Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 6, Ed. 1, Monday, December 29, 1884 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CHEYENNE TRANSPORTER.
1b the only Paper published within a
radius of a hundred milei.
Snbscriutloii. $l00Pcr Year. InAflyance.
Brand AdvertiiimenU $5 Par Year.
tarRatoa for Display Advertisement
mado known on application.
A NEW CREMATORY TEMPLE.
Tlio Corner-Stono Laid and tho Uiilldlni To
Ho Ready in February.
Thirty men and two women climbed.
the muddy slopes of Mount Olivet
Long Island yesterday to lay the corner-stone
of the new crematory temple.
The structure was already finished to
the ground level. The "pouring rain
drove the little crowd to the shelter of
tho nearest hotel where gentlemen
prominently connected with thee ter-
prise did what talking was necessary
before tho stone was laid. J. D. Bung-
less president of the United States
Cremation company symbolized the
work of blasting the rough stone from
tho quarries and hewing it into finish-
ed shape with the hard work and
faithful 'labor which had been neces-
sarr to establish the enterprise lie
gave a brief record of the work already
done and took a very hopeful outlook
for the future. In a year from now
he expected that tho crematory would
be taxed to its fullest resources. Mr.
Bengloss spoke of the economy and
heulihf ulncss of cremation as com-
pared with the expense and loathsome
danger of interment in the earth.
Prof. Felix Adler one of the direc-
tors in the new company spoke first
of the sanitary benefits of incineration.
Every time he went to the cemetery
ho said he was more and more im-
pressed with the loathsome unhealth-
fulncss and decay consequent upon
earth burial. It was productive of
disease and pestilence. Prof. Adler
thought that poetic imagery had much
to do with the tenacity with which
men clung to tho custom ot putting
their dead into the ground. Poets and
singers referred to the grave as an
abode of rest a bed of final repose a
place of shelter thus throwing a false
glamor over the hideous reality. Now-
adays he said an aesthetic sense re-
volted against earth burial. Our
bodies are the garments of intelligence
tho homes of the spirit and should not
be permitted to gradually putrefy.
Speaking of the expressed fear that
people might bo cremated when life
was in tho body he advised that an
autopsy be held before incineration to
satisfy doubting lawyers and physi-
cians. For his part he had rather die
under the knife than awaken under
ground.
Taking a moral view of cremation.
Prof. Adler thought it would be well
to have the ashes of departed ones be-
fore us in churches either in niches
along tmrwtfllsrofr hrn-rtscrptsiulo be-
hind the altar "to remind us of the
trusts wo have inherited from past
generations." Cremation would do
away with all the gloomy blackness of
the pall which now urrounds death.
Tho Rev. Dr. Howard Henderson of
Jorsoy City also spoke in favor of dis-
continuing earth burials and substi-
tuting incineration.
After tho speech-making tho crcma-
tionists went out into tho rain again
and put a parcel of papers into a lock
of marble taken from the old St. Nich-
olas hotel. It contained city news-
papers a certificate of incorporation
of tho society in English and German
a few coins a statement of finances
and a half-dozen pamphlets and pa-
pers in favor of urn burial.
With good luck tho company cxpoets
to cremate its first body next February
in the largest retort in America. It is
improved in many respects over the
Lg Moyno furnace in Pennsylvania.
Twenty dead bodies are now awaiting
its completion to be reduced to ashes.
Tho cost of cremation in each ense
will bo from $10 to $25. The cost of
tho building will be about $1900. The
land cost $2800.
The edifice is designed as a modified
Grecian temple of brick and marble
10 by 72 feet. The basement will con-
tain in the rear the furnace which
will be constructed chiefly of firebrick
and will be adapted to coko with a
regenerator. The incineratin cham-
bers will consist of retorts which will
exclude all fuel and llamc from con-
tact with the body and from which
tho volatile products of tho incinera-
tion will bo carried into tho furnace
for recombustion. Incineration will
take place at a temperature of about
2500 degrees Fahrenheit. It will re-
quire about forty minutes per hundred
pounds of the subject and will leave
about 4 per cent in weight of a pure
pearly ash. No smoke will bo visible
aud no odor perceptible during incin-
eration. The basement will also con-
tain a refrigidarium where bodies
may bo kept when desired awaiting
the arrival of friends from a distance;
also a calidarium for cases of possibly
suspended animation the high temper-
ature of which will induce speedy evi-
dences of life or death as the case
may be. There will be also in the
basement an ajdicularium or urn
room and an atelier. This last will
be used also for making autopsies
which will be required in all cases
wherein it is not clear that death is
not the result of natural causes.
Tho body of the building or the
ground floor will be fitted up as a
chapel where any service desired
may be held. In the central aisle of
this chapel directly in front of the
lectern will be a permanent cata-
falque within which the body will be
placed and hidden from view by a pall
falling from a frame aboyo. Thence
tho body will descend by an elevator
to the ineinerating-room and the ser-
vice and incineration will proceed
simultaneously. The office and re-
ception looms will be on the main
floor in front of the auditorium and
on either side of the vestibule. Ncio
York World.
Horace Greeley's Last Words.
There has been no time until now.
within the last twelve years when The
Tribune was not supposed to keep for
the benefit of the idle and incapable a
sort of federal employment agency
established to get places under the
government for those who were indis-
posed to work for a living.
Any man who had ever voted tho
republican ticket believed it was the
duty and tho privilege of the editor of
this paper to get him a place in the
custom-house. Every red-nosed poli-
tician who had cheated at the caucus
and fought at the polls looked to the
editor of The Tribune to secure his ap-
pointment as ganger or as army chap-
lain or as minister to France. Every
campaign orator came upon us after
tho battle was over for a recomenda-
tion as secretary of the treasury or the
loan of half a dollar.
If one of our party had an interest
pending at Washington the editor of
The Tribune was telegraphed in frantic
ha.sto to come to the capital save this
bill crush that one promote one ob-
ject or stop another. He was to be
everybody's friend with nothing to do
but take care of other folks' buisness
-ign papers write letters and ask fa-
vors for them and get no thanks for
either. Four-fifths of these people
were sent away without what they
wanted only to become straightway
abusive enemies. It was tho 'worry of
life to try to gratify one demand in a
dozen for the other lifth.
Tho man with two wooden legs con
gratulated himself that ho never
could bo troublo with cold feet. It is
a source of proud satisfaction to us
that office-seekers will keep aloof from
a defeated candidate who has not in-
fluence enough in Washington or Al-
bany to got a sweeper appointed un-
der thosergeant-at-arms or a deputy
sub-assistant clerk in tho paste-pot
section of the folding-room.
At last we shall bo lot alone amid
our own affairs and manago our own
nowspaper without being called asido
every half-hour to help lazy people
whom wo don't know and to spend
our strength to benefit people who
don't deserve assistance.
At last we shall keep our office clear
of blatherskitos and political beggars
and go about our daily work with the
satisfaction of knowing that not tho
most credulous of place hunters will
suspect us of having any .credit with
the appointing powers.
That is one of the results of Tues-
day's election for which wo are our-
selves profoundly grateful. Nciu York
Tribune Nov. 7 1872.
Fashions for the Dead.
Do you wish to look at a late
(i
styled one?" said an undertaker and
dealer in garments for tho dead yes-
torday to a gentleman who had called
in the interest of a late friend.
"What! do you have stylo in gravo-
clothes?" said tho patron in some as-
tonishment. "Why certainly" said the dealer.
"Here you see wo have broadcloth
suits for the young men and men of
middle age dressing gowns for old
men brown and black habits for ladies
and lawn shrouds for children. Here
is a downy pillow for the baby's head."
"Are these the most fashionable col-
ors?" "Yes you see we. have no plain
white. Dead white as it is called is
no longer in fashion. In its place we
now use cream and blue white or
pearle. Black and brown are much
used. Brown is growing into popular-
ity with the Catholics. We arc mak-
ing up some full dress suits but the
gowns are most popular for both sexes.
Brown and black are the only colors
used in making the gentlemen's habits.
Of course the shirts and collars are
made white and you see these are
usually set with a pearle stud. Cravats
are either white black or cream. The
shirt cravat colar and gown is all in
one piece and made open at the back.
Perhaps you do not know that when
the relatives of the dead buv a suit of
clothes at a clothing store and take it
to an undertaker the very first thing
he does is to cut open the back. This
is done in order to avoid the difficulty
of getting the sieves over the arms.
These habits you sec are fastened at
the back by means of strings."
In response to a question as to the
stvle of collins the dealer laid his hand
on a magnifieient specimen as he re-
marked: "Tho newest thing is the
Egyptian casket. It is made of solid
rosewood or mahogany and would
probably be sold at retail for about
$'i5C. It was designed T understand
by an architect. Its peculiarity is that
it does not resemble a coffin. There
is no bulge in the side and each of the
corners is ornamented with one of the
straight round columns found among
the ruins of ancient Egyptian struct-
ures. The carving all of which is
done bv hand is also characteristic of
the Egyptian architect. It is modest
and elegant throughout and it would
cost you a good deal to die in that
style. That cedar box over there goes
with it. Stylish undertakers have dis-
carded the white pine covers altogeth-
er. The Egyptian caskets are not
colored artificially as a rule but fin-
ished in the natural colois of the wood
though it can be ebonized. The coffm
shape for both collins and caskets is
being done away with after undisput-
ed use from time immemorial." New
York Mail and Express.
The Growth of Catholicism.
Bishop McQuaid in his sermon
WednedaylAi'oro the' Plenary Coun-
cil at Baltimore said that in 1743 the
number of Catholics amounted in
Maryland to 10000 souls in Pennsyl-
vania to 7000 aud in the other states
500. There were few or no churches
no Bishops and in the judgment of the
eighteen or twenty missionaries who
ministered to the spiritual wants of
those scattered members as expressed
in a letter addressed to Home there
was no need of a Bishop. A Cardinal
of tho Holy Roman Church Archbish-
op of New York; an apostolic delegate
13 other archbishops and co-adjutor
archbishops aud Gl bishops and vicars
apostolic now rule over God's church
in this glorious republic. About G83$
priests in 7753 churches and chapels
feed their flocks. In 70S seminaries
colleges and academies the higher ed-
ucation of the youth of both sexes is
carried forward. The orphans tho
aged and the abandoned are sheltered
in 294 asylums and the sick arc nursed
in 139 hospitals. The church has with-
in fifty years built and now sustains
2532 "Christian schools. During tho
3 car 1883 481834 pupils frequented
these schools. Springfield liepublican.
How to Make Good Milkers.
No matter what breed you have
something further is necessary in or-
der to repch the best success in raising
good milkers. Good blood whether
Shorthorn Jersey Devon Ayrshire
grade or native is not everything but
Res at the foundation; something can
not come from nothing. Treatment in
raising a milker should be somewhat
different from that in raising a beef
animal or an animal for labor. Bo-
gin as soon as the calf is a day old;
see that it has sufficient to eat and is
kindly treated and is regularly attend-
ed to. Never pamper or overfeed
but givo it good generous food to
cause a regular early and steady
growth. Accustom it to be handled
but not to such an extent as to acquire
objectionable habits as a cow but
rather be fond of the presence of tho
keeper. Kindness helps to create a
quiet disposition so important in a
dairy cow and this education must be-
gin when tho calf is young. Any
habits acquired when young arc apt to
cling to the cow when grown.
For a milker I would have the heifer
come in at two years old. She is then
old enough to become a cow. 1 would
not as a rule allow her to go farrow
but milk her up to within a few weeks
of calving even if I did obtain but
little at a milking. A cow thus trained
will give more milk and be more likely
to hold out long in milk if her after
care is judicious aud liberal as it
should be. Such treatment tends to
for in the habit of giving milk and as
we know habit is a sort of second na-
ture. Couple the heifer with an older
bull one two or three years older than
she is if preferable to a yearling and
better is like to come from such.
After the heifer has come in her feed
should be regular and liberal. Good
clover hay is the best of all but we all
may not have this for stall feed; then
we must make up for what is lacking
in some concentrated feed such as
oat meal shorts oil meal or the like
but great care and good judgment
must be used not to overfeed or crowd
as the future cow may be ruined. Un-
due forcing shortens the life of the
cow very rapidly. W. P. While in
Cineinnah Enquirer.
What an Old Farmer Says.
This is the advice of an old man
who has tilled the soil for forty years:
"I am an old man upwards of three
score years during two score of which
1 have been a tiller of tho soil. 1 can
not say that I am now but 1 have
been rich and have all that I need do
not owe a dollar have given my chil-
dren a good education and when I
am called away will leave enough to
keep the wolf from the door. My ex-
perience has taught me that:
"One acre of land well prepared
and well cultivated produced .more
than two which received only tho
same amount of labor used on one.
"One cow horse mule sheep or hog
well fed is more profitable than two
kept on the same amount necessary to
keep one well.
Ono acre of clover or grass is worth
more than two of cotton where no
clover or grass is raised.
"No farmei who buys oats corn or
wheat fodder and hay as a rule for
ten years can keep the sheriff away
from his door in the end.
"The farmer who never reads tho
papers sneers at book farming and
improvements always has a leaky
roof poor stock broken down fences
and complains of 'bad seasons.'
"The farmer who is above his busi-
ness and intrusts it to another to man-
ago soon has no business to attend
to."
Pavements made of brick impreg-
nated at a high temperature with
asphalt aro found more durable for
wear than granite or compressed
asphalt. By driving out tho air and
water tho bricks take up fifteen or
twenty per cent of bitumen; they aro
then put ondways on a concreto bed
with hot tar.
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Maffet, Geo. W. Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 6, Ed. 1, Monday, December 29, 1884, newspaper, December 29, 1884; Darlington, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc70597/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.