Indianapolis Leader, Volume 3, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1881 — Page 2

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'.Comer Illinois and Market Stn. Cntrd as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind. TKUM3 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Singl Copy, 1 rear Monthly. ... M "3 E10QtHlM.MM.M..M. S2.00 . 1.00 .59 i month .20 1.50 CI abi of six 1 year, each copy......... ten, 1 year, each copj...THIS PAPER ss nV&3 Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 8pruce St ) where advertising contracts may be made for it in NEW YORK Snbncrlb for the laler. Let every colored man who favors the elevation of his race subscribe for the Leader; and let every white man who believes that slavery wa.s a crme agaiDSt humanity and thnt it is the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in his struggle for moral, social and intellectual elevation do likewise. SUItSCKICK FOR THE LKADEU. Join la the Grand iloora and be Happy. As we have received orders this week for nearly 300 extra copies of Tub Leader, we take pleasure in inviting our new readers to examine enxr columns closely, and then forward us the price of a year's subscription, in order that they may have it as a permanent visitor in their homes. "We are endeavoring to make our paper as interesting as possible to our readers, as well a? a fair exponent of the views of our people. Let ail who endorse our purpose give us substantial evi dence of their approval by becoming paying subscribers. Single subscriptions, $2.00 per year; in clubs, $1.50. $1 for six months, 50c for three months. Send all orders to Tue Leader, Indianapolis, Ind. The Ohio election occurs October 11th. A Georgia colored man paid $30,000 for a farm recently. General A. E. Burnside died Tuesday at Providence, It. I., from heart disease. The Grand Jury'of the District of Columbia is at work on the Star .Route cases. The Indians of Arizona are on the war-path, and giving the Bettlers and military authorities considerable trouble. Lieutenant Flipper, of the Tenth ü. S. Cavalry, will be tried at Ft. Davis, Texas, on the charge of embezzlement. It has cost tho British Government 120,000 per year to hold King Cettawayo in captivity. Cettawayo is a costly captive. It is said that two Bostonians, Mayo and Reed by name, have presented $10,000 to the Hampton, Va., Normal School. The Chicago Conservator thinks that a colored man will be on the next .Republican tieket in that city for Clerk of the Criminal Court. Largo sums of money are being contributed to the sufferers by the fires in Northeastern Michigan. It could not object. be given to a worthier Sergeant Mason, one of the soldiers detailed to guard Guiteau shot at that worthy last Saturday, butunfortuna tely missed him. Guiteau Was badly scared, and wanted to know if he was to be "murdered. Lorillard's Iroquois secured another great victory "Wednesday for American horseflesh by winning the St. Leger stakes at the Doncastcr, England, meeting. Iroquois is entitled to the gratitude of his country. We have received the initial copy of "Farm, Herd and Home," a new monthly journal of twenty pages cut, stitched and bound, devoted to the interests of farmers and stock-raisers. It is published by Austin H. Brown and A. Abromet, of this city. A colored Postmaster recently informed the Department thatjhc had conscientious religious scruples against opening his office on Sun day. It was gently hinted to him that such being the case, his resignation would be accepted. He has not since been heard from. Tho forest fires caused by the excessive drouth have resulted in immense destruction of property and loss of life in Michigan. Thousands of families have been rendered homeless, and what little of the growing crops that remained entirely de stroyed. There is much consequent ' suffering and privation, and a large " field for benevolence and charity. The news from President Garfield this week has generally been favorable. It seems that while he has not made the progress expected, yet he

has gained some ground and lost nothing. His blood seems to be tainted, and herein lies the great trouble. His physicians, however, are very hopeful of his ultimate recovery. The parotid gland is about well, and the lung trouble in improving. Dr. Bliss claims that his patient is convalescent. The Denver Star, the Austin (Tex.,) Citizen, and the Golden Epoch, (Helena Ark.,) are the latest ventures in colored journalism that have reached our table The last named paper is published by G. II. W. Stewart, formerly of this city.

Professor Langstoo, our Minister to Hayti, is at home and looking well. He is very earnest in advocacy of the coalition in Virginia, and regards it as the great opportunity ot his race National Kepublican, Washington, D. C. Promoting; Social Fquality. London, September 13. A committee of the Templar Mission, in concert with the Anti-slavery Society, have arranged to give a public breakfast on Thursday, in honor of the colored Bishops and ether rep rcsentatives of the African Methodist Churches in America, now attending the Ecumenical conference. The ob ject promoted by the breakfast is to make a demonstration in favor of the principle of the social equality of the white and colored races. The gentlemen of the Templar Mission and Anti-slavery Society are engaged in a good work. Liberty and equality can not be said to be the law of any land as long as social in tercourse among the people is governed by race and color distinctions. . Where such distinctions exist the ostracised race or races always labor under overwhelming disadvantages. In this country the social ostracism of the Negro, is now the one great drawback to the progress and prosperity of the race. It 1 M. 1 closes the door to all lucrative cm ploymcnt to him, and circumscribes his ambition to a very narrow limit Education, wealth, intelligence, cul ture and distinction, are the usual factors in regulating social inter course, but in this country, in addi tion, or rather supplementary, to these, we haveraco and color distinc tions. Until they are eradicated wo can not have equal and exact liberty. RAINEY FOB CLERK. Ex-Congressman Rainey, of South Carolina, is a candidate for CI rk of theNational House of Representatives Two years atro, when the Republi cans knew he could not by any chance be elected, they put him up against Major Adams for the Fame office. It is contrary to ovr usual pious habits. but wo will wager one" hundred dol lar8, half a week's salary, that he is not elected, now that tho Republicans have a majority. Mr. ex-Congressman Rainey will learn that men of his color were made to vote and not to bo voted for. Louisville Sunday Argus. The Republicans were in tho mi nority in the last House ot Uepre sentatives. They nominated J. II Rainey, an ex-colored member from South Carolina, for Clerk, and gave him a unanimous vote. Now they are in a majority and we shall soon see whether that nomination was made in good faith, or whether it was only a cheap compliment, offered because it had no substantial value. Lynn (Mass.) Mail. The above are fair samples of the style in whieh Democratic editors re fer to Mr.Rainey's candidacy for the Clerkship of the National House o Representatives. It beems to be taken for granted by these papers that Mr. Rainey has no show whatever of being successful. In this we think that time will show that they are mistaken. While we do not claim that, ordinarily, any one man has or ought to have an exclusive right to a nomination or appointment to an office, yet in this particular instance the circumstances arc such that we do not see how tho Republicans can well afford not to support Mr.llainey To do so would be to make good the Democratic c'aim that his nomination two years ago was simply an election eering trick. There are some doubt ful members in the House who aro expected to vote with the Republicans on organization, but most of theso are from the jSonth, and owe their election to colored voters, hence they can not reasonably object to Mr. w or Hainey on account of his color, Taken all in all wo think that Mr Rainey's chances of election aro good We do not believe that he was nom inated two years ago as an election eering dodge, but as a tribute to his ability, integrity and attention to bu sineb8, as well as a rebuke to the bal lot box stuffers of South Carolina who cheated him out of an election to Congress. Of course it was a merited and just recognition of a very large clement in the Republican party, given as all parties do and should do. We are quite confident that when Congress meets our Democratic friends will find that a Negro may, besides voting, be votfd for; and that Mr. Rainey's nomination two years ago was not simply "offered because it had no substantial value."

XIIK SCN SIDE TIiK It EST.

The snmmer is here with its aweetness Its fruits and its flowers so fair; The fields are all deckod to coinple'eness, No branch in th forest is bare. There's happiness breathing all over. As full as th nenne can crave; Come, let u mt here in the clover We'll be many a day in the grave. The bird &reall carolicg o'er us, The bees are all hummimg around. Stipplyluga aoul-soothing chorus To Nature's grand anthem profound. Let's drink in the perfume of flowers That floats round us, wave upon wave; We surely cau spare a few hours We'll be many a day in the crave, And when, as o'er life's wny we wander, Wo mi et a poor brother diätress'd. Let's pause in our journey what grander! ' And lift oft his load for a rest. Let's never refuse our a-iitance; The man may be worthy and brave; And what do we see in the distance? Why, many a day in the grave. need not the contracted of vlaios Who see but their own narr?- way; Who walk with the primmest precUion, And boast that they're never astray; Perhaps they'll be greatly mistaken When deep down in Lethe the)' lave. And theii memorirs be scorned cr foreaKen Ere they're many days in the grave. Let us look around as we travel And panne at "the green" for a dance; Turn ofl from toirrhard-beaten gravel. Now and theo, down the lanes of romance Ever young keep the licart and the feeling. The hand ever ready to save; Take part in all holping and healing We'll be many a daj in the grave. Oh. list to the song of the won That swells around old mother Earth 'Tis ransomed humanity's pa-an, Proclaiming its brotherhood's birth! Let brother staud fast unto brother. The pathway of progress to pave; While here let us help one another We'll be many a day in the grave. The world is a pretty good fellow Who often is misunderstood; Here's a laugh tor the wit that is mellow, A blow for the cause that i good. -Let cowards with fear and mixgiving, Go bide in Adull.im's dark cave, But we'll enjoy life while we're living We'll be many a day in the grave. The man of large, warm humau nature Finds time to give aid and delight; But the seläfth and cold grubbing creature Can't lift up his brow to the light. I dou't want that man for a neighborHe must have the sonl of a slave Who can't spare a day from his labor He'll be" many a day in the grave. P. S. Caspipv. Cur ion a Characteristic of Some .famous Miners. Brooklyn Kagle.l Avarice, it bus boon justly said, is a weed that will grow in barren soil; it is generally found in those who bavo few gcxxl quam 103 to recommend them. One old writer ys it may be termed the grand sepulcher of al the other passions, as they successively de cay. But unlike other tomb., it is enlarged by repletion and strengthened by age, Moore, the poet, speaks of it as That latent folly of man's sinking age, Which, rarely venturing in the vau of life. While nobler pations wage their heated strife, Comes skulking last, with selfishness and fear, And dies, collecting lumber in the rear. The lives of all the celebrated misers wil be found much the same in these particulars They were very seldom married, they wero unsocial, though sometimes nnd of anitra nets: they maintained existence on food, tho ouantitv and oualitv of which ados would 3 -...... . have objected to; they were very seldom stirred to the slightest degree of benevolence, and they nearly always disappointed the expectations of their heirs. But there are some exceptions to these general rules. Earrow, in his travels, mentions having seen a Dutch miser near 1 he Capo ot Good Ilope. He was a tall, old man, with a thin, sallow visage, and a beard of dingy black, that, extending to his eyes, where it met the straggling hair of the forehead, obscured the face like a visor. Living with him and his wife was an old Hottentot woman, nearly one hundred years old. Avarice seemed to run ia the family, for he had a brother and "sister who lived several miles off among the mountains who were equally parsimonious. In the beginning of this century there wa3 an old man named W. Fuller, who lived with his son in a hut, consisting of two chambers and sitting room. Their allowance of food was a mutton chop apiece, and a pint of porter between the two, for the day this last being a luxury they 2ould not go without, proving that appetite was stronger than will They went to bed in the dark. Old Fuller was a banker and retained his clerks on low salaries by promising them legacies when he died. But the promises were not fulfilled; he wrote his will on the back of an old letter and left all his property, worth $1,000,000, to his son. That the hoarding of money has given actual pleasure to thee poor wretches, there can be no doubt. It stands to reason it must be so, or they would hardly throw up their interest in both worlds. Jeremy Taylor, a famous miser, used to say if his successors had as much pleasure in spending hia property a? he had in hoarding it up, they need not complain of their hard lot in the world. Mention is made of a miser in Venice whose pulse quickened as in fever on hearing a large sum of money mentioned, lie was a Catholic and made the sign of the cross with a gold coin, lie had chests full of gold, each named after some saint, and decorated them on saints' days. AVb.cn dying, he requested tho spectators to withdraw from the room a few moments. Tuey did so. On returning they found tho old man lying dead on a large bag, both bis bands clutching a piece of gold. This calls to mind tho case of Henry Beaufort, cardinal of Winchester, who cried out on bid death bed: "Fye, will rut death be hired, and will money do nothing? Must I die that have such great riches? If the whole realm of England would save my life, I am able, either by policy to get it, or by riches to buy it.'' The death of the miser Foscoe. who amassed an immense fortune by usury and taking every advantage he could of the necessities of the unfortunate, was dramatically appropriate. For reasons of safety he dug a hole in the ground and secreted his treasure there; ho made a trap door with a spring lock, and would go down daily to gloat over his savings, lie lived a solitary life, but one day his neighbors remarked that be bad not been seen for an unusually long time. They made search for him through the house, the wood., and in tho ponds, but failed to find him. Years afterwards, when workmen were repairing' the house, they came across the secret cave in the cellar. On opening it they found Foscoe's remains amid heavy bags of untold treasure. He had died with the object of his devotion. The methods by which misers have accumulated, their huge fortunes are much the same; it was by saving rather than by making money, that they became rich. Daniel Dancer dined on two or three boiled eggs and warmed up his cold paneakeä that were left over by carrying them in his pocket. Elwes, who was worth nearly a million dollars, carried old bones in his pocket, taking them out to his farm to be used as fertilizers. Another miser used to boil a piece of beef and fourteen hard dumnlings on Sunday that would be the allowance of food for himself and sister for the week. Dancer saved on soap, never using it or towels; he washed himself in the river and dried himself in tho eun. He used to beg a pinch of snuff, putting it in a box he carried with him. This he exchanged for a farthing candle, which lasted until the box was again filled. Ho used an old meal sack for a shirt and a bundle of straw for a pillow. But ha was singularly generous to his dog, to whom he allowed a pint of milk a day. Ho died worth $500,000. There was a celebrated miser named Audley, who lived in the time of . the Stuarts, and whose keenness as a business man was remarkable. , lie was ordinarily employed as a clerk at G shilling a week, and in the course of a few years, by dint of the economical practices that come natural to persons of his ilk, had accumulated sufficient to

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engage in speculation, -ms uauib was buy lad debts for a trifle, and afterwards compound with the insolvent. An anecdote will illustrate his methods: A tradesman, Miller,owed a merchant named White, 200, and seeing no other chance to obtain it (Miller being insolvent), sued for the amount. Audley goes to White and offers him 110 for the debt; the merchant accepts. Then the miser coes to Miller and obtains his quittance of the debt for 00, upon con ditfon that he pays for the accommodation. The insolvent signed the contract, which he thought was offered in a benevolent spirit. The contract was that he should pay to Audlev , twentv years from that time, one penny consecutively doubled, on the first day ol twenty consecutive monins; iaumg, . . . il to pav a nne 01 i-w Jiuier, acquiuea 01 Miller, acquitted of 1 his debt, arranged with his creditors ana . . . 1 v . commenced business. Two or three years afterwards the miser began to call for his installments, and Miller found on calculating that the first of the twentieth month he would have to pay t'J.boO; so he refused the payment off his bond and gave Audley th 500 forfait. Vandillf, a remarkable French miser, . , - T 1 was at one time tno mayor 01 uouiogne, and while in that position partly mamtain cd himself by being milk-taster general at the market. While munching a rnp of brrad he would partake of these iTTHtu'tous draughts. He always traveled to 1'arid on foot, and fearful leet he should be robbed, took good care never to have more than three pence in his pocket; if ho needed any more uioüey he begged on the road. By such method?', and lending money to tne Kreuch Government, be made a fortune ot l00'OO0, sprung from a single shilling. During the very coM winter of 1734 ho i'ound it necessary to purchase some extra fuel, and endeavored to beat down the wood m r?hant in bis price. The man drove off and Vacdille stole a few logs from the back of the cart. In hastening away with them he became overheated and contracted a bad fever. He sent for the surgeon, telling him he wanted to be bled. As tho surgeon charged half a livrc, which was considered too much, a barber was called, in who agreed to open the vein for threepence. '"But, friend,'' said the cautious miser, how often will it be requisite to bleed me?" "Three times," replied the barber. "Threo times! And pray, what quantity of blood do you intend to take from me at each operation?" "About eight ounces each time." "That will be nincpence too much; too much. I know a cheaper way; take the whole twen-tv-four ounces at once, and that will save me sixpence. lie saved nis sixpence, dut lost his life. Sir William Smith of Bedfordshire, a wealthy miser, agreed to give Eixty guineas it Dr. Taylur, a celebrated oculist, restored him to siiiht. i'he doctor succeeded "so well that Sir William was able to read and write all the rest of his life without spectacles. But be pretended at the time of bis cure that he only had a glimmering of his surroundings, and on that acco.mt succeeded in cetting the fee reduced to 20, one-third of the original price. A St. Petersburg miser, who lived in the tine of Catherine II., resorted to a peculiar method to 6ave a little money. He had a large mastiff dog to watch hi3 house, and hid trained him to bark and howl all night Finally tho dog died. Not caring to go to the expense of purchasing another, the old man personated a dog himself, and went about tho house morning and evening barking and howling in imitation of his former protector. This man lived in one damp room, in a large, dilapidated old house, and we are told that his cellar contained casks of gold and packages of silver. He was the richest man in llussia. In striking contrast to the mean characteristics which seem to come natural to the miser, there are two anecdotes that have been handed down to us, of the benevolence of extremely avaricious men: Somo years ago there, lived in Marseille, France, a miser named Guyot. He was noted for his parsimony, had always lived in the city, was hated by gr wn persons and stoned by the boys. He died very wealthy. His will read as follows: "Having observed from my infancy that the poor of Marseilles are illsupplied with water, which can only be procured at a great price, 1 have cheerfully labored the whole of my life to procure for them this great blessing, and I direct that the whole of my property shall bo expended in building an aqueduct for their use. Some years ago it was proposed to build Bethelehem Hospital, London, and contributions were requested from the rich as well as the poor. A collector in a dirty part of the city heard a man scolding bis servant for throwing away a match, only one end of which had been lighted. When the collector went in and asked for a contribution he did not expect much success, and was agreeably surprised to receive a check for 40 guineas. He then told the old man cf his thoughts, who replied: "Your surprise at receiving this sum is occasioned by my care of a thing of such little consequence; but I keep my bouse and save my money in my own way. My parsimony enables me to bestow more liberally on charity. With regard tobenevplent donations, you may always expect most from prudent people who keep their own accounts and who pay at ten tion to trifles. Dean Swift was once invited by a great miser to dine at . his house with a large party. The famous satirist being requested to give grace, said: "Thanks for this miracle! this is no less Than to eat manna in the vtilderneHS. Where raging hunger reign'd we've found relief, Aud seen that wondrous thing, a piece of beef. Here chimneys smoke, that never smoked before. And we've all ate where we shall eat no more." .... . . v r vi L fc. A New Time-Table Needed. (Texas Siftings. There was only one passenger, an old bald-headed man, on an Austin avenue car yesterday. The car stopped on the switch for ten minutes or more, and still the other car upon which it was waiting failed to come up. The old man grew more and more nervous, mopping bis head with bis handkerchief, and cursing the driver of the missing car. "What are you in such a hurry about?' asked the driver. "My wife is waiting dinner, and if that driver don't come up so you can go ahead I'll be late and there will be the mischief ta pay." "Do you know why he don't come up?' asked the driver. "No, I don't," said the old man. "Well, you see, his wife makes him stop to get his dinner, and that makes him behind time, and that's why he don't make the connection. If he comes on without stopping for dinner, then his wife would get mad and your wife would be glad; but if he stops and gets his dinner, as he is doing today, your wife will be mad and his wife will be glad. The only remedy I see is for you to hold a cabinet meeting, like these railroad passenger agents, and fix up a time; table so you can both make close connection." Just then the delayed car came up and the conversation ceased. A New Firm. ITexos Siftings. A man who had evidently just arrived by the train walked into an Austin boarding house yesterday and asked: "Is Day in?" "What Day, sab?" asked the porter. "What do I know about him? Do I look like a detective? If Daj' ain't in, tell Week to step out here." "What Week do you refer to, sah?" "Oh, last week, or week before Christmas. Do you take me for an almanac? Who runs this shebang anyhow?" "De widow Flapjack, sab." "Well, then, teil her to take down her sign. I read on the jign out there 'Boarding by Week or Day,' and no it seems that both of 'em have lit out. That sign is put up there to deceive the traveling public," and be picked up Iiis gripsack ana swung himself on board of a streetcar. Bishop Butler: Wholocommunities may be insane as well as individuals.

AN UNDERTAKER'S STORY.

Fifty Thousand Burials in Fifty Years. flow lie Learned His Business and Buried Xacbary Taylor, General Harrison, John Qulncy Adams and Oth- r Prominent Men Changes in Funeral Faahiona. Philadelphia Times.l "Ye3," said William Ilill Moore, settling himself back with his snowy-haired head against the cushion of an easy chair and crossing his legs, now somewhat attenuated with age; ,yes," said he, "I beliove I am the oldest living undertaker. I've been active in business over fifty years. I began in an alley, but I was not above my business, and I gave my whole life to it, and, of course, the business grew and I made lots of money. There are a hundred undertakers who have started since, but I was the first one to keep ready-made coffins on hand in Philadelphia and supply funerals as a regu lar business, and, so far as I know, it had not been done anywhere else at that time. That was in 1826. I learned tho business during the cholera of 1819-20 with a man who buried the dead for the prisons acd coroners and that like, and there's no telling the many a one in those days that went in the ditch who never died at all." "Why, William,', said a little thin, ner vous lady in the room, "you don't they were buried alive? Ugh! It mv flesh creep.' mean makc3 "Yes, Martha, that's it exactly. No tell ing how many. A good old (junker triend of mine I buried him afterward; he had everything very plain, I remember, and no handle on the conin said to me once: William, said he, 'is thee sure that all thee buried with the cholera .were dead when thee put them in the ground?' Said I: I nevei thought whether they were dead' or not; I just buried them as fast as I could.' " "Well, I never forgot the remark. When I fixed up a place on" Fifth street I forget the builder's name now, but I buried all l is family, and a large family it was, too 1 had two rooms where I used to do embalming and keep bodies until some one would come to pay for them; but I made up my mind that I would never bury any of these or anybody else until I was sure they weren't alive." But it's easy to tell. With such as die from apoplexy and sudden like that, it actually seems" and hero the jolly old undertaker laughed a broad, heaity luugh ,4it actually seems they'd decompos.ed before they died. Ha! ha! ha! Its remarkable how plain the signs of decomposition become to the practiced eye. Why, sir, I can toll a dead body as quick as that" and he snapped his long fingerä in front of his shrewd gray eyes "but we always put off moving the body as long as the relatives like, unless it gets very bad, and then we does our duty and moves them off. They always like, you know, to have their little cries and we lets them have their way. John Swift, who was the Mayor that time we buried him in a double coffin, I remember didn't like the idea of my keeping the bodies a month at a tune, but I didn't mind it the least, and I soon showed him there was no danger. Why, sir, the dead are no more to us than the sheets of rjaper vou write on. V e never think any more what & person dies of than vou do of asking the people you meet ol the street what disease they have. I've been all through cholera, 6mall-pox, and vellow fever, and never had so much as a sick stomach. Most contagious diseases are caught through fear, but a great deal depends on the way a man lives. No undertaker can touch liquor if he wants to keep free from disease. He has to be strictly temperate. He has to be very careful what ho eats too. Its my experience that if a man is careful what he eats and drinKs and keeps his stomach in order he need not be afraid of any contagious disease. I had a friend buried him, too. by tho way who lived to be ninety just by eating as little ns possible." The gaunt, strange-looking old man at this point left his eyes relax somewhat from their usual dim, vacant gaze, and, in response to a motion, put the large speaking-trumpet which he balanced on one finger to his ear. All he had said up to this point was suggested by a single question shouted into the eartrumpet, ana it now became necessary to start him on another train of reminiscences. "You buried General Patterson, did you not?" he was asked. "Yes, but I was scarcely able to get there," ho replied, ''I've been very sick, but I'm not quite ready for the undertakers yet. Up to a very little while ago we buried all the Judges and Commodores and Generals, and almost all the great people, it seems to me, but Lincoln we didn't get him." The undertaker was unable to repress a heavy sigh at the thought of missing the melancholy pleasure of laying away this truly great man. "There were the obsequies of Zacbary Taylor," ho resumed; "the hearse cost $3,000. There were eight gray horses, with black covers, trimmed with white, and the men who walked as leaders wore long white bands on their hats and white gloves. It was a grand sight. There was a single tassel that cost $45. Then I had the obsequies of Bushrod Washington, and Chief Justice Marshall, and General "William Henry'Harrison, and John Quincy Adams. You may bo sure they were the best that could be had. When the body of Henry Clay passed through the city in 1&32 there was a funeral procession, and I bad that, too, but ifwaa not so much of an affair. Dr. Kane, the Arctic explorer, I buried, and Judge Kane and his wife, I buried them too. 'Old Ironsides' Commodore Stewart, you know we put him in Woodlands, and then, besides, there was Commodore Bainbridge, Horace Binney, Commodore Elliott, John Price Wetherill, Commodore Hull, Judge Thompson, and President Edgar Thompson, of tho Pennsylvania railroad I buried them all. We removed Commodore Porter to Woodlands, and there was General Mercer's funeral, too. We were highly complimented for the way we buried him. Ah, my memory is getting poor and I can't think of them all. Funerals, are very different to what they used to be. Matters are simplified in the burial, but funerals are more numerously attended and" more expensive. It costs about $400 to bury a man of any consequence now. The use of ice is comparatively new, and they never used to line coffins with satin. I think Dr. Bedell set the style. He was buried in his robes, and the casket was lined with satin. I don't know. where they got the idea from, but after that every one wlu could afford it wanted satin. We get a groat mayiy orders in advance from pcoplo about the way they want to be buried. I have known persons to come in and look at the different styles of coffins and pick out the kind they wanted years before they died. We have had tho full direc ions for the funeral on the books in their own handwriting. There is a very wealthy gentleman and his Bister who have given us orders for their coffins and funerals. I would like the casket lined .wuh white flannel,' the lady said in the last letter, 'like that one you furnished Mrs. , wnich was chaste and elegant; only I would like six handles and, besides the plate, a little silver cross on the lid. Bat bo sure to let me lay in the room until you know I am decomposed, for I am awfully afraid of being buried alive.'. ', "Up to twenty or thirtv years ago there were no carriages. . The burial , places were not far away, and people walked, the coffin being carried on the shoulders or on a bier.

1 have often carried little babies in coffins under my arm myself. The great cemeteries had njt grown up then. Eli K. Price and my st-If are about the only ones remain ing of the starters of Woodlands Cemetery. Judge Mai lory, who was interred in it at first I buried him afterwards persuaded me to go into it. There are some 10,000 buried in it now.and I think I have had something to do with its success. The

number I have buried in it is something incredible. For many years it averaged 100 a mon'h. Mr. Kellogg, my partner," who ha3 kept track of it, says we have buried over 50,000 in the 50 years. "Now, my son, whatever you say, be careful and don t wound anybody's feelings. I have always trid to make it pleasant for the mourners. When Mayor Stokley's father, who I afterwards buried", lost a little boy and was speaking of Mrs. Stokley's dis tress, I recommended the adoption ot a lit tie one of the same age belonging to Mrs. Ward, whom I buried too, and sure enough they did, and he grew up beside Mayor Stokley and distinguished himself in Mexico until I buried him some years ago. You know a great many commit suicide that nobody knows anything about but the doctor and" the undertaker. M.any a one I've buried no ono knows but me to this day they had the rope around their necks. I always used to carry a crooked needle to sew up gashes in throats. 1 found it handy to have around. One dav a lady verv rich and elegant she was, and had A 1 coffin when she died showed me hr husband who had just cut his throat, and said: Oh, what shall I do?' 'Do,' said I, as I commenced to sow up the cut and put a clean shirt on him, 'don't tell a living mortal, for it's my experience that if you tell anybody a secret you might as well put it in the newspap?ra; don't tell a living mortal and it'll be ail right. And sure enough it was. Iiis own brothers don't know to this day but that he died a natutal death. Ghosts, did you say? Do undertakers believe in them? Fiddlesticks. But strange things happen. The most curious thing is the horse?. It's very common for horses to refuse to pull a dead bedv. I remember one time ono of our best teams had just started eff when they stopped, trembled, stuck up their ears, and wculdn t budge ono inch further. Coaxing was no use, they wouldn't go. We had to take a team out of a hack and put them in the hearse. It was a little ch'M that lim but another time the same thing happened when we were burying a man nod his wife together." With this tho conversation closed. The old gentleman drew himself to his fullest height, listened to the words of parting shouted through the ear trumpet, and bowed his visiter out. With ago ho has lost none of the urbanity peculiar to him in hi3 sturdiest years. Constant intercourse with grief often ss;umed has shaken his faith in many things. Half a century of hand-to-hand familiar intercourse with the dead has given him a quaint pensivencss mixed witn a strange, grim humor. Care'ul habits leave him in complete possession of all his faculties e xcept that of hearing. One can still imagine wbat be was in his best days, when it was said that Billy Moore looked more truly mournful than all the other mourners put trg ther. Among the many stories told about him is this one concerning the cemetery, the name of which wa3 sometimes joc ularly applied to him in the appellation of Laurel lull Moore. After scores 01 years of constant funeral attendance, it is related, Mr. Moore was called upon to officiate at a wedding of a relative. In hia long black coat and longer face, with his hands crossed before, as usual, one holding the melancholy beaver hat. he stood readv to nod for the carriages as soon as the minister had finished. One by one the vehicles came up. With slow step and look of resignation Mr. Moore escorted the bride and groom down the steps, and as they sprang in and tho driver cracked his whip, the old gentleman. the' ruling habit overcoming him at the last moment, clapped the carriage door with a bang and shouted, "To .Laurel Hull Fast comes and gw each fleetii g year, Men to the gra descend. But the love in my heart for you, my dear, Will never cozno to an end. That I but once might see yon, And sinking on my knee, Might dying whisper to yon. Dearest, I love but thee. Some Hows." How many more things there happen to be that we want than we need. How much of the old-fashioned faith which can "remove mountains" is to be found in a wealthy congregation? How much of the scientific opinion of today is to be known as nonsense 100 yean hence? How many revolutions per minute will a livelv kitten make in pursuit of its own tail? How much real profit to humanity is there in seeing a crowd of miserable beasts and birds sulTeriug by deprivation from their natural conditions and climates, and dying by inches while being hauled about the country for "a great moral show?" How can a born rich man ever into enter sympathy with a poor one? How many glasses of rum can a man drink inside of an hour and keep within the bounds of sobriety? How many people really live up to the golden rule, "Do unto others as ye would be done by?" How many try to live up to it? How many never try to try? How many "do' others at every opportunity? How much better a man's appetite is when he has no money to buy a breakfast? How many men were ever convinced by. argument? How many men fail to be convinced through bitter experience? How many people find themselves good company for themselves? How many pecks of dirt does a ten-cent restaurant customer eat ere he'dies? How many people really believe tbal death is only a step into another condition of conscious existence? How many people think they've got money enough? How many "half-slewed'' men think no one knows they're drunk but themselves? How many men who borrow money ar certain they'll never pay it within the specified time? How many seventeen-year-old girls believe they'll become old maids? How many want to? How much easier is it to spend most dol. lars than to make them? How many people are there who think their luck has been the worst luck of all the luck in the world? How mary women will own up to their true age? . How many like to so own up? How many grocers will say they have poor butter when they do have it? How could any of us endure a man who never committed a sin ot any sort in all hi life? How old Ben Franklin lied when he said, "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise.' llusiness Girls of the West. Chicago Letter in the Boston Transcript. To a Bostonian traveling through this "Western country some things look very queer. A little incident I saw in Quincy, 111., I thought worth while t write you about. 'Vie arrived at the depot hard on midnight, and made our way to the foot of the depot to a row of omnibuses and entered one. When full, to our astonishment rather preposessing young lady came to the door and asked for our baggage checks, and later for our coach fare, after collecting which she alighted and called to the driver: "All right, Charlie.' Inquiry revealed to us that this tirl had "just bought out the 'bus line and I runs the business." Think of a Boston girl doing this I

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