A SIAMESE EXECUTION. carefully looked after. The hog Is not near so dirty an animal as some people United State» Minister Child Desi-rlbe. u Sample of a Regulation Dialogue Between How a Quaint Verdict Cleared the Author How Meek Mrs. H. Triumphed Over Her The C’lasH of Women Who Kalne Men to a would have us believe, and if it was, so Three Criminal« Were Oecepitat.Jj” Ambitious and Learned Lord. Higher and Nobler Position. of “Blades of GrasH. ” a Druggist and His Victim. With a number of European» Md Mr. Bowser is a great man to “break My brother, it is said, and I believe much more the need of our striving to Nearly every druggist has discovered I The story that Walt Whitman is in­ make him cleanly. Swine will eat al­ Americans I attended a Siamese execn some compound that will cure every firm and poor calls to mind a story of out in spots.” The other evening, after it to be in many cases true, that men do most any thing, it is true; but so will a tion, where the sword is used in the lie had lighted a cigar and got his feet not read women readily; do not under ­ disease. This discovery, stopping at the early days, when the author of respectable advertisement of its merits, “Blades of Grass” lived with his father braced on the mantel, he suddenly ob­ stand their real characters even though fowl. The hog, however, will show his furtherance of justice. The executio those characters may be seen by other preference for clean food and a clean took place in the square near one of th'! is well enough, but the inventive drug­ in Babylon. The old gentleman occu­ served: “Mrs. Bowser, has it never occurred women. Now, let me give you an in­ place to feed if it is given an oppor­ wats, open to all. As tho hour set for gist stops not at advertising, in fact pied the Minturn place, west of the vil­ fallible rule, one which you can apply tunity. The winter quarters of some the dread event was four p. m., our part rarely goes that far, but adopts a more lage about a mile and a half. It was in to you to call me Judge?” “Never!” I promptly replied, for bo in every ease and never be disappointed hogs art an abominable disgrace. They secured a carriage, and notwithstanding importunate method of selling his com­ 1840. The budding poet, then eighteen pounds A man who has read mnch of years of age, had jult returned home had complained of the biscuit ut supper. in the results. It is simply this: When sleep in filth, they eat in filth, and if . it was raining at the time, drove to the “Nor Colonel?” you come into the presence of a woman they do not happen to die before they ground, but tlie shower soon pa8sej the merits of Dr. Bullrigg’s Balm, and after his venture in journalism in Hunt­ “No!” whom you are meeting for the first are got into market the pork produced over, tho sun shone brightly, and after who believes it will cure him, enters a ington. His success had not been “While I could probably have gone time note tho impression she makes on under such circumstances can not be of our arrival preparations were made by drug store and asks: marked; in fact, it is questioned If site reminds you the best quality. The animal enjoys inserting in tho ground three bamboo “Have you any of Bullrigg’s Balm?" whether it should not be put down as a to the Supreme Bench, or been com­ your mind. missioned Colonel, ” he softly con ­ at once of your sex and her a clean floor to feed upon and a clean crosses about two feet in length, to “Yes, sir, we have it. Suffering with miserable failure. word or act. bed to sleep in, and enjoyment always which the arms of the doomed men were a cough?” Walt Whitman, as described by the tinued, “I did not care for the honor. own by look, “Yes.” old ladies of the village, was a hand­ I am not one, Mrs. Bowser, to clutch at let her alone, for her influence will de­ improves thrift. Whenever an animal to be tied, they sitting on the ground “Well, we’ve got plenty of the Balm, some youth, full of life, pert in his titles in order to lift myself up, but I grade you. She may please your eye enjoys its surroundings it will always and three poles about six feet long upon which were to be placed the heads of but we also havo something much bet­ manner and brisk in his walk, He didn’t know but it might please you to by her beauty, your ear by her voice, do the best it can do. 'Tlie food of the fattening hog will tho criminals. This done the crowd flatter you by her words and manner, ter. Now here’s something (taking was broad-shouldered and musco- be known as Mrs. Judge Bowser.” “I don’t want the title.” but she will never be a true friend to consist mostly' of corn, the great fat­ was driven back. The doleful sound «{ down a bottle) which we make ourselves. lar, always walking erect, with a “ Very well, Mrs. Bowser. If you you. She studies to please and expects producing food of the country*; ami if a gong beating at short intervals, the It’s much supe----- ” sailor swing of easy independence. “I want Bullrigg’s Balm.” His dress suggested a “water dog.” have no care for social distinction I’m you to please in return. She has no the animal has been fed up to the time sudden hush of the crowd, told that the “Yes, I know, but this preparation, His collar was cut low and his shirt sure I haven't. If your ambition is to thought above the present pleasure and of b ¡ginning the fattening process for prisoners were approaching and in the as every sensible man in this town will front was usually rolled back, exposing plank yourself in the house with that no care for any tiling but self. She development of bone and muscle, it center of a squad of soldiers and police­ agree, will knock a cough higher than a bis robust breast. A short sailor-jacket wall-eyed baby and pay no attention to will never uplift you beyond your pres­ will usually stand even a steady ami ex­ men they entered the place that had kite. This bottle will only cost you——” and wide trousers contributed an air of the demands of society I might as well ent plane nor incite you to deeds of clusive diet until it is ready for market been reserved, about thirty feet square. honor. She must live out her organiza­ without much danger. But if it has The soldiers and police formed in the “I want Bull----- ” , salt-water, and suggested a jolly ma­ join another lodge.” I felt a bit conscience-stricken over tion and by suffering be made to see not been thus developed it may break square ns a means of keeping the spec­ “Yes, I understand. This medicine rine out for an airing. Captain Simon is made of the purest drugs und will Cooper is reported as saying: “I can the way I had acted, and after awhile I the true aim of life before she can be down at any time. We must not forget tators back, a Siamese nobleman ex- only cost half----- ” smell salt water ten miles away just on went out and told the cook to call him to you in any respect what a woman that fattening is a violence to natural amined the crosses to see that every thirn» Judge when sho came in with the last should be to a man, a guide to draw laws. It is the creation of something was ready, the judges of the court were “Well, give me a bottle.” seeing Whitman.” “Two bottles? only cost half----- ” He was a popular favorite among scuttle of coal. When she came she him up, not down; a friend whom he that beyond a certain limit is not only jn attendance, escorted by attendants “Yes, twx> b<>ttles." both sexes in the village, and many managed to bump him to give her an can safely trust and honor, and, per­ of no use to the animal system, but a bearing swords in red velvet sheaths. detriment to it. Suppose it were pos­ “Thanks. Any thing else?” jolly yarns are told of those day's which, excuse for saying: “Excuse me, Con­ ch-nee, even love. The prisoners, three in number, (the If, on the other hand, you meet a wom­ sible to fatten a human being as we King, who is very humane, havingcom- “Have you got any of Nuggleton’a no doubt, the now aged and suffering stable—excuse me!” There was a solemn silence for five an whose presence brings no thought fatten swine, and we should do it, muted the sentence of fourteen to im­ Bed-bug Annoyer?” poet can recall with pleasure. “Yes. Bothered with bugs?” One of the stories called to mind is minutes after she left the room. Then of sex into your mind, who brings out what would be the result? We should prisonment for life on his birthday), your best thoughts and gives you hers “Somewhat.” the arrest of the poet for an assault Mr. Bowser observed: “Perhaps, on the whole, Mrs. Bow- in return, whose manner encourages no endanger the life. We should load all seemed perfectly cool nnd collected. “Yes, I’ve got Nuggleton’a, but we upon a young man named Benjamin sir, it would be as well not to attempt ignoble deed or word, who respects her­ the organs with something that would They had each a long bamboo pool, also havo some Bed-bug Murderer which Carman. The Carman farm joined the not benefit them, but would interfere some six feet in length, on their necks, wo manufacture ourselves. Every man farm occupied by the Whitmans. A to call me by any title. Hired help is self, and involuntarily calls out your witli tho full performance of their in the front of which was an oval piece so stupid, you know. ” in this town will tell you that our----- respect for her, make that woman your trout pond formed the boundary. In On a late occasion, as our fireside was friend, no matter what may be her age functions. Tlie same is true—though of wood through which their hands were “I want Nuggleton’s" this pond Walt delighted to fish. On a perhaps to a less extent—with an ani­ placed, with chains on their necks “Yes, I understand, but this wonder­ certain day' while Whitman was sitting a scene of peace and happiness, Mr. or social position, no matter if she be mal that we make so excessively fat as and legs. In a short time the yokes Bowser softly remarked: ful preparation which we prepare our­ in his boat angling, young Carman con­ poorly dressed and plain-featured and we do til:) hog. And now if the hog is and chains on their necks were taken “ Mrs. Bowser, whenever it comes selves only costs half what the other ceived the one not calculated to make a show in weak to begin with, if its bones and its off and as the ground was wet and annoying idea of docs and is much bettor. We spare no him. Ho first threw stones so as handy you’d better throw out hints to the world of fashion; sho has a soul your lady friends that you were edu­ filled with good, and her thoughts are muscles are not developed as nature muddy by the tramping of the crowd, pains in the manufacture and----- •’ to disturb the water near the cated abroad.” intended them to be, we simply a Id to large banana leaves were placed on tho “Well, give mo a package.” the forerunners of good deeds, nnd she the imperfect condition of the system ground and they were ordered to squat fisherman, Seeing no effect upon “ Why? ” “Two, did you say ? only cost half — ’ the stolid fisherman, ho got in his* will prove a source of constant inspira­ “Well, it will increase their respect tion to you that shall draw you to when we push its development on its down on them; then they were fastened “Yes, give me two." own boat and commenced leisurely least important side. But while the to the crosses, the flowers and sticks for you.” “Thanks. Any thing else?” higher planes of development and tend liog that has been developed as we have were stuck in the ground in front of rowing around in the vicinity of the “ But I was educated in the little red to make you tho man you ought to be. “I’d like to get some of Jackson’s poet, to the total destruction of fishing. indicated may get through on an ex­ them, the sticks lighted and for a few school house at Perryville, you know, Chill----- ” Even this annoyance failed to call forth and have never been out of the State.” Afiur spending an hour with such a clusive corn diet, it is not well to risk minutes the victims of the law prayed woman you leave her feeling more “My dear sir, when it conies to chills, any reproof or remonstrance, and Whit­ it. It should be a rule of feeding that most fervently in silence, they having “Don’t talk so loud, as Jane may be we make a preparation that----- ■” man fished on as though nothing was listening! I told a friend only toe manly, more erect morally and physic­ no animal should be confined to corn been engaged in paryer at the wat ally, and, though you may not have The customer rushes from tlie storo annoying him. At first the lad was at any time or under any circum­ about four hours previous to being other day that I was educated abroad, —Arkansatv Traveler. careful to keep beyond the reach of tho nnd had been through all the art gal­ tho thought clearly formed in your stances. If the hog gets nothing but brought to the place of execution. This mind, yet you are conscious that tlie fishing-pole, but finally, his suspicions leries of Europe.” over, mud was inserted in their ears so time spent in her company was spent corn it will sooner or later be troubled A TIGER'S BLOW. being quieted by the manner of the fish­ “What place did you say you studied wisely. You are aware that her influ­ with costiveness, with all the evils that that they could not hear the execution­ erman, who in a casual sort of a way Crushing the Skull of an Ox at a Single, ers when they approached, and were in­ at?” ence is elevating and refining and you such a state insures. If fell every' day structed to lean forward and keep their plied him with various questions, ask­ Terrible Blow. “Zanzibar.” a little of the bone and muscle forming feel your better nature rousing into ac­ A man-eater which for six months ing if he were not a namesake of Benja­ eyes riveted on the flowers and burning “Why, my dear, that’s in Africa!” tion. You feel ashamed of your mis­ foods, such as middlings, oil meal, etc., had been the terror of the neighbor­ min Franklin, and engaging him in “It is! Now that shows what you deeds and wish yourself better than you its digestive machinery will be kept in sticks. While waiting the coming of tho cheerful conversation, the boy edged hood had lieen traced down aud was know! Zanzibar is in Germany. Mrs. order, and beside the animal will be executioners, the chief of tlie band of seen to creep into a ravine. Tho nearer and nearer, until, coming within Bowser, I don’t want to crow over you are, and resolve to make yourself more kept growing. robbers smoked a cigarette, and it was beaters were at once ordered off, as the swing of Whitman's fish-pole, the on the subject of education, but when worthy of her regard. Evils that you If hogs are kept, as we keep them, inly by the heaving of his chest that they could not be of service and might poet caught him unawares and thrashed you display such lamentable ignorance have scarce noticed before you are until the second year, the winter food one could detect nny emotion. All of a be charged by tho tiger, which had him unmercifully', breaking his pole "f geography I have to feel glad that hardly willing to tolerate, new needs to be largely of the bone and sudden the crowd parted, three execu­ desires awake, and you breathe for a already been rendered furious by a and inflicting quite severe injuries upon my school days were not wasted.” muscle-forming varieties. They’ can be tioners,dressed in rod with gold fringe on time a new, purer atmosphere. wound. Unfortunately, these men are the boy, dismissing him with the ad­ “I say it’s in Africa!” kept growing- upon no other kind of their clothes, glided through the open­ monition that the next time he refrain When you find a woman who pro ­ in the habit of half intoxicating them­ “Mrs. Bowser!” food. Corn will furnish little for bone ing, dancing as they came, saluted with duces these or similar impressions on selves with opium before driving the from interfering with his fishing. “And I’ll prove it by my atlas!” and muscle building. In a recent letter their shining swords, and on reaching But this was not destined to be the tiger from his refuge, and one of them “If you do I’ll give you fifty dollars you, cultivate her acquaintance; she from Kansas, noticing the prevalence of the prisoners the bright steel Hashed in will do you good. Her influence will who had taken too large a dose refused ’ast of tho matter. The elder Carman, in cash!” hog disease, the trouble was attributed the air, you heard a thud, the head fell to escape, and challenged the tiger, in rage at the castigation of his son, I got out the atlas, and there, over be ennobling, not degrading. She will by the writer to too much corn. He to one side, hanging by a piece of skin, drawing his sword and waving it de­ swore out a warrant for Whitman's ar­ on the east coast of the Dark Continent never drag a man down, but raise him said corn was so plenty that the hogs and tho law was avenged. With an- fiantly. In a moment the animal rest before Justice Joel Jarvis, of Hunt­ was Zanzibar, as every school-child to a higher level, and bring out in were fed upon it from pighood to ma­ •ther salute tho executioners disap­ strong relief, all the grand nobility of sprang upon him, dashed him to the ington. In those days Babylon was a knows, turity, and that even the sows with pigs peared; then a man with a sharp knife ground with a blow of his paw, aud land of “rum and romance,” and many “I’ll take that fifty,” I quietly re­ manhood that is in him, and the were permitted to run with the fatten­ severed the heads and stuck them on strength and purity of his highest and turned at bay. After a series of des­ quaint, characters clustered about the marked. ing hogs. Now, it is utterly idle to ex­ the poles, a hideous sight, then coolly perate charges ho was killed. Tho village. The news of the important ar­ “No, you won’t! Some fooi of a map­ best gifts. pect swine to do well under such treat­ chopped the hands of the dead men off hunters then went to the assistance of rest traveled like wild fire, and when maker has gono and got drunk and The friendship and love of a woman ment. There can be no aim in such so as to get the irons that were solidly the wounded man, but found that ho tho constable produced his prisoner be­ mixed things up, and I’m not going to of this class is worth winning, my feeding, unless the object is to kill the riveted on, and the bodies were left on was past all aid, the lower part of his fore tho magistrate the little 7-by-9 pay for it. When I know that Zanzi­ brother, and happy is ho who can call the ground for tho vultures to eat or for face, including both jaws, having been court-room was crowded. General bar is in Germany I know it just as well such a woman his friend, and dopbly hog, and, of course, that purpose is not entertained. Until grass comes the their friends to steal and give burial , Richard Udall, afterward member of the carried away as if by a cannon-ball. blessed is he who can win her for his growing hogs should be fed carefully after nightfall. The heads were taken as the atlas or anybody else.” The terrific effect of the single blow Assembly from Suffolk, appeared as “Did this friend of yours ask you life companion. Association with her upon only that which will make them off simultaneously, so quick that I could indicates the power of tho limb which attorney for Carman, while Whitman what old master you preferred?” will be on a plane far above solfish grow. They do not need fat; they neod scarcely realize it, and it seemed to inc struck it. Had the blow taken effect pleaded ins own case. The jury was “Yes, ma'am-, and I was posted there, passion, and round out the life into size, large bone and more fully de­ that death was instantaneous, save that a few inches higher the whole of the made up of men who thought more of too. You may think I go sloshing harmonious completeness that not only the heads showed spasmodic action, the head would havo been carried away. common sense than of law. The fore­ around with both eyes shut and my influences the individual, but all who veloped muscle. They may be fed any eyes and mouth opening and shutting, By a similar blow a tiger has been man was John E<1 wards, an English­ tongue hanging out, Mrs. Bowser, but come in contact with him.— Christian thing that is upon the farm except corn, but only a very small quantity of that. which lasted for some time after being stubborn persist­ that’s where you aro dead laine. I told liegister. known to crush tho skull of an ox so man, full of — Practical Farmer. on the poles. completely that, when handled the ence, prepared to insist upon having him Longfeller.” The crowd in attendance was most broken bones felt as if they were loose his own way. The progress of the “Mr. Bowser!” THE HOG IN WINTER. orderly, not a drunken man to be seen, Bursning Children's Hair. in a bag. The wonder at this terrifio trial was not devoid of interest; in “What now! You don’t spose I and entire silence prevailed, and when strength diminishes when tho limb Is fact, for years the case of “The People said Sam Patch or Buffalo Bill, do llow Swine Should lie Housed and Fed There is a right way and a wrong tlie execution was over left the grounds During the Cold Months. measured. The tiger which killed tlie Against Walt. Whitman” was one of YOU?” There is a class of writers whose way of doing many things and in hair without the least confusion and there foolhardy man was by no means a largo the most celebrated on the “merry old “But Longfellow was not a painter at writings gives the inference that if we brushing the latter way is too often re­ could not have been less than a thou­ one, measuring nine feet four inches south side.” General Udall made a all. he was a poet.” will keep the hog in a closely heated sorted to. There is too much inclina­ sand present. from tho nose to the tip of tho tail; yet clear case. The evidence was not dis­ He drew in his breath until his face The scene was one that could not fail room all winter there would be very tion to hurry over this important duty tho girth of the forearm was two feot puted. Whitman, when lie summed up was as red as a beet, and he jumped up both with mothers and nurses. Plenty seven inches. The corresponding limb his defense, told the jury tho facts in and down and flourished his arms like little need of feeding the animal. They of time should be taken and care bo to impress the crowd of spectators; tho of a very powerful man scarcely ex­ the case. He admitted he had trounced a wind-mill, and finally got voice to seem to intimate that profitable pork used, or the child soon learns to dread small grass plot, cordon of police soldiers with a mass of faces peering behind production depends not so much upon the boy, but plead in justification that roar out: ceeds a foot in circumference. it and shrink from it. If the operator them, the three prisoners attached to the the price of feed as it does upon the Not until it becomes a man-eater is Carman had interfered with his vested “I’ll bet you nine hundred thousand would take pains to amuse the little the tiger much dreaded, especially in rights and had made himself a nui­ million quadrillion dollars to that old price of base-burners and fuel. At all one either with a short story or a few crosses with heads bent forward, the entrance of the scarlet-clad execution­ events, they arc eternally telling us to sance, anrt<*rs are to put a stop to outlawry, and it has adaptation to environment, become« convulsed by tho answer of the sturdy If the printers have got drunk and left lie so dose and unventilated as to pro­ allowed to do only when requested, done it, for the roblieries have ceased, and the band is broken up. — Bangkok duce too high a degree of heat; or, greatly changer! on attaching itself to Yorkshire gentleman, who stubbornly the name out am I to blame?” mil the fee for which is fixed at ten what is more common, the hogs may (SiamJ Cor. lliehmond Conservator. insisted that tho oidy verdict of the "Mr. Bowser, I believe I will say I the fly or other animal, but assumes its cents. Simultaneously with the order, original form and multiplies rapidly, jury was that "Whitman 'ad not ’it 'im was educated abroad. I will do it to be permitted to huddle together and the pay of the employes affected has He Had Been There. heat themselves almost to the cooking on reaching suitable feeding-grounds. 'an! enough,” and after repeated at­ please you.” Ix-en increased. making it about three point. This is the cause of a great deal tempts to get matters right, the prison ­ "Bub, what’s the day of the month?' "Oh! yon will! Well, you needn ’ t This discovery explains how fresh cheese times the amount received ordinarily he queried as he stopjied short at the can become infected with mites, even er was discharged, nnd the verdict do any thing of the kind! Folks would of trouble among swine, and we are by sleeping-car porters.—CAicu