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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2211, 5 September 1910, Page 8

1 HOW ROMAN CRIMINALS WERE PUNISHED. Some of the punishments solemnly presrribed by the old Roman law, on which our jwn has to a certain extent been founded, strike us modern readers as being somewhat ibsurd. Those old lawgivers probably knew eery well what particular punishments were most appropriate to the timesandconditions n which they lived, but judged solely from i modern standpoint they appear often to nave gone strangely wide of the mark, inflicting in some cases the most trivial penalty for the grossest crime, and punishing what seems to us a lighter offence with extreme tnd even barbarous severity. For instance, .\e have merely a fine inflicted for breaking .he bone of a free man, a civis Romamit, of whose sacred character the world heard so much. So that a wealthy man could order its retainer to break an enemy's head with •.omparative impunity, offering him as legal imends a small amount of money, thereby, iccording to our notions, merely adding msult to injury. On the other hard, it is supposed that anyone who was convicted of injuring crops by means of enchantment had to suffer the death penalty. Anyone who burnt a stack of corn was to be bound, beaten, and himself burnt—a pretty direct form of retribution, and one eminently calculated to prevent the commission of a second offence. A thief taken in the act must be beaten with rods, and given over as a slave to the person whom he had robbed. If he were already a slave, he must first be heaten ano then thrown frcm the Tarpeian rock. On the other hand, if a thief were so ingenious and such a practised hand as to be able to effect his escape, he was only condemned, when subsequently tracked by the Scotland yard authorities of the period, fo pay twice the value of the thing stolen. One of the strangest punishments under the old Roman law was that awarded to a parricide. His head was to be veiled, he was to be sewn up in a sack with a cock, a viper, and an ape, and this sackful of misery was then thrown into the river Tiber. THE TROTTING HORSE. Secretary Fasig of the Cleveland track says regarding the American trotting horse: The trotting horse is an American citizen, needing no naturalization papers or introduction. For general use and business he is, next to man, God's noblest creation. The Iraft horse can pull, the thoroughbred run ; ..either can trot; neither is adapted to tha general business of Mankind; one is a slow slug, the other treacherous and flighty—a gambling machine; whereas the trotting-bred horse can pull your plow, he can run as fast as is evsr necessary in business, and he can make you grow young with the pleasure he affords in a ' spin' down the smooth stretch of road on your way home—such a ' spin' that opens your heart, makes you pat the baby on the head, furnishes a kind word and a loving kiss for your wife, instead ol that desire to kick your dog after a slow, work-your-passage-with-the-whip ride behind a dunghill beast. What is the trotting horse but a thorough* bred or race horse ? The more thoroughbred blood in him usually the better the trotter. It is true there have been good trotters of mixed blood. Thoroughbred trotters or grades of them have no legitimate place on the farm. He is not the proper horse for a business man to drive or to take ladies and children out for a ride. Nearly everything tricky, vicious, balky and skittish that is mean in our horses comes from the thoroughbred blood in the modern American trotter. Yet the genuine thoroughbred is an angel compared with his cross-bred descendants. These as a rule drop every desirable attribute of their ancestors except perhaps the trot, and conserve and improve in the bad traits. Let the horse gamblers keep the racers and trotters for their own special use and get their own necks broken if they wish. There never was a good serviceable thoroughbred horse except for sport. Even for wat they are useless. The French, the best cavalry and carriage horse breeders in the world, found they had no use for thoroughbred blood. The horses for work, for business, for the carriage, the saddle and safety, are the old specialised European breeds for these purposes, The French coach horse is the best safe roadster. He docs not spurt at 2.20 foi a short distance, but he can " spin" fast enough all day and repeat next day. He is also a beauty to look at, handsome from muzzle to heels, and not a slab-sided, yew necked, spindle legged monstrosity like the thoroughbred. He is a domesticated pet. knows his business, safe, true, sagacious with almost human intelligence. He has been bred for centuries for man's special use with all bad faultsand points eliminated-' He is not a wild savage horse lately from the desert, trained by, and for a savage man like the Arabian, as is the thoroughbred. The same is true of draft horses and other special breeds of Europe of centuries stand.ng. The English hunter is a special bred modern horse and a fairly good animal, but not safe simply owing to his thoroughbred blood, Cockney Bliss.—Two Cockney mashers went one Sunday for a quiet walk, with all their senses keenly alive to the novel impressions of Nature. Suddenly one ol them came upon a well-known elder tree covered with its large white umbels in full bloom. Starting with delight, he exclain.ed, "Hey, Jim ! look here; aren't this grand ? I never saw cauliflowers a-grow'ing befotel" I Singers have the reputation of being . capricious because they are exacting in tin matter of food. The average landlord thinks that what is good enough for one ol {lis guests is good enough for all, making r;"o exception of the artist. Madaroj Patti has encountered this landlord, W9 she havcls with her own chef, who prepares her meals for her. This if not caprice ; it is a necessity, It if not that she wants such a variety of elabor« Rtely prcpa-red food, but she wants it to bt thoroughly nutritious and d'' estible. Ifsht suffers from indigestion it a -; ?cts her voice. Colds are not the sine.-rs only enemies. _ Illprepared and un.Miit.-iMc ford is as injurioui to her v< ice as a draught of cold air. 4 celebrated processor in Home told Charlotta Cushmai; -iaf there wore three thing necea* jary for a prima donna to do— eat, sleepy-'* and sin:'. \\ hen a singer is singing, she has *■ to live thr most regular and systematic life. She <• ■' her dinner at three c'r.lok in the a r tern ■•.;'. or four at the latest, and it is two or thw" rnttrs before she goes to thj theatre, «nd another hour and a half befora chenings, or four hours between rating and cingin". After the opera jhc may eat tha little surprr that is to highly prized by all " profo.:': ;al" people, not because of it» Conviv: -! ; : ■. ,or it must be very simple and Jight, but rather be...-use it can be eaten With the ••n;w!r:!p.e that there is plenty ol Itime for digr.-.tion. Sweets, highly-spiced food of any kind, find nuts, must be carefully nvoid'd by the singer, and even icewater is one of the very worst things fof the throat. It should never be drunk befora singing, for it leaves the singer as hoarse as if she had caught a 1 iolcnt cold. She cannot drink, yet the exercise of singing makw l;er want something to moisten her throat with. Different singers use different drinks far refreshing the throat, according as thai* Wperience has taufht thsra.

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