent promi-nent lawyer in New YorU related to his friends a personal experience which he had one summer when, being somewhat run down in health, he went Into the Adirondacks to rest. One day, as be was wandering aimlessly aim-lessly through the woods, he came upon up-on n huge boulder not far from tho railroad that runs along the shore of a lake. Listlessly he began to carve his name on the rock, but gradually warmed to the task and chiseled zenl-ously zenl-ously away until he had wrought both name and date with various embellishing embellish-ing flourishes. As he was proudly surveying the result of his labor, an elderly back-woodsman back-woodsman appeared on the scene. After Aft-er the customary greeting, he dexterously dex-terously shifted his pack to the ground, then with a somewhat quizzical air surveyed the lawyer's work. "Quite a bit of nrt you've got there," he observed gravely. The lawyer- accepted this tribute complacently. "Kind of curious how things come about," be went. on. "Now, the first - thne a train was run Into these here woods It come In conlact with a tramp, long about here; and that there boulder boul-der marks the spot where we burled hlra. Now, here be Is provided with a first-class tombstone aud an inscrlp- . tion that anybody might be proud of. Kinder curious, ain't It?" i |