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than none. Some of the natives bury their (load in their hack yards without even putting them into a box. Uiu this is an exception to the rule, as is done by people living in the mountains, where there are no cemeteries. Every town has one or more graveyard**, bu: a queer custom prevails. Eots are not sold, as in our cemeteries, but instead are rented by the yiar, and at the end of the lease the rent must be paid for another term in order to keep the corpse beneath the earth. In cases where it is not paid, the grave is dug up and the bones go to the bone pile. To look into each corner of the different cemeteries means that one must gaze upon huge piles of human bones
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Oak Park Reporter
Oak Park, Illinois, US
Thu, Sep 07, 1899
Page 6
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