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body till tendon and muscle left the bone. To add to it just a touch of hum- there were four rollers across the table covered with big knobs, over which the body of the victim was stretched. It must have added greatly to the pleasure of the spec- to chase i away. It always comes back again like Athaliah's dream. 'Perhaps it is because my- soul, o-erwhelmed at the present, moment by dark fancies and heart-rending pictures, finds subjects for sadness everywhere, as a diseased stom- 'ortiire -the Ages Senator Dumont Smith, Visiting Europe, Makes Study of the Penal Devices Used by Feudal Lords Couldn't See the Octopus Billy Morgan Tries to See Rothschild, but Was Turned Down by the Porter, and Now He Is Sore oners carved out of the stone a little altar' and seat filled with spikes, clamped rigidly onto the sharp points and a fire, smoldering slowly, roasted them.

This was very popular because it took a long time to cook a strong man dead. In this very chair tender women, stripped naked, have slowly died under such torture that fiends straight from the pit would have relented. One woman was so roasted because she concealed the hiding place of her fugitive husband. Another ingenious device-was the cradle made of iron and filled with short spikes. The victim, stripped, was thrown into this, tied hand and foot and rocked- until the spikes had reduced his body to a mass of bloody pulp.

Often it did not kill, but the victim was not of much account afterwards so far as furnishing amusement was concerned, and if he survived he wa3 set on a sharp stick and slowly killed as his weignt forced his body onto it, or else a horse hitched to each of his limbs pulled him into quarters. This usually finished him. Then there is the rack! Who has not heard of it, but who really believes it? Well, I do. I saw it A little shaky, it had evidently bebn used a great deal. j-Such a simple contrivance, just a low ta ble with places at on end to fasten the feet" to, at the other a windlass over which the ropes tied around the wrists were slowly wound up, stretching the Kansas Story of Ljiiedlii By Judge Wellhouse tators, those knobs, and on this particular maehine constant use had -worn the knobs nearly smooth.

It rmist have taken mahy a poor human body to have worn and polished those devilish things. In fact, the ancient records of Nuremberg show that few days passed without a treat for the executioners and his assistants. They were averse to noise, though, and they had an ingenious way of stopping it Did you ever hear of the Spanish pear. It is there. 'An iron pear tKat, placed In the mouth was opened by a screw til it filled the whole mouth and effectually gagged the victim.

There were countless other devices. A special forceps for seizing the tongue and tearing it out. A special knife for gouging the eyes out. Special pincers for pulling off pieces of flesh. These were usually heated first.

Little screws for mashing the thumbs. Iron bands with screws for compressing the forehead till the eyes dropped out. The list is a long one. Have I told enough? Will you ever talk about the. good old times I shall not.

Thank the Lord I was born when the "good old times" were forever ended. he talked the louder and more entlfusias-tic grew the cheers of the crowd, and it was not many minutes until I lost all sympathy for him, and saw that he could take care of himself. Lincoln would quote Douglas, and then tear his opponent's utterances to pieces with his matchless logic and clear, lucid reasoning. Every time that he made a good point and -the crowd cheered mad, Douglas would drum nervously on the crown of his high hat with his finger tips. You could see that Lincoln's speech was making a big impression on the little man sitting there, while the crowd kept on cheering Lincoln.

Oh, but it was grand! "One year later I was a witness in a case in which Lincoln was an atorney for one of the parties and he met all of the witnesses one night in the American hotel to see what they knew about the case. The intuition of the man was marvelous. Before a man could state the story of the circumstances surrounding the case. Lincoln would have a clear understanding of the whole matter. I think that was the secret of the man's success all through his life.

He could see through person's mind in an instant. There was a little question of the title, to my land, and I consulted him about it. He settled the whole affair in half a minute, "and when I told the man from whom I bought the land what Lincoln said, he replied: "Well, if he said that, it's all O. IC "The last time I saw him was in the fall of 1859, In the government lane. He was driving from Atchison to Leavenworth with Judge Lelahay to deliver a speech here, and met them.

Lincoln's memory for faces was wonderful and as rod up to me cried out, 'Well, what are you doing here? I thought that you were still in Illinois. Why did you leave there? That was the last time that I ever saw him." A. W. Smith, of McPherson, told of how the troops in a town near Washington received the news of Lincoln's death. "We were at the'1 depot when a train'came in, and thefenglheerWd with him dispatches telling of the president's death.

For a moment w-e stood transfixed, not a word was 'said, silence setled down like a pall over the group of men on the platform. Then' we broke up Into little knobs of men, talking to- gether in awed whispers. I believe if a man in the crowd had expressed sympathy with 'Booth, he would have been killed right there." De Maister with the cries of these unfortunates and form a horrible dissonance. CHAPTER XXX. CHARITY.

He who would pass a hasty judgment on a city, after the preceding chapter, would be wrong. I have spoken of the poor that one finds there, of their pitiable cries, and of the indifference of cer tain persons as to what concerns them. lonni My Room I ach changes into poison the "most health ful ailments. Whatever it may be, this is my dream: When I am at one of the fes- tivals, in the midst of this crowd 'of men with agreeable and winning manners, who dance and sing who weep at tragedies who express only joy, frankness and cordiality I say to myself: If into this polished assembly there entered suddenly a white bear, a philosopher, a tiger or some other animal of that kind and if, mounting the orchestra, he should cry in a furious tone: "Unfortunate human beings! listen to the truth. You are oppressed, tyrannized, you are wretched; you are wearied.

Get out of this "You, musicians, begin by breaking your instruments over each other's heads. Let each one arm himself with a dagger. Thing no more hereafter of holidays and rejoicings. Go into the boxes kill everybodylet the women also imbrue their timid hands ia blood. "Come out; you are free.VDrag yotfr king from his throne and your God from his sanctuary." Ah, well! How many of these charming men would do what the tiger said.

How many of them perhaps, thought of it before he entered who knows? Did they not dance in Paris five ago? JoaniiettI, close the doors and the windows. I do not wish to see the light any longer; let no one enter my room; put my sword within reach. Go out yourself and do not come back again. CHAPTION XXXIII. CONSOLATION.

No no stay, Joannetti stay, poor, boy. And you also, Rosine you, who divine my troubles and sweeten them by your caresses. Come, I shall form a and give you a resting place. CHAPTER XXXIV. CORRESPONDENCE.

The fall of my post-chaise has rendered the reader the service of shortening my journey by fully a dozen chapters; because, in rising again, I found myself opposite and quite near to my bureau and I no longer had an opportunity to make reflections on a number of engravings and pictures which I have not yet looked at and which would have prolonged my dissertations on painting. Leaving on the night then, the portrait of Raphael, of the Chevalier d'Assas, and of the Shepherdess of the Alps, and going along on the left towards the window, discovers my bureau. It Is the first and most noticeable object which -the traveler sees, folowing the route which I have just Indicated. It is surmounted by some shelves serving as a bookcase, the whole is crowned by a bust which terminates the pyramid, and this object contributes most to. the embellishment of the scene.

Opening the first drawer at the right, one finds an inkstand, paper of every kind, pens ready mended, and sealing-wax. Everything which would give most indolent person a desire to write. I am sure, my dear Jennie, that if you chanced to open this drawer, you would reply to the letter that I wrote you last year. In the opposite drawer lies a confused heap of materials for the sad history of the prisoner of Pignerol, which you will read soon, dear friends. Between tnese two drawers is a recess where I throw letters as soon as I receive them.

One will find there' all that I have received for ten years. The oldest are arranged according to their dates in several the recent ones are jell-mell. There are several which data from my early boyhood. What a pleasure to see again in letters the interesting of our youth to be transported anew Into the happy timeg which we shall see no more! how full is my heart! How sadly it enjoys when my eyes run through the lines iced by one who lives no longer. tiere is nis nanu-wriung.

it was nis nart which guided his hand To me he wrote that remains to this letter and It is all me of him. Wheti I reach my hand into this place, I am seldom out of the spot before the end of the day. It is thus that the traveler goes rapidly over some provinces of Italy, making hastily superficial observations, in order to be established at Home during entire months. This is the richest vein of the mine which I explore. What a change in my ideas and sentiments! What a difference In my friends when I examine them then and now.

I have see them mortally agitated for projects which no longer move thm. We regarded the adventure as a great misfortune; but the end of the letter is lacking and the adventure fs completely forgotten, i cannot recall what was the matter. A thousand prejumreg asaued anA mttn wrrA intuv known to us; but then how warm our intercourse- was how intimate oxir friendship how limitless our confidence. There was hliea in our ignerance. And now all is changed.

We have ben obliged to read, like others, in th human heart: and truth, failing like a'borab in the midst of in, has destroyed forever the enchanted palace illusion. ous man. The rsost beautiful public garden have" seen is here, the Faint garden, fine military band tivca eon-certs afternoon and evening. Frankfort is not only well off but did enough to ta-joy the fact any everywhere th city ii made to look handsome aa comfortablV as possible. The best, an4 cheap ft eating In Europe ia in Frankfort, and that fact has made a deep and! last in impression on my heart.

x-'' It is doubtlesa repeating what has beet said before but I cannot beip wonder at the industry of the German farnjeis. Of curse, they were raised, right on th place and their fathers and forefather were farmers. They probably do know anything else and never expect to sell out and move to town. In thia tertil Jlhlna country where there teems to be a model climate they irrigate the land as If it wer arid and they fertilize and drain and cultivate with the ho and rake. I nevrr believed thv story but It la true.

The wealth of a German farmer can be gauged by th size of the manur pile In bis front yard. Xo doubt when a German farmer braga on what ha has done be does not rt fer to the purchase of a quarter-cUon of pasture in the next townnhlp, b4t point Mth pride to the large and luxuriant heap of fertilizing substance which he can call Ma own. Inttead farming more 1 tries to get more out of what has than he did and hia attempt ia a aucceas. lt does not have a herd of cattle, tmt ha on of a half-doien cow which lh other end of tho bouse, which an carried, fed aid looked after aa carefully at members of the f.imily, perhapa mare o. Th cattle are good looking, smooth and polished, evidently well bred and certainly well taken care of.

They are much better in appearance than the avemce of catlh but tbe care bekiowrd upon thera easily accounts for th fnci. Frankfort la Rg! -aphlcally in Hfje tho old fate from which George- III. hired soidtors to light the Americana. In thi good old times a little o'ver a hundred years ago a Gtrinan yiiaeo who hard up for cah would rent out b' sol Uem to fiaht and "shot at. the pay went to th prime, nH to the olui-i.

It hard to believe thata uch thingn" c-curroil only a comparatively abort iima kko. and yet they did. The, llt fcfl.ir.s AU not Amtrlean tactic and were not much of a ucea in our revolution, but they rro altfaya good tighl-era in German war ard the little ftat was a powerful one. rtankfart wna a "free city" and not under the active rule of the Hessian prince. For 'nr It kept it independence of any local prince, but In 1m, waa annextd to rpj-ala.

The time fr be Independent fit lea vt Kj rope was ended. nothachlld and Goeth Finnk-fort is noted for the Frankfurter au-rngee. I wu eased to ilnd that tM wan no legend In Bologna Italy, I was surprised to fnd no bolerna, but Irftnk-fart stood the teat. T1r I to or houe where It 1 aald Iither prvehet a wrmoii while on Ydn wny to Worm. It is txikieco hop now, In every German flty there ia an old bri.ipe with Utatorj.

vTbe old brMae 'at frank fort across the Main river, whi'h Is a good viver and lined with boat tn mentioned In a document Z21 It is constructed of rd aandtoti an looks like It would racily stand year more. A I.TIdpe like that in really worth more ihnn an art gallery. The Jegnd connected with the brMge i not tt. It aeema'that the architect who drew tha pianH and auptn iaett th construction bad made a tniaiako In hi calculation nn came to realize that the tsptin vmuM not bold weight and be muld sre the ruin the brMpre and bin own reputation rn'aMy at land. Of course he In a.

terrible atale of min and when be wa at bin wot the devli dropped In to )m" him. Th d' vll offered to hew hlrtj how defct could be remedied, the bridge built anl hl reputation fved. If be would fc'trn contract thnt the- flrt who crfu tha bridge xbmild l-ecom the devil probity. The pxr architect at first nobly rfud, a men do when tempted, and tlfn fell a mn toceaalonalty. Jit the wntraet, nhe HntM mtt th correction In th plan and the great br1cg was pwcf-fhtolly Tlien lb nrchitet-t had remorae (they always 6 if rwr'l, ad nearly wrnt i-'l wtl it thir.klnst of what be bsd dene.

ih d-ty the rl'lre wa formally nnih-el and turned ov pefore the mayor onl council could gt into their crriee after the dedication speeche), a rttr brf-V pM-ne from a cbjeken an. I ran da ff. road, aero- the tret nd w-nt to the devil. Of cooree the devil kbked, b'it the architect rtood on the letur contra't and they all lived liafplfr V-tt fterwrd. legend If ndoi.bt:iy -or tsn.tb mldl ef tbe bfJdg i ni iron crona wttb a gur cf Cl.tf at.d on the top of the er ia Men a u'r.

and crucifix, that they might perform their religious duties. The whole hill Is mined wiiu dungeons like these, where hundreds of unfortunates spent weary years or died in agony. This was a typical middle age prison; but in old Nuremberg, you find the mechanism of penology of that day still preserved, the very instruments 'that have tortured hundreds to death. The old five-cornered tower that formed one of the defenses of that ancient fortress. All the means and Instruments of justice are there, carefully preserved, just as they were used.

Them ultltude and ingenuity of them is simply amazir.g. To begin with the lighter forms, there is a pleasant little iron thing shaped like a Mute to punish musicians who played badly. At one end a collar clasped his neck, neat little thumb-screws pinched his fingers in the very attitude of playing; altogether a very humorous, plawful design for the poor devil who struck a false note. A baker who sold loaves of short weight was cramped into a email wooden cage and ducked as many times as he had sold loaves. Sometimes he survived, not often.

For scolding wives huge masks were fastened on and worn night and daytill justice or the husband was satisfied. Drunkards iiad a huge barrel set on their shoulders with an opening just big enough to slasp their neck, and it displayed in lively colors the acts of dissipation for which they were punished. All these were mild. We came next to the real thing. Near the top of the tower is the "Maiden," an iron cylinder shaped like a fully dressed German fraulein, nence its name.

It has two doors that open to receive the When shut, spikes on their interior face, penetrate his eyes and sides and so impaled he slowly dies. Life extinct, the body is dropped through a trap door, into a sort of sausage grinder that makes mince meat of it and the macerated remains then dropped into the river. The "Maiden" has a wide reputation, and it was justly regarded as one of the finest examples of mediaeval penology. To add spice to its operations, culprits destined to its embrace, were chained in an iron cage in the same room where for several days they could watch its operation, and by hearing the death agonies of others slowly die away within this monster, gain a lively apprehension of his fate. On the next floor were the more refined, delicate and exquisite instruments of justice.

Those which did not inflict death, or as least very slowly, and enabled the upright judges to enjoy to the fullest extent the agonies of their victims, agonies highly pleasing to the aesthetic mind cf the middle ages. They wasted no time on literature, art, science, charity, or the things that interest us; but the endless variety of instruments of torture show two things. First that hey were profoundly inerested in hurting their fellow creatures, subjecting them to slow agony, and second sated with the ordinary methods, they were continually devising new and more playful devices. Some were set in an iron chair, the back real Metcalf 4 him to come to his house during the afternoon, where he would meet a gentleman who w'ould act as his second. When Rhett visited Hays's house that afternoon ho was introduced to Colonel C.

McCrea Selph, who was familiar with tho code duello. He agreed to act as Rhctt's second and advised him, as ne had never fired a dueling pistol half a dozen times in his life, to choose double-barreled shotguns loaded with a single tight-fitting ball. This would give Cooley, who was a dead shot with a pistol or a rifle, no advantage. So it was arranged. Cooley's challenge was accepted.

Tho weapons such as described were chosen and the fight to take, place across the line in Mississippi at 2 o'clock tho next afternoon. The day was a gloomy day, and all nature seemed sorrowing over the tragic event that was to take place. Everything was done with the strictest regard for an observance of the code punctilios. Principles and seconds were all men of high standing, and demonstrating that they knew -how to conduct an affair of honor. Both principals were on the ground promptly at tho hour.

The spot chosen was a piece of level ground clear of underbrush about 300 yards from the railroad. Both principals were dressed in black, with coats of the latest Prince Albert pattern, buttoned up close to the throat, so as to show not a particle of White. A gunsmith was on hand with two fine double-barreled shotguns of like size, length, weight, make and trigger pull. The right-hand barrel of each was loaded in the presence of the two seconds, with four drahms of fine powder, with a heavy wad on top of the powder at last the big bullet, patched with a piece of fine kid slightly greased, was rammed home. The weapons were capped and each on the half-cock, (was handed to the seconds.

Soeph won the word on the toss of a coin. The men were stationed thirty yards apart. The cocked guns were given thera, which they held at a "present arms." 'Gentlemen," raid Selph, standing midway between them, and fifteen paces to the left, I will give you the word thus-'Are you ready? Fire, one, two, three, step. Four seconds will elapse between each two words after fire. Your shots must be delivered betwen the words "fire and step." Do you both Each man nodded.

"Are you ready?" called out Colonel Selph, watch in hand. "Fire, one, two lie got no. further. Simultaneously with the won! "two," both gun-? Sashed and roared. In a second fell to the ground heavily.

His Due! second and sursreon Senator Fred Dumont Smith of Kinsley is In Europe, with the Kansas party. He is looking around carefully and noling some very interesting things. Being a lawyer he ia naturally looking for things relating to his profession and the evolu tion of law. His last article was written from, the north of Italy and is a study of mediaeval penology. It follows: I have lately been completing my education in mediaeval justice, a subject in which naturally I was much interested.

Like everyone els, I had' read of torture chambers and dungeons, racks and thumbscrews, but they did not seem very real. I had never seen a dungeon or a rack and screw. I did not doubt their existence; it was never brought home to me that man and woman had actually suffered from them. Seeing is believing. I have seen them, seen the authentic records and I am daily thanking God that I live now and not then.

My education began at Loehes on the river Vienne, down In southwestern Prance. Loehes was the principal and favorite residence of that old reprobate, Louis King of France. It was one of the strongest of the mediaeval fortresses. Fulk Nerra, the first Count of Anjou, started it on a lofty rock that the loveliest rivers with one of the richest valleys in the world. Fulk was a robber, murderer, adulterer, thief and all-round scoundrel.

In fact a twelfth century nobleman. He built, a3 they mostly did in those days for war, for defense. Later owners extended the fortifications and as the need of defense became less (Strenuous, added apartments that might be considered habitable even In this day ii. warm weather. There is hardly a cottage in Kinsley that is not more comfortable than the home of kings in that day.

The windows were arrow slits, narrow on the outside and widening inwardly. The walls were fifteen feet thick; the floors and hallways stone; cold, forbidding little light and less air. The tower of old Fulk Norra Louis turned into a prison. With its enormous height, vast proportions and thick walls, it seems as one writer has wrell expressed It, rather like soroe slow-gTowth of nature than the work of human hands. From its foundation in the living rock you descend to the dungeons hewn from the rock itself.

In one of them Bishop "Balue, Louis's confidant, who betrayed hia secrets to Charles the Bold, was suspended in a wooden cage-for twelve years. The cage was so small that Balue could neither stand up or lie down. When Louis was at home In Loehes he used to go down and amuse himself by cursing Balue and promising him other torments in the near future. Balue survived this horrible punishment for twelve years and at Louis's death was released and went to Rome. Sforza, Duke bS Milan, one of the most powerful princes of his time, was shut up in one of these dungeons for eight years, and died of joy when he was released.

Two bishops were confined in a room Where once a day at a certain hour a single ray of sunlight penetrated the room ond struck the wall, and there the pris AmericaV La By H. D. In the Aucrust number of Munsey's Magazine there is an article on "Famous Deeds in t-- United States," in which the writer states that the duel between Senator Broderiek of California and ex-Chief Justice Terry of the supreme court of that ttate, was the last famous duel fought in this country. This is a mistake. The Broderick-Terry duel took place in 1S03.

During the dark days of reconstruction In the south, I don't remember the date, a duel was fought by Judge. William E. Cooley of the United States district court of New Orleans and It. Barnwell Rhett, editor of the New Orleans Ficayune. Judge Cooley was a native Louisianan, and Mr.

Rhett belonged to the famous fighting Rhett family of South Carolina. Judge Cooley had served in the Confederate army during the war, but what turned him to be Republican and made him oppose his old comrades, I do not know. That he was the most uncompromising partisan there is no doubt. His rigid enforcement of 4hQ United States statutes, brought down upon his head the maledictions of all who were loyal to the south; especially was this true with reference to the laws relating to reconstruction anit the acts of the Republican legislature in the same direction. Among those acts was the civil rights bill which the government tried to enforce until it was killed by Justice Bradley of the United States supreme court.

Judge Cooley never lost an opportunity to declare the civil rights bill valid. One day a number of negroes went into Dumantiel's cafe in New Orleans! one of the most fashionable in the city and demanded that they bo served. They were politely informed that colored persons were not entertained in that establish xnent. In an hour afterwards the proprietor was arrested. lie was taken before Judy Cooley, tried and fined $1,000 and costs.

The excitement in the city over the circumstance was very great, and comments of the most unfavorable character were freely made on the decision. The next morning the leading editorial in the Picayune, was devoted to the subject. It was a masterpiece of invective and scored Judge Cooley unmercifully. The article stung Cooley beyond forbearance, and he determined to call the paper's responsible editor out. The article is said to have bn written by Judge Alexander Walker, a distinguished journalist and a native of Alexandria, but J.

Barnwell Rhett Vas the responsible editor. Cooley was ttterly fearless and had already figured in leveral duels, while Rhett was not a duelist. He belonged to the famous South Carolina family, and whoever saw a Rhett that would not fight? Cooley sent "the challenge. The editor received it and did not know exactly what to do, as he was a vestryman. Cooley ir.

an ir.terview which was published in the Republican of New. Orleans, had cast reflections on "Rhctt's character, and this probably b.vl more to do with the hitter's action than anything else. As the editor was a comparative stranger in the, city, he was referred to General Harry T. Hays, who had been a valiant soldier in the Confederate army for instructions in so delicate a matter. "I have always opposed, dueling." -said Hays, "when there was any other honorable course of procedure; but I don't see you can do but accept the challenge.

You have to fight here sooner or later, and you might as well fight Cooley and have it over." In view of the fact Rhett had no second, Hays invited i Hon. "Billy" Morgan was at Frankfort, Germany, the last time he" was heard from. He tells about the defense of the Rothschilds when the tvansas Populists were assailing that eminent family. For old acquaintance sake be thought be would call at th Rothschild, mansion and pay his respects, but the unfeeling porter would not admit him without a tip of twelve and a half cents. That made the Kansas roan sore and he turned bacX on the octups forever.

The r.ext tried the home of the great poet Goethe and was admitted. The details of his experience follows: W. Y. Morgan, writing to his paper, the Hutchinson News, has the following: This is one of the old and wealthy cities of Germany with 300,000 people, and a fina country round about, It la the place the Rothschilds came from. A few years ago when the Populists were pretty much the whole thing in Kansas and to against them was to bo in the pay of the Rothschilds and the Great Red Dragon, I was on the Rothschilds side, and never having received any compensation I thought I would call and see what rai the matter.

It was no trouble to rind the Rothschild's house, for it is described in every guidebook and marked with an inscription at the front. The morning after we reached the city we went to form oily make a call ar.d found the place an old and unpretentious building. 1 rang the bell an dasked the little girl wha carae to the door if Mr. Rothschilds, was at home. She ran away and I went in and part way up the stairs, when a man appeared and said "fifty pfennig.

I told him that I was an old friend and merely wished to pay my re-peets pay nothing else, not even fifty pfennig. 1 talked English an4 he talked Germany, but I had no difficulty In understanding that it would cos't tue 12Vi cents American money to get to go through the house. This I declined to do and unless the gentleman wanted tho fifty, pfennig tells Mr, Rothschilds I don't suppose he will ever know I came. In fact 1 was afterward told that none of the present members of the Rothschilds family live in Frankfort, but have their homes in Vienna and London, where they dictate the finanical policy of the world. Only a little over a hundred years ago the law of Frankfort was that every night at sundown and on Sundays and feast days nil Jews must stay in their own part of town and -ne gates enclosing their section Vre locked until the following day.

As an fllustration of how rapidly the wheel of fortune turns was told that now although comprising but one-tenth of the population the Jews handle three-fourths of the business, own over one-half the real estate, and hold most of the high and responsible positions in Frankfort, where their great grandfathers had no more show than a rabbit. Goethe, the great German joet, was born in Frankfort and we visits the house of his birth and boyhood. His falh er was a lawyer but the poet could not help that. Young Gottho was a bright lad and took to writing potjtry-as readiiy as he did to going with the fdrlg and he kept at both, occupation all his life', A pretty German prince took under id patronage and Goethe never had to work for a living, so he kept on writing poetry ami having a good time until he died at the see of S3 years. The Germans love Goethe like the Americans do LwigfHow, for hey as a poet who loved his voantry, his countrymen and his countrywomen, and his works are full of sweet and tic sentiment as well as being beautiful in construction.

Goethe and his friend Schiller and th- literary crowd which followed their lead, made the German language classical and correct, and occupy the same place in GerrtSm literature that Shakespeare does in English. The "Goethe -louse-' hre is under charge of a historical society and has been put in the same yhape that it was when Goethe a boy. It Is an interesting place fr it ia rsot only full of memorSs of the poet, but of the time in which he lived. The most interesting public buiMires I have seen In Oenriany are here, the "Jl a name applied to a group of twelve old an picture.qsJe hou.es. In one of thee the electors of the German -rnpfre (certain hereditary princes) would assemble- t' elect an emperor whenever there wan a After the eKction they wr.idd have a banquet and the in the public square would nm with red ami white wire while the people cheered and ffrank the health of th new mnn.

Thin was calculated to make the emperer very popular st lat that night, byt 1 wonder If the peexpie were ro when the headache rsrr.e the next Thee building wel preferred. In fact, 'Frankfort is a eity which tske goofi. eare of itself and i prosper- a Marshall curty fam'tr. Kh ry oo-AirUiy. II-r Cei.ajt that ti-5f tu.vii V'tftlffcy, bve a wef't tk wth i4tKVir i3 ti et r.t it- 'h tfit "i rh sail ct th- o.

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nej 1. -T i txtJied, and i tbe Judge Wellhouse, the "apple king" of Leavenworth County, was in a crowd of old soldiers at Tongandxie recently and told the following interesting "Abe" Lincoln story: "I moved from Ohio to Christian county, Illinois, in 1853," he said, "and settled twenty-five" miles southwest of Springfield. In the fall of the same year I had occasion to go to that town to make a payment on some land and went on horseback. I registered at the American hotel, and the clerk sent my horse to the American livery stable. "When I had attended to my business I started after my horse and thinking that the Darn was run in connection with the hotel, I went to the rear of the building, looking for the place.

I walked up the alley, but couldn't locate the barn, and seeing three men talking at the corner, I asked them how to get to the stable. Two of the strangers ignored me, but the third, a tall, lanKy, homely man, but nevertheless with a fine kindly face, walked to the corner with me, giving me explicit directions as to how I could reach the place for which I was looking. "In the next year, 18S4, the Kansas-Ne-braska -'l came up, and Douglas talked In Springfield against it, arousing much criticism. That fall there was state fair at Springfield, and a number of us went down to it, camipng near town. Douglas was again In town, and it was announced that on the third day 'Old Abe or 'Honest Old as some called him, would reply to him.

It was a joke all over the grounds, and I supposed that 'Abe' was some eccentric town character. "I decided that I would like to hear the fun, so I. went over to the state house on tho day of the speeches, and got a seat. In a few moments a little man wearing a big plug hat came in, 'jollying' with everyone about him, and evidently known to them all. "That was Douglas.

Then came my friend of the American stable, just as gaunt and homely as ever, 'and then I knew the'man who had been so" kind to me was Abraham Lincoln. I was filled with sympathy toward him, for I had heard so much fun poked at him and he had beben so kind to me. I feard for the man. I. felt sure that he would be no match for so eloquent a man as Douglas.

"Douglas talked first, and it was a good talk that he gave. I felt more afraid than ever for 'Old Then Lincoln arose, and commenced his speech. The longer A Journey I By Xavier (Translated from the French for the Eagle by Katharyn Hutchinson.) CHAPTER XXIX. MISFORTUNE. "Before going further I wish to destroy a suspicion which may have crossed the mind of my readers.

I would not, for the world, have any one suspect that I undertook this journey, solely because I did not know how to spend my time or because I was, in any way, constrained by circumstances. I assure you and I swear it by all that is dear to me, that I. planned to undertake it a long time before the event which has cost me my liberty for forty-two days. This forced retreat' served only as an occasion for putting myself en route sooner. I know this gratuitous protestation will appear suspicious to certain people; but I know also that they Will not read this book.

They have enough to do with themselves and their friends. They have many other affairs too engrossing. Honest people will believe one. I acknowledge, however, that I would have preferred occupying myself with lhi3 journey at another time that I would have chosen to take it in Lent rather than during the carnival. Nevertheless, philosophical reflections which have come to me from heaven, have aided me very much in supporting the privations of the pleasures which Turin presents in great numbers during this period of noise and eeitement.

It is very certain, said I to myself, that tho walls of my room ar not so tnasr.irieently decorated as those of a ball room; the silence of my cabin is far less agreeable than the sounds of music and the dance. Eut among- the brilliant personages whom one meets at these fetes, there are certainly some more U.k at heart than And whv -should! consider those who are in a more sropab! when tho world teems with Deorle mere unfor tunate than Instead of transporting wts-h" this page or ray to nauns 10 everybody. I wish to I wish, to te'I everybody that In this city where everything opulence, a crowd of wretched ones fleep, during the coldest rush's cf winter, without shelter their heads resting on a stone or or. the sill of a palace. Here it ia a-group of children embracing each -other so as not to die of tie.

cold. Ther" it is a trembling without voice to Fassersby go and case without bing moved by a tight to which they are accustomed. The noise of coaches, the- voice of lnt.m;erar:ee, mvlfh-ing guilds m'uaic xinle gwUtct-mc But I have said nothing of. the rlghter Side of This Life Good Stories of and by Public Mea charitable ones, who sleep while others amuse themselves; who rise at the break of day and go to help the unfortunate, without witnesses and without ostentation. We must not pass over this point.

I wish to write it on the other side of the page which I expect every one to read. After having shared their fortunes with their brothers, after having poured balm into these hearts burised by grief, these men go into the churches, while fatigued vice sleeps on eiderdown, to offer to God their prayers and to thank Him, for His benefits. The light of the solitary lamp in the temple, combats that of the new-born day and they are prostrate at the foot of the altars. The eternal One, irritated by the hardness and the avarice of man, withholds His thn atening CHAPTKU XXXL INVENTORY. .0 av something of the un- r.es.

dur.rg my journey, be- I wished to fortunate or. cause the thought (f thrn hss turbed roe -n my way. ytruck hi iSn. i and mine, I have sud ienly ilv and my room to nutifUly chJfirs two tr-M. a b'jrau a What osttntatifn: Mv bd, ab--r lu.

roattrtse'es, seeming to rival she cer.ee ar.d cf th mr-sr- g.Uil-.t Za Asia. Thee rrtfT ne ferent to the whl'b l.ve 1 forbblden me. Anl from to r- Sections, my of ph'W pty lc.m suefc that I might have seen a ball i. tne ntighboripg might bave the siviina 01 art! r.a, stirring from my cha.it. i might bave that voice which has often transported me yes, 1 misht have -arl It without moved.

Yet rit-I rr.iht have withot the fi at the nott her- I beastlful "K-'-rr mu rin. dr'----J frcn to th bands tf it anon. quite sure of this. Cli vrma XXXIL I A NTliHC Ft. i But TmU rse to ak you.

g-er. tip-men do ytm nioy bi; ar.d jia? a dii formerly? For my I cfci. for oer.e I time past, that all thee last" sf.ra''f i insr4re with terror. -I am It a xlsur tboutfbL In la I maXe as art i I i i 1 i 1 i I 1 i violent blow b'p the tim Hd3x; Tk that, r.4 tell your ftbr Jeffm Wd 14 IV" A fireat, i4 Tka. "l-fy f.rs-if C37 to India, i1 tb I waa 'jrprid, when 1 a w.ka in to b' my f( Ty re 1 ea Id.

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er. pn'vJrjr d'M bf-for a twera solicitor, distrain the faft-S-'-r 1 PlK-mltlmnt, deal, a rj-r-'-r sinan. 'i I thin ety iter a day, th er.ty of ta. cn an ara.j;e. How A3 yo-3 ni cf 1 ly er.w;wtT ilJ-r, thrr.

My -trarr. -'-5 In t- me h-T. sk" nrr, 1 ht esr.r tva: "lln. Li." w.w. laffb-i the rp ner.

I that 1 ut tl tfT.pi:-".. Tl; I tb- n1 rr-'. 't- wtj III lirrst PVar. if V- tftster C5ngrKra Caldefb, ibu itj: EVelj a is lb? LttI dztz cf my asked Rhett. Colonel Selph by the young- to tna mjse.t i.ap-j nodded.

-You hav shot Cooley through 1 bave t-nly to stop tor an instant the t.rr,5n." the- doctor whispered, r.hrtfs along the streets which lead there. A bullet h.id" hit Cooley just under the deft troop 'of unfortunate, crouched balf- eye, and had come out at the back of naked under tle porticoes of these ubp-the head, producing a Khast.y- wound. I tuous apartments, seem nearly dying of which caused instantaneous death. and hunger. What a spectacle! I The Khet 'rartv passed the dead man where he lay, with bats off and bowed ho a.

is. Colonel tf lh had the usual six-ny-iour pseco- of black cloth to spread over the dead. A plank from a cottage was procured, tne noiy. was plaetd on it and carried to in? fias station, and back to the city. The aftair cre-ated a 'tremendous sensation, bin notbicj was ever done about it.

and the memory of the trashy gradually died away like many other thing that occurred during theso dark days. If. B. ETT CALF, Elackwe'd July 2J..