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LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE-It is as
tonishing to see with what pecuisrity of feel
ing man regards his last resting place. He who
has been content to live in poverty in garrett
if dying seeks for mausoleum of marble, to the
erection of which the parsimonious savings OF
years are to furnish the means. He who has
passed all his life in obscurity, desires pos
thumous immortality. Thus says the Partisan
correspondent OF the Newark Advertiser: "a
poor epicier, who lived in retired street in
Paris, unknowing and unknown, caused to be
erected for himself in Pere la Chase, marble
monument upon which is placed his portrait,
painted upon canvass, and protected from. the
winds and rains by bell glass. Others have
busts in plaster of Paris, some painted; and
these may be found in different states of decay
in all parts of the grounds. Others who wish
TO live longer in the eyes of the world have
them in bronze and marble of all kinds"


1t is strange idea of living after death, which
suggests these individual tributes to self, and
they all seem more strangely directed towards
the world here, than the world hereafter-or,
to that resting place on high, with regard 10
which the soul, that superior part of man, can
alone acquire immortality.