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HIDEOUS GRAVEYARDS.

The Rt. Rev. Herbert Hensley Heason," Bishop of Durham, writes in the Evening Standard.

Why should burial-groands be so pulsive to look at That is a question which is ever forcing itself on my mind as I traverse my diocese in the fulfilment of my duty. As to the repulsiveness, there will hardly be any question. In dividualism runs ratopant in cemeteries and churchyards. The self-absorption of sorrow and the jealously of "ownership combine to exclude any regard for larger interests than those of the grave-owner. Monuments and inscriptions alike bear the impress of a monstrous and morbid egotism. A cynical philosopher might "gather arguments for his bitter creed in these scenes of vulgar ostentation and brazen hypocrisy. They breed, cycicism as the mosquito-swamps breed malaria.

Yet there was once a time when the emotions aroused by bereavement found wortheir expression. Christian art in general had its beginnings and early elaborations in the catacombs, and every phase of it was closely related to the burial of the dead. This is especially true of painting, sculpture, and church

architecture."

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BEETHOVEN'S GIFT. CORRESPONDENCE OF 1827.

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S INSOLVENCY.

A CENTURY OLD EPIC OF MISFORTUNE.

3RD, 1916-

The National Library ut Vienna has acqpired a number of valuable old letters, including some correspondence between One hundred years ago on January 17th Vienna and London in 1897 about the Sir Walter Scott made the first intimation death of Beethoven. In one of those of his insolvency. The day before he had letters, written by J. B. Streicher, a great uiped with his friend, Skene, apparently friend of Beethoven's, it is said that he in his usual spirits. When, on the lith, found him very weak, but deeply moved Skene called at Castle-street, Edinburgh, "the generous present from London." to accompany Scott to the Court of Beethoven called the £100 sent him Session, where he had official duties, the by the Philharmonic Society. It will be novelist surprised him with the greeting: remembered that Beethoven, .only a short My friend, give me a shake of your time prior to his death, addressed an hand-mine is that of a beggar."

It is said that the collapse of Messrs. But according to the letters just pub- Constable, the publishers, which involved urgent appeal for a loan to the Society. lished he does not appear to have been the failure of Scott's printing firm, Messrs. in such urgent need of the money. Ballantyne and Co., and made the novelist Streicher fails to understand how Baeth-responsible for debts of nearly £150,000, oven, who would never accept a gift took him completely by surprise. No even from his intimate friends, and during man," he wrote in his journal on January Phis last illness insisted on paying his oth, 1996, thought Constable's house doctor (& famous man who would not worth less than £150,000. Yet so long take anything from him), "should have ago as the previous November Scott had lost his balance to such an extent as been warned by Lockhart, his son-in-law to ask for financial help when there was and biographer, of rumours that were cur no immediate necessity for it. Streicher rent regarding Messrs. Constable's finan in his letter, declares that the Viennese cial difficulties in London; and Sir Walter lid not at all neglect Beethoven and that had at once ridden by night to the home he was not in trouble: he had so many of Mr. Constable, and returned reassured friends of influence and means in Vienna by the latter's assertion that the business that it was impossible for him to be in was "as firm as Ben Lemond.". financial straits,

Eord Cockburn, in his "Memorial," tells us how the news fell upon Edinburgh like a thunderbolt," and how the novelist's friends were staggered. Cock-

But very soon there entered a factor

Against this the two following facts are which has worked n disastrous change,

Beethoven was fifty-six and which is -to-day the principal pointed out. cause of the repulsive appearance of years of age when he was laid up and our burial grounds. Business, profitable did not expect to die so soon, to that business, twined itself burn tells us, also, that when his friends

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The present totals are the lowest rs- carded since September, 1500.

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Holland United States

300,378 tons. ............ 934,145

...... 167,958,

..... 108,894.

100,211,

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TALLEY DIY's Steamer are hereby notified that the Cargo will exception of Opium, Treasure and Vainables are being landed and stored at their risk be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, into the Godowns of the Hongkong and where it will is at Consignees risk and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. w Hall's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at loon, whence Delivery may be obtained im-elivery from Godown on and after 20th mediately after landing,

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allied itself with sorrow and vanity in others. In order to prevent this event providing the opportunity. Prayers for uality he appealed to England not for the benefit of the yet living soul, and assistance, but for a loan which he in. Every day of that week, in January are hereby informed that their Goeds with thei

The second fact way monuments for the recording of the yet tended to repay. remembered life called for priests, artists, his great love for his young nephew,

source of endless trouble and sorrow, for masons, labourers.

whom he may have desired to leave sou

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turned & proud, "No, gentlemen, this right hand shall work it all off." 1926, Scott wrote a chapter of his novel, "Woodstock," and it was published during the year. He was engaged at this on his Life of Napoleon time also Buonaparte," which, published in 1527, is said alone to have brought him over £10,000. Scott continued to write ener

Optional Cargo will be forwarded an unless getically during most of the six years of Intimation is received from the Consignees Take the case of glass globes and life which remained to him. The Fair before 9.00 am., TO-DAY, requesting it to be

fantastically Maid of Perth," " Anne of Geierstein," landed here. monuments

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the shaped. Nothing could be more hideous Tales of a Grandfather," As to the origin of burying places or more incongruous than these terrible other works followed in quick succession Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after (writes that famous antiquare, Bishop objects, which within the last few years from his pen. In 1826 the copyrights of Tnesday, the sand instaal, poem, eller White Kennett).

or they will not be many writers have have poured into the graveyards in his earlier novels had been purchased for subject to Bant and Lauding Charges. observed that at the first erection of country and city alike. The large ceme 8,400 by Mr. Robert Cadell, the book. All Claims must be sent in to me on or before

recognized.

All damaged Packages will be examined on churches re part of the adjacent ground teries on the outskirts of our cities have seller, for the purpose of issuing a uniform Friday, the 26th instant, o was allotted for interment of the dead, the aspect of market gardens in which cheap edition, which enjoyed

Menara. Goddard & Douglas. but some place for this purpose was ap- kale is being grown wholesale under sale; and Scott'a share of this issue. Tuesday, the 23rd instant, at 10 am, br

Every burying ground became a centre of profitable trade. Endeed, the familiar association of the churchyard with the church appears to have grown from a blending cf natural piety and profes-earthenware sional interest.

pointed at a farther distance, especially in cities and populous towns, where agreeably to the old Roman law of. the Twelve Tables, the place of inhumation was without the walls: first, indefinitely by the wayside, then in some peculiar enclosure signed to that use.

This practice of remoter burials con- tinued to the age of Gregory the Great when the monks and priests, "beginning to offer prayers for souls departed, pro cured leave for their greater ease and profit. that a liberty of sepulture might be in churches, or in places adjoining to "them. This mercenary reason seems to

be acknowledged by Pope Gregory him self, whilst, he allows that when the parties deceasing are abt burdened with heavy sing it may then be a benefit to them to be buried in churches, because their friends and relations, as often as they come to the sacred place, seeing their graves. may remember them and pray to God for them. After this Cuthbert. Archbishop of Canterbury, brought over from Rome this practice into England about the year 730, from which time they date the origin of churchyards in this island.

CHEKATION.

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The vast increase of the population and its gathering into towna, which are the conspicuous consequences of modern. industrialism, have added gravity to the problem of disposing of the dead. It will probably be found that cremation provides the only satisfactory solution, but for many years to come the 'acceptance of that solution will be hindered by the prejudices and sentimental associations. of the people. Therefore, the burial ground will long remain a prominent feature in our community, and ita ap- pearance cannot be a matter of indiffer- ence to good citizens, who are concerned for the dignity and comfort of popular

life.

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Happily there is now a general' and

and many

Д great

glass! The globes themselves are bad together with the profits on his new enough: but they cover and protect on works, brought him in an annual income other offence sham flowers. Of all places of about £10,000 for four or five years, so in the world surely those, in which the that, when his death took place at Abbots- stern reality of Death is solemnly pro ford in September, 182, no more than redeemed. Of this, 22,000 was wiped off claimed are the least suitable for arti£54,000 of his huge delt remained un- by the 'proceeds of his life insurance, and the remaining £20,000 was cleared off before 1847 by Mr. Cadell in consideration of sis having obtained the copyright of Scott's later works.

ficial decorations.

The rapid extension of these deplorable memorials indicates that a commercial motive is stimulating the popular de mand. A vested interest is exploiting the tasteless sentiment of the poor for the disfigurement of the graveyards

Perhaps the best testimony to Sir Walter's conduct is to be found in the concluding words of the resolution which

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E. BODENFUSEB,

Agent Hongkong, 17th February, 1926.

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(HOLLAND EAST Asla "Lanx). NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

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A WARNING AND A PROTEST. Some two years ago I took occasion when consecrating a churchyard to direct meeting of his creditors "passed in the They think it a tribute justly due to attention to the importance of guarding month following the novelist's death: it against the introduction of unsuitable monuments, and I made special mention the memory of Sir Walter Scott to ex I received.

The Artificis. Wreath Manufacturers of the unparalleled benefits which they having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of the British Undertakers have derived from the extraordinary exer. of Cargo by her are notified that all Goode Section Association," which had apparently been tion of his unrivalled talente, under mis- are being landed at their risk into the startled and almost scandalised by my fortunes and difficulties which would have hazardous and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of paralysed the exertions of anyone else. the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown words.

but in him only proved the greatness of Company Lamited, whence, and/or from the not cleared by the 25th February, mind which enabled him to rise superior barves, Delivery may be obtained.

1926, will be subject to Bent to them."The Observer.

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"Artificial, wreath making," I was informed, is entirely a British in dustry, and a large number of workers are employed in making the article and in its distribution. Subsidiary trades affected are glass makers, tin workers, enamel makers, packing-case make railway and cartage contractors, and, in addition, the retail trade, number- ing some 12,000 dorists and 10,000 undertakers. You will, accordingly, observe that if the action suggested, (that is, the prohabition of these monstrosities) spreads to any great extent, it will mean the extinguishing the industry and increasing the present unemployment in the country."

It might, perhaps, suffice to answer the aggrieved manufacturers by pointing out that no industry which debases the po- pular taste and disfigures the cemeteries and churchyards can wisely plead the. extensive scale of its operations 19 a for the public to notice is that a con siderable interest has already come into existence, and that, if this baleful factor is to be cut out of the general, problem, there is no time to lose.

an increasing reluctance to tolerate plea for toleration. The important point, cial ills which can lie removed. We look with a keener and more critical gaze on much that a former generation took fon granted as part and parcel of man's inevitable fate.

THE PATH TO REFORM

Why, we ask with growing, insistence, should the houses in which the people. must needs dwell be repulsive in aspect

I have seen in country parishes churche as well as pinched in accommodation yards which are so beautiful and rever Why should the streets, in which the ently tended that they are bardly less children of the pee must to a great religious and consoling than the vener extent "find their play-grounds, be disable churches which they surround. They figured by vulgar, and sometimes des are God's acres indeed, silent but grading, advertisements Why must the eloquent witnesses to His immortality cinemas, which provide so much of the and cure in Him. Their influence on people's entertainmen, produce films the people cannot but be morally whole. which are neither beautiful nor improv some. In our towns, of course, the pro- ing Why must the public-houses, to blem is far more complicated and diff which the citizens gather for the acces cult, but surely it is not insoluble. If a Bary purposes of society, and discussion,wortheir public opinion on the whole be no more than crowded drinking places, subject could be created, and if the local' in which conversation is difficult, and authorities could be assured that they comfort impossiblet Why must the ceme would be heartily supported in taking terica and churchyards, which in many strong action against untoward vagaries placca form the only public garden which of individualism within the commen the people possess, be disfigured by dis-burial-grounds, much improvement might playa of personal vulgarity, as offensive be effected.

to the eye as they must be distressing The national interest i in the preserva-

to the mind of every intelligent visitor tion of scenes of natural beauty and. To speak here only of the last. The historic interest is now widely recognis control of cemeteries is vested in the ed, and vigorous efforts are being made elected local authority, that of the (for example, by the excellent society. churyards in the incumbent and paro known as Sexpa) to protect that interest chial church council, which has inherited against the ceaseless aggressions of com the duties formerly attaching th the mercialism. If, within the relatively churchwardens, subject to the Ordinary obscure scenes of parochial life, the saram that is, the Bishop. This control expatriotic concern could be created for the tends to the sanctioning of monuments cemeteries and churchyards, which in and inoriptions, but it would seem to many places are the only public gardens, be exercised very rarely, or very per a considerable social reform could be. functorily.

effected to the lasting advantage of the

HERBERT DUNELM,

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All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are has been given prior to Stenmar's arrival. to be left in the Godowns, where they will be v examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.65 A sud Nou, within the Free Storage period.

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All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 12th March, 1928, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be affected.

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