The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-05

- ---Ar, g1uuralIy young, A.u, s.a--.--
and with generous dowry; but always SUIT
able to the age, station, temper and character
lsncs OF the accused Behind the other door
crouched fierce and furnishing tiger. The
accused could not possibly know behind
wnicn door Iurked the tiger or waited the
lazy. Hence the exact justice of the scheme
The accused might open either door he pleased
and blind and impartial chance decided which
door. Ii the accused opened the lady's door
he was married to her forthwith whether he
had another wife or not
SO smoothly worked this plan that the di-
Torce mill of the kingdom was kept running
81 us maximum capacity in order to free those
fortunate or unfortunate husbands who had
found the lady's door. But after while a pre-
sumptuous youth Of the people dared to fall
IN love with the kings pet daughter. whom
the king loved as the apple of his eye The
kings daughter returned the young mans
love, for though not of royal blood he was
handsome and brave and good, and drove the
finest tandem IN all the kingdom But
they met once too often, presumably at
the free library, and the royal papa found it
out The daughter was taken home and the
young man dragged to . dungeon cell The
next day 1t was announced that the culprit
would be brought into the kings arena. I'm
mediately society, in a body, decided To be in
amphitheater was packed. But the princess
had not been idle. To the cunning of bar
barian she added the persistent cleverness of
civilized modern detective She had bribed
the most trusted servants of the king. When
her lover was led into the arena the princess
knew behind which door crouched the tiger,
behind which waited the lady. And the lover
reading his sweetheart's eyes, to all others in
scrutable, to him eloquent with meaning, de-
tected a swift signal, and acting thereon opened
the right-hand door
Now here the story closes Whether the
lady or the tiger was behind the door is not
told The question, the author tells US, de-
mands for its solution knowledge of all the
intricate mechanism of human affection,
barbarian as well as civilized Love and hate,
trust and jealousy, selfshness and self-abne-
CATION must all be weighed, measured, and
put into an equation of two or more unknown
quantities before any decision fairly may be
reached Until put into action, womans
ideas of good or i'll are always unknown
quantities. So it seems idle to seek to deter
mine whether the princess would have counted
the agony of seeing her lover welded
to another ess or greater that the horror of
seeing him torn into sanguinary tidbits by
properly raVenous tiger. So much may be
said on both sides that one is reminded of tho
famous problem of the owl: sid the first
owl come from the egg, or the first egg from
the owl?" .Manifestly it would have been I'M
just to rest the solution of so perplexing a
study upon anything so intangible as the an
alysis of woman's reasoning. Fortunately
there is no need. William Taylor, of this city.
gentleman profoundly versed in the folk lore
of India, has unearthed the following SEQUEL
to the story so exasperatingly broken off in
the paraphrase of Mr.. Stockton. SWithout
the slightest hesitation he went to the right
hand door and opened it" He did not know
that his royal sweetheart had threaded all sthe
devious mazes of passion "ere she arrived at her
decision He believed that she knew that life at
the price named would not be worth having
So he believed that behind the right-hand door
lurked the tiger. He opened it and there
stepped forth the lady. The lover looked at
his sweetheart reproachfully, at her rival re-
spectfully, but sadly. Then he turned away,
walked rapidly the left-hand door and opened
that There was q bound, a roar, shrill
scream, a sickening weller. But it was not
the lover whose mangled limbs the savage
beast was fercely crunching. With the un-
failing accuracy of discrimination which is a
trait of his royal lineage, the tiger had chosen
the lady for his repast, and the love stood I'M
scathed. He would have been unworthy i'm
mortality if he had not taken the largess of
fate at its face value He did. He passed
through the door and closed it The princess
tainted, the king relented, the lovers were wed,
and in lieu of trial by blind chance the gener-
GUS monarch instituted the system of an cleo
i've judiciary.