The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-26

ting on his magisterial robes, he sem fenced the thief to be thrashed. He held up one hand on inquiry if fifty strokes would be sufficient punishment. Plenty, intimated the foreigner. Down was the man pitched on his face, the legs tied, the flesh barred, and heavy fell the blows. "Well," said Lowe, "as I've been put to considerable incon- venience over this rascal think I'll take a snap shot of his thrashing." And one was taken. The beating went on and on, the ruffian screamed and blood was running from the wounds on his limbs. Hasn't he had the fifty yet?" was asked. Fifty! Why his punish ment Is five hundred strokes, and he has not had four hundred yet" A plea was put forward for mercy. But the mandarin, with his lips tight, would not listen. It was no good telling him that the quality of mercy was not strained, or that it droppeth like the dew from heaven, or that it became the was paid to punish offenders, and he was going to punish them. However, it was soon all over, and the wretch lay on the ground grooming, writhing and bleeding.
 Then in marched the soldiery with five other men heavily manacled. The
 prisoners fell on their knees and the mandarin heclled the lot like a Paris ian judge. He fixed on one as the ring leader of the robbery. If five hundred stripes was the punishment of an ac-
 complice, what must be the chastise-
 ment of the thief in chief?. Torture
 was reserved for him. He was made to sit on his launches. His wrists were tied tightly in front of his knees, and a
 pole was stuck between his arms and his legs and then rested on two tables so that the culprit swung head down. about each big toe, and two of the soldiers pulled apart. This necessarily
 brought a tremendous strain on the roped wrists. They blackened immed- lately. The agony must have been ex-
 cruciating, for the man screamed. He
 began curling and twisting, but a soldier went forward and put his foot
 on the thief'e dragging pigtail and so kept his head down. The victim foamed at the mouth, and whenever he
 was raised up by the queue to give him
 breathing space, swung head downward
 again, and the tWine about his toes tugged. It was in vain for the foreigner to appeal that the barbarous torture
 should cease. There was nothing for it but to forsake the sickening and re-
 volting spectacle clothed in dark shrouds. The faces are dark, but the
 skin is not shrivelled like the dark skin
 of the Egyptian mummies. The hair and teeth are well preserved.
 A large glass jar contains the head of a mulatto who was executed at Cincin- nati years ogo. The spectacle is hid eous, the appearance of the head being
 much as it was in life, the eyes staring
 into space and the lips drawn tightly away from the big white teeth, as if grinning. There are two more bodies of infants on exhibition, also two white men and a white boy. Some of these corpses Mir. Hamrick has sitting up in chairs apparently quite at home, but certainly leaving picture in the mind not pleasant to recall in lonesome | places.
 { There are some wild beasts and | domestic animals, sheep, calf, heads | of animals and insects. What Hamrick 1 has failed to preserve are fish and their
 kindred water associates He says he has failed utterly to preserve fish and
 prevent more or less wasting away.
 While he carefully guards his secret | he is by no means averse to showing | het wonderful fluid he employs to &C., complish these marvellous results He
 keeps it in a two-gallon glass jar, and il
 is so transparent that at first glance
 the jar appears to be empty However
 it is almost if not fully as heavy as lead, and what makes it still more in teresting Is Mir. Hamricks statement
 that all of the ingredients are found l upon or near by his farm.-Travel M0cnc AS crtuooT DOW