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THE EXETER ADVOCATE, THU IISDAY, MAY 11, Mt
Hints for Busy Iiousekeepers.
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Recipea ated Other Valuable InforrnatIO/M
ef Particular lasterest ,to Woman, Polars.
BREAD.
Br read.---Foar exipfuls bra
lour, two cupfuls white flour, one
half teaspoonful salt, two roundin
teaspoonfels soda, two eggs bea
en light, two cupfuls buttermilk, si
tablespoeefule molasses, one -hal
'package seedless raisies. Mix wel
with hand and bake hi moderat
oven one hour. Try with a *tree
'before removing from oven. Bake
a deep bread pan in order to
retain moisture. This makes one
loaf and is good for eonstipation.
Breac1.—Early in the afternoen
previons to baking day take three
nooked potateee, mash with a spoon
in a are bowl, then add about
four heaping tablespoonfule of flour
and one teaspooeful of auger; mix
together, then seald with boiling
water, stirring, until smooth wad
thick, Dissolve half a yeast cake in
eels, with a little lukewarm water
when the mixture has eeoled unti
barely warm stir An the yeast an
place to rise in a fairly warm place
during the afternoon. At nigh
take two quarta of lukewarin
water, a tablespeonfel of salt, and
stir in as unieh llouras call be etir
red with a spoon, then add the
-t-east, which should „be' feamy an
iight. Cover warm by the stove till
morning if the weather is chin and
allow plenty of room for rising. In
the morning /Aix stiff with flour, let
it rise till twice the bulk, then mold
into loaves. Allow these to rise
till uearly twice the bulk, or fer
about an hour, then bake about one
ur in a inederate oven. This re
will make six medium sized
Before mixiug in the orn
ing if two ettlifUIS cd the mixture is
aside in a cool place it may be
used inste.e.c1 of the fresh yeast cake
for the next baking and will make
six more loaves.
Beisks.—Two cups raised dough,
elle cup sugar, one-half cup butter,
two well beaten eggs, flour enough
to make it a stiff &ugh; set it to
rise and when light nold into high
biseuits and set to rise again; place
es% even. •When done rub teps with
granulated sugar and milk and place
in ovcn to thy.
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eggs, half a cupful of sugar; cook
nntil it thickens, then add two
tablespoonfuls of gelatine dissolv-
ed in three of cold water; add one
te tablespoonful of vauilia. Put the
apricot jelly and the teistard into
a meld in alternate layees; allow
each layer to become thoroughly set
beforeladding the next. Serve with
a either plain or whipped cream," This
lookes pretty when niolded in sher-
bet glasses and served with a large
spooeful of whipped'eream on tete
FRUIT RECIPES.
Pineapple Dainty.—Dispose a
square of angel food irx a tall glass
and on this put a round of eanned
Piheanple. Add a little sugar and
lemon juice to the pineapple tuice
and cool; add enough marshino to
tint the syrup- (or tint with celor
paste or red raspberry juice) and
pour it over the pineapple and eake,
! Pipe whipped cream above the plea-
1- apple and finish with a cherry.
Serve at any time when ice create
t would be served,
Apple and Date Salad.—Pare and
-
core about three ehoice apples, Cut
. .
' them into matchlike pmces; there
should be about one pint, Squeeze
the juice of he,li a lemon over the
apple, Pour boiling water over half i
a pound of dates, separate them t
with a silver work, and skim out
upon an agate 4ish. Let them dry
off in e hot even. When eold cut
each date into four or five strips, N
i r*Cting the etime; sprinkle with 1
1 one-fourth a teaspoonful of salt and i
three or four tablespooufuls of olive
oil. Mix the apple and date awl
put aside in a cool place about an $
hour. When ready to serve add a
tablespoonful of lemon jniee and
one or two tablespoonfuls of oil if
the mixture seems dry, Mix titer- t
oughly. Serve in a bowl lineal with p
lettuce hearts. t
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TIE SUNDAY SC11001_ STUDY
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
MAY 14-
Isaiah's vision and call to service,
Isa. 6. Golden Text,
Ise. 6. S.
Verse L The year that king Uzzi-
ah died—The at date eanuot be
determined, and for our purposes
is not important. It is the event
itself, with all its stem meanirig,
and
its contrast to the exalted hea-
venly Snvereign, to which the pro-
phet calls our attention. The
splendor of Uzzialfs court, and th
triumphant success of his Ion
reign doubtless had inade a dee
.
impression upon the future pro
9. Hear . . . but understand not
—This, of course, ie to be the result
of the prophet's declaration of the
word. of God, but here it is describ-
ed as if it were a perpose. - There
is almost a contenapthous thrust in
the words, this people, as if Jehovah
were thoroughly disgusted with this
eallous geeeration,
10. Make the heart „ fat—The
stubborn rejection of the message
from God will result in their un-
feeling hearts becoming still more
unfeeling. The seeming ha,rslinees
of such a revelation is due to our
referring it to God, as if he willed
their spiritual death, But the mean-
ing is simply that the unbelief of
these people is nothing more nor
less than an incapacity for the Arill
of their Maker (Oompa,re Matt. 13.
14; Rom. lie 8).
11, How lone?—Isaiah is certain
g that this condition of things cannot
P continue indefinitely. Exteeminat-
- „„ , .
ing war, humiliating surougatide,
e and devastating exile, leaving maRY
fersalsea places in the laRd (12), can
s be the only aaswer. It is by such
e judgments that Jehevalh must bring
e. the people to their senses,
13. A tenth—In this doctrine of
5 the remnant of Israel the proPhete
feund special comfort and hope foe
'‘ the future (Isa. 1, 9; Amos 3).
The thought, is illustrated by the
Agure of the cleStruction of the tar-
peetine tree, and the oak, Thengh
the stump may be burped after the
s tree Ilas fallen, yet a priuciple of
vitality is likely to endure, So
Israel in ruins still bee hope be-
ef the iridestreetible enerk of
life teuteined th faithful reni-
Pant.
phet's imagination, The terribl
judgment which had befallea th
proud monarch, his hero, and hi
awful death, mast have,been a rad
shock to one who had basked in th
sunshine of this earthly sovereignty
It was at this critical motnent in hi
eareer that the vision el anothe
throae genie to him, on high an''`
lifted up abeve all that is human.
Ms train—The skirts of his gar
ments filled the entire Oaee of th
temple, the very place where Uzziali
bad committed his sin and met hi
fate.
a., Above 'din . . the. seraphim
nowhere else mentioned as angel;
beings, are here represented as the
attendants at the Laid, stand above
in the attitude of service. By
heir presence and actions they sug
gest the ineffable majesties of God.
They seein to have been at leaS
partly human in fOrin, with two
vinge eovering the face, that they
-eight not see, and with two cover -
ng the feet, that they "might no
be seen."
3. One eried mite another They
ens in antiphon, some crying,
Holy, holv, holy, a thrice repeated
t
ribute to the divine holiness (de-
noting a sense of distance, or eoe-
east to the imperfections of the
conic), and the rest responding, in
erms that describe the manifeeta-
ion of the divine holiness in na-
ure, and anticipate the universal
iffusion of his glory.
4, 'The foundations a the thres-
iolda—Meanieg, of the tern*,
Odell had been polluted by the hy-
°critical worship of the na.tion.
The smoke was not that of accep-
table sacrifice accompanying the
pure worship of the seraphs. It
was Iike the mist which arises when
fire and water come together, for
here the sanctity of the divine collies
in contact with the profanity of the
human. Compare Rev. 15. 8. The
smoke is a fitting antecedent of the
rising feeling in the prophet's mind
of the unworthiness of his people as
expressed in the following verse.
5-8—The impression made by the
vision,, the symbolic act expressing
the divine pardon, and the ready
response to the Lord's call to ser-
vice.
5. A man of unclean lips—He
would fain join in the praise ascrib-
ed to Jehovah, but he feels himself
deprived of the right because of his
mortal imperfections. These, in a
ma.n standing upon the threshold of
a prophetic career, would most na-
turally show themselves in the lips,
the organs of speech.
A people of unclean lips—Their
worship, in startling contrast to
that of these sinless seraphs, seem-
ed to Isaiah corriipt and profane:
Their lips, and, therefore their acts
of worship,, were impure and unac-
ceptable, because their lives were
so. The man whose eyes had rested
upon the august presence, of the
Respectable German Girls ,Want King could no longer tolerate the
practice of sinning socially and pee
litically, and then trying to wor-
ship God.
G. -A live coal—This was a simple
domestic device for transferring fire
from the hearth ,to the place where
it was required. Thus it supersed-
ed the intricate and clumsy_ cere-
monies ordinarily "connected with
sacrifices for sin in the temple.
Isaiah in his own altar he acts his
Lord. In that divine presence
SALADS.
Shrimp and Tomato.—Cut a piece
from the blossom ed of each fair
ripe tomato of fair size ani dig out
the pulp: Fill the -cavity thus made
with cold boiled shrimps (canned
are good for the purpose). Arrange
them neatly with the backs up. Line
chilled dish with endive or with
lettuce leaves and set the tomatoes
-within these. Or lay each upon a
separate bed of the leaves upon in-
dividual plates. In either case
'send around mayonnaise dressing
-with it in a sauceboat. Crab salad
—Make as above, using crab meat
instead' of shrimps.
White Fruit Salad—One can pine-
apple, diced; one can California
white cherries, stoned; one pound
white grapes halved and seeded;
three bunches celery, -white part
only, cut fine; 1.5 cents' worth Eng-
lish walnuts, blanched. Dressing:
Yolks three eggs, beaten stiff; three
eat.—_—_,--beaping teaspoonfuls sugar; a pinch
of mustard, salt, and pepper; stir
in this six tableepoonfuls boiling
vinegar; stir over fire until thick,
add one teaspoonful butter. When
ready to. serve add one pint whip-
ped cream; itix with fruit.
Beauty Salad.—Cut in small piec-
es six oranges, mix with half a can
of sliced pineapple diced. Add a
dozen of marshmallows cut into
bits, then add broken English wal-
nuts. On each salad plate place a
lettuce leaf and some of the salad,
dot over with mayonnaise dressing.
This has been pronounced delicious,
besides, beine°a beautiful decora-
tionain colorfor the table.
PUDDING.
• Noodle Custard„—Boil in boiling
salt water for twenty minutes ahOut
half a pound of dry noodles, drain,
cover with cold water, and deain
again. Now in another dish make
a custard of two eggs, beaten, two
cups sweet milk, two tablespoonfuls
sugar, butter size of walnut. Put
this over the noodlesand bake
about half an hour. Serve warm.
,.Extra nice if eaten with sweet
cream.
, Sago Custard —Boil sago, in
onble boi1ei, wi.th milk (a's you do
rice) until done. In a bowl beat
;:,hne or -two eggs,, add two scant tea-
spoonfuls flour, one-half cup milk,
tittle nutmeg, -Add this -to the
oiling sago, and let it boil until
.10.iiek. Serve hot, with -or without
hill( or cream. '
'Apricot, Pudding --A dainty mud -
g, -the colors being, gold and
'lei, can be made in the follow --
Manner : Boil, one pound dried
icots Until tender; press through
eve; return, to the fire with one
'4,W-ek, then add
yetehe
iseolved in three.
'Water, and -stir
ed; Terf10170,
USEFUL HINTS.
Zinc or tin, if badly diseolore
may be cleaned with a paste et
whiting and paraffin.
A cheap red coloring for cookery
made' thus: Chop a large beet-
root very fine and pour a little boil-
ing water ever; strain and use.
If after frying fish a slice of toast
be put into the fat for about two
minutes and then taken out, any-
thing may be fried in it. and it will
not taste of the fish.
If a few dreps of glycerine he ad-
ded to the starch for linens, it will
be found that the iron will not stick,
and that the linens will have a
beautiful gloss after they have been
ironed.
Old pieces of velveteen make ex-
cellent polishing -cloths and tan be
used instead of chamois skin. When
sailed, wash in soapy water and dry
without rinsing.
To ttst nutmegs, prick them with
a pint and if they are good -the oil
will instantly spread around the
puncture.
If the handles of ivory knives gir
spotted, dip a chamois, skin7n.
water, then in powdered 'pumice,
and rub hard.
When making fruit pies', damp
the edge with milk instead of water.
It holds better, and the juice is not
so liable to bail over.
COMING TO CANADA,.
OLD WEDDING KNIVES.
w Seneeintens Left of This 0 c
Connuou Olft to Widen-
reOlifesthheelomnagiligdationtyolad":eutlEdfQinugs
nstems none is more intereeting
and beautiful than the once in-
despensable hride knives, speei-
mens of which still Huger here and
there among the cabinets of old
country houses, says The Queen.
OF you may discover a slender,
quaint old pair of these ancient
posy kniyes in their delicate, faded
eases, hiding behind the glass in
some sleepy, provincial museum.
You scarcely realize as you ex-
amine them that without her wed-
ding knives duly attached to her
girdle the mediaeval and seven-
teenth century bride would hardly
havo considered herself dressed. So
• completely a part of the marriage
costume were they and so import-
ant an item of the ritual of the
ceremony that they once came to
be considered almost as accessary
to, an orthodox Inarriage as the veal
and the ring itself. The old plays
teem with allusions to them.
And who can forge thefigure of
Suliet, wearing her wedding knives,
as she stands in tragic anguish in
the friar's cell, and again when she
is aboat to take the sleeping po-
tion'? Shakespeare in the old quar-
to of 1597 made special reference to
his heroine, wearing them.
Of the 101 delicate trifles of the
ancient wedding toilet; few were
invested with more tender fancies
or mystic symbolism than these
knives; there was the idea of the
severing of the knot of love, and
then the more practical suggested
emblem of good housewifery and
domestic policy.
They were not worn in England
alone, but all over Europe wedding
knives formed part of the bride's
regular accoutrements. The high-
est invention was often brought to
bear upon their metal, brocadeand
shagreen eases and sheaths. ,In the
old Flemish pictures they may be
seen hanging from the ladies' gird-
les beside the bodkin, scissors and
'other personal articles of the new
wifee
Very beautiful indeed are some
of the quaint old blades and hand-
les, and all were of superior qual-
ity and artistic ornament. As the
rank ,of the bride rose so they
became more elaborately chased,
and sometimes they were jewelled
.to a standard of immense, value. It
is very curious to learn that many
of the finest English specimetis
emanated eveni in those remote
days from Sheffield.
The precise origin of the custom
of 'wearing wedding knives is lost
in obscurity, -but their decline from
favor seems to have set in after the
reign of William and Mary. In the
time of Anne and the earl- Georges
the custom was , alreadyobsolete
and archaic. There is something
almost mysterious in the way in
which these heautiful little memen-
toes have completely' vanished from
Torilywth h
odcourrnreusage, PPteae1
rIngiift
a7,1laneesi
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Stuarts.
Husbands.
Helene, 'a sturdy German frau-
lein, writes the editor of the Ber-
lin Tageblatt thus: "Since the Ger
man Government pays no attention
whatever to the colossal surplus of
young German girls, and as the
high price of meat is making it in-
creasingly difficult for respectable
German girls to get married,* the
girls of our circle have unanimous-
ly decided to become British sub-
jects and to emigrate to Canada in Isaiah in his own itar ; he acts his
order that the aspirations of the guilt in his own person, and so he
Canadian bachelors may be grata. feels the expiratory fire come to his
fied. We do mot see.why the yoting very self directly from the heavenly
English women should snatch the hearth."
best catches from under the very
:noses of us German girls. I see
by the papers that there are 50,000
eligible bachelors ie. Canada, with-
out suitable ferdnine a,cquaint-
ances." Helene goes on to say that can understand from this act, which
7. This hath touched thy lips —
$ince, he feels all his sin concen-
trated there,' it is fitting the Puri-
fying ...fire should thus be applied
to the organ of expression. We
when German young womanho,od brought him the assurance that Ins
has emiera,tecl bodily, and became iniquity was forgiven, and upon the
British, the old country vvill eee simple condition of penitent confes-
what a mistake it made in refusing sion, why Isaiah railed against the
the franchise to these once loyal costly and elaborate ritual service
and desirable subjects. b which, his people thought they -
could propitiate an offended ,Ged
JAPAN EiNIPElit),P, SACRED.
Until 1870 it was-agaanst the Jaw
and sacred custon, for .any sulpject
to look at the Emperor -of Japan:
His political 'advisers -and attend-
ants only saw his back. When he,,
first' left the palace the shutters of
all the houses had to he drawn and
no one was permitted in the streets.
Even to -day, when the emperor has
the •priyil,ege of driVing through the
otie4fthis enhj ects
is no cosidore qiute prope1l
a-st
(Isa. 10-17),
8. heard the.voic of the Loo ,
His sin, being 'remove it as pose
sible for hirn to , come into direct:
conninuniaation with God, andnot
depend 'upon `the- medium' of "sera-
phim.,, And what he heard WaS.not
a commarid, butan entreatyla aria
he answers, not 'under eampeilsion„,
but with unhesitating freedeiligr'
9:me-Isaiah? s ,conmaiesion
; the ,ontecirae,„ first,ttert e,ene
haidetled,p,"4;614'
u iejudg en'to
THE • WORLD,,' S "81!.I.dEP FLOCKS
e'
ust r s the worldnsheep
'farthing,' aceordina to the fbllowing
statement; Australia, .)87,04;.3,236,;;
Argentina 77 581 100. Russia, 58
510;03 ; United States, 54,631,000;
'United Kingdom, 30,011,833i New
Zealand,.' 52t4,19 053., Iriclia ,18 029
181; ?ranee, 17,401,379;, Sirain '10,-
119,951 ; CaPe: Geed Hope, 14,-
848 795-, T.Triigttay, ' tt3r915' 796
10877,900; Anistrialt.,,. nngary,'
43,707.- The yeS•ttrfiated ' capita).
'value of 't ,Aestetilie eflocks is 1
e220;e52,400,-: and.' ht nual:,'gross
THE NORTH AND SOUTH POLES SENTENCED TO STRANGLING
REIIAIIE-ABLE STORIES TOLD THE METIIOD 1S yEgy
PUtoUS Exmognis,, AR TO .SPAiNl$ .GAROTTE. "
Both the Arctic and Antarctic Reg -
1011$' Are the eVry Reverse
of Quiet.
On Polar seas the ice, though
thick aad solid as granite rocksais
hardly ever still. There are tides
in the Arctic. and Aetarctic oceans
nnd t mae 1ft and lower the huge
ice fields causing low ereaking,
groaning noises.
Even as late as November the
Pack will wake up without learning
and pile itself in huge heaps with
indescribable erashings, groaaings,
and Dealings.
During his last maccessful jour-
ney Captain Peary's ship was in
terrible danger from a suddea
movement of the floe. He speaks
of the "rabid roar" of the "tumid,-
ingchaos of ice blocks." His
Eskimos were terribly frightened,
and set up weird howlings, The
dogs whined and harked, and the
iloW4, Was terelae,
Every Arctic explorer give
shailar aceounte. Captain Hall,
who led the Polaris expedition,
bad an appalmg experience, He
speaks of masses of ice eolliding
around the ship with a -series of
^ TERRIFIC CRASHES.
The Polaris herself was "nipped,"
and there followed such a terrible
rending and groanmg that every-
one aboard was eorivineed that she
was going to the bottom, and the
crew all hut twelve men were
ordered ant on to the ice, •
They apent 196 days on a drifting
floe, whieh -carried them 1,500miles.
;tee amazing part of larO adveatur
is that the Pelarie elid not sink,
and the men left almaid, managed
to get her to a harbor, where they
built a lieuee and spent tne rest of
the winter.
Spring is the noisest tune in the
Polar eas. When the iee breaks
;p the sound, to use a trite phrase,
beggars description, Captain Ale -
()lure, of the Investigator, compar-
ed it to heavy thunder or the sound
of great guns, and another writer
says that the inoveineots of the
breaking floe resemble the upheav-
als of a volcanic eruption.
Whether in the Arctic or the
Antarctic regions the air is seldoxn
and gales are frequent. The
winter winds of the Far North,
says Peary, blow with ahnost
UNIMAGINABLE FURY.
During the winter which he spent
aboard the Roosevelt before his
last successful daub for the Pole,
he experienced a series of terrific
storms.
In the cabins the sound resembl-
ed that of some gigantic power
plant, everything vibrating to the
pulsation of the machinery. The
whole atmosphere was full of the
deep, sullen roar of the wind, and
so thick was the cloud of snow
picked 1111, and swept forward on the
wings of the gale that powerful
lamps were invisible tee feet away.
On high ground, such as inner
Greenland, the wind is never still.
Nansen tells of the constant sibil-
ant hiss of the breeze laden with
tiny- speckles of ice which flowed
along knee high like a shining
white river glitttring in the pale
arctic sunlight.
In the Antarctic the storms are,
if possible, more terrible than in
the Arctic. The Antarctica ex-
pedition experienced a gale from
the south-west which blew a heavy
boat a distance of over sixty feet
and smashed it ,to ma.tchwoodl It
also shifted a heavy- bag of fossils.
The astonishing velocity of 85 miles
an hour was registered, and then
the wind gauge was
CARRIED AWAY BODILY.
Daring suclr storms eirerything
became charged with electricity.
The tips of men's fingers glowed, in
the dark, and there was a snap-
ping and crackling as they touch,
ed any metal object. d
All along Arctic coasts huge riv-
ers of ice extend to the sea. When
these gla.diers "calve"—that is,
when bergs break off—the sound
which ensues is quite indescribable.
It beggars thunder or great guns.
The very air trembles, and the sea
is flung up into waves which vesena
ble those formed by submarine
earthquakes.
Nor is there lack of sounds caus-
ed, by animal life. 'sin the. Arctic
may often be heard the baying of
wolves, and the barking 'of 'seals,
while in summer the harsh -erY of
sea birds echoes along the face of
the elliffs. in the Sbuth there are
pengnias by the million. Dr. Nor-
denskjold writes of "the cackling
colbny of S:Vmour
Noclhe,Poles*are not the places
to 'go in -search, of silence They- do
not compare in this respect with
tropical deserts such as the Sahara
nor with the open sea upon a calm;
aldsummer day.--Pearson's Vveek1,3.
There was an elopement a shertt
time ago, and after a brief hone
moon the bride returni4 t tle par
ental roof.. dAnd you Willegiveeti
-our blessing7'), she askey ee
y rephedlthe old man
le a O lessni
b
iitpriteof -the'
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HOW the Law's Greatest Penalty -is
Carried Out ,in Different .
e
Austria is tlelinonUie
l.y:ountry which
efnlePl:utiYeestt, butpstraniliani's ggneet
methodt
oe
is very similar. The nrigthal meth-
od of garrottiug was, IR fact, no-
thing but strangling: The criminal
was seated on a chair fixed to a
post, a loop of rope was placed in,
circling his neck and the post, aud
by means of a stick or midget
(Spanish, "garrotte") inserted be-
tween the Post and the condemned
mates neck, the cord was tightened
until etrangulation ensaed, says
Pearsonla Weekly.,
Tho modern garrotte consists of
a brass collar containing a sharp
pointed serew. The executioner
turns the screw, and its point
pzseigista
tneatenatnhtedesaptizal marrow,
e
HANGING IN OLDEN OATS.
Erery civilized country does its
best nowadays to make the dread-
ful tesk of execution aa rapid and
as painless es possible 'Hanging
as at present performed is a very
different matter from what it used
to be.
Till Dearly the end of the eight
-
coati century, the eOuderuned man
was made to stand in a eart with
the rope round his neck, and the
eart was then driven away front
under him. In 170 Parliament
. abolished this practice as Wag to
barbarous, and a platform Wa3
substituted for the cart. In 1a74
tlUS tr,ethoti waa improved by pro -
Owning the leegth of the drop
, to the weight of the Indy.
i The drop is so nicely adjusted
that the mere fall at once, rupture
the ligatures of the spine, and so
uses deed' at least as certain and
instantaneous as the electric meth -
do which has been adopted in Ani.
The State of New kink maugue
rated the electrie chair twentaeoae
years ago, but its only advantage
over our method is that the man
who switches ,an the eurrent is out
of sight of the death chamber, axed
so escapes the gruesome title of
public executioner.
Formerly all criminals hi this
country died by the axe, and un-
doubtedly the axe in the hands of
a skilful headsman was as merciful
instrument of death as „any
whieh eXiStS toalay. In Prussia
decapitation by -the axe is still the
recognized method of execution,
but the rest of Germany follows tho
xample of France, and uses the
I guillotine,
I THE FRENCHMAN'S "WIDOW."
Execution heti become almost ob-
solete in France until public senti-
ment was aroused by the ever in-
creasing number of brutal mur-
ders that in January of last year
"the Widow," as the French term
the instrument, was dragged out of
its retirement, and four miscre-
ants were publicly executed at
Bethune, in the North of France.
The. guillotine was invented by a
doctor named Guillotin more than
a century ago, but it is not true
that the inventor fell a victim to
his own device. Ile died quietly in
his bed. The guillotine _consists of
two upright posts graved en the
inside. An immensely heavy and
sharp steel:blade; is fixed to slide in
these grooves, and the executioner
has nothing -to do but pull a rope,
when the blade drops and decapi-
tates the victim instantly.
A terrible peculiarity of French
law is that in the case of parricide
the sentence must be read aloud to
the condemned man when he
reaches tee guillotine. This was
actilalle done when Duchemin, who
murdered his mother, was execut-
ed in September last.
•Persia last year suffered from a
revolution. Four conspirators who
were caught in -the act of throwing
a bomb in the crowded bazaar at •
Teheran were hanged and quarter-
ed in the sante fashion that pre-
vailed in this country up to the
seventeenth century. The remaina
of the wretched nten were hung at
the city gates as a horrible warn-
ing.
FLOGGED TO DEATH,"
',Morocco is perhaps the mos
,inetliaeval country in existence.
Flogging .to death is v()gtto.
No longer ago than May last Mulai
Ilafid had the S;hereef lcittain
ccuteil -in this liori,ible fastdon.-
The Arneer of Afghanistan has
peculiai iiwthods of inalciiig the
punishment fit the crime. A baker,
for selling short weight, was, roast-
ed otin oven, and a man who
had started a scare that the Russ--
eians were advancing on -Kabul
was placed on a stool fast-ened on
_op of a tall -pole, and :kept there
sentrt- go till he died eefesinep
ssnieeiss are a eiwxeliaricot*lit
Tlotrei'
capital punishment, has het,
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