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mm 1SATKS II. A. LONDON, KDlTtiH AND PKOIMULToK. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, One ropy, one vo.ir One ropy, six month , On'1 ciiin, t 'in e months 'j.nnj - I. on; Hero or There ? May (iodhe near thep, fi ionS, When wo arc faraway; May His smile clicor thoi, Irionil, Anil make all light as day. Look up! tho sky, tho stars nbjvn Will whisper to thoo of 11U changeless love. In ilist int. desert places Tho mounts of lioil urn found; His sky tho world emhriros, An I makes it holy kioiiihI; Tho heart lint servos, ami love, an I clings, I t:irs everywhere- the rush of anel vvins. To liml tin1 there is here; All spaces are His own; The iliMant ami I lie near Are sh nlmvi of llis throne; All limes are His, tho new, the ol 1 ; Wlni I hoots it wliero life's littlo tale is tol-l ? "Pis no, for m to choose; We lislon ami oln-y ; 'Tis His to pull mul uei "l'is ours to serve :im-I pruv; It matters little, here or tln-ie, tent's world is wide, anil II" ivun is every wheic. We cannot io so far That home is out of si-M ; The morn, the ovonin -t ir. Will ny. lioeil-ito ' lioml nilil 1 The heart that loves will never be iilom1: All e:irlli all heaven it reckons as its ow n. - ! j H'ut'iii. TWICE SAVED. Frank tie Yawl was climbing up a particularly stiff part of a particularly stiff hill. Sometimes he called in tho assistance of the Alpine-stock ho lieM in one hand, but just as often he clam bered on and up without it. He was a handsome and a well-made man; any one could see that lit a single glance, though he was but a chamois-hunter. His face and hands were bronzed with tho sun and exposure, to the weather, but in his checks the red blood of health mantled, and his dark eyes looked ever so soft and good-natured, and when he smiled, as occasionally he was doing now, there was a right merry twinkle about those same eyes, and he showed a set of teeth as white iind even as a bat's. Why was Frank do Vaud smiling? Well, one reason was this he was singing, and the song ho was singing neers-itated an occasional smile. Parenthetically, b-t me tell you that it s oke volumes for the strength and v gor of his lungs, that he could sing at all w hile climbing so steep a hill. Hut he had lam bound to say. -one other reason for sm'ling, for Frank tie Vaud was going to see pretty.Iittle, bright-eyed Johanna, the goat-herd's daughter, and Johanna loved honest Frank, and he knew it right well. They were going to be married before a great many months were over, and his chief reason for visiting her cot tage to-night she dwelt a long. l"tig way up the hill was to press her to "Nnine the day, tin- liiippy ilny," as the song says. lie stood at length on the lower edge of a Kind of broad table-land. A ravine ran right down through the very centre of it, a gorge, a canon, call it what you like, only so tleep was it that you could barely see I he tips of the giant spruces and larch es that grew in it. oiher trees grew sparsely here and there a'l over the table-land. High up on the far-off horizon rose the snow-clad jagged peaks of the Alps, tinged with the carmine of tho setting sun, and the clouds and mists that en veloped them beneath were also tipped with red, shading off lower down into purple, then into gray. Hut it wasn't on the mountains, nor on the clouds either, that Frank w as gazing, but on the charming little Lhalct still lower down. It was half buried in brushy trees, and there was smoke curling up from it. On went Frank de Vaud, continuing his song. He said kindly good night to a bevy of girls w ho were waiting for tho cows to come home. "Still higher up he met the eow.s themselves, and stood aside till they passed. Then he must shake hands with the herdsman, and the herdsman laughed and said: "I know where you are off to, Frank Vaud, 1 know. We will soon all have a danca Ah! I know; ha! ha! don't deny it. We all know. Sood night, Vaud." Well, Johanna was waiting for him, and they met as true lovers who are betrothed, and soon to be wed, usually ilo meet. They did say that Johanna was the prettiest girl in all the canton, and 1 think they were not far wrong. Her dress became her so, too, and the modest way her hair was done up. and her sweet voice, and her tleep blue thoughtful eyes, and tho blush upon her bonny face, and and but there! Mitlice it to say, she was a charming little mountain maiden, and no one could blame Frank a bit for loving her. Hut could she name the day, think you? Not she. Oh! I don't know," she always ans wered bashfully. "Well, then," she added i this particular evening, "say in six months' time." VOL. VII. "Oh! dearest, we don't know what! might happen before then,". said Frank, somewhat thoughtfully. Frank do Vaud was right. "Hut," he said, "remember, darling, I'll claim you to the very day. So be ready." Frank tie Vaud was out almost every day in the mountains. A very tlaring hunter, he! And a very success ful one too. His gun, though, was not much to look at; it had many little ec centricities, but as Frank knew tiiem all. and made allowance for them, he wouldn't have given that old gun for one worth double tho money. Ono beautiful afternoon, when high above tho mountains, be shot up si chamois a b ng way down beneath hint. It was no easy task to reach it. but he succeeded at last. lie sal down beside it. lie lit his pipe, and began to dream and build castles in the air, or, if lie did not build castles, he imagined one sweet little rh ilet. which would be all his and Hull"! was that a shout from this rrevsisso far, far below ? He listened. Yes, there it was again, ringing and clear, tin ugh, ow ing t the distance, no loud cr than the voice of a midget. "Help! Help! Coo-ee. Help! II"lp!" Do Vaud looked v r the ledge and saw a dark ligure in the snow. "Hullo!" lie shouted. "I'll go back for assistance-. Keep up your heart. Wait." And away went Frank, leaving his gun beside the slain deer. "Wait, indeed!" growled little Mr. 1'oddleshy to himself. "I'll Imi'f to wait! What a fool I was to come away without a guide! I shall lose "OOil 1 dinner, too!" Little Mr. Poddiesby hailed from Kaling, where he had a line house and all kinds of line things, his uncle hav ing died heirless, and left him wealthy. S 1'uddlesby rcipiired to be a clerk no longer in the city. He determined to see the World! A very vulgar, self-eoiiceite I little fellow, I'm sorry to say. was Poddies by. He ha 1 had an idea, even when a poor clerk, that he was rather attract ive than otherwise toth'1 fair sex, but he had riches, he deemed now that himself irresistible. He joined sin Al pine club, and it used to be his boast that he never required a guide. Hence we find him at the bottom of the crevasse, where, had he not been found by Frank tie Vaud, he would certainly have perished before in irn inir. and become food for the raides. In three hours' time Frank wsis back with assistance, and Poddiesby was ssit'e, but more dead than alive. He w;is then carried to tho nearest j rhalet, the goat-herd's, where pretty i Juh.innsi lived. "I'll be as fresh sis si daisy to-nior- : row," said little Poddiesby as they put ; him to bed. Hut he wsis not so. He w sis down w ith a fever, and for weeks lit; lay j twixt iieatii sin-l lite, vt lien sil lsist he i-ecame con valescent, nothing could exceed the kindness of Johanna's pa rents to him. nor, indeed, of Johanna herself. "Hut of course I shall pay them well for it," ssiid Poddlesbv to himself. Hut wsis this grsititude, reader? I trow not Poddiesby wsis somewhat surprised - ii..n ..n iii.i.iiL.r i,w iw, t .in,i i,jn good-by, the erisp bank note he tried to slip into tho hand of the latter w as firmly but respectfully declined. They hud only done their duty, said this holiest couple; if they deserved any reward sit all, it would come from Heaven. "Well," ssiid Poddiesby to himself that evening, when he found himself snug in his hotel, in the town down in the valley, -1 don't feel over-strong; I'll stop here si few months suul lish, and do the ci il to thai charming Jo hanna. A sweet child she really is. and I can't do less after all their kind nesses. I'll take her everywhere and show her everything. She is too good l for that lout of a Frsink. Fin not sure that 1 won't marry her myself." Ilavoyou ever seen a tiny cloud, reader, rising over the sea, or over the hills in a luoiintsiinous land ? I'p and up and up into the blue sky, getting bigger and wider and darker every minute, till at length the storm breaks and the thunder roars, and all is chaos and destruction. .lust sin h a little rlutid began to rise between Frank de Vaud and Johanna on the very day that Po ldlesby commenced paying sit tentioiis to our innocent Swiss maiden. Ho brought si gift of rare fruit, more luscious than siny which Johanna or her parents hsid ever eaten before. It must have cost golden gulders. She couldn't offend by refusing to accept it. This was the thin edge of the wedge. After this Poddiesby asked Johanna's parents and he asked so prettily if she might be his guide among the hills now and then; he was studying bot any, he said, old fraud that be vas. PITTSBOUO', he did not know a iir -rone from a' hazel catkin! I have now come to tho tlisagreea-' ble portion of my little tab1, and will ! hasten over i. l'otldlesby made him-1 self a very great favorite with Johan-. na's parents, and they always thought ! their child safe when with him. I Meanwhile the cloud grew and grew . 'twixt Frank do Vaud and his bs trothed, for he was jealous of t he in- ' sinuating Saxon, and at last tho storm j burst, and the lovers quarreled an I ' parted. j Frank spent most, of his tini" among the mountains now. II'1 loved that 1 somewhat ancient, gun of us more than ever. I Cut. Frank seldom sang. , The joy and the happiness seemed clean gone away from his big heart for.-ver and a day. lie gave the little, chab't. at which he had spent so many a pleasant even ing, a very wide berth indeed. He could n t bear tin sight of it. He would not have gun 'Hear it for worlds. He dreaded to look upon Johanna, lest llit.1 old love should return w ith such force that he might be constrain.il to make i tool of himself that wsis how he phrased it -make si foul of himself, trample on his pride, ;ind own he ha I been wrong and un just in his jealousy. Hut was he unjust? lie otten and oft"n asked himself that question. Whsit right had she to accept tho gil'tt of that hateful Saxon? How d.ued sic; the ailianced bride of Frank de Vaud --accompany Poddlcsby in his wan derings among the hills and on excur sions with him on the hike? N'siy, he lud been wroiged; hu never, never. nonet lorgivu mi. Siiiiple-ioin1'!, innocent Johanna, she, ami even her parents, had accept ed presents from Poddiesby, and she did not like to . seem ungrateful. What harm could there be, she often asked herself, in acting sis guide for the poor little F.nglishman in his raiiiUes over the h lis and in his studies? Ah! but many and many si night, for all that, Johanna sobbed herself to sleep. One Autumn tlay. Frank, lying on his sideon a bink of snow, upon i w llir!l ,n,! s"" Wils l''i'ng so warmly as almost to soften it, spied something black in a crevasse far down beneath him. Presently he ssuv the something move, next he heard it hallo. "It ." cried Frank; "no, it can't be but, bv everything that is reniarka- ble, it's nobody else but Poddiesby! Ay, J every mile. The relentless Indian ptir scream away, my little man. I took j s,.r lu.Ver drinks whi e on the trail. ' 't "" crevsisse; ih.w. indeed, ! "u hM ,ic,'"me ("X l,,r U"? i,,M- Kevenge is sweet.' Yes, reader, revenge is sweet, but vengeance does not belong to man. Frsink lay there for two whole hosirs watching Poddiesby. then, his better nature prevailing, he went si might iiwiiy and got assistance, and in si short time the F.nglishman from Kaling wsis out of dsinger. When he s;iv who had again rescued him, Poddles- 1,v l'itively burst into tear "t'ome with me, come with me, he 1 cried, "1 shsill die else." ! And he led Frank straight to Jo ! hanna's cottage and drsigge l him in, 1 sind took his half-unwilling hand and ; l""""1 11 ' i "' luive done you both sin in jury," he S:,U'- '"'ve now to crave lorgive - i ne.ss, which 1 sinccrlv do." ce... mere was some goou ..1 .i.ue Poddiesby s heart after al'. I need not say that l rsink and Jo- 1 hanna were married. Ye, and Pod- j dlesby w as at tho wedding, too, and the most charming gift that Johanna had wsis Poddlesby's. I.iketl llis Oration. Abraham Lincoln's fondness for fun was well known. It is ssiid that on one occasion, when it wsis though thsit it wsis absolutely necessary that there should bo a new surgeon genera) iippointed, tho kite Or. Hellows was asked to go to Washington to urge the iippointment of Dr. Hammond; he went, and had an interview with Lin coln, whom he found signing papers, "(io on," said Lincoln. "I csm hear you while I write." So lr. Hellows inside his plea with his usual energy Lincoln kept signing his papers. At last alter Or. Hellows had irot through. and stopped. Lincoln said: "I like to hear you tsilk, doctor; but I rsither think Hammond has been appointed, at least a week ago." "Is that so?" asked the astonished doctor, "Yes that is so," ssiid Lincoln, "but I thought I would like to hear your oration." Knew Him. Agitated man to acquaintance: "Hy gracious, did you see me rush up just then and shake hands with thsit fellow ?" "Yes." "Well.Ididit under misapprehension. I wouldn't have shaken hands with him for anything." "Why, don't you know him?" "Yes, 1 know htm, but I owe him ten dollars." Arkawaw Tiarila: CHATHAM CO., N. C, APRIL 30, 1885. Kl'NNlNli DOWN Til K DKKR How Apaches Hunt tho Ani mal in the For West. rollowing tho Game Until it is Exhaust j I mil thou Catting it; Throat. A gentleman who has long resided In tho far west has given a New York reporter the following account of the way Apache Indians hunt doer: "As the deer starts away in its fright at the sight of tho hunter or the sound of his gun, leaping dd or bl feet at every bound, the Indian throws his guU ,m u,,, ground, and with piercing yells starts in pursuit. The deer at first leave tho hunter far behind putting forth its greatest efforts to get beyond his reach as soon as possible, lint no matter how fast the deer may reel off the miles between it and its pursuer the trail it leaves is as plain to the hunter as if it were- marked in chalk all the w.tv. A deer is most tinlj, an, .sispi, j,ms of animsils, and at the same time possesses an amazing amount of curiosity. After it has placed distance between itself and the ! immediate danger from which il lied : it stops and .awaits forth -r develop- incuts. The Apaeho hunter well knows this characteristic of the deer, and he jogi along at si live miles an hour gait, never lagging, never stop ping. At sight or sound of the ap- proaching hunter the deer bounds off : anatn to run a mile or two and stop sigain. It is these halts Unit are the ; lir.st fatal st"ps in the fleeting animals. The halts sire not. long enough to give the deer any beneficial rest, but on the I contrary give time for its limbs to j stiffen. At each new start the leaps ' grow shorter, and the deer starts away reluctantly and with decreasing ac iv ; jty. The Indian jogs along on the i trail maintaining a uniform rate of I speed. lie can keep it up without I stopping for six hours if nee.'sssiry. I Alter two or three hours' running the I tleer bejins to look for water to quench ; its thirst. Whenthisstagoofthecha.se . is reached the hunter knows that the ' deer's doom is s-aled. After the deer ( nce drinks there is no hope for it. It lills its parched stomach with water, and, laden w.th the burden, its. leaps grow still shorter and sire made labori ously. If before drinking the deer made i's halts at intervals of two miles, after drinking thev sire made j His tongue may h;ing white and swol i len from his mouth, he may be choked ' with dust, his stem icli may be burn- ing up with heat, but not a swallow of j water tloes he allow to enter it. When j a deer drinks at a stream it swims to the other side, and the Indian plunges J into the water at the same spot anil ! crosses. As he dashes across he sco ips tip si handful of water and carries it to j his mouth, where he holds it. rinsing it about for si few sec uids, and then ! ejects it. If he is obliged to swim he : lets tho water run in and out or his J mouth, but cirefully prevents a drop J from entering his stomach. I "An hour or s after the Indian has j discovered t hut the deer has filled its ' stomach with water he begins to ex ! amino the tniil more carefully as he ! runs, for he knows that it is then time I for him to find signs of the deer's ex- j ,:t)ltion. A llro,, t(f , ,,,.) llt,re and I th(,r). . traj, lwlw.ih,, , (he Indian thsit the tleer has fallen on its knees at these spots; si bunch of hsiir hanging to a projecting edge of rock or sharp branch hsinging low sicross the t mil prove that the deer's strength has tailed so thsit it csiunot turn quick ly out of the way of obstacles. When these infallible signs of the deer's ap proaching doom sire found by tho hunter he increases his speed for the first time. He soon discovers the deer, and wit li a yell of fiendish triumph he bounds for ware Tho cry startles the failing .ri'm d to a momentary burst of speed. After a leap or two it stops. As if sir . 1- d to the fact that further efforts t. t si ape were futile, he tun s smd faces its pursuer with sill the de- lisince its exhausted nature will permit. In rsire instances deer have been known to run until thev Ml dead in their ! track' Whcn une slof,s nml t,lrns on the human hound behind it the latter keeps on at the top of his speed. I The deer would give him a warm re 'ception if it had the strength, but in ! spite of its strong will the hunter i knows it is too near exhaustion to be ! able to harm him, ami he seizes it j bodily.throws it to the ground, ami cuts I its throat. While the deer is alive, or without a second's delav, the Indian ,.ts from behind its foro shoulder a I large piece of meat, and, trotting to j and fro constantly, he sucks the warm j blood from the meat, and now and . then eats a small portion of it. After ' sin king tl e meat dry ho throws the : rarcsiss across his shoulder if it is not to hesivy, and starts back for his wig wam. If the deer Is too heavy he takes a portion of tho meat and bides tho ' rest. lie keeps constantly moving, for he fears that if he should stop to rest, his limbs would become stiff anil he could not return at once with his prize. His wigwam may not be fsir from the spot where the chase tide I as tin trail of si deer is always devious an I circuitous, and frequently ends within a short distance of the point from w hich it started, but if the deer is cap tured "i0 miles from the hunter's home he does not rest until he casts the car cass, or a portion of it on the ground ill his wigwam door. When lie reaches home, if hi-has been compelled to leave a portion of his game in tho woods, an other Indian stsirls a' oivo over the trail, finds the hunter's gun, and brings in the remainder of tho venison. It is not an uncommon thing for an Apache tleer chaseto continue forl'si miles, but a hunter calculates that he will have captured his gsime by the time it lists led him tin miles on the trail." Tr.nle in Wild Heists. War, whatever it may be, nevi r fails to play terrible havoc with somebody's trade. There sire, of course, parts of phe world wh'-ro the tiger and the cle- ' p'liint, the hippopotamus and 'he loop ard and other fearful wild beast are .-till to lie had, but there seems to be' no demand for them. The Soudan ' has long been the great source of sup- ply for the more important of wild beasts. Many of them indeed come from Abyssinia, but they sire brought ; through the Soudan and have u-mallv been shipped for Kurope sit Massowah. : The capturing of wild beast stud their ! transport across the desert is the regn- Iir avocation of some of the Soudane- of course the young. Lions, inimals are taken for instance are cap- til red as lucre cubs. A couple of them will be put in boxes and siting it'-ross j the kick of a camel. A young hip. j popotsinius will be conveyed in a tank 1 of water borne between twoiauiels, I while y.iiing giraffes may be compelled to tramp, of course ;n old lion or I lioness is much too lively a brute to answer the purposes of the desert trade, and the ssiiue is the rase with most other auiuitils. There is no difficulty in iiiansigirig j young lions. Kingship, if it is to be i awarded according to money vsiliie, 1 seems to be due not to the lion but to the ! hippopotamus, which, tin its arrival in , r.urope, may ue worm sfooo 10 ,.i" 1. From Massowsih the Abyssinian ani -mals go in vessels with strong cages fitted up on them. To some extent the supply is obtained through the agency 01 the masters of trading ves sels, who do a little business on their own account, either with or without the knowledge of their owners. If it is without the kno vledge of the ship owners iiceomniodatioii has to be ex temporised for the security of he beastson board and arrangements have to be made for parting with the illicit passengers before coming into port. The Soudanese are now too busy in other ways to be minding their ordina ry trsule, and if they were not Soudan just now is not si pleassmt pkice for commercial travellers to squsit in for dealing. -A'.w Y-nl; llu-iUI. The Ilaytism People. "They hate their father and dispise their mother," is a saying which is the key to the character of the mulatto. Of the mulatto women it is rather more difficult to speak. They sire rarely good looking, never beautiful. As they approach the white type they have long, rsither cosirso hsiir, beaut i - fid teeth, snisill. Ileshless hsinds and feet, delicate forms and .sometimes graceful movements, due apparently to the length of the lower limbs. ' Their principal defects are their voices, j their noses and sometimes the inor dinate size of their lower jaw. Their j voices stre harsh, their skin blotchv or I j of a dirty brown, their noses ilsit or j too fleshy, ami the jaw, as I have said, ! heavy. Occasionally you see a girl tie- cidedly pretty, who would psiss in any society, but these are rare. In genersil : they are very plain, particularly when ! you approach tho black type, when the frizzled hair begins to appear. Hill Nye 011 Venice. Venice is one of the best wsitered towns in Kurope. You csin hardly vvsdk a bliM'k without getting vour feet wet, uuless you ride in a gondola. ; than his greed for power, thsit if sd Tho gondola is a long, slim hack with- j lowed to return to Chedarii they out wheels and is worked around ' wight recover some outstanding through thedamp streets by a brunette debts, the proceeds of which, of c.; ir.'-... mm, whose bresith shoul I be a sail would be turned over to Heit-ul-Mal warning to us all. lie is called the or public treasury. He adopted theii gondolier. Sometimes he sings in si low : suggestion, and they set out. but tone of voice and in si foreign tongue, j made eastward instead of westward I do not know where 1 have nu t so I and found a certain sheik Saleh many foreigners as I have here in ! who helped them to Abyssinian ler. Kurope, unless it wsis in New York at j ritory, whence tlp-y were forwarded the polls. Wherever I go I hear si for- i by the native chiefs by way of Cm. eign tongue. 1 do not know whether I l ir to M issowah. these poopl,, talk in the Italian Ian- j A eeccM(ric ,,, m in Washington guage just to show off or not. Perhaps j ,n() Jn k . a h((mp for they prefer it. NO. :')!. I ' ) ; H' 1 1 K M A 1 1 1 H ' S l I LE ' 1 lio R v n l -i Citpti V'-s i ci' of tv'sr-npo i tho Sot i In 1 1 . File Kind of F.aipiro tho Fals,t Prophet is Try in ; to Baild Up. A corresp indent, of the London w( ,,,,,,,, us interviewed three I i reeks and a Copt, who recently es-aped from captivity among the Mali li's fol lowers, and his tory of their capture, sufferings siiid escape is highly inter esting in itself. Mill itui'oriaut as showing th" sort of nun tic? I'silse Prophet is and the eh trader of the empire h1 is Irving to build up. The.-f m 'ii h 1 1 b-n for years mer chants in the oii Ian, and were living a' Cbed iril' when the Mahdi capture I that city. I luring the fu st days of the ivi'ni of terror tha' ensued, when the whole city was given up t sack and slaughter, th-y hid in an under ground grain store. At list, hunger and lliiist. drove I hem out. Their lives were spared nly on condition of I urirug all th'-ir property tha' was ,-ll in; i th M 'h I i's treasury sin I t iiemselve.t h 'coming Mob I'lim -daii s. They wvr-.! .-.tripped of IV-ir t:'o' hing. and each was given instcil si long strip of ivhUe 1. 110:1 stiteh-d With red and green il,.. M a 1 h's colors a pair "f sandals, an I a gray felt cap, w ound about with a gr--e:i sin I rcl rag. Five HHP'S a d IV th"V were conioelicl to g.) ,,, j,, in , ami w ere kicked and culled iiiimei'.-ifil'lv wh"n they laile 1 U1 ,tIV i perform .a- ,, j,.,,.. ,, I:it,ip there, After a few weeks th-v w -re tak-n to the Mahdi' ramp. W.I ' receive 1 , a,. ,. ,.,,1 ,i .,. lvU,nt it;.,lU an., ,,,. ,,,nv,,rs. , ., ,, , . j rjft. , ., ,. ,;ls,:intil).,t w!li..'h. after r j , M t ,, . ,,. 1M, of his ambition. I le supp".s-. it to be situated on the utilities of II n-ilo-t.m. His luatin-'i' of lite - cxe ;' a to th11 .natter "!' wives isim;!' sin 1 unostentatious, and he bim-.-li follows strictly the rules laid down by him b 1 his followers. The use of t ibac-u a i I liquor is sthsolutely forbidden. l'.ven stig.tr. spices rind sve -t slierb 'ts are considered more or less iingilly. Siuni.tiiarv laws have been e'la ted tueseribing the material, color, cu' and snal, Pv,.ry garm-nt which a true j believer may wear, and the. possession even of any sirlicle "f raiment of Kgyp I tian or Kur.ipesiti origin or fashion is punished with si given number o' j strokes of the ,....,'(.'. Altogether j the i-:iif inaugurated by the Mahdi j seems to ilavor strongly of Mate m l I'iiilistii, with a dash of ' umiiuni-ni. j His p iternsil iniluence asserts it sell in I every d 'tail of domes! i,-an 1 so ial life, and if the re- rid ions 1c imp .is.-s sire I soiiictiin-s slightly irksome, be ha- pro vide 1 simple iiti; e:is it ion for the I uiiilt itude in the unlimited prospi., of plunder in this world sin I l-lie iy in ' the next whh :i he lias i p'-ti"! up to ; his followers. All r-nts, sill taxes, I even th" K'Tsiaic tiihes. are ah..!ihcd. fhe na'i.'iialiM' i :i ol lau 1 has ben consti ornate I ::i the m i-t t's rough going fashion. Kvery vedige of the former lup'eauera y down to the bum bin sheikh-.'l-P.el" I, or village l !er. has been swept siway, sri l in it-p!i e has been substitute I th - sole stnth-ir-ity of the Mali li's Am-ers or l.':ea tetisiuls. who wield despotic power in each dislriet. The number f mul in the .army is verv Ibictiiiting. Sometimes there 1 have not been 11 Us imhi mm beior iinre than 7,n n or Khtr'ouin. some 1 times i,o 1,1 or j their tine wsii .'iii.iiii 1. devoted caniu to prayers. recitation i from the Koran, and -ham lights. The number of disci plined troops, chieily blacks from Ll tlbeid, is snisill, and these do not serin to he iimilir.tlv tru-ted bv the j Mahdi. llis closest followers sue the j ,ierv ishes, whose enthusiasm ho keeps continually sit fever lu a' by hi.s ' fr.-oi.ent orati -ns. The siicees nl resistance of Cordon for so long si time was explained by the Mahdi on the ground that Cor don was n oidinary unbeliever, but the anti christ himself, spoken of in the prophetic passages of the Korstn. These prisoners finally sue -ee le 1 in escaping by suggesting to the Mahdi, whose greed for gold is only less elderly and debilitated cats. 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A bad jury (lit il'iUil n a law suit perjury, the result of his first diavc. .lets ai'-.- nu,. er be too I ic-h. I u I ii lia a wid h'isl-silid. In th: fill' .1 SO "ltd "II''. 'f iin.it o'..- were sipp'es.'' Th'-v ;ii Thev can nev- l.imis for her lir.-t M.iutrv .-he burns riio-ny c: ce;-taiii!v died " dt and ca-.il "mashed," The lay of the land ii crv high. Thsit is, es Montana is rs sire there quoted sit I'.'tl cents c;i h. Alsp-ksi seems p. be tin' only region in the I'nite 1 ';t'is tiiat has, thus far s sije d the r.dl'-r ska' ing mania. I'ci p!e w ho go up in a bull ion to g -t bi-r are gei.i-rally "ticeded to be en -i l, ; ably -lal.en up with one an dher." "lie that loves noi -e mu-it buy si pig." says si Spanish jum el b. In most c.im's, however, si baby will answer ju-t- il- Well. -Ml.- I II. O ':!!'.. ill. il III 1 i-.ii Mill inn. .III 'I urn tulii. ti ieml : . imi.-li li,-!ti-r." - hi flit lei- 'J.-U V ,. i- -hi-. :o, l whi-11 .Li i.-n ei-t hi-l '" All stgri -tilt ural exi lian g' lists sin ar ticle ll sided. "How to tresit CSlbbagO worms." e siippos the polite thing would be to oiler them eabbsige, unless tiny expressed a preference for some thing eis. Snails in American Ib siaiirnnls. "Snails, please: sin 1 bring 'em in the sin 11," sai 1 a round, rosy-cheeked little man w.th close-cropped gray whiskers oa waiter in si fashi.ii;iide down-tow 11 restaurant large. y putroni.ed by swells an 1 the better grades of sporting men. 'flu- order sounded somewhat unusii a! losi I'li'i' r reporter who chanced to be eng ige l on si i lest sirloin at an ailj.ieeut tstbie. :i:id he glanced ov er t b e bill of fare to see if the dainty melius!-; had si place thereon. There it wa s sure enough: "I'.scsirgot s Hordel ii', l." Are not snails si ih-w thing in your bill of fare?" the r 'slsiuraat keeper vva- si-U I'd. Well, yes; it is only within the last month or two that I have been keeping tin-in as ;i regular sirlicle. I 11-ed to supply them only on special order - by gel t ing not ice some t i hie be I'Tchand. I me. 111 - but recently tho : demand has increased Miilicienl ly t,t sil low "f my having them sis si regular 1 thing. Not that there is siny ilems.n l j for the.u yet w 01th spesiking of - seems I they're to 1 rich for the American ! blond- but they sire getting into favor, j When st Chicago epicure esits one ili-h ! he's a snsiil cater ever sifter, stud I I shouldn't wonder but before long ! sneil will become a part of the regu lar bill of fare in every iirt-i'lass res i taur. int in the city." I "Wii.it clilss ol people sire your prill ! cipsil customers for them?" ' 'Americans who have been in Ku ' rope," replied the restsiurant-.nsin ' pr ptly. "Now, that man there," lie cunt inued pointing to the apple-fared little patron, who wsis absorbed in picking the sn.iils from tlnir shells 1 with si one-pronged silver fork, rolling them over in a thick brown sauce an I swallowing them with evident, appro -fiat ion "that man there was in F.11- ! rope last year, and got. a ta-te lor ! them t here, and he's been one of my regular customers since he came back. ' They are in cooiui in use in Francp.you know, stud largely used in Knglainl.tno, especially in London." -( 7i', ,o Tiih- 11 llr. What "Mnliili" Means. Msthdi is the passive particle of an Arsibic verb meaning to guide, and si Msihdi is therefore nt a leader of tho fsiithful. but ono who is himself guided y divine grace and inspiration.