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Show li) In? Made taiy. lmlMGI4t It Is said that the guillotine boa riccntly I ten Introduced by thu French into their colony of fonqulu, Our neighbors, ax all the world Is u wan, luivo had, and still have, i lenty of work lo do lu thoway of ex. teimluallng plraoy Its that vattaml aay el unremunirativeioatieBslori And thu milhuJ by which they endeavor lo exlermluatu tin pirate (when they uitcli him, whloli, at n rule, they do not) Is that of decapitation, That cemnonj has, hitherto, hiua per-fonned per-fonned In tho punitive and rather barbarous native way. The eul rlt. Ub g listed In aeon-veiilent aeon-veiilent rositlort, lipe I to light n clc,u-retle clc,u-retle und wiilt for the executioner lo taken shot at his ueck Willi a bli; aword. Buiuetltuos thu headpman eilniul elrult.Lt and sometlnies ho did not, uinl a fiellng bus lung uxlsteil among gentlumiu of Iho flrntl-nl flrntl-nl riifesslou that au execution thus ixeiuted was distinctly nu iiuphaaanl roups for tbu patient. Consequent!) the. Introduction Introduc-tion of the "aooct of lustlie" his by no means ) roduced the tiled which Ihu 1'riDih authorllle desired and expeclrtl. Instealof being Impressed with thu horror of this mode of execution, execu-tion, the natlvos of Tonqulu uro paid to lo highly dtllgbted with It. In fmt, the) irgard the nulllollueru a most lugenloua ntllilo du Purls, and they hae already wltncwed ouo no-cutlou no-cutlou with every demonstration of euthutlatm. Djlnir, they sny, Is made ao delightfully de-lightfully my by this admlrnbluln-volition admlrnbluln-volition of tlie. superior l.uiotau In. telllgoueo. Thu itsult la Ihatoonslder-ablu Ihatoonslder-ablu patlpfacllon la exprep.ed In pliatl- til clrcl'P, and It Is eonlldi ntly millil-atud millil-atud that pirany will shurtl) lucrtaiu very consl lerubly, oa noliody In Tonqulu Ton-qulu would mind tolnp. abbreviated Instantaneously by thu gulllotini. Death, In short, has lost mod of Its terror because the prod as uf d) lug has been reudered so slai lo. |