Show MASON IN A MUSEUM thisina country in which old rubbish ia is often brought to the surface of public notice from the gutters gu I 1 and sewers of oblivion by the speculative spirit of the moneymaker anybody and anything that is ever so little suitable for a curiosity goes ton to a museum to be exhibited as a fractional portion of een ten cents cento or a quarters worth of attractions be it a ferocious bengal tiger or a timid albino mouse from a mastodon tooth of the ante epoch to a two headed calf in kansas all are brought up by the great barnum or his dimina tive followers in the trade to be paraded before the eyes of the gap I 1 ing g MU multitude Iti tude the collection of colossal constrictors and microscopy mic ic maggots of chinese giants and alzee dwarfs will shortly receive an addition in the person of sergeant mason it will be remembered that he is the individual who on sept 11 1881 when releasing the guard on doty duty at the jail in washington D 0 shot at chaa J Guiteau through the window of his cell and came near killing him the ball crashed through the window grazed the wretched assassins doomed V bead head and ind was embedded jm bedded in the cell wall beyond some said so flattened and smashed as to show tho the outlines of the crazy criminals crooked cranium mason belonging to battery B second artillery was promptly arrested taken to the arsenal incarcerated car and tried being sen te ced by court martial to a term in ii the e albany penitentiary whence be was released some time ago on a pardon by president arthur at the time when mason missed his man almost the tho only word of disapproval to be found in public prints or heard ward in public places was an expression of regret that he failed to lill kill the prisoner undoubtedly guiteau was an anything y thing but an object of pity or sympathy 1 every right minded man would ebrine with loathing from the very look let alone touch of the villain who made the second of july 1881 a day equaled in darkness and gloom only by the day when wilkes booths bullet reverberated in the proscenium boxes of fords theater in washington the vies jim of guiteaux Guite aua aus murderous malice and madness was then lying on the sufferers couch in the cottage at elbersen El beren beran wrestling and struggling with the angel Augel of the lord death to succumb to him only a few days later sept 19 the ill guarded floodgates flood gates of the cheap sympathies of an unreasoning populace at once opened and poured a deluge of sentimental senti cental gush through the country in behalf of mason who was lifted into a heros height for his attempt and elevated into a martyrs dignity f for or his punishment yet cooler headed men would and could see in bis his deed nothing but lynch justice and worse than thin this had mason been a private citizen like that farmer jonea jones who fired at guiteau a few weeks V eeor after when be he was conveyed ill in bis his van from tho the courtroom to tho the cell oell there might have been a some shadow of mitigating argufy N meat ment but mason was a soldier be he was under oath and sacred obligation to do his duty and this was i to protect a prisoner prison er in charge of U S justice a prisoner who by the then not even been brought before tho the bar for tri trial al in raising his gun he broke his oath disgraced his cloth and violated the inexorable discipline of the army w without which military organization becomes confusion and chaos duty is ia r a to guide it rod to check tho the erring and reprove mason hb his duty and ai as he did not follow the light to guido guide him he justly experienced perien perlen ced the rod lo 10 check the erring the sickly sentimentalism which clobbered ered over in prose and gushed in rhyme on betty and the baby with the inevitable hables raising of the ulless was supposed to have bave died out by thu tile time when the faith less and recreant sergeant would doff the felons garb and resume honest hah ili menla but there seems to reside in tho the american mind of certain classes at least a morbid craving for unreasonable eccentricities rici ties a hunger for sensation and excitement that is s anything but flattering to the nation thus ere jasons lla sona confinement was abridged by presidential mercy negotiations had been started with a view to get him as a center of at traction into a chicago dry goods store as a salesman though he probably could not tell gingham from velvet or woolen yarn from gold uce lace just for the tile sake of show allow thi I 1 engagement however lio wever seems to have como come to naught possibly to ably betty was afraid of the sea reductions i of th thi pay gay garden city at an any rate the latest news is that the would be slayer of guiteau w will ill appear as ono one of tho the attractions or lionson lion sin in a philadelphia museum it is not stated whether hell form a sideshow side show all by himself or whether he will pose in a it group with the wild ild man from patagonia 2 the iron 1 jawed woman the dancin dancing pig 1 and tho the singing mouse well it will give 9 e his a c anca to manifest their sympathy by dollars and cents and the secret of it |