Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 July 1895 — Page 1

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The Reliable Jeweler

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H. R.TINSLEY &CO.

Farmers when you want a Good, Light Running, Well Made, Steel Skein Wagon call and examine the

BIRDCELL

It will suit you.

Leather and Rubber Belting

Best makes and full stock on hand. Oils of all kinds. Call and see us. It will pay you.

H. R.TINSLEY & CO.

Of Course You Scold

With Roller and Ball Bearing—Lightest Draft—Easily Operated—Strong—Efficient—Reliable—Durable. Buy no other mower,and you will have no trouble. Sold by

JOE E. FISHER

The Hardware Man 120-122 S. Washington St.

Seasonable Goods

At Reasonable Prices in

Dry Goods and flillinery

At The Trade Palace.

We have just put on sale the largest and most varied stock of Organdies, Demities, Lawns, Challies, Cotton "Crepes, Swisses, IVIulls and fancy woven Ducks ever shown ir Crawfordsville. A large invoice of new Laundried Shirt Waists just came in yesterday from the manufacturers. All sizes, shapes, colors and prices. Our Silk Waists, Separate Skirts and Wrappers bent them all for style and price.

We are receiving new goods in our Millinery department every few days, keeping the stock full and complete in new goods and giving our customers all advantage in variety and style and great inducements in price.

Don't think of spending your money until you have looked at the ideal stock of Summer Stuffs and heard the unprecedented low prices, at

McClure & Graham's.

North Washington Street.

When your dinner is late. Any man does. But did you know that old kitchen clock of yours won't regulate household duties any longer? Be a man once. Get a clock that will keep correct time. We can sell you a fair one at $1.25, and a good one guaranteed at $4.50.

M. C. KLINE

Deering Ideal Mowers.

Deering **21 Deering

VOL. 48—NO. 27 OE^^'^'^P.r^qvjLLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 5 1895.—TWELVE PAGES

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SANITARY BURIAL.

Kxtraets from a Paper lteari by I)r. J. N. Taylor Before the Indiana Institute of Ilomwopatliy.

We take pleasure in publishing the following' extracts from a paper on "Sanitary Burial"' by Dr. J. N. Taylor, which he. read before the the Indiana Institute of llouneopathy. Dr. Taylor is a recognized authority on sanitary matters and therefore his words will have great weight:

I propose in the following paper, to limit the application of this term to earth burial not that such burial meets with the approval of sanitary science, but because, this is likely to be generally employed for years to come. Not until the cities of the dead begin to crowd upon those of the living, not until there is "line upon line, precept upon precept" showing unmistakably the dangers of earth burial, will there be any change for the better. The sentiment in favor of earth burial has its strongest roots in that old belief that the body will be resurrected, glorified and reunited by immortal bonds to the spirit whose tenement it was, that "dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return" is to be taken as a command, only to be filled in this way and this kind of sentiment looks upon cremation, the ideal way of disposing of the dead, as but little short of impiety, and likely to jeopardize the life to come. It is true that enlightened teachers of religion have long since discarded such belief and are ready to second heartily the better mode of disposing of the dead, yet the masses are unconvinced and are likely to remain so for a great many 3?ears to come. Beside this influence, is that of poetry and polite literature which for centuries has thrown a halo of beauty if not glory, about the grave—the sod of the valley, the green mound decked with violets and roses, haunted by the warblers of the sky, wet with the gentle dews of evening and caressed by the fragrant winds of Summer the God's acre, and the sanctity communicated by the adjacent church, the mingling of one's dust with that of one's forefathers all these have thrown a glamour about the grave, such as can be lifted only by the physician, the undertaker and the sexton.

The development of the art of preparing the body for burial, has new reached such a high degree of perfection as to seriously embarrass the better mode of disposing of the dead. Not many years since, it was a familiar spectacle to see livid and distorted features, and bodies swollen to bursting with pent-up gasses, to be sickened by the odor that crept out of the casket and pervaded the church, while the preacher, somewhat inured to such sights, and smells, pounded his way through an hour-long sermon designed at once to harrow up the feelings of the mourners and strike the terrors of hell iDto the hearts of all unrepentant sinners. But all this is changed. Comes now the ornate casket covered with flowers, the face smoothed into a peaceful slumber-like expression, clear cut and pure as Parian marble, the folded hands more delicate than life, the body perfect in outline add to these the sweet music of the choir, the well-chosen remarks, in which there lingers not a hint of the terrors and agonies that await the unconverted, and you have a picture, compared with which the huge iron oven with its glowing retort, the body swathed like a mummy from which a cloud of steam arises, as the ponderous iron door bangs to, seems shocking and horrible. Those who turn in horror from the repulsive features of cremation, have little or no knowledge of the condition of the body as it lies in the grave the hideous masquerade it assumes being well-hidden by the superimposed earth. But this is the picture ever before the eyes of .him, who follows the postmortem changes through which it passes, and because of such presentation, such an one is always a warm advocate of cremation—"In fourteen to twenty days after death the whole body is of a bright green color mixed with red and brown. The epidermis is raised here add there in blisters, and in other places patches are quite stripped off. Maggots cover the body. I From the continued development of I gas, the whole body is bloated, and has a gigantic appearance. The nails are detached at the roots, lie loose,and are easily separable. The hair is loose and slips off at the touch. After from four to six months, or sooner in I the case of bodies that have lain in warm, moist media, the cavities of the body are opened by the continued de-1 velopment of gas the head has seperated from the neck and the brain has run out. The orbital cavities are empty, all of the soft parts have commenced to break down into a soft pulp, or are already broken down and dissolved, leaving entire bones, and all traces of physiognomy are gone past all recall," etc., etc.

Oh, mother! You who hang lingeringly over the form of a beloved child, lying1 so placidly, so unchanged by death, so slumber-like in attitude as to counterfeit the sleep of the cradle you who watch so intensely the calm features of your darling, half expecting some flutter of breath, some lifting of the eyelids, some movement of the lips or hands indicating a return to life, conceive the hideous changes that this fair form must undergo in the grave while the silent forces are at work, resolving it back to its primitive elements! How much more to be preferred is the brief, if more violent process, that reduces at once, without such hideous transitions the form of your beloved to a handful of white ashes, that exhale no odor, that may be sifted through the fingers without soil.

In 1843, a report on the condition of the laboring population of England was submitted to parliament. Supple-

mentary to this report was one embodying a special enquiry into interments in cities and towns of the kingdom, submitted by Edwin Chadwick. In collecting the material he examined representatives of all persons having to do with the burial of the dead, clergymen, undertakers, sextons. He also examined physicians, coroners, sanitary inspectors, pew-openers, and persons living adjacent to burial grounds. The report is very volumious and conclusive. I have not time nor space to review the conclusions but they establish unmistakably, that contiguity to burying grounds affects the health more or less positively according to the state of the atmosphere and the conditions not so well known. Nervous and putrid fevers arise directly therefrom: and often a typhoid or putrid character is imparted to simple and ephemeral fevers. It is noticed also that epidemics always rage with greater violence in populous districts adjacent to burial grounds and that meat and vegetables exposed for sale, taint more quickly here than elsewhere.

If my time sufficed, I would like to review the sanitaiy reports of the effects of intramural interments upon the public health in the cities of New York, Boston and New Orleans, but it does not, and I must content myself with stating that a careful investigation into causes of increased mortality in certain districts of these cities, developed the fact that the presence of I certaint cemeteries therein, by contaminating the air and water supplies, was found to be the chief factor. In 182:.', the yellow fever made its appearance in the city of New York. To the surprise and consternation of the inhabitants it could not be confined to the water front, but slowly invaded the populous portions of the city, and displayed the greatest mortality and viru-

lence in the vicinity of Trinity church yard which, though only a few acres in extent, yet contained a population computed as larger at that time than that of the city.

Reviewing these facts the health authorities recommended that interment within the limits of the city, be forever prohibited, and in 1823, the State Legislature granted to the corporation the power to prohibit, and the law was afterward incorporated in the statutes of the State.

In the yellow fever epidemic of 1853 in New Orleans, the same state of facts appear. In the 4tli district, one in which three large cemeteries exist, the mortality was 432 for every thousand of population in the third district,containing all the other cemeteries, the mortality was 500 per 1000. It is unnecessary to multiply this data as might easily be done, as the matter at hand is inexhaustible, but before leaving this subject, I will say that it is affirmed that the outbreak of cholera in Hamburg last year was occasioned by the widening of some streets in the process of which a number of graves were disturbed.

Except to a much less degree, the cities and towns West are not likely to suffer from this cause of disease for some years to come, there is plenty of roem for the dead as well as the living. But while this is true, it is also true that this is the best time to institute such measures as will effectually prevent these cJalamities that have visited the older cities of the East and South.

Let no more cemeteries be located within the boundaries of the city, town or village nay, bury no more bodies in those that are so located, but prepare the way for their ultimate vacation.

In one of its rules, which has all the force of law according to Attorney General Hord, the State Board of Health provides that no cemetery shall be located nearer than one mile of the corporate limits of city, town or village. If posssible there should be some natural boundary, such as a

strcani or range of hills interposed between the cities of the dead and living. The ground selected should be high rolling, and traversed by ravines that would serve as drains to the surface. If possible the soil should contain sand and gravel in sufficient proportion as would permit of air penetrating to the proper depth to hasten the process of disintegration. The ground should be dug to a depth of seven feet, the bottom covered with charcoal, ti layer of which should bespread upon the boards which cover the collin. Lime or chalk has been recommended for this purpose but the charcoal is far superior, inasmuch as besides its antiseptic properties, it possesses in a high degree the power of absorbing gases however produced.

Time will not suffice for me to speak of the advantages of burial at sea, at.|a sufficient distance from land to obtain the required depth nor the Campo Santas, devised by n, gentleman of New York nor yet of cremation, the ideal mode of disposing of the dead which leaves nothiug to be wished for, but which answers all the requirements, religious and sanitary.

A Market For nigger-Honda. A special from Logansport says: "An industry which is new, at least, in this section of the country, has begun to flourish here, and promises to soon give employment to a large number of men. The prairies of Indiana, Illinois and many other Western States are covered with myriads of finny, pranite boulders, and a firm at Goodland, Ind., is having them gathered up and shipped to Kenneth quarries. By means of ponderous crushing machines, they are there reduced to

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powder, and the powder is in turn moulded into blocks suitable either for fine building material or monuments. Since the introduction of the business, some three months ago, the Pan-Han-dle railroad has been hauling in 'nigger-heads' at the rate of from five to six car loads per day, and the traffic is steadily increasing. Earmers who never before knew a 'nigger-head' to be anything else than in the way are overjoyed at the prospects of realizing some cash, and are hasteming to place them upon the market."

Getting Gay.

The Cliff Dwellers have erected an elegant bath house on their grounds with accommodations for two. The same was christened on July 2, after one of the most honored members, arid will hereafter be known as the Coon Bath Ilouse (no extra charge for creasing pants). The only thing that occurred during the ceremony was that Col. Gifford lost his shoes and was compelled to walk without any to the tent and has a very severe sore throat, but with the proper care he will come out all O. K.

Clarence Stevens' Position. The trustees of Vincennes University have elected Clarence D. Stephens to the Chair of English and American Literature, and he will also assist in lower mathematics. During the past year Mr. Stevens has been assistant professor in English at Wabash, from which institution he graduated in '94.

Potato Creek Dry.

1' rankfort Crescent: The south branch of Potato Creek is completely dried up. It is the first time in the history of that creek that such circumstances exist and the fact is remarked by the oldest residents.

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PART FIRST

.THE "MAID OF ATHENS" SUM.

In Hare With Kow HoatH Slio Striken it Snag and (ioen Down.

Longfellow told most feelingly of the wreck of the "Hesperus," and Cowper's "touchingly beautiful lines" on the wreck of "The Royal George" are familiar to all. It waits for som©: inspired lloosier poet to tell in mournful numbers of the wreck of "The Maid of Athens," that staunch and goodly craft that plied the placid waters of Sugar Creek from Bluff Mills to Indian Creek. "The Maid of Athens,' alias "The Minnehaha," was launched at Pine Hills with considerable eclat some two weeks ago, and the natives for miles around ceased digging "ginsang' and seining fish to come to Keller landing and gaze in peaceful wonder at this wild, strange thing of the sea as it rode triumphant on the crest of the waves. Sunday morning, however, the captain got a little too gay and began running the boat at a high- rate of speed, fairly distancing several of the row boats on the dam. The result was that the bottom of the "Maid of Athens" was bumped against what is supposed to have been a hidden coral r«ef. The Maid gave a maidenly gasp or two and then went ignominiously to the bottom, which, however was not so very far down. She will be raised again provided she can be gotten out of the mud in which she now reposes.

A BIG LOT OF WOOL.

MeClure & Graham Shipped an Immense Clip from this Place Wednesday Nt*ht.

Crawfordsville is the prize wool market of the State and the clip which MeClure & Graham sent out Wednesday bears evidence to this fact. They shipped via the Monon to Boston,twelve carloads of fine wool. These can§ averaged 12,000 pounds of wool each, making a total of 144,000 pounds of as nice wool as was ever clipped in Hoosierdom. This will be by far the largest consignment from Indiana this season.

IHftcuBRlng Candidate!.

Indianapolis News: There has been a quiet meeting in this city of Republicans from different parts of the State. They came here one at a time, stopped at different hotels and "flocked together" only when no one was around. The object of the gathering, was to discuss the proper man as a candidate for Governor. Many names were mentioned. The friends of Will Cumback were certain he was the best man, and Lew Wallace had a number of supporters. Strong arguments were advanced in behalf of Mayor Denny. It is claimed by his administration of the city affairs he had captured the law and order and temperance element of the State, and this element would be the controlling power at the next election. It was pointed out that his support of the Nicholson law would be a great thing in his favor, and that already the temperance element of this city was trying to induce him to stand as a candidate for re-election for mayor. But considerable opposition was developed to him. His opponents asserted that he had driven the German vote of this city out of the Republican party and that the liberal Republicans of Marion county would not support him. His name was dropped.

It was at last decided that George W. Steele, of Marion, would be a good man to lead in the race, and it was resolved to ask Mr. Steele to take the nomination.

Racing at Newtown.

Tne first meeting of the Newtown Racing and Trotting Association will be held at that place on Saturday, July 13, beginning at 1 o'clock sharp. The programme will be as follows: Class 1—free-for-all Trot or Pace ... $50 Class 2- 2:40 Pace .... 30

All races are to be mile heats, best three in five, except class 4 and 5,' which will be half-mile heats. There will be plenty of good water, shade and good stalls and the Association guarantees that the purses will be paidin full. As John C. Whitehall is president and Clias. C. Palin secretary of the association, this guarantee means something. Already there have been a great many entries and a good day of sport is assured. The admission will' be 15 cents.

Hushing the Examination.

Supt. Zuck is rushing the examination of the sixty-five manuscripts for teachers' license submitted last Saturday. He will be able to make his report on them by next Monday.

Will Probated.

The will of John W. Coder has been admitted to probate.

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Class 3 - 2 Minute Trot 35 Class 4—2-year-old Trot, or Pace 15 Class 5— yearling: Trot or Pace 10

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