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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
heart. The lot is shaded by shrubbery transplanted 
from his native land, including golden cedars from 
Newton Ards, County Down, and purple beeches, 
yews, junipers, and rhododendrons from the same 
neighborhood. The boulder in whose shadow he 
lies is twelve feet in height and weighs seventy-five 
tons. Around its base lOO ivies from Dowth castle 
were recently planted. The scenery about the 
grave is rugged and picturesque. 
Reflections in Greenwood Cemetery. 
These polished urns may glint and gleam, 
With gaudy show their transient day. 
But still the gnawing tooth of time, 
Shall wear their chiseled form away. 
But generous deeds their records keep. 
In glowing fame shall live on high. 
When marble shafts shall crumbling fall. 
And mouldering fanes in ruins lie. 
Then bend, oh man, thy God-like mind 
To aid thy struggling fellow’s needs. 
And angel hands shall rear thy tower 
In deathless form with generous deeds. 
Each act thy life hath ever wrought. 
Fraught with pure love for human kind. 
In that fair structure angel built. 
Aglow with beauty thou shalt find. 
Nor, as the ages come and go 
Shall storms e’er mar or time decay, 
But it shall gleam with added charms 
In that elysian endless day. 
Hence when few generations pass. 
Thou shalt not be forgotten there. 
But thy life’s record thus inscribed 
Shall glow with brightest beauty rare. 
Then shall thy children call thee blest; 
Thy neighbor too with outstretched hand 
Shall greet thee with o’erflowing joy. 
And life's great object understand. 
— DR. W. H. HAMBLETON, in Atchison Champion, 
The fee system, coming up from remote days 
in “Merrie England,” has always been very lib- 
eral to ministers of the established church in con- 
nection with consecrated burial grounds, but trouble 
is brewing. Several Burial Boards have petitioned 
the Home Secretary, asking for legislation to cur- 
tail these privileges which have covered fees for the 
erection of tombs, headstones, iron work, etc., in 
fact pretty well everything in a cemetery. In the 
petition of the Worcester Burial Board appears the 
following; 
“That your memorialists would not have been surprised to 
find that the excessive regard for vested interests which prompt- 
ed the provisions of the Burial Acts dealing with the fees of the 
clergy, has led to the introduction of a clause securing such fees 
to every incumbent or minister who had possession of a benefice 
at the date of the passing of those Acts; but your memorialists 
submit that no justification can be found for continuing the right 
to receive the fees to which objection is taken in perpetuity by 
incumbents and ministers who have never received or been en- 
titled to receive any fees in respect of burials in the churchyards 
of their parishes. 
“Your memorialists therefore pray that you will be pleased 
to initiate legislation having for its object tne repeal of those 
portions of the Burial Acts which confer upon incumbents and 
ministers the right to receive fees in respect of the sale of the 
exclusive right of burial, either in perpetuity, or for a limited 
period, in a cemetery provided by a Burial Board, or of the grant 
of the right of constructing any vault or place of burial with the 
exclusive right of burial therein, in perpetuity, or for a limited 
period, or of erecting and placing any monument, gravestone, 
tablet, or monumental inscription in such cemetery.” 
The Cemetery Superintendent’s Convention. 
The Eighth Annual Convention of the Associa- 
tion of American Cemetery Superintendents, to be 
held in Philadelphia in September, should attract a 
large attendance from Delaware, New Jersey and 
Eastern Pennsylvania cemetery officials. The ob- 
ject of the association is the dissemination of help- 
ful information pertaining to cemetery management, 
and the practice of holding the annual meetings in 
different localities affords opportunities to all cen- 
tering about such localities to avail, themselves of 
the benefits to be had from participating in the dis- 
cussions. The committee of arrangements have 
prepared an interesting program; the arrangements 
for the afternoons, which are not yet completed, 
will include visits to the best of the many local 
cemeteries, parks and other resorts, and as on other 
occasions, will form a most enjoyable feature of the 
meeting. It is hoped that all of the principal east- 
ern cemeteries will be represented. 
9 A. M. Tuesday, Sept. nth. 
Meeting called to order and Roll call. 
Receiving new members. 
Announcement of Executive Committee. 
President’s Address. 
Secretary and Treasurer’s Report. 
Communications. 
1st. Paper. How to Manage a Modern Cemetery. — A. W. 
Hobert. 
2d. Paper. \Vhat are the Advantages to the Management, 
also to the Lot Owners of the Modern, or the Lawn Plan Ceme. 
tery? — Robert Scrivener. 
Discussion of papers. 
Afternoon and Evening — Arrangements not yet completed. 
9 A. M. Wednesday, Sept. 12th. 
Roll call. 
3d. Paper. Civil Engineering in Cemeteries. — D. Z. Mor- 
ris. Discussion. 
4th. Paper. How to Make and Maintain a Cemetery with 
the Restrictions of Mounds and Memorials of any kind above 
the General Surface of the Lawns, and to Substitute a satisfac- 
tory Method of Marking Graves. — Timothy McCarthy. Dis- 
cussion. 
Questions from members for general discussion, with use of 
black board. 
Afternoon — Arrangements not yet completed. 
Evening, 8 P. M. 
5th. Paper. What qualifications are Necessary to Become 
an all around Successful Cemetery Superintendent? — W. D. 
Primrose. General discussion. 
9 A. M. Thursday, Sept. 13th. 
6th. Paper. What is generally the Best and Most Appro- 
ved System of Blending New Territory with an Old Cemetery? 
— Joseph Jewson. 
7th Paper. The Theoretical System for the Perfect Man- 
agement of Cemetery Employees, Teams, etc. — H. J. Diering. 
Report of Committees. 
Election of Officers, and Unfinished business. 
New business. 
Adjournment. 
Afternoon — Arrangements not yet completed. 
