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Show LITTLE RESPECT FOR DEAD. South American Countrlei Have Prim Itlve Burial Cu-toma. Havana's cemetery Is typical of the burying jilnccu of all Spanlsh-Amerl- V can countries. It consists of a wall PH I -eight to ten feet thick, honeycombed JJH with niches for tho reception of cof B ' ' fliis, and surrounding a plot of land IH 1 ' l which Is never used for burial pur- i poses and Is usually In a neglected 'Condition. Tho cemetery Is run by tiro municipal authorities und the niches H C " J nrn rented. Tho payment required PpH ' upon tho scaling of one or these holes JJH j In tho wall Insures an undisturbed PH I Testing placo for Its contents for three PB 1 1 -or flvo years from that time, accord- Ing lo the particular custom of the lo- 1 callty. Then an annual rental must It bo paid for a period of twenty-flvo I , onrs, at tho end of which tlmo tho i J tenant gets a title In perpetuity. Hut ' 1 how few over find a last resting placo l In ono of these niches Is shown by tho fact that, despite tho tremendous In-' In-' j creaso In population slnco It was built two or threo centuries ngo, tho cemo- U .trry has never been enlarged nnd BBH t thcro nro nlwnys plenty of vacancies. BBS Upon default of payment of tho rental BBB ' the bones are raked out of tho niche BBB I . nnd it Is realty for the next occupant. BBB Tho hones nro placed In one corner of BBB i j the cemetery, and there, nt least, they BBB lie undisturbed through the passing of BBB years as tho pile constantly grows BBS |