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1t Has Been Adopted in Many of the
Swiss CantOns.
From the Boston Transcript.
There is at least one country in the world
where 1t costs nothing to die. In some of
the cantons of Switzerland all the dead,
rich as well as poor, are buried at public
expense. Collins and all other necessary
articles are furnished on application to
certain undertakers designated by the gov
eminent. Everything connected with the
interment is absolutely gratuitous includ-
Ing the grave and the religious service
All classes avail themselves freely of the
law
Appropriations are made for the medical
inspection of the body, for advertising the
funeral, for the coffin and dressing of the
corpse, for the funeral procession and
Eearse, for opening and closing the grave
and for putting up and numbering the head
board. Furthermore, the grave must be or
namented by growing plants i'll a modest
way at the expense of the community, but
the bereaved family has the privilege of
adding to such decorations. A special law
provides for the payment of subsidies by
the cantcnal government to the communal
ties in cases of epidemic.
In the canton of Glarus strangers as well
as citizens are buried at the expense of the
state. The grave, too, must be kept in
proper condition for a term of ten years
The cemetery is the property of the COM
superintendent, who arrangeS for and con-
ducts funerals, keeps a register of the
graves. which are numbered consecutive
ly. and sees that they are properly marked
and kept in order. The collins are to be
made of pine wood, and after a model pre-
scribed by the authorities, who establish a
uniform price for them. The graves follow
each other in regular order, according to
date of burial, IN uniform rows, and the
dead are all laid side by side, without dis
tinction as to standing in life or religious
belief. Children, however, on account of
the smaller size of their graves, are buried
apart from the adults. In case religious
services are dispensed with by request,
bells are tolled in the customary fashion
and the recorder of life statistics reads at
the grave the personal record of the de-
funct Officials and employees at burials are
forbidden to receive gratuites. Wherever
free burial has been introduced in Switzer-
land the principle has been adopted that,
inasmuch as death makes all men equal
there ought to be no distinction in the in
terments of the departed. 1t is assumed
that all citizens. high or low, rich or poor,
will avail themselves of the provisions of
the enactment, and that all funerals shall
be equally plain and transformations.
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HOUSE AT MANSFIELD.

am optimist rather than a pessinlist.
and l never lost faith in our ability to
pay our debts. When I became Secretary
of the Treasury / believed the debt could
be reduced, ard that our rate of interest
could be lessened, though 1 had no idea
now quickly and how easily the latter
could be done. When l became Secretary of
the Treasury We had about seven hundred
millions of redeemable and per cent
bonds outstanding. and there a con-
tract existing between a syndicate of
bankers in this country and Europe for the
sale of three hundred millions of bonds at
4! per cent. These bonds We're to be sold
for refunding purposes, and about $40, 00O,-
HD worth had Ieen sold before / became
Secretary. l thought this could be reduced,
and | wrote a letter to the Rothschilds
shortly after / became Secretary tellng
them | proposed to withdraw these bonds
as soon-as their sale reached $500, 600 600, as
| expected to put a per cent bond on the
market. AT this time there didn't seem to
be mucfr of a demand for the az per cents.
They were below par in Europe, and only
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Brander Matthew's in the Century Of
August, 1887, says: THE genesis of both
words and music is obscure and involved
The raw facts of historical criticsm-names,
places and dates-are deficient. The mar
tial hymn has been called a spontaneous
generation of the uprising of the north,
self-made song, which sang itself into
being of its OWE accord" Mr.. Matthews
must intend to be satirical, for that kind
Of temper is disclosed by what he adds:
If one may fully rely on Maj. Bosbyshell
the song was put together by a
quartet of men in the second battalion
(Tigers9, Massachusetts, command quar-
tered at Fort Warren, Boston harbor, in
April, 1861, just at the .time when My
Maryland was getting itself sung at the
SOUTH" The writer of an article for the
Century might have bestirred himself
in the interest of his readers sufficient to
get at the facts fairly.
John Browns Body" was written by
Charles S. Hall of CharlestoWn Mass.
The melody was a negro tune sung In
South Carolina and Georgia at the re-
ligious meetings of the slaves to the words,
Say, brothers, will you meet me?" We
find note in the .Franklin Square Song
Collection, No 6, in which it is stated that
on the evening of a John Brown meeting
in Faneuil Hail. Boston, just after the ex-
ecution, "a crowd of boys paraded the
streets of Boston, singing to a familiar air
monotonous lament, of which the burden
was Tell John Andrew, John Brown
dead!' When the flag at Sumter was fired
at some memory of this street song seems
to have survived, and to have combined
with, Say. brothers, will you meet me?"
melody which Thane Miller heard in
colored church in Charleston, S. c., about
1852 and which he soon after introduced
at convention Of the Y. NJ. c. A. at AL
bany.
James E. Greenleaf. organist of the Har-
ward Church in Charlestown, Mass, it is
said. fitted this air to the first stanza of the
present song, which became SO great ia
vorite with the Boston Light Infantry in
1861 that additional verses were written
for it by Charles S. Hall. The time of the
original air was modified to a march, and
1t became the song of the hour. 1t was
the regiment of Col. Fletcher Webster
which first adopted it as a marching song.
The soldiers of this regiment sang it as
they marched down Broadway, New York,
July q. 1861, on their way to the front.
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
piedmont A,r Line.)
Schedule in effect May 10. 1895.
All trains arrive and leave at PENNSYLVANIA
PASSENGER Station,

All trains arrive and leave at PENNSYLVANIA
Passenger Station.
500 A.M.-Daily-Local for DanviIle. Connects at
Manassas for Strasburg, daily, except Sunday and
at Lynchburg with the Norfolk and Western daily
and with c. & o. daily for Natural Bridge and
Clifton Forge.
Ills A.M.-Daily-The UNITED STATES FAST
MAI. carries Pullman Buffet Sleepers New York
rotte with Pullman Sleeper for Augusta; also Pull.
man Sleeper New York Montgomery with con.
nection for New Orleans; connects at Atlanta with
Pullman Sleeper for birmingham. Memphis and st.
Louis.
4:0l P.M.-LocaI for strasburg. daily, except Sun.
day.
1913 PM.-Daily WASHINGTON AND SOUTH.
WESTERN VESrIBULED LIMITED composed OF
Pullman Vestibuled Sl"epers and Dining Cars, Pull
Sleepers Washington to Chattanooga, via Sails
phis via Birmingham, New York to New Orleans via
Atlanta and Montgome-y, and New York to Tampa
via Charlotte, Columbia and Jaeksonye, Day
- TRAINS BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND ROUND
PM and 1889 pm. daily. except Sunday. and e:sS
pm. Sundays only. for Round Hil and 4:32 Pm.
daily except Sunday for Leesburg; 6:25 Pm. daily
for nernion. Rsturning arrive at Washington $40
cept Sunday from Round Hill, S.34 AN. daily ex-
cept Sunday from Leesburg and 7.06 AN. daily.
except Sunday, from Herndon only.
Through trains from the south arrive at Washing
ton 6:i2 AM, 2:2O Pm. and $50 Pm. daily.
Manassas Division. 9:45 AM. daily except Sunday,
and $40 AN. daily from Charlottesville.
furnished at Offices, Bill and 1900 Pennsylvania
nue.. and at Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta
W. n. GREEN, General Superintendent.
J. NJ CUIP. Traffic Manager.
W. A. TURK, General Passenger Agent.
my2O L. S. Brown. Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept.
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them they are employed as bellows, for
Keeping bright the fires in the little char
coal furnaces, on top Of which they do
cooking. Some of their contrivances are
very primitive. From the base Of the leaf
of the century plant they make a stiff
brush for scrubhing dishes and collars and
cuffs in the wash. Their corn is reaped
usually by means of a small curved sickle.
because it is planted in rocky places the
mountain sides, where it can only be got
at in tits way. Such corn fields cannot be
ploughed; all cultivation must be done with
the ce. Rough pebbles, such as may be
picked up anywhere, are utilized for the
greatest variety Of purposes. When a
piece of meat is tough, the housewife
The customary way of opening oysters is
to pound them with a rock on the hinge
until they fall apart. This is a good sug-
gestion for picnic parties lacking skill or a
suitable knife: the method described is
surprisingly effective.
A Primitive People.
The natives of the region explored by DR..
Palmer are of the ordinary type of mongrel
Mexicans; that is, Indians with a dash of
fo reign blood They are fairly civilized,
living in matched cottages of sticks and
mud. Such dwelling may be built for s..
But these people are as much attached to
their homes If the latter were palaces.
They ele out a scanty subsistence by
primitive methods of agriculture. having
few needs. Corn cakes, called "tortillas,
and beans are an ever-Satisfying diet, and
the thermometer seldom goes below sixty
degrees in winter. The inhabitants are
hospitabe, and, if a housewife has two
.oorn cakes for supper, she will give one of
them to the first tramp who begs. Oddly
enough, that country Is one of the worst
in the world for trampS. Wherever they
come from, they allege that they are citl-
zens of the United States, and they give
great annoyance to our consuls by IN
ceSsant demands for money and free trans
portaton. They seem to think that they
have a right to be carried anywhere they
please without paying.
DR.. Palmar'S base of operations was Aca-
pulco, an important seaport on the west
coast. Mexican troops were assembled In
that neighborhood during the recent trou-
hle with Guatemala over the boundary
question. The town has a population of
5000 and is said to possess the most
tEickly settled graveyard in the world. The
people die much faster than they are born,
but the number of citizens is kept up by the
country people, who, as in the United
States, are continually deserving their
farms. The streets are too narrow for cars
or even for carriages. There are only three
carts in Acapulco, everything being carried
by human beings their backs DR.. Pal
ner saw thirty men engaged in moving a
safe.
The steamship Coima met her fate while
on her way to San Francisco from Acapul-
co, which is coaling and watering station
for the Pacific Mall Company. The dis
aster that befell her had long been antici-
pated, owing to the practice that prevailed
freight, particularly lumber. In fact, the
accident was predicted in all its dreadful
details by many persons years ago.
RENE BACHE.
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Sfberia's Dignity Advanced.

From the London Daily News.
Siberia has advanced to the dignity of
supporting a concert tour. The fact would
have been considered astounding by the
last generation. to whom Siberia was a
snow-covered waste, across which prisoners
in chains were driven. In many parts Of
Siberia, however, there are now prosperous
settlements, and even towns and cities anx-
fous to cultivate the arts. The well-known
German flautist, Adolph Terschak, who has
just finished successful journey, is, we
believe, the first leading performer who has
ever undertaken Siberian tour but he
has already visited Ormsk, Irkutsk, Tomsk
Krasnogarsk. kurgan, Tobolsk and other
towns. with results entirely satisfactory to
himself The hint should not be lost upon
many foreign artists who have little chance
in overcrowded London this year.
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His ability Is beyond question and he would
be acceptable to the republican party. His
locality is against him, however. There Is
Mckinley. He Is an able man and will
make good candidate He will, 1 believe,
have the support of Ohio, and 1 would like
to see him nominated. Going further west
we find Senator Allison. He is a sound
man and has good record He would
make good candidate and a good Presi-
dent. / think the situation Is such that
there is little doubt of our electing a Presi-
dent. and that republican will take his
seat in the White House in 1897
What will be the issueS?"
'"rhey will be the tariff and the financial
question. The democrats have SO tempered
with the tariff that they cannot raise
enough revenue to pay the governments
expenses and this will have to be remedied
The silver question will come up in some
shape or other. and this may divide the
democrat party. l don't believe that it
will greatly injure the republican party"
How Resumption Came.
"You We're Secretary of the Treasury.
Senator Sherman, under President Hayes
at the time Of resumption, and you were
author of the resumption act. Did you not
md 1t easier to resume than you thought"
"Yes. suppose So" replied Senator Sher-
man. Il have always had faith in the bust
pess ability of the American people
have always believed In their honesty.
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United States 1t is a position of wear and
tear, and it should have younger man.
These were the words OF Senator John
Sherman as we sat together in little sum-
mer house just back of his Ohio home. and
feasted oUr eyes on one of the most beau
tiful farming scenes of the United States.
/ had asked the Senator point blank the
question rs to whether he woull again be
candidate. Tie above was his reply. 1t
came from his lips in firm, sharp and de-
c!sive tones. and 1 could from the OK
preston of his face that his.presiden tial
ambitious have passed forever.
After making the above remark he stop
ped n moment in seeming meditation, and
then went on.
Yes. the presidency has always been
position of great wear and tear 1t has
broken down many men in the past. 1t
will probably do the same in the future.
And still / ioG't see why it should be so.
I have a different idea of the presidency
than that which has been held by many
of our Presidents. l believe that the chief
executive should be a man of leisure rath-
err than an official hack He should have
time to consider and study the great mat
ters of public policy connected with his
office, and he should not worry himself
over details. These should be left to his
suhord1na5es. His cabinet ministers should
relieve him frcm all that drudgery. They
should be his assistants in the carrying
out of his policy He should rely upon
them to do their work and he should not
devote hrs time and brain to examining
the papers of petty postmasters, or of the
tide-waiters- at every small custom house.
He should rely upon his cabinet ministers
to carry out his policy. If they do not like
his policy. and will not accept 1t, let him
discharge them and take others. But he
has no right to fritter away his vital force
on clerical details"
How Abraham Lincoln Ruled.
what Presidents have appreciated this
fact, Senator" said /. land have saved
themselves for the great questions with
which they had TO deal?'
Senator Sherman thought a moment, and
then replied: abraham Lincoln, I think,
did so more than any Of the others. He
chose great men for his cabinet officers,
and he trusted them. He left each man to
do his own work, and he often laughed at
the members of his cabinet on account of
the fuss they made about their trouble
with Office seekers and their details of Off
cial management Lincoln's mind was
taken up with the great things of the war.
He had only one idea, and that was to
save the Union. This was the idea that
dominated the country and the whole
north during his presidency. 1t overshad
owed everything else and it absorbed him.
As for Cleveland, he is a busybody. and he
must know everything"
"Who will be the republican candidate for
the presidency, SENATOR" I asked.
II cannot say. ! have learned not to
prophesy much as to the future. 1 can see
no further into a milestone than any other
man. What you ask as to the past l will
be glad to answer. but not as to the fu-
ture 1 can only say that We do not lack
good candidates. There is Reed of Maine.
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ally rises early, and by o'clock is at work
with his stenographer He finds a great
deal of his present work has to be done
with his own hand, and he told me he
found the writing very easy. but that the
work of research and of getting ready to
write was very great
sherman's Fight With COnl>linE.
Senator Sherman" said, tell me, have
you at any time in your career tried to get
out of public life and back to private life?"
NO." replied Senator Sherman, 'I don't
know that I have. I have always enjoyed
being in the thick of things. and having a
part in the carrying on of our government
There was only once that came near going
out of public life 1t was when I was Sec
rotary of the Treasury, under President
Hayes. There was trouble about the Gus
tom house at New York. 1t had been badly
managed for years. and President Hayes
had decided to make change. Chester A
Arthur had been collector of the port for
six years, and A. B. Cornell was the naval
officer of the New York custom house. A
commission had been appointed to examine
into the management of the custom house,
and upon the basis of their reports Presi-
dent Hayes decided to make a change.
He did make it. and I sent a letter to
Mr. Arthur requesting him to resign. He
declined to do SO, and Roscoe Conkling
gave him and Cornell to understand that
il they held on to their positions he Conk-
ling had such an influence in the Senate
at Washington that President Hayes ap-
pointees could not be confirmed. The Pres
ident appointed Roosevelt and Prince to
take their places but through the influence
of Conkling these names were rejected by
the Senate. After the adjournment of that
session. however, President Hayes suspend
ed Arthur and Cornell and appointed Mer-
rift as collector and Burt as naval officer
When the Senate again met, and these
names came up for confirmation. Senator
Conkling was again on hand, and it looked
for Q time though they would be re-
jected. l made personal matter of 1t. I
Went to the Senators, many Of whom had
been associated with in the past. and APP
pealed to them to sustain the President.
told them that / would resign from my
cabinet position and go into private life If
they allowed Conk,ing to prevail In this
matter. I said would have nothing to do
with government that gave the President
TIE appointing power, and in this under
handed way prevented him from using It.
At this time firmly intended to have Car
FED out my resolutions. and had Conkling
succeeded l would have become a private
citizen He did not succeed however, and
that struggle as to the New York custom
house was the beginning of the trouble
which afterward eliminated through Gut
teau in the assassination of Garfield, and
which retired Conkiirg and Platt from the
United States Senate"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY.
Schedule in effect July /, 1895.

Trains leave daily from Union Station B. and
Through the grandest scenery in America. with
the handsomest and most complete solid train
ice west from Washington.
2:25 PM. DAILY;-.Cincpn.t and St; Louis
trIc-iighted. Steam heated Train rullman's finest
indianapolis and St. Louis without change. Dining
Car from Washington, 90 Arrive Cincinnati, 500
pm: St. Louis, e:45 pm. Lexington. s:3s am:
lilo I'M. DATLY;-The famous ~. F; y Linn
tied A solid vestibuled train. with dining
Louisville, without change: Pullman Sleeper WASH
inrton to Virginia Hot Springs. without change.
week days. Observation car from Hinton. Arrive
Cincinnati $50 pm: Lexington, 500 p Louis
Vile $40 D. m; indianapolis, II :05 pm; Chicago.
1880 IN, and St: Louis 1880 am: connects in
IoS7 An, EXCEPT SUNDAY.-For Oh Point
cmnfort and Norfolk. Only rail line.
IDS PM. pAHY..E1press for Gordonsyille.
Charlottesville, Waynesboro, Staunton and prfnci-
pai Virginia points. daily; for Richmond daily. ex-
Ruliman locations and tickets at company's Of
Aces bI3 and 142l Pennsylvania avenue
"e'' " H. W. FULLER,
,nhl General Passenger Agent.
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Senator Sherman mt Home.

During my stay with the Senator I spent
some time in his library, and asked him
some questions as to bis habits of work.
have known him for years. and he Is one
Of the most methodical public men I have
ever met. He never wastes time, and dur
ing the whole of his life he has been saw
ing the intellectual PENNIES. He has four
great wcrkshops-two here and two at
Washington. At the top of this Mansfield
house there Is room, perhaps thirty feet
long. which is lined with shelves, and which
is filled with congressional documents and
scrap books. Here he goes when he wishes
to get away from every one else. and here
he has written many speech. He has a
similar workshop in his new house in
Washington. and his library there is of the
same character as the one here. Down
stairs in his Washington home he has a
fire library filed with well-bcund books
and containing all the classics. He has a
similar library on the ground floor Of his
home here at Mansfield, and 1t Is in this
that he is now working among his papers.
This Mansfield library contains, perhaps.
ten thousand volumes. Its walls are COW
cred with books and there is no great au-
thor who has not a place upon its shelves.
One section is devoted to biography, an
There arc books In French and books in
German, and the works of Huxley and
Darwin are as we'll thumbed as those Of
Dickens and Thackeray. This Senator's
desk is in the center of the room. 1t was
covered with papers this morning when
called, and on the floor there were about
fifty volumes of Congressional Records
and number of scrap books. Just back
of the Senator's seat 1 saw a great, open
vault, which had been cut into the wall
and which was 50 large that Jumbo could
have turned about inside of it. This is for
the keeping of the Senator's papers; it is
fire proof as well as burglar proof. A lit
tie white dog with black ears was sitting
in an armchair on the other side of the
Senator, end during our conversation he
broke out again and again into a vocifer-
Gus bark, ntil the Senator at last picked
him up and carried him out Of the room.
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Aboriginal Bon Mot.
From the Detroit Tribune.

From the Detroit Tribune.
1t being warm evening. the chief Pow
hatan removed his collar before proceeding
to the execution of Mr.. John Smith.
Nov will you be good?" he murdered,
waving his meat cleaver aIoft.
Papa" observed Pocahontas. leaving the
royal box and stepping TO the front of the
stage, please don't ak him.
At that the doomed man broke into a
loud laugh, in which the gallery occupied
by persons who never read the newspapers
heartily joined.
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mer, explorer for the
National Museum,
has just returned to
Washington from a
region strange to sci
erce. At all events,
the territory referred
to, in southern Mex
leo, near the boun-
Diary Of Guatemala,
has been until now
almost a terra in
cognita to botanists,
and the whole of 1t
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-, l AM Noi =
candidate for the
presidency, and if all
the people of the
United States Should
join together and Of
fer it to me, 1 would
not accept the posi-
ton. l am too old. No
man OF seventy-two
has the right 20 IN
dertake the work
ard responsibility
which come TO the
chief executive of the