The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-06-29

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head at the time the ceiling Here bench of solid
OAK with corrugated surface upon which many have
been laid held down by cords to undergo the kneadng
cess, and that rongpn knotty and knobby also of oak
which lies upon the table, has been rolled backward and for
ward the naked forms of and women kneadg live
flesh to bloody dough- Time and space would fail
the instruments of torture here to forth
their We only look at the cradea hugh trough of
on rockers-he bottom sides thcky with pins
which many victims rocked DEATH Think of
ing bed of oaken pins rolling to the right to the efta
WAYS against pinI the flesh becomes lvid ev Here is
string of oken beads each bead xteensded about large
as hickory nuts This for saving off legs and arms
Here is instrument shaped like 1t is OF ron but
to all appearance harmless thing But just take it for
ment into your mouth and let me give gene pun at the
string attached the stem of the pear and will be no lon
suddenly and violently that forced open
till the joints crack in the sockets while the delicate petals be-
come pnce which grasp your tongue No outcry now No
uerance of words No screaming to raise the neghborhood
Means and signs only from the sufferer One witch OF the
string and the tongue is torn out by the roots
We must leave this museum without mentioning the humid
reds of curostes We go into the courtyard stopping
pluck leaf from lime which in full Wig
years ago. and then another door, descend
longer ght of steps, dark dismal dungeons where light
falls except through narrow ongraed windows Here
ladders with wndasses and pueys which victims
stretched till bones snapped till joints eped from their sock
and cords and enons asunde Here racks
and Wheels pories and stocks whips and manacles This
the place of torture We leave these and through
passage through doorway after doorway and reach
at last far under ground far beneath all sight or sound of
the world darker dungeon This is the room OF the Iron
Maiden.
Here is the image-a maiden with hood upon her
head uf around herneck enveoped an iron cloak
Suddenly the folds of the cloak thrown apart and by the
dim light of the candle you that the lining of the garment
with sharp spikes Take step forward and the folds
enclose you spikes pierce your body and into your
balls through the vertbra they penetrate Not quick
embrace but slowly you EMBODIED of the
Just enough penetrate flesh Just enough touch
apple of the quverng then after age of anguish
other turn and hundred spikes reach little nearer to the
and then heat thirst and fever rack the body
another gentle and another OF ortue and then
advance of the spikes toward the vas till death
on and the maiden, unfolding her drops her victim
through trapdoor into unknown depths
We drop pebble and hear the faint splash OF waters lar be-
MEATH
Here is skull Anatomists say it is the skull of female
You may put your fingers into the holes where the spikes
which entered the eyes, through No record
God only has the book of remembrance.
We think of this dungeon connected with the barbarism
of the middle ages but removed from those days
of rigorous administration of law Till Napoleon, with his e
gons of France the Rhine overthrowng all OBJ
stac this iron maiden held out her to receive offenders
against the law On the approach of the French In 1903
the Virgin as it called with other instruments of torture
thrown into and despatched in haste out of the
town. fell into the hands of the victorious Not till
then did the world know what sort of punshmens were meed
out to offenders of the law.
We are to remember luxembourg free CITY, About
thirty patrcan families for long time monopozed authority
and chose council of state consisting of eight persons who
formed the executive This executive was an irresponsible
body The world knew nothing of their secret administration
of affairs Men Disappeared and no knew what became
of them.-BoSton journal.
PENAL SCIENTIFICALLY this country has often been ohserv
ed that the people don't know what penal servude and that
little information the point would stand instead OF
such sentences 1t is about the lowest the most degraded
and miserable condition which society reduce its
eng members Except that is cheered by feeble ray OF
hope would certainly be preferred to death by any one
who knows what and thanks the humane zeal of Irish
politicians the Irish people do to know what it Is In
deed it very that humanity itself calls for It's allie
Walton Such the punishment for time that justice or
mercy NAV dictate that is now the alternative for the scaod
Can said them that any nadequately puniehed or
that any is nufceny discouraged by mode OF treat
said make life burden to the lowest victim OF
poverty the greatest adept in crime ?-Lomdom 1tme
aloou tho orniSn
the Alabama which he delivering in America speaks OF
Yankee ships in the following enthusiastic style -
When aoat in the Alabama, If we were IN doubt as
to the nationality any ship pursuing we had only TO
take look at her at whatever she might be- through
our telescope to determine at whether she Yankee
or not If she exceed the ships of all other nations IN the
symmetry the hull the length the and the taper OF