Show FROM cincinnati OHIO cincinnati april 20 1898 last sunday elders burton C dark I 1 ark and I 1 visited the new st joseph catholic cemetery this city the sexton showed us through the vault a house for the storage of dead bodies pending burial the rent for space in the vault Is a month for adults and 76 75 cents for children the ground plan of the structure Is iq in the shape of a cross there Is a door but no windows in the building ventilation Is 16 provided for by means of small holes near the botton bottom in the door apol and an opening also in the shape of a cross in each of the four gables on each of three sides of the vault shelves are running from the floor nearly to the root roof there Is s no calling cel ling the coffas are placed on the shelves side by side and one row above the other arranged exactly like shoe boxes in a store on the end of the coffin at the head Is tacked a card giving the name and age of the deceased and the date of death and of deposit in the vault it is customary here to leave the dead bodies in the vault for several months before burial my land ladys husband was lying in the vault six months before interment we were shown bodies in different stages of preservation among others one of ot a woman 26 25 years old who had died december a 10 1897 at the instance of the cincinnati chamber of commerce the fort thomas ky soldiers who left last night tor f or tampa florida paraded the streets of this city yesterday afternoon all along the line of march the thoroughfares were thronged thron ged with eager spectators every available space from the streets to the tops of the buildings wits was occupied some attempted to combine pleasure and profit with the nece necessary savy expenditure of valuable time but it was peculiarly striking to see men engrossed in reading their newspapers while clinging to telephone poles twenty or thirty feet up in the air awaiting the arrival of the guests of honor great interest was mani feasted by the tens of thousands of people pie who were gathered to got get 91 glimpse at the boys boy to in blue as they actually appear when ready for bunt ness neon it was particularly pathetic to VIT witness the varting parting of the soldiers from their loved an and loving ones who had accompanied them on the cam from the fort about six meles distant to 0 this city the saon was headed by the usual advance platoon of mounted police and a half dozen patrol wagons followed by the military bind band playing marching tho georgia then than come came the officers a body of privates carrying their guns with bayonets fixed and lastly regiments of soldiers with their regulation paraphernalia as it if out on march in actual service the vacuum created behind the passing service of our brave defenders was waa shrewdly filled in with ever present nt evidence of business that characterizes american demonstrations of at whatever nature many and varied were the expressions heard as one walked among the crowd of people everybody seemingly had war anthe on the brain war seems to be the drift theme of conversation at present preset kt everywhere and with everybody war is indeed a stern stem reality a measure horrible to contemplate a sad commentary on the boasted advancement in this enlightened age while standing on the steps of the post postoffice office an accident occurred that came within six inches of perhaps costing my life it was the fall from some of the stories above of an earthen flower pot with its contents I 1 moved on As soon as it was known here today todar that the president had signed the cuban resolutions steam whistles gongs bells belle and oth r instruments of noise were brought into play producing a deafening and discordant din din lasting over an hour now when all that Is left to remind one of master easter to is the sign in grocery windows eggs 25 cents cente a y yard ar W the religious atmosphere in this city to i being stirred by such celebre celebrities ties as mr moody who preached here last week rev and mrs john alex docte fra chicago who next sunday with mr moody will deliver in the music pall tall zions message from god to cincinnati and last but not least ehden burton burbon of ogden and dark clark of pan ni gultch utah the unpretending U but zealous mormon missionaries who ser eral times a week boldly deliver godt message to all the world not from toe tile stage in the commodious music hall and to thousands who are in quest of a cheap and convenient form of religion but from the steps of the bae of garfield monument to a fe few who are willing to pause and lend an attentive ear to the pristine bristine gospel truths cincinnati being in every sense a college center has at this time of toe the year an abundance of commencement exercises and many a happy worker rejoices at the end of his probation on oh receiving his hard earned sheepskin sheep skin our college the eclectic medical will soon have its commencement I 1 am not sorry for it i CHARGES L I 1 |