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MY VENGEANCE. BY CLAM9O MIIJU BOPTUXB. My wife killed me. lam not blaming her for that not seriously. I should have killed her if she hadn't. Things ha-t come to such a pass that it had been for some time simply a question as to wKo would first find sufficient exasperation and courage, together with the resolute determination, seeded to go through the tragedy to the very end. Only the night before, when she was sound asleep, m/ anger woke me. I got up to look at h-ir under the low turn ed gas jet, thinking what a sensation there would be in the morning, when everyone in town would be trying to guess how anyone couU have crept in and done such a dire- ful deed unseen and unheard. I had a knife. But, really. I couldn't do it. She looked so lovely, so much as she did in the old days when I courted her the delightful days when we loved one another that I had to give it up. I threw the weapon out of the window ; I went back to my bed again ; I want to ileep. It is quite as well, I suppose, as it is. What I wanted was my freedom, without being over particular as to how I got it. And my wife has been kind enough to give it to me. We bad hated each other for years. I don't quite remember bow it began. The sa isfacuon of recalling the reason for our feeliugs wouldn't be worth the necessary effort. Let the ugly fact stand without a reason. A woman in the case? Or a man? In this case there were both. And yet I'll wear I oared nothing for the woman, noth- ing at all, and that I was attentive only when the jealous syes of my wife were look- ing on. How I did enjoy annoying the woman who shared my name ! How pleasant it was to see her grow white and flushed by turns, as I smiled into the eyes of ths other woman ; how exquisitely she would bite her lips sometimes until the blood would start; how ecstatic to watch her watch us, to listen to her as she followed, and to assume open-eyed wond-r when we found her near. What the other woman thought meant I don't know. I never asked her. : Sometimes, when vanity got a little the better of sound tease I used to think the woman would have been willing at least, perhaps glad, to have given my wife genuine cause for jealousy. But not I. I am or shall I nay I was of cold blooded temperament. Hot-headed defiance of the proprieties never appealed attractively to me. My wife might quite as well have spared herself anxiety. The other woman was a person tor whom I csred nothing ! As for the man Well, that Is another matter. To be sure, my most active watchfulness never helped me in the detection of anything wrong. But the conventionalities of society impose cer- tain condi lions and restrictious on the social intercourse el those who are not united by ties of consanguinity or of marriage. To remove those conditions, sweep away those restrictions, would be to tower our rsos from its happy height of civilization down to a barbarism in which husbands and wives would slay one another even more frequent- ly than they do now. The conventionalities rested but lightly on my wife and the other man. Re follow- ed her everywhere. He talked to her on all possible occasions, and she listened to him with debtors attention that was maddening to me, though highly flattering and satis- factory to him, no doubu While 1 watched her, she watched me watch, with an easy assumption of unconscious abstraction that was particularly irritating. The man loved her ; I haven't a shadow ot a doubt of that. My wife liked him, but I've not the light- est evidence not a fully formed opinion even to warrant the use of a stronger word. Should yon urge that tbe woman loved me, cool and unresponsive though I may have been, I shall not be illogical enough to attempt to argue that one case was necessarily more noteworthy than the other. I shall simply remind you that it is I who was killed, and repeat the state- ment that I do not seriously blame my wife I had read my paper the whole evening long. My wife had been busy with some delicate fancy work. So far from there having been a quarrel anything recent and definite we hadn't exchanged a word for three or four hours. I rose at last, yawn- ed, raised my arms above my head, stretch- ed myself, walked to the window, raised the curtain a little, and looked out. It was a fearful night. The sky was full of lowering clouds ; the earth seemed an inky void. The rain fell in torrents, with a roar that sounded like a tempest, though ths wind was hardly enough '<> have stirred the trees, had the heavy drops ceased their energetic bombardment. I pnt down the curtain, crossed the room and glanced i.t .ny wife as I passed her, she still toiling industriously, and never looking up. I laid my hand on the knob, turned it, and had the door half open. She shot me then shot ins from behind. The ball struck just under my left shoulder blade. It went straight through. They found it on the floor in the morning. The sensation of being shot is a peculiar one. I cannot describe it and shall not try. I think you never met anyone, among your soldier friends, for instance, who corld give yon an adequate idea as to what it is like. There wasn't much pain in it not much physical pain, I mean. There was the mental side to be considered, of course, and that was worse. Nos that I felt so much regret, for I didn't ; nor that I was astonished for this thing was of snob a nature I couldn't call it entirely unexpected. 1 was sorry it couldn't have been delayed a little ; there were some business affairs I would have been glad to put indifferent shape. Then, too, there was a dinner party for the next day but one and Bah I I was done with dinner parties. Stiff, formal, unhappy affairs 1 It hurt me a little, too, to think how th<s had been done. I would have stabbed my wife at she slept, but it was a revela- tion to me of a aew phase in her character and I thought I win pretty well acquaint- ed with her to find that she would shoot me in the back. 1 was dying ; I knew that. I hadn't many mKites left to live. I should not find many seconds during which to stand. E.ery movement was an agony ! Ah ! after the first numbness how the pain waj coming. 1 turned and lookedat her faced her as she raised the revolver for a second sh>t. She gi ted into my eyes, and I into \ her.. Her glanced failed tint. She avert- ed her head tired and mined me ! I laughed I actually laughed. The next moment I was down on the floor, and found I could not get up again. She looked at nu critically, and at the revolver reflective ly. She poked me with her pretty foot, wondering, u the turned me partly ove.-. if another shot would be neoeeeary. She de- cided it would cot be, and walking over to the table put the weapon on it Suddenly, without having loet conscioas- nete for a lingle moment, I was walking by her aide. Strange, wasn't it? But not nearly to itrange ai 1 found it when I turned a moment later to look at my body, lying still and itark on the other tide of the room. I looked at the revolver, a handeome one, made by a popular firm of manufac- turers, silver-mounted, and with the name of the man the other man finely engrav- ed upon it. Well, so that was the way of it I And I kad a good revolver of my own, upstairs, unused and forgotten, and quite good enough to have killed me with. The man swore, in due time, to be sure, that my wile borrowed it "to practise with." But who could be made to believe an idle tale like that ?" Well, nce satisfSd that I was dead, the woman nature of my wife returned. She was fearful, nervous at every sound, start- led at every shadow. She turned the gas low. She cautiously poshed a window curtain aside and looked out. I stood at her side and looked out with her. The night was darker than ever. The rain was increasing, if that were possible. She let the curtain (all into its place, and said it was absurd to suppose there could have been listener* outside. She laughed. So did I, though no one heard it ! I think my laugh, had there been some way of submitting the two to competent experts, would have been pronounced the merrier. "Without a servant in the house," she said reflectively, and neglected to finish the sentence. I started violently. I had not dreamt that was the ease. She had deliber- ately taken a distinctly unfair advantage of me Knowing that only the two of us were in my house, I most certainly would never have turned my back to her ! She walked over to look at me. That statement doesn't quite meet my critical approval in view of the fact that I stood beside her when sho started. The situation from the standpoint ot a student of lang- uage, becomes even more involved when I add that I went with her. I shall not, however, make any attempt to do more than make myself understood. When the visible man dies when the viewless part becomes the man in deed the facts are ss much beyond the ordinary powers of language as the man is beyond the usual unquickened senses of the merely human. My wife looked down upon me, down on the work she had done; and she pronounc- ed it good. Indeed, she repeated the statement several times, a* though she meant to learn it by heart as though she feared she might doubt it if shs kep silent. Yet her face didn't esem quite satisfied quite serene. I wonderedat that It was rather early, so it seemed to my comparative inexperience, to be thinking of repentance. She said aloud some terribly bitter things about the other woman. Be sore she said nothing regarding the other man. Then she cried a little, shedding real tears, and with no one but myself to witness the sup- erb realism of the dramatic act. I believe 1 mentioned laughing, a little time ago, did I not! Very well ; I laughed again. Suddenly she sank upon her knees and leaned caresningly over me. She kissed me once twice thrice upon my dead lips. She had not kissed me before for more than ten years. If she had, there would never have been need to speak of another woman not in sny story of mine. She kissed me. I did not laugh now. She rose up at last, calm and tearless again quite like her ordinary everyday self. She gathered up her skirts oanfn'.ly and daintily, stepped over me, and out into the hall. I lay so directly in the doorway, occupying it so folly, that there was no other way if she used that door. I cannot say, of course, since my point of view U the antithesis of hers, but it seems to me I should have used the other door. She went upstairs to our room her now. I actually felt like an intruder going with her, though I went. I felt I needed human companionship, even such as hers. It was better than sittings alone in that silent front room downstairs, watching beside myself At the same time, I wondered why she didn't remain down- stairs. It is a universe of inconsistencies, I sat down and watched the woman. 1 had seen her prepare for bed hundreds of times, but I watched now with the same unwinking attention a devoted naturalist would have given to the habits of a new creature. She was new in some respects. She had done something that night that she had never done before I She had made it safe, for all coming ages.for me to turn my back to her ! She went to bed not even forgetting to say her prayers as usual. Habit is a won - derful thing. She went to sleep. And I I went down stairs. A dead man has more attractions, to as disgusted a ghost a* I ws,-, than any sleeping woman the moon ever shone on. I got nervous t >ward morning. It was getting lighter. The rain was ceasing Some unusually early people were already abroad. The servants were likely to come at almost any moment. I should be found soon. Someone would be accused of doing that for which there is no excuse in your old world or my new one. And that woman slept soundly upstairs. I looked the ground over carefully. and I discovered one strange thing. As little a thing as it was strange ; Hut the fates of the world your world have been turn- ing on little things for more than six thousand years. This was to make all the difference between life and death. The front door, which locked with a spring luck. bad not been quite olosed during the night Anyone, from the oatslde, could push it open, and the key had fallen out of :he lock and lay on the floor in the front hall. A little thing, that, to be sure ? Yes, I said so. I looked out of the window. The other man was coming down the street, I don't know where he was going that morning, nor where he cams from. I only know he was going straight by, with no more than a passing' glance at our house, if I had not itepped oat upon the piazza and beckoned for him to come in. He should have known n.e better than to have fallen into the erref of obedience. Bui ft Bad (kelsTssser ofeertnx ear crewel. Pinilemouium reigned supreme at one of the opera houses in Indianapolis one night recently. Thecomnanyoooupyingthestage, and which had in hand the difficult task of entertaining the heterogeneous mast of humanity present, did not seen to come up to the requirements or expectations of the audience, and as the programme proceeded, there was more and more disorder through- out the bonne. First there were a few hisees from the galleries, and ae these seemed to express the popular opinion and sentiments of the orchestra and dress circles, the dis- affected whose dignity did not prevent their giving ixpreasion to their dissatisfaction became more demonstrative with tne en- or uragement. They began to stamp and then to exchange expressions of dissatisfaction in a tone of voioe that gave all in the houae the benefit. One of the) features of the entertainment was an exhibition of stereopticon views, and ss the features of well-known faces were thrown upon the canvas*, they were greeted with howls of derision and side re- marks that could be heard all over the bouse. George Washington's form appear- ed and "That/s Capt. Splaon in disguise," yelled someone in the jiallary. This was followed by laughter. Then came a beauti- ful moonlight scene in Scotland, and "Cab- bage Hill" echoed through the house. Other pictures were greeted with derisive howls and finally the) pit took up the) cries from the gallery and added dome suggestions. Each was received with a more turbulent oommotion,and in a few minutes the whole house was in a deafening roar of whistling, howling and stamping. The audience was having plenty of fun at the company's ex- pense. It was relieving itswlf of its emo- tions. While this mad scene was) at its height, the pictures had been succeeding each other with uninterrupted regularity. Suddenly in the midst of the tumult the oalm and be- nign features of Jesus Christ appeared on the canvas. Instantly there was throughout the house the etillness of death, and during the remainder of ths entertainment there was ths best of order. Once a howl from the gallery was heard, but was received with the moat deoided marks of disapproval from the audience, and ceased as suddenly ae it wai let looee. The picture upon the canvas, noble in its features and peacful in its mute supplication, was respected by even the most heartless street arab in the gallery. The instantaneous transition from turbulent chaos to subdued order was wonderful, and its effect was lasting. PKJUIw** PwB wwB Detail, of the rian Mew IB He saw me- Certainly. I don't know M t t PI. TI * how I impressed my presence upon him. Parhapsi it was the result of a natural and spontaneous effort of the will. I surely wished him to see me. He certainly did. That is all I know about it He saw me, and so humanly and naturally that he no more dreamt 1 was dead than did the two servants I heard enter the basement door and begin to prepare breakfast (or me. He halted, hesitated, went on a stop or two, turned, wslked irresolutely back and came up the steps. I smiled, and motioned u> him to precede me. I had not had need of an open door to come out. He would need one for going in. I could not have opened it for him, any more than I could hare brought myself back to life again. He opened the door and entered tbe hall. I stepped aside. He closed the door click ! It was as it should hate been the whole night long. The hall was dark. His foot struck something. The blow eent it sliding along the floor for several feet, indeed, al- most to the nearer of the two doors that opened from the hall into the great front room. You'll, remember I think, what was lying across the threshold of tbe other one I He stooped and picked up the jing- ling thing. It was the key of my front door. He turned to give it to me. But I was not to be teen. He has not seen me since ; unless the thing in the other door- way with the bullet hole in it and the life gone out, is L He might have supposed I had walked on into tbe parlor, ft would not have been an unnatural conclusion. Be that as it may, he walked in himself and took the key with him. He found tbe gas turned low, just as my wife had left it on going to bed. He took the liberty of turning it up, and seemed a little startled at not finding me at his side. I was there, though, if he could only have known it. And, on the whole, possibly he was not as startled and annoyed as he might have been ; he had not been used to seeing me there. He walked over to the table. He picked up the revolver hit, you'll remer.iber and examined it critically. He saw how many cartridges had been used. Then some noise startled him, and he looked up. He saw me, dead in the door- way, and the two frightened servant girls, in the hall beyond, looking in at him ! \na can guess what happened then. How men talked of the hardened nature of a man who could lie, under oath, as he did when he told the simple truth, when lie came to be tried for his life. The dead man beckoned him in ; stood in the hall beside him ! Pshaw ! He lent the weapon to her, to practise with. Ab- surd ! And so it went when he e*me to trial. The Hangman and the madhouse keeper had a merry, .nerry fight for him. The former won. He died because he was the other man. That was simple justice. And why did my wife escape ? I don't know. That is a question that haunts me to this day and that I sometimes fear always will. It may be because of the kisses she let fall on tbe lips she had still- ed forever. Though that would be simple folly: AsMSCT ... IB All r. And Centrles They Are Ink- JeClS .r Lrr. ,1 At this season, when the egg is a most palatable ae well at almost staple article of food, it is particularly interesting to trace ths various superstitions and legends that have in all ages been connected with it. The ancient Finns believed that a mystic bird laid an egg in the lap of Vaimainon, who hatched it in his bosom. He let it fall in ths water and it broke The lower portion of the shell formed the earth, the upper the sky, tbe liquid white became the sun, the yolk the moon, while the broken bits ot eggshell were turned into stars. In Qermany the eg t is as much a feature of the gay Eastertide as in our own land. yet toe hen, goose or duck is not held responsible for its existence, but to the pretty bare are accredited oviparous quali- ties, and a nest of sugar eggs presided ever by a toy hare is the most favored gift among the younger generation. It it tbe custom in German families on Easter eve to conceal a nest of real and sugar eggs among dried leaves in the garden, allowing happy children to enjoy an egg hunt on Easter morning. One reason given for the Batter egg is that in the fourth century the church tor- bade the use of sggs in Lent, but as this did not prevent the hens from layipgt them they accumulated so rapidly that it was found necessary to boil them and give them to the children for playthings. The little folks delighted to dye them in gay colon, hence the practice that has descended to the children of the present day. A certain historian gives a very charming account of the marriage of Marguerite of Austria with Phihbert, the Duke of Savoy. It is called marriage aux oeufs, because it seems, it was Easter morning when the future wedded pair first met. The princess was keeping open house at one of her castles on the western slope of the Alps, and Philibero, out on a hunting expedition in the neighborhood, came to pay his court to her. All the tenantry were dancing on the green ; finally a hundred eggs were scatter- ed in a level place and covered with sand. Lads and lassies who longed to be lovers came forward hand in hand to tread the measure of the national dance in the midst of the fragile obstructions on every side. If they managed to dance throughout with- out cracking one they were regarded s affianced and not even the parents' " nay' could break up the match. Several had already tried and been unsuccessful when the noble duke besought the beautiful princess to try the dance with him. Full of love, grace and the exhilara- tion of the moment they fulfilled the diffi- cult task and were greeted by the most enthusiastic cheers from the beholders. They were married and on every succeeding Easter this custom of the district of Rresse became a feature of the Easter rejoicings in the duke's realms. Starvation Rations. " When we was at Chicago." said Mrs. Wetherby, " we bad a new bill of fare at the hotel table every day. " "At the hotel at which I stopped," said Aunt Jemima, "there wasn't no change, an' the bill of fare was a bill of air with- out no question, for'tseem tome's if nothin we had to est was a nit more solulet that) ' wind uuddm' or bluzard cookies." | " Collapse of old Following the example of Germany the French have begun to adopt a system of pensions for wurkmgmen. The Abbe Garnier, proprietor of a newly started jour- nal at Paris, is the projector of tbe syste m and, so far as the woi Id at large has been informed, the process consists in ths de- positing of a son a day for three months, with a subscription for tbe paper, of course, the pries of which is also a sou. At the end of that tune ths depositor receives a "bon " for IS francs and 50 centimes. The distribution of these savings is to be of four kinds vii., one fourth for unemployed workers, another fourth in gratuitous loans to the temporarily unemployed, a like amount for caeev of sickness in families and the remainder for payment of rent. The whole thing is evidently a private enter- prise very narrow in its influence, with neither the relief benefits nor tho far rsaeh ing effect of tbe German system. In Germany woikingmen's insurance is compulsory, but it imposes obligations upon the employer as well, and is governed by an intricate set of rales devised after great deliberation by the lawmaker* of the em- pire. Tbe sick insurance, which is quite separate from the accident insurance, com- prises membership in at least one of five different kinds of sick clubs. The purpose of this insurance is to secure to the insured an even, certain and sufficient relief in case of illness during at least thirteen weeks. The minimum relief to which all insured have a legal claim includes free medical attendance and medicines from the begin- ning of the illness, likewise spectacles, trusses, bandages, etc, ; in case of incapacity for work, from the third day ot illness, for every working day a sick pay, amounting to one-half the daily wages on which the contributions are based; free admittance to hospitals, with half sick pay for family; burial money amounting to twenty times the average daily wages; sick relief to wom- en during four weeks after confinement. The money value ot this assistance is con- sidered equal to three-fourths of the aver- age wages upon which the calculation is based. There are about H.OOO.ODO persons insured in the sioV department and 100,- 000,000 marks arc annually expended in Germany for sick relief alone. The accident insurance is compulsory upon all workmen and official* with salaries of 2,000 marks and upward. It is worked upon the mutual system by employers united in trades and associations, the object being to secure compensation for bodily in- jury or deat5 in consequence of an accident to workingmsn while in employment. The compensation includes the cost of cure and fixed allowance during the period of in- capacity for work, or, in fatal cases, burial money and an allowance to the survivors of the injured man. When the injury amounts to total disability the compensation amounts to two-thirds of his average year's earnings. The melt associations ears for an injured man for the first thirteen weeks, or in their absence the employers must step in, and from the fifth week ths lick pay is raised at the employer's expense to at least two- thirds of the standard wages. There is ulsr, an invalidity and an old agv department. In the case of old age a waiting period of thirty yean entitles a workman to become eligible. The money to pay him is furnish- ed jointly by the empire, ths employers and the workmen. ACT-SI M raw WWSUM. Hard times have forced several of the famous boulevard cafes in Paris to close. Artificial loe was first manufactured by the use of chemical mixtures in tbe year 17)0. By the old system of chronology m vogue in China the year 1894 it marked as the year 7,910,343. An underground railway up the Jungfrau mountain is one of the late projects of 'wise engineers. At Saltsburg. Austria, a man was kept prisoner for fifteen yean, during which he never saw a human face. Photographers claim that they can take a picture of a rifle ball traveling at a speed of 3,000 f eet per second. Sculptors contend that the height of the Venus de Medici, five feet five inches, is the perfect stature for women. An amount of blood equal to all that contained in the body psssm through the heart once every three minutes. Very successful English barristers like Sir Charles Russell, have yearly incomes) variously estimated at from $75,000 to $100,000. The Red Sea is so called because it it literally covered with minute) red animal- eulae ; the water itself is of a clear, bright blue. George Eliot wrote for eight years with tbe same pen, and when she lost it be- wailed her misfortune as almost too hard to bear. There are several factories in India and one, at least, in Europe, that at Mannheim, Qermany, where butter u made from cocoa- nuts. A French priat stationed at Jerusalem has been the fortunate finder of " a talent of tbe tune of King David." It was un- earthed in his dooryard. Among the Ainu tribe, in Japan, a beard is considered to necessary to beauty that the women tattoo their faces to make up tor their beardle Ready for Retrenchment. Old Man (whoae daughter Mr. Jones is courting) "See here! Since you started coming here every night I've had a separate meter connected with ths drawing-room. I have seat you the account for your share of the gas bill" Mr. Jones" Very well, sir, I'll settle it, and for the future we will not use gas!" A breed of chickens with fur in plaoe of feathers is said to be the result of a Japan- ese scientist's efforts to cross the guinea with the common barnyard 'owl. Every well-developed adult of the human species has lung surface equal to 1,400 square feet. The heart's power is sufficient to lift itself 13,000 feet each hour. The cost of ths world's wars since the Crimean war has been $13, 286,000,000, or enough to give a |10 gold piece to every man, women and child on the globe. The unpleasant habit that young mothers have of insisting upon visitors kissing the baby has result*! in a Philadelphia or- ganization called " The An ti- Baby -Kissing isociely." The Armies of Europe. In a recent article in the North Ameriassl Review upon "The Outlook for War in Europe," Mr. Archibald Forbes, the well- known war correspondent, has compiled the statistics of the war strength of the dual alliance France and Russia and of the triple alliance Germany, Austria, and Italy. As the figures are compiled from official sources their publication will be valuable for reference. The war strength of Russia is 2,411,105 officers and men, 463,000 bonee, and 5,200 guns ; of France J,7I.').*)0 officers anl men, 800,000 hones, and 4,500 guns. The war strength of Ger- many is 2,4 i MX HI officers and men, 582,150 horses, and 4,430 guns ; of Austria 1.5UO.OOQ officers and men, -JSK.OOO horses .and 2. 140 guns ; of Italy 1,'-' >:t,-'iH) officers and men, 1 34,000 horses, and 1.620 guns. The total war strength of the dual alliance is 5, 198,- 706 ortioers and men, 1,283,01)0 horses, and 'i.TDO guns ; of the triple alliance 5,287, 200 officers and men, 888,150 horses, and 8.190 guns. The total war strength of the triple alliance infantry therefore is supenor to that of the dual alliance in officers and men by 160,495, while it is inferior 274,860 in the number of horses, and 1,510 in the num- ber of guns. The total forces available by both alliances in war, field troops only, is 10,413,905. The gross population of both alliances is '.'7'-'.. '), Jtii Human Resemblance to Animals. Tber* is a very curious point connected with the more pronounced animal faces namely, those in charge of animals grow to be like them. Thus, a boetlar in charge of tramway hcrees has himself a fine Roman- nosed horse type of head, glowing day by day more like his horses. Hen in charge of cattle on the farm become essentially bovine, and in .Shropshire it has often lieen remaked that the sheep breeders resemble their own rams. I cannot explain these singularities, which, however, are wholly or partly true. The sheep type of man is not indicative of great intelligence and it is usually found in remoce agricultural iis- triots. The bulldog characters in man denote courage without refinement, but in the case of a lady like her favorite pug dog with ner. retrousse, the refinement was not wanting. The Eskimos or Lapps in tbe water are so like seals that a man has been shot in error, tbe wistful expression of countenance being common in both, a* the head only appears at surface of the water, I have seen a comfortable-looking bear man in the train and a wicsned, bat-faced old woman onoe in Brittany. Ancient Documents. According to a correspondent of the Lon <lon Daily Chronicle an exhibition of ex- ceeding interest has just been opened *t the Vienna museum. This consists of a collection of upwards of 10,000 Egyptian papyrus documents, which were discovered at Kl Fayum, and purchased by the Aus- trian Archduke Rainer several years ago. The collodion is unique, and the docu. ments, which are written in eleven different languages, have all been deciphered and arranged scientifically. They cover a period if '.',500 years, and furnish remarkable evidence as to the culture and public and private life- of the ancient Egyptians and other nations. They r.re also said to con- tain evidence that, printing from type was known to the Egyptians as far bock as the teuth century IS. < '. Other documents show that a flourishing trade in the manu- facture of paper from linen rag*, existed six centuries oafora tbe process was known in Kur.ipe. Auother in'eresling feature in Election is a number of eommorj *I letters, contracts, t < * ->r Is, wills, novels, tailors' bills, ao<5 /ra lotr-lettvrs dating from 1200 B. C-