The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-02-26
CREMATION COMBINED

DR.. Le Moyne's Neighbors Threat
On his Furnace-Bufnlng Bur
lesqued.
WASHINGTON, Pa, Feb. 17.-The
IN this vicinity over the
extraordinary proceedings attending
the cremation Of Mrs. Pitman IS still
undated. Among the good people
Of Washington Mr.. Pitman is regard
ed As stole Of the most remOrseles
kind, one who is deaf to all human
sympathies and unmoved by human
affection. The details Of the funeral
in Cincinnati are certainly not calcu-
lated to diminish this feeling. Among
the poems read was one containing
the lines.
Let no stern priest with solemn drone
Hrs formal liturgy tnt"he.
Whose creed Is foreign to my own!
LIT no stale words Of church born song
Float on, upon the silent air.
To prove by implirsticn wrong
The soul IL her then lying there
Why should su-h words ~ giibly sung
Ger one whose lively tongue
Such empty phrases never hung
Among the orthodox residents Of
Washington such language is regard
ell as little better than blasphemous.
Mr.. Pitman's eulogy on his wife. that
she could not have accomplished what
she did had she been a woman who
wore corsets or high-heeled shoes. to-
gether with his light hearted comen-
tary on her personal habits. is also
condemned as an exhibition Of unseemly
levity. The doctor and his furnace
are hourly growing in dis:av"r. and
threats Of blowing up the "Le Moyne
tone-roas.ing establishment is 1t Is
called, are widely circulated.
The popular feeling against the ere
majors eliminated some time since in
the production Of bur!esque on the
De Palm obsequies. entitled 1.-THE
Roasted Baron or The Washington
Cremators." The play was produced
at Cannonsbnrg, near here. under the
superintendence of James Wolfe. the
man who fed the fires on the occasion
of the burning of the Baron's body.
Wolfe is an original genius. and his
p!av gave evidence Of decided dra.
matte talent. The frst act represent
ed the Theosophic ceremonies in New
York, HierOphont Olcott in the ca
pacity Of Grand Panjandrum. The
second act pictured midnight in the
crematory. Two newspaper CORE.
spondents were Offering the devoted
fireman 500 to shove the corpse in
twelve hours beforehand and thu,
give q beat" to their respective pa
pers. The offer was sPurned with
contempt. after which the fireman,
who is something OF a ventriloquist,
amused his auditors by making tho
corpse call for "more Ere" "and 9
slass Of water" The third act pre-
sented the interior of the crematory
on the day of the burning. Hero
ptnont Olcott, in mystic garb. was il
act Of glancing through the peephole
and announcing from time to time.
One eve out !! One leg gone" &c
Sudde MY the bogus retort cracked
and the dummy" corpse exploded
with q terrific noise, filing the room
with smoke and scattering the Assem-
bled Theosophs in all directions. Ii
the fourth act public meeting in tn,
town hall of Washington, in which
the Presidents of various colleges, eel
entific men, &C., participated, was IN
mercifully ridiculed. The actors il
the play and the greater portion o
he audience were from Washington
and the performance was received viii
unstinted laughter and applause. S
great was the success Of the "Roastet
Baron" that it had a run Of severa
nights.
The rapidity with which Mrs. PIT
man was burned Is attributed to tn
fact that her body was embalmed witt
arsenide of soda. The period consum
ed in the incineration was twenty min
utes less than in the case Of Baron D
Palm, the gain in time being ascribe'
to the superior freshness Of the bod
as compared with the tough and Dire
up carcass Of the Baron.
Among the Improvements whic
the Doctor intends introducing i
. his furnace before he makes . 6na
test of it, efficacy, in person. is an n
pliance for the gradual reduction q
the heat. The idea is to allow the =.
tort to cool without being cracked
At the same time sufficiently hig
temperature is to be kept up to n
duce the bones literally to ashes, an
not leave them in the slack-baked COZ
dition Of the Barons.
Pictures Of Mormon Life.
, Ann Eliza Young was recently j
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