The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-05-05
CREMATION IN CAIRO.
SHALL WE SU BST1TUTE BURN
ING FOR BURY1NG2
HOW DEAD PEOPLE MAY BE
UTILIZED.
ODE MoRrUIs, NOT EVEN BoNEs.'

Cremation In Cairo would DO a great
convenience 10 the living, and could hot
be objected to, with any show of reason,
by our doad. a funeral hero Is an expcn.
sive luxury. Our principal cemetery is
twelve miles distant from tho city the
corpse and mourning relatives and weep
ing and laughing friends must DO trans
ported to It by the Illinois Central rail-
road company, thought in itself obnox-
'ous to true anti.monopoli.ts and honest
grangers. 1t IL woll-known fact
that railroads perform no work
for tho public without recon-
pense and 1t is therefore UNI
necessary TO say, tina. the Illinois Central,
asa common carrier, charge. common
rates for carrying to their last resting
place, upon the hill at Villa Ridge the
common and uncommon dead .ot Cairo.
The death tax is heavy, aud with diff
Guilty is borne by those who are so unior-
.unatc as TO survive friends in this city,
While the present system of the dis
po'al Of the dead Is maintained tie peo-
pie { CAIRO must continue to suffer tho
expense and Inconvenience now attending
the funerals Of the dosd. The periodical
| overflow of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers, will not allow US to locate q come-
| terry nearer than Mounds Junction. What,
then, are we 90 do g.? the thoughtful
Cairoite will agree with US ,hA, cremation
is our emily remedy for the burial evils
under which we grosn. We cannot have
cemetery in Cairo, but we
can have cremation house in
which we may all he resolved into smoke
and ashes. l, might DO located some
where on Commercial or Washington
avenue. We would have no hesitation
in selling THE BULLETIN building for the
purpose. The printing business is Dull,
and low prices and good work cannot
wean our business mon from pa,roni2ing
foreign printing houses. Its one Of their
Weaknesses, and il has had disastrous
eiiec: on the printing business Of thi. city
We are consequently ready to sell our es-
Enlistment for cremation purposes, and
for a reasonable stipend will accept in it
the position c: "stoker, proni,ing TO de-
vote all our time and attention 10 the |
business of keeping the iires constantly !
hot. Or, still better; We might utilize |
eur ga. work.. BY allowing the Gsnilo
Gerould to use our bodies sitor death our
friends who survive us might obtain cheap |
light All tia. would be necessary would |
be few retor,i large enough 10 receive the |
collins. In this way by the utilization Of |
our co:psos, Mr.. Gsrould might |
with gas at marc song, and thus taxes
might he reduced. We know re have |
gas enough in asto furnish two or three
lamps at least a year, and We are not I'M
willing to be thus utilized. Wa have no
to shine after death. And we
are sare our friend Davis Of the Sun
could have no objections to being gssi.sd
for lighting purposes. Much ligh, could
no. be obtained out Of his brains, bu.
there are portions of his body tina. might
be made brilliant after death, in a street
lamp. Being dead and cremstei at the
gas house, we might be used in the lamp
near TIE BULLETIN Office to give lightto
eur survivors. IA they passed in and
ont in thu NIGHT time wa wopld hurn
brighter As our friends would look up AT
vs. and say ; "Bless you, John, how light
you arc to-h'gh' Gu IN your hshes
live your wonted fires ~
,.u,.o,,o,,a horo o..,;
by AL means 'e' Us nave cremation IN
Cairo and IL we shall, then NAV MANY
swain. r,zing =, Tim chtnn.v
of tho gas house, repeat this beautiful
e'esS
DE mortuis not even bones.
weep" 90 10y WV "'"' ~
The chimney stack, through which my 1--we
has flown,
re sacred nov with nh ncrnr,r,I Gre,
Her ashes, sIrouicd in Ills I"II L mr." "re
Are All that's LEFT of dead Ioy,'s fonL 40.