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Show A NrrHed Admonition. On ono of my trips through the South I sauntered Into nn old dilapidated dilap-idated cemetery of Virginia and read many very pcullnr epitaphs upon tombstones. Ono In particular nttracted nttract-ed by attention, which lumnpiinl tn bo thnt of a slave who bad been Inclined In-clined to be Etout. Tho grave had long felnco been neglected, and tho Inscription could only bo read after brushing avvav tho vines which grow upon It. But my labor was rewarded, for thero on that tombstone I rend: "Alba WIte weighed 300 pounds; 'open l ;l'o golden gates."' Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Press. |