GREAT DISCOVERERS. "
Samplo of n Rgnlntlon Dialogue llotween
ft DrugffUt and 111, Victim.
Nearly every druggist has discovered
some compound that will cure every
,l!-., rill ... .1! i
uisu.i-. J.UI3 luseovory, slopping as
respectable advertisement of its merits,
is well enough, but the inventive drug
gist stops not at advertising, in fact
rarely goes that far, but adopts a moro
importunate method of selling his com
pounds A man who has read much of
the merits of Dr. Bullrigg's Balm, and
who believes it will euro him, enters a
drug store and asks:
"Have you any of Bullrigg's Balm?"
"Yes, sir, wo have it. Suffering with
a cough?"
"Yes."
"Well, we've, got plenty of the Balm,
but we also have something much hot
tor. Now here's something (taking
down a bottle) which we make ourselves.
It's much supe "
"I want Bullrigg's Balm."
"Yes, I know, but this preparation,
as every sensible man in this town will
agree, will knock a cough higher than a
kite. This bottle will only cost you "
"I want Bull "
"Yes, I understand. This mcdicino
is mado of tlio purest drugs and will
only cost half "
"Well, give me a bottle."
"Two bottles? only cost half "
"Yes, two bottles."
"Thanks. Any thing else?"
"Have you got any of Nugglcton's
Bed-bug Annoyer?"
"Yes. Bothered with bugs?"
"Somewhat"
"Yea, I've got Nugglcton's, but wo
also have some Bed-bug .Murderer which
we manufacture ourselves. Every man
in this town will tell you that our
"I want Nugglcton's"
"Yes, I understand, but this wondor
ful preparation which we prepare our
selves only costs half what the other
does and is much better. We spare no
pains in the manufacture and '
"Well, give me a package."
"Two, did you say? only cost half '
"Yes, give me two."
"Thanks. Any thing else?"
"I'd liko to get some of Jackson's
Chill "
"My dear sir, when it comes to chills,
we make a preparation that "
The customer rushes from the store-
Arkansaw 'Traveler.
A TIGER'S BLOW.
Crushing tlio Skull of mi Ox. at n Slnglo,
Terrlblo I How.
A man-eater which for six months
had been tho terror of the neighbor
hood had been traced down and was
seen to creep into a ravine. Tho
beaters were at once ordered off, as
they could not be of service and might
be charged by the tiger, which had
already been rendered furious by a
wound. Unfortunately, these men are
in the habit of half intoxicating them
selves with opium before driving tlio
' tiger from his refuge, and one of them
who had taken too largo a dose refused
to escape, and challenged tho tiger,
drawing his sword and waving it de
fiantly. In a moment the animal
sprang upon him, dashed him to tlio
ground with a blow of his paw, and
turned at bay. After a series of des
perate charges he was killed. Tho
hunters then went to tho assistance of
the wounded man, but found that ho
was past all aid, the lower part of his
face, including both jaws, having beou
carried away as if by a cannon-ball.
The tcrrilie effect of tho single blow
indicates tho power of the limb which
struck it. Had the blow taken effect
a few inches higher tho wholo of tho
head would have been carried away.
By a similar blow a tiger has been
known to crush the skull of an ox so
completely that when handled tlio
broken bones felt as if they were looso
in a bag. The wonder at this terrifio
strength diminishes when the limb is
measured. The tiger which killed tho
foolhardy man was by no means a large
one, measuring nine feet four inches
from the nose to the tip of tho tail; yet
tho girth of tho forearm was two feet
seven inches. Tho corresponding limb
of a very powerful man scarcely ex
ceeds a foot in circumference.
Not until it becomes a niau-eator is
the tiger much dreaded, especially in
tho case of those natives who do not
possess flocks or herds. Indeed, when
an Englishman has offered to kill a ti
ger whoso lair was well known he has
been requested not to do so, as tho tiger
did no harm and killed so many deer
that it supplied the neighbors with
meat The tigress is much more to bo
dreaded ts a man-eater than tho mala
animal.-Jtev. J. G. Wood, in Good
Words.
An Insect Tramp.
A supposed house-lly parasite (Hypo
pus musmrum) has been found by a
French naturalist, P. Megnin, to bo in
reality no parasite, preying upon tho
lly's body, but simply tho common
cheese-mite (Tyroglyphus scio) availing
itself of tho first nieaus of transportation
to new sources of food supply. Tho
creature, with a remarkablo power of
adaptation to environment, becomes
greatly changed on attaching itself to
tho fly or other animal, but assumes its
original form and multiplies rapidly,
on reaching suitable feeding-grounds.
This discovery explains how fresh chocso
can become infected with mites, even
when carefully placed on a shelf away
from all suspected sources of contaiuui
ation. Arkansaw Traveler.
Judge to tho plaintiff "Who was
present when the defendant knocked
you out?" Plaintiff "I was." Chicano
Jlarald. J
Sam Bear, of Santa Fe, owns tho'
champion cinnamon bear pf tho Terri
tory, but they are not related.
WHITMAN IN DURANCE.
How a Quaint Verdict Cleared Uio Author
of "ltlndeg or Gra."
The story that Walt Whitman is in
firm and poor calls to mind a story of
tho early days, when the author of
"Blades of Grass" lived with his father
in Babylon. The old gentleman occu
pied the Minturn place, west of the vil
lage about a mile anil a hair, it was in
1S40. The budding poet then eighteen
years of age, had just returned home
after his venture in journalism in Hunt
ington. His success had not been
marked; in fact, it is questioned
whether it should not be put down as a
miserable failure.
Walt Whitman, as described by the
old ladies of the village, was a hand
some youth, fidl of life, pert in his
manner and brisk in his walk, lie
was broad-shouldered and muscu
lar, always walking erect, with a
sailor swing of easy independence.
Ilis dress suggested a "water dog."
His collar was cut low and his shirt
front was usually rolled back, exposing
his robust breast. A slnlrt sailor-jacket
and wide trousers contributed an air of
salt-water, and suggested a jolly ma
rine out for an airing. Captain Simon
Cooper is reported as saying:' "I can
smell salt water ten miles away just on
seeing Whitman."
He was a popular favorite among
both sexes in the village, anil many
jolly yarns are told of those days which,
no doubt, the now aged and suffering
poet can recall with pleasure.
One of the stories' called to mind is
the arrest of the poet for an assault
upon a young man named Benjamin
Carman. The Carman farm joined the
farm occupied by the Whitmans. A
trout pond formed the boundary. In
this pond Walt delighted to fish. On a
certain day while Whitman was sitting
in his boat angling, young Carman con
ceived the idea of annoying
him. He first threw stones so as
to disturb the water near the
fisherman. Seeing no effect upon
the stolid fisherman, he got in his
own ooat anil commenced leisurely
rowing around in the vicinity of Hie
poet, to the total destruction of fishing. I
Even this annoyance failed to call forth
any reproof or remonstrance, and Whit
man hslied on as though nothing was
annoying him. At first the lad was
careful to keep beyond the reach of tho
lislung-pole, but finally, his suspicious
being quieted by the manner of the fish-
man, who in a casual sort of a wav
plied him with various questions, ask
ing if he were not a namesake of Benja
min Franklin, and engaging him in
cheerful-conversation, the boy edged
nearer and nearer, until, coming within
the swing of Whitman's fish-pole, the
poet caught him unawares and thrashed
him unmercifully, breaking his pole
and inflicting quite severe injuries upon
tin; boy, dismissing him with the ad
monition that the next time he refrain
from interfering with his fishing.
But this was not destined to be the
'ast of the matter. Tho elder Carman,
in rage at the castigation of his son,
swore out a warrant for hitman s ar
rest before Justice Joel Jarvis, of Hunt
ington, in those days Babylon was a
land of "rum and romance," and many
quaint characters clustered about tho
village. The news of the important ar
rest traveled like wild lire, and when
ih-' constable produced his prisoner be
fore the magistrate the little 7-by-D
court-room was crowded. General
Richard Udall. afterward member of the
Assembly from Suffolk, appeared as
attorney for Carman, while hitman
pleaded his own ease. The jury was
made up of men who thought more of
common sense than of law. The fore
man was John Edwards, an English
man, full of stubborn persist
ence, prepared to insist upon having
his own wav. The progress of the
trial was not devoid of interest; in
fact, for years the ease of "The People
Against Walt. Whitman" was one of
the most celebrated oh tho "merry old
south side." General Udall niiule a
clear ease. The evidence was not dis
puted. Whitman, when he summed up
liis defense, told the jury the facts in
the case. He admitted he had trounced
the boy, but plead in justification that
Carman hail interfered with his vested
rights and had mado himself a nui
sance, and the nuisance had simply
been abated. The jury filed out They
were out but a few moments and re
turned into court.
The justice resettled his steel-bowed
spectacles so that ho could more readi
ly look over them and asked: "Gentle
men of the jury, have you agreed upon
your verdict?"
"Wo 'ave," said Edwards.
"What is it?" asked his Honor.
"Wo find 'o did not 'it Mm 'ard
enough," said the foreman.
The uproarious laughter which greet
ed this verdict the justice could not
quell, and in his righteous indig
nation broko his spectacles in his
endeavor to sufficiently express his dis
approval. When quiet was restored ho
explained to the jury that they must
find a verdict of "guilty" or "not
guilty," when tho spectators were again
convulsed by the answer of the sturdy
Yorkshire gentleman, who stubbornly
insisted that tho only verdict of tho
jury w as that "Whitman 'ad not Mt Mm
'ard enough," and after repeated at
tempts to get matters right, the prison
er was discharged, and tho verdict
stands to-day that "tho plaintiff was
not hit hard enough."
Whitman's father was a coarse, largo
boned, very tall and powerful man.
His mother is remembered ius a slight,
refined, lady-like woman of most p re
possessing manners. i. Horld.
Twonty-uight of tho thirty-nine
counties of Washington Territory have
sleeted woman as school superintend.
jnts.
MR. AND MRS. BOWSER.
How Stock Mr. 11. Triumphed Over Her
Ainliltloin mid Learned Lord.
Mr. Bowser is a great man to "break
out in spots." The other evening, after
ho had lighted a cigar and got hjs feet
braced on the mantel, ho suddenly ob
served: "Mrs. Bowser, has it never occurred
to you to call me Judge?"
"Neverl" I promptly replied, for ho
had complained of the biscuit at supper.
"Nor Colonel?"
"No!"
"While I could probably havo gono
to the Supreme Bench, or been com
missioned Colonel," ho softly con
tinued, "1 did not earo for the honor.
I am not one, Mrs. Bowser, to clutch at
titles in order to lift myself up, but 1
didn't know but it might please you to
be known as Mrs. Judge Bowser."
"I don't want the title."
"Very well, Mrs. Bowser. If you
have no care for social distinction I'm
sure I haven't. If your ambition is to
plank yourself in the house with that
wall-eyeibaby and pay no attention to
the demands of society 1 might as well
join another lodge."
1 felt a bit conscience-stricken over
tho way I had acted, and after awhile I
went out and told the cook to call him
Judge when she camo in with the last
scuttle of coal. When she came she
managed to bump hiin to give her an
excuse for saying: "Excuse me, Con
stable excuse uie!"
There was a solemn silence- for live
minutes after she left the room. Then
Mr. Bowser observed:
"Perhaps, on the whole, Mrs. Bow
ser, it would be as well not to attempt
to call mo by any title. Hired help is
so stupid, you know."
On a late occasion, as our fireside was
a scene of peace and happiness, Mr.
Bowser softly remarked:
"Mrs. Bowser, whenever it comes
handy you'd better throw out hints to
your lady friends that you weno edu
cated abroad."
"Why?"
"Well, it will increase their respect
for you."
"But I was educated in the little red
school house at Perryville, you know,
and have never been out of the State."
"Don't talk so loud, as Jane may be
listening! I told a friend only toe
other day that 1 was educated abroad,
and had been through all the art gal
leries of Europe."
"What place did you say vou studied
at?"
"Zanzibar."
"Why, my dear, that's in Africa!"
"It is! Now that shows what you
know! Zanzibar is in Germany. Mrs.
Bowser, I don't want to crow over you
on the subject of education, but when
you display such lamentable ignorance
of geography I have to feel glad that
my school days were not wasted."
"I say it's in Africa!"
"Mrs". Bowser!"
"And I'll prove it by my atlas!"
"If you do I'll give you fifty dollars
in cash!"
I got out the atlas, and there, over
on the east coast of the Dark Continent
was Zanzibar, as every school-child
knows.
"I'll take that fifty," I quietly re
marked. "No, you won't! Some fool of a map
maker has gone and got drunk and
mixed things up, and I'm not going; to
pay for it. When I know that Zanzi
bar is in Germany I know it just as well
as the atlas or anybody else."
"Did this friend of yours ask you
what (dd master you preferred?"
"Yes, ma'am, and I was posted there,
too. You may think I go sloshing
around with both eyes shut and my
tongue hanging out, Mrs. Bowser, but
that's where you are dead lame. 1 told
him Longfoller."
"Mr. Bowser!"
"What now!
said Sam Patch
You don't spose I
or Buffalo Bill, do
you?" ,
"But Longfellow was not a painter at
all, he was a poet."
He drew in his breath until his face
was as red as a beet and he jumped up
and down and nourished his arms like
a wind-mill, and finally got voice to
roar out:
"I'll bet yon nine hundred 'thousand
million quadrillion dollars to that old
back comb in your hair! Mrs. Bowser,
such assumption and assurance on your
part is unbearable!"
"Jane may hear you."
"Jane be hanged, and you, too! Mrs.
Bowser, I demand an apology for this
insult!"
"Wait till I prove that Longfellow
was not an artist, but a poet"
"I'll give you a million dollars if you
do it."
I got down tho volume of poems by
Longfellow which Mr. Bowser had
given me a year before, and then I went
to tho encyclopedia and made a tight
case on him. Ho was at first inclined
to give in, but directly ho struck tho
table such a blow that baby screamed
out, and then shouted:
"I see how it is! You are looking
for Longfellow all the time, and I dis
tinctly stated that it was Longfeller!
If tho printers havo got drunk and left
the name out am I to blame?"
"Mr. Bowser, I believe I will say I
was educated abrosul. I will do it to
pleaso you."
"Ohf you will! Well, you needn't
do any thing of the kind! Folks would
all know by your freckles that you sat
in the sun in some country school
foundry! Mrs. Bowser, you'vo brokon
up the peace of this fireside by your
malicious conduct, and you needn't sit
up for mu to-night. I may not come
home before to-morrow." Detroit Free
Prets.
Some men are boni mean and some
Hi'ti. - ine iiincs. No nun lui menu,
lit lot u-t ujMiii them.---Thus Sifliifts.
GOOD COUNSEL.
Tho Cla of Women Who ltnWo Men to n
Higher and Nobler lnlttou.
My brother, it is said, and 1 believe
it to bo in many cases true, that men do
not read women readily; do not under
stand their real characters even though
those characters may bo seen by other
women. Now. let me give you an in
fallible rule, one which you can apply
in every case and never be disappointed
in the results. It is simply this: When
you come into the presence of a woman
whom ou are meeting for the first
tin note the impression she makes on
your mind. If she reminds you
at once of your sex and her
own by look. word or act,
let her alone, for her influence will de
grade you. She may please your eye
by her beauty, your ear bv her voice,
flatter you by her words and manner,
but she will never be a true friend to
you. She studies to please and expects
you to please in return. She has no
thought above the present pleasure and
no care for any thing but self. She
will never uplift you beyond your pres
ent plane nor incite you to deeds of
honor. She must live out her organiza
tion and by suffering be made to see
the true aim of life before she can be
to you in any respect what a woman
should bo to a man, a guide to draw
him up, not down; a friend whom he
can safely trust and honor, and, perch-nee,
even love.
If. on the other hand, you meet a wom
an whose presence brings no thought
of sex into your mind, w ho brings out
your best thoughts and gives you hers
in return, whose manner encourages no
ignoble deed or word, who respects her
self, and involuntarily calls out your
respect for her, make that woman your
friend, no matter what may bo her age
or social position, no matter if sho be
poorly dressed and plain-featured and
one not calculated to make a show in
.the world of fashion; she has a soul
filled with good, and her thoughts are
the forerunners of good deeds, and she
will prove a source of constant inspira
tion to you that shall draw you to
higher planus of development and tend
to make you the man you ought to be.
Aftor spending an hour with such a
woman you leave her feeling moro
manly, more erect morally and physic
ally, and, though you may not have
the thought cleaily formed in your
mind, yet you are conscious that the
time spent in her company was spent
wisely. You are aware that her influ
ence is elevating and refining and you
feel your better nature rousing into ac
tion. You feel ashamed of your mis
deeds and wish yourself better than you
are, and resolve to make yourself more
worthy of her regard. Evils that you
have scarce noticed .before you are
hardly willing to tolerate, new
desires awake, and you breathe for a
time anew, purer atmosphere.
When vou find a woman who pro
duces these or similar impressions on
you. cultivate her acquaintance; she
w ill do you good. Her influence will
be ennobling, not degrading. She will
never drag a man down, but raiso him
to a higher level, and bring out in
strong relief, all the grand nobility of
manhood that is in him, and the
strength and purity of his highest and
best gifts.
Tho friendship and love of a woman
of this class is worth winning, my
brother, and happy is he who can call
such a woman his friend, and doubly
blessed is he who can win her for his
life companion. Association with her
will be on a plane far above selfish
passion, and rouu 1 out the life into
harmonious completeness that not only
influences the individual, but all who
come in contact with him. Christian
Register.
THE HOG IN WINTER.
How Swine. Should lt Housed and
Ted
IliirltiK tlio Cold Months.
There is a class of writers whoso
writings gives tho inference that if we
will keep tho hog in a closely heated
room an winter there would Do verv
little need of feeding the animal. They
iceni to intimate that profitable pork
production depends not so much upon
tho price of feed as it does upon the
price of base-burners and fuel. At all
events, they are eternally telling us to
keep the hog in warm quarters, and in
forming us that exposure to tho cold
means a loss of heat and consequently
an additional expenditure for food.
Now, nobody will advocate an unneces
sary exposure of swine or any oilier
class of animals. 'J hey should always
have'elean, comfortable quarters; but
a greater mistake than to attempt to
keep swine in a high temperature can
not be committed in connection with
swine husbandry. The hog is
naturally an animal J high tem
perature when undergoing the process
of fattening. So far as suffering is
concerned, the fat ling can stand a very
low degreo of temperature if dry; and,
to add to its internal heat is to pro
duce injur'. But there can be no dan
ger of doing this in winter, some may
think. Yes, there is. The house may
be so close and unventiluted as to pro
duce too high a degree of heat; or,
what is more common, tho hogs may
bo permitted to huddle together and
heat themselves almost to the cooking
point. This is tho cause of a great deal
of trouble among swine, and we are
frequently competed to tell swine breed
ers who complain of sickness among
their hogs to rout them out and keep
them from huddling together. If we
could alwiii have our own way in the
matter we would never have a higher
temperature than forty-six degrees in
which to fatten hogs. Certainly in
winter time the temperature can bo
kept as low as that, unless their quar
ters are abominable in coiistriiolfoii.
The mutter of uloiuiliusis should be
carefully looked after. The hog Is not
near so dirty an animal as some pi oplo
would havo us believe, and if it was, so
much more the need of our striving to
make him cleanly. Swine will cat al
most any thing, it is true; but so will a
fowl. The hog, however, will show his
preference for clean food and a clean
place to feed if it is given an oppor
tunity. The winter quarters of some
hogs are an abominable disgrace. They
sleep in filth, they eat i filth, and if
they do not happen to die befotv they
are got Into market the pork produced
under such circumstances can not bo of
the best quality. The animal enjoys
a clean floor to feed upon and a clean
bed to sleep in, and enjoyment alw ays
improves thrift Whenever an animal
enjoys its surroundings it will always
do the best it call do.
The food of the fattening hog will
con-i-t mostly of corn, the great fat
producing food of the country; an I if
the animal has been fed up to the time
of b 'ginning th.' fattening process for
development of bono and muscle, it
w ill usually stand' even a steady and ex
clusive diet until it is ready for market
without much danger. But if it has
not been thus developed it may break
down at any time. We must not forget
that fattening is a violence to natural
laws. It is the creation of something
that beyond a certain limit is not only
of no use to the aninuil system, but a
detriment to it. Suppose it were pos
sible to fatten a human being as we
fatten swine, and we should do it.
what would be the result? We should
endanger the life. Wo should load all
the organs with somctXng that would
not benefit them, but would interfere
with the full performance of their
functions. The same is true though
perhaps to a less extent with an ani
mal that we make so excessively fat as
we do the hog. And now if the hog is
weak to begin with, if its bones and its
muscles are not developed as nature
intended them to be, wo simply add to
the imperfect condition of tho system
when we push its development on its
least important side. But while tho
hog that has been developed as we havo
indicated may get through on an ex
clusive corn diet, it is not well to risk
it It should bo a rule of feeding that
no animal should be confined to corn
at any time or under any circum
stances. If the hog gets nothing but
corn it will sooner or later be troubled
with costiveness, with all the evils that
such a state insures. If fed every day
a little of tho bone and muscle forming
foods, such as middling), oil meal, etc.,
its digestive machinery will ,bu kept in
order, and beside tho animal will bo
kept growing.
If hogs are kept, as we keep them,
until the second year, the winter food
needs to bo largely of the bono and
muscle-forming varieties. They can bo
kept growing upon no other kind of
food. Corn will furnish little for bone
and muscle building. In a recent letter
from Kansas, noticing the prevalence of
hog disease, the trouble was attributed
y tho writer to too much corn. Ho
said corn was so plenty that tho hogs
were fed upon it from pighood to ma
turity, and that even the sows with pigs
were permitted to run with tho fatten
ing hogs. Now, it is utterly idle to ox
poet swine to do well under such treat
ment. There can bo no aim in such
feeding, unless the object is to kill the
hog, and, of course, that purpose is not
entertained. Until grass comes the
growing hogs should bo fed carefully
upon only that which will make thuin
grow. They do not need fat; they need
-ize, largo bono and moro fully de
veloped muscle. They may be fed any
thing that is upon tho farm except corn,
but only a very small quantity of that
Practical Farmer.
Burshing Children's Hair.
There is a right way and a wrong
way of doing many things and in hair
brushing the latter way is too often re
sorted to. There is too much inelin
tiou to hurry over this important duty
both with mothers and nurses. Plenty
of time should bo taken and care be
used, or the child soon learns to dread
it and shrink from it. If the operator
would take pains to nmu.su the little
ono either with a short story or a few
pleasant words tho task would bo very
materially aided and tho pain lessened.
It seems a little thing to talk of, but
when ono thinks how often the tender
head is jerked around during the oper
ation and the little ono required (o
keep perfectly still while the brush or
comb with sharp teeth is dragged
through somewhat tangled masses of
curls, ono can readily see that this
work of necessity becomes ono of tor
ture. Detroit Tribune.
The Wisconsin Central railroad
has abolished tho system of "tipping"
on Its parlor, dining ami sleeping-cars,
and it proposes to enforce the new de
parture by the immediate discharge of
inployea who are found to have ac
cepted tips from passengers. Tho rulo
is absolute, with the exception of tho
blacking of shoes, which porters are
illowed to do only when requested,
mil the fee for which is fixed at ten
cents. Simultaneously with tho order,
tho pay of tho employes affected has
been incnviscd, making it about three
times tho amount received ordinarily
by sleeping-car porters. Chicano Jour
nal.
A man whom he married the night
before went to a clergyman at Green
field, Mass., not long ago, and, saying
that the cost of the wedding reception
hud exceeded his calculations, request
ed a loan of the fivo dollars paid as a
wedding fee. Tho money was returned
but has never been vuDiM.IJoston
UeraM.
A SIAMESE EXECUTION. "
United State MlnUter Child l)o,rrlto Hoir
Three Criminal Were Decapitated.
With a number of Europeans and
Americans I attended a Siamese execu
tion, where tho sword is used in tho
furtherance of justice. The execution
took place in tho square near ono of tho
Wats, open to all. As tho hour set for
the dread event was four p. m., our party
secured a carriage, and notwithstanding
it was raining at the time, drove to tho
ground, but the shower soon passed
over, the sun shone brightly, and after
our arrival preparations were mado by
inserting in the ground three bamboo
crosses about two feet in length, to
which the anus of the doomed men wero
to be tied, they sitting on the ground,
and three poles about six feet long upon
which were to be placed tho heads of
tho criminals. This dono the crowd
was driven back. The doleful sound iW
a gong beating at short intervals, tho
sudden hush of the crowd, told that tho
prisoners were approaching and in tho
center of a squad of soldiers and police
men they entered the place that had
been reserved, about thirty feet square
Tho soldiers and police formed in tho
square as a means of keeping tho spec
tators back, a Siameso nobleman ex
amined the crosses to see that every thing
wtis ready, the judges of tho court wero
in attendance, escorted by attendants
bearing swords in red velvet sheaths.
The prisoners, three in number, (tho
King, who is very humane, having com
muted the sentence of fourteen to im
prisonment for !ifo on his birthday),
seemed perfectly cool and collected.
They had each a long bamboo pool,
some six feet in length, on their necks,
in tho front of which was an oval piece
of wood through which their hands wero
placed, with chains on their necks
and legs. In a short timo the yokes
and chains on their necks wero taken
nil" and as tho ground was wet and
muddy by the tramping of tho crowd,
largo banana leaves were placed on the
ground and they wero ordered to squat
down on them; then they were fastened
to tho crosses, tho flowers and sticks
wero stuck in tho ground in front of
them, the sticks lighted and for a few
minutes tho victims of the law prayed
most fervently in silence, they having
been engaged in paryer at tho wat
about four hours previous to being
brought to tho place of execution. This
over, mud was inserted in their cars so
that they could not hear tho execution
ers when they approached, and wero in
structed to lean forward and keep their
eyes riveted on the flowers and burning
sticks. While waiting tho coining of the
executioners, the chief of thu band of
robbers smoked a cigarette, and it was
inly by tho heaving of his chest that
one could detect nny emotion. All of a
sudden the crowd parted, three execu
tioners, dressed in red with gold fringo on
their clothes, glided through the open
ing, dancing as they came, saluted with
their shining swords, and on reaching
tho prisoners tho bright steel flashed in
the air, you heard a thud, tho head fell
to one side, hanging by a piece of skin,
and tho law was avenged. With an
)ther salute tho oxecutionors disap
peared; then a man with a sharp knifo
severed tho heads and stuck them on
the poles, a hideous sight, thou coolly
chopped tho hands of tho dead men off
so as to get the irons that wero solidly
riveted on, and tho bodies wero left on
the ground for thu vultures to oat or for
their friends to steal and give burial
after nightfall. Tlio heads wero taken
oil" simultaneously, so quick that I could
icarcoly realize it, and it seemed to ino
that death was instantaneous, savo that
tho heads showed spasmodic action, tho
uyes and mouth opening and shutting,
which lasted for somo timo after being
dii thu poles.
Tho crowd in attendanco was most
orderly, not a drunken man to bo seen,
and entire silence prevailed, and when
tho execution was over left tho grounds
without the least confusion and there
could not havo been less than a thou
sand present.
The scene was one that could not fail
to impress tho crowd of spectators; tho
small grass plot, cordon of police soldiers
with a mass of faces peering behind
them, thu three prisoners attached to tho
crosses with heads bent forward, tho
entrance of the seaiieUelad execution
ers with gleaming swords, their sinuous
sidelong dance until they had reached
the rear of tho doomed men, then, like
a flash of lightning, the bright steel
gleamed and three violators of law had
ceased to exist, tho blood spurting in
ets from thu torso while the head hung
by a small pieco of skin, as tho execu
tioner never cuts tho head clear oft".
Two of tho bodies fell over on tlio ground
while ouo remained erect. The prison
ers wero old ollenders; onool tliein, i
was informed, having been implicated
in fifteen robberies and several murders.
Ho was the chief, but had slipped
through the meshes of tho law repeat
edly by the uso of money; tho others
were younger men and ono of worthy
parentage, but his money did not savo
him, as an example was needed
to put a stop to outlawry, and it has
done it, for the robberies havo ceased,
and the band is broken up. Bangkok
(Siam) Cor. Uichmond Conservator.
He Had Been There.
"Bub. what's the dav of tho month?"
ho queried as ho stopped short at tho
corner of unsworn anil learned streets.
Tho lad crossed tho 6trcct without re
plying and stood on tho curb and
looked back.
"What's the matter?"
"I know vour racket Soon as I toll
you you'll say you'vo got a note duo to
day, and want to borrow tiurty-seven
dollars to help . you out l'vo got
thi'oiirrh bnhiL' financially ruined: try
the nowsboy over there. "Detroit Fret
Press,