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THE RIVAL MINSTRELS.
Flaronnai Raschid loved his harem's maids
lie loved his earlen-, with their winding
shades;
He loved . to watch his crystal fountains
play:
iIlf loved bis hor,e,; an 1 Lis courtiers pay:
He loved all royal sports that pleas a kin-
FltlT ,nfjst li3 to hear his . ndntrtdi
mi-
And so it happeiV-d tint his fame In 1 brought
Two rival singers to the Caliph's con rt. ?
Who pleased hitn U-st, full (.lcn irdnstrvl
knew.
Would be proclaimed th greater of the tw
So well they plea?ed Lira that thv found
him loath
To choose between tuem, fur he lved thrm
both.
Letall the..itio:i ju ie," at len-th said he; "
"Who pleasevbst my people, ple-jsos me."-
Throu-h all th. land the rival poots suu?:
'II...:. I ;
... , . j.
tonqii",
Cnt.il at last thy n?ver r,i ;h ; 1 a dov
Where Came had rot all thir sons
before.
Ben Oiaf sang of deeds the Caliph wrought.
The rk-hes Un 1 th splen lors of his court ;
The mighty warriors evr-ry nation !oasts.
An 1 armies vany0lSlaed by the I'rophet's
host-;
How Islam's valor was balovcl, andfearel;"
And wlien In finished, list?niu? thousin-is
cheered.
Mustupha's sDngs Wer j all of simpler thins-
Forgotten was t!;e jri 1 of earthly lungs.
He san- to them of ho:n, and truth, and
How Allah watched his children f ro n above.
Close to their hearts th? port's music crept;
And when ha finishei, all the e jpl) wpt.
Fo' though Ben Uiaf charmed them with his
. -'U't.-,
It was ilustanha's sonijs that, reache I thf-ir
liearts.
James U. Burnett, in HarnerV
BAILED UP BY MYALLS,
BY T. J. Br.AKR.
HE Myalls havt
been murdering
nil the whites ui.
ft
at Wells's station
on the Leich
ardt, I hear.
"Well, there's
nothing
iPH'i j ir;iu3e abouf
'$mf'l that, the" tried
' 1 th! s.tni'! ran:t
very
on us when T was living ;:t Car:rp, but
they did not make much of that job.'' .
A number of stock rrcn hid met at
what is now Wentworth, the juuf.i !i of
the Murray and Doling Ilivers, aid one
of them, Tom Burke, was the speaker,
lie Totstinued :
"I'il sjin you the yarn. boys. Yon
see, in '.( the Murray had risen to an
unusual hiuht an 1 spread for mil"s over
the -plaits, ruling up all the billib ongs j
and back hikes, s the cattle h id taken
to the high' LTiouu Is, wiiere the Myall
blacks had a line tunc going round in
their canoes an 1 spearing them. When
the flood went down we had a iret.eral
i
muster on. the Murrumbidgee, La h!an
and Darlinjs, when wc found tic her Is !
all tni.vd up," while lots of them had
spears still sticking m them. Ji n Mul- :
litis and I, from Carwarp, with Billy Mc- i
Mahor., from I'oon-B.ion, had been iriv- j
in:; on tic outer i h- of Fletcher's Run, !
and we camped one niht at a sheep
Nation hunt on tlu Varracool Creek,
Net morning I ha I justsluug the billy
to make tea when dim MutTujs, wlo was
u'o;-,g a:t r our hors".s,-saug out, B ys,
here's a whole tribe of M alis omiag along
the plain;' and, sure enough, there were
f ttv or dxtv of them ail painted up, but
without spears cr'shields. Of course wc
ail hurried out i the hut to see what
thev wrc up to, an I got out
rev o. vers
and a double-barreled Miotgun ready.
When they were about 150 yards oft
Muliin? called cat to them not to come j
any closer; but they held their hands up
over thfir 1 leads a: id still advance 1 till I
brought Cue gun' Hp to my shoulder;
then a very tall, powerful black, called
B,n ev. wh" used to knock round the
Murray ami .Darling stations, stepped out
in front mid shoute.l: 'Hullo o, Tom,
mine want to talk along with you. Doat
be afraid, these all !hi Igerr igool) black
fellows.'
"'I'm not afraid,' said I, 'bu: don't
you come any, nearer, or directly gun
talk along with you.'
"At that moment the sun shone out
brightly, and was reflected with dazzling
brilliancy from Honey's b.oa i chest.
" 'Give me the gun. Tom,' said Me
Mahon; 'these ' beggar have been rob
blag my Cabin, for that's my hair-brush
with the looking-glass back that I5ney
hai sluiii; round his, nsck.'
" 'Hold ob, Billy, it won't do to throw
away a shot, for we'ra very little am-
munition,' said I, as I handed him the
gun.
"Still the blacks came on, in spit oi
our warning;, until they were oaly lifty
or sixty yards off. aud the i MeMihoaV
un cracked, the I king-glass was shat
fered to atoms, and Honey, ?pinnine
aiouud convulsively, fcli (had; while, at
the same moment, his comoanions
whirled aloft their throwing-snears,
which they had been dr agging with their
toe thr;v.iqli t!ie trra-?.
"At once we dahed into the hut and
closed the door, a5 a shower of spears
came whizzing alon and quivered in the
walls and the, MyalU ru-he 1 on with
lieree yells, iut the rapid tire from a
brace of Colt's revolver whiM, cf...,.l
fP,().,..i,i .. ' T ' .
'1 V"l) cuece 1 ineir
rusu, anu smicinir to trie eartn thev van
ished completely from our sight.
"All that day we watched the plain.
There wee no Myalls to Le a-en, but
whenever one of us would -cautiously
open the door a dozen duskv ti'-urcs
would spring up ami 'a vol!y of spears
would quIcYlysIrapress on us the fact"
that 'discretion; is the better part ol
valor,' and though occasional shots were
fired by us they were only for the pur
pose of showing that we were on the
alert.
"At. last the ?un went down, and a;
darkness soon folio veil we breathe i mort
freely, for you know the blacks wilt not
stir fiom their camps after nightfall for
fear of the 'dehbil-delbil ;' so we cooked
supper and then held a council of war.
"We had onLv five or six ghajjies of
powrter lett, for there were nolpjreech-'
loaders then. ar,d we guessed that the
Myalls would not wait 'much longer die
fore they would rush jus, aud ihen theii
long jag-spears woul soon finish us, so
we were in a very dangerous predica
ment. Billy MeMahon took the buckets
to the cree'le for water, and in coining
back he said :
" 'Boys, here's a fair chauce for us
yet; the Myalls are" camped .t00 or 400
yards up creek and, of course, they've
got their canoes fast to the bank there.
Now, if one of U3 could creep up aud
steal one of them we might slip oil and
be far away before morning.'
"This appeared to be our best chauce,
so I offered to make the attempt, leaving
the others to get everything reidyyfor
our speedy departure in case I should
succeed. Then I stripped to a blue
shirt and trousers, belte 1 on my six
shooter and crept cautiously down to th
bank of the creek.
"It was about 10 o'clock, the Southern
Cross was high above the horizon and
all was still except the fain ripple of the
water or the disnnl howls, of the wil l
(i0g9 as they called to their mites in
the scrub. Up the creek I could see the
faint gleam from the Myalls" camp fires,
but all seemed quiet there for, most
probably, they were all asleep, gorged
with stolen beef. Very slowly and cap
tiously I crept along, close to the water's
edge, aus!ng every minute to listen in
tently, but1 at last. I got abreast of on? of
the fires, and, sinkidgdown in the grass.
I peeped over. at the Myalls as they lay
round the embers, sleeping soundly, with
their spears, shields and boomerangs
' resting a-ains: the sides of their brush
j breakwinds. Tiiey were all a.lcep fa-t
j ctnmgh, so I crawleT along a f e v yards
further to where seven large bark canoes
' were hauled up close-to the bank. I chose
j what I thought was' the best one, and,
j setting the others adrift, I shoved otf
1
j
; aud dropped quietly dcrwn to where my
. companions were anxiously awaiting me.
. It didn t tae very long to bundle oa:
blankets and saddles aboard an 1 then we
paddied off for the Murray, which we
reached the next morning, and landel
j at Kulnine Cro?erss station. We heard
! there that nevs had come from Verpooi.
a missionary station, that the Myalls ha i
: been holding a war cor.-ob'orree, and
sent the red stick round tue.triOes, so
Jim Mullins and I started up river in a
hurry, as we knew that all the men w -re
j away from Car warp, and that there were
f onlv MulHns's two sisters, with "Did
Jack," the cook, ait the home station.
That night we camped ou Jamison's
Run, and next day, about noon, we
came to our woodshed, which was about
two miles from Car warp.. We were just
walking our horses 07er the saad hills,
when we heard the short, sharp crack
of a rifle.
"'Hurry up, Tom said Mullins;'
'that's my nfle,- ure. There's no:
another like it 'rouad here,' So wt
dashed the spurs into our .horses, "aud
they jumped off as if thy were going to
hiad a mob of wild cittle. Is a m:.s
uU or two 'oracle' weal the rifle agata,
but now we were going at a racing pace,
and when we came to th- three-rail fence
around the home station oar hors i just
flew over it in their stride, an I on we
galloped over the sandy gro and till we
broke from the timber close to the sta
tion, and were riht amon a myj pf
howling savages. Thev had broken open
the storehouse, and were sc itteria the
contents about in every direction. So ce
had ot hold of a keg of rum, and were
howling in drunken fury as they
swarmed about the d celling hous.1, try
ing to chop down the door with their
tomahawks, while four or rive ot the n
were up on the roof tryiug to tear off the
sheets of bark with whii'a it w is cov
ered. "As we swept pass the men's hut we
saw the body of 'Old Jack,' the cook'
pierced with spears. The next instau1
we were busy at work among the yelling
fietds, and at every crack of a revolver
down' dropped a Myall. They were so
completely astounded that they did no.
attempt to show fint, but phmged into
the Murray and dived like a flock of wild
ducks to escape our bullets. As we were
going back we came cn one black fellow
who had been shot through the lungs,
and to our surprise we found that he was
one of our own tame blacks.
"'Hello, Jacky,' said Mullins, -wliat
for you want rob him station and kil.
white gins, Kate ;nd Mary ?'
'The cruel eyes of the dying savage
gleamed llercely. 'Mine want eat him
tongues belonging to white gins, theu
directly mine yabber (talk) like it white
fellow and catch plenty sixpence;. You
give him water, mine thirsty.' Theu ho
rolled over and died.
You may be sure the girls wee rght
glad to .H-e ue, for by go; d luck th'-
hid hippercl to catch sight !
t e Myalls as they were
m rdcr nir the co;K. ana f-o
hud time to bar the lo"r and windows.
I hen when the fiei.ds got up on tb
roof, Kate find the rifle twice, but
then the bullet stuck half way down
the brrrel. They had a
couple of pocket pistols, bu
they kept Hum as a last resource, t
3hoot each other rather than fall into the
hands of the saynges.
"Well, the girls are both married
now, and living down near Kynetou, aud
the next year we gave the Myalls iu this
part such a cleaning out they never
bothered us any more on the Murray, but
lit out for the Queensland scrub, aud a
mi'ditv rood riddance too, says 1."
Detroit Free Press.
Koney as arSpecific.
But few people arc' cognizant of th
benefits to be derived, froni a moderate
use of honey as a foosL Saccharine
matter, as a rule, is apt to affect the
system injuriously ; but if taken in the
form of honey it at once becomes a val
uable food and medicine. Insteal of
having it given to us in combination with
bulk foods, as in the cane and beet, it is,
in the case of honev, mingled with fruit
juices derived from flowers highly
charged with medical properties. Honey
taken as food becomes powerful medi
cine to the sugar-fed and half diseased,
and many people must begin on small
quantities and acquire an appetite for it.
Foul air, improper ventilation, coal gas
and sudden change of temperature and
exposure of lungs and throat to sudden
chill are the source of no end of throat
and brouchial troubles. A free, regular
and constant ue of honey is probably
the best medicine for throat troubles
known, and its regular use ft largely cor
rective. Courier-Journal.
Simple System ot Nicht signaling.
Mr. Kelway, according to Industries,
has introduced an exceedingly simple
system of signaling at night. A boara
is provided with incandescent lamp., ar
ranged so that different tets form differ-.
t
ent letters. If the letter N is wantei,
for instance, a key is pressed which
lights all the lamps which go to form
this letter, and soon. The machine ct:i
be worked like a typewriter. Signaling
by this means corresponds with the use
of the blackboard in the daytime, but is,
of course, much more rapid, and at srhe
same time more easily followed. It is,
of course, incomparably more rapid than
aDy system of flash signaling, and is
easy to read. Picayune.
To Make Lighdninj RoJs Sale.
Professor Tyndill says that in or ler to
make a lightning rod s ife, the lower en !
should be connected with a 'good -sized
metal plate deeply embedded in th
earth. The size of the pla'e mskes
for the imperfect conductivity of th
ground, giving, so to speak, a wide doo;
ibicugh which the electricity paiv jpi
tbu rarlh. Xef OrluanJ Ficajf.ufl-
A ROYAL FAST.
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THE
DIXN'KU IX HONOi: OF
QVi:S !' HAWAII.
A fixture ot Civilized Methods anil
I'rimitivp Native Ways-Thc Chier
laiulsi rii- National Dis!i
How It ii lri;iaril.
N the Detroit Free Tress Frederick
Stearns writes an interesting ac
count of a royal feast given at Hono
lulu, Sandwich Iland., on the
anniversary of the accession to tfie throne
of the present queen, Liii aokalaud. She
came to the throne on tne deata ot her
brother, Kalak aua, who, after a reisin of
seventeen vear-, diel January 2J. lSvU,
in Sin Francisco, and whose body was
returned to the inlands with due honor
on the United States war cruiser Charles
ton. The death of her brother, the
king, and subsequent! v that of her hus
band, Gov. John I) m:uis, kept ihe
court in mourning during the year J
following her coming to the throne. The
queen is a handsome, dignified woman
in her fifty-third year, and childless.
At 4 o'clock the invited guest4 left the
palace anil thronged a temporary struc
ture which ha I been erected in the
grounds of the palace, where tables and
seats for about ."!) ) g.iests have been pro
vided, who, when placed, awaited,
standing, the coming of the queen. She.
was heralded by music, her maids of
honor, her minister of court a id her
chroniclers, who preceded her to a seat
on a raised dais at a semi-c:r :u!ar table
at one end of the structure. AH re
mained staudin ; until the queen was
seated. A number of wo iy chro:i-"
iclers of the court in a minor tone
chanted the deeds and virtues of the
queen. Theu, without further c re:nonv ,
the feast was begun. Nobles an i peas
ants, natives and mixed races, stringers
and tourists, Ameri6an residents, sugar
barons, etc., a polyglot assembly of about
fifteen nationalites, red lent and noa
resident, from many parts of the world.
This feast, which is called a Luau
(loo-au), is a counterpart of the feastt
. 1 ..
held by the great chiefs of Hawaii in its
by
period of savagery. In those early days
the people sat crossed-legued on heaps
of fern and palm leaver arid the foo I was
placed in gourd ca!ala;ho? ant on leives
instead of tables. For the present Luau
temporary trd!cs were constructed,
twenty In number, covere 1 with eirari,
white cloths, upon which the foo I was
placed in dishes piled rather irregularly,
but beautifully, all over the cuntre
thereof. The aiHitiou of plates with
Japanese paper napkiiu, tumblers and
bottles of pop was a conces-iou to
modern usuage. AH the rest was in
primitive native style, except that we
sat upon chairs instead of on leave; up ja
the ground. There were wt knives or
folks, the liar being drawn th' re. K ich
just he'ine I hinwlf t the v..mds
within reach, uing tic flayers and if
necessary shutting th? ee..
I can only fe -b'.v atte npt a ie-cription
of the viand-, but chiefly tiiey were ti-.ei-:
Roast pig fp.-ehi, ehic mutl u and
other meats ac 1 g m f it ip in s m'l
piecf-, ea-y to ban 11" an 1 .vrapp -d iu Ti
hjaves. The cookim.' of the-e ni-ats I
iearuel was ione in thi- vray: A r .in 1
hole is dug m the groun I s ni" six feet
in diameter and eight -en jnchis d eep.
In this a strong wo 1 iire is b ill a id
while burning covered with stone braid
ers about the. slz." o! a !i-t. ' When the
iire has burned out X'w-.'i liot tones with
ashes line the bottom of the ctvity anl
upon this hot surface the pi;s arc plavel,
Arc- t-:tTiil TCitb liri' !--. o; iril ffranw 1 !
. " " , .",'' , ,
m Ti .-fives, and over this the fowls and
other meats
similarly prepared and
vji rapped, are banked. 'Fh? whole pdo
then covered with basin a icive
dead stems and over that matting and
ana!! v
e.nrth about a fo t t
la this
latwral oven the fo -i is left to slowly
co.ik an 1 -steam in itso vn jutc.-s f r sev
eral hours, an i I ctn vouch fr m per
sonal experience th it meat so ooke 1 i
unsurr-assrd in d'dicicv of flivyr, tender
ness atid. juictrf".- An ahun lauce of
this fod '-vs piled uo on plates, still
rappe i loo-ely in Ti leave..-
Besi ; the p'ate of each g.ie?t stovi
a calabash, wiiich i a rlatte .e 1 globular
dish made of a gour 1, tce top leiag cu:
off so as to make a ctpT 'ejs b j 5, the
ii .s of eaetj ntnag m
ar i. fh-i soil
about t VO qU;
in an i
Ltiel witn
Poi. Tiiis :s tue uiti'-n-al dish an i on
iists of vtie tuor- oi tir ucnUia'aerjj
Watum;. wht ':. u of tliv H'ui '4
at home and known by the coinmoc
came of elephants' ears, the leaves being
large, triangular, of a velvety green and
strongly tropic.il jtia their appearance.
These" tsro tubers are cooked iu many
way as we would treat qvotatoes,
hut fovj the making of the great
national dish, poi, a special treat
ment is- required. The taro ii
pound? i with a stone pestle in a shallow
board trough until beaten into 'a stitl
pcte like .dough, being slightly an 1 coa
tinuously moistened with water during
the process of pounding. Tbis paste is
thet led to feraient, it containing a nat
ural leaven from which a fermentation
socn sets in, and it is during this fer
mentation that it is eaten, first being,
however, thinned by adding more'or less
water. In the primary coa lition it is
called one-finger poi, because a mouthful
can be taken up with one linger. I
thinuer it requires two or three fingers to
get the mouthful, and iu such condition
it is called two or three-flager poi ac
cordingly. It is an exceedingly nutritious
and fattening diet, and to its use is at
nibuted 'the fact that the native?, wh
subsist alnost entirely upon pot and up
on fish, owe their fatness. A lean
Hawaiian is an exception. Generally
they are wry Luge and often immensely
obese.
Tha Product ol Bay Oil.
The great staple product of St.
Thomas, West Indies, U bay oil, from
which bay rum is made. The oil is a
highly concentrated essence"' from the
green bay tree, and a pint of it diluted
with warm water will make several qu irt'
of ordinary bay rum, which is of worfd
wide u-e to gentlemen who -h ire an 1 t
every en; whobithes. The i n i i ibitaqfs
live in well-kept mm .es, many of them
mere hut.-, an I a noticeable feature h
the almost general absence of window
panes. As it never bee ;nes cool enough
to make it necessary to keep out the air,
the oaly meant f clodng the window
is by -means of b.arre ! shutter-. In pass
ing the hws it is bird to keep from
associating these iton-barrei window
with jail?, and an occasional black or
-J rreole face neerin' through then "only
- - . , . , . , .
d heightens tue idea. lor eople who
L . , . , ,
li T C 111 .V. " V J - - -
live in Tin cn iu rv 1 1 i i i iii ill- i i k 1 1
and work on thesugir plmtitioni live
iu roughly built wo ) leu huts with
thatched roofs an I ' unpiinte I sides.
Yet thee iiuts are nearly always kept
berupulously clean, and the small "front
yard" generally eo:it tins .a pretty garden
of roses that rival their Northern hot
house cousins in everything except th?
odor, which they almo.t entirely 1ac.
Living is chr ip in the islands, and th
good naturel native can generally find
something to eat, if it is only bin-ons
and orange, and lie can always mik;
his
the
"cts-avl breit"' frofii the fruit
o
f
"bread! fruit'' tree. As wt old
weather eve
he nee l "h
shakes his rue imttic jomtt.
tve
n fear whrrewituil toj
clothe hiuivjlf,
'' and m my of them ex-
i
Mbit very litt! ? fear on this s uhject, but
as a rule the w om ni dms-i gaubly and
weir a turban or nea idr-s of so.ne gay
colored silk r cotton material.
A Ihou-jhttul sua-in-Law".
4'Yes," ftil the ti-granh op.rat r,
"we hnve all kinds of r:-rjssage. Sjme
are j :c r aal so ne are sad, and miny
are inexpliciwle to all but the person
for wh'-m they ar.- intended. O:c:tsioo
a4ly -re have a love b-ttt-r tla.'ne l over thi
WKi-?. We on't as a general tMng Vikf
mucu interest in the wording of tele
gram, b i: ther was one -cvae to'thit
othce on dhe coldest night we hl this
wiri'er t bat did intf-reit rce."
The erator kit at this juncture U
take a m-nsvge. When it wa sent o3
heTcsumed tut talk:
Tl.- meitage was briefer than there
.
y. aav r.ece-si.y i r, a iw nu now uu
the limit of ten words. It was from a
i know who lives in De-
fr,-,.y hvif .'.!!' tia i si it l o it in a it try.
-i r
if.. .r-.-.n.. i 't it. rhe fire I'is i he
1 -
a te, and i:m was .i. n .
" 'Take god care of grand n i.
"I knew h'.s sobcltu le for th'j white-.
hairf i woman iu hU home, and rent that
telegram off on double-qulckt and 2
j havtn'ta dubt that an extra comfort&-
bit.' was ad led to the old lady' bed that
nigh!
"He was a gool son," remarked one
of the listeners.
"Yc. And the best it is the wa
hi "wife's mother, making horhrirae with
them at his t-xpenve. Til at is what 1
ct',1 genuine gdnesi of heart." De
!?otL Free Press.
d he L'u-tfrd S'tate pofete forty ptf
tr- utal rail.; csiiesgt nf it