The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-04

silk PetticOat.
rx-Attache, in New York Tribune.
1+ All the up-tO-date utterances Of the
7,-.r-s OF Wales, there is certainly none
80 lis more calculated TO shock the most
tsrished ideas of old world royalty than
-. recent public expression of approval
- che church OF England Burial Reform
,.-,-iation The latter. over which Lord
.-.mthorpe presides, has been organized
me express purpose of abolishing all
rms Of interment, such as embalming,
--,rmincation and Theoretically sealed
-.ststs. which are calculated to inter-
ere with that process of nature which is
ID, elouuently described in the solemn
,-5-ls. earth TO earth, dust 10 dust"
rrer since the days of the builders of
.sa pyramids of Egypt, long centuries
.-ior TO the time of Jacob and Moses,
-,onarchs have been noted for their anx-
i,-v to perpetuate their terrestrial re-
Mains. with the object presumably of i'm
ra-ralizing their names by means of in
,antrovertible proofs that they have lived
and reigned. No matter to which country
ore turns, the principal monuments of
che land are, as a rule. those which con-
ain the more or less successfully pre-
saryed bodies of the Amounted of the
ord" and while it is impossible to deny
maj so far as art is concerned the world
las derived considerable benefit from this
5esore of royalty to keep in the flesh the
fedias of departed kings and queens, yet,
In the other hand, it must be admitted
f5at the example thus set has been detri-
mental to mankind from sanitary point
Of view.
II is this latter view that seems TO have
commended itself to the Prince of Wales,
who. no longer young, is well advanced
IN that downward path that terminates
In the tomb. Genial and pleasure-loving
though he is, it is no secret that there
are times when his thoughts assume a
morbid turn, and his eventual death fig
ures far more frequently in his cOnversa-
ton and presumably, therefore, in his
mind, than most persons would be will
ing to believe. 1t may be taken for grant,
ed that his publicly announced preference
for burial on the earth to earth" princi-
pie is not a mere hasty, passing remark,
but rather the result of much discussion
and careful consideration. Not other
wise would this prince, so conservative
in many respects, have ventured to as
sumo a position in the matter that dla-
metrically opposes all the most ancient,
the most sacred and the most universal
customs and traditions of monarchy.
His utterances on this somewhat grew
some subject are particularly opportune
at a moment when the peregrinations AMI
the vicissitudes of the heart of Louis
XVII. of France are exciting the inter
est of people on both sides of the At
lantic Concealed in a glass jar behind
the books of a library stolen by a doc
ettsfr ,TN
a cardinals oratory, robbed and desc
Grated by a riotous mob, recovered from
among a heap of offal and dirt, put up
for public auction, and now conveyed with
much ceremony across Europe, first 20
Venice and then to Frohsdorf, in Austria,
the extraordinary adventures of this poor
little dried-up morsel of humanity are
scarcely of character to encourage royal
personages In their attempts to obstruct
natures process in the disposal of their
remains.
With the ever increasing extension of
the doctrines of equality, and with the
constantly diminishing regard on the part
OF the masses for the throne, there are
no tombs in existence that can be consid-
cred as secure from proclamation, nor any
royal remains that can be held safe from
the shocking treatment to which the Ter
r0rists of 1893 subjected the embalmed
bodies of those of the kings and queens
Of France, preserved at st. Denis. The
mummitied remains of princes and prin-
cesses of the Pharaonic dynasties of
Egypt have been used to fertilize New
Jersey onion beds after being ground into
powder through means of kind of i'm
proved coffee grinding machine, while the
embalmed corpses of kings and queens
have been torn from their graves, cruel
lied, gibbeted, dragged IN the mud and
burned, by way Of demons trating the pop
A uar eXecration in which this memory was
II held. Only few short years ago the
Il mausoleum of the wife of King Victor
Il Emanuel was the scene of a ghoulish out
rage the sarcophagus being blown open
and the body of the once beautiful Rosina
dragged out and reduced almost to Gin
ders by means of petroleum. In fact,
Fl there is no end to instances of this char
acter which might be cited to show that
Ireservtation of the dead by artificial
means in the majority of cases results in
horrible PROCLAMATION.
Now, in spite of all the scepticism of
the present age, we most of us retain,
Perhaps unconsciously, remnants of that
pathetic superstition which leads the ma
uPe woman of Algeria and of Tunis to
sew with needle and thread the heads
upon the corpses of criminals who have
been decapitated by the guillotine We
an OF US have to q greater or less extent
uat sentiment which led the native in
surgents of the great East Indian mutiny
o. 1851 to view with such terror the ter
nole penalty of being blown to minute
fragments from the mouths of the guns,
me dispersal of the atoms of their bodies
10 the four winds precruding in their
eyes all possibility of a hereafter where
they rightly belong.
Nor is the danger of proclamation the
ohy drawback to the present system of
Inlerment for royalty. In several coun-
u!es OF Europe tradition, precedent and
euquette requires that the body of a royal
Ietsonage should be, so to speak, divided
up between two and even three mausole-
ulAs. Thus, in France formerly the hearts
VI the kings and queens were preserved
- one church, the entrails in another and
.He rest Of the poor, mutilated corpse was
inferred at the Abbey of St Denis The
A'eStines of Louis III. and of Louis XIV.
S.e deposited beneath the sanctuary of
Note-Dame al Paris, their hearts were
Al me vaults of the Church of st. Louis,
anu lhelr bodies at st. Denis. Moreover
S.e hearts of all members of the reigning
a1use OF Bavaria are preserved in the
I-Ieht chapel of Our Lady of Mercies al
N.-Otung, about half an hours ride by
,sti rom Munich. The walls of the So
eS!ed Castrum Dolorosis" of the sacred
'nce are literally covered with brackets
~ nIches containing urns wherein re-