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•- '.v. • XKf .•'.(SHi'.;T& • ?-,,"^.^fa'.««®F«•;*, •.• ,.J ^Vf V V** ̂ P «$i-, M-i APAJR*. iSŜ St̂ £ssv«il Shad tarht and hope on Mfe* dark nay. ttSoMhlneayal most notgaae. _ s îsl *^^s isHU •^ksss^svovtlt Tot aad regret* fw barnr daya tFllT Rime, I know, to von and ma. •I'fef® tb"" atU), but yet must cant, ,, •The s»wret but hopplww love away; ' IAe teoder'at flower crushed by BR Um^, Oat foudeat hopes moat bow decay. Bat Uoutih we dr>ft far, far apart, Tbough cherished hopea ail wither and dfe, Ifcern fit]U ehall live is each aad bnit Sad thoughts that bring both tear and jtfifc A» hope is dead, would memory too Might cease to torture with its pain; ' la a common grove let hotfe be laid, 4si trouble ?? n«vn? n>m» anln Wfcy dream of joys toobrlgfat tMaatj Why nadly mourn bar bitter lot# ' ' r..MR»ra Belter to bid farewell to the past, ; • J} - Xach forgetting, and each forgi^ i 5 **;•** ' Sbrheart you have, and my pr&y,m t glvj*- . That in the coming weary year* F^r •/ < v Ut love and sunshine yon may llvo, %>l? With never a thought to bring yon teari? May atronganoa ahleld yon from the stawa, /.» And loving Upa thy praiaea apeak; though I so more may clasp thy form, I« Me tbe roses en thy cheek. ».*.•£, "• i 4 ASM wnen God sends Hi# angeia forth, ; Wife b&saliige l&dened for the good "" theyl ra „J aaitwia. To yonr home and hearth I pray they7!! «MSB«, AJBA ktag their richest gifts to yoa. • ml tlie grave we may meet again, 1 a hod where all are permitted to I md mantle of the Prinoe de Soubiee, while the regent him- elf waa robbed one a^ght on leaving th» opera. Here, how­ ever, the laugh wa<* on the other side, as, pwpoiftly to deceive the robbers, he had caused his sword-hilt to be richly chased--in steel. Now that the inconvenience of such a state of things began to be felt in die Terr highest society, Government set it­ self seriously to the task of reform. A little incident helped to spar it on. One May morning in 1721 some laborers came upon the body of a murdered man. It proved to be that of an obscure poet named Vergier. What could possess any one to kill a poet, and so poor a one at that, was a puzslc, till some one migrated it was the regent's work. Philip;* e d'Or­ leans was black enough, in all conscience, but rumor painted Mm in still deeper colon. In a series of rhymed philippics he had been branded with every con­ ceivable crime. What more natural, said the public, than that he should employ Cartouche's band to wreck hisvengeanee on the poet who had held him up to rid­ icule aad shame. To be sare; Vergier was not the one who had written, the yew wait for Hie in tfait happy lsni £§ Oh ! aay will yon meet mo there above fx Jis J m. * tl#e A CABTOUCHE. , . Louie Dominique Cartoue a r».speetable, well-to-do wine-seller, jwae born at Paris in October, 1693. Anxious to secure for his son a higher position than he himself occupied, the .̂ xatber sent him to the College of Cler­ mont, but his native instincts soon as- f,, Jseerted themselves; he ran away and .'Tffiloinsd a party of gypsies.. He was s™idopted as a child of lie band, and Ms new Mends formed the meet sanguine anticipations as to his future. Bold, j.^-wrafty, and inventive, he was nimble m ape, pliant as an acrobat. To an un- *X conquerable love of wandering, of pleas- v '* and idleness, he united a remark ^H:«*ab]e ability to eadure, when necessary, iwivation and fatigae. After he had re- tnained iliree y««u» with the gypsies,, ey weTO abruptly ordered by tbe P&r- liam«it of Rouen to quit the province, :^e';, land, as Cartouche was sick at the time, *<1 ' behind. On his recovery V ̂ihe foimd himself alone and friendless in •'tfee streets of Bouen, wiUiout a aingle sou in his pocket, By good luck he fell in with an imcle, , /Who fed, clothed him, and sent him thereby affording him another ity for pursuing an honeet ca- A domestic life, however, had no 1 for the ex-gypsy. After a slew months tranquility he decamped 3fcom the paternal mansion one moon- Jlight night with his father's money-box *t T v Me Hfr thra». f - «iiteeu years of age. Pocket picking the tirst branch of his future indns- to which he devoted his talents. He formed a partnership with one Oaguis, pand, between them, they were reaping a |rich harvest, when one unlucky evening Ctartouche's comrade was arrested and p touismisted to Marseilles. This misad- • "venture le^ our hero to turn his talents fes-fin another direction, and he took to dice Haaatiiai? • tlie Hadw JifeB t»ed the_ skill acquired among the gypsies to such purpose that suspicions •V %«e awakened, and M. Cartouche was ̂ looked into the street and debarred for- *5,f from that branch of industry. Tra- ' fditkm affirms that his next debut was in *• ' 'f?fche character of a police spy. This, er, is apocryphal, and probably prose from the fact that when he ap- gjpeared, as he soon did, as the organizer iu,j;.*** • band of thieves, he exhibited ideas . * I®', discipline and subordination that, «#||i his known character, must have rtrf t 'been acquired from without. y Become at last an Isi^maelite, hishsnd i againat every one, and every one's hand ^trr^iagainst him, it became his constant care v, ~"to impart to the skilled and desperate band which rallied pound Mm m organ- " „• aabon and discipline approximating as t idoeely as possible to the military ; he v iA|»pointed lieutenante, sergeants, sent- rallviBg and pass words, and spared detail to imrare fee perfe-ctaon of the ^«j#||Haainaiwiit under his control. This ^ r*r®" : gpign opened \,^h %£igti% s&mnisainf:. Thus some three or ' Ifoor.cf <ili@ bssd would .ponnc© upon an snfe- "iaamay eitiaei.s .rhom a blow on the T. HMMI from a loaded bludgeon reduced to i#' tsmporapf silence When the victim re- sm; ijgained efficient couHaiousness to give 'm alarm, the troop was at a, safe distance, •^^•BBIBgmg the next alfiur. Paris was _ Iregularlj apportioned into districts, one which was alloted d|oh night t» some jparticular detachment of the band, Beoome aware of ttie ex~istence of an •^g. |̂«fljMiiaed system of crime, the city, in 'hhnn, appealed to it* natural protector, D'Argeesoiis head of the police, but little consolation,, Police there in abundance, but no controlling r, order, or system. Each worked . ^ himself. They plundered the robber m- ir> \f the robbed alike. Selected witli- referenoe to their antecedeiite, many ! verses in question, but the Cartouchiana ! oould hardly be (assumed to be familiar ! with such gentry as starviag poets, and - j ia their zeal to execute their master's : j orders had mistaken the man. Stories • !i" , 7" f-| such as this circulating through Paris caused the regent to bestir himself, and *4. £he gori1' authorities loudly demanded CJar- ' touche; but, of course, it was much easier to ask for him than to get him. AnoMwr murder now occurred to add the public agitation. Cartouche and his band were carousing at a mbarett when they got into an altercation with some workmen at on adjoining table. A row ensued; swords and pistols were freely used The police rushed in, and one of them, Mondelot, fell dead from a shot fired, it was declared, by a female Cartouchian named Manon-le-Roy. It is at least certain that this distingaished lady always earned arms, and equally so that when, some time afterward, she was arrested, she intrenched herself behind her bed and for half an hour kept the whole posse of police at bay. The mur­ derers "of Vergier and Mondelot brought the name of Cartouche prominently be­ fore the public. Henceforward every audacious crime was laid to Ms charge. Desperate attempts were made to cap­ ture the formidable thief, but this dex­ terity and ski!! f'illness in changing his costume stood him good friends. The loose, half -fitting cloak, blue on one side, red on the other, and capable of being reversed in ft moment of time, owns him for godfather. The police would be in hot pursuit of a man in red who fled like a deer around a corner. When the pur­ suers followed on his track he had disap­ peared, but they encountered a sedate in­ dividual in blue strolling quietly toward them, who had sees Um iaakk in red dart into a neighboring house or disappear down some other street. On one occasion the police, hearing a row in the house of a pretty lemonade- seller known as Margot the Nun, made a descent. They found a little man, half drunk, tearing around the room, firing pistols right and left, to the admiration of a mixed company of both sexes. He was arrested, and alter a while remesenfr ed himself to be an honeet chooolate sel­ ler in the Bae Comedie-Francais, who had unfortunately taken a drop too much. He was wowed to go after de­ positing ̂ 100 livres and a gold snuff-box as security for his reappearance. No complaint was made against him, and in a few days he called at polio \̂ headquar­ ters and reclaimed his property. It waa Cartouche. In December, 1720, he waa captured and confined in Fort l'Eveque, but in spite of the terror inspired by this re­ doubtable robber, so slight were the pre­ cautions taken for guarding him that he three months later effected his escape. The authorities roused themselves to un­ usual efforts for his recapture, and here­ upon an odd incident occurred. As the officer of the criminal court was uttering the usual proclamation with sound of trumpet and outcry, calling upon Car­ touche to appear within eight days anil «»»®i to the charge of iaur<ser, aad had oome to th« words, " In the King's name 'cm do ci-iiiaand the pvtmn fet-lie« * Oar- kjaoueV"-- " Present, Cartouche {"shouted a voice in the center of the crowd, that turned the wnole body, archers, trumpeters, cit- izens, and all into a frenzy of rage and agitation. It was Cartouche himself, bat he had vanished. Two persons now entered into a sol­ emn league and covenant to pursue the impalpable robber without rest or respite till he should be slain or taken; these were Huron and Pepin, bold and clever offioers in the service of the police. The ' chase opened ill for our hero; Huron tracked him so hotly as to exchange pis­ tol-shots with him, by which Cartouche was said to have been seriously wounded. It is certain that, either to escape this persevering foe or to recover from his alleged hurts, he disappeared for three ent're months from criminal history and aetved in the galleys, and many j the police exultingly assured the public bore the convict's brand on their | that he waa driven from the capital. They were soon made painfully aware of his return. A very large reward was now set on his head, and Huron and Pepin again devoted themselves to their task. The zeal of both these officers proved fatal to them. The former liad one evening tracked Cartouche to a notorious robber haunt, Finding theme-elves likely to be . 1 . -v- ; sorrounc t**y optef tmd precision so much incul- j turned suddenly upon Huron and his fol- •^CMiad. 7 ~f A party 1 lowers. The officer received several pis .iWOOla MMDble l»>fore some rich man- j tol shots, and was then cut down byOar- en fellow-*-very touche Himself. A few days later the oa® »jtnon Ot.ce, a brawny : robber chief, while taking a quiet stroll er---would offer hie gigantic ' --"•-a « 0 ^ Aowlders. Miserably paid, they were ,: , p®tpeta«l'ly oppoRfecl to the temptation 'll¥- , <* ^ bribe, mid ifc was r*>t long before " t' sheep-dog became almost as danger- 1 j y<MB to the flock as the wolf himself. It was iu 1720 tbat th»* terror inspired Oartouche's band reached its climax. '•/- held virtual possession of the cap- <»P«cially by night Their depre- ^ " '~»B,were ®°uducted with the mih-; aorrounded, the band, like wolves at bay, >mmy «cdar and precunon •»»* --u -» • -- - - • ajfefe *-M » -- ^.1, I_ ';1km the base of a living formed by the light* eg?l<i meml>er8 of the gang, speed- ish*d the lower windows. Some were adroitly removed, the apart- entered, and the most attractive to glide down a chain of till the pillage was com- with Madeleine Beaulieu, a woman be- ay*.aa °*.* Py»-1 longing to the gang, perceived Pepin at formed by the lighter and his heels. Turning suddenly on tneir purwuet, Madeleine attacked with itu ge Btaiiea, whde Cartouche ran hi™ through the boay. A regular organized attempt was next made, under the direction 01 an Aide- major of the Gardes Francies (Pekom), who selected ninety of Ms best men and sent them in various disguises, but well armed, in quest of tbe single robber chief. At this critical period of his for­ tunes occurred what vaw known as the affair of the Hotel Desmarets. Nicolas Desrnarets, nephew of the great Colbert, died on the 6th of May at his hotel in the Rue des Petite Augustine. This wealthy residence Cartouche resolved should be thoroughly pillaged. A chosen band, commanded by their chief in per­ son, forced an entrance and were busily . The gang hunted noble game. In September, 1720, they invaded the resi­ dence of the Spanish ambassador, and the chamber of the amb&dsa- ssiaiijg a magnificent pearl neck- a brooch with twenty-seven large HHamonds, & rich table service of gold, ^fend the lady's entire wardrobe. In the JPtfaia Royal, then occupied by the re- j«at, they stole two of his silver flam- peanx. At the Louvre, Cartouche's fjROther possessed himself of the sword ^ •• at work in the rich saloooa whâ t one of their lookouts announced the approach of an absolute army of polka. The danger signal had hardly been given be­ fore the enemy appeared. A fierce figfct oommencea--from room to Boom, from stair to stair. The robbam loagfct stoutly, but their amnnition fuled. and they were overborne by rmnbera. Sauve qui pent became the order of the day. Cartouche escaped by a chimney, gained the roof, and descended at some in the garret of a good-nafcuwd me­ chanic, to whom he represented himself as a man pursued by his merciless cred­ itors. His host sympathised with hiip, provided him with a disguise, and once more he broke through Ihf toils. The regent now doubled the reward and offered a free pardon to any one, no matter how guilty, who should betray his chief. Distrust now spread througn the band, and two murders of suspected traitors quiokly followed. But the hour of retribution was at hand. One Du- chatalet next to Cartouche the most fe­ rocious of iummii tiger*--acknowledged to himself that the game wss nearly up. Plunged, as he was, in. the deepest- <md deadliest crime, he saw but one chance ' of safety, and that was to denounce his chief. He made a bargain with Pekom, the Aide-major of the Oardes-Fraoaieee, procured a promise of pardon from the regent, and then conducted a picked body of men to the robber's lair. Car­ touche was taken so completely by sur­ prise that he was secured almost without a struggle, although he had six loaded pistols ready to his hand. He waa con­ ducted to the Chateiet, and the process advanced quickly. DuchateleL certain of reprieve, confessed to oertam burg­ laries and murders, in which Cartouche had taken part, Notwithstanding this, the latter stoutly protested his inno- cenoe, and denied Ms identity, calling himself one Jen Bourguignosi, a coun­ tryman. the effects of that powerful impulse which, by carefully organising it, he had given to crime had passed away. Meanwhile he was well oared for, he received crowds of distinguished visit­ ors, and fashionable ladies attended his levees. The most distinguished of these was the Marechalo de Boufflers, widow of the gallant general who lost the battle of Malplaquef One warm summer night in July, 1721, just as the lady had re­ tired to bed, leaving her window a little open for air, she drew the curtain aside, and to her horror saw a man's faoe close to her own. She made a snatch for the bell cords ̂but the intruder seised her hands, opened his blouse, displaying a rich but faded costume, with a complete armory of silver-mounted pistols and knives, and introduoed himself as Louis Dominique Cartouche. He had narrowly escaped the watchful eyes of the police, then in hot pursuit of him, by climbing the balcony; no one, he said, would dream of looking for him there, and he proposed te remain. He W** bniKwy and tired, however, and wanted supper and a bed. Qt aking with fear, the Mare- chale rang the bell, ordered her aston­ ished servants to bring a hearty supper and a bottle of champagne, and when it came locked her door and watched the voracious robber as he disposed of all that was set before him. His repast ended, he apologized for incommoding her, stretched himself out on the sofa in her dressing-room Mid went to sleep. At 3 a. m. he rose, bade her good-day and vanished. She sprang out of bed, closed the windows, ana alarmed t&e house. Search was made among the valuables, but not an article was miss­ ing; even the costly silver used for the supper had been spared by the eccentric thief Some days later the Mareohale re­ ceived a basket of excellent champagne (stolen from a Parisian wine merchant) with the compliments of M. Cartouche, The robber chief had been placed it one of those horrible subterranean dm geons destroyed in 1780 by the humane command of Louis XVL He had a companion in trouble who had formerly worked as a stone mason; together they succeeded in making a breach in the wall of their cell, tkene© following a ditch connected with the sewerage of the prison they broke into the oeuar of a neighboring house. Here, however, fortune ceased to befriend them; Car­ touche was re&erested while endeavoring to leave the house aid placed in closer custody before. His trial went foi r/ard with unexam­ pled rapidity, and on Ww» 96,1791, CartoaA Mid four of Ms companions were ordered to be broken on the wheeL after having been previously submitted to the question ordinary and extraordi­ nary, with the view of extorting con­ fession. Theprocet verbal relating to O'artouoh reports the application of the question in the form of the brodeguins or boots, these were wooden frames fitted to the legs, into which wedges of increasing size were forcibljWriven un­ til the legs of the suftarer were reduced to a pulp. On the application of tbe first, second, and third wedge, answered that he was innocent. At the fourth anewered that he knew not what they were speaking of. At the fifth that he was innocent--was dying. At the sixth that he had done all that was required of him; had done no wrong; was dying. At the seventh, was innocent--no ac­ complices, At tbe eight and last, was innocent Although he thus refused to oonfesa under torture, he became communica­ tive enough when he reached the scaf­ fold, protesting, however, much to Us credit, that he had never robbed a church, although often incited to do so by DueljateleC He absolved his own family with especial earnestness from any share in his misdoings. He re­ trained from denunciations, even of those who had deserted or betrayed excepting only Duchatelet, toward whom he evinced intense scorn and natred. But in revenge he was unspar­ ing in respect to the spies and receiver* of the gang, whom he denounced by the **e avowed himself the head and chief of the numerous band, so long the terror of the capital, an assertion amply confirmed by the confusion ">•* IMMN cipline, which on hjg d606&$@ t>6M2X&0 suddenly perceptible to the ranks of crime. To the last two questions flfl* dressed to Mm, whether any person of condition belonged to his band, and whether he had ever accepted bribes to murder, he replied emphatically in the negative. Cartouche's was the first of & long series of executions. For several month the Place de Greve saw some un­ fortunate wretch hanged or broken. His name and memory seemed to engender roobers, and it was a long before Centennial Ballroadl Fares, It ia time to aay that the success of the Centennial exhibition is gravely im­ periled. First--There will be on the opening day--the 10th of next month--aUserious lack of American furniture at hand, and some of the foreign departments will be in partial chaos. Second--The inefficient methods of advertising adopted by the Centennial Commission, with no positive assurance against local extortions, have set people at thinking twice about spending tneir money at the big show. Third --The railroad companies have made an extraordinary blunder in reduc­ ing their passenger rates to and from Philadelphia only twenty-five per cent. Negro minstrel troupes and opera and theatre companies can get belter terms any time of the year. 'the managers of the Exhibition have in some directions" displays*! tsnprecs- dented abilities and resources,. The buildings are excellent. Many arrange­ ments for pubMc convenience, health and comfort, which were wanting at London, Paris and Vienna, are nearly completed at Philadelphia. But it is a great pity if Gov. Hawley, the President of the Centennial Commission, and Mr. Welsh, the President of the Centennial Board of Finance, have been so much engrossed by the details of their respect­ ive departments as to omit any endeavor to cheek the apprehensions which exist all over the eounfcty that "it will cost to© much to go to the big show." That widespread apprehension to *hi« effect prevails, is a fact that there is no use in concealing. It is testified to by our oountxy exchanges from all quarters of the Union, and by railroad agents in divers plaoes. These are hard times. Western and southern merchants would Mke to unite with their business in New York a visit to the Centennial exhibi­ tion with their families; but if prioes are too high, wives and children will stay at home. The promoters of stock shows and country fairs are everywhere holding out unuBtial inducements to keep the country people from spending their money outside of their own neighbor­ hoods. The railroad companies' should an­ nounce half-rates immediately, and the Centennial Commission should publish an authoritative schedule of li ving prices at and near Philadelphia. --New York World. A Cure for Strikes. This Is the war between labor and capital--capital continually withdrawing itself from healthful work because it is afraid of losing its prioe, continually at difference with its one friend, wthcmt whom it must perish ; labor striking, demanding shorter time, more wages, dictating imperious rules about piece­ work and apprentices, quarreling with its one friend, without • whom it must die or seek the poor-house. To adjust these differences Is the problem of the day. „ One way out of the difficulty is to make the laborer a capitalist. The savings bank is the chief aid in this di­ rection. Lot t^e worker put a pwt of his earnings in a bank, and he becomes a capitalist in a small way. He learns to view the subject of interest and divi­ dends with the eyes of a lender, and he is straightway jealous of his capital and its rights. He joins the other party, and, ̂ belonging to both,. he the more readily sees that it is for the interest of both to work together. Education is offered as another solution. Give the workingman a business education, and he learns to see and understand the laws that govern the movements of wages and interest. Finally comes the idea of co-operation--the giving the laborer a share in the guidance and profits of the work, the union of capital «.nd labor in any particular 'aiaciertaking. Co- operation is, in theory, the most sensi­ ble and the most just solution to thiM question that has been offered. la practice, it has been attended with ssvery iisa^iasbiG degree of success and Mm It . been repeatedly tried in every feaadi of badness, both here and in Jferope. In a certain way, it I® already in active operation through the agency of savings banks, loan, friendly, and building associations, and insurance companies. But, as these are usually managed, they are not wholly co-ope­ rative in a commercial sense. In the case of savings banks, the laborers con­ tribute to the capital and have no oon- trol over it, while capitalists manage the Mittds for a safety, or an extra dividend, or other consideration, over and above the interest paid to the real owfMts of the money.--Soribner for May. Cost of a Trip to the CestenMslL A correspondent of the Chicago Timm has figured the matter out, and places the cost of a round trip, via the Balti­ more and Ohio road, " to the Oentennial, as follows: 1. Kxcnraloo ticket Chicago to Philadelpba and return |s 00 3. Post meals going, $8 Oft; fonr meala r*. taming, |S 00--total 3. Sapper, lodging and breakfast la PhfliuM- pfaiaoMdv sso i. Street oar fare, two trtpa 14 S. Admteaton to expoaftton. 00 I. Moon hmofc in Centennial grogada SO 6 00 as Total ooct of ten and one daj at expoattlon. .|40 Steeping-easr, doable barth, aaclt way |S 00... 10 tarn. ., | Each additional day at eapoaHion as per Hema 3, 4,Sand«.. 3 M From the above statement it will be seen that a person can go to the Center nial by this line, with first-class aooom- modattons, and remain ten days at a oo»t of f78.40---with sleeping-car, $83.40-- two persona, occupying the double berth. 8166.60. Aattdete for Battlesuake Bile* A writer in the Si Augustine (Fla.) Press says that a postoffioe agent travel­ ing in Text*, tells of the successful use of the gall of a rattlesnake as an anti­ dote for the bite of that reptile. In the case apOken of relief was almost instan­ taneous to the patient, who wag writhing in wuroxysms of great pain, rapidly swelling and becoming purple. A friend oi the writer, who had spent sev­ eral vemB in California and New Mexioo, saw the same remedy successfully used among the Indians in the latter country. In one instance an Indian's dog near the camp was bitten in the nose by a large rattlesnake. The Indians immediately opened the reptile and administered the The cure was mpidaad eifaotaiai. rai cmroi AT HOME. Vh«fr Court* of l4aw sad InatriuMBts of Punlatimeut-- An Iatotoating Ffotaro of Mongol CWliittai. [Shangbae Car. New York Woild.1 • To faragnars who are not famiiUr with the actions of courts of justice (so- called) in China, some account of them may be interesting, I was about to call them courts of law, but that seemed even more a misnomer than the one I have adopted, and should I confine myself strictly to the subject I ihonld perforce take my model from Miss Edgeworth's chapter on the snakes of Ireland and write, " there are 110 laws in China," for this is very near the truth. The Chinese have nothing that can be called a code or system or law. Some years ago a gentleman in the British consular service, well qualified to make the investigation, attempted to ascertain what the commercial laws of China are, but his researches were followed by no satisfactory result. There are some old usages and customs which the magis­ trates follow when it suite them to do so, but the purely civil business of the courts is very small, ordinary business difierences being settled by compromise between the parties or by the guilds, of which every business or industry hm one. Even the professional thieves have their organization, whioh is well, known to the police. These guilds have very considerable power over their members, and, indeed, form a part of the machin­ ery of government. No Chinaman of ordinary experience will take a civil claim before a magistrate if he can avoid it. Asa preliminary, he must fee all the runners and hangers-on of the yamen or court-room after which he must be prepared to pay a handsome bribe to the magistrate, having always the en­ couraging consciousness that the ad­ verse party may outbid him. Even should he succeed in obtaining a judg- ment, he is by no means certain that it will be executed, as a judicious use of Money on the other side may open the eyes of the magistrate to the injustice of his first decision, and induoe him to treat it mi a nullity. (Mmimi jurisdiction is exercised much in the same manner. There is some­ thing called criminal law, but it is very imperfect and of little practical value. The same system of bribery that prevails in the trial of civil cases is found quite as effectual in criminal proceedings. If a wealthy of influential crimina should be oonricted, which is not often the ease, he can buy immunity from pun­ ishment, except in* the case of political offenders and others of a nature. Besides, even in the case of punishment, one is never quite sure that the sufferer is really the guilty man, for money in China can induoe a poor starveling to take a flogging, and the convicted crimi­ nal by paying a few " cash " is tortured by proxy,, Thfc may seem an statement, but it is not an exaggeration. One is constantly reminded of the ac­ counts of the administration of justice in the " Arabian Nights* Entertain­ ments," and decisions, that seem to ns monstrous, are bought and quietly sub­ mitted to with the same stolidity which characterizes the victims of the stories, only here they have no hope of the timely interference of a good roun a! Baschid. As if to form a startling contrast to the deficiencies of the preliminary proceed­ ings, every arrangement is made for speedy punisment, and as the condemned passes out of the yamen he passes into the hands of the executioner, wno stands ready, in the court-yard, with his lash, the eatigue, the cage or the axe, as the case may require. Perhaps I can remind your readers in no better way of how far back in the history of civilization one has to go in order to estimate correctly that of the Chinese, than by describing some of the instruments of punishment still m use among them. The cangue, "which is used for minor offenses, is a heavy board about three feet square, having a hole in the middle large enough to fit around a man's throat: the board is made to divide in the middle, and being placed upon the offender, is closed and locked, leaving only his head above the aperture. Look­ ing at the man in a sitting posture, every­ thing below the oangue being concealed by if, ona ismaamied <rf the pioturas of the head of Jbhit the Baptist on a charger,, ' This being worn night and day, allows the man no sleep except what he gets toy resting his head baokwards on the edge of the oangue, and in the season o£ flies and mosquitoes the culprit is a helpless victim to their tortures, as the eangue is of such proportions as to preclude all possibility of reaching the head and face with the hands. The ludicrous element of this kind of punishment, which to an Anglo-Saxon would, in itself, be exquis­ ite torture, has no foroe whatever with a Chinese thief. In the punishment of the "cage" there is no element of absurdity. It is literally a cage just large enough to con­ tain & man, inclosed with bars on all aid m and on the top, the floor only being solid The condemned is tied up by the arms so that his toes barely touch the floor, with a burning tropical sun besting upon his unprotected head; and he is there left, without food or water, to be gased at by a gaping crowd until death oomes to his relief. There is no such thing as a Chinese bar to conduct esses hi court, and the witnesses are not under oath; moreover, perjury, as a crime, is not recognised, although if a witness can be convicted of having by false testimony caused serious injury to another he may be punished, although I never heard of but one such oaae. That was a case in whioh Chinese witnesses testified in a British court against a prisoner chsrged with murder, and afterwards admitted that not only was the prisoner innooent, but that no murder had been committed. The Con­ sul before whom the case was tried ex­ erted himself to the utmost to have the false witnesses punished, but only suc­ ceeded in procuring a sentence of two months8 imprisonment, snd that probably never executed. BOS OUT YOUR ROPF, Omd»sfamafa lacy boy Tol % : 'V t \ , ' % t J,d'f I f'i, V 1 *SP •iHm < • >« «» m « x ' ' • J!?0*1 H n̂ahonted In Ma ®oy, hoe ont yonr row." Aithangft s « hard omr, „ B^ioatag fjdi to-«tuL« I can, " aMd he, aad Ueaelse« again hla hoe, And the good man onlled to SM Th« boy hoe ont hia row ^ * The lad the text remembered!*'* \ 5 - " % • ™A"cl Prove(J *h© moral well, ' ' ' . -li..viThat perseverance to the end t At laat will nobly tell. L, ^ Take ^onrage, man! resolve you eas,"*?"*'*' Auu ituiw a VifiutuSi uiuw - , - ~ In life'a great field of varied'toD. ",f Alwaya "hoe ont yonr row.W' ?-.x . Pith and Point. AH intemperate pricier § 1 typo graphical errer. OAITORED battle flags should be df subdued colors. . , BOOKS most INFLNNNOFTD by hard am pockeirbuuks. THEHE are more dinners spoiled by the bad temper OF husbands FLW by the; poor cooking of wives. ATTNR (in alarm)--"Surely you've eaten enough, haven't you, Tommy?" Tommy (in doubt)--" F-f-feel me ! LMT the youth who stands at. a bar with a glass of liquor in hia hand consider which he had better throw away-- liquor or himself. WASHINGTON has now got to be a city of considerable sighs; which doubtless accounts, -says Spilkins, for making it once more the Ah, me I headquarters. THB Britons whis?»er confidentially to each editor " Hif thin Weston is such A bloody himmense pedestrian, why doesn't 'e foot 'is hexpenses, you know ? A MASSACHUSETTS girl had an attack of the look-jaw from NMNG chewing-gum. After the physician had given let up, somebody called her M red-headed," and that cured her. POTMOAK--"Your dog's very fat, sir. Pray what do you feed HUM on!" Trav­ eler--" Well, he has NO particular meals; but whenever I take a glass of ale I give Mm a biscuit, you know!" WRY the English should be continual­ ly singing "God save the Queen" is more wan a reasonable man can conjec­ ture. It is always advisable to save the Jack; but the queen only counts two for game, and is always a good esrd to throw away. SOME people seefli to be ©xtreihely sensitive. At one of the churches, Sun­ day, the minister read the prayer for a person in deep affliction, and a man who had just been married got up and went O'tib,, His yisiu, public sympathy obtruded on him in that way. --Norwich Bulletin, SCENE on an English railway txain*; No. I--"Battier remarkable, ain't it, sir ? But 'ave you never noticed as mostly all the plaoes on this line begins with an 'H?'" No. 2--"Aw--'beg your pardon." No. 1---" Look at 'em. Ampstead, 'Ighgate, 'Ackney, 'Omer- ton, Bndon, 'Arrow, 'Olloway, and'Orn- sey.:--Punoh. PBOVIBKNOS is at war with hair dye, and sooner or later punishes the man who uses it. "Bill Smalley," shrieked a Kansas belle, suddenly jerking her shoulder from ander her lover's head and spilling him ignominiously on the floor, " you emit make a filler of me no more--your hair smells like old iron filin'S. --Brooklyn Argue. Perverted Phraeea. Walpole is credited with the sweeping censure, "AH men have their pr ice!" What lie did say, referring to oertain venal statesmen of the time, was, " All those men have their price." Neither did Jefferson say of office-holders: "Few die and none resign;" but he came pretty near it, saying, in the mat­ ter of vacancies: " Those by death are few ; br resignation none." SNOW-FLAKES. Whenever a snow-flake leaves the aky, IttUraa and turna to aay " Good-bye! Good-bye, dear cloud, BO oool and gray! * Then lightly travels cm ito way. And when a snow-Hake finds a tree, " Good-day!" it Bays--•" Good-day to thee I * Thou art BO bare and lonely, dear, IU reat and call my comrades here." But when a snow-flake, brave and meek. Lights on a rosy maiden^ cheek, It atarts--*' How warm and soft tha day 1 T ia summer! "--and It melta sway. --St. Nicholas for May. » : DUBXNO the drizzling rain yesterday a Woodward avenue car jumped the track and almost struck the curbstone. The driver said he'd have it back on the track iu about a slants, but the only lady on the car at once stepped off into the rain. " You'll get wet--jWd better atay in- side," called the driver. " Never mind the rain," she pleasantly replied. " The car is off the track, and I don't wish to remain where my piesenoe would act as a check on any emphatic remarks whioh those half-dozen gentlemen may desire to make/'--Detroit Free Frew. A TOUNG blood of San Francisoo, much given to quizzing people, went into a restaurant the other day, and with a great flourish took a seat at one of the tables. A waiter approached. "What have you got to eat? asked the custom­ er. "Oh, got almost everything." "You have, eh?" "Yes, sir." "Al­ most everything; will you give me a plate of that? "lie said, looking earnest­ ly at the waiter. The waiter returned his gase, and, cmtahing the fellow's idea of quizzing himt he yelled to the cook at the farther end of tbe raosu VOae plate of hash!" ., > A Vexas Xndde&f. The Waco (Texas) Framine*, of the 4th inst ,has a paragraph headed,Neat­ ly Done," which reads: " A young man living some tan or fifteen miles above the city was awakened one night recent­ ly by the suspicious barking and growl- ingof his dogs in the yard. Basing lightly from bed, he peeped ont through the window pane, and there sure e^Oiigh, he discovered the cause of the disturb­ ance. Dimly outlined in the moonlight stood the form of a man. With one hand he was evidently untying the gen­ tleman's fine horse, which stood haltered for the night, while with the other he held a six-shooter, pointing directly at the front door. Taking in the situation at a glance, our young friend gently reached for Ms shot-gun, and, passing out at the back door and round the oor- ner, onened the attack from an unex­ pected and' wholly ungarded quarter. Under this skillful generalship the ene­ my came down while in the act of mount­ ing, and -without even so much as re­ sponding to the fixst fire. The deceased was buried without tike honors of either peaoeorwar." ^ " V. HB.fi .LL" are the new initial* bf the Queen--" Victoria Regina "Brit.an. niieet ladorum Imperatrix."