Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. , GioBR £. Marshall, Editob. — 2 __4 * : RENSSELAER - INDIANA

*TE sfTaTT diligently keep the commandments of.lhe Lord your Go<3, and His testimonies, and His statutes, which He hath commanded thee.” _____ Those gay old Kentucky gentlemen, aged anywhere from eighty - fiveio one hundred yearK. continue to attract the affections of blooming j maids of about fifteen or sixteen years experience in this cold and /‘holler” world . The latest case of note, is that of “Col.” (of course) Cody Bourne, aged ninety-three, who married Rose Brown, aged sixteen, at Lawrenceburg, Ky. Col. Bourtfe has now “stood up and fined hands for better or worse” seven'times.

The New York Herald has received a letter of thanks from a native Japanese merchant at Tokio, heartily expressing the gratitude of his countrymen for what he is pleased to call “the sympathy and strong moral support given to the Japanese cause by the people of America,” and the Herald. The little Japs are verj r apt scholars in the ways of modern civilization, and it is this quick perception and ability to “catch on” that has enabled them to achieve such phenomenal victories against such apparent odds. There is a firm in Washington City that deals in human skulls. They are also prepared to furnish plaster casts of the craniums of celebrated people. For instance, a cast of Guiteau’s head may be obtained for $5. For $2 each you can get a cast of Napoleon, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and other noted men. The firm has in its collection the largest human skull ever known. Its circumference is over three feet. It is guaranteed to be the head of James Cardinell, an Englishman, who was afflicted with water on the brain.

The great Brooklyn street car strike cost the interested’ parties at least $2,000,000, and no benefit accrued to any class or individual. There is nothing remarkable in this result, ae the outcome of all, or nearly all, great uprisings of labor against capital have resulted in about the same way. When society shall have been organized on a proper basis such unfortunate inci dents will become a thing of the past impossibility. Some form of arbitration will, in time, surely result from the costly experiments of violent strikes. It was quite a “spell of weather.” One day’s fatalities will do for a sample. Feb. 9. a family of four at Jacksonville, Fla., died oLexposure; a negro wandered from near Hopkinsville, Ky., and was frozen death; a miner was frozen to death at Rutland, Ill.; two persons froze to death at Hazelton, Pa., and several sleighparties were reported missing; frozen sailors dropped dead from the rigging of an unknown schooner off the Long Island coast; four men trying to escape from a fishing schooner on the Atlantic coast were drowned because of theirtnability to row the boat.

A new dime museum attraction of great drawing powers has loomed into public notice in the person of Miss Boecker, the only woman who was rescued from the Elbe. She is received every where with thegreatest sympathy and hospitality, and has even been honored by an audience with Queen Victoria, who received her with unusual attentions. It ik not known that Miss Boecker will ..turn her desperately won fame into cash by going on the stage, but if she docs not avail herself of the “tide’’ in her affairs at this time it will be because she does not care for wealth which would flow into her exchequer for the simple asking. People who have kept in touch with the Christian Science movement. whether believers or not, have doubtless a recollection of the name of Mary Baker Eddy,- who Las been a"sort of “high priestess" from the inception of the attempt to do away with drugs and substitute “will” in the treatment of human disease. Except among a comparatively few of the more earnest advocates the belief has gradually ceased to attract attention, and Mrs. Eddy has dropped “out of the sight.”. But the lady was not content with this state of affairs. Her books were not selling fast enough, and a new Ecl;eme..-for notoriety must bo devised. Her ownJmmediate circle of followers in scw York city have accordingly been notified that Mrs. Eddy is now posing as a female “baity,” or rather as an incarnate

manifestation of Christ, and that) the scheme of Christian Science healing was a direct divine ‘revelation to that astute authoress. Tha followers oL this “.cult” aro in q quandary, but have about decide t that, it would be sacrileyious to deify Mrs. Eddy, which on the whole is a very considerate and sensible conclusion. ‘ New York city is wrestling with the rapid transit question to an extent' seldom attained by any city. The present methods and facilities have been rapidly falling behind it) rtiw effort to rise to the emergeneyj until it may be said that a crisis it) | transportation affairs in the me I tropolis has been reached. The surface roads, the elevated roads and 'bus lines all combined are inadequate to satisfactorily handle the people, and the”great depots for the . railway lines fall under the-same ban of condemnation. It is now proposed —the Herald gives.drawings and details of the plan—to double-deck the elevated roads and build a great Union Depot above the Harlem at IGlst street. The scheme is vast anc in keeping with the wonderful development of the great metropolis.

The stories that have been told o! the great Elbe disaster reflect little credit upon the crew or officers bl that unfortunate vessel. The Captain, Von Gossel, it is true, went down with his ship, ami the testimony goes' to show that he acted the part of a brave and unselfish man in the last moments, but to judge from I Cue reported actions of the crew I they were entirely without discipline and were not properly amenable to orders in any sudden emergency. This fault must be laid at the Captain's door, while due honor is yielded to him for his heroism in the great crisis in whip)} he gave up his life. All accounts agree that the surviving officers and members of the crew acted in a brutal and selfish manI .-.er. The indignation against them i is.great at all European ports, and , Emperor William has improved the j occasion to denounce them for theii ' cowardice and inhumanity in only saving one woman out of all the bunI dreds on board. Not one child was saved 1 The loss of life in this great disaster was simply due to negligence of the ordinary precautions that should never be relaxed on shipboard, and in view of the near proximity of the coast becomes inexcusable and criminal.

“Labelle Paree,” the Frenchman’s paradise and the loadstone ol ultra-fashionable life the world over, is keeping up with the procession in material development as-well as in the arts and scien ecsmmd frivolities for which it has always been noted. Few Americans are aware that Paris is a walled city, yet such is the case. But it has outgrown the walls, and what were regarded as adequate defenses in the war of 1870-71 have become obsolete and utterly useless. Territory adjacent to the capital has been built over in all directions and French military engineers have presented to them a problem that promises to become difficult of solution. Walls are no longer considered a defense against modern cannon, and new means to check invading armies and protect the heart of the nation must be devised. IV is now proposed to pull down the old walls, annex avast extent' of suburban territory and inclose the whole with a wide moat, the river Seine to be utilized for the water supply and its :V"p«irt of the .system of defense. In this connection, and as affording some idea of the wealth and resources of the French people, it may be stated thqt the sum of $775,000,000 has been expended upon the fortifications of Paris in the last twenty-three years. The results of this vast expenditure, if the scheme now proposed by Gen. Riu is carried out, will be demolished, and, for all practical purposes, thrown away.

THE JUDGE’S OPINION.

He Thought It Unlikely that tho Patent Would Ever B: Renewed. Detroit Free Press. A lawyer who makes a specialty of patent business, no matter just where his office is located, was called to the further West in a case involv ing a mortgage on a farm. T t 1 preliminary hearing was beforo- an. ; old-fashioned Justice of the Peace, who had no high regard for the ways !of men from tho city. At some point in tho case the magistrate put ' in a few remarks and the visiting : lawyer collided with him. The disI eussion grew warm, and at last the ! magistrate forgettinghi, dignity and , his position, became personal. j “Who are you anyway?” ho blurtj ed out. I “Well,” replied the lawyei', “I’m ' an attorney.” i “P’raps you are, but I never t heard one talk like you do. What kind of a one are you?” “I’m a patent attorney.” x • Tho magistrate rubbed his chin for 1 thought, r-w.y l i j “Well, all I’ve got to say is,” he said, slowly, “that when thq’patent expires I don't believe you can ever get it renewed again. '

A LION SLAYER.

Benaiah’s Great Courage on a Snowy Day. ~ I Lessons Drawn From the Eneon nte r—- \ Three Typical Troubles—Dr. Tati luagt’g Sermon. 5 _ ; r * Rev. Dr. Talmage preached At the New York Academy s os Music last Sunday. Subject: “A Snowy Day.” Text—l Chronicles xi, 22. “Ho went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.” . Have you ever heard of him.?- II is name was Benaiah. He was a man of stout muscle and of great avoirdupois. His father was a hero, and he inherited prowess. He was athletic, and there was iron in his blood, and the strongest bone in his body was back bone.—He is known for other wonders besides that of the text. An Egyptian five cubits in Stature, or about seven feet nine inches high, was moving around in braggadocio and flourishing a great spear, careless as to whom he killed, and Benaiah of my text, with nothing but a walking stick, came upon him, snatched the spear from the Egyptian, and With one thrust of its sharp edge put an end to the blatant bully. But Benaiah of the text is about to do something that will eclipse even that. There is trouble in all the neighborhood. Lambs are carried off in the night, and children, venturing only a little way from their father’s house are found mangled and dead. The fact is, the land was infested with lions, and few people dared meet one of these grizzly beasts, much less corner or attack it. Benaiah is all alert and comes cautiously on toward the hiding place of this- terror of the fields. Coining to the verge of the pit, be looks down at the lion, and the lion looks up at him. What a moment it was when their eyes clashed! Now you see how emphatic and tragic and tremendous are the words of the text, “He went down and slew a lion in a pit on a snowy day.” Why put that in the Bible? Why put it twicb in the Bible —once in the book of Samuel and here in the book of Chronicles? Oh, the practical lessons are so many for you and for me! What a cheer on this subject for all those of you who are in conjunction of hostile circumstances. Three things were against Benaiah of my text in the moment oNcombat, the snow that impeded his movemovement, the pit that environed him in a small space and the lion, with ‘open jaws and uplifted paw. And yet I hear the shout of Benaiah’s victory. O men and women pf three troubles! You say, “I could stand one, and I think I could stand two, but three are at least one too many.” _ There is .a man. .in business, perplexity and who has sickness in his family and old age is coming on. Three troubles—a lion, a pit and a snowy day. There is a good woman with failing health and a dissipated husband and a wayward boy —three troubles! There is a young man, salary cut down, bad cough, frowning future—three troubles! There is a maiden with difficult school lessons she cannot get, a face that is not as attractive as some of her school mates, a prospect that through hard times she must (juit school before she graduates —three troubles!

So to all dowm town business men and to all up town business men I say if you have goods on hand vou cannot sell and debtors who will not or cannot pay, and you are also suffering from uncertainty as to what the imbecile American Congress will do about the tariff, you have three troubles and enough to bring you within range of the consolation of my text, where you find the triumph of Benaiah over a lion, a pit and a snowy day. If you have only .one trouble I cannot spend any time with you today. You must have at least three and then remember how many have triumphed over such a trial of misfortunes. Paul had three troubles —Sanhedrin denouncing him — that was one great trouble; physical infirmity, which he called “a thorn in the flesh,” and although we khow not what the thorn was we do know from the figure he used that it must have been something that stuck him —that was the second trouble; approaching martyrdom;that was three troubles. Yet hear what he says: “If I had only ope misfortune. I could stand that, but three are two too many!” No, I misinterpret. He says: “Sorrowful yet always rejoicing. Poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, yet possessing all things.” “Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ,” -

Notice in my text a victory over bad weather. It was a snowy day, when. one s vitality is at low ebb,and the spirits are naturally depressed, and one does not feel like undertaking a great enterprise, when Benaiah rubs his hands together to warm them by extra friction, or JhrasheS his arms around him to revive circulation of the blood, and then goes at the lion which was all the more fierce and ravenous because of the sharp weather, Inspiration here admits atmospheric hindrance. The.snpwy day at Valley Forge wqJI nigh put an end to, the struggle for American' independence. The snowy day abolished Napoleon's army on the way from Moscow. . Notice-everything down in the pit that snowy day depended upon Benaiah’4 weapon... There was as much strength in one muscle of that lion as iq q.ll the muscles"©! both arms of Benaiah. It is the strongesU-of beasts and has been known to carry

-. >i. - v ■ • • • i off an ox. Its tongue is so «-rougfi that it acts as a rasp tearing off the flesh it licks—The two great can in eg at each side of the mouth make es--pape- impossiblefforlany th ing it has heel on the neck of this “king of beasts. Was it a dagger? Was i; a javelin? Was it a knife? I can not tell, but everything depended dh. it. But for that Benaiah’s body under one crunch of the monster would have been limp and tumbled in the snow, and when you and I go into the fight with temptation, if we have not the right kind of weapon, instead of our slaying the lion the lion will slay us. The sword of the Spirit! Nothing in earth or hell can stand before that. Victory with that or no victory at all. By that I mean prayer to God, confidence in his rescuing power, saving grace, almighty deliverance. Ido not care what ybtrcatttt. I call it “sword of the Spirit.” - ' . But most am I impressed by what I have quoted from the Apostle Peter when he calls the devil a lion. That means strength. That, means bloodthirstiness. That means cruelty. That means destruction. Some of you have felt the strength of his paw and, and the sharpness of jhis tooth," and the horror of his rage. Yes, he is a savage devil. He roared at evening good when Lord Claverhoiise assailed the Covenanters and dt Bartholomew against the Huguenots, one August night when the bell tolled for the butchery to begin, and the ghastly joke in the street was, “Blood letting is good in August," and 50,01)0 assassin knives were plunged into the victims, and this monster has had under his pay many of the grandest souls of all time, apd fattened with the spoils of centuries he comes for you. A word to all who are in a snowy day. Oh, fathers and mothers- who have lost children, that is the weather that cuts through body and soul. But drive back the lion of bereavement with the thought which David Dae, of Edinburgh, got from the Scotch grave digger, who was always planting white clover and the sweetest flowers on the children’s graves in the cemetery, and when -asked why he did so replied: “Surely, sir, I canna make ower fine the bed coverin’ o’ a tittle innocent sleeper that’s waitin’ there till it’s God’s time to waken it and cover it with the white robe and -waft it away to glory. When sic grandeur is waitin’ it yonder it's fit it should be decked oot here. 1 think the Saviour that counts its dust sae precious will like to see the white clover sheet spread ower .it. -Do ye no think so, Cheer up all disconsolates. The best work for God and humanity has been done on the snowy day. At gloomy “Marine Terrace,” island of Jersey, the exile Victor Hugo wrought the mightiest achievement of his pen. Ezekiel, banished and bereft and an in-

valid at Cornhiil,on the banks of the Chebar, had his momentous vision of tbp cherubim and the wheels within wheels. By the dim light of a dungeon window at Bedford John Bun;yan sketches the “Delectable Mountains.” Milton writes the greatest ’ poem of all time without eyes, Michael Angelo carved a statue out of snow and all Florence gazed 4n raptures at its exquisiteness, and many of God’s servantshaveoutof the cold cut their immortality. Persecutions were the dark background that made more impressive the courage and consecration of Savonaroal who, when threatened with denial,bf burial said, “Throw me into the Arno if you choose; the resurrection day will find me, and that is enough.” Well, we have had many snowy days within the past month, and added to the chill of the weather was the chilling dismay at thenbuarrival of the ocean steamer Gascogne. Overdue for eight days, many had given her up as lost and the most hopeful were very anxious. The cyclones whose play is shipwrecks, .had been reported being in wildest romp all up and down the Atlantic. The ocean a few days before had swallowed the. Elbe, and with unappeased appetite seemed saying, “Give us rnoreof the best shipping.” The Normandie came in on the same track the Gascogne was to travel, and it had not seen her. The Teutonic, saved by the airpost superhuman efforts of captain and crew, came in and heard no gun of distress from the missing steamer. There were pale faces and wringing hands on both continents, and tears rolled down cold cheeks on those snowy days. We all feared that the worst had happened and talked of the City Boston as never heard of after sailing,and the steamship President, on which the brilliant Cookman sailed, never reported and never to be heard of again until the time when the sea gives up its dead. But at last under most powerful glass at Fire Island, u ship was Seen limping this way over the waters. Then we all began to hope that It might be the missing French liner. Three hours of tedious and agonizing waiting and two continents in suspense! When will the eyeglasses at Fire Island make revelation of this awful mystery of the sea? There it is! fla. ha! The Gascogne! Quick! Wire the news to the city! Swing the flags out on the towers! Ring the bells! Sound the whistles of the shipping all the way up from Sandy Hook to New York battery! “She’s safe, she’s safe!” are the words caught up and passed on from street to street. “It is the Gascogne!” is the cry sounding through all our delighted homes and thrilling all the telegraphic wires of the continent and all tbo cables under the sea, and the huzza on the wharf as the gang planks were swung nut, for the dis-

embarkation was a small part of thi huzza that . lifted both hemisphere) into ex illation. The flakes of snow fell oh the “-extra” as we opened ii on the street to get the latest particulars. Well, it will be better than that when some of you are seen enterin2 the harbor of heaven. You have had a rough vovage—no mistake about that. Again and again the machinery of health and courage broke down, and the wages of' temptation have swept clear over the hurricane deck, so that you were often compelled tu say, “All thy waves and thy billows have gone over me,” and you were down in the trough of that sea and down-in the trough of-the other sea, and many despaired of your safe arrival. But thegreat pilot, not onq who must come oil from some other craft, but the one who walked storm-swept Galilee and now walks the wintry Atlantic, conies on board- and heads you for the haven, when no sooner have you passed the narrows of death than you find all the banks lined with immortals celebrating your arrival, and while some break {off palm branches from the banks and wave them those standing on one side will chant, “There shall be no more sea,” and those standing on the other side will chant, “Theseare they which came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white In the blood of the Lamb.” Off ol the stormy sea into the smooth harbor. Out of leonine struggle ii the pit to guidance by the Lamb, who shall lead you to living fountains of water. Out of the snowy day of early severities into the gardens of everlasting flora and into orchards of eternal fruitage, the fall of their white blossoms the only snow in heaven. A novelty among the French artificial flowers this season is the potato blossomy:which, though sounding odd, is very pretty. and will probably rival in the popular fancy the place of the stock gilly of last year. Caprice and fancy seem to' have run riot among some of the new spring suitings in all-wool and silk and wool weaves. These are fine imitations of rough surface goods, not unlike the bld style bison cloth. While the fabric looks extremely coarse the texture pf which it is made is uncommonly soft and fine. If you want to make a neat jotrof mending your glove fingers turn them inside out, and, putting the edges carefully together, overcast them with cotton thread, fine but firm. Silk thread cuts the kid. If the.....glove—shows-an—inclination to break in the palm or about the-fin-gers. and you have no old gloves to mend them with, take a bit of ribbon the color of the glove and put it over the break on the under side, and darn the, glove down to it. Some women mend their gloves by putting a piece of adhesive plaster under the hole.- It mends, but -it also stiffens the kid. The electric light which is to he erected on Fire Island, on the New York coast, will give an illumination of about 150,000,000 candle-power. It is expected to be visible 120 miles out to sea. It seems likely that one of the most important benefits to civilization of Stanley’s African expedition will be the introduction of African mahogany to western commerce. There is even now a flourishing trade in this wood, which is spiff more cheaply in the United States than it formerly was in Liverpool.

PEOPLE.

Captain W. G. Kidd is conductor on the accommodation train running between Nashville, Tenn., and Pulaski, and has held the position since 1857. All this time he has never missed a trip; never been reprimanded, and has never been reported to the company. Captain Kidd is seventy-two years of age, but in activity is fully thirty years younger. Governor James H. Budd, of California, walks in his sleep. He has been a somnambulist since boyhood. Among his friends “the governor” is very free in relating the deeds he has done in his walks abroad. His eerie tendency has become a joke to him, but he doesn’t take chances on doing a somnambulistic turn at an inappropriate moment. •Mr. Gladstone at one time had a beautiful tenor voice and was much given to ballad singing. His favorite song was “My Pretty Jane,” though he was not the Christy minstrel style of sinning when Mrs. Gladstone would join in with him. Prince Bismarck has a curious superstition in connection with the number three. He has served three German Emperors, he has fought in three wars, he has signed three treaties of peace, he arranged the meeting of the three Emperors and established a triple alliance. Sir Alexander Mackenzie, presidentof the Roval Academy of Music, who received knighthood on New Year’s day, is thesixteenth musician whom the queen has knighted. The first was Sir Henry Bishop, in 1842. Col. Seward Cary, the Buffalo millionaire and amateur whip who bought the! coach Vivid, exhibited at the world’s fair, has arranged to run it between Buffalo and Niagara Falls next summer as a public coach. Alexandre Dumas says that he has outliyed the taste for most things that money can procure. The chief pleasure of bis life now is meditation, which he indulges by taking long walks in the forest of Marly. M. Dumas is now a white-haired old man, but vigorous. He lives with his invalid wife, at his country place, near Marly.

IN SOLEMN STATE.

Remains of Gov. Gray Viewed by ThousandsCivic and Military Bodlei, State Official* and the Legislature Join In the Bait Sad Rltr*. The body of Ex-Gov. Gray, late United States Millister to Mexico, reached Indianapolis, at 8 a. m., Thursday. The funeral train consisted of a baggage car and a Pullman sleeper. In the baggage car the remains of the minister were transported, the coffin being inclosed in a rude pine box. Mrs. Gray and son, Bayard, had traveled in the sleeper. Anticipating 1 large crowd at the' Union station and wishing to avoid it. Mrs. Gray and her son left the train at the Massachusetts avenue station, and, entering a carriage, were driven at once to the home of Pierro Gray, 661 North Pennsylvania street. At the Union station there was a large crowd. The train was at once Maken charge of by the Light Artillery and the customary ..z.uards...were. assigne.d...to positions. A tiring party had been stationed on a lot near the depot and a ministerial salute of seventeen guns was tired. The funeral train was without decorations, but the baggage car contained a large collection of the floral decorations that were placed upon the coffin in Mexico—all in a sadly withered condition. Undertaker Whitsett, in charge of the arrangements, experienced some difficulty in opening the box containing the coffin. When the body was exposed Mr. Whitsett concluded the coffin was unsuitable, and that the remains were in an unfit condition for the public gaze. He induced Captain Curtis to telephone to Governor

ISAAC P. GRAY.

Matthews to seo if ho would authorize tho changing of tbo body intoji cleaner and more modern coffin. In the meanwhile he took the-responsibility on himself of ordering Illsmen to prepare a coffin for the body. The body of the latv ex-Governor was not in good condition. The head was thrown back in an unnatural position and the face was so black as to be almost unrecognizable. Friends and acquaintances of Mr. Gray said they would not have known him. A coffin was brought down and the body was changed to it. It was a black, cloth covered, cedar wood coffin, with long bar handles of oxidized plate. It is known as a state coffin. The body was removed and ro-om-balmed in tho car in which it came. It was found that the first coffin was toe small, and to this fact was duo much oi the bad appearance of tho body. The new coffin was largo enough, and the body rested in an easy and natural position, with the head high. As the hour of 10 o’clock approached, the streets along the route of the procession became crowded with people. Col. Boss and aides with difficulty kept ths surging mass back from the vicinity of tho station. Immediately infrontof the main door of the Union Station stood tho funeral car. It was a tall hearse, with black plumes and draped with an American flag on top. As the first two pall bearers made their appearance in tho doorway with the coffin, covered with an American flag, between them, a band began to play. The police formed a single line reaching from curb to curb, and the procession moved east in Georgia to Meridian. north to Washington, west to tho State House. The Gray Club occupied the post of honor after the militia. Then followed the Hendricks Club. Then camo tho honorary pall-bearers? .They were Governor Claude Matthews, Judge Baker, District Attorney Frank Burke, Mayor Calebs. Denny, Senator A. W. Wishard, Representative Stakebake of Randolph, Representative Bobilya of Allen. They were followed by the hearse. By the side of tbo hearse walked tho actual pallbearers. Following tho hearse came tho Camp Gray Veterans. Camp Gray wa» preceded by a large flag, .Following Camp Gray camo tho State officers, including Supreme Court Judges, and immediately behind them camo the city and county officials, almost without exception. Thon camo tho Marlon Club, tho Columbia Club, Cleveland Cl ib, representatives of the German-American Club and citizens on foot. No carriages were permitted in .the procession. At the State House, as well as along tho route, elaborate decorations had been made. In the rotunda flowers and palms and sablo drapery covered tho dais, while from tho lofty walls and ceilings the black streamers and draped flags hung in profusion. The coffin was carried by the active pall-bearers between the lined-up troops, and down the living lane that wasformed by both branches of tho Legislature inside the building, to its resting place on a dais In tho rotunda. The ceremonial view by tho Legislature and State officials was then taken, immediately after which the general public were admitted. All day long and up to 9p. in. the people passed to view for the last time tho face of one whom thousands had delighted to honor. It was estimated that 5,0) people passed the coffin in the first hour. The ceremonies were in every way appropriate and.most impressive. At 7 a. m., Friday, tho remains were escorted to tho station, accompanied.by tho military and by the honorary pall bearers, representatives of tho House and Senate, State officers and Supremo Court, and placed, on a special train for Union City, where tho funeral took place and the interment was conducted with military honors.