| Show T did nero burn rome there is no assignable motive says a writer in the archived Archi ted which can point suspicion at nero and he happened to be e absent from ro rome me when the fire broke out the silly credulity which for centuries has accepted this mythical embellishment of nero lu in mad exultation ul at the success of his wantonness fiddling above the burning ruins is a striking example of what will pass as history Sueton Sue tonius lus gravely relates that someone having quoted a greek verse the meaning of which is after my death I 1 care not if the world perish in flames nero exclaimed nay lot let it perish while I 1 live and 9 1 adds the historian he acted ac cordingly for pretending to take offense at the agline s of the old buildings and the narrowness of the streets he set the city on fire and this was done so openly that several cons ulars found tow and torches in the houses of his attendants but were afraid to meddle with them he knocked down the walls of the granaries which were of stone in order that the flames might spread the fire he beheld from a tower on the top of the villa of Mec Me senas emnas and being hugely diverted with the splendors of the flames he sang ng the destruction of troy in the dress worn by him on the stage 11 yet the people patiently submitted to be ruined and thus openly mocked not even wreaking breaking wre aking their vengeance on the attendants Sueton Sue tonius lus in a previous re 1 chapter has recorded of nero ro that he ordered piazzas to be erected before all the houses great and small in order that in case of fire there might be a commanding position for extinguishing the flames and these piazzas were constructed at bilex his expense so little did he disregard the interests of his subjects Tac tacitus ittig a graver writer tells the story with less less manifest fic fiction tiou he says that the fire was by some attributed to accident and by others to the wickedness of nero adding nero at that time was at and only returned to rome on the day when the flames approached his own pa palace which he had built to jo inthe palace of augustus with the garden of Mec Me senas emnas this palace and all the buildings around were burned to console the people wandering and houseless he opened the campus martius and the monuments of agrippa as well as his own gardens here sheds were hastily constructed to shelter the poorest furniture was fetched from ostia and the price ic of corn considerably reduced thus the public acts of nero are not only those of one innocent of the imputed crime but are those of an emperor leally concerned for the misfortunes of his people it is quite possible possible that such acts may have been mere hypocritical attempts to disarm suspicion and if the crime were proven or even probable such an interpretation might pass but what evi lence what probability is there to justify such an accusation the he vague rumors of an exasperated people how these arise and how supremely they dispense with evidence need not be told have we not in our own time known the famine in ireland boldly assigned to the wrath of heaven because the words afi fidei defensor accidentally were omitted in a 12 new ew issue of silver coin and this accusation proceeding not from ignorant and turbulent mobs but from the ignorant and bigoted religious world f as it justifiably calls itself jurat juryman jurymen aen accustomed accustom ell to delivering verdicts in cases brought by fire insurance offices must know the kind of evidence which the they domand demand before they believe t that a fraudulent tradesman has set fire to his own premises I 1 ask them if they can see anything of this kind in the accusation against nero without demanding the completeness of circumstantial evidence which would coerce their verdict verd against a living man I 1 simply as alff whether there to is any evI evidence defice against nero all that historians have produced has been given in the foregoing narrative its value may now be estimated A cancer which eats beefsteak mrs william galloway who lives in trempealeau county some years ago was attacked with a cancer it increased in size and the physicians said nothing could be done to help her but someone made the discovery that it was a beefsteak cancer and prescribed beefsteak as a remedy over a you year ago it was thought she would not live from froin one day till the next the beefsteak was applied aria and it was found that every twenty four hours the cancer would eat seven pounds of beefsteak when taken from the cancer there is nothing left ot of the beef but the tissue and tough parts of it and ev every ary particle of moisture will be drawn out the remainder being as porous rous as a sponge mrs galloway is C no worse than she was a year ago the cancer living on the beef instead of on her block black river biver fatty wig dispatch to the st paul pioneer dont toss the baby the throwing a baby into the air and catching him again is always s risky practice certain th though u the 0 may be of his quickness af w eye and sureness of ha hand na 4 A sudden unexpected movement of the child 1 in his midair flight may result in a cruel f fall an A gay young father snatched up his boy one morning and tossed him to the ceiling twice the little fel low went flying through the air and and came down safely into the w waiting exclia iti arms the third time the excited I 1 child gave a spring of delight as b fa fathers therIs hands released him plunged plunged forward and pitching over we the fathers shoulder fell head bead to the floor when the poor baby came out of the stupor in which jaff b I 1 had bad lain for hours it was found that aa although no bones had been broken the brain had sustained an injury that would in all probability re render oer the child an imbecile another baby snatched from the floor and tossed into the air received receive a fatal wound in the top of the head hea from the pointed ornament of OI 01 5 chandelier still another aboa slipped between the fathers hands hana as he caught her in her downward down warO war flight and although his 60 rasp grasp on the child arm saved e from from falling to the ground A wrenched muscles and sinews cruelly that the girls arm VP s to shrunken and practically useless her all her life these are ex extreme trellie cases but the fact of their occur occurring ting at all 92 should be enough to warn one oe from the habit of ones hold on a child while tossing it harpers HarPer 8 bazar working a hog hoe when I 1 entered the village situ seated among the hills of new ya at 10 in the morning all fiffas WW L peaceful and serene and the kocet of every man who walked the strew 4 at had chink in it when I 1 left a p m an excited mob had of the main street and every othor ow man was dead broke about noon a man arrived frev ato fig the north in a buggy he said id was a drover and looking for he bought half a dozen beford ate aw dinner and l it JIU was iffa how closely he guessed at their 11 v weight he was within two bounos pow on four of them and half a poo on the others these had been and attraction for a crowd of idlers idler sw 0 the general verdict was dapa Dap 0 1 twy drover was as sharp as a bar razor soon after dinner a far I 1 looking boy drove a hog into howg the and staked him out in front 01 sod tavern As he wanted to sell beus the drover wanted to buy they w came together ut might take him on a pinch tha vu w hes only a cubbins nubbins nub Dub bins biDs said drover as he sized the porker up P nubbin why that pig gt S 0 b over pound sl exclaimed owner hoen dw cant stuff me boy v ive in the business twenty yean faie et no one wants to s tuft stuff that hog goes to 11 aa he does eh wish wis your yolar Wco come mein in pd id diketo like to make abet a bet arf hua y u g to have ri judgment that that hog wont wa cwi down own 11 guess bess uess you are off too remarked anger who had quietly driven n 14 a buggy ive raised hogs all MY y life fife and that boy five djs gods out of his guess A aint he raised hop hogs have you ever raised 11 any money il A little perhaps like to bet on that iga perhaps Ter haps mave you got 20 as says he goes ja 1 1 I 1 ve fifty a 11 hundred undred hen on lets chalk anybody can was a chance to make a dollar sf aud the e citizens improved it the s ay the th buggy was an accod xi X g chap and aw somehow or ft i or the he farmer boy managed to sasi UP about a hundred dollars from annd pocket of his overalls the ans stuck by the drover having sant ant proofs of his judgment i 11 n every man in that town ift a loose dollar or could hor bor faL one nad had bet the hog was driven e scales and weighed nU emen ernen 1 said the drover W before fore the weighing 1 I was 9 deceived in my mv life this fV hwong hW ont go to pounds 11 VItke take even bets that he goes replied the man in the ty v ti raked out the last nickel nicke ta da ahe crowd crow and the hog was 11 upon pon the scales the record pounds he was weighed tt weighed but the figures 1 l 3 its my first error in a arak 0 p said aal the e drover borover and all bets at once handed over ove the tew boy y slipped out the two lw above tove off in id the bussy buggy and aal al hour had elapsed before wore a deacon who had laid his ten dg the drover and lost suddenly A I 1 that it was a put up job to a tj fhe town ara my buttons if it RV two hundred men in chorus waa too late the town hd 1 wooed and the trio had est all the mob could do was to lt urn I 1 and wreck wrack an old vinegar and pass a resolution to the dabat d A bat liberty berty was a sham and a onn on N asun Y sun character sketch AL told undertook to guide him to poll e station and the two set A er brou I 1 0 ke e no notes said A ar r 4 aej for the sake of saying 1 9 t than ban bemuse he was e cow affy as a matter of fact sir re 0 bus dekett ila man in my got to spend b Is time in tak toa otei but I 1 dont donit find as I 1 need X uble to write em down A you find that your naena mem aou ou sometimes L 8 P ric kett reflectively thin k it i ever did sir air or part of eople ae ruin their rean ua 4 ing n novels 0 ia ind bd trash tg theres be re 1 sea a 9 cha chap p aid as can recite by the J ilk hour I 1 should think as he knows lord byron from beginning to end but his heads that full fall of that kind of talk theres no room in it for anything else you tell him what time a train starts tell him what complexion a mans got tell him what height he is show him the plan of a building if he dont write down what you tell him hell be in a fog about it in twenty minutes banys the time ive told him if leave the wheels inside your headpiece head piece free to act make a it first rat rate officer cerbus but you clogs clog sem em us up with all them verses an and what dye expect do you never read at all then asked arnold beginning to be interested criminal cases responded mr law reports takes a look at the advertisements in the daily telegraph sometimes ye see sir air he continued ly warm and confidential and laying I 1 ng a gloved forefinger lightly on his companions comparion s arm all day long the inside of a mans inaus head is like a piece of machinery in motion its bound to go and it must have something na to work at now when I 1 went into the force sir air I 1 made up my mind as I 1 going to stop on the botto bottom in round of the ladder all my day life and I 1 says to myself now the first thing wanted to make a tiptop tip top officer I 1 long in making up my mind hes bolto got to be notice taking more than any other man alive and hes never got to forget any person or anything as asjes joe Is once set act eyes on when I 1 was on duty in the strand I 1 was there for the best part of three years I 1 used to practice myself watching faces in the street I 1 I 1 spotted a man only yesterday that I 1 see go by me seven years year sago ago I 1 never see him before or since till yesterday and I 1 could ha bal picked him out among a million you tell that to some folks and think it was a lie but its true as gospel leave books alone keep your head clear and your eyes open 0 pe n and when you look at a thing look at it the secret if there is one dont yu you think sir air continued mr who had evidently mounted his favorite hobby dont you think im such a fool as to despise book learning if I 1 should live to be aged and can afford the time I 1 mean to have a real burst burat at it burjust but just now ive got my way to make and I 1 cant afford it 1 I suppose said arnold that you dont mean to say that you never torget forget anything you have seen well no sir air returned the theorist 1 I dont say that of course but I 1 never forget anything ive looked at notice sir air that most people see things without taking the trouble to look aelem and so they dont rightly remember the things as ought to be the most familiar now for instance sir air you ought to know that room weve been sitting in a good deal better than I 1 do im not bragging but ill bet you dont well said arnold let us see carpet C r t said mid as if he were dictating Ic tating an inventory to a shorthand clerk brussels whitish ground sprinkled with largish roses wall paper same shade as aa carpet t diamond pattern in dull gold facing pacing door water color girl crossing stream on steppingstone stepping stone making signs to little chap on bank over door water color old gentleman knee breeches reading read ing book in wa wood twelve chairs various four easy three spider legged in gold little round topped table near window microscope on lt it and a bracket fun full obo Tenny sons poems greenard gre green enand and gold seven volumes imitation of christ white vellum gold letters foreign book in a yellow low cover cove dont know the name leaders from the I 1 two volumes name of phillips little cabinet in the corner seven drawers key in the middle drawer basket of flowers and ladys photo on top chimley ornaments dresden china stag with antlers anglers caught aught 1 ina ila tree left antler broke 1 I will not dispute with you mr said arnold the sun had wien fallen behind the hill by this time and the whole landscape before them lay in a gentle and equable light which was reflected from the eastern skies D C Si abray rray and if murray in I 1 A dangerous Oat chinese murderers sue yum a ticket ticket seller at the chinese theatre on washington street was shot twice at 4 pm yesterday at the corner of dupont and jackson streets by a chinaman who after firing three shots turned and ran up dupont street the third shot did not hit bit yum but struck daniel callahan who was walking a few feet in advance advance of him the bullet struck mr callahan in the back below the left shoulder blade passed through the lung and came out near the left nipple mr callahan is 61 years old and unmarried he boarded at the lindell house on howard street near sixth and on account of his age together with the serious nature of the wound his recovery is consi jered doubtful sue bums wounds are also considered fatal the first shot passed through his right breast piercing the lung and came out near the bottom of the right shoulder blade the nd bullet entered the right hip and lodged in the intestines of the groin both men were taken faken to the hecei receiving ing hospital and while the celestial says with finn determination that he be will live mr callahan has lost hope and fears that he will wih die mr callahan did not see the man an who shot him 1 I was walking along leisurely he said when I 1 heard the shots but before I 1 had time to turn I 1 was shot down officers hall and burgess were the first to arrive at the scene of the shooting A large crowd collected later officers barrote and cummings arrived and assisted in removing the wounded man to the hospital A few moments after the shooting sergeant wittman Witt naan and his chinatown squad arrested chong hong and ah hong they were dashing up clay street from dupont and were armed with knives and 44 caliber |
