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Vj'f'i; " : y' v-; Jilljl THb'" OREGON" SUHD AY JOUKNAL - , , 7 f t v ft- H ETHER Mayor William ft. Belcher la brought back to i Xaee, the men, sjowsn ' and " children -who nave aartfered by bla dishonesty to toe amount, 'It la l.elieved now. or 1160.000. -or whether he grows old and dies In a far eon ; of the earth imoni strangers,' thousands - of the jK-ople of Pateraon, New Jersey, - -i will aerer forget tha peculiarly charm In personality of tha man. It waa aald . ' the day after ha disappeared, August t, 7, that were he to coma back and ahow hlmaelf to hi frlenda $50,000 would be ' ' Instantly raised to get him out of til .' trouble. ' , , " ' .' And this-when' it' was known thai he ".. had forged pas books - of the bulldiqgi and loan association of akWlt he wu president, and had ala forgwd the nam i'.of the association's secretary to the -.. dooks in order to raise. loans at a bank. " Aa day after-day went by and tha .--amount of hi peculations Increased In the knowledge of the public It waa not jrwnanw ii -rnai re rm not return. Arid It was then 'that tlmee -who had known him "beat' begun to wonder ,at tha clm way m which for yewrs 'he had -carried the" :, crushing1 -weight of wuilt' - Lawyer Daniel Campbell, re ceiver of bla eathte? aald yesterday that Belcher began to go wrong aa kmr ego aa lg7, and that even then he waa ao hopelessly fn-vorved -that nothing but a miracle could -ever have -got1 him. out of bla difficulties, i And - yet, through all thla tftma.tia hlil Mrrliut himoulf Wnn hi a fellow mn with the frankness of an v . untroubled rnsn, "the light and hs-ppy-v"' . hearted manner 'that won him friends : never seemed to wane, and the dellght- v - rut peraonai magnetism that made men - week him out for eempnwkmnhfp's sake . ' .had. Jjeen ' hie emTaterreptedly. - AwO-the moat reroarkable nart of it ha a been ;y that 'no ne ever, gave htm erettit for - i betng an actor. Me "wan 'more of' a David Hnrem-.than the polished arrem ,i, her of the 'Hamilton at-tubr la ; fact! . though.be kept ep his membership, he "taildom went to the club. 'Home and the : tyv , society -of - wis owtfe and a- lew etose' " , friends had greater attractions for him. Handsome, ewlth a 'etrotig, -'honest pleasing .face, and a-stalwart-figure, he : ; n little resembled the usual- financial - swindler that had any one waggeated a x, .-'-"-- month ago that Belcher- -had ; gone- Into r .the poehtla of other people to the tune, V , ot. more thnn $100,000 ka - would have ' - been- fHuahed at.- : - "-' "WhatT Bill Belrhet-t Not he! ny, he's, the wealthiest truth In Peterson!" ",v would have been-the an war. And the v .mnyor altting in his office and telling - back-country stories, or hurrying home - -. ' to his- wife- at-eiie-ht-wtth -some ' bundle under tils arrn which he had stopped to '''i'r get for her, would have, disarmed and ' jj- rild disarm' the-suspicions of every 'I - body. i- ' ' - v - ' . , ' -He wan the 'tnoat likable man 1 K HE Condlergerle Of fkrls In the I fourteenth .oratory waa a repre, 1 eentatrve type of eoe of these .-7 . - penitential - cloacae, - abodes - of i-torture for thousands : of humble and Illustrious prisonera.: ; . . - , .1. This prison wag a part of an old fort ,'ress of the Carlovingian kings. It waa , situated In Parle on that long tslandi of the Seine called La Cite, a paiace ; built by the Romans occupied the orig inal slte This fell Into decay and waa 'replaced by a fortresa and castle near the end of the ninth century. Following , c.rin..in.i.M ktnn. Huah Canet and L www gJlirea"lT itTintliahe yelgn of Charles v, wnen me uiutk the roval residence. lter on the for mtrr- structure was destroyed by fire. - exceot the prison jttf-tho -Conclergerle, ho called because It waa gdverned by a conH 'cierae. an Individual of great power, who had Jurisdiction not ionly over It, but also over the entire tslarnt;' Hs wa.i clothed with Judicial prerogatlvea and with he right of inflicting death upon offendere captured wHhln his territory. For thle purpose be waa provided, with six gibbets aet ep ri 4he courtyard of h prison. . - . - The relie f ' the Cohclergerle were - dark, damp and unsanitary. Each, wber persons could ttot pay tot superior prlv tleges was oocupied hy eeversl prison era -Bome were -situated . under thfl tanks tn which the water supply wits stored. Th leakage' from" these newel Into the cells under them, ..adding; to tha Ititoloj-ahle stiff erlng Of their ln ma tea. 'Sixty-years r-vnore ago two pitee.ieiB5veid;boutjJ5 yerdslgcrie.. deep. ' The 'floors r these were gsr- nlahed with iron ,poiats, -upon -which those thrown into them -were -Impale I. A search of the records confirmed- this; they atated that the bodies of the vic tims were left upon tke Iroit point until a freshet In the Seine lifted and eorrlM them Into the atream. . .- - t In the Conclergerle y were confined persons held on civil as well na criminal process. These were herded to gether indiscriminately In - smsll cella, whoa accumulated filth , waa net re moved until epidemic broke out that en dangered' the lives of the officials. From this center Issued terrible plgusWhlcti . devaaUted Paris. Under the roof tt this i , . ... i. ' K2 From the Toronto Ms II and Cllobe.- ' RIT1SH COLtTMBIA In the only j)rovluce -which hae preserved the aid Kngllsh custom which obliges , Judges to wear wlas. Now, by legislative act, it has abolished the custom. ,1 The reason for thin odd piece of leprlsl latton y werdo -ttet-kitow.-uTthougri one need not eeek far for arguments against the practice. ; At the en me time, we are surprised that'trie" rtinra hf n province which so keenly regarda Bngllsh Prece dent In all mattera should -tamely sub mit-te- a deme heJjjmgn)A. eT.!CJWll Thla, apparently,, they hav K. Bnd .Oini ft rave done; and ihuiuwMet jiwpjLfrpm S'ftnaaa.a.yaxuiju .able usage of the thence. ( t British Columbia I i -not," however, wlthoat other customs -drawn from the old country but not honored In other , provinces. In Brltlslv iMlBitiMa, as in Knglsnd, the rule or tne road .is "Keep Anotlior f.-pgllsh custom In British Co lumbia' aftecla the pul.llcatlen of morn ing nawspaners. Af ting on the theory that the rest work for any tr'vr leue is done en the prevtoee day, in the Pa cific province -there Is mo Monday morn ing paper. -There Is,-however,-one 1 n Hundsy. for which the work I done en Haturday. These tradlUorra are Jwiloirs ly preaerwd. Iilthough their tewrned friend the wig has vanished from among thenr. ; - --r. - -; :. fl'iia loouodasUo legtsla tore WHO hata : ever knew," said ' lwyer Campbell, who is now going tnrougn tne lugmve s papera tn the hops of wetttrig i foundation to begin- oh. """I have fhowrt blm since he waa. a boy almost, and until thla . broke out X haew o th ing bot good of hhn. . "Howaa not a rellglowa man. On occasions hla swearing waa characteris tically v Interesting. 11 dld: not aetn profane, coming- from him. He had a quick' temper, ton uhder his slow an-.l pleasant manner, and 'often broke ou' in a fiery way at people. But he always drew the enemies he thus made hack him by some subtle way of his wwn, and seemed never to be content till he, had made -up with them. rAt -heart be was a countryman, snl hts storVes smnckftd of the farms, tbn raoutttalna ml the "rivers..-'' He loved outdoor life, .arid had the most remaTk- able vocabulary of farm-yard ektawMhat orer happened. I .never need to think that le was wntreoomlng In him. "He wabort mp near' Tuse&o 1 Part, jMt hli aide of the New York state ttne-. I -think that-hls people.were orls 1 lnallv-Kansachnnetts or Maine felk. and hla -first wife, tisa Morgan, came -fronfl Portland. It waa 'When he -waa - boy j that-Ma father came- to Pateraort as a contractor, , and Belctrer grew-opftie!" partly, and partly on the farm near Tui edo, chasing woodoljucka and foxes aoJ leornlng that store of wool and farm eraf t tbat iwaa'ooe e)f hla , Vharma n eonvsraatlon. ' . - He always kept Mi fovo for farming, and) whert- ke Went away had a farm at Mtdvite and another at Breakneaa, tha latter the old Dey homestead, which wa,s once the headquarters of Washington. 'I think,, somehow, that hla. generoa Ity -waa at the bottom of hla falll ' t "Although lawyer, be had little re gard for or understanding of money, and grave Itawsv In -small sums to every one - who needed It. ' He was a -ready and easy mark for all aorta of benevo lent Institutions They -would go Into hla office and ask him for tlO for thla on that charity, and without a word hi would go down Into hla pocketa and get it for them. , When I waa studying, a young fellow, ' I had ' little money to spare, and he uned to come Into oar office In the afwrwoan-giid ask me to go -over to New York with him to see a ball game. He would take, me bvei, btiyimyweHrmer at aome good hotel anl take me In to the game, refusing to let me pay a cent. .And aometlnyes he tonk hali. a dosen -other men, .- paying fo? everything hlmaKr. He-had actualfy ad vices. - He did not smoke or drinks anj would avoid women on every ooraalo.i that he eon Id. HIs-4oto for hl wives r the first one, who- died In 100.' and the present onex-waa one of the beautiful thlnga about his life. .'. i , "Ksoept for - keeping1 .- a eotiple of j prison wert gathered many persons of distinction, frotli Pierre de la Brosae In 1170. t averUe of Philippe le Hardl. to Marie Antoinette tn 173. end Lula Na poleon ln-lSI. : ' v ,,, It was in 17IS,- during the revelutton, that the Conclergerle -witnessed .the most terriple scenes,. At that time' two Richard waa Jailer, a- kind-hearted man, who did all in his power to' mitlgati the suff erlnga of hia charges. The pris oners, men and women, .were allowed to mingle In the large ' hall of the prison. , The feverish , anxiety, attend? i4" veloped touching . intlmactea , among lthem. ' These had hardly had inception-when the terrible guillotine brought them to a close. ; Amorous Intrigues helped to dis tract their thoughts from impending death. . They - supped, flirted, gambled, eompoaed versesi and music, and paro died the revolutionary tribunal that was to send so many of them to the scaf fold. It wae a Baturnalla of nervout gaiety. They organised mock- sessions of the court that waa to .try them. Seated on thetr cots, some-assumed the role of Judges Or, Jurors, others that.r.f witnesses end prosecutors. The con demned Were lashed to a plank and de capitation simulated with the edge bf t chair.. .They -were accustoming them selves to the final tragedy that was to eeme. ; -.-' ..... At last. In .July. JT91. Robeaplerre, who' had caused so many heads to fall; war tn turn a prisoner In the Concle'- as rnrrflned in 4. adjoining" that formerly occupied by Merle Antoinette. On the 2th Of Jul v he, Paint-Just,- Cotrthou -and Henrlot were beheaded. This-was fhe end of th terror and of the horrors of thla famous prison of old Paris. Le Grand Chatelet,- used as a prison for (00 year, waa - demolished at the commencement of 'the nineteenth cen tury. Situated In a fetid ouarter of the town, in .an- atmosphere eaturated wltn the odors of sewers, of decaying flwh and meat It' waa always unsanitary. Many times it waa the focus of deadly epidemics and plagues. Attached to the Chatelet waa a court where offenders or criminals were vtrled. Sentences va lalj aecrlleglons hands on the i judge' headgear need not - (tatter themselves that they are pioneers. ' A long time ago In England there were legal Nihilists who aimed at a Similar reform, as the following clipping; rem ' the London TJmes of-fuly ti, , 8, proves: ."During the last two days the learned Judgea and the bar have been sitting without ;the1r wigs, and In opening a ease Sir Robert -Collier called attention 16 the 'innovation, and apologised for hot appearing In foil forensic oostume. His lordship aald ' he htd aeL th-.ex- seT11lB"T1T.lh0: wig In conse Uiiienra.inf.His.1 the weather, as he thought there were limits to human endurance, fllr Ilobert Collier1 expressed the wish that hla precedent might be generally--followed, and hoped that the obsolete institution of the wig was . coming to an ad-a hope in which msny of the profeealos cgncur, . - . . , JBut though Sir Robert and. Ifi i. T. Wilde made themselves' thus conspicu ous, they died without seeing any furf ther eigne of the death of the practice. , ' Pfttaaoklcal it 4, 1 the -wig dies hard, because-It1 Is so old., StHnMy speaking, .it Came lr after the Ree torn lion; and baa ever since been worn on the fcngllsh bench, hut the wearing .t h jBdU'lal.rdp la r esrller origin and dates bark aa far as KngHsh court e f Fnl .1" B,- Awlir-itetif whteh is tha, JH4IeirnpeT insignia, but the eolL whioh te ttrebably survival el , horses, neither of them very good ones, 'he had no fads. . . Perhapa hla f irms could be called fads,, though. . He spent ermaiderBble-pnr them.; But every thing eme of a 'personal nature he was eertalnly eoonomlcal. The man who ran away owing over floO.OOa that he had got Jn large part -by fraud always wore ready-made clothes) and - walked about town to save) carfare when It was Convenient.,. . ' . "It la hard to aay how he first- got Involved, but I think that It waa through hla geheroaity. Sometime be fore 137 he must have' been In bitter need of money; for. it waa about - that time that the first of hla misconducts In getting money occurred, so far knew now. : And . from that time, on William H. Belcin theFotWw these forgaiies- And deceptions Iticresaed till he was Carrying a staggering load of interest a,nd every nownd then -had ried from- detent ten' for-a few' day s to branding, banishment, decapitation, hanging, breakinr on the' wheel and tor ture Of every kind. Some examples will give alt -Idea of the iron-handed Justice meted out by this court. - In 1390 a certain Jehan Joveao. for false doinage.-waaJtioilad in sAhettu ef oiL 'About , the same time a woman ac cused of stealing' a few silver spoons from her employer wae sentenced' to havet her-right ear cut off and to be banished from Paris, with the alternative of being-burled all liedid- sh-. ever return.' Robert Bonneerv, feu blgamyVsSoiw damned to be hanged. A few 1 years later a man who hdU entered a-ehapel of the Virgin, had desecrated the ancred Insignia and had run' the -effiela ting priest through with -a.. swrd -was sen tenced to have hla right hand cut off and to be buried tilrve. Thieves bad their ears cut oft; sorcerera- were burned at the stake and publishers who printed unauthorised books Were sent . to '.the galleys. ' These were some of the pen alties inflicted by the enure attached to the .prison of Le Chatelet. . In mttignt tion' the Judgea were solicitous of the souls of those they had sentenced. They saW- to it that the condemned had the benefit of the sacrament -of Confession and the prayers of specially designated ecclesiastics. In edJUon. a lieutenant of police, mounted en a . mule, -Always accompanied the vloUms to the place of executipn. In the fourteenth eentury the first morgue known' to Parte wae established in the Chateht.- Bodies- were kept there for a lengthy period, and no means etere employed to prevent decomposition. A Dutchman named Beck, - who -had eom bnitted three murders and had afterward i killed hlmslf, -was -made an- exception to ue general rule, ills body was salted In order that It might be 'dragged through the streets and attached to the gibbet. Because he waa a eulclda 'for It days previous, hla body waa sus pended by one leg In the morgue. The Dutch embassador, after, much effort, aucceeded In getting possession of the ' remains - of the dead man. For thla favor he was obliaed to ntv ao oeA , florins out of the estate left by Beck-to tue omeer or the court and 10.000 mere for the repair of the Chatelet , I the time When priests were lawyers.. The coif Is a small piece f Jace-whlob was worn by-Jodgen before the advent of the wig. Members of tn .Judiciary de siring to be fashionable altd yet lint dar ing to conceal the sacred coif, were driven to the espertent of having a hole cut through the top qf the wig. so that the coir might show. n 'theToreTchlef Justice's wig today y be. seen-a-round-eneee' covered by may blank silk: This Is the mark of the oolf.-whlrh haa slejediTwr)eAfed.Tt la worth noting th.t y, r.-lr could be concealed Wns when? t he indipv piuiiisiuiLiiig wenieiice. uonned the black cap. and that tfft original Intention of thir solemn ceremdny was to hide the coif, not the face of the Judge. , In con nection with this custom It Is Interest ing to observe that when an Bngllah Judge. attends state functions In his of ficial capacity he Is required -to-carry with htm the jblsrk cap. , , In the black silk gowns of king's counsel we have a memorial of -the death f a daughter of James It. The courts -went', Into mourning, - and the Juniors, ant ha vine; a. distinctive gnrbJ at that time, were quirk to fasten on the black gown,-to which they have clung ever since, though the acute stage of their .loyal grief must have passed ere ihla. - - -, ' 4n the triangular lapel which- hnagn f uamAhe--heckw4t -thouaioa'a erewa. we have vestige of the gnlden age, when lawyers, gave their eervteee freely. The . .jgagsskssBMsmajaa. ' l.Y s W t I ' . ' . "-14 .-.".? T k - I I lorn lit 7 '. - . ., . in r - i - i 1 y "g 1 i : - ..I, . - ; ;, -j'-i f-j y A'-- Mayor ot 'Piitnm, New Jersey. toV-get- large sums-when people whohd I intrusted - their securities to hlaa ydo I mended them. " '. ' ., -: ' . .- V , ' ' ; " ' -- Persona of -noble birth mere not con fined In this prison; they were -sent to ihe Tower f the? Leevre eod -later en tke BaatUe. Priests and elorks - were incevceraied In tke -abbey s of nhe-fllo-oeee- of '' Paris. 'Bourgeoisie, however, were weloome to thei hoepltattty,of -the Chatelet They .wove prtHoipaily bank rupts, defaulters and vlolutora of trusts. The. treatment given them waa milder than that accorded to a lower order of criminal.. They 'were . fed at . the ex pense - of their , creditors Vho - were obliged to Supply Succulent nourishment. wPvvfrc?ftv'eTigPJ(yflYpyVvTd " OBV eraJprlsbna, each'bearlng a dilTefeht namj),' each one significant of the char acter of the torment which gave it its appellation. For example. La " Fosse waa composed ofdeep pits, the floor of each .being covered, with' water. : Pris oners were lowered Into them by a cord passed under their arms No one could aurvlve more than , 14. days' seclusion In one of these holes. There were oth ers, deep black excavatlona filled with fetid mud. and-decomposing-bodies. Into which living-men wore thrown to die lingering deaths.' This Was done not ealy tn the barbarous middle ages, but s late as ' the eighteenth century. These cruelties did not cease until Vol taire had disseminated hie Ideas of Jus tire and humanity and punishment of criminals In proportion toi the' offense. 'The-Jailer in charge of the Chatelet was an person of Importance. Ha had under hla orders a horde of .valets, turnkeys and utider-Jallere. - Hie-duHee were many.Jle registered the artloiea of more or . lean - value foend, after search, -lit possession -Of his charges. Ho- sold food to those able to pay for itunleaa they were able to have their meala served from some near-by Inn. .Not only did he sell food, but - he rented .rooms furnisaTcd with a bed and chairs. His was a most profitable post. Hia gains amounted to what ia emilva lent, to 120,000 of the money of todejv. When he was ready to retire he sold for 110,000 the office to-C successor, who made good the expenditure from the-poor devils In his care - Thus lived moat ef the prisoners in the 'Chatelet, VletlsAS Of the caprices of their inllera. poorly fed and confined In dark and fetid -aubterranea'it dungeons, awaiting piece of cloth was originally a pocket in wnu'h clients were wont to surrepti tiously insert their fees much against the lawyer's will, we may be euro, 'Kvery frill and furbelow every form and Ceremony in a coart. haa Its at. planat Ion, and however useless eny of tnem may seem today, let u not for get' that there waa a time when it -served na; ana perhaps--ittinornht pur- twa ' y ," ree Otire fer ' '.From the New-York Sue. ,Vot . all the peppy Juloee -can com par." eays a physloian, "In sleep-pro-during qualities-v wlththejpiate-tftal ntfkre has provided. .. I mean- sunlight ann t res n-air, i niiti l think there is an Insomniac who could not be cured by a esarsi. 11 f suii'lil 1 nun-mile treatment. Surely. JP.U-CQn rrmemher. b. you liavt gone to the country, you have found It easy to elumber In' the fields, 'mid the grass or on hayrick, with the sun shin ing, down on you, ,ani g handkerchief over your eyes. .Well, It was the sun shine and the fresh air that put you -to sleep, -nothing ..else. And If you have ever emesed the ocean, you cannot have failed to notice on a fine day how many nsseefignrs sleep on the deck chairs, lulled by the fresh hreeses end the sun's reye. .'Bsck to nature -and the dole rarnteate la the proper vacation for a city ajtan." . . Oram' e)baereailaa. . . . -FrOm the Columbus; Dispatch.' . ,i tou may depend upon It,", aald tht Janllor philosopher, thot th' mon who eee he rnnnot afford to splnd Ml to sc. wmwthy:Jiln -wlf..r)i tl yBCM1dn3I.jiIT, ways th' on -who lue,es a hundred at noker th' first night shea away.". "People have wondered what he .could have done with-the money-that he -got, but be was always hard tip, ndT think that thla load of tateveet on the money he Hoi t ewed' on'-foewed norrnga 'Will aocowat forV great steal of tt." -Wbether hla rlmt -wife, a -very aweet n. 'discovered bis 'double life ahdj 'led -wUh- e broken heart.. Will. - perhapa, waa s -great blow- to him. .and for a lit ti time it seemed , that he waa declin ing. Tow a lrtue the biaflt load of worry and despsratton showed -through the carefree mask that he -wore. -.And then he married Miss James of Plalnfleld, trial alow5 to come, end often dying of eontagkrua diseases, before' its arrival. , The trials -before the eowrt of the ChataMt were aouompaaled by actomlna- ble oraeltleai r Oeneralty the culprit was snbjeeted' o' torture - tn order -to force him to -make ineslpetttig admission a Theffeet of thle-wea fatal to- aw In- wocent man wf -small rrysrcal endur ance, but favorable to one robust and catntble of enduring pain. " There were several kinds of .torture, each an eplto I me of the refinement of cruelty.' When a culprit waa brought before the court of the Chatelet he waa aworn on the ffcrlJTures to tell- (heruTnA Hf"Wtnr then allowed To defend hfmselT against the crime ef - which he 'waa charged, The Judges Invariably Insisted that he was , concealing the truth. Then he wae -put to the torture. The mild est form was to bind him on a plank, and force him to drink an -inordinate tuahtity.of vwater. the famous "wster core" ef which we beard so much dur ing the -wir In the Phftlppinee. If this was not effective, then la pelote was resorted to, where the eulprlt was .bound with' gradually tightening corda until they cut deeply Into the flesh, .' These .were only minor tortures; the others are too harrowing to describe. The register of tke Chatelet .contains a list of its prisoners, and the nature nf their crimes, extending back to the fourteenth century. . There la the record nf a Spanish Jew named Salmon, de Bsrcelone, who waa condemned to be hanged- for robbery. -To escape ponlah ment he became a Christian. He was bftpiiscdby. the chaplain ef tha. prTaon, his sponsor was the wife of the -Jailer. A month later he -was executed under the Christian name of Nlcholaa. This change of religion was hardly worth the trouble It entailed. Clement Ma rot. the poet. -waa a prisoner in. the Chatelet on tbx charge of eating pork on Friday. He compared thin prison to1 hell; in one of tta dungeons he eompoaed his poem of that title. Motlere, when a young man, -was locked ep In the Chatelet Nut In one of the prisons, but In a room he had hired from the Jailer. He was lmp'riaoned for debt .. w-." Between 1301 and 180.;thvCluitelet was . gradualy demolished after an. ex-! lstence of 600 years.; . i From the Chicago Tribune NLY one tribe -of people-tn -all - - - the 'mlfl navee laiffjrh. . The people.-with whom the cachlnnatlon la unknown, to whom a; grin Is a phenomenon, and - a smile en nnheard of thing are the Ved das the aboriginal inhabitants of Cey Ion, every man, - woman and child. -of whleh iaa eolemn as a hardened old ilrat nlghter at a musical comedy, -And ,- -7 bea via g --out the truth o roverb. 'laugh and . crow i fat." the 'eddss are the slenderest, .most emaci- aleil peuple In tiw wnliir.1 For nearly 8.000 years,' according to the best chreniclest these . people, now almost extlnCt, have preserved the same characteristics, eod no one, so far as history -reveals, has ever aeeh a smile on the face nf one of them, or heard a laugh while 111 their section 6f Ceylon. - .'Year by year they have grown thinner and leas numerous, uattl they promise to disappear' altogether, mostly by death,- but probably some of there will gat ao,thln ' to be nn visible ef they keep up the : process ef physical - de generation long - enough.- The . govern ment has tried t fattkn them by feed ing them, but the experiment ' has not been a euoreae. . 1 I The Veddae sre fllvlded Into three dierinct groups. "Tthe rock' Yeddas, Who dwell -almost '.etklrely among , the T'lntennaJunales. Jn. cavea or -ciefta-ip. Hai-anfcvand vwho era aklllfat archers. btinalaa dnwn .bate. . awls, nmwa mnA sHS -asiUab, ., aaaaUtHtya, eitaaa setae ssa j who had,eea' a. friend of the first Mrs. Belcher, and .went to Swltierland on a honeymoon that ,ma' th meet . daring and bra sen, -when It la remembered that hla Ofltce'-aafe waa crammed -with-the evtdemie- ot-'-ltia' duplicity ;and people were -eaiUng- etC-ery day la hla ahaence to aak about moneys they had loaned him on worthleHs or forged aecurlUeai But somehow luck was with him, and he brought his young bride back, happy, and 'both of them looking as If -they had never k, care la-One -world. "It haa been said that he speculated In Wall street, ftnt thla la -not ao, vw used eftoa -to talk here In the build ing about stoeka and 'deals in tbw street, and when Belcher, wanes - ofltca wag across tke hall, was present, .be -ae-vet seemed la teres! ed. . "JTrom what :he. aald he ahewed that he -did not evm understand the -toek bualaeea or how. daala want pat through. The- whole aublect saiand hasy la hla mind,, y.-.s -. v , ii . "I have wald that -he wu KAtrsHa. tous, but -perhaps I ahWld anedlfy that. Tor there waa -sort of veneration about him for we good emd the true. arid ha had a street reepeet for clean living) and never a word agataat any sort of religion of sect. But hls-aatnre waa not spontaneously religious. 'He never went te church. I think.- He- Wd a aort of religion of his own. -- "In eplte of the fact thatTte"wi living a double life, amillng-and happy In public- and ' terror-stricken In hia own heart, there was element of soundness about -his nature, a note of genuine sea that Imp rested - every one. When- ho wlaa rttnning - for mayor ti? ratei wou Tat-1 the sugwarton of hta frlenda -Wa wanted (e --autMfitnfe' a :faar1ess"Renunltcan or the old ort for a 'brewer Vhoi was "4. Democrat, he fghtly stood before tue people of- Pater son" and prornisgl honest (government nI rntagrlty with an 'aarnestnoss That-J gyve no hint -of the fact that he wee a ,rratlnal"ef the - worst sort-a -man who took -the -savings of the poor peo ple and iwaed them, for himself, .-giving forged mortgages in iTvttrrni .. ' "In. tne j midst of -this campaign, en old frteadf -who had. left 420.000 in seearitiea In hla hands Tor Investment, wrote fsom Florida ''ordering hlnto oelK rv;0-worTh"ortKe secu'rTtlea and send him tho money. .'-BeWher pat him ff rn' nne, way and another -as long ho gould, and- when the man Anally put the rnatteT In the" hands of a lawyer he Interrupted hla campaign long enough to " hurry' tp Florida, go down on hla knees -and; beg for nrercy, - promising that after hla election he would get the money rltai lie had spent and -eend.1 U. ..The creditor, for old friendship's sake, gave Mm another chance, bnt he never, got the money. ' Today ha. Is hurrying north to see whether there waa anything left of his 120,000 ot savings In the wreckage." ' - The Teutple a 'prison of state dur, mg the revolution, where Louis XVI and hta . - family were confined 51 eeds no mention. .Every detail ceweetnlng It hgs been told again -and agatik. The same may be said of the Bastlle. ' i.- . 'Blcetre. built by Louie Xfir, as a home ' for crippled eotdiers. . after the construction of the InvaJIdes by Louis XIV, was transformed Into a hospital and prison. In reality It waa a hideous receptacle of every vice and crime. 1 of every physical and moral misery. Beg- sons."crrtlitiiaHt,"the"lnKane, tlioae who Innocent of crime had made themselves cdlous to people In power were indis criminately crowded together under Its roof. .- r ' . For no special reason an Individual would be locked up in one of Its noi some cells, where he would remain so long as he lived, because no one knew Why he waa imprisoned. , . . - Blqetre was the Bastlle of the bour geoisie and the rabble. It was regarded with a dread and horror that ch filed all hearts with fear. ' The people thought the devil bad instigated Its use, that on a certain -night ie had brought to the plateau - of Blcetre a pauper, a lunatic and a criminal chained together, ind that these three, unfortunates had Inaugurated , .this horrible hoapital prlson. .As ; a i hospital ' eight patients were assigned to a single bed. divided In two squads of four each, . The first squad occupied the bed -from $ o'clock In tne ewningMifri6.clockIn the morning, when the aecond took posses sion and remained until I In the mnm lngo. , . , ,- i ' .-' - . . , Ae a -prison, criminals of all -kinds were assigned -to It from those con ocmnen 10 oeain iq tnoae eentenoea te the. galleys, awaiting the departure of the.' ohain gang for Its destination. This ooourred et fixed Intervals asd at tracted crowds of, the curious to see the start for- Brest- Rochefort and Tou- lon.v - ' ' -. 1- - ; - --. At Blcetre there were cells and un derground -duagrnnav --The i first wer narrow end dark, wherc-the prisoners lived in solitary confinement -' There wa abaoiute gllcnse, it waa etmllar Laugli ever food.. - They .will net,-for religloue rea eons, touch- the be?r,- elephant of buf falo. -The second ,grmip ,la the village" veoaas, wno live In email' colonies slong the essteHt coast gnd cultivate -grain to a email extent: and the third are the coast Veddaa, new -numbering less .than aoO- whoiisve settled down In the const Jungles and eke out an 'existence -toy helping the Meere cut -timber or stdtag tne nsnermen. .. haae tin ee small grouns are- all thai remain. Qft he nrlginal Inhabltsnts, th.y -have. no Intercourse with n each utiiur.' The Veddaa ef Ska ana ble, the most solemn group of the three, and all efforts to teach th.m ava. rX smile hnvo proved unsvsillng. ; t wny these people .do not smile 'Is a mystery. Thev alnna r ail h ,..1- of the earth know nothing of (the sen sation of laughter. An English eoien-tlst,- who recently Journeyed to- Ceylon for the purpose nf tnvatlaaln '.!. question, persuaded : some -of 'the raek Veddss to permit him to tickle them in the ribs aad In the mMitla e ki. .a a-lth straws, and never rs,ught even the iik-kci- or a smiia on their . faees. nor did he ever eucceed tn -frisking oneof them squirm asd laus-h . ain. the operation. Another strange thing about the Ved- daej. and nnn h I ,, k ,k.tu , ,. t,im j -..nl.J I ITT oanasnted with their" lack "of -hmiior lg- "ri nai every one or them la un able, tnr tell a lie or to gnncelve of any iV : Ttiejr ueicner farm1 at Midvale. ; cal pnake Den,".wag supposed to have b' selected by him aa a atnamer homa cause It waa secluded and quiet. tovea peace and solitude, he said. 1 now It l believed that he lived th like a hermit, bepaaae It waa practice inaaeesaiMa, and -ww, .off I the bea " iwrvi, mere are those w think, that this lonely retreat Indies I ": uvea In constant terror wished te eeeape iae much as -possli inn, "is fellow man, m whose fares aaw nothlnr but their' esteem for h and their confidence in his lntegrl AiteT'-ne was. made mayor he used talk to the children of the public schol poa-honeety and uoriaht llvlns-. in way that pleased even, the churohnl who found fault arlth bjma genu -J good-naturedly, for -not going to praj naming. .. . a - . . And after these talks be would go te hie ifarm and' hide' himself for di at a time..-' ' - . - He was never' a good lawyer, studied law late in life, and now it found hat many of hie legal opinio given) to clients with bla signature them, were really -Written by aoma his friends, to whom he sdbmttted d facte .and asked tor their ihelp,- It cnaractertatto of. the way. that th legal frlenda looked upon hlnT that tlJ did thla gladl and with no expectit of recompense, though, until lately ofteh - paid ' them handsomely. Tod Pateraon enndemae him vttarly -for )sannety, ant -yet the most cuttl tirade against htm generally ends wl the remanu. Tout, -gay, he was a mlgl good - fellow, ' personally-, eon knoii Really, "Peterson haa not yet got ol tho shoek ef thethrng and cannot lot et'ft ealmry. . ... , . . ,-v;, ... v kf r. r TjamDhell- who Waa annnlnil temaorary reeelver. wtll settle the A tate and divide what le realised -equn among vtnewe wno nave thlms, Ku. will et (Something. ft .is believe thoagh the amoiint TflTbe very ami If. is oharacterlatte of the fine II that Pateraon-draws between the ti Uvea that . Its msjrfir UveA that hla ti children by his first" wife, a marrt daughter II vng In the city and a a tost be ginning to praettca medicine, ha hardly been apnken ef In the case, a they are net pUled because they are highly esteemed that their reputatl and atandlng are not conaldered to hal been Involved In the least. -. It Is -t Mr. Hyde thext Is condemned and rl the ' kindly Pr. Jekyll who wae th father . Mrs, Belcher, for whom the warm it sympathy la felt, has- retreated to t Bngke Den farm, til from the shock, a wtll ,.eae fie ens not even her neard f rtenda. : ' - 1 to the -eystem ettn practiced jn eoH medern prisons, but harder, more tr tal' awd erael; no opportanlty for exercli It waa en exie fence to drive to raadnH the most unfmpreeslonable nature; et aally confined to a cell, dirty and unsa tary, breathing not hie g but avheavr a mepfalttc air. The ndergrouiJd-Jii geone were dimly lighted by a narrcj opening In the roof. The corridor up which they opened-waa petroled by se tineia. . turnce there was no poasll chance cf evasion from these tombs which one. wiFh.irl ,n... ?- -j. lfeH,"-the-:-priBoner""wse - fasteued-td chain clamped 'to the wall, allowli him barely room to move. ' , 1n the eighteenth century a certs Du Chatelet who , had betrayed Caj louche, the famous tirlaand. passed years ef hie life In fee ef theaa undej grevnd dungeons. He must have been man ef exceptionally robast phystqi to have endq,rd the "regimen. Oft J wheh Du Chatelet 'was smothering the mephltlo atmosphere of hla cr and waa lapsing Into Insensibility, I feigned dearth. Then lie wae. placed " aatreteher and earned Into an- upp hall. On the way thither he filled h lungs with fresh- air, and this renew, hla strength to prolong. a miserable e: lstence. Naturally, the trick was di covered after several repetitions, ther fore, when 1o reality he bed died, no a tentlon was paid to him. -and hia bo waa I'll iini'Md to HIS chain untl decomposition ensued. ' ' ' ' . in-OT77-Latude. who had beenlrHtn oned in the Bastlle. -Vlneennes ai Charentert, waa locked up In Blcetrl where he remained seven years. -In h memoirs he-gives harrowing acceu f. lite experiences in the undergroui rlunlrAfins Af h l... it Wbc cells of Blcetre scurvy, ldlotism. li sanity and -a lingering death await those assigned to. them. Today Blcet Is no longer a prison. It Isi a hospit devored to the 'care of aged pauper aiots ana epileptics. The old dungeoi have- disappeared, us great courts a planted with trees, shading portlo Where patients may enjoy the freah al From Mentrouge, Blcetre may be seei an imposing building, solemn and col. on-a hill which dominates all Paris. even believe thaUamyr-oneJwouU 4aW ine propertyor -any -one else,-and ass. elation -with clvllteation has failed -1 convince them that It Is possible, Whr anything In -.missing since the adven of other -people .Into Ceylon the facl mat it la mlsalag Is obarged to th artlnle Itself. -' The language of the Veddas Is close sllied-to that of vthe Clogs less and 1 extremely limited. 11 is prooauie mat tneig lack o humor, and squeat taablllty e-lthi 2 "J"S. J."Khv.rteoinJLhxi Tncit of . Imagination. They - aeeerJ utterly .unable to imagine anything- 1 ' " ' j 11.,, .1 1 ww, ' . on it 1 11 Uhollght or a future life, no religion, nJ cegemonles, no temples, no idols, no ac Of worship.'' " " '"T" TT ' "" With sir thle-hr. rather, without al this the Veddas are a peaceable, gentli quiet peeplti' They. takewtvee wltbnu any .marriage ceremony and. are ifalth rui ami constant to them, supporting; tnem to neain. wnen tnelr wives sr unfaithful they, take them beck, and th. wife's relatives punish the man. i . - . .. . .'ateedg Two Baltere. , - - From the Oalveaton News, ', -Visitor '(In newspaper off lce-a-I gun pose you hsve two editors for the "ques tlons and answers" department. t Kdltor No;'Only on WhVdld veil Hi'mDQ wv f- - , r r r - - .. , . 1 - . - . - . 1 -. mvnini r"u u nave -to nave . af woman " eak the questions and a man; im aaawee una." 1 -'- - -". v ' t-V - . ; ,a i. . ; ". ........ ) . . . - V .. ,f 1. -J
