Grewsome Golden Wedding

From the report of the celebration of the golden wedding of William Reidl and his wife at JMagdeburg, Germany, and the silver wedding of his son Frederick and his wife, it is to be inferred that hangmen are not held in Buch disfavor by the women of Germany as the fair sex of other eountries evince toward men of this profession. At the celebration there were present 300 men, whose occupations were the same - the execution of crimináis - the majority of them being accompanied eithor by a wife, sister or sweetheart. The eider Reidl is chief executioner of the domains of Kaiser Wilhelm, while his son Frederick is also a public executioner of ïong service. The eldest son of the Iatter is a soldier in the Germán army, but his father declares that as soon as he is discharged he will secure him a place where his work will be of exactly the same nature as his father's. The oíd gentlemen is only 73 years of age, but he boasts that he has only 11 more people to string up on the scaffold in order to have made the record of sending 7,000 persons into eternity by his own hands. The son has a record of little more than one-third of this number. Although brought together for the purpose of doing honor to Germany's chief executioner and his son, the assembly of executioners actually turned itself into a conventioa of hangmen. The various new methods of killing off murderers were unanimously condemned, and the old-fashioned hanging method was pronounced the one most satisfactory from every standpoint. The men came from every part of Wilhelm's empire and included all the executioners of note. The wives and sweethearts intend to organize a club for the purpose of aiding the -svidows and orphans of the men their lmsbands hang.