shared in the promotion of the Crematorium. Virtually every at- torney in Lancaster held stock in the institution. In the Janaury 1886 issue of The Modern Crematist, the local effort was described in these glowing terms: The cremation interest in Lancaster, Pa., where the first crematorium for general

the diary itself. An ordinary "blank book" (6 by 7 inches) with ruled pages and red-lined margins, it bears the embossed stamp of "John Sheaffer, Bookseller and Stationer, North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa." Inside the front cover, are pasted words clipped from some periodical, "War for the Union. Men of