Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 31, 1889, Page 12

. bed conf DENONS SIT IN JUDGHENT. Horrible Methods Employed By the COourts in China, A WITNESS PUT TO TORTURE. Graphic Description of Death By Slice ing — The Bamboo and the Oangue—How Prisoners Are Bled For Money. An Inferno on Earth. Copyright. Caxroy, China, March 6,—[Special Corre- spondence to Tus Bee.]—Horribie! horri- ble!! horrible!!! are the cruelties of Chinese justice! I grew sick while watching the « torture of a witness at the courts here in Canton to-day, and I had to leave the place for fear 1 should faint away., The man was brought into the court 1 a basket. His arms were chained behind him. His feet ‘were manacled so that the heavy iron had out through the skin and there was a chain also about his neck. He had refused to test- ify and had been tortured before until he was now pald and sick. He was thrown from the basiet on to the floor in front of a tall Mandarin judge dressed in along silk gown and wedring a round black cap with a button on thekbrown. Tne irons were taken off and the man was forced into a kneeling posture on the stone floor. He plead that he was sick. That he knew nothing and he ‘begged that they would not punish him fur- ther. Thejudge said a word and three burly Chinamén grasped him. They car- ried him to the side of the oourt, where a bench about four feet long and a foot wide was lying. They put this bench on end against a pillar and then taking the prisoner, forced him down upon his knees before it so that the board of the bench rested agaiust his back and between his shoulders. He was bare-footed. They pilled his wide pantaloons up to his thighs and bending up his legs tied his big toes to the top legs of the bench so that the bare sltin of his knees rested on the stones. The bench extended some distance above the back of his head near the end a hole had been bored about an inch in diameter. Through this his cue was pulled, forcing his head'tight against the board and stretching his neck so that the cords stood out like whips. His arms were twisted behind the bench, stretched backward and upwards and held there by striugs tied to the thumbs. A heavy, sharp chain with iron links about two inches wide was then brought and put under his * “bare knees., He was to be kept with his whole weight resting on this chain and hela 0p by his thumbs, his big toes and his cuo until he confessed. The torture was terrible. His eyes almost started from their sockets, his face twitched and his moaning made me slesx., Among the other tortures I witnessed was the pounding a man’s cheek with a leather clapper until the blood oozed from his mouth. This clapper was made of two pieces of leather of the thickness and twice the width of a harness tug, fastened to a third piece of leather as a haundle, The whole affair was not more than & foot long, but it is more ‘brutal than though it was made of iron. It is used largely in the pumshment of women and it not infrequently breaks the jaws and knocks out the teeth. This prisoner was suspected of being engaged in smuggling opium and he denied bemng guilty. He was ‘whipped thus on the jaws and then bambooed. The bambooing was done by taking down his trousers and lay- ing him flat upon his belly on the floor of the court, while a turnkey raising 8 bamboo club brought it down with all his forge agan and again upon the backs of the bare yellow thighs of the offender. This bamboo was split down the middle like a tuniog fork. It whistled as it flew through the air and it clapped the skin with the noise of a vistol shot, The bare-armed jailer counted each blow. The long-cued, silk-gowned, sore-eyed judee looked complacently ou and 1 saw no signs of pity in the stolid faces of the crowd. WHERRE DEMONS PRESIDE. Let me give you a picture of this Chinese court room. It is one of many in Canton and the largest. We passed through room after room and aisle after]aisle of low, narrow buildings to get to it. There was & court in front of it and around this in narrow cells sat the clorks and employces . of she judg The room wae open at the front, paved with stone, and it had only a table and a chair or two. There are no lawyers in China and the judge has un- limited power, provided he does not trans- gress the code. China has a code of laws bundreds of years old, of which a new #dition is published every five years, and in which the panalties for the minutest crimes #re regulated. It is fuller of more horrible sentences than tne Newgate calendar, and the judges df China have more power in the examining of witnesses than the most brutal of tyrauts, There is no jury and the court room is as bare as & barn, Just behind where Istood were a number of the implements of torture ready for use and all showing the'marks of wear and tear. One, which my guide said was very bad, was made of & bar of wiood six feet long supported by two upright wooden pillars. The prisoner was made to kneel under this with the back of ils neck touching the bar and his arms stretched out along it. These are tied by eords to the bar and as he kneels with his bare knees upon the chain such as I saw a few moments later, for the obdurate witness ‘& third bar id placed across his legs back of the knees and two men stand upon it, thus foreing the flesh into the chains. The ankles #are sometinmes crushed by a similar bar Placed across them. Chinese invontion, which gave its people sugar centuries before it tickled the palates _ of other mortals, which brought gunpowder Into the world, aud which invented printing, seemsto haye dropped. long ago the usefu! arts and devoted itself to the torture of its ~ griminals. I believo that the Chinese heart naturally eruel, and in looking over the Gazetto I sce that the tortures of the ages ara common here, and that now d then o ju astonishes even the Chinese selves by tho reflnement of his punish- ments, [nstances wre given whors the fin- mwrnr‘p«l in oiled rags and burnt, trite, some time ago, fastened [T vy nalls driven through their pulms, Cowmpelling men to ded glass is noted, on with com- ol 8 magis- @man into a coftin and kept until he waus suffocated, and he the instance of & judge who used beds »gnn. boiling water-and red hot spikes in ltics. At Sh i 1 was show lon cage between fiyi chains 0 nd six feet hizh, ¥ hlfln onough o enclose the body of a was' made of four posts with u thick sot into the top. 'This bowrd was of two pieces 5o arrunged that it could en out und @ man's neck encloscd in hole in its centor. At the bottom it had . erows bars several inches above the ground, sad the top was so graduated that the man b within it must stand upon his toes. ds ware tied and this torture is terri- somo men are left to Iado:‘t’h in A vagos, n;\d II‘Illl cuus:u -+ w W‘lfllflr only a few days bo- ’,; re. ‘le o &lwa of straw matting ¥ over the top of it which the wife of Ia ll.:.lfl pub \’h:h to protect his m the rays o uil. just outside this court room, I tac] e ready for use, the & common pun- L 0f the can- d the fiaidd man’'s neck ocan just fit into it Tt is about four feet square, and some of those which I looked at were so heavy that I could not lift them. One weighed ninety pounds, and great bars of iron were set into it to increase the weight of the wood, The name of the offender and his punishment is ‘puwd on the boards, and there one specles of cangue made in the shape of a barrel. Tha prisoner is put inside with his head fitting through a hole in the top and his hands fastened with chains come through the sides, He cannot move, and ho has to be fed. At the Shanghai prison I saw cages which looked as though they might have been pens for the carrying of hogs to & county fair. These were 80 low that a man could not sit up in them and it is in these that criminals are often carried to execution. These had been used the day before for the caging of criminals, and I took a look at the prisoners who had been taken from them to the jail. I wanted to go through this prison but I was told that if 1did so I would probably have my clothes torn from me by the prisoners, s they were a bad lot and had killed their jailor a few days before. 1 looked through a hole in the door and saw the most brutal faces I have as yet seen in China. The men were chained to the wall like wild beasts and some of them had chains about their neciks as well as their feet. The smeoll was horri- ble, and the Chinese prison is by no means a sanitary institution. Each prison has its dead house connected with it and deaths from semi-starvation and torture are not un- common. The jailors make a large partof their SALARY BY SQUEEZING, and money will do as much and more for the criminal in China than it will in Ameri Judges sometimes pay thirty and fort, thousand dollars for their appointments, and he is & poor money maker who does not got rich during his term. The Tautoi of Shanghai gets n salary of about $1,000 and his oftice is estimated to be worth more than $100,000 a year. The commissioner of cus- toms at Tientsin nominally reccives a salary of about the same size, but I am told that ho makes about $200,000 a year, and his profits all come from bribes or squeczes. This sys- tem of squeczing goes through the wholo course of Chinese officialdom and the jailors enuct money from the relatives of the crimi- nals, They have the right to scll the food to the criminais and they make them pay high prices. If they cannot ’xpll.v they must in many cases go without. The criminals cook for themselves in the jail and they are allowed about two cents a aay for fuel. They have an allowance by the law of rice, but the jailor gives them this or not as he pleases. THE LORD HIGH EXECUTIONER. Three coolies carried me id o chair from the court in Canton to the execution ground and I had a chat with the execupioner. He was a nasty, dirty, blood-thirsty looking fellow, with hair an inch long standing out like bristles over the front of his head and about his cue. He had not been busy for several days, and he took delight in ex- plaining to me the uses of the heavy sword and the scientific cuts which he made with it. This sword was about four feet long. It has a blade as sharpas a razor and ivis about a quarter of an inch thick at the back and more than two inches wide. He uses both hands in swinging it about, and he told me that my neck would be an easy one to slice off but that he would not like to have to cut up my thin frame by the slicing process, This exccution ground of Canton is used as a crockery factory, and the mak- ing of pots goes on when executions are not in progress. Itis & narrow court between two high walls on the banks of the Canton river, and the heads are cut off in the open air. Upon my asking what was done with the heads of the criminals, he told me through my interpreter that they were thrown into jars of quick llme and that he would take one out and show me for the sum of 10 cents. In the interest of your paper I subscribed this amount and he PULLED OUT A HALF-EATEN SKULL and showed 1ts ghastly ugliness to me. There were about & dozen of these earthen jars at the back of this execution ground. 'They were of tho size of a twenty-gallon keg and were covered with paper. They were full of heads and probably represented n year's executions. As soon as the head is taken off it is carried up to the magistrate or officer in charge and shown, aud it is often exposed in 4 cago or on & pole as & Warning to others, The es in which the heads are put are of the size of little bird cages, and when the heads are tied to trees or poles they hang down by tne cue, At the back of this execution ground stood half a dozen wooden crosses. If you will take a piece of telegraph pole eight Teet long and set a sunilar pole five feet long into it at right angles two feet from tho top you will have the Chinese cross. It is upon these crosses that the criminals are vound when they are to undergo the punish- ment of Ling Chi or slicing to death, which is the sentence for all who murder a brother, 1 parent, a teacher, & husband or an uncle. The criminal is stripped and his feet are raised upon a brick or a stone. His queue is tied up to the cross and his arms are stretched outupon its arms. A British naval officer whom I met at Hong Kong, described an execution of this kind which he witnessed a few weeks ago. SLICED TO DEATH. made me feel very green at first,”” said he, “‘but after it was begun I could not keep my eyes off of it. I have had the experience over again three times in my dreams and I would not want to see it agamn. I had the best guide in Canton and we saw the execu- tion from the roof of one of the buildings beside the execution ground. There wero two criminals and it took about thirty min- utes to cut each of them to pieces, The first cuts sliced off the cheeks and the second the eye-brows. After this a man held a fan before the faces of the prisouers and all we could see of them was the blood running down - upon their bodies. The next cut was of the flesh be- tween the hand and-the elbow and the arter- ies were first bound above the places cut so that the man would uot bleed to death be- 10re the ceremony was cowpleted. Then the shoulders wero cut off. ‘hen the flesh of the thighs and after this the calyes of the legs. e soventeonth and eighteentn cuts removed the hanas and the last cut took the head from the body. In both cases the men did not faint away. The pain was too terri- ble. They could not cry out as they were gagged, and their writhings were horrible. ‘I'he last cut killed them. It was not a very safe place for myself and my friend. There wero several hundred Chinese present,and a more hardened looking set I have never seen, ‘They caught sight of us and the boys among them began to yeil at us and to wake their fin- gers and draw thgn around their throats, rominu at us as though they would cut our heads off. Our guide got frightened and he took us down and put us in the cellar of the house through a trap door, where we stayed for a couple of bhours until the crowd had dis persed. They were very threatening, and the blood-thirsty sight had roused their pas- sion to such an extent that if they had caught hold of us our lives would not have been salfe. STRANGULATION AND DECAPITATIO! legation at Peking and oncof the ablest of our ropresentatives in China, vursued his studies of the Chimese language in Chinese clothes, living in a Chinese house and wear- ing a _ He went into all parts of tho Chinese cities aud into the most out-of-the- way places, He described to 1ne two execu- tiohs which ho witnessed—one by strangula- tion and the other by decapitation. *‘Ihe Chinese,” said he, ‘‘prefer to be strangled rather than to have their heads cut off. ‘The man who is beheaded cau only come to carth again to fill the ofice of executioner, and this the vilest of Chinese occupa- tious. Strangling iy & respectable method of taking off, It is inflicted on kid- nappers and on all thieves who steal wrticle of more than $500 m value. The prisoner is fastened to a cross and a strong piece of twine tied around his neck uufi fastened at the upper part of the perpendicu- lar bar, Such deaths are slow, and auother method is twisting the cord until the man dies, The agony [ cannot describe, but 1 snall never forget the strangled mau's face,” “The wan | saw decapitated,” continuod Mr. Cheshiro, “‘was forced knéel. His hunds were tied behind him, throwiog his neck to the frontand the wssistant of the executioner pulled the head further out by holding on to the man's cue. One blow of he sword sovered the neck and the execu- tioner ran with the head to the magistrate. At this exccution hall a dozen prisoners were brought to the execution ground, but ouly one of them was beheaded, the sentence of the others being commuted at the last t. Before the execution took place 1 walked umong the prisongrs smoking. Oue of thew askea me for a cigar and I gave it to him. He lighted it and smoked it with gusto. It was this very man who was picked out ¢f the balf dozen 10 bave his hu?eub off. Curious, wasn't it 1 might fiil asother column with the stories 1 aave l,t_unl of Chiuese punishments and eriie. The bamboo, which grows to the height of fifty feot and ugw-\rd, gots its on- tire growth in a few wecks, I have heard of prisoners boing tied over plants and of _those growing through them. For certain offonses prisoners are buried up to their necks and those who go by them are expected to add a clod to the pile. They do not, I am told, hes- and this Chinese civiliza- tion, founded upon Buadhism, Confucianism and so-called literary calture, is productive of such men and such scenes. Do you won- der that there is no room for missionaries? don’t. FRANK G, CARPENTER. PO, Bismarckiana. London Fun, ("“L'Etato—c'est moi ") I am the country, the country T Made for the Bismarck dynast—I. That is the end of German—L I am the country. He that tricks Or josts on Bismarck's politics, The splendid German honor pricks. I am the country—heart and eore. If other countries ask “What fori” 1 give my word. I start a war, J am the I-ron Chancel-lor. —_— SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. Something About e New Britlsh Minister to the United States, Sir Julian Pauncefote, K. C. B., G. C. M. G., lives in Cromwell Place, says Edmund Yates ‘in a letter to the New York Tribune. As the clock of the neighboring church strikes ten, a sedate messenger from the foreign office, bearing a green calico bag filled with red morocco dispatch boxes of various sizes, announces his arrival at one of the most unpretending houses in the street by a ring loud enough to dis- turb the after-breakfast meditations of Sir Charles Lopes, six doors away, if he has not already set out for the hizh court of justice. Not one of the vhou- sands who drive in summer time through Thurlow place, on the way to Hurlingham, is grobnb!y aware of the important part which the modest home of the permanent under secretary of state for foreign affairs in South Ken- sington has pln{ed in contemporary history during the last few years. It will not be until the emigsaries of Dow: ing street cease their morning visits and take the bag of boxes elsewhere that people will realize the fact that Sir Julian Pauncefote, transformed into a minister plenipotentiary, has really crossed the Atlantic to pour oil upon the troubled waters at Washing- ton. For three hours every working day there is a ceaseless exchange of communications between Arlington street, the foreign office and the permanent under secretary’s abode, and it is not until luncheon arrives that the stalwart guardiun of a hundred state secrets can find time to see any- body but official visitors. *‘The hall chairs are generally occu- pied by grave men, with green bags across their knees, who maintain a de: corous silence and view your approach with suspicion until Sir Julian’s cheery welcome convinces them that he has de- termined to make an exception in your favor. Standing up in the midst of crimson dispatch boxes, from which pro- trude oblong pink, green and white labels—signifying ‘extreme urgency,’ ‘important’ and ‘not pressing’ respect- ively—the newly appointed British min- ister does the honors of his den.” Sir Julian contrives to find time to tell you something about the traditions of his ancesters and the story of his own active life. There were Pauncefotes in the west of England when the *‘Domesday Book” was written. One Sir Grimbald Pauncefote was knighted by Sir Edward Bohun at the taking of Glouce: r castle, during the wars of the barons, and obtained the lionels, which have constituted the armorial bearings of the family ever since. Sir Grimbald married an heiress in church of the Much Cowarne,in Herefordshire, There is still to be seen an effigy of tne Pauncefote who sailed with Prince E ward of Tunis, 1270, and was taken pri oner by the Saracens, and whose wife is supposed to have obtained his release by sending her right haud as a ransom to the infidels. This incident gave rise to the legend of the Couped hand which is still implicitly believed at Much Co- warne. The Pauncefotes possessed their characteristic motto, ‘‘Pensez Forte,” six centuries at beast before Jul- ian Pauncefote was born at Munich, just sixty-one years ago. An educa- tion at Paris and Geneva gave hima practical knowledge of foreign languages and a lucky accident led him to exchange a military cadetship in Madras for forensicstudies in the Inner temple. Sir Willinm Wolesworth first introduced him to the colonial office and diplomacy. He Krncticed diligently as aconveyanser at home before he went to Hong Kong to become the attorney general and drafted a code o civil pro- ceedure., The year 1872 brought him the chief justice of the leeward islands and knighthood. After successfully opening the federal supreme court, put- ting the whole judicial administration in working order, and giving the Lee- ward islands a civil code, Sir Julian re- turned to England to succeed Lord Knutsford as the legal assistant to the under secretary of state at the colonial office. “The chief justiceship of Ceylon could not tempt him to return to the tropics. Two years later Lord Derby offered him the newly created legal as- sistant under secretaryship at the for- eiyn office. Lord Beaconsfield gave him the ribbons of the bath and the colonial order. Lord Granville selected him to succeed Lord Tentarden asthe ,;e rmanent under secretary of state for oreign affairs. His good work on the Suoz canal international commission made him a G. C. M. G. During x years Sir Julian has watched over our relations with the great powers and has gamed a reputaticn for energy, clear-headedness, calmness and tact, which fairly astonished those who put their faith in the absolute necessity of long training in the routine of the for- eign office. The pofion of British minister to the United States is one of peculiar difficulty, but the past achieve- ments of Sir Julian Pauncefote, his special aptitude for dealing satisfactori by with burning questions, 1uspire a cheering confidence that he will soon be as much liked in Connecticut avenue 28 in Cremwell place. “There are few London drawing- rooms where youthful members of the corps diplomatique are more thoroughly at home than in Cromwell place. The kim\l{ hospitality of Lady Pauncefote and her popular daughter is always keenly appreciated, especially by new arrivals, Sir Julian Pauncefote is always on the best of terms with the foreign secretaries and attaches. There was a time when he could hold his own in the foil against all comers, and in Washington he may possibly find time to return to his favorite exercise. The temporary closing of the little house in Cromwell place must neces- sarily cause widespread regret.” e Measbring By the Eye. New York Weekly: Young Lady—*'I want a pair of shoes, large and comfort- able. Two will do.” New Boy (glancing at her foot)—'*Mr. Leather, the lady wants two shoes large nlnd comfortable. Where'’s that box of sixes. —e Unsuspected disorders of the kidneys are responsible for many of the ordin- ary ailments of humanity, which, if ne%}ccud. developinto & serious and per ,P‘ malady. Experience would suggest the use of Dr. J. H. Mc- Lean’s Liver and Kidney Balm, PROSPECT HiLL AT NIDNIGHT, A Ramble Through the Piace When Grave, Yards Yawn. GROPING IN THE DARKNESS. Bleeding on a Baby's Tomb—Trac- ing the Avenue—The Soldiers' Beds and the Little Ol1d Tool House, There is no place in Omaha where there is loss to disturb the quiet of the midnight hour than in the immediate vicinity of the old cemetery on Prospect Hill. For years it was a tonely enclos- ure nearer to heaven than the town for whose weary citizens it provided rest. But of recent yeags the tide of business and progress has rolled even to its very gates. And yet, there is about it that solemn silence which so well becomes a resting place of the dead. Its presence has a subduing effect upon those who have colonized at its gates. They pass by or through it with the composure and reverence,long marks of deference to hallowed ground, and con- versation, when indulged, is carried on in an undertone as if, indeed, the occu- pants could be aroused from that placid sleep which knows no waking. Round about and through the sacered spot, peo- ple pass at every hour of the day. Some on their way home, others to business, others to visit a grave and others still to return to earth some frail deserted tenement, relinquished by a soul which has gone before. But who visits these silent precincts in the durkness of night? The resur- rectionist? No, because in the history of the yard there has been but one grave robbery. That was eight years ago. The remains were found dissected in Dr. Frizoru’s institute which was then in_ Hellman’s building. The tramp? No, because if he should be found inside at night by the sexton, he would tramp no more. The mourning friend? No, because even to him or her, the gates are closed and the grief- stricken soul may not find solace upon the lonely mound within. Who then? Gentle reader, the newspaper man, the representative of THE BeE. He goes there to tell how the mewmoral place looks in the awful darkness and silence of the night. e approaches the ceme- tery from the southeast at the hour of ~ 10. He passes the Lowe burial ground, the monument in which with the surroanding trees is visible in the distance more to the imagination than the vision. It is a lonely spot. The wind is from the north. 'l est trees_moan as if suffer blast. The sky is hung with a pall, studded with immortelles becoming the funereal place. To the right, the hill drops gradually, dotted with cottages from wh shoot rays of light, which, however, are soon lost in the darkness. There are lights of all sizes and many colors adown the slope, on the hills to the ‘south aund far up the table- land, until the vision strikes an immense sombre bank beyond which it may not penetrate. From the heart of the city, a brilliant opalescent glow seems to ascend to the sky, like the celestial radiance which is pictured as signalizing the entry of a redeemed soul into heaven. Here and there an individual light with the beautiful bril- liancy of the evening star appears as if nature, on this particular occasion, has been induced to permitan unusual num- ber of her stellar heroines to-illumine the heavens. But these lights rveach not the cemetery. Neither do the noise and revels of the city so: far —away. The enclosure looms up {faintly, almost dubiously, and the journalistic heart shudders at the isolation which marks the spot. It shuddersstill more at the iden of entering. But it is not the time to hesitate. The sidewalk is abandoned, and, no: essly, on the hard road the writer picks his steps. He looks avound but can see nobody. He can hear nobody. He is alone with the night. He tip-toes from the road across the sidu\ml\i on Yates street, the gouthern boundary of the cemetery, reaches the fence, a low, wooden one of four boards, and clambers over it and into the graveyard. The turf is bard though compara- tively level. The news man’s feet glide slowly over rather than step upon it to avoid the noise of fuulful\s and stumbling over soine mound or curb. He proceeds cautiously, the while using a heavy stick after the manner ofa blind man. Satisfactory progress is made for about twenty-five feet, when, sud- denly, the writer’s Yegs and stick strike a curb and the owner falls forward upon a grave, his hat sti ng a monument in its descent and losing itself in the gloom. The fall makes a noise which seems loud enough to attract the atten- tion of the sexton. But no, that func- tionary, Pruitt, with his newly-married wife, reposes in their home without the gate. But may henot be in the yard on business? 'I'ne scribe trembles at the thought of discovering this to be a fact. Sextons’ ears are proverbially acute, Should suspicion be aroused, investiga- tion would be made, flight in the dark- ness would be hopeless, and the result would be perhaps death. Groping on the chilly blades, the hat is found. The traveler rises and again continues his journey. Again he falls, this time cutting his fore- head upon an infant’s grave stone. He wipes the blood away,and in doing so is remided of the patient mother by the cradle of the sick little darling, whom he saw at a window on his ascent to the cemetery. How long would it be before that little one slumbeired beneath the daisies like that whose memorial mar- ble was now stained with the wilter’s blood. . The falls lead the scribe to believe that he has lost the reckoning he had made two days before, and that he will be unable to regain it. The prospect, therefore, of wandering aimlessly about is not consoling, Groping along the curb, however, until the cold penetrates to and benumbs his gloved hands, he at length reaches a broad avenue, lined almost continually with curbs of var) ing heights. These mark, as he knows, the lots of some of the best families in the city. In one of these he gropes his way to the monument which is square and of stone and on the facing on one side he traces in« bas relief the npame of Drexel,a member of which family it is said was one of the first per- sons buried on this hill. ' He returns to the avenue gropes along; his stick ena- bling him to proceed at a certain dis- tance from the curb, Progress is necessarily slow, and if possible, as the newspaper man reaches the older part of the cemetery, the gloom deepnes and becames much more appalling under the trees. The limbs ol these are bare but they bend in the breeze and crack in the sudden gusts. The( seem almost tow hat eut the faint starlight. There is a sound of footsteps. They seem on frozen ground,and seem also to aproach. hey - later become distinetly audible ~as their owner procecds hurriedly along the walk on the east side of the cometery. The men little. know that their foot-falls are heard by mortal ears, that the subdued tone in which they converse penotrates, in the stillness of thie night, to the re- cesses of this home for the dead. They leave the walk and as they descend the hill, the colisoum-like shave of the ra- vine again drives the sound of their 0s back to the scribe. here seems to be no other person within the enclosure. In fact he could not, if he were there, be distinguished three feet away. White marble monu- ments are white only on the closest i spection. Where there is a possibility of outline striking tho eye, there is nothing sufficiently spectral in appear- ance to suggest the vulgar idea of a ghost. And yet, the scribe cannot re- strain his imagination from peopling the pluce with grim-visaged personages which seem to lack only the element of light to discover and ~destroy the in- truder. At length the main avenue is reached after losing the path several times and running ngainst several bare and sov- eral palm trees. This suggests a host of memories and the writer cowers be- hind a large pino tree to rest and keep, il possible, out of the reach of other prowlers. Up and down this_avenue how often has not Old George Medlock run and walked! How many comfor less mortals followed, up this avenue, to the grave of the one in whom their thoughts were centered. Up this ave- nue were borne General Strickland, Governor Cuming, Major Thornburg, P. W. Hitcheogk, George Mills, Colonel Buaumer, Old William Turtle, twice a member of the legislature and for years the presidentof the bricklayers’ union; Colonel Smythe, Colonel Watson B. Smith, Bzta Millard, John McCormick, S. 8. Caldwell, and others long identi- fled with the history of the city. Up this avenue marched bands of music, companies of regu- lars and *militia, prayerful chaplains, eloquent orators and musical glee clubg to join in the services of memorial day.” Some of these memo- rialists are now sleeping in these sur- rounding hillocks, others will soon fol- low them, while others still may not find rest except in the newer home be- yond. The silence is intense. One feels as if his breathing would arouse the sex ton, while a footfall, carelessly made seems to invite the neighborhood. You breath hastily, step as if shod with slippers of down, but so slowly that every step gseems to reguire a minute. You are simply avoiding the living. Here, at length is the center of the cemetery, the circle in which Chase, Webster, Bean, Cowin, Strickland, Manderson, Bartlett, Poppleton and others have spoken. Were they here now, they would not dare even to whisper. It may well be doubted if the biggest braggart on the streets of Omaha could he subsidized to raise his voice above a whisper,nay more,whether he could be hived even to enter the place. And yet, there is not half so much to be feared here as theve is on any of the lamp-lighted thoroughfaves of the city. But one cannot s: v himself of that fact. He cannot drive from his mind the idea that he needs to watch himself. Every sound even of the slightest order strikes his ear and suggest a foot step. The sighing br suggests the pitiful moan of some wicked outeast, the crack of a limb, the ineffectual blow of a hammer on a worthless cartridge in a re- volver which the watchman has aimed at you, What if those graves should open, those vaults fling back their doors and the dead n))peur and smite vou for your invasion of their premises! You know they cannot harm you, how- ever, yet you move cautiously along the main drive, unable to expel from your mind the fact that they may be more vrivileged at times than they are at others. Again the searcher loses his way and stumbles over a series of small stones placed close together. Ah, this is a good Iplucc to fall, because it is upon the bed of u soldier. Heve lie heroes who never wore shoulder straps, whose nameésgo not down to history and whose name, maybe, has received only the at- tention which the inscription on the headstone attracts from the passer-by. These heroes, the writer knows, lie in the western part of the cemetery, and are neav the fence. He feels more em- boldened, steps out a little more confi- dently and runs right against the wall of a small house which he had never noted before. What if there should be a within. If there is, escape is impossible. The hair almost stands erect and perspiration exudes from his pores. He expects a lantern to flash from the door, and a revolver to be pointed at his head. A minute pusse: It seems an hour. Bub nobody app The house is not occupied. While there’s life there’s hope, and he makes haste to the fence. Five minutes hring him to the rough wooden palings. He walks along beside these until he reaches the northwest corner, because there is some light streaming from cot- tage windows further south. He climbs the fence, and just at that instant the high school clock strikes the hour of midnight. It requires two hours to grope through the cemetery, and those haurs will always be like centuries! One would not live them over again for a fortune. There is no cordial farewell extended by silent dwell- e In fauct, their silence ems to avgue that they feel disposed to resent the unbidden visit. An affec tionate leave, however, was taken by the newspuper man with the kindliest of appreciation and most humane of con- sideration for departed beings in whose precinets he has been wandering. Tal ing his card from his case he shoots it back into the¢emetery. It sings for an instant after it leuves his handgthen is wafted by tho breeze back as a souvenir to Mr. Pruitt of the call. The scribe jumps to the road, Thirty-thira street. The noise is al- most ~ like a shot. It seems to dis- turb nobody. 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