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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15

Il. n. BnNHAM. BIN. HAYDEN.
W. II. HOLMES.
DoNHAM. HOLMES & HAY DEN, AtiOr-
ID neys at law Ofiice in Bush's block,
between State and Court, on Conf st.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15

John A. CARSON, Attorney at law
II Rooms aud T. Iladd q Bush's bank
Building. Salem, oregcn Tyr
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15
NJ. ". HUNT

CHAw, PRATT & HUNT, Attorneys NJ
- law. Office over Capital National Bank,
Salem, Oregon.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15

DR. Il. q. SMITH, Dentist, w state street,
H. Halein, Or Finished dental opera
Tons OF every description. Painless opera
lions speciality.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15

~, thktOL0 MORE f0R TIE Gy1 l.lq or Gy.Nfy 70 ALL
esn amy other Management. nq- q he a., Ny, .,,espt
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15
Health is Wealth !

DIR. E. c. VESTS Nerve and Brain
Treatment, guaranteed specific for Hys.
terra, Dizziness, Commissions, Fits, Nervous
Neuralgia, Headache, Nervous Prostration
2aused by the use of alcohol or tobacco,
Waketullness, Mental Depression, Soften.
ing OF the brain resulting In insanity and
eading TO misery, decay ana DEATH nTe.
mature old age, barrenness, loss of power
eau sed by over-exertion of the brain. Each
ooX contains one month's treatment, 81 90
box or six boxes for $500, sent by mail
prepaid on receipt of price.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15

Wy ID. PUGH, Architect, Plans, speoi
wv ficatlOns aud superintendent for
all classes OF buildings. Office go Com
laerclal ST., up stairs.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15

I've reFfOrmtnoes Daily at andsn. -,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15

over 200 young men employed on
the Omuibus aud Market street
cattle ear lines have signlflrd their
desire To become members of thu
carmen's branch OF the San Francis
oo Young Mems Christian Associa
tion, which will occupy Mr.. Green
wood 5 new building, corner OF Fell
and Baker streets, about the middle
OF next month.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15

~ 3. MCNALLY, Arcniiect, New Bush
W. Breyman block. Plans and specifcn-
notice, superintendent OF work promptly
OOk6d after. 26tf
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15

~ J. McCA uSTLAND, D,Uivil sanitary and
IA. Hydraulic Engineer. II. y. Deputy
mineral surveyor. city surveyors Office,
Murphys Block. salem Oregon.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15
WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXEs

To cure any case. With each order re-
'eived by us for six boxes, accompanled
Win 800, we will send the purchaser our
Hult guarantee TO refund the nancy il
Inte, issued only by Geo. K. Good Drug.
Sist, Sole agent, 800 Com. St.. Salem, Or.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07

city and the death rate Is very large.
During the past month there were four
burials q day in this cemetery, and saw
six deep graves already dug when visited
it. Three of these were only half filed, and
the others had nothing whatever in them.
Leaving the court was next conducted
down into the great storehouse for the
bones of the dead after their leases have ex-
pired and they have been ousted by their
landlords from their tenements above. Go
ing down a winding stair SO narrow that
my sides grazed the walls as I passed, en-
tered long vaulted passage walled with
stones and paved with cement. This
passage was we'll lighted by openings
from above, and 1t was dry and
free from smells 1t runs clear
around and under the edge of this
five acres of cemetery and is in fact walled
more than 1000 feet long. For ages this
tunnel has been the receptacle Of the bones
of the dead of this city, and it is now al
most filed. Only about 200 feet of it remain
vacant and the mouth to it is in the middle
of this. stood at this point and looking
either way could see the
Great Piles of Skulls
and other pieces of skeletons jumbled to-
gether in all sorts of shapes and mixed up
into one heterogeneous mass of bones, rising
In a slanting way from the floor of the tun-
mel at an angle of 45o to the roof Every
thing was jumbled together in the great
democracy of death. The bones of young
and old were piled on one another. The
feet of men rested in the skulls of women,
and I saw great toe in the grinning teeth
of what may once have been a beautiful
girl About another skull the bones of an
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07

Fo,lv before. She followed the young mans
glance toward the oaken wall, and again the
music was almost inaudible.
'Therel'' said Wescott pointing across
the room. 'sThat panel can be moved. 10
is door that leads down narrow steps, az
the Indian assured me, into huge, cellar.
Here are to be found bags Of money; thou.
sands of pounds, Miss Carter, in hard cash.
Marisri's cheeks were flushed with excite
ment; and the melody sounded as II follow
ing her thoughts into shower OF gold.
"Why." said she, "did Mr.. Girdlestones
servant hide this from us?"
"Ahl I am now coming to that, said
Westcott, ''On the night that Mr. Girdle-
stone died-a rainy, gusty night-the Indian
could not Sleep The loss of his old master
distressed him deeply; but the secret which
he had stolen distressed him still more.
He could never restore it now; and IL
seemed as much crime in his eyes as II he
had stolen the gold. He took the lantern
from Its place and wandered about as he had
seen his master doing. Neither the patter-
ing of the rain against the windows, nor the
moaning of the wind In the draughty rooms
and corridors, gave him any concern. He
had never experienced the least fear; 1T had
all been wonder and breathless interest at
his masters ways. Terror suddenly seized
upon him for the first time. How the feel
ing came he could not explain; but without
looking round or even listening, an over
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07

carrying one of these blue coffns on his
head, but whether he was on his way to the
cemetery or to the house of mourning I
could not tell.
The general customs of mourning in
Mexico are somewhat different from ours.
Mourning is much more general and black
is put on for intimate friends and for
distant relatives. 1t is, however, worn. a
shorter time, but the occasions for mourn
ing dresses are so frequent that every LADY
has her mourning suit in her wardrobe. If,
for instance a young lady dies, her friends
wear black for her for 80 days, and if it is
the young girls mother who is dead. the
friends will put on black for half that time.
Ladies do not attend funerals in Mexico.
but they pay visits of coincidence soon after
the death, and such visits are made in
mourning clothes. Cards and letters of re-
gret are always sent to the family at the
time of death by such friends who cannot
call, and the announcements of funerals are
of the most touching and extrayacant
nature. Funerals are celebrated as a rule
almost Immediately after death, and in
Mexico City as soon as possible after the
"a hours which the law prescribes that the
dead should be kept before interment. The
cofin is procured Immediately, the cards
are sent out and the ceremonies take place.
Street Cars Serve as Hearses.
Mexico City is perhaps the only place in
the world where the street cars are the
hearses. There are no other kind used and
the cars lines make good thing out of their
funeral business. There are i5O deaths a
day in Mexico City, and you see these cars
draped in black and driven by drivers in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
CHAPER II.
FINDING THE SECRET VAULT.

As soon as he had assured himself that
Mr.. Carter was asleep, the young man rose
from his chair, stepped softly across the
room, and approached Marion's side.
Standing where the light fell strongly upon
him, some PAGES from her, he whispered;
''Don't stop playing, Miss Carter; your
father will wake. I have secret to tell
you and much will depend, within the next
few minutes, upon your presence of mind
But do not be alarmed" he fastened to add.
"Play as you are playing now, and listen"
Marian was a true musician; and at the
moment that John Westcott came and stood
there she was carried away by the enchant-
ing effect of some melody. His unexpected
appearance startled her; it was like being.
suddenly reused out of dream. She could
not hide her agitation; even the food Of
harmony threatened to fall into discord A
false note was struck; and then, In q
troubled voice, she murmured, as she half
lifted her eyes from the keys' "a secret
to tell me?"
westcott sat down, though without ap-
preaching nearer; for his first thought was
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
DUELs OF GERMAN STUDENTS.

Neither the Kaiser Nor the Pope Are Rad
ical in Their Views.
The Pope has Joined hands with the EN-
peror in the attempt to make dueling less
popular among German students, says a
Berlin letter. The Berlin organ Of the Vat
ican announces that all studsnts protesting
the Catholic faith accepting or sending
cartel will be liable to the penalty of what
is called in the church ''the small proscrip-
tion, and on a repetition of the offense to
accommodation. 1t is understood, how
ever, that in cases of deliberate insult and
dishonor explanations will be considered.
Apropos Of dueling the Emperor is much
incensed that his recent speech at supper
given to His Majesty by the Bonn students
should be so misinterpreted by the foreign
press. His Majesty sternly forbids what he
terms dueling as a pastime; but he is of
opinion that no man is worthy to call him
self German, and as such soldier, who is
not willing to defend with his life, if neces-
sary, a deliberate aspersion on Chis honor.
To that extent he would preserve the prac-
tice of dueling in the universities.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07

lis lean legs like q glove. This
town is mile and q half above the
sea- The air here is as dry as the bones of
these skeletons the year round, and nature
wears perpetual smile of blue skies, bright
flowers and braeing air. The cemetery gives
q view of hundreds Of low mountain peaks,
every one of which covers incalculable
Riches of Silver and Gold,
and the precious metals undoubtedly lie
under the very bones of these tens of thou
sands of the dead 1 entered by its wide
gate and found myself surrounded by great
walls in q court which contained perhaps
five acres of ground The walls of this
court were about eight feet thick, and as I
examined them found that they were in
fact made up of pigeon-holes about three
feet square and six feet deep, some of which
were open, and others of which were closed
with marble slabs on which were printed
the names and virtues of the dead who were
shelved away within.
There were thousands of these pigeon
holes, and my guide showed me q card
giving the rates. From it see that these
holes are rented out to the bodies
Of the dead, and the guide
tells me that the most of
them are taken for about five years, after
which the bones of the deceased are taken
i
ready for the next occupant. It costs SIS
for the use of one of these pigeon-holes for
five years, and this seems to be the shortest
term for which they are leased. A man who
wants one perpetually can have it by paving
800, and II he cares TO crowd his whole fam
lily into the same hole he can have it for the
lump sum Of $500.
How Poor People Are Buried.
The ordinary dead are, however, buried in
the ground. The city of Guanahuato is rich,
but it's great wealth is in the hands of few.
The majority are too poor to buy q vault for
any number of years, and the masses are
buried. The rates are also on the rental
basis. 1t costs dead man 81 to lie two
years in these burial grounds, and after that
his bones are taken up and another body fills
the hole. The five acres which make up the
court of the cemetery are literally COM
posed of bone dust. Each removal has left
some pieces of his skeleton behind, and the
ground is made up of the dust of past
humanity. In going over it you see little
pieces Of bones sticking up everywhere, and
al one point, where a number of graves were
being dug, | noted pieces of skulls and other
bits OF skeletons among the mixture of dirt
and bones thrown up.
l was interested in watching the digging
Of the graves and in the curious manner 10
which the bodies were laid in them. One
digging here sufices for number of burials.
The hole is made about feet wide, feet
long and from 6 to s feet deep. The first
corpse that comes gets the bottom berth.
lie is taken out of his rented coffin and laid
with his head on bunch of leaves, and
over him is put, perhaps, six inches of dirt.
The grave is then ready for the next arrival,
who IS buried in like manner, and so
The Bodies Arc Sandwiched
one on top of the other until the grave is
filed. Guanahuato is very unhealthy
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
A Clear Complexion.

Pe-ru-na will produce clear complexion
and smooth skin. 1t does so by correcting
digestion, the great source of blood contain,
ination. Many young people from IA to 20
years Of age are greatly annoyed by pimples
SO common at that time of life. Pe-ru-na
removes them by removing the cause, viz,
blood impurities, Of course. 1t requires
some perseverance to take any medicine
with regularity day after day, but it amply
rewards any man or woman TO DO SO II by
that means they are able to rid themselves
of a pimply face and secure clear, bright
face instead. This is precisely what Peru
ma will do. Each bottle is accompanied by
full directions for use, and can be obtained
of your druggist. A valuable book of 80
pages on the cure of skin and blood diseases,
and other diseases of spring and early sum-
mer, will be sent free by the Peruna Msdi-
cine Company, Columbus, 0.
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mourning, spinning along the road towards
the cemetery every hour or 80 during the
its center for the coffin. 1t is open at the
sides, but has black canopy at the top and
its decorations are more or less elaborate,
according to the charge for the service.
Behind it comes q second Gar, containing
the mourners, and the cars go very fast, as
they have to go on the same tracks as the
other cars, and here the dead have to run to
get out of the way Of the living.
This car service costs all the way from s.
to S120 per funeral, and some of the higher
priced cars are covered with silk, and in the
case of the dead being infants or young peo-
pie, are often trimmed in white satin.
Mexico City is, in fact, very expensive
place in which to die. A funeral costs $500
at the least, If It Is at all respectable, and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
DANCING SOAP BUBBLES.
A Trick That Is Explained by the Weight
of Carbonic Acid Gas.

A Trick That Is Explained by the Weight
of Carbonic Acid Gas.
81. Louis t-Dispatch.l
Several schooners and siphon with soda
water are necessary to accomplish this
interesting feat The soda water is needed
for filling one of the glasses with carbonic
acid, which is done by pouring the same
with soda water into it and withdrawing the
water by means of straw or tube. The
carbonie acid remains in the glass, because
it is twice as heavy as the air. To keep it
from evaporating the glass is covered with
lid. The soap-suds has already been pre-
our purpose little glycerine is added, the
mixture well shaken and set aside for min
ute or two, when the membrane that has
formed on the surface is removed.
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burial have seen the vultuses by the
hundreds swoop down upon the naked dead
babies Of the Parsees as they were laid upon
the Towers of Silence at Bombay, and
have wandered among the tombs OF the
thousand generations of Cinnamon which
fill the sides of the White Cloud Mountains
near the big city of Canton. Ihave admired
the sculptured marbles representing living
wives bending over their dead husbands in
the wonderful Campo Santo in Genoa, have
seen the dead piled naked on top Of one an
other in the cemetery at Naples and have
wandered among the bone receptacles Of the
Cataoombs at Rome. I have seen the num-
my tombs of Egypt, the burning CHATS Of
the Gsnges, the cremations and quick-lime
burials of the Japanese, but the sights Of
this Mexican cemetery are stranger than
all
Great Piles of Skeletons.
I do not find them down in any of the
books on Mexico and 1 would hardly have
believed that they existed had not seen
them with my own eyes. Imagine if you
can the bones of hundred thousand human
beings torn to pieces and piled one on the
top ofanother like so many corn in granary.
Put all ages and sexes together. Tear them
limb from limb and mix the mass of skulls,
legs, arms and ribs together so that the
bony fingers Of one run into the hollow
eyes of its neighbor, and the parts of the
different skeletons lose themselves in the
vast pile Of this vaulted granary of bones!
This gives but faint idea Of what 1 saw
to-day. The cemetery of this city of Guiana
huato is situated on the top of high hill
overlooking the town. I rode up to it on a
little donkey and was admitted to it by an
Indian who had hat fully foot high on
his swarthy head, revolver foot long
tied to his leather belt and q pair
Of buckskin pantaloons which fitted
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
BIackmaiIlng the Dead.

when it is desired to take the bodies out Of
the country.
Matchmaking the Dead.
If the friends of the dead are not posted,
all sorts of extravagant charges are imposed
upon them, and the estate of Kansas mil
honaire named Smith, who died here lately,
paid s., 900 for expenses here. Among the
charges was one of $500 for embalming, and
heard of a case yesterday in which Mexi-
can embalmer or doctor charged 5000 for
preparing the body of a Frenchman who
died here for shipment The work was not
properly done and the deceased could not
be sent away, whereupon one of the Ameri-
can newspapers published an article as to
the outrageous charge. The doctor then
brought suit against the paper, saying itwas
true he had brought in the bill for embalm:
ing as stated, but as the body had decom-
posed before he began, he was not able to
preserve it and had withdrawn the bill.
Had the newspaper not published the fact,
the bill would hardly have been withdrawn.
Everything, however, Is expensive in
Mexico, and the undertakers have to make
high charges All of the materials for cof-
are put together here, and the prices are
proportionately large.
Mexico as Healthfu1 Capital.
The death rate OF Mexico City is very
high. 1t is said that it averages about 81
in the 1000, and the only wonder is that it
is not higher. Were it not for the perpetu-
ally bright sun and the high altitude the
city would be morgue, a vast charnal
house, Golgotha, a place of the skulls.
Think of city which has had population
of hundreds of thousands for many genera
tions built upon and over a swamp, with no
drainage whatever, and let this city go on
with its accumulated mass Of filth fncreas-
ing year by year and sinking down into the
soil, and you have some idea of sanitary
Mexico City.
A constant miasma rises here at night
and the water is only three feet under the
city. Is it any wonder that there is no
place In the world where typhus and typhoid
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
American Cemetery in Mexico.


American Cemetery In Mexico.
The climate is so equable, the thin, dry
air and the hot sun suck up the juices of de-
composition, and such people as are careful
and sleep above the ground floor are in little
danger. Outside of the city there is no
danger whatever, and if it had been built on
high ground it would be the finest health
resort of the world As it is, foreigners
have to be very careful of their health here,
and the foreign cemeteries contain many
occupants The American cemetery con-
tains about ], 200, and it is so full that the
colony is about to purchase a new one.
Still have met several Americans who
told me that their lives have been saved by
coming to Mexico, and this country is said
to be the best resort in the world for con-
sumptives. The great death rate comes rom
the lower classes, who sleep right on the
sewer-like ground, and the Mexican agent
of the Mutual Life Insurance Company tells
me that during his first % months here he
did not have single death to pay for out of
the great number insured.
FRANK g. CARPENTER
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A soap bubble is then formed in the usual
way and dropped into the glass that con-
tains the carbonic acid. The bubble jumps
Immediately from the glass. When care
fully handled one can see the bubble swell
until it extends to the sides of the glass,
when it bursts, the endosmose (transmisslon.
OF gaseous matters through membranes OF
porous substances) permitting the carbonic
acid to enter the bubble and increasing ite
original volume.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07

BE strangest burying
ground of the world is
here at Guanahuato.
1 have visited the most
curious grayeysrds on
record, but I have
never seen anything
that compares with the
horrors 1 saw to-day.
1 have stood in the
lonely garden of the
Wat Sab Kate in
Bangkok in Siam and
have watched the
hungry dogs fight over
the bleeding flesh Of
the dead humans who
were thrown thHe for
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07

in the case of foreigners the expenses run
up into the thousands. This is especially SO
when it is desired to take the bodies out Of
the country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
Centuries of Dead Piled Up
in the Graveyard of
GuanahuatO, Mex.
PIGEON-HOLED SKELETONS.
Acres of Human Dust That Is Spaded
Over for Each New Corpse,
REMARKABLE MUMMIES OF AZYECS.
Air Preserves the Bodies and Even the Ex-
pressiOns of the Faces.
EXPENSES OF FUNERALS AND BURIALs

CORRESPONDENCE OF TEE prsrArcH.,
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rwRrTTEN FOR THE DrsPArcH.1
Yet there still stand the noble trees,
As graceful in the grateful breeze,
As when one hundred years ago,

Inside the house were a number of queer,
observation-disclosures rooms, each having one
or more cupboards and ''cubby-holes, )" in
which he kept his seeds and specimens The
windows had broad stone sills, delightfully."-
suggestive of novel-reading, and each one
was furnished with inside glass shutters,
and had evidently been used as pocket
greenhouses for his winter plants. A broad
path, with stone steps, cut by Bartram, led
down to the bank of the river, from where
we had fine view of the Schuylkill-or the
s'Manayunk," as the Indians called ito
where it Joined the Delaware.
Altogether, it was most delightful place
to while away a summer afternoon, and q
lover of trees and flowers could spend many
days there and not exhaust the study it af-
fords. LILLE N. HOUSTON.
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GUANAHUATo, June 3.
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The roadway up to the cemetery has many
casket shops, but the caskets, though e1.
pensiye, are very rudely made and many of
those for babies are painted light blue or
grained in oak. saw at Zacatecas a bow
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-07

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