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Show i I y METHODS OFBUR.IAL A writer In the Quarterly Review make a powerful attack on "the etb-Ic- a He regard It aa of cremation." an Improper corrective to the m techie voua practice of Interment In vaults and coffins. He says: "Little or no difficulty appear to have attended the ready and efficient disposal of the dead till towards the close of Charles the Second's reign. Not only wss the Strong coffin the tons et orlgo nail UU then unknown, hut the plainer sort of men were content to carried to their graves In tbs open cheats or coffers which wers kept In every parish church for the occasion and only employed to convey the body from the house of death to that other house which hath been appointed for all tiring." after which the cbesta were returned to their accustomed place, which was usually a niche In the church wall. Arrived at the grave the fcody. enveloped at one time in coarse linen kept together by bone pins, and afterwards in woollen, waa removed from its temporary case and buried." Resolution of the body by the agency of the earth to which we commit it. fg affirmed by the writer to be the natural and Innocuous method. "Earth most la ths potent disinfectant known." The common Impression that graveyards pollute the air Is emphatically contradicted. "Nothing worse than carbonic acid (carbon dioxide) and water are ever given off from the surface of burial grounds, and these only In quantities so small aa to be even lessthan are naturally present In the supSNqeumbent atmosphere; and, further, thaleven this l't-tl- e la at once taken up at vegetation and returned to the air. no? as a source of peril to ths health, but as a necessary Increment of atmospheric renewal.", The two hundred disused burial grounds In London now used aa recreation grounds and health retorts are died as proof. "The air of the . ! -- i- v FURNACE AND COFFIN CONDEMNED open cemetery is absolutely Inodorous." Sir Seymour Haden reports from experiments carried on for 12 years In the burial of animals that bodies buried four feet deep require more than four years for their- - complete dissolution; three feet deep, throe years; two feet deep, two years, one foot, one year; while bodies not burled, but simply covered with a foot of earth disappeared, all save their bones, In less than a year; but In all cases without Injuring the purity of earth or air. The Prussian government has also mads a notable contribution to our knowledge on this Important part a secret of the subject. In 172-7- 3 commission was Issued by It to ascertain the condition of the dead In She battlefields of the Vosges. Two years, or thereabouts, having elapsed since those battle were fought, It was feared, aa many dead bodies were known to have beea only superficially buried, that epidemic disease might result What the commissioners found, however, entirely dissipated any auch fears. In cases la which aa many as Ineight hundred bodies. In the hurry cident to rapid military movements, had beea thru-- Into one shallow excavation, these bodies. It was found, bed already disappeared, their bones and accouterments alone being left But to this disappearance there waa a remarkable exception; the bodies of officers, having been hurled In mackin-toehe- s (the action of which resembled that of coffin! had not so disappeared." Against the tertlmony of Sir Henry Thompson, the writer quotes the authority of Koch and Klein to show that the bacilli of anthrax being eerohlr. at dependent on air, are, when buried four ard a half feet, Incapable of reproduction. The rest of the paper Is occupied with the argument that cremation, by making exhumation Impossible, prevents the detection of murders. Future of A THINKS Exposition la th following article the New York Evening Post suggests that great expositions have run tbelr course. Though International exhibitions date only from 1851, the earlier half of the century led up to them with a aeries of national exposition, which were held fa nearly every country of Europe, aa veil eg th United 8tales. They France and were bom of the rwadon fnsa th eld esstrletioas upon commerce and industry, and of the effort of Improvement that marked the beginning of a new life. They were essentially different from the medieval fa! t, like that still held annually at for example, in that they do not exist for the Bale of goods brought la bulk by traders trom remote lands, but for the encouragement of Invention and enterprise by the display end comparison of results, aid b competition for the prises offered. They were not places of exchange, but Industrial exhibition. They marked thVbfid of the eyetem of trad guilds and carefully guarded secrets, and illustrate the openness to Ideas, the March for new methods, and the Introduction of Improvements, both In agrloulture and In processes of ennu-facto- r, which mark the dawn of the nineteenth century. At the earns time they were conceived In a spirit of national pride end glurificatloa, which was Intensely hostile to outside powers. At the first French exhibition of 1711 A gold mednl was offered the man Who should deal the hoariest blow tu pnglUh trade, and la 1819 the minister Of foreign' affairs ascribed to the enemies of French Industry a proposal to admit foreign exhibitors. The Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851 In Lon be-Uk- 'ln Nljnl-Novgoro- d, 1 rktuw f TiMri VmL Wherever excavation! are being mad for the underground rapid transit road a lot of spectators may us found watching the workmen as In tently as If they expected to see an engine come out of the hole. The photographers who are busy around each of .these excavation are the targets for 11 sorts of question The who are busy around each of these excavations are the targets for All sorts of questions. The photographs re to play an important part in the records of th underground. When 'the set Is completed they will give Jprectlcally blograph history of the .construction of th road. Each sec )tlon of the street and the adjoln'ng buildings are photographed before the work is begun. , When the excavations have been made frequent photographs ore taken showing tho progress of the work, Thee will prove valuable records for the contractors If any damage ,eultf should be brought against them. .It has beea suggested that when the jrapid transit road 1 completed copies this big set of photographs be mounted In on large album and pro- at part of the city records. It nt ,v. photo-rgraphse- r i -. NET YORK Journey to Car Window Glimpses of tho South Mexico... (Mexican Letter.) It has only been a short while since the writer made a trip to Mexico. I went by the way of St. Louis down the Iron Mountain Route, and In doing so, got a new lesson about Missouri that was something of a revelation aa, since my boyhood days I had a fancy that "Meexoory, as we sometimes called It. was a faraway backwoods Instead, the country place Indeed through which the writer passed was one of great fertility, with mines of richest ore and with streams lined with the finest timber to be found anywhere, while the people bore every evidence of prosperity and refined civilisation But what quickly impressed me was the great orchards to be seen along the way and Missouri may properly be called the state of the big red apple, while peaches and cherries and grapes are so prolific In production. Wins made from Missouri grapes Is now sold in the markets of the world. The scenery was also beautiful, but while nature was attractive, the fine farms I saw made me change my views about Missouri. "It Is a fact." said Francis of Missouri to me, "thst if our state were fenced in away from all the world we have enough resources within Missouri to enable ear red the hand to hand fight between Mexican and Americans, when not a American wss left to tell the story of the struggle. Chert, brave gad true, met aa awful tale la the' old church house. It wss at San Jacinto, a short distance sway, i few weeks afterward, when, with the htttlt cr of "Remember the Alamo!" that the Americans took vengeance Spon General Santa Anna and the account was squared forever. That was In the long, long ago before the era of penes and good will dawned. San Antonio will always be an Important city tor southern Texas, and Is already the It is a metropolis tor that section. very wealthy city and has a population adeP from every state In the Union. The efimate is attractive to many, and It Is flits a resort during the winter Seasoa The society Is of the best, and gsthe government has a fort there, the gsy season Is quite popular with the army officers. From San Antonio southward toward Laredo there are wide stretches of mesqulte brush ldbMtg much like willows, but which PAPER COURSE don waa the trlumph of material civilGATHERING PEACH 3 IS MISSOURI. It ization over national prejudices. our to live comfortably. In the produces a been that is very nutritpeople marked the fact that Europe was dessection traversed by the Iron Mountain ious.' The cattle are very fond of tined to be. If It had not already bel this bean, and the young branches of railway system there has been come an industrial unit The network few years. the boshes, and while they do not fata within development of railways, which hi the next tew Before the railroad was built South- ten s th fare. It Is quite capable of years were to spread dyer the conti- western Missouri was a 'pretty 'wild sustaining Ufa 4a- the dry ... section nent, helped to bring thte about, and i now the hut farming when the grass is short This is the mining, section, for transporby the Increased-facliltle- e komt of the Jack' rabbit which are fruit Interests there make It and tation and travel which they offered, section. Indeed,' rich any time trom the car very contributed, another,, element' fo the and now and then a coyote is Boon aftsr passing Poplar Bluff,' Zf Tui success of the International exhibition. seen off la the distance watching th of commercial importance to But above . 11 the Crystal Palace Stood 'city wide area of country, we entered Ar- train go by. At Laredo there Is hurry for the beginning of the age of makansas, where the country, while rich and Lstle as the train arrives at the chinery. It was the point of departIn noil, is not developed as much ss is depot, and the groups of Mexican men ure . for the revolution which has Missouri, and the people seemed much and vomen Indicate that the land of charged the face of modern life, end given to the lumber business. How- Monteuma Is near. It has only been which forms the most' conspicuous ever, extenalve peach and apple or- a few years alnce Laredo got a place chsr.ifter.si c of the half century just chards were observed, and with the on the map, and since It has become finished. The revolution la now mild s climate of Arkansas it will the pteway between the republics, It what 1 to follow It? la doubtless rank high with the fruit pro- has rown to Importance. Here the the rate cf progress of the past to conInternational and Great Northern railducing states at no distant day. tinue? And, if so, can it furnish the It waa boon time when I readied way ends, and across the Rio Grande material for future expositions? The San Antonio, the City of the Plains, giver, which Is spanned by a substanand It looked very. much Mexican to tial steel bridge, the Mexican National question hinges on the Individual exhibitor. Rivalry among the different me, for I now saw for the first time Railway begins. It has been an Inconcerns to make an effective showing many Mexican people, who had come teresting Journey across 'the country la so great that the preparing of an her and made their homes with Unde from Chicago and I have received new 8am. Here, also, I now saw the adobe impressions of a part of my native exhlb.t usually involves a heavy outhouse made of dried mud bricks land, hut as I look forward to a conlay. Matty well known bouses have already dtr.ded that exhibiting does not which are thoroughly cured In the co- tinuance of my Journey, In what might pay. Tl ry cannot now, to any such nstant sunshine, and what Interested be called a new world, I contemplated me very much was the Alamo, the old that which was la prospect with a peextent as formerly, show some improvadobe church building. In which co culiar pleasure. ed metcJ or new product, or find customer otherwise beyond thalr res oh. uU he obtained mainly la Novc.ty queea regent of Spain, says a foreign WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. $ the fort- of display; and It la hard writer. Her daily life is as simple, as to see 1 pw, generally speaking, the ImBmUii Stmara Fh ( Xwk austc- -, and aa regulated as a nuns la DlNonNS Method. necett. ca.iay as a yield any propora cloister, fib is without a friend, so tionate ? turn. Under these dream-sta&i- ts Interesting utilisation of wireless to srk. In the royal courts of Etnep ,t seems os' though the matelegraphy la recorded in Connecticut ear, perhaps, the pope, and in lesser steamer Brmak degree the emperor of Austria. And terial f- - tasking great expositions with tk lke those of the poet were hound to during lest winter. The Russian Iron- now to her isolation Is added th run st or . clad Generals Amlral dAprextne ran banting and dread specter of anarchy. on the rocka fringing the coast of th Herron, over whose childhood the Island of Hohland, In the gulf of F& tr.ifslon erf. Near th end of March, land. It waa necessary to save the watried with what might be called, eves for a king, an extravagance of 1910. the ear was epened, all end to accomplish this It was cart and whom she has guided te vessel, s ec ri .u he la a perfectly healthy desired to establish communication by max ood with a solicitude and devoerr On the conclusion of the some means or other with the mainbring her, with his ,,r cod brood r la th fall of land and the Ermak. Upon a high tion rarely equaled, hint kip, only new causes tor anxiety, a cod weighing from four l,w point on the Island of Hohland a high new reasons for protection. Under to t taken with hand-line- s .ids, mast supporting a wire was erected suck circumstance it may well be Im-off h . j Land or Nantucket, were and the necessary transmitter and C- agined what a loss Ute earnest soul and lratfte ufy left In the well of the oherer Installed, while a similar plant rlgfcnt spirit of a friend end states-m- t until discovered Urr.m'is and not wss stationed on another Island thirty-thre- e like Marshal Martinet Campoe April. 1530. These fish were placed In miles away, the Instruments In must be to th poor queen, whose the well net later th n November 18. both cases being supplied from th mother1 nervous heart surrounds the roisio.y rome day before. During warship, which was equipped with the yowtg king with so many threatening th.s t ntc they bad not been fed and says the Scientific Amer- dan-tr- s; apparatus, who. Indeed, has aged a decame ( food ns hrd c'y tuih through ican. The vertical lines utilised were since th assassination looke In 1 cade Ku rj tn the welL When released 1S7 feet In height and the sparks fron of King Humbert of Italy. ( si r harbor on April 16 they the Induction colls were fourteen v rond to be lively and strong," Inches long. The installation worked . 'nvrhat emaciated, and It Without th slightest hitch over this Otvwth mt Belfast. d that their backs and side was On one distance. occasion ff rhea the Prince and Princess of greet w? e ti,.h darker than norma), while was successful In the rescue of twenty-sevWalt come to Belfast in the early the Id.;' was unusually light colored. fishermen who were carried part of 1901 they will find that many away on an Ice . floe, The perilous cheer hY taken place In th city tl-l- n p n Room. position of the fishermen was trans- during the fifteen year that have Too Uu.e attaatlon la given to tht mitted from one station to another, elapsed alnce th last royal visit Th n4 thence bo the Ermak, from which ve- population has greatly Increased, the proper airing of sleeping room t0 the veatltUng qualities of bed cor-o- ssel a boat pulled off and so effected th city has extended Its limits and Is la Comfortables that are almost timely rescue of the unfortunate fish- - eweif way prosperous. One of th , era. apparatus was In d j cblet events of th present visit of th rt Eu thou.d never beused, and ai t ermen. The j the best these cotton stuffed cover days and was prince and princess to Belfast will be are tlon for eighty-fou- r only suspended on two occasions, ow the laytn of the foundation stone of ing to sever snowstorms. In all, Uq the e Royal Victoria hospital. official messages were dispatched be. tween the two stations, with complete Mi Bible KawwMga. giarrt success. Curiously enough, the appaDr. Meyer erf London, who Rev. ratus was found to work better during Tie the prevalence of storms than in caka la coming gla to this country to hold sold meeting In th Southern state, weather. In England recently: "There Is a pas Dreads Amnia Bible Qmh tkm 1 the United State for Perhaps there Is no more desolate knowledge that I ehould like to see la end pathetic figure in Europe than the this country." won-derfu- - 'a i - -- en 1 opera-)eervo- ' i lU-g- 't That was the last fight of David Crockett, who has told the world. "First be sure you are right, then ge ahead." Dr. Bowie, who invented the Bowie hnlfe, also saw the last of earth In that engagement, and THEY HAVE wap PUN again, leaving only the noise ef thd of the winds and waters. Then goon, says ths snowdrop, and gmRes night, the lights went out and the t a porous at th motherly sarth, d rs darkness gatherod around them "SooBf for tbs spring with her comes stealthily on. the stars seemed nearer. Bttow was my cradle and chilly wind He drew the white bands up to ills sans at my birth; Winter Is over and I must make haste lips and held them there a long moto be goner ment You are not tnerciful In your anSoon"' says the swallow and dips to ths he said slowly. And perhaps alysis, d stream, "Grain la all garnered ths summer Is you are right. But 1 do not think so. over and done, I But why dig over the bones cf the Bleak to the eastward the Icy battalions past? Fate, Providence, God what gleam, us together, out Summer Is over and I must make haste you will brought to be gone!" here on the waters that you have albar"Boon ah. too soon! says the oul, with ways loved. And there are no riers. We are both free. Today, when a desperate gaze, "Soon' for I rose like a star, and for I saw the shore-lin- e sink into the waays would have shone. ter, and turned and saw you on the Seo the pale shuddering dawn that must deck? Does It teU you nothing? wither my rays, She looked back into his eyes with from the mountain and I must LPs make .haste t be gone! a shade of amusement in her own. From the Spectator. You were always bored, you know!" She laughed, a llule, low laugh, then The Storm. gently released one hand from his and drew the tips of her fingers down over his face. Then she held his square BY ETHELYN LESLIE HUSTON chin in her hand and yegarded him "FRANCESCA." You were always bored all Author of "The Song of Solomon," gravely. your life. It was chronic. You were "The Case of Mrs. Ferris. etc. (Copyrlshtsd. UM- - Dally Story Pub. Co.) delighted to see me? Of course. It And sensations are "It all seemed paradoxical. And yet was a sensation. I thought of you. always. Dont you worth something in this all too prosaic see? Th situation was Impossible!" life of ours. Don't you know, boredom is accountable for far more than "Yes?" Sbs uttered' the monosyllable gently. Is generally realized? If the clergy Her eyes followed the phosphorus would only give us a palliative, their lights that slipped through the black efforts would be bo much more fruitwaves, rolling back Into the night be- ful! And I was equally delighted to hind them. The ship throbbed like a see you. I too, have learned to value human thing, and she felt Its vibra- sensations. And you look quite as you tion go through her body with a did when I er ate of the pomegrandrowsy, sensuous content. Her hands ate. There is a glint of silver around gleamed whltely on the arms of the the temples but It Is becoming. I teamer chair In which she lay prone, could almost think we were back in and the soft night wind lifted the hair that other era when we were so tragic. We were tragic, were we not? Llfe back from her face. bored you so and I was a new senaa-- . "You must understand now?" There was a shad of anxiety in his tlon and I loved you with such feelvoice as he leaned forward and looked ing. And, after all. It was pouring water upon sand. It Was seeing with a down Into her eyes. Now? I am five years older, you child' fakij Ascension lines grow mean? Well. I understand. Yes -- in a where only cacti were possible. "No! by all the gods I way. One learns many things In five '"Never mind Olympia! She years. And It was for the best? You be- laughed, and lifted her chin with delieve that? She rested her head back light as the chill wind whipped the on the cushions and lifted her eyes to monks hood back from her face and the stars that powdered the velvety sent weird Aeolian strains through the - ' ' ships figging. gioomabove them. The Olympian ladies and gentlemen She smiled thoughtQulen sabe! It is written. What wilT be, were persons of very uncertain morals. fully. And why swear at all? What matter? will 'be, and all things are by fate. She stirred restlessly, then turned to- All that was prehistoric. It was before the flood. Look at that phantom-shi- p ward him and studied him critically. with every sail set. And the buzWell? he asked. "Is it all written in the stars, I won- - zard sails on, and comes, and is gone-sta- tely and still as a ship at sea. Do you remember Lasca? You used to tell me Lasca when In the days of lang syne. Then you still remember? Darkly luminous In the faint starlight, the eyes turned from the ship hack to his face. ' "Remember? Oh, yes! My memory Is very retentive. I remember every CHANGEFUL BOTH - NATURE. lari-Suo- wind-ruffle- , phase-everyt-hing" fiat CAvifffV "We Will Bee! der?" she answered, reflectively. "Are w kings end queens on the chessboard? was It for the best? I do not know. 1 was married 'to a man twenty years my senior. A perfectly amiable and absolutely irreproachable commero clal machine. He was haxtly conscious of my existence at odd periods when his stock quotations would permit of That was alL I had the flesh-po- ts Egypt, and according to ths laws of Moses and common sense, I should have gone down on my knees daily and given thanks. But I didnt I know that It Is not only unorthodox, but execrable taste, to de thst which lssves ones private life vulnerable to th yellow Journal reporter and artist Today, Paola and Frnncescn would be but food for scare-heaand Impossible cute. But I leved you. That is trite and commonplace. Nancy said the same to Sykes. But It is very real. Just the same. And I loved you nqt only enough to brave the flames of hell, but Infinitely woroe. th comment and critlclam of the great unwashed. And you flinched" The tranquil tones ee&ced for a moment, and she pulled the cushion more comfortably under her cheek. Four your sake Th word came hoarsely. Her eyebrows lifted, but she did not speak. Then suddenly he leaned forward and caught her hand In a tense grasp and stared down Into her face with hot ds eye. have?" "Yon would you would "Gone to you? Assuredly. You knew that I would. But you feared the world, more than I feared th other place, you know. For jny ake, you said. Well, perhaps. No doubt you quite believed it was for my sake. But Is your genus naturally to disin- terested?" The black water rolled and lifted and fell with a sharp hiss back Into the shadows, and she listened to Its muffled music with a keen pleasure. She loved the unharnessed strength of lt It was sovereign In every mood. And it laid the memories of Its uncounted centuries on her restless Spirit and she was stilled. Here and there behind them the salon Incandescent lights gleamed. A measured footfall came through the roar of the waves and the train Inc of the ship, passed, and died He leaned nearer and nig voice sankT "And care? he added. "M Yes, the little smile again la her eyes. You care as you did then?" Her gaze went back to the ghostly ship and she was silent as the black sails sank slowly Into the darkness. Over the battling waters floated the low. Irregular tolling of a distant buoy-bel- l. The waves leaped around them like leashed hounds, and the rising wind whistled and shrieked through the rigging. His arms closed around her and through the warring sounds he whispered, his face close to hers "I have loved you always. Gently her finger-tip- s slipped over his face, then round his throat Then his lips rested upon hers. Presently he raised his head and looked down Into her eyes. "You care as you did? You will be my wife? A long moment She looked at him, then very slowly ehe shook her head. "1 am afraid It would never do, ahe said. "You have become fixed in my mind as a dead and gone episode a romance that was and la not The commonplaces of marriage would be too complete a revelation. I cannot Imagine you In that role. No, It would never do." ."You mean that you no longer " Hie voice sounded love strained, and she interrupted him. "I mean that I did love too well," she said gently. Then she took his hand between her two hands and drew It down to her breast, while her lips lingered over his eyes and brow and hair. it Is life, my dear, she said, shade of bitterness for the first time In. the serene voice. "I would have gone to you on my knees over hot plowshares, once. But now It Is five years too late. The rising gale shrieked around: them In gathering fury an.-- she lifted her face eagerly to the rough wind. The roar of the waves had deepened to a thunuer, and the ship labored and quivered In their powerful grasp. She Stretched out her arms to the storm and flung her loosened hair across hla face and lips. Ah, had yon loved like that! she cried. A vivid streak of silver quivered In the blackness ahead, and tor an instant the roar of wind and waves seemed to pause. Then . the thunder broke and rolled over the water in mighty waves of sound. Leaning forward, he gathered her Into hla arm and dragged the heavy monks cloak around her. Again the lightning Cashed and she looked up into his face. We will see! he said through hla teeth. Then "Qulen sabe? she laughed. from his arihs she watched the etorm, content And always her eye laughed, -- f Lots of men lose the thousands they have gained because of an Insatiate pursuit after another hundred. , |