THE TOMBSTONE MAN (after several abortive suggestions)--"How would
simply, 'Gone Home' do?"

MRS. NEWWEEDS--"I guess that would be all right. It was always the
last place he ever thought of going."--_Puck_.


Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
Now she's at rest, and so am I.

--_John Dryden_.


"Did you hear about the defacement of Mr. Skinner's tombstone?" asked
Mr. Brown a few days after the funeral of that eminent captain of
industry.

"No, what was it?" inquired his neighbor curiously.

"Someone added the word 'friends' to the epitaph."

"What was the epitaph?"

"He did his best."




EQUALITY