... THE 1IEUPUIS OP TnADS. [From January, 1899, to October, 1893, 154 men employed on the Idanoheoetro Ship Canal wore killed; 186 were perma- nently crippled; 1,401 were temporarily disabled,] Christs of the Age of Trade I Martyrs of beams and of bricks ...

... stringent laws against the possession of arris-soon compelled the latter to retire. They were-pursued, and- many of them were killed. The remainder ?? afterwards, disheartened by the miserable organization and the slender provision made for supplies, dispersed ...

... After some hesitation the. procnreur of the Commune authorized my grandfather to act according to the wishes of the mob. The scaffold was taken down and transferred to the Place du Car. rousel; and the cart repaired thither, escorted by the crowd. But a ...

... noose and draw a bolt. The attitude of the prisoner in the cart, the order uf the fatal procession, the arrangement of the scaffold and its trappings, and the disposition of the assistants, required the minutest attention. The torture chamber, too, with ...

... casts at the sky. That fellow's got to ewing, the voice of a fellow prisoner whispers. He had killed the woman he loved. And then C 32 says:- Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, ~omnd do it with a bitter look, Some with a ...

... to give way, and in an instant the scaffold toppled over, and the greater portion efthe poor fellows were thrown to the ground, a height of ?? distanee For some few minutes it mvas feared that the mein wvere killed A number of police and the more forta- ...

... exeeuted at Brlmttd, for having in a moment of psesin killed her mistress, who had beaten her with a log of wood. The poor convict refused to be executed; seve n men had to drag her to the scaffold, Ianod ashewas hanged, reisting to the last. At the moment ...

... courageous. You'll say, I have killed a man. Marlborough killed his thousands, and Alexander his millions; Marlborough and Alexander, and many others who have done the like, are famous in history for great men. But I killed one solitary man. Ay, that's ...

... respite. The English live in the Future. They have neither a Past nor a Present. They are perpetually hard at work on the scaffolding, and up the ladders, building houses for their childran to pull down, and build up again for the generation that is to succeed ...

... the ausesed instance, which occurred at New Orleans, of LYNCH LAW. They-think little of uhnmen' life,iand talk as coolly of kill- ig a man, ras of eating their dinners, I am speaking of the young men of the place;' 'One day a Carter, who rhad 'been e ...

... profited-and thus civilization was advanced. Eleven years later (in 1864) I had to report for the MorssinlS6ar the public killing (as Douglas Jerrold called hanging) of Franz Mnller. That morn- ing was devoted by the Government to public instrae. tion ...

... shoes, rejoicing to set off her beautiful foot to advantage-that foot which at last pressed the scaffold. It is said that when her body was taken from the scaffold, one of her little shoes feol off, and was preserved as n memento of the queen by the peersomi ...