Show DEAD FOLK DOWN IN CHILI Let Talk o on t Groves Evon tho the Tomb H Has It Its LUdlo Ludicrous rous raUB Side In to South America J L fail E Chill Chili Feb o b 22 I de g ed me to the anti and lo you ou to r r Inn hit lI m o th uck tk t I t Int taw A peon r on J hl hits his outstretched hands a 1 I kid 1 4 bol au tot Vt t feet e Jong Ibn g and nJ In n on 0 the lh l h q td a 1 chilli c attired d In a red 1 fair frock The Ther Th corpse e Wf Willi i tilt tf it a lift Irl apparently about live five 1 I fici ell The lie were lef ere covered with witha U ho hoed a world too loo wide for tor fork wr ll runk thank k a Jaunty wreath of ro Q u i crowned trO the th smoothly tl hair the cheeks rh ekK were t daubed lb lIb to l laaI o aaI the hue of oi health ami an the wide farl ip QI Marine Into infinity Tit mr was followed by b two t 0 I tho and grand I the he dead ta t atM ld Who the ho Walked tv l r rW 11 tit an It of c n impatience I cc t thou thoe who h IV eve ave little angel to vell the Y Mat hoit 1 Mind ic hind the t tit hI P wo women I tv Ir men playing with might r ti one on a II fiddle Melle the tho other on ont ona of t a rath uch Intent t on a tune tUM ot oC f his r f of or the then 01 per per peram am the rear wan brought t tg r a l trod crowd of or sea onn 1 of ot whom w rm evidence of I I n on part In lu tho the nj UI c ot of a ere on the w Wit vay ay to the cemetery ti II angel over oler wh h i hI ht i keen dancing dud and drinking I ft d ys pa a tand which na may I le lowed 1 two or fir three c tinted In la I I di lIa friends tt lio were not r f r i at IS to have hl ft ry 1 corpse C In ht the th fl the h moro degraded tau q It at d i It ll Is IA u a genend en rice prat t l t h I ft death rill fIu RII an PC for tor or and ridiculous aH nil those haM I ill wake and nOil the body hOlly Is often kept k r I Pt for tor kit until It becomes Of at atI to all I Country approach the I there Ise I II there Is a funny funn funerals r A member of at tho lino ie r United tilted States Stales navy nl astronomical expo tittles dillon Hi lb Chill Chili hill made several yenta ago UIO tells h the story t r of ot u common commit occurrence Ho says lute late ono one night from n a dancing ti party I t had tho the t opportunity oI of oC witnessing festivities of at quite n IL different character Passing a Ii small conn my ty attention f wart wait nit attracted t 1 by Q loud shouting singing Within A l v to who w b Blood sto 1 near door III III mo too pause e Invited me In hit What hat Is go goIng goIng Ing lag an I asked We rile ore are watching on 1111 angel or of God she replied My I curiosity being aroused by hy her he answer 1 entered The room win u as crowded with men and women of or the tho lower classes who were engaged In ht drinking and clapping their hands hand to the tho music of oft two I females who wh sat pat on rt the hoot floor In hind singing a drawling ditty tha Iho burden hurden o of oC which was WI ra the happiness of In hen hell hellem vent veni em Hut Bul tho must most t prominent object ct was wag a 1 kind of ot rude altar II I set around with lighted d candles candies unit and ornamented with tinsel flowers In III the tho oC or these sat tho the Ufa lito size Izo of ot an 1111 In Infant runt fant In tawdry ry with lIh saline w hugs Its lis loco face profusely painted red rell t 1 It 11 Is s the thc Imago of ot nine Kome I 1 fald to myself and was tens II turning n a n convinced mo me that thero there was erns unusual about this tight gUI The Thu hair looked very cr natural the tho eyes era vacant and flinty filmy and oven the tho linKer linger units nails wern evert perfectly formed There to o he Ito n a great t deal dell too tOil muen tOUCh of ot art for tor nature liB yet too much of nature for art 1 I to It more inure closely und stud won horrified 11 to tu discover that It Il WON u II In hi I that 1 J asked of ot n a bystander An 11 angel sir lie he replied A what A dent dead child sir Mir MirI siri II r I tens IS Afterwards Informed thai lint these 1 ore very vary 1 common throughout the tho rural districts mud that thai frequently they the lira continued with music and IJ und and drunkenness night after night Until unlit the tho corpse too of ot tell lo for COl endurance Among tho the better r fJ of ot funerals are conducted on pretty prell much the tha tame rase plan as nil In hr other civilized court conn tried except l that hero here the ladles Indies newer never attend them thern It Is IR customary IU for tor nil all Ithe the friends file ils and acquaintances of ot the afflicted family to pay 1111 them th m visits of oC condolence con olence within 10 days Jaye niter after the ob oli s For Far a 1 month the tho mourners are expected to sit In one une corner of a darkened parlor larlor The condoling call rall callers ers era fa approach them ono one after another occupy the nearest chair for tor five min minutes minute ute tiles or more mare while expressing their for tor or the living and unel 1 regret for tor forthe forthe the thc dead then make their bow and re retire reo tire tIe as nil succeeding arrivals move up A refreshment table Is in generally spread In an rut adjoining apartment nt lit which visitors may fortify themselves elc tar for this title onerous duty of ot friendship or refresh themselves the after Its performance Among many odd aIM Incidents pertain pertaining ing to funerals the tho following Is still much much talked of ot hereabouts A few ors Cars c n go a n eIl t o citizen 1 of at Con who hUll hud lived suns sans ct el Bans sans m ns nil go HO gor quarreled quay ruled reed with the thu aed g mother n of oC f his half dozet children Him Sho tto took French leave one night and nothing was heard of ot her afterwards Having remained in single lc blessedness 11 a 11 year ear or two to without being belli able to ascertain whether Inns his runaway spouse was liv living II ing lug or dead the tho gentleman took look it n younger woman tn to wife Ifs contrary to the tho shed of the church Shortly after titter his hili second marriage he became to so sick that his hili life lite was of ot Of or coni so the tho friends blends sent for tor a n priest who ho came como and commanded the dying man to denounce now nosy wife before he could receive absolution This the tho thoman theman man refused Ieru ell to do Ito and tho the priest re rc retired ref tired In 11 t high hI g h dudgeon 1 e l f without t leaving g behind hehnel till the desired pass through pur purgatory purgatory The Tho man uan grew Kroll rapidly worse WOI O not be he hurled burled Here hero was wan a 1 pret pretty prett ty t I kettle of or robed Nobody t ever OVer everand r and pad the priest was called and yet et again tho the latter always making the spine same demand with the same result re lIlt Threats followed of oC dire eternal con consequences consequences on sequences and finally tho the poor liar man a revolver from under his pillow und nod drove the tho priest from front the thc wont room roo Half HolC an hour later Inter he was tens dead anti and the tho lie church refused d to bury him The hd family appealed to the tho mayor of ot the city who ordered hl his hili bur 1111 lull tho the priest appealed to the bishop of who ho declared that ho he think of being heln hurled burled In other than consecrated ground anti In tn those days 1118 all nil the tho cemeteries belonged ll to tho the church Meanwhile as no time lime went on rt tho the been ate In ht the condition ot of LazurUs us B of as na described by Martha whet when the tho Savior visited his tomb Lord by hy this limo he hc at The president of or tho thin republic r was final finally I II ly I 1 appealed to und mud ho lie over ocr ruled the bishops ruling ru lilt 1 mid ordered that t the theman man mutt bo he burled buried In the tho cemetery There was 1111 no this verdict anti and tho the badly decomposed bono boo of conten contention tion wn w as placed under ground Hut the matter tied did not end hero here an ua ono one might tor for the tho whole whale nation IM 14 came clune attired up about It II For months month the tho unsavory subject was teas In iii every cor mouth the newspapers teemed with wIlh Its Ita pros lIOS and cons cou and tho the adherents ot of both tides sides of the tho question rondo It n it 1 test lest case ot of strike e fur for your altars nod and your our fires for tOl tho green graves ot of your more adore property properly rl appalling for tOI thou their adobe In IIi thu pantheon walls wllIs The church hurled bitter bitter nl at the president de do denouncing him no nil a 1 heretic and a 1 cor car of or ull all that Is rood good and popular tar lar sentiment ran mil RO so high that revo roo revolution lution VAS aae os Imminent I think It was In 1881 1851 IKS that Domingo Santa Merle Mario settled the matter Judicially by b Inducing congress to rasa pass a law which threw throe all the tho public cemeteries open to people of every over religious faith or of no faith at nt all 1111 Previous to that date data they the hind had been b ell exclusive Ie property properly ot or the rho church and hind yielded nn nit Im manse revenue Decides tho the eight dol dollars dolIns lars Ins tax on rt every o VCr over cadaver lots wore wore w re solo sold at ot n a high price In tho big cemetery at Santiago the longest dare for tor which a n lot tut was IM sold was 30 years An as Ingo lot two yards ails III l long lanK and andone one yard Said wide rose cose 30 for tor a II period of ot thirty years tho tiro en sortie run size nine Iz lot for far one bin IA one year thrill three dollars Forthe For Forthe the privilege of or erecting n a n family aloha monument meat ment ator tine thi lot Is 18 fur for thirty dopers dolors additional A record was wan kept kOI t anil when tho the time expired the friends trl nH gf or tin deceased could COli lei con crr continue liar In o e lon only by re renewing ewIng the th lease and paying another thirty If thin tho family hind removed to tu another part of ot tho the country or 01 wore all nil dead or lead had grown Indifferent tho lot Was vas 15 resold when the uro lease expired anti and Ito tho former tenants evicted lint hilt It if they the to remove their dead to another place thirty dollars was wae 11 charged for to permission to do 10 no so Tho 1111 church In Santiago owns Oren n 1 elass hearse which Is used uell only for great dignitaries nt at the tho cost ost of at fifty dollars for tor convoy convey Ina the corpse on rt ll lie 1111 last Journey It has lino Ilso alsa a n 8 c eluas I for tor n people arid and the tha fee r r for tor us UK usIng InS Ing It Ji JIt twelve dollars and onel u a 1 third class Huss Un s for tOl eight dollars And BO so on down dOlln 16 11 tea the nodal gamut to the sixth class clasp composed c ot of the churchs most mast leVO devoted servants ving no money mane to tiny pay 1111 for Cor any 1111 hearse carry corry their load dead on n 0 stretcher and lay III them thern In hi ii the ruins corner earlier Tint That great come tort lory tit lit hills capital with Its more thrill than registered dead Is iii certainly the tho most If not popular pub pu h He Ile resort In iii 11 tho th country And tho the population still constantly y increasing Is IB a 1 permanent one disturbed by hy no May tiny day or resolutions or changing governments It U is III divided Into hula live five parts ono cite for tor the tho dignitaries of ot the tho church hurch ono one for far wealthy and In Influential lul people peole another for common clay Choy cia and another for tOI ragged who are too loo poor to pay Iny any uny anything thing Passing Into Inlo that great city of ot silence through a lofty arched gate gale gales s I e ro WilY Way topped lopped by h n II tall tull cross cro s one stands amazed ed at It the thu multitude of ot bronze and marble monuments l and Ine splendid slut Mat Mattu tu toes s many of oC them thorn executed by the most famous sculptors of oC Europe Europea l a crowd of oC costly and artistic shapes B far fur exceeding In number those to be found at ot Greenwood or Mount Auburn uburn Thousands of or the monuments u e ore are In tho form torm of oC crucifixes reminding the visitor of sonic some ones oneK thought Let us 1111 hope they the have gained the crown for tor behold tho the multitude of ot crosses they the have left leCt behind you tarry to watch the sexton digging n 1 grove grave you ou would observe his hili spade strikes something hard huru In ht the tho sindy soil soli It Is 18 only the fragments ot of some forgotten persons Arsons ons collin which with skull mud and marrow marrowbones marrowbones bones are ore carelessly rattled out upon the ground A little deeper lI down ho lie hols lieis ls is liable to coupe come ut on another and yet ct another i four tour r layers of them being I about the average orn e eIn In Chill Chili as In nil other Catholic coon cOlin countries tries Nov NOI 1 IK Is All 11 Saints tiny day when surviving friends decorate the graves of at the t hI dead and hove have prayers said sull for forthe forthe forthe the repose o of their souls On that day tIllY In nay any nn Chilian city the tho road Pond leading lending to tu the pantheon Is thronged with people attired In deepest t mourning on their way vay II to the performance of ot these rites The rho burial place line has previously been put In apple order for the occasion lon Its 1111 unsightly pit Ill filled up scattered bones honel and pieces of ot colllns cleared cleo red away Aisles of ot beggars stretch along tho road ronel to the gate of the rho pantheon where vendors venders of gate rolls rakes cakes 1 Ices and otter alter their wines waves for tor s sale ale while a t 0 run rah out t to o preserve pre erve order contributing to toa ton n a scene of oC confusion more appropriate to 10 tho the entrance of ot u a 1 circus tent than to toa toa ton a n silent city of at the tho lend dead Inside all 1111 the tho tombs lire covered with fresh flow lIow ors arranged In Wreaths festoons and vases The Tho most 1110 t fashionable decoration lire are black paper roses combined with black nn d white bonds bertel Groups of oC people chatting gaily non seated upon open the graves fravel while at ut various points throughout tho the grounds stand priests of or different orders onion repenting prayers for tor the dead There Thero are reverend In ht long IanI robes of or black broad broadcloth broadcloth cloth and others In hr flowing gowns of oC white merino mostly of oC physique whoso whose especial business hu lnell for tor forthe forthe the day rill In Is II to sty say for tor any de do departed parted soul at 01 the tho rate ot or a shilling per Iler prayer anti others whoso petitions conic come still Mill higher but whether they go tiny any an higher who can cnn say sn FANNIK U IT WAnD |