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Ingenious Way ef Lengthening Out the Even Keener at Timee Than That ef gQ
Proeese ef Beheading.
Meet Cauoasiana.
The death penalty in Persia may
be met in a number of different
ways. A few years ago the assassin
of the reigning shah of Persia was
hanged. A large crowd was allowed
to look on, just as I believe they
used to be allowed to look on when
criminals were executed in Amer­
ica and England. Persia still clings
to an old theory which the west
has outgrown— the theory that pub­
lic sight of an execution acts as
a warning against crime. MaybC,
A . E . W ILSO N , the Jeweler bat more likely the western natic
are right. Certainly the Persian au­
HAS THEM
thorities, with all their public se­
verities, have not succeeded in
stamping out a tendency of vicious
and evil tempered men to kill like
wild animals when savage instincts
take possession of them.
It makes no difference how hor­
ribly the consequences are going to
roll back over themselves. When
No Emperor—either of s
they “ see‘ red** they are wild beasts.
People or o f Finance—can
And, to tell the truth, such men
often get punished with a ferocity
buy better food than we
which you can hardly imagine. A
sell you, at prices you usu­
man is tied across the mouth of a
ally pay for good things.
cannon. The cannon is fired. Well,
his sufferings were no worse, I sup-
thaU it he were electrocuted,
it the spectacle is more sickening.
The public executioner has ingen­
V a n B ian con i ious ways of lengthening out the
process of a beheading. He cuts off
one arm, the other arm— one leg,
the other leg— will it never be done?
Yes. There goes the head. One
more bad man has gone to meet
a Judge who knows the case bet­
ter than any earthly judge.
A Mohammedan husband is sup­
posed to attend to any small mat­
ters of discipline where the women
Give it* a chance at that
of his family are concerned, just as
new home. W e would like
he does where his boys are con­
to put In those Bath Fix­
cerned. In a very serious case, such
tures, Etc., and do your
as murder done by a jealous or pas­
plumbing.
sionate wife, the - leader of the
mosque deals out justice. The civil
authorities do not deal with a wom­
an at all in the event of such a
LET US FIGURE W IT H YOU.
tragedy. And in the woman’s case
there is always an effort to keep her
crime and her fate a secret. The
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respectable widow of a murdered
man has been known to die sudden­
ly with something like acute indi­
gestion. A strong dose of poison
sternly prescribed by the leader of
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the mosque does certainly check the
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digestion.
Occasionally— not often—a sack
of stout d oth inclosing something
heavy is carried or dragged up, up,
up the long winding staircase in the
tower of a mosque and thrown down
from the top to the stone paved
ground outside. Nobody saw what
as inside that sack. Horrified
guesses may be exchanged in confi­
dence by a few persons who knew
the owner o f a certain reckless tem­
per, but no public announcement is
made about the facts. One more
unfortunate has ended her days.
For Diamonds, Watches, Clocks Perhaps the sin was not all on her
and Jewelry
side, either. Who knows?— Leon
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•hooked His Pride.
Of his Cambridge days a dii
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story. He always wore a white tie,
and when he got his fellowship, full
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Two Turks were at a French ban­
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a Frenchman selected a toothpick
from the tray near him and polite­
ly passed the tray on to his neigh­
bor, who, however, peremptorily de­
clined the offer, exclaiming:
“ No, thank you; I have already
eaten two o f the accursed things.”
Cru«l.
“ But, papa,” wailed the young
woman, “ you can have no idea how
he loves me. He is willing to die
for me this very minute.”
"Well,” said the old man, scratch­
ing his head thoughtfully, “l don’t
know as I have any objection to
that I was afraid be wanted to
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ed . the achieTements of our race nn
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ldea of the religion of pagan tribes,
rule, done scant justice to the peo- Dunng a Btay of . ome three years
pie whom we supplanted. I opolar among
however, 1 was
writers generally agree, for exam able to form some notion of what
le, in representing the Indian as was at the back of their minds.
aughtv and taciturn. They simply They have an idea of a supreme be­
ignore human, nature. As a matter ing, but do not worship him in any
of fact, among the friends whom
he r* »y that I have been able to dis-
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panion and a lively story teller, full
of humor himself and appreciating
heartily the humor o f others.
Indeed, the ability of the Indiana
to see the funny side of the matter,
even when the point is against
themselves, sometimes goes to ex
traordinary lengths. In the Sioux
outbreak o f 1890 not a few Indiana
belonging to the usually peaceable
element left their homes and went
to the arena of hostilities either out
o f mere curiosity or with' a notion
that the trouble might spread till
all were drawn into it on one side
or the other. During the absence oi
a number of members o f one band
their local agency issued its annual
call for firewood. It was the cus­
tom o f the government to buy from
the Indians all the fuel they would
cut, by wav o f encouraging them in
this useful industry. A weakmind-
ed fellow who always had been
treated as the clown o f the tribe
and who had stayed at home in
spite o f the excitement saw here his
golden opportunity. He had never
exerted himself before to earn his
own living, because the timber ex­
peditions involved too much hard
work, but what could be easier than
a plan * which had just entered his
mind ?
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So to the nearest cabins of the ab­
sentees he repaired and deliberately
tore them down, sawed the logs into
cord lengths, piled them into his
wagon and hauled them to the
agency, where he received the
standard price for all he brought,
no questions being asked as to
where he got it. And how did the
owners act on their return? Their
first sensation was one of amaze­
ment to find their dwellings razed
to the ground; possibly the next
was indignation, but if they mani­
fested any I never heard o f it. All
I know is that in telling me the
story they have laughed over it as
if it were one o f the most amusing
things imaginable, only a new item
added to the clown’s long list of
comical pranks, while the author o f
the mischief would stand fay, enjoy­
ing the recital aa much as the rest
and evidently taking not a little
pride in the novelty o f his practical
joke. I suspect that this is one of
the cases where most of ns will ad­
mit that the Indian sense o f humor
is even keener than the Caucasian.
— From “ The Indian and His Prob­
lem,” by Francis E. Leupp, Former
United States Commissioner of In­
dian Affairs.
Odd I
iiiim im i .
The most curious thing about the
odd surname is that more often
than not it had in its origin no con­
nection whatever with the things
with which it is associated. Thus
Hogg is only a corruption o f Roger,
and Cockles has gradually assumed
that form from the village o f Cock-
hill. Oddly enough, this is espe­
cially true of fish names. Cod is a
corruption from Cuthbert, Chubb
comes from Job, Salmon from Sol­
omon, and Trout and Turbot were
equally unconnected with fish in
their derivation.— London Chron-
icle.
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Th« Early Worm.
A father had been lecturing his
young hopeful upon the evils of
staying out late at night and getting
up late in the morning. “ Yon will
never amount to anything,” he con­
tinued, “ unless you turn over a new
leaf. Remember that the early bird
catches the worm.”
‘'How about the worm, father?”
inquired the young man. “ Wasn’t
he rather foolish to get up so
early ?”
“ My son,” said the father solemn­
ly, “ that worm hadn’t been to bed
all night; he was on his way home.”
— London Ideas.
^ obably this idea is just
their paganized conception of the
Mohammedan Allah.
Their actual worship is more
closely connected with the spirits of
their ancestors. They appear to
live in dread lest these spirits
should work damage to their farms,
and with this in view they are care­
ful to supply them at regular inter­
vals with food and drink, which are
deposited near thfiir graves. These
tombs are in the case of chiefs in
the royal compound, and huts are
built over them, wonderfully deco­
rated with bright colors. In other
cases the graves may be dug in some
lonely place away from the houses
of the living and often in the depths
of the forest.
A spirit house which I have often
visitea is in « woodland glade with­
in half a mile of my compound and
belongs to the family of the chief
butcher of Kuta. Owing to its
proximity to my abode it has fallen
into disuse, as the pagans became
somewhat chary of performing their
mysterious rites so near the white
man.
Some departed spirits are sup­
posed to inhabit the large trees
which are to be found in almost ev­
ery pagan town, and small earthen­
ware pots containing food may be
seen surrounding these trees.
It is not often that one can see
the Gwaris at their religious exer­
cises, but a few months ago, on en­
tering a Gwari village, I saw a man
kneeling in front of one of these
small spirit hufa with a pot of some
drink in his hand, apparently expos­
tulating with the. spirit— possibly
because it had treated him badly—
and occasionally pouring some of
the contents of the pot upon the
outside wall of the hut.— Wide
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This story comes from Austria,
where all conversation turns even­
tually to matters educational, be­
cause every parent is painfully anx­
ious that his sons shall pass the
standard which will free them from
certain years o f military service. A
visitor was conversing with his
host’s small son and opened, as a
matter o f course, with the words,
“ Do you go to school now?”
“ Yes.”
“ And what do you learn— read­
ing, writing, sums ?”
“ Oh, yes, and I learn religion
too.”
“ Religion?”
“ Yes. I learn the little religion,
which teaches that we all come from
Adam. But my elder brother is in
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ligion, and that teaches that we all
come from monkeys.” — Manchester
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held by three little girls:
Nellie— I’m glad ray father and
mother are Christian Scientists. I
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cine.
Dorothy— I’m glad my father
and mother are not Christian Scien­
tists. Every time I have to take
nasty medicine-1 get a box of candy.
Elizabeth— I wish my father and
mother were Christian Scientists.
Every time I have to take a dose of
medicine I get a good spanking.—
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Mark Twain’« Protest.
In 1888 Mark Twain received
from Yale college the degree of
master o f arts, and the same college
made him a doctor of literature in
1901. A year later the university
of his own state, at Columbia, Mo.,
conferred the same degree, and
then, in 1907, came the crowning
honor, when venerable Oxford ten­
dered him the doctor’s robe.
"I don’t know why they should
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Mr. Pinchpenny— I worked and quaintly. “ I never doctored any lit­
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money, only to find at last that
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An Extraordinary C« m .
Mr. Pinchpenny— No. I can’t
A young attorney not noted for
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money into some one else’s pocket. court to ask for an extra allowance
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