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Natter of sior+. .r Tess Importance
i.s-,' \ t,rsrt,e! IDon.
The Souta ty.uAae !. tIteable Iron
works We're cou4p.e eiy destroyed by
fire.
Agen; C2ael.sou o. the Great North
ern u vi was SERIOUSLY injured
by ia =: .-,-. a crowded s,rset car.
A. V.r., l.. i z:>o. Francisco Vallo-
real and Jnm R;igei qgagreled over a
senorita Ia the dad which followed
both We're k lied.
A San Francisco paper says Governor
Markham has decided 70 appoint Irwin
G. Stump. chairman of the Republican,
state central committee, senator to sue
ceed Stan. orl.
Thieves entered a sample room at
Park River, N. D., and succeeded In
getting away with $500 worth of gloves
from the samples of G. III. Bronson,
travelling for Lanpher, Finch& Skinner
of st. Paul. The gloves are all for the
same hand and will be worthless to the
thief.
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EMBALMING BODIES.
STRANGE OCCUPATION FOLLOWED BY
MANY AMERICAN WOMEN.

They Are Adopts at Ministering In the
House OF Mourning-Modern Develop
ments of the Ancient Egyptian Art of
Embalming the Dead.
Very few Americans know that the
ancient art of embalming has been COM
pletely restored and improved, though
not in the ancient way. Not only are
bodies now preserved far more perfectly
than at any time by the Egyptians, but
all the unpleasant, not to say revolving,
incidents of their practice are avoided.
At the outbreak of our civil war it was
taken for granted that speedy decay was
the fate of all the dead. and it was only
by such rude appliances as ice and salt
or the most pungent drugs that any OF
the bodies of those slain in battle could
be taken home for burial. The demand
suddenly created set hundreds of physi.
clans and undertakers to investigating,
but such Is the natural reverence for all
that is old that people generally spoke OF
enbalming as q lost art, and even the
scientific declared that in this climate il
would be impossible to preserve a corpse
az in ancient Egypt.
At the very beginning Of the war one
Confederate and several Federal surgeons
began to study methods of corpse pre-
servation, and the net result of all theil
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a sIsTINE CHoRIsTER. and the other was
when Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned
emperor.
The choir consists of 80 men, and for
centuries its music has been composed
by one of its W members. It's Italian
title is II Collegio del Cuppillani Cantori
della Capella Pontificia-that is, it il the
pOpe's personal choir and only sings
when he oficiates at mass or on the
death of a cardinal.
1t Is the oldest musical organization in
the world, dating back to the fourth GEN.
fury, when Pope Sylvester set up a school
for training the voices of boys. For a
time all the churches in Rome were sup
Piled from this school, and only the
best were retained for the pope's choir.
In the time of Gregory the Great the
honor of membership was SO highly re-
garded that persons of most noble birth
contended eagerly for places, and many
OF the choir went to- take charge of the
music in the principal churches Of other
countries. After various changes the
number in the choir was fixed at 80 in
1850 and has remained at that ever since.
That was during the short period that
the famous Palestrina was master of the
choir. He was the only married man
who ever served in it and was removed
by Pope Paul Nv for that reason. II
was long thought very remarkable that
such fine soprano voices were heard in
this exclusive male choir, and many Gu.
riOus stories We're told to account for 1t,
but it is now known TO have been the
result OF q special training begun in
childhood. This system, known as thu
ssarte fatte," Is still in use in Spain, and
voices thus trained retain their sweet
ness to extreme old age. Four year.
ego d member OF this choir died al
the Ags of IA, having retained the purity
e his voice almost to the last, and twt
singers in the present choir are over IA.
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The larger part of the city is uninhabit-
able by Europeans o account OF filth,
especially during the dry season. The
tide sets back far enough to make the
river Menam brackish, and 1t is sluggish
at all times, and for months together
rotting c-arcasses and vegetation almost
choke the current. The water is like
pea soup in looks. Powdered alum is
used to clear it, but ever when it looks
clear as mountain spring water it is often
deadly to Europeans.
The natives drink it without clearing,
and when a cholera season comes they
die by tens of thousands. All the car
rion birds Of the vicinity flock to the
city, but cannot devour the corpses that
are tumbled ont ON the plain. Many
times, says an authority, ven a third OF
the people have died in o summer-say,
150, 900 or 200, O0O-but they await their
fate with the helpless apathy of Asiatics
or the sullen torpor of despair. The wet
monsoon ends the epidemic. The rain
descends in such torrents as to almost
strangle one exposed to it, the filth is
washed away, the country laborers
crowd in till the population is restored
and all goes on as before.
Siam contains about 800, 900 square
miles, and intelligent explorers have
pronounced it the richest section of earth
by nature. The valleys may be called
excessively fertile, and in the hills are
timber and medicinal plants of immense
value. Probably no other equal area in
the world contains so great a variety of
plants and animals, including reptiles,
and the animals are usually the largest
and most vigorous Of their species. The
common elephant of Siam is not equaled
i'm any other country, but the SO called
white elephant is smaller. There are
also deer, musk oxen, wild cattle of e
cry kind, wild hogs, every variety OF
apes and monkeys, birds of almost ev-
cry known species and of the most bril-
liant plumage, and reptiles in scores OF
species from the largest crocodf1es to
the little green lizard.
A list of the valuable plants would al
most fill this column, and there are also
rich lodes of various metals. For many
years Siamese jealousy kept out all who
would develop these riches, but King
Khoulaloukorn /, who came to the throne
in 1858, has encouraged the introduction
of European methods.
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MRS. YOUNG.

MRS. 9REENsLADE. MISS GARDNER.
labors and those of many other gentle
men may be summed up in one sentence:
All the old, barbarous methods are dis
carded, and in their stead arterial injec-
ton and other processes which do not
mutilate the corpse in the slightest de-
gree are employed.
The business of embalming seems like q
queer occupation for the gentler sex, but
it is an interesting fact that there are now
nearly 300 ladies in the United States
engaged in undertaking, and several OF
these are very skillful embalmers. Mrs.
J. L. Young of Vinton, Ia, began as her
husbands assistant, but soon developed
such a mastery of it that he gave her en-
tire control. She is a native of New
York, born Miss Fellows.
Mrs. James t. Brett of Milwaukee, a
native of Boston, developed early in life
a peculiar aptitude for ministering in
the house Of mourning and is now a
truly scientific ladies' embalmer. She
is also a writer of ability, a lady Of re-
fnement and high social position. Mrs.
Fred Fl. Russ Of Chicago, of the firm of
"Mr. g. Mrs. Fred Fl. Russ" as it is
now established, is also q skillful en-
balmer and very graceful writer. Mrs.
John Greenslade of Bellevue, O., studied
embalming under the instruction OF
Professor Renonard and has been in the
practice two years. Mrs. Heaton Dart
was the first lady embalmer in New
York city and state, took a thorough
course of study and has been in the bust
ness over 10 years.
Miss Fannie Gardner of Vincennes
has the honor of being the first lady
undertaken in Indiana. She has also
taken a course in the study of embalm-
ing and is entering on the work. Mrs.
Ellen Moore Of Reading, Pa, began to
serve as an undertaken In 1851. and at
date of her last report had laid out 6,43s
bodies. Another very old practitioner
is Mrs. George F. Wildman Of Bridge.
port, Conn, who began in 1845 at the
age of 16.
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Oil Well

FosroRIA, O., July "a. "A frightful
accident occurred at the village of
Prairie Depot, six miles from this city.
An oil well had just begun to flow and
as usual in such cases the ground was
saturated with oil. A frightful ex-
plosion occurred and six men were
caught in the flames. Two are dead
and two others fatally burned.
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LATEST MARKET PRICES
St. Paul Union Stock Yards.

SOUTH ST. PAUL. July "A, 1893.
HOGS-lOc higher. Range of prices, 500
G5.4L
CATTLE Steady but quiet; light demand
Prime steers, $3.ooG3.5e good steers, $2.u0d
2.25: prime cows, $2.2sf2.5E good cows, 32.0Od
2.25; common to fair cows. 70c0Sl.76; Light
veal calves. Sd heavy caves, 8 % o.. Is
stockers, sl.50as.0G; feeders, 500 1s.2a; bulls,
Sl.2bG2.W.
SHEEP-Dull.
) Muttons, S3.Oo14.0; lambs, $2.75naO
stockers and feeders, S2.O003.00. 80
Receipts--Hogs, go cattle. Is; calves, Is
sheep. $40
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fair. To realize
how great q COM
pliment to Amer
lea this is it must
be remembered
that only twice
in all its history
has this choir
sung outside of
Rome, and both
e q S of ne
C esslty, so to
speak. One was
when the pope
had to retreat to
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kiliet In q EunnMaY.

SIOUX FAILS. s. D. oa.y 24-Levi
Ingalls,. a. o.,t ,e,ti@r II tbs county,
was killed near Hartford. by a
team. Mrs. Meto Winters, Jr., was
hurt. rrobaoy ata.iy. ana Miss Maud
Stewart s~-riousl..
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Remove tn Milwaukee.

MADISON, Wis, July 24.-The Daily
Tunes. which LAS hpea running FOR a
year, will be removed 10 Milwaukee,
within u fortnight. 1t is Democratic
and was established by the governors
private secretary. G. l., Clark.
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n SiSTlNE CHOIR.

Oldest and Most Peculiar Musical Organi-
zation In the World.
His Holiness Leo XIII has astonished
the cardinals. and indeed all the Catho.
lie world, by giving permission for the
famous Sistine choir to come to the
United States and sing at the Worlds
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business, Portion Bnrnea.

ToLkDo, O., Jaly 24.-l'he entire
business portion o. Edgerton. u sinall
town OF 1900 people il Vase county,
has been destroyed b. lire. The loss is
about $500, 900 with about twc-thirds
insurance.
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london Paving Blocks.

The streets of London are paved with
~granulated cork and bitumsn pressed
into blocks. Elasticity Is the chief rec
ommendation of this composition.
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Minneapolis Grain.

MINSEAPoLIs, July "a. 1sa,
wHEAT-July opening. SIC: highest, SIC:
lowest, 5174c; closing, sc. August closing.
5slsc; September opening, az, highest, 6I4.;
lowest. size: closing, 6 N. December opened
s71sc: highest, 67hc: lowest, c6Ac; closing at
67lsc. On track-So.l hard, 63c; No. l North
ern. eOl4c; No. 2 Northern. bSd59c.
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Too Lazy b Die.

DR.. Newcomb of Cornell university. 1t
is said, kept snails shut up in a pill box
for seven years which were resuscitated
by o very little moisture.
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TIE SlAMESE CAPITAL.
Bangkok q Very Unhealthy City For Euro
nanus ia live I'm

o Very UnheaEthy CITY FOf EufU~
peans to Live In
The trouble between France and Siam
is the old and familiar one. The great
and civilized nation which has long con-
trolled the lower part of the peninsula
and now owns all Anam wants more
territory, and Siam refuses to give up
the Me-kong valley.
Bangkok is a very curious and inter
esting city of 500, 900 inhabitants, 10o, 00o
of whom live in households on the river.
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Chicago Grain and Provisions

Chicago Grain and Provisions
CHICAGO, July "a. 1891.
OPENING PRICES.
wHEAT-Augu~t Ilsc septic nbsr. conc.
CORN-JuIy, $50 august, 3s5sc; Septem-
Der, .sas.
OAIS-August IA; September, 23zc.
POkE-ScI TENDER, Sio.9l.
LARD--eptember, $40. o.
SHORT lbs epte mber, $s.Ia.
CiosING PRICES.
wHE.Ar-Iuly, ,3c: August, e39sc; Septem.
Der, aG~-c.
COkN-July, ogh August, 39ssc: Septem.
Der, 3,%s:.
Az July, E4c; August, .4i2c: Septem.
Der, z41xc.
PORk-Juiy, Sia..j. September, S20.5l.
LAkD-July, $50 Septein Der, $4.95.
SHORT kibS-Ja y, S7.S5; septemcer
$500.
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1t goes without saying that every city
and considerable town should have at
least one lady well informed on the sub
ject, for SO long as present ideas prevail
the corpses of both sexes will be EN-
halmed.
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CATTLE-St aIy.
HOGS-Str, ng nc higher. Heavy, $500
SIS, mixed aiid medium, s5.4o J5s; light S.
@aS5.
SHEEP-Stea ".
Receipts: Cattle, 1000; hogs, s.00l: sheep,
LOO.
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Cuttin2 iiates.
CINCINNATI. July PA % rate from
here to Chicago and return has been
made by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton, good for a 10 days excursion,
starting July 70.
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Chicago Live stock.


CHICAGO UNION STOCK YARDS.
July "a. 1897
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-14
Pension Payments Suspended.

The pension bureau has notified
many pensioners throughout the
country who are drawing pensions
under the act Of June 27, 1890, known
as the dependent pension act, that
payment of their pensions will be sus-
pended for sixty days, during which
time they are required to show cause
why they should continue to draw
pensions The testimony necessary
to prevent their being dropped from
the rolls is the certificate Of a reputa-
BILE physician, attested by two wit
nesses, to the effect that the pension
er is precluded from active labor ow-
ing to injuries or disability not the re-
suit Of his own vicious habits.
In case no attention is paid to the
departn. ent notification within sixty
DAYS the pensioner will be dropped
from the rolls. On the other hand,
should the necessary certificate, prop
erly drawn up and signed, be for
warded to the pension bureau the
pensioner will be requested to appear
before the local board Of medical eX-
aminers for examination as to his
condition.
The board of review is now going
over all of the cases of JuDe q, 1890,
probably 100000 in number, and se.
iecting those cases which show in the
record that the pensioner may not be
incapacitated for manual labor. The
department holds that man who can
work should rot draw a pension for
total disability. 1t is estimated at
the pension office, although the work
has but recently been begun, that
something over 1000 suspensions have
already been made
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-14

injuries which most Of the people
have sustained weeks, and even
months, must intervene before they
can care for themselves. Many will
die soon. Some will live in anguish
for weeks and some will be hopeiessly
crippled for life.
The cyclone made a wide swath OF
destl uction as it passed over Cherokee
county. The first and most dreadful
casualty occurred at the home Of
Samuel Bugh. Bugh, his wife and
three children were killed. Another
child, the last of the family, was ia
tally injured. The bodies were car
ried half a mile from the house and
pounded into the mud. Nearby Miss
Lula Slater was blown eighty rods
from the house and had her right leg
twisted off at the thigh and 1t was
found two miles away. Ida Johnson,
d domestic, was also killed, and Burt
Slater, young man, was so seriously
injured that he will die. Marion
Johnson was killed on his farm, being
blown out of the cellar, in which,
with his son and two daughters, he
had taken refuge. The children were
found to be saved by throwing their
arms about each other. The houses
and barns all about were completely
demolished and the fields were full OF
dead cattle. A large iron bridge
across the river was lifted from its
piers and thrown into the stream.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-14
A Whole Family Murdered.

The family Of Daniel S. Kreider,
living on farm about two miles from
Cando, n. D., was murdered by farm
hand named Albert Bomberger last
Saturday. The victims We're Mr.. and
Mrs. kreider, three girls, aged respec-
lively thirteen, eleven and nine years,
and one seven-year-old boy. Bomber
ger was Il distant relative of thefamily,
who had been in Mr.. Kreider's en-
plov about nine months. The father
was the first victim then the mother
aud children in the order named.
Miss Anna, by piteous suppIicationS,
induced the fiend to spare her lifean q
those of her two remaining little
brothers, and she escaped to town to
give the alarlI At the muzzle of his
gun Bomberger compelled her to
prepare his breakfast, with the corpse
of her mother lying at her feet. He
ate leisurely, then criminally assaulted
the girl, and tying her in the barn to
prevent her escape, he saddled her
favorite pony and rode away north
ward. With the aid OF one of her
brothers Miss Kreider succeeded in
freeing herself and making her way
to town. Bomberger was captured
on Sunday in Manitoba.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-14
THE MEETING OF CONGRESS.

1t is not absolutely certain that the
repeal of the Sherman silver act can
be accomplished at the coming extra
session of Congress. The repeal bill
will doubtless pass the House of Rep
resentatives, for the House as a gen
eral thing is quick to heed public SEN
timcnt II only takes year or two
to turn out those Representatives
who fail TO follow the wishes of their
constituents. \ vast majority of the
people of the United States are of
the opinion that the financial situa-
ton demands the repeal Of the Sher'
man law, and we believe that the
lower House of Congress will heed
the voice of the people.
1t is different in the Senate. When
a Senator is elected for six years he
thinks he has cinch on the Office.
He is not so careful Of the desires of
his constituents. He is inclined to
think his own opinion is better than
that of the people who sent him
there. The fact that he is the servant
of the people no longer has u place
in his mind He is often pulled up
with his own Importance to an extent
that renders him unfit for the trans
action of public business. Senators
grow very lax in their work. As an
illustration of this fact it has recent
" been openly charged by Repub-
can Senator that the silver-purchas-
ing clause of the Sherman law was
passed without the knowledge OF the
Senate. 1t was tackled on to the bill
secretly in committee, never discuss
ed, and was voted for by many Sen
ators who didn't know what they
were voting for. 1t is a fact, also,
that the amendment giving u bounty
to maple-sugar producers was made
a law simply TO please Senator Ed
munds, who threatened his colleagues
that he would defeat another meas
ure unless they yielded to his wishes.
Senatorial courtesy, or, speaking
more correctly, Senatorial trading
and the policy of you tickle me and
I'll tickle YOU" IS responsible for
many bad laws passage and many
a goood ones defeat.
The Senate may pass the bill re
pealing the silver-purchasing act,
but if its opponents can make deal
with their colleagues, a has often
been done before IN this close cOrpo-
ration, it can be very readily defeated.
Time will tell.
Congressman Wilson gives it as his
opinion that the extra session will be
continuous and will extend to Decem-
Der, when the regular session begins.
He says the tariff question will be
taken up and considered at the extra
session, and such steps taken as will
lead to reform at the earliest practi-
cable time.
The next Congress will have plenty
to do. Many serious problems must
be considered, requiring wise states
manship and patriotic work for their
solution. The people will watch the
action of their public servants very
closely.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-14
Decidedly Shaky.

trembling hand. an uncertain step, tidge-
tinesS Indicated by restless shifting from
one place or posture to another, usually
mental annoyance at unexpected noises, are
among the indications OF extreme nervous
mess. These seem triiing. but the health of
men and women in this condition is "decid-
eddy shaky,' liable &c be overihrown disas-
trously By causes which he vigorous might
defy. To fortify the nervous system. gener-
al vigor must, through the medium OF REIN
forced digestion, and o renewal OF On i'm
paired power Of sleeping at night, be raised
To a healthful standard. 4 guarantee oftlis
tablishes digestion. bile secretion and the
habit of body on permanently regular
basis, thus renewing that bodily equilibrium
which is followed by "a gain of strength AID
nerve tranquility For kidney complaint
rheumatism, neuralgia, and as preventive
OF the first attack or subsequent return OF
Iaalarial disorders. this medicine is without
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-14
A Fiendish Murder.

\ fiendish murder was perpetrated
near Chattanooga, Tenn, last week,
Thomas Lavender, wealthy farmer,
quarreled with young man named
Robert Reed. In a rage the farmer
called a powerful farm hand named
James Erwin, and together they seized
Reed and confined the Young mans
hands behind his hips. Lavender
then whipped out razor-like knife
and while Erwin pulled back the
young mans head by the hair Cayen-
der deliberately opened one Of the
young mans jugular veins. The lat
ter begged piteously for his life. His
murderers stood looking on as his
blood poured ont into the road and
until he finally fell dead in the dust.
Then they fled Reed was rather del
icate and was only twenty-one years
old He is quite wealthy. His friends
are searching for his murderers, and
if they are caught they will be hung
by their heels and their Threats cut
like 90 many swine.