The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-23
and "idorn. wak'd by the circling hours, "
met them reeling TO their huts.

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/ or political disorders. AS TO the time,
there would appear to be no limits or
| restrictions, as the following tragi-comi-
/ cal instance tends TO show: In the gov
eminent Of Kursk a peasant lately pre-
sented a petition to the holy orthodox
/ cOnsistOry asking the reverend and right
/ reverend members of that august body to
use their influence to prevent his being
| logged on a Sunday. The memorial set
| forth that he had been arrested fort
night before and logged for no reason
/ whatever. On inquiring why he had
1 been so badly treated he was informed
that the punishment had been inflicted by
mistake, but that the fright fellow
would now get it all the hotter"
He then complained to the authorities
and was logged again for daring to do
so, and once more on a Sunday. de
would now humbly request the Consistory
10 take measures TO prevent hOgging on
Sundays, "inasmuch as our holy religion
prohibits work on the Lords day" The
reply of the consistOry has not vet trans
pired. Some griefs are med enable"
| but IL is a somewhat difficult task TO ind
an appropriate remedy for man who has
been first logged by mistake, then logged
for Directing to it, and each time on
Sunday, when he ought TO have been at
tired in his best clothes, escorting wife
and children to church
GROWING Up FOR FLoGGING.
Flogging, like certain religious duties
which nave to be fulfilled in ones parish
church, can only be administered in the
native village or hamlet of the patient
and wherever he happens TO be he must
be conveyed to his birthplace and there
corrected with the lash. Three years
ago, for instance, a boy named Martin,
impelled by the pangs of hunger, stole
few pounds weight of potatoes. He was
condemned to receive nine strokes OF the
lash, but being too young at the time the
sentence was not to be executed until he
should come of age Il. e., Is years.. Some
months later he and his father left their
hamlet and travelled 20 the Crimea in
search of work, the mother remaining at
home until such time as by their joint
efforts they could manage to support her
Fate at first was against them, but at the
end of some two years they wrote and
asked her TO come, as they had fonnd
fairly profitable employment and had
established little home.
When the poor woman arrived in Talta
and found the whereabouts of her hus-
band she al once missed her son.
Where's Vanyal" was her first question
He's Just been arrested and taken back, +"
answered the husband. My God has
lie broken the law again." mo, the time
for his logging has come, and they're
taking him back to our village by etape"
about 500 miles distantl Ito give him the
nine lashes he was cond emned TO three
years ago You see, he was Is years old
last week. "Well, but couldn't they do
that here Just as welll' i thought they
could, and 1 begged them not to move
him, as he'll lose his place, and must
travel the 900 yersts at our expense, but
they said the law was the law, and they
couldn't change it,
WIFE FLOGGING HER HUSBAND.
Lastly, as regards the persons who may
legally administer the salutaPy lash and
birch, there Is some little difference of
opinion in theory and considerable lati-
tude in practice. A curious ILLUSTRATION
of this is afforded by a somewhat comical
case that came before the courts a couple
of weeks ago. A woman named Kor-
shoenOff, accused OF having logged her
husband twice over, and thereby infiict-
ing grieyous bodily harm upon him,
amazed the judge by her reply: tits true
enough, your honor; | logged him till the
! blood came, and it's sorry am for the
same. But it's not my fault, He him
self forced me TO IT." Your husband
faults, whatever they may be- replied
the Judge, cannot avail as an excuse for
your maltreating him. "Well, your
q
dol He first begged me and then threat
ened TO kill me If / didn't fog him."
What do you meanlp inquired the
court, now more puzzled than ever. 1--WE
were all at the house of M. Sooshkoff-
the district court iudge-and we were
celebrating his name day when some one
said bottle of cherry wine was missing
M. Sooshkoff said he suspected my hus
| band of having drunk IL, ana he ordered
I To ant ahor ~ ~
charge sheet. Later in the evening he
asked my good man to choose between
being tried in some weeks and getting a
| good logging then and there and he said
| he'd rather have the hogging. Then the
district court Judge desired me to exc
cute him, as there was nobody else to dc
it. l cried, and wouldn't agree. TheT
my husband said he'd skin me alive
! if / DIDN'T. So had to take the rods anC
lash him in the stable. Then M Soosh
koff said as how he doubted like whether
/ had hit hard enough, and WASH
satisfied unless my good man got 1t al
| over again in presence of his secretary
because the other logging was irregular
or unlegal, or something. Besides, h
said as how he mustn't be logged on tn,
back atall, because it's against rules, bu
on the
"Yes, | know" exclaimed the Judge
interrupting the witness in the nick O
time, What happened them"
Then, your honor, we all went to tn
stable again, and l laid on regularly o.
legally, or whatever they call it, and tn
secretary stood by and said it was tn
proper way" The Judge asked whethe
this extraordinary statement would b
borne out by Independent evidence
whereupon cloud of witnesses presente,
themselves and deposed that il was al
true. "And the individual responsible,
for this exclaimed the Judge, angrily
m. Sooshkoif, is a gentleman who en-
iOyed university education, a membe
of the district court"
THE PLoGGINa MACHINE.
An ingenious German named Kunz /
said to have patented some years ago a SC
called "hygienic fogging machine" 70
children and adults, which, however
owing TO the high price asked for it, wa
not adopted in Russia. But the memor
of the invention is still alive among tn
people. A short time since a long, mar
row. coffin-like box was espied by
veterinary surgeon as IL was being con
veyed to the government house of Rosh
jestvensk
The villagers, on hearing of il, wer
greatly troubled in mind as to its possibl
contents, and for days they made fruit
less inquiries about the mysterious case
At last they fancied they had solved tn
problem-it was an automatic foggin
machine, constructed, as one OF thei
number explained, just like a coffin. Yo
are put lying down and fixed like mai