The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-06-28
put handscme somhssone up. with . lcs of machine poetry stuck on is as,


 Then yoar grief begins anew. Loud weeping and cries of "too true, too uue.r Your heart once more begins 10 bleed. and your pccket-eook to tremble. But you can't resist. That tombs,one goes up your grief is renewed, and your family of small, but orphaned children, cry for tenderloin steak and iced.,ea in vain, while you are trying once more to become solvent. Bu, you never do. The iron fence man comes along and com yinces you that you arc a brute to le, your darling ones sleep in the cold ground without . fence around them 10 keep the deseua,ing fee: of,he unfeeling stranger from ,rampling over their earthly beds. This ie,ches you, and an non fence is put up, while you begin to won derif dead people really do care son ,inen.al whether they have pa;en, lock on an iron gate, with fence 10 match, around theiT graves at cost of $500. You then become mote cheerful. and re- signed 10 your fate, until the seller of graveyard ornaments comes along. Co., pious tears and some laughter This fellow shows you how futile will be all of your hopes for sweet rest, if you permit neglect to longer mark ,he sleeping place of your innocent. helpless, loved ones You are, by this time, arrived a, pom, in your grief when you cease to reason about starving the living to rig up ,he dead. You arc now past the period when you can consider that |, IS inhuman cruelty. bolssered up by pride inherited from the heaihens and from the bar barians. to thus waste money on the earth under which lie the remains of those whose only influence on the living is 10 manufacture new diseases, and new bangs, and more misery. You pu. these facts behind you. remember that old Stuckuphead put all those things on his late lamented wife's grave, and you re- solve 10 do or die. You tell the decorator 10 go and fix the place up. and bring you l the bill. lie does II, and adds a few i extra ornaments. 10 make up for your ] hesi,anoy. The bill is paid. The livlng 1 have 10 sell iheir old home and move. Yoa sigh for your suffering. dependen, ones-agd then another grave IS added. and the daisies are growing over you. ] Cremation ls the remedy for all .his heathenish waste of money and idio,ic lavish Of pride. Applause
 Then the convenience. Ion can pui the ashes Tn new bottle, with ,he name age, and inscription blown into ,he bottle and then the amusement |, would afford the children, when the family was away to take those bottles of aikal,ed relatives and uncork them, and mix the ashes Tn their innocent play. And how you could mediate on the commotion tha, would be caused among the ashes of he deiune, family on that side-ia6le when 14oriei ]. horn sounds the boots ana spurs call How those ashes will stir around trying to gather themselves and get 10 roli-eail in tune. One man will ge, wrong foot and shin-bone, and go of with limp another will, in the rush of ;he occasion grab up the ashes of an arm belonging to one of ,hc female members of the family, and go oil looking ike paraly. ,ic then your dear old mo,her.in law, the bes, old lady ,ha; ever you saw immense applause and deafening cheers will grab he skull of your old pirate grandfather and pu, I, on wrong side first. and hur- riedly f; on leg oi your tales, uncle and go hobolng Lp to the assembled throng of the universe making spec. ,acie of herself, ,ha; will make you feel a ,hrli of Joy through the endless cycles oi eternity. Cp.oanous spp.ause and cheers.
 Yes. my friends, cremation $ the ,h,ng needful. want 10 have the funeral notices read Friends and aoquain- ,ances of Mrs. John smith, aln, of the distinguished Ike Phllkins, are invited 10 attend the funeral. Fire lighted 4 5p. m., sharp. Ashes bottled, corked and sealed a, l:5o" Then you can get a bottle with blown label 10 match, cork and wax thrown in. Total cost: Gre mating. sso, including bottle, fuel, eio. carriages, 5, one hour-and-a-haH. : D This will be the COS, of swell cremation funeral, against :, ,ooo for the sane on the old plan. Amen. Pro,onse sed cheers clapping of hands. and cries of E. 80 on, rut him out,