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Seemingly much moved, the aged "Tiger of France" declared: "It was the express desire of my departed friend that I should speak here. My words will be few. M. Geffroy asked his friends to avoid vanity and worldly honors at his funeral. . . .
Yet he was content. Luther Burbank, plant wizard, received Death at 77 without any last minute decision to poultice his scientific philosophy, of life with hope for an after life. They conducted his funeral as he had wished, quietly, privately, with no religious rites - and quoted over him his own...
"Truly a widow is as a withered faggot. Let her then burn on her lord's funeral pyre."
With such proverbs as these, Indians have for centuries coldly praised the suttee: "a good woman" who allows herself to be burned to death at her husband's funeral. The British have, of course, largely stamped out this rite, but only after the most appalling struggle.
He was born in Eureka, Nev., son of George Washington Baker, leading counsel of the Southern Pacific Railroad in days when emiment railroad lawyers were advised to carry guns. The baby University of Nevada and the slightly more sophisticated Leland Stanford University gave him his education. Then he went into...