Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1882-06-29
world and the flesh, they have sown
the wind and will reap the whirlwind.
Bozor.
Tb3 CrematOrium at MILAN.

the wind and will reap the whlrlwind.
-Harper's Bazar.
Tba Cremat0rium at Milan.
A Description Of the Method of Inciner-
alton Employed There.
The crematorium stands. at the far
end of the grounds, building not
large nor high, but, with its crescent.
shaped open atrialm of white marble,
sufficiently handsome and imposing.
On the frieze is this inscription
"7smpio Crematorio per volonta del
alberto Keller croft donate ALA cata
al Mslono. On the wall facing the
entrance is handsome medallion OF
Albert Keller, who was duly cremated
IN the temple of his own providing
Many portions of the wall are marked
off in small tablets inscribed with the
names of the persons whose bodies
have undergone cremation, and whose
ashes, in many cases repose in an urn
or small vessel in a niche behind the
tablet. Ashes they are not, properly
speaking. I was shown about g couple
Of handfuls of white bleached bone,
in bits not larger than ones finger
all that remain ed, as I learned, after
the cremation of the body of man
some ten stone in weight.
Other spaces have been appropriated
by the intending cremators, and have
the word "Assegnato" inscribed on
them. Through small door you pass
from the atrium into what may de.
scribe as the operating room, in the
middle of which stands the enclosed
furnace, looking much like al en-
larged edition of the family laundry
copper. The fire is kindled at the
back of the furnace, and when at the
proper moment released by the up
lifting of iron shutters, comes roaring
through two large ori6ces, and quick.
ly fills the whole of the space where
lies the prey. The body-I caaauero,
as the attendant called it, seeming to
take great delight in repeating the
words-dressed in light linen or
woolen shroud, or other costume, is
taken from the shell In which it has
been brought, and laid on marble
slab, thence transferred to a large
iron tray, which is borne to the mouth
Of the furnace and laid on frame,
which by the action of winch, ia
wound into the interior with it's bur-
den. The iron door is then closed,
the shutters, as described above, are
raised, and the furnace, to use an
American expression, is literally in
full blast. At the end of two hours
the operation is complete, aid all that
there remains of what was once
man, full of "blood, bones, marrow
passion, feeling" are
1.-TWO handfuls of white dust shut in an
urn Of brass".
The system at present in use is
that of Paolo Gprini; it takes, as l
have said, two hours and the con.
sumption of 800 kilogrammes Of wood
and 25 kilogrammes of charcoal. The
cost of everything, including the
mural tablet. is "a francs. A new
method, known as the Systeme Venni,
under which the incineration will be
effected by Fmmedi7 - -
about to ) teaz
Just complsted-and is no doubt ~
in operation. Under this aystem the
whole affair will be completed in fifty
minutes.
In this place, which was perfectly
sweet, clean and wholesome, without
the faintest trace of anything calcu-
lated to offend the sense OF sight or
smell. there are eighteen or twenty
cases of cremation every month. They
are, the attendant tod me, decidedly
on the increase, and we're the cholera
scare again to appear, he had no doubt,
from what he had heard, that the
practice would have large numbers of
adherents. Already bodies for crema.
ton are cent from distant parts of
Italy, and on the next day one was
expected from Paris. And, indeed,
when I thought Of all the horrors o.
our ordinary "buryings," I could not
wonder at the desire TO be quit of
them, no matter at what amount o!
trouble or expense.-London World.
Old age Seeking Relief.
HARTFORD KY, March "a. 85.
DR.. John NJ. johnson:
Dear Old Friend-Puffs similar TO
the enclosed Rev. ] Jessie H. Campbell's.
1.-TWO More Important Cases") occur
almost weekly in our paper in relation