I have been told by intelligent men that it was cruel in us to cremate these Indians. Wherein the cruelty? Do not our leading scientists advocate cremation as the proper mode of disposing of the dead? It was practised in both ancient and modem times. Bear in mind that ninety-eight per cent, of mountain men were pronounced free-thinkers, and as a rule they were more humane, more generous, truer to friends, with less deception than those in civilization, with few exceptions.
