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Show ''Can Scch Things Bf?"--"L wcis i solitary horseman, ' wae i-.e way G. P. R. James used to commence his voluminous novels; or in somewhat similar language. Our horseman was nit solitary; he had company, and bis .company wore such habiliments as dis-!tiDg"uih dis-!tiDg"uih the fair from the sterner sex. It is said she wasn't married, 'though she had long csased to be a I maid and had never graduated in widowhood, while he well he was a "gay" bachelor. Now, to our tale: iXot in this free country, but in one several hundred thousand miles away, a man had been imprisoned for eser-icising eser-icising marital relations with his own Iwife. An assemblage of legal Mika-jdos Mika-jdos had declared him unjustly held in bonds, and a lesser luminary of the same clas hai decreed that if this poor man would give surety in the sum of five thousand piastres he should go ' free, until some other Mikados could say their superiors were righL And to free this man from his bonds an agent of the les.-er Tycoon set forth to unbar the prison gates. But he went not alone; he was overcome with sorrow sor-row that a wicked man should thus be set at liberty, and he took with him a woman well, no, we didn't say a maid to colacs him fcr having to set at liberty this vile being who had actually actu-ally married a wile and had children by her. This thing could not have occurred oc-curred here, but it did occur yesterday in that far off land, and the grape vine 'telegraph bore us the news. That's how wo learned it; and wo chronie'e , , the fact as an illustration of how "vir-jtuous" "vir-jtuous" officials may associate with "stranco women," while wicked men who marry and support their families i arc imprisoned for "adultery" or "lascivious cohabitation" with their own wives, 1 X. Ji. 'Ibis was written for yesterday's yester-day's Herald but got crowded out; stil', as it is understood the prison yet stands though the prisoner is out, it wiil do to read this morning. |