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Show SKELETONS BY THE SHIPLOAD. American Fertilizing Plants Supplied From South America. A steamship filled with bones arrived arriv-ed at New York lost week, awaiting orders from owners before going to a fertilizing plant. The bones were the skeletons of cattle gathered on tho great plains of South America. They are shipped here to be ground into fertilizers. The longshoremen find In nearly every cargo a human bone all that is left of some poor fellow who died on tho plains. They are responsible for a queer little graveyard near the fertilizing plant. Tho workmen have strict orders never nev-er to grind up a human bone. It Is taken out to a Httlo fenced graveyard and burled. Many of the graves are not more than two feet long, but they aro as carefully covered as though they contained entire skeletons. |