THE WORLDS FINEST BURIAL GROUNDS.

of vice and misery, was preserved from pol-
lution only by the strength of character.
The ruffian Sykes could not escape his evil
deeds.
blooded villainy that repels.

Fagin, the Jew, is a picture of cold-
‘Old Curios-
Dick Swiv-

eller is a rare combination of conceit and

ity Shop’ is full of contrasts.

assurance. He purchases without means to
Quilp,

with the body of a dwarf and the instinct

pay and avoids the street thereafter.

of a wolf, is a strange fancy. But where so
fair so frail, so lovable a child as little Nell?
Patient, hopeful, a ministering angel that
wins all hearts. ‘The roughest among them

was sorry if he missed her in the usual

 

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place upon his way to school.’ “At church
young children would cluster at her skirts
and aged men and women forsake their gos-
sip to give her kindly greeting. How sad
that such a child should die, and yet with

what a tender, sacred beauty he clothed her

| final sleep.

“He wrote for the multitude, and the
multitude was pleased. No man of his day

is better known, more widely read, more

; warmly loved than Dickens, for the burden

of all his stories is ‘be good and love; have
compassion on misery and wretchedness;
believe that humanity, pity, forgiveness, are

the finest things in man.’ ”

THE WORLD’S FINEST BURIAL GROUNDS.

: we have a little old-fashioned talk

about some of the famous burial places
of the World.

naturally thinks of the time when they will

Every one, as age comes on,

lay down their work here and enter a life
beyond. As the life beyond is not intended
for the body, but simply the soul, naturally
there must be a place on Earth where this
body is consigned when life is extinct.
“From time immemorial different meth-
ods have been resorted to for burying the

dead. The ceremonies performed depend-
Pp p

lien said papa, “I propose that

 

ed entirely upon the customs of the country,
but the place selected for the grave depen-
ded upon the position one occupied in the
world, not only as to office but in financial
worth. No matter where the dead is buried
a wealth and even a waste of money can be
used in placing a memorial, which sooner
or later must perish with time.

“Tn America some of our greatest Gen-
erals have been buried in vaults and tombs
erected by the people, but a private citizen
when dying is usually buried in a country

church yard or in a cemetery surrounded