Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-17
Price Three Cents

eight other persons guides pr porters. The next day they were seen on the summit against the blue sky. Soon after beginning their descent cloud concealed them, which proved to be the beginning of violent snow storm, lasting through many days. I think it was some ten days before the guides were able to reach the top, and there found the larger number of the unfortunate party as death overlook them in that binding storm. There they had died by inches, and In Mr. Beans pocket was found a pathetic memorandum of the terrible hours in which the poor man was waiting for his fate. went to the Chief of Guides office and found the record in which my friends name stood 455 in the list. I went to corner in the Catholic graveyard where the remains lie, and where found stones for the other two, but none for Randall. I thought much of all this I thought of a boy at school in 8 quiet New England town, who could have as little dreamed that he WAS to take his last breath amidst the snows of Mount Blanc and be buried in Catholic cemetery as of any fate possible in this mortal world. When he had realized hls dream, and stood there at the top of all Europe, one wonders if it seemed worth all the hazard or whether he did not for the moment think the feat &C., complshed, and that he had only to go down and home, and tell what he had seen And what ons sees is far less than from the Rigi, and really Is not worth the pains and cost, to say nothing of the more terrible price these poor fellows had to pay. Such things, after all, make old scene new, and Cha mouni and Mont Blanc are not just what they were to me twenty-nine years ago.
 Anaamese Torture
 French officer, who witnessed an execu- tion in Tonquin, says Paris letter, gives very curious account of the apparatus of implement. A lofty stake with a sharp point is fixed into the ground, as firmly as a ka1a 1I 1-ikI he chair of iron, having an orifce in the centre of the seat, is connected. The point of the stake fits the orifice in the chair, and the lat ter is lowered or raised by machinery set in motion by a crank-so that several feet of the pole can be forced through the body of anyone seated in the chair. There is lofty platform, rising to the same height as the pole, and reached by ladder. The execu- tioner compsls his victim to mount and take bis seat in the chair, whereoD he is immova- ply chained. Then the crank is turned forty or fifty times-the stake being buried further in the criminals body at each turn, All t,is appears unutterably horrible to Europeans but the Orientals are not constituted we are. They fear ordinary forms of death very little, and decapitation or hanging has as it- tie terrors for them as the workhouse for the common Anglo Saxon criminal Moreover, their nervous system-sspecially that of the Chinese and kindred races-is not altogether s1nlllar 10 the nervous system or dryan races The French officer who witnessed the method of execution above described ayers that the criminal continued to eat a banana until the upe ration was half completed and many travellers concur in bearing evidence that the hinese exhibit under torture a degree of fortitude equal, if not superior to the we'll known stoicism of the American Indian But it is rather strange to learn that he part of the iron machinery used in the impaiing process referred to bears the Urane-maIk Of Q French iron master.