THE DI8M0HD CRESCENT. we naturally supposed to be little been taken far away where it would HOWARD OH HAMGIHG. «& special illustration ID his peculiar own good. So that weead as we fcfSa, Eva's parents, for this was evidently be difficult to trace her. The mysterious adroitness and fitness for duty, and gin with an instance at it is the what the poor woman meant to convey. death of the woman had interfered -Vf' Wendell Seavey in Dreaa. to a certain extent the same thing ty of the State, or of t\w States A Plea for the Abolishment of the V* with^he original plan and left was true of Isaacs in his prime. But entrust this grave responsibility to a The day was bitter cold, and the "My father and I accepted the trust Stoose and for Electrical Executions. no clue by which the agonized parents we have had here, there, one might bureau ot carefully selected __d trained -crowds hurrying along Broadway thrown upon us by that mysterious could possibly discover their child, almost say everywhere, so many bunglers, men, at whose head shall be a recognized, death as a commission from heaven," turned neither to right nor to left in and long since she had been given up From the N. Y. Graphic. so much timidity, so much overconfidence, well paid chief, upon whosn said Eva's guardian angel, with a for dead. their haste to reach home and the "I always gives m'man a push in so much misplaced tenderness, can be laid this terrible burden of.carrying soleful smile, which disclosed a rich, In the course of its progress from so much outrageous brutality, into effect the law's decree. comforts of the fireside. the throat with m'thumb," said Marwood. beautiful nature, "and we set about person to person, the story of the' that it is time a halt was called, and As has been told in The Graphic, scientists "It helps him wonderful." I was sitting on the ground floor in my to find the parents. For a long time young music teacher and her little some legislative notice was taken of and humanitarians have petitioned we advertised, but to no purpose. It* Ten men in prison soon to be hanged, office watching the restless people charge had reached the banker and what can be considered neither more the Legislature for an investigation Many replies came, but to none of his wife, who hastened to convince and philosophizing as I have a habit and a town full of people soon to nor less than judicial murder. It of this subject of executions. these did our little Eva belong. At themselves that Eva was their longlost should not be enough that a Judge, Some prefer death by electricity, of doing upon the differences in human oe flooded with extras, aie brought last after my father's death, which occurred darling the diamond crescent solemn or flippant, as the case may some by the garrote, none approve of facse to face with the question of capital condition, when my attention three years ago, certain that which had been stolen for that very be, shall utter the words which consign the present system. Human nature punishment and how it can best T»as suddenly arrested by a child Eva's parents were not to be found purpose no doubt furnishing evidence, a fellow creature to his doom it has changed in no whit since Adam' in the west, I sold my property there, if more had been needed than the be accomplished. Recently in California -wearing upon her breast a superb diamond should be his duty also to see that experienced and Eve and his Imperial Majesty, coming to New York in the hope of child's resemblance to her mother. an incisive rope nearly severed hands carry the sentence of Lucifer, wandered through the shaded crescent of purest water and obtaining pupils here, and at the It is needless to say that the grateful the law into proper effect. groves and bathed in the limpid pools the doomed man's head from his ferilliancy. Before I had time to formulate same time good legal talent to push parents insisted upon adopting in the Garden of Eden. Trouble will As it is the custom, utterly unjustifiable, struggling body. Within a comparatively any opinion as to how so the work of establishing my darling's Adelle into their hearts and home as of some notoriety-seeking come between men and women, and identity. We have not been very successful brief period the Italian Cornatti •magnificent a jewel could have come a daughter no less than their legitimate even brothers will develop a murderous Judges to deliver long lectures to so far." offspring, and for me they declared was carried to the scaffold by into the possession of a child, or to prisoners prior to sentencing themr so tendency now as they did when I lelt myself in a dilemma. Here was eternal friendship. main force, fighting, contesting, Cain and Abel strove for the mastery. it is the eustom of Sheriffs, who as a wonder how its parents or guardians a beautiful young woman who had With this I should have been quite This nervous system of ours, this rule are intelligent men, to entrust to screaming like a wild beast, and bunglingly permitted it to wear such a valuable evidently sacrificed all her worldly satisfied under ordinary circumstances, rare connected set of physiological any person willing to undertake what choked to death. A short time goods to what she believed a divinely trinket upon the public streets, an officer but— structures with their nerve centers, they will term "the job" for money appointed mission, and for all I knew before that the "privileged" spectators "Nonsense," roguishly says Adelle, had the little one in his grasp. their gray masses are just as sensitive the awful preliminaries and the terrible had at this moment neithe.r money who is looking over my shoulder as I of an execution in the corridors of a to-day as they were in the past, and final act of this legal taking of human Looking at it rationally, nothing nor food, certainly not fuel for the write. "What a commonplace ending Washington jail saw, but a moment life. they will be just as-sensitive in the future •would have seemed more probable morrow's bitter weather, for little you will have there, love and marriage, as they are at the present time, So far as the simple act is concerned after the fall, a ghastly head roll one Eva had innocently given the fact and all that sort of thing." than that the child was a theif, for I so we may expect jealousies, envies, there is no change, no improvement, way and a disfigured body fall another. away, and yet she would not make a "But will it not be true to the life?" uncharitableness to do their brutal did not fail to notice in my first since the days of Haman. moan which would give me the clue I demand. And a beautiful light work in the future precisely as they The attending circumstances are glance that her Garments, although to her necessity or make it possible warms up her dear face. "End the do to-day, and did in the long forgotten not so demoralizing perhaps. There scrupulously neat, were far from expensive, for me to offer pecuniary assistance. We need a public executioner. story as you please, Tom," she says. past and law must take cognizance is no drawing to the" place of execution What should I do about it all? I nevertheless an unaccountable As long as our statute books declare of the interferences of life, apportioning on a hurdle through public cogitated over and over again. "Retire punishment according to excitement took possession of that death by hanging is the Ruskin on Americans. streets there is no stopping for a half at once, now that the business thegrade of tthe offence. "A lifeforalifV hour's guzzle in an ale house there is yme, and I rushed to her assistance, punishment for murder it behooves for which you came is ended," said "At a small seaside town on the seems to be the proper caper in moderns no exhibition in the eye of the general demanding of the officer authoritatively, us as a sober-minded, not to say a the conventionalities. "But you cannot Kentish coast, and in an old-fashioned as it was in ancient society, and public at which children, women and leave these two penniless and "Upon what charge do you hotel, whose living rooms look directly civilized community, to see that this, unless we are willing to relapse into men can stare and gape but after the friendless a big city," urged the on to a shingly sbore,Mr. Ruskin like all things, be done decently and make this arrest?" that condition of barbarism which scenes attending the execution of heart within me, and the latter argument is at present staying for the benefit of warrants a man to put his individual in order. A trade's a trade the Bridget Durgen in the Elizabeth jailyard, Instinctively recognizing a friend, the seemed the stronger of the two, his health," writes a correspondent of bullet through the brains of his enemy, and that of Cornatti in White world around, and as with vessels terrified child besought me not to allow so I broke forth at last, awkwardly the Boston Transcript. "As it is not or stick his individual stiletto in the Plains, and in fact the scenes attending (for I am not a man of tact at any some go to honor and some to dishonor, the officer to take her to jail. long ago that unfavorable reports heart of his opponent, society by its all executions in rural places, I time), but to the point. "You accepted so with men all sorts and were circulated, I was agreeably surprised organized agents must step between "Look at that pin, the little thief" am not so confident in the assertion the care of little Eva as a commission to find him looking as well as conditions are needed to make asymmetrical the vengeful and his victim, and int the officer said rough's, making a that even the demoralizing accompaniments from heaven when a strange fate he does. There was no sign of weakness some universally recognized way carry are entirely removed. movement to drag the child away. whole. Inexplicable as it brought her to your door, and why as he advanced and with kind out the law regnant in every human Bridget Durgen was a servant, jealous '•Stop'" I commarded, indignantly may be, the fact remains that certain may I not accept the care of both of cordiality greeted his visitor. 'How mind, "an eye for an eye and a of her mistress. In a fit of insane now, for I had made up my mind you as my commission until something men in all times have been found do I like the Americans?' This, in life for a life." fury she murdered the woman who that the child should at least have a better can be done?" response to a question of mine. 'I did to whom it was a pleasure to wield paid her for h°r work, and her rage Hanging is no good. hearing. "Who says she is a thief?" The effect of this speech was simply not like them until recently you know the headsman's axe, to apply the and passion bit her repeatedly. She In the first place, it requires a vast "I say so," returned the officer startling. Miss Adelle flushed and I lived for a loDg time in the thirteenth had peculiarly shaped teeth, and by torch to the martyr's faggots, to amount of perfunctory preliminaries. sharply. "I know 'em, these street turned pale by turns, but she said, century, then'—he laughed heartily the marks they left'in the flesh of her gamins, and a precious lot they aie! Feet have to be bound, arms must be draw the bow string, to turn the looking straight at me, with womanly for a second—'I have been obliged to victim, the murderess was detected, tied, a noose must be adjusted, the She's a regular one, thi^ one is."* button, to adjust the noose, to cut courage flashing from her large violet leave it and look round me and after conviction was sentenced to cap must be drawn, the rope must be "Indeed, sir, I am not a thief! Oh, eyes: "Sir, you have been so kind to the rope, to draw the bolt yet in this a little here. What made me think be hanged. It was a bright, beautiful cut or a trap must be dropped, and I am not, I am not! I didn't mean to my dear little Eva that I will not believe more of the Americans was because great country, 60,000,000 of people, day, and all the sheriff's friends, politicians with it seems to be an essential train 7i do wrong. I wanted to find my own you intend less to me." 1 of the Americans I met perhaps of high and low degree, were with three scors of independent sovereignties, of possible accidents. Sheriffs as a papa that Miss Adelle says the crescent |'God knows that I do not," I replied, Miss Alexander inclined me— given the privilege of the jail yard. On rule are simply successful politicians, will surety find." with hundreds of cities where feelingly. "Pardon me, but though she has lived so long in Florence the ground stood two uprights with a rewarded by their party for exceptional The officer laughed coarsely. "That criminals abound, where murders are your little charge has given me some that I might almost call her a horizontal bar across them, from work in the party's interest with a is fine, isn't it? "Highly dramatic for idea of how you are situated I would of daily occuirence and hangings are Florentine. She has a beautiful and which depended the rope and noose. good, fat office. If they are men of one so young. You see I know 'em like to befriend you both while vou common, there is absolutely no regulated Matches were never packed more tender character. And then, 'continued sensitive organization they naturally they come in all ages from—" need a friend." Mr. Ruskin, 'I met and thoroughly closely in blue paper boxes or enamelled shrink from any duty that brings "Officer," I interrupted him for a custom, still less any law, making case than these men smoking, Miss Adelle searched my face long enjoyed the society of Dr. Holmes them into disagreeable contact with crowd was gatheiing now despite the it the duty of arty specified individual laughing, chatting, all impatient for and earnestly to discover if perchance but my friend is Prof. Charles Eliot their fellowmen. If they are thickskinned, biting cold, and I did not much enjoy to personally conduct the awful the show. The woman was brought there lurked some sinister motive Norton, a charming man—clever, scientific, opinionated, brutal, forceful my position as one of the central ceremonies of judicial killing. there before she said, "Sir, your offer is out and with difficulty led through fellows they will quite as likely shock cultured. Yes, I like the figures, "step with me into my office t: Approaching death very rarely terrifies the close pressing crowd. Unsupported a very extraordinary one." their fellow citizens by displays of Americans now better than I ever did while we hear the little one's story. I the victim. by relative,fnend or woman she stood their brutality. "Not more so than your own course before—such youth, such energy. I am convinced that you have no more I have seen men shot in the chill beneath the horizontal bar while the in sacrificing yourself and all that you think of them when I am dead and •right to arrest this child because she We have had illustrations of the gray of morning. I have seen them crowd in front, behind and on either possessed to this child's care." Tvear3 a costly ornament when walking the Great Energy is resistlessly brute in power. Y4* hanged in batches and turned off solitary side of her, hats on, clouded with "But that was the will of heaven for pushing them forward. Thentime quietly along the public street, The late Isaiah Rynders, although and alone. I have seen men smoke,peered over each other's shoulders, me," Miss Adelle said with deeo seriousness, than you would have to arrest the is not now, it is in in many respects in his later years a march thiough a crowd of New Jersey pushed and hauled and acted "I could not do less. But," wife or daughter of a millionaire under the future. Though I admit their kind-hearted old man was in his early toughs, eminently respectable I like boys in a menagerie. As the lifeless she added after a moment, "we do like circumstances. You know progress in science, still they arecrude and middle life a typical rounder who dare say in the calm of domesticities, body swung round and round indeed, need a friend." who I am, and if the facts do not corroborate art does not come to a new delighted in all manner of brute displays. hut brutal in their boisterousness, hanging from the bar so close stood "Do ycu suppose that I would trespass the story this child tells I people it must be built up with patience When Hicks the pirate was and inhuman in their insults and these spectators,that her dress brushed longer upon your privacy were promise to deliver her over to you in and reverence. Some day they hanged Rynders was United States jeers, as calm, as dignified, as unruffled, against their knees. They watched it not so 9 I asked earnestly, "nay, Che next few hours." marshal, and it is an undeniable fact will have a national school now they nay more so than any bride her as they might a prize fight, and trust me and you shall have no cause "All right," said the officer, "take are crude and have no more idea or that under pretence of giving Hicks a en route to the altar and from the day from the midst of their assemblage, to regret it'" pleasant sail, the steamboat which her, you'll be wner in the next twenty-four appreciation of a work of art, of a when poor little Captain Gordon expiated from the very core and center of that Then Miss Adelle spoke out like the was chartered for the purpose of carrying hours, I'll wager." picture, than the English have." the crime of South street merchants gang of roughs and toughs, the soul large-souled woman that she was, "I the prisoner to Ellis Island, And so I was, but not just as the and Boston deacons as a departed, bearing with it, if at all a will trust you, sir, for my little Eva"s where he was to be hanged,wascrowded officer anticipated. The child told me slave-trader, in the city prison, down remiuiscence of this lite, the echoing sake." Death of a Polish Revolutionist. to the guards with roughs and a singular storv between her sobs, to the dramatic taking off of the Anarchists curse and laugh and jeer of the re^ toughs from the city, and the trip was and facts proved it strictly true. Indeed, Matters proved quite as bad as I feared. in Chicago with the exception spectable citizens of that extraordinary prolonged in order that the bar might as I had the little one in my They were at the end of their money, of a terrified Italian in White Plains, place. Henry Janko died Dec. 10 at his be sold out. Robert Murray, before office the fire, warm and comfortable and no immediate prospect for getting I have never seen a coward. Not one country seat in GaliCia, Austria, at The Coinatti scene "ould not be succeeded Rynders as United 6tat«i except lor the effects of her more opened before them. Miss Adelle, of them, white, black, men or women, the ripe old age of 80 years. He was duplicated. marshal, was a man of robust type, fright, I had time to see that her features whose musical gifts had been recognized indicate the faintest suggestion of an old Polish revolutionist. At 24 The man, a cheap Italian of the thick-skinned in all matters of public and expression were those of a as pre-eminent in her native fear during the walk to the place of years of age he took part in the great commoner sort, had in some way obtained duty, although very kind and charitable young princefes of the blood, clear cut, village, had thought it would be easy execution, while on the scaffold, or Polish uprising of 1830-1, in which the idea that he was to be set in private life. It was his duty to exquisite and truthful. She was as far enough to secure pupils in a great city after the dread cap concealed all that Prince Czartoryski became famous free, and it was not until the last rew execute Captain Gordon, the slavetrader removed trom the youthful unfortunates like New York, but alas' from bitter 0 was human from the observing eye. moments came, with their official previously alluded to. Gordon and Gen. Dembinski gathered his first i9 brought up in vice and crime as experience she had learned that this They are all right. ZO ceremony in the jail, that a gleam of took poison early in the morning is heaven from earth. laurels. In the revolutionary struggles commercial Mecca towards which so SO It is the executioner who is generally possible danger shot across his narrow of the day ou which he was of 1848 Janko was an active partisan The gist of her story was that she many young aspirants for success 32 all wrong. intellect. to be hanged, and it required the 20 of the struggling Viennese against the was a great man's daughter, and the turn their footsteps held but disappointment 60 The two men who loomed before active service ot a stomach pump and Terror took possession of his abject troops of the emperor. Again he joined only way she could ever find hei papa for her. 48 the general public as executioners par soul. a continuous plying of the whisky 68 was by the crescent, which he would the revolutionary government of The end of a long discussion of the 20 excellence were Marwood, the English bottle to keep the remnant of life in He cried and cursed, he begged and recognize. She lived with Miss Adelle, the Poles in their great insurrection pros and cons involved, resulted in hangman, and Isaacs, who from time threatened, he implored and fought, his emaciated, shrimp-like body, until a music teacher, and they had very of 1883, in which Gen. Langiewicz Miss Adelle's accepting assistance to time has experimented in the the earliest possible hour when a. and when the door was opened from little money. Miss Adelle had cried was the most prominentpopular hero. from me as a loan, and I, turn, Tombs. I have Marwood's own word the jail to the courtyard the amazed legal execution could be had. The_T hat morning because their coal was 79 At the end of that uprising Janko promised her pupils from among my for it that at the last moment, after supported by two sturdy deputies,' 40 spectators beheld, instead of a solemn nearly gone and she had no money to was prosecuted for participation in friends, taking upon my shoulders the 10 the cap is pulled over the face, under procession with decorous procedure, filled to the very brim with whiskt%, buy more. doubtful task of coercing all the fathers it and condemned to a long term of 30 pretence of arranging the noose more the little fellow was half led, half pufied a kicking, fighting, screaming madman, 39 When Adelle had gone out I put and mothers of my acquaintance captivity. In 1865 already an amnesty carefully, he presses with his thumb from the cell on the ground floor to borne forcible in the arms ot the crescent on, and came to find pa|»a, into giving their children over to her for political offenders was granted quickly and with great force just below stalwart deputies down the steps. the plaza between the cook house and for I knew that if he saw that he training, beginning with my own married Austria. All the intended recipients the Adam's apple, with the intent the woman's prison, and drunk as a Quickly they' rushed him across the would buy us some more wood and sister. And it was fortunate that of the grant were asked to successful,as he claims, of depriving yard, and in less time than it takes lord the body was yanked in the air coal," the child confided to me earnestly. I made my beginning there, else it is sign a petition for mercy, and, being the condemned of consciousness. and the soul besotted, betricked,befouled,went—well, to say Jack Robinson the noose was probable that I should have miserably 7 assured of its passage, to join in an Whpt her that is a desirable feature or adjusted, the cap pulled down, the of that la not competent I hailed a cab at the conclusion of failed in my undertaking, for my address to the emperor returning not I leave to hangmen. The ordinary to speak. The law which denies cord cut and the man swung off. the tale and took the child to the sister, Mrs. Merwin—informed me thanks for the mercy extended to mind revolts from any personal aid It was according to law. the Sheriff the right to invite spectators street and number given me. A t~ll scornfully when I laid my plan before them. Janko refused signing the first to glory, preferring to leave all literal is a step in the right direction. It But how about common sense and graceful woman of twenty-five or her. "I cannot be thankful enough, paper, and when he was asked to sign killing to the appliances of a physical takes from the prisoner all the stimulus deceny and order? fcbereabout welcomed her with emotion. Tom. that I am the first one to nature provided"for that purpose. the second he curtly replied: "I did of an audience waiting to be addressed. The recent quadruple hanging in whom you unfold your Quixotic Marwood was a voluptuary in his not petition for mercy, and did not It removes the poetic surroundings Chicago was the best ordered,"" the "Why, my dear Eva," she cried, scheme, for nothing could be more ruinous calling, and in moments ot inebriety of sympathetic admirers. want it at the hand of thb emperor most carefully prepared, the most decorously clasping the child to her, "where have to a girl's prospects, situated as found great pleasure in toying with It reduces the procedure fcom one of of Austria. I have no occasion to be conducted execution I ever you b+^en? I have been almost crazy Miss Adelle is, than to have a bachelor the necks and throats of his companions. flowery effervescence to the place thankful." Nevertheless he was included saw, but even that was little less than with anxiety about you." like yourself going around advocating On one occasion when an actor common perfunctory killing. 1% affords in the list of those amnestied butchery. After the caps were drawn, But just at this moment Miss Adelle her cau=e. Jubt take me to seethe well known and highly esteemed in a sharp contrast between Jthe and they were not drawn simultaneously, and set free, He was for a long time caught sight of me and drawing herself girl, and if she is not a mere adventuress this city,was on a grand tour through but one after the other, the a member of the provincial diet of up with dignity she waited for an exclamations of McGloin. you may count upon my doing "Yes,** he & the English provinces, on going to his men turned one to the other, talked Galicia. explanation of my presence there. what I can for her." yelled, "I am a tough," as he drove79* dressing room he found a party with each other and with the deputies Stating the case briefly I asked her to the knife into his opponent's breast, That my sister was wholly satisfied of convivial ists,who had called to pay behind them, called to the spectators 2 ~tetl me something about the child. Good Intentions. "God have mercy on my soul," he 12 with Miss Adelle will go without the him their respects. There was the and of course so disarranged the adjusted "I will, sir," she said, motioning me said a few weeks thereafter, as he I saying when I tell you that she took Fred Russell was exceedingly busy. Sheriff, quite a dignitary abroad, other knots that death was the result to be seated, with gra2e I have rarely stood with the rope dangling over his I her home within the week as musical officials and Marwood, the hangman. He had only lived in the city three of prolonged agonizing rather seen equalled. "The sole guardianship governess to her own children, and head. Clad in the elassic garb of Hamlet, than that of a quick drop, jerk and years, and was already known as a "rising of little Eva fell to me strangely," personally solicited patronage for her If the garroting collar is used, or the^*'-* Prince of Danes, the actor was a dislocation of the neck. she began. "I am the daughter young man." The only trouble among the "dear 500 friends." electrict button is substituted, there. picture of manly beauty, and Marwood, This is an apt illustration. •Cr a clergyman, and while teaching In less than three months from the seemed to be, he told himself, that he will be no more 6ghting, biting, kick who had been drinking freely, It matters not how regular the proceedings, music in my native village in the West day that I first discovered Eva, Miss ing, screaming men hustled across ar 2 had no time for anything except his placing his hands upon the actor's how all pervading the desire it happened that one winter's night Adelle found herself with more work esplanade and shot with tfoe speed o1) bust, said, "what a superb neck you daily business. of the Sheriff and his assistants tohave aome eight years since—a night not upon her hands than she could possibly a cannon ball towards the sky. Ther have. How I would like to put the everything properly, expeditiously «mlike what this promises to be—my He could not even write to his mot her. attend to, and I found myself— will be no more dying old men sittin* rope about your throat." Conversation and in order done, unless there is. father and I were startled by moans For the last year, indeed, he but no, I will tell you about that later, in an arm-chair while the rope is pa* turned upon the pleasant performance an absolute expert attention to details at our windows. Investigation-showed had sent her only an occasional, hurried for now comes the most remarkable about his neck, as was.the case ®XH of this cheery companion, these horrible surroundings are a woman and child. Both were note. part of this narrative (and there Hunter in the Camden jail. Therejpil^lA and he gave practical illustration of a matter of certainty. It doea make nearly frozen,and the woman, once in is nothing so very remerkable in the be no more horrible scenes One night, having finished his work his throat pushing custom, very much a difference. Whether men are drawn the heated room, swooned. We summoned story of a free man who is often that California recently, suc&? a/jf unusually early, he sat by the fire to the annoyance of the actor. In suddenly up, or shot suddenly down., a physician, but she recovered thrown into the society of a good and vacated the- corridor of the Waskinlf thinking about her, and it was "borne the party was an American. Upon it does alter the course- of (Consciousness only to lose it again beautiful woman tailing in love with ton jail in less time than it takes tfr in upon him," as she herself would him Marwood attempted to experiment, events materially if a knot is until we found that she was dying. her) and that which emphasizes the tell the story, when, its frightful spef? have said, to write her a long letter. but becoming somewhat rough improperly adjusted if the condemned Toward the last the poor creature fact that truth is stranger than fiction. tacle waa disclosed,. "A life fos a lift!" Just now there did seem to be an in his treatment the American, who are permitted to move their heads, inutfcered wildly and incoherently,and One day there drew up before my means death, but it does n©£ necefL jU unoccupied hour tor it, and he went could stand it no longer and who was to change positions if,, in other 'Seemed to be in mortal terror of punishment sister's door the well-known equipage sarily signify brutality orindecency.^«l to work with zeal. He described his intensely disgusted by the entire procedure, words, the progra.rn.me is altered or for some great crime. Just of one of the city'g most successful MoraJ—Aboliah the noose. mode of lite at great length, inquired, drew off and with appropriate modified in any respect however trivial, At the last however, she became entirely bankers, and from it alighted a gentleman with careful interest, about all the exclamation struck the little nuisance __________ HOIYARD. distress and agony is added to rational, and made frantic efforts who eagerly requested to see home affairs, and even tried go tell squarely in the jaw, knocking the punishment, so far as the prisoner with her dying breath to tell us Magistrate: "If I discharge you Miss Adelle. The result of that visit her at the end that he really loved her him with great force against a fulllength is concerned, and an unnecessary ,_ll about the child but the most was this time, Uncle RastvisK what v.nl was nothing short of the restoration dearly, though he had seemed to neglect mirror, which was shattered disagreeableness is imparted to the ithat Eva belonged to wealthy parents, you do?" Uncle Rastu: "Well, yo* of little Eva to her parents and home, her of late. into fragments. spectators, whether they are official and that something would prove honah, ef yo' djscha'ges me, I W tor she was proven to be the long lost "There," said he, when he had finished or lay who are compelled to witness That that ended the call may be her identity. Sewed up in the rags Kl go off."—Judge. and sadly mourned daughter of the "I don't believe I've been as soft the execution. It can hardlv be asked well imagined. wrapped about the baby girl we discovered banker, stolen by a former servant, on anybody since I was a boy and The biter bit.-™Ponsonby: "Really, of the condemned that they enter* Marwood iound great personal satisfaction a diamond crescent, which is the only object* that could be discovered here I register a vow that I'll write me boy, I can't see why yoijfcr#A' with any degree of cheery heartiness, and personal pleasure in the strangely engraved in ciphers, unintelligible to extort money for her return. every week—as eood letters, too, as I such high collars." Griggs: "_%4 into preparation for their own taking details of his horrible trade, but he to a stranger, but no doubt significant In order probably to render know how to concoct!''*—Youth's off, and it isn't in human nature to you, deah heart? It's just to keif? was an expert. enough to the owners, whom the scheme successful the child had Companion. from wagging my chin foolishly. expect it, even though it is for their The adage "a trade's a trade/'found Might try it, Ponsonby."--TL&BU*j|^ '4 mmm