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This Month in Your S&wcce BULLETIN TBS* Browsing through the old burial acres of Northern Illinois, we were caught by the charm and beauty of the simple, sometimes crude tombstone artistry. Realizing that this stone art is passing, we selected some of the symbolic images and designs for our story which is another in the historic landmark series. The irregularly spaced lines with unexpected capitals and occasionally misspelled words accompanying the stone imagery are also fading. Many of the couplets and quatrains are completely illegible. As these old sentiments disappear, epitaph-hunting grows. We found one marker which bears only two words. We found another headstone which says that the man beneath it "Was the Victim of a Dishonest Woman." The lengthy message on a stone placed in 1847 over a man "buried in a well" tells the circumstances in rime. We jotted down these and other epitaphs in OUR L A N D M A R K S for those of our readers who collect them. Tombstone art is reproduced by John McKee. A t Entertaining As Your Favorite Magazine THE Service BULLETIN PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS 25