Christian herald and signs of our times . f gold and silverlet into it. We sometimes see horrible sights on theIrrawaddy when we have passed the Britishfrontier. The mode of execution is is very common here, but it may possibly beof service as giving a truer picture of the actualscenes at a crucifixion than we have been accus-tomed to. Italian and Flemish art have throwna halo over this horrible mode of here is a crucified malefactor. He wouldseem to have been condemned for robbery, andthis, I think, is always punished with crucifixionand with breaking of legs. On
Christian herald and signs of our times . f gold and silverlet into it. We sometimes see horrible sights on theIrrawaddy when we have passed the Britishfrontier. The mode of execution is is very common here, but it may possibly beof service as giving a truer picture of the actualscenes at a crucifixion than we have been accus-tomed to. Italian and Flemish art have throwna halo over this horrible mode of here is a crucified malefactor. He wouldseem to have been condemned for robbery, andthis, I think, is always punished with crucifixionand with breaking of legs. On such crosses asthose of the thieves on Calvary that we see por-trayed in pictures, the latter operation wouldamount to no more than breaking the bone witha mallet or axe ; but when the whole frame is soviolently rent asunder, death must at onceensue. The conventional figures of the crossesare at variance with the actual facts, as the dis-location would require some such structure as 12 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. Jan. Tomb of the Mother of the Wesleys. {Snfatc 3.) King Theebaws White Elephant. (See/aftn.) the one I saw. This is only one figure out of aghastly row of twelve on the banks of the victim was a handsome man, with fine feat-ures ; he just raised his head as the steamerpaddled past—the last he would ever see. If wehad attempted to rescue him, though he wasalmost in the last throes, our fate might havebeen as bad. There were vultures waiting sul-lenly by the cross, and they would hardly haveto wait long. The culprit, according to his offence, is cru-cified in different ways. Murder, theft, or kill-ing a bullock are equally capital crimes. Insome cases the legs are broken, and the man isleft to die. In others, the victims are smearedwith honey, and ants eat them alive. Thosewho are best off are those who are used as tar-gets for the kings .soldiers. There is sometimesa row of men who are crucified side by side ;some with their legs broken
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