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VOL. XXV. NO. 16.
TIONESTA, PA WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10, 1892. S1.50 PER ANNUM.
A Tnst amount of money is going to bo
spent in irrigating the arid lands in tho
West.
r The Mexicans aro calling for more
American goods and they aro now learn
ing bow to use machinery.
New Orleans Is going to become a
great wheat exporting point. Two mil
lion bushels per month is now the aver-
- - ....
Jules Simon, ono of the clearest
beaded statesmen in Europe, thus vlows
the situation over there; "Peace, bar.
ring accidents. But accidents bappou
bo easily."
The scientific discovery by the Phila
delphia Hecord, th.it tho contact of lips
io the dark evolves a visible spark, gives
a literary alue to tho word "sparking"
undreamed of by good old NonU Web
ster. At the recent Uenural Conference of
the Methodist Church in Murylund, by a
vote of thirty-live to twenty-six, it was
determined to strike out tho word
"obey" from the marrtago service. Tho
women delegates supportod tho proposi
tion with great unanimity.
The typewriting industry received a
black eye in the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals the other day. Three
justices of the court entered an order
that hereafter all motions and other
documents presented to tho courts mutt
be printed, and added that typewriting
was not printing within the meaning of
the order.
Americans tako an interest in a num
ber of the islands of the Pacifio Ocean.
We are interested in Japau, from which
n largo number of tho nativei are now
emigrating to California, and in Samoa,
of which our Government is one of the
three protecting powers, and in tho Ha
waiian kingdom, rpany of whose people
are anxious for auncxatiou to the United
States. -
A "conundrum sociable" is n now
Western idea. Besides being amusing,
it Is claimed that tho compound con
undrums proposed stimulate the memory.
A an illustration the Detroit Free Press
gives one as follows: "Why is heaven
like a baby I Because heaven is home,
home is where the heart is, where the
heart is is the chest, a chest is a box, a
box is a small tree, a small tree is a bush,
a bush is a growing plant, a growing
plant it a beautiful thing, a beautiful
thing it the primrose, the primrose is a
pronounced yellcr, and a pronounced yel
Icr it a baby."
A large majority of the men who enter
the governmental departments at Wash,
ington remain in the service unless dis
missed, says the Washington Post.
Many young men enter with the view of
studying for a profession, and the short
hours and regular salary offer ample op
portunity for this. Somo of theiu carry
out their intention and occupy leisure
hours reading law or medicine. Others
lose all ambition for bettor things or be
come entangled in some love allair, marry,
and then are dependent on a salary for
maintenance and compelled to keep up
the routine life. Continue.! service in
the departments has a tendeucy to make
men timid, and many who quit and go
out In the world find themselves unfitted
to buffet with the rude, rough deraauds,
and return to the treadmill existeoco.
Each yoar more women are added to the
department terviuo uud iu a fow years
they will monopolize tho clerkships.
The life of a doparcmout clerk hits some
attractions and many drawbacks. One
thiug is certain, his salury, ami this is an
Important item.
Imm --' - - -s
Kugcne Field says in the Chicago
News-ltccord : Bob Ford was tho vicious
young paranoiac who murdered Jesse
James. This crlmowas committed Under
peculiarly atrocious ciroumstauces. Ford
discovered James's whereabouts, sought
them, got acquainted with James, pre
tended to be his friuud, accepted his
hospitality, lived under his protection
and finally treacherously murdered him
by shooting him in the back. Ford was
in collusion with tho authorities in Mis
souri; he was their agent, and as such
he was not punished by them for this
crime involviug ingratitude and treach
ery of the basest kind. But ho was dis
trusted and hated by everybody after
that. He got employment for a time in
a peripatetic dramatic show that played
wild, awful pieces purporting to illus
trate border life. He was a vicious
creature, yet not so vicious at to be blind
to the fact that his perlldy to Jesse
Jutues had marked him for life. Be
times he drifted far westward, and evor
and anon he was heard of as participat
ing in a drunken brawl. Now, at last,
coaies news -that ho has bocu killed by a
follow-rulliiiu in tlie Kooky Mountain
'region. Bo tho murderer himself fulls
by murder, and there is none to question
the propriety or righteousness of his fate.
Jle wata rat a sneaking, cruel rat. The
.oj!4 it better oil without him. j
THE OARDKM.
Under the gloom of therdilvnrlng pines,
That whisper when it blows,
Behind the creeper-covered wall,
Is a garden that always grows.
In summer and in springtime,
And when the winter snows
Bend the dark branches to the groun J,
The garden always grows.
The hand of man baa made It,
The white stones stand In rows;
The tears of the world have watered it,
And the garden always grows.
There are many gardens like it.
Their number no man kno ' s.
Each day, till the world Is eh to 1,
This garden al we ys grows.
Lorlmer Stoddard, in Cosmopolitan.
FOLLY'S WEDDING.
BY RKRBRRT ST. CLAIM.
11KICE had been
called tbo banns of
marriage between
John Anthony Urine,
bnchclor, and Mary
Ellen Primrose, spin
ster, both of the par-
ish ot Treverton, in
he County of Devon ;
tU'S'MiV ,hrice hu1 I'fet.y
flll1 ' I oily Pnmroso Irora
the Primrose pew
smiled sweetly ot the good old clergy
man while he iierformcd this highly in
teresting ceremony; and thrice had Jack
urine endured the same ordeal, but with
far less self-possession, as he sat in the
free seats lower down burying a very
red face in his prayer book, until ho re
memborcd that people might think ho
reading the marriage servico; and
then throwing his head back and glaring
round defiantly with a look which said
as plainly as possible, "Ah, you may
giggle, but wouldn't some of you fel
lows like to be iu my shoes; ami. may
hap, there's two or three of you girls
who wouldn't mind being iu Polly's I"
Well, tbo third Sunday came and
went, and the wedding was to take plane
on the following Friday. Thero was to
be a grand gathering of friends at Prim
rose Farm after tho ccrcmouy.
All their, friends declared that tho
wedding would be an unfortunate one,
for bad not the young people been pres
ent at the calling of their own banns I
a most unluoky sign, they said. And
tho wedding io take place on Friday,
tool the most unlucky of all days of
the week t
But it was Polly's choice, and to Fri
day was decided upon.
Polly was an orphan and lived with
her uncle and aunt at the farm. Farmer
Primrose was not, it is true, much in
favor of the marriage; he had always
wanted young Squire Treverton as a hus
band for his neicc, that young gentleman
having made half-hearted love to Polly
for some time past. But Polly lovod
Jack Brine and Jack loved Polly; and as
Jack had a very good character as a
manly young fellow, and had since his
father's death, eighteen months ago,
made a very good thing of the Cross Hill
Farm, there was really no excuse for
keeping the young people apart.
All went well uutil the Wednesday bo
fore the wedding. Invitations for the
party wcro tent broadcast; and only a
wonderful little manager like Aunt Prim
rose could have arranged for tho seating
and feeding and amusing of such a nu
merous company.
"Bless you, Polly," the deir old crea
ture would say, "your wedding party
will be the talk of the country side for
many n year; and you deserve it, my
denr, you have been a good girl to me."
Alas! on the Wednesday, young Squire
Treverton, lutely returned from London,
drove up to Primrose Farm in his dog
cart, and almost at the same time a dark
cloud teemed to come into the bright
sky.
The rqulre had a private iutcrview with
Farmer Primrose, and then drove awav.
What transpired at that interview need
not be told. The lie that was uttered
has long sinco been nailed down, and
the utterer thereof has been made to stand
exposed and ashamed before the whole
of the little world of Treverton. Suffice
it to say that if the charge ogaiust Jack
Brine contained in that lie had been true,
Farmer Primrose would havo been quite
justified in breaking off his niece's mar
riage, ever, at this eleventh hour. The
farmer, however, t:oK too much for
granted when ho coi.domued Jack uu
heard. Iu spite of his wife's gentle re
monstrance, he flew into a violent rage,
swore that there should be uo marriage,
tent a long and contemptuous loiter to
Cross Hill Farm by oue farm servuut, a
short, curt note to the vienrago by uu
other, and then stormed and raved about
the house for a good hour, the result
being that before nightfall the whole
country sido was ringing with the news
that Jack Brine had done something
dreadful, and that there was to bo no
marriage on Friday.
lieauwhile, Jack was away at Exeter,
making some business arrangements, so
that he might have a good fortnight's
holiday. He started back for home early
on Thursday. The train had scarcely
steamed out of the station when a heavy
snowstorm broke over tho country. The
consequence wits that about mid-day ho
found himself landed at a little station,
fifteen miles from his home, aud not a
conveyance to be had.
The snow was coming down in blind
ing ibeets, and making the roads all but
impassable. Jack enjoyed a good meal
at the solitary little iuu of the place, and
then tet out manfully to walk to Crocs
Farm.
It was a fearful walk. lie lost hit way
twice, made twenty-five miles of the
iourney at least, aud, finally, arrived
lome exhausted aud half frozen, within
a couple of hours of mid-night. He did
cot look at hit letters, but after giving
strict orders to be awakened at eight
next morning, he tumbled iuto bed.
II.
Friday morning broke, and the snow
was ftill falling slightly, although the
fur of the storm was post.
wm4
When Jack woke, he sprang out of
bed like a giant, refreshed, and came
singing into tho big kitchen, whoro he
ato his breakfast in a very joyous frame
of mind.
Then it was that a letter beside his
plate caught his attention. He picked
it up, opened and read it. For a mo
ment his lace assumed an ashen paloncss.
"Curse him I" he gasped at lasj. "I
know whose foul work this is. That
scandal was never cleared up as it should
have been. I was a weak fool to treat
it with contempt; the girl, of course,
will be paid to bear false witness against
me. AVhat can I do? What can I do?"
Ho stood swaying to and fro for a
minute, the letter crumpled iu his
clenched band. His old housekeeper stood
nt the doorway and watched him with
frightened glances, wondering what was
to follow.
Jack suddenly smoothed out the letter
and rerend it.
"And so, Farmer Primrose, you be
lieved him before mo," he murmured
between his teeth, "and you have writ
ten to tell the parson thero will bo no
wedding. Well, we shall see."
Thcie was an ugly, stern look on his
face. Striding from the room ho went
straight to the stables and saddled the
big gray maro.
"Tom," he shouted, and a lad ap
peared from tho inner recesses of a cow
shed; "saddle Dobbin and ride as fast
as you can to Treverton Vicarage,"
The boy stated and said nothing,
while his master loud the gray maro sad
dled aud bridled out of tho stable.
"And tell the parson, ' went on Jack,
as he vuulted into tbo saddle, "that the
marriage will come off, after all, and to
be ready in tho church at the time ar
ranged." Then he clattered out of the yard, and
horse and rider disappeared down the
road in a cloud of snow.
Meanwhile things were going quietly
at Primrose Farm. The farmer had
sworn that there should be a party just
the same, and that Polly was well rid of
a scamp, and had better look cheerful,
and maybe she would not have to look
far for an honest man and a gentleman
(meaning Squire Treverton.)
Polly wept until her eyes were red,
nnd worried hsr poor little self in vain
endeavors to imagine why Jack did not
write and explain.
Aunt Primrose went about her duties
nobly, and did her best tj cheer Polly,
but it was a hopeless business altogether.
And now the guests began to arrive,
nnd not many who had been iuvitcd
failed to make their appearance. The
invitations had not been recalled, and
the good people of Treverton and
neighborhood saw no reason why they
should forego ' their dinner and the
chance of hearing more about the
scandal. Tho consequence was that poor
roily liaa to receive the young men and
maidens of tho surrounding district, and
laugh with them, and return their com
pliments of the season as though nothing
hud happened. She bore herself bravely.
however, and did not show her grief to
the good folks who were watching-her;
for she was a proud little lassie, and told
herself that she would be worthy of
Jack. Nevertheless, there was an
awkward air upon the assembly, and
this increased as the time arrived, when
the wedding party should have set out
for the church.
The farmer blustered about and en
deavored heroically to introduce a spirit
ot joviality into the proceedings, but he
was notcmiuently successful.
Presently, when the company were
whispering together in little knots about
the room, a knock was heard nt the
door, and all heads were turned expect
antly. The door opensd, and a young man
enveloped in a hoavy fur coat-entered
the room. Ho had aristocratic features
and an easy, attractive manner. This
was young Squire Treverton, and Farmer
Primrose immediately pressed forward to
welcome him.
Before long the party was alive. The
young squire wnt so good-natured, so
ready to please, and distributed his
favor) with such delightful impartiality
that every one wss soon in the best of
humor. Evory one except Polly, who,
although the knew nothing certain, could
not fail to associate all her trouble with
the young squire's previous visit.
After a while, the distinguished vis
itor made cautious advances to tho niece
of tho house, but Polly was not respon
sive. She sat by the fireside, and he
leaned ovor her chair and whispered
sweet nothiugs. He was remarkably
clever at this sort of thing.
"I should like to make you a present,
Miss Primrose. Now what would you
like the best in all the world?"
The squire had just asked this ques
tion when, and before Polly could make
uny reply, the door was flung violontly
open, and a tall figure appeared in the
doorway, heralded by a gust of snow
laden wind. He was smeared and
patched with mow as though he had
had a fall or two, uud iu his right hand
ho held a heavy hunting crop.
The women folk gave a little scream
in unison, the men looked at one another
aud did nothing. Furruor Primrose
stepped torwaid with rage in his face,
aud the squire turned very pale, and
steadied himself against the wail.
The new-comer took no notice of all
this; but, after one swift glance rouud
the room, he walked across to the fire
place, where Polly, having risen to her
feet, was standing and watching him
with open mouth and glistening eyes.
As he held out his arms she flew to
him, flung her arms rouud his neck,
nestled her curly head in a great patch
of tnow ou his breast, and murmured
simply,
"Jack I"
"That la the answer to my question, I
suppose," muttered the squire, as he
stepped back into the shadow.
Jack carefully and tenderly drew
Polly to his left side, so as to leave his
right hand free, aud then faced the
company.
"What is meaning of this, sir?" cried
the farmer fiercely.
''It means that I have come for my
wife, Farmer Primrose," said the young
man boldly. "I have not come here to
talk or to defend my character, but I
havo come lor Polly. If you mean to do
the right thing, anil give your niece
away, you can follow us to tho church;
but I warn you wo shan't wait long."
Without another word he walked
across the room to tho open door, with
Polly clinging to his arm, and for a mo
ment none dare say him nay.
As the couple disappeared through the
doorway, however, thecompaoy returned
from their bewilderment, and urged by
the common instinct of curiosity, made a
rush for tho road.
Farmer Primtose, who had been str'lck
dumb by the superb audacity of the
young man, now woke to tho fact that
something must be done. He, too, made
a rush for the road, but it is no easy
matter to get through a crowd of chat
tering girls and chuckling men, who are
not paying the least attention to you, ex
cept perhaps to obstruct you. The result
wss, that the farmer, after much puffing,
forced his way to tho front, Jack was
mounted on the gray mare, with Polly in
his arms, at least to tho girls say who
were present on that eventful occasion,
nnd I am inclined to take their evidence
on such a point. There are, it is true,
some of the men folk who Bay that she
sat behind him and hugged him rouud
the waist, to as not to fall off. Anyhow,
thero can bo no doubt that they wore
both safely mounted on tho back of tho
gray mare.
As the farmer rushed forward Jack
touched the mure with his heel and
away she wont, plunging bravely through
the snow and bearing her double burdeu
right gallantly; and the young people in
the, road, and at tho farmhouse door,
could restrain thsniselvos no longer, but
sent forth on tho crisp air a ringing
cheer of encouragement.
The farmer was not to bo baffled,
however, and as soon as he could saddle
a horse set off in pursuit. But fortune
favors the brave, and while Jack and
his brido reached the church without
accident, the hot headed farmer had
several unlucky tumbles in the snow
drifts.
Whoa he finally arrived at Treverton
Church ho met the young people comiug
out and looking very happy.
I might prolong my story by telling
you how the farmer stormed, how bo
finally gave in, how the truth came out
that very day, when Squire Treverton
was proved to be a villaiu, and how tho
happy couplo returned to the farm and
received a triumphant reception.
But I have told you how, after all,
Polly's wedding came off, and as for tho
rest, well, you can guess that without'
my assistance. I am sure.
How to Presorre a Piano.
"Iu spite of all the efforts of tin
makers," said a piano tuner recently, ".
do not believe there is one piano in oue
hundred that, with ordinary parlor use,
will stand in tune more than two months.
An unskilful musical ear, it it true, will
fail to detect any important discord in a
piano for tix months, or perhaps longor;
but no cultivated ear can tolerate the
discordant notos that the best piano will
insist upon giving out after two months
of use.
"When you think once that the tteel
wires and iron frames of a piano are al
ternately contracting and expanding
under the variations of tho surrounding
atmosphere, giving a constant movement
of the wires and a consequent change Iu
the pitch and tone of tuu instrument,
the impossibility of a piano maintaining
a perfect tone for auy length of time
must be at once apparent, and if you
will but reflect on the surprisiug fact
that tho toasion of the strings of a
piano causes a strain on the body of the
instrument equal to the weight of 100,
000 pounds, you will doubtless agree
with me that a piano that will remain in
perfect tune for a year is an instrument
that must necessarily be of extreme
rarity, if not impossible to mako.
"A piano, good, bad or indifferent,
when new, should be tuned once a
month. The longer an instrument re
mains untuned the lower its pitch of
tone becomes; and when it is desired to
have the piano drawn to concert pitch
the strain on the body of the Instru
ment is greatly increased, to much, iu
fact, that the case it liable to yield
gradually, necessitating a second
tuning within a week, or two woeks at
tho furtherest. It is a common error
among non-professionat pianc players to
think a piano should remain in tuno at
least a year. Professionals know bet
ter." New York Press.
The William Tell Legrni.
Though the legend of William Toll
has been officially declared a fable by
the Swiss Government, it Is one of those
fables that people will go on tolling and
believing. In the story, as given la
Schiller's drama. Toll it the hero of the
Swiss revolt for independence from
Austria about tho year 1300. Gosilcr,
Austrian bailiff, placed his cap upon a
pole in the market place ot Altorf and
issued orders that passers by should do
it reverence. This Tell would not do,
and he was arrested and sontouced to
death. Gessler, learning that Tell was
a skillful marksman, told him that his
life would be spared if he would shoot
an apple from his son's head. Tell made
the shot without hurting the la 1, and
when Gessler asked why he had a second
arrow in his quiver, Tell replied : "To
kill you if I had harmed ray son." For
this Tell was again put in chains, and
Gessler embarked for Kussnacht, taking
Tell with him. A storin camo up, and
to save all hands from drowning Tell was
released io order that he might steer the
boat. Having carried tho boat safely
through the worst of the duigor Tell
sprang ashore at a point now known as
"Tell's Hock," and, going arouud by
laud, mortally wounded Gessler with an
arrow. Gensler't death was the signal
for a geueral uprising, in which the
Austrian bailiffs were driven out or killed
aud their castles destroyed. Tell lived
for forty years after this, and was at last
drowned while trying to save a boy's
life, St, Louis Republic.
SCIENTIFIC AND I INDUSTRIAL.
A human body when cremated, leaves
, a residuum of about eight ounces.
Two thousand children under two
years of age die yearly in Paris from tu
berculosis. Holland is considering the drainage of
tho Zuyder Zee, a sheet of water covering
"SO square miles.
There are seldom more than 6000 stars
visiblo in the heavens to the eye, from
any point of observation.
That the human race will somo day
lack noses and the sense of smell, is a
frequent scientific deduction.
An English mathematician estimates
the limit of ideas entertained by any mind
during a lifetime is 3,655,770,000.
It is observed that in antique statues
tho second the is longer than the first, or
great toe, but in men of tho present time
the reverse is the case.
In experiments with the drying oils an
insoluble onx-compound termed "Liuo
lin" has been produced, which a French
chemist regards as a useful substitute
for caoutchous.
J. G. Baker states that the aster rose
oUibraces 200 or 300 species, which are
concentrated in the United States. Of
these forty species grow wild in the
Itocky Mountains, and fifteen in Califor
nia. A stone cornice-cutter, capable of turn
ing out sixteen feet of well fiuished cor
nice or moulding in twenty minutes, has
been made in Rome. The geueral fea
tures of the machine are very similar to
those of tho metal planing machine.
Professor Short, of Cleveland, Ohio,
ha i perfected a system of electric pro
pulsion for the elevated railroads of New
York City, which he says will afford
20,000 horse power and ovcrcomo all ob
stacles. Tho plan is under considera
tion. Two engines have just been turned out
for the Pennsylvania Hail way Company,
to run between Philadelphia and Pitts
burg. Driving wheels, seventy-eight
inches in diameter; weight of one, 12.'),
000 pounds, and of the other, 13S.O0O
pounds.
The brass tubing used for gas fixtures
is fashioned into the various complicated
ornamental shapes required for such pur
poses by placing the tube betweeu two
steel molds which are heavily clamped,
and then tho tube is expauded by hy
draulic pressure reaching as high as 10,
000 pounds to the square inch.
Bacteriology it taid to have scored n
practical triumph by putting an end to
u plague of mice, which threatened to
destroy the greater part of the harvest
in Greece. A fatal pandemic among the
mice was caused by Professor Loftier, n
German follower of Pasteur, whose aid
was sought by the Greek Government.
There it not a lizard or snake north of
the southern extremity of Hudson's Bay.
The summers there are to short that these
reptiles have no time to enjoy thorusolves
even if the ground, at a depth of two or
three feet below the surface were not
frozen all the year round, thus depriving
them of a place to hibernnte. Snakes
and lizards cannot endure a cold climate,
and a latitude of fifty-three degrees north
is altogether too frigid for them.
Degcnerato Eastern Indians.
In all things, except when aroused by
the excitement of the hunt ami in driv
ing logs upon tho dangerous rapids in
the lumber region, the Indians of tho
East aro cowardly, and thoy are much
given to vice. Let one of them bo at
tacked by a moose, bear, or caribou, or
even a wild cut, and he will buttle to
the end. They will tnko great hazards
on the thin ice over whirling waters for
a fish, and no jam of logs has terror for
them, even though white men turn away.
But let a dog of civilization growl at
them ; let them see a yellow sun or com
et ; put them on board a steamboat, or
take them into court for tomo transgres
sion, nnd thoy show nbjoct fear and
cowardice. Even spirituous liquors do
not give them temporary courage.
They are only self-possessed and brave
when in the forest, ou lake, stream, or
lonely woodland.
Thoy have no place with the voting
populatlou of the State, though miny ol
thorn can read ahd write, and some
aro regular newspaper correspondents,
but they have a tribal form of govern
ment, choosing at their eloctions a Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Govornor, and n
member of the Legislature. Tho luttui
is alwnys at tho Capitol at tho opeuiug.
Ho drawl his pay and mlleago nt once,
nnl immediately returns home, leaving
the public business to bo conducted by
whoever takes an interest in it. All
members of the tribes rido at half faro
in cars and steamboats when they have
the money to pay, and free when out ol
funds. They nover attempt to rldo In
tho latter way wheu they can afford to
pay.
As laborers for nil purposes of the
whites tho Indians, both moil and women
aro worthless, and are never employed
in the settlements. But in hunting,
fishing, canoe work and cooliiug they
excel. New York Times.
Applet Pickers.
In Germany many years ago the apple
picker was mude of a board like a churn
dasher, with holes for upright wooden
teeth, so placed as to narrow in at tho
top, the teeth perhaps six or seven inches
long, a wooden hundlo, say eight feet
long, the picker holding from four to
tix apple?.
The pickers recently scon are made of
wire, like tho muzile of a dog, only a
trifle larger. This also has a long pole
attached. It requires strong anus to
handle either for half a day at a tinu
picking the fruit.
A good and desirable picker must bit
so constructed as to loosen tho fruit and
hold it coulluad until half a dozen
apple are iu it and deliver them iu a
basket; of course the applet must nut bu
bruised or lacerated. There are no
books ou the subject. No doubt thero
. re models in tho Patent Office at Wash
ington, St- Louis KupuUic,
I
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AN ORIENTAL EXKCUTION.
ENFORCEMENT OF A CAPITAL CON
VICTION IN EGYPT.
Careful Oellttrrntloit of tho Prisoner,
a Mohammedan, Iu His I nst Ito
Hglou lines.
ON the night of December IS,
1890, a murder of singular
atrocity for Eirypt, was com
mitted in Alexandria, Egypt.
A respectable Greek, 51. Limpcropoulo,
his wife, and woman servant were nil
murdered, the motive apparently being
robbery.
After a long hunt the murderers were
captured, tried and teutcuccd, but, being
all Muslim (for, as it turned out, it was
committed by Arabs), tho trinl took
place before the native tribunals, and,
under Mohammedan law, the record of
all capital convictions must be trans
mitted to the Grand Ladi for approval
before execution csn follow.
The Grand Ladi annulled the sentence
because of somo formal error in the ix
amination of tho witnesses, certain pro
visions of the religious law not haviug
been complied with; and a new trial
was ordered. This resulted, as did the
first, in the capital conviction aud sen
tence of Bekkit Suleiman, one of the of
fenders, and in the condemnation of the
others to life imprisonment.
Yesterday, writes a correspondent of
the Richmond (Vs.) Times, the sentence
of death was curried out at sunriso In a
military parade ground near the fort
Kom-El-Dik. Up to the last the advo
cates and friends of tho murderer hoped
for a commutation, nnd this on two
grounds first, because it was the first
occasion for an execution since the in
stallation of the new Khedive: nnd that
fact, as well as tho presumed reluctance
oi a lau ol eighteen to enforce the death
penalty, was thought to justify the hope
of clemency. Still greater confidence
arose from the fact that tho irrcat fastins
month of Islnm had just finished the
month of Kumadan and this concludes
with a feast corresponding to our Easter
iu nature called Bairnm which is a
time of joy, of universal exchange of
visits, of ceremonial leccptions, and,
with sovereigns, of clemency. Tho Into
Khedive invariably signalized the return
of Bairaiu by releasing all prisoners
whose terms of punishment had nearly
expired, and often by commutation.
But Suleiman did not profit by tho
great festival, and yesterday morning,
just as the gray iKtwn was streaking tho
east, he was awakcucd in his prison with
lae news that his appeal for grace had
been refused and he must immediately
prepare for death.
Bound and handcuffed, but as imper
turbnblo as the least concomed of his es.
cort, he was takon to the placo of execu
tion, and at the f jot of the gallows ho
maintained the same fatalistic compo
sure. The prosecuting officer of the tribunal
which tried him asked if he had any be
quest to mako or desired to make any
statement. He replied with perfect
composure:
"I am innocent and Allah knows it.
The guilty aro Abou Zeit and Ahmed
Sathin."
"Then you wish nothing?"
"Yes. I want to pray and to prostrate
myselt before Allah."
"You may."
"But can one pray who lias not
washed?"
A stone vessel of water was offered
him the gullan in which diinkiuor
wnter is alwnys kept in Egypt. They
unbound his hands, and he walked un
der the scaffold nnd performed the ab
lutions that every Muslim observes before
prayer. He wushed first his feet, then
his hands and faco, nnd then rinsed his
mouth, refusing to let any one help him
or wait on him.
He then unwound from his waist
the shawl ho used as n band, nnd spread
ing it on the ground under tho scaffold,
whose floor was higher than his head, he
stood on It and offered up his prayer,
prostrating himself four times with his
forehead to the earth, praying to Allah
for mercy nnd invoking tho aid nnd in-
terccsslon or his Prophet.
He drank from the gullah and said:
"I nin ready."
Ho was then pinioned, aud he wnlltud
up tho stops to tho scaffold, and lifting
hit voice, called out:
"Salaam aloikum yn Mam" peace be
to you, Muslim and ho a ided in Ara
bic: "Peace be lo nil uicn. and tho ordorof
Allah. Pence to the children of Islam.
We belong to Allah, and to him wo re
turn. I testify that there is uo God but
he alone. He turned his face to the enst
und bowed.
It would bo inipossiblo to exaggerate
in description tho majesty nud dignity of
this scono, notwithstanding one's assu
rnnce of tho prisoner's guilt nnd of tho
justice of his fate.
Alono nnd hopeless of aid, ho turned
his faeo toward the glowing oast and the
holy cities, and, his last act n prayor, his
last word a declaration of his unswerving
belief, ho looked out upon the thousands
assembled to witness his end with the un
troubled nssurauce of his fatalistic creed.
An so, us the scant rays of tho morn
iiiL illumined the sud machinery of death,
he was swung iuto eternity, solemnly
pronouncing, as the cord lightened
around his neck, his creed's defiance to
tho unbeliever.
"La illaha illnluji!" (there is uo God
but Allah) und (lied.
Pine Wool For I'lllon.
The so-cnlled pine wool is made of tho
leuves of this tree by steeping them in a
solution of caustic soda or potash, ami
thus removing tho silicious matter w hich
makes them so hard. The residue is a
solt fibre which mal.iM excellent material
for iiiHttri-sses uud pillows, the latter
being much used Irj peixius alk-ctcd by
pulmonary disea-es in the belief that
benefit is derived. As any beueii. must
be derived from tho turpeutino in the
leaves, any timilur use of ihi substance
iui&ht have the suuu effect by the
breathing ol the vapor of it, 'ew
York Times,
THE ILL-NATURED BH1ER.
Little Miss Brier came out of the pound;
She puts out her thorns and scratched every
thing 'round.
"I'll just try," said she,
"How had I can bp;
At pricking and scratching there's few can
match me."
Little Miss Brinr was han'lsomo nnd hripht,
Her leaves wore dark preen and her flowers
were pure white;
But all who ranm near her
Were so worried by her,
They'd go out of her way to keep clear of
her.
Little Miss Brier was looking ono day
At her neighbor, the Violet, just over the
way;
"I wonder," said she,
"That noon3 pots m
While all seem so glad little Violet to9e."
A sober old Linnet, who sat on a tree,
llenrd the speech ot tho Brier, nud thus
answered he:
'"Tis not that she's fair.
For you may compnre
In beauty with even Miss Violet thero. "jj
But Violet's always so pleasant ami kind.
So gentle in mannnr, sohumble iiimincl;
K'en the worms at her feofc
Khe would never ill trent-,
And to Bird, Bee and Butterfly always so
sweet." -
The gardener's wife just then the pathway
came down,
And the miscliiovous Brier got hold of her
gown,
"O dear, what a tour;
My gown's spoiled, I ileclr.ro;
The troublesome Brier 1ms no business there.
Here, John, dig it up; throw it into tho
fire."
Aud that was the end of the ill-natured
Brier.
Mrs. Anna Bache.
HUMOR OF THE IIAV.
Tho fruit of rcpentat.ee " Peach."
Puck.
Riches have wings but debts have
claws. Life.
A press of businoss Tho hundshaUe
of a commercial traveler.
Ono hulf the world does not know
how the other half could do without
it. Puck.
The lard rufiuor nover knows what ho
cau do until ho tries. Boston Commer
cial Bulletin.
Tho salting nwny of money is often
done in tho briue of other people's
tears. Puck.
A thing is not always what it scojis.
For instance, what would you wiy of
Wemyss ? Puck.
"Yes, every man has his price," but
he can't mako his grocer agree with him.
-Columbus Post.
AVhen a fly lights ou a sheet of sticky
paper he realizes that ho is better off. .
Binghsmton Leader.
"It't easy to catch on," ns tho fly re
maiked when he lit on tho fly paper.
Philadelphia Keoord.
"What is the lightost summer fiction
you know of?" "The summer girl's 'I
love youl"' Chicago News.
A man needs no spectacles to see the
Beauty of Uprightness when ho peert
through an iron-bared door. Puck.
Ha thought the hammock just the thing
To pass a pleasant iilinuti,
Until one day he chanced to spring
Aiiu louii'i ue was nor in it.
Washington Stnrk
Old friend of the family. "Do 'you
think you can livo happy with him?"
Perdita. "Oil, I don't expect that."
Life.
It tnkes a sneak to bo a good private
dotcotivc, and tho more successful ho is
tho moro cause ho has to bo ashamed of
himself. Puck.
"WhntI don't like about our schools,"
said tho boy who had bcou chastised,
"is that they run too much to physical
culture." Washington Star.
Silly things Youngly "Lovo often
compels people to do very silly things."
Cynicus "Yes, makes them marry,
sometimes." New York Herald.
Never givo up. If, however, you ore
alone, the night is dark, nud tho other
fellow has a pistol, it may be pni lent to
rewind this rule. Texas Siftings.
Miss Candour (aged seven, to n lady
who lias been singing with a good deal
of troniolo to her mother's guests) "I
gargle in tho nursery." Tid-llits.
Hio Their engagement was brought
about by a little four-in-hand picnic
Ho HcwRtrango. She Yes; lie asked
her to tic it for him, .New York Ileia'd.
He handled the boom for n Rivat big innn.
Anil the great nk man wnut in
Wltlin wild hurrah, ami tho boom handler
then
Was ielt iu tho col I to grin.
IMi-oit Fiva Pivss,
Mrs. Ncwluvc "Charley, dear, I need
1U0." Mr. Newlovc "Dd you, darl
ing? How sympathetic you are! That's
just what I need." Chicago News Ij
cord. Snndgiass. " There is one qv-cer thing
about silence." Stmclv. ".Name it."
Snodgruss. 'When silence falls it is
nut ncces.ii'ily broken." Detroit Fico
Press.
Banks "Can't you suggcit sonic way
iu which I can get a better looking pic-.-lure?"
Photographer "Not unless you
ran get somebody else to sit for you."
Souiervillo Journal.
Vomer. "Well, young H.ir lup mar
ricu in haste; I suppose lie's icpcnting
lit leisure." .Melton "Not luucn; ho
has to hustle so lively for n living that
he hut no leisure.1' The ICiny's Jester.
I'nlitics is tmimuin',
'l.s-tiou ihiv i c i;inn";
F.ver. lio iy .i.n' i.. ,,u ,,,,11;,
W'hiai I ho count's e.nnl.le I,
I'lt.V thu delialtsl
Cait'lidutus a I.Knin' 'round for holes.
S.imi.-i v die Jotirii il.
Johnnie (aft r watching tho bri lo and
groom come down the itisic) "I'm never
going to get in.ii ried." Mother "Why,
rot, dear!'1 Johnnie 'Just lo iK itC
t lose two. he't crying uud hu looks
-uny already." Wap.
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