Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1894, Page 13

one PR S HISRULE OF CREAT CITIES | e frerien were ol ‘o cnemeas ne man meets another, in frank and friendly - confercnce about the things to be done. Washington Gladden Tells How Municipal Reform Oan Be Achieved, SAYS WE DO NOT WANT IT BADLY ENOUG Integrity tu the City Equivalent to Integrity I the Individuai--Good Cltizens Among the Poor—The Rich & Holploss Mivority. (Copyrighted.) The problem of bolter city governmeut is perfectly simple and entlrely practiceble. Any clty in this country cun have it right away. All that is necessary is that the peo- ple of the city—the intelligent and fairly reputable people—should des more than they desirc imomey, or party success, or a comfortable time; and should make up their minds to have it, even though they may get & littls less money, and lose e prestige for thoir party and put themselves to some fnconvenience and discomfort. That is the whole question in a nutsheli. The reason why we have bad government' now in most of our cities is simply beconse the governors don't and won't govern. The people with whom the responsibility rests shirk it; there- fore it falls into the hands of those who are not it for the duty. The probiem Is just as simple as that of individual integrity. Any man who wants character miore than he wants riches, or easo or popularity or pleasure, will have character; . “They that hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled.” And the people of any city who desire good gov- ernment strongly and continuously will get ft. The fact that they Haven't got it proves that they do not want it so much as they want other and greatly Inferior things “But there are the great masses of ignorant foreigners, and the large classes that get their living by pandering to vice,” will be said, “is it not these elements which com- plicate the problem and make good govern- ment tmpossible?’ No, I answer; that is not the chief cause, Doubtless these ele- ments increase the difficulty, but the diffi- culty which they raise is not insurmountable. At any rate we have no reason for thinking 80. We have never seen the people of a city fail in any serious and sustained effort to govern themselves. We have no experience to justify the belief that they would fail it they should try. As to the people ho get their living by vice, they are really a small, even an insignificant minority. They do not mmount in any city to one-tenth of the voting population. As to the ignorant forelgners, they are not, as a rule, evil-dis- posed persons; they are apt to be misled; they require a great amount of instruction and guldance; ns a rule we leave all that work to the people who are interested_in biinding and misleading them, and suffer the consequences. President Low bad no difficuity, when he was mayor of Brooklyn, in winning the confidence and support of the people of some of the worst wards for some of his wisest measures; he went down among them, hired a hall and talked the matter out with them in a manly and rational way. In these very wards his vote was considerably larger at his second election than at his first. A great many of these people are amenable to good In- fluence. Mr. Merwin, in that admirable article on Tammany Hall in the February Atlantic, tells us that “‘the rank and file of Tammany Hall, including most of the office holders, are sound, honest men.” They are under viclous leadership, but they are ot incorrigibly bad. WHO ARE THE “GOOD PEOPLE?" - It is pretty hard to draw the line which separates the “good people” of the com- munity from the rest. My own opinion is that there is quite a number of good people in the tenements—intelligent, conscientious, patriotic citizens. But let us teke a wholly conventional standard. Let us ip- clude among the #00d people the mercantile and the professional classes and all the members of our Protestant churches, most of whom belong to the one or the other of these classes. Now, I say that the fault of our bad city government lies at the doors of these good people—there and no- where else. 1 say that these good people can have good government wherever they want it and are willing to pay for it the price which such a precious commodity will always command. It may be said that these classes are in a hopeless minority. I do not know about that I am rather inclined to belleve with Mr. Franklin McVeagh that the good people are in 8 “hopeless majority.” But without stop- ping to count noses 1t is perfectly safe to say that if the classes which I have named will put into their municipal problem the elements of power which they possess and are re- sponsible for wielding, the munjcipal problem will be quickly solved. They may not be in a numerical majority, but they have, in their intelligence, experience ana moral power, &n equipment which, if they would use it, would enable tiem to be masters of the situation. It they would descend from their lofty perch and take off their gloves they could con- trol, to & large extent, the action of the norant masses.” This involves, of course, some repression of a kind of contempt which is oultivated by many well-to-do Americans, and a cordlal willingness to understand and co-operate with the people with whom they are dealing; it involves, inshort, that gen- uine good will on which democracy is founded, and without \\hlc} no intelligent man ought to expect to see democracy main- tained. A 1 fear that some of the “good people’ who have followed me up to this point will be in- clined to stop here and turn back. For any such self-abnegation as this they are not ready. Reasons, not unconnected with bad mar and worse odors, have already suggested themselves. Such heroes as these will never, 1 dare predict, give us good mu- nicipal government. And it is the presence among our “good people” of a great deal of this type of municipal government which we are now enjoying. In truth, it may or will be understood that the governing of such cities as we are hurling together and heap- ing up on this continent is not a nice and ensy job. It takes work, and a great deal of it; it takes time, patience, courage, per- severance. I have not said that these people can have good government without labor and selt-denial; I do not know of any good thing that can be honestly gotten without paying for it. e Peitnd there some courageous experi- ready to testify that there is very He knows, be- cause he has tried it. He has ventured out some dark night to attend the primaries and found the business all done before he arrived—done by persons whom he will vividly describe to you. Possibly he has gone so far as to secure an election to the school board or the city council; and, after fighting with wild beasts for a few months, has permanently withdrawn from municipal politics. He tells all who listen to his tale that the business is hop:less; that we are in the hands of the Philistines and cannot help ourselves. NEVER ENDING CONTEST FOR GOOD. It s true that an occasional irruption of this sort into the camp of the enemy counts for very little. Let no individual be dis- suaded from undertaking it; for it is only by the muitiplication of such experiments that we shall gather our forces; nevertheless it is true that what good government calls for is not the advent of here and there a respecta- ble man in city politics but the enlistment of the whole body of the tutelligent and reputa- bie citizens. Them good people must go into our city politics, they must all go in, and they must go in to stay. No occaslonal spout of civic patriotism, like that which rescued New York from Tweed ring rule and Phila- delphia from its gang and that which has Just delivered Brooklyn, will serve the pur- pose; the campalgn s precis ly as continuous @8 the struggle with selfishuess in the human beart. This is the calling wherewith they are called. This is the soverelgnty to which they are ordained. If intelligence and ex- perience have any place In a democracy they are here to lead. What else, in heaven's name, can they be here for? And when those elements to which leadership be- longs abdicate thelr function why should we expect to escape from pandemonium? Oar good people, then, must go into poll- tics. They must frequent primarics, as long as the present party organizations are malctained, not here gud thers & shame- | They must not be too mice to talk with peopie who emoke vile cigars and talk had grammar. Citizenship In this free and inde- pendent republic means something, and they must find out what it means. ready to take office when it is offered them —any officc, no matter how humble—which they are qualified to fill. They must be roedy, the busiest and the brainiost of them, to take positions on the school board and in the city councll, and to give days and nights of perplexing care and nunrewarded labor to the service of the city. Toese good people are not exempt from such service as this. Too busy? A man might as well say he is too busy to furnish food for his children or to attend his mother's funeral. This is one of the primal, sacred, inalienable obligations. No man who has any just sense of what citizenship in a republic means will ask to be relteved of it. The mau who has the ebllity to render intelligent and eficient service to his fellow citizens as a member of the city council, snd who refuses such service on the greund that his business do not aliow it, is gutlty of a bad kind of treackery. He has no right to have business cares which interfere with the per- formance of bis highest dutles. There can be no business which has a higher claim on him than the business of ihe city in which he lives FOREIGN BRAINS NOT TOO BUSY. In other lands the best citizens recognize thelr personal obligation. Go into the city counclls in European citfes and you find there the ablest, the best educated, the most distinguished men. Lord Rosebery, the present prime minister of Eng- Jand, was the first chairman of the London cownty council; I belive that, with | the weighty cares of the empire upon him, he still keeps his seat there. Sir John Lubbock was his successor. The strongest men In London are in that council. ~That is why European cities are well governed. We have men enough in our American cities who are capable of giving us good govern- enmt, but the great majority of them re- fuse to touch It with the tips of their fingers. This, 1 say, is the one central and sufficient reason for our bad city government. Of course we need and must have, in many places, some radical changes in our munici- pal machinery. Many of our political meth- ods are so bad that it is difficult for the best men to do good work with them. They were evidently conducted by the devil of misrule. But afcer all the one deepest need is a revival of civic patriotism. There Is one passage in Mr. Merwin's Atlantic articie that stings and-blisters. He is talking about New York: ‘The upper class—at least the richer class, the class chiefly talked about in the papers—is, with exception, of course, given over to material luxury and ostentation. It is without aims, without sympathy, without civic pride or feeling. It has not even the personal dignity of a real aristocracy. Its sense of honor is very crude. And as this class is devoted to the selfish spending, so the business class is devoted to the remorse- less getting of money. A Wall street finan- cier would overreach his own father in a business transaction. To get the better of the man with whom he is dealing has be- come a law of his nature, and it is on that plan that business in general is done. The tone of Delmonico's, of the Union club, of the Merchants’ exchange, of the Stock- brokers' board, is no higner than the tone of Tammany hall. It may be more refined, but is probably less homest. A man of Mr. Croker's origin, for example, commonly has an instinct of honesty, just as he has an instinet of pugnacity, but this primeval in- stinct has almost entirely died out of the trading and speculative class.” I do mot pronounce upon the truth of this indictment. Certainly, if we assume its truth, we must not fafl to emphasize the ex- ceptions pointed out. Let us hope that these exceptions are rapidly multiplying. But, as- suming these words to be mainly true, how does the truth stand related to the evil municipal conditions which affect New York? Are we dealing with cause or effect? With both, I think. The government of New York is what it is today because these men are what they are. Their selfishness, thetr lack of consclence, has given over the city into the hands of a sordid and brutal tyranny. But, on the other hand, how much of the de- basement of this “upper class” is due to its relation to the government of the city? Not a little, T believe. “Inasmuch as ye did it not” is good ground for damnation. The perfidy which spurns this supreme obligation must wither and blast the soul. No man can trifie with such a trust without degradation. It what Mr. Merwin says is even approxi- mately true, and if conditions at all similar prevail in other cities, then it would seem that a great revival of clvic patriotism is needed not oply to save our cities from mis- rule, but to save the “‘upper class” from ig- nominy. WASHINGTON GLADDEN. —_—————— THE THEATERS. The Carletons will inaugurate their second week of summer opera at Boyd's by produc- ing Monday evening Francls Wilson's ver- sion of Jacobowski's pretty opera, “Er- minie,” which Mr. Carleton has secured for the territory west of the Missouri river. It has been several years since “Erminie” was produced in Omaha, much of the book hav- ing been rewritten by Edouard Paulton, and it is this version of the very best of comic operas which will be made known Monday night. The entire strength of the Carle- ton company will be required to give the opera properly, and Mr. Carleton will spare no efforts to make the rendition worthy in every way the fame of the organization which he heads and which has grown in public confidence ever since the opening night of the summer season. New cos- tumes and stage settings will be introduced, and those who have heard the opera in the West say it is the best of the Carleton rep- ertoire. It abounds in beautiful solos, duos and catchy ensembles, with a humor that is Qecidedly up to date. There is not a dull line in the liberetto since Paulton revised it for Mr. Wilson, and the music flows as de- lightfully as a mountain stream. The opera will be cast as follow: Erminie. Javotte. ..Miss Alice Vincent .Miss Marie Hell Miss Clara Wisdom Miss Edith Elbridge Miss Emma Fanchon Miss Maggle Wynn Mr. J. C. Taylor Cheval Mr. H. M. Imano m':‘xr‘q':x Mr. 8. C." Porter Stmon. .Mr. H. Ehrent Dufol Mr. J. K. Reynard ...Mr. W. R. Dixon r. Robert Perris ‘Mr. Tom Ricketts and .MR. W. T. CARLETON will be given, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and Saturday matinee, Balfe'’s “Bohemian Girl” the balance of the week. One of the remark- able things in connmection with this opera fs that it is as popular with the patrons and admirers of English opera as it was half a century ago, haviug had its first production at Drury Lane theater, London, November 27, 1843. It is as certain to fill @ theater now as then and there has heen no waning of its charms in the meanwhile, Of how few operas can this be said truth- fully? Tonlght the Carletons will do Gilbert & Sullivan's opera, “The Mikado,” with Mr. Carleton in the titular role. While the first week of the summer scason of opera has not been what it should have been, in a business sense, theatergoers have recogni the sterling value of the company and there is every indication that business will grow as the public becomes educated to the low prices prevailing and recognize that they can see a $1.50 performance for 75 cents. While summer prices prevail it is a winter series of operas that are being given. “Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar,” one of the grandest and most popu- lar dramas that has ever been produced, will open a week's engagement of the J. P. Rutledge company at the Fifteenth Street theater this afternoon. The surprising fact, in connection with this announcement, is that the prices of admission have been re- duced to 10, 20 and 30 cents. The summer season is with us, and Manager Burgess nas made this reduction in accordance with an established theatrical custom. At these prices, which are very unusual for Omaha, and merely nominal, as everybody will con- cede, the performances should be well at- tended. “The Bank Robbers” will be put on for the last half of the week, vpening Thursday. Viscomp! Benedi Cadeaux RAVENNES “Erminie" P Graders discovered the skeleton of & white man under a bank of earth at Arlington, and an effort is belng made to ascertain bow the “late lamented" came to his de. They must be | [DUST T0 DUST BY CRENATION | l THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 27. 189/ TWENTY PAGES Description of the Plant for the Uarrying Out of the Process. HOW CORPSES ARE PLACED IN THE FURNACE Progress of the Dead Body from the Coffin to the Urn—Talk with the Manager of the Institution at St. Louls. A now business venture, such as dealing in second-hand coffins, caskets, etc., estab- lished in Omaha at the present day and age would be an innovation indeed, and calculated to call out comment. The un- dertaker who should be bold enough to announce his engagement In that trade, even Dovglas county’s Inimitable coroner, would place himself at once under suspicion of participating In grave desecrations or other execrable deeds, and thereby call down upon himself the indignation of a large portion of the community. Not until satisfactory explanstion of the source, whence his wares were derived were given might he escape the wrath of those who shortly previous were made to mourn the loss of relatives or friends. There can be no tenderer thoughts than those Dbinding memory to the last hours or the final view of a departed loved one before the coffin Iid shuts out the light from his form for- ever. Long after, involuntarily sometimes, memory’s pages vividly recall the lowering of the coffin into the grave. Recollections reach even beyond the mound in the silent city, where many a tear is shed. Through all the grief and sorrow which the parting has brought, some comfort remajus by the consclousness that the dearly beloved re- poses in an encasement beneath the ground which cannot pollute the remains, until by d:croo of time they shall again form a part of_it. From the prehistoric period to the pres- ent funeral customs have changed but little among most peoples. It remained for the latter part of the nineteenth century to inaugurate a radical departure in Europe, and in this country when, during 1874, Dr. Lemoyne of Little Washington, near Wheel- ing, Pa., built the first furnace, in which Baron de Palm's body furnished the first practical test of the incineration method. The example was followed by others, until today there are a number of crematories in the country, and especially in castern states Bodily cremation scems thus to have come not only to stay, but to gain additional ad- herents with the vears. With this devia- tion by a portion of the people from ancient customs and the new system’s being more and more put into practice, the second-hand trade in coffins will flourish correspondingly. The future establishment of a crematory and the new business attendant thereupon in Omaha may not be considered as altogether out- side the range of possibilities, sluce many favorable opinions respecting it have been expressed whenever the subject has re- ceived attention. If the reality should hap- pen then a younger generation in its time might perbaps bestow no more than ordi- nary attention upon a business sign an- nouncing a second-hand trade in coffins. In St. Louis, with a crematory, such dealers are already established, according to good authority, although their business at present has not reached the proportions to which they may aspire in the future. Much has been said about the subject of cremation. Enthusiasts Lave sought to make it an interest-absorbing topic, and to claim it as the best method yet devised for the disposition of bodies after the tmmortal soul has gone. Comparative inexpensive- uness, if people can be divested of what is termed foolish notions, is urged in favor of it. Its dispatch In re-uniting dust to dust is set forth as commending itself to every- body, and the final funeral arrangements are said to be calculated as non-productive of the jar upon the high tension to which the feelings of bereaved persons have been wrought, when the coffin is lowered Into the grave and the earth clatters down upon it. It is also claimed as advisable from a philanthropic and sanitary standpoint, and viewed in the light of progress over the custom which has prevatled for ages. Opposed to these views, of course, are the great majority of people living at the pres- ent age. Most of them cannot but experi- ence a feeling of revulsion at such a pro- cedure and shudder at the bare thought of having their earthly remains devoured by the flames. A mother's teachings of a future beyond, and an aversion from a re- ligious standpoint, also commingle with this, and enter largely into unfavorable consider- ation. Still, other reasons have been ad- vanced very recently, when the newspapers, in long articles, emanating from the mother and relatives of Annle Pixley, the Ameri- can actress, charged the latter's husband and manager of her estate, Robert Ful- ford, with having brought about his wife's death and resorted to cremation in order to prevent exhumation of the body and the tracing of the crime. / In another instance, in St. Louis, it was charged in a newspaper account that Wil- liam B. Lange, a once prosperous business man and prominent = German-American, whose death occurred several months ago from “violent congestions of the lungs,” and whose ashes repose now in an urn in the Missouri crematory, had committed an act of self-destruction, but investigation was fhagked when the flames reduced the body 0 dust. IN THE ST. LOUIS CREMATORY. It was seven years ago that St. Louls clti- zens associated themselves together and purchased five acres of ground on which the Missouri crematory was erected. This tract lies about five miles from the postoffice, on Sublette avenue, in the vicinity of the asy- lum for the insane in one direction, the poor house and female hospital in the other. The substantial building of brick with stone cor- ners stands upon rising ground, which slopes in all directions from it. A short distance away 15 the neat little frame cottage oceu- pled by the janitor, his family and assist- ants, while in the rear of the crematory long rows of cord wood, piled high, reach down to a wood shed or barn. The building, in its architecture, resembles a chapel with small stained glass windows, through which the light casts a somber hue upon the interior. The grounds are partially surrounded by a neat fence, and shrubbery and trees are set out to beautify the strips of land, separated by graveled walks. A sign at the gate an- nounces that visitors will be shown around by the janitor on application at certain hours of the day, for which service that function- ary shall be entitled to a fee not exceeding 10" cents. Nothing on the exterior denotes the character of the work carried on within, and the two flery furnaces In the bullding are not even marked by a tall smokestack. Only an iron-topped chimney of diminutive size protrudes its head slightly above the walls to the rear. “Missouri Crematory” is in large gilt let- ters upon the front of the structure, and after ascending several stone steps, visitors and mourners are admitted into a spacious hall througn a double door. The floor of the interior is of tiling in two colors. The smooth surface of the walls, in opposite corners, about eight feet in height, is broken by several niches, which are occupied by black marble family urns, bearing the names, dates of birth and death of those whose ashes rest therein engraved upon them. These were manufactured in the capital city of the German empire, at the express order of wealthy resident ors of the deceased. Other uri costly, stand upon brackets affixed to the walls and are encircled by wreaths of flow- ers, symbolic of love. Still others are placed on tablets against the walls. At the farther end of the room steps lead to an elevated platform, where the organ stands, Fronting it is the crypt, a stationary struc- ture covered with' black cloth, inte which the coffin is rolled, and which hides from view the body's journey to the basement when the doors are closed. A tiny bell pushed at this juncture indicates this to the waiting attendants bolow. Surrounding the crypt are palms, evergreens and bther potted plants. They also occupy places near the walls and on the platform. Rows of chairs are placed near the structure to seat the relatives and other mourners. A large framed notice on one of the walls gives the names of the present directors and officers of the Imstitution, and states the cremation fee o’ be $25 for all vomers. In the bascment a hright light, throughk unobstructed windowk, admits of a close in- spection of furnaces“Ned apparatus for in- | as in cremation the Iy upon the body. trary to prevailing not flames do not play db Incineration fs accomflished by the gases and the intense heal, generated by the heater, stationed . . In an _ adjoin- ing roon This heater s of dura- | ble material, almost ¥uare, with somewhat sounded corners. Fuel is added from a round projection at the top which is closed by an iron slide. The intense heat pro- duced by the seething fumes i= forced through a large pip? into the oven part, only | again to be conducted into smaller pipes and apertures, which continue the radiating process with Intensifying results. What a status the heat reaches may be judged from the appearance of the iron. platform- like, apparatus upon which the bodies are deposited when in the furnace, From fts | original jron color it is changed to almost | white. When the coffin descends from the superstructure it is conveyed, by means of the truck upon which it rests when first put Into the crypt, through an archway into another room and deposited upon a plat- form. Here it is opened and the body placed on the sliding apparatus, which stands upon rollers upon another truck run- { ning on rails to the furnace. The top ap- paratus, or resting place of the body, con- sists of two long irons firmly held together by heavy cross bars, with an fron sheet underneath. An ordinary linen sheet, dipprd into water in which alumn has been dis- solved, is used as a covering for the form to prevent the heat from doing its work on bair and clothes, which would emit odor before the furnace doors could be closed. Only a slight push is required and the truck | will start on its track with the burden. Its | contact with the furnace gives it the fm- pulse to roll on into the oven with very little assistance. With the doors tightly closed the heat soon consumes all that is mortal. Not the least odor during the progress of incineration is 1o be detectsd. Three small burners, two in front and one in the rear of the furnace, consume all vapors arising from the body. In an hour, or at most one hour and ons half, all s done and after allowing sufficient time to cool the attendant reopens the doors and withdraws the fron platform, upon which the ashes lie scattered, from the furnace. Carefully sweeping them together they are placed, at first, in a common urn, which is to join other like receptacles on the shelves around the walls of the basement. Thers it will remain until relatives shall call and direct thé disposition of the ashes in ac- cordance with the deceased's wish or their own inclinations, whether that be a scatter- ing of them to the four winds of the heavens from some high tower or a casting upon the turbulent waves of the mighty ocean. To each of these urnms, for temporary use, a card is attached giving the name of the party and other data. CREMATION PROCESS AS WITNESSED. When The Bee correspondent visited the place several weeks ago two funeral pro- cessions were expected to arrive that after- noon. After making known his desire to be present during the funeral services and the cremation process, President Stifel of the Missouri Crematory association, who chanced to be on the grounds, consented and conducted the correspondent through the in- stitution for an inspecting tour. A feeling of awe impossible of repression, commingling with vague and uncertain ideas as to what his eyes might behold within arose in the reporter’s breast, when he was about to intrude hisresence into the com- pany of the dead. The interior surroundings at first glance and the elements without were not calculated "on this occasion to at once dispel shuddering thoughts. A perfect hurricane prevailing out of doors might have supplied our imiginative minds with ideas of loud protests by the elements against the proceedings about to be begun. Out of a leaden sky a dull Jight.cast a sombre shadow through the small windows, giying to all things within & peculiarly weird, gloomy and pharitastic appearance. Bspecially was this so with regard to the deep black crypt and the black marble urns. In bold relief to this, however, was the center ceiling, cupola-shaped, with angels in beautiful fresco work and other things denoting happiness in_an unknown world. Several young ladies, among them the organist, were already assembled and occu- pled chalrs, walting for the first funeral procession to arrive. Shortly after the hearse stopped on the graveled driveway in front and the pall bearers bore in a cloth- trimmed casket. The first sounds of the organ rang out when the steps were as- cended. Without halting in the chape) the casket was noiselessly rolled into the crypt. The mourners seated themselves, /and a friend of the deceased stepped upon the plat- form to the head of the crypt and delivered a touching tribute to the man whose body was even then, unheard and unseen, of course, descending to the room below. This short eulogy abruptly stopped by a flood of tears in the speaker's eyes closed the sim- ple service, and when it was ended a second trip was made to the basement on Mr, Stifel's courteous invitation. The furnace had received and already closed in upon the corpse. Down below the heat was fast reducing it to ashes. With the exception that perhaps the fire seemed to be burning more fiercely and with & roaring noise, things around the furnaces were found in the same order as before. Not a vestige showing that the body had been received there remained. The pres- ident being asked as to what had become of the casket answered that it had been placed in the rear, where it would be reduced to kindling wood, the same as those of the costliest order. ““We have been asked,” he continued, “to keep a number of coffins in different sizes on hand to accommodate those who might wish to use them In case of bereavement, as well as effect a saving for bereaved poor persons who are unable to purchase new coffins, but in doing 80 we would clash with the under- takers. This latter we wish to avoid, espe- clally since they take now more kindly to cremation. When we first started this insti- tution they were all much opposed to us, but gradually ~their resistance has given way, until now both Protestant and Catholics, as well as nonbellevers, find burial here with their full consent. They have come to the conclusion that our process does not threaten to reduce their revenues. The custom of expending money lavishly in purchasing costly caskets and on the dress of the dead who are to be cremated 1s voth foolish and worse than useless. The former are used a few hours only, to be broken up again in order to make room for others. The latter, especially habiliments made of woolens, re- tard quick incineration by a slow and not entire consumption. ~ Particles of woolen cloth will find lodging places and clog up many of the small apertures in the furnaces, necessitating frequegt , cleanings; but until people shall desist from throwing away money in this manner we will be compelled t0 put up with their motions.” Answering another question, the chief ofi- clal of the institutign said: ‘“Some of the undertaking firms here in the city take back the empty coffins or caskets and sell them a second time, but ad having been already used, If the customer does not mind that They can be sold, of gourse, much cheaper the second time, buf the undertaker today could not be induced to carry on that kind of trade. The number of those who do en- gage in it 15 only small yet and the trade limited, but there is no telling what dimen- slops it may reach i’ the future if cremation continues on the inchease as it has don the case of contagious,and infectious di we Incinerate cofin and all, but to do so when there is no necessity would only be accumulating an extraordinary amount of ashes. So far in the neighborhood of 300 bodles have keen cremated here, and we ex- pect a progortionate increase as people come more ang more around to our way of think- ing. 4nother body is to arrive in an hour from Los Angeles, Cal. The party used to live here. Tomorrow we will recrive one from San Antonid, Tex. We contemplate erecting a columbarium in the near future, where all the urus left are to find a final resting place. It will be a sort of memorial hall.” A turther query as to how Mr. Stitel came to be connected with uch grievesome busi- ness was answered by him “A few years ago mysell and a few triends were seated, I think at Llederkranz hall, when two other friends, shivering with the ‘cold from head to foot, eutered. Both sald that they bad greatly suffered from the inclemency of the weather while at a | | him, and seeing that the case was hopeles funeral. To this I casually remarked that the buflling of a crematory would be t ht thing and that their experience of th cineration. The intamor of the furnaces, | day would not be repeated if this were done. which resemblo oveps. with Intricate con- | Surviving relatives and friends of deceased struction, possesses many points of inter- | persuns would avold catching cold while | est. C of thesé wik' odded only a short | *tanding barehoaded iIn the cemetery by the time ago to meet the ever-incrousiag de- | grave. Talking it over in this way we found mand for crematlen. The nrat one was | that our views coincided In the matter and bullt by as Italian, whose bLusiness was | not jong after we organized the present com- that of coastructing fifnaces of this ch pany with a capital of $20,000. acter, but In the new one American inge- et easnns nulty was usod to good advantige. Cone| MAY THEY PLEASE THE COURT. Entertaining Anecdotes of Bench and Bar. “There was a good joke played on Judge Dundy of the United States court at Omaha several years ago. It makes me laugh every time I see the judge's namwe in print,” sald Thomas A. Weaver to the Globe-Demo- crat man. “Judge Dundy is quite tender- hearted and dreads to send a married man o jall. Well, there was a fellow on teial for passing counterfeit money. He was a single man and the case against him was qu'te strong. Judge Baldwin was defending Members of Baldwin decided to take advantage of Judge Dundy's weakness. He hunted up an old lady who had five children, ranging from § ears to § monthe old, and had her imper- sonate the supposed wife and childre of the prisoner. All through the trial th sat, often weeping. The man was found gullty. Three days later when the prisoner was brought up to be sentenced, the woman and children were brought in and Judge Baldwin, who is very dramatic, made n plea for the man and his family of little ones, who would suffer if the father was sent to prison. Baldwin wept, the court wept, the prisoner pretended to weep, as did the woman and the children. When the court had wiped away the tears he talked severely to the man and then gave him one day in Jail and $10 fine. Later on, when he learned how he had been deceived, he became so angry that it was weeks before he would speak to Judge Baldwin. When the joke got out everyone twitted the court. After that the sight of a handkerchief ap- plied to the eyes in Judge Dundy's court was liable to get the prisoner ten years.” Mr. Sergeant Wilkins once defended a breach-of-promise case for a singularly ugly little man, which he told the defendant, after reading his brief, must be *‘bounced” through. And the sergeant did bounce it through in a truly remarkable manner, says the Detroit Free Press. “‘Gentlemen of the jury,” he said, at the close of a most eloquent speech u have heard the evidence for the plaintiff; and, gentlemen of the jury, you have seen and have admired that most bewitching plalntift herself. Gentlemen, do you believe that this enchanting, thie fascinating, this captivat- ing, this accomplished lady would for one moment favor the advances or listen with anything save scorn and indignation to the amorous protestations of the wretched and repulsive homunculus, the deformed and de- graded defendant?" His client looked up from the well of the court and piteously murmured: “Mr. Ser- geant Wilkins! Oh, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins “Stlence, sir!” replied the sergeant, in a wrathful undertone. #‘Gentlemen,” he con- tinued, bringing his fist down heavily on the desk before him, “do you think that this lovely lady, this smiling creature, would ever have permitted an offer of marriage to be made to her by this miserable atom of humanity, this stunted creature, who would have to stand on a sheet of note- paper to look over twopence?’ The jury at once gave a verdict for the defendant. Recorder Smyth had an experience on Pifth avenue recently that recalled the threats of violent revenge muttered by felons whom he has sent to Sing Sing for long terms. The recorder, says the New York Herald, was strolling down to the Manhattan club after dinmer on a raw, misty evening when the electric lights were out of repair. In the deep gloom half way down the side of the Forteth street reser- voir a rasping, threatening voice sald: “Recorder, yer sent me to prison five years ago. I've been follerin’ y'all th' way from ver house.” “AWel?” acked the recorder calmly, yet not unexpectant of a sandbag entering into the dialo; “T've reformed now,” continued the voice, “and 1 thought mebbe y'd help me git a all at my house tomorrow morning." said the recorder in unchanged tones. The man got his job and he is working indu: triously, and he has not the least Wdea of the first effect of his voice crying in the night. 1f a story told of Richard Prendergast is true he must ba a better lawyer than he Is Judge, says the Chicago Record. He took a case on one occasion, 50 the tale runs, that promised well except for one thing. There yasly precedent that was directly against “‘That other case will surely be brought up,” said his client. “Never mind,” replied the ex-judge, “I can get around that. It's a fool decision y Who rendered it?" “Yes; when you were on the bench.” “Well, that doesn't make any difference,” returned the lawyer calmly. “I can beat it anyway." And he did. He went into the county court and showed that the previous deci- sion was not according to law and could not be held to establish a precedent. He was successful in practically overruling his own decision and won the case. The Independent tells an anecdote of Joseph B. Choate In connection with the Brigs case, the intricacies of which he re- fused to master, while a brother lawyer, who is a member of the distinguished law firm, a large part of whose business consists in winding up bankrupt Arms and broken down corporations, took much interest in it, and sent him an octaso volume contain- ing a full report of the trial. This Mr. Choate acknowledged when they met, with his usual courtesy, but he could not help saying: “But 1 cannot see what you are after, unless,” he continued, “it be to break up the Presbyterian church, so that your firm may have the business of reorgan- izing it."” ——— e KELIGIOUS, The general minutes of the Methodist Episcopal church South for 1894 show 5,487 traveling preachers, 6,513 local preachers, 1,329,673 white members, an increase of 40,128 during the vear; 312 colored members, a decrease of 45; and 3,225 Indian mem- bers, a decrease of 729. There are 13,185 churches, valued at $20,667,767, and 3,163 parsonages, valued at $3,675, According to the Methodist Year book for 1894, there are now in the two bodies of Episcopal Methodism in this country 3,545,- 069 members, and adding the other branches of Methodism in the United States the num- ber is considerably over 4,000,000. Canadian Methodism numbers 252,178 members, and British and Irish Methodism over 500,000, Adding the adherents of Methodism to these numbers would make a total of 25,000,000, the largest Protestant church in the world. This great number has grown from a mem- bership of 66,608 in 1794. Census returns recently issued show that there are in New Zealand 1,197 churches and chapels, being an increasc of 134 in five years. Two hundred and forty-one school houses are used for Sabbath services, and 161 dwellings and public buildings. These various edifices have accommodations for 278,114 persons (or less than half the popu- lation of the colony), and are actually at- tended by 197,055, or about a third of the population. Presbyterians report 40,785 church-goers; Bpiscopalians, 87.252; Roman Catholics, 30,625; Wesleyans, 27,106; Salva- tionists, 14,4 There are 450 Jews, 200 Freethinkers, and 3,803 of no denomination at all AR Rhoumatism Oured in Three Days. “] have been afflicted all winter with rheumatism in the back. At times it was 80 severe that I could not stand up stralght, but was drawn over on one side” says George A. Mills of Lebanon, Conn. “I tried different remedies, but without relief, until sbout six weeks ago, when I bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. After using it for three days, according to directions, my rheumatism was gone, and has mnot re- turned since. 1 have since recommended it and given it to others, and kunow they have been benefited by its use.” For sale by druggists —_—— A camp of over fifty Woodmen of World bas been organized at Plattsmoutt the 2 THER ‘0R SPOT CASH. under, and FOR CASH OALY. | MONDAY Every article we quote here is guaranteed at actual cost or 13 Give a woman a hint and she'll | guess the rest. i Morse Spot Cash MORSE DRY G00DS €0 tick Gash Raising Sale Sale undersells every bargain price ever made on DRY GOODS, CARPETS, CAPES, ¥ JACKETS CHINAWARE. Don’t spend a dollar until you look over our un- der value prices. Lawns, Pongoes, Fancy Satecns, 5¢ 17¢ Turkey Red Daninsk Fancy Duck for ; Sultings 6%0 Fast Black Sateen lic Childrens' bonnets in silk and lace, act- ual value 65¢, Spot Oash at 25c. Ladies' fine shirt waists, actual value £1.25. Spot Cash at 50c. French Satine wrap- pers, 82.50 value, Spot Oash at §1.75. § Fine sl tuul value Spot Cash at $2.48. alsts, ac- Fine silk waists, ac- tual value $5.00. Spot Oash at $3.75. Fine silk walsts, ac- tual value §7.50. 8ot Cash at $4.48. Lutest styles ladles® all wool Jackets, ac- tual value 85.00. Spot Cash at $1.75. Latest style ludies' all wool jackets, actu- al value 810, Spot Cash at $4 08 Actual value 83.00. Spot Cash at $1.48. Actual valne #.00, Spot Cash at $2.38. Actual value 87.50, Spot Oash at $3.76 Actual value £10. Spot Cashat $5 00, Actual value 815.00. Spot Cash at $7-50. At these prices we will sell one gurment only to a customer. One lot of silk and iron frame grenadine, regular value, $1.50. 8p:t Oash at 870 Ladies' hemstitched and sl':\lluPfld hand- kerchiefs, in plain or colors, actual value Below Oost et Ho- All our 85c and 40c best Scotch glnghums, Under Cost at 18c. French flannelette, in_new desizns an colorlugs,actunl value 20¢, Under Costat 9c. A lot of laces in dif- ferent_widths, actual value 50c. Spot Cashat 25¢c. Colored embroider- fes,up to 8 inches wide, actual value 80¢, Spot Cash at 124c. Schilling's Model Form, extra long, hixn bust ' corset, uctual value 81.00, Spot Cash at 83c. Ventilating satin striped corsot, regular 75¢ goods, Spot Oash at 43c. Fine dnmnsk Lunch cloth, hemstiteh, with upple blossom ' pat- tern, nctusl value 82, Spot Cash at §1.25. Gowns, skirts and drawers, mude of ex- cellent ' cambric und :.nlm.l’ln. actual valae Epot Oash at 87c. Chilldren's hats with crowns, Spot Cash at 500, Children's hats with satin crown snd lace rims, 8pot Cash at 760, Rique button Boys' wash flannel suits, actual value 84, Spot Cash at §1. Boys' b0c pants, Bpot Cash at 8T4o Boys' 50c unlaan- dered skirt walsts, 8pot Cash at 23c. 81 boys® king walsts, Spot Oash at 750 Canvass belts, 10c. Leather girdle bolts, 26c. Fancy gold belts, T50. Pink and blue col- lars and cufls, set, 26c. 25c dress shiclds, 12c. Fisher's root beer, 170 Florida water, 130 Pins und silvered trays, 8o. Dress stays, dozen, 5c, All our fine import- ed French challies, actual value up to 75¢. 8pot Cash at 460, B-inch boller, Spot Cash at 58c. Nickle-plated, por- celnin-lined, 8-plece pudding dish, actual value §1.25. £pot Oash at 530, tln wash Good floor brooms, actual value 25c, 8pot Qash at 17c. Ladies' fine lisle thread vests, ecru and white, actual value 40c, Spot Oash at 21a. Ladies' all sk vests, 0 quulity, Spot Oash at 480 Ladies' Egyptlan lisie “druwers, knee length, uctual value 75c. Bpot Cash. Ludies' Egyptian cotton vests,” regular 25¢ quality, Spot Oash 11o. Ladles' best lisle thread vests, regular 00¢ goods, E£pot Oash 280, Ladies' lislo thread and silk usion suits, all qualities, at -Much Below Cost. ted cottuge dinner sets, real value €5.75, Spot Oash at $3.75. A fine Mexican ham- mock, actual value 76¢ 8pot Oash at 400, Your cholce from 50 pleces fiue novelty suitings, all the new colors, netunl value up W bue, 8pot Cash at 18a. A lotof French dlag- onal, whipcords, serges and benrivitas, worth up to 81, Bpot Cash at 43¢, 62 1nch storm serge black, 46 inch fine serge, 46 Inch henriottas, novelties, crepons, up to 8128, Worth your ehoice for Bpot Cash at 620, Boys' heavy bicycle eose, with double heel and toe, sctual value 8bc, Bpot Cash at 18c.} Ladles' seamloss fust black hose, regular 20¢ goods, Bpot Oash at 110 Ladios’ fast black, double sole, neel and toe, 50¢ quality, £pot Oash at 33c. Ladics' opera lougth gau hose, fast colors, Spot Oah at 330, A line ot ladies' sill hose, in drab ans light shades, bhave been lling for #8) Monday for 8pot Cash at97c, Gowns, drawers and corset covers, cambrl and muslin, trimme with and_em- broidery, have sold up to 8o, 8pot Ca-h at 470, Extra length chem- ise, in fine lawn, beaus tifally trimmed with Ince, actual value up to §1.75. Bpot Oash at §1.12, 72-inch Damask, ular pattorns, sctual value $4.50. 8pot Oash at 9. Lunch cloth. plain damask center, ouk leaf border, uctual value 8275, 8pot Cash at $1 95. Fine hemstitched truy cloth, Spot Cash at 260. An elegant line of white dotted Polht Sprit and Polny Genes luce at Much Under Cost. Fine silk stri g‘g:‘“e" actual vum Spot Cash at 160, The best quality of dowestic ginghams, 8pot 0:sh at Bo. Ladies’ scull cped and embroidere hundkerchiefs, actus value 20c, Spot Cash at 110, Ladies’ hemstiched and scullopsd ems broidered handkere ?unh. uctual value, B:low Cost at 130, Mon's colored heme stitched handkers chiefs,in neat desigus, sctuul value 25c, Below Oost at Bo, Bes! it all o 1y et 8pot Oash at 500, Torebn allig e s0 stk . e quuiey, Spot Oash at 590, Changeable surahs, :!llc-“k' actual valus Bpot Cash at 650 No 16 all sllk molre ribbon Y. No. 22 satin and moire ribbon, 17¢. No, 9 all silk bluck £ros gruin ribbon, Ye. No 16 sutin and gros graiu ribbon, 9e. Nos. 9 and 12 molre and satin ribbon . Nos. 5, 7 und 9 sutin and gros grain, also molre ribbon, be, Buby ribbon with fonther odge 1le aploce, Plain_all silk baby ribbon 8¢ aplece. Ladles' extra fine tan hose, spliced heel and toe, Under Oost at 332, Ladies’ fine lisle throad hose, Wit drop stitch, scvu value Suc, 8ot Cash at 35c, Ohlldren's footed hose, fu black, double lkn beel and toe, sctu value 50c, whit Spot Oash at 350, Ladies' soamloss tan bose, fust colors, ¢,