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Show luimivt ixnuuoN. At Huso lines aro being written, tho etlrll of Carlylo Harris Is In the great beyond, all that remalna of him In this life being a mast of mutl-laird mutl-laird flesh concealing scared and blistered viscera It Is not an tccaslor. for maudlin or any other sympathy; Harris deserve 1 to die richly deserve d II, litcau-o lili life was not only forfeit to the law because of his crimes hut wasn menace to all with whom ho came In contact. It It better for1 him lerhaps and for all others certainly that his power lo destroy Is summarily closed. There Is nothing, however, to bo said In favor of the moans by which the death entity It II Hided lu Kew York. Any form of csjltal punishment la necessarily revolting to refined and sensitive natures, but soma are mote so than others. The object ehoul I be to lake tho cul rlt's life as suddenly and lalnletrly at possible, with at few ghtttly dettllsas the nature of the proceeding pro-ceeding will admit of. Wo nre.lu a few words, authorized to kill but not to torture, nnd thero can bo no torture more exquisite, more Intense to tho mind than tho rellmlusry details ol u execution by electricity. Ant then It does not kill outright; scientific invittlgatlonihowt that death occurs subsequently nnd possibly as the result of tbo post mortem elimination. This Is barbarous at well as brutal K'cclrocutton hat not bs, n as was claimed fir It, a step forward In civilization; civil-ization; It Is simply n stildo backward, as sre all roceedlngs by moans of which wei gratify that savagery In our natures which Is Ineradicable. We havo well nigh overcome it, have It In almost erfect subjection as rule; but given tho slightest tncourtgcment by contact or exam; le and It begins to growlnltscf all surroundings and I revlout culture. Klectrccutlon ought logo. The details of tbo execution will I e found In our telegraphlo columns to-daj. |