WIND AND SNOW.
A SEVERE BLIZZARD IN THE NORTH-
WEST.
LOSS OF LIFE IN WYOMING AND IN
TIE NORTH-WEST TERRITORY.
CneyenNse Wy., Jan, 14. —Twelve
to 18 inches of snow have fallen in the
western end of the Territory. The
gunow has crusted and, with the freezing
of the water holes, cattle, sheep and
horses are perishing all over the range.
An owner yesterday received word
from tis ranch in that section that
scarcely an animal that could not be
fed would survive.
Horses have worn their hoofs to the
quick irying to beat through the
crusted spow. Cattle
helpless, game has been driven ITO
tte mountmns, and antelope have been
killed with'n the city limits of Evans
ton, while the stock has drifted to the
vullway., Saturday and Sunday was
intensely cold, and two men were fro-
zen to death.
ST. PAUL, Mien. Jan, 14, —A genu-
ine bligzard, the frst of the season,
raged over the Northwest the whole of
Sunday and part of ye sterday knock-
ing out telegraph wires, delaying all
trains and retarding the operations ol
Joggers in the pineries. Despatches
frown the principal points in the Da-
kotas. Montana and as far west as
Spokane Falls, Washington, are to the
effect that on the average the snow fell
about ten inches on the level and
drifted badly, owing to the strong
winds, approaching a hurricane, which
prevailed.
<1. PAUL, Minn., Jan, 14.—Severe
weather is reported generally through
out the Northwest. A blizzard 18
raging at Deardsley, Mion. the drifts
being piled 20 feet high. A piercing
wind accompanies the storm. Trains
and wagon traffic isat a standstill,
The first great storm of the season ha-
struck Grand Rapids, extending all
over the Upper Mississippi region.
At New Salem the very alr was
darkened by falling snow sud pedes-
trian could not see their hands io
front of them.
At Wabash, thirteen inches of snow
has fallen. The highways are serivusly
blockaded and trains are behind time.
From Neche, N D,, comes a report of
a veritable blizzard which raged for 35
hours, rendering all travel impossible
through the heavy drifts,
Rock SeniNags, Wyo. Jan. 14.—
Willistu MeEdwards, a promioen
businss man of this place, went Int
the mountains bunting on Sunday
morning with a companion, A Snow
storm came up and the weather turnes
bitterly cold. Both men becawe greatly
exhausted. McEdwards’s companio:
was compelled to leave him, and mad.
his way to Rock Springs, reachins
there badly frozen, A searching party
went out after McEdwards, who wa:
found 80 badly frozen that he died be
fore he could be brought to the city.
Prraspuga, Jan. 14.—The severe
wind-storm of yesterday and last nigh
played havoc with the oll interests inp
this section of the State. Great pum-
bers of derricks were destroyed, and
in some sections the loss has been so
great that all work on driliiog wells
has been suspended, owing to the loas
of derricks, The wretched condition
of the roads makes it almost i1mpossi-
ble to get lumber to wells to repah
the damage done by the storm, and
operations are practically suspended.
OLxEy, Ill | Jan. 14.—At the village
of Machburg, Sunday night, tte ¢j-
clone overturned dwelling houses, barp
and cut-building and wrought grea
damage. The family of Philip Nichol
son were seated around the fire wheu
the storm came up, The house was
completely destroyed and Mrs, Nichol
son iostantly killed, and th
daughter, Miss Auna Seriously
injured, Aaron McWilliams ano
family of seven were all caught
under the rubbish of their house, and
two children sustained serious hi jury
The Msthodist Episcopal Church aud
parsonage were destroyed. Qualls and
other fowls were found d.ad, stnppeo
of their feathers, and many large irees
uprooted, lying along the path of the
storm, which was about 50 rods wide.
Ausrenpadm, N. Y., Jan, 14 —A
cyclone raged in the Mohawk Valley
nearly all of last nigh, and the wind
blew at the 1ate of 70 miles an hour
The telegraph and telephone wires
were prostra’ed, and considerable dam-
age is reported done to farm buildings,
Many chimneys, fences and tress were
blown down. At Albany DBush a
farmer Is reported to have been fatally
injured by being struck by bricks from
a falling chimney, which had bees
blown from a house
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
— Henry and Martin Remus, section
hands on the Penosylvama Rallroad.
were run down ty a light locomotive
on the evening of the 12th near
Wheeler Station, Indiana, snl were
instantly killed. Two freight trains
on the Pennsylvania Railroad were in
coillsion on the morning of the 13th at
Linden, between Elizabeth and Rah-
way, New Jersey, and both locomo-
tives and a number of cars were de-
molished. The engineers and firemen
escaped injury by Jumplog. A freight
train on the Pennsylvania Rallway,
was derailed near Iselin, belcw Rab-
way, Ou the morning of the 13th, and
the cars were piled up on oue another.
Engineer Blerman fell under the en-
gine and was seriously injured.
-«The strike in the nail factory of
the Brooke Iron Co, at Bicrdsboro,
Peuna,. ited on the 14th in a vie-
tory for wen, aod 250 men go back
to work, the firm agreeing to restore
the 10 per cent. red
made four and a half mon
compa} has voluntarily Inercased its
puddier’s wages to $3.75 per ton,
—Three young children of Carl Ro
galinski, of Erle, Penna., were suffo-
cated by the burning of their home on
the evening of the 14th, during the ab-
senoe of their parents, The fire was
caused by the net of a drunken brother
: ‘s, in laying his
lighted pipe in a bed. The drunken
wan escaped,
—Misses Lou Asbury and Lizzie
Bowles, William Rose and Daniel As-
bury, were drowned on the 12th, while
boating in a lake abont fourteen miles
from Canni, lilinols,
—J. H. Murphy, a homesteader near
Filaviean. torty wiles from Chippewa
Falls, Wisconsin, was frozen to death
on the 12th, He Is supposed to have
been drunk.
—The boiler of a steam shovel used
by the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Com-
pany in excavating at Fallston, Penna,,
burst on the afternoon of the 15th, iu-
juring 14 wen, one of whom, Wesley
Francis, of Pittsburg, died on the way
to the hospital, Fifteen men Were on
the afternoon of the 15th, overcome by
wus in the 1luosae Tunnel, and several
narrowly escaped death. It is thoueht
wll will recover, The damp weather
seems to affect the circulation of air in
the tunnel, making It dangerous for
workmen to remain inside,
~The three Cronin convicts, Burke,
Coughlin and O'Sullivan, were assluned
to work in the penitentiary at Joliet,
illinois, on the 15th, Burke was sent
to the cooper shop, Coughlin to the
stone cutters’ shop and O'Sullivan to
the shioe shop.
— Physicians sent mto the mountain
district along Cheat river, West Vir
ginia, report that two epilemlics are
prevallipg—diphthera and the more
dreaded “‘biacktongue.” The latter
has broken out in the last two weeks
and about 30 deaths have occurred
Many children are suffering from diph
therla, and families attacked by Lhe
disease are in want. The county has
erected a temporary hospital, and a
large force of physicians and nurses are
in attendance.
—At a meeting of the striking
workmen in Woburn, Mass, on the
evening of the 10th, Grand Muster
Workman Moreland announced that
the strike-lock-out in the leather Indus-
try was practically ended, and the men
were ordered back to work, Doth sides
have agieed to submit the matter to
the State Board of Arbitration,
~The temperature ranged trom 22
to 80 degrees below zero in Washing
ton county, Maine, on the moruiag of
he 10th.
— An explosion of natural gas oc-
curred at the Lucy Furnace, neal
Pittsturg, on the loth, and Thomas
Welsh was kitled aud five other work-
pen fatally burned.
—The Health Department In SL
Paul, Mipueso'a, on the 16th, sent au
juspector to a farm on the outskirts ol
he city, where he discovered In one
pen 05 vogs infected with cholera, and
several carcasses (hat were b log
dressed for market, Tuirty diseased
sarcasses had been disposed of oun the
14.h. and others were on thelr way to
Paul. The luspector condemned
the whole outfls, seized the infecied
meat 10 trausit, and the County Al-
toruey will take steps to bave Lhe
guilty parcies lndicted by the Grand
Jury.
— Four men were killed and several
others badly injured by the premature
explosion of » blast al & camp, Dear
Johnson City, Tennessee, on the morn-
ing of the lth,
—Mre, James McNeil,
three of her children at their homms in
Falrbault. Minn., on the 16th, two
ratally. She then made ano!her child
ake carboiic acid and took a dose ber-
wif, but at last accounts boih were
still alive. The woman said she had
no hope of ge. limg well,
Jr., shot
Three hundred persons at Carmi
[ilinois, have been obliged to leave
heir homes on account of a sudden
rise in the Littles Wabash river, The
river 1s out of its buwks, and the
uorthern part of the town Is flooded to
a dep h of 20 feet in some places and
from 75 to 100 houses are submerged,
51st CONSEL38.~~First Session
SENATE,
In the U. 8, Senate on the 13th, bills
were reported and placed on the calen-
dar providing for the erection In
Washivgton of a Ulronze statue of
Clhirtstopher Columbus; appropriating
51.500,000 for a public building mm Si
"aul, and to prevent the latroduction
of contagious diseases from one Slale
to another, Mr Frye introduced a bill
(agreed upon by the varfous maritime
easgues of the United States) to piace
the American merchant iaring en
gaged in the foreign trade on an equal-
ity with those of other nations, A
message was received from the House
announcing its action on the death of
Judge Kelley, and, after adopling an
appropriate resolution, the Senate, as a
mark of respect, adjourned.
1a the United States Senate on the
14th, the Sherman blll to declare trus's
unlawful was reported and placed on
the calendar, Pils were also reported
appropriating $250 000 for a public
vallding at Allegheny, Penna , and
50.000 for a public building at Beaver
Fall, Peuna. Mr. George offered a
resolution instructing the Finance
Commities to report a bill reducing the
penal bonds required of manufacturers
of cigars in all cases, or j(at least)
where the manufacture is carried on by
the manual labor of the manufacturer,
He read a letter fionu some cigar
makers in Berks county, Pa., asking
him to urge that change of law, as it
bore very bard on them and helped to
erowd them out of business all for the
benefit of the large manufacturers,
The resolution and letter were
referred, Resolutions heretofore of
offered by Mr. Call In relstioo
to alleged unlawful selections of
jand In Florida were taken up and dis-
cussed by Messrs. Call and Plumb.
After an executive session the Senate
adjourned,
In the U. 8, Senate on the 104th,
Mr, Sherman introduced a bill, wich
was referred, to provide for a perma.
pent national bank eirculation, He
also, from the Committee on Forel n
Relations, reported a concurrent reso-
lution, which was placed on the calen-
dar, providing for arbitration for the
settlement of national disputes, Mr,
Morgan's resolution recognizing the
Republic of Brazil was taken up, and
supported by Mr. Turple at some
length, It then went over. After an
executive session Lhe Senate adjourned.
In the Upited States Senate on the
16th, Mr. Hale, from tbe Census Com-
mittee, reported adversely the bill re-
quiring the Superintendent of the Cen-
sus to ascertaln the mortgages on
farms. At Mr, Hale's request it was
placed on the calendar. Mr, Morrill,
irom the Finance Committee, reported
a coneurrent resolution requesting the
Secretary of the Treasury not to make
a new lerse of the Alaska fur seal
islands, and to postpone all action in
relation thereto until after the 20th of
February next, Tre resolution Wis
agreed to. bills were reporied and
placed on the calendar, to revise the
salaries of inspectors of steam vessels,
and to provide for the removal ol
Geronlmo's band of Indians to Fort
Sill, In the Indian Tenitory. The
credentials of Wilbur F. Sapders and
Thomas CO. Brower as Senators-elect
from Montana were presented, and re-
ferred to the Committee on Privileges
and El :ctions After an execulive
session the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
In the House on the 13th, a number
of Lis were introduced and referred
under the call of States, among them
the following: By Mr, Clunie, to pro-
Libit the carrying of Chipese Into (he
United States; by Mr. Fithian, of 111.
nots, directing the Ways and Means
(Hmm'iles to report a separate bill
placing lumber, salt, jute, hemp, Wa
nila and sisal grass on the free list; by
Mr. Struble, for the admission of Idaho
and Wyoming into the Union; by Mr.
Anderson, of Kaisas, to declare the
duties, enforce the obligations and
regulate the service of ramiroad com-
panies as enrriers of ioter-Slale com-
merce; by Mr, O'Donnell, of Michigan,
granting pensions Lo Army vurses; by
Mr. Delano, of New York, fixing the
duty on hops, hop auxiliaries and hop
substitutes; by Mr. Baker, of New
York, extending the suffrage Lo wow-
en; by Mr, Stewart, of Georgia, 10
amend the naturalization lawe, Ad-
journad,
In the House on the 14th, Mr, Mc
Kiley, from the Ways and Means
Committee, reported the Custo.us Ad-
ministration bill, and it was ordered to
be printed and recommitted, Me
Bingham, of Pennsylvauia, introduced
several bills, which were referred, |
spong them these: To provide for |
ocean mall services; to classify salanes |
in the railway ma'l service, and to pro-
vide a pastal stamp redemption card.
The Sileott report was taken tp and
d'scussed, pending which the House |
adjourned.
In the House on
sideration of the report
commities on
was resumed, and
was laken on a
Hemphill permi
in the Court of Clalros, This was
—yens, 136; pays, 138 —and = motion
to reconsider was isi! on the tabe, A |
vote was then taken on the majority
bill, appropriating $75 000 to refund |
members their lest salaries, It was |
defeated—yeas, 120; nays, 142 A
motion to reconsider, and a wolion to
jay that motion on the table, were en- |
tered, pending which the House ad-
journed,
In the House on the 16th, a resolu-
tion was adopted ecalilng on the Secre-
tary of State for copies of the existiog
customs duties of Germany, Austria
ind Franee, and also Information as to
the policy of those countries in regard |
to drawbicks and bounti«s on Sugar
Mr. O'Neill, of Pennsylvania, presented |
resolutions of the Phiiadelphia Mari.
time Exchange favoring the passage of |
the bill to transfer the Revenue Ma- |
rine Bureau to the Navy Department.
Bills were introduced by Mr. Lacey,
of lowa, 'o amend the election laws, |
and by Mr. Dorsey, of Nebraska, to |
provide a permanent national bauk eir- |
culation. Adjourned. |
the 15th, the con
of
after debate a vole |
substitute by Mr. |
a
THE GRIPPE.
BeApixg, Pa, Jan 15. — Physicians |
here report that the continued warm |
weather is causing a gradual increare
in the number of grip cases in this
vicinity. In Reading the increase has
teen rapid and the dociors say tht
where there are two cases discharged
at cured they receive five new ones,
in the country districts the reports aie |
the same, Every small community Las
100 or more cases and in’ some neigh!
bothoods not a family has escaped, |
I'he estimate is that there are in Rad. |
ing to-day 5000 to 7500 cases and within |
the (ast two weeks not a day has |
passed but there have been one «(r
more deaths from pulmonary trouble |
directly attributed to grip,
Cricaco, Jan, 15,—<The Tribune of
to-day says: Names of victims of the
grippe continue to b3 sent to the
Health Office, and, whi'e the offirials
there try to balittie the danger by put-
ving on an air of incredulity, the cov
stant stream of people with applications
for burial permits gives the lle to ther
asseriion that all is well and that the
reports of deaths from Influenza are
greatly exaggerated, Not only are the
deaths multiply ing every hour, but the
reports of the public schools are appal-
ling. The death permits now number
over 100 per day. Eleven deaths wi hin
the past twenty-four hours are to be
attributed directly to the grip, or its
immediate complications,
CLEVELAND, Jan, 15, —There have
been 1L7 deaths since last Saturday, an
unprecedented death rate at this season
of the yeur. Twenty-two deaths are
due to pneumonia and 11 to eonsump-
tion, aud these can undoubtedly be
traced to la grippe,
a 5 AY
~A slight earthquake shock was
feit in Columbia, South Carolina, at
6.40 on the evening of the 15th.
~The Bank of South Dakota, at
Madison, has made an assignment, with
assets at $150,000 and liabilities not
stated, the assignee reporting the books
tobe ina bad shape. As a result of
this assignment, the La Dalle Ranch
Hore Importing Company on
the 11th. The assets are stated to be
$150,000 and the liabilities about $60,-
~The electric light has penetrated to
the most northerly town in Europe.
Hammerfest, Nor 5 be
lighted by electricity al a ng,
#
The Lighthouse,
Rh ifted on the island cliff
fa Iantern fronts the sea,
And sendetii forth a fine, straight ray
Of ad zzling light to Me
A slender line of shimmery shine
Acruss night's mystery.
It is the path set for my eyes
To travel tothe High’
And warm thelr darkness in the blaze,
And be made g ad and bright,
None other may eateh just that ray,
Or have the self same s ght,
Ana yet, a hundred other eyes
Bent aon that central blaze
Find each its s parate
i118 Hae of guiding « 3
And all eves mest in concord sweet
By all these differing ways
Ko volee shall say; “The lig
All other eyes are dim?”
No band the glory hold or hide
Whiteh streams to ocean's rim
None claim or seize oue ray as his
More than belongs to him
O Hakt of Truth, which lghteneth all,
And shineth all abroad
Whit favored son! or souls shall say,
“Mine is the only road.” :
Each hath his owt, to him made known,
And all lead up to God.
shining path,
is mine,
a ke
(JENNA'S PRESCRIPTION.
AVI
AN ORIENTAL STORY.
The {ime when the famous physician
Avicenna was in the zenith of his fame,
there lived haughty monarch
named Ghizni, who
expected obedience
all. As he
physicians
6 very
Mahmoud
prompt
was
could
of
from
his
BO
unwell, and
not cure
him
speedily as he desired, he scut an im-
perions letter to the Sultan of Kharism,
Avie
pair to him without delay.
f
HERE H
ordered
which he
who was a m an independent spirit,
and somewhst spoiled by the praises
and favors he had received, took offence
of Mahmoud’s
gO,
at the peremplory t
refused
of
ae
letter, and to whereupon
the Sultan
moud’s anger, entreated the physician
to comply. He promised he would, and
accordingly; but in-
fled to the
where a prince of a
sel on ng
stead of
5 journey
going to (Ghizni, he
apital of Georgia,
generous spirit ruled at the time, named
Cabous Here he
obtained lodgings,
me
and soon
found he had been
he wa
Allah 1
FICCINA,
Willi im sGIne Gay. ’ BA
» be seat to all the princes of
weompanied by
sinning doctor
m
3
kings, and give
r as sich if Lie over ah
ol
prirmits
at any Court theirs, One
these letters and p was handed
5, who, b not
to Cabo GWever,
for some 1
AUBwWEr: S000
ng to the likeness,
ail about it
tion spread from the poor, whom he
cured gratis, to the wealthy burgesses
and merchants, and by them It was
of the court officials.
poised io ‘ho ears
A cirenmstance about this time ocour-
mend. He caused the letter to be
brought instantly, and, having studied
it well, awaited, with the impatience of
an oriental sovereign, for the footstep
ol the famous doctor.
When Avicenna appeared, he made
thie usual salasm, and then stoad erect,
with his hands folded on his breast,
awaiting further orders.
‘It is the very man,’ said Cubons to
hunsclf, ‘If he
says, my brother Mahm mad might well
desire his Now, if he cures
my nephew, I will say pothing: but if
he fails, I shall feel bound to send him
to Ghizni The fellows,
learned they be, must not set princes at
But we wil
is as clever as fame
porvices,
“6 however
. '
SEG,
defiance.
These thoughts flashed through the
which Avicenna stood in the presence
Lis heart was disquieted within him,
last, aud would be speedily puaished
for offending a tyrant
He relieved,
when Cabons began to
was much therefore,
converse with
him, and in the most winning mannor,
on the healing art. In this
displayed no little learning, for it was a
favourite study of his, an 1 had he 1 ot
been a ruler, he might have been an or-
nament of the medical profess
the Sultan
Wn. Ca-
bors described the symptoms of the ine.
valid, to all
mos
which Avicenna gave |
t absorbing attention, whilst :
now and then he put a question, whici
pleased tue the
Sultan; for it showe
dat sr
A0CLOT
i to have gr
ation,
but not org
fun ional, Ald,
3
But le: me see the pat
Avicenna was ©
VY A ph
its parterre
birds on
rapt res
yout
I again
The sick man tarn
on Avicenna, and
Dad
the
which he auswered
pognito and gave him the opportunity
hew,
He had no pain,
the most searching examination of
his body
were pining away.
by the chiefs of the faculty
But yet he drooped, and it was evide
BONO Worm Or OLOEer was secre ty prey-
ing on his vitals,
him to take any interest in life
thought by many he was languishing
under the influence of a malignant spell.
Witcheraft, in th
coun ry, was held to be a potent real
wee days and in that
ity.
as they supposed, cursed the young
man, and the Sultan was almost as ill
as his nephew from sheer vexation.
Ons morning, Cabons and
Vizier were conversing about
Prince's condition, the latter
as
said,
whom the most
told. Some of his cures, if truly re-
as if he had no desire to profit by the
new physician's skill
‘I will leave vou together,’ said Ca-
bous, after a time had been oo-
short
these preliminaries; and,
having spoken a few cheery words, he
morning, and
left him to the tender r.ercies of his
new doctor.
Now, Avicenna was, without
of his ag
Aristotle
1m eighty v a
He
spher, divine,
dispu
learned man
and
He left behind b
rmation.
philos
was poet, orator,
selronomer,
lit sminny
paiiiician,
hand
grammarian.
Laying his gently on the sick
and arrested his attention.
of stars and sys-
r
{
8
steadfast regularity of perfect health;
but, when he suddenly changed his
rent began to leap and bound. ‘It is
enough,’ smd the subtle doctor to him-
I see what you are driving at,’ re-
plied the Sultan. ‘But would yon have
me call in a nameless quack? How can
he do any good where our greatest phy-
sicians are utterly at fault? Besides,
we should give those worthy men mor-
tal offence.’
‘Your Highness must please your.
what I shonld do if it were my nephew
or son. This is not a nameless man,
for his name is known in every house,
nor is he a quack doctor. I have seen
some of those he has cured, end my
own physicien, who went with me, was
obliged to say all had been dome most
skilinlly.
the power he has in ministering to
minds diseased. Besides, as to the
Court doctors
Here the Sultan broke in with, ‘Well,
Vizier, the lad is worse to-day than I
have ever seen him, and if he does not
got 1elief soon, he will die. Lot us have
this wonderful doctor in at once, and
of evil comes of it you know who will
have to bear the blame.’
‘If he does no good, your Highness,
1 fool sure he will do no harm. On my
head be the wrath of the Court doctors.
they can't cure the Prince, let them
give way to one who oan,’
As the result of this conversation,
Avicenna was commanded to appear at
the Pulace. While he was being sent
for, the Sultan suddsaly recollected the
letter and the erayon portrait he had
received two full years ago from Mah.
with hin. The young man is desper-
ately in love. But with whom?”
When Avicenna went outof the room
be found the Sultan waiting impatient-
He told lnm he believed
he had discovered the cause
malady, bat he would see him again on
the morrow. He did not disclose the
secret, but assured the Saltan the dis.
order was curable, and he would now
go home aud prepare some medicine,
This, we may be sure, was of the most
harmless description. No medicine ean
cure love sickness but the possession of
the person loved.
When Avicenna saw the Prince om
La following day, he desired the Cham-
the interview, The Saltan was much
surprised at this request—in { ot conld
not fathom it at all; but, having placed
the matter in the doctor's hands, he
bade the Chamberlain attend, though
in a rather irritable voice, as if he were
somowhat offended at Avicenna's choice
of a oolleague, Bat the astute doctor
was about fo prove himself a great
strategist. When the Chamberlain ap-
the Prince's hand was lying in
that of the physician, and a genuine
triondship secmed to have sprung up
between them already. Tho sick man
looked more cheerful than he had done
for months. In fact, he was beginning
to suspect his secret had passed into
the kind doctor's keeping.
After a fow Urillant obssrvations
asleated from his inexhaastible budget,
Avicenna suddenly began to praise the
beauty of the palace, and spoke won-
deringly of its exten’.
I dare say,’ said he to the Chamber
lain, ‘yon eannot carry all the thonsand
and one apartments of this noble palace
in year memory, can you?’
‘Ot course I can,’ replied the Major-
dome, somewhat haffed. What do
you take me for? Have 1 not been here
since the days of his Majesty's grand
father?
‘Well, then,’ langhed the inquisitive
doctor, *flet us hear something about
the best of them.’
Upon this the
Chamberlain, after the
y
ik
fashion of the old housekeeper in some
i
English mansion, began a long
each room he de-
| seribed with some quaint anecdote, to
connecting
which Avicenna gave little heed, we
i fear,
rated
His whole attention was concent
on the Prince's tell-t.le
{ As the Chamberlain went gossipin
he spoke of a room hung with
pn se,
Z On
satin, which looked towards the sun-
| rising. ‘Aba! said the doctor to him
‘the puiss beats quicker
| has something to do with that amber
! boudoir.
“Yi
is hughly diverting, said Avicenna, wher
sell, now, She
or I'm an ignoramus,
mr conversation, Mr, Chamberlain,
the room of the chambers came to »
halt; i
to accompany you to such of the apart.
‘and I shall be pleased some day
ments as are open to the public. Bome,
I am aware, are inaccessible to the val
gar gaze. Now, as U room hun
atients
with amber satin’ the 1
wt extiraoe
to that am-
ber satin room, I don’t know why, but
pulse began to play the m
dinary vagaries again ‘as
hear more
know the
peautiful
to
t ’
I should ike
names of those you
abont it.
ing isdies,
no doubt, who live in that charming
well deseribed.
g too
of one » ho
mrimuent you have )
atte by 14
muca; 4
« PErhaps, De askin
fi the luexperiencs
itherto Deen a siranger to kangs
s hat Fatims
of ention,” re
But the in-
i's pulse seemed to think otherwise,
vr it
for it
vof m
plied the Chamberisin,
val
leaped and bounded in a strange
way when Fatima's name was named,
and = throbbed
through the young man's stienuated
f
irame,
passionate quiver
The wily doctor had now fathomed
the secret, There was no need for any
more feeling the pulses, or hstening t«
high-flown descriptions of other palace
yet Avicenna folded the
n's wrist his little fingers
beauties: but
| young m in
and encouraged the garrulous Chamber
: whilst he was
orating the he could de
for his paticot. “A
1d, straightforward policy,’ thought
‘will I will to the Sul
shiatiaring
CUA eT Ia
best
the eure «
10 00h B
pian
viee of
Sar amd *
ve the DOSS.
an, cost me what and Le shall
It NAY,
TH
will.
est my remedy if he
to thes
when Avicenna made ir
g report. Fi
Cabons opened hs eves
widest stretch,
astonndi ir a long time be
inerednions, but ox
juiries he found there were
us in his palace who professed to
had their suspicions about the
Prince and Fatima. She was indeed #
but
happy and forlorn, a sort of Cinderells,
—the envy of her companions for hex
beauty, and the sport of their pride for
| her obsoure birth aud unfortunate con
dition, an ill-used and ill-attired menial,
| And yet the young man had, lize King
| Cophetua, seen in that girl what be
| gould not see in any other be ng in the
wide world, he had seen a beaviy thal
| ravished him, but which be had not
dared to appropriate. The old Sultan
was for some time rather vexel at the
aMair, sud wished his nephew had fixed
Lis affections on a more worthy partner;
but when the beautiful slave was array-
ed in her bridal attire, he thought hea
| the loveliest woman he had ever seen,
| and wondered he had not sooner noticed
her surpassing grace. Indeed, the old
man was so charmed hy the bride that
her bridegroom felt almost jealous of
his uncle,
‘Had I had ss good eyes as my he
phew,’ laughed he to Avicenna, as be
scattered a big handful of rice after the
blushing couple, ‘I might have popped
the question myself, and thea how
would my nephew ever have got well
in?’ »
The doctor thought within k
‘Perhaps if you had done so she
have murmured, “No, sir!” Bat he
felt it was fo par} of a pradent man
reply with thet sort of smile which, is
the east or in the west, may mean any
thing or nothing.
bi PE Faaxuaxn Maw.
was indignant and
maki
pers
save
miracle of loveliness, she was un