for Spring It purifies 'the blood ~ and improves the tone of every ofgan in the body. ~ A teaspoonful in. a glass of water in the morning after breakfast. Sold by all druggists. THE DAILY WHIG, TUESDAY, APRIL 20. a ---- i ---- : i CRIMINIAL EXECUTIONS HOW THEY ARE STILL 'PER- "FORMED IN 'PRUSSIA. Seventeenth Century Methods Pre- wail-The 'Axe and Block Are Seventeentd century methods still prevafl in Prussia in the matter of the execution of criminals, The man sgn tenced thére to suffer eapifal punish- ment is led to the fatal block, and his bead is chopped off with identically the same sort of ax as that which was used to put a period to the career of Charles I. in the Tower of London on that fateful 30th of January 252 years go. Practically the only difference between the twentieth century execu. tion and that of the time of Cromwell is that the condemned - not put to death publicly. In many parts of the Seman empire the guillotine has taken the place of the gallows and the block, but in Prus sin old fashipved justice clings tena. clously to thie old. fashions, and not the rope nor the sutomatic knife nor the power of electricity has been able to cial implement of death, concession maile to modern sentient is in the gard of the executioner. This functionary does not, as in the earlier times, dress in doublet and hose and bide his emsanguined identity be- bind a frightsqgne mask. Instead, he JEWELRY BY MAIL. If there is a post office in neighborhood and you fave a Jo '8 jewelry want of any kind, we can sepply it almost as well as ou visited us im one He #0 much to We all delivery gharges. and of if what we send does not please you in every Bp ular, return it, and by "mext mal we will tharrully refund your money. I RYRIE BROS. appears at- the execution garbed in a frock coat of sbmber hue and correct cut, and he wears upon his head, even when delivering the death stroke, a tall silk hat. His thgree assistants are sim- flarly attired. Why this gard was chosen no one can say authoriimtively. It is one of those things the origin of which ap- pears to bave been forgotten with the originators. But it is the lawful cos tume, prescribed in the regulations, which apply also to the twelve civil fan witnesses who! must attend an ex. ecution, with the result that a stranger witness is unable go say until the ax has fallen which af the other fifteen silk hatted, frock coated individuals grouped about him is the man whe lives by death. FLOWER AND TREE. Keep begonias where the air fs not too dry, and they will not drop their leaves. In watering house plants sufficient should be given to soak the soil thor oughly. A tree is nearly dormant in winter, especially one that has been lately transplanted, Plants in a dormant state require very little water during the winter, and an excess will cause decay. Drenching rosebushes with strong quassia tea fs a good curativk of bugs and other destructive insects and pests, To root cuttings quickly ill a saucer full of sand, into which the slips may be set. Keep the sand the consistency of mud. Never give up a decaying rosebush until you have tried watering it two or three times a week with soot tea for a short time. Repotting of plants becomes neces sary for two reasons--the plant uses up the available fertility in the soll and fills the pots with roots. To prevent crotched trees from split- ting after they come into bearing twist and fasten two small limbs together, and as the stem grows it will prevent splitting. Cuttings of quick growing herbace- ous plants, lke heliotrope, verbena, phlox, geraniums, root quickly, chrys- anthemums quickest of all. Choose cnttings when the plants are most vig: porous. Quaint Plea For a Pension, All sorts of special pleas have heen made In applications for pensions. One of the most ludicrous was made in Portland. When the applicant was asked is he ever served in the army or navy, he sald, "No" Asked as to what grounds he based his application on, he said that be was in eastern Or egon when the Indians went on the #varpath; that in making for a point of safety he and some other men were at- tacked by the Indians, one of the other men being killed and another wounded. d on account of the fleetness He of his horse, but the encounter caused Mm such excitement that he had had displace the bypoadax as the law's offi- | HER BEST FRONT. Way of Displaying One's Personal Adoriments. It was at Nantucket one summer hat a city vistfor jearned a uew way of displaying one's pérsonal adornments during a call upon one of the mative Nantucketers. It was a uice old lady who was entertaining the strangers, snd. she was very anxious that they should see everything to advantage and that even she herself should make as good an appearance as possible, Un. fortunately she had not been forewarn- New ed of the visit and was not entirely | prepared for it. "If 1 had only known you were com- ing." she sald apologetically, "1 should have had on my best front. This is only my second best, but you can see the other when you go out, for I al ways keep it in the front room." Surely enough, on taking their leave, the visitors were plioted through the front room, and there in the inside of the melodeon, when a heavy green ba. to carry out. After much pressing, however, they consented, laying down as a condition that they should be al- lowed to keep a bottle of "Auld Kirk" for medicingl purposes. About a. fort. J. night afterward John began to feel his resoldtion weakening, but he was de- termined mot to be the first to give way. In another week, however, he col lapsed entirely. "Jenny, woman," he said, "I've an awfu' pain in my heid. Ye michbt gie me a wee drapple an' see gin I'll dee me ony guid." "Well, gndeman," she replied, "ye're owre late o' askin', for ever sin' that bottle cam' inte the hoose I've been bothered sae wi' pains I' my held 't is &' dune, an' there's nae drappie left." Fhe Bug Bible, The bug Bible was printed in 1540 by the authority of Bdward VI, and its curiosity lies in tbe rendering of the fifth verse of the Ninety-first Psalm, which, as we know, runs "Thou shalt not be afrald for the ter: ror by night nor for the arrow which flieth by day," but in the above ver sion ran, "So thou shalt not nede to be afraid of any. bugges by night." Ludierous as this sounds, it is not etymologically without justification. "Bug" is derived from the Welsh word "bwg," which meant a hobgoblin or terrifying specter, a signification trace. able in the word commonly in use to- day~--"bugbear"--and Shakespeare once or twice uses the word in this primary sense, notably when he makes Hamlet ri "Such bugs aud goblins in my e. Fine China, Fine china needs care In washing and drying and should never be placed in nervous or indifferent hands, Treat ed lovingly, china will last for years and even generations. Only a piece should be put in the tub at one time, the soap should be made Into suds be- fore putting anything in, and the wa- ter must be very warm, not hot. Fi. nally rinse in water that's just the same--warm. A good supply of fine, soft towels Is A necessity, and, thus equipped, the washing of china is not a hard task. Ohina will shine beauti- fully it wiped out of clear warm wa- ter, : Looking and Seeing, 18 much in knowing how to sights. The diséreet and skillful n, when confronted with a varie ty of attractions, will carefully select those that are for him thé best ghd then will devise means to see them with the least wear and tear. But there are excitable people who set out to see everything, tire themselves out, see only half of anything and are dis. satisfied in the end. Easily a Good Thing. "Did you say that hair restorer is a good thing?" asked the patron, "Yes," answered the barber, with some slight hesitation; "it's a good thing. We sell several bottles a week at a dollar a bottle," "But how do you know it's a good thing?" "Because the profit on every bottle 18.75 cents." His Fortune, "Whe is that handsome young man standing over there? inquired an old gentleman of a rich old lady at a party. "Fhat's my son-in-law, He's a very brilliant young man; made a large for tute by the law." "Indeed!" said the old gentleman. How's that?" : "The law made him my daughter's husband."~London Answers. RYE BREAD AND COFFEE STAPLE TOOD OF WORKING- MEN IN GERMANY. Butter is Practically Unknown to Him---Buys Bread in Enormous Loaves. The workingman fn Germany must have coffee, and plenty of it, and a lit- tle meat. Butter is practically wun- known to him, lard being used in its stead. He rarely uses milk, eggs or white flour, and he pever thinks of buying any of the.better cuts of meat. Canned goods, familiar to every Amer- lean worker, are absolutely unknown to him. His staple food is rye bread, which he buys In enormous loaves. His wife or Lis little girl goes to market for this bread and brings it home clasped In ber arms untrapped. I have seen a little tot of a towheaded girl stagger- ing homeward with a loaf almost as big as she was, and as she walked she | gnawed lustily at the flinty end of the loaf. Indeed I have heard it said that the eating of this bard crusted bread gives the German workman teeth of unequaled excellence. And this bread is good, thoroughly goody e government, which super vises everything and everybody, guards the rye bread of the people with jeal ous care. The bakers are watched, compelled to give full weight and make ber of different towns, and it was al- ways sweet to the taste and whole: some. This bread is fairly cheap, cost- fog usually from 35 to 50 pfennigs (9 to 12 cents) a loaf, though it, too, has risen in price with Increased demand. Upon this great loaf the German em- pire may be said to rest. All Germany has grown up on it. In dne form it is the basie ration of the German army, and many a peasant can live very well for d consldérable time though he has nothing else to eat. CANDLES. Vheir Mellow Light Is Fast Become ing bat a Memory. So markedly is the candle going out of use that the dictionary of a few years hence will probably have to sup- plement its definition with an illustra. tion. In the glow of electric light, gas and paraffin we are much disposed to pity our immediate forefathers who had to put up with candles. Yet we retain a strange respect for the candle In certain directions. When we wish to pay the highest reverence, we fall back upon it. The death cham- ber is lighted with candles. So is the church altar, We cannot but be forced alsg to the conclusion that higher ideas have been brought out and better mat. ter written by candlelight than have been or probably ever will be by that i of gag or electricity. Shakespeare could not possibly have written ail his plays by daylight, In. deed, it is more than probable that the touch of bohemianism in his composi- tion, as ip that of his watered down | literary descendants today, preferred night to day for turning out its best work. Hamlet's soliloquy upon the existing value of things, Portia's trib- ute to mercy and the advice of Polonius to Laertes as to the best way of con- ducting himself in life were probably written between the snuffings of a can- dle. In particular can one imagine the decisive snuffing and the contemptuous | tossing away of the scrap of burned wick at the close of the passage hypo- thetically disposing of "Cesar"s impe- rial day."=London Globe, A Theological Nowe. "I was once showing a young Japa- nese around Boston," says a correspond ent of The Living Church; "and casuak ly dropped into Trinity church with him. He was at the time a recent con- vert to Unitarianism in his own coun- try and was wide.awake to everything with American efvilization and American Christianity. "A few minutes after entering Trinity, as we approached the center aisle, I noticed him making a distinct sniffing and, looking toward him, saw that he was inh the act of smelling, his nostrils moving eonvulsively after the manner of an animal scenting some thing. Looking surprised and mysti- fied, 1 at once asked him what was the master, and In broken English be re plied, 'T smell paganism.' "This method of detecting false doe trines is capable of some curious de velopments." Human Traits In Birds, The human traits in birds are many, fs most sympathetic naturalists have d to ask + day, good bread. 1 have eaten it in a num. IN MEMORIAM, The Late Mrs. Joseph Hitchcock. Wa Hoo aot what ib ds, ee pother, this D cheeks we Thom opus that will ok. oben ax wv call and call Apd Fira white solitude of peace tales - over all But wo will hide your kwvimg memory i hearts, We'll follow in the pathway tha We'll make each day another » The staleway leading wp to vou a G The many sincere friends and ae guaintances of Mrs. Joseph Hitch cook will feel grieved and saddened on heaving of her death which took place at her home in Sunbury, 28th inst. They will sad! ize that a familiar face is gone and 'no_more. That the mother of five small children should be taken away in the prime of life, and in the height of her usefulness, instead of others, whose life work ie done, and to destn apparently would he a wel come release' from sorrow and suffer jing, is to us part of the inscrutable wavs of Providence. Scienti'n re search, profound reasoning and specu lative fancy are mute in its pres | and the bereaved can find consomtion nowhere except in the words of ou Saviour, Who said, "What I do thon knowest not mow © but thou shalt know hereafter a" The time, the place, and the man ner of the falling of the impenetrable curtain that separates the Ii ing the dead are appointed by infinite in telligence and infinite goodness, and il we cannot understand the reason we must not doubt His wisdom for God's ways are always ri ght . is over them all. Her chil he the sympathy of all iy re them or ever saw them. It would indee impossible to find more thle, teresting or intelligent children than they are. Of the large number of cul! ers during her long illness, none had anything but words of praise for the two oldest Little girls, for the way they waited upon their mother, doing most of the house work as well. The deceased was the fourth dauzh ter of the late Joseph Gordon, San { bury, and was thirty-six years of age She was married to Joseph Hitch f cock, about twelve years ago Her death was the result of consumption, following an attack of kidney trou ible. The best medical «kill and the assistance of a trained nurse part of the time were of no avail, and her death, though a sad one, was not un expected. Her remains will be dnuterred at the Sand Hill cemetery, where re pose those of her father and mother and several of the family who died young. Earth, rest gently on the bos om of thy weary child to thee re turning. whom ence from THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. { The Real Situation Will be Dis- closed Later. ». April 29.<A despatch = to from Paris, that the ministerialists ~~ won thirty-four and Jost twenty-three. Probably on the secotid ballits, they will Jose thix teen and win thirty-four. The minis tery with bem able-to ignore the votes of the revolutionary socialists elected Moreover, the nationalists in Varis polled 160.000 of the 400.000 votes cast, - whereas Gen. Boulanger Dyeuek 240,000 of the 320,000 votes Paris, April 20 shows, statistical! ment has an a "majority © twenty-five © in the chamber of depu ties. Other papers figures showing ex actly the opposite. The situgtion is well deseribed by a leading national ist, who says: "God alone knows the real situation, until the first vole in the chamber." The opinions of certain candidated it is mpossible to place exactly, but the latest yeturng ind cate the maintenance of the status quo. London, the Times, says "oats ais Tax May Be Abandoned. London, April 2.~In the house of commons vesterday the chancellor of the exchequer proposed with a view to removing the hardships of the extra penny stamp tax on cheques, that any persons presenting at any post offices any cheques for any sm, nuder £32 should be entitled to be puid an extra penny on all sich chognes. The chan etllor of the excheguer"s proposed con cession is considered by business men of both pelitical phrties. and appar ently sati nobody, It 3s axpectal that the tex will be abandoned alto- gether. Sustained The Magistrate. London, April 20.4 be elforts of the Protestant allisnee to expel the deswits from England, under the get of George IV., have gpgain failed. On appeal in the king's Bench division of the high court of fistior, the oni hel justice, lord Alverstione, wus tained the potion of 5 magisttate in refusing summonses avket for by them against eorial Jesuit an the ground t of mi Ferhat a Taurine voor with be heard DO NOT TAKE SUBSTITUTE. \When you ask for MONSOON be sure you get it, 40c. grade; it is the most delicious tea you can buy. {ul} INDO-CEYLON TEA THROAT AND CHEST The docto) . Tey ai when you can y shopping at low and often y pay for senti- Why not buy unt Money- Your sorts of names for throat and chest troubles, retty much the same in character after all. Tonsilitis, Asthma apd similar troubles are more or less related, and what- ever is good for one is goosd-for - the others. Omega. Oil accom- plishes wonderful things in troubles of the breathing organs. 'The beauty of it is that you can rub it in from the outside, and run no risk of swallowing or inhaling drugs that may cause internal troubles or injure the digestion. 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