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10- A TTTF, OMAHA SUNDAY" BLK: MARCH 2, 1913. Burial Practices of Many Nations, Ancient and Modern Among the numerous globe-trotter who make Omaha their abiding plaee there are but a few who have brought back with them a descriptive record Of the many wonderful thing they have seen. One of the few Is Ralph W. Uroeken--Idge. who, upon hli return, put Into book form the "t.ettors of n Glrdler to Ills Son.'" To the lovers f books of .ravel the letters make a stronjr appeal. Turning to almost any page In the book the reader will find something worth while. Chapter IV rotates to India and c-ntnlns much Interesting matter deirrlp tlvo of the Hindu. That portion of It touching upon the burial customs of Un people is highly enteNatrlng. Hero I" a paragraph: "Wo were taken to a Hindu cemetery where we saw two cremations going; on, rno was of n young child, the other that of a man. The turning glials ure ,)f Iron and hold fifteen to twenty ttlrks of wool. In about the middle of wlllch the dead body Is placed. I sew the head of tho corpse and Mr. W. saw a foot burning. "The interesting thing about the Par sees !s the way In which they dispose of telr dead. On tho very top of Malabar hill In the center of a beautiful gnrden, are tho Towers of Silence, where every .lerti Pardee Is brought If on'o dies in the evening his body Is taken to the Towers the next morning; If ho dies early In tho day ho Is carried there nt 6 In the afternoon. After a religious service of some sort, white-robed ptfets take tho body up the stairway Into one of tho Tawors, which are circular and open at top. Here thnro Is n slanting platform In w i!eh there are grooves, nnd at about the middle of the platform Is the aoorturo of a well forty feet deep On the outer rim of the plal'crrn Is the groove for the bodies of men, next to which Is the groovh for the bodies of women, the Inner gs-oovo being for those of children. The naked bodies are left In these groove's nnd soon become food for the vultures, which strip the carcasses to the bones In a short time. Tho bones are left there to blench In tlva hot sun, when they are swept Into the pit or woll and aro dis solved by chemicals. On our way to Agra we saw hundreds of graves, If mich they can be called, constating of bamboo stretchrd on poles raised eight or ten fect from the ground, whore the bodies aro placed to be Htrtpped by car rion birds. Disposal of Dcnd. "Harbarlc as these customs arc, the peoplo of tropica.!' and f cml-troplcal climes must find somo method of dis posing of the dead other than Interment, which Is a more dangerous method than in temperate climes. Tho rich people of India build permanent tombs, but these aro comparatively few. One of tho famous tombs of tho world Is at Agra. It was built by tho tyrant Shah Jchan to commemorate his wife. Taj Mabal Is the name of tho structure, which contains the bodies of both king nnd queen. It Is said to have cost 130, 000.000. Mr. Iireckcnrldge saysi "The building Is of white 'marble, In square, with dome In center and a minaret at ach corner. It Is a vision, u dream; It looks as ethereal as the clouds. It has stood thero since IMS and shows no mark of the tooth of time. It Is the most beautiful and artistic architectural crea tion In all the Vorld. I am much Impressed by the, fact that the supremely Interesting place that we have visited arc the monuments of tho dead tho Abbey, Napoleon's tomb, the Pyramids, the Taj Mabal." The burial custom of the natives of the Island of Luzon, P. I Is largely that of permanent, above-ground cntombmdnt. Thero aro largo stone and brick struc tures containing tiers of spaces In the walls, one above the other, In which the bodies aro deposited and hermetically sealed. In old Mexico a similar custom prevails. John L. Stoddard, In one ot lis lectures, gives this graphic descrlp--ion: Planted In PltrennholeM. "We reached a hollow square entirely open to the sky. The walls surrounding i, which have a thickness ot eight feet, were honeycombed with pigeonholes llko letter boxes In a postofflce. In these re ceptacles tho ' dead of Guanajuato are left, as books are placed on shelves, one Her above another, and when a spaCe Is (Hied with a coffin, the opening is closed with a marble slab that serves not only for a door, but also for a tombstone. Some of these- pigeonholes are bought outright for 100, but the greater number are merely rented for ftvo years. AVhen the time csplres, the bones aro taken out, and the space Is swept and garnished for the next comer, like a berth In a sleeping car, " 'What becomes of tho "evicted ten aula? I Inquired. " 'Look thero and see," was .the reply. I turned, and saw two well-nigh, naked, grave diggers tossing Up skulls nnd bones from a trench In the enclosure. 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Name Street City 8Ute twenty steps and entered-a long corri dor. There was a general exclamation of nstonlshment. Before hawas a crypt about twenty feet, in hlrht fthd 10) feet In length. For canturlQS'ft hnii served as tho receptacle of bones discarded' from the court above, till alrpost ,the entire space In now filled to the ,roof with skulls, legs, arms, 'ribs, hlpjolnts and shouldcrblades heaped up -from floor .to celling, llko corn cousin a granary. More over, In tho Immediate foreground, thirty or forty mummlrB havA 'beeh planed up right against the wall' and ' look llkt ghastly sentinels guarding tho chaotic mats of their companions." From the "Catholic World" the follow Ing paragraphs are ' taken: "Along th coast of the Quit of "Mexico, and about New Orleans In particular, the ,boII Is low-lying and subject .to Inundation. In? humatlon, or Interment beloW the surfao of the Ground, Is practically out of the question. 'Bum them;- destroy them by fire,' say tho zealous advocates of crema tion. But the people of ffewOrleans turn a deaf ear. They will havi none of this expedient, which' they consider an offense to reverent ntul tender, sentiment. Inhumation of bodies, It Is .said, Is liable to be Injurious to the health of those liv ing near the placo of interment. But even this does not make necessarily for Cremation, against which thero, are objec tions of a doubly serious character-". The Campo Santo at the Basilica of St. Lawrence outside the. . walls of "Rome one of the most perfect of Its kind In existence, furnished ample ac commodations for entombment. Rev. Charles R. Treat, who has studied the rhatter moct exhaustive))-, has tho fol lowing remarks to mske; Best or Methods. "Batter than any other method ot dl posing ot tho dead that has ever be . devliied. entombment has met the domaiul qt affection, Thero may have been at times a general adoption of cremation: at times it general prevalence of earth burial: but the one has not long natlsrtKi the sorrowing survivors, and .the , other lift owed Its beginning and continuant to the apparent absence of alternative. Wherever the living have been nblo mid the dead have, bebn deafly loved or 'ilghtv esteemed, the tendency to entomb Hid not to' bury has been constantly mani fested. To osll attontlon to this tendency Is enough to prove it, so easily accesto'e l the ovtdence and so familiar is U1 operation in tho human heart. Te maUMoleum, tomb of Mausolus, jrectvi by his sorrowing queen, Artcmls'a. it llaltcarnassus, upon the Aegean's easio '.- bore, became at once one of the le v great wonders of the ancient world. This was Intended to do honor to the loved and Illustrious dead; and this It did, a no grave or pyre could do. This wi also intended to protect the lifeless form from ruthless robbery and reckless pro fanation, and It performed this office i well that for nearly S.COO years no taman eye beheld the mortal part ot Mauolu. "At a far earlier Wmo Abraham, tw Father of the Faithful, whlli he IHuj trated this tendency to entomb .the dciu, also offered an Influential example to nil who would do him reverence, as. In the hour of his greatest sorrow, ho sought tho seclusion and security of Machpelah's cave for the last resting place of Ills beloved wife. There he buried Sarah; there he and Ills son's son and their wives wero (CI) laid to rest, and the place of their repose has not been violated ven at this distant day." In the Dnyn of Abraham. Among the ancient Israelites burial In rocks or In stone buildings or caves was the rale. In Isaiah, 22:16 the prophet says to Shebna: "What hast thou here, and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here in rook.?" This indicates plainly that the cuntoni at that time was to deposit the dead In family tepulchres which consisted of caves howti In rocks. In n number of In stances mention Is also mado In the Bible of special buildings timed as mauso leums, 08 In I. Samuel, 15:1 and- 23:3; I. Kings, 2:34; Chronicles, 33:20. In Talmudlo times, tho custom -of -n-tombment In rocks, caves nnd mauso leums was still In common voguo. Tho Hcbr.Io phrnso often usC" for the clos ing of a grave Is "Hothani hagolcl," Which meuns "He closed tho top-stone." From this It mny readily be Inferred that tho gravo Itself was mado of stones, one of which was used for the entrance and put In placo after tho coffin or corpse had been deposited. Another Illustration of the H'nd nnd character of tho tombs used In Ta'.mudlc times may be found In the Mlshnah, whero Rnbbl Simon ben Famallol sayB, In determining how thick the walls .of n gravo should be: "It all Depends . upon tho (hurdness) of rock." Tho Talmud also speaks o'f . two types Of graves In general use, "Keboroth," built graves, and "Koehln," dug or hewn Braves', tho latter being vaults or crypts which. Tram tho description given of them (Moed. Katon, 8b) were constructed very much Hlmllar to tho mausoleum vaults of today. Shown by Records. That this mode of burial was by ho means tho exception can be gathered from the discoveries and descriptions fof modern scholars, such as Wilde, who was tho first to carry on wide Investigations: Van de Velde, Return, Luncz and others. who havo found nny number of graves of this variety in Palestine and Baby lonia. Luncz knows of no less than 300 such tombs, besides tho more famous ones of David, Hyrcanus, JannaeUs, Herod, the various other kings and queens, the prophets 'and the patriarchs. Nor was tho rock-entombment confined only to the Biblical and Taliliudlcal pe riods. Numerous Investigations of the last century by Boslo, GarruccI, Do Ro?sl, Mnrruccl Nlcolaus. Mueller, Ascoll and Lenorniaut, brought to light the fact that wherover tho Jews went, and to a late date, they adopted this mode of burial. Jewish catacombs built out of rock nnd containing many crypts or niches havo been discovered In the various parts of Italy, on the Island of Sicily, In Africa and Egypt. Cnu Be Made Snnltnrj That entombment can bo made sani tary Is evident from the fact that, In countless Instances, In many lands and through long periods of time. It has been made sanitary by the Ingenuity of man or by unassisted nature; and It Is also evident from the fact that decomposi tion and disease germs are the dangers to be guarded against and that against these modern science has been able to guard. ' In some eastern nnd middle states there Is a distinctive movement In support of permanent entombment, many commun ities having erected buildings of stono 'nnd marble, containing hundreds of crypts, which are available to the well-to-do, as well as to 'men of moderate means. There are more than thirty such structures In Iowa cemeteries. EATON (8l LAIER CO. 415-17 South Sixteenth Street Dead Capitalist Insane When He Turned On Gas DBS MOINES. March 1. That Thomas F. Flynn, tho Des Moines capitalist, who was found dead in the bathroom of his apartments yesterday morning was "tem porarily insane" when he turned on 'the Ban and ended his- life, was the official statement of Coroner James F. Lee, handed to the Associated Press todajr. No inquest will be held. 1 "After a thorough Investigation 1 find," sold Coroner Lee, "that Mr. Flynn had been acting strangely for several days. He had been lying on his bed reading. My conclusion Is that he was temporarily insane when he walked into tho bathroom, closed the door and turned on tho gas." DAYTON SENDS REGRETS - OVER LOSS AT THE FIRE New Temple Ready The Chamber of Commerce of Dayton, C., has telegraphed Its regrets to tin Omaha Commercial club at 'the loV of life In the Dewey hotel fire. "Kindly accept Dayton's sympathy cn account of awful hotel flro of Friday. Deeply regret loss of life," read the teie gram. which was signed by Fred W". Fanshor, secretary of the Dayton Cham bci of Commerce. Editor Fry, Charged WithC riminal Libel, Refuses to Give Bond WAGNER, S. D., March 1. (Special Tel egram.) Ed. A. Fry enltor of tho New Era-Leader, was served with a bench war rant today to appear before Judgu Tripp on a charge of criminal libel. It Is the outgrowth of an editorial January 10 re flecting upon tne conduct of Justice El lison G. Smith of the supreme court In a land transaction In Knox county, Ne braska, with an old hermit named Louts Sttltner. Fry; refuses to give bond and will go to jail unless the sheriff can otherwlso arrange It with the etatc's at torney, who has been obliged to get con sent from Pierre before deciding. 77" FOB RANCHMAN SAYS HE WAS MIKED IN DENVER PUEBLO, Colo., March . Jacob Harder, a wealthy ranchman of Ritzvllle, Wash., explained to the police at 2 o'clock this morning that he had been fleeced out of $25,000 In Denver by three men ho met at Los Angeles a week ago. The alleged swindle, he said, had been worked by means of supposed bets on a mythical horse race , The Persistent and Judicious Use of Newspaper . Advertising -Is the Road to Business Success. HH GRIP&CGIDS . 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