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Tt has been remarked—how about people who are given up as 
dead, but are simply ina trance. To this I reply: ‘Is there 
not far greater consolation in the thought that the supposed 
deceased has been spared a terrible waking, and that he has 
been unconsciously sent to his last account whilst in the trance.” 
Mr. Dunkerley proceeded to describe the efforts now being 
made to provide a crematorium for Manchester, and gave the 
description of the one proposed for erection. He also showed 
drawings of the ‘most perfect crematorium yet erected,” one in 
the central cemetery at Zurich. He described the method 
adopted at Woking, and passed on to consider cremation from a 
architectural point of view, arguing as follows :—At the present 
time the prettiest spots outside our towns are selected as sites 
for cemeteries, and are made hideous by white crosses, broken 
pillars, inverted torches and all the Christian and heathen symbols 
that can be thought of. Now there is many a church now plain 
and inartistic internally which could be made beautiful and 
attractive by niches and canopied recesses in which could be 
placed the urns or vases in which the ashes of the departed are 
placed. The vases could be made of silver, gold, or any other 
precious material, and we should have the gratification of 
knowing that our money was spent in beautifying the Church, 
and handing down the name of the deceased to posterity, 
instead of erecting some vulgar monstrosity in some out of the 
way place when the name of the deceased will be obliterated 
both from our memory and from the tombstone. 
I would recommend that every new and enlarged cemetery 
should have a crematory of some economical kind on the 
grounds. This procedure will no doubt be objected to on the 
score of expense. Let me say in answer to this that no invest- 
ment of the national wealth pays like that directed to combating 
the causes of disease, and experience has shown that the work of 
public sanitation is not only from the humanitarian point of view 
among the most blessed and noblest of all work, but that it is 
the most remunerative and profitable for the country of any 
undertaking on which the public money is expended. 
THE M‘KINLEY TARIFF. 
By J. RAWLINSON. October 28th, 1890. 
After pointing out the necessity of taxation, and the difference 
between direct and indirect taxation, Mr. Rawlinson dealt with 
the difference between tarifis intended only for purposes of 
revenue, and tariffs intended for protection. He showed the 
