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Show Xerrfblo Torlnre Xn Blarocoo. A charge had been laid at Mulal Omar's dooi that of harvng ordered the music of the drums and fifes to cease on the occasion of the announcement announce-ment of Mulai Abdul Aziz's succession to the throne. On the players refusings his highness sent a slave, who enforced silence by splitting up the drums with a dagger. For this act of treason he' was afterward punished by having th flesh of his hand sliced, the woutd filled fill-ed with salt and the whole hand sewed up in leather. It is a common belief that this pun ishment causes mortification to set in, and that the hand decomposes, but such is not the case, for by the time . t ho leather wears off the wound is healed the result being that the hand is render ed useless and remains closed foreve It is a punishment not often in use, but is sometimes done in cases of murder a constant theft, as, without in any wa? injuring the health of the man, it pre vents his committing the crime a second time or for the hundredth time, as th case may be. It is a punishment that cannot be applied except by the sultan'i orders. Blackwood's Magazine. |