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Show CHEATING THE DEAD. To steal pennies from a dead maa'i yes ha been held for age a th moat contemptible form of thievery. But modern dy hsvs developed a meaner depth of lsrcenv th betrayal of trust wherebv the poor bodies of the dead are defrauded of th few feat of earth to which they are entitled a a last resting place. No wslk of lifa i free of these plunderer, th relative or heirs who succeed to comfortable for- tones being quite a spt to rob their dead benefactors a poor men are to run away and shirk responsibility. Mr. Smith who is in this instance a composite person was a fairly prosperous pros-perous New. York business man. His wife died in 1904. He mourned her with everv indication of sincerity, and bad her bod- kept in the receiving vault of a high priced cemetery near New York City for nearly a year. Then he learned of a leu expniv place farther far-ther away, and had the coffin removed to it. The bereaved man wa so overcome over-come with grief that he could not immediately im-mediately select a burial plot. After six months he revisited th cemetery and . spent hour looking over the grounds. . With tear! in hi ye he told th salesman who ahowed him about how beautiful hi wife had been: what sweet, lovable character shs hd; how devoted sh had been to him. Indeed, he beeame so ad he one mor realized hi loss-that he could not proceed pro-ceed with the melancholy businees of choosing a plot. He went away,, still overwhelmed with amotion and saying be would return when he was mor composed. com-posed. Thst wa mor thaa two years go. H ha not been back yet. William Hemmingway ia Harper's Weekly. |