The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-15
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 <<T HENRY E. SULLIVAN, being of
 sound and disposing mind, do
 H. hereby make, publish and de- clare. this as my last will and testament
 q do hereby direct the executors of this my will to have made out of my bones circular buttons of the dimensions of from one-half inch to one inch in di- ameter.
 T do further direct my said executors to have the skin of my body tanned and made into pouches.
 T do hereby furthef drect my said ex- ecutors to have made Out of-.such parts of my body as may be suitable strings for the violin, such as are usually desig- mated 'cat-gut' strings.
 And I do hereby further direct my said executors to have said violin strings adjusted to the body of a violin
 T hereby give, devise and bequeath unto my beloved friend and clubmate, James Hayes, all and singular the but tons, violin strings and tanned skin made out of my body as aforesaid, the same to be by him distributed according to his discretion to my intimate friends.
 So reads the will of Henry E. Sullivan, a prominent member of the Nameok, club, at No. 23S West One Hundredth street. Made in all seriousness, this queerest of queer wills reflects the utiitarianism that has been a factor in every act of the mans life.
 When seen at the clubhouse last night MT. Sullivan answered that the terms of his will were "nobody's business ex- cept his own. Finally he consented to give the reason for the making of such a testament.
 Tn the first place. he said, you must understand that it has always seemed to me as if l had been born utilitarian As a boy, l liked such subjects at school as arithmetic, reading and writing, but detested music and aesthetics. Today l believe that in the present educational system there is too much teaching of the love for the beautiful and too little of the Three Rs.' Little wonder that pres day school graduates are of little use when they enter a business house. They can't even spell properly. They can sing a three-part song.
 q have been close student of ethics and belong to that section of Bentham's school that maintains it to be a cardinal doctrine of utilitarianism that a man al- ways gains his own greatest happiness by promoting that of others.
 Every task we undertake, every thought should have for its object some useful purpose Every stick of wood every stone, every piece of sod can be utilized. Did each one but train his eyes to see the use to which each object in this world can be put, how much happier the world would be.
 'Edison is today the greatest utiltarian of them alL I made the will such as it is, because I saw no. reason why there should be such wastefulness, why so much good raw material should be all lowed to go TOT naught.
 Granted that such a disposition of their bodies would horrify most people, if they had known when alive that such a disposition was later to take place. Granted that there is a sort of intuitive feeling, born of years and centuries of like thought in father and forefather, that burial is the proper method.
 'Why in this age should we cling to such foolish, unhygienic, wasteful mo- tions? The body, after the soul has fled, is just so much material to be moulded by man for his own use, as is everything else on this sphere. My will is perfectly feasible. My lAw-