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TIONESTA, PA., DEC. 22, 1880. $i.50 Por Annum. 0: : JSOOJEWiRD Over a Million or jv;.:;.-;.Pro!.Ciiilin8tte's A FRENCH - Win1 firm Dor?n . v " .rli) Have already - V,.': ' - bepn sold In this ,'-uJ .''.'' countiy and in - . .i ';', France; every ' on oi wmcn niu given perfect satisfaction and has performed cures every time when used ac cording to direc tions. W now say to the afflicted and doubting ones that we will pay the above reward . for a single case of BACK That the Tad fails to cure. This Great Rem edy will positively and permanently cure Lumbago, Lame Rack, Sciatica, Gravel, Dia betes, Dropsy. Uru.'btM' Diwnae ol the Kid neys,.,Inconlinence and Retention ol the Urine, infl'iunnntion of the Kidneys, Catarrh ot the niaddor, High Colored Urine, Pain in the Back, 8ido or Loin", Nervon. Weakness, and in taot all disorders ot the Bladder and (.binary Organs, whether oontraoted by pri vate ri'sense or otherwise LDIItS, Uyou are snffiiring from Female Wea1ciiesNi.Leionrrhea, or any diw&ne ot the Kidneys, Bladder or Urinary Organs, YOU CAN BE CURED I Without swallowing nauseous, medicines, by simply wearing PROF. GUILMETTE'S -RCNCHJ'pNEY PAD, WHICnP" rbK ABSORPTION. Ask yof" ,it for Prot. Guilmette's French Y d, and take no othor. 11 io m 'it it, send 2 and you will reoelve tie j'-'jy return mail. TESTIMONIALS FROM TflB FEOPLB. Judge Buchanan', Lawyer, Toledo, O., says: One ol Prof. Guilmette's French Kidney ida oured me of Lumbago In three weeks' ie. My oase had been fciven up by the best ctors as incurable. During all this time I r.nod nntold agony and paid out large sums money." : orgo Vetter, J. P., Toledo, O., says: " I ' "i pd tor three years with Sciatica and Kid Disease, and olten had to go abont on "ties. I was entirely and permanently X alter wearing Prot. 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N.Y. tt Joins undertakes to pull my ears," said a loud -mouthed ieiJow on a street corner, "he'll just have his hands full." The crowd lx:ed at the 0?s ' i-i" '-'" ''-Hs-j "'f- . m&n'a ears aid r Tiiled. f Guided. Up the long, slippery slopes we toil and strain Amid the Ice and snow, Untrodden heights above ns to attain, Untrodden depths below; ""'"""Njr to lolt and danger to the light, Ci t v and beautiful the blue crevasse .. Tawns close beside the -pv, The avalanches topple o'er ine pass, Their cold, white torrents ptay Only a moment ere they roarv plunge To rend and whelm and slay.- Each following each, we mount, as we are led, Up the long, steep Incline; Our Guide walks calm and fearless at the head Ot tho long, laltering line, And shows the narrow path where safety is By word and look and sign. Marking His footsteps, treading where He trod Close following on His track, We cannot Inint, or fall or miss the road, Though deep the snows, and black The precipices yawn, and rough and steep The lorward path and back. Intent on Hint, we do not mark or see . Those hard things by the way. It is enough that we are led, and He Whose guidance we obey Has gone before and knows how hard it is; What He has done we may. Above the mists we catch a faint, tar chime And glimpses heavenly fair Shine through, and seem to beckon as we climb How distant, bright they are! DesrGuide, lead on! We do not ask lor rest Would God that we were there 1 Sutan Coolidgt. UNAVAILABLE TALENTS. My wife and I looked at each other in blnnk despair. We are such lively peo ple that it is very seldom we are both blue at once, but this time we had good ami Bufhcient reaon. we naa come to our Jast dollar. We had no certainty of (tf ting any more money, ana we were too honest to wish to be in debt. This wn an extraordinary position for us, us we were considered by nil who knew ns to be such uncommonly talented" pecplti. I was always told in college tbivt if I would apply myself I might entlly stand first in my class, though in point of fact I stood somewhere in the twonties, I believe. I have since some times wondered if application may not be itself a separate talent, instead of be ing within the reach of all, as is often supposed. My wife was always the life of uny company. She was as pretty and trim' a woman as you would wish to see, and she sang ballads with really won derful expression. I never saw a woman who appreciated a joke po quickly, and in amateur theatricals she was irresistible. Her talents went even fHrthrr than this. She read poetry so beautifully that'everybody cried ; and, on tho olber hand, she was so fond of mutheujatics that she studied conic sec tions one winter by herself, "for fun." W were both versatile, we were both lively, we were both mercurial. Now, however, we had no money, and very little flour in the house. My wife had made a nice johnny-cake for the delectation of the children at supper, and they had gone to bed content, and were now peacefully sleeping. Mean time it became absolutel? necessary for ni to face our fate. I was a lawyer. I chose that profession, not from .any in nate sympathy with it, but because I could not be a clergyman, and would not be a physician. Of course I began to practice in the city; for though there seemed to be no opening taere, I liked to live in the city. You know, the theater, and music, and boroks, and pic tures, and society, can hardly be had in the country. If I had been less talented a mere clodhopper I could have gone without the refinement of life and been happy. As it was, it did not once occur to me that I could live in tie eountry. I need not say my practice amounted to nothing. Those who have tried the same experiment know that some years elapse before a maintenance can be counted upon. However, I Jived meanwhile on a modest legacy which had descended to me from an aunt, and married a wife. Florence had no money and no experience of housekeeping; but f bono I should not marry as I would seippt a. servant. We cot on beautifully in spite of the quicksands which already present themselves to the reader's mind In the first placo we had no end to good times together, so our life was a success so far, and I know we were so happy that we made everybody arourd us h;tnnwtoo. And we lived within our means, small as they were. We would tin. VP liked a million, and I really think we could have spent It profitably; still we were not extravagant, and both of ns were honorable and conscientious We were at peace with all the world, and considered ourselves noble inchar- RPtpr and talented in mind. Unfortunately the failure of the bank in which uv legacy was invested changed the aspect of things. We smiled at first, because we thought we should respect ourselves more if we were brave. And our friends said we bore it chnrmincly. " But of course it is not as if you had not your practice This was vrry well, but privately we knew that the practice would hardly keen us in boots and shoes: and then I had practiced long enough now to find out I hated it. I was not meant for a lawyer, and, to speak after the manner of the Methodists, it would have been "indulging a false hope" to supoose I ever should succeed. It seemed imper ative that I should look to some other source for an income. I had written a play for the " Grecian Club," to which we belonged, the year before, which had been received with prolonged applause; but now, when I wrote another, and o:l'eredit to the manager, be declined with thanks. I had also written vers de societe which had been pronounced by Rood critics as witty as Holmes' ; but when l sent them to the magazines, l received a neat printed circular saying hi that, "owing to the overcrowded state of the market," they could not accept anything more at present, but urging me to believe that " want ot literary merit" had nothing whatever to do with their rejection. Florence, getting desperate, advertised for private pupils in mathematics; but the only one who appeared was bent on studying logarithms, which she had found so tedious when a schoolgirl that she had pkipped them altogether. This was too bad, for she is really a snlcndid mathematician, as far as the principles go, and last is the reason probably she hates eternal figuring so much. With her music the contrary is true. She knows nothing about the theory, but her practice is exquisite; so of course she cannot give lessons. She sews very well, I believe at least we are all kept neat and whole and she hni good taste; but she says her stitches will not bear examination, and if she tried to sew better, she should work so slowly that she could not earn her salt. Her housekeeping is very pleasant, I know; but we have a hun dred little idiosyncrasies which would make taking boarders impossible, even if it were not intolerable, so we have never seriously considered that .ues tiirt. It will probably be thought cold blooded in me to speak in this way of my wife s earning anything, especially when, now we had dismissed our girl, she had everything to do for the chil dren and for me ; and, in fact, I did not mean she should do anything, but she was alwavs pondering the matter, and in some dark raomen s I gave in a little myself. I thought I would commit suicide, and let ner support the chil dren! It is obvious that now neither of us felt as sure of our elevated character or of our talents as before the legacy was lost, and we had at last arrived at the above-mentioned state of blank despair, . " It is really too bad," said Florence, at last; "it would take so little to make us happy, and yet we can't have it." "There is nothing under heaven to be done," said I, gloomily, " but for me to ao as a oav-iauorer in a iactory ; ana as I am unskillful, and very old for a be jiiuner, 1 cannot earn enough to support the famiiy, sol think, my dear, that you lincl better go into tne same iactory : that is. if we can find work, hichl think doubtful in these times. And we will apprentice the children to the trade, so they will be better able to take care of themselves than we were when they uvow up. Florence made no reply to this re mark, but shortly after began a short catechism. "Van. are vou aristocratic.P" " No, not exactly," said I; "I like the things aristocratic people have, you know, but it is not for fear ot l03ing caste tlist I object to the factory." " I thought not." said Florence, com placently; "but of course you object to the chnd,' and so do 1. Now the ques tion is. what are the necessities ot life to vouP'' "Od. es," said I. "First, you and the children: second, a house that does not leak to cover us: third.com cake ir.i. salt fish : fourth, a good fire in the wirtsr: fif. a a warm wooleu suit for eao'u-. us; sixth, so vto iht active out door employment, which will not re duce my spirivs to such h point that I can't enjoy your society when I have leisure to sit down in the evening.'' " And you would likn to keep a horse!1" said Florence, conidently. ' Why, yes." I said, rather surprised ; ' but since wo have never kept one since we were married, it seems to me we might dispense with it now.". Unless it came m tue way oi rusi ness." said Jflorence. caimiy. mow that I know what your real views of the necessaries ot life are, I have a plan which I had hesitated to propose be fore, thinking you might demand more." She unfolded a newspaper, and pointed to an advertisement. ITORSALE. The horse, cart and complete ; stock ot a tin oeddler. Excellent rou'e. Business pays well. Sella only because iatnily matters require a removal to tho West. Terms easy. Address A. Wicks, jiuinvme I felt a spark of hope. " I suppose you are in tun, rlorence, t stv.a; ; out I really think 1 shculd not hate thi3 a3 much ns anything else I see any pros pect of trying. However it will proba bly amount to noining . It then appeared that it was several days since Florence had seen the notice, and Jhe had taken pains to inquire iulo the matter before speaking to me. She knew Eome one in I'lainvilie who had learned all the particulars. It really was true. The business was good, that is, of its kind. "Of course," our in formant said, "it did not pay anytuing like the law;" and wo hoped he was right. The peddler really was going West, for he had money enough to live on, and his wife's health demanded chance of climate. He would sell cheap. and let us pay in installments, and we could runt his cottage for a very small sum. It did seem providential. Riding about the country, even in a peddler's cart, had far more attractions for me than toiling in a factory. Besides, 1 had a secret assurance that I had no capacity for "toil." and I knew 1 could drive any horse in Pl iinvil'e at least. Then the selling, my goo looks (1 believe I forgot to mention that belore), my gen tlemanly manners, my goou-nuture, my persuasive address, on which I had been complimented again and again, would all be of the utmost service to me in this business; and here I had been almost tearing my hair in my anguish at thinking that none of my powers were ot the least avail in tho bread-and-butter question. a And so we purchased tho business by selling some of our furniture, and went to I'lainvilie to live. I seriously believe that there is a niche for every one. Looking back on my time of despair, and comparing it with my present, I nm grateful t hat I can say that while I then thought 1 was so constituted that 1 could be neither useful nor happy in fe, I now find that I have been endowed with abundant capacities lor both use fulness and happiness, and that no talent I possess has failed of bearing some fruit. And Florenco says the same thing about herself. Ivet me elaborate : The cottage we lived in was not strictly beautiful, but it was comfort able, and in a pleasant place, with an orchard before it, and we trained creep ers on trellises about it, and planted roses and flowering shrubs along the stone walls. It was a fresh, sweet place to live in, and the children had a lovely playground. At first Florence had no servant, and worked very hard, but she wa9 young and well and strong, and she declared that she did not get so tired as she had often done i- our old home with the thousand and one society duties from which she was exempt now. " And the balance in favor of this is." she added, "that now I get tired in ac complishing something." 1 enjoyed my ine even tue nrst day. for. as nobody knew me, I had no loss of caste to four, and it was amusing to mc to see the puzzled faces of my cus tomers, who seemed to leei that m some way I was not to the manor born, and were evidently pleased with my hum ble airs and graces. I like to study human nature, and now I saw much of it at home and off its euard. This delighted me. Two rules I observed which made me respected and popular: first, I never entered a house unless 1 was invited ; second, I never in sisted that people should buy what they did net want. But I always had an ex cellent assortment of things, and any lit tle novelty I might have I took pains should be seen at a glance, that it might recommend itself. I am passionately fond of out-door air nnd scenery. I used to enjoy fast horses, but I have my dreamy side, and I hardly know anything more exquisite than to jog leisurely along the country roads at six o'clock on a May morning, when the buds are all bursting and the birds all singing, or to return quietly home in the late June twilight, just as the stars are coming out. I like to be out in a soft summer rain, too. There is enough to see and enjoy ia the crisp autumn weather to reconcile me to the unwieldly cart I ride in. Even on run ners it is not to be despised. I believe I like all winds and weathrrs. Then 1 used to give myself holidays, offn in winter, when Florence and the children and I had no end of fun. Of course we helped Florence to do the house work first, and then had the day for pleas ure. From May to October I hardly ever went alone on my journey. Every pleasant day Florence, or one of the children, or all the family, went with me on our rounds' How exciting it wtis, and how happy we were! We took our dinner with us sometimes, and pluyed we were gypsies, and camped out in the most enticing places in the beauti ful woods. If I had to go alone. I often took a book; sometimes I learned a poem. Bometimes I even composed one, and: strange to fay the magazines which had disdained my contributions in the days when I desperately needed money, now often accepted my enusions with com pliments. Jntue evening Florence find t ssng duets, and popped corn, and read novels. As wo had no social dignity to keep up, we felt at liberty to en joy ourselves even better than in the law days, which is saying a great deal, for we always had such a good time then. Then my business kept improving, -so Florence could have a servant. Then we had more time for "larks" than ever. We got acquainted with our neighbors. There was not a person of any literary pretension in town except the minister and doctor. This state ol things had its advantages as well as its disadvantages, because it 13 pleasant to be (Jsesar even m a country village, a lorence ana i wrote a comedy lor the Sons of Temper ance, and performed in it with great ap plause. I suppose Shakespeare went to his grave wii hout such recognition as we received. Florence sang iu the choir so sweetly that several people who Lad hardly bsen to church twice a year be fore beiran to so reirulariv. w e lormeu a reading club of all the young people who showed a spark ot promise, atm thev had a deiightiui time, and thought they were literary, and we had a de lightful time, and the modt st conscious ness th:V; we were great benefactors of our race. Once a year we put on our best clothes ana went to the city tor a week, and weut to the theater, opera, concerts and art galleries, and came home tired and happy, and convinced that tin peddling was a far healthier and happier life than it was possible to lead in the midst of sudi eil'ete civilizations. Let me be clearly understood. I did not continue the business when I had laid aside enough money to live upon without it. Meantime 1 can tru-y say I enjoyed it a thousand times better than I ever did the law, aud to me at least it was a hundred times more lucrative, and I bless the day when my clever wife discovered a sphere in which all our odds and ends of talent would be avail able. llarper'i Bazar. Batter at Forty Dollars a Pound. Gilhooly strayed into De Smith's grocery yesterday, accompanied by his dog. Suddenly the grocer cried out, as if in sreat pain: " Your blame dog has eaten up two pounds of nice fresh country butter." ' Well, if it don't hurt the dog it's all right, but I want you to understand he is a valuable dog, and if he dies you will hive to pay about 40 a pound for that oleomargarine ."Guvtiton Aew. After the death of Conrad Seitz, at Monroe, Ala., thisteleeram was received from Ella Dorsey. his alhanced wile: "Delay luneral two days. I will be ready for burial with him." She kept her word by committing suicide. A Railway In th Rocky Mountains; A correspondent of the Denver Times, describing the extension of the Denver and Rio Grande railway from Conejos westward toward the San Juan country, gives these picturesque bits. He says: For miles the railway curved among the hiK9. keepinir sisht of the plains and catching frequent glimpses of the vil lage, its innumerable wmaings aiong the brows of the hills seemed, in men wantonness, as loth to abandon so beau tiful a region. Almost imperceptibly t he foothills changed into mountains and the valleys deepened into canons, and winding around the point ot one ot the mountains it found itself overlooking the picturesque valley or canon of Los Piuos creek. Eastward was the rounded sum mit of the great mountain ot San An tonio; over the nearest height could be seen the top of Sierra Blanca, canopied with perpetual clouds: in front wrre castellated crags, art-like monuments and stupendous precipices. Hnving al lured the railway into their awful fast nesscs.the mountains seemed determined to baffle its further progress. But it was a strong-hearted railway, and al though a little giddy 1,000 feet above the stream, it cuts its w iy through the crags and among the Monuments and bears onward lor miles up the valley. A projecting point, t o high for a cut and too abrupt for n curve, was over come by a tunnel. The tracklayers are now busy at work laying down the steel rail at a point a few miles beyond this tunnel. The grade is nearly completed for many miles further. From the pres ent end of the track for the next lour or five miles along the grade, the scenery i i unsurpassed by any railroad scenery inNorth America. Engineers who have traversed every mile ot mountain rail road in the Union, assert that it is the finest they have seen. Perched on the dizzy mountain side, at an altitude of 500 feet above the Bea greater than that of Veta pass 1,000 feet above the valley, with battlcmcnted crpgs rising 500 or 600 feet above, the beholder is en raptured with ?Jie view; At one point the canon narrows into an awful gorge, apparently but a few yards wide and nearly 1100 feet in depth, be tween almost perpendicular walls of granite. Here a high point of granite has to bo tunneled, and in this tunnel the rock-men are at work drilling and bias ing to complete the passage, which is now open to pedestrians. Tho fre quent explosions of the blasts echo and re echo among the mountains until they die away in the distance. Looking down the valley from the tunnel, the scene is one never to be forgotten. The lofty precipices, the distant heights, the fantastic monuments, the contrast of the rug-red crags and the graceful curves of the "silvery stream beneath them, the dark t reen pines interspersed with pop lar groves, bright yellow in their autumn foliage, that crown the neigh boring summits height, depth, dis tance and color combine to constitute a landscape that is destined to be painted by thousands of artists, reproduced again and again by photographers, and to adorn the walls of innumorable par lors and galleries of art. Beyond the tunnel for a mile or wore the scene is even more picturesque, though ot lens extent. The traveler looks down into the gorge and sees the sire un plunging ma succession ot suow-w;i;te cascaaes through narrow cuts between the per pendicular rocks. One or the Sights of Munich. A correspondent ot tho New York Mail writes: The Bavaria is one of the sights ol Munich, and a most interesting one, too. It is un enormous bronze statue of a Ionia le nguro holding a wreath, aid is typical of the glory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. It is erected en a natural terraco which exists in the suburbs of Munich, whereon, at the giddy height of thirty or forty teet, h, number ol beer and music gardens are placed, commanding tho only view of the citv which can be had, save from the little park on tho other siue ol the Isar. The Bavaria statue is so very large that eight or nine people can crowd into Its head, the inner side of the nose being a favorite Beat. Looking out ol tho little peep-holes, the upraised arm, a lew feet distant, proves to be about the size of a chimney of a North river steamboat. The fieure has a son of chignon at the back of the head, the interior of which contains a copper plate inscribed with a brief history ot th statue. Behind the Bavaria is a corridor or pavilion ia classical style, containing busts of numerous German celebrities and of a great many more who are ce lebrities no longer. Painters, preachers architects, musicians, diplomatists are represented m this marble group. Jelly, Hans S.whs, Orlandi di Lw-;n (whose houso m an old 6treet is marKea by a commemorative slan), uoinein, Crunach, Durer, Gluck and others are anions' the number, tho latest addition txiing the artist Uornelius. in iront oi the Bavaria, and extending from it to the houses of he city, is a wide plain or common, whereon fetes ar.d races are held. Leath In the Electric Lamp. It seems as though great improve ments in tho wav ot lighticx are ut tended with peril to life, whatever the medium employed. Kerosene numbers its victims by thousands, and the light of the future electricity lias already caused the lo-is of two lives abroad by careless handling. In Manchester, Eng land, a person inadvertently touched the exposed connections nnd diverted the current through his body. On the czar of Russia's ya::ht Livadia a similar accident occurred to a sailor who was hanging an electric litrht in the tire room He grasptd a braas rod which runs arounu it and at the same time allowed one of the connecting wires to swing against his body, thus sending tho powerful current through it with in stantaneous death as tho result. With the rapid iucreuse of electric lights in his country, the above record will show that they should not bo handled by ttio inexperienced. Amtrica Afi-chinint. Catching Hallbnt. ' The halibut season, says the Sea World, lasts from the middle of January to the first of December. At one time New London, Conn., was an important halibut port, thirty nail of vessels hav ing been owned there at one time. By reason of the business not paying for a length of time, however, the fleet has ' on gradually reduced by loss to ten ners at the present time engaged a the catch. These Rre fine going schooners of fifty to sixty tons, and there are no better sea boat3 of sail or steam afloat. Their average cost was about $0,000. They fish on George's Banks and tho coast of Nova Scotia, a round voyage including tho running of fares to New York, requiring a month. The more venturesome commanders sail in January, although it is considered dangerous to 9tart thus early, and the more careful maters will not venture out till later. The service is a very perilous one, although no men or ve?sels have been lost from New London in two or three years. This good fortune can not be counted on to continue, and the hardy mariners verily go forth wilbtheir lives in their hands. One master in forms us that of the men who were in the fleet wien he first engaged in it, all have perished on fishing trips. Three, and even four, vessels have been lost in a single yenr. There pre various circum stances attending the loss of halibut mm, the terrible storms which sweep the fishing grounds bo;nr a fearful element of destruction. Next to the peril by storm is the danger of being run down by passing vessels, during dark nights, or the impenetrable fogs, which cover the grounds like a pall during so many days in the year. The halibut catchers tell of wonderful escapes from dire destruction through thi3 terrible agency, which constantly fill their lives with grave forebodings. Tb greatest danger is from the collision of European steamers as frequently the damage produced by sailing ships is not fatal. The fishermen, however, exercise a commei dable degree of conservatism in this matter toward the steamers. avrrmg that in general tue steamsup captains keep a sharp lookout when off th? banks, and do all in their power to avert, calamity. Often in the darknesss an l fog tha tiny halibut vessels are not seen until they are almo.st upon them, when it requires time to change the sheer of their long hulls, and very many times tho luckless naubutmen are run dovn and sunk beneath the wave3. The average crew consists of eight men, two men going out in each dory, fif which there are three, two men being left to manage the vessel. Twenty-five fathom lines are put, out from each dory, to which nre attached from 300 to 325 hooks. The men are oftea lost from the vessel by tho presence of a sudden gale, or tho setting ia of a fog. The laic treaty entered into with Great Britain has operated agidnst the halibut fl?et, aud the m?n are hoping to see the objec tlonal features revoked . O ur in formant v,i-: confident that more vessels would engage in the business ere long, and lioyed to sec the fteet built up to respect tb!'1 sizo; for. despite its peril, capital t:usiuvestedpay3veryfatr margins of profit. Tortnre in Olden Times. The torture of those days wa3 studied n: a ' cience, though perhaps ii; had rained in diabolical refinement by the i into that Damiens was operated on be fore the b?au monde ot Paris for his at tempt upon Louit tho well-beloved, f ho scene in the sixteenth century was usually a gloomy underground cham ber. dimly lisbtod by torches or cre6ia, and deadened by massive masonry acainst the cscapi of sound. The exe cutioner was probably born in the scar let, or had at ail events served an ap- protiuce3tnp to some mast-r who nan rcr&etuatud the trim traditions of the cratr,. lie ana ms tuns ran pata careiui attrition to tne machinery; ii the screws and the pulleys worked Blowly and roughly, that, wns -tl! tin better, so long ns they did not Kill. A speedy re lea e was tjo thing to be guarded against; and moat horrible of all was the presence of tho chirurgeon. There he stood, in t;rave imperturbability.with hard, watch) ul f.yes. or with tho linger on the pulse of the patient, appropri ately robed in his sa i-co'nred garments, re;:';'.y to interpose should tortured na tuie seem overstrained, or to awakm it when it had found relief in kindly ob livion. In the latter cu e ho would up ply himself with salts and essences to the revival of tha mangled wr. ck of hu manity, and rekindle the sparks of life by assiduous intention, till the recovery wa so satisfactory Unit tho torture mi. lit be icsumed. Owasioiiii'ly the HuL'erer would make full confession; sometimes, having nothing to eay that . vfui worth hearing, he would groan out a tissue of incoherent falsehoods ; not un frequeutly he would bo firm to the end greatly to fba credit of his cour age or his obstinacy. In tho six teenth century, and long afterward, that licensed inhumanity was recog nized all over France, and abused if abuse may bu said to bo pos sible by the possessors' of gcignioral rights, as v;eli as by the provincial parliaments and governors. Remem bering tho tradhious ol cnielty and in soloneo that h.'ul been multiplying them selves from tiui-j iiuu.enuuial through the length and breadth of tho lnd un der tho rule of har.-h and irresponsible tyrants, we may have s mo conception of the revengeful spirit that was un chained when the mob had broken loose aud beconio ma.tfr in ttn ir turn. Big Professional Iucomes. Sir Fitzroy Kel'.cy, the late chkf bsion, enjoyed for fifteen years an aver nire provisional income of 25,000 ($125,000), tho lareest income ever realiztd hy au F.nglifU lawyer except loid Seibome, wh-.i, as Sir Roundell Palmer, before hu elevation to the wool sack, realized lor Homo years $150,000 a year. Thu largest incauie made by a physician in England wui by Sir Bea- janun Mratlie, who realized in one year $t5,iMK), of which $25,000 was for one operation.
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