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HOPE
IN new PACT

LONDON, Dec. 6.-In discussing the
prospects of the Anglo-American arbi-
tration treaty, Sir Thomas Barclay,
with the work of promoting amity be-
tween the nations, said to-day:
1t is quite possible that the treaty under
consideration will be more far-reaching than
the Anglo-French treaty. The treaty of 1897
provided for the settlement of all difficulties
between Great Britain and the United States
without exception by arbitration. Ii need
hardly be expected that the new treaty will
be in exactly the same terms that signed
by the late Lord Pauncefote and Secretary Oh
tween peoples speaking the same language and
having practically the same form Of proce-
dure should so step further than the Anglo
A good loan from the treaty OF 1897 would
be the clause providing that If Of the
parties raises the objection that national honor
or vital interest is involved the arbitrators
should consist of an equal number of the
tionality of the parties involved. and that IL
the decision is given by a bare majority II
should become final il not protested within
three months. The reference to arbitration OF
the Alaskan question showed that some such
The treaty of 1897 was defeated by twenty
six Senators, many of whom were influenced
by Michael Davitt to believe that such a
treaty would delay the solution Of home r,Is
for ireland. To day can possibly couple
the question OF home rule with the question OF
adopting peaceful business-like methods for
dealings Win International ulIUcultieS. If the
majority of the United States Senate should
thwart the progress of arbitration to-day when
all minds OF men are shocked by horrors Of
in the Far East. and when all realize
how Indispensable it is to promote pacific
methods for the settlement of difficulties r
tween nations, there would be an outcry
throughout the world and the Senate would be
disgraced in the eyes Of all mankind
/ know positively that several Senators who
voted against the treaty of 1897 will now
vote for the treaty of arbitration. / would
cite the case of Senator Morgan OF Alabama
who told me he had altered his views since
1897. / am perfectly that Senator'S
Money and Bacon are now good friends of the
treaty.
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There's Only One Way to
Get the Best Of Whisky

And that is to let it alone. If you try
any other way il will get the best OF
you. If you can't let it alone you need
DIR. McKanna'S S treatment DIR. Mckan-
ma cures the liquor habit by destroying
the desire for liquor and putting the
system in its natural condition, where
liquor is not needed to help the machin-
cry Of the body to do it's work Dr.
McKanna effects a complete cure in three
days without the use of dangerous hy-
pOdermics annoying confinement or bad
after effects. DR.. MCkanna's s treatmenU
is absolutely safe and cannot harm the
most delicate constitution Why waste
time and money in drinking whisky
when you can be cured of the liquor
habit in three days with no chance OF
failure, no risk and no unpleasantness
Think ii over and call or write DR.. Nc
Kama for full information. Address Ia
Geary street. San Francisco, Cal. Phone
1897 Main
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IN ARMY AND NAVY.

The nominations included a large
number of army promotions, among
which were the following to be brig
adler generals:
Colonel Albert Mills. supe 'ini endent Of the
United States Military Aca lsmy; CoIOnfl Henry
{. Dunwoody. Signal Corps; Lieutenant Col
oneI Peter Leary Jr. Artillery Corps Lieu
tenant Colonel Samuel l.. Woodward, seventh
Cavalry: Lieutenant Colonel John NICK. Hyde.
deputy quartermaster general; Colonel Oscar
F. Long deputy quartermaster general; Maicr
Theodore A. Bingham, Corps of Engineers;
Colonel Constant Williams, Twt wtnty-sixth In
fantry.
In the naval promotions these were
nominated to be rear admirals:
Captain william F. Tolger. Captain Francis
W Dickns. Captain George lS. e. Wilde. Cap
tain Charles II. Davis, Captain Che rles j.
Train Captain George w. Pig nan and Captain
George A. Converse.
William Anwin and Wilton E. Lando,
both of California, were appointed as
sistant surgeons in the navy.
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SONOMA PEOPLE OBJECT
TO ELECTRIC RAILWAY
Fear It Would Mar Beauty of Street
and Endanger Lives of the
PeODlp

SANTA ROSA. Dec. 6.-Mrs. Susie
Lenos and Mrs. Ida d. Dorman of
Sonoma appeared before the Board of
Supervisors to-day and fled protest
against the granting of an electric
franchise by The board along Broad
way. The protest was numerous
" signed, and it was declared that an
electric road would mar the beauty of
the thoroughfare and endanger the
lives of many people.
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HAWAII ASKS FUNDS.
Wants steps Taken t6 Eliminate Dis
ease From Island.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.-The esti-
mates of the appropriations submitted
for the Territory Of Hawaii by Cover
nor Carter and forwarded to Congress
by Secretary Shaw are as follows:
Dredging Honolulu harbor s250, 600; re-
funds 10 Territory. s175022; Federal
building for Honolulu, 81 ,0O0, 600: Fed
eral building at Hilo, 100000
AS a part Of the estimates there is
submitted rs an appendix a letter from
the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce
addressed TO the Governor soliciting his
assistance in the matter of making
Honolulu a clean port as against
tropical diseases and declaring that to
this end Honolulu should be made dis
ease proof. There also is attached a
letter from the Merchants Association
Of Honolulu calling attention to a Sc
rioUs depression in the wholesale and
retail business Of Hawaii. the causes
assigned being the loss of customs
revenue amounting TO 5000 600 during
the four years since annexation"
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OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE
OF THE PACIFIC COAST
Changes in Postal Service in Califor-
nia-Patents Issued to Residents
of the State.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The post
offices at Alcatraz CaleXico, Coachella.
Inverness, Lamoines, madeline. Napa
Junction, San Martin, Sherwood, Sui
tana, San Anselmo. Nicasio, Pied
mont. Weed. Watts and Wawona. in
California, will become domestic
money order offices January 3. The
postoffice at Workman, Los Angeles
County, is discontinued, to be super
seeded by rural free delivery. Star
service has been established between
Valdez and Eagle City, Alaska, leaving
Valdez on the 4th and 18th of each
month. John Kelly of San Francisco
has been appointed assistant engineer
on the steamship General Miffiin, at
San Francisco.
Patents were issued to-day to Cali
fornians as follows:
steam engine: H E. Clark San Francisco.
two. automatic belt tightener: A. j. Collar.
Yreka. means for operating water gates Gus
realiabie cigar package; j. Ernhart. Santa
Paula pruning implement; Thomas r. Gath
San Francisco. centrifugal pump; Robert r.
Hall San Francisco eyeglass; Sam H. Kitch-
iner Stockton, device for the prevention Of
railway hod-ups; f. G. Lundquist, Los An
geles (assignor of two-thirds TO H. II. and
W. A. HaiD tobacco pouch; A. L, Malone,
San Francisco coupling; Omara A. Mann, Oil
Center. sucker rod grab; Charles Payne. Los
Angeles, combination pencil sharpener and
eraser; F. H Reed Claremont. dam; Ed j..
Otter San Diego, garment supporting and
locking device; B. ". Salmon, French Camp.
thresher; Frank Soier. San Bernardino, grease
cup: Charles Stern (assgnor to Stern Bros.),
San Diego, sparkling device for International
mento automatic adjustable spacing rack: j..
strine; Downey, grocery bin; Warren L. Yes
tai, Redlands. fence post; j. Williams Oak
land Cassignor to Security Coin Box Company,
San Francisco). coin box,
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In the naval promotions these were
nnminated- TO be rear admirals:
OFFERED POST AT HEAD
OF THE PENSION OFFICE
Major Warner of Missouri Declines,
However. as His Eyes Are
on SenatOrShiD

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Major
William Warner of Kansas City, Unit
ed States District Attorney for the
Western District of Missouri, has
been offered the Office of Commissioner
of Pensions and has declined. The
place will be made vacant by the re-
tirement of Eugene Ware of Kansas.
whose resignation will take effect jan
uary /.
Major Warner was strongly In
dorsed for the pension commissioner
ship by his G. A. r. comrades, but
did not desire the appointment.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 6.-Major Will
liam Warner, in dispatch from
Washington to-day announced his
candidacy for the office of United
States senator, to succeed Senator
Cockrell.
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Continued from Page /. Column I.
in Southern California twelve times.
Speaking further. the professor said:

speaking further, the professor said:
What is the reason for the lack of progress
in the northern part OF the State? Governor
Pardee. whose statistics / have quoted. attrib-
utes IT TO lack of irrigation. Human nature IL
the same that 1t 2500 years ago. The au-
thor VINO wrote Aesop's Fables told OF the. kill
ing Of the goose that laid the golden egg. In
California the Anti-Debris Association killed
the goose of the golden egg.
In the period between 1913 and 1888 thirty
five years California had an average annual
gold output of $31, 900. O0O or S1O0.CO0 for each
working day. This came not all. but mostly
from hydraulic mining. Marysville and Sacra-
mento were benefited in the days of the argo-
nauts. They were two of the business and in
tellectual centers of the State. They had gold
for their farm products The Anti Debris As
soclaticn killed the goose and the hydraulic
miner and the farmer involved in the
common rilin
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AID FOR THE MILITIA.
New Bill Calls for One Million Dollars
Annually.

WASHINGTON, Dec 6-The War
Department has forwarded to Congress
a draft OF a bill, providing for an an
nual appropriation of $1,000, 900 for the
purpose of providing arms. ordnance
stores. cuartermaster stores and camp
equipment for the militia and for the
payment Of the cost of inspections Of
the organized militia which are re-
quired to be made under direction Of
the Secretary Of War
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Bin Promoting Rife Prao.tiee.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Represen-
tstive Hull, chairman Of the House
Committee on Military Affairs, to-day
on request Of Acting Secretary of War
Oliver introduced a bill to promote rife
practice. The bill provides for an an
nual appropriation Of $1,000, 600.
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Introduces Pension Bill.

WASHINGTON. Dec. e.-Representa-
tive Roberts of Massachusetts, intro
duced a bill to-day providing a pen
sion Of $i5 month for the widow of
Union sailors. soldiers and marines.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
Distress
Aher Eating

Nausea between meals, belching, vom-
iting, fatulence, fits of nervous head
ache, pain in the stomach, are all
symptoms Of dyspepsia, and the longer
II Is neglected the harder it is to cure II.
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Hoods JarSdp0riiLo
and Pills

Radically and permanently cure it
strengthen and tone the stomach and
other digestive organs for the natural
performance of their functions.
Testimonials Of remarkable cures mailed or
resoes, c. J. HOOD CO. Lowell. Mans
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IN CONSULAR SERVICE.

Consuls General-Frank Dyer Chester,
Mass, at Budapest, Hungary: Hezekiah Cad
La:, District of Columbia at Canton, China
Henry d. Miller of Oregon, at Newchwang,
CAina: Daniel Mayer West Virginia. at Bue-
nos Ayres; BENJAMIN H. Ridgeey, Kentucky.
at Barcelona. Spain; William Z. Wright,
Pennsylvania at Munich. Bavaria.
Among the nominations were those
of large number of postmasters, in
Guiding many recess appointments.
The original appointments include the
following:
Californa-Hiram H Richmond at Auburn,
William j. kity at Coainga, Cora B. Wales
at Colfax. Joseph Smith at Dowrey John NJ.
Joiiey at Oeeanside, George A. Griffin at Tuol-
u'nne: Idaho-Edna H. Madden at Burke,
Julia A. CARRIER at Grangevile: Nevada-Sam-
uel j. anderson at Winnemucca Oregon
Mashinston-Nelasco J. Knapp at Anacortes.
Rossiter T. Towle at Newport; Wyoming
Frederick F. Davis at Wheatland.
To be Consuls-William E. Alger, Massa-
chusetts. at Tegucigalpi. Honduras; Leo Burg
holz, New York, at Dawson City, Yukon Ter
ritory; Frank 5. Hannah, Illinois, at Magds-
burg, Germany; George H Moulton. Colorado.
az Georgetown. Demerara. Guiana; Oscar
Malmres. Minnesota, at Colon Panama.
TERRITORIAL JUDGES.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court OF
the Philippine Islands-Adams Carson Vir-
ginia: Judge Of District Court District OF
Alaska. First division, Royal A. Gunnison OF
]
superintendent of the Mint-Frank NJ
Downer, Denver; assayer of the Mint-Arthur
H. Hodgson. Denver; melter and refner of the
Mint-Joseph w. Nilsson. Denver.
To be Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court for the Territory of New Mexico-Ed-
ward a. Mann of New Mexico; to be Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court OF the Territory
of Hswaii-Walter F. Frear of Hawaii; TO be
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court for the
Territory of Hawali-Alfred S. Harvwell OF
Hawaii, Francis NJ. Hatch of Hawaii; to be
Judges of the Circuit Court Of Hawai-John
A. Matthewman Of Hawaii, Third circuit
Charles Z. Parsons of Hawaii. Fourth circuit;
Jacob Hardy Of Hawaii. Fifth circuit.
United States Attorneys-Henry NJ Hoyt
California. for the District of Alaska, division
No. ?; Norman NJ. Quick. Idaho District OF
Idaho
Marshals-Robert G. Rimmon. District oi
Nevada.
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs-Francis f
Leupp. District of Columbia.
Governor OF Alaska-John g. Brady. Alaska
Surveyor General Of Alaska-William L. pis-
tin. Illinois
Agents for the Indi1as-Samurl BELOW
Montana Flathead Agency. Montana: Frarh
Frantz, Oklahoma. Usage Agency, Oklahoma.
Registers Of Land Offices-Itooert n. Iunn,
at Cc=ur 'Alene, Idaho; DicA i. Morgan,
Woodward Oklahoma
Receiver of tu6lic Moneys-Sidney F Dc
long, at Tuscon, \. r; Julius IL. Weiss al
Del Norte. Colo.
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Headaches From Colds.

LAXATIVE BROMO QU1NINE removes tn.
cause. To get the genuire. call for full name
and look for signature II r w. Grove. 25c.
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TAX cOLLEcT1CNS-o Oakland. Dec. G.
The amount collected the first installment
OF municipal taxes $32s0 096 o4: second
installments. Sol AGA 23: delinquency first
tnstallment S15.I2S 52
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MILLIONS ARE LOST.

Professor ChriSty called attention to
the fact that in 1885 the investment
in the hydraulic mining properties of
the State amounted to 500, O,00O,0 900.
This value was destroyed. The energy
of the hydraulic miner was and is the
admiration of the world. He con-
structed mountain reservoirs and also
mountain bitches and pipe lines that
were miles long. Now the argonauts,
old and broken, sit by their ruined
cabins and gaze ON the wrecks of their
ruined hopes. They could have had
fortune in their grasp by breaking the
/. law, by running a monitor by night.
With few exceptions the hydraulic
miner has respected the law that
ruined him.
Professor Christy paid some atten-
ton to the decisions by Judge Lorenzo
Sawyer and declared that they rested
on an incomplete knowledge of geo
logic laws and of the forces or ma
ture. In part Professor Christy's re-
marks in this regard were as follows:
Judge sawyers decisions as strictly inter
preted, result in deadlock between the farm
ers and the miners. The anti debris slogan is.
AN kinds of mining look alike to met The
growth of Northern California has been para
lyzed. The situation has taken all the bit
terness of religious war. When anything
goes wrong in the valley 1t is attributed TO the
hydraulic miners.
Erosion Is a natural and universal process.
There were recently great washouts on the
lines of the Southern Pacific Company and OF
the Santa Fe Trains were detained In Texas,
New Mexico and Arizona There is no nv
draulic mining to be called to account in those
instances. In the mouths of mountain gorges,
everywhere, are fan- shaped cones. consisting
of discharged sediment, gravel, etc, hundreds
of feet deep. covering from five to twenty five
square miles at the mouths OF torrential
streams. Hydraulic mining has no part in
this.
AL rivers coming from mountains to fat
country deposit sediment in their beds and hIl
up their beds between the lowlands They
run often. twenty and even more feet above
the lowlands in their borders. This is true
of the Sacramento River and also of the Mis-
sissippi and the Po. along which last named
two no hydraulic mining takes place. The del
tas and bars at their mouths are formed SINH
larly
Professor Christy then went on to
speak of what happens when rivers
are permitted to follow their natural
bent and said in part:
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TIMING FIEN WILL
SEND A, MEMORIAL
TO THE PRESIDENT
NAVIGATION IN DANGER.

survey. chart of 1900, and these were
Quoted
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Entrance 10 La Gnande 0ouqugtg
Scene where Peumene3 Was
9uillOtined e

And then some one spoke. No. one
knew who it was or what was said. It
Is doubtful whether the speaker himself
knew. Our gaze wasrivetted on the con-
demned cells which. we were facing. The
doors were thrown back, and we had
a glimpse Of Ellington, the executfoner,
and his assistant spinioning the arms of
Nilsson. Thislofflee had been performed
On the others previous 10 eur arrival
We could distinctly hear the low. mo-
notonous tones Of Ethe prison chaplain,
/ the Rev G. P. fMerriciI, repeating some
prayer for the dying. Warders bus
tied here and there Ellington and his
assistant crossed the yard to the execu-
! ton shed, a stable-Iike structure
painted a sonber gray, and Situated
but a few yards to our left, entering
the house of death with the air of
man going about his ordinary voca-
ton. There was a pause, while the dis
NAL bell of ST. SepuIehre's Church toIIed
on monOtOnously.
! Everything was now in readiness to
carry out the final edict Of the law.
Nilsson was the first to leave his cell.
Pale and trembling and muttering a
prayer, he supported himself at the
I doorway as be cast an anxious glance
around him.
Hastily Seaman and Fowler were got
into line in the order named. All three
wore their ordinary street clothes-the
clothes in which they were sentenced
but their necks were bare. Their arms
were tightly pinioned behind their
backs.
With warders at each side, the pro-
qession started. Col Milman, Chief War
der Scott. Drs- Pitcairn and Scott, the
prison physicians; the Rev C. P. Mer-
rick and the Rev. A. K. Ramsey, prison
chaplains; the sheriff and myself bring
ing up the rear
Seaman, who, like Nilsson, was a
short man, appeared absolutely indif-
ferent to his fate. while Fowler, who
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THE GUHLoTINE IN PARIS

Z T o'clock on the morning of Tues
n day, August 3. 1897. Jacques Peu-
menez was executed on the guiIlo-
tine erected Immediately outside the
main gate of the now demolished Jail
of La Grande ROquette, Paris. sentence
of death having been pronounced upon
him during the month previous.
The execution was public. and with
DR.. Charles Lefevre l was present at
the Promenade de la Veuve" prom
enade of the Widow. as the French
style a decapitation.
The murder for which Peumenez was
convicted was one of great atrocity. and
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committed under the influence OF drink
Jealousy was the motive.
The jail of IA Grande Roquette was
situated in the nth Precinct Of Paris
in vast quadrangle bounded by the
rue de Ia Roquette. the rue Gerber.
the rue de Ia Jolie Regnault and the
rue de Ia Vacquene. and faced the
smaller prison La Petite RoqUette.
1t was at the gate shown in the Il
lustration that DR.. Lefevre and my
self alighted from a carriage at $50 on
the morning OF the execution. On all
sides a morbid crowd was being held
back by gendarmes. who at zines had
to use their bayonets to keep the sight
seers from invading the prohibited
square
Windows were filled with laughing,
jesting crowd. and a ribald remark
would occasionally float across the
square to be answered by a hoarse
laugh from the onIookers. Many were
eating -unconcernedly; most appeared
Indifferent, all were unaffected
The main gate of the Jail was guarded
by an extra force Of infantry-5he usual
guard being twenty-five soldiers, COM
manded by an adjutant-but owing to
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TRIPLE HANGING AT NEWGATE

ut O'clock on the morning OF We'd
II nesday. June 10, 1896, Frederick
Fowler. Albert Nilsson and VIII
liam Seaman were hanged on a scat
fold Of the now demolished Newgate
Prison, London, England, sentence of
death having been pronounced upon
them some I'VE weeks previously at the
Central Criminal Court by the famous
hanging Judge" Sir Henry Hawkins.
BY special invitation of Lieutenant
Colonel AIilman, Governor Of Newgate
and Holloway jails. and through the
influence of a prominent alderman Of
the city Of London, I was enabled to
be present at the execution, a permits
sion which the Commissioners Of Eng
Iish prisons rarely grant to anyone
save the Sheriffs of the city in which
the execution takes place, and those
officials of the, jail who are absolutely
date Of the law.
Seaman. a div by profession, was
convicted Of - murder Of John
Goodman Levy j. Mile End. a suburb
in the East End Of London. His po-
lice record was bad.
Fowler and Nilsson, who were found
guilty or burglary and a subsequent
murder as heinous as il was cowardly.
were both types Of the London hood
lum, born and bred in Southam street,
KensaI Rise, a slum Of the English
metropolis. which as a hive Of criminal
ity rivalled for a time the famous Seven
Dials.
The crime was committed at Musweu
Hill. a village to the north of London,
the victim being Henry Smith, man
Of some seventy-lve years, who lived
alone and unprotected, and who had
the reputation locally Of possessing
some means.
Both murders resulted from attempts
at robbery.
Slight Clew Sufficient
After being followed all over England
both Fowler and Nilsson were arrested,
an achievement which is considered one
Of the most brilliant exploits Of Scot
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Horseshoes in Newgate.

The execution was fixed for o'clock
a. m. and shortly before $50 o'clock 1
presented my invitation at the main
entrance Of the prison in Newgate
street
The sensation which 7 Experienced as
the heavy door Of the Jail was thrown
back and / stood within Newgate was
indescribable. AS if to shatter any lin
gering faith in the proverbiaI luck Of
the horseshoe, there were 1--WE nailed
over the inner doorway. It seems
strange. now. that 1 should have noticed
so commonplace a. decoration" yet
during most of the terrible half hour
that followed L could not drive from
my mind the grim humor Of placing
such symbols over that portal Of
misery.
While waiting for the chief warder,
Mr.. Scott, to examine my credentials,
had time TO glance around the. ''recep-
ton ROOM" a dull businesslike apart
ment with four plain wooden chairs
and a high desk on which was a pom
derous register. Some fire buckets and
a clock decorated the walls, while a
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GUILLOTINE PAINLESS
BY DR. CHARLES LEFEVRE
S.. Paris Police Physician

I AM inclined to think that decapita-
ton means instantaneous and there
fore painless death. although this
has been disputed by eminent authori-
ties. Movement after decapitation i:i
due, in my opinion, 10 muscular con-
traction, because with the brain sepa-
rated from the body all sensation must
end.
But the guillotine is as barbarous as
IL is bloody. 1 look hopefully for the
day when q more civilized method of
inficting deaA win be introduced in
France-if, indeed, any mode of capital
punishment may be considered civil
lied.