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THE KUADAY OWEGOITLAX, PORTLAXT. 3IAT 21, 1911' ANGINti IS tvWMlfi ASSESS EMINENT b&AIM JNSCITOT There Is Much Proof That Dr. SpitzKa MaKes No Idle Assertion in the Claim That Hanging Is Barbarous Lynch Law Usually TaKes This Form of Execution and Among Many Barbarous or Only Semi-civilized Peo ple Hanging Is and Has Been a Favorite Method of Execution New YorK and Some of the Other States Have Abolished This Form of Capital Punishment for the Electric Chair, but Other States Still Adhere to It. BT a 8nat Tot of 11 to 11 th Legislator of Pennsylvania ha Just decided that hanging for th xt two rearm, at least, la .till to bo th official method of dealing oat capital punishment In th Keyston 8 tat a. Tha vote u brought about by tha Introduction In th Legislature of a bill abolishing- hanging aa a capital punishment and replacing this antique Biathod of execution br electrocution bow In foro In maar of th atatea where capital punishment la atlll th law. Th bill passed th Hous with fly ing color br aa unanimous rota but met Ita defeat, deeplt th support of Governor Tener. upon third reading In the Heeat. not oa account of Ita merits or demerits, bat because a ogre. ly factional political fight waa at th laet moment Injected tat It. Thus, br each petty methods, la Uglslatloa fnr the beat Interest of th commua Itr. often defeated. But vn la boss, ridden Pennsylvania It aeema almost remarkable that politicians should hav taken aa act.. d.llnr with th humane nature of capital punishment, aa a club with which to work their 111 feeling towarda their political or per sonal enemies. This. too. after they had placed themselre upon record aa unofficially favoring the measure. The Hoard of Prison Inspector and the beat Interest of th tat were Interested la th passage of th act and among th many efforts which they made In this direction waa to se rur th opinion which was laid be for th Legislator by th author of th bill. Dr. Edward Anthony 8pmka, the eminent brain specialist and pro of anatomy of th Jefferson Medical College. Philadelphia, aa to th humanity of hanging. r lrrtroratloa Best War. Ir. Spltska'a reputation Is world wide and his opinion on a subject of lurh general movement aa capital THE ADVENTURE OF THE hands opening and shutting la hi agi tation. "What do you mean r" h asked, at last. "If this la bluff npon your part. Mr. Holme, you hav chosen a bad man for your experiment.. Let u hav no more beating about th bush. What do you mean V "I will tell you." said Holmea. "and h reason why I tell yoa 1 that I hop frankness may bgt frankness. What my next step may b will depend entire ly upon th natur of your own de fense?" "My defense T- "Tes. slr.- "My defense against what?" "Against the charge of killing Mortl r.rr Tregennta," Sterrdale mopped hi forehead with Ms handkerchief. T'pon my word, yoa ar getting on." aald h. "Do all your successes depend upon thla prodlgloua power of biuffT "Th bluff." said Holme, sternly, "Is npon your side. Dr. Leon gterndaja, and aot upon mine. A a proof I wilt tall you some ef th facta upon wtilch my conclusion are baaed. Of your return from Plymouth, allowing much of your property to go ea to Africa. I will say nothing, save that It first Informed ( m that yoa were on of th factors which had to be taken Into account la reconstructing thla drama "I cam back" T hav heard your reasons and re gard them as unconvincing and Inade quate. W will pass that. Ton cam down her to ask m whom I suspected. I refused to answer you. Ton then went to th vicarage, waited oufsld It for om tlma, and finally returned to your cottag." "How do you know that" 7 followed yoa." "t saw no on." "That la what yon may expect to see when I follow you. Too spent a rest less night at your cottage, and you formed certain plans, which In th early morning yoa proceeded to pat into execution. Leaving your door Just a day waa breaking, yoa filled your pocket with some reddish gravel which wa Ilcg heaped beside your gat." Fterndale gave a violent start and looked at Ilolmee la amazement. "Ton tt-.en walked swiftly for th mil which separated yoa from th vi es ra re. Ton were wearing. I may re mark, th sam pair of ribbed tennia shoe which are at th present moment upon your feet. At the vicarage yoa passed through th orchard and th side hedge, coming out under th win dow of th lodger. Tregennla. It was Bow daylight, but th household was not yet stirring. Tou drew svm of th gravel from your pocket, and yea threw It up at th window abov yoa " Eteradal sprang to hla feet. "I believe that yoa are the devil him self r- he cried. Holmes smiled at th compliment. "It took two. or possibly three, hand fula befor th lodger cam to th win dow. Too beckoned him to com down. He dressed hurriedly and descended to his stttlng-room. Too entered by th window. There waa aa Interview a short on during which yoa walked up and dawn th room. Then yoa taad out and closed th window, standing oa th lawn outsld smoking a cigar and watching what occurred. Finally, after th death of Tregennla, you withdrew aa yoa had come. Now, IV. Steradaie, how do yoa Justify such conduct, and what war th motives for punishment should prove of very gen eral Interest. Particularly Is this tru where It Is rrai:ed that Dr. Bpltxka la perhaps the world's greatest authority on the subject which he has made a lifelong study. lie has witnessed 74 executions. B7 electrocutions and 17 hangings. He Is loud in hla praise of electrocution, and vehement In Lis denunciation of hang ing. "If capital punishment must be employed.- he said during the course of a recent interview, -then I am heartily In favor of electrocution. I consider It the best, yes the very best, method yet devised for this grewsome purpose. I regard th execution of criminal by a method so clumsy, cruel and anti quated aa hanging aa a blot on our honor aa a state and a civilised com munity. In the basic Idea underlying It. hanging Is a survival of savage times when the Idea of Inflicting th death penalty waa aavage revenge. Tha desire to Inflict aa painful and lanoml niou a deatii upon th culprit aa pos sible. "Th vary form of th gallows lent Itself peculiarly well to La end of Ignominy and torture. The peoplea of Old and medieval time wanted th criminal to die slowly and painfully, so thsy suspended him by a noose about th neck and let him dance on air,' aa th old chronicle are so fond of describing It. for several minutes before suffocation put an end to his misery. They wanted everyone to know about hla shameful death, so they hanged htm 'as high aa Ham an.' In a public place where all could get a good view of th proceeding. Hroadcr View Evolved. "Sine then our Idea and Ideal hav changed. v no longer hang our crim inal In public squares, nor does our beat aoclety turn out to fight for spar at hanging. Nor la th Idea of th modern death penalty to Inflict aa much tortur upon th subject aa possible. Indeed wa feel quite keenly that-no unnecessary pain ought to be inflicted even upon the condemned criminal, and CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 your actions? If yoa prevaricate or trifle with me. I give yoa my assurance that th matter will pass out of my hand for ever." Our visitor's far bad turned ashen grey aa he listened to th words of hi accuser. Now he sat for som time In thought with his face sunk In his hands. Then, with a sudden impulsive gesture, he plucked a photograph from his breast-pocket and threw It on th rustic table befor us. That la why I hav don it," aald ha It ahowed th bust and tac of a very beautiful woman. Holmes stooped over It. - "Brenda Tregennis." said he. Tes. Brenda Tregennls." said our visitor. "For years t have loved her. For years aha has loved me. Ther is th secret of that Cornish seclusion which people hav marveled at. It has brought rr.e close to the one thing on earth that was dear to me. I could not marry her. for I have a wife who has left me for years, and yet whom, by th deplorabl lawa of England, I oould not divorce. For years Brenda waited. For years I waited. And this Is what we hav waited for." A terrible sob shook his great frame, and he clutched his throat under his brindled beard. Then with an effort he mas tered himself and spok on. "Th vicar knew. He was In our con. fldenc. He would tell you that she waa aa angel npon earth. That waa why h telegraphed to me and I re turned. What wa my baggage or Africa to m when I learned that such a fat had come upon my darling T Thar yoa hav th missing clew to my action. Mr. Holmes. "Prood." said my friend. Dr. Sterndal draw from hla pocket a paper packet and laid It upon th table. On the outsld waa written "Radix pedla dlaboll." with a red poison label beneath It. He pushed It towards me. "i understand that yoa axe doctor, sir. Have you ever heard of tbis preparation " "Devli's-foot root! No, I hav never heard of It." "It la no reflection upon your profes sloaal knowledge." said h. "for I b Here that, aav for on sample In a laboratory at Bud a, ther la do other specimen In Europe. It has not yet found its way either Into th pharma aopcla or Into th literature of toxicol ogy. The root la shaped like a foot, half human, half goatlike: heno th fanciful name given by a, bontanlcal missionary. It la used aa an ordeal poison by th medlclne-men In certain districts of West Africa, and is kept aa a secret among them. Thla particular specimen 1 obtained under very ex traordinary circumstances In the Cban ghl country." He opened the paper aa h spoke, and disclosed a heap of red dish-brown. snuff-Ilk powder. "Well. sirT" asked Holmes, sternly. "I am about to tell you, Mr. Holmes, all that actually occurred, for you al ready know so much that it Is clearly to my Interest that you should know a!L I hav already explained the rela tionship In which I stood to the Tregen nls family. For th make of th sister I waa friendly with the brothers. Ther was a family quarrel about money which enraged thla man Mortimer, but It waa supposed to be mad up, and I afterwards met him aa I did the oth ers. He waa a sly. subtle, scheming men. and several things arose which ' gave me a suspicion of him, but I had no cause for any positive quarrel. -"One day. only a couple of weeks ago. be cam down to my cottage and I showed him som of my African curl, osltica Among other things. I exhib ited thla powder, and I told him of It trang properties, how It stimulates those brain centers which control the emotion of fear, and how either mad ness or death la the fate of th unhappy naUv wb la aubjected to th ordeal I I I'll 1 1 -a P i '! - V t. i VV v ; : X jk ) a ' I w - j i LU! l): i.-r- .A n 1 ' - k 1 . - . --. -1 ;LV'.f If . t iJnr&l , S CS- i . , f ' 4 ---sajBaw-. -"'- -f . many believe that death even In a painless form, ought to be stricken al together from our penal statutes. "Some states and communities having already gone this far others are sur to follow soon. In Italy, capital pun ishment has been abolished altogether A a result of this growing refinement of feeling, the theory has been prop agated, often with tha Indorsement of medical men. that hanging, aa It Is done at present. Is a painless mode of execution. In a vast majority of cases thla Is not true. Wa have numerous record of criminal, hanged until they were considered dead and afterwarda resusclated. who declared the hanging process up to the point where they lost consciousness waa terribly painful. "Wa have been told that when tha felon la released by th drop, hi neck Is broken by th fall and he become Immediately unconscious. Thla Is not true. In 1 of the 17 hangings I have witnessed there were movement, trusgle. reaching a for th doom around th neck, everything. In fact, to indicate consciousness and suffering until asphyxiation intervened in from ona to two minutes. The solitary ex ception waa a Chinaman, a very fat man. who died of rupture of an artery in tha brain, corresponding to apoplexy. In no case waa there rupture of the vertebra or ligaments of tha apnal column. "Contrast this method of exeeutlon. which leaves the criminal dangling In agony for several minute with electro cution. Th man through whom th current I shot In th electric chair feel nothing. Ha die Instantly a though struck by lightning. I have wltnesaed 7 electrocutions, and In not one of them waa there a movement, a tgn of life, or even a bat of th heart after the current had been turned on. I DEVIL'S FOOT by th priest of his tribe. I told hlra also how powerless European science would be to detect It. How he took It I cannot say, for I never left th room, but ther la no doubt that It waa then, whll I waa opening cabinets and stooping to boxes, that be managed to abstract som of th dvll's-foot root. I wall remember how be plied m with questions aa to th amount and th tlm that wa needed for it effect, but I little dreamed that he eould hav a personal reaaon for asking. "I thought no mor of th matter un til tha vicar's telegram reached m at Plymouth. This villain had thought that I would be at aea befor the. news could reach me, and that I should b lost for years In Africa. But I re turned at one. Of course. I could not listen to th detail without feeling as sured that my poison had been used. I ram round to see you on the chanc that some other explanation had sug gested Itself to you. But ther eould be none. I was convinced that Morti mer Tregennls waa th murderer; that for tha sake of money, and with tha Idea, perhaps, that if the other mem bers of th family war all insane he would be th sol guardian of their Joint property, he bad used the devll's foot powder upon them, driven two of them out of their eenaea, and killed hla alster Brenda, th on human being whom I hav ever loved or who has ever loved me. Ther waa hla crime; what was to be his punishment? "Should I appeal to th law? Where were my proofs? I knew that the facts were true, but could I help to make a Jury of countrymen believe so fantastic a story? I might or I might not. But I could not afford to fall. My soul cried out for revenge. I have said to you once before. Mr. Holme, that I have pent much of my life outside the law. and that I have come at last to be a law to myself. Bo It waa new. I de termined that the fat which he had given to others should be shared by oimseix. ciuer tnat. or I would do Justice upon him with my own hand In all England there can be no mar who sets less value upon hla own life tnan 1 do at the present moment. "Now I have told yoa all. Tou have yourself supplied the rest. I did. as you say. after a restless night, set off esrly from my cottage. I foreaaw the difficulty of arousing him. so I gath ered some gravel from th pile yoa have mentioned, and I need It to throw up to his window. He came down and admitted me through the window et the sitting-room. I laid his offense be fore him. I told him that I had come both -as Judge and executioner. The wretch sank Into a ohalr paralysed at th sight of my revolver. I lit th lamp, put th powder abov It, and atood outsld th window, ready to carry out my threat to ahoot blm should ha try to leav th room. In five minutes he died. My God I bow he died! But my heart was flint, for he endured nothing which mr Inno rent darling had not felt befor him. There Is my story. Mr. Holmea Per haps. If you loved a woman, you would hav done aa much yourself. At any rate. I am In your hands. Tou can take what steps you like. As I hare already said, there la no man living who ran fear death less than I do." Holmea sat for some little time In si lence. "What were your planar he asked. at last. T had Intended to burr myself In Central Africa. My work there la but half finished." "Go and do the other half." aald Holmea "t at least, am not prepared to prevent you." Dr. Sterndal raised his giant fla-ura bowed gravely, and walked from the arbor. Holmes lit his pipe and handed me his pouch. "Some fumes which are not poisonous would be a welcome change." said ti. I think you must agree, Watson, that it is not a case In which we are called upon to Interfere. Our investigation has been Independent, and our action i bf t l-Ui -J -. sea oTzznr crrB,jR z.jc aucz.-fr On 45 of these I have performed or wit nessed autopsies. The complete man ner In which th electric current dis organises and kills the nervous and muscular tissues of th body which hav been subjected to It cannot fail to Impress one. Even the reflexes of shall be so also. Tou would not de nounce the man?" "Certainly not," I answered. "I have never loved, Watson, but If I did, and If the woman I loved had met such an end. I might act even aa our lawless Hon hunter has done. Who knowa? Well. Watson, I will not of fend your Intelligence by explaining what la obvious. The gravel upon the window aill was, of course, the starting point of my research. It was unlike anything In the vicarage garden. Only when my attention had been drawn to Dr. Stsrndale and hla cottage did I find Its counterpart. The lamp ahinlng in broad daylight and the remains of pow der upon th shield were successive links In a fairly obvloua chain. And now, my dear Watson. I think we may dismiss the matter from our mind, and go back with a clear conscience to the study of those Chaldean roots which are surely to be traced in the Cornish branch of the great Celtic speech." (Copyright. 1911. by the Century Co.) BARBER TO THE KAISER Cutting; Royal Jialr la Easy, Bo ca use Thin, 1m Shown. New Tork Sun. A Vienna barber named Durrmana had the time of hla life when he was suddenly called to operate on the Em peror William during the latter' recent stay In th Austrian capital. Th valet who usually cuts the Imperial hair, had Injured hla arm, henoe the substitution. The Kaiser talked - uninterruptedly while hla halt was being cut and asked Durrmann about his former customers. The barber boasted that he had cut the balr of Francis Joseph and King Ed ward, not to mention minor royalties. "And which Is easier," the Kaiser asked, "cutting the hair of Kings or their subjects?" "With Kings It la easier," th barber aid. "Why la that?" the Kaiser asked. "Because on an average they are old er and have, less hair to cut," the bar ber replied. The Kaiser laughed and said. "Come to me In Berlin In a few years' time; I guess you'll have an easy job then." Durrman waa vastly amused by two grave vlsaged flunkeys who held In nap kins the Imperial hairbrush, comb, scis sors and other accessories. They bowed solemnly every time an article was tak ea up for use. An Ancient City of Arizona. Chicago Tribune. Still another "oldest city in the world" has been discovered. When T. Hewitt Myrlng found vase in Peru in ruins which were said to be 7000 years old, it was Imagined that th remains of early clvillzationa had been pushed as far Into antiquity aa they would ever go. But A. Lafave. a mining en gineer, has found the relics of a town In an Arizona tableland near Phoenix which he insists are at least 10.000 years old. The buildings are on a level stretch of country where neither silt nor wash waa possible, and yet the ruins were covered with 10 feet of prairie dust, which th discoverer claims required agea to accumulate. The buildings of sandstone show great architectural skill, and in the walls were found a box of cotton bolls and a sealed Jar of corn, both well pre- aerved. The Arlsona climate doea not permit th growth of cotton In th present age, so Mr. Lafave assumes that sufficient time must have elapsed since the cotton which he found was grown to have wrought a complete change In the character of the country. This period he also gauges as some thing like 10.000 years. He la satisfied that the ruins are older than those of Nineveh or Babylon. He believes that the race which built this town was pos sessed of a high civilization from the abundance of artistically wrought pot tery, and that it subsequently .was broken up by Internal dissension, and possibly degenerated Into th cliff-dwelllna- tribe. a man killed by electricity fall to respond- Death appears to be- absolutely instantaneous and complete. "1 referred to the pains of hanging as described by thos-.who had been hanged and recovered. No one ever there are today living hundreds of per sons who have been shocked insensible by accident and who recovered. One and all these say that they felt no pain and never knew what had struck them until they recovered and were told. This seems to me sufficient evidence DEATH SCENES OF FAMOUS CIVIL WAR GENERALS CONTINUED his lips when Stuart staggered and fell mortally wounded. Two days later he lay upon a bed in Richmond with his wife and friends about him. Death was rapidly approaching. ' "OeneraL" asked one of the group. "how do you feel?" The eyes of the cavalier looked far away. "Easy, but wiling to die If God and my country think I have done my duty," he aaid slowly. A few moments later he turned to his wife. "I am go ing fast now," he said. "I am resigned. God's will be done." And so he died, stout hearted to the last. Th Bishop Who Became a General. At th head of the Army of the Mis sissippi during the series of battle that occurred from Chattanooga to At lanta stood the saintly figure of a priest of the Christian faith General i Leonldas Polk, who had been Bishop of : e. who naa dwu .diuoW oi Louisiana. He had been graduated Confederate lines stood the Com from West Point, but soon resigned the , , v.i. T vi. .i.k sword for the robes of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and. In thta field jf war. which is spiritual, not PhyslcaU ne won aisunciion ana . throughout the West as an unfearing man of character and principle. With the oubreak of the war he was tendered a commission of major general in the tonieaersie army " Davie and he announced that be con- . sldered it his Christian duty to ngm tor his State. He waged war against tha foea of his commonwealth as tena ciously as he previously had against th devil, and soon his fame as a oaiue leader spread throughout the nation. Tha armies of Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston were fighting on th slopes of Kenesaw Mountain In June, 1864. A lull in tha battle had come ana jonn- ston. with Generals Polk and Hardee, mounted their horses and rode up the side of Pine Mountain to reconnotter the lines of the Federal artillery. At the crest they dismounted ana walked out upon an eminence and mr " r ..7r;- J". - L7..V.'T,"' on C of Parrott gun. Th group of Confed c-rrntt sun- Th arrouo of Confed- erate officer could plainly be seen on Pine Mountain and under General Sher man's direct orders the guns were turned upon them. The cannon roared forth and a few second later the bishop-warrior of the Confederacy fell to the ground dead. The "Stonewall of the Wet- The last major general to die fighting for the Union was John B. McPherson, and the story of his death before At lanta is as well known to every school boy as is "Stonewall" Jackson's at Chancellorsvllle. But how many of the present generation have ever heard how died the Confederate leader whose valor in the battle earned for him the nickname "Stonewall of the West?" When he failed to pass the entrance examinations to the medical depart ment of Trinity College, Dublin, Pat rick R. Cleburne enlisted In the Brit ish army and for the next three years served In the Indian and Crimean wars. He returned home after his enlistment expired only to sail for the United States, where he engaged in the drug trad a When the Civil War broke out Cle burne was among the first to respond to the Confederacy's call and was elected a Captain of the Yell Rifles. His service In India stood blm in good stead and be advanced rapidly in the service, until at the battle of Franklin be was a Major-General. This battle, fought in November of 1884, was one of the most desperate in the West and It waa here that Patrick R. Cleburne surpassed even his own record for dar ing and courage. After taking the first line of the Fed eral works Cleburne and General John Adams led their, troopa to a desperate that the body of the criminal Is burned, that the criminal who is shocked to death feels nothing. It has been com plained that the body of tne criminal is burned. It is not true that there are extensive burns upon these bodies. Sometimes there are slight burns at the points where the electrodes touch the skin, but these can be avoided by care in keeping the contact points at just the proper degree of moisture. "The method of electrocution, too, recommends it to a civilized people. There is no erection of a gallows, no FROM PAGE 2 charge to sweep the Federals from the field and then to annihilate them as ; they fled In panic toward Nashville, i But Thomas' men had regained , strength and met the charge with fear- ful volleys. Cleburne was but 60 yards from the enemy's line when a bullet struck him and he fell from his horse to the ground dead. General Adams had started before Cleburne. His horse was Just leaping the works into the Federal lines when Cleburne fell and when the battle had ceased Adams was found underneath his charger, whose forefeet were within the works, while his hind feet hung over the outside both man and beast killed instantly. The Last General Killed. The story of the last General to be killed upon either side In the war Is incidental to the alege of Petersburg. The grand assault upon that besieged , .,, . . .... , wlthl hand General Ambrose P. Hill. suddenly Lee turned to Hill; there was ,ook Jf lnt8ns anxiety on his face. n. I. ,M AnnoraJ?" lnoulren T.ce "Your men seem to be giving way.' Without a moment's hesitation Hill mounted his horse and dashed toward LUC UllWAUH f""" " UCGU ., i urgent. Already the heada of the Fed , annearina- from tha far sid erals were appearing from tha far side of the lntrenchments and at many points they were to be seen forcing the defenders back from the works. Dig ging his spurs Into the heaving sides of the horse Hill rode onward. Sud denly three soldiers in blue stepped from behind a clump of trees In Hill's pathway. Hill quickly grasped the sit uat'on. "Lay down your arms!" he thun dered. The commanding voice failed of Its strategy. Three flaming streaks cut the air and General Hill fell to the ground, dead, as the death-knell of the Confed- ' eracy aounded through the hills and across the Nation. Petersburg was filing! Richmond was being evacu- I ated Seven days later Grant and Lee sheathed their swords forever at Ap pomattox. Peace had come. (Copyright, 1911. by the Search-Light Library.) THACKERAY AND ENGINE Railway Trains, Even in the Crnde State, Didn't Suit the Author. Thackeray Paris Skleches. The palace at Versailles has been turned into a bric-a-brac shop of late years and its time-honored walls, have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on. I don t know how many leagues of battles and sieges the unhappy visitor is now obliged to march through, amidst a crowd of chattering Paris cockneys, who are never tired of looking at the glories of the Grenadier Francals; to the chron icling of whose deeds this old palace of the kings is now altogether devoted. A whizzing, screaming steam engine rushes hither from Paris, bringing shoals of badaubs in ita wake. The old coucons are all gone, and their place knows them no longer, bmooth aspnal- tum terraces, tawdry lamps and great hideous Egyptian obelisks, have fright ened them away from the pleasant sta tion they used to occupy under the trees of Champs Elysees; and though the old coucons were Just the most un comfortable vehicles that human in genuity ever constructed, one can't help looking back to the days of their existence with a tender regret; for there was pleasure then in th little courtyard with Its necessary publicity, no suegestlveness. no grimness. Th felon is merely led from his cell to the chalrroom. possibly only a few steps through the corridor, seated in a chair with a wet sponge connected to the electric generator at his head and right knee, the current is switched on, and within a fraction of a second he la painlessly dead, without a mark of any kind. As a precautionary measure th current is usually kept flowing through the body for nearly a minute, but this is unnecessary." trip of three leagues; and whoever had pleasure in a railway Journey? Does any reader of this venture to say that, on such a voyage, he ever dared to be pleasant? Do the most hardened stokers Joke with one an other? I don't believe it. Look into every single car of the train, and you will see that every single face is sol emn. They take their seats gravely and are silent for the most part dur ing the journey; they dare not look out of the window, for fear of being blind ed by the smoke that comes whizzing by, or of losing their heads in one of the windows of the down train; they ride for miles in utter damp and dark ness, as the castlron Frankenstein of an egnine gallops on, puffing and screaming. Does any man pretend to say that he enjoys the Journey? he might as well say that he enjoyed having his hair cut; he bears it, but that is all; he will not allow the world to laugh at him, for any exhibition of slavish fear; and pretends, therefore, to be at his ease; but he is afraid; nay, ought to be, un der the circumstances. I am sure Han-" nlbal or Napoleon would be were they locked suddenly into a car; there kept close prisoners for a certain number of hours, and whirled along at this dizzy pace. You can't stop if you would you may die, but you can't stop; the engine may explode upon the road, and up you go along with it; or, maybe a bolter and take a fancy to go down a hill, or into a river. All this you must bear for the privilege of traveling 20 miles an hour. When Old Age Is a Curse. Success Magazine. When it has lost self-respect. When the old have not won the re- SDect. the confidence and the admiration of relatives and those nearest to them. When they do not stand lor anything; in their community. When their neighbors would not con sider their departure any loss. When the Imagination is foul and the thought Impure. When all the youthful fires have gone out and only embers remain. When the individuality has been burned out by dissipation. When all the reserves of energy and force have been prematurely exhaust ed by a vicious life. When the Individual has not learned the art of self-control and patience. When young people cannot live with it with any comfort. When it has developed only vulgarity, coarseness and animallty. When It has left the individual ugly, disagreeable, touchy, cynical, critical, uncharitable, unkind. When the hope and cheer have fled. When ambition and aspiration ar dead. When they have lost the zest tow life, the desire for usefulness. When they have no aim in life. When the sap of life has gone and , the individual Is like a Juiceless orange. When all that is good, sweet and noble has evaporated and life is empty. Real Appreciation. (Saturday Evening Post.) One of the appurtenances of the household of Champ Clark is an old negro woman who can cook like an an gel a mammy. Mammy always has been persistent In her efforts to extort gifts from Mrs. Clark, and continually asks for new dresses, new stockings, new apron and the like. One day when Mrs. Clark was in St Louis she bonght Mammy a rather extensive outfit and when she returned home gav . th things to her with tha intimation that perhaps they would hold her for a " while. A week later Mammy began asking her mistress for a new dress. "Why. Mammy, said Mrs. Ularic. "where are the things I gave you last week?" 'Sholy. missus, replied Mammy in great amazement, "you isn't thinkln1 I's a-wine to wear dem. Is you? l' gwlne to hold dem to be burled in." Hard to Dlitsnguish. "My doll was full of sawdust," aid one little girl. "Maybe it vain t sawdust," replied the other. "Maybe it was breakfast food.'V-Wasulagton Star,
