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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-06-27
st. Paul Pioneer-Press
DOMESTICS IN A UNION.
sixty Thousand of Them in Chicago to
Form q Labor Oryanizatin


Form O Labor Organization.
Sixty thousand domcstics employed In
the homes of Chicago are ready to join
union which it is said may develop
into the strongest labor organization On
earth should the housemaids in other
cities join the movement. Delegates 10
the Chicago Federation of Labor who at
tended the meeting We're astOunded when
Sophia Becker Of the Shoe-Stitchers
Union made the announcement that thoi'
sands OF servant girls in Chicago were
already members of bona-fide labor or
gnnization. When she announced that
abolition Of domestic slavery" WAS the
slogan OF the women. and that tens Of
thousands Of servant girls in Chicago
were eager to enter the field of industrial
warfare, men in the hall cheered. Miss
Becker. who is delegate to the Chicago
Federation OF Labor and prominent in
lnion circles. grew eloquent as she pic
tured the wrongs and indignities heaped
upon domestics. and declared that "the
time had come for the girls TO throw of
the yoke of slavery and fight for privi-
leges enjoyed by other women
Regular days VI duty and wages not
below a stipulated figure will be demand
ed by the union. Permission TO receive
company and light rooms will also be re
luired 1t is said domestics are at pres
ent assigned to dark rooms or in some
out of -the-way corner where there Il
neither light nor ventilation. and the first
effort of the organization will be TO REM
pdy this,
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TROUBLE AT OPEN GRAVE.
Outspoken Declarations of Preacher
Arouse Anger of Relatives.

Outspoken Declarations of Preacher
Arouse Anger of Relatives.
4 scene was created at the grave dur
ing the funeral services Of the little son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. William Hancock. OF
X komo Ind. who have been divorced
for some time. The child had been liv-
ing with its grandfather. Rev. George
Edward Walk. pastor OF Harrison Street
Christian Church OF that city. was the
officiating minister, and while the last
words Of the ceremony Were being said
over the grave Otto Jackson, brother
OF Mrs Hancock. took Rev. Walk to
task for the sermon he had preached
He demanded that Mr.. Walk retract GER
tain statements made i'll his sermon. The
text Of the discourse was as follows:
Wv aen my father and mother fOrsake me.
my Lord will take me up" Mr.. Walk
in lis sermon vigorously denounced di-
voree. He disclaimed any personal ap-
plicution of the sermon. but Jackson still
insisted and friends interfered 10 prevent
trouble To a newspaper reporter after
wari Mr. Walk said: Il am tired OF in
disc animate laudations AZ funerals and
thins the truth should be spoken at all
times y"
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FOREIGN,

Young King Alfonso of Spain attended
his first bull fight.
British defeated the troops of the Mad
Mullah in several engagements.
King Edward will follow his mother
example and pay an income tax.
The Czarina of Russia has given birth
to daughter. The child will be named
Anastasia.
Five hundred native Christians Were
murdered 10y Coreans on the Island OF
Quelpaert.
Statue of Bismarck was unveiled in
Berlin in front of the Reichstas in the
presence of the Emperor.
Hans Wagner Of the Tageblatt staff
WAS mortally wounded by another jour
nalist in duel near Berlin.
While the Crown Prince Frederick
William was ON his way from Minden to
Bonn Il drunken individual approached
his carriage at Bochum. Westphalia. and
aimed blow with a stick AT the window
at which the crown prince was seated.
The phenomenally cold weather has
the worst effect on crops everywhere in
Europe. and especially in France, where
the wheat crop has been ruined. Hence
the importation Of the American com
modify will be a record one. Two French
firms alone are credited with having al
ready ordered more than the entire I'M
portafion from the United States in the
wear 1900
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IN GENERAL.

Government officials see the first move
in a general war 10y Europe against
American tariff in the action of Russia
in imposing retaliatOry and higher duties
on resin and bicycles imported from this
country. and Of Italy in advancing rates
on plows.
honors of being the fastest vessel of its
class with the Illinois, which now holds
the record. In trial remarkable speed
was shown. the big fighting machine
making 1876 knots an hour for two hours
under forced draft.
1t is almost certain that the fishing
schooner White Wing. Captain John
Johnson. owned by the Icy Strait Pack
ing Company. has gone TO the bottom
with the crew Of thirty somewhere be-
tween the north end OF Vancouver Island
and Moreshy Island.
Herbert W. Bowen succeeds Minister
I.Oomis in Venezuela. the latter being
sent TO Portugal. Lloyd c. Griscom.
charge d'affaires at ConstantinOple. is
made minister 10 Persia, and is succeed
ed by Spencer Eddy OF the Paris lega-
ton. who in turn is succeeded by Arthur
B. Blanchard.
John l.. Sheppard of Toronto. Ont.
who was arrested for non-support of his
wife. showed that he had secured di-
vorce in the United States and held that
he was under no obligation to support
her. Judge MacDouglass held otherwise.
giving Judgment to the effect that Amer
lean divorces shall not be valid i'll Can
ada.
Capt 4. s. Rowan. who gained fame
just before the Spanish war by making
a trip through Cuba to Gen. Garcia and
gaining valuable information for Gen.
Miles. is in trouble. While in command
of company OF the Eighteenth infantry
in the island of BOhol. he burned a town
because native of the place had assas-
sinated one of his cOrporalS. The vii
layers became angered and renewed the
insurrection in that vicinity. ROwan's
act is now the subject OF military in.
luiry.
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Carnegie is planning to erect q monu
ment to Blaine in Pittsburg.
Chocolate factory OF Runkel Brothers
In New York, was burned, the loss being
100000
John Christie is said to have died from
a beating received in Bellevue hospital
New York.
Annie Vietz of East Walpole, Mass.
shot and seriously wounded A. Z.
Blanchard and killed herself
Third trial Of DIR. 8. ]. Kennedy for
the murder Of Dolly" Reynolds ended
in disagreement at New York.
John ID. Rockefeller has given $780,
to Cornell University. Mr.. Rockefeller $
act is a great surprise to Comedians.
Nearly 500 chests Of tea have been
stolen from a storehouse in Williamsburg.
n. Y, but most Of them were recovered.
Henry L. Lineweaver, aged ", was
suffocated to death while attempting to
escape from a burning building in Balti-
more.
Fire in the lumber yard OF the G. w.
Leatherbee Company, on Albany street.
Boston, caused loss estimated st about
$4,000.
William Beresford. son of the late
Lord Decies Of England, and Miss Flor
ence Miller, daughter Of Dr.. Gardiner L.
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CHAIN GANG FOR A TEACHER.
South Carolina Educator Found Guilty
of Whianinu Girl Punll

South Carolina Educator Found Guilty
of Whipping Girl Pupil.
Ike Hughes. the principal OF a large
school in Laurens County. South Caro-
lima. aged ~ years. and who has been
teaching in State schools for about ff-
teen years, was tried the other day for
whipping young pupil. Miss Bertha
Winch. aged Ii years. This was about
six weeks ago. Miss Bertha said she
was quite familiar with the contents of
nll books she was set TO study and would
not attend school The master was
angry and got supply OF heavy
switches. He sent for his refractory pu-
pill. when he proceeded literally TO wear
them out on her person. He Wore them
to the handles and they were shown In
evidence In court. Miss Bertha. after
spending month in bed. came as a wit
ness. She could not show the stripes put
upon her. but her mother told about
them and about how her daughter $
clothes had been torn and disarranged.
A lawyer argued FOR the teacher, but the
jury found hI1 guilty in one minute.
He was sentenced TO n month on the
chain gang and has appealed.
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DIR. Mills had not returned when the
end came. The only person in the room
at the time was Hazen s. Pingree. Jr..
who had been constantly at his fathers
bedside and had not removed his clothes
for four days. At IL: 30 he noticed an
apparent change in his fathers condition
and drawing closer soon observed that
the heart had ceased to do its work.
Death had come silently and without spe-
cial warning. The once vigorous and az
gressiye American passed away peace
fully and without word to friend or
foe.
Upon the death of his father II. $.
Pingree. Jr., cabled at once TO his moth
er and uncle. who were about to sail from
New York, not to do 50. The body will
be embalmed and sent to Detroit.
DIR. Mills. in speaking OF the ccndi,
ton of his distinguished patient shortly
before his death. said: 1T seems too bad
that the serious nature OF his ailment
was not discovered earlier. He ought
never to have been allowed to travel on
the continent. Mr.. Pingree is receivin.
every care and is making a gallant fight
but the liberation OF the stomach is only
one symptom OF the complicated disease
which it seems impossible to check"
business ani Political Career.
Hazen $. Pingree was born at Den
mark. Me-. Aug. so. 1910. He spent the
first fourteen years Of his life on hi
fathers farm. He then went 10 WORK
in a cotton factory at Saoo. Me. He
afterward learned his trade as shoe
cutter at factory in HOpkintOn. Mass
When the Civil War broke out Mr.. Pin
gree enlisted in the First Massachusetts
Heavy Artillery. He served from Aug
/, 1862, till August. 1865. During 1861
he was for FIVE months prisoner OF WAY
After the war he went to Detroit. He
worked at his trade in a shoe factory III
that place until 1866, when, with II
Smith, he established a very small shoe
factory of his own. The partnership
was eminently successful and the factory
developed into the largest shoe manufac'
turing business in the West.
Mr.. Pingree was Mayor Of Detroit foui
times. serving in that capacity from ISIS!
to 1896. During the mayoralty he attain
cd prominence by his successful project
of securing vacant lots for the cultivation
Of potato patches for the poor. and also
by his fights against street railway and
other combinations. He compelled the
Detroit street railways to reduce fares
to cents.
He was elected Governor of Michigan
In 1896 and was reelected in 1888. Al
the end Of his term he retired to private
Iifa
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Rrief Ne~a Itema.

Bob Saunders killed Pat McQuery near
Checotah, l. I.
Charles Clark, young farmer. was
killed by train near ST. Francis. Ark.
Coal has been discovered on the farm
of 4. G. Mcclure, near Aurora Springs.
Mo.
Germany has acquired a cOaling sta
ton on the Farsan Island for the China
transport service.
Charges made in the British House OF
Commons that the government has been
grossly defrauded by agents in purchas-
ing mules and horses are TO be inVesti-
gated.
Lulu Scott, who escaped from the Mis-
souri, Industrial School, was recaptured
at Chillicothe. Mo- She had blondined
her hair and worked eight days in Geo.
Pollard's hotel.
Young w. Smith. a farmer. living near
Warren's Bend. Texas, lost both his eyes
and his right arm by the explosion Of Il
stick Of dyna2lite which he was about 10
throw into creek to kill hSh.
A New York soldier says Maj. Rocke-
Teller, who was taken prisoner by Fill
pinos, went mad and died, in the early
part OF the war.
George Foster. who acted rs Presi-
dent McKinley's body guard on his west
ern tour. is seriously Ill with pneumonia.
contracted on the trip.
IL. s. Johnson. ST. Louis. cut his throat
on a crowded passenger ear. in New Mex
leo. Women tainted and soldier WAS
driven crazy by the sight.
A Vienna message says that. on account
IF the large increase in Roman Catholic
citizens. resulting from the annexation OF
the Philippines and Cuba. the Pope Is
lesirous OF an American envoy ut Rome.
Louis Meyers, moonshiner. who is said
to have killed seven persons. includln;
two federal marshals. has been captured
in Kentucky. \ reward of S2.1n WAS
offered for his arrest.
Sculptor T. W. Bartlett. Paris. Who
vii! design the Lafayette statue. 10 he
presented 10 France by the school chli-
iren of America. has arrived At WASH
iugton To work on the. figure.
Rev. Il. Hartcourt Of Peoples Church.
Reading Pa, Sunday. presented ii
gold piece TO each child brought to him
for baptism. Fifteen were baptized. and
the money was deposited in bank.
where It will draw interest until the chill
dren areR age.
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MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago-Cattle. common 10 prime.
$500 70 $6.1O: hogs, shipping grades.
$500 to $500: sheep. fair 10 choice. $500
to $4.25; wheat, No. = red. 6Sc to &C:
corn. No. 2, Ale to I2c: oats, No. =. nc
to 2Sc: rye. No. .. He 10 4Ic: butter.
choice creamery. 1Sc 10 19c: eggs. fresh-
0c to 1Oc; potatoes. new, 9Oc to $l.Oo per
bushel.
lndianapolis-Cattl shipping. $500 10
So 90; hogs. choice light, $4.OO to S5.9o'
sheep, common to prime. $500 to $3.2o:
wheat. No. =, 61c to GSc; corn, No. =
white. 42c TO 43c; oats. No. = white
29c TO 3Oc.
St. Lopis-Cattle. S32l to s6.1O; hogs.
$500 to $6O3; sheep, $500 to S4.OO-
wheat. No. >. Use To 69c: corn. No. -
4Oc to Ale; oats. No. 2, PC 10 2Sc; rye.
No. >. 4Ic to 4Sc.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to S5.2o: hogs
$500 to 5000: stecp. $500 to $500:
wheat, No. =. toe to IOc; corn, No.
mixed, 42c to 43c: oats. No. . mixed. 229c
to SOC; rye. No. ., 56e to bIc-
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50: hogs
$500 to $595; sheep. $3.50 to $4.25:
wheat. No. 2, 72c to 73c: corn. No. =
yellow. 42c 10 43c; oats. No. white
29c TO 30c: rye, 55c to 56c.
Toledo-Wheat. No. 2 mixed. G9c I"
zoe: corn, No. . mixed, 4:c 10 Abe; oats.
No. = mixed, pc to 2Sc: rye. No. :, Ole
10 .2c; clover seed. prime, $500.
MiIwaukee-Wheat. No. northern.
G9c 10 zoe; corn, No. 3, 4Oc TO 4lc: oats
No 2 white. 2Sc TO 29c; rye. No. !. i9c
To soc; barley. No. >. o5c TO o6c; pork.
mess. $14.S0.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers
$500 TO $500; hogs. fair 20 prime. S3Vc'
to $615: sheep. fair to choice, S3-oo I"
Si.25; lambs. common TO extra. $i-5O to
$500.
New York-Cattle, $3I5 to S5.S5; hogs.
So. 90 to $6.40: sheep, $500 10 $40.
wheat. No. . red. 75c to IGc; corn. No. =.
47c to 4Sc: oats. No. :! white, &c to 33c.
butter. creamery. lSc to l9e; eggs. west
ern, 12c to 13c.
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Telerraphic Brevitics.

ProspectOrs claim TO have discovered 4
rich bed Of asphalt near Texarkana. Ark.
William Furr's safe. Tacopota, Miss,
was blown open by thieves. They secur-
ed S4OO.
Thirty tribes of Indians will be repre-
scented at the Elks' carnival. Tacoma.
Wash. in August.
An Ohio grower has already succeeded
in growing hickory nuts with shells So
thin that they can be broken by the hand.
Harry Graham. 10-year-old son OF the
late song writer. was arrested in New
York for singing his fathers songs in the
street.
Standard Oil Company is experiment.
ing with 10000 barrels of Texas oil, to
determine the value of it for illuminating
purposes.
Mathinus Vessels PretOrius, first presi-
dent of the Boer republic. in South AZ
rica. died nj Potchefstrcom, after two
days Illness.
Rev. Dickic. pastor of the American
Chu,rh in Berlin. has secured $45.OOO In
the United States To be used i'll buildin s
a new American church.
May Hosmer. leading lady in stock
companies for number Of years. and
George Russ Fiske. nephew OF Har-
risen Grey Fiske. We're married June IL.
Charles and Fred Dietloff were fatally
injured by an explosion at the Latin &
Rand powder works, Mountain View,
y. J.
Tacoma. Wash. police had hot fight
with II wild man who escaped from 4
museum there. He snapped the chains
OF his handouts and licked three men
before the posse subdued him.
4 majority of the students At Berea
College. Kentucky. are mountain girls
who until their arrival there had little OI
no opportunity to learn modern culinary
methods Education in this branch is be-
ing carefully impaired under the supervis
ion Of an expert graduate OF Pratt 1nsti
tuts, Brooklyn. .na.
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Miller Of Providence, R. l., were mar

Miller Of Providence, r. l., were mar
ried recently.
Rev. Thomas F. Kennedy, D. D.. OF
Overlook, Pa, has been appointed rec
tor Of the American College in Rome by
the Pope
Would-be train Wreckers gave "knock-
out drops" to a Reading Railway opera
tor at block signal station, but were
frustrated
The death is announced of ]. ID. Bar
bour. head OF the firm of Barbour n
y. j.. and ireland.
Three clerks charged with the theft of
$1,000 worth Of jewelry from the branch
ONCE Of the Adams Express Compar:
at 44th street and Madison avenue. New
York. were arrested.
In Syracuse, n. Y, a fve-story brick
building owned and occupied by Alder
man George Freeman was completely
gutted by fire. The loss On stock and
building is estimated at $4,000.
The bursting Of huge five-ton hywheei
in the Edison Electric Light works. at
So Duane street. New York. fatally i'll
Jured Harry kraemer, an oiler, anu
caused panic in the neighborhood.
Elizabeth Owens, l6 years old. reprov-
ed BY her mother at Msyheld, Pa. Sc
cured paris green and coming into th,
room where the mother and some neigh
bore were talking. swallowed fatal
draught. Her death resulted.
Louis Aldrich. best known in My
Partner" aud for some years since his
retirement from stage life president OF
the Actors Fund OF America, died at
the home Of his son-in-law. Abbot
Graves in Kennebunkport, Me.
A NJ Townsend, agent in New York
of the Hongkong and Shanghai corpora
tion, received cable message saying
that the 25O.OOO Mexican dollars stolen
from the company OH May "a at Sinsa-
pore had been recovered in CeylOn.
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home and prevent her father from whip
ping her. When Jessup arrived at Ad'
ans house and demonstrated with him,
Adams drew revolver and shot the
dentist through the breast.
The battleship Oregon had narrow
escape from serious damage if not from
complete destruction at San Francisco
All hands Were nj work transferring am
munition TO lighters. preparatory 10 the
ship going 10 Bremertun. Wash. for
docking. when one of the big l3-inch
shells fell from the deck into the bottom
of one of the lighters. The men who
dropped the shell held their breaths, as
they expected the huge projecliie 10 eN-
plode when it hit the lighter. but nothing
happened.
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born to the throne This is the fourth
tine the hopes OF Russia's royal couple.
as well as those Of the entire nation. FOR
male heir TO the throne have been
da shed.
The children of the Car and Czarina.
with their time OF birth. are as follows:
The Grand Duchess Olga, born in 1898:
Grand Duchess Tatiana. born in 1897;
Grand Duchess Marie. born June. 1899,
AMI the daughter born June IS, 1901.
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FIREWORKS EXPLOSION.
Terrible Fatality at Paterson, New
Jersey.

Terrible Fatality at Paterson, New
jersey.
Fourteen persons are believed to have
been Killed and number injured in fire
following an explosion among quantity
Of fireworks In the store OF Abraham N.
kittenburg, At Paterson, n. J. The store
was on the ground fisor Of Pa four story
frame tenement building. The cause OF
the explosion Is not known. The property
loss will not exceed SIS, 900
The explosion occurred shortly after
noon and many Of the occupants Of the
building were at dinner. There were sew
eral stores on the ground floor OF the
building. The middle store was occupied
by Rittenburg. Ten families occupied
flats in the building. So great was the
force OF the explosion that boy playing
In the street a half block away was lifted
from his feet and hurled against an iron
fence. number Of those who were on
he upper floors OF the building when the
explosion took place were either stunned
and then burned to death or found escape
cut OF and were suffOcated. After the
first explosion there was succession OF
smaller ones, and then came q second big
explosion which was muffied and deadened
and probably occurred in the cellar.
Every window seemed to be emitting
fame within minute after the first ex-
plOSiOn,
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with the Philippines. Until then the
question was. Does the constitution fol-
low the fag:' II the Republican ma
jority says not. then there will be day
of reckoning at the polls"
He favors independent government for
the Philippines. As to the ship subsidy
bill. he said it would come up again. but
that it will be met by conservative Re
publicans aud by the Democratic min
ority. He predicts that the Babcock tar
if bill will never be reported 10 the
Ways and Means Committee.
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MRS. M'KiNLEY MUCH BETTER.
DIR. Johnston Believes President',
Wife Out of Danger.

DIS. Johnston and Rixey held a con-
sult.t .tioh at the White House Tuesday
foreaoon, at the conclusion of which DIR.
Johr on pronounced Mrs. Mckinley ont
of danger and convalescing. He said
ther. u.ay, of course, be n recurrence of
her trouble. but for the present the
dan.er is past DIR. Johnston said that
the blood infection had disappeared Ell
tirelS.
DIR. Rixey, although evidently cnrour-
aged 10y the improvement III Mrs. Me
Kiniey's condition. was somewhat more
conservative in his statement than Dr.
Johusten He thought il scarcely safe
to say that she was entirely out of dan
ger. Al her extreme weakness might pre-
cipitate relapse. hut her condition was
quite satisfactory. her improvement be
ing steady anl seemingly certain of con
tinusYce.
1t I. expected that President ana Mrs.
Mckinley will be able 10 leave shortly
for Canton.
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OHIO'S WEEKLY OLIO.
BRIEF COMPILATION OF LATE
STATE NEWS.

An Interesting Summary of the Moro
Important DOinEs of Our Neigh
bore Weddings and Desths-Crimes.
Casualties and General Buckeye
News Notes.
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the issues of the next
campaign. Besides
other things. he said
that Bryan would
not again he nomi-
mated for President.
The next CAM
paign," he said.
will be fought on
t h e Philippines
question. The SUI
preme Court de-
cided that Congress
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Will Release All Prisoners.

surrender Of General Caiiles, all the in
surgent prisoners ON LuzOn island will be
released.
firms previous reports that General Malvar
will soon surrender.
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Woman killed With an Ak

At Iron Mountain. Mich, Mrs. Mary
Daniels was killed by Jack Goldsworthy,
who struck her with an az while her baby
was in her arms. GOldsworthy - he ran
from the house informed Mrs. Daniels
sister that she had tainted. He was Ar
rested. Mrs. Daniels husband was mur-
dered in q saloon.
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had admitted for
the last day or two
that the hope of
his recovery was
very slight. DIR.
Mills left the dyin:
mans bedside hard
ly fifteen minutes
before the final
s u III III Ons and
promised soon To
return. At that
time Mr.. Pingree
was unconscious.
as he had been for
several hours.
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Abolish Sunday Funerals.

The WoOdlawn Cemetry Association, at
Lima, Ohio, has abolished Sunday burials.
claiming that they are unnecessary and
ca lpel the sextOns to work on the Sabbath,
and that Sunday funerals are nearly all
for p0mp and display.