entions, and limited vision; what she wants is statesmen with just the qualities which the typical English gentleman has not flexibility, openness of mind, a free and large view of things.
Everywhere we shall find in our thinking, a sort of warp inclining it aside of the real mark, and thus depriving it of value.
The common run of peers who write to the Times about Reform of the House of Lords one would not much expect, perhaps, to understand the signs of this time.
But even the Duke of Argyle, delivering his mind about the land question in Scotland, is like one seeing, thinking, and speaking in some other planet than ours.
A man of even Mr. John Morley's gifts is provoked with the House of Lords, and straightway he declares himself against the existence of a Second Chamber at all; although — if there be such a thing as demonstration in politics — the working of the American Senate demonstrates a well-composed Second Chamber to be the very need and safeguard of a modern democracy
ch left nothing to be desired — except, perhaps, mercy.
A beheading machine, called the maiden, and sometimes the widow, by the lively Scotch, was imported from Halifax, England, into Scotland, about 1550, by the Regent Morton, who seems to have been enamored of the maiden's business capacity.
He was beheaded thereby in 1581, — though he was not the first victim, as has been sometimes stated.
The murderers of Rizzio were beheaded by it in 1566; and among its last victims was the Earl of Argyle, 1681.
It is laid up as a memorial in the Museum of the Scotch Society of Antiquaries, Edinburgh.
Of the Halifax machine we know but little except that Morton imported the maiden thence.
Pursuing the back track, we find that the Due de Montmorenci (blue blood) was executed by a falling axe at Toulouse, 1632; that the Dutch used it in executing slaves in their colonies, and that its use was comparatively common in Germany during the Middle Ages.
The Mannaiu of Italy, by which Conr
