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VOLUME XVI.
EBENSBURG, PA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1882.
NUMBER 43,
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WANAMAKER'S
V'Uitors to Philadelphia are
Invited to visit the store,
whether to see or to buy.
Your parcels are checked ; a
raiting -room is provided,
where you may rest with
ladies and children; guides
conduct you through the
house, or you wander at will;
there are many things ol
interest to see, and a wel
tome, For two years, perhaps, we
have had the richest, largest,
nostvaried andmost exhaus
tive collection of dress-goods
in Philadelphia. Before that,
we may have had the largest,
and even the most exhaus
tive, but perhaps not the
richest. The slowest trade
to come to a new merchant
is the trade of luxury. It is
the slowest to change from
cne to another. But it does
change.
We may say our dress
goods of all sorts are at
about their highest now.
htcwi aud third circlet, aoutheaat
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Silks of all sorts have
come; and never were silks
more acceptable. And these
words have a meaning here
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A store that has only one
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with comparatively few silks.
Which jstock would you
rather buy out of?
Jlit ov ter circle, tooth entrance
o main bnlldine;.
Two damask towels at 15
and 18 cents may serve to
thow what we gain by buy
ing of the makers. The very
lame towels are in the whole
sale trade in New York at
about 2 1 and 22 cents, which
means at least 25 cents at
retail.
We are not going to say
that all our retail prices are
below New York wholesale;
nothing of the sort. " More
than one swallow to make a
lummer." But where such
towels are to be got for 15
lents is a good place to look
for bed and table-linen, and
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A very wide and surpris
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se would you look for it?
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me; and so get ahead of
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TOTED
TUB BCSE!fEIATI! ASK.
Ab!
those days have jfone forerer.
rlth
tr.eir apiniid nre and fever.
And thulr lofty scorn of living, and their
quenchless thirst of fame!
When faith and beautr filled them, and when
love and elory thrilled them.
And the sacred licht of Honor led them
like a flitting flame
And the Minstrels, tender-hearted I they are
silent and departed.
With their amatory musie, once se delicate
and sweet ;
Now we never sigh to bear them, but we fly
them and we fear them
Grinding melancholy organs on the corners
of the street.
Gone the Pirate and the Bea-Klng, and the
Buccaneer and Viking ;
Tarled the banner of the Kover, hushed
his cannon's heavy roar.
And the only reminiscence ot his nautical ex
istence Is the banging of the big drum In the play
of "Pinafore."
Gone' the glamor and the glory of the
Knights of song and story.
With their love and high endeavor, and
their noble deeds and aims ;
Of heroic days behind us, now there's noth
ing to remind ns
8? But the Solitary Horseman In bli narrative
of James 1
Tes; the Knights so celebrated, In these
days degenerated
Would be madmen or marauders we
would ridicule their cause
And the Pirate of the shipping would be
banged or get a whipping.
And the Troubadours be prisoned, under
local vagrant laws !
Now the soul that scorns to grovel, can but
revel In the novel
Of Sir Walter Scott, or Bulwer, on the
davt of long ago:
And of Brian de Bourbeon, and of mighty
Cour de Linn,
And of Launcelot and Arthur, and Immor
tal Ivanhoe.
For the prosy and pedantic have extinguish
ed the romantic.
And the pomp and pride of chivalry are
driven f rem the stage ;
All Is now so faint and tender that the world
has lost Its gender.
And the enervate Esthetic is the model ef
of the Age I Century.
DOLLARS A Jin CK5TS.
What will this country be noted for.hence ?
Dollars and cents Dollars and cents.
What are men striving for hot and intense?
Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents.
What makes our politics rank with offense T
Dollars and cents. Dollats and cents.
What makes Mr. Gould, though a small man,
Immense?
Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents.
What make our cashiers jump o'er the back
rence ?
Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents.
What causes crime on the slightest pretense ?
Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents.
Whst Is It stern justice so often relents?
Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents.
What more than all shadows tells coming
events?
Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents.
What makes yon polite to a man of no
sense?
Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents.
Why don't editors' vacation ever commence?
No dollars, no dimes, not even cents.
Brooklyn Union.
TUB MI8SI5G W1TSESS.
"I'm afraid it's a bad care," I said to my
elf, at I laid down my brief after reading It
over for the third or fourth time, and leaned
baek In mv chair to reconsider it for about
the twentieth.
"A bad case, and I am sorry for it."
I was a barrister, young ooth in years and
in professional standing, and this waa the
first brief of any importance I bad ever held.
My client was an Italian sailor named Luigl
Bernini, and the crime of which be was ac
cused was robbery, the plunder being thelife
Iong savings of a woman upward of eighty
years of age, which the poor woman kept
hidden in the thatch of her little cabin.
The witnesses were the old woman her
self, who had been stunned by a severe blow
from the perpetrator of the theft, and a
neighbor, who deposed to having met the
prisoner In the immediate vicinity of the cab
in. When Bernini was arrested some daya
later a eurious foreign coin, identified as a
part of the stolen hoard, waa fonnd in his
pocket This, howevei, be accounted for by
saying that he bad picked it up on the road.
The weak point In the chain of evidence
was a scarcely perceptible hesitation on the
part of one of the witnesses. She bad at
first declared positively that the prisoner
was the man whom she bad seen going to
ward old Joan's cabin, and had afterward
adhered to this statement with what after
ward appeared to be dogged obstinacy, rath
er than real conviction.
The prisoner himself positively denied
having been in the neighborhood at all on
the day of the robbery, but unfortunately be
eould not speak with certainty as to his
whereabout. He had been lately dismissed
from hospital, scarcely convalescent, after a
bad fever ; bis own ship had left the port,
and be had been rejected by the captains to
whom he bad offered bis services, as not be
ing sufficiently robust for a sailor's work.
He had a little money !efl, and therefore
took to wandering aimlessly about the coun
try, intending, as soon as the Columbia re
turned, to ship aboard of ber again. His
mind had been weakened and confused by
his illness, and although he knew that for
several days preceding and following that of
the robbery, be bad been in a part of the
country fully twenty miles distant, be eemld
not postibly say where be bad been, or to
whom be bad spoken on tha day in question.
Many Inquiries Lad been mada and many
persons interviewed who remembered "the
poor foreign chap," but no accurate infor
matlon as to dates was forthcoming. As
the testimony of a person who had extended
ber hospitality to bim, "either of a Tuesday
or a Thursday, she couldn't rightly say
which," would not, unfortunately, carry
much weight In a court of justice, I bad to
trust for a defense to the cross-examination
of the wiluesses, whose character for veraci
ty I hoped, by judicious management of the
usual forensic weapons, to compel them to
annihilate with their own lips. I much re
gretted this want of evidence, as I waa
strongly prepossessed in favor of the prison
er ; something frank and honest la his face
making it difficult for me to believe bim
guilty of the cowardly crime of which be
was accused. Besides, it was, as I have
said, my first important case, aud self-interest
and professional instinct alike prompted
me to desire its successful issue. But of
this I had little hope.
I laid aside my brief at length and went
up to tbe drawing-room, where I was greet
ed by my eonsin and hostess with a some,
what petulant reproof for having lingered o
long over those rootty law papers.
Alice and I had been children together
a big girl and n little boy we had grown
from playfellows into friends, and since her
marriage ber home at Carrigarvan bad been
my restiDg-piace in assize time. I waa at
no loss to understand tbejeause of her vexa
tion at mv tardy appearance. She was
somewhat of a matchmaker, aadlkviag no
one but myself on whom to exercise her tal
ents, she rhad devoted them exclusively to
my service. She bad alreadr decided on a
suitable wife fer me, and was exerting her
self to the utmost to bring a boat the mar
riage. UTThe ehoees) young lady was present,
and I knew that Aliee was mach annoyed
with me for devoting the evening to my
brief instead of to Dora Lyne. The latter
was the daughter of a solicitor in good prac
tice, aad was herself a very pretty, bright
looking girl, who would, I was compelled to
admit, be a most desirable wife for a young,
unknown barrister.
I was thoroughly fond" of Alice, and she
was my chosen confidante whenever I need
ad one ; but I could not tell her even that
the ;true Reason f Iwhichl prevented Dora
Lyne's brown eyes and sweet voice making
their due impression on me was tbe remem
brance of a face seen but daring a three
bours' railway journey, a face with dark
gray eyes and quiet, thoughtful expression,
and a voice beard at somewhat rare intervals
In the space of time, whose low-pitched
tones still vibrated Im my Imagination. Al
ice would have been too good-natured to
laugh at me, but I felt sure that, bad she
known the state of the ease, she wonld have
entertained, and probably expressed, fears
that evsr-study had affected my brain an
opinion that would probably have been
shared by all persons whose characteristic
was common sense.
Miss Lyne, perceiving that Aliee was vex
ed with me. and ! wishing, I think, to show
that she did not share the feeling, called me
over to look at some prints and photographs
which she was examining.
"Alice," said Miss Lyne, at 'length, "did
yon show Mr. Lestrange the sketch yen
found In that book?"
"No." said Alice ; "I forgot it. Tou will
And It in that volume of tbe "Stones of Ven
ice' on my table, Richard. It is really a
beautiful sketch. I wander how it came to
be forgotten in the book."
I brought the book to Dora Lyne, who
turned over the leaves nntll she fonnd the
drawing, which she put Into ray bands. The
moment 1 nw It I ottered an exclamation of
surprise, which brought my eonsin at enee
to my side.
It was a spirited water-colored sketch of a
man's head a dark, foreign-looking face
snrmonnted by a red cap. It was, however,
neither the skill of tbe artist nor the pictur
esque beenty of the model that attracted my
attention ; it was in the fact that in the
somewhat peculiar features of the latter I
recognized those of my client, Lalgi Bernini.
"Whan an odd coincidence !" said Alice,
when I had explained. "I wonder who
could have taken the sketch some one who
knows how to handle a brush," she added,
looking critically at it. "See, here are Ini
tials and a date, bnt they are se faint that I
cannot make them oat"
"Let me try." said Dora : "I have good
sight" She took the sketch over to the
lamp and scrutinised Itelosely. "W. M. D.,
bnt I cannot make out the date. Stay, I
have It May loth, 18"
"May in why, that was the very day of
the robbery." I said. Then the full slgalfl
canee of this date flashed suddenly upon me
and I absolutely turned giddy. "The alibi !"
I gasped "If we eould find the man who
did that sketch, we might succeed in proving
the alibi." Dora Lyne grasped my meaning
with ready qulekaess.
"Morrison's library that book came from,
was it not, Aliee? They ought te be able
to tell yon there who had It on, or Immedi
ately after, the 10th of May."
"And the person, wheever aha or" be Is,
will have to be ha n ted np, I said, "ad
there's no little time. This Is Monday and
the trial is fixed for Wednesday. I suppose
Morrison's Is elosed by this, Alice r"
"Indeed It is." she answered. "Ton
would find no onetbere now but a caretaker.
Tou must jast wait patiently until to-mor-ow."
I had perforce to wait ; as to the patience
with which I did so, the less said the better.
The following morning found me at Mor
rison's library. On explaining my business,
I was referred to the clerk In charge of the
library department, fiotn whom I totally
failed to learn the required Informatlen
The yonng man who usually attended to
that part of the business was away ; If I
eould call next we"
I Intimated with what appeared to me, at
the time, most praiseworthy self-control,
that next week would not do, giving a par
tial explanation of the eirenmBtances. Bnt
the clerk, although apparently willing to
help me, profstied himself quite nnable to
do so.
"Ton see. sir," he said, "ir yon wanted to
know what book any subscriber had out at a
given time I could probable tell yon, but as
for ascertaining the whereabouts of a special
book-It's an impossibility. If you like to
look over onr entries for yourself, you are
welcome to do so."
I accepted this offer, and spent a good
part of the day in turning over tbe blotted
pagea wherein were Inscribed the names
and course of reading of the subscribers to
Morrison's. And an nnprofitable morning's
work it was. The record was to all appear
ance Imperfectly kept, and I failed to trace
the second volume of tbe "Stones of Venice"
through a period longer than three weeks,
during whleh It had twice changed hands.
Some hoars more were spent in hunting
ap the persons In who possession It had
bn for that length of tlm. neither of whom
could give any Information concerning the
sketch. An application to Bernini himself
was equally fruitless. He remembered that
a lady and gentleman whom he had met
daring his wanderings had asked him to sit
to them, bnt he did not know who tbey were,
nor could he even make it clear where the
Incident bad occurred.
I returned home at dinner-time, tired and
baffled, to report my failure to Alice and
her hnsband, from whom I received much
sympathy bnt no suggestions of any practi
cal value. I had given np hope, and was
endeavoring to dismiss the subject from my
tbonghU, when late in the evening the hall
door bell sounded and a message came np
that a person wanted to speak to Mr. La
Strang. Going down I found waiting for
me a bright-looking boy, one of the shop as
sistants at Mr. Morrison's, who had for a
short time been aiding In my investigation
of the entries.
"I think I have what you want, sir," be
said, as I entered tbe room. "It waa in my
mind all that day that I bad given out that
book to some one. I couldn't think who, and
chance word that I beard this evening
brought It all back to me like a flash. It
was to Mrs. French, lof Redcourt, that I gave
it, and it must have been on the 3d or 4th of
May. Heie is the lady's name and address,
sir ;" and b handed m a slip of paper on
which was written "Mrs. French, Redcourt,
Kilearran." It was In KUcarran or the
neighborhood that, according to Bernini's
own statement, he bad spent the day of the
robbery.
Thanking and dismissing the lad, I re
turned to the drawing-room with my prize.
The next step was to communicate with
Mrs. French. Kilcarran was fully fifteen
miles from Carrlgarvan, and the trial was to
begin tbe following morning.
"Hand me over that railway guide, Dick,"
said Alice's husband. "1 thought so no
train befere ten. There's nothing for it but
for me to drive to Kilcarran the first thing In
the morning the mare can easily do It in
tw hours and If I find that any one there
can give evidence worth having, I'll bring
them back with me, and have them ia court
before the case for the defense opens."
The trial began next morning, proceeding
at an unusually rapid rat. It semed to me
that the learned conn sal for the prosecution
had never before pnt forth his wisdom and
legal knowledge in so condensed form. The
cross-examination of the witnesses was of
course in my hands, and I did my best to
make it as tedious as possible, totally falling,
however. In my attempts to confute tbem or
cause them to contradict themselves. My
only hope lay now in the unknown witness,
and of him there were no tidings. Tbe case
for the prosecution closed and the court ad
journed for lunch ; I was standing In the
bar-room, thinking ever my speech for the
defense, and mentally re-arranging my sen
tences after the manner of the most prsy
member of the circuit, when a not was
handed to me : "All right the witness Is la
tbe sheriff's room."
Going into the sheriff's room I found my
cousin accompanied by a strange lady and
gentleman.
"This Is the prisoner's eonnsel," said the
farmer, as I entered. "Allow me to Intro
duce Mr. Lestraage Miss Darcy. Mr.
French." 1 tarned to the lady as her name
was prononnced, and, I am afraid, forgot to
bow, in my surprise and delight at recogniz
ing ia the tall, fair-haired girl before me my
dream of the leal six months ; my unknown
love, another glimpse of whom had been my
chief desire ever sine I lost sight of her as
she stood on the platform of the little road
side station where she had alighted.
"It was Miss Darcy who did that sketch."
said my cousin, "and she remembers all
about It"
"Tes," said the girl, "the sketch was ta
ken at Kilcarran on the 10th of May. I re
member all the circumstances perfectly, and
should have no difficulty In Identifying the
original."
Having by a few hurried questions con
vinced myself of the value of Miss Darcy's
testimony, I took her and her brother-in-law,
placing tbem where they had a full view of
the prisoner. Miss Darcy looked attentively
at the latter for a minute and then said, de
cidedly :
"Tes, that is the man."
I opened the cas for the defense ia as
few words as possible, and then called np
my witness Winifred Darcy. She gave her
evidence very well, In grave, concise lan
guage, without irrelevance or circumlocu
tion. She stated that she lived at Redcourt
with her sister, Mrs. French, and that on the
10th of May she and her eonsin had spent
the greater part ef the day sketching by the
river-side at Kilcarran. At about 3 o'clock
a gnat of wind bsd carried ber bat into the
stream, whence It was recovered by the
prisoner, who happened to pass by at tbe
moment Interested by something in his
appearance, they tried to enter into conver
sation with him bat without much success,
bis Xnglish being very Impeifcct. They,
however, managed to make him understand
that they wished to employ him as a model,
and he sat to them patiently for more than
an hour, at tbe end of which time be went
away with many expressions ot gratitude
for the money they gave him. Miss Darcy
would have been certain as to the date, eve
If it had not been affixed to the drawing
(which was produced in court), as her con.
sin had arrived at Kilcarran on the ttb of
May, and left on the 11th.
Cross-examination failed to cast any deubt
on the accuracy of Miss Darcy's evidence,
while ber veracity was of course above sus
picion. The jury professed themselves satisfied
with tb evidence, and, declining to hear
eonnsel for the defense, returned a verdict
of "Not Guilty." The prisoner was seised
upon by some of his compatriots, who were
serving on tbe mixed jury, and carried off in
triumph, somewhat dazed by tbe change in
his prospects.
Some mtnths afterward, a man, dying
from tbe effects of a hurt received in a drun
ken brawl, acknowledged himself guilty of
the crime of which Beminni bad been ac
cused. He also was an Italian, and bore
sufficient resemblance to his eonntryman In
height and complexion to account in some
degree for the mistake of tbe witnesses.
As for me, I date the beginning of both
my professional success and f my life's
happiness from tbe day of Bernini's trial.
A Stumt Spkakib'i Stort. Mr. Massey
told a good story In his speech last Monday
illustratinsr the Alahone-Hubbell assessment
system. It seems that one of Mahone's
agents bargained with a man in one of the
southwestern counties for political work
promising him a county postofflce and MO a
month for his services. Tbe man was ap
pointed postmaster, and the first month sold
four cents' worth of postofflce stock a post
age stamp and a postal card. He consoled
himself, however; with the thought that tbe
140 promised bim would pay bim pretty well,
and wrote to tbe department stating itbe
terms of tbe contract, and requested that tbe
amount should be forwarded at once. In
reply tbe department wrote that it knew
nothing about tbe $40, and that be must take
his pay from the sale of stamps, on which 60
per cent was allowed. In a few days be re
ceived one of HubbeH's circulars requiring
S per cent, ef his income for campaign pur
poses, and this was quickly followed by one
from Mahone reqnestlng 10 per cent of the
same. Tbe man came to tbe eenclusion that
8 per cent, of 10 per cent of 60 per cent of
fonr cents wouldn't afford bim a living, and
so gave np the poetoffice and went to work for
the Democrat. CKarletUviiU (Fa.) Cironi
eic
DONT RE ALARHID
at Brlght's Disease, Diabetes, or any disease
of the kidneys, liver or urinary organa, as
Hop Bitters will certainly and lastingly cure
yen, and it is the only thing that will.
TO JAT HCBBtLL 4 CO.
Oh I the losses
Aad the crosses
Of tbe bosses !
Oh I the cracking ef the rotten old "ma
chine." Oh I tbe "tidal wave" relentless how It
tosses
All this rubbish where 'twill never mere be
seen.
Mister Hubbell
Bears a double
Load of trouble ;
And be wonders if the past is but a dream,
And if two-per cent, assessments are a
bubble
That explode and leave behind no cheering
glcani.
"Oh, I wonder
Where th thunder
Was the blonder !"
Thus the muses o'er th wreck that be has
made.
And perhaps he sees that trafficking in
plunder
Nevermore will he for him a pitying trade.
Unexpected,
Unprotected,
Qait rejected,
Bit th bosses combing brickbats from tbelr
hair,
Fr th storm was something werse than
they expected.
And their groans and Imprecations fl'.l th
air.
All this rusted.
Sin-encrusted
Party busted.
All the people are rejoicing at Its doom ;
For with Stalwarts aad dicUtrs they're
disgusted.
And they say that Truth and Light shall
have a boom.
KatkvilU American.
PITY IT'S SOT TRUE.
A ROMANTIC STORT COWCBRSnro BOTJDAH'f
FAL8B WROPHXT.
Coitnxi.L9Vili.b, Pa., November IB. In
the earlier part of the present century a
large cargo of slaves direct from tbe Arabic
speaking regions of Northern Africa was se
cretly landed narTorktown. Virginia. This
ship load of human chattels was delivered to
awaiting agents. F.ight hundred intelligent
Maaommedan. light skinned Africans were
distributed among the planters of Eastern
Virginia. Fierce as untamed tigers, these
wild followers of the Prophet of Mecca gave
the slave owners more trouble than any other
eight hundred bondsmen south of Mason and
Dixon's line. Many of them could read tbelr
native language and of course were not long
in discovering surreptitious methods of learn
ing to read and write English. Tbe master's
lash never fully subdued their prond spirits.
A large proportion of them escaped North
by the ITndergronnd Railroad, and many of
tbelr descendants now live in Fayette coun
ty. Among them are the Blues, Jacksons,
Moneys, Palmers, Manaways and others,
whose thin lips, high foreheads, aquiline
noses, superior intellectual oapacity and
splendid physique stamp them at once as su
perior In every respect to the full blooded
negro.
TBTt VALES rROPHET'fl FATHEB.
Among others 'who escaped and came
North were George Johnston and wife.
George's real came was Bey ash el Azwah.
He was a sheik and a priest of the order of
Ilaml. For several years he lived in the
mountains near Connellsvllle, but fearing
recapture went to Canada. In 1850 he re
turned to Pennsylvania and settled in
Unlontown. In 1854 he removed to Browns
ville and subsequently to Pittsburgh, where
he died in 1877 at a very advanced age. In
1830. while at Connellsvllle, his son Thomas
was born. At the age of ten Thomas had
learned tbe Koran from his father and eould
repeat hundreds of : pages in Arabic. No
tnrreted mosque reared its massive walls, no
bearded muezzin called the ex-slave and his
family to worship, but Beyash el Azwah
never forgot "There is but one God and Ma
horamad is His Trophet" and in a land of
Cbristaln strangers secretly adhered o the
faith of bis fathers.
In 1849 Thomas Johnson drifted to Cali
fornia. In a storm at sea,near San Francis
co, he astonished the British Consul, who had
traveled extensively in Oriental lands by re
peating passages from the Koran in his pray
ers. About 1851 he returned to bis parents,
at Unlontown. Pa., with about a thousand
dollars in gold. In 1853 he sailed for Europe
and. after visiting th British Isles, went to
Paris and enlisted In tbe French army.
ACROSS TBB GRKAT DX8BRT.
With his regiment he was sent to Algiers,
where, to the surprise of bis superior oftscers,
be learned to converse with the native Arabs
In a few months and was detailed to staff
duty. At the close of his term of service he
joined a caravan and eroesed the great deseit
of Sahara, southward Into Soadan. For sev
eral years he lived among the natives of that
almost inaccessible region. With his almost
perfect mastery of the Koran, and his supe
rior knowledge of the arts of civilisation, es
pecially of war, he forged to tbe front as a
leader. In 1861 be sent a long letter to his
parents at Brownsville, Pa., and a draft for
three hundred pounds on the Bank of Eng
land, and asked them to return to the land
of their nativity. But, tbe aged couple hav
ing lived fifty years Ic America and fearing
the dangers of the long voyage aad a change
of climate, refused to go.
In tbe latter part of 1863 a number of box
es of knives and spear heads arrived at Eg
rabi, in Soudan, from Massachusetts. The
instruments were wrapped with copies of
American newspapers. Johnson eagerly read
jbe contents of tbe papers and for the first
time learned of the civil war raging in the
United States. Fired with an ambition to
help free the slaves of the South, he wrote a
long letter to President Lincoln offering to
recruit a thousand Arab zouaves for the
Union army, iftbe United States Government
would furnish transportation. The letter
was received, fell into the hands of tbe news
paper correspondents infesting the White
Houie, and was published the length and
breadth of tbe land as a huge joke. In 1863
Johnson came to America, but tbe war bad
just closed. Tet no more enthusiastic lover
of the Union cause stood upon Pennsylvania
avenue, in the city of Washington, on the
day of the last grand parade of the Federal
armies than tbe tall, red-capped Sheik John
son, fresh from the wilds of Africa, After
calling on the Turkish Minister, he visited
Connellsvllle, Uniontown. Brownsvill and
Pittsburgh to see bis aged father.
PROCXAIMIHO BIMSBLB THK PROPHET.
In August he went to Egypt There, as is
tbe duty of all Mahommedana, he made a
pilgrimage to the tomb of the Prophet at the
sacred city of Mecca, Returning to Soudan,
he acquired a greater influence than ever
oyer the semi-civilized inhabitants of that
extensive country and claimed prophetic
powers. As time rolled on his wealth and
power increased and when the English in
vaded Egypt he proclaimed himself Iman
Mahdi, or the last prophet Allah shall send
to conquer tbe enemies of Islam and rule
eupreme over the world. While Arabi Fa
sha was suffering defeat rumor has it that
the False Prophet was achipvlng extraordi
nary victories and slaying thousands of his
foes. To such a person all Mahotnmedans
will kneel and serve. Were he to appear In
this character at Carlo or Alexandria the
eellpso of Arabi and the Khedive wonld be
complete. The Sultan himself would epise
to think of the Caliphate In th presence of
snch a potentate.
According to Mabommedan belief Iman
Mahdi Is to come with great signs and won
ders just before the Judgment Day. newill
appear on a milk white charger, accompanied
by an Innumerable army of bearded Mussul
mans, all mounted on snow-white stallions.
Tbe Iman Mahdi must be a visible ruler, with
power and victory on his side. If he mana
ges to spread the report that he Is killing
Jews, Christians and pagans by thousands
he may be accepted most willingly by the
Moslems. The defeat of Arabi, who claimed
to fight for tbe cause of Islam, may cause all
Mahommodans toaturn to Johnson as their
coming prophet
SHOWED ODER.
JIM KTK, OJ" THE BOOMXRA50, OS THE LATE
CTCX03B.
We have mat the enemy and we arc bls'n.
We have made onr remarks and we are naw
ready to listen to the gentleman from New
Tork. We could have dag out perhaps, and
explained abontNewTork.bat when aimost
every State In the Union rose up and made
certain statements yesterday, we found that
the Job of explaining this matter tboroughlv
would be wearisome and require a great deal
of time.
We do not blnme the Democracy for this.
We are a little surprised, however, and
grieved. It will Interfere with our wardrobe
this winter. With an overcoat on Wyoming,
a plug hat on Iowa, a pair of pantaloons on
Pennsylvania and boots on the gnneral result.
It look now as though we would go through
the winter wrapped In a bed quilt and pro
found meditation.
We Intended to publish an extra this morn
ing, but the news was of such a character that
we thought we could get along without it
What was the use of publishing an extra
with a Republican majority only In Red
Buttes?
Tbe eause of this great Democratic freshet
In New Tork yesterday bnt why go Into de
tails, we all have an Idea why It was so. The
number of votes would seem to Indicate that
there was a tendency toward Democracy
throughout the State.
Now In Pennsylvania, if vou will look over
the returns carefully bnt why should we
take np your valuable time offering explana
tions or a political matter of the past ?
Under the circumstances some would m
and yield to the soothing Influences of the
maddening bowl, but we de not advite that
It would only furnish temporary relief, and
the recoil would be punishment
We resume ourardnons duties with a feel
ing of extreme ennui, and with that sense of
surprise and astonishment that a man does
who has had a large brick block fall on bim
when be waa not expecting It Although we
feel a little lonely to-day having met but
few Republicans on the street who were
obliged to come out and do their marketing
we still hope for the future.
The grand old Republican party
But that's what we said last week. It
sounds Ibollow now and meaningless, some
hew, because our volee Is a little hoarse, and
w are snowed tinder so deep that It is diffi
enlt for ns to ennnclate.
How about those bets. If the parties to
whom we owe bets and we owe most every
body will jast agree to take the stakes, and
not go into details ; not stop to ask ns about
tbe state of onr mind, and Ulk about how it
was done, we don't care. We don't wish to
have this thing explained at all. We are not
of an Inquiring turn of mind. Just plain
facts are good enough for ns, without any
harrowing details. In the meantime we are
going to work t earn som more money to
bet on the next election. Judge Folger and
others, com ovr and se ns when you have
time and we will talk this matter over. Mr.
B. Butler we wish we bad your longevity.
With a robust constitution wa find that most
any man can wear out cruel fate and get
there at last We do not feci so angry as we
do grieved aad surprised. We are pained to
see th American people thus betray oar con
fidence d throw a large wardrobe into the
hands of the relentless foe. Larmmit Bom
rny.
The Bawl and Wortblesa
are never imitaud or counterfeited. This Is
especially true of a family medicine, and It
is positive proof that the remedy imitated Is
of the highest value. As soon as it bad been
tested aod proved by tbe whole world that
Hop Bitters was tbe purest, best and most
valuable family medicine on earth, many im
tations sprung np and began to steal the nor
tices in which the press and people of the
country had expressed the merits of H. B.,
and in every way trying to induce Buffering
nvalids to use their stuff instead, expecting
to make money on tbe credit and good name
of H. B. Many others started nostrums put
up in similar style to O. B., with variously
devised names in which the word " Hop " or
" Hops" were used in a way to induce peo
ple to believe that tbey were tbe same as Hop
Bitters. All such pretended remedies or
cures, no matter what their style or name is,
and especially those with the word "Hop "
or " Hops " in their name or in any way con
nected with them or their name, are noita
tions or counterfeits. Beware of them.
Touch none of them. Use nothing but gen
uine Hop Bitters, with a bjnch or cluster of
green Hops on the white label. Trust noth
ing else. Druelst8 and dealers are warned
against dealing in imitations or counterfeits.
Evert Mah Voted kor Himself. In
Huron, Dakota Territory, not long since the
citizens assembled to hear tbe result of th
election. They were all impatient to hear
the vote on judg of probate. Th clerk read
the returns f orcounty com missioner. "Bother
the county commissioner ! We don't car
anything about that Go on to th next I"
"For regihter of deeds." "Go on ! go on I"
"For Sheriff" "No matter about sheriff.
Go on to probate judg ! probate judge I pro
bate judge I" cried scores of voices. "I am
sorry to announce that the vote for probate
judge is a tie. and that therefore there is no
election tothatofflce." Fierce cries of fraud
and treachery arose, and the figures were de
manded. "Gentlemen." said tbe elerk,
"there were 2,878 votes cast There are 3,878
names. Each received one vote. Every man
voted for himself." Frm Vet.
MISTAKES OF MOSES.
A PPtarTBD CO5TFR91T101 BETWEEN VOOT
Ta.KITr.E AKD TBB BEV. rOTMATEB.
The other day Rev. Totmayer went horn
with the Rev. Mulkittle to take a quiet,
home-like and altogether oithodox dinner
with the distinguished divine. While tbe two
reverend gentlemen sat in tbe library discuss
ing the intellectual merits of Paul and the
spiritual influence of Peter, Mnlkittle's boy
entered the room, took off his shoe, removed
a rag from a sore toe and sat near tb win
dow trying to scratch a cross mark on th
glass with a nail. Presently Mulkittle went
out to assist bis wife in preparations for din
ner. The boy looked np and asked :
"MUter, are you a preacher like my pa?
"Tes, we are both preachers, and
long to tbe same charch."
"Did yon ever bear my pa preach ?"
"Oh, yes."
"And did my pa ever hear yon preach
"Yes."
"Can you beal my pa preachln ?"
"I don't know, sonny."
"Why don't you know?"
"Because I don't How old are yon, my
son ?"
"I ain't your son. I'm my pa's son."
"But how old are yon?"
"Ten goin' on eleven last May. Bay. mis
ter, who was it that led tbe boys and girls
through the woods?"
"I don't understand you, my son."
"I ain't your son. I'm my pa's son. Who
was It that led tbe boys and girls through the
woods an' was in tbe woods forty years."
"Oh, you mean th children of Israel It
was Moses who led the children of Israel
through the wilderness."
"Tell me all about bim."
"Well, you see, Moes was chosen by the
Lord to lead his chosen people out of bond
age. They were in the wilderness forty
years. Moms did not live to enter the prom
ised land and was only permitted to view it
from afar. Of all tbe men who followed him
on tbe great expedition, only two, Caleb and
Joshna, were permitted to reach the prom
ised land."
"Did Moses die?"
"Tes. He disobeyed God. A greet water
famine spread over the country and God told
Mosetto speak to the rock and tbe water
would flow from It ; but, Instead of epeak
ing, Moses smote the rock."
"How smote it?"
"Struck it with his staff."
"Did it break the lock ?"
"Ob, no."
"Did it break the staff?"
No."
"Was Moses good?"
"Tes."
"And did God tell him to lead the boys se'
girls of of what ?"
"The children of Israel."
"An' did God tell him to lead the children
of Israel to tbe promised land ?"
"Tes."
"Well, then, whst made God kill him be
fore he got there ?"
"I don't know."
"If Moses was a good man what made God
kill him? Didn't Moses have a brother
Ely ?"
"He had a brother Aaron."
"Did Aaron get to the promised land ?"
"No."
"But if he had a brother Ely be wonld have
got there would'nt he ?"
"My little man you are too bard for me. I
cannot answer ."
"But Ely got."
Just then Mulkittle entered tbe room. The
boy started to leave, but tbe reverend gen
tleman caught him. Tbe house was filled
with plaintive cries and promises, and when
tbe two preachers sat down to dinner the boy
sat on the fence, trying to spurt water on a
oegre woman. rianaa TVareJer.
Taxing. Advicb. There was a young man
at the Central Market Wednesday who look
ed the perfoct specimen of tbe greenhorn.
His bands were large and red, his clothes
didn't fit nnd his cowhide boots bad just
been rubbed with fried meat gravy. He was
looking at everything with open mouth when
a couple of young men who bad been driven
In by tb rain commenced to guy bim. On
of tbem asked him if he was on a bridal tour,
and tbe other insisted on calling him Shakes
peare. Liberal offers wei made for his coat
and booU, and an attempt was made to se
cure bim for a lecturing tour through tb
eoaatry.
Tbe young man teok everything In a calm,
matter-of-fact way until a gentleman cam
along and said to him :"
"See here, my friend, why do you stand
these insult?"
"Are they insulting m ?"
"Of course they are."
"And ahould I resent It ?"
"Certainly you should."
"Then I will. I didn't know exactly what
to do, but thought I'd bold on fer advice. If
you say go In and slam 'em, I'll do so."
"I would."
"Then I will."
In the coolett kind of a way be removed
his coat and roiled it up and laid it down,
placed his bat on the bundle, and witbont a
word ot warning be waded in and knocked
one off the end of the bench, and the other
clear over It, and then gave each a lift with
bis cowhide. He won a complete victory in
side of two minutes without receiving a
scratch, and as he put on his coat he said to
bis adviser:
"Much obliged for your kindness, stranger.
If that's the way you do here in Detroit I'll
have six months' sickness on my knuckles
for the next chap who asks if they had to hire
a hall to finish my boots in I" Detroit Vec
2Y.
Hadn't Got the Ha- of the School
Hocse. A Democrat who beard something
awf al good in th City Hall yesterday morn
ing started for Woodward avenue with his
hat In his hand. Meeting a stranger at tha
gate, he swnDg his tile and called out:
"We've met 'em 1"
Tes."
"And won a glorious victory I"
"Ts."
"It is the biggest tidal wave ever beard of I
"Just s."
"And it will sweep the Republioan party
off Its feet !"
"It will."
"And give ns a Democratic President"
"I believe it"
"Then let's give three cheers r
"I I that's a little too much."
"How why ? Ain't she glorioes ?"
"Yes, but yoa see I was a Republican np
to midnight last night end it might not be In
good taste for me to utter any Democratic
yells before to-morrow. I'm with yo I'm,
all right but give ne a littie more time to
gt used to tbe new party." errett Va
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