Widnes Examiner. — 1894-12-01 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

CANDLES MADE FROM CORPSES.  Not lone ago four men in the Government of Kur.k.in Russia, murdered a girl in order to make candles of her body, the notion being that the light from such a horrible source not only renders tho perpetrators of robberies invisible but prevents the people of the house from  awakeninr. A dead man's hand is sometimes used for the sgme rurpose. The thieves anoint it with an urmuent. it. and the fingers flame. Yet the fetish often fails threatmned homeholder is arlused in spite of the charm and procer,ls to defend his property.  , Isn't it almost, impossible to conceive! that such abominable and absurd superstitions can exist in these days? Yet they do—right here in England; and not by any means amen,* the criminal classes only. 'The learned physicians. we grieve to say, reluctantly abandon• theories of disease which science proves untenable. "The medical profession," says one of its brightest momhers, "is hut slowly emerging from the darkness of , barbarism."  Take an illustration. Under date of September 2P.nd, Mrs. Eliza Matthews, of 1. North-road, Burnt Oak, Edgware, near London, writes : " I first became ill just about one year ago. The attack was markPcl by loss of appetite, a foul taste in tie mouth, vomiting up my food, pain in the etylt and sides after eating, and an all-gone sensation at the pit of the tomach. MY eves were yellow, skin dark and sallow, and a Constant pain between my shculclers. I wqR also badly constipated, and the least exertion set my heart thumping so T enuld hardly get ma' breath. I had frequent attacks of sick headache which confined me tn my room for days together. At such times I could not touch a morsel of fond. T got bttle or no sleep at night, and would toss on the bed for hours. I became thin and wok and was no good for work. " I thought at first it was the change of life that caused all this—as I was in my fortieth year when I was taken bad. I had a doctor and took medicines, but nothing did me any real good, and I continued to suffer year after year." Now will the reader please note what Mrs. Matthews. actor told her was the cause of her illness ? We quote her own words " The doctor said that my ailments were brovght about by the smell of the farmyard,"  On 'llia hn ordered a change of air-a logical deduction from hiq diagnog;g.  _ The ladv obeyed. Pier husband gave up his situation no his wife's account, and they moved from Bentley Priory, Stanmnre, to Burnt Oak. with what result? She tells it: " I got no better for the change." as she would have done if the farmyard smells had been at the hnttnm of her troubles. Finally Mrs. Matthewv Pays, her aunt at Chelmsford recommended Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. The first few doses gave relief, and in two months she was strong and well as ever. She says, "Mother Sefte' saved me after all others had tried and failed."  What ran he said in the way of comment on a thing like this ? But for the medical man with his farm yard" idea of disease the lady might have known what really ailed herond ent hold of the remedy long ago. hs suffered from indigestion and dyspepsia. The farmyard didn't cause it, and moving about couldn't cure it. But what a shame that suffering people should he en played unon and misguided.  'lndeed, it does appear to be true that about all the light some men P njor cornea from the remote past— from the anointed hands of dead men. Still, there's a better der coming, and Commonsense, Science, and Mother Seigel are hurrying it along.  Nineteen and a half stone is the ordinary total weight carried by a British trooper's horse. Princes Bismarck, wife of the ex-Chancellor of the German Empire, died on Tuesday morning at Varzin. The English criclTetors won the match with N,-vv South Wales by eight wickets. The Colonial Eleven was not a very formidable one, hut it included Turner, the f.mnus howler, whom Engli4l batsmen have always held in great respect.