The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25
Our Correspondent Sends His
Regularly Interesting
Letter.
A PAPER SHOWING STUDY AND RE-
SEARCH.
With Sarcastic Hits at the FOllieS and
Fashions OF the ParisianS.
What is Being Done In Paris, and
Who is Doing Ii.
Special Correspondence.
PARIS, November !. 1883.

A marked animation relgns In and
around the GENE cries on the present
anniversary of the dead. Guardians,
gardeners and Iaborers are busy
trimming alleys, and renovating, and
planting shrubs and foWers about
graves. Outside. the dealers in NOR
tuary mementoes recall in petto fair.
Beyond doubt there is real and sln-
cere cutie for the dead In France.
Other ceremonies of life may be
viewed as having to be done, but in
these annual pilgrimsges to the
churches and to the cemeteries. true
daty and sentiment are the sources OF
impulsion. Heart goes with the act.
and q sense of satisfaction follows
from the reverentisl step. All Saints
day is devoted to an memor lam prayers
in the churches, and All Souls dav tu
homsges at the graves. Churches
yesterday. churchy ards to-day.
The Fete des Morris was instituted
by the Abbot. of Clupy in 99S. and
soon became general in the west.
Prayers were offered up for the re2ose
of the souls of the faithful defunct
and in commemorstion OF their
good works, notably slmsgiving. In
the vestries were kept parchment
scrolls on which were inscribed the
names of the departed for whom
prayers vera desired, and setting
forth the exemplary events OF their
lives. For each new desth fresh
portion of parchment was stitched 10
the scroll, aud this became the Rom
IeauI des morris. in some psrts OF
France the laborers worked grstui-
tously on the day OF the fets for tie
benefit Of the poor, and offered wheat
to the cbu Oh, ~hioh according to
Saint Paul symbollzed the IesUreo-
lion of the body.
But the fete of the dead ia rot Pc
culiar to Christians; the Druids bad
one for the night 1-2 OF November.
And the Gaulois believe it was dur
ing that night, that Samham judged
ali the souls of those who died during
the year. In parts OF Brittany still
fires are extinguished during the
night of the fete, relic oil the Ole
Druid practice. Independent of al
religious motives, it is duty to visi
the graves and tombs OF relatives anl
friends on the second OF November.
II the defunct be political nOtoriety
his costing place is visited by crowd
4 as q protest against the government
Such occurred in 1767, when people
defied before the temporary grave o
Daniel MANN, the dictator OF Venice
AZ protest against the march OF TIT
) French troops to attack Garibaldi q
Montana.
But the most serious demo as.rs
ton from its consequences, was il
November, 1868, when the grave D
Dr.. Alphonse Bsudin, up till ther
. studiously concesled. wss discovered
He was deputy. killed on the bar
ricades while defending law ant
right against the coup i'Etat OF 1851
Next day DelescluEs proposed in hi
paper q national subscription TO cree
q monument over his grave. Tn
imperial government prosecuted Del
escluzs;hs WAS defended by Gambet'a
who instantly became famous b!
placing as it were the Second Empir'
in the dock, and converting By hi
sloquenoc, the hostile b, ncn.
We do not criticise the tributes tina
love and grief deposit on q grave
whether it be . wreath in beads. q
crown in artificial flowers, q saint il
plaster, or the photo OF the departed
DOR even the toys of child or ths
bridal wreath of bride wife. Bu
nothing hsYmonizes go appropriately
With death .. natural flowers. They
= sh sds I'd sorrow somewhat, and blum
not little the sharp pangs of grief
They are the inmates OF prisons who
produce nearly oil the grave memen-
toes in bead work; these are sold out
side the cemeteries ny hawkers, with
Is mach indifference as play bills
they have wreaths with q blank
ground on which they will at once
stick with wire, prepared letters to
express regrets" or mon psre. mo
mere, mon mari, or ma femme. 1t the
vendor guesses you are not in very
deep sorrow. your purchase will be
guaranteed to keep sound forever, or
at .esss till the day of judgment. The
saSdess spectacle in cemetery is to
visit the lumber corner. shaded of by
trees or 8 boarding. Here lie in piles
used up, unclaimed headstones, that
marked five or ten years exclusive
grave, covered with every expression
of sorrow hot from the heart. These
stones whsn the surface is chiselled
asresb, will Become the tablet fol-
another grief. Maeaulay says we
remember at most only our grand
| fat ners, and Baron Raussuan as.
serted, that after thirty-fve years
| Psrisians forget their dead relatives.
The fear of death is most in appre'
hension, Gays Shakespeare. Louis XII
abhorred 30 much the words ''old age
and death" that no person ever pro-
lnounced them in bis presence
Prince d Ksuni,z became suddenly