New-York tribune., 1905-11-12

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pressed the beggars and the brigands.
Convinced that the overseers were winking at
| breaches OF the ordinances. he ordered the next
offender to be brought before him When this
had been done. he made the culprit swear under
threat Of two hundred stripes how many times
he had already been convicted: and the con-
fessed to four convictions for selling beyond the
tariff price within the year. The count thereon
sent for the Book of Ordinances and had them
read aloud to show that the penalties increased
with each offence-fne and imprisonment for the
first public hogging for the second and banfsh-
nlent for The third. Surely. then, exclaimed the
count "a who has four times broken the law
deserves to be hanged" On this occasion. however.
he dismissed the offender, but issued proclama-
ton that thenceforth the prices of the tariff must
be adhered to- and every of the ordinances.
with their penalties rigidy enforced
He had not long to wait for another case
woman. called La Ronquilla.. found selling KIDS
which she had smuggled into the city ana Kept
hidden under petticoat. She paraded through
the streets and given two hundred stripes anu
all the market people began to be scandaizeo
They had soon fresh for scandal; for, only
two days later the wrath Of the count fell on
huckster who was a retainer of of the magfs-
trstes, and whom Ariho deferentally refers to as
Don Francisco" A gentleman, while walking
through the market, was attracted to FranclscoS s
stall by what appeared to be the headquarters OF
q fat ram with certain Of the inWards attacheo'
which we regard ofral but which in Spain have
always been considered a deicacy. He bought
hindquarter and sent it home by his servant with IN
structions to have the inwards cooked and READY
for breakfast. When the man returned now
ever his rnajordomo had a strange tale TO telis
The bindouarter instead of being that of g ram,
had been cut off a tough old eve. and the inVaros
of a ram had been deftly sewn on to the carcass
with thread The indignant man fastened TO the
Count with his mutton and his story, and next
day q constable arrested Don Francisco red
handed He was taken to prison, paraded through
the streets with the meat hung round his neck,
given two hundred stripes, and banished from
Seville Soon after woman who had sold cher
ries beyond the tariff similarly hogged through
the streets with the cherries hung round her neck.
and died after the punishment
One morning, es Puhoenrostro was passing
through small square under the windows of the
Cardinals palace a man hurried past him with
two eggs in his hand. This aroused the Counts
suspicion. He stopped the and ELECTED that
the eggs had just been bought from neighboring
pastry cook at six maravedis the tariff price.
Determined TO administer summary justice. Puno-
enrostro sent then and there TO fetch both the
executioner and the guilty pastry COOK Just
the latter was about to be fogged. thece appeared
the window Of the palace the Cardinal himself
lie explained to the Count that the eggs we for
him: that his servant could not find lresS sgs
in all Seville and had gladly paid ssrrs price
10 secure those, and he begged that tnG tastr cock
sbin the Cardinal" the Count conserted 10 to,ego
the stripes. and commuted the punishment TO
prison. and after receiving the prof0ss thanks OF
the Cardinal passed onward on his way
Though the position OF his master had saved
this servant from punishment, less fortunate WIS
a Morsco, also the retainer Of Alcaide,
the next day detected selling cheese above t.ze Jart
For though the Aicalde himself hastened the
prison and tried to persuade the lieutenant ot the
guard to conceal the matter from the Count, and
though the Morisco offered to pay fifty ducats To
escape the foggtng, the Count was both vtgiiant
and obdurate, and the Alcaloe went nome an
noyed." while the Moriseo was given his deserts
through the streets"
called Gamarra. whose open defiance of the tariff
had hitherto escaped justice only from their
toriously desperate character How the old mother
wsx arrested how her rescued her from
prison. how they hid for days while all Seville
Searched how they finally captured the
TO the galleys and the mother aogged through
the town-all these things fully told in The
pages OF the diary. To us, who shudder at the
barbarity of foggiag old through the
streets II affords comfort TO learn that the
morning after the Gama-ra's punishment, the
Count on passing through the market place. found
his victim in her usual health behind her vegetable
stall, surrounded by jeerfng crowd. at whom she
was hurting filthy and stiIl feher language