Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-03-04
VILLAINS IN NOVELS.
HOW SOME or THE FAMOUS AUTHORS
DISPOSE OF THEM.

Examples of the GrewsOme Fates
That Have Reen Devised by the
and Women of Crime.
Dickens is responsible for most en-
tertaining gallery of rogues Quilp 1.-THE
distorted dwarf and Rogue Riderhood
{the ruff1an) alike terminate their ex-
istence in watery grave. Ralph
Nickleby, Gashford and Jonas ChuZzle-
wit take their own lives, while Uriah
Heep, SQueers and Littimer leave their
country for their country's good in
garbs gratuitous1y provided by govern
ment and freely embossed with "broad
arrows .
Perhaps the most grewsoIne of Dick
ems death scenes is that provided by
the face of the ever smiling Carker into
which the irresistible locomotive is i'm
pressed, probably for the first time in
the history of fiction
Scott villains most frequently meet
with violent deaths at the hands of 9TH
ers, often their accofnplioes or commit
suicide on the eve of discovery and dis
grace But the sensation lover has
nevertheless been catered for in the
death of Anthony Foster, the accom-
plice of the poisoner Richard Varney
This miserable wretch is depicted as
hiding from his pursuers in a secret
cell The entrance to this is fastened
Nv of 1yNkI1y 6tE Eik.l,
however, he omits to retain the key,
with the consequence that he even Sually
perishes miserabIy of mingled fear and
famine.
Lytton's Might and Morning gives
us the eoiner Gawtrey, who meets his
fate at the hands Of the Paris police,
from whom he is attempting to escape
when pistol shot drops him over the
side of house to perish miserakly
This idea of falling from a height is by
no mems confined to Lytton. It lie 'util
lied by Anthony Hope IN "Phroso''
and by Stanley Weynnan in ''Unt7er the
Red Robe, where the villain and bis
victim fall from lofty bridge into a
seetTing torrent below. In this way,
too, Conan Doyle killed the Immortal
Sherlock Holmes, who, fast locked in
struggle with 1.-THE greatest William of
them ALL - falls over an Alpine preci-
piee.
Wilkie Collins brings his principal
villain, the donb4e faced, calculating
Count Fcsen to an ignofble end, he dis
appearing for time, only to reappear
upon the CHASTITY Shelves of the Paris
morgue A still more chastity fate is
that Of the she fiend, Gagged, Immortal
lied by Rider Haggafd in king Solo
mons Mines. Having conducted
Quatermain, Curtis and party into
that celebrated n1onarcI1's rock hewn
treasury, which is guarded by pom
derous rising door of living rock, she
touches secret spring, by means Of
which the door begins once more to de
scend with a slow bat irresistible mo
bi0n
While the Englishmen are sizing up
the jewelry she makes off through the
rapidly lessening aperture Her progress
is temporarily arrested by the unfortu-
nate girl FouIata whom she stabs in
order to free herself. Hurriedly scFa1n-
bling over the threshold, she is caught
by the memorable force which she has
herself put in motion, and a realistic
ally dramatic ''scrunch' pats an end
forever to the Vaccinations of this
truly horrible old woman
Svengali, like Scott's Tenaplar in
g. J.
mental strain acting upon the heart,
while, to bark back to the days of the
bluff Doctor of Fleet Street, the gentle,
genial hearted Goldsmith is contented
to reform the raRish Squire ThornLin
in order that he may at last become the
exemplary spouse Of the gentle Olivia,
around whom he wove that enhancing
ly simple narrative. 1.-The Vicar eff
Wakefield"
Finally, the palm for writing lurid'
may fairly be accorded Harrison Aims
worth for his thrilling disposal of the
two ghoulish wretches who haunt the
pages of his celebrated novel, "Old |
Saint Paul's - The creatures who bat
tened upon the spells of the dead and |
dying during the great plague were
wont to stow their i'll gotten gains in
one Of the cathedral vaults The catke-
dral taking fire, they hasten thither in
order to rescue their precious hoard. |
The greed of gain, however, misleads
them into sojourning just moment l
too long
AS they turn to leave the now sitting
vault they see that a thin silvery
stream is making it's way down the |
stairs, by which alone they can gain |
an exit. Even as they look it thickens |
and before they can escape |
the whole stairway is blocked, and the |
vault about them begins to fill with the |
silvery liquid. When it is added that 1
the harmless looking fluid is nothing |
more or less than the molten lead from /
the roof and windows of the cathedral, |
it will become apparent that even Mr.. |
Gilbert's something with boiling oil |
In it, possesses a dangerous rival in the |
pages of "Old Saint Paul S. London !
Standard.
The Cricket's Chirp.
The variation Of speed in the chirp- |
ing Of crickets depends so closely on |
that the haipht of tho