The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-29
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TIED hin If Loud 4 ths ar y the room
wss 50 foul that a winaov had 10 D.
opened before the English Ming coud
enter. The nastiue~s Of himself and
suite almost ruined Eyelyn's "a a At
Deptf0rt, where the Imperial party we're
lodged and the owner applied tor aad
received compensation from Parliament
Twenty years later the pretty hit {
"Monbiiou'' palace ia Berlin suffered 10
the same way from the same party. The
Sprishtly Margarine OF BeIrelth say
that ',the de,olstion Of Jerusalem wa.
everywhere 10 it, and il vas 80 ruined n
almost 10 need rebuilding Every one
has heard Of the important par1played
by the cane 10 the domestic ECONOMY oi
Frederic William | OF Prussia, but tia
eccentric monarch was nothing IN o
pari<on to his Russian brother III the can
ing line. Peter, when the hit wa 90
him. literally caned everybody from his
his cook to his counsellor, from the mean
est peasant TO the highest noble -sparlng
neither age nor sex. He would get up
from the table and fog the host who was
unlucky enough to eatertain him. de
would stand at the door of the Senate
house and fi1g each Senator that wen
in. Lefort was an intimate and trusted
friend, yet on slight proyocation be wa
knocked down and brutally kicked by his
Imperial guest. But all this ~ipgginr
was IN the way OF recreation. Whcu
Peter meant business it was a more e
rious matter. Incredible as il may seem
it is nevertheless well authenticated that
one of his W sister-it is said, NOR,
than one received a hundred strokes OF
the whip on her back IN the presence Of
the whole court. In l7l3 Alexis, hi
only son who o~utlived infancy, was for
some offence o: no great seriousness
several times tortured IN the presence Of
Z tue tldbUIiNIl ldtLtI dbo {. = hOutN 10
ter died either trcu4 the effects Of tnt
torture or by as,a4aination. For sympa
thizing With Alexis, the Princess Colt
syn, the bosom companion OF the En-
press Catherine, was publicly whlppG
by soldiers. For the same reason the
brother of his first VITO, Eudoxia
whom he mad thrown into PRISON
tortured. and then broken alive on the
wheel. An alleged lover of Eudoxia was
tortured 10 Peters presence almost iailj
for SIX weeks by the knout, by burning
Goals aud Todhot irons, by being tie,
finally impaled. Nothing ever told of
Nero is more horribly grotesGue than
this:
Miss Hamilton was a fair but frail
maid of honor to Catherine. After a
casual intimacy with Peter she bestowed
her tenderness e sewhere without interior
eDce on his part, but when, to extricpte
herselffron resulting embarassments, She
took to infaDticide, he brought her to tIial
Condemned to decapitstion, she mounted
the scatfold in a dress of white satin
trimmed with bows of black ribbon, Look
ing more lovely than ever. But not alone
Peter appeared at her side, and straining
HtT 10 Ills DTcdSt, ldiuoutCu Ludl Tie III
vine law kGbade him to spare her. A
moment after the beautiful head rolled
from the block at his feet, and, lifting il
up by the ear, he imprinted a last kiss
upon the quiverine lips.
The Prussian Ambassador Priuz asserts
in his official dispatches that during the
memorable suppression of the S,reltsi re
volt Peter gave a banquet, sent Tor a score
Of rebels. and every time be drained a glass
struck of a head, inviting the envoy to
join in the sport. With such sins laid at
his door it is scarcely worth while to men
ton lighter ones to say that Peter was
a g%lutton, q drqnkard, addicted to every
forn Of sensual indulgence, an irredeema
be blackguard aud %ruffian, spariug no
woman in his lust and no man IN his
wrath, utterly infamous In al relations OF
lie, a %scotfer ct virtue III either sex. a
mocker cf religion, dying five weeks after
participating in the election and conse-
Grafton Of a burlesque Pope. Yet this
man, or monster rather, is para1ed before
the world as Peter the Great.