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 1t.
Especial Correspondence.
PARIS, November /, 1883

A marked animation reigns In and
around the GENE cries on the present
anniversary of the dead. Guardians,
gardeners and laborers are busy
trimming alleys, and renovating, and
planting shrubs and flowers about
graves. Outside. the dealers in NOR
tuary mementoes recall! in petto fair.
Beyond doubt there is real and SIM
cere cutie for the dead IN France.
Other ceremonies of life may be
viewed as having to be done, but in
these annual pilgrimages 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 reverential step. All Saints
day ia devoted to in memor lam prayers
in the churches, snd All Souls dav to
homsges at the graves. Churches
yesterday. churchyards to-day.
The Fsts des Morris was instituted
by the Abbot. of Cluny in 99S. and
soon became general in the west.
Prayers were offered up for the reoose
of the souls of the faithful defunct
and in commemorstion of their
good works, notably slmsgiving. In
the vestries we're kept parchment
scrolls on which we're inscribed the
names of the departed for whom
prayers vera desired. and setting
forth the exemplary events OF their
lives. For each new death fresh
portion of parchment was stitched TO
the scroll. aud this became the Ron
Jeau1 des morris. In some psrts Of
France the laborers worked grstui-
tously on the day o! the fets for tee
benefit of the poor, and offered wheat
to ths cbu CHI, which according to
Saint Paul symbolized the IesIreo
lion of the body.
But the fete of the dead is not Pc
culiar to ChristiaDs; the Druids had
one for the night 1-2 OF November.
And the Gaulois believe it was dur
ing that night, that Samhsm judged
all 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 old
Druid practice. Independent Of al
religious motives, it is q duty to visit
the graves and tombs OF relatives and
friends on the second OF November.
II the detunct be political nOtoriety
bis resting place is visited by crowds
\ as protest against the government
Such occurred in l767, when people
defied before the temporary grave o
Daniel MANN. the dictator OF Venice
AZ protest against the march OF the
French troops to attack Garibaldi a.
Montana.
But the most serious demo ns.ra
ton from its consequences, was II
November, 1868, when the grave D
Dr.. Alphonse Bsadip, up till ther
studiously concesled. wss discovered
He WAS deputy. killed on the bar
ricades while defending law anC
right against the coup d'Etat OF 1851
Next day DelescluEs proposed in hi
paper q national subscription TO ereo
q monument over his grave. Tit
Imperial government prosecuted Del
escluzs;hs WAS defended by Gsmbet u
who instantly became famous BY
placing as it were the Second Empire
in the dock, and converting By hi
sloquenoc, the hostile b; non.
We do not criticise the tributes tina
love and grief deposit on q grave
whether it be . wreath in beads. O
crown in artificial flowers, saint in
plaster, or the photo OF the departed
nor even the toys of q child or the
bridal wreath of . BRIDE wife. Bu'
nothing haYmonizes 90 appropriately
With death .. natural flowers. They
= sh ads ID sorrow somewhat, and blunt
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
as mach indifference as play bills;
they have wresths With q blank
ground on which they will at once
stick with wire, prepared letters to
express "regrets," or mon pere. ma
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 .esst till the day of judgment. The
sasdess spectacle in cemetery is to
visit the lumber corner. shaded of by
trees or boarding. Here lie in piles
used up, unclaimed hesdstones. that
marked five or ten years exclusive
grave, covered with every expression
of sorrow hot from the heart. These
stones whso the surface is chiselled
airesb, will become the tablet for
another grief. Macaulsy says we
remember at most only our grand
fat hers. and Baron Raussman as.
serted, that after thirty-five years
Parisians forget their dead relatives.
| The fear of death is most in appre-
Ihension, Gays Shakespeare. Louis XII
sbhorred 90 much the words ''old age
and DEATH" that no person ever pro-
nounced them in his presence.
Prince d Ksuni,z became suddenly