Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-08

age, station, temper and character.
istics of the accused. Behind the
other door couched u fierca and FAM
10 lug tiger. The accused could not
possibly know behind which door
lurked the tiger or waited the lady.
heuce the exsct justice of the scheme.
The accused might open either door
he pleased, aud blind aud impartial
chance decided which door, II the
accused opened the lady's door, he
was married to her forthwith, whether
he hac another wife or not.
So smoothly worked this plan, that
the divorce mill of the kingdom was
kept running at tho maximum capa
acity IN order to free these fortunate
or unfortunate huibands who had
found the lady's door But after y
while q presumptuous youth of tho
people dared 60 TALL in lovo with the
kings pct daughter, whom tho ki &
loved Ia the apple of his eye The
kings daughter returned the young
mans love, for though not OF royal
blood, he was handsome and brave aud
good, and drove tho handsomost tan.
dem team in all the kingdom But
they met once too often, presumably
at the free library, and the royal papa
fouad it out. The daughter vas
taken home, and the young man
dragged to a dungeon coll. The next
day 1t was announced that the cul
prit would be brought into the
Kings arena. Immediately society,
In a body, decided to be in al the
death. On the morning of the trial
the amphitheater was packed, but the
princess had not been idle. To the
cunning of a barbarian che added the
persistent c%leverness of q civilized
modern detective. She had bribed
the most trusted servant of the king
When her lover WAC led5nto the arena
the princess knew behind which door
crouched the tiger, behind which
walked the lady Aud the lover, read
ing his sweetheart's eyes, to all others
inscrutable, to him eloquent with
meaning detected a swift signal, and
acting thereon, opened the ri5ht.ha
door.
Now, here the story closes.
Whether the lady or the tiger was be
hind the door Is not told. The ques-
ton, the author tells us, demands for
it's solution a knowledge of all the in
~tricate mechanism of human affection,
barbarian as we'll as Civilized. Love
and hate, trust and Jealousy, selfish
ness and self abnega,ion, 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 &C
ton, n woman's ideas of good or i'll
are always unknown quantities. Sc
1t seems idle to seek to determine
whether the princess would have
counted the agony Of seeing her lover
welded to another less or greater
than the horr,r of seeing him
torn into ssnguinary tidbitf
by a properly ravenous tiger. s.
much may be said on both sides that
one is reminded of the famous prob
lem OF the owl: "Did the frat ow'
come from the egg, or the first ogp
from the owl2' Manifestly 1t woulC
have been unjust to rest tho solution
of so perplexing a study upon any
thing g. intangible as the analysis of 8
womsn's reasoning. Fortunately Their,
is no need. William Taylor, of thiI
city, a gentleman profoundly verseG
In the folk lore Of India, has unearthet
the folio wing sequel to the story 81
exsspsratingly broken off in the para
phrase of Mr.. Stockton:
"Without the slightest hesitation
:, he went to the right hand door ant
opened it," He did not know tina
his royal sweetheart had threaded al
"the devious mazes of passion er,
she arrived at her decision. He be
lieved that she knew that life at tn,
price named would not be worth tn
having. SO he believed that behinc
: the right hand door lurked the tiger
I He opened it, and then stepped fortl
the lady. The lover looked at hi
3 sweetheart reproachfuily, at her rivs
. respectfully but suddenly. Then h,
l turned away, walked rapidly to tn,
3 left hand door and opened that
There WAS a bound, a roar,
! shrill scream, a sickening wei
, tor. But it was not the lover who's
, msngled limbs the savage beast wa.
f%ercely crunching. With the unfail
ing accuracy of discrimination, which
; is a trait Of his royal lineage, the tige
had chosen the lady for his repsst
i, and the lover stood uuscathed. II
!, would have been unworthy immortal
ity if he had not taken the largess O
', tate at It's face value. He did FL
passed through the door and closed it
The princess tainted, the king relent
ed, the lovers we're wed, ard in lioI
of q trial by blind chance the generou
monarch instituted the system Of q!