The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-07
SNhIGHERS OF
DEAD BODIES
Marie CorreIi Writes of "SCi-
eniStS" Work
USES ThEM VERY HARD
For Buthering Up Remains
of Dear Ones

Marie correl, writing in the Cleveland
Leader siys:
Many Strange and gruesome stories have
of late leen afloat concernig the digging
up Of dad bodies for dissection in sur.
gicaI laooratories. With bated breath, as
1t wer, the newspapers tell US, in a
thrilling whisper paragraph, of men bent
on the pursuit of science, who go like
ghouls in the silence of the night, TO
drag up corpses which have been con-
signef by bell, book and candle to ''etern-
al re,t," with prayers, tears, and bless
inc and who bear them away secretly
to THEIR dissecting tables, there TO be sew
ereds. artery from artery, limb from
limp, til only the ghastIy fragments Of
wh4t was once man or woman lie on
their butchers chopping-board of trade
We have ,been told how these scientists"
actually steal the dead for common use
as targets-how they will take the poor
lifeless forms Of human beings who once
loved and thought and suffered, and set
them up as marks to be shot at in
the bloody and brutal scientific" past
time which they carry on in their private
dissecting bells. If a bullet pierces the
dead heart-goodi That counts one to the
brave marksman, If it hits the spot where
the brain pulsated-why, still better,-foT
such shot must be deemed thoroughly
efectual.
Grim and horrible are these outrages of
| the living on the dead, and We scken as
| We learn that such things can be done
and are done in the civilized twentieth
| century of the Christian era. Nero, with
all his bestialities and progdigalities of
such a refined point of devilish material
ism as to rob graves of their buried dead.
But, after all, these crimes committed by
the human monsters who favour corpse
dissection and vivisection are on bodies
only; and we are told: Fear not them
which kill the body; rather fear them
which kill the soul" When both are
killed together. what shall be the rem
edy7
In these later days A tribe Of persons
has sprung up who combine in themselves
the two criminal lusts of body-snatching
and soul-killing main object being
to obtain temporary notorety by fair
means or foul. Incapable themselves Of
doing anything intelligent or useful in the
world, their sole instinct is to rob and
kill. after the fashion of prehistoric saw
ages and cannibals. And if a soul can be
slain as well as body. the greater their
triumph The finer and nobler the indi-
viduality Of the soul and body they
fasten upon. the more they rejoice as they
swill and gorge and fatten like carrion
crows on their stolen meat. The larger
the dead eagle, the more food for smaller
birds Of prey.
It has been ordained by the Almighty
Creator of all things wise. beautiful or
wonderful, that for England, as for all
the little world wherein we dwell. there
shall only be one Shakespeare. One gen
sune soul of wisdom. truth, and loving
human observation-disclosures infinite, indeed,
in all these attributes because so sturdi-
~ simple, so straightforward, and so
Gear, witout any adOrnment Of learned
artifice or concealment or honest inten-
ton. No man before him was ever so
greatly endowed or so truly inspired; no
man after him has come or ever viii
come that shall be deemed worthy TO have
fastened his shoe-tie. This being the
case. his remains furnish a whole larder
of feasting for the tribe of body-snatch-
ers and soul-killers. They swarm upon
his memory like flies on a pot OF honey.
They metaphoricaily drag his ashes out
of their quiet niche in the Trinity Church
of Stafford on-Avon and rup the sacred
dust between their dirty fingers and
thumbs Assuming to be literary
Though in the name of all the gods of
Greece. literature in her highest sense
surely repudates such scribbling varlets
IS only 1T to write pill-posterS). they
seize scurrilous and libelous pens where
with to produce commentaries" discus
sions." examinations and Bacon the
cries liz frenzied attempts 10 hang their
names on to the great fame they envy
miserably, and would fain belitte. And
I make bold to say that if England. and
the English. as the fortunate possesors
of Shakespeare birthplace, death-place,
and immortal name. We're once to take
such prompt and decisive action 10 guard
his memory as they should do. such body
snatching. such soUl-ldlling of the great
est noblest poet of the world would
never be- II English literary men thought
less of themselves and more of TIE honor
of their greatest master and leader whose
brains every scribler, great and small
has sucked at for over three hundred
years they would never find space in any
magazine or newspaper for so much as a
comment on the idiotic Bacon theory
first propounded by that poor crank, Ig-
GakluS 1OuhtlAs VIII NAhtiS4ANN AA-S -eA-A-
tastic 'Cryptogram" before he had 50
much as visited Stratford or seen any
thing Of the records there. Nor. 1 Will
add. would they permit such remains OF
Shakespeare as do exist in his native
town. to be neglected, mismsnsged or
utterly destroyed by well-meaning per-
sons who are. nevertheless. wholly igno-
rant Of the value OF the world al large Of
every smallest. most minute connection
with the acknowledged head and front Of
English literature.
l speak boldly. for there is need 70
speak. Il someone had spoken in 1750,
when a Christian" clergyman. the Rev,
Francis GastrelI cut down Shakespeare s
favorite mulberry tree and RACED the
house wherein he died. New Place, 70
the ground. both house and tree might
have been still standing. Cowardice IN
conduct, whether social. political or IL
terary. is the hallmark Of the hypOcrite
and time-server, and 20 such a character
have no claim. When a man summons
VI sufficient courage TO protest against Al
abuse Of an outrage. his utterance IS
termed ''verile." When a woman does
the same thing she is accused Of scream
ing" But ''virility" az il existed any
where at the time Of the discussion cid
nothing TO prevent the efAsy OF the late
Lady Martin Q1elen Faucitl from being
stuck up opposite the bust OF Shake
speare in Trinity Church chanceI. ''Vir-