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of antiquities, but those that had been broken had 
been restored, and the owner had an intellig’ent con- 
ception of the value of his property. As a further 
proof of the contrast he said that the first town had 
furnished the world with one great man, the unen- 
terprising deacon with whom he had driven such a 
satisfactory bargain ; the other “has furnished a 
governor of the state, a United States congressman, 
a state treasurer, a speaker of the house of represen- 
tatives and a mighty smart tin peddler.'’ (The latter 
being the man who drove close bargains with him 
in certain antique articles.) All of this, ]\Ir. Coburn 
asserted in his address, goes to prove the difference 
between the improved and the unimproved town. 
Another apt story by this speaker is new to us 
and much too good to l)e omitted. He said that 
“more than twenty years ago two men riding 
through a dilapidated country town came upon an 
old man working by the roadside. They asked him 
what he was doing, and he answered that he was 
setting out a new kind of plant that his wife had 
got in a neighboring village. He said that they were 
called ‘Christian anthems.’ Last summer I paid a 
visit to that town. The old man is dead now, but 
the Chrysanthemums he set out still live and have 
proved veritable Christian anthems to the place, 
which would not be recognized as the same by any 
person who knew it in the old days.’’ 
This may be an old story to our readers, but, old 
or new, isn’t “Christian anthems” good? Good 
enough to bear many repetitions, or so it seems to 
us. This address was followed by a series of fine, 
practical suggestions from Judge Joseph R. Taylor, 
and by pertinent remarks from the leader of the 
“Family meeting,” the Rev. Paul Moore Strayer. 
One does not know the exact significance of this so- 
called “family meeting,” but if this is a fair example, 
there should be a whole lot more of them held. It’s 
a pity that they are not the vogue farther west. 
Frances Copley Seavey. 
Neenah, Wis., shows the plan for a modern addition 
to an old fashioned burying ground, and a remodeling 
of the old part to bring it into harmony with the new. 
The conditions that confronted the designer, Mr. 
Frank H. Nutter, of Minneapolis, were unfavorable 
and somewhat unusual. On account of the particu- 
larly heavy soil of the locality the gravelly ridge on 
which the cemetery is situated is said to be the only 
area within several miles of the twin cities of Neenah 
and Menasha suitable for burial purposes. So several 
small burial grounds had been platted adjacent to each 
other, under both private and public auspices, each 
with its own entrance, and conforming more or less 
with each other. At last the citv officials found it 
and so far as possible to gain additional room for in- 
terments. An old highway, which ran along the hill- 
side with a cut bank along its upper side was vacated 
and a new one established along the foot of the hill. 
The problem in the new planning was to locate 
one entrance which could serve for the whole grounds 
and be under the eye of the superintendent ; to utilize 
to the best advantage the land gained from the aban- 
doned road, and what unoccupied land lay below it, 
taking into account the cut bank aforesaid ; to so locate 
the new drive as to connect conveniently with the old 
platting and also to furnish a feasible route for a 
sewer necessary to remove surface water from some 
low places in the older cemetery. 
