Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — No Sentence. [ARTICLE]

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A French gentleman who visited Dalmatia, in Austro-Hungary, tells how he unconsciously posed us a nativo dignitary. He visited the polioe oourt of Zara, the capital of tho country, one day, to take some sketches of tho Dalmatian peasants who'had boon summoned from neighboring villages as witnesses in a cuso that was being tried. Affiong others he sketched two flno-looking old women. Each wore on her head a large, snow-white turban trimmed with red ribbons, and great braids of false hair tied with green ribbons. Their broad, silver girdles wero ornumented with uncut jewels. They stood with their hands clasped, motionless, and apparently frightened about something, I could not tell what. Later the judge oallod me to him, and told me that tho two old peasants who bad posed for me an hour with such apparent good will had come to him to make a complaint. They had splamnly re lad ml how “a man had kept them standing an hour, looking at them sternly and writing all the time, and that finally he had given them each a florin, but nad not passed sontenco on thorn.” The poor old women had thought I was a judgo, and that while I was studying them to catch tho expression of their faces and tho pose of thoir heads, I was trying to reud thoir hearts to discover if there were any guilt on their consciences.