Show IN THE cemeteries ODD THINGS SEEN BY THE KEEPERS OF GODS ACRE win take away and ilat the sad little anil the tree typhoid fe three of ut fouren lot inspector chadband Chad hand of re batca n number of experiences which bo has had with 0 his cemetery visitors one my story wilch wo have never been ablo to explain said mr chadband Chod band oc hero quite frequently often after a funeral como 0 tho chief mourners will taho a handful of earth tho grave and cany it anway lu their handkerchiefs after a coupie of weeks perhaps have elapsed they will return and empty tho earth from abo handkerchiefs back on the mound of tho grave it Is in all probability on account of superstitious notion but I 1 havo never been able to find out just what it is then we often have queer experiences with come hero and want to find graves of people whom they have known the other day a I 1 manca hero and eald 1 I wish you could tell nowhere I 1 can fand n grave of a friend of mino who Is buried out here why certainly eald I 1 as I 1 reached up and pulled from a shelf tho gravo register which tells who is buried in every tho graves in our cemetery what Is the mans name I 1 asked preparing to turn at to it and fand the exact locality well now do you know that 1 just where youve got me said the man ive forgotten bis name of course with such a lack of knowledge as that the request to fand the grave was almost idiotic but by asking the man a number of questions as to when his acquaintance died and where ho camo from I 1 finally succeeded in finding the grave for him on another occasion a woman wanted to fand the grave of a woman eho bad known but all she could remember of the womans name was that her given name was carrie by going over the list of all the carries who were interred hero I 1 finally found the one she wanted once a woman came out hero who had buried her little baby two months before she was in a distressed state of mind on account of what sho supposed to bo the suffering of the child eaid when it was burled its feet had been tied together with a string and she knew it was hurting the little one we finally had to take up thol remains and cut the string the woman then went away satisfied A remarkable and extremely pathetic incident occurs every christmas at grace land cemetery early every christmas morning as regularly as tho day comes round each year a little woman with a sad wan face comes to the graveyard with a tiny christmas tree in her arms noticing nothing and gayln g attention to no one sho makes her way to fc comer of the cemetery to the mound over tho grave of her little boy who died several years ago she plants the tree in tho hard ground and puts tho many colored tapers among the green branches interspersed hero and thero with the bright spangles and gilt ornaments usually put on christmas trees for children then she lights all of the tapers and after watching them through her tears for a few moments she turns sadly away and departs tho lights are left burning on the little tree which 1 not disturbed until tho nest day when it la carried away by the workmen a several months ago a curious superstition which bad never been heard pt before was noticed at Grac cland an old woman who appeared to bo wandering aimlessly about the grounds asked one of the employees who came dpn her where she could fand an open grave the man asked her for her reason she opened her hand and disclosed a scrap of paper on which was written typhoid fever you sir eaid tho woman if I 1 take that and drop it into an open grave and it is kirick the disease will leave the body of my little grandchild who now has the fever the man pointed out an open bravo pravo to the woman and ebo walked plowdy toward it for a few moments sho bent over tho edge and looked down apparently mustering something to herself then she stretched out her wrinkled hand and dropped the bit of paper into the grave the poor old creature then returned and thanked the man who had been watching her and went away completely satisfied confident that her little grandchild would surely recover although the custom of placing trinkets and toys of children and articles used by older people upon the graves i probably not so much in vogue a formerly there are baill some queer things of this nature practiced some weeks ago a widow placed upon the grave of her husband at mount greenwood cemetery his shaving mug and brush because eho said they were the last things ho had used at tho bamo cemetery thero 1 a gravo on which under a glass case there aro a largo number of love written by the departed occasionally members of the family of the deceased still continue the custom of removing the name plate from the casket and taking it to the bame people also generally take some of the flowers which adorn the casket and bavo them preserved in was afterward in casing them in a gloss covered box which 1 bung in the parlor in almost nine cases out of en the who have removed abo ilnyo plate return with it inside of n few months and want it replaced the authorities bad a rather peri ence at this cemetery with a woman whoso lot robbed of flowers which fhe bad placed on tho graves tho woman in casting about tor some method to stop tho pernicious practice bit upon the plou of placing poison on the flowers before any one was poisoned by the which eho had placed on the blossoms sho was compelled to desist from the practice it ie often necessary for tho to candio the placed on tho graves one day a man came lo 10 mount greenwood cemetery with a tiny little casket under his ann seven inches long looked up the and purchased a lot immediately ho had the little coflin interred within tarro fingers which the man had been unfortunate as molote tolote in a sawmill over at west pullman at tho cemetery was burled some time ago mana leg which it had been to amputate on account of an occident the man insisted that tho limb should 10 just as carefully and appropriately interred as it ho himself were being buried some months afterward the man died and his relatives biad the log taken upend buried with his body chicago tribune |