The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-01-28
EMPORIA, KANSAS FRIDAY, JANUARY g. 1876

been content to kill the laity as
heretofore, weshould have scraped
through with 3 fine; but the foo
must go and tar black cloth, and
dig her owngsAxe.
Two days after the trial, out
came the sentence,-Death2
With that modesty and good
feeling which belongs to most for
eign governments, t hey directed me
to execute their sentence.
Ny answer came in English.
tH'll see you id, and double
id first, and then / WON'T
Meantime Huguet was persecu-
ting poor heart-sick me for the re-
mainder of her purchase-money,
and, what with the delay, the ex-
penses, and, the anxiety, was SO
down and so at the end Of my wits
and patience, that her sentence
fell on me like a blow on a chap
that is benumbed,-produced less
effect on me at the time than it
does when 1 think of it now.
Wei, -curse them!-one fine
morning they ran q cannon up to
the gate, loaded it and babe me
call the elephant, and bring her
into favorable position for be-
Ing shot, I refused point blank
| In English as before. They threat.
ened me for my eontumacy.
answered they might shoot me il
they liked, but I would not be the
one to destroy my own livelihood.
So they had to watch their op-
portunity.
1t was not long OF coming.
She began to walk about, and
presently the poor fool marched
straight up to the lannon's mouth,
and squinted down it. Then she
turned, and at last she crossed
right before it. The gunner took
the opportunity, applied his I'm.
stock, and fired. There was q
great tongue Of fame. and 3 cloud
of smoke, aad through the smoke
something as big as house was
seen to go down; the very earth
ULCuAOAOA ~ VIC SuOCAs
The smoke cleared in a moment
and there lay Dick. She never
moved. The round shot went
clean through her body, and
struck the opposite wall with
great force. It was wonderful
and sad to see 30 huge a creature
robbed of her days in moment
by a spark. Thsre she lay,-pool
Dick.
In one moment forgot all hel
faults. She was an old compan
ion of mine in many a wet day
and dreary night. She was repu
tation to me, and q clear six hund
red q year; and she was so clever
We shall never see her like again
d and there she lay. I mourneG
over her, right or rong, and hav'
a never been the same man since
. that shot was fired.
The butchery done, was in
y formed by the municipal author
# tiles that the carcass was consid
cred, upon the whole, to be my
, property. The next moment
/ had two hundred applications 70
! elephant steaks from the pinch-gu
Y natives, who, I believe, knew gra
Wy by tradition and romances tina
had come all the way from Paris
q Knives and scales went to work
and, with the tears running dow
K my cheeks, I sold her beef at fou
: sous per pound for about f 4
r sterling.
r This done all my occupatio
q was gone. Geneva was no plaC
:. for me, and as the worthy Hugh
i ct, whose life 1 had sayed, threat
It ened to arrest me, / determine
: to GO back to England and hanC
q icraft. Two days after Dick
death I was hanging sorrowfull
e over the bridge, when some on
e drew near to me and said, in
, low voice, Mons. Lott. / had n
|, need to look up. 1 knew th
# voice; it was my lost sweethear
= She spoke very kindly, blusheG
a and welcomed me to her natiy
l. country. She did more; she toll
n me she lived five miles from &c
It neva, and invited me to visit BIZ
o mother. She took occasion to Il
y me know that her father wa
r, dead: "My mother refuses m
}? nothing" she added, with anothe
le blush. This was all like a dreal
/ to me. The next day I visite
D. her and her mother, and was co
e, daily received; in short, it WI
n made clear to me that my misfO
ie tune had endeared me to tn
1t gem of girl instead of repelliu
" her. An uncle, toe, had died, an
b. left her three hundred pound
at and this made her holder still
IS and she did not conceal her n
ot gard for me. She told me 81
ut had seen me once in Geneva drI
ing two snowy horses in q CO
Ie riage, and looking like a nobl
c. man, and SO had hesitated /
10, claim the acquaintance; but hes
Re ing the elephants execution, 81
m guessing that I could no long
as Be on the high-road to FORUM
ag she had obeyed her heart, Al
Sc been the first to remind me / b;
w once esteemed her.
Dy In short, . Pearl.
IN I made her q very poor retu
re for so much goodness. I we
ELL and married her. We then col
ed pounded with Huguet for thu
IN thousand francs, and sailed
an England to begin the world agai
it; The moment got to London
a made for the Seven Dials to {
re, my friend Paley.
rs On the way / met 3 mutual
e" qusintance; told him where / "
p gOing,-red-hot.
VS. He shook his head and 81
ut, nothing.
ut A chill came over me. Ify
81 had stuck q knife in me shot
, a not have bled. gasped out so
'ur sost ofinquiry.
SO "Why, you know he was no