Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 16, 1873, Page 11

“NHE CHICAGO DAILY, TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, THE DREAM-WOMAN. The following is the story of tho Woman, as rond by Mr, Wilkio Qollins, in Bos- ton: The Dream-Woman, partly in Lugland and partly in France, Tirat narrative—conductod by Poroy Falr- banks, an English gontloman who resides tho groater part of his timo in Farlolgh Hall, pn-, gland, but s obliged, in connootion writh'his buainess, to make occaslonal visita to Droam- in four nnrratives. Deamalis Porsonio—Mr, Porcy Talrbanks, an English gentleman ; Mra, Fatrbanke, his wife; Alicis Warl ok, tho dream-woman; Frangis Twven, ko groom; Rygobaud, a norvant; M. Bornoll, proprisior of n vinoyard, The scones auco, * Mr, Fairbanks {s travoling with his wifo, at tho timo thencons opens, ,Ono of his horsos ‘Lng #ailen Jame on'tho road, and what is to bo dono 2 Thoy look.around them, but seo no sigusof Buman hinbitatlon, “Thera is n hill beforo; thoy rido to tho top of this and seo n town on tho othor 8106 ;' 1¢ fa tha town of Underbridgs, com- poscd.of one muddy straet, on which is uituated tho Englo Inn, Leaving bim in ohargo of the horaes, Mre, Fairbanks sauntars down the yard, opons tho door nnd poepsin. -+ Mr. Fairbanks is on the point of calling the liostlor, whon ho hears Ars, Tairbnuks’voloe, Mrs, Fairbanles, it scems, bos oponed tho lnst door at thio cud of the yard, and thoro sho soos o steango sight-—a dingy stablo, aud In ono cor- ‘nor horsos mmuching hay, aud in another s mrn - . breathing convulsively, Slio galla to him '* Wake - -upl wake up! " but ho ouly stira restlessly in: hig eleop. While shio, watchos Lilm, he ‘muttera pasging across his p8 if somo, viilon "was troubled brain: *“Falr halr with yollowiunit; pray oyos, with & drdop in tho loft oyeltd ;- itie: Lands flushod around the naila; & knife }vnh o buckborn Laadlo—murdor, marderi " Then ho 0 ‘When ho gpenks | ' Bay, you_ loyely beiiig, I- . omeo fond of you.” Tho words dio on his }ips ;. “**'ho sponks nomore, Mes, Falybankd gots ovor lior firat terror oxcitod by bis words, aud ealls Her finsbend, tolls bim' whst .sho’ hos® hoard, and- glvos hier opinion that there hag beon'n nmuvder, f:u and gat help. Tust an he, yioldivg' to Lior solicithtions, is on tho point of going, ho stumbles on & slrARgar nt : the Atable-door, & man witl &’ bald liea sucly manner, who turun ont to bo tho h}l.nlllonfl » littlo hiard o’ hoaring ; any, did you eall * - Mr. 3 ! interpoues: ** Who is that man® e ¥ Did ha fall 1 lovo with 2 murderess 7 Did sho stab- Lim or not ?" Tho old tellow walis till slie’s done, and then eays : Hig namo is Franciy Naven, 46 yonrs of nge brothor.” *The landlord then ontors ihe atallo, aud stirs. tho "The ‘man 1ooka around him with » hosrid glaro of suspi- cion at firat, n;dktfiu blfm‘l?:‘w::h:filnu him ; ‘ask him w] o e Ho mpll'{n that ho wns t Btops; grown rostless, + . bis tono i altored:: . committed, and requeats him to of the inu. ‘' Good morning,” ho snys 3 asloep on the straw ? “hie Inst birthday; he ia m man up as if ho wers. » wiid boast. that timo of day.. ] ) ond tired out, *¢ Tired ot supposo 2" * No, sir.”" W oll night ? Nothing goin| . thera auybody Il 7" oh? lard oll, what then ? ou_in this town; is “Nohoedy,_ ill, sir.” worlk, And thoy can got nothivg moro from him, Mrs, Fair- . banka 18 not . e & o 0 bo, thpir drivr, tho driver, and during the journey ting from tho maw his story. cls Ravon toll his own ftory. gntisfiod ; hor cntiosity I avonsed ; 11\93! l‘:l:u- “aad takos & poat boside tho tusbaud bobind, ‘sad takos & soat boside b Tat now lot Fran- *Finin {a tho stor’y of Fraucis Ravon—tho sac- ond nmallv: 1 (n“ nuo\} t thy at warnio) §gmuu‘ilg;‘:n littlo cottage with mo rud m; or, Wo were my life. foro my birthdny—to & noi o placo, My mother wag de: night,’ who eaid ; from omo on your birshday.’ * I, however, el 'I.lnd uat' lgugunml n‘?xtk n{aorn‘llxlzn ] calling.out as L leave, ¢ I will got back in 5 o 53¢ was thon' tho last diy of Fevruary, Bo ploased to remombor WAS my birthday, and X tho muming the hour of’,my | Rygobaud was trle 0U Wit Linppon. to my opiuton, for'my birthdsy, nover foar. . that tho st of March 2 o'olock in } birth, I will toll my journey. I roncho plfcnkion for tho piace, antioiputed, Bwallowing my inquirios 8¢ tho - some :timo by started, end was diseppointracnt tan yoars ago binco I Supposo ¥ moths | creoping talking about a great journoy I +was to tako tho next’ morning—the morning bo- hboring town, to got nd--afi cgdun{ th&. ¢ wallk thero and back again by i you will hiavo to “slaop’ awa 5 eady takon. o e peta “wfkmnd{"numu agaid. Thus tho “ Dronm-Woman * inn, and " found I could save taklng snother ronte back. but a Btormi camo mp, and I lost my vay, forced to take refugo at an iun. and The; W i up 1 | enld tho, trembling ran, oo tho houss and 6 ap- | heas Lt found T DAL baia |+ by Grbaing ua thoy ioancd her Lracks fionr tho Horo knifo with a buckhorn handle, It wasall X -| could do to keop from dropvlug on the floor. . Youmoant to killmo!' Ienld, !Yos,’ sho ro- led, *I did want to killyon wih thag knifo, do not know what possoined mo, but I noted ko & cownrd, and foll down, liko & woman, in & swoon. Whon T came to, tho knifo was nowhero to bo geon § she Lad probably #akon it with hor. T opened hm window { & policoman was golog by, I asked him what timo it wus, T'wo o'clecls, hio ropliatl, - Twa o'clook tn the morning 3 it W my birthday, ‘Tho eonncectlon with tho drenm wia completo. Whero was not o link wanting., ‘It was my reconyd warning. Since then I have lived ronnd from place to pluco, ml!.in;'ll for.my noxt birthday, which I fonr is to be the day of my death, 3y wifo is looking for mo, . L don't bollova in dreama, Tonly ery that Aliels Wor- Tock f8 looking for mo, . I3uny b \‘rrm\f aud may bo flphn which of you can toll " T'hie1s tho oud of the socond naxeative. . sorvant, It {a trua that 8 or 4 miles an honr la the avorngo rato of progroes, and that it s )mrd!fi falrto oxnot of - au animal mora than 16 or U milos of march (n tho Uay. It must be admitted, too, that practice 1s nocosmary to acoustom thc travelor to tha molion, and thak tho proos of ' all olophants arenot tha same, Boma arososmooth s alniost to {nvito siumbor; on othors the unlucky acenpnnt of the aqushion rolls about as at sen, and arrives ot his journoy's ond with soro palun innll his joints, Lt the - doellity of the beast, and the roourity of.this mode of couvoyauce aro, whero rapidity of communication is ngt ossontinl, . of tha vory greatest convonionce to resldents in tho plaius, " The owner of an eclsphaut haa be- sides & far groater guarantee.for respoct- ability: than tho -owner of W' g‘fi: It is not to bo iwmngluoed, - howovor, b alo- phants gont nothing, - or ean prospor. with- out curo or attendanco, A prudent porson will guard his nlo&linnt from tho delugo of a tropical, ho thivd narrative is by Peroy Fairbanks,. who coutinues tho afory.” Ilo tolls how: ho talked tho matter over. with his wifo, and, slio desiring vory muoh to hava the norvant in their omploy till his noxt birthdny, 8o that ahio might #oe what wonld happen, he -yioldod, and thoy taok Liim with thom into tho “mouth of Frande. Bhorlly bofors tho timo of his noxt birthdey, he wnA g0 unforfinato 48 to have Lin leg. broken by tho kiok of a hotno, and he wad lald up in conaos quence, The Lostlor was ‘looking forward with mubh ansloly to the. lst of Maroh, Lis birth- dny, and, Mr. Fairbanka tried fu vain to comfort ‘hiim. 'Che Phy-luln.u muggostod that, i tha, voom dlid not knoy that, in that yoar, loap-yoar, ‘ebrunry bad. twonty-nitie - dayw, ho woul have the clunax of his fonr. ot thio wrong time, This turned out to bo the cing, pud Mr, Fales banke wont to him ‘ontho moruing of -the 20th, aud rallied him on the grouudlossnoss of, lis alarte; Dut {hs man. only geve, Lim astrangoe ook, and goid that somothing was wrong. ) At tho timo that the. hostlor sras laid up, Mr. “Faitbanks was driven, in conacquonco, to em- loy & Fronch groom named Joseph Rygobaud. /tho'man wae teft in cliarge -of {ho hoiblor dur: ing the pight precedivg , tho 1gt of Maroh j.and the tostimony of - thin man. toforo, the Judgo formn the fourth k and, concluding: narrative, Tits tosthnony : **. Iam 82 years old, & groojo in tho sorvice.of Mr. Fairbauks; rcmembor tho :90th. of February of this yéar; I wason that day in tho Oity . of Mate, and thoro I mota charming Indy.. Sho waé English, but. coyld sponl Fronch as wollan o nativo; - the rosultiof “our intorviow: waa that sho should . moot ms et .tho MAlson Rougo at 10 o'clock, when tho other porvauts had retired. Bha cnmo, and I recolved bor'at suppor in tho robm . adjoining tho apart- mont wheve the hostler was Iying. As we wéro sitting down to supper, the uick man called, oub 1o me by nawo, and, At ihe sound of Lis voice, {26 Indy became very much oxcitod, and inquired ‘hinnamo, aud . what was the mattor with him. 0a my tolling bior, sho_mado mo talcehor down. stoirs, and show hor whioh horso it was that had _brolien hoy brothor's log, and, when I hadtold hior, nho kissod hime ‘Thon sho ran back up- staira, and.-I. slayod to lock' the atablo, When I camo up 1 found tho woman|at tho door of tho ololc man's room ; I went in, aud found the man in n vory oxcitod condition, and ho'implored o _not to leave him. ~ Ho: inade such & noiso that I wout nnd got somo handker- chiofs and.gugged bin: Thon I honrd my.mis- “troas eall mufv went nway, andleft tho woman thore and tho man thus bound. My mistress wanted to Iinow hoyw tho man was gotting along, aud if auything had bapponed. I enid, *Nothing whatovar, ma'am. .12 ho is not disturbed’ Lo will fall into n sonud. slecp’ I was on -way back to tho room, when I heard a souud 1iko tho oreaking of a.door on its hioges. I looked and found tho west door opon. L sup- posod. it was tho wind. I shut it and wont to ook for tho Englishwoman, but I could hot find hor, I thon wentto tho door of tho host- ler’s xoom and listened: - Thore was not a sound. I callod, but thoro was no sngwor. A dim pro- Bontiment of, ovil canio over mo. I oponefl tho door and looked in. ‘T noticed somothing dark in 8 crovico of tha floor near thoe door. I examined it close, Tho dark, moving objoct was & sirosm of blood. I rushed into the xoom and saw tho Englichuan stabbed in the'bead! and bear} ; _ thore was s Kaife lying noor with a hindlo," *Havo yon snything mora buckhorn-hindla,” " **Have y uu«y»,nuduu;f," " ay the Judgo. to toll mo?" auked 1 S o o nocont, Oh, Judga, don't soud mo 10 tril for murder!” Upon this the Judge closed the ex- awlnation, sud tho prisonor wes carried to Lis coll. . orcy Falrhanks then concludes.’ Joseph Lo d and- found iunocent. : OF tho woman, Alicla Warlock, nothiug moro was and it raraaina doubtfnl whether she died river, ornot, At any rate, ubo wag nover neon pasecs from your view. Was sho a ghost, a spirit, or a living woman ? What was it?” Romomber thet droams are sround you on every sido, and the greatost of poets ling written i} I “am » tomperato man, and - my Woar) much sttt ° ; 5.,‘;‘,1,25‘5,:? figgt eintod solely of & slico. of An dreama ara mads of ; and our Nitlo ife * broad and a small glass of wino. Notliing wan I vounded with a oop, paid ot the timo which could in any way excite ’ ' my mind ; uothing ' to excite my mind trloks with my conmon songe, L' got ready for [ . N hed; tho Yind e still, tho storm -le! Somo &nteresting Fncts Aboat Them, .subsided ; £ tend for somo fthmo by candic; ) Ztrom the London Saturday Review, - - - e at "IV voa' consons of, ¥ | Tho ‘popular Tuglish notion of clephants in was_wids, awake, with a torrible ehivoring fit upon me, and & horriblo sinking at my henrt. My candlo bad bufned low’ in it -socket, and tho last part of tho wick had just fallon, thore, botween tho foot of tho bed cloyed door of the room, was & woman, hnnd. hand, hor eyes fixed . upon mo. 1 Baw o fajr, Fith 8 with & buckhorn handlo. nosrer, nearer, with _ ntab,_As I sav it coming, side of thio bod fust as finger-nails. Sho went o tho foot of stood there o moment, o play aud sod the stending end looking fixedly at ‘mo with a kuife in her I was struok spoechless with torror. Thoro the womad stood, with the kmé?. in l;?‘; 0 E nothing, but movoed ‘Blowly towards tho bed. fine woman, 'with light-gray eycs, voop in the left cyelid, and a knife fhe camo round to the. wido of the bod .without any chan, tho stony -expression” of hor Taco; the knifo ralsod T jorked to the othex % ho’ knife desconded. Bho drow the knifo ulowly out of the bed with hier delicata whito houds, with o flush under the and thon Pm.:,imm‘flk Daaterof tho Buckhonnds with us, The Great -ELEPHANTS. ordinarily dorived from tho Qourts’ and camps of 'the East. - Thoy aro rightly enough believod to pley a prominent part in reviows, Durbars, aud other solomn pagoants in whioh Orleutal megnificente i3 ecen- side by side with Brit- ioh symmetry and order. Most Englishmen aro’ awaro that a considerablo numbor of thie tigers nnnually clain - in our Indian depond- onoy aro shot by oportemon sccurely sdatod in hawdahs on thebacksof elophauts; but these purposes, aud aro often maintained all over In- 0.1 | gin by nntivo gentlemen who nover faced a tiger to | or liandled » gun in all thelrlives, Under tho Mogul Emperors the © Fil-Khavoh, " or * Man- plon of Elephants, " was 8 regular dopartment of the Stato; and the offiacr in chargo of it had o rank and significanco anulogous to that of tho 1o the othor aido and again struok at mo. Itwas,| Akbar used to beat tho jungloswith a liné of ol- s largo knifo,—snch ac men used to out: bread | ephants extending for a quarwr of a mile. . ¥lth,—mado of buckfiorn, now, A scoondtimo sho ment of . darlag Tuits was gonor When x o hen I.como to myself, my blo crindnaly t barb 3 Juile was gone. n | Tioblo crindnals to o barbarous” death, Bcolt, - “Wake upl ;nflfifi,‘.fih#fi‘;fllfl"’f’ ;:&{:;‘;9‘"} whose Iknowlodge ot [India, dorived groped around the room. -=d found the door; |.from mombors ‘of the olvil and mili- ::h‘;‘d‘: “lo;“fi%nfig“:lile :k:dhm come in at Lho.f tary -eervices, was invarisbly correct and ford oamo witls 8 gun and a lighs, ¢ it?" saidbe, Ttold him thora man the room with a knife in Lor hnv:)?f l]“l:lunheu ¥t mo a moment, and then , aud fooliod as good a8 draw b £ tho bod, and bid 1t in the. sleaye Eflgr“;fi“’:. t thot 1nomont the wiek foll, thoro ‘was & mo- o woman willk tha too, Then tho land- {: What #aid, coldly: ¢ Woell, | Daughtor,". the ssoms to hava missed you(l I t«ylfl bim to | ’_\vlmghms j'us ook ab tho bed. He wont, and onmo back in ssgion’; there was no such Udng o8 8 cut of “What do you mesn? he “by a woman with a Luife trying to stob | Durbar, undor the fout of o well-trained clo- 0! bolit wn8 & woman noon iu droam [I's What | & Droam-Woman triod to stab, mo,—not a living woman,—not o living human Horror got hold of me, and I loft the houso,r and - rushoed' and reached homo, ; I, |: the vell of tho Bogum.” ¥ told my mothor all that'[' bappened. 8ho ssked wme what timo |'of Allowing for -1t must have beoa at 3 o’clock in the moming,—tho morning of my birthday, and at tho vary hoar of my birth, My mother opened hor dogl, and maid’: at 8ho looked like.'- I de- ifo ou tho bed. #aid, you? bowg lko nysalf] out_iuto tho raln, hardly know how, 1 hed 1 wan when I saw tho woman. the time it took o to got Lomo, * Tell mo, my son, w! soribed her fully, as I ber to ly, and put {t away in hor deslk. the next birthday. . ‘Tho night my next birthday ° found ne wad reduced, and I—woll, 1y in love with bor, took in her ‘the Drotm-Woman, sut to boa drunkard, Mother died, and n In o stale of intoxicatlon, insistod’ on attonding the funcral. I got angry Arith hor, and in a 1it o}i lave anlready doseribed u,—tho light-gruy oyes with the droop in the loft oyolid, and tho'knifo with the book- born-handle, My mother wroto it down caroful- This is tho atory of tho warning. Now, judge whother it i true or falas when you know what liappened _on prccedtilny ho gurgory, in quest of medicine for my mothor, Whilo it was belng_ propared, a young wommn entorod the room and asked for laudanum, dootor refused to woll her uny, aud I, feuring sho intonded to poison Liorvolf, agalnat the advice of tho doctor, followed har out and queationed hor, Bhe confopsad the donperato streils to Which sho in a word, I fell mad- for homo with mo, and, - aftor w short t{me, married Ler, sgalnet tie ads vioo of my mothof, who thouq[fl sho recognizod Her nanie wayg . Allela Warlook, Timo passod on, and she turnod at ny wifo, rage I atruck Lor, When I roturned from tho funeral I found hor 10an Ling ovor struck mo boforo,’ &ho said swniting i bl calm aud fixed exprosuion nfiu':nh:ru;n::.n iR ‘No ‘my hueband eholl nover have another opportunity.’ Blie sliut the door, and I stroot, All that night £ camo. ""“fl"“‘",‘fif 3 ‘:n:e on the sgain_ with that atrange ninkin I looked, and {horo l‘l'“ the Er again? No; bub my own aised in tho attitude” of tho dream, oz Liox, but she hid the kaifoin ker sl #aw Lor go up tho Y watched, but The noxt” uight my uumbur?ow‘::: sovonth night I awoka at my heast, ontti-\Yoman wife, with Lor arm 1 wprang ‘lY_l.rl in Tho Somo native Princos havo derived o vilo plossure from witnossing n duol Lotwosn two of. these woll-nmatehed - antagonists; and thoir servicos hava been often ealled ko vaquisition to put ig- striking, ». Las {utroducod an elophaut to contribute to tho denoucmant of one of hia loast Tead novels. Intho finale of the #Burgoon's the apostate, Richard Middlemas, b roceivad what was his duo from tho Tippoo, is told to accept tho frult of tlto justice of Hyder, aud is crushed, in open i o [-phant, - *Tho ery which the vietim uttored,” wo aro told, “ wea mimicked by the roar of tho monater, and the Gound, like an Liystorieal laugh, mingling with a sorenm, which rung from under tho Governmont of Indln was oxpressed to tho uler of Daroda, Who had fastened an unfuek offendar to tho fect of an elophant, and had et bim pounded to death in this faubion through the main stroets of {he city, Barnior's enter- tainipg travols comtain’ sundry noticos - | of , olophanta as' forming " o . part of ** the royal establishment, #* Tho Emperor every yoar went mway from ‘' Agra or Rroat Mogul " to escape tho hot moason ‘l;n tho cool and pioturesquo valloys of Cnshmoro, In 1act, ho did what tho presont raco ofs English ‘Viceroys i8 now and then sitacked for doing; Lo, sought a climate where lifo could buenlfiwyud instoad of being moraly endured, in tha kot winds and rainy senson. "On ouo of ' thoso oxpo- ditious romo elophants of *the King's housohold tool fright in o mountain pass, and foll over a finel ico some hundreds of foot in shoer dopth, ornier, who came up in the cortege threo days afterwards, saw the unfortunate beasts still alive at the Lottom of tho pnes, moving thelr tynnks and dying by inchoa, Tlo poeaesefon of an clophant or twois, as wo havo intimaled, by nao monns confined to roynl or princoly fumllios, Landboldors and Tnglish gontlemen ocngngod in commorelnl or agrioultural pursuits in tho intorior of . the country, find auch su animal woll worth his keep in muhy woys, 1t brings in tbo colloction,of ront from en out-station to hieadgarters, ‘It takea fportaut lottors or supplics right ncross country, 1t will carry Lalf-a-dozen sorvants, with bod, bagyngo, aud cooking spparntus, to any placo whero theso adjunals or nooosaavies cutiot bo relied on, 16 eunbles tho native sgents of a factory to_travol about with seourity agniust acoidents or robbory, Whore roads hava not been conntruoted, or are impussable for vo. bLicles durlug the rainy soason, tho elopliant Iu cqual to wny omergoncy, To swim rivess, Lo'skirt or wado through swamps, o stop tlover- ly avor fances, to fray o paili Lrough reeds, to break down foreol treou firmly connceted by longe truillng croopers, i a cutnparativoly enny L taul to $hin” saasolows) vomerful. and obodions” rain,;nnd to this.ond a high-roofod -barn mupt bo conalrugted, with gpen sides Inrga . onough to admit something of tho pize of an ordinary hiay-: stack. Thon the bath is na iudlspensnblo to, tho.slophautng it was an, old Roman, or! & pood bronkfast $o, tho lu?mnn of Dickony; and after o daily plango, and swim,: durlog whieh nothing is soen of “thio animal but tho tip of his trunk, it les down on its sido at & sigual from the drivor, and submita to bo_ oiled, : cleanod, and brushdd, wlulo thorns, ‘or, foroign subs stances jnre. extraoted from tho toes. Whon thepo operations aro conoluded;”a chiin ‘s fnafoned round one hind leg, aud ‘made soouro to & post or tree, and tho.' romainder, of the day, i pnssed -by the oh‘[;\hmt n ob- ; litorating tha tracos of tho bath by showars of | duat, or {u driving away the fliea with o lenfy” brauch. . Tho food genorally conslsts of -several . pounds of. coarso rico, tha stem of plantain trae, .and n whole cortlond of tondor branches racontly cut, Lo procuro thii lattor supply is tho “daily .duty of one of thg attondants, ‘vrholln Indinn hrnacology is tormed *a mato, \'; the titls of Biutiont belng ronorved. for - (ho’ Lead:keoper, Nob gvory kiud,of lenf is' palatablp, . and whola tracts of dountry covored with forost trots .aro sbuolutoly necloss for the feodiug, of. elophants,~ When , on - n. maxch, . or.; in 0 - junglés; | olophants, wifl , ondenyvor'*to, feod all - ddy,’ Ay . Thosg ,will ‘sastoh b anything, cdible, who nro now groaning v,bg_uxj' tfiu prica " df "canls il Lardly bo copsolod by “the kuowledgo tliat the prico of an olophant's koop ,han “almost :ilunbrlyml in tho tast 1unrlm: of & century, . Fors morly in thio Gangotlo Delta an elophaut, with its ‘two attendauls, cost littlo moro ‘than’ £4 a montls. 'Tho amount {s now’ fully. doublo,’;and in othor avd drler pirts of Indis, whora forage is gonrce, it ronchos the bigh fgurd of £0 or L7, ‘Elophanta aro aluo vory liablo to bo_disablod by _gore foot, or to gt out 'of ’conditién, 'Fhorne, alumps, ood elones causo’. laco- rotion and lamencgs; sores and " ujeorn aviso, from ~ mogloct . or cojelossnoda . jin: filing on o howdah;" and. Intemdl Qlsoidors - aro botrayod by tho muiimal'itiolf, which litokally consumes [umps of earth ta show tliat it noods o' purgativo, Thon au glephant may, under: bad munagemoit, bocomo s fertila a sourcd of quar. ' 1xol oo rabbits or harcs. ' Bomo have a'vicious' Labit of getting rid of thofr fastonings, and mak- ing nightly oxpoditions ixto flolds of rico; or sugar-cane, A Mahout, with tho rooklostnoss or “nonchalanco of Aaiatio monials, will'take his ele- phant right through:a flold " of riop wheat, or'| pitlso] to savo n cirenit of & fow Lundrod ' yards, or he will pormit 1t to pluol'the fingst'truita’ of" the - orchard, “or,- a8 Le pasics. 'through 'n illsgo, will elily . connive. sk & push . or ahova that aunihilatos o lino of storehoudss, or buts made of wattles, mnd, nd_thateh.. I consod land-ownors, defrauded’of their rents or dofled by thelr tenants, have ofton boon known | quielly tosend & posso of * servants on an ole- plant nto tho gardon or fleld of tholr adfersary,’ and to trust {0 subscquent chicanory and corrup- tion to moet and countornot tho tale of ‘a plun- dered homestoad and & ravaged crop. ! About a’'quarter of o century'ago elephants usoful boasts are ewmployed for many domoatio | 141t 1 ot vory long sinca (Lat tho indignation’ layed, or were made to play, a-vory sotive part Ex’boundnry disputes, or contosts for now traota of alluvinl formatfon; with which ' the Exocu- tive was thon wholly Incompotont to cope. Disbriots were at that time of ** enormous extent. Tho.lnws againat what aro tormed sgrarion’ outrages woro palpably Inx, tho police was wholly ofticored by natives, and oncroach-. monts wore oithor attemptod or resisted, on the* ot the propriotors, by tho &id of organizod ands of sirong-limbed and well-paid olub-men. A desnltory ongagomont ensuod, in which; 8o tho polico roport stated, o couplo of mou 'weroe transfixed with apenrs and died on the u&ut. and threa or four more yore wounded ;' and then tho fight was fought oyver ngain in" tho ‘erim- iunl'ond civil courts, In o long and acrimonious litigation “1t" was- minutely deacribed how tho aggroasor had sont ono seryant on o bay pony, a: socond o & whito ditto, and a third on’ phant; how, at a imm wignal from tho howdul, the ripo corn hiad boon fired or tho woll had beon choked; how thin tonant had boon spoared with a javolin bocauso ho would not give up the in- licritanco of hia fathors, and that he hnd: beon riddlod with buckshot becatso, Lo refused to swoar {0 a fio ; nnd, fnrlly, how the huge bulk of the carth-shuking beast 'had boon employed to finleh the work of tho club-mon, and to pound hearth and homestond into a ohnotio moss, Uoluckily, in theso statomonts, graphic- ally dotafled and 8worn to in cssentin] partidu- Iars by & score of respactablo witnessos, - there wes o subatratum of truth and & vast suporstruc- ture of -folsehood.. Two men had possibly | _been -killed, but’ tlioy bolonged to_tho -oppo- site party, or thoy wera.nof'doad at all, but Lnd ‘boon- conveniontly: kept out of sight to' glllvn color to tho story ; no four-footed animals ;had appoared on or noar tho battle-fleld 3 the sor- vants whoso dignity and position required ponles or ojophnnte for locomotion bad in_reality kopt quietly ont of sight in somo friendly or noig“x boring village, and had allowed the rough work of violonco to proceed throngh tho ‘sgency of subordinates, Wwho-bad boen' instracted a8 ‘to what was roquired of thom in the interests of tholr master by o fow'words as significant as tho old Latin ‘formuls to the Consuls—ne guid defri- menti respublica capiat, b e Thoso tales aro happlly almost obsolete. and the iniquities, roal or Imputed, of tho olpphant ar6 now moro ofton confined to tho abatraction of two or’ threo sticks of augar-cano, or to tho, troading under of gomo perchos’ of o mavwly«'| ‘planted arop. But occasionally, damago to prop- erty and lifo is dono by o tamo olophant which gets 1ooso in tho rutting eosson, and is trans- formod from o drudge a8 serviconble ‘as tho “lubber flead™ into » demon of inventive mal- fco nund delibprate yovenge. An elopliant hag boen known, when in this ‘state; to take' -up & commanding poaition on: a highs rond .and. mesr. 8 viliago, =nd to tfi: .leath and’ destruciion - round Lim ' for o week togethor, Old women and childron caught® and ponnded to & jolly ; corpsen ‘whicled round . in moakory by tho trunk of the infurinted ani- mal; ‘sovoral Liousos unroofed or thrown down oxdy nativa gentlemon fiying out _of their pa- anquins ;' communication stopped, “and £he wholo noighborhood io a panio,—thishins not np- :n uently bnon ¢ho ‘tanor of tho polica roports or dagh, ticod limad ot wporting meglatesto or Indigo: - plantor glves the destroyer his quistns; Bports-" imon nccusiomed. to the’ Junglos wall knowr that thoro aro only two orthroo placos Whero o shat ia* offoative, Elthor tho chargs of the animal must be awaitod, and tho aim must be taken at thohollow just abovo the trunk, or, if thio aportsman has not agoluces onough for this vontura, o side shot “through tho eyo will do aqually well. = Moro than forty years ngo tho , olaphant that went mad on Lxotor Ghnnfie oxhougted somothing liko s bar- rowful of bullets ‘boforo hp could be destroye: tha assaifonts bn[nfi part, or bulug unable.to catol the animal in the' %%xl‘lnu. It s woll known {hat tho Iate Major gors, ind killed ‘somo 1,200 wild elopbants in tho jungles of Coylon, * and raroly failed-in dis- E&whlng his victim ot one shef. Bt then Lo ad thoroughly studled the habits of the animal, whother single or in hords, was a firat-rato shot, and had tho sasistanco of ' a’ natiye o cool and daring as to bo ablo to walk up o & hord aud pull tho tail of an unsuspocting boast, whioch, in consequonog, looked round and - presented a fa- ‘vorablo shot to the experionced sportsman, Elophants livo, it I~ gonorally boliaved, to the ago of 100 or 120 yonrs, and averagoe six to 8oven footin hoight, A vory faw years siiico ono, died at Bonaros, which wag bolioyed by-local -tradition to havo cnrriod Warren Haetiuga. At 70 yonrs old tho nnimal {8 quite in its primo, and will por-" form long murchos, boat the Junglos for a wiiolo day, aud recolvo unmoved tha chargo of the soli- tary buffalo,a groator teat of slaunchinossnngd cone fidonca than tha rushand roar of u tiger, The price of & daclle elephant, fres from disonso or vico, aud with many sensons of usofulncss bofore it, varies from £00 or .£70 to £120. ghe Bums nro constantly given for thasa yhicl Rave o roputation in tho sporting world, or which, aro gonsplenous for thelr hoight or symmetry, or uro pecutiarly fittod to play & part in featlvala or soclal pageantry. An'elophiant ‘of nino, ton, or oleven fcol is rate, but In magnificent to ‘bohold, Eack auimal ins i{a name, Wiio fomale fa; * the Pear)" tho *boloved " apo, or tha ‘i golden mouth. Recent history. or ancient tradition iy called on to eupply n;)pnllnuunn fqr. the malos, which range from the fami- Har sounds of ITyder Al and ‘l'ippoo on tho one hand, up to ihe m%mn herocs of tho Indlan opics an the othor ; Bhimn, who wielded s maco | lilie Afholstan tha' Unrondy, aud Arjuns,’ who, liko Ul{ma, distanepd pll compotftars In the uso of tha Low, Iords of thoss anlmaly in & wild state _ara utlll to Lo found in Contral gnd Boutheru Indin, in tho junglos of Assam, , and 8350 in the foreuts whioh skixt all tho J!Iantora 1§ ofthor ignorant of tho vital: 0 elo- | .| the'recipiont ot these attentions deiirous of tho Mych highor (.di frontlor of the Indian peninnula, Tt I “searcoly nacessnry to add -that olopbinnts canuot bo uned tor practicsl purposos oxedpt in hot climaton, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. . Merciful aud Morctlean Modes {n Dif. foront Agon, 2 From the New York Times. This articlo proposos & succinot roviaw of tho mothods Ly which obnoxious eriminals havo been, at varions timos, nnong vorious pooples, invited to **shuffe off this morinl cofl.™ Onpltal pun< {shment, liko Oloopatra's charms, hing boon of “infinito varlety,” tho varioty, hdwever, ns a rulo, bolng simply among the most Lorriblo pos- #lble'mothods,, No kecords romain to toll how tha coittomporarios of tho Saurlans and tho Mo- “gathioriuin, tho ingeni ous dwollers in onves,and watriora-of the flikt ago, disposod of thoir male- factors, but 1ho fullest secounts biavo boon pro- gorved of the proceodings of our moro modern “Gucdstora alnos the doys of Adainin tho wiy of. ‘oxooutiond, Tho Jows, wholod the flund_-xou of an- _tlque- nations, appear to havo usuallyatoned tha- " orlminala of thowr own raco~—n demonratio gort of ponalty, whoro overy good oftizonhind a fingoer in | | thio pio, and hurled his rightebus rook, and dvon tho littlo Hebrow hoys could enjoy tho fiy pf the atonor., To tho stonce it must havo beon 'something of n lugoering torturo, requiring much. .potioncato boar. For tlicir onomics thoy’ ro- | sorvod tho abnrpor priotica of Liewing thom in plocos, “or thoy. bumod them allve,’ or turned thom to sgrioultural acoount and fortilized tho sltes of thojr pinokingcitios by harrowing thém {n_with conaiderablo vohemenco, Tho Clhlnese, beon similarly meralless,. It I8 slugular how lit- tlo difforencs thero bsa been in this rospootiof ingonious ~¢ruclty “betioon the “most olil- tivatod , pooples . and tho’ mildest’ sav- ogos., Decapitation, is .the mildost, of Ohi- noso oxtromo - ponaities, .and- s usunlly porformed with ‘muoh skill and sang frold by mcang, of a* aword, the -criminals mals and fanialo, taking the mnttor most ph‘louophl[:ully and making no indecorony remonstrancos at tholr ‘summary_taldng -oft.” There. is n tarif, too, for substitutos,—a plan' which might com- ‘mond iisolf,to our wealthior homlcldos. But our Caleatinl noighbora across tho . Pacifio profer silling the’ doomed by not sllowing thom,to sleap, or btatving them ' to’ doath i -ongos) of straitened Timits, ‘o which they aro ‘exhibited .durlng’ tho progesa of slkeloton formation in eripatotio. ramblos on_ the: shouldera of tho anlF,Dl uty Bheriffe. 'Aud: chopping'them de- Jiborately into fragménts, ‘at intervals of an hour or go, fs mucl to_ their tasto, * ‘fhoro {s & ‘onge, "purt of. tho spolia opeima- of “the flrss Gl wat, andong the _archives of tho.Royal tAriillory, . .ut Madvag; Indin,’in which . they oarriad | about Col. Roflandson, and’ tha London' Tities ‘hag o liborsl sunual psyment. "on °. itd 'ponsion Ust- for the: family ' of Mr, Bowlos, n‘lémelu.l corrospondont, - similarly: ‘disposed’ of juet bofore “tho lnst Chineso -war. The’ torturing propensities of ‘tho plensing red man, whom Qoopor immortalized, and Cuater oc- caglonally ngsists to the' happy hinting grounds, are too woll knowa to require much notige, . ‘T'ho uso of firo is & prominont foaturo in tholr social ofroles, complicetod with tho.fecotious tomn- linwlk -and the insibunting scalping-knife, Dut ‘wa knovw!tho Modacs, tho Sioux, and others like them, only too well, - Tha Assyrians, Medes, and TPorsians, anolont” Bgyptians,” and otber,Orion- tals, som to havo \m]{)oyud similar agencies to tholr Taraclitish:nojghbora for lopping off the totton branoles of tholr family traes. The pro- cesuos are faithfully dopicted and chiscled on tho walls of Thebes, Persopolis, and Nineveli, * Tho CGrecks. wero _somowhat tonder-hoarted in some ' onges; “for' ‘imatmnco, Bocratés to poison - biwself comfortably smong his frionds. _They.objoctod to -par- .rlcldos, hiowever, . and for thom resorved a pun- | ishmont adopted from-tho Egyptinns, like theic siphabet, and nafnralized at o later date by tho Romine, ~* Thoy ‘confined the too impotuous slayer of Lis father in a bag with o enalio, & monkey, and acat to keop him company, and thon g«ntl dropped the congenial party” in the een, Tho Romang seem iirst to have hit on tho iden of cruoifixion, ‘a wingularly torturing refine- ment of internal, oxterosl, and montal pain, It was ostoemad an jgnoble doath;” nnd must have boor mnguish to a ‘sonitivomind; tho orucl nails , rending tho flosh, barely supporting tho of tho writhing body, must havoe been ex- ‘coodingly severo, ' whilo.tho droadful ‘thirat of tha fovered viotlm" must have boen a oulminnt- ing horror.. Thelr State oriminala wore some- times flung over the Torpoian robk, and smashed into pulp below, This has besn emu- lated by Theodoro, of Abyeainia, at his mountain, fsstmous of ‘Magdila, aud b ’l‘l}{ipo Sshib av, tho Droog, ono of the poaks of the NoiJghorry Maun- talng in Bouthern India, whoreis a convenient pracipicg over 1,000 feat cloar of shoer nntural . wall, Tho Roman taste forthe joys of the oir-, cus slimulated their imagination to dovise novel, torment, nnd criminals or Ohristians, or'simply, prigonors of war, were exposed to combat wild' ‘bonats orunhotfaur_ to **graco n Roman holidey,” /They sometimes, howover, exccutod distinguish- od:folka in polite fashion, merely sending a clyil massago for them ta, “stand not ou the order of thoir golng, but go" out of tho ‘world a- tholr oarliest convenlonco. ‘A good denl of bleeding to doathi in warmn baths and sudden insertions of the “*Lara bodkin® resulted, The chivairio, Ja- . panoso custom of barikari i8” a~gimilar concos~ .plon to the conventionalitios of soclty, and ia also omiuontly useful aa a duoling agonl, necos. eitating the absolute retivomont of both distorb- efa of tho poroo and their friends’ serenity; It ia hardly requisite to dilato on the coremonions” surroundiogs of theso intorosting occasions, whon_the accomplishicd gontlomsn who | had offendad tlio_lnwe, or has boon offonded by a {riond, calls his relatives and"acquaintunces to- ‘gether, aud, “supported by o socond, a vetoran i the punctilio of tho Tocal- code: of “hanor, ‘malcs” big Lttle apeech, drinks his - farewoll ‘toast; and, then proceeds to carve himself-in the 1most. upfimvad stylo, proudly feeling na ho dloa that ho bas dono "his* duty to his country, lis {family, and tho world at Jargo, and that tho gen- tleman ho had tho difioulty with osunot aurvive him. ‘The Druids, like tho Huns, the Avlecs, eud tho Ashentoos and Dobomoyans of | tho preacnt day, wors rathsr - sany wero fittingly honored by the sacrifice of o- proportionate numbor of “elaven and oriminaly to form A retinuo for the worthy departed in tho world of spirlts, The Druids usually burued & fow bundrads in 8 great’ wioker image of tho buman figure. 1t is rbcorded that mony thou- sands of mon, Womon, and children, with horses,” jowels, arms, ‘and domestic TI00eR8ArioR, Worg snorificod when Attils,. ¢ tho Scourge of God," died, aud ware burfod with him in tho -bod of a: | mamma, zivet, diverted tomporsrily from ita course for | uucii o sphorical bullet frém tho prace| th @ purpoge, and eindilar formalitios are ob- saryed In tho African kipgdems “menitioned, on, thoy " allowed |. inary. Tunérals.f NOVEMBER 16, .1873 oro garroted, or strangled in sn arm-chair with nuleol eravat which ia jammed to tho choking _rnlul by tho doxtorous twisting of a screw be- hind. - ‘Thoy slad slioot considerably, ovincing a Ennullnr fondness for shooting poople in the ngk with a romurkably bad aim, and then finiah- fog them withn ahot In the ear at closo quarters, or o daggor undor the fifth rib. - It was fn this way thoy disposed of Willlsm Walker, * tho ray-gyoil man of dentlny," at ‘Truxillo, in 1800, Aho Fronch svoakness for tho guillotine, an oxeggorated © edition -of the domostio Bread or mioat chiopper, has dlaponad of - many multitudes, of Iings, Queons, noblos, raga- mulling, polroleuss, and others, with busi- nesn-HI iapidity and olognliness, Tho baskots, anwdust, aud brightly-polished cheoso-knifo ome Dloyod axo fumillar, aud_aimost inviting in com- parlson, wiili the'gallows sdiored to by Auglo- Noxona, " fIauging nowadays sooms & ** loat axt," -Wo havo -impraved the machinery with patent ,dropa. and welghis warronted to jork up tho hanged with satiafactory promptitade, but-the «aducntion of; the hangmen Lnabeen noglaoted. Do knot {s raroly tled with sclontifio acouraay, or the ropp in as good -condition _ay It might Lo, ‘I'ie consequence ‘e, but.a smsll proportion of the sufforors onjoy tho suddon death ¢ 07 would profor, if thoy must dio in so Lasty a mannor, and iostond of thoir nocks bolng broken thoy are slowly strangled, if the ropa doca not break and . necessitato a repotition of tho performance, Phy- sioinug rud snatomlats sny thiaslow sirangula- tion must bg nxr}ummly painful’ Hunianitorians hiave socordingly gngfienud “psinless extine- tion,” Obloroform applied long enough wonld soothe tho slumboror to piwake no'moro hora be- low, with absolutoly no. paln,. An .overdoso of lnudanuin ml|§ht. b an improvoniont, as bostows ing poultivo ploaguro before he, Inpaéd into'une «cousdiousnesa. Bolh "these and othar jiane are warmly rocommendod, and discussod 'with some hoat by thoir respoctiye advocates, ' Bomo - tlomon havo aven hinted ab tho pokgibility of tho - Dbyafn . ‘of , "tho -° Iving . but, unpone solous subject during Lis oalm rotreat from' the sioy and folllos of big life. Anothor method |of ‘poinlosy oxtination'is . by ,blowlug, tho 'patient from » gan, . This was inventod by the Maliom- modans of Indis, was omployed by .tho British during tho mutiny of "1857 aud s atill in favor with the Aimaor of A.&glmnlistnn. 16 - has one. great . advantago - ns' A pro- vontive - of, "erimg .. in ita’. application . to Uindoos, e8 they Beliove when a’ man's body ia split into filamonta, ne it must bo by such » procoss, that hiis chances of future existesco aro yory glim. 'Tholr ideaa of resurtootion are ypeculiny and Pythagorian, but thoy objeot to this total obliteration, -aud ‘accordingly droad’ tho. blowing-from-gun progedurs above oll othor onaltios, Physically, it cannot hurt, however, . Tho concluslon and distributiono? the fragments ave go sudden and comploto, that paln must bo. ontirely wanting a8 an elomont. ~Dostroylng o hanged Brahmin's, body with ‘quicklime I8 also .objoctionablo o Hindoas, on accotints of aimilar. ‘doubta as to biafatura rohabilitation. ' A Hindoo. Duulekmont of gradualiy erushin o oriminal wa- lor. tho foot of o tralned nlc{hn‘nl, is " repulaive, .aud ig digcountenaneéd by the fir)huh oyern-" -ment. ,Auy Rajah'who raverts to those ancestral nmusemonts rendora his tonure’ ga the throuo- insecuro. I1t'hos not been practiced for some yoara, - - 3 4 1 EOR A “hope” i A1y futuro'may bo dreary, 5 Aund Lring me toll and pain; ' ** My heart m3y oft b woary, P My -cup no aweet contafu, . But, when tho'darkest kouga appear, By hoart will turn to thee, Adcunt away its doubt sud fesr, o . For you wiil pray for me. Cnidado, > * Canmre, i | HUMOR, i Wicked wasto—bwrning a candle &t both onds: . - £ iy —A four-year-old boy racently complained that- his tecth '“had trod on his tongue,” —An English publishor who advertised *“Jon- q\;-il: Dtillos, half calf,” is threatenad with o lbol suit, . & T it D .. —Mrs. Partington says she gots up overy morning at the shrill carrion of the chiandolior. +—It was an. Irih Coroner who, when askod liow ho accounted for an extraordinary mortality in Limorlck, roplied s?:llr,' "I eannot toll, Thero, ;roi pm,a.gln dywg this yoar that never' died ofaro. Lo 7 —A man in Dulath {d ‘5o moan."that he quar- rols with his wito abont o politias of the papor sho expands her bustle with, ’ e —A Westarn paper, ‘describing on‘aceldont, #oya: “Dr. Crawford was callod, aud, undof his gromnt and skillful "treatment, the young man died on Wodnesday night,” —** My wifo," sald a ovilic, *' is tho moat even- mn‘x!pgmd. porson in tho world—sho's mlways mad. | 3 —A happy ' misquotation by a young lad; whoge gont(:mun-caller staid too late, sod s speedy good-by. - The clock struok 13, and she remarked : “Now is tho witching hour of night ,whon people yawn," 3 B \n inquisitiva'boy sonled & garden fence in Joralomon stroot “lags ’ ovening, to explora a ,Enpo-vhn, aud, ran Tight -into the' teeth of “Disnster.” . ¢! Digoslor " is the'name of a dog.— Brooklyn Argus, =~ - . ~—A young Indy, in convarsing with a gontle- . man, - ‘spoke of baving resided. in 8t. Louls,- ** Waa 6t Louis your native place?". ‘askad the .gentloman, . ¢ \Wol), yes—part of. the time," ro~ -fimndo«l tho lady.~Ezchange.” Born on o light-. i l;‘x,cxprnna posalbly.—Louisville Qoitrier-Jotir- nab : i —A girl of the period thus comments on Mar- | monlsin: ** How sbaurd! Four or fve wives to, &r‘: man, when tho foct iy, oaoh Wéman in theso’, es oufibl toliave four or fivo husbands. Tt would about that number to support ono dosontly.” . R o . 7 —A good mother was tryi ke o ing to explain ¢ youas Lopatal e olher day about, fighiing, aguinat the devil. Aftar talling the Jittle follow. . who the dovil was, and -how hard ho was to puo- censfully resisf, ho turmod around and epid ! Mamms, I'd, be stared of the old devil, but-if .L.was to coma - 6crdes ono of "hia littlo dovils I'd’ -knook tho stufllng out of him," < i + —Whoneyer wo liear.a man moking a dispar-. sging insinustion in | rejard to bis mother-in- law, wo always feol liko eaying.to him, ! 8ir, yoy nevor wanld” Lava boon snywhare if your fathor had nover had a _mothorsin-law,” Bazar,, ot A5 g i —A smart lithe boy in Now Orleans Wi - proved by bis mother for tolling = fib. Ho tnkist- od it was only in fun, but his plous mothor tola bim_ho must ssk Divina glfllun. . Bo tha littlo. ‘boy knolt down and said : * 0, Liord, forgive'mo. Iwouldu's ‘have dono it, only I ‘thought you'| could tako n joke," sre Pl + —‘“Liltle Tommy didn't disoboy mamma and go in swimming, did ho?” ¢ No, mimme; Jim- my Brown and tho reat of tho boys wont in, bup .E mn:lumbproa, and would not dllobng Y you,” ‘Tommy nover tolls les, doog he 7' “No, ma, I couldn't go to henyen,” “ Then Liow ggi-;nt é‘?mmy Lheppon to have on. Jlmmy Brown's " —A wife of nontly ten yours, giving “hof lsér- ‘porlisps, & B0mewhet moro '‘restvicted scalo, b vant a hollday, was attonding to culinary’ mat- ny, one orent, but repéated annnally &5 a toni," to kaop tho manes of tho daceased in humot by, the Dl Amos. sould sio vt ar! gox, could vie h any race or cant! i tle ingonuity aud rofined oruelty qr,umm“gm. ood ishment, Thé pre mary ' toriures - of, the raok, the = Dooly, 5 tho ¢ thumb-cerows, | the strappado; must have ' tended to - make roliof of doath, Tho noble Barons who harried oach other, and revolted at brief intorvals throughout their tumultuous {ives, prossed air, oarth, firg, and water * into their eervico for the purpoves of oxcention: Men wad judicially prossed to, donth as lato s the Titns Oates ' con- #piraoy, in tho reign of Charles II * Thoy woro- hanged In' chaius to siarve ;' they ‘wore ‘buriod alivo, half hauged, mutilated, msv.rlhen burned ; they wore, scorohod .with hot irons, thelr, eyos searcd out, thoir limbs lnnqsfi_ infa molten lead. or tar; dmy wore apittod liko’ cook-ohalqrs on stakes, thoy.\vero drowned with norciful rapidi- t{, or chaled to'stakes at-low wator to ho'moro slawly suffocated by'the rising tidey thay, wero brokon on tho' wheol, or wm.llpub by wild, horacg, whilo the ax for the noblokopt up & por-’ otual rofrain liko tha ticking of » clncgr. Tho uquisition; In the garb snd under the nimo of raligion, invontod and spplisd more ox. Quisite barbaritics, ' To. drive » moan mad! firat aud Into tho grave dtteriward by tha inodsgant; trickling of & ulufilo drop of water was 4 formout worthy of Satan bimself, Tho thoussnds burncd to doath in Spain,” ¥'rance, England, Chius, Tus n, Gormany, aitest tho. gusto with which the xevéroud brothron of tho 1lgly Oftigo spuiad 1 tho flavor of roasting humpnily and woro onrap- tured with the ohirioks of tho martyrs, a8 now-a- days wo grp whon Oaponl or Tsmborlik rouso oy enthusfasm with tho ringing 0 in alt, In thosq ood old days mon wero wlnin tor mngezing in propor places, for construdlvs dlerespoct, or for ptoaling u 10Af, mnd “the sevority remninad tiil Within comparatively rocont times, Eotue be tho widdle ago metliods still swvive. In Nay plos;* throo Yam ago, of threa women eoudmnn'u& oy, Infantlclda o "woro beheuded, the third, tho priacipal mxlgrlt, wud mauolnla, or knooked on'~ ‘tho oad itk © & sunc, ! like su ox lgr abidomen iben _slashed !opon, whila 10 " exooutioner exeoutod o -pas do fas- cination on the (}ulverlng frunls, spurting"the blood ot 1k a fountalu, Tn Spal, Spanish oolonios, and the Q #lloaianco to Wef‘intflll, £ e " ' b polite_remombrance implied by | as 60on.as bo opaned the doar But Christian Eutépe, n tho | hands nvnr.hing;:! and lmprmllglq sstor Ropubliéa Who ongd awed | hor' husbind coming shs would gurprise him. th¥owing hor o kiss on hig brow, ag in the honoymoon, - ‘Cha Lusbang ro-. turned tha salute with intercst. #1¢ Mary, dare hlx.:::; "“h“j‘i( in ym‘x]r Eli.m” uf"» 13 T{xg wifoédn-' ohargor ) aing " tho nox , aud hog adopted n_nn\yryfilun ulg:‘ surprising '!"Lur»hus- i D T T v L e 5 ow ploasant it is In this ttiockea old world," saya tho Peorla ‘Review, “to, most & man fu the busy walks of life, whasa fa06" in an’ o'l‘xm book, boaring tho imprint. of “honesty, Wi e tors horsolt, and, heariny into tho kitohen, lengh% 080 nobility of soul spoaks in his ve whoso wholo- slon,\ann&q Liipives ;fl §lpaonn “yoaring r_\moa ‘sffcotion for-Lim that only’ l;:gm_dn_ culf v fon to lh‘xzuplre tho posaosnor’ fo kuow more of and borrow my 0! 0, 188 1t Wore, " Ah, yésl;:,g,yv-z gy mbl i © ' —-A'day bofors the oxeoution, the Chaplain; at 1Fort, Km&uth was endonvoring to _conyert Capt.. Jaok, and araoug other things told him glowing stortoa of - Hoavon, *-Hig romarks ecomed to Liave an effoct on the Captaln, who ssked him if he know sl gbout the hx\:})y‘lan_ The Qhap-, Inin snid he thought ha did,™ ¢ Well, vaid Jaok, You know all about him,.ms gfvuyou ten horsea you take my place to-morsow." . Pl -~T'yonegro womon ‘met.upon thq atraot the | other day, whon the followiug converaation taok plnce: Firat woman—Io" you gwino to set.up wid tho corpso to-night 2" Baoomi‘ woman— Noy: m% hushand won't lat wme,” ‘Firat woran— # Pabaw! I novor sced such a husban’ as you is | got. o nover wanta $0-lot yon seo any plo-g» sure."—Woodford Qounty (Kip.) Weeldy, =+ * —Mra Porking, on Friond atrge!,'wholiag junb- finlshod 5 Naw houro, hias been &g onch anvoyed ré¢ontly by lightpiog-rod men and Inspraice sgonts that, ay qProlennnn sho put ou!ul§n< stating that ‘tour 8f tho famlly woro il with th small-pox,'but sirangora would be cordlally re« colvod, A blipd bogpar was scon to pausb o' front s( fhe bougo for an_insbant, the other gy, 40 read tho sign, and thon Lo qulokly songhi an adjoning atroot.~Oolumbus Sunday News, = - —The pancako saasan has nob got around to Tlohmout, Tnd, 4 {drad itl amaplogodn & tamily thore, whila bplilng cokes the other mozning, sioppid bagkyard to s lalr n, wioh reposod the battor, and deliberately sat down in lh{ pan, Atfi Bh"g‘i.“bflmml?&tgl &tove, tho rea Danbury News, | vofusad to it down' ou (he' v, way tinishod ‘with bréad,— | Btauces in_ iHlustration and proof of tha man's, ' |“friond” and cowpanion fully concurged, The POET OR PIG ? From Tinaley's Mfagatine, . , It was at Toplitz, in' Boliomia, in the summer season of 1822, In the last deeado of August, 'The famons sanatorium was orowded with ranls, fashion, and bosuty. Among tho most dlstinguishod ‘' Iatost e rivals " figurod 1iis Excollonoy Privy Councllor Gootho, Minlster of Welmar, and his intimate friend, Gon, von Pfuol, the renowmed’ Gorman historian of tho Tranco-Russian oampalgn of 1813, ' Tho Ministor camo-thoro to reat -him from Wi oxhausting labor of governing tho nigh upon & quarter-million poople iubabiting the oxlonsive Grond Duchy of Saxe-Woimar and Eisonaoch, The Genoral, then the most expart and alegnnt, animmér in Gormany, and liead-master gonoral of all Prussian swimming-schools, cams for hia snnusl plunge—If wo may bo pormitted to use n figuro- of speach—in tho Lot | alkalo-saline uprings, which the ‘exporionce of yours had proved t0 bo the most eficacions 'monns of ro- etoring the impaired springinoss of his rhou- matic joints, oud the pristine gracefulnosa of hin natatory evolutions. . Tho great Johann Wolfgang took up his quar- tors at the Prince dn Ligno Hotol, whilst the . Goneral, who wasa flnished gourniet, went to the . Hirach,. which al tho time doservedly en- foyod:the highest oullnary roputation, < 1 succons of his move and ovor tho long faces of mine host and the othor disappointed birthday colobrators, which o saw botore him in anticl- patlon ; for ho was, of courso, quite suroihat all dangor of an ombarraseing domonstration Lnd possed away then. Fanoy his sunoyance when, on the way to his own apartmont,ho found bigolt suddenly Iaid hold “of- by mino host, in full foutivol attiro, who looked quite folly, and ehowed not tho losst traco of Ulsappointmont in his rubjound faco. The worthy Doniface warmly, thongh rospoctfully, romonsteatod with 1lis” £xoollancy for havin) withdrawn himsolf from the colebiation of thia mosb A}mrlclnuu dny—auspclous for the world in gonoral, but moto parlleularly for Teplitz, TFortunatoly, it was not yet too lato, howevor, for His Excolloncy to tako his logitimato sharo in tho orowning nct of tho groat rojololngs. . Thia, wan tho first timo that Toplitz had'boen honored by thio groat Privy ‘Councilor's august presonca on thin thrico fortunate dny, and overy ono of tho cm:‘{muy avsemblod in tho garden” of the hotel Liad boon rogrotting tho untoward abaonca of bim-who truly. was expeoted. to crown the foast, Ilo trusted His Exeolloncy would gra- clounly'condescend now to rejoleo tho company, in tho gardon by his ausplicious proonco. A The manifost” touncity of purposo with which , mino host aud his guoats ssemod to cling to the colobration of Lis birthday fairly*ovorcams the .greatmait, Ilo gaw that those paople woro degar~ minod to bond the knos tohim in dulation whoth- - or ho might like it or not. And, consolinghimsolt with the.thought that the affair ‘muat soon bo over now, his yielded with sufficiontly good graco to mino host's urgent solicitations, aud followed bim Jike a lamb lod to slanglter. 4 Hig appoaranco in the garden was londly hailed by sll presont, ‘“Till -your ylnsses; lndios and - On thosecond o third day afler his arrival in Toplitz,'tho princo of poots fancled ho snw cor- {ain susploious signa of preparations’ going on, pubther anclent and highly cultured raco, have | doing good at the same time by dissooting |.in and sbout tho hotol, as for soma intondod fos- tival. Ho aaw that the gardon was boing exten- Blvely docoratod with ' colorod” lamps aud leafy. garlands, and that a' platform was being ‘con- structod fn'the lowot end of it. A myatorfons. lookiag large : picturo-frame wes brought: iu ono night, with a show of (he profoundost so~ orocy. . - n’un chanced that Goothe's birthday, falling on the 28th of tho month, was drawing near; and, romomboring him of this faqt, sud putting this and that togetLer, he very natutally camo to the,conolusion that tho propriotor of the 'riice . do Ligne, with a keocn oye "fora promising olianap of profit, was meditating an opportune exploitation of his distinguisho guosts world- -wido fame, and lad, in fact, ‘rosolved upon'an {nvestmont in the spproaching birthday. of the great, man. PR W . Now: tho oold, houghty, sdlf-contained” na- turo of the said great minn was inost sousitivoly. .aversn to boing subjected’ to n procoss of lou- iving, In this sposialiinatance, * morsovar, ' bo folt disposed to rossnt {t” a3 & porsona! indignity that an hotel-keopor should prosumo to.make ifree,; 68 it wove, .with hia mogt ‘intimate por- sonal affairs, ; and try to tura his birthdey. to profitablo accouut fn the way of business, mak- ing -the: ovont tho obiof foaturo'of a fostival ontertainmont, evidontly conceived on a large scele and with sanguine hopes of & most profit~ able return ; and tho man had not even thonght it worth whilo toask his sanotion to the con-: tomplated prpcuegunga. Buoh ‘presumption surely _dederved to bo visited with condign, punishimont. This the iddignant poot remolved to mote ont to tho offonding hotol-keepor who ‘would thus lmpudnntlflrdnru dispose of him and hia'birthday, quitoirrespoctive of his own wighes in the matter, Xo resolvod tobo oven, with him; %o would soll him, tousoan tho least notice of thom ; then, on the grent day, ho would tako care to bo out of the way from the oarliest dnwn of day ;:and he chuckled in gloe- of the would-bo colebrators of hig birthday. Then at night he would appear on the scens fo onjoy the succoss of his littls malice ; and he would then tell Mastor Bonifaco that he might have aparod himsolf and his guests the cruel flncuitmn of tho day, hiad he' but condescended 10,43k the sunotion firat of the most important ‘personage in the fpnu:l'nnmm of the foatival, So, on the avening of tho 27th of August, His Excel- lonoy privately chartored & coach and pair for an oxouralon to Dux-Waldstein noxt morning, in- struoting. the driver to await: him at 6 o'clook a. m. punctually, at & short distance from the town. ‘Then he bothought him of seonring an agroo- able companion for his intonded trip, ‘that he might puss bis birthdoy in & ploasant’ mannor ; higold friend, Gen.' von Pfuol waa tho man whom he choso, ‘Lhoro was n trifling diffculty in the way, howover,—Goethe knew full weil that it would nover do to.let the kind-heartod old sdldier know ‘the truo motive of his want. ing to sbsent himsclf from Teplitz next day, aa hio folt guita suro he would do everything in s pnwsr%o thwart the ungracious design. Bo ‘ig told the General ke had a sudden ardent longing to rovisit the Caatle of Waldstoin, sud to view once moro the famous library in which oor broken-down Jacob Cassanova do Seignalt Padtound n kindly refuge and aholtor in his lnst declining days. ke poet knaw that the General had nover yoi seen tho castlo, o thoreforp avo him & most glowiug description of the at- | tractions of tho placo, promising, by way of ad- ditional temptation, to show lum the Latin in- gcription traced by the old human ruin, with'his own'half-palsied hand, in"sad ‘romombranca. of $he gay young cavaliot ho had onco baon, ' Heo found it & much toughor task than lie conld - have anticipated to.persuade.the Genera, who| wasaman singnlarly wedded to his own ossy habits of lifo aud to tha comforts of agood table, to tesr himself away for an entire day from tho ~-mrl$luous banguot of the Hirsch, to court in- stend, parchanco, the .dublous. dishos of a Dux. ‘hostelry. Tha Goneral did not wish to vieit “Waldstein ; tho famous library had no partionlar " attraotion fm'. him; ho vasf referrad a *‘ vols ~yout au Grand Lama," & Iag of ““saucinsons oubiso n\s} pommos Pompadour,” and a Negaol= rode: pudding o Cassanovn's Ltin. insoription, sand all:and sny other ‘(Momorles” loft by, the, mou in the Castlo of Waldstein. He conld not/| - 800 the rarson for tho proposed early flitting iy tlio morning, and why ho should: no!y be pertuits ted evon to take his broakfast bofore. starting Ho wanted to Lnow what tho Councilor’s Liti] gamo could possibly be. =+ \ y . It raquired, indoed, all Gootho's irresistible power of suasion to induce the obstinata old min ‘atlagt to consent to join in the proposed kip next morning ; ho oxnoting, however, a promise ‘that on the duy aftor tho oxoursion it should all bo fully explained to him what Lad mado the Ooungilor #0 anxiona to visit Waldstoeln just on that partioular day. £ + On.tho ‘mdrmiug of tho 28th, & little aftor 5 d'oloek, His Excolloncy clovorly mauaged to loave tho Princo dnmdgun unobserved, and about an Jhour aftor hio and the Genoral were rolling along on tho'road to Waldsteln, Tho two celebritios passed a most agrocablo -dny. Thoy went-all ovor tho castle, tho poot aoting ' as” olcerono to tho Goneral, whom ho complately fagciuatod by tho charming witch» ery: of hia convorsation, and the exuborant “woalth of - {llustration and anocdato, which ho _poured aut'bofore him. Trom the castlo they procoeded to the ‘manasters; whoro Gootho, in & mischiovons ireak,~ihtrodaced himselt and bis ggmp;gan ha good father, who took thein bver the place, an lay brethren of the Bocloty of Josus, and, artfully loadlog tho cons voraition up to tho uubioat, entrapped the poor K:mn Intq exproesing his eandid; most unflaftor- g opinion of that * son of Batan and poati- lential porvorter of men's minds,” - the author s i’.{‘mg' o O cueerfully io&m«: {8 " tho uso heaped ypon himse! s unwittiny nk, and afduced numorous {aonvlnclu ‘ln? dsmonlaoal Imploty, finally capping all by aghs- ing tho' pious }’nthu’r whotley gz; :fid a'vqi x:p'd tho -moat abominabla production of Qaetho's, the ** Harmony of Oolora;" which ho danguncod 260 tmnl{y-.v‘u d, blasphemouy’ nttack upon the Loly wystory of tha Tnullfll “Whereat the poor triar, “Who, ‘mos ‘likely, iad nover even'hoard tho namg af the incriminated book, orossod him- solt over and ovor again, sbuddoring with holy horrar, and protested .most oarnoatly that-ho Liad novor in his lifo road, or oven soen, & luo .writton. by tho 'godless man Gooths, Upon ‘which tho Visitor congratulated him most warm- ){A,‘ gravely Mldlnfi that ho onght to hove scon this patent fact without noodiug to bo told of. it, sinoo muoh wholesale wholesono *denunclations of:tlicao peatilontial baoks aa he and his friend hid been nrivilegod to liston to ocould only pros coed from’a mind entiraly uubiased by the ro- -motéat mental or intailectual contact with their ! gontante,—an opinion in which hoe was surq.his -3 Cenergl, who fnteusoly onjoyed tha mystifioa~ tion of the holy man, hore narzawly osonped & remature termination of Wia mortal earcer from ho superhuman efforta ho'had prozs an explogion of laughter, 0 Tho General's good huuior was still furthar in- greadod by an oxoeptionally good- dinner at-the *principal hostolry of Dux, whiok Gosthe hed ox- prosaly ordered, " with wige foxethought, imme- diately upon their arrival 1n' the maorning. ! ! Ho, on the drive back to 'Woplitz, the' general oxpresded hithaolf thoroughly ploased wfifn, tha ‘dolightful day he had spout in e friond's come pany. EXE Y ‘It was 8 o'lock [n the evening whon] they reached the Ilirsoh. After {alung leave'of the Oumula‘flnutbo wended his way baok fo tha Pl Ligne, k}emllz_ chuekling avar: the to mako to sup~ a oxprésalvo. vulgarism. Ho would let the prep-' ‘] arationd go on quictly, without seeming to take some auticipntion ovor tho biank disappointment: “the ring. entlomon! shouted” mino hosts '*‘bring a umper for His Bxcellency, and then for tha toast of the day!” st ‘The warm onthusiasm of tho peopls aronnd him kindlod somothing like truo contoniment in Qootlio’s broast.. Poots and Privy Counollors,, howover high they may soar and towerabova the rest of mankind, avo, aftor all, but men, withtho foiblos of poor bumanity ‘about thom. What ‘wondor,- thon; that:the Soflnnnl vanity of ‘tho man ' falt highly flattored by the undisguisod heartiness.of ‘tho domonatration. - His Lears ox- mudcd. sud lua pulso boat responeive to {he goneral gladness around him; .and whon ains host lod him up o & large transparoncy in tho background of tho temporayy:stago, which ho folt was!to rovenl to his dolighted eyes hia own sugust, bay-enclroled. brow, ho thought it incumbont upon him to oxpross. his gratified snd gratoful foollnga In" & fow apprapriata worde: 'Ho wis just going to open’ his' mouth to do #o, .when,' lifting his eyes, ho suddonly ospied bofore hfm, on 1ho transparoncy, in brill- ant golors, the finage,of auimmonsohiogl Just then tho hoad waiter camo up with . the bumpor, ordored for His Excellency, and anothor for mino* gnftfi::huunt n?ui- proceedod tio Pproposs ‘1§;z'u right and joyful memory of who, in. his L T R S R R A R | rativo proportios of the "eplita watora, with thron times threo—hip} hip, hurran!” 'Hore w23 2 oad ‘Qlgenchantmont of tho -groat- man. He:joined in the tonst, of courso,-but certain) Dot vary.onthuulutlcnhz, a5 Lis solt-love aould .not butfoel & slight shook; for it was quite oclear’ now that nobédy Kiad' troubled about Lis * birtliday, * ‘"fhoy “bad* " colo- bratod tho 28th of August simply’ as tha sup- ponod aunivoraary of the -discovery - which . Lind ‘mads Toplitz what it is,—a disoovory ascribed by {np\flu tradition, liko that of the ath Bprings, 0 a hog, Nay, it wag quits clear that no, one hbad even known or thought of the coin¢idenca of "the poot's birthday falling on the same luoky day. Yiggy bad ongrossed the uuiversal mind .of Teplitz, to tho total exclusion of everybody Ani]x -voryfintnhg nhm.t 5,5 owover, tho groat poot was a phor alao. 'So he mada tho boat o it h { and ho even bore SRR with stoio calm the lnughter grootod naxt morn the narration of. tho affair, —_— THE MODERN -MAIDEN, 1 fonr theo, modern malden, - With thy lesn nnd lengthy sbaps, * . ¥or I knoi thy alim proportions ‘ Aro mado of wire and tane; Yot surely tlierg 18 something, A—s0 {0 speak—per s¢; Dut what that samothing ig remains . **A'myatery tomo, : Tight gloves pinch up thy Little hands, . indioota Uy Toot distress H ¢ hough small thy hoad, 'la sinaller made Dy fashion's Ist compross; . . y akirt {8 drawn 2o snug by bands - Thint thou canst scarcaly walkey -~ * - ‘Thy rodingote does Qit o cloeo Tmarvol thou canat talk, iz?.‘.‘iflh'fifi‘éé“.'é’?m upon thyselr, Bocome oxeeeding small? - X 80, I foar ttics, modsrn mafden, ; With thy loah and grewsome shaps, And wondor liow a walking-stick - Bo closely thou canst aps, But, naoing thee this latk and la And thinking on tby atate, X grant, 1t onco, in fodlaknéan 1ou cans 5 —New York Graphte, > & ogy i .;hlc’nt-l!llnllafl. S 0 Boaton Traveller snys that Bfinday In on of tho churches of that zl? [y ntndyynhumh? grlnxmm: becamo absorbed in some: train of thougyht, not exastly suggosted b{ tho sarmon, it is prosutod, took & oigar from his pockat, put it In his mouth, foldod his arms, leancd contom. platively back in his sent, and was only aroused - ,fvom hLix rovorio by tho conrtesy of o friend, who happoned to sit near. ! | - Anothor story ia told by the Hartford Courant. It gays that o gentloman of that city, who was riding in tho smoking-car on o train from Now | ¥ork to Now Havon, noticed that ‘s man sittin dirootly in front of him §nvo tho conductor a 9§ bill to- pay his fare. Home chango wasto bo glven back, butthe conductor handed the pas- sengor a roll of billa, and ‘passed on, Tho man. who rocelved the monoy appoarod an less astonishod than the Hartford gone tloman, and wag about to follow up_the conduc- tor and return tho bills, whon tho Hartford man euggostod to him to hold on a little while, ana! 800 what the -tioket-puncher would do. {Vhon the train ‘stopped at Bridgeport tho passongor, #ald ho would an‘:g into tho rofreshmont room ‘a moment and w‘o fi rultum, hgt did 'x\et moke h‘ln appoarancs again, having perhaps forgotten, in & 1it_of abeoat-hindednass, tst b had the money. This, of courso, made the Hartford man fool o little quoor, ns ho bad stoppod tha follow from paying back the monoy, though with tho bost intont{ons in the world, Very soon’ aftor the conductor aud the brakemon came through tho car together, and made very carc- ful soarch for somothing, and it {s probablo thnt tha canduotor still thinls ho dropped : the roll of bills in that or somq otlior car, or thiat Bomo ras- cnl stolo it, Instances of absenco of mind raro- 1y tako thig form smong railroad conductors. —_—— >~ 'ThePopo and the Xalser, From Judy, 1, : Pope Pius the Ninth tothe Evgsror of Germany > 8y o & You maginG ‘uak you ato mn_ ade- Pendent ‘monarch, of Zrotestant praclivitios, & ;’mura vgt:ng. P b * In your crasting infanoy, you woro bap- tized, and aq wora ‘your subjocts, probubly. Thorofoso you hra all my ohildren. I am your Tougclont fatfior, | Dless you. nld-yon mind fellig Disrerck to lot tha Jeaulta niono, just to obligome? Lio Newo, I, e Fmporor of Germany ta_Pope Pius the Ninths Youn Horiness: Yg\x think I am a fool. ‘You may be infallible, but foronce you are wrong. In my own aonner{ I do what I please, or, whiat i 4ho srme thing, Blemarok doos. Wo menn to go'on dolug s0, ' . We won't have you far & father, at any prico, "glltlm may'go to Joricho, and take the Josuits you, i . Porhaps you will tako your ' Holiness' chango out of that: (Bigued) e o A Chambosiou Iorge, New York Times' Paria Latter, -~ Jnat batoro tho visit to Salzburg the Comte do Chawmbord sent to Routz's circus, in Vienns, to buy & horso which had beon long in training for It'wog a beautiful pure whito animal, and vory thlu. Although his education was comploto, Adonis had novor appeared in public, and Honrl V. sent 1o purchase . him in order to make his voyal entry iuto Paris, The hefr to eixty Kinge I8 very [amo, and, not beiug able ta 8k & horso well, dosires a tamo ono for Lis entry amid tho acolamations of thousands of pooplo. The Gormans have a droll word far deuxgnntm;: A goutloor woll-trainod horso, 11o is oalled fronim, which means & “pious horse.” In buying ou suimal ono ssks with ‘all the gravity In” tha world if he 18 *plous.” 'Iho wit of each lane gunge {g almoat nntranalatable, but in German thia I8 exooedingly droll, and one can undorstand tho +bon ' mota” mado In Vionna ciroles upon 4 Henrl V.'s entry into I'arls upon a plous whita horse called Adonis.” It is jokingly eaid that the Prince carrlas his ultramontana tondencion Into overy minute dotall, ovan to tho sejection. blsatud, ¢ * . WinLiax, st philoso: aud tho chaff with whioh bis friond the Goneral