Could We Bat Know. Could we but know T> o lend that ondi our dark, uncertain tparol, Wke <• lie thoee happier hills and inendowa lov Ah! if lu-yond the spirit's inmost caril Alight of that cMiunti; could we surely know Who would nut K<>? Mi),hi we liut hear Ilia hovering nngeU' high imagined chorus, Or catch, betimes, with wivkolul eyes and clear, One radiant vista of the realm before us. With one rapt moment given to see and hear, Ah! who would foarT Wi re we ipiito sure To And the peerless friend who left us lonely Or there, by some celestial stream us pure, Tri gase in eyes Unit hero were lovo-lit only— This weary mortal coil, wore wo ijuito sure, Who would endure? Kdmund C. St tit man. AT UNCLE PAUL'S. "There,"s.tiil Juliet Garland, impa tiently, "I can't wear these Kid gloves again by any possibility. They've been once to the cleaner's, and I've done them myself twice with bread crumbs!" She sat in the deep window-seat, Iter bright hair streaked with morning sun shine, her blue eyes sparkling with Taxation, while a pair of very much demoralized kid gloves, of the palest primrose tint, lay in her lap. Ami Dora, Iter younger sister, look ed li tlcssly up from the pile of music •he was turning over—another of the bright blonde blossoms of humanity. "Why don't you get yourself a new pair.-" said she. "Oh. dear! There Isn't a song here that is not a hundred years old. 'Juunita,' 'Her bright smile, 'Beautiful daises,' and all that •ort of thing. Kosie m ist get some thing that isn't coeval with the ark. liow is a girl to—■" "Why tion't I get myself another pair ?" sharply cross-questioned Juliet. "Because I haven't any money -that is the reason!" "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed plump, pretty Dora, contemplating her pink linger-tips; and at lite same moment Mrs. Templet m, the married blonde of the family, caine in with a worn look upon her fare, "More bills," said she. "(>h. girls what will Frank say? stefani has act ually had the hardihood to charge seventy-live dollars for that little hutch we gave to Mrs. At wood and her son. And Madame Cherimont's account is eighty-nine, and I'm posi tively afraid to open the florist's bill." "Th>n it's no use asking for more Wcid gloves at jfl-csent," said Juliet, dis consolately. "Nor music," added Dora, with a shrug of her shoulders. Mrs. Templeton burst into tears. "1 declare." said she, "I'm discour aged. And you girls are always teas ing for something < r other, and Frank Is so cross whenever we exceed th e regular allowance!" "Crying will do no good," said 11. -ra I who was evidently the philosopher of the family. "But what is that letter in your lap, Kosie?" "Oh. that!" said Mrs. Templeton, "is from I'ncle PnnL I declare. Mefani'" bill upset me so that I forgot all about it He wants one of you girls to come up to the Maine Camp and keep house for him. It's somewhere on the line of the Kangeley Lakes. I lielicve- Owls and whip-poor-wills thrown in Come, girl*, which of you will volun teer?" Juliet gave a little shriek of dismay Dora elevated her pink, cushiony hands. But a third .-..iter who had been silently mending the flounces of a pick silk skirt, in an obscure corner lookts] up. "Is Uncle Paul really in earnest?" aabl she. "Then I'll go" "Gladys!" cried all three of the others, in different a* cent <f amaze, ment. reproach and incredulity. Gladys Garland rose up, flung aside I the soft billows of pink silk that cum bered her lap, and came out into the light. Of all the sisters, she was per haps the loveliest and the most ihter M "Why not?" said she. "Do you Kink I am particularly in love with Ws sort of life? I declare, there have ■en times within the last month w lien Hve felt inclined to go for a servant- Haid. or look up a situation as fartory ■and. Just consider, girls the dress H wear isn't paid for; the milliner is Sways sending her girl around with ■Bis. I can't go on this street nor on Hint, for fear of meeting some one who Rrill ask me for the money that I Honestly owe them. Kosie, like a Inrling that she Is, keeps giving ■artlee and lunches and morning Baosicales. to try and get us well ■tarried. Frank, poor fellow, is work ing beyond his strength, to give his ■wife's sisters a fair chance; but it isn't ■ bit of use. See how we ail hang ■re. Now 1 don't know about Julie land Dora, but 1, for one, am tired of being put up In the world's window' •For sale!' Yea, I'll go to Uncle Paul." • "But," gasped Mrs. Templetom 1 "what will society say?" "What it pleases," Gladys answered. . ''Society don't settle my boot-bill, nor provide me with pocket-money." "Gladys," said Juliet, roinonstruting ly, "I think you are cra/v!" 1 "Because lam emancipating my self from slavery? But you know Julie, I cannot see where all this is to end." "What will Mr. Mundevillo say?" demurely questioned Dora, with a sly> sidelong glance at her sister. "He will say," Gladys stoutly answered, "that there is one fortune hunter the less in the ranks." "Gladys, how can you speak so coarsely ?" said Juliet, not without in dignation. "Is it coarse?" said Gladys. "It is the simple truth. Mr. Mandevlllo Is very handsome and agreeable, but I don't think he will miss me after the i first evening or two. <>h. there are too many l'eris In this Paradise! And poor, good, patient Frank, he will | have one less to provide for. "Yes, 1 I'll go with Uncle Paul" "Von may as well commit suicide at once," said Juliet. "You'll never marry in that wilder. I uess," said Mrs. Templeton. "There are nineteen old maids in this block," said Gladys. "We count ed them yesterday, Dora and I. !>o you suppose there aro nineteen old maids on Lake Molechunkamunk?" "Nonsense!" said Mrs. Templeton. "And besides," added Gladys, the laughter fading from her eyes, "is it really the end and aim of till female humanity to get married? Why shouldn't I bo an old maid as well .us another? I>o you think I shouldn't , survive it? Wait and see!" Gladys Garland had definitely made up her mind on the subject Within three days she had purchased a pair of thick boots, a blue flannel suit, and a poke Uinnet of rough straw, trimmed with blue rlblwns, and gone out to Lake Molechunkamunk. Uncle Paul was glad to see her. He didn't live in a wigwam, as she had almost taught herself to lieliove, but owned a pretty little lodge in this vast wilderness, shaded with forest trss. and embowered with blue-cupped morning-glories. He was civilized, and did not assas sinate F.nglish grammar like the cham pion hunter in the dime novels. And he had provided a pretty little boudoir for her, whose pink mosquito-netting set the black llb-s and gnats at defi ance, and an exquisite engraving of the Madonna di >,m >ut > hung over the broad mantle. "Oh, I think I shall U< quite, quite happy here, " said Gladys, as she sat in a little Ixiat where the drooping boughs of the hazel bushes mad'- blots of shadow on the gbtteritig lake, and read while Uncle Paul fish'sl. "lion't regret any of the New York cavaliers, eh ?!' said Uncle Paul. And Gladys stoutly answer's!; "No!" But afterward she asked herself, had she told the whole truth? "If Darrell Mundevillo chooses to marry Miss Borrance, let him," she thought. I shall never pursue any man. Let other girls do as they think lit." That very afternoon, however, when she returned from a long ramble in the woods, w;th her straw hat full of bla kberru die found the little lodge occupied. "I am sorry to take you thus uncere moniously bv storm," said a handsome, middle-aged gentleman, who |.*iked to lie what he was, a Wall street nroker come out into the wilderness for his summer vacation. "Hut my friend I has fallen over a cliff and broken his leg, and this was the nearest point of shelter within a range of seven mil's. Perhaps your husband w ill ex cuse us, if " "But it isn't my husband," said Gladys, composedly depositing the berrii-s on the tahle. "It is my Uncle I'aul. He is Ashing, np the lake. But if he were here, he would say. as I do that you are very welcome. Where is t poor man? I am not much of a sur , g- n, but—" 'o> stopped abruply. There, lying on the little chintz-covered lounge, his pallid face supported by cushions, lay Mr. Darrell Mandevllle. "Miss Garland!" he exclaimed. "I am so glad!" "Mr. Manrloville," she uttered, In I the same breath, "I am so sorry!" "Because 1 have drifted here, of all places in the world!" he pleaded. "Because you are so badly hurt!'* j faltered Gladys, with the tears coining into her eyes. "I knew you were somewhere in I Uiis region," he said. "In fact. Miss Gladys, I was looking for you. But I didn't expect to lind you just now, and thus, I thought —" And then ho clofiod hl eyeo; a dead I ly pallor crept across his face. "I think he has fainted," Haid the Wall .street liroker. And Just then Uncle Paul came In Uncle Paul, who was u born chlrur geon, ami who understood all the heal ing secrets of the glen and forest- and Gladys heaved a deep sigh of relief. It would all lie right now. A broken leg is no joke, cspeciidly In the back woods, where splints have to be manufactured out of the most in- i congruous material, and arnica cannot I be had short of twelve leiles. Mr. Mandeville made but a slow con valescence, yet he did not appear to re- Hard the detention as unpleasant. The ( ! Wall street broker went back to tils J stocks and bonds. "I think we could easily get you to Andover," he had said, wistfully. "And a parlor-car from there " "Oh, hang your parlor-cars!" said Mr. Mamleville, impetuously. "I am ! doing very well where 1 am now." "•>li!" said the Wall street broker, a sudden light of comprehension irradi- 1 ating his dull brain. "Oh, in that case, | I may as well leave yon to your fate; ; It's the old story of Ulysses and the Sirens over again." Mrs. Teinplet<in came into the room ! where Dora and Juliet were remodel- j ing their white drosses for a theatre 1 party to the Casino, one S ptemlier ' day, with tlu.-Jied cla-eks and shining : eyes. "Girls," she cried, "what do you ! tliink - Gladys is engaged!" "To some buffalo hunter?" said 1 Itora, scornfully. "No!" said Hosie. "To Mr. Mande. ville. lie has been tip thero for a month- at I.ako M-Ji-chunkamunk." Juliet dropped her work. "Impossible!" she crlod. "Olvlja engaged up in those wildernesses, j while I ora and I are left to wither on the stem down here in New Vorkt , And to 1 i.irrell Mandeville, too— the i liest match of the season!" "Thing* do turn out so strangely!'* I said Mrs. Tcmplcton, reflectively. And fiiadvs, the predefined old ; maid of the family, was the first to 1-e j married, aft* r aIL "Gladys always was lucky!" said her two sisters.— .SnturtUiy Sijht. Coloring Mlamonils. Some very interesting and Important experiments with diamonds have re cently been made at the Paris a-adv my of sciences. An ex[a-rU-need dUr t m<ind merchant bought a tine white ; diamond for four thousand six hun- I dri-d dollars. < n*- morning he wa*hed it with soap and water, when what was his consternation to find that it ( had turned yellow, which sent its value down to right hundred dollars The matter was brought to tin- atten tion of the a- U'lciny. an I ex pert* sul> mitted a report which sho'wnl that diamond wliibmng is a fraud easy to accomplish and i easy to detect. Hy plungn.g a yellow diamond into an aniline violet dye tt l**-'-mas white while at the same time it be-m neither its transparency nor brilliancy. In fa<t. on making the e\jierimcnt. the experts had in a few minuts trans formed several yellow stones into w hat app-arisl luagniliient v. lute stones of five-fold value. Take a yellow dia mond. dip it even into no stronger dye titan violet ink. w ash it with water to remove any dis Juration, and the effect is immediate. The dried dla* tnond remains white. Hut, on the other hand, tin- illusion is of short duration. Huh the stone even lightly, and the yellow tint is seen coming back again, and a little further attrl. I tion with the linger restores the pris- I tine hue completely. This discovery may entail upon many {arsons an awakening to the fact that the sb-nee I they have are of f.ir less value than they supposed, and will necessitate even greater care than that exercised in purchasing. Douglas Jerrold once raised the question whether any |>o session really paid its possessor which entails anxiety of mind, and diamonds in one way or another, entail so much that there are many to whom the great value set upon them becomes almost incomprehensible. - ■ Two Hatches. One day,when our Kufus Hatch wm waiting at the depot, on his recent ex cursion, for a train, he heard his name pronounced, and discovered that it was applied to a man who seemed a bit under the influence of liquor. Walk ing up to him, Kufus asked: "Is your name Hutch?" "You bet!" "So is mine. Perhaps we are dis tantly related." The man looked him all over,rulibed his eyes and looked again, and finally replied: i ••It's so blamed distant that I'll nev er own it."— Wall Htrtt Neiot, , THK RURAL MAMHP.N IJt CHINA. llop*Uc i'uvrrtr F.arly MsrrlMW- Jotiit Family lulrm. A family, 0. D., oonsisting of eight persons, owns an acre and a half of land. Tho lapd was bought hy the grandfather of the present head and has never been subdivided since nor added to. lie grows about seventy bushels of rice and seventy-live of wheat and some vegetables and cotton besides, worth altogether in money about $4O. He hns two nephews who work outside and bring home some, thing to help, and In that way they get along, but are very poor , He pays government land tax to tin- ! ' extent of $1.50 a year. He and all bis | neighbors wear native blue cloth, spun ' und woven in the family by the women from cotton grown by themselves, lb never wore foreign cotton. The coat he hail on (a well-worn affair) had been made two years previously, and it would last two years more. It served hlin at night as a coverlet as w ell as a coat by day. Another family owned four acres ; isld, only part of which was suitable for rice culture. Their income was alsnit eighty bushels of wheat and 1V) of rice, about a fourth of which they could usually sclL They paid some. i tiling over fit a year as government ; land tax. 'I hey also grew more cotton than they could use, and sold every ! year about fib worth. They were better off than some of their neighlsirs ; hut never saved any money. They had fifteen mouths to feed. The foregoing cases are given is-. | cause they repre-ent fairly the aserage condition to Is* found in rural < hiaa- The greater number of cultivators probably iielong to the < lass of tenants, {some say the pn>|mrtioti of tenants to peasant proprietors is as seven to thr'-e ; others put it us three to two; but whether tenant or proprietor, the con | dition of the cultivator is much the same—that is, it rarely rises a)*ove i j what Is just enough" for the bare n-ce*saries of life. My own observa tions have been mostly confined to tin-, and the adjoining provinces, and I ex- ( eluded the cultivators of tea, silk and opium, who, growing a commodity 1 | more and more in demand and easily transjMirta! le, are in a f.ir letter jusi- j tion than the ordinary i*easant ; but i speaking for the greater part of China I U llcve I am not over stating the case in saying tliat for the working agricuL i tural masses it is a daily hand to band ; struggle with want. In a succession of good years they are very comfort able. they have enough to eatNxnd to wear, and they have few other wants ; but jiopuluUnn is ever increasing up to tli- food limit, and when a 1 ad year or two c. tines they die off by hundreds or thotisan-L*. Two or three eausi-s may reality 1-e named as having ii.ainlv ■-.minced (•. this -tate of tiling-* can si - whi<har generally to l- found m ng A-.atic ra< es. The rule prohibiting the devolution "f property by w .11, and making division comj ulsnry among al' ma! - hlldren, tends rapidly to r<*lu< •- all h' i ling" to a minimum that is, to the \er\ lowest quantity out of which it is jw..ssi,\le to n ake a living. Here, as everyw iu-re energy and good luck raise individuals to a |Misjtion of wealth, who may. :f they choo.se, be come large lan'i owners ; but in the course of a few generations this univer sal equaliser, aid<d by the apathy of tho ordinary < him so when in comfort able circumstance*. will ba\e risluced things to the former dead level Another equally potent factor is the habit of t<w> early marriage*. Parents deem it a religious duty to provide matches for their children as o<-n a H they arc of marriagi abh-yi ars, and the young peiq le go to the alt ar in as much the same way a* they go to s<h<*d in Europe. It never occurs to them to a*k first whether there w ill is* enough to fill the mouths that may come alter, wards. The evil is further aggravab-d by the joint family system, which takes the responsibility off one's shoulders and puts it jointly on that of half a dozen others. When the man knows that he w ill get an equal share of what is going wdiet her he earns it or no, and that the !>• rn-fit of denying him self any particular indulgence will accrue to others as well as to himself a great motive for thrift is withdrawn. In one respect the Chinese ]*>asan{ Is in a l>etter condition than fhe Indian ryot; lie is not in rtcht to money-lend ers. Hut Ido not know that that is a virtue for whirh he is entitled to much credit, for there is no class of money lenders to whom he cottld get In debt. Indeed, I am not sure that he is not thereby In a less adventageons posi tion, for when hard years come he has no means oU pledging his property, which, if Mb Kuld, might save him from jjh/er starvation. gFlorida has f>'K> factories, working 1,749 hands, with a capital invested f1,697,030. An Imperial Hog. Peter the great must havo been a pleasant companion at dinner. When he and his consort dined together they were waited on by a page and the em press' favorite chainlzermuhL Even at larger dinners lie bore uneasily the presence and service of what he called listening lacqueys. His taste was noi an imperial one. He loved, and most frequently ordered, for his own espec ial enjoyment, a soup with four cabba ges in it; gruel; pig, with some cream for sam e; cold roust meat, with pick* ; led cucumbers or salad; lemons and | lampreys; salt meat, ham and Line ; burgh cheese. Previously to addnm.sing i himself to the "consummation" of this ' supply he took a glass of aniseed wa j tor. At his repast lie quaffed quaes, sort of beer, which would have dis gusted an Egyptian, and tie finished with Hungarian or French wine. Ht is described as "eating rudely with a sort of swilling noise," a quite appro priate accompaniment of such an iin. perial hog's feeding. Hut Peter wasn't a crank at hit meals alone. Strange stories are told of his brutal and ferocious eccentrici ties. (in one occasion, for instance Peter iuui bis consort arrived at Ntuth! of, in Uormany, for the night. Th( owner of the country house at which they stopped readily agreed to givt i ttieni a small bedroom, the selection of which had been made by the ernperoj himself. Jt was a room without stovt or fireplace, had a brick floor, th walls w< re bare, and the season la-ing one of rigorous w inter adifticulty ars* as to warming this chamber. The host soon Solved the difficulty. Sever al casks of brandy were emptied on th fioor, the furniture being first remov ed, and the sj-irit was then set fire to The Oar si r> amed with delight as lit saw the sea of dames and smelled th 1 Odor of Cognac. The fire was nc sooner extinguished than the I**l war . replaced, and Peter and Catherine straightway betook themselvi*to theit rejHoe, and not only slept profoundly all nigtit in this gloomy lower, amid the fun.<s and steams of burnt t randy, hut rose In the morning thoroughly (refreshed and delighted with tiieii couch and the vapors which had cur j tained tiu-ir re|.,*e. From that time forth a preparatht to repose witi. Peter was to fumigate his chamber with burnt brandy. " Principal Battles of the War. Following are the dates of the prin. <ij.il battles of the <ivil war, whe commando) in ra< h, and the nuudx-t kilb-d on lx>th sides: Hull Kun (first (.July 21,1*61; North Gen. Mils-well killed. 1*1; Niuth Hen. Hoaun-ganl; k.lli-<l. unknown *iuloh. April 7. 1 w, -2; North, Hen Grant. killed, 17• i."*. south. Hen. A. is. Johnston, killed, 172*. Seven lints an-l Fair (laks. Ma;. :i and June 1 I* l 2; North, (i*n Met hllan; killisl *'.•; s-mth, (tin..!. P.. Joiitisb-n. killeil 2" *'. Antietam, >ept. P-an-i 17, 1 *62 N rth, Hen. Mc( icllan; k.lled, 2"10 Smth. t.i-n. L>; killed. .TV"Chaa i cllorsville. Ma) 2 an-l •. 1 ~*-I; North Hen. Hooker, killeil. 1512; S-uth Hen. .la-kson; killisl, 15*1. (iettys i'tirg, July 1, 2 and d, lH*l; North Hen. Meade; killed, 2*-'il; SUth fen. l.ei killed. :iVi. Vicksl-urg July J and 4. !*•• i; N'-.rth. Hen. (.rant kilhsl. .M 5; Si tit, Hen Perni-crton killtsl, unkn -wn. < hirkamauga. >ej.t - I'd 2d, l-i>.(; North, Hen. Thomas killed, 1 •4 4; Smth, (Jen. Hragg killed, 2d*'. 1. Wilderni-ss. May 5. • and 7. I*l-4; North.(Jen.(>rant; killtsl 5597; Siuth. (ien. lac; killtsl. Jtssi | Spott*)l\an;a. Ml) * 21. l*t'4; North j (it-n. (Jrant; killtsl, 4177; South Hen. I.ee, killeil, P*kl The almv figures are basetl on nii-dical official re turns, and do not agree with returns o tin* Adjutant tSeneral. No two return agree. The Adjutant (Sencral tlie killed at Wilderness 2261, and at Npottsylvania 2270; while (Jen Meade's rej*>rt, based on rejorts im mediately after the battle, states killed at Wilderness at J2.*-*; at>pottsylvania 2116. a Something of Hotel Life. Gosalpping aiKutt the hotels of New York and the oostly habits which they stimulate, the "l<ounger" of the Tri- IfHW touches upon a hidden feature of hotel life thus: "Many a guest is in debt anil cannot get away from his ho tel. Many a woman, apparently inde pendent and fortunate, is wondering while she smiles with visitors, how shs can get her trunks away from the estab lishment.and what person in the house she shall strike for a Joan and at what sacrifice. People often look into the tenement houses and think that the people must live very miserable there lntt 1 wonder If they are not happlor homes than some of these large hotels, where every week comes the repri mand that $2OO or more Is due and the rulea of the house Imperative." The Mother. Though !ol in the whirlpool of pMiioi, 'though high on the petti way to feme, , When luifMw of our innocent chil ihood Here mailer] away Ui a name, One thought, like a gem ami'l ruin*, Will (iar.zle our eye* with ita |oy, Arl hring hack theawcat worlhe uttereds i "Von'll Uiink of your mother, my boy." You'll think ol the lore that ahe ahoweted, Unfailing by ilay and hy night; You'll nigh for the aweet, good-night kuwea, Ihe ayea with their meek, loring light! And whether hle'a |thwny in- pU-naant, Or roUieil of each roeobtid o( joy, Your heart l/nek to her atill will joorney— You II think of your mother, tny boyl JVherever ttie amilca of a mother Have relighleriod a heart and it i care, , God'* hleaalng haa hallowerf that roof trae! / A glimpae of awoet heaven ia there! / Though further the yearn lure ua onward, 'l"hey cannot her mern'ry deatroy; In ail< \JA and tenia all unhidden You'll think of your mother, my t*>y! HUMOROUS. "That prisoner haa a very smooth countenance," said the judge to the sheriff. "Yes," said the sheriff, "be was iron'-d just before he was brought 1 in." A sherry cobbler will never mend your old shot*. A regular kidnapper Soothing j syrup. Why the rabbits escaped.— His lord* , ship (after missing his tenth rabbit): "I'll tell you what is, Jlagster, your rabbits are all two Inches too ihort I hereabouts." "No, sir," said Fogg, "I never knew Hrown to mislead or deceive anybody in his life. No.sir; fact Ls, he couldn't. N'-|,i*ly would believe anything he ' ever said." Little Aggie's sister had invited her ttest young man to t< a There was a lull in the conversation, which was broken hy the inquisitive Aggie: "Papa, is <!<>*<• fodders ober Mr. Wob- I binson's mouf?" "Yea," saiil the drummer, watching a rival at a hotel; "it's his first trip this way. Is n't you see, he isn't on flirting terms with the table girl?" A young man who went to the late war began his first letter to his swoetr ; heart after this fashion: "My dear Julia Whenever I am tempted to do wrong I think of you, and 1 say, "(let thee behind me, -atari' " Sick man—"What! a female physi cian? I want a doctor, t" make mc will—not a woman, to make love to me." Female physician (bashfully)— i 'I promise to do neither." "Gentlemen." said the Te\a man in the restaurant w hen th> waiter dumped a plate of hot souji down his bach "gentlemen, don't laugh." As he had , risen t- his feet and drawn two re volvers Itis wis),<-s w- re rtq- tod. A Cnhan Execution. Arriving at the f>t of the platform the d< ath sentence was again real, and the "alguacil de onrte" cvrresjionding t-i our sheriff--ask*i the prisoner if he lmd anything t<> say to the |>oople. He merely sh''h his heal, by w ay of reply, and was at once seated, his legs tied > and his arms pinioned, with the hands crossed <>n his br- ast, ami the c-illar of the garrote fixed ah ut his neck. At this point of the proceedings the "verdngo" pulled from his jierson a long, briglit knife, and handed it to the police who were present. A black cap was then drawn over the prisoner's fa< e. and the priests Ix-gan t-> recite the "< 'redo." When they came to the words. "His only Son." the "verdugo," by a swift and dexterous turn of the lever, launched the soul of the poor w retch Into eternity. There was but a momentary quiver of the )iml and a straightening of the form, then all was st ill, for the man was stone deal. The mode of punishment is far more merci ful than the hideous and bungling jer. f nuances frequently gone through with at our gibbets. The tr<m>)is then w heeled into column and marched away tc beat of drums, and now carue the strange sequel to this dismal spectacle. As soon lis the ground * cleared one of the police went forward and, seizing the "verdugo," arrested him to* murder, hurrying him to the prison' where the "Ju/gado" were stilj assembled. Placing iiitn in their midst he accused him of having killed a man, and denounced him a* a murderer. The judge asked him what he had to say in answer to this charge. "It is true," replied the "verdugo." "that 1 killed the prisoner, but 1 deny Icing a murderer, for, although I com mitted the act charged," displaying his arms with the badge, "1 did it tn the cause of justice and in pursuance of j the law. *ll of which I was compelled f to do by virtue of my office." "The accused is innocent, and is dta M charged." answered the court, and thufl the formula of Spanish law was Bed.— VhUathlphia /'ran.
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