First In The Country

A columbarium has just been finished near San Francisco at a cost of $22,000. A columbarium is a place where the ashes of tbose who have beeu cremated are filed away iu pigeonholes, with a neat little placare! ou the outside of each giving the name of the departed and other f acts for identification. The urn in which the ashes are sealed is an ornamental little piece of pottery or metal, and it roixy be taken out of the pigeonhole and dusted or handed about from oae to another of the relatives and friends of the departed upon the occasion of their visits to the "grave." More than 1,000 urns can be stored away in the columbarium, on whose possession the Caüfomians are uow priding themselves and which is the only one of the kind in the United States. The building has been so planned that wings can be added at any time, but it is expected that it will be many years before the 1,000 pigeonholes now rcady will all be occupied, although the San Francisco crematorium, since the time of its conipletion, ha.s done a steadily