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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03
The ONLY CREMATORIUM IN CANADA.

The only crematorium in the Dominion of Canada Is the II in Mount
Royal Cemetery. Montreal which has been opened a little more than a
yea In that time there have been five cremauons. 1t is a significant
fact that in the city of London during the first year of the. existence Of
the cematoy there were but three crenations.
Tie crematoium is of the English gothic style of architecture, with
massive oak doors and constructed Of Montreal limestone It is hreproof
throughout A stately porch is passed on the way to the large conservatory.
with its sides lined with plate glass windows. and the floor beautifully
designed in different colored marbles. Through the conservatory, banked
with flowers and plants. the visitor passes through an anteroom TO the
crematorlum hall, which has IN arched ROOF and walls lined with marble.
while the floor like that of tie conservatory, is laid in marble n this hall
the religious ceremony preceding the cremation takes place. Adjoining is
the incineratng ROOM. reached through large bronze doors The floor is
paved with white tiles and the walls lined with white marble Here
there is space for four inclnerators They ire made of fire brick with steel
castings The fuel used Is kerosene oil and the mcineration of a body re-
qulres about two hours.
To secure cremation it is necessary for the person whose body Is to
be cremated to have expressed such a desire In writing. He must also
have been owe twenty one years Of age. After religious service In the
hall. the body Is passed into the receiving chamber where Incarceration be-
gins. The ashes are taken from the furnace N the morning following ere
nation and, as a rule, inferred n a lot in Mount Royal Cemetery.
At one time all the great nations Of the world, with the exception of the
practice lay dormant but in 1897 1t was aghated in France and In 1866 in
Italy, but it was only in 1891 that in Italy a IA was given the right to
decide that his body should be burned. In England the history Of cfema-
ton dates from 1874. when n society advocating cremation was formed. In
1879 the first crematorium was constructed at Wokng. but was only used
first in 1885. Cremation in tine United States dates back to 1874, and in
Germany to 1875. In 1900 the number of bodies cremated in the United
states was 2414, = increase OF AS over the previous year.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03
FOUNDED A GREAT MUSEUM.
Romance in the Life of James Smith
son, Americas Beuefactor.

Romance in the Life of James Smith
son, Americas Benefactor.
If the project to exhume the remains
of James Smithson at Genoa, where
a marble quarry has ~encroached upon
the old Protestant cemetery where
they were inferred in 1920, to transport
them to Washington and to give them
honorable sculpture on the grounds of
the Smithsonian Institution, Is carried
out a very interesting international ro-
nance will be provided with its proper
climax. Not long before he died Smith
son wrote-altogether mysteriously at
that time, for he was an obscure sci
enlist: My name shall live in the
memory of man when the titles of the
Northumberland and Percys are ex-
tinct and forgotten" He spoke the
truth when he said that. The titles of
the Northumberland and Percys are
not yet extinct. but they are of exceed
ingly little consequence now 10 either
Britain or the world and have not the
slightest ground to hope for such i'm
mortality as the founder Of the great
scientific institution connected with the
United States government at Wash
ington has already bestowed on the
first Duke of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS illegit-
innate son.
James Smithson-or, as he was at
first and properly called. James Maeie
had no right 10 the name or title of
u. d. TAal. - ##f-.-Ha.f-.
which descended to the Dukes lawful
son. Nevertheless, James Macie was
of the best blood OF England on both
sides. His character was excellent,
his aspect noble. He was %singularly
proud of the blood which ran in his
veins. though 1t came TO him by no
lawful Inheritance, and his position be
came TO him II of such bitterness
that he resolved TO establish his name,
In a n as useful as ii was bril-
liant. in the free land beyond the seas.
The fact that he had never seer Amer
lea and had no tie whatever with this
country did not deter him from send
ing hither all his wealth-though in
the main Ii had come from the British
nobility to whom by blood he was al
lied.
His bequest of his fortune after the
death Of a nephew, who died in Wash
ington without an heir, to establish
at Washington an institution for the
increase and diffusion Of knowledge
among men was an establishment 10
the world, and particularly 10 the
Americans. who took several years to
accustom themselves to the notion and
provide for the foundation OF the lnsti-
tuition he had decreed There was
nothing, however, really astonishing in
the bequest. Smithson cared more for
science than he did for anything else.
He was a passionate investigator and
a really great collector. He knew that
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03
PLEA FOR THE sRipoEoHooM.
lie Is Well a. the Bride IL Deserving
Of Consideration,


Rhapsodies on the bride are bounti-
full. The dear creature, of course, Is
worthy Of all the good things said
about her. She Is the loveliest, sweet
est. most charming and altogether most
delightful thing that ever came down
the pike or the central aisle of the
church. Her very presence Is 4 bene-
diction and a suggestion of the spiead
isles. and her dresses-ah, they are
dreams! II you don't believe ii just
get Into the company OF any OF her
girl friends: you won't have the trou-
BILE of asking about IT. The bride is
lit" She Is always top Of column
next to reading matter" which being
interpreted means that she gets choice
position, where she and her beauty and
her gown would positively demand at
tention II it were not given freely,
gladly and voluntarily, She deserves,
ard has. the admiration Of all creation.
And yet we make bold 10 put in a
little plea on behalf of the bride
groom, that he is not forgotten. Or
dinarily he cuts mighty little figure in
the proceedings. He Is regarded ruth
er In the light OF n piece Of the stage
settings, or n foil to show Off the IA
diant beauty of the bride-elect. That
be is a very necessary adjunct TO the
function which brings the bride all
ablush into the public eye will be ad-
mitted. But who notices how he Is
dressed? Not even the bride herself.
She and the others have n hazy picture
of a man with something black On
his body and something white on HE
hands. and some Of the spectators may
observe a scared look ON his face. Blu
that IL about all. Nobody says,
Wasn't he handsomer' How per
fectly his costume sets of his splendid
igure.' Wasn't he just too sweet for
anything Comments and compii
ments of this kind are reserved for
the bride. The bridegroom doesn't get
them. And, 10 tell the truth. he Is
glad of 1t. He Is well content for her
TO be the recipient of all the attentions
while he stands meekly In the back
ground. It's less embarrassing and
less bothersome.
II is after the wedding and In tn,
home life that the bridegroom shows
up big, II he Is Of the right sort
and most OF them are. II Is when the
honeymoon has waned that he proves
to the bride the wisdom OF her choice
II Is when he takes off his coat and
hustles hard at work all day and Is
tender, loving and true under the ey-
ening lamp that be demonstrates he Is
not the clothing dummy that he mp
peared to be during the wedding cere.
mony. 1t may be that the world will
not notice II. No mention OF the fact
will be found In the society columns
and the nelghborhood gosslps viii have
nothing to say about 1t. But when be
has made her a happy home the bride
VIII understand and appreciate the
fact, II she Is OF the right sort, and
most Of them are, and viii bless the
day that brought to her her own
bridegroom. They are both good PEG.
pie: may they live long and prosper
Chicago Chronicle.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03

Five life positions In the government
service, to which a salary beginning
at twenty-seven hundred dollars a year
is attached, have been going begging.
They are in the corps of civil en-
ginecrs in the navy department. After
Ave years service the pay Is increased,
and at the end Of ten years 1t is thirty
five hundred dollars. There must be
either a dearth Of civil engineers. or
the demand for them In ordinary bust.
ness must be SO great that the pay of.
fered by the government does not tempt
them. OF one thing there can be nc
doubt: this profession offers greater
attractions to young men than 1t did
twenty years ago.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03
QUEER SToRbES


Further experience OF the recent
storms of dust Is told by the African
mall steamship Borneo. which. before
reaching Tenerlffe, ran through a ter.
rife sandstorm for thirty hours.
The record of ~voracity belongs Of
right to a stoat recently caught at
Pennyhil, Pa. During the night the
b~loodthlrsty little creature had killed
eieyen turkeys, thirty ducks and TWEEN.
ty chickens.
Most people are aware" saws the
Scientific American, of the power Of
egg-shelis to resist external pressure
ON the ends, but not many would
credit the results of tests recently
made. Eight different hens eggs were
submitted TO pressure applied extern.
ally al over the surface Of the shell.
and the breaking pressures varied be.
tween 400 pounds and G75 pounds per
square inch. With the stresses applied
Internally to twelve eggs, these gave
way at pressures varying being thirty.
two and sixty-fye pounds per souare
inch. The pressure required TO crush
the eggs varied between forty pounds
and serenty-fye pounds. The average
thickness OF the shells was thirteen.
one thousandth inch"
The idea that alcohol or nny otber
stimulant can ever impart strength
must be abandoned, says a writer In
The Hospital. A stimulant has a Ger.
tain effect on the circulation, and this
may enable the person who takes II
TO exert more strength temporarily.
out the energy that he uses comes
not from the stimulant, but from his
own blood and tissue. A similar mis-.
take Is made Ia the administration of
a stimulant TO relieve a feeling OF de.
preston or sinking. An injurious re.
action always follows. Alcohol Is
harmful also In diseases of the kid.
neys or OF the liver, but It seems 10 he
good for disease OF the lungs. and lts
effect on appetite aud digestion max
be good when properly employed
When "stimulants" put one to sleen
and quiet agitation, they are doing
good; when, on the contrary, they
raise the pulse-rate, and cause excite.
ment and wakefulness, they are doing
harm.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03

An old attendant Of Emperor William
|. of Germany had quaint stories 10 tel.
Of his royal master. One Of them
was thus set forth to an English gen
tleman who had been admitted to the
emperor's private apartments. The
visitor was looking. with perhaps Il
%pardonable curiosity. ut the combs.
brushes and shaving apparatus laid cut
on the dressing table, when the old al.
tendant told this story:
"0ne morning a great lady asked to
see the rooms II was quite early. aud
his majesty had Just gone Into his
study. The lady had permission. and
oneof his ma Iesty's aides-de-camp en-
with her to give orders that eyeryth.n.
should be shown her.
Il brought her IN here, ard She look
ed ut his majesty's toilet thing just
as you are looking at them now. /
had been cgmblng my masters hair.
and had not had time TO set everything
TO rights, SO there were still a few
hairs left between the teeth Of tho
comb. Before | could put out my hand
to stop her, she had snatched up the
comb, ~disengaged the stray hairs from
II. and hidden them away in tn, bosom
of her dress. And she a princess, to-!
"~'Highness.' said !, that won't do.
Nobody must take my kings hair
without my permission. But the
~alde-de-camp said:
AfITIg unaffctv mill no Hn.tov,1F
80" the attendant remarked. what
could | dof And when | told his
majesty he only laughed"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03
Giadstnnr,s Stntnn

A statue TO Gladstone has recently
been placed In Westminster Abbey on
the spot marked for Ii years ago by
Dean Stanley. 1t occupies the last
vacant space for n standing figure In
the north transept. The London Times
describes the statue.
1t was made by Mr.. Brook OF the
Royal Academy, and is a marble figure
on a marble pedestal, which at pres
ent contains no inscription. On one
side Is the statue OF Sir Robert Peel.
On the other. that Of Lord B~eacons-
field. The aisle IL called the STATES
mems Aisle" and Is neat the pulpit.
Gladstone stands In the robes of n
doctor Of ciyll law of Oxford, with his
face turned slightly to the left. The
likeness is good.
There is no ceremony OF unwilling
monuments which, like this, are erect
ed by the authority Of Parliament, No
display Is necessary TO call attention to
the which the nation pays liz
great e
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03
vAGAeoNp eoe.

IAN incident Of the Kansas City hood)
Bob was a v~agahond. II you had seen
The limp Of bis legs and the lag Of bis
fur,
His gaunt. yellow body. d~isgraeefully
lean,
You had vowed he was only a yaga-
bond eur,
The torrent swept down on a world I'M
aware;
And women and children and men
were his prey:
And Death was his brother, who walked
every where,
And the faces of mortals were white
with dismay.
A babe in a cradle was rocked to and
fro,
Tossed hither and thither mid flotsam
and wreck,
With only grim Death and the angels to
know,
A mariner wee on a pitiful deck.
With only grim Death and the angelsY
Not 80.
On a mound over yonder a %vasabond
cur
Heard the wall of the babe. like the sum
mons of woe.
And the spirit of heroes in him was
astir.
Now, yagabond Bob. now, outcast-what
now?
The chasm is wide by the mad current
torn,
And rescue's a bark with Death at the
Prov
Still over the waters that waiiing is
borne.
l think that he shiyered one moment in
dread;
think that he doubted ere outward he
sprung
See now in the current the vagabond
head,
The debris, the fotsam. the wreekage
among.
He reached her! He saved her! No
mortal had known
How long was the struggle. how cruel
ly hard:
But the rescuers found them, the two
waits alone,
And the babe was asleep, and Bob was
on guard.
New York Times.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03

II had taken considerable perSnasi ion
to induce the old lady 10 trust herself
in an automobiles. but finally she con
scented because. says the Automobile
Magazine, she was anxious TO reach
the bedside OF her sick grandehild In
a village some twenty miles away.
The owner OF the big automobile.
who was touring through Long Island.
had been very kind about II. lie
CHANGED to be near the station when
the old lady found she had missed her
train, and when he overheard her
lamentations he Insisted that she
should accompany him. His route lay
through that particular one OF the half
dozen Long Island villages named
Hampton where the sick grandchlld
lay.
They started at last. and everything
went well until. In attempting to pass
a WACO which occupied most OF the
road, the flying automobile went unex-
pectedly Into the ditch, and rather Ylo-
lently deposited Its occupants In an.
adjoining field.
Recovering from the shock. ~aiteodgh
somewhat confused from tho rather
unusual method of ~alishtltaa. the old
lady asked of the ~chagrls,ed cbauffeurs
us this a-a-a HamptonY"
mo, ma'am" he managed TO gasps
this Is an accident"
20 dear" said the old lady. Then
| hadn't oughtcr have got out here.
had IT'
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03
In Cosmopolitan New York.

Last Sunday saw Archbishop Farley
preaching in Italian to a Catholic CON
gregation, and ON Monday night at st.
Vincent Ferrer's Church the rosary
was said In Gaelic. On Tuesday Po-
lice Commissioner Greene talked TO
the children of the Educational ALI
anee in Russian. At the time of the
street fish cart agitation on the East
Side Commissioner Woodbury. spoke
to an excited crowd in Yiddish.
This showing of linguistic accom-.
pllshmcnis In city officials is interest.
ing. not less so than the opportunities
afforded for their exercise. BY the
census of 1900 there were 155,o01 Rus
slams In New York-a colony about as
large as the entire city of Rochester.
The Germans numbered 322,343. the
Irish 275, 102, the Italians 145.433
Here in the metropolis are large com
munltics of foreigners, with whose i'm
portance as integral elements of the
city we are too little apt to reckon,
in most Instances they have become
so well absorbed and incorporated thai
their numerical consequence is not
appreciated. In excise discussions, for
example. in holding up for apprehen.
sion the spectre of a continental
Sunday" we fail usually to remem-
her that more than 1000. 900 of New
Workers are by previous citizenship
acquainted with that kind of Sunday
observance.-New York World.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03
On Dangerous Ground.

Now, bishop, how old do you think
/ ann" coyly asked a literary spinster
of a man whose unfalling courtesy was
supplemented by his wit on many oc-
casions.
MY dear lady, that is a hard ques-
ton for a man who can scarcely re-
member his own age" said the bishop,
cautiously, "and in your case II is par
ticularly difficult, for you look five
years younger than 1t seems possible
you can be, when l consider what a
wonderful amount you have accom-
plished."
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03

the terms of his bequest. which had in
view nothing less than universal en-
llghtment, could be carried out In this
country in a ann more sincere and
untrammeled than in Europe, So he
sent his money here. and good use has
surely been made of it.
BY all means let Smithson's body be
sent to Washington and inferred on the
grounds of this great and beneficent in
stitntion. Nothing could be more fit
ting-New York Mail and Express.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03
LOST IN 1aE GRASS,


There Is surely no country half n
world away in which the Occidental
traveller expects SO much delight and
80 little adventure as in Japan.
Yet Ernest Foxwell has recently
related a tale Of terrible adven.
ture experienced In Japan Y an
Engllshwoman but a few days after
her arrival. She was staying at a
little country village among the hills,
and had gone out in the morning TO
gather flowers. The path ran across
the uplauds, where there Is n wild
and lonely stretch Of country extend
Ing for several miles; and the beauty
of some wild flowers growing in the
tall grass led her to leave the tran
unthinklngly, and press farther and
farther into the waving tangle. She
was a short woman, and it reached
above her head.
IF | had been n foot taller she
said, in telling her story. 81 should
have laughed and been out In a min
ute or two. but those few inches bur.
led me alive.
almost instantly | felt sick, as you
do at the beginning Of an earthquake;
for although | must have been quite
near the path, yet with the grass all
round above my head there was no
knowing what would happen. | might
be going right away III that very
moment, and the possibilities came Ike
a shock. | believe | LOST my head at
once. | could not think. 80 | kept
moving one way. then another. But
merely pushing through this tall. tough
grass II very firing work. even II you
are on sloplng ground and can judge
where you will eome out; and when
It Is level all round. the heart Is taken
out OF you from the feeling that every
step is probably burying yoa deeper.
1t was like being drowned"
II was not until sunset. after a
whole day In the blazlng sun. without
food or water, constantly wandering,
constantly pushing and tearing ut
stems 80 stiff and serrnted that they
quickly make the hands bleed, that she
walked suddenly out on TO open ground
and fell falnting in a heap. When
she recovered. stars were shining. and
she was alone on mn unknown noun
tainslde. She slept from exhaustion.
and the next day followed a winding
mountain torrent oyer rocky land. her
shoes and then her stockings worn
from her feet. only to ind. at sun
down, that II had led her TO a narrow
gorge, without one inch OF fo0thold or
shore. The stream dashed through In
a torrent that hopelessly barred tho
way.
L~ight-headed with terror. hunger and
WEAKNESS. she crouched for a time In
despair. Then she suddenly waded In
to the stream and stood until after
da wn waist-deep In water, while 4
raln-storm pelted upon her from above.
Whlm or instinct. she believed that 10y
the cool rush and sting OF the winter
her reason aud strength were pre-
served.
The next day she retraeed her weary
way along the waterconrse baek to
the heights; thence. fixing anew the
point TO which she must direct her
steps, she successfully made her way
back to civilization. When ut length
she reeled into the hut of a kindly
Japanese woman, she had been four
days lost without food. and had walk.
ed until her feet were so torn aud
infamed II was thought she must have
them amputated. but she fortunately
regained her health uncrippied.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03
Venice. April Ii.

Here Is a story, the truth OF which
is vouched for by an English lady
resident In Florence. She has a bal.
cony that oyerhangs n street in which
are some shops, and a few days ago
an American mother and daughter
paused to look in at the window, and
lnterchanged the following remarks.
"Mamie, are you quite sure that this
is VENEER"
why, yes, mamma" was the reply,
you know 1t says In our itinerary that
we are to be inVeniee on April 10. and
to-day Is April IL, sure!'
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-03

The novels that have been most
popular In the last year in England
represent a rather marked departure
from the general taste that had pre-
vailed for several years. Apparently
our English cousins have not only
eschewed in great measure the histori-
cal romance that has so long maintain
ed its sway there, as In this country.
but their preference of the last year
denotes that the literature of gloom
Is again in the ascendant. 1t may
be said for the historical that.
while 1t was frequently meretricious
In the kind Of entertainment 1t served
up, It was at least u~nimpeachable as
TO its moral effect. On the other hand,
the nom historical novels that have met
with a cordial reception this year In
England are, broadly speaking. of
quite a different character. The note
is the note Of depression rather than
that of optimism. 1t would be a one
sided attitude, a narrow theory OF art,
to hold that fiction should only treat
OF human happiness. Misery, the irony
OF circumstance, the million defects
of civilization and their tragic in
fiuence on the individual soul, are all
too well known, too obviously facts
to permit of their being ignored in the
novel Of realities. The writer of stories
must perforce accept the material Of
life. 1t is the smallness of heart, the
lack of the higher charities of truth
portraying in the fiction OF the pres
ent that impairs its worth. One re-
ceiyes hardly more than a cold-photo-
graphic record of life, a comfortless
reiteration of the wisdom with which
the soul of man Is already overstored.
What is the pleasure one takes in the
clever execution Of such pictures IF
human experience compared with the
satisfaction that one feels in the novel
wherein is encountered on every page
the presence of one who desires to
lift the load of humanity as well as
ably describe 1t? 1t is the quality of
sympathy that, after all. counts the
most in novel writing, and without 1t
the story treating Of the bitterness of
mundane things is seldom truly worth
the reading.