12 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , MARCH 31 ; 18S9 , ,
DEMONS SIl IN JUDGMENT ,
Horrible Methods Employed By the
Courts in China.
A WITNESS PUT TO TORTURE.
Graphic Description of Death By Sllc-
Ing "The Bnrn boo nml the
Onncno How Prisoners
Arc Ulctl For Money.
An Inferno on Earth.
CASTOX , Clunn , March 0. [ Special Corro-
upondcnco to TUB DEE.J Horrible I horrl-
bio 1 1 horrible 1 11 are the cruelties of Chinese
Justice ! I grow sick while watching the
torture of n wjtncss nt the courts hero In
Canton to-day , and I had to leave the place
for fcnr I should faint away. The mnn was
brought Into the court in a basket. His
firms wcro chained behind him. His feet
were manacled so that the heavy Iron had
cut through the skin nnd there was a chain
nlso about his neck. Ho had refused to test
ify and had been tortured before until ho
wns now palo ) and sick. Ho was thrown
from the baskcj , on to the floor in front of a
tall Mandarin' judge dressed In a long silk
gown and wearing a round blncli cap with a
button on the crown. Tno Irons were taken
oft and the mad was forced Into n kneeling
posture on tlip stone floor. Ho plead that ho
was Blck. That bo know nothing and ho
begged that they Would not punish him fur *
thcr. The Judge said a word and thrco
burly Chlnaiudh grasped him. They car
ried him to the sldo of the court ,
whcro a bench about four fcot long and a
foot wide was lying. They put this bench
on end ticalnat a pillar nnd then taking the
prisoner , forced htm down upon his knees
before it so | hat the board of the bench
rested against his back and between his
boulders. Ho was bare-footed. They
pulled his wtdo pantaloons up to his thighs
and bonding up his legs tied his big toes to
the ( op legs of the bench so that the bare
Bkln of his knees rested on the stones. Tbo
bench extended some distance above , the
back of his head near the end a hole had
been bored about tin Inch In diameter.
Through this .his cue was pulled , forcing his
heod'tlftht against the board nnd stretching
his neck so that the cords stood out llko whips.
DIs arms were twisted behind the bench ,
stretched backward and upwards and hold
there by strings tied to the thumbs. A heavy ,
sharp chain with Iron links about two Inches
I'A wide was then brought and put under his
. . -bare knees. , Ho was to bo kept with his
Whole weight resting on this chain and held
up by his thumbs , his big toes and his cue
until ho confessed. The torture was tcrriblo.
His eyes almost started from their sockets ,
his face twitched und his moaning made mo
sic jr.
Among the ether tortures I witnessed was
the pounding a man's cheek with a leather
clapper until the blood oozed from bis mouth.
This clapper was made of two pieces of
leather of the thickness nnd twice the width
of a harness tug , fastened to n third piece of
leather as a handle , Tno whole affair was
not moro than a foot long , but It is moro
brutal than though it was made of iron. It Is
used largely in the punishment of women
nnd it not Infrequently breaks the jaws and
knocks out the tooth. This prisoner was
suspected of being engaged In smuggling
opium and he denied being guilty. Ho was
whipped thus on the Jaws and
ihcn bamboocd. The bnmbooinR was
done by taking down his trousers and lay-
log him flat upon his belly on the floor of
the court , whllo a turnkey raising a bamboo
club brought It down with all his forpo
again and again upon the backs of the bare
yellow thighs of the offender. This bamboo
was split down the middle llko a tuning
fork. It whistled as It flow through tbo air
nnd It clapped the skin with the nolso of a
pistol shot. The barc-armod jailer counted
each blow. The
long-cued , silk-gowned ,
soro-oyed Judco looked complacently oti and
I Raw no signs of pity In the stolid faces of
the crowd.
wnnnr. DEMONS
Let mo give you a picture of this Chlncso
courtroom. It Is ono of many in Canton
and the largest. Wo passed through room
after room nnd alslo after ] alslo of low ,
narrow buildings to got to It. Thcra was
a court In front of it and around this In
narrow cells sat the clerics nnd employees
of the judgo. The room was open at the
front , paved with stone , and It had only a
table and a chair or two. There are no
lawyers In China and the judge has un
limited power , provided ho docs not trans
gress the code. China has a cede of laws
hundreds of years old , of which a now
'edition Is published every flvo years , and In
which the o'naltlos for the minutest crimes
' ro regulated. It Is fuller of moro horrible
I' sentences than the Nowgato calendar , nnd
the Judges c/f / China have moro power in
Iho examining of. witnesses than the most
brutal of tyrants , Thcro Is no jury and
the court room Is as bare ns a barn. Just
behind where I.stood were a number of the
Implements ( Jf torture ready for use and all
showing thomarks ; of wear nnd tear. Ono ,
which m.v guido said was very bad , was made
of a bar 'of wood six feet long supported bj
two upright wooden pillars. The prlsonoi
WM.mado to Jtneol under this with tbo bach
of bis nock touching t/ho bar and his arms
itrctchcd out along It. Those are tied bj
cords to the bar , and us ho kneels with hit
bavd knees upon the otmln such as I BOW :
few moments latbr .for the obdurate wltncs :
a third bar 14 placed across his legs back ol
the knees aiul two men stand upon It , thus
forcing the flesh Into tbo ohiilns. The aulilei
Bra souiotinics' ; crushcd by a similar bin
placed across them.
Chinese Invention , which gave Its people
sugar centuries before It tickled tlio palate *
of ether mortals , which brought gunpowdo :
Into the worlfl , nu.d which invented printing
Boomsto hnyo dropped , long ago tlio usefu
arts nnd duvoted itself to the torture of Iti
criminals. I bollcvo that the Chlnoso heart
la naturally cruel , and In looking over th <
Pr.icln Gazette J see that the tortures of tin
middle egos are common hero , and that nov
end then n Judgu astonishes oven the Chinese
thomcolvcs bytho rollncmentof his punish
inents. Instances nro glvqn whora the tin
ftcrs are wrapped In oiled rags and burnt
and ono magistrate , , spbiu time ngo. fastcnui
fwo criminals ip , boards uy nails drlvoi
through their ) ) : Um . Compelling men t <
kneel on pounded glass Is noted
ami this kneeling on chains will
links an sharp an knives Is com
man. William tells of a mauls
truto who put n man Into a cotUn and kcp
him there until he wns siiffooiitoa , nnd \ \ <
gives the Instance of n judge who used bed
of Iron , boiling wntcr.and red hot npiUcs Ii
hU cruelties. At Shanghai I was sl.-own i
wooden cage between live and six feet lil li
Jiutlilph enough to endow ) the body ol i
man. it was1 made of four posts with u thlcl
board set Into the top. This board \va
made of two pieces so arntngud that it couli
bo taken out und a man's neck enclosed 1 ;
the hole In Its center. At tlio bottom It hn :
eroht bora several Inches above the ground
and tlio top was BO graduated that the mai
aiiulMed within It must bland upon his too *
ills ImndH wurctiod and this torture U torr
ble. In seine iustanccs men nro loft t
tarvo to dcuth In HUCh Vages , and this cat ;
bad contained n prisoner only a foxv ilay.s be
tore. It had n ploco of straw inattln
tretchou over the top of ft which the wife o
* ku Isst criminal had pub there to protect hi
( MINI head from ( ho rays of the jtun.
M Cwton , just outsldo this court room ,
reat stock of cangues ready forum
wearing of these is n couunon put
Cblniu The weight pf the cui
with the offcnie , uud tli
uar * nlnco of boaid BO knocUc.
* w > J I * tli coutcr that
mnn'a neck can just fit Into IU It Is about
four fcot square , nnd some of those which I
looked at wcro BO heavy that I could not lift
them. Ono weighed ninety pounds , nnd
great bare of Iron wcro set Into it to increase
the weight of the wood. The nnmo of the
offender and his punishment U passed on the
boards , nnd there Is ono species of canguo
made In the shnpo of n barrel. The prisoner
is nut Inside with his head fitting through n
hole in the top nnd his hands fastened with
chains como through the sides. Ho cannot
move , nnd ho has to bo fed.
At the Shanghai prison I saw cages which
looked as though they might liavo been pens
for the carrying of hogs to n county fnlr.
These wcro BO low that a man could not sit
up In them nnd It la In these that criminals
are often can led to execution. These had
been used the day before for the caging of
criminals , nnd I took a look at the prisoners
who had boon taken from thorn to tlio Jail. I
wanted to go through this prison but I was
told that If I did so I would probably have
my clothes torn from mo by the prisoners , as
they were n bad lot nnd had killed their
jailor a few days before. I looked through
a hole In the door nnd saw the most brutal
faces I have ns yet scon in China. The men
wcro chained to the wall llko wild beasts and
seine of them had chains about their necks
as well as their fcot. The amoll was horri
ble , nnd the Chlncso prhon Is by no means n
sanitary Institution. Each prison has Its
dead house connected with It and deaths
from Bcml-starvntlon nnd torture nro not un
common. The jailors make a largo part of
their
SALAnr nr BQUnnzixo ,
and money will do as much and moro for the
criminal in China than It will In America.
Judges sometimes pay thirty nnd forty
thousand dollars for their appointments ,
and ho Is a poor money multcr who docs not
got rich during his term. The Tnutol of
IhanKhai pots n salary of about $1,000 nnd
> ls ofllco Is estimated to bo worth moro than
100,000 a year. The commissioner of cus-
x ns at Tientsin nominally receives a salary
> f about the same size , but I am told that ho
makes about $2UO.OOO a year , and his profits
all como from bribes or squeezes. This ays-
, em of squeezing goes through the whole
: ourso of Chinese officialdom nnd the jailors
inuct money from the relatives of the crinit
ials. They have the right to sell the food to
, ho criminals and they niako them pay high
.irices. If Uioy cannot pay they must in
many cases go without. The criminals cook
for themselves in the jail and they are
allowed about two cents a aay for fuel. They
have an allowance by the law of rice , but the
ailor gives them this or not as ho pleases.
TUG iouu moil E.\ECUTIONIH.
Three coolies carried mo Id a ohalr from
ho court in Canton to the execution ground
and I had a chat with the executioner. Ho
was a nasty , dirty , blood-thirsty , looking
fellow , with hair an inch longstanding out
llko bristles over tbo front of his head and
about his cuo. Ho had not been busy for
several days , and ho took delight in explaining -
plaining to mo the uses of the heavy sword
nnd the scicntlflo outs which ho made with
t. This sword was about four fcot long. It
_ ias a blade as sharp ns a razor and it is
about a quarter of an inch thick at tbo back
nnd moro than two inches wide. Ho uses
both hands in swinging it about , and ho told
mo that my nook would bo an easy ono
to sllco oft but that ho would not llko to
have to cut up my thin frame by the siloing
process. This execution ground of Canton
is used ns a crockery factory , and the mak
ing of pots goca on when executions are not
In progress. It is a narrow court between
two hfRh walls on the banks of the Canton
river , nnd the heads nro cut off in
the open nlr. tlpon mv ashing what wns
done with the heads of the criminals , ho told
mo through my interpreter that they were
thrown Into jars of quick Hmo nnd that ho
would take ono out nnd show mo for the sum
of 10 ccnta. In the interest of .your paper I
subscribed this amount and ho
I'ULLr.D OUT A llALr-ElTEN 8KCLT *
nnd showed ita ghastly ugliness to me. There
wcro about a dozen of these earthen jars nt
the back of this execution ground. They
were of the size of a twenty-cnllon keg and
were covered with paper. They were full
of heads and probably represented a year's
executions. As soon as the head Is taken off
it is carrlod up to the magistrate or ofllcer in
charge and shown , and it is often exposed in
a cage or on a polo as a warning to others.
The cages in which the heads uro put nro
of the size of little bird cages , and when the
heads are tied to trees or poles they hang
down by tno cue.
At the back ol this execution-ground stood
half a dozen wooden crosses. If you -will
take a piece of telegraph polo eight feet long
nnd set a similar pole nvo feet long
into it at right angles two feet from
the top you will bavo the Chmcso cross. It
is upon these crosscs'that the criminals are
bound when they are to undergo the punish
ment of Ling Chi or siloing to death , which
Is the sentence for all who murder a brother ,
n parent , a teacher , a husband or an uncle.
The criminal is stripped and his feet are
raised upon a brick or a stono. His queue is
tied up to the cross and his arms nro stretched
out upon its arms. A British naval ofllcor
whom I mot at Hong Kong , described an
execution of this kind which ho witnessed a
few weeks ago.
ago.SLICED
SLICED TO DEATH.
"It made mo feel very green at flrst , " said
he , "but after It was begun I could not keep
my eyes off of it. I have had the experience )
over again three times in niy dreams and I
would not want to see It again. I had the
best guldo In Canton and wo saw the execu
tion from the roof of ono of the buildings
bcsldo the execution ground. Thcro wcro
two criminals and it took about thirty min
utes to cut each of them to pieces. Tlio llrst
cuts sliced off the cheeks and the second the
eye-brows. After this a mnn hold a fan
before the faces of the prisoners
und all wo could sea of them was
the blood running down upon their
bodies. The next cut was of the flesh be
tween the hand and the elbow nnd the arter
ies were flrst bound above the places cut so
that tnc man would not bleed to death bolero -
lore the ceremony was completed. Then the
shoulders were cut off. Then the llcsh of
the thighs and after this the calves of the
legs. Tbo seventeenth and eighteenth cuts
removed the lianas and thTlast cut took the
head from the body. In both cases the men
did not faint away. The pain was too terri
ble. They could not cry out ' as they were
gagged , and their wrlthmgs'woro horrible.
The last cut killed them. It was not a very
safe place for myself and my friend. Thcro
wcro several hundred Chinese presontand amore
moro hardened looking ect I have never scon.
They raught sight of us and the boys among
them began to yeil at us nnd to utko their lin
gers nnd draw thorn around their
throats , pointing at us as though
they would out our beads off. Our
guldo got frightened and ho took us
down und put us In the rollar of the house
through a trap door , where wo stayed for a
coupln of hours until the crowd had dls
pei-sed. They were very threatening , and
tlio blood-thirsty sight had reused their pas
sion to such an extent that if they had
caught hold of us" our lives would not bavo
been sufo. "
STUANGUI.ATIOX AND DECAriTATION.
Mr , Cheshire , the Chlneso'sfeerotary of our
legation at Puking and ono-of the ablest of
our representatives in China , uursued his
studies of the Chinese language In Chinese
clothes , living In a Chlncso house and wear
ing a cuo. llo wont into all parts of the
Chinese cities nnd Into the most out-of-the-
way places. Ho described to mo two execu
tions which ho witnessed one by strangula
tion nnd the oilier by decapitation. " 1'Ho
Chinese , " said he , "prefer to bo strangled
rather than to have their heads cut off. The
limn who Is beheaded can only como tn earth
again to till the oftlco of executioner , and
tills Is the vilest of Chlnoso occupa
tions. Strangling U a respectable method
of taking elf , U is Inflicted on kid
nappers and on all thieves who steal
article of moro than $50J in value. The
prisoner U fastened to n cross and a Btronc
piece of twlno ls tied around his ucok and
fastened at the upper part of the perpendicu
lar bar. Such deaths are slow , and ouotlior
metliod U twisting the cord until the man
dies , Tlio agony I cannot describe , but 1
snail never forgot the strangled man's face. "
"Tho man 1 uaw decapitated , " continued
Mr , Chcahlro , "was forced to kneel. Hla
hunds were tied behind him'thro wing hie
nci'lc to the front anil the lusUtant of the
executioner pulled the head further out b.v
holding on to the man's cue. Ono blow ol
ho sword severed the ne-jlt and. the execu
tioner run with the head to the magistrate.
At thU execution half a dpzen prisoner ;
were brought to thq execution ground , but
only ono of thnm was beheaded , the sentence
of tlm others being commuted at the
last inomcut. Hcforo the execution tooli
place 1 walked ut'iong the prisoners smoking
Onu of them iibVea mo for n cigar and I gave
It to him. Ho lighted It and suiokod It will
gu'ito. It was this very man who was picket
out rf the half dozen tn have lila head cut off
Curious , wuin't ill"
I might till another column with the storlei
I nuvu licnrJ of Chinese punishments am
crlnm , The bamboo , wliluU grows to thi
height of fifty foot and upward , gets Its on-
tlro growth In a fo v weeks. I have heard of
prisoners being tied over plants and of those
growing through them. For certain offonfios
prisoners nro burled up to their ncoks and
these who go by them nro expected to add a
clod to the pllo. They no not , I nm told , lies-
Itato to do this , and this Chinese civiliza
tion , founded upon liuudhlsm , Confucianism
nnd so-called literary culture , Is productive
of such men and such scones. Do you won *
dor that there la no room for missionaries !
I don't. FUASK 0. CAitrnNTKii ,
BiRtiinroklnnn.
London Van.
( "L'Etnto o'ostmoll'1) )
I nm tho. country , the country I
Made for the Ulsmnrck dynast I.
That Is the end of Gorman I.
I nm the country. Ho that tricks
Or jests on Ulsmarok'a politics ,
The splendid Gorman honor pricks ,
I am the country heart nnd ooro.
If other countries nsic "What for ! "
I glvo my word. I start a war.
U am the I-roa ChnncoMor.
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE.
Something About { Jio Now British
Minister to the United States.
Sir Julian Pauncofoto , K. O. B. , G. O.
M. G , , lives In Cromwell Plnco , says
Edmund Yutcs 'in n letter to the Now
York Tribune. As the clock of the
neighboring church strikes ton. tv
sedate messenger from the fornign
ofllco , bonring n green cnllco bng filled
with rod morocco dispatch boxes of
various sizes , announces his arrival nt
ono of the most unpretending houses in
the street by n ring loud enough to dis
turb the after-breakfast meditations of
Sir Charles Lopes , six doors away , if helms
lms not already sot out for the hiclL
court of justice. Not ono of the th6u-
sands who drive in summer time
through Thurlow plnco , on the way to
Hurlingham , is probably aware of the
important part which the modest homo
of the permanent under secretary of
state for foreign affairs in South Ken
sington has played in contemporary
history during the last few years. It
will not bo until the emissaries of Down
ing street cease their morning visits
and take the bag of boxes elsewhere
that people will realize the fact that Sir
Julian Pauncofoto , transformed into n
minister plenipotentiary , has really
crossed the Atlantic to .pour oil upon
the troubled waters at Washing-
, on. For three hours every
ivorking day there is a ceaseless
j.xchango of communications between
Arlington street , the foreign ofllco and
Lho permanent under secretary's abode ,
uid it is not until luncheon arrives that
stalwart guardian of a hundred
itato secrets can find time to see any
body but oflicial visitors.
"The hall chairs are generally occu
pied by grave men , with green bags
.vcross their knees , who maintain a decorous
cereus silence and view your approach
with , suspicion until Sir Julian's cheery
.volcomo . convinces them that ho has de
termined to make an exception in your
favor. Standing up in the midst of
crimson dispatch boxes , from which pro
trude oblong pink , green and white
labels signifying 'extreme urgency , '
important' and 'not pressing' rospoct-
.voly the newly appointed British miri-
stor does the honors of his den. "
Sir Julian contrives to llnd time to
toll you something about the traditions
of his ancestors and the story of his own
active life. There were Pauncofotes
in the west of England when the
' 'Domesday Book" was written. Ono
Sir Grimbald Pauncefoto was knighted
by Sir Edward Bohun at the taking of
loucetor castle , during the wars of
the barons , and obtained the lioncls ,
which have constituted the armorial
bearings of the family over since. Sir
Grimbald married an heiress in church
of the Much Cowarnoin Herefordshire ,
There is still to bo seen un ofllgy of the
Pauncofote who sailed with Prince Ed
ward of Tunis , 1270 , and was taken pris
oner by the Saracens , and whoso wife is
supposed to have obtained his release
by sending her right hand as a ransom
to the infidels. This incident gave rise
to the legend of the Couped hand which
is still implicitly believed at Much Co-
wnrno. The Pauncefotes possessed
their characteristic motto , "Ponsoz
Forte , " six centuries at beast before Jul
ian Pauncefoto was born at Munich ,
just sixty-one years ngo. An educa
tion at Paris and Geneva gave him a
practical knowledge of foreign
languages and a lucky accident led him
to exchange a military cadctship in
Madras for forensic studies in the Inner
temple. Sir William Wolesworth lirst
introduced Iiim to the colonial ofllco and
diplomacy. Ho practiced diligently ns
aconvoyanser at homo before ho wont
to Hong Kong to become the attorney
general and drafted a cede of * civil pro-
cocduro. The year 1872 brought him
the chief justice of the leeward islands
und knighthood. After successfully
opening the federal supreme court , put
ting the whole judicial administration
in working order , and giving the Leeward -
ward islands a civil cede , Sir Julian re
turned to England to succeed Lord
Knutsford as Iho legal assistant to the
under secretary of state at the colonial
olTlce.
"The chief justiceship of Ceylon
could not tempt him to return to the
tropics. Two years later Lord Derby
offered him the newly created legal as
sistant under Bocrotaryshlp at the for *
eiifn ofllcc. Lord Boaconsflold gave
him the ribbons of the bath and the
colonial order. Lord Gran villa selected
him to succeed Lord Tantnrdon as tlio
permanent under secretary of state for
foreign affairs. His good work on the
Suez canal international commission
made him a G. C. M. G. During
six years Sir Julian has watched over
our relations with the grout powers and
has gained n reputation for energy ,
clear-headedness , calmness and tact ,
which fairly astonished those who put
their faith in the absolute necessity of
long training in the routine of the for
eign ofllco. The pollioii of British
minister to the UnitoiTStates is ono of
peculiar difficulty , but the past achieve
ments of Sir Julian Pauncofoto , his
sueciul aptitude for dealing satisfactori
ly with burning questions , inspire a
cheering confidence that ho will soon
bo as much liked in Connecticut avenue
as in Cromwell place.
' 'There are few London drawing-
rooms where youthful members of the
corps diplomatique are moro thoroughly
nt homo than in Cromwell plnco. The
kindly hospitality of Lady Pauncofoto
and nor popular daughter is always
keenly appreciated , especially by now
arrivals. Sir 'Julian Pauncefoto is
always on the best of terms with the
foreign secretaries and attaches. There
was a time when ho could hold his own
in the foil against all comers , and
in Washington ho may possibly llnd
time to return to his favorite exorcise.
The temporary closing of the little
house in Cromwell ploco must neces
sarily cause widespread regret. "
Mcnsbrliig By the Bye.
Now York Weekly : Young Lady "I
.want a pair of shoes , largo and comfort
able. Two will do.5
Now Hey ( glancing at her foot ) "Mr.
Leather , the lady wants two shoos Inrpo
nnd comfortable. Whore's that bojc of
sixes. "
frnBuapoctod disorders of the kidneys
are responsible for many of the ordin
ary ailments of humanity , which , il
neglected , develop into a serious and
portions fatal malady. Experience
would'suggost the use of Dr. J , H. Mc
Lean's Liver and Kidney Dulua.
PROSPECT HILL AT MIDNIGHT ,
A Rnmblo Through the Pltico When
Qravo , Yards Yawn.
GROPING IN THE DARKNESS.
*
HlecdliiR on n Baby's Tomb Trnc-
Ins tl o Avenue The Soltllers'
Boils ntul the tattle Old
Tool House.
There is no plnco In Omnha wlicro
there Is loss to disturb the quiet of the
midnight hour than in the Immediate
vicinity of the old cemetery on Prospect
mil. For years it wns a lonely enclos
ure nearer to heaven than the town for
whoso weary citizens it provided rost.
But of recent years the tide of business
and progress has rolled even to Us very
gates. And yet , there is about it that
solemn hilonco which so well becomes n
resting place of the dead. Its presence
has a subduing effect upon those who
have colonized at its gates. They pass
by or through it with the
composure and reverencelong marks of
deference to hallowed ground , and con
versation , when indulged , is carried on
in an undertone as if , indeed , the occu
pants could bo aroused from that placid
sleep which knows no waking. Round
about and through the siCcrctl spot , people
ple pass at every hour of the day. Some
on their way homo , others to business ,
others to visit a grave and others still
to return to earth some frail deserted
tenement , relinquished by'a soul which
has gone before.
But who visits-thoso silent precincts
in the durkness of night ? The resur
rectionist'No , because in the history
of the yard there has boon but ono
grave robbery. That was eight years
ago. The remains wore found dissected
in Dr. Frizoru's institute which was
then in Hollmairs building. The
tramp ? No , because if ho should bo
found inside at night by the sexton , ho
would tramp no more. The mourning
friend ? No , because even to him or
her , the gates are closed and the grief-
stricken soul may not llnd solace upon
the lonely mound within. Who then ?
Gentle reader , the newspaper man , the
representative of TliK uiu. Ho goes
there to tell how the memorial place
looks in the awful darkness and silence
of the night , lie approaches the cemetery
tory from the southeast at the hour
of 10. lie passes the Lowe
nirinl ground , the monument in which
vith the surro-uiding trees js visible in
lie distance more to the imagination
.han the vision. It is a lonely spot.
The wind is from the north. The near
est trees moan as if suiTorinjr in the
blast. The sky is hung with a pall ,
studded with immortelles becoming the
unorcal place. To the right , the hill
drops gradually , dotted with cottages
'rom which shoot rays of light , which ,
lowqyor , are soon lost in the darkness ,
rhorb are lights of all siy.es and many
colors adown the slope , on the hills to
; ho south and far up the table-
and , until the vision strikes
an immense sombre bank beyond
which it may not penetrate. From the
loart of the city , a .brilliant opalescent
jlow seems to ascend to the sky , like
-he celestial radiance which is pictured
as signalizing the entry of a redeemed
soil I into heaven. ' Hero and there an
udividual light M'ith the beautiful bril-
.iancy of the evening -star appears as if
nature , on this particular occasion , has
noon induced louorniitan unusual nuin-
3cr of her sto'llar" heroines to illuraino
the heavens.
But those lights ccach not the
cemetery. Neither do the noise and
revels of the city so * Jar away.
The enclosure looms up ( Jointly , almost
dubiously , and the journalistic heart
shudders at the isolation which marks
; hospot. It shudders still more at the
.doa of entering. But it is not the
, imo to hesitate. The sidewalk is
abandoned , and , noiselessly , on the
iirtrd road the writer picks his stops.
Ho looks around but can see nobody.
Ho can hear nobody. Ho.is alone with
the night. lie tip-toes > from the road
across the sidewalk on Yates street , the
southern boundary of the cemetery ,
roaches the fence , a low , wooden ono of
four boards , and clambers over it and
into the graveyard.
The turf is hard though compara
tively level. The news man's feet
srlido slowly over rather than stop upon
it to avoid the noise of footfalls and
stumbling over some mound or curb.
Ho proceeds cautiously , the while using
a heavy stick after the manner of a blind
man. Satisfactory progress is made
for about twonty-llvo feet , when , sud
denly , the writer's togs and stick strike
a curb and the owner falls forward upon
a grave , his hat striking a monument in
its descent and losing itself in the
gloom. The fall makes a noise which
seems loud enough to attract the atten
tion of the sexton. But no , that func
tionary , Pruitt , with his nowly-murricd
wife , reposes in their homo without the
gate. But may ho not bo in the yard on
business ? The scribe trembled at the
thought of discovering this to bo a fact.
Sextons' oars are proverbially acute ,
Should suspicion bo aroused , investiga
tion would bo made , flight in the dark
ness would bo hopeless , and the result
would bo perhaps death. Groping on
the chilly blades , the hat is found.
TJio traveler rises and again
continues his journey. Again ho
falls , this time cutting Ills fore
head upon an infant's grnvo stone. Ho
wipes the blood away , and in doing so is
romideU of the patient mother by the
cradle of the sick little darling , whom
ho saw at a window on his iiKcent to the
cemetery. How long would it bo before
Unit little ono slumbotcd beneath the
daisies like that whoso memorial mar
ble was now stained with the wiltor's
blood. >
Tno falls lead the scribe to believe
that ho has lost the reckoning he hud
made two days before , and that ho will
bo unable to regain it. The prospect ,
therefore , of wandering aimlessly about
is not consoling , Groping along the
curb , however , until the cold penetrates
to and benumbs his gloved hands , heat
at length reaches a broad avenue , lined
almost continually with curbs of vary
ing heights. These mark , as ho knows ,
the lots of some of the best families
in the city. In ono of those ho gropes
his way to the monument which is
square and of stone and on the facing
on ope aide ho traces Inrbas relief the
name of Drexel , a member of which
family1 it is said was onotof the Jlrst per
sona burled on this hill. Ho returns to
the avenue gropes along4 his stick ena
bling him to proceed at a certain dis
tance from the curb.
Progress is necessarily slow , and If
possible , as the newspaper mnn roaches
the older part of the cemetery , the
c-loom doepnes and becomes much moro
appalling under the trees. The limbs
of these are bare but they l > end in the
breeze and crack in the sudden gusts.
They seem almost toahut out the faint
starlight.
There is a sound of looUtops. They
seem on frozen ground , and boom alto
to aproach. Thuy < later become
distinctly addlhlo iur Uioir owner
proceeds'hurriedly along the walk ou
the east sldo of the comotory. The man
little know that tholr foot-falls are
hoard by mortal oars , that the subdued
tone in which they converse penetrates ,
In the stillness of tile night , to the re
cesses of this homo for the dead. They
leave the walk and as they descend the
hill , the cotlsoum-llko shape of the ra
vine again drives the sound of their
voices back to the scribe.
There seems to bo no other person
within the enclosure. In fact ho could
not , if ho wore there , bo distinguished
three foot away. Wnlto marble monuments
ments are white only on the closest in
spection. Where there is a possibility
of outline striking the eye , there is
nothing sulUoiontly spectral in appear
ance to suggest the vulgar Idea of a
ghost. And yet , the scribe cannot re
strain his imagination from peopling the
place with grim-visngod personages
which seem to lack only the element of
light to discover and destroy the in
truder.
At length the main avenue is reached
after losing the path several times and
running against several bare and sev
eral palm trees. This suggests a host
of memories and the writer cowers be
hind a largo plno tree to rest and keep ,
if possible , out of the reach of ether
prowlers , Up and down this avenue
how often has not Old George Modlock
run and walked ! How many comfortless -
loss mortals followed , up this avenue , to
the grave of the ono in whom their
thoughts wore centered. Up this avenue
nuo wore berne General Strickland ,
Governor Ginning , Major Thornburg.
P. W. Hitchcock , George Mills , Colonel
Baumor , Old William Turtle , twice a
member of the legislature and for years
the president * . ! ) ! the bricklayers' union ;
Colonel Smytho , Colonel Watson B.
Smith , Ezra Millard. John McCormick ,
S. S. Caldwell , and others long identi
fied with the history of the city.
Up this avenue marched bands
of music , companies of regu
lars and militia , prayerful
chaplalnsoloquont [ orators and musical
glee clubs to join in the services of
memorial jday. Some of those memo
rialists are now sleeping in those sur
rounding hillocks , others will soon fol
low them , while others still may not
find rest except in the newer homo be
yond.
The silence is intense. One feels as
if his breathing would arouse the sexton -
ton , while a footfall , carelessly made
seems to invite the neighborhood. You
breath hastily , stop as if shod with
slippers of down , but so slowly that
every stop seems to require a minute.
You are simply avoiding the living.
Hero , at length is the center of the
cemetery , the circle in which Chase ,
Webster , Bean , Cowin , Strickland ,
Manderson , Bartlett , Poppleton and
others have spoken. Wore they hero
now , they would not dare even to
whisper. It may well bo doubted if the
biggest braggart on tli3 streets of
Omaha could bo subsidized to raise his
voice above a whispernay moro , whether
ho could bo hired even to enter the place.
And yet , there is not half so much to
bo feared hero as there is on any of the
lamp-lighted thoroughfares of the city.
But. ono cannot satisfy himself of that
fact. Ho cannot drive from his mind
the idea that ho needs to watch himself.
Every sound even of the slightest order
strikes his ear and suggest a foot step.
The sighing broe/.o suggests the pitiful
moan of some wicked outcast , the crack
of a limb , the inolTcctual blow of a
hammer on a worthless cartridge in a re
volver which the watchman has aimed
at you. What it those graves should
open , those vaults fling back their
doors and the dead appear and smite
you for your invasion of their promises !
You know they cannot harm you , however -
over , yet you move cautiously along the
main drive , unable to ox pel from your
mind the fact that they may bo more
nriviloged at times than they are at
others.
Again the searcher loses his way and
stumbles over a series of small stones
placed close together. Ah , this is a
good place to fall , because it is upon the
bed of a soldier. Hero lie heroes whenever
never wore shoulder straps , whoso
name-ago not down to history and whoso
name , maybe , has received only the at
tention which the inscription on the
headstone attracts from the passer-by.
These heroes , the writer knows , lie in
the western part of the cemetery , and
are noiu' the fence. Ho feels moro em
boldened , stops out a little moro confi
dently and runs right against the wall
of a small house which ho had
never noted before. What if there
should bo a within. If there is , escape
is impossible. The hair almost stands
erect and perspiration exudes from his
pores , lie expects a lantern to flash
from the door , and a revolver to bo
pointed at his head. A minute passes.
It seems an hour. But nobody appears.
The house is not occupied. While
there's life there's hope , and ho makes
haste to the fence. Five minutes Dring
him to the rough wooden palings. lie
walks along beside those until ho
roaches the northwest corner , because
there is some light streaming from cottage -
tago windows further south. Ho climbs
the fence , and just at that instant the
high school clock strikes the hour of
midnight. It requires two hours to
grope through the cemetery , and those
hours will always bo llko centuries !
One would not live them over again for
a fortune. There is no cordial
farewell extended by silent dwell
ers. In fjict , their silence seems
to argue that they feel disposed
to resent the unbidden visit. An affec
tionate leave , however , was taken by
the newspaper man with the kindliest
of appreciation and most humane of con
sideration for departed beings in whoso
precincts ho has been wandering. Tak
ing his card.from his case ho shoots it
back into'tho'comotory. ' It sings for an
instant after it leaves his hanUfthon is
wafted by the breeze buck as a souvenir
to Mr. Pruitt of the call.
The scribe jumps to the road ,
Thirty-thlru street. The noise is al
most like a shot. It seems to dis
turb nobody. In the face of a strong ,
cutting breeze from the north , with
chilled frame and coat collar about his
oars , the writer , watched only by the
myriad of bright eyes of heaven , moves
fearlessly along to L.iko street , thence
to a certain place whore an impatient
stood is waiting , which boon gallops
him into town. And thus ends a ram-
bio among the dead.
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The ORIGINAL ABIETINK OINTMENT
IB only put up in large two ounce tin boxes ,
and IB an absolute euro for old sores , burns ,
wounds , clmppod hiuulfl , and nil skin erup
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Aslc for the ORIGINAL AUIKT1NB OINT
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cigars come within roach as they are
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mulaccn , hazelwood , bamboo , etc.
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